Chapter 94 Ghost Marriage
Before Qi Yue could answer Director Lin, he heard a round of boos. Turning around, he saw that it was his voice that was too loud and attracted everyone else.
Everyone immediately retracted their heads, talked to each other as if nothing had happened, and left, but Qi Yue could still hear their conversation.
"Haven't they been together for a long time? Why did they confess now? Or... did they confess first?"
"Who knows? Maybe this is a new way to show affection. This twist is quite eye-catching."
"I learned it, I learned it."
"No, don't learn it randomly, or you'll get beaten."
…
Qi Yue turned to look at Director Lin, who had a deadpan expression on his face. "Oh, so what? Should we open some champagne to celebrate for you? Or would it be more appropriate for you to hand out the wedding candy?"
Qi Yue glared at him, "What nonsense are you talking about? I haven't even accepted Shuangshuang's confession yet! Why are you opening champagne and handing out wedding candy?"
Director Lin scorned: "You actually let Yun Shuang confess to you first, and then deliberately dragged him out and refused. Do you have any sense of responsibility as a man?"
Qi Yue: "Why don't I have the responsibility of a man? No, you've led me astray. What we should discuss now is how can I reject her so that Shuangshuang will completely give up without being too sad. Please help me think of a solution."
Director Lin couldn't understand. "Why would you refuse? With the way you two are being so clingy, don't tell me you really only have a brotherly relationship with him, and no gay feelings at all."
Qi Yue's tone was a little weak: "How could that be possible? Shuangshuang and I just have...pure brotherhood."
As Director Lin looked at the scumbag, his voice became softer and softer, until it was almost inaudible.
Director Lin glared at him sternly: "Comrade Qi Yue, please correct your behavior and don't follow the example of this scumbag who abandons his wife after having sex with her!"
“…”
Qi Yue felt very aggrieved. How could he suddenly become a scumbag who abandoned his wife after having fun with her?
Seeing that he didn't really want to cheat on Gu Yunshuang, Director Lin slowed down his tone and asked, "Can I ask why you insisted on refusing? From what I've seen, you're not completely unmoved by Yunshuang, right?"
Qi Yue said in a gloomy tone, "It has nothing to do with this. Just based on the position Shuangshuang holds in my heart, as long as he wants it, even if I've never been moved by him before, I might be moved by him in the future. But the problem now is that humans and ghosts are on different paths, and you know I'm not an ordinary ghost king. Even getting closer to him might accidentally hurt him. I can't touch him, let alone do intimate things between lovers. How can I still be in love?"
Director Lin: “…” It’s confirmed, these two are heading in both directions.
But what Qi Yue said was not without reason.
The phrase "humans and ghosts go their separate ways" is no mere rhetoric. Those stories in novels about human-ghost romances ending in a sweet and happy marriage are all fabricated.
Unless Gu Yunshuang is not a human either. But this is also difficult to deal with. Not everyone can turn into a ghost and stay in the world after death.
After a person dies, the life soul dissipates, and the two souls of heaven and earth fly to the reincarnation platform, waiting to be reborn. Only the seven souls can still stay in the human world and become ghosts because of their obsession. Therefore, ghosts are incomplete. Some evil ghosts are even just the remnants of the obsession of the seven souls. They have forgotten many things and only remember their own obsession.
Moreover, even if a person has a strong obsession, he may not necessarily become a ghost and stay in the human world. What may end up remaining in the human world is just obsession or a residual soul, and that would not be the complete Gu Yunshuang.
Qi Yue was able to keep his soul intact after death because he was half human and half ghost in his lifetime.
Since we can't wait for Gu Yunshuang to die and turn into a ghost, the only option is to let Qi Yue turn into a human, which is even more absurd.
After much deliberation, Director Lin decided that this was a dead end. The best solution was to maintain their current situation.
Director Lin said with a headache, "How can you not be sad when your confession is rejected? Unless he doesn't like you anymore. You'd better cut the Gordian knot quickly. It's better to suffer a short pain than a long one!"
He also wanted to say that if he introduced a few high-quality men and women to Gu Yunshuang in the future, maybe he could really make Gu Yunshuang fall in love with someone else.
But seeing Qi Yue's anxious look, he immediately swallowed his words back. If Gu Yunshuang really fell in love with someone else, Qi Yue would really go crazy, and maybe even Gu Yunshuang wouldn't be able to appease her.
Director Lin's headache was even worse. Ever since he met Qi Yue, his business scope had expanded infinitely, and now he had become a relationship consultant.
Finally, he came up with a solution: "Wait a minute, I'll find some relationship experts to ask. They can help you break up easily and painlessly."
“…”
Qi Yue: "Your words sound incredibly unreliable. Forget it, I'll just do it myself. I think Shuangshuang mistook our feelings for love because we're together so often. I'll keep my distance from him and treat him coldly. Let him calm down for a while, let him face reality and understand that I only have brotherly feelings for him. Then he'll slowly give up. Yeah, this method is the best, let's leave it at that."
Qi Yue said this and left on his own.
Director Lin was completely confused. What was so good about this method? How was it more reliable than asking an expert?
What Director Lin didn't expect was that Qi Yue's mood in the next few days was even more stable than before Gu Yunshuang confessed his love. Even the Yin Qi value that had been rising and falling like a roller coaster became abnormally stable.
Everyone in the Special Management Bureau was on high alert for three days, but nothing happened. Instead, they felt like things seemed to be getting better?
What is even more difficult to understand is that Qi Yue always looks troubled and entangled, but people around him find that his aura has become much calmer.
When Director Lin found out, his mouth twitched. Where was the pure brotherhood they promised? He must be secretly happy in his heart!
But considering how clingy Qi Yue was to Gu Yunshuang before, could he really resist ignoring Gu Yunshuang for three consecutive days?
He asked Assistant Fang, who had been following Qi Yue around these days and keeping an eye on him.
Assistant Fang: "??? Are you kidding me? Qi Yue and Gu Yunshuang are in a cold war, and he's going to ignore him for a few days? He calls and texts Gu Yunshuang all day long, like a perverted control freak. Is this what you call ignoring him?"
Director Lin: ...
He felt that he should go and see Qi Yue's current condition in person.
Qi Yue was still teaching the Heavenly Masters how to set up formations. When Director Lin arrived, he was letting the Heavenly Masters practice in actual combat. He took out his cell phone and poked around with his fingers vigorously as if he had ADHD.
After a while, someone replied something, and Qi Yue's face, which was almost frozen, melted instantly, and a bright smile appeared on his face.
Director Lin watched from the side. When he finally put his phone down reluctantly, he stepped forward and said sarcastically, "Didn't someone say he wanted to give it the cold shoulder? You call that the cold shoulder?"
Qi Yue immediately exploded, "Isn't this considered ignoring me? The number of messages and calls I've sent to Shuangshuang has dropped by one-third in the past three days. I don't even dare to switch perspective to see his reaction. If you're not sure, you can ask them."
A passing Taoist priest said, "We can all testify that Mr. Qi's text messages and phone calls have indeed decreased by one-third in the past three days."
Qi Yue's eyes were red as he said, "I've done this much, and it's still not considered neglect. Do you know how worried I am that I can't know Shuangshuang's situation all the time? I'm so restless! I can't even sleep well!"
Director Lin: ……………That’s really unfair to you!
Asking about Zhou Sheng and Gu Yunshuang's situation, well, they are still happily filming every day, and are becoming more and more bold in expressing their love to Qi Yue through text messages and phone calls, without even noticing Qi Yue's "neglect" of him.
Director Lin was speechless for a long time. After thinking about it, he still felt very worried, so he called Qi An via video. As the only remaining elder in the Qi family, perhaps he could find a way.
After listening to his detailed explanation of the situation, Qi An was speechless for a long time and said, "Don't worry about them. Things will work out in the end."
Director Lin hesitated to speak.
Qi'an continued, "Actually, to be honest, the ones who are most afraid of Xiao Yue losing control are not you, but..." He pointed his index finger upwards.
Director Lin's first reaction was to refer to the higher-ups in the government, but he quickly dismissed it. The government's concern about Qi Yue losing control was understandable, and Qi An didn't need to emphasize it. So Qi An wasn't referring to the higher-ups in the government, but to his superiors. Who were his superiors? The Qi family? And...
He thought of a legend about the Qi family, and his heart sank. He asked seriously, "What do you mean?"
Qi An gestured to silence him. "I can't say. It's not confirmed yet and needs further investigation. After I activated the Qi family's formation, I sensed that there was a difference between our Qi family's horoscope and the one above, and it's very likely related to the ghost world. Qi Yue's perception should be deeper than mine, but he lost the protection of the Qi family elders when he was young, and he doesn't know as much about the Qi family as I do, so he didn't realize what it was. But seeing how he subconsciously handles his emotions so easily, perhaps his subconscious has already realized the existence of a turning point."
Director Lin was ecstatic. Does this mean that their world is about to turn around?
Otherwise, considering how much Qi Yue cares about Gu Yunshuang, if breaking up is the only good thing for Gu Yunshuang, he would definitely be more cruel and ruthless. It's not like now, it's just like flirting.
Qi An shook his head and didn't give a definite answer: "I'm not sure yet. I need more time to investigate. I will find out as soon as possible."
After hanging up the video call, Director Lin felt relieved. Seeing Qi Yue pronounce "冷落" as "泥糊", he was no longer anxious or annoyed. Instead, he smiled and gave him some advice: "Just ignoring him won't work. You have to make him realize that your feelings for him are purely brotherly. Why did Xue Tinghe visit the set for several days in a row, bringing milk tea and food to the crew? He wanted to constantly remind Yun Shuang and the people around him that he was here to pursue Yun Shuang. You can also do this, emphasize that this is a gift from an older brother to his younger brother, so that Yun Shuang and everyone knows that your love is purely brotherly."
When Qi Yue heard that Xue Tinghe visited Gu Yunshuang on set to deliver something, his eyes darkened and his hand holding the phone tightened. He felt that what Director Lin said was indeed very reasonable. Shuangshuang mistook her pure brotherhood for love because the Internet and people around them mistook them for a couple and misled him. As long as he repeatedly emphasized to Shuangshuang and the people around him that the relationship between them was pure brotherhood, over time, he would definitely be able to make Shuangshuang wake up.
It was very easy for him to deliver things to the crew filming in isolation in the mountains. He didn't need to spend more money like Xue Tinghe to have people deliver them thousands of miles away. He simply cut a few paper figures out of yellow talisman paper. With a gentle blow, the paper figures fell to the ground and turned into the appearance of ordinary people. They all had a face that was difficult to remember even if you looked at it a few times. As long as they were not burned by fire or rained on, they would not be exposed.
So after that day, the crew once again received various takeout orders for them every day.
Seeing the delivery man in yellow clothes and a yellow hat trekking through mountains and rivers to deliver the food to them, everyone in the crew was shocked. You are worthy of being the Knights of the Yellow Hat! As long as you can order, you can deliver it even in the mountains and wilderness!
The delivery man also diligently emphasized to them that this was Qi Yue's request, and he hoped that everyone in the crew could help him take good care of his younger brother Gu Yunshuang, and that their relationship was purely brotherhood, so they shouldn't think too much about it.
Then he handed a bouquet of white roses to Gu Yunshuang, with a sign on it that read: - For Shuangshuang, you will always be my most beloved brother.
The white roses represent pure love. Qi Yue believes that after Gu Yunshuang and the crew see this bouquet of white roses and the words on the card, they will understand that the relationship between him and Gu Yunshuang is pure brotherhood.
The crew understood very well, and they were very grateful and happy. While taking milk tea, juice and snacks, they sincerely wished the two brothers love each other, grow old together, have a happy marriage and stay together forever...
Someone happily came up to Gu Yunshuang and asked if Qi Yue could help him order food. The meals in the crew were all prepared by the elderly in the village at the foot of the mountain, and the ingredients used were also grown and raised by the villagers. Although they were all natural and full of the smell of firewood, after eating too much, one still missed the fried chicken, hamburgers, barbecue and spicy hot pot in the big city.
Gu Yunshuang held the roses and agreed with a smile.
Everyone was very happy and grateful to Gu Yunshuang. Even one or two actors who had some minor frictions with him before immediately changed their attitudes, became friendly, and took the initiative to help him with a lot of small favors.
Gu Yunshuang quickly became the most popular person in the crew, and everyone envied him for having such a good brother like Qi Yue.
The paper man who had been observing secretly went back to report the situation of the crew to Qi Yue. Qi Yue focused on asking about Gu Yunshuang's reaction. After confirming that Gu Yunshuang really told everyone that he was his brother and was smiling happily without any sadness, he breathed a sigh of relief. Does this mean that he has successfully corrected Gu Yunshuang's feelings for him?
But I didn't feel relieved at all, instead I felt even more lonely.
On this day, everyone in the crew was in good shape and finished filming all the scenes ahead of schedule. The director asked everyone to go home early.
Everyone walked down the mountain back to the village, talking and laughing. They found that the village, which was usually so quiet that it seemed like an empty village, had many more people today.
The village is called Liushi Village. It used to be a big village with many people living in it. Later, with the economic development, young people went out to study and work outside. Then they bought houses in other cities and brought their family members out of the village one after another.
Now nine out of ten houses in the village are empty, and only a few households have elderly people left. Either their descendants are too incompetent to take them out, or they are reluctant to leave because they want to return to their roots.
These old people can no longer do much farm work and rarely go out, so the village is always as quiet as an empty village. Only at night can the smoke from a few houses rise, proving that there are more people in the village than just those from their crew.
But today, many cars and people suddenly appeared in the village, mostly young and middle-aged people. They moved boxes of things into the village ancestral hall, and everyone was busy. Although no one was talking or laughing loudly, you could see joy on everyone's face.
The director even went up to talk to a familiar old man and asked if there was any happy event in the village.
The old man's face, which had wrinkled with laughter just now, immediately tensed up. He waved his hand and told them to leave quickly: "This is a matter between our village. Outsiders, please don't ask too many questions."
This aroused the curiosity of everyone in the crew, but because the villagers were wary of them, they didn't dare to continue asking questions and just went back to their residence.
Gu Yunshuang didn't pay much attention to what was happening outside. After returning to the room, he immediately took out his cell phone and replied to Qi Yue's message. He hadn't checked his phone since he came back from the mountain, and Qi Yue's messages had reached 99+ again.
At night, when Gu Yunshuang took a shower and prepared to go to bed, there was a knock on the door. When the door opened, several people from the crew who were usually gossipy immediately squeezed in, and all of them looked unhappy.
Gu Yunshuang was startled and asked hurriedly, "What happened?"
One of the actors playing the third male lead suddenly remembered something and shuddered. He said with a pale face, "Teacher Gu, do you know what those people in the village are doing? They're doing ghost marriages!"
It turned out that these people were intrigued by the mysterious behavior of the villagers, so they took advantage of the darkness after dinner and sneaked to the ancestral hall to see what they wanted to do.
"We saw them hanging red lanterns and pasting red double happiness symbols in the ancestral hall, so we thought they were celebrating some kind of wedding. But on closer inspection, it doesn't make sense! If it's a wedding, why would they have to keep it so secretive and not allow anyone to inquire?"
"Yes, no matter how we thought about it, we felt something was wrong, so we sneaked in when they weren't paying attention. Teacher Gu, guess what we saw?"
Gu Yunshuang suppressed the goosebumps that had already appeared on his skin and asked cautiously, "...coffin?"
“…”
Man number three laughed awkwardly, "Not really."
Several people thought to themselves: As expected of Teacher Gu, who has a Taoist priest boyfriend, the first thing she tells is a horror story about a coffin and a corpse.
Another staff member said, "It's a black veil. The wedding characters posted in the ancestral hall are also written in black on white paper. This one is red on the outside and black and white on the inside. The collision of red and white doesn't mean it's a ghost marriage, right?"
Gu Yunshuang breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time asked in confusion: "This kind of feudal and superstitious activity should be reported to the police, right? Why are you looking for me?" If you want to find someone, you should go to the director.
As for ghost marriages, if they are just between two dead people and both parents are willing, there is nothing wrong with it. But what I am afraid of is that they sell the corpse for money, or even worse, they deliberately kill people for ghost marriages. So it is best to call the police and let them investigate.
Several people laughed awkwardly again. It was not that they had not thought about calling the police, but it was because the legends about Qi Yue on the Internet were too mysterious, especially after the birthday party of the old lady of the Zhong family. At that time, so many people at the birthday party saw with their own eyes how Qi Yue used talisman paper to subdue the resentful Wang Yao, so there were many rumors about him.
Among these people, the third male and two minor supporting characters had acquaintances who attended the banquet. After hearing what their acquaintances said, they became more convinced that Qi Yue was a truly capable Taoist priest. Gu Yunshuang was also Qi Yue's boyfriend. The Taoist priest was so close to them. When they encountered such a mysterious and strange thing as ghost marriage, the first thing they thought of was naturally to find the Taoist priest.
Gu Yunshuang was speechless. With a stern face, he lectured them, "Don't let your imagination run wild. Believe in science. How can there be so many ghosts in the world?"
After sending them all away to sleep, Gu Yunshuang was so scared that he immediately hid under the quilt and took out his cell phone to make a video call to Qi Yue.
After hearing this, Qi Yue said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, not all ghost marriages are effective. Many people don't know the ropes and just go through the motions to comfort the living."
Gu Yunshuang was still worried: "But the villagers' reaction is too strong. If it was just an ordinary ghost marriage, there would be no need to be so wary of us. I'm just worried that there is something dark and shady going on inside."
Qi Yue: "I'll go and see it myself later."
Gu Yunshuang smiled very sweetly: "Thank you, brother, you are so good to me."
Qi Yue's face flushed slightly, and he emphasized uncomfortably, "You are my brother, so of course I have to treat you well."
Gu Yunshuang became even happier and looked at Qi Yue with a smile, which made Qi Yue feel even more uncomfortable.
The two chatted intermittently until Gu Yunshuang fell asleep. Qi Yue hung up the phone, and his consciousness shifted to the black shadow clone hidden in Gu Yunshuang's shadow, and slowly floated out of the window.
The black fog is hidden in the darkness and is even more difficult to detect.
He first went to the ancestral hall in the village. The hall was almost decorated and there was nothing unusual. He then went to other villagers to inquire secretly and learned that the ghost marriage was going to be held because of an ancestor who had been dead for hundreds of years, and the person to be married was an old man who had been dead for many years.
The families of both parties volunteered. The reason was that the elders in the village felt that the feng shui of the village was not bad, but the young people in the village were more unsuccessful than each other. They thought that they were just unlucky, so they wanted to find a master to change their fate.
I wonder which master told them that they could find a wife for their ancestor, a general in their family tree who died in battle hundreds of years ago without having the chance to get married. Maybe the ancestor would be so happy that he would bless them with good luck and make a fortune.
So they found an old man whose wife had died many years ago in some remote mountain village. The old man was very happy to let his long-dead wife remarry their ancestor, and only accepted a betrothal gift of one thousand yuan. Even when they called the police, they were unable to file a case.
This sounds like an absurd feudal superstitious farce. Moreover, the so-called ghost marriage ceremony they carried out was so weird. There was no corpse or ashes of the woman. I heard that the man was an orphan and didn't even have his birth date. If this ghost marriage was useful, then it would be a miracle.
However, Qi Yue did not take it lightly at all. Even though he did not notice anything wrong, he secretly left a mark of himself in the ancestral hall and then called the police.
The next day, the police immediately came to the village to investigate.
The police didn't find anything wrong, so they gave them some verbal education, asking them to believe in science and reject feudal superstitions, and then left.
When the crew came back, they heard the villagers scolding one of the middle-aged men. The man kept his head down the whole time and didn't dare to say a word.
From what they said, the middle-aged man let slip that the ghost marriage was being held in the village to his mistress, who then called the police.
The crew was gloating over his misfortune, saying, "You deserve it! You're allowed to find a mistress." They had no idea that the middle-aged man was being blamed for someone else's misfortune.
In the evening, Gu Yunshuang talked to Qi Yue on the phone as usual until he fell asleep at some point.
In the dark night, someone was playing the suona in the distance, beating and hitting the instruments, and the sound of a woman crying was getting closer and closer.
When they were almost at the gate, the sound of suona and gongs and drums suddenly became audible. The team became agitated, and someone shouted, "Fox! Where did this fox come from? Stop it! The fox has carried off the bride!"
"Hurry up and find the bride! If you delay the general's time, you will be in trouble!"
"Over there! Go after him!"
"No! That fox is too fast. I can't catch it. What should I do?"
"The monk may escape, but the temple cannot. Hurry and tell the general to use the bride's horoscope and the blood of her closest relatives to summon her back."
The sound gradually faded away, and Gu Yunshuang fell into a deep sleep again. He didn't know how long he slept, but suddenly he felt light, as if he was flying.
He tried to open his eyes and found that he was actually flying. He ignored all entities and passed through many doors and walls, entering the ancestral hall of Liushi Village that he had seen during the day. He passed through the double happiness written in black on white paper in the middle of the ancestral hall and came to the lobby of an ancient house with an ancient fragrance.
A tall man wearing armor and with a large scar on his face exclaimed, "Why is it a man? That shouldn't be the case!"
Gu Yunshuang was fully awake at this time. He looked around and saw red silk and red lanterns hanging all around. There was a red double happiness pattern pasted in the middle of the hall, and dragon and phoenix candles were lit. The people around him all had pale faces, missing arms and legs, and some had long tongues hanging out. It was obvious that they were not alive.
He forced himself to remain calm and said, "You must have found the wrong person. Can you take me back?"
The general's eyes flickered across his face. "Don't worry. Although you're not my bride, you're still her relative. Now that you're here, just sit back and relax. It won't be too late to leave after watching the ceremony and having the wedding banquet. Don't worry, after tonight, I'll be your elder too. I won't harm you."
After saying this, he beckoned over a maid with blood gushing from her head, "Take the young master down to rest while I go get the bride."
Gu Yunshuang's heart sank, knowing that it might not be easy to leave today. He tried hard not to tremble, and followed the ghost maid away with his body stiff.
On the way, Gu Yunshuang bravely asked the maid about the bride. For some reason, he was very concerned about the bride who was related to him by blood and might be one of his elders who died early.
The maid said nothing and didn't answer any of her questions. She took him to a side room and pushed him in without warning. Then she slammed the door shut and said grimly, "Please stay inside until the wedding begins."
The doors and windows of the room were tightly closed, and there was no light at all. Perhaps because his soul had left his body, he could see clearly even in the dark. If this wasn't a haunted house, he would have been curious and studied it for a long time, carefully feeling the experience of his soul leaving his body.
He carefully observed the room and made sure there was nothing hidden inside before calling out softly, "Qi Yue, brother, are you there?"
After calling out several times without receiving any response, Gu Yunshuang finally lost his composure. Wasn't it said that she would appear immediately if he called her name?
The reason he was able to remain so calm in front of the Ghost General and the Ghost Maid was because he thought that as long as he called out to Qi Yue, Qi Yue would appear immediately to save him.
He didn't give up, and raised his voice a little more, "Qi Yue."
"Stop shouting." A crisp voice suddenly rang out: "If you shout again, you'll attract those ghosts again."
“!”
There are other people here who are not ghosts!!!
Gu Yunshuang was immediately frightened to the point that his scalp went numb and his body stiffened like a stone sculpture.
The girl laughed softly, "Shuangshuang is still so timid and afraid of ghosts! She's been scared into a wooden figure even without Xiaoyue around."
Gu Yunshuang was stunned. This familiar tone...
"Who are you?"
A girl of about sixteen or seventeen with two braids gradually appeared in front of his eyes. The girl had a beautiful face, but he felt very familiar with her and his heart was beating fast, but he was very sure that he had never seen her before.
The girl was obviously very young, but her smile made him feel strangely kind: "It's been so many years since we last met, and you've both grown up so much."
Gu Yunshuang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered the fox mentioned by those voices in her dream. She said in disbelief, "You are... Grandma!"
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