Xu Youyuan worked with Little Golden Pig and finally took back most of the gold coins. At this time, Chen Ming climbed out of the soil again, patted the ashes on his body, and asked the two of them with a confused look:
"What happened, how could I faint?"
Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue both looked at Chen Ming very vigilantly, he took one step forward, and they took two steps back.
"What's wrong with you? Don't you know me? I'm Chen Ming."
Chen Ming was puzzled, and suddenly found that there was mud all over his body, and even some bloodstains, so he sincerely asked Xu Youyuan and the others what happened just now.
Xu Youyuan saw that he didn't seem to be lying, maybe this was part of the plot, so she told him that he had just become a barren corpse.
Chen Ming was so frightened after hearing this, he suddenly remembered one thing:
"Before, when I was riding a tractor from my fellow villager, there was a dead body on the tractor. I felt a little scared at that time, but apart from me, there was only a living fellow from my fellow villager, and I didn't know the way. Yicheng, how could I be so embarrassed to refuse? When I was on the tractor, I always felt that the corpse was touching my leg, so I was so scared that I kept asking the fellow. What? The tractor will inevitably bump on the dirt road, and the body will bump into you as soon as it is bumped. This is inevitable, let me not be afraid. Now I think about the fellow who is very strange. It was cold and it didn't rain. Bring a The bucket hat covered most of his face, so he couldn't see his appearance at all, maybe they were both ghosts and wanted to revive their souls."
Shi Yue was horrified to hear what he said, and told him to shut up and stop talking.
Chen Ming seemed to be back to normal, and the blood strips on his head were gone. He was going to Duotougou again. It seemed that Duantougou was still the main line of the mission. Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue were on guard and headed south with Chen Ming.
After walking for 15 minutes, we arrived at Kuotou Village in Duotougou. At this time, it was bright and there were several peasant women feeding chickens at the entrance of the village. The peasant woman's face was flushed red by the cold wind, and it was relatively fresh, at least it looked like a normal living person, and Shi Yue's tense nerves were relieved to a certain extent.
Chen Ming went into the village to find the village chief. The village chief was about 70 years old and dressed very decently. Two young people followed behind him, all watching the visitors with vigilant eyes.
The son-in-law of the village chief is Chen Ming's distant cousin, and Chen Ming came back this time to go to the funeral for his cousin.
Chen Ming asked where his uncle's mourning hall was. He wanted to send the old man off for the last trip, but the village chief actually told him that his uncle had not died, but was only seriously ill. Now he can take him to see it.
Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue, who were standing on the side, already felt the strangeness of the atmosphere, and the plot seemed a little wrong.
Chen Ming's inner activity:
[Chen Ming is a little bit puzzled. Since his cousin is not dead, why did the village chief tell him he was dead on the phone? He also asked him to come back as soon as possible. Could it be that he wanted him to come back to see his cousin for the last time? It sounds reasonable, after all, his parents have passed away, and he is the only one left in the family. It's just... With doubts, Chen Ming went with the village chief to see his cousin.]
"Let's follow too." Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue followed Chen Ming to the village, entered a house, and saw their cousin lying on the bed, looking really bad.
Chen Ming sat next to his cousin and greeted his cousin. Cousin just coughed and was speechless.
The village chief said: "Xiao Ming, you have also seen the situation of my cousin. The doctor in the town said that he is in the advanced stage of cancer, and there is no way to save him. He can only wait for death. Hey, but your cousin is only four years old. It's a pity to die like this when I'm in my teens and haven't had a baby yet."
Saying that, the village chief put his hand on Chen Ming's shoulder, and said earnestly: "I remember when your cousin went to see you in the city when you were a child, and dragged a large bag of winter bamboo shoots all the way there, and he was very concerned about your family. Now Cousin is in trouble, you can't stand idly by."
Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and then he understood the meaning of the village chief. He took out all the RMB he carried with him and handed it to the village chief:
"Look, I really don't have any more. Now the economic environment is so bad and the consumption in the city is high, I only have two thousand yuan left."
The village chief waved his hand and asked him to take the money back: "You are still a child, how can you ask for your money?"
Chen Ming was dumbfounded: "Then what do you mean..."
"Xiao Ming, do you remember Xiaoxiu?"
"You mean your granddaughter Xiaoxiu? I remember seeing her pictures when I was a kid."
"Xiaoxiu, she disappeared two days ago..." The village chief sighed, mentioning that Xiaoxiu's eyes filled with tears, "She's only 15 years old, and she didn't go out a few times, so she died of illness. Her mother cried and blinded her eyes, and I haven't slept for two days. Look at my white hair, I didn't have a hair two days ago, and now it's all white."
Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue looked at Chen Ming's expression, it was obvious that he was in a state of complete confusion.
The village chief said, "Your parents should have told you about you and Xiaoxiu."
Chen Ming hesitated a bit and said, "Are you talking about my relationship with Xiaoxiu Dingbao?"
Village Chief: "Yes, yes."
Chen Ming smiled awkwardly: "That was many years ago, and now they are in free love, and no one will think about a baby kiss. Besides, Xiaoxiu is not already..."
Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue both knew what Chen Ming wanted to say, Xiaoxiu was already dead, why did you still mention the baby kiss?
"Shouldn't it be..." Shi Yue was the first to think of a terrible possibility.
"Yin relative." Xu Youyuan also thought of it.
Sure enough, the village chief said: "Yes, Xiaoxiu has already gone down first, but you can't go back on your marriage contract. Your grandfather already accepted the gift, and now you're talking about free love, do you want Xiaoxiu to die? It’s not complete anymore, and it’s unwilling to be trapped in this house forever and never be able to survive?”
Hearing the village chief speak so seriously, Chen Ming jumped up from his cousin's bed: "This, that's not what I mean, I'm..."
Before Chen Ming could finish speaking, the village chief said angrily, "Then what else do you mean? Don't you just want to go back on your word?"
Chen Ming couldn't argue: "I, this... You want me and Xiaoxiu to become yin kisses, but I'm still alive."
The village chief said: "Don't delay, even if she dies and gets married, it's still a marriage. Even if she lives, you still want to marry her. What's the difference? And now that your cousin is so ill, you two get married. He can still be happy, maybe his illness will be cured. You can kill two birds with one stone, what are you good for? Do you think that after two years of studying outside, you look down on people?" The village chief suddenly stepped forward Taking a step, he widened his eyes and suddenly raised his voice, "You don't want to watch your cousin die, right?!"
Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue saw that Chen Ming's face was as white as paper, he touched his trousers and glanced at the door subconsciously, clearly trying to escape.
Who would be a normal person who would want to marry a ghost? Even NPCs are afraid.
Both Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue could see that Chen Ming wanted to escape, but the village chief found out. The two ferocious young men who had been following behind the village chief clung to the left and right and blocked Chen Ming directly. By the bedside of his cousin, it seems that as long as Chen Ming wants to take a step forward, the two will directly knock him out.
Chen Ming was so thin that he was so thin that he was no match for these strong men. He took two steps back and almost sat down on his cousin's face.
Not only these two young people, Chen Ming found that there were many villagers standing outside his cousin's house, with black heads looking in from the windows, all staring at him.
How could Chen Ming think that he had come back thousands of miles to send sheep into the tiger's mouth.
The village chief patted him on the shoulder, and said to Chen Ming as if he had given him a heavy responsibility for the times: "You should not have too much ideological burden, it is not as complicated as you think, that is to say, let you and Xiaoxiu follow the customs of the village and take a form for her. Just keep it for one night. When you come back, take her tablet back to the city to offer it well, and keep her clean for five years. When her wish is fulfilled, she will naturally leave. If you want to marry another wife, no one will stop you. following you."
Chen Ming: "Is it that simple?"
The village chief promised: "It's really that simple."
Chen Ming had no choice but to admit it.
Ghost marriages are generally not held during the day. Only after the sun has completely set at night can the wedding begin when the time is right.
Cutout Village is located in Duotougou, a village buried deep in the mountains. Because the mountain road is difficult to walk, and there is almost no contact with the outside world, some feudal superstitions are still very popular, and even Xiaoxiu has a little maid who grew up with her since she was a child.
The little maid hugged Xiaoxiu's tablet and knelt with Chen Ming in the hall of the village chief's house. The beams were not hung with festive red satin, but white instead. Even Chen Ming's groom's clothes and hat, and even the flowers on his chest have turned white. The visiting relatives and friends were all dressed in white filial attire, and the scene looked extremely terrifying.
Shi Yue and Xu Youyuan stood in the crowd, watching the people coming and going, guessing how the plot should go on.
Xu Youyuan said: "Since it is a terrifying scene, more terrifying things must happen. I think Chen Ming should have a hard time tonight."
"Wouldn't it be Xiaoxiu cheating on the corpse?" Just guessing Shi Yue already felt a chill.
Xu Youyuan: "It's very possible."
The two were talking when the system prompted to come in.
[System prompt: Protect Chen Ming from death until dawn before you can clear the level.]
There were blood strips on Chen Ming's head, and the blood volume was very low, and it looked like he could die easily.
Shi Yue's eyes darkened, she was really afraid of what to do.
After worshipping, Chen Ming was dragged into Xiaoxiu's boudoir before his death, and let them bridal chamber.
Chen Ming: "What?! And a bridal chamber? And a dead man..."
Chen Ming was pushed into the house. As soon as the door opened, a cool breeze blew through. There was an open coffin in the small room. In the coffin lay the corpse of a little girl with a very terrifying dead makeup on her face.
Her small face was as white as flour, her red lips were extremely bright, and there were two bright red carmines on her face. She wore white clothes and embroidered shoes, and she felt like she would open her eyes at any time.
Chen Ming only looked at Xiaoxiu, and his legs were so frightened that the village chief took the opportunity to have the door locked, and he was not allowed to come out until dawn.
The village chief and others didn't know whether to leave or hide in the dark to observe secretly. At the moment when the door was closed, everything was quiet, and the corpse in the coffin looked even more terrifying.
The village chief and the others seemed to be unaware of the existence of Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue, and they were locked in the house together with Chen Ming.
Chen Ming sat on the chair first, then stood up again after a while, and turned around the room, but his eyes would fall on the corpse every two seconds.
Chen Ming kept telling himself to "stay awake, stay awake", and walking back and forth was also to prevent something terrible from happening when he fell asleep, and wanted to get through the night completely awake.
Who knew that the more he wanted to wake up, the more it would backfire.
The room seemed to be lit with a strange incense, which made Chen Ming more and more sleepy. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore. He sat in the corner farthest from the coffin, tilted his head, and soon fell asleep.
Shi Yue and Xu Youyuan also began to feel sleepy. They kept telling each other not to sleep and cheer up, but in the end their vision was completely dark.
"I can't see anything." Shi Yue told Xu Youyuan on her private channel.
"Me too." Xu Youyuan said, "But you can still hear some movements, so listen carefully."
Shi Yue pricked up her ears in the darkness: "It seems to be the sound of squeezing wood, could it be..."
His eyes suddenly lit up, and he could see things again. As soon as Shi Yue opened his eyes, he saw a blue-black hand clinging to the side of the coffin, and Xiaoxiu, who was paper-piercing, was slowly sitting up from the coffin.
Chen Ming, who woke up with Shi Yue and the others, saw this scene and cried out in a heart-wrenching manner.
"You...is my...husband?" Xiaoxiu's voice was like the sound of a saw cutting wood, which was very uncomfortable.
She stared at Chen Ming in the corner, her long hair covering her face, she couldn't see her appearance at all, she only felt that the cold air in the room was overwhelming, making people dizzy.
Chen Ming jumped up, slammed on the door frantically, and shouted: "Hurry up and let me out, let me out, there's a ghost!"
No one opened the door for him outside, no matter how hard he slammed the door, the door still wouldn't move, and he couldn't escape at all.
The female ghost Xiaoxiu smiled weirdly, and her body almost floated out of the coffin: "You are my husband... We are going to have a good bridal chamber tonight, come on, come on..."
Chen Ming burst into tears, and Shi Yue was also sweating, not knowing where to attack the female ghost. To be honest, this female ghost looks terrifying, let alone attack, she doesn't even want to touch it.
When the female ghost Xiaoxiu was about to float out of the coffin, her movements suddenly stopped.
Her movements froze for a while, and she wanted to lift it up again, but she was still pressed and unable to move.
"Who is it!" The female ghost Xiaoxiu scolded.
Xu Youyuan stood beside the coffin and pressed one hand on the head of the female ghost Xiaoxiu, preventing her from moving out of the coffin.
"How old are you this year?" Xu Youyuan asked very seriously.
The female ghost Xiaoxiu seemed to have met the dean of the school, stunned for a moment, and replied, "15 years old."
"15 years old, underage! What's the bridal chamber?! Go back!" Xu Youyuan pressed her back to the coffin.
The female ghost Xiaoxiu didn't react yet and fell back into the coffin.
Xu Youyuan immediately called to Shi Yue, "Hurry up and cover the lid of the coffin! Don't let her come out again!"
When Xu Youyuan shouted, Shi Yue had already started to move. With the blessing of her appearance, she could carry the heavy coffin lid and throw it to the coffin alone.
The female ghost Xiaoxiu, who felt that she was being teased, was about to get up, but the coffin was covered upright by the flying coffin. She wailed and lay back again.
Chen Ming also came up to help. The three of them worked together to fasten the coffin firmly. The female ghost Xiaoxiu struggled frantically inside. Chen Ming simply sat on the coffin lid and was bumped by the female ghost like a wild cowboy.
"Where are the nails? It's safest to nail the lid of the coffin!" Xu Youyuan shouted.
This question seemed to go beyond Chen Ming's set range, he didn't respond, Shi Yue said, "Will there be a firewood house?"
At this moment, the entire coffin burst, and the female ghost Xiaoxiu struggled out from below, her arms swept sharply, and the three flew out together and fell to the ground.
Chen Ming's blood bar was immediately reduced by half, and he almost vomited blood. He was completely a glass man, and it would shatter when touched.
Xu Youyuan couldn't let him get hurt again, so she pulled out a dagger in front of him and asked Shi Yue, "Can your little golden pig attack again?"
Shi Yue said: "Its mouth is swollen and can't be used anymore. It has to rest for a while."
Xu Youyuan gave a "tsk" and could only bite the bullet.
However, there is no blood bar on the top of the female ghost Xiaoxiu's head, which means that she, like the green snake and the white snake, cannot be eliminated by attacking.
What to do then?
Without any quest prompts, and without waiting for Xu Youyuan to think about it, the female ghost Xiaoxiu threw her arms, and two white silk ribbons flew in the air, wrapping around the necks of Chen Ming and Xu Youyuan, trying to strangle them to death.
The blood bars of the two of them dropped rapidly. In a hurry, Shi Yue suddenly remembered that she was wearing the appearance of a Taoist priest. She grabbed into the Taoist robe and grabbed a lot of yellow talisman paper. Lost on the ghost.
Unexpectedly, those yellow talisman papers are really lethal to ghosts. When the talisman paper touches the female ghost, it will cause a burning pain.
"Don't be so messed up!"
Seeing that the talisman paper was effective, Shi Yue immediately grabbed two more, scattered all over the sky, and then drew out the peach wood sword, which was a sword against the female ghost.
The female ghost was screaming and screaming from the talisman, and Shi Yue gave her another sword, which happened to be inserted into her heart.
The female ghost Xiaoxiu suddenly became quiet. She looked down at the sword stabbed in her chest, and then at Shi Yue, helplessly saying:
"I don't have any blood on my head, you stab a fart."
Shi Yue didn't expect the female ghost to scold her suddenly: "You suddenly crawled out of the coffin, you can't take you back, and you have to blow up the coffin. It looks like it's going to eat people. I won't stab you and stab who?"
The female ghost Xiaoxiu: "Isn't that what ghosts are all about? There must be some bursting effect. Can the one who sits down to talk to you about life still be a ghost?"
Shi Yue's eyes widened: "Are you a ghost arguing with me for this reason? Aren't you the one to be played in this scene!"
It was probably Shi Yue's words that triggered some key words for smart conversations, and the female ghost Xiaoxiu scolded her very smoothly: "You can poke your chest casually if it's a blame? I'm only 15 years old! Underage!"
It was hell, in every sense of the word.
Xu Youyuan almost laughed when she saw this scene, and handed the bottle to Chen Ming, asking him to drink two sips of blood first.
Since this female ghost can talk, it will be much easier.
Xu Youyuan walked to the female ghost Xiaoxiu and asked her: "You don't have a blood bar on your head, which means we don't need to fight. How can you tell us how to pass your level?"
Xu Youyuan's words triggered the main quest, and Xiaoxiu squatted on the ground with a sigh:
"I died too early, and there are still many wishes unfulfilled. As long as my wish is fulfilled, I will be satisfied and leave the world."
Xu Youyuan asked: "Then what is your wish?"
The female ghost Xiaoxiu raised her head, and her face painted with dead man makeup showed a hint of spring love: "My only wish is to talk, fall in love, love."
Xu Youyuan and Shi Yue looked at Chen Ming at the same time. Chen Ming received the look that everyone expected, and then looked at the terrifying face of the female ghost, rolled his eyes and fainted.
Shi Yue: "Rely?!"
She stepped forward and pulled Chen Ming up and shook it vigorously: "You are so embarrassed to faint at this time! Get up for me!"
No matter how Shi Yue shook him, Chen Ming would remain motionless as if he were dead.
At this moment, a red countdown floated in the sky.
[System prompt: Complete the wish of the female ghost Xiaoxiu within two hours, otherwise she will become a violent ghost and the mission will fail.]
The female ghost Xiaoxiu propped her chin expectantly: "I just want to fall in love, anyone can do it, come and fulfill my wish."