Chapter 091 Marrying a Ghost-11 (End)
"Why is your face so red?"
On a cold moonlit night, Xiao Jiangyan tilted her pretty fair face and spoke in a porcelain voice.
Little Mengtang turned his head away, looked down, and said thoughtfully, "It was bitten by a mosquito."
"Ah~ But why are there still little pearls in your eyes?" Little Jiangyan exposed Little Mengtang's lie and walked over on tiptoe, "Come, talk to your brother, are your family members bullying you again?"
"Hmph, you are obviously younger than me." Little Mengtang pouted, and suddenly someone held his face in the hands.
Xiao Mengtang blinked and met Xiao Jiangyan's gaze. The other's beautiful eyes seemed to be filled with stars, shining brightly, which touched a string in his heart.
"What are you doing?"
Little Mengtang had his cheeks pinched by a pair of fair little hands, making it difficult for him to speak clearly.
"Hoohoo, pain, pain, pain."
Xiao Jiangyan suddenly came very close to Xiao Mengtang, leaned over and blew on his red face.
The two were so close that their heartbeats and breathing were especially clear in the silent night. Little Mengtang stared at Little Jiangyan's eyelashes, which fluttered like two little butterflies in the dim moonlight.
This scene awakened Jiang Yan's forgotten memory.
He finally knew who Meng Tang was.
She was his playmate in Qingshui Village when he was a child.
But one day, Mengtang disappeared. He never saw Mengtang again and his memory of her gradually faded away.
Jiang Yan watched the two children playing in the abandoned place. Even though the environment was harsh, their laughter was floating in the moonlight, full of warmth.
…
It was getting late, so the children went home. Jiang Yan followed Xiao Mengtang, who tiptoed to open the door of his home. It was his own home, but he sneaked in like a thief.
Jiang Yan went in through the wall and was surprised to find that Xiao Mengtang's room was not a room at all. There was only a tattered bed in it with the bed board exposed. The cotton mat was also bumpy and the quilt was very thin.
Xiao Mengtang did not rush to bed, but sat on the bed and took out a wooden man and a small knife from a hidden box.
He carved for a long time until late at night, when he felt sleepy and remembered that it was time to go to bed.
So, Xiao Mengtang fell asleep sweetly holding the ragdoll cat given to him by Xiao Jiangyan, as if the meeting tonight had given him a sweet dream.
Jiang Yan stayed by the bed until dawn the next day.
Early in the morning, Xiao Mengtang was woken up. He opened the door a crack and found a strangely dressed stranger standing outside.
This is the Taoist priest invited by my stepmother to exorcise evil spirits.
"That kid is a bit evil. Not only did he kill his mother, but his brother is also gone. We have no other options, so we came to you."
"…As for the price…"
"Sure, sure."
"Okay, I'll go take a look." The man in the robe waved his stick in a formal manner and looked around the room. After just one minute, he came to a conclusion. He stroked his beard and said thoughtfully, "Indeed, this room has a lot of yin energy."
"Especially..." The Taoist pointed to a room, "Especially that room, the source of disaster is hidden there!"
"Oh, yes, that child lives in that room." The woman was surprised and delighted. "Mr. Li, you are really as famous as you say. You can see the problem right away."
"Thank you for the compliment." The Taoist said modestly.
The woman asked, “What should I do then?”
The Taoist priest said, "Call out the child so I can take a look."
The woman knocked on the door and said, "Good boy, come out for a moment."
Little Mengtang came out reluctantly, and the woman pulled him in front of the Taoist priest, "Mr. Li, look at this child."
Mr. Li first looked at Xiao Mengtang seriously, then his eyes changed, as if he saw something incredible, and immediately called the woman, "Come here, I have something to tell you."
Little Mengtang was still standing there, and the two adults had already walked out of the room. He rubbed his eyes and did not follow them, but returned to the room and continued to carve the wooden man.
Jiang Yan chased out to listen to what the two people were talking about. At this time, Xiao Mengtang’s biological father also came back and joined their conversation.
Mr. Li said, "I'm afraid we can't keep this child."
The woman was surprised, "Why do you say that?"
Mr. Li asked, "Do you know where he often goes?"
Mengtang's father replied: "He often goes to that abandoned place outside the village. It is abandoned because it is said to be haunted. I told him many times not to go there, but he never listened."
Mr. Li twirled his beard and said, "He has been possessed by evil spirits. It has become very difficult to eradicate them."
The woman's voice trembled, "Then what should we do?"
Mr. Li sighed and shook his head. "It's too late..."
The woman was startled, "Huh?"
Meng Tang's father snorted coldly, "You're asking for trouble. Just like her mother, she ran to save a drowning child and lost her own life."
"Is there no other way?" Although the woman didn't like the child, she still had a little maternal love and asked tentatively, "What if we send him away?"
"He can't get away." Mr. Li said, "As long as he is alive, people around him will suffer misfortunes one after another. By then, it will not only be you, but also the whole village!"
"But will it be solved if he dies?" the woman asked.
As soon as she finished speaking, the child in the room suddenly burst into tears, the crying was deafening, and the woman hurried into the room.
Mr. Li said to Mengtang's father, "Of course, ordinary death cannot break the curse. He must be sent back to the land of bad omens."
"I understand." Meng Tang's father said coldly.
Later, for some reason, this was clearly just the Meng family's family affair, but it accidentally leaked out and everyone in the village knew about it.
"Meng family boss, when will you get rid of that child?"
"Well, I was saying that my chickens have been dying for unknown reasons lately. It turns out there's some evil spirit in the village."
"Hey, Jiang family, I heard that your child likes to play with that guy, but he has been ill for a long time these days. You should pay more attention to him, otherwise he will die without knowing what happened."
“…”
For a moment, the whole village was filled with different opinions.
Jiang Yan's home. Little Jiang Yan, lying on the bed, asked his parents in a daze, "What are the uncles and aunts talking about? Why haven't I seen Meng Tang these days?"
Jiang Yan's parents looked worried and said, "Baby, that child has been sent away and will never come again."
"Hmm? Where did he go?"
Jiang Yan's parents looked at each other, shook their heads, and said, "No one will be with you forever. One day, everyone will leave, and you will meet new friends."
"But I just want to play with Mengtang. I can't get along with other kids." Little Jiangyan pouted.
Jiang Yan's mother pulled the quilt for little Jiang Yan, patted her husband, and walked out of the room together, to a corner where Jiang Yan couldn't hear her.
"What should we do with that child? He's so pitiful." said Jiang Yan's mother.
Jiang Yan's father shook his head and analyzed the pros and cons, saying, "After all, it's not our child. It's useless for us to plead for him. Besides, the whole village says so. If they include our family in the case, it won't be worth it."
"Oh, it's so pitiful. The same goes for that fake Taoist priest, yet so many people believe in him." Jiang Yan's mother said with concern.
…
It was a dark and windy night.
A large group of people holding torches and flashlights walked towards Mengtang's house. The shadows were so large that they looked like a group of evil spirits walking in the village.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Yan immediately ran to Mengtang's house faster than them. At this time, little Mengtang was still carving puppets in the room, concentrating on it and not noticing the ghost-like light burning brighter and brighter outside the window.
Jiang Yan's mind suddenly changed and he quickly rushed over to wake up Xiao Mengtang and tell him to run!
But he forgot that he was just a ghost to the village in front of him. He could only stand behind the scenes and watch all this happen.
“It’s finally done.”
Little Mengtang looked at his masterpiece with an expression that was both happy and proud. If the house was bigger, he would definitely dance with joy.
"I want to give it to Jiang Yan."
Little Mengtang showed his little canine teeth in pleasure, and suddenly touched his head in confusion, "But Father Jiang said Jiang Yan is sick and won't let me go in to see him, so how can I send him there?"
"Forget it, let's sneak over there tomorrow morning. If we sneak over there, no one will notice. Give him a little surprise."
However, at this moment, Xiao Mengtang had no idea what was about to happen. He also didn't know that tonight would be his last night.
"What are you going to do?"
There was a sudden noise outside the house.
"Hand over the child!" The villagers holding torches at the door shouted at the woman fiercely. The firelight illuminated their faces, revealing their hideous looks.
The woman tried to stop him with her body, but all she got was the villagers' ridicule. "You're not his biological mother, why are you pretending now? Aren't you the one who yells at him the most? Besides, it seems like you were the one who invited Mr. Li here."
The woman tried to defend herself, "I'm only doing this for my child!"
"Then we should hand him over to us. Didn't you hear what Mr. Li said? If we let him stay here, our entire village will suffer!" a villager shouted.
At this time, Meng Tang's father came out of the room. He glanced at the countless people outside the door and said, "Let them in."
Clang——
Xiao Mengtang's door was pushed open.
"Ah, what are you doing?"
Xiao Mengtang was forcibly abducted.
“Let me go!!”
“Dad, Mom!!”
The voice was hysterical, but unfortunately no one responded.
Finally, Xiao Mengtang was brought to a place he was familiar with: the moonlight, the abandoned well, the locust tree... and the laughter and joy he had when he played with Xiao Jiangyan in his memory.
It’s a pity that this time, the place that originally brought him happiness was seen as an extremely dangerous place by others, and it eventually became his burial place.
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Little Mengtang was thrown into the dry well, his body was shattered, his eyes were bloodshot. Until the moment he stopped breathing, he didn't know why all this happened.
The crows on the treetops were startled by the crazy behavior at night and began to fly away.
After completing this action, the villagers showed no remorse and even returned to their homes with smiles on their faces.
Only Jiang Yan witnessed this grand and silent evil act.
The resentment is so deep that even non-ghosts are forced to become them.
A cloud of black fog continuously floated out of the well and enveloped the village.
The night...is quiet.
Later, Jiang Yan didn't know what happened that night. The only thing he knew was that there was a delicate little puppet by the window.
…
A force pulled Jiang Yan back from the village. When he woke up again, he was back in the bridal chamber.
Jiang Yan was still sitting on the bed, and Meng Tang was standing beside the bed, looking at him with a serious look.
"I just said..." Jiang Yan's eyes were confused.
"What did you see?" Meng Tang asked in a low voice.
Jiang Yan held his head and said, "I saw the place where I lived when I was a child. We knew each other."
"Yes." Meng Tang looked at him with unclear emotions in his eyes.
"I saw you die."
"yes."
"You are a ghost now."
"yes."
Jiang Yan lowered his eyes and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you went through something like that."
Meng Tang smiled softly, "It has nothing to do with you."
Jiang Yan looked up and asked, "What happened after that?"
Meng Tang raised his eyes slightly, his sight fixed on the wall behind Jiang Yan, "After becoming a ghost, I began to intimidate those who participated in those things."
"They were afraid, timid, and guilty. Some chose to leave their homes, and some chose to commit suicide. In the end, I became what they called an evil spirit. I originally wanted to grow up with you as a ghost, but I found that you would get sick when I got close to you. So later, I left the village."
"I wandered around in various places. Perhaps because I was too resentful, I couldn't be reincarnated and could only wander around in the human world. I met other ghosts like me, and I got to know them. I helped them fulfill their long-cherished wishes and helped them be reborn."
"Later, I don't know how I gained a physical body. I became a beggar and continued to wander around the city. Finally, I met you. You took me home."
After hearing Meng Tang's story, Jiang Yan felt sad and heartbroken. He suddenly approached Meng Tang and raised his hand to touch him, but he was avoided.
"You don't have to blame yourself." Meng Tang said with a smile, "It's not your fault in the first place, and I'm grateful to you. Ever since my mom and my brother died, no one likes me. You're the only one who's willing to play with me all the time."
"By the way, you should be curious about why I brought you here." Meng Tang said slowly, "In fact, my resentment has long disappeared, but my regret is... I can't always protect you."
"So I want a child of ours. Only if it can protect you for me can I leave with peace of mind and be reincarnated."
Jiang Yan's eyelashes trembled, and he opened his mouth: "Can't you just... not leave?"
"But I'm a ghost." Meng Tang suddenly laughed and cried, "Just like your friend said, ghosts shouldn't exist in this world."
"But I hate Taoist priests, because they are the real murderers of my death! They made up lies and incited the masses." Meng Tang's shoulders were shaking, and his face was covered with tears. He looked at Jiang Yan in a fragile manner and said in a pleading voice, "Jiang Yan, please don't let them kill me. If I have to choose, I want to die in your hands."
Jiang Yan's eyes suddenly turned red, "I'm sorry, I hurt you." He shouldn't have believed that Taoist priest.
"No, you are not wrong. This is how the world is. Everyone likes a good-looking appearance, but no one likes a hideous monster."
Meng Tang raised his head, looked at the ceiling, and said as if he was going to die.
Suddenly, he froze.
Because Jiang Yan suddenly hugged him from behind.
"None of this is your fault."
Meng Tang paused for a moment, "So do you like me? Do you like a monster?"
Jiang Yan trembled and said, "As long as it's you, I like it."
Meng Tang smiled and said, "Then you should remember what you said."
"Okay then, let's get married. What happened just now doesn't count because I forced you to do it. Now let's do it again."
Meng Tang looked at him with a smile, took the red gauze from the side and covered Jiang Yan's head again.
He took Jiang Yan's hands and asked gently like a husband: "Will you marry me? Your monster husband."
Jiang Yan's heart was beating chaotically. He looked at the hazy face in front of him through a layer of red gauze and said with his thin lips, "I do."
He seemed to have said "I do" many times in his dream, to the same person who appeared in the dream.
Meng Tang smiled, leaned over and kissed her, the kiss was inseparable through a layer of red gauze.
——If you wake up from the dream, I hope you still like me. Like a monster, a monster in human skin.
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