Chapter 95
After Qi Yue coaxed Gu Yuanshuang to sleep, he quietly took out the high school exams his tutoring team had given him and began working on them. The Gaokao was no easier than the middle school entrance exam. To get into the same university as Gu Yunshuang, he had no choice but to study even harder. Fortunately, he could not only create a clone to study during the day, but also study even at night without needing to sleep. He was truly like 007.
He couldn't continue writing after writing half of the test paper. He felt inexplicably uneasy and always felt that something he didn't want to see had happened.
Suddenly the cell phone rang, and the caller ID showed it was Hu Lijing.
Hu Lijing was not a tactless woman and would not call him in the middle of the night for no reason. Something must have happened. Considering the uneasy feeling he had just had, Qi Yue answered the phone immediately.
Hu Lijing seemed to have just done some intense exercise, breathing rapidly, and seemed to be on guard against something. She deliberately lowered her voice and said, "Qi Yue, listen to me. Something happened to Gu Yunshuang's grandmother. She was captured by a ghost king and forced into a ghost marriage."
Qi Yue was stunned. Grandma Gu? Hadn't she passed away many years ago? When she died, Grandpa Qi was still alive. It was Grandpa Qi who personally prayed for her soul. She should have gone to the reincarnation platform to be reborn. How could she appear in the living world and be captured by a ghost king for a ghost marriage?
Ghost marriage? Qi Yue's expression changed, and he immediately asked, "Are you in Liushi Village now?"
Hu Lijing was stunned: "How do you know?"
"Wait!" Qi Yue was so panicked that he didn't have time to say anything. He immediately moved to the black shadow clone. As soon as he came out, he saw Gu Yunshuang lying quietly on the bed, sleeping soundly, and making a slight snoring sound with every breath he took.
Qi Yue's heart, which had been lifted high, slowly fell. Fortunately, Shuangshuang didn't... Wait, that's not right!
Qi Yue hurried forward to check carefully, and finally found that Gu Yunshuang's soul was gone!
Qi Yue's face looked very ugly, and he immediately came to the Liushi Village Ancestral Hall that he had visited last night.
There was still a faint gloomy aura in the ancestral hall, and the double happiness written in black on white paper pasted in the middle had turned yellow and hard, as if it had been weathered by wind and rain for several years and had broken to the point of being easily touched.
The door of the ancestral hall was pushed open, and a fox half the height of a man, with three tails, several bald patches of hair, and two injured paws, rushed in with its teeth bared. Seeing that it was Qi Yue, the fox breathed a sigh of relief and spoke in human language: "Qi Yue, it's great that you can come so quickly! We must find the ghost king's ghost domain as soon as possible and rescue Ah Zhi. If we are too late, it will be difficult for the ghost king and her to successfully marry!"
Only after she finished speaking did she realize that Qi Yue was different. His face was so gloomy that water could drip out of it, and the aura around him was terrifying.
Qi Yue and Gu Yunshuang’s grandmother have such a good relationship?
Qi Yue said in a suppressed voice: "Shuangshuang is filming here, and his soul is gone."
Hu Lijing's heart skipped a beat. She panicked for a moment but quickly calmed down. An irrepressible joy rose in her heart: "In that case, this is actually a good thing!"
Seeing Qi Yue's eyes become even more terrifying, she hurriedly explained, "Don't worry, the Ghost King's goal is to have a ghost marriage with Azhi. Gu Yunshuang is Azhi's junior. Although they are not related by blood, they are descendants. The Ghost King will not do anything to Azhi's grandson before achieving his goal. On the contrary, with Gu Yunshuang around, Azhi can hide by Gu Yunshuang's side and the Ghost King can't find her. As long as the Ghost King can't find her, they are safe."
Qi Yue asked: "How do you know for sure that they are together now?"
Hu Lijing said, "Yesterday I went to her grave looking for her, only to discover she had been captured by the Ghost King. Following the contract I had with her, I found her all the way here and stole her out during the wedding reception. I wanted to bring her to you for help right away, but before we could get far, the Ghost King used the marriage contract and bloodline connection to forcibly summon her ghost. I couldn't stop him, even if I wanted to.
"As for Gu Yunshuang, I suspect that because of his kinship with Azhi and their close proximity, the Ghost King mistakenly summoned his living soul when he used the blood of his bloodline to summon souls. Azhi has always been clever, and she must have discovered Gu Yunshuang, who was forcibly summoned like her. The only way to evade the Ghost King's search is to hide on Gu Yunshuang's body. With his aura as a cover, the Ghost King won't be able to find her for a while. Before the wedding, the Ghost King must give his bride face and won't harm Gu Yunshuang.
Hu Lijing then asked in confusion, "How could Gu Yunshuang's soul leave his body so easily? Normal people wouldn't leave their souls, and he has you protecting him, so it shouldn't be that easy for him to do so."
Qi Yue secretly clenched his hands. He thought of Gu Yunshuang's sudden French kiss that day. Perhaps it was because he was too emotional that day, or perhaps it was because the kiss was too deep, deepening their connection, that it ultimately affected his luck.
All in all, he was just too careless.
He checked carefully and paid close attention, but was still deceived by the conspiracy that was right under his nose.
He didn't believe at all that Gu Yunshuang came here to film, and it was such a coincidence that he ran into the person who was to be married to a ghost in the village, Grandma Gu.
And why did the Ghost King choose to marry Grandma Gu? Grandma Gu was just an ordinary person in her lifetime, and even in death, she wouldn't be anything special. So he must still be the one plotting behind the scenes. But this time, he's being more roundabout, trying to use Grandma Gu to plot against Gu Yunshuang, and then use Gu Yunshuang to plot against him. In this way, he's the one who's implicated both Gu Yunshuang and Grandma Gu.
But then again, Grandma Gu and Gu Yunshuang are not biological children after all. Even if they are related, the Ghost King and Grandma Gu will have limited influence on Gu Yunshuang after they get married, let alone influencing him.
At most, it would disgust him and Gu Yunshuang, and the result would be that he tore the Ghost King apart, and Grandma Gu would become single again.
So no matter how you look at it, this inscription seems like a farce, but he still subconsciously believes that the truth is not that simple.
The most important thing at the moment was to find Grandma Gu and Gu Yunshuang, but they had no clues at the moment. Qi Yue immediately contacted the Special Management Bureau.
The Special Management Bureau attached great importance to it. They sent people overnight to investigate the old man who sold Grandma Gu for a ghost marriage. At the same time, they sent people to Liushi Village to look for the person as quickly as possible. At the same time, they also contacted the most skilled fortune teller in the world of Taoist priests as soon as possible.
After three prayers, the fortune teller was the first to receive news.
"The eight characters you gave me are very strange. I've heard about her life story, but logically, this shouldn't have been her fate. Her original fate was that she would marry the wrong person, be trapped for half her life, and have a rough life. It wasn't until she was old that one of her sons became successful and rescued her from prison, allowing her to finally live a peaceful life. Later, her fate was changed. Although the changed fate was not rich and powerful, it meant that her husband and wife were loving and harmonious, her children were filial, and she lived a comfortable and smooth life with happiness. However, her experience in the second half of her life was exactly the same as before the fate was changed. If you hadn't told me with certainty that this was indeed her true experience, I wouldn't have believed it."
This was the first time Director Lin had heard of such a thing, and he quickly asked, "Could it be that the person who changed her fate wasn't very capable, which is why her experience is so completely different from her destiny?"
The fortune teller shook his head. "You don't understand. The changes to her destiny are completely natural. If it weren't for the inconsistency between her personal experiences and personality, and the fact that she had passed away so many years ago, I wouldn't have been able to tell that her destiny had changed, and thus calculate her original destiny. This natural change doesn't seem artificial. It's more like someone altered someone else's destiny, and she was affected by it, and the natural order of things evolved for her."
"People whose fates have been altered by fortune-tellers will definitely affect the fates of those around them. This influence can be large or small, but generally this situation won't occur. If this happens, it can only mean that at the turning point in her fate, something that should have happened didn't happen, preventing her fate from smoothly turning into a new direction, and forcing her to continue along the same path as before.
"But fate has its own ability to correct itself. Generally speaking, after missing a turning point, there can always be a second or third turning point, turning fate back on track, or even extending a new destiny. Unless the key is a being that even the heavens cannot arbitrarily control, then it can easily break free from fate's control, so that people who are deeply connected to it now experience a discrepancy between their current experiences and their destiny. As far as I know, in the past hundred years, there has been only one being who is not at the mercy of the heavens, and that is Qi Lao."
Director Lin relayed the fortune teller's words to Qi Yue word for word, and Qi Yue was stunned.
According to the fortune teller, the turning point in Grandma Gu's fate should have been when she was in her teens and had not yet married. Did she already have contact with Grandpa Qi at that time?
Qi Yue immediately shook his head in denial.
He carefully recalled how Grandpa Qi and Grandma Gu got along back then, and was very sure that Grandpa Qi got to know Grandma Gu only after he got to know the Gu family.
Grandpa Qi and Grandma Gu got along very happily. They were like old friends who hit it off right away. Later, he often heard Grandpa Qi sigh that he regretted meeting Grandma Gu too late. However, Grandpa Qi always had a weird temper and never gave face to anyone, except Grandma Gu, and always bowed his head in front of her.
When he was a child, Qi Yue laughed at Grandpa Qi for being afraid of Grandma Gu, and Grandpa Qi did not deny it. Now it seems that this may be because of some indebtedness.
He remembered what he had learned from Mr. Qi's friends, including Mr. Wu, that when Mr. Qi was young, he acted recklessly and had changed his own fate in order to escape widowerhood. Could it be that this affected Grandma Gu's fate?
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On the other side, Gu Zhi was also telling Gu Yunshuang what happened to her.
"I was born and raised in a remote mountain village. It was a secluded village with a feudal and conservative mentality. Every household favored boys over girls. Boys could go to school, but girls were already looking for marriage partners when they were fourteen or fifteen. I didn't want to continue with this fate, so I studied desperately. In order to continue to attend junior high school in town, I even went to the government for help. My parents, under pressure from the government, had no choice but to let me continue junior high school, but they wouldn't give me a penny after that. I worked part-time while completing junior high school on my own."
Back then, there was no compulsory education, and attending junior high school cost a lot of money. She started school relatively early, at the age of fifteen or sixteen. She usually picked up scraps, and on her days off did odd jobs and manual labor. She completed three years of junior high school on this part-time basis, and because she worked hard enough, she was admitted to a key high school in the county.
At that time, being able to get into high school was a remarkable achievement. After graduating from high school, you could find a good job, and if you could get into college, you would be even more successful, and everyone in the neighborhood would envy you.
She thought her parents would agree to let her continue studying in high school. So when her parents sent someone to call her back to say they were going to hold a graduation party for her, she went back without any preparation. She didn't expect that when she got home, she would be tied up and locked up at home, unable to go anywhere, and was just waiting to get married.
Her parents have already found a husband for her and have even received the betrothal money, and are waiting for the man to come and pick her up next month.
She was unwilling to accept her fate, so she found an opportunity to escape and tried to run to the town to seek help from the government or police.
But her parents and the man were on guard, and she was caught before she could escape to the town. She was sent to the man's house and locked up. The days that followed were like those of many women who were abducted to the mountains: she was locked up, strictly supervised, forced to give birth, and beaten if she disobeyed.
In fact, Grandma Gu didn't have only one child, Dad Gu. She gave birth to three sons and one daughter. The daughter died young because she couldn't be raised. The other two sons, like their father, treated women as production tools and even looked down on their own biological mother.
During those years, Grandma Gu never gave up on escaping, but she always failed. She was very smart and planned every time, so her chances of success should have been very high. She shouldn't have been discovered before she even escaped the village. Later, she learned that the person who tipped off her was none other than her two biological sons.
After learning the truth, she was disheartened and never thought of escaping again.
"Of my three sons, your father is the youngest, but he's also the most like me. He's always listened to me. I told him to study hard and get into college, and he did. But studying also taught him more. He knew his father's behavior was wrong and that my situation was dire. So, for the first time, he disobeyed me and dropped out of school to work. After he saved up some money and passed his driver's license, he bought a used car, brought a lot of alcohol, and returned to the village. After he got that old bastard and his two brothers drunk, he immediately drove away from the village with me overnight."
It was also from then on that Grandma Gu completely got rid of the nightmare that had lasted for nearly thirty years.
To prevent Grandma Gu from being found, Father Gu rented a house for her in a remote area and didn't dare visit her for two or three years. Mother and son could only communicate secretly by phone, and their meetings were like underground party meetings.
As for calling the police for help, I can only say that they, mother and son, are not stupid, but they are very knowledgeable and have the courage and determination to confront a village and their relatives. All they can do is stay away and not be found.
It wasn't until Dad Gu got married and saved a lot of money with Mom Gu that they moved to a county town near Jiangcheng, far away from the mountain village, that they finally settled down and dared to bring Grandma Gu to live with them. It was also at that time that Grandma Gu finally met Mr. Qi.
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