Chapter 43 Happy Event in the Mountain Village 3 "Your earrings are very special." An Rao...

An Rao was chatting animatedly with the fat aunt, while the others were staring at An Rao intently. They had no idea about the killing mechanism of the haunted house at the moment, and it was risky to talk to the NPC at this time. If they accidentally triggered the NPC's attack point, no one could say whether they would die as a result.

"Then uncle and auntie really take it very seriously!" An Rao praised sincerely.

The handsome young man smiled gently, and the fat aunt was overjoyed: "Of course, the whole village knows that Old Zheng loves his daughter the most. Now that his daughter has found a good man who is handsome and loving, Old Zheng will definitely give his daughter a grand wedding!"

"Hahaha, Aunt Li, these are Nannan's good friends, right?" A deep and hearty male voice sounded behind everyone. An Rao and the others turned around and looked. In the dim light, they could only see that the person coming was a middle-aged man with a smile on his face. He was wearing a festive black and gray Tang suit with dark patterns. He was holding a white wine glass in one hand and holding a middle-aged woman in cheongsam with the other hand. They should be the parents of the bride.

"Yes, yes, look at how handsome the girl's friends are! They are indeed children who grew up in the city." Fat Aunt Li glanced towards the wine table, completely ignoring the elderly Wang Quanmin and the couple Gao Zhifei and He Xin who were obviously not "children".

"Hey, Aunt Li, why didn't I see Aunt Cao coming?" Someone stood up not far away and asked loudly.

Seeing someone asking questions, Aunt Li quickly gave up her seat to the cheerful middle-aged couple and introduced them hastily: "This is the girl's parents, Mr. Zheng and Sister Wang. You guys chat. I'm leaving now!" After that, she hurriedly walked towards the person asking the questions.

"Thank you all for coming!" Old Zheng raised his glass and shook it towards the closed door above the hall. "My daughter would definitely be very happy if she saw you all. It's a pity that we can only see her on the wedding day!"

"It's okay. We know the rules. Congratulations. I'll toast to uncle!" An Rao also filled a glass of white wine, clinked it with Lao Zheng, and then drank it all in one gulp.

When the others saw that An Rao had no reaction after drinking the wine in the haunted house, they all started pouring drinks for themselves. For a moment, some were pouring Coke, some were pouring orange juice, and it was quite lively.

"You are VIPs, we have already arranged rooms for you!" Sister Wang took out a bunch of keys and began to distribute them along the table. "We don't have that many empty rooms, so we will have two people in one room. Please bear with me."

Since the seats were randomly assigned according to where everyone was sitting at the table, in the end An Rao and Bai Chuan shared a room, Su Ming and Shi Yirou shared a room, Gao Zhifei and He Xin and his wife shared a room, the scarred man and programmer Cheng Lin shared a room, Fang Qingqing and old man Wang Quanmin shared a room, and Wei Ronger shared a room alone.

Wei Ronger, who was left alone, suddenly looked unhappy. Being alone in an amusement park was not a good thing after all.

Everyone took the key handed over by Sister Wang. It was a simple metal key with a room number on it. The key in An Rao's hand was labeled "201", which should mean the first room on the second floor. After that were "202" for Su Ming and Shi Yirou, "203" for Gao Zhifei and He Xin, "204" for the scarred man and Cheng Lin, "205" for Fang Qingqing and Wang Quanmin, and "206" for Wei Ronger alone.

"Then take your time eating, and go to bed early after eating. It gets dark early here, and we turn off the lights and go to bed at 10 o'clock." After handing out the keys and giving some instructions, Sister Wang left with Lao Zheng.

There was silence at the table for a while, and everyone was silently thinking about the true meaning contained in every word the NPC couple had just said.

The sound of Aunt Li chatting with someone in the distance drifted over with the wind: "Aunt Cao didn't come today. She has been sick for several days."

"Oh, her livelihood is so short-lived!"

"Then let's eat our own food. You can move her stool. It's taking up the seat."

"Okay, Aunt Li, you can take this stool back."

"good."

"Old Guo, why don't you go see her?"

"What are you looking at? Her livelihood is retribution. Besides, it's not appropriate for me to go as she's a widow." The voice of "Old Guo" sounded familiar. An Rao turned around and saw that it was the old man drying herbs at the entrance of the village where they had inquired about the situation. It seemed that the Zheng family was not exaggerating when they said they would invite the whole village to a banquet for their daughter's wedding.

"Yeah, let's just forget about it. Come on, let's drink!"

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They are all country dialects, nothing special about them.

"I think it's more convenient for girls to share a room with other girls," Wei Ronger said to Su Ming, "Little brother, let me change rooms with you."

Perhaps because Su Ming was young, Wei Ronger spoke in a confident and unquestionable tone.

"No," Shi Yirou, who was beside Su Ming, refused directly before Su Ming could speak, "I want to live in the same room with my brother."

"Oh, my brother is already so old, how can he still live in the same room with his sister?!" Wei Ronger pouted.

"It's better for my grown-up brother to live in the same room with my sister than to live in the same room with a strange woman he doesn't know, right?" Shi Yirou rolled her eyes rudely.

"Old man, what do you think? It's quiet to live alone without being disturbed. We young people are sometimes quite noisy." When Wei Ronger saw Shi Yirou refused, she immediately turned around and asked Wang Quanmin.

"Ahem," Wang Quanmin coughed for a long time before saying, "I'm old and have underlying diseases. There's no other communication equipment or doctors here. I live alone and I'm afraid that if no one comes to find me, I'll die first!"

"Then I'll switch with Fang Qingqing and I'll take care of you. I have a lot of experience in taking care of people. I was the one who took care of my grandparents!" Wei Ronger seized the opportunity and said quickly.

"Rule 5 of the Haunted House Rules: Please obey the staff's instructions at all times. Is this your first time playing the game or are you taking us for fools?" An Rao interrupted Wei Ronger while casually eating melon seeds without looking at her. He also picked up a bright red wedding candy from the fruit plate in the middle of the table and handed it to Bai Chuan.

"They just came to hand out keys to two people per room. They didn't say who must live in which room. How can you have such poor comprehension at such a young age!" Wei Ronger rolled her eyes and retorted.

"Oh? Then let me ask you something?" An Rao said leisurely, "Why didn't she just throw the keys on the table and let us form a team?"

Wei Ronger stopped talking and just slammed the spoon heavily.

"Well, let's eat. Now that we're here," Wang Quanmin said, raising his chopsticks.

This sentence engraved in the genes of Chinese people is indeed magical. As expected, everyone picked up their chopsticks silently. Wei Ronger didn't have much appetite. She put down her chopsticks after taking a few bites of vegetables. Su Ming and Shi Yirou, two foodies, ate without any care.

"This is a crispy candy, very fragrant." An Rao looked at Bai Chuan who had been looking at the candy in his hand and couldn't help but introduce it.

"How to eat it?" Baichuan was very cautious and didn't even consider trying to open the wrapping paper before getting a definite answer.

An Rao looked at Bai Chuan with some amusement. He was still wearing the same cool black clothes and trousers. The sleeves of his black shirt were rolled up twice, revealing his strong and powerful arms with fair skin. Because of his superior figure, he stood out from the crowd even when he was just sitting on the down-to-earth red plastic stool at a country buffet. The only decoration on his body was the strange black earring that did not reflect any light even under the light. The pure white feather hung with silver silk thread swayed gently on the side of his neck, as if soothing its owner's emotions at all times.

"Your earrings are very special." An Rao suddenly said this out of the blue, and regretted it right after he said it. He and this person were not familiar enough to discuss private matters with each other, and besides, it was better to stay as far away from Baichuan as possible.

"It was on my ear when I woke up in the amusement park and I couldn't take it off." Baichuan said calmly.

An Rao paused, feeling that the next sentence might be about that important person "An Rao" again, so he quickly interrupted and said, "This candy is delicious, peel off the candy wrapper and put it in your mouth to try."

The bright red candy wrapper was peeled off, and Bai Chuan picked up the long strip of candy with his thin hands and put it into his mouth. His whole expression was a little strange, and then he commented seriously: "It's delicious, there is something hard inside, very fragrant."

An Rao: "... that one is called Peanut..."

Is this person even human?! Has he never even eaten peanuts?!

"Oh..." Baichuan opened his eyes slightly and suddenly realized, "So this is peanut."

An Rao: “…”

The sky gradually darkened. The red lanterns in the courtyard lit up one by one. The black houses and the people at the banquet were all dyed with a hazy red light, like ghosts and monsters appearing at night, which was very scary.

"Boss, I think this haunted house is so weird." Su Ming commented while chewing a chicken leg.

"Um?"

"Isn't this a haunted house? Why didn't I see a ghost when I walked in? Why did they invite me to a feast?" Su Ming licked his lips in satisfaction. "I have to say, the free-range chicken tastes really good!"

"Aren't you afraid that what you're eating is a paper chicken?" Shi Yirou said with a wicked smile.

"Ah, Sister Yirou, don't scare me!" Su Ming immediately threw away the chicken leg in his hand.

"Everyone should be careful. There are no ghosts in the haunted house, or we have already been surrounded by ghosts." Wang Quanmin said in a low voice.

"Everyone should be alert tonight. If you encounter any problems, call for help loudly," Gao Zhifei continued. "It would be easier to deal with if it was a ghost as soon as you entered the house. But in this situation, the food is real, and the simple villagers also look real. It's hard to tell who is human and who is a ghost, which makes it even more dangerous."

"Yes, Daddy and Mommy Zheng look fine!" Fang Qingqing was a little scared, "Is there anything wrong with the food?"

"The food is fine. If we're unlucky, we'll have to eat here for six days. If there's something wrong with the food, we'll be wiped out. The game won't let us die so easily." An Rao comforted.

"But the atmosphere here is so good that I'm beginning to doubt whether the boss is the ghost bride we thought of before..." Fang Qingqing was a little confused. She picked up a cherry tomato and put it in her mouth. The sweet and sour juice burst and soaked between her lips and teeth. It was a long-lost taste.

"Who else is there?" Shi Yirou glanced at the clear-minded college student and smiled gently, "Don't forget who this banquet was held for, who didn't attend, and who got married on the seventh day."

There is a big temperature difference between day and night in the deep mountains. When everyone felt the coolness, fog had already begun to rise in the mountains. The night wind was blowing gently, and the red light emitted by the red lanterns seemed to be drops of red ink spreading on rice paper in the thick fog. The guests who could not be seen clearly a few meters away had already gotten up to go home after eating and drinking. The swaying figures in the fog and red light looked like ghosts, which made people feel very ominous.

"Have you finished your meal, distinguished guests? If so, please follow me upstairs and I will show you your rooms." An old servant-like man suddenly appeared beside everyone with a hunched back and silently, which scared everyone.

"I'm done eating," Baichuan wiped his hands, "Excuse me."

An Rao glanced at the bone plate filled with red crispy candy wrappers in front of Bai Chuan and was speechless.