Hades pressed further: "What kind of strange energy fluctuations?"
Cui Yu looked troubled and replied, "Uh, I can't say for sure either."
After Hades left, looking puzzled, Xiao Hei asked Cui Yu, "Judge, why didn't you tell Hades the truth? Perhaps Hades could have helped subdue that female ghost!"
Cui Yu: "You don't know this, but His Highness the King of the Underworld once asked me about this drama queen. I suspect that this drama queen might have some connection in our Underworld."
Xiao Hei exclaimed in shock, "For His Majesty the King of the Underworld to personally inquire about this, this female ghost's relationship with us must be extraordinary!"
Cui Yu: "Who says otherwise! So I think we should wait until she has accumulated enough merit to be nominated for the ranks of immortals before reporting to the King of the Underworld. At that time, she will achieve enlightenment because of our efforts, and the King of the Underworld will certainly not blame us for sending her into these books to eliminate her resentment. He might even reward us if he is pleased!"
Xiao Hei gave a thumbs-up and praised, "As expected, Judge, you are truly wise."
Here, Chu Nian had already entered a new physical body. Presumably because she now possessed a certain level of spiritual power, she clearly sensed that when she was sent out of the Underworld, a peculiar energy emanated from the depths of the Underworld, sending her into the book.
To her surprise, that strange energy felt strangely familiar.
As the original owner's memories flooded back, she didn't have time to think about these issues in detail and shifted her attention to the current situation.
"Remember! Remember!"
The original owner was probably lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) sleeping when a girl's voice, sounding about sixteen or seventeen years old, was heard outside, along with a slight knocking sound on the window frame.
Chu Nian opened her eyes and saw a dilapidated and somewhat moldy roof. It should have been white, but it had turned black and yellow due to the passage of time. The decoration style of the house was also very old and rustic, somewhat like a rural area from decades ago.
"Niannian, are you awake?" The girl's voice came from outside the window again.
Chu Nian gave a lazy "hmm".
The girl whispered, "Hurry up, I just saw your dad come out of the field with a hoe on his back, and he's heading this way. He might be back in a bit. Once he's back, it'll be hard for you to go to town."
The original owner's name was Ling Nian, and she lived in a country called Theo, a high school student from a poor rural area.
In the countryside, especially in remote villages like Zhegutun, girls as young as sixteen or seventeen would already have their families looking for suitable partners for them, and would usually get married by the time they were eighteen or nineteen.
Getting married in the countryside is very simple. You just need to notify the villagers to hold a banquet and that's it. Getting a marriage certificate is something you do when you have a baby and reach a certain age.
While ostensibly a wedding, it was really just a way to exchange these young girls for wives for the brothers, or to raise money for dowries to help them get married. Therefore, they were generally not allowed to stay at home until they were twenty; they were married off in their teens. Otherwise, how long would the older brothers have to wait to find wives?
Ling Nian is in this situation now.
During the farming season in the countryside, people usually get up at four or five in the morning to work in the fields, and don't go home for lunch until nine or ten o'clock when the sun rises. Ling Nian didn't go to the fields because she had made plans to go to the town school with her best friend Li Fangqi from next door. She lied to her family and said she had a cold.
She should still be in high school, but because her older brother needed money to get married and her family couldn't afford it, they decided to arrange a marriage for Ling Nian. Once they received the dowry, her brother would have the money to get married.
However, Ling Nian did not want to get married just like that. Her grades were among the best in the entire grade, and her teacher said that if she persisted in her studies, she would definitely be able to get into a key university and completely change her destiny.
Because her family stopped paying her tuition and living expenses, and her father even went to the town school to pick her up, she pretended to agree to go home for blind dates, work to earn money and prepare for marriage, but secretly made up her mind to find an opportunity to escape to the town, and then work part-time to support herself and break away from this family.
Over the weekend, Li Fangqi, who shared a dorm room with Ling Nian, also went home.
Li Fangqi was quick-witted. Because she was able to come up with ideas to make money for her family from a young age, although she was also a girl and was called a money-loser and not liked by her family since childhood, her status in the Li family rose after she was able to make money for her family.
No one in the Li family objected to her studying, nor were they in a hurry to arrange a marriage for her. With Li Fangqi's help, the Li family had long since improved their circumstances and were among the wealthiest households in the entire Zhegu Village.
She went home for the weekend and saw that her roommate and best friend, Ling Nian, was preparing to go on a blind date, so she tried to persuade Ling Nian to stop. When Ling Nian saw that she didn't agree with her going on a blind date and getting married, she told her about her own plans.
Sure enough, early Monday morning, Li Fangqi came to find Ling Nian and went to town with her.
Ling Nian was only staying at home at this hour because she was pretending to be sick and hadn't gone to the fields. When she heard Li Fangqi say that her father had come out of the fields so early, she was startled. Worried that her father would discover her plan to elope and try to stop her, she naturally acted faster.
She had packed her things early in the morning. Logically, she was faking illness, having gotten up so early that she even secretly ate a pancake and drank a bowl of porridge to avoid getting hungry on the way. But for some reason, she felt dizzy after eating and almost fell asleep again.
It was thanks to Li Fangqi that she came to find her at this time; otherwise, she might have really missed this chance to escape.
This era was far less developed than it would be twenty years later. Suitcases didn't exist yet, and even leather suitcases, which existed during the Republic of China era, were uncommon in this poor rural area. Ling Nian didn't have much stuff, so she simply packed it into a large cloth bag, put on her shoes, slung the bag over her shoulder, and went out.
But she felt extremely dizzy halfway there.
Li Fangqi noticed that something was wrong with her and advised her to rest, while she quickly ran to the clinic to call a doctor.
It was the time to go to the fields, and there weren't many people on the country roads. Ling Nian sat by the roadside wondering what was wrong with her, never expecting that misfortune would befall her.
When Li Fangqi arrived with the doctor, she found Ling Nian unconscious, her clothes disheveled, as if she had been assaulted.
Fortunately, the doctor was also a woman, and she was very kind. After seeing the situation, she didn't say anything, but she and Li Fangqi took Ling Nian to the clinic. After the examination, they found that she had indeed been assaulted.
As for why she fainted, the doctor was not very clear due to the limited equipment and technology of the small clinic at the time, and only guessed that she may have taken some kind of drug that would cause dizziness and coma.
Ling Nian was assaulted after she fainted, so she didn't know who assaulted her. It was Li Fangqi who told her about it and assured her that neither she nor the doctor would tell anyone and that she should forget about it.
But how can you just forget something like that? And because Ling Nian was in a coma, her plan to escape the marriage also failed.
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