Chapter 46: Ghost Marriage
Cao Niannian suddenly looked out the window.
The normal road now looked abnormal because there were no other cars on the road except hers!
Soon, Cao Niannian's originally anxious heart finally died.
She found that the bus she was riding was just floating on the road! It quietly floated to one stop after another, no wonder there was no sound at all!
The passengers who got on the bus also had no expression on their faces, like puppets. They swayed up, and after sitting in their fixed seats, they didn't move anymore.
Since she got on the car, no one has gotten off!
Realizing that the route was becoming increasingly wrong, Cao Niannian immediately stood up.
Unexpectedly, her simple action attracted the attention of all the "people" in the car. They seemed to be controlled remotely. The moment she stood up, they all turned towards her and stared at her expressionlessly.
Even the passenger in the front row turned his head and stared at her!
It’s over! It’s over! It’s over!
Cao Niannian's heart was in her throat, and she was so scared that she didn't dare to breathe.
She glanced around nervously, moving cautiously step by step towards the rear door, and the gazes of the other "people" in the car followed her movements little by little.
Cao Niannian completely collapsed. She shouted loudly: "Stop the car! Stop the car! I want to get off! I want to get off!"
She looked down at her cell phone and wanted to call for help, but found that there was no signal at all. She couldn't even dial 110.
The car stopped, but only the front door was opened, not the back door. The driver was picking up a new guest.
Cao Niannian rushed to the front door like crazy, but found that all the passengers who had been sitting in the car stood up and blocked her way. They still faced her and stared at her.
It was getting colder inside the car, and a thin layer of fog rose inside, making it difficult for her to see clearly.
Slowly, the "people" who were blocking her began to laugh, their mouths split to their cheeks, and their smiles were weird and sinister.
Cao Niannian was already so scared that she burst into tears.
There was only one thought in my mind, and that was to get off the car, rush out of the car!
She looked at the front door which was about to close, closed her eyes with all her might and rushed in.
Suddenly, her wrist was grabbed. After the intense shock, the warm touch on her wrist made her want to turn back instantly.
But the person behind her pinched her chin, preventing her from turning back.
"Don't look back, the lights will go out."
The familiar voice, like the first ray of light at dawn, shone brightly into her ears, and Cao Niannian immediately found her backbone.
This is Master Xia's voice.
Cao Niannian discovered that those who were originally staring at her now turned their eyes to behind her.
The front door closed and the car continued to drift forward. Cao Niannian was extremely nervous and covered in cold sweat.
"Don't be afraid." The person behind me comforted, "I'm here."
Tears dripped down her cheeks, and Cao Niannian felt like she was caught between heaven and hell, one step to life, one step to death.
The car stopped at the station again, and all the "people" who were grinning stopped smiling.
When she was nervous, Cao Niannian's wrist was pulled, "Of course you have to get out of the car from the back door."
As she spoke, the person behind her exerted force, and she turned around and stood side by side with Master Xia at the back door.
"Hey, driver, open the door, we want to get off."
Master Xia's carefree tone with her unique cold voice spread throughout the car. Cao Niannian found that the other passengers in the car were now surrounding them.
Just when she was so nervous that her legs went limp, the person next to her said, "Hey, Old Li, if I really start a fight, your whole trip will be in vain. If you had gossiped about my achievements before, you wouldn't have kept me in the car for so long. Oh, by the way, you all call me the Living Dead Xia Wange here."
As soon as he finished speaking, the back door of the car was opened instantly.
Cao Niannian was pulled out of the car.
The moment her feet touched the ground, all the sounds around her came back instantly: the sound of vehicle horns, the croaking of frogs, the rustling of leaves in the wind. She had never felt these sounds so clearly and beautifully.
They were in a relatively remote square under construction. Opposite the square there was a piece of undeveloped wasteland. They were already out of the city, but not too far away, just in the suburbs, and there were still many cars on the road.
Her legs went limp and Cao Niannian knelt on the ground, gasping for breath. Only then did she feel that she was alive again.
Xia Wange squatted down, unscrewed a bottle of water and handed it to her, "Drink some water, take it easy, it's okay, you're safe now."
She originally went for a night run for a little exercise, but ended up running to the night market without realizing it. After eating some bombed squid, tornado potatoes, and stinky tofu, she took a casual walk to digest the food. After walking only two blocks, she seemed to have found a den of snacks in the snack street, and met another one. She just strolled around and ate a box of fruit salad, a cup of milk tea, and an ice cream.
After learning from her mistakes, she decided to go a little off the beaten track and go to where the negative energy was heavier. After all, there would be fewer people in such places. She would try her luck and see if she could collect some negative energy to offset Lu Qiu's.
It was also a fate between her and Cao Niannian. She had just walked onto this road in the previous second, and in the next second she saw the ghost bus operating in the area, and then she saw Cao Niannian with a panicked look on her face.
The driver seemed to be new and unfamiliar, otherwise he would not have been so slow to open the door, causing her to sit for an extra stop.
In fact, her merits and virtues should have lasted for two years. But she was young and impetuous and entered some territories by mistake and was obstructed. Finally, she got angry and killed people indiscriminately. Little ghosts, she killed them indiscriminately.
Anyway, in the end she made a name for herself in the underworld, and sometimes she could get things done just by registering her name, but in the world of the living she could only be stingy, and even the use of spiritual energy had to be planned again and again.
Fortunately, now that I have Lu Qiu, I have a lot more money.
"Thank you..." Cao Niannian drank several sips of water to quench her thirst. Her hands were still shaking. She was extremely scared. With the help of Xia Wange, she stood up carefully. "Xia, Sister Xia, if I hadn't gotten off the car just now, would I have died?"
Xia Wange stared at Cao Niannian for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Niannian, have you used your birth date and eight characters to tell your fortune recently?"
"No, no." Cao Niannian hurriedly shook her head. "If I really wanted to calculate, I would definitely come to you, Sister Xia, and I wouldn't go far away..."
"Then who else knows your date of birth?"
Cao Niannian whispered, "My parents know, but Sister Xia, you don't know that my relationship with my family is not good. I haven't been back for a long time. They always ask me for money. Last month I paid back all the money they spent on me since I was a child..."
"Niannian, it's almost twelve o'clock. Shall we find a hotel to stay for the night?" Xia Wange glanced at the time and suddenly said, "I have something to tell you."
Cao Niannian was stunned and immediately had a bad feeling.
She followed Xia Wange to the nearest hotel lobby in silence.
Then I heard Xia Wange say to the front desk: "Please arrange a room at the end of the floor for me."
Cao Niannian nervously followed Xia Wange into the last room on the floor, her mind full of urban legends she had read before.
What death bus? What hotel floor has the most yin energy in the last room?
Considering everything she had learned today, Cao Niannian boldly asked, "Sister Xia, is the hotel room at the end of the floor the most yin?"
Xia Wange entered the room and plugged in the electricity card. When he heard the other party ask this question, he raised his eyebrows in confusion, "Ah? What Yin Qi? Well, don't think too much. There is not so much Yin Qi. They are all the same. Normal people can't feel it. When I came in, I saw the layout of this hotel. His last room is more off to the side, only next to the room on the right. It will be easier to explain than to explain to the rooms on both sides."
"Explain what?" Cao Niannian was puzzled.
"The sound of a fight." Xia Wange chuckled, as if she was talking about something very ordinary. "You have been married to a ghost. It's almost twelve o'clock. Go to sleep first. When he comes, I will talk to him."
Cao Niannian's eyes widened immediately, "Ghost marriage? Could it be that I..."
At this point, she also figured out who sold her birth date and horoscope for a ghost marriage.
At that moment, expressions of anger, frustration, sadness, relief and so on flashed across her face one by one, and finally returned to calm.
"I knew they wouldn't let me go so easily. They would definitely squeeze all my value out of me. Maybe after I die, they would rush to collect my body and sell my organs again before they'd let me go."
Xia Wange was silent.
She had discovered before that the other party was in love with four people. The identities of the four people were different, and one of them was a ghost. At first she thought that this was the setting in the Otome game, but after playing it herself, she found that it was not the case. Then she found that nothing was wrong during the day, so she guessed that the other party might have played other games.
Now that I think about it, everything was normal before. It was probably just the parents of both sides exchanging engagement invitations, which was not much different from being in a relationship, so she didn't notice anything.
And just over an hour ago, the ghost marriage ceremony may have been completed there.
Originally, the accident should have happened to Cao Niannian when she was performing the ceremony at twelve o'clock in the evening, but the other party happened to be outside at that time. When the yin and yang were in chaos, he happened to encounter the Netherworld Car, got on the car without paying attention, and then met her who was jogging at night and saved her life.
To be honest, they are really destined to be together.
But actually, that shouldn't be the case. After exchanging engagement letters, even if we're engaged, she should be able to see it.
With doubts in her mind, Xia Wange rummaged in the cupboard for a while and found a box of matches. She simply tied a few matches together with a red string and placed one on each of the bedside tables on both sides, pretending they were red candles.
She took another piece of very thin white thread and wrapped it around the bed.
At this time, Cao Niannian had regained her composure. Since fate did not let her die and allowed her to escape dangerous situations several times, she must live well!
Live your life to its full potential!
She looked at the busy Xia Wange and said, "Sister Xia, is there anything I can help you with?"
Maybe because she knew Xia Wange was there, she was mostly angry and not that scared.
"You?" Xia Wange noticed that Cao Niannian recovered very quickly and looked at her approvingly. "Just go to bed and sleep."
"I can't sleep..."
"Even if you can't sleep, just lie down." Xia Wange said, and added, "Don't take off your shoes."
Cao Niannian was stunned and asked quietly, "I heard that ghosts and monsters will come from the soles of your feet..."
“Tsk.”
Xia Wange let out a soft click of the tongue. She walked up to Cao Niannian and tied a red string around her two thumbs.
After finishing her work, she dragged a chair and sat down. "I find that you are all quite superstitious. We should first try to think about everything from a scientific perspective. If we really can't explain it, we can then try to look at metaphysics."
Cao Niannian blinked and looked at her fingers that were tied with red thread. It's like this, and you're still promoting science to me?!
"I asked you to wear shoes just to make it easier for you when you need to go out. You don't have to look for shoes everywhere or go barefoot."
Cao Niannian asked nervously, "Is it very fierce?"
"How should I tell whether he's fierce or not?" Xia Wange scratched his head. "If he's not fierce and is very cooperative, then it's fine. But if he's very fierce and doesn't cooperate, and I pin him to the bed and beat him, if you don't mind, then it's fine for him to continue lying on the bed."
Cao Niannian: “…”
So for the master, the difference between being fierce and not being fierce is only whether you beat him or not?
"Okay, lie down." Xia Wange checked the time and played with a pendant in her hand.
This was what she had just snatched from Lu Qiu tonight. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Qiu's presence in such a situation would not only be useless but would also have a counterproductive effect, she would definitely have to sway him over.
Working with Lu Qiu, she had never fought such a rich battle, it was like carrying a magazine of ammunition with her.
Just as I was thinking about it, there was a knock on the door.
Cao Niannian was startled and quickly looked at Xia Wange.
Xia Wange looked towards the door and mouthed, "I'm coming."
There was a knock on the door.
The door rang in the second half, and it was like a ghost knocking on the door.
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