There are gaps in the natural karst cave itself, and the ventilation is good. A Yan took out a red candle and lit it, and soon small candles danced in the corners of the study room. It was really like someone was having a wedding. Everyone turned off the miner's lamps, and the tomb was only lit by candlelight. It was dim and silent, and even the air smelled like life and death.
A pair of big red flower candles coiled with dragon and phoenix are placed on a silver candle holder, the desk is used as an incense table, offering fruit and an incense burner are placed in the middle, a tablet is placed on one side, and a futon is placed on the ground on the other side. There are no parents, no matchmaker, and the dowry is Paper-tied silk and satin, paper horse and incense chariot, married a dead person, or a man, even the little Taoist priest didn’t know how to prepare, so he had to buy bracelets, earrings, and rings according to ancient rituals. Lin Yan’s money was all the best. OK
There was a brazier on the ground, and stacks of paper money were crackling and burning.
A couple of people stood at the table, neither of them looked at each other.
"The old man has passed away, and even his soul was reincarnated in another person. Although I don't know why he didn't visit you, I believe there must be something he had to do. Mr. Xiao has grieved so much, don't be obsessed, go reincarnate."
Xiao Yu looked ahead, his knuckles turned white, and smiled wryly: "You have never been obsessed."
"Don't say such things in front of the old man's grave, it will hurt the old man's heart." Lin Yan said lightly.
A Yan took out two birthday cards and handed them to Lin Yan, Lin Yan handed them to Xiao Yu, and took out the soft-tip fountain pen that had not been used for a long time from his pocket. When he bought it, Xiao Yu could not speak, unlike now, his voice It's gentle and sweet, but every sentence touches the heart.
"You write it. Compared with yours, our handwriting is too bad for the stage."
Xiao Yu looked at him, and put down the pen and post for a long time.
"Don't write." Xiao Yu said lightly, "That's it."
A Che was attracted by this ceremony that he had never seen before. He looked curiously at the red and green paper flowers and silk cloth on the table. , what are they doing?"
"Don't look at it, it's a tragedy in the world." Yin Zhou sighed, "These two are angry, and they don't even know it."
Ayan took out a small notebook and looked at it, calculated the time, and arranged: "According to Shijiaqimen's saying, arrange the plates according to the date and location, and the door will be closed after two hours. It is most suitable for marriage. We are tired enough to come all the way, let's take a break and prepare for the ceremony."
"I, we are the guests invited by the Xiao family, and you will stand on the left later. Lin Yan, you are the Duan family, and you will stand on the right."
Lin Yan glanced at Xiao Yu, and said coldly: "I brought him all the way, so I'm not counted as a guest of the Xiao family? I'll stand with you, and the plaque on the right is enough."
Ah Yan wondered: "...the wife's family can't be left alone."
Lin Yan turned his head and said, "As long as there is a coffin."
"But..." A Yan still wanted to speak, but was held back by Yin Zhou: "But shit, what do they like to do, who are they going to show off to? This is, solve your own business, take your bag, let's go out to eat , Lin Yan has no appetite, so don't keep it for him."
After finishing speaking, he added: "He is not thirsty, so don't keep any water."
As soon as the words fell, both the fox and Ayan were dragged out of the room by Yin Zhoulian. Only Lin Yan and Xiao Yu were left in the study room. Say something, avoiding each other's eyes.
Lin Yan picked up an apple in embarrassment: "This is for worship, can you eat it?"
Xiao Yu burst out laughing: "You let me eat apples at this time?"
Lin Yan glanced at the door, and couldn't even see Yin Zhou and the others. After hesitating for a long time, he said softly, "You have to go."
"I heard that there are a lot of ghosts in the Yan Luo Palace. They are crowded together. I don't know which family they will be reborn in. I may never see you again." Slender fingers stroked a flower candle, and a gleam of sadness flashed in Xiao Yu's eyes. "Lin Yan, at this point, I just want to hear your truth."
"If I wasn't the ghost who haunted you back then, if I was just such a person, maybe I still had a little nostalgia for the past, would you have the slightest thought of wanting to spend the rest of my life with Xiao Yu?"
"Won't."
Xiao Yu stared at him blankly, and smiled wryly for a while.
Lin Yan gritted his teeth: "If I had nothing to do with Duan Ze from beginning to end, would you fall in love with me
"Yes." Xiao Yu put his hand on Lin Yan's chest, "Three lives and three generations, what Xiao Yu wants is this heart, this kind of you, whether it's Duan Ze or Lin Yan, if you and I reincarnate in the next life, You have become Zhang San Li Si, we can no longer remember each other, we will meet in a sea of people, and we will probably have to do it all over again."
"So Xiao Yu doesn't want to see you anymore." He lowered his eyes, docile and sad, like an abandoned cat, "I'm so tired."
It was obviously a cold tomb room, but for some reason, he was sweating profusely. Lin Yan felt his heart pounding, and stomped his feet for a while: "What's the use? It's already like this...it's too late."
The lights in the corner exploded with a "snap".
"Will you miss me?", "Let me change your clothes for you." The two spoke at the same time, Xiao Yu looked at Lin Yan and nodded.
Made-to-order according to the mortuary gown that Xiao Yu brought, the red dress is exactly the same, the satin hangs softly, it is very heavy in the hand, and there are big red 囍 characters embroidered inside, the left lapel of the deceased is hand-collared, and the silk sash is tied around the waist, The cold red of the mortuary clothes made Xiao Yu's skin even paler. His jet-black hair was scattered behind his back, winding down his waist. The well-dressed dead man was inexplicably good-looking, with a kind of sad and bewitching beauty.
Lin Yan squeezed a sandalwood comb and stood behind Xiao Yu, grabbed his hair with one hand, and gently smoothed it with the comb with the other. Every morning when I was at home, the ghost pursed his lips, closed his eyes slightly, and suddenly grabbed Lin Yan's hand from behind his shoulder, held it for a while, and then let go.
A white jade hairpin was pinned to a bun. At that time, I went all over Shenjiayuan and chose this one after thousands of choices. It was outrageously expensive, but when I bought it, I didn’t even blink my eyes. I wanted to make him laugh. willing.
"Turn around and let me have a look." Lin Yan turned Xiao Yu's shoulders, his face looked like a painting, Lin Yan smiled, "I married a daughter-in-law and became the groom's official, are you happy?"
"Hear the truth?"
"Don't say it, I don't want to hear it." Lin Yan turned his face away, "Leave me a thought."
"There is another piece of clothing in the bag, which was taken out by Ah Zhou. Wait, I will go find it and return it to you." Lin Yan pressed Xiao Yu's shoulder, and walked out the door.
The three of Yin Zhou were holding a smokeless stove to cook noodles in the corridor at the door. The luncheon meat was cut into slices and thrown into the pot. They added good bacon and cooked a big pot.
Seeing Lin Yan coming out of the house, Yin Zhou quickly covered the pot with the lid, and said vigilantly: "Why are you coming out, I didn't realize that you are not allowed to eat, our food is not for idiots, and we don't eat with idiots, save decline in IQ."
"Come to get the wedding dress, I don't eat, I have no appetite." Lin Yan said with a blank expression, "Give me a pack of cigarettes, I've been suffocating for the past two days."
I always think that I can do well, stand in the position of the winner, have no love, at least have dignity, have never compromised from the beginning to the end, and the way back is longer than the way forward. If he loves, he will be with him in life and death. If he doesn't love, he will withdraw quickly, saying that I will live a good life. However, when I brought the clothes back with my own hands, I suddenly felt a throbbing pain in my heart, and my whole chest seemed to be filled with sour liquid. I struggled in front of Xiao Yu for a long time, said sorry, and rushed into the bookshelf with the clothes in my arms. In the small stone room at the back, the empty coffin was propped up, his shoulders shrugged fiercely, his throat was so choked up that he couldn't speak a word.
For a long time, he sat on the ground leaning against the wall, lit a cigarette, and smoked hard.
Sitting in the coffin room alone, Xiao Yu glanced at Lin Yanjin's hut, clenched his fists and thought for a long time, then walked out the door lightly.
The few people outside were eating noodles happily, the fox ate up all the meat in his bowl, and stared at Yin Zhou's bowl covetously, when Xiao Yu came out, Yin Zhou raised his head, unaware that the fox scooped up a big piece of beef.
"Yo, why did the son come out, where is the daughter-in-law?" Yin Zhou swallowed a mouthful of noodles.
Xiao Yu hesitated for a long time, and said, "I know you understand, help me."
Yin Zhou shook his head vigorously: "I don't understand, my son's eyes are on the top of his head, but he has never paid attention to ordinary people like us. You coax your little daughter-in-law by yourself. I don't know anything, and I don't care about anything."
"Do you eat noodles?" Yin Zhou raised a bowl.
Xiao Yu shook his head, turned around and wanted to leave, but retreated after a few steps, as if he was making a difficult decision, when even Yin Zhou couldn't stand it and wanted to speak directly to him, his back was straight Brother Young Master, pursing his lips slightly, bowed deeply to Yin Zhou, bowed his head upright, touched his forehead to the ground, straightened up and said softly: "I am confused."
Yin Zhou spat out a mouthful of noodle soup, and was so frightened that he hurried to help him up: "Don't, I can't afford it. What do you say, a man has gold under his knees!"
Xiao Yu smiled: "That's not the time to ask for help from others."
Yin Zhou thought for a while: "What are you going to do if it is done? After all, one of you is a human and the other is a ghost."
"I don't know." Xiao Yu replied, "Let him choose, I will listen to him."
"That's what a man said." Yin Zhou was happy, and pondered for a while: "Succeed, I know your young master is thin-skinned, you wait, if Lin Zi doesn't apologize to you in an hour, I will write the name upside down!"
"Don't say that we colluded in this matter in the future, he really takes his face seriously, and he won't discuss it when he abolishes me."
A Yan sat on the other side of the stone wall, and when he heard what the two said, he slowly put the bowl on the ground, with compassion in his eyes, A Che touched his arm and asked what was wrong, A Yan shook his head: "What's so good about ghost couples, If a person wants to die with all his heart, the King of Hades will not be able to stop him."
When Yin Zhou came in, Lin Yan was taking his last puff of cigarette and was stubbing out the cigarette butt on the ground. When he heard the sound of the door opening, he looked up and turned his face away.
Yin Zhou sat down beside him, stretched his long legs, lit a cigarette and looked at Lin Yan with a smile: "I came here on purpose to gloat over others' misfortune, you continue to hold on, I'll see how long you can last."
"Look at your face now, your eyes are so red, look here, here." Yin Zhou pointed to Lin Yan's cheek, "The tears are not wiped clean, it's okay to fool me, but if you go out to fool ghosts, you will be exposed, don't be afraid of embarrassment gone?"
"Get out." As soon as he opened his mouth, he realized that his throat was very hoarse. Lin Yan coughed a few times and tried his best to appear calm.
"I'm here to get the clothes. It's all ready outside. It's very lively, but this is the only thing missing." Yin Zhou stood up, and stretched out his hand to Lin Yan condescendingly, "Bring it here."
Lin Yan couldn't speak, and sat on the ground slumped, looking up at Yin Zhou, choking the funeral clothing with his fingers.
"Hurry up, old men are so ink-stained."
Lin Yan bit his lower lip, bent down and hugged the clothes in his arms, and said hoarsely, "Mine."
"Fuck you, the Lord is lying in the coffin." Yin Zhou said as he wanted to pick up the clothes, but Lin Yan stepped back suddenly, staring at him with red eyes.
"Why should you rob me? Why should a person who has been dead for hundreds of years come out and rob me? It is mine, it is mine." The tofu on the ground was in a puddle.
"Ah Zhou, I am a person who doesn't force anything and doesn't fight with others. This is the first time I have something that I don't want to give to others. Whether it's the wrong courier or the wrong letter, I don't want to give it to others. I returned it, and I don't want to return it..."
Lin Yan's face was pale, and he was leaning against the corner of the wall with his hands on his knees. He was shaking violently: "Everyone is qualified to say that the sky is forever, and the sky is old. I'm just content, why don't you even leave this to me... "
Yin Zhou kicked Lin Yan's leg with his foot: "Look at your potential, okay, don't you want him, go out and talk about it, fight for it generously!"
Lin Yan wiped his face and said sternly, "He already has someone else in his heart, who the hell cares?"
Yin Zhou glanced at him contemptuously: "Okay, don't you just want him to forget the one in the coffin, everyone has eyes along the way, and he didn't even look at us, the living people. Life protects you, he is more careful than you in what you eat and dress, and he doesn't care about you? No ghost will believe it."
"You're fucking cowardly. There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. He already had someone before he met you, and it was arranged by someone else to pester you, and he didn't want to." Yin Zhou snorted from his nose, "This ghost comrade It's unlucky enough, the daughter-in-law died so badly that she couldn't even cheat the corpse, and finally waited until the reincarnation, and first hid him and killed him like a plague god, and let him go when he was free. Self-esteem calls you to be strong and brave over and over again, you dismiss him, you will never need him... Lin Yan, if you were a girl, I would respect, admire and adore you, but I would not want you either."
Lin Yan looked up at Yin Zhou in a daze, and said with red eyes, you know what a fart, Yin Zhou sneered and said that the girl my brother liked was dumped by a hooligan, and my brother immediately threw away all the items in his hand to relax with her, this is distressing . What about you, Xiao Yu thought of the person he had been waiting for all his life to marry a wife and have a baby, and he didn't burn paper money for him once when he lived to be eighty. You are exactly the same as that Duan Ze, you don't cherish life, and when you die, you will make such a grave to remember, ghosts will not sympathize with you!
Lin Yan opened his mouth wide, wanted to refute, but found that his words were poor. It was the first time he had quarreled with Yin Zhou since he was a child, and he lost a fight.
Yin Zhou interrupted him: "Don't change the subject, I am giving you a serious ideological education, organizing a rectification movement, and eliminating feudal dross. You see, you just want a "dummy" who is waiting for you and guarding you unconditionally ", what's the difference between his name Zhang Yu and Wang Yu? It's shameful! It's a son of a bitch! If you really like him, just listen to his past, not as a person who loves you, but as a real Xiao Yu, you have self-respect, have you respected him?"
"What do you like about that guy?" Yin Zhou squatted on the ground, hopped like a frog, and changed his angle.
"... He was really nice to me." Lin Yan was completely dumbfounded by the lesson, and replied stupidly.
"Bah." Yin Zhou shook Lin Yan's mind, "A rotten tree cannot be carved, let's go, think for yourself."
Lin Yan didn't know that Yin Zhou and Xiao Yu colluded to fool him until many years later, but at that time he really felt that Yin Zhou's spitty long speech was so wise that it could be recorded in the annals of history. I, in Liumu Town, can just walk away, but he still follows all the way, running around in the sorrow of past life and present life, on the one hand is the lost lover, and on the other hand is the reincarnation who refuses to forgive him... They should be alone, Lin Yan thought blankly, what did an infatuated person do wrong to send him to hell
The so-called never leave, it turns out that it is always asking others, even if there is a slight suspicion, he has not left, but he has already abandoned, the integrity of a person may not be comparable to that of a ghost, people always have to go back and forth to understand love, ghosts only One creed, never let go, love someone too much, don't care about dignity, only who owes whom.
The world of ghosts is simpler than humans, and ghosts understand love better than humans.
Seeing that Yin Zhou was about to leave, Lin Yan grabbed him: "Tell me, now... is it still too late?"
Yin Zhou's expression was as confused as ever, but there was a hint of cunning in his eyes: "Isn't it because I haven't paid my respects yet."
The coffin room was groggy, with flickering red candles dripping with candle tears, one by one sad eyes, depressingly dressed in a bright red wedding dress, sitting at the table fiddling with a lake pen. Lin Yan rushed forward in three steps at a time, and the moment his eyes intersected with Xiao Yu's, he didn't know what to say to those clear eyes. He opened his mouth wide and choked out a sentence: "...you can't marry him !"
Xiao Yu didn't expect Lin Yan to say this, and was obviously taken aback for a moment: "What's wrong?"
Lin Yan felt that he had turned into a frog, his chest heaved and his cheeks puffed up, it must be very funny, but Xiao Yu stared at him seriously, Lin Yan couldn't take back what he just said, his face flushed red, Depression and grievance rushed out, and shouted at Xiao Yu like a bamboo tube pouring beans: "I just like you, no matter you are a human or a ghost, I want you, I will wait for you, if you don't come for a year, wait for a year , If you don’t come for ten years, wait for ten years, you won’t come for a lifetime, I died alone at home and was eaten by cats, if you want to marry him, you have to step over my corpse first!”
He thought that Xiao Yu would disdain, despise, and blame him for backtracking, but the ghost was surprisingly calm, quietly put down the pen, and asked, "You don't want me to be reincarnated?"
Lin Yan took a step forward and grabbed Xiao Yu's front: "There are so many mountains, so many temples and monks and priests in the world, I don't believe there is no way for them to force me to give away my man, even if there is really no way, I would rather you be a ghost than allow you to have fun with others, and when I am old, sick, and dying, I will not let you float in this world by yourself, find a monk and let us go away together!"
Xiao Yu smiled and said yes.
This time it was Lin Yan's turn to be dazed: "Okay? Nothing else?"
"No more, I think it's fine." Xiao Yu said, "Let's go, Yihan is asleep, don't disturb him, and they, too, are getting impatient."
Xiao Yu took off the wedding dress, folded it neatly, and put it in Duan Ze's coffin. Lin Yan didn't understand what happened, but looked around, and saw that a pair of flower candles hadn't been lit yet, so why were they put away? , what about fruit offerings, and braziers? Turning his head again, he saw that Yin Zhou and the others were already ready to go. Seeing Lin Yan looking at him, Yin Zhou raised the corner of his lips and raised his middle finger at him.
"I always feel that Yihan wants to tell me something..." Xiao Yu pulled Lin Yan out, and looked back at the weird coffin room. The door of the small stone room has been closed, and the study outside will be dusty forever. Xiao Yu frowned. She pursed her lower lip and shook her head, "Forget it, go out first, it's not safe here anyway."
The door of the study closed behind with a creak, and a group of people stood in the corridor. The smell of dried noodles was still there. Lin Yan swallowed, thinking of Yin Zhou's hunger tactics just now, he couldn't help feeling angry, and took out a bacon sausage from his bag. Bit by bit.
The corridor is still dark and narrow, because they have already walked through it once, and everyone knows that they don't want to delay in the dark for a moment, turn on all the lights and march quickly. Somewhat empty, Xiao Yu found his wish but gave up at the last moment, the two of them are still alone, their future is bleak.
He only hoped that they would get along day and night in the future, and that Xiao Yu would never mention that previous life who was alone in the darkness for a hundred years. Lin Yan held Xiao Yu's hand, thinking of the coffin room that recorded countless memories just now, feeling a little guilty for no reason.
It's like stealing someone else's love, dismantling all the beautiful thoughts in front of his grave, and taking away the lover he has been obsessed with all his life. If Duan Ze has the same heart and mind as himself, I'm afraid the roots of his teeth will bleed at this moment.
"Finally the torment is over." Yin Zhou stretched his waist, "Having been out for half a month, my waist is sore and my back hurts. I really want to go home to take a bath, go out to practice stalls and eat barbecue. Drinking cold beer is more refreshing this season."
Ayan hooked the corners of her mouth, staring at the void in the distance, Yin Zhou was happy: "Taoists don't want to drink, let's get together and celebrate the rest of our lives after the catastrophe!"
A Che jumped up and down, clamoring repeatedly to eat mutton, beef, chicken, pork, and all kinds of meat. The team laughed and laughed, and the atmosphere was full of joy for a while. When I came back to my senses, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, so I stopped and looked around seriously.
"Why don't you leave?" Yin Zhou wondered.
Lin Yan picked up the miner's lamp and looked back, then looked forward, hesitantly asked: "When we came, was this passage so long?"
Hearing this, Ayan also stopped, recalled it for a while, and then shook her head: "Yes, it was too long... I remember that it took less than ten minutes from the crowd to the coffin room when we came here. Very slow…”
Yin Zhou's complexion was also ugly, and he said guiltyly, "Did I remember wrong?"
No one answered for a moment, and they walked quickly holding flashlights and miner's lamps. However, the strangest thing happened suddenly after they continued walking for half an hour. The corridor in front of them came to an end. The simple wooden door, made of pieces of wood, is rickety and decayed. Behind the door is endless darkness.
Cold sweat drenched his clothes, Lin Yan's voice trembled slightly, and he pointed to the wooden door in front: "This... isn't this Duan Ze's coffin?"
"How did we come back?"
When the wooden door was opened and the group of people saw the same furnishings in the study as before, the newly left candle tears, the coffin, the traces of ignition and cooking on the ground, and the litter of cigarette butts in the small stone room, everyone had to admit a reality: the ghost hit the wall up.