Chapter 6 White Dust 3
◎I went to dig up his family’s ancestral grave! ◎
Bai Chen stepped out of the inn and strolled around aimlessly for a long time. He didn't feel like eating anything. His mind was full of the stupid look on Yan Yue's face when she snatched food from him in the morning.
After returning to the inn, I looked up at Yan Yue's room. The light in the room was still on.
He curled the corners of his lips, jumped up the wall, and jumped into the room through the window.
Yan Yue was weaving the last piece of silk on the table. When she yawned, a figure flashed in front of her. She was so scared that she fell backwards!
Bai Chen quickly supported the back of the chair and frowned, "Are you so timid?"
Yan Yue's scream was suppressed in her throat, and turned into anger that colored her eyebrows and eyes: "Young Master broke into a woman's room through the window in the middle of the night, and you want to turn the tables?"
Bai Chen's face froze, and he said awkwardly: "I just wanted to tease you..."
"Is it fun?" Yan Yue looked unhappy.
It’s great to scare people to death! She had been frightened by ghosts lately. She had finally had two days of peace, and now she thought that thing had come to visit again!
After saying that, she didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore and picked up the half-broken silk thread and continued weaving.
Bai Chen sat opposite him, watching silently for a while, and couldn't help asking, "Isn't it just an ornament? Is it worth it for you to stay up late at night to make it?"
Yan Yue didn't even raise her eyes and replied, "It's used to store things."
"What are you pretending for?"
Yan Yue glanced at the black stone and the other strings on the bed and said, "Here, that black stone."
Bai Chen let out a faint laugh from his nose, but ultimately did not say "You are probably a fool" out loud.
Yan Yue ignored him and continued to knit seriously. Bai Chen finally couldn't help asking, "Are you angry?"
"Ah?" Yan Yue was stunned.
Bai Chen said: "I didn't buy you that black robe."
Yan Yue couldn't help but laugh. She kept moving her hands and said casually, "You worry too much, sir. I am a servant, so I wear whatever my master buys. How can I choose?"
Bai Chen didn't hear any sarcasm in her tone, and for a moment he wasn't sure if she was being sarcastic, so he added, "I don't want to see others wearing black in front of me."
Yan Yue wanted to ask why, but she suppressed her curiosity and said honestly, "I wore it for you, so it's natural to wear it according to your likes and dislikes."
When Bai Chen heard this self-evident statement, he felt strange and remained silent for a long time.
It was not until Yan Yue had almost finished making the silk thread that she heard him ask again, "Do you hate them?"
"Hmm?" Yan Yue raised her head and asked, "Who do you hate?"
Bai Chen said: "Your parents."
Yan Yue finally stopped moving his hands and was unable to speak for a long time.
Bai Chen added: "I can take you to get revenge."
Yan Yue hesitated for a moment and said, "Not really. Let's just take this as an opportunity to settle all grudges!"
She continued to move, but her fingers were obviously not as fast as before. Bai Chen raised his eyebrows slightly: "I never thought you would be so useless! They arranged a ghost marriage for you. If you hadn't been lucky enough to escape in time, you would be lying in the coffin now!"
Yan Yue slowly tied the knot and then looked up at Bai Chen: "I woke up in the coffin."
Bai Chen's eyebrows jumped.
Yan Yue continued, "I am lucky. If they hadn't picked me up and brought me home, I would have died soon after I was born. So, I'm even if I give my life back to them."
Bai Chen asked: "Aren't they your biological parents?"
Yan Yue nodded: "Yes. They are just ordinary farmers. They already had two sons when they picked me up. The family was doing well at first, but then they had three more children. As the saying goes, 'the little boys eat the father out of poverty', so life started to become a little tight."
Bai Chen asked: "Then what? Did you start to dislike this adopted child of yours?"
“No…”
Yan Yue recalled that those days had not been long ago, but they felt like they were from the previous lifetime.
"They never hid their background from me. When I was young, they took good care of me because I was the only daughter in the family. So I was grateful and worked hard to do housework and share the pressure for the family."
Bai Chen curled his lips in disdain: "You are just pretending! Just to sell you for a good price later!"
Yan Yue shook her head and said, "No. When my elder brother was fifteen, he learned some dirty tricks from somewhere and touched me. I cried and told my adoptive parents. My adoptive father beat my elder brother violently, but my adoptive mother slapped me and said I seduced my elder brother."
Bai Chen was furious and slammed the table: "Shameless! In order to protect their son's reputation, they arranged a ghost marriage for you?"
Yan Yue still shook her head, "No. I was only ten years old at that time. After that, my adoptive mother made me live alone in the woodshed in the backyard and didn't let me have any contact with my brothers. Even when my eldest brother proposed marriage, she didn't even let me take a look."
"So that day, they took me out of the woodshed, cooked a delicious meal for me, and gave me a beautiful new red dress. I was very happy."
That day, she put on her shiny bright red new dress and ate stewed meat that she had not seen all year round. She was so grateful that she cried and kept saying thank you.
But why didn’t her adoptive parents dare to look at her?
"Then I woke up in a coffin."
The bright red new dress on his body had somehow turned into a black one, his rough hands had become slender and white, and on his face was a cold mask made of unknown material, which looked like a hideous and roaring evil ghost. She was so scared that she quickly threw it away.
Bai Chen looked at her calm face, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little sour. "No wonder you are so timid, you were scared at that time, right?"
"Um."
"It wasn't until I climbed out of the coffin that I came to my senses."
"When I was a kid, I went to the town with my adoptive mother to sell shoes. I saw a ghost marriage in the town. It was said that an unmarried young man died suddenly and needed to find a person of similar age who also died alone to be his companion. Otherwise, their ghosts would cause trouble and make the family uneasy."
"My foster mother said that there are special 'ghost matchmakers' who arrange ghost marriages for these people. They also hold a ceremony to declare the two of them husband and wife, and finally bury the two together. In this way, there will be no lonely graves in the cemeteries of the man and the woman, and it will not affect the prosperity of the family's future generations."
"But I never thought that they would deliberately kill me just to arrange a ghost marriage for someone else."
Bai Chen's voice was filled with uncontrollable anger as he asked, "Who is the man you married to? I'll dig up his ancestral grave!"
Yan Yue blinked: "I don't know!"
Bai Chen asked curiously, "Didn't you wake up in the coffin? Didn't you see the person lying next to you?"
“I haven’t seen it!”
Yan Yue explained seriously, "I looked around for a while, but I didn't see anyone! My coffin was so big and magnificent! But there was only me, no one else. Moreover, the coffin was not buried in the ground, but on a high platform, and there were no other coffins around."
Bai Chen looked puzzled: "Then the General has erected a monument, right? What's engraved on the monument?"
"It's not erected yet?" Yan Yue thought back, "I didn't see the monument!"
Bai Chen looked at her suspiciously: "You can't be illiterate, right?"
Yan Yue suddenly froze when he heard this.
She finally discovered another strange point, that is, she really could not read!
My second elder brother is very smart and has been studying in a private school since he was young. Her second brother taught her some words and how to write her name, but not many. Especially after being locked up in the backyard by his adoptive mother, he had no chance to learn to read from his second brother.
But during the day, when she went to the street with Bai Chen, she could recognize all the words on the street signs! Even when she was in the clothing store, she glanced at the booklet that the shopkeeper had placed on the table, which was just a record of the fabrics used to make clothes.
She didn't notice anything wrong before, but now she realized that she shouldn't know him!
When did she learn to read?
Seeing her stunned, Bai Chen couldn't help but teasing her, "You really can't read! I knew it, those who hold ghost marriages are all wealthy families, how could they not erect a tombstone? Who knows, they might be waiting for an auspicious day, but unexpectedly, you, the 'ghost bride' ran away first! Hahaha, wait until the day of burial, and see what they do..."
Yan Yue felt terrified, and her voice trembled: "Young Master..."
Seeing her strange expression, Bai Chen couldn't help but ask, "Why do you look like you've seen a ghost?"
Yan Yue wanted to cry when she heard the word "ghost" now, and asked with a sad face: "Then do you think... I am a living person?"
Bai Chen stretched out two fingers and probed her forehead: "You don't have a fever! Why are you so scared?"
Yan Yue asked again: "Am I really still alive? Could it be that I am already dead?"
Bai Chen slapped her forehead and said, "Are you really stupid? Have you ever seen a ghost eating pork elbow in the early morning? And which ghost can walk on the street in broad daylight? Ghosts don't eat human food, and they can't see the sun!"
Yan Yue's heart dropped back into her stomach, still feeling uneasy: "Then do you know who can suddenly learn to read after dying once?"
Bai Chen sneered and said, "A man who saw a ghost!"
Yan Yue's expression, which had just relaxed, collapsed again in an instant, and he asked with a sad face: "Why can someone who can see ghosts suddenly learn to read..."
Bai Chen burst into laughter again, but Yan Yue was almost crying, and she didn't know what was so funny about this. What is there for him to be happy about?
Bai Chen laughed for a long time, stood up, pinched her nose and shook it twice and said: "You idiot! You are really stupid in a novel way!"
After saying that, he left with a swagger.
Yan Yue was left standing there in bewilderment: "Then why can someone who can see ghosts be able to read?"
In that high cave, there was only a high platform, and on the platform was her coffin. There was really nothing around, no tombstone, no offerings, and even the coffin lid was not nailed shut, otherwise she would not have been able to open it.
She didn't understand why her originally bright red wedding dress had turned into that dark color. She only knew that the fabric was extremely thin and smooth, and when it slid down her arms, it was like a breeze blowing past her.
She had never seen such fine material, a thousand times better than her red wedding dress. So she left the black dress to Li Tiezhu as a token of gratitude, because she felt that she would never be able to earn enough money to buy the material for the dress in her lifetime.
It was enough to exchange that dress for her life.
At that time, the only thing on her body except for the hideous metal mask and a shiny black pebble was nothing else.
If Yan Yue hadn’t seen that he had a shadow and was hungry, he would have really thought that he had turned into a ghost.
She left the cave and searched for a whole day. She found that the place she was in seemed to be an island, surrounded by water, and there was no food or water.
There was no choice but to drag the coffin lid into the water.
After drifting in the sea for two days, he thought he was going to die in the sea when he was rescued by Li Tiezhu who was passing by as a fisherman.
【Author’s words】
Yan Yue: Dear reader, can you please let me know you are here?
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