Chapter 19
Fang Wanyun had a child, and the whole family was overjoyed. Lu Jinghuan also went home early to accompany her after gambling, but Fang Wanyun was not happy. Sure enough, when the novelty wore off, Lu Jinghuan was drunk again in the theater or somewhere else, and only Fang Wanyun had to go through the ten months of pregnancy.
At the beginning, she suffered from severe morning sickness. She vomited until her face turned yellow and she couldn't eat anything. The elders only sent her supplements and her sisters-in-law came to tell her about their pregnancy experiences.
Fang Wanyun did as she was told, but still felt tired. When the servant brought a box of red ginseng and prunes and said they were sent by her brother, Fang Wanyun ate a prune and burst into tears.
Whether it was bitterness or regret, Li Yang could not judge. From birth to adulthood, the choices and difficulties that a girl experienced were not something that a man could describe in a few words.
The baby was lost when it was less than three months old because Lu Jinghuan was infected with syphilis.
The elders of the Lu family sought medical treatment for Lu Jinghuan and her. During the treatment, Fang Wanyun lost a lot of weight and looked pale and thin. She was also blamed for accidentally causing the miscarriage.
Fang Wanyun did not say anything, but late that night, when Lu Jinghuan was on his way home after drinking, Fang Jiangwu followed him and beat him up. Lu Jinghuan was unconscious and fought back randomly. He found a stick and hit Fang Jiangwu on the head. Fang Jiangwu did not move on the spot, and Lu Jinghuan hit him with a dozen more sticks, each hitting Fang Jiangwu's head.
On a cold night in late winter, Lu Jinghuan staggered out of the alley and went home. The next morning, passers-by found Fang Jiangwu dead on the roadside.
Fang Wanyun finally shed tears like a living person and wanted to go see her brother, but the old lady of the Lu family sent someone to stop her: "You are not well yet, don't go out and embarrass yourself. Besides, it's unlucky."
Fang Wanyun bit the back of the hand of the servant who tried to stop her, causing it to bleed, and ran away.
A stiff body wrapped in a straw mat. Fang Wanyun didn't bring any money, so she pawned the bracelet and used the money to bury her brother. When she was burning paper money, Lu Jinghuan put the bracelet he redeemed from the pawnshop on her again, "I am sorry, brother, Wanyun, I will definitely treat you well in the rest of my life."
Fang Wanyun guessed that the Lu family helped Lu Jinghuan to settle this life, and looked at him calmly.
Lu Jinghuan couldn't figure out the hatred in his wife's eyes, so he pulled her up and went back to the Lu family.
That night, after Lu Jinghuan had a drink at home, he hugged his wife and went to sleep. Fang Wanyun waited in the dark with her eyes open until late at night, then stiffly got up from the bed, lit a red candle, and used the candle to light the red bed curtains and red quilt.
Before Lu Jinghuan was burned, he was awakened by the flames.
In the chaos, Fang Wanyun seemed to feel no pain when her arm was licked by the flames, but she still held her husband down tightly to prevent him from escaping. She waited until the flames wrapped around his body, then she smiled, left the house and threw herself into the cold deep well.
Only a piece of rag was left flying in the air and falling to the ground in pieces.
The story should have ended here, but Li Yang still saw the Lu family putting out the fire, and Lu Jinghuan was carried out with burns on his limbs and face.
This is just the retribution for being a man.
Li Yang said softly to Zhou Du: "Fang Wanyun's soul has been trapped in this illusion for eighty years and cannot get out."
"Yeah." Zhou Du's figure solidified into a solid entity.
Li Yang looked at the man who was both real and fake and smiled.
"Zhou Du, I want to take her out."
His consciousness flickered, and when Li Yang focused his sight again, he was still looking at the colorful wedding room.
He held the lip balm petals in his hands, and his face and Fang Wanyun's face were reflected in the mirror.
This time he didn't sip the lipstick, but put it on the table.
The matchmaker came over and said, "Ayun, now that you marry into the Lu family, you can no longer run around like before. It is your duty as a wife to take care of the family."
Li Yang raised his eyes and asked, "Why?"
The matchmaker was startled, her figure flashed, and a black gas emerged for a moment, but it quickly subsided and she said, "Because women from ancient times to the present have to get married like this."
"Is that so?" Li Yang half-closed her eyes, her long drooping eyelashes covering half of her beautiful black eyeballs, making her look a little eccentric.
"What if I don't?"
The matchmaker still smiled and said, "Ayun, what nonsense are you talking about? Today is a big wedding day. You are going to marry into the Lu family and enjoy happiness."
Li Yang was too lazy to tell her and directly broke the illusion: "This is fake, and you are fake too."
The smile on the matchmaker's face froze, and suddenly, it turned into a gloomy look. She stared straight at Li Yang, and suddenly her eyeballs turned into dark holes, flowing out of thick and smelly black blood, and her throat made a strange sound.
Li Yang was very familiar with this. When he was young, he often dreamed of strange people asking him to do something. But when he said "This is a dream" or "You are fake", the people in the dream would turn into a terrifying appearance and attack him. He estimated that this kind of illusion would have a defense mechanism. Once triggered, the surrounding things would attack in order to maintain the illusion.
Without wasting any more time, he stood up and started looking for a way out.
The matchmaker behind him followed him stiffly, saying over and over again, "Get married, you have to get married, today is a big day, if you don't get married you will die!"
Li Yang stepped out of the door. The wedding band and the onlookers stared at him blankly, chanting, "Bride, take the sedan chair."
"Bride, take the sedan chair."
"Bride, take the sedan chair."
The groom, Lu Jinghuan, who was sitting on a horse with fireworks hanging on it, said stiffly, "Ayun, you can marry me now, are you happy?"
Li Yang picked up the axe beside the door and swung it at him.
The knife was too blunt, so Lu Jinghuan just tilted his neck and asked, "Are you happy?"
The matchmaker was chasing after him from behind, and a group of people were approaching in front of him.
As long as there is yang energy, they can be dispelled, but now it is not Li Yang's own body.
Zhou Du's voice rang in my ears: "Run, don't get entangled by them."
Li Yang took action immediately, nimbly dodged the group of things and ran towards the street.
However, the passers-by and vendors on the street stood still, staring at Li Yang with empty eyes and repeating: "Get married, get married, get married, get married..."
Zhou Du beside him was still testing him: "Did you learn in the first Tai Chi class that when you encounter an array or situation, you need to find a way out? Where is the way out?"
Li Yang panted and answered casually: "East."
"no."
I tried it from all directions.
Zhou Du said slowly: "Not really."
Li Yang wanted to kick him, "Zhou Du, your uncle!"
Zhou Du listened to his cursing between breaths and said, "Okay, in the northeast."
"Why?"
Li Yang uttered a word: "Rude."
"Then go find it."
Li Yang quickly determined the direction and ran towards the northeast, but the defense mechanism of the illusion was activated to the highest level, and people on the street also walked towards him, just to stop him.
Hundreds of zombie-like monsters gathered around Li Yang.
Some used their weapons to knock Li Yang down, some tried to stop him, and some even grabbed his wedding dress to prevent him from moving forward.
Li Yang only had a hatchet in his hand. These monsters were annoying because they couldn't be killed or hurt. Finally, at the end of a street, he saw a group of normal people walking with their backs to him in the white fog. Li Yang knew that was the exit.
Fang Wanyun, did you see that? That's the exit.
Li Yang pushed away the hand on his ankle and took a step forward. His arms were grabbed and he chopped off the hands.
The harder it was to get to the exit, the less strength Li Yang felt he had to exert. It was Fang Wanyun who was gradually merging back into his body.
When there were only three steps left, Li Yang felt a sense of relief.
He peeled off Fang Wanyun's body, and all the monsters behind him disappeared.
There is only one.
Lu Jinghuan tilted his neck and asked, "Ayun, are you happy that you can marry me?"
Fang Wanyun laughed and cried, and cried and laughed. She did not answer, but swung the hatchet in her hand and chopped off the groom's neck.
The head rolled to the ground and then turned into ashes and dissipated in the wind.
Fang Wanyun let go of the hatchet and turned to enter the life gate.
In the white mist, she took off her wedding dress and put on her seventeen-year-old school uniform, moving in the same direction as the crowd.
The scene in front of Li Yang's eyes was synchronized with the thickening white fog. When he could no longer see anything clearly, his consciousness returned to reality.
At the bottom of the well, Fang Wanyun was wearing a cheongsam, with white light emanating from her body. She looked at him calmly, "Thank you."
Li Yang didn't say anything. He opened the passage to the underworld and Fang Wanyun walked in.
A notification popped up on the phone, counting the points, but Li Yang locked the screen without reading it.
"Go up."
The tall and straight man climbed up the well wall nimbly, then grabbed the rope and pulled Li Yang up.
They untied the safety rope.
Lu Ye stepped forward and asked, "What's going on? Aunt Yun..."
"She has already reported to the underworld." Li Yang took out the jade bracelet from his coat pocket. "It's hers."
Lu Ye sighed and put it away.
"Was it really Aunt Yun who made the trouble?" Mr. Lu asked disappointedly.
"Her soul is locked in this bracelet. The recent haunting should be her cry for help. She didn't want to hurt anyone, but you are easily frightened and mentally weak, which caused you to have a high fever." Li Yang coughed twice and said in a hoarse voice.
"Will we never encounter ghosts again in the future?" The other members of the Lu family only cared about this question.
Li Yang replied gloomily, "That's right, unless you summoned a ghost back from outside."
Once the matter was settled, the two were invited to the front hall for tea.
Zhou Du looked at Li Yang's tired face and said, "I won't drink the tea. Can you pack two coconuts?"
His eyes fell on the coconut held by the Lu family child.
Lu Ye said, "Of course, Xiuqin, go get two for Xiaodu."
While waiting, Zhou Du discovered that Li Yang was looking at the young man from the Lu family again.
This is the third time.
Lu Yu'an didn't notice Li Yang's gaze. He was thinking about something. After thinking about it, he walked towards Li Yang's Zhoudu.
He first greeted Zhou Du: "Brother Zhou Du."
Zhou Du hummed in response.
Lu Yu'an took out his cell phone and said to Li Yang, "Hello, Master. Can you please leave your contact information? I may need to consult you about something."
The strange man that Li Yang had been looking at for a long time took the initiative to ask for Li Yang's WeChat. Zhou Du was extremely unhappy, but he didn't show it on his face.
Li Yang looked at the two men with a puzzled look, and tilted his head slightly, "Don't you know Zhou Du? You can ask him."
Lu Yuan said in a low voice: "Actually, it's about my friend, Brother Zhou Du...my friend can't afford his fees."
Li Yang glanced at his boss with a cold and sour face and asked, "How much does it cost to ask him to come forward?"
Lu Yuan made a gesture, "This number."
“…”
Having said that, Li Yang didn't say anything more and just took out his cell phone.
When adding a friend, he said, "I may not be able to help your friend. It depends on the problem. I can't help with anything other than ghosts."
Lu Yuan nodded, "Well, it would be nice if you could help him take a look."
The servant came out with two coconuts and two straws and handed them to them.
Zhou Du also gave his own to Li Yang.
A small round hole is cut out of the yellow and white hard shell with a knife. Inside the hole is milky white flesh. Just poke a hole and you can taste the sweet juice inside.
It was frozen, and it was so cold. When Li Yang hugged her, she felt refreshed all over and no longer sleepy.
After Zhou Du received the coconut, he was about to take Li Yang away.
The Lu family escorted them out the door, and the Lu family children said, "Brother Zhou Du, Brother Yang Yang, bye."
"goodbye."
In the car, Li Yang took a sip of cold coconut water and felt alive again. He stared at the road with energy, wondering why Lu Yuan looked familiar.
I thought about it for a long time at Lu's house but couldn't come up with an idea. But in the car, Lu Yu'an's every smile and voice appeared in my mind.
"!"
But you must feel that he looks familiar, because that is the person he edited a five-minute long CP video with.
Li Yang bit the straw. He considered himself not a gossipy person, but he wanted to find out the truth for Qian Ran and Fatty Liang.
[Hello, I also have a question I would like to ask you personally. ]
Lu Yuan: [Hello, little master! Please speak]
[Are you and Gu Jin real?]
【……】
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