"The bride has arrived!"
The moment the piercing sound ended.
Shi Xi then noticed that the surrounding environment was changing rapidly... like an old movie rewinding, eventually stopping at a courtyard house.
Shi Xi stood outside the gate of the mansion with the plaque of the Li family hanging on it.
It seems like a wedding is being held here, with red lanterns and red ribbons hanging everywhere.
Outside the Li residence was a bustling crowd of people attending the wedding. Men and women, all dressed in clothing from the Republican era, turned to look at Shi Xi at the sound of the voice.
"What a beautiful bride!"
"Hehe, Mr. Li is truly blessed!"
Shi Xi looked at the faces coming from all directions; they were all people whose photos were on the tombstones in the cemetery.
At this moment, the clothes he was wearing had changed into a red wedding dress.
On either side stood paper effigies nearly two meters tall, who reached out and grabbed Xiu Shixi's arms without saying a word.
Shi Xi tried to break free, but found that her body was completely out of her control—
He could only let the paper effigy carry him into the Li residence.
Shi Xi frowned inwardly.
I didn't expect the plot to deviate so much. He went through the ghost marriage plot, so what is the plot for Qi Tingsong's side?
In the original story, he and Qi Tingsong worked together to kill the monster guarding the evil dragon's inner core. Now, it seems that only Qi Tingsong is left... I hope nothing bad will happen to him.
Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, Shi Xi arrived at the hall.
In the bright red hall, a couple with indifferent expressions sat in the very center.
The woman in the couple was wearing a dark-colored ancient-style dress, while the man was wearing a Zhongshan suit. The two of them sitting together created an incongruous and awkward feeling.
When the woman saw Shi Xi, she stopped turning her prayer beads and asked with a look of disgust, "Why is it a man?"
Shi Xi: "..." Hehe.
It seemed there were lines he had to say, which is why Shi Xi found himself able to speak now; he heard his own voice—
"Let me go, please let me go."
Immediately afterwards, her body began to struggle involuntarily, but the paper effigy held her down firmly.
"Madam, this was chosen by the young master himself."
Seeing Shi Xi's tactlessness, the woman's face darkened, and she slammed her hand on the table.
"Hmph, you don't know what's good for you. Being chosen by my son is your good fortune."
Immediately afterwards, Shi Xi saw two cooks dressed in linen clothes carefully helping a man in wedding attire stand beside him.
The man's head was limply buried in his chest, and his limbs hung limply down, as if he would fall to the ground at any moment if no one supported him.
It was clearly not a living person, but a corpse!
"First bow to Heaven and Earth."
Shi Xi was forced to kneel down, and just as she was about to bite her tongue, she realized that the Li Lang beside her was not the man who had smiled at her from the grave—
It was Qin Budu.
Shi Xi observed subtly and discovered that although Qin Budu appeared to be being supported, his body was actually tense, and he was most likely conscious.
Shi Xi's eyes darted around, and she seemed to lose her balance, falling onto Qin Budu.
Upon seeing this, the paper effigy rushed forward to help the person up, but was cleaved in two by the oncoming peach wood sword.
The paper effigy fell to the ground and immediately turned into a pile of rotten waste paper.
At the same time, the cook standing behind Qin Budu picked up a wooden stick from the side, but before the stick could fall on Qin Budu's head, Shi Xi kicked him to the ground.
The woman sitting in the hall had her face completely contorted. She immediately stood up and said, "How dare you ruin my son's wedding! You can all die!"
"roar!"
The onlookers, including ghosts, were enraged.
Without saying a word, Qin Budu rushed forward with his peach wood sword.
"Kill him! She's the wife my son chose; make him pay with his life..."
She fell silent halfway through her sentence.
Shi Xi held a coin between his fingers and aimed it at her forehead.
"Auntie, even ghosts have reason..."
He tilted his head slightly at the woman, who was visibly furious, and said calmly—
“I don’t know your son, and I will never marry him.”
Who do you think you are!
The woman was surrounded by a sinister aura, her face became increasingly ferocious, and her long, black fingernails pierced towards his chest.
"Sending you down to keep my son company is already giving you face—"
The next second, Shi Xi tossed the coin in her hand.
"ah!"
The coin pierced through the woman's forehead, and incidentally struck the chest of the man who tried to help.
Shi Xi calmly withdrew her hand, took the coin that had returned to her hand, and looked at the astonished woman.
"You should keep that face for yourself."
Shi Xi tossed a coin lazily, her tone filled with undisguised contempt—
"I don't need it."
...
It wasn't until all the ghosts and monsters in the Li residence were eliminated that Shi Xi realized something was wrong.
Qin Budu's face was abnormally flushed, and his breathing was somewhat rapid. The blue veins on the back of his hand holding the peach wood sword showed that he was not in good condition.
Shi Xi walked to his side. "What's wrong?"
Qin Budu simply shook his head. "It's nothing."
“Go west for a quarter of an hour. Go to the banyan tree first, and I’ll be there in a bit,” Qin Budu said to Shi Xi.
"OK."
Remembering what the plot was about to unfold, Shi Xi didn't linger and turned to leave.
In the original story, Qin Budu was forced to drink nuptial wine as soon as he entered the Ghost Realm, and it was laced with something that required someone to help him recover... Qi Tingsong had always admired Qin Budu, so naturally he was obliged to help.
But Qi Tingsong is not here now.
He had no intention of defiling Qin Budu, nor did he want to take advantage of someone in distress.
Moreover, he knew in his heart that this was a trap deliberately set by the Ghost King, in order to make Qin Budu lose his vital essence.
As Shi Xi was thinking this, she quickened her pace, when she suddenly heard a 'bang' behind her.
He turned his head and saw the peach wood sword lying on the ground.
Qin Budu, who was always ethereal and untouched by worldly affairs, the revered Master Qin in the Feng Shui world, fell helplessly onto the dusty ground.
Qin Budu listened to Shi Xi's footsteps as she left, feeling somewhat relieved that he hadn't witnessed such an embarrassing moment.
As he was thinking this, he heard footsteps getting closer and closer... Qin Budu sensed Shi Xi standing in front of him.
"You go first." He lowered his head, suppressing the pain and longing in his body, and said in as calm a tone as possible, "Be good."
Although he couldn't see what he looked like now, he knew it wasn't much better.
Shi Xi squatted down, took Qin Budu's hand, and put the Bodhi bracelet from her wrist onto his wrist.
Are you feeling any better?
"...Much better." Qin Budu turned his head away, his cheeks flushed.
Shi Xi: "..."
It was useless as expected.
Shi Xi took a deep breath, "...I'll only help you this once."
He silently told himself, "Men, it's normal for them to help each other."
Qin Budu heard this sentence in his dazed state, and his heart started pounding wildly again.
Shi Xi reached out and covered his eyes, muttering softly, "Don't look."
Qin Budu: "..."
...
I don't know how much time has passed.
Shi Xi pushed Qin Budu away from him; his right hand was sore and aching.
Just then, an angry voice suddenly came from not far away:
"Xu Youchu, what are you doing?"
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