Lang Yu has been dealing with dark matter for many years and has some knowledge of metaphysics. He also had a barrier to hide his figure. Everyone only saw the snake bones on the ground moving out of thin air. They all thought it was a god descending to earth and believed in this result without a doubt.
The unfortunate male descendants managed to escape the disaster and knelt down to worship the gods with tears of gratitude.
Qi Mi tightened his left hand and stopped the sound of death.
The two exchanged glances and walked out of the ancestral hall along the edge of the crowd.
Even from a distance, one could still hear Kuai Weitian's tearful voice: "The gods have appeared!"
Little did they know that it was just a trick by two youngsters.
Qi Fan smiled helplessly: "It's really feudal superstition that kills people."
Metaphysics is something that is hard to fathom or understand. It is always true if you believe it and false if you don't. Especially this trick of pretending that gods have descended to earth is a sure-fire scam. She was just desperate to save people this time. If she was used by someone with bad intentions, then the entire Kuai family would definitely become puppets that can be manipulated at will.
Or maybe... he has become a puppet.
Qi Mi seemed to be lost in thought as she turned around to look at Kuai Weitian, the first person to walk out of the ancestral hall. She had a strong intuition that this person was not as simple as he seemed.
In order to find out the date of the bride's wedding, the two did not leave in a hurry, but instead walked to the backyard of the funeral hall, to Kuai Alua's room.
Through the door, I could hear faint sobbing sounds from inside the house and smell the scent of some ointment.
Qi Mi asked Lang Yu to stay at the door and knocked on the door twice.
"Come in." A crying voice allowed her to enter.
Qi Mi pushed open the door and saw Kuai Alua lying on the bed, her fair face stained with tears, her eyes swollen from crying. Perhaps because she hadn't expected it to be her, Kuai Alua was momentarily stunned, but after a few seconds, as if deeply wronged, she burst into tears again.
Qi Mi quickly pretended to be silent. He really couldn't bear to watch it, so he helped her wipe away her tears.
Kuai Aluan sniffed, holding Qi Mi's hand tightly while pushing her hard: "Why are you here? Go away quickly. If the master of the house finds you, you will be finished."
"Don't worry, they can't catch me."
Qi Mi was very confident about this. Even if tens of thousands of people from the Kuai family attacked together, whether she wanted to fight or retreat was entirely up to her mood. However, there was no need for a head-on conflict, and it was best to avoid it if possible.
She looked up and down at the teenage girl, who was wearing the same clothes as when they met yesterday, the same red cloth around her waist and ankles. The only difference was that her butt was bulging with herbs for healing.
Their meeting yesterday was brief, but when Kuai Alua's little hand was held today, she realized that the child's hand was so small and soft, so thin that it seemed as if it had no bones.
Kuai Aluan wiped her tears and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"How's your recovery?" Qi Mi pointed at her injury with his eyes.
Kuai Alua shook her head and curled her lips. "Don't worry. After all, I'm the bride chosen by the gods. The master showed some mercy when he took action. I have the best ointment for treatment. I'll be fine. But Xiaoyun..." She paused for two seconds, then burst into tears again, choking with sobs. "My fingers are connected to my heart. Those people used pliers to pluck out Xiaoyun's nails one by one. How painful it must have been for her, and how much she must have hated me."
Afraid of making too much noise, Kuai Alua kept covering her face with the quilt, her frail shoulders shaking from crying. The quilt was soaked through with her tears; the child must have cried all night.
Qi Mi sighed and subconsciously raised his hand to comfort her, but suddenly remembered the [Health Point Drop Warning] and lowered his hand.
After crying for a few minutes, Kuai Alua took out a few pieces of paper from her hand and wiped her snot and tears.
Seeing that her mood had stabilized a lot, Qi Mi asked about the matter: "When is your birthday?"
According to the customs of the Kuai family, the main temple of the underground palace will only be opened on the day the bride becomes a nun. Since the torn copy of the pass was found inside, she thought she could blend in with the wedding procession and go in to investigate.
Kuai Aluan thought for a moment and asked, "You want to ask me when I'm going to get married?"
"Ah... um." Qi Mi avoided her gaze.
Kuai Aluan slowly released her hand and suddenly lowered her voice: "Five days from now, it will be my eighteenth birthday, and I will be getting married."
Qi Mi let out an "oh" and when she looked up, she actually saw a sense of resignation to death on Kuai Alua's face.
It's called compromise.
"Can you chat with me?" Kuai Alua had a faint smile on her lips, which from this angle seemed to be a request. She moved the quilt aside, making a space, and patted twice to indicate that Qi Mi should sit here.
Qi Mi subconsciously glanced outside the door and sat down.
The room fell silent.
Kuai Alua lay on the bed with her hands supporting her cheeks. Although she was a bride who was about to get married, her every move and gesture could not hide the innocence of a girl. She stared at Qi Mi for two seconds, and the corners of her lips rose even deeper.
Qi Mi thought there was something on his face and touched it twice: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen," Kuai Alua praised openly. "From the first moment I saw you yesterday, I realized you were like the kind of girl described in books... a very bright girl." At this point, her expression suddenly turned lonely, and her smile was bitter. "I also want to be like you, but..."
She pursed her lips and swallowed the rest of the sentence, without saying anything else, fearing that her words would come true and she would never be able to escape from this prison. Because from beginning to end, she didn't know where she held on to a glimmer of hope in her heart. She felt that as long as the sedan chair had not been boarded, she still had a chance to struggle.
Feeling the atmosphere was subtly awkward, Qi Mi turned his head and thought for a moment before asking, "Do you like what you are doing now?"
"Of course not, it's just fate."
"Then if the person who is going to marry you in five days is the one you truly love, do you think you will still be so reluctant?" Qi Mi asked again.
Kuai Alua thought carefully and shook her head: "That shouldn't be the case. If the person I like comes to greet me in my bridal sedan, of course I will happily get in."
"So, everything in the world is nothing more than a matter of liking." Qi Mi smiled and leaned back, a hint of laziness in his eyes. "You like red, but others insist on giving you blue, then you'll be unhappy. You like cake, but others force you to eat meat, then you'll be miserable. You yearn for freedom, but others want to trap you in a cage, then of course you'll feel despair. The key is you...will you be brave enough to try to resist?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar mechanical female voice came to his ears again.
[Durability -1, your current durability is 99]
Qi Fan: ???
Qi Mi stood up suddenly, looking confused.
She didn't know which rule she had accidentally broken. She had just been sitting here talking to Kuai Alua for a few words when suddenly she lost another life point. Thinking back to when the reminder sounded, she had only said a few words of comfort. Could that not be allowed?
Kuai Alua was also startled by Qi Mi's sudden standing up and looked at him blankly.
Just at this moment, the gatekeeper Lang Yu coughed lightly, indicating that someone was coming, and Qi Mi hurried out and entered the barrier.
In the corridor, Kuai Zhenzhu covered her face with a scarf and looked around. She pushed the door open stealthily and brought in a bottle of ointment.
"Aluan, look, this is the medicine I asked someone to prepare for you. It's said that as long as you apply it for three days, there won't be any scars at all. After five days, you can marry the gods cleanly." As she said this, Kuai Zhenzhu was about to lift up Kuai Aluan's clothes.
Kuai Alua held her hand and said, "Mom, it's better not to."
"Of course you can use it. You're getting married in five days. You can't marry a god with injuries all over your body, right?" Kuai Zhenzhu pushed her hand away.
Kuai Alua thought Qi Mi was still there, so she shyly covered herself with the quilt. She accidentally touched the wound and groaned in pain.
"Look, kid, why are you still shy with your mother?"
"Mom! Please sit with me for a while." Kuai Alua glanced around the room guiltily and pulled Kuai Zhenzhu to sit down.
Kuai Zhenzhu couldn't do anything about her and put the medicine on the bedside.
Kuai Alua took the opportunity to hug her tightly. Since the marriage, she had rarely been able to see her mother. Although the main family had taken them in, because they were the younger generation of the branch family, their family lived in dire straits every day. Whenever the main family had any problems, they always contributed more, but in the end they were always ignored.
In silence, Kuai Alua thought of what Qi Mi had just said, and somehow revealed her true thoughts: "Mom, I don't want to marry a god..."
Unexpectedly, as soon as she said this, she was immediately pushed away by Kuai Zhenzhu. She lowered her voice and yelled, "I think you are really crazy! What nonsense are you talking about!"
Maybe it was because her mother pushed her away, which caused her to tear her wound, or because she felt so wronged, that Kuai Aluan burst into tears again. "Mom, I'm not crazy. I just said what I haven't dared to say. I really don't want to marry a god..."
"Enough! You still think this wound doesn't hurt? Shut up!" Kuai Zhenzhu scolded. She quickly walked to the door and looked around. Seeing that no one was there, she breathed a sigh of relief. "What do you know at such a young age? Only by arranging a heavenly marriage and giving birth to a child with a god can our position in the master's family be unshakable. Do you understand?"
"But……"
"It's nothing!" Kuai Zhenzhu stuffed the plaster into her hand. "We've already made a mistake in the Kuai family. Your brother... this time, luckily, the gods have chosen you as their bride, so your father and I can stand up straight. If you want to kill me and your father, go ahead and do it! Don't worry about our lives!"
"mom……"
"Don't call me!"
After saying that, Kuai Zhenzhu left angrily without looking back.
Inside the barrier, Qi Mi and Lang Yu looked at each other and let go of the naughty kid who was eavesdropping in the corner.
Just five minutes ago, not long after Kuai Zhenzhu entered the room, the naughty kid Kuai Weihang was eavesdropping in the corner again. He only behaved himself after Qi Mi pulled him into the barrier and gave him a good beating.
She hated ignorant kids the most, and she taught this kid a lesson in just a few words. She believed that he would never dare to eavesdrop again even if he had a hundred times the courage.
Kuai Weihang came out of the barrier and touched his burning buttocks with a look of horror. He burst into tears and ran while shouting, "Old Patriarch, my buttocks were hit by a ghost! And it was a female ghost!"
Qi Mi stuck his head out: "Pay attention to the wording, it's a beautiful female ghost."
"?" Kuai Weihang glanced back at her with a complicated expression, and actually yelled in agreement, "It's a beautiful female ghost!"
Lang Yu chuckled softly: "Shall we go?"
"Well, let's go."
The two left Kuai's Zhuangzi.
She didn't know if it was Qi Mi's illusion, but the farther she was away from Kuai's Zhuangzi, the more refreshed she felt. Even the smell of the soil next to the temple was much better.
It was dinner time, and the smoke from cooking was lingering in the sky. The faint smell of fireworks made people feel very comfortable.
Outside the temple, Lang Yu was about to open the door when he was grabbed by Qi Mi.
He turned his head suspiciously: "What's wrong?"
"Um..." Qi Mi scratched his head, "Fang Xinyue from our class has always missed you."
"Miss me?"
Lang Yu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He really didn't understand what the four-year-old girl wanted him to do.
Qi Mi smiled awkwardly, "Based on my understanding of that child, if she sees you, she'll definitely ask where the younger version of you has been. After all, she hasn't seen you since the end of the Midnight World. She's always treated you as a good friend."
A hint of understanding flashed in Lang Yu's eyes, and he curled his lips: "What do you want me to do?"
"It's very simple. Just say that Lang Yu has gone home, and you are his brother. You are here to fight monsters with us."
"So this is how Teacher Qi coaxes children..." He chuckled twice, "Okay, whatever you say goes." As soon as the door was opened, more than a dozen little kids were sitting by the door, blinking their eyes at them.
They both: “…”
After the kitchen was moved to the yard, Zheng Yuanyuan was afraid that they would get burned by running around, so she asked them to sit in a row at the gate, thinking that the gate was open outwards anyway and they could not be hit.
So when the door was opened, a few little ones were sitting in a row with their chins in their hands, looking cute.
Fortunately, the sounds of talking, cutting vegetables and cooking in the house were so chaotic that the kids didn't notice the conversation between the two people outside the door.
Seeing Qi Mi and a brother she had only met in the previous world standing side by side outside, Ye Shushi tilted her head and said shockingly: "Teacher Qi, are you two dating?"
Qi Fan: “?”
Lang Yu silently avoided the gaze and tactically cleared his throat.
Qi Mi laughed helplessly and poked her face with his hand, very curious about the structure of this child's brain circuit: "When a boy and a girl go out alone, they are in love. You are so feudal at such a young age."
Ye Shushi, however, had a well-reasoned reasoning and said seriously, "I've seen that in TV dramas, men and women who fall in love often make big mistakes. Teacher Qi, you didn't go shopping for groceries today, right?"
…
…
!
"Really?" She was so busy looking for the pass that she forgot there were so many hungry babies.
"Just watch." Ye Shushi sighed and shook her head helplessly.
Alas~~~
The ten kids in the Douding class all sighed and shook their heads, expressing their helplessness.
Wu Muchen held her face in her hands, worriedly saying, "My uncle came back from work and before he could even sit down, he went out to buy groceries. Poor uncle, he can't even talk yet. I don't know if he can buy anything."
At this time, Zheng Yuanyuan couldn't stand it anymore, so she brought two dishes that Sister Li had just cooked and called out to them, "Teacher Du went there with Mr. Chen, how could they not be able to buy food? Are you guys hungry? Come and eat first."
"Oh yeah, I have food to eat!"
“Eat, eat!”
"I'm hungry~"
…
When the cubs heard this, they came back to life instantly and immediately dragged their little wooden blocks over.
Qi Mi was left speechless at the door: These little guys are talking so much, are they just emo because they are hungry?
As soon as the kids sat down, the excitement of the previous second disappeared without a trace. They remembered the rule of "don't talk while eating and don't talk while sleeping" and ate their meal seriously and quietly, each of them like a little doll.
They had just finished eating when Du Rui and Chen Banxianer came back from buying groceries.
Chen Banxian'er had never met Du Rui alone before, and had no idea that Du Rui had the ability to cast spells. As soon as he came in, he asked Qi Mi as if he had discovered a huge secret: "Is the man you came with mute? I never heard him speak, and he even used his fingers to buy groceries."
To express his love, he even used a sympathetic tone.
Qi Mi chuckled and took the dish from him: "He just has a sore throat, he's not mute, you don't have to speak in that tone."
"Oh~"
As they were talking, they had just put the food they bought on the table when Qi Mi's brows suddenly furrowed: "Your food..."
"What's wrong with the food?"
At this moment, Ye Shuci and Lang Yu, who had noticed something, suddenly walked over one after another, leaving Chen Banxian confused. Feeling that the atmosphere among them was not right, Du Rui came over and mouthed what was going on.
"There's something wrong with this dish." Qi Mi flipped it over with his hands.
Ye Shuci tiptoed over the table, opened the plastic bag, took a look, and said, "This meat can't be eaten."
"Why?!" Chen Banxianer exclaimed, "This meat is delicious in every way, why can't I eat it?"
"Not only the meat, you can't eat the vegetables either." Lang Yu said coldly, and was about to throw the two bags of vegetables out.
Chen Banxianer quickly grabbed him. He had been running around all day and wanted to rely on this piece of meat to come back to life. As a result, these two people said that he could not eat it and he would not eat it. He was a man in his fifties and was almost crying out of grievance.
Lang Yu frowned, pulled his hand away, and poured all the vegetables and meat onto the table.
"It's going to be a bit disgusting, do you want to see it?"
When Qi Mi heard this, he quickly covered Ye Shuci's eyes with his hands.
Lang Yu summoned Gui Chen with a flick of his hand and gently waved it over the meat and vegetables. The once bright green bok choy and the fine pork belly were transformed into a paper-like mess, with strange noises emanating from within. When he cut them open with a knife, he discovered a disgusting mass of entangled insects.
The purple fleshy worms were all entangled and wriggling together.
“!!!”
Several people stepped back in shock.
"This is what the humans here get by relying on the blessings of the dead..." Lang Yu replied indifferently, with a trace of contempt on his face.
Chen Banxian'er's dark, fat face turned pale. He pointed at everyone and then at himself, and couldn't help but retching: "What did we eat yesterday... Ugh!"
Lang Yu turned and stared at Qi Mi: "Did you eat anything here yesterday?"
"Ah." Qi Mi's expression was also a little ugly.
"Didn't you notice anything wrong?"
"No……"
"Me neither!" Ye Shuci raised his hand.
Lang Yu pondered for a moment, then fanned the table, shredding the insects into pieces. He had seen the children eating earlier, and the dishes cooked with yesterday's ingredients were indeed unremarkable.
Du Rui was speechless, and he made large gestures with his hands, using his mouth to explain the process of buying vegetables.
Same market, same meat and vegetables, I don’t know why I bought these disgusting things today.
"It's over, it's over. What are we going to eat in the future?" Chen Banxian said while wiping her tears. She was about to live a good life, but she didn't expect that she wouldn't have enough to eat again.
"The meal is still edible, just wait."
After saying this, Qi Mi patted Du Rui on the shoulder and told him not to worry, then pushed the door and walked out of the temple. He raised his right hand to open a crack in time and space, and went to a doomsday where he had been before and food was still plentiful.
A few minutes later, she brought back some relatively fresh vegetables and fruits, as well as various withered leaves and seeds.
Lang Yu took it and, relying on his skilled plant-based skills, several fruit trees sprouted from the barren land around the temple, and several lush green vegetable fields exuded an enticing fragrance.
It’s a pity that there is no food.
While everyone was gathered in front of the vegetable garden, Lang Yu took a look and went around to the back of the temple to summon Ling.
Ling appeared with a ponytail swinging in a stylish manner, and strode forward with his head lowered. "Your Honorable Judge."
"Find me some rice and flour."
"?"
Ling adjusted his glasses in surprise and asked again in disbelief, "What did you say?"
Lang Yu tilted his head and stared at her, not intending to repeat it a second time.
Ling swallowed silently, looking at the vegetable patch that had been divided into squares. "Are you going to live like this?"
"Isn't it just about living..." Lang Yu raised the corner of his mouth slightly and summoned the phoenix to land on his wrist. "I won't let you work for nothing. I can lend it to you for two days."
"Are you serious?!" Ling had long been curious about the Judge's blood-red phoenix. When she heard she could borrow it for two days! Two whole days! She excitedly wiped her hands and tentatively extended her hand.
With just a glance from Lang Yu, the phoenix obediently landed in Ling's palm.
Ling excitedly adjusted his glasses, staring intently at Luan Niao, and asked, "When do you want the rice and flour?"
"Now."
"Now?!"
"Um."
Ling raised his head and met Lang Yu's suspicious face: "Why don't you go quickly? What are you waiting for?"
"yes!"
Ling immediately stood up and hurried away with the phoenix.
Half an hour later, five bags of rice and six bags of flour were neatly placed on the steps of the temple.
Seeing the grain, Chen Banxian's dark and fat face was full of joy of harvest. Not minding the heavy load, he did the work of two people and carried a bag of rice and a bag of flour to the kitchen.
After a quiet dinner, Qi Mi remembered that he had lost a life point inexplicably in Kuai Alua's room today, so he asked Chen Banxian what happened.
After hearing this, Chen Banxianer burped and pointed to one of the daily rules written on the temple wall:
【Take care of yourself, don't get involved in other people's affairs, and respect other people's fate. 】
Qi Fan: "..."
All right.
Five days later, the bride got married.
There were many loud firecrackers set off in Kuai's Zhuangzi, and the sound could be heard from far away, making it very lively.
That day, Kuai Alua was woken up early by the old lady of the master's house to cleanse herself. She spent a full hour bathing in warm water mixed with incense ash.
It was also on this day that she was finally able to cut the red cloth that had been wrapped around her body for two years.
Under the red cloth, her waist, which had been wrapped for a long time, was frighteningly thin, as if her internal organs were no longer there. Because of this, she had been eating very little liquid food for the past two years, and she would feel full quickly after a few bites. She had long forgotten what food tasted like.
But even with such a weak and sickly body, the old lady still praised him highly.
"Oh, the bride has such a slender waist that can be held in one hand. The gods must be very fond of it." The old lady circled around Kuai Alua three times, not letting go of any inch of her skin.
Kuai Alua stood naked in the room, and was carefully examined by her like a dead object.
The old lady looked at her wound carefully and saw that there were still some faint scars. She took out the foundation and rouge that she had prepared long ago and carefully painted a picture of red plum blossoms blooming in the snow for her.
The cool and smooth color moves on the skin, bringing coolness and itchiness.
Kuai Alua clenched her fists, closed her eyes tightly, and even her voice trembled: "Mammy, is it really necessary to do this?"
She felt that her sense of shame as a human being was being devoured bit by bit by this family, and she had no idea how to resist.
The nanny, however, didn't take it seriously and continued to carefully describe it with her pen: "Of course. If I don't cover up your scar, what if the gods don't like it... Ugh!"
Suddenly realizing that the old lady's voice was not right, Kuai Alua immediately turned around to look.
The old lady fell into a coma after someone covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and she fell to the ground with a bang.
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