Looking at the Moon in the Well to Seek the Phantom (4)
She turned the bracelet over and over again on her wrist, unable to let it go. When she touched the bracelet, she could not help but think of Xu Xing's face.
I remember the warmth of his fingers on my skin, and his beautiful smile.
This feeling of being unable to control her own thoughts made her panic, followed by deeper curiosity.
A completely different, spontaneous curiosity about Xu Xing.
As the night deepened, Li Zhaoyue slowly felt sleepy. She carefully slid the bracelet back to the base of her wrist, covered herself with the quilt, and closed her eyes.
It was that dream again.
In the shabby and strange house, red lanterns fluttered in the wind. She stood in the empty corridor, looking to the end of the corridor.
There seemed to be a fire there.
She walked forward.
"You will be punished, you will be punished!" was the woman's heart-wrenching roar.
Suddenly, a large group of servants in mourning clothes appeared at the corner of the corridor, dragging a middle-aged woman covered in blood into the yard.
Li Zhaoyue happened to be fighting against them, but was pierced through the body by them.
In other words, this time she was just an illusion in this dream.
There was a dry well in the yard, and the group threw the middle-aged woman over the edge of the well. The servant in the lead, with a ferocious face, said with a forced smile, "It's a blessing for you that the master and the mistress have taken a liking to you."
Although the middle-aged woman was covered in blood and her hair was disheveled, her expression was resolute. She spat at the servant and said bitterly, "You filthy bastards, you can turn black into white. You clearly stole my son, but you are saying it's a blessing for me. Do you want this blessing?"
The servant was enraged. He slapped her across the face and shouted, "If you don't accept my toast, you'll be punished! Since you're so determined to die, I'll show some mercy and grant your wish!"
After saying this, he winked at the group behind him. The burly men rushed forward, lifted the woman, and threw her into the dry well. The woman clung to the edge of the well with both hands, cursing, "You utterly heartless bastards! After I die, I will become a demon and haunt you for eternity, eating your flesh, drinking your blood, and peeling your skin. I'm waiting, I'm waiting for the day you die! I'm waiting!"
The last words echoed off the deep well walls as the woman fell, her shrill screams echoing endlessly, assaulting the eardrums of everyone present. Some retreated in fear. The leading servant rolled his eyes and said gruffly, "Ghosts are just legends. What's there to be afraid of? Besides, we have immortals in our mansion. This unworthy evil spirit won't even think of harming us."
After saying that, he ordered a few people to find stones and completely seal the dry well.
After doing all this, the group hurried away.
Only Li Zhaoyue was left looking at the sealed dry well, unable to calm down for a long time.
If she saw correctly, the woman glanced in her direction before being thrown into the well. Obviously, no one should be able to see her, but the woman's eyes made it seem as if she was standing there.
There was a look of despair and sadness in her eyes, as well as a hint of barely perceptible resentment.
What exactly does she resent me for?
Li Zhaoyue felt as if she had been drained of all her energy. She felt neither angry nor afraid nor sad. She seemed to be detached from everyone and everything, observing everything calmly as an observer.
She suddenly became an extremely cold person whom she didn't even recognize.
Li Zhaoyue was afraid of this feeling, so he quickly withdrew his gaze and followed the direction the group left.
This dream had lasted long enough, and she had a strong premonition that if she followed it, she would be able to see the end of the dream.
It was the same room I had been to last time, but this time the door was open.
Everywhere was red silk and red candles. Wedding characters cut from red paper were haphazardly pasted on windows, pillars, and doors. This didn't look like a normal wedding.
Li Zhaoyue glanced at the few people in the yard and the coffin placed in the middle of the room, and his eyes widened.
This is a ghost marriage.
Realizing this fact, Li Zhaoyue looked around again and found that most of the figures he had just seen were made of paper.
The courtyard was dark. The candle was covered with red gauze, and the dark red light shone through it, hitting the pale face of the paper man, which was very creepy.
Suddenly, the lights in the room flickered, and a figure in bridal attire was dragged out, tied up. A red veil covered her face, and only her hands, visible from her sleeves, proved she was human, not a paper doll.
She was very reluctant, but her hands and feet were tied tightly and she was unable to resist.
Immediately afterwards, a man covered in blood was dragged out behind the bride.
His face turned pale, his eyes dark, and he spat out the minced meat in his mouth. He looked ahead with a sinister look, and said in an ambiguous tone, "You just found a so-called immortal and you want to seal me? That's too unrealistic!"
"Son, it's not that mother wants to do this, it's really..." A woman's crying voice came from behind. Li Zhaoyue turned around and saw a familiar face.
It was the noble lady I saw in my dream last time.
Wait, a light bulb went off in her mind, and she immediately recalled the appearance of the woman who was thrown into the dry well, who looked almost the same as the current lady.
And these two people...
She suddenly remembered the woman who saved her in her dream.
These three people are almost identical!
While she was still in shock, a man walked out from behind the woman.
He looks exactly like her!
She was dressed in white, looked at the two people standing outside the room with an indifferent expression, and waved her hand.
"Fairy, is there really no other way? My master and I only have this one child." The woman cried, looking at the man with tearful eyes.
"The devil has come to the world, bringing great trouble to the world. Even if I don't eliminate him today, others will come."
"But...but you clearly said that the demon species can be eliminated, you said so!" The woman was very emotional and was about to pull her sleeve.
A trace of disgust flashed in the woman's eyes, and she quickly dodged. At the same time, a middle-aged man with luxurious clothes and a big belly came over, helped the woman who collapsed on the ground, and whispered to her, "Let's start."
"Master!" The woman looked at him in disbelief.
The man looked away and sighed heavily, "This matter concerns the lives of all people in the world, so this is the only way."
"But he is our only son!" the woman screamed.
"Yes, Daddy, are you really going to listen to this demon, seal me alive in a coffin, and watch me die?" The boy's eyes were filled with tears, and his eyes were clear, as if the bloodstains on his lips were just an accident, not proof that he was a cannibal.
Hearing this, the bound bride began to struggle violently.
"Dad, do you really want to watch me die alone? I'm only sixteen and I don't want to die." The boy had already started crying.
"master!"
Aside from the cries of the woman and the young man, there was a dead silence all around. No matter how much they pleaded, the middle-aged man remained indifferent.
"Of course Dad is afraid that you will be lonely, so I chose a companion for you. You two should be good and go to paradise together." He looked at his son with pity and said softly.
After hearing this, the bride struggled even more violently, and the big men next to her could hardly hold her down.
"Let's get started." He sighed again.
The woman in white nodded slightly, her hand flicked behind her waist, and a string of bells appeared. The courtyard was filled with the ringing of clear bells. To others, this sound was just ordinary, but to the demons, it was deadly.
The young man began to go mad, unbearable pain exploding in his head. He broke free from the people around him and began to bite everywhere. The bride standing next to him was being pulled by him and was about to die under his jaws.
A bell rang softly, and a yellow talisman fell. The woman in white appeared instantly and snatched the bride from the young man's hands. She turned, reached out, and placed the yellow talisman firmly between the young man's eyebrows. At the same time, the bell rang lightly, and she slapped him hard in the face, knocking him unconscious.
The woman turned over in the air with the bride in her hand, and kicked the boy into the coffin that had been prepared long ago.
"Be careful," she said softly, helping the bride to steady herself.
The bride was so frightened that she had trouble standing. The woman took off the puppet from her waist and threw it to the bride.
"It will protect you. All you have to do is stand still."
After she finished speaking, she used her Qinggong skills to flip over in the air and landed next to the coffin. She raised her left and right hands together and forcefully closed the coffin lid, forever covering the young man's hideous face.
Then, she bit her finger and drew complicated spells all over the coffin. After doing all this, she put away the bell in her hand and clasped her fists towards the middle-aged man.
"Everything is complete. Bury him in the formation composed of entanglement and breaking. Guard him for a hundred years, and the disaster will be eliminated."
"I will come again in a hundred years and reinforce the seal again." The woman glanced at the man and the woman indifferently, ignoring the woman's resentful look, and said in a deep voice.
"Thank you, Immortal, for eliminating the evil for my clan. I am very grateful. If there is anything you want, please feel free to ask." The man said respectfully.
The woman kept crying beside him.
The woman shook her head and was about to say no when the bride's veil suddenly fell down.
Under the red veil is a familiar face.
Ah Xu's eyes were gloomy, and there were tears on his long eyelashes.
The woman's expression of indifference suddenly broke. Then, she quickly picked up the veil from the ground and put it back on. She was so fast that the others didn't react in time.
"How did this bride come here?" She seemed to have thought of something terrible, and her tone suddenly became cold.
"This... do you know him?" The man asked tentatively when he saw that something was wrong.
The woman closed her eyes, and at the same time, Li Zhaoyue felt a deep panic rising from the bottom of his heart. It was her emotion, but he could sense it.
"Tell me how he got here." Her face was already filled with anger when she said this. Mr. Lou didn't dare to be vague and told the whole story in a halting manner.
All we know is that the boy's name is Ah Xu, and he came to the Lou Mansion with his mother a month ago. His mother is the twin sister of Master Lou's wife, and they used to live in a small village deep in the mountains. A while ago, a demonic attack in the mountains destroyed their village, and Ah Xu had no choice but to seek refuge with his sister. Unexpectedly, Ah Xu's birthdate perfectly matched the requirements for the Lou family's formation.
then……
He didn't say the rest, but the woman understood it instantly.
There was no longer the innocence and liveliness in Ah Xu's eyes as when they first met, only endless resentment.
"Before you left, you gave us a jade pendant and told us to call you if anything happened. To save me, my mother guarded this useless jade pendant and endured beatings from others for two hours." His eyes were red and big tears fell, but he finally wiped them away.
"But you didn't come. Not only did you not come, you are the murderer who caused all this!"
The dim candlelight danced in his eyes, and the blood-red wedding dress made him look like a fragile paper figure that would burn up in the flames in the next moment.
Li Zhaoyue felt that he and the woman in white had become one.
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