The fire grew bigger and bigger, spreading into the whole house. The flames rolled up the hem of Mingyue's skirt, and the red flames set her whole body on fire.
Then she was squeezed out of the body, and could only watch the beautiful girl with a heartbroken expression and screaming "Jiangqu" in a heart-wrenching voice, just like watching an old movie.
Jiang Qu, who was outside the house, had tears streaming down his face. Veins bulged on his fists behind his back, and his teeth were clenched tightly.
But until the girl in the room was wrapped in fire runes and lines, her body was burned to ashes, leaving only a charcoal-black shell covered with red lines, Jiang Qu did not make any move.
In the end, he followed the Jiang family members like a walking corpse.
The girl did not really die. Her soul became the first and most important link in the Jiang family's fortune-changing formation, providing luck for the Jiang family at the cost of many lifetimes.
In the days that followed, the girl heard those Jiang family members stationed in the courtyard mention Jiang Qu. He had remarried, and this time his bride was a girl from an aristocratic family who could bring the entire Jiang family back to life. The Jiang family once again became a wealthy family in the city, and they were glad that the luck-changing array was really useful.
Later, the girl from the noble family gave birth to two children for Jiang Qu, a boy and a girl. The funny thing is that the daughter was named Nian Wan. You should know that the girl's name was Lu Wan!
Nianwan Nianwan, Lu Wan didn’t know how Jiang Qu dared to give her this name. Wasn’t he afraid that a ghost would knock on the door in the middle of the night
Unfortunately, she couldn't leave the yard, and Jiang Qu never came here again. She could only hear from the servants of the Jiang family that the Jiang family was well off and Jiang Qu was happy.
As a symbol on the array, she suffered from the pain of burning all the time and was in hell all the time. She was waiting, but she didn't know what she was waiting for.
However, the Jiang family soon discovered that a person's luck is limited, so when the Jiang family faced a crisis again, there was a second, third, fourth... countless girls who were deceived.
Like moths to a flame, they fell into the Jiang family's ancestral home with love, and eventually became black skeletons and symbols on the luck-changing array.
At first they prayed for someone to come and rescue them, but no one came, and no one ever came.
Later they made a lot of noise all day and all night, making the whole house uneasy and making people around them afraid to approach.
The Jiang family invited a master to perform a ritual and changed the furnishings and feng shui of the entire courtyard, but they still couldn't completely control their resentment.
Finally, a certain head of the Jiang family proposed a condition, which was the method of replacement. Every few years, a new woman would be offered to join the formation, so that the "old man" could be freed from the formation and reincarnate.
The skeletons agreed, and they had no choice but to take advantage of the situation.
So the Jiang family had an ancestral motto: burn incense.
The so-called burning incense is nothing more than exchanging one for one.
For the Jiang family, women are like incense sticks. Once lit by a torch, they will keep burning themselves to continue the fortune of the entire Jiang family.
The women before had stayed in the formation for too long, and their luck had long been exhausted. It would be better to replace them with fresh ones so that they could have some peace and quiet.
The Jiang family had a good plan, and the skeletons didn't care. The feeling of having their souls worn out in the formation was too painful, and they wanted freedom and liberation too much.
Even if this liberation comes at the expense of someone else's freedom.
As the first person to enter the formation, Lu Wan was the one who persisted the longest. She sent off one sister after another and never thought of anyone replacing her. Although she didn't know what she was persisting in, she didn't know what the meaning of this persistence was.
Jiang Qu had died a long time ago, and so had those members of the Jiang family she once knew. Her parents had also died, and there was no one in this world who knew her anymore.
A long, long time passed, and one day, Lu Wan finally made up her mind that she wanted to leave.
This time, she will come to burn incense.
All the sisters have no objection to this point, because she is the most senior person here, she has given opportunities to many people, and she is the most qualified person to say she wants fragrance.
Then Mingyue was sent by Lu Wan into her past memories. As long as she lit the torch outside, everything that had happened to her would happen again to Mingyue, and then Mingyue would be able to replace her and become the new formation talisman.
But until Mingyue finished reading all her memories, the fire still could not be ignited.
Mingyue looked towards the door. At this moment, she was no longer constrained by Lu Wan's body because she had returned to He Mingyue's body.
Mingyue walked towards the door and crossed the threshold very easily. The scene flashed and she was back in the yard again.
At this time, the atmosphere in the yard was very strange. The red wedding dress skeleton, or the red line on Lu Wan's body, was constantly tightening and jumping wildly, but her expression was very calm.
The other skeletons' voices were mixed. Mingyue listened carefully and found that they were all words of advice:
"Sister Wan, why are you doing this? Why are you torturing yourself like this? You can obviously be free."
"Why do we still insist on being kind? Being kind and tolerant is useless. No one will come to save us. No one will help us."
"We just want to be free. We did nothing wrong. Sister Wan, Sister Wan, please stop torturing yourself."
"This opportunity is rare. We have endured the heart-wrenching pain and waited for so long. Sister Wan, please don't give up."
"Let her go in again. No, there are two more incense sticks over there. Sister Wan, please let them in again..."
Mingyue could hear that Lu Wan was very important to these skeletons. They would rather give up their own opportunities and let her get true freedom.
Mingyue also understood very well. After all, she had read Lu Wan's memory. When these newcomers entered the formation, Lu Wan had already been in this formation for hundreds of years. It was she who comforted everyone one by one, it was she who helped everyone relieve their pain, and it was she who made these women who were unwilling to give in become loving sisters.
In everyone's mind, Lu Wan is actually a soul-like figure.
At this time, Lu Wan shook her head and sighed softly: "Sisters, the Jiang family can produce good people, why should we make the same mistakes again and again? Let them go. Anyway, we are used to this kind of life. It will be the same if we continue. Don't help the evil."
The skeletons all fell silent.
Give up the freedom that is right before their eyes? That is the liberation they have longed for for nearly a hundred years!
Although Jiang Xi and Jiang He didn't know what they meant, they still subconsciously held their breath and dared not make a sound.
Jiang Huai frowned and suddenly said, "No, ancestor..."