Chapter 230 Both Sides Are Scared
“I’m so afraid of the dark…”
Wen Ning's face was pale, he clenched his handkerchief, and his eyes were full of panic.
These past few days, she could only take a short nap during the day. Perhaps because there was enough sunshine during the day, she slept very well.
No nightmares either.
At night, I would fall into a nightmare and be unable to wake up.
I know it's a dream, but I can't break free.
"He...he said he would come and marry me tonight." Wen Ning's heart was pounding.
People in this world are extremely harsh on women. If they knew that she met a man in her dream, they would probably spread the story in a very unpleasant way.
Besides, it was hard for her to speak.
"I went to the temple to pray for amulets, but I still couldn't stop him. He even sent me a betrothal gift..." Wen Ning walked to the bed and took out a pair of small paper figures from under the pillow.
The boys and girls were cut out of yellow paper, with two smears of glaring blush on their faces.
The mouth was red as if dripping blood, and the smile on the paper man's face was terrifying.
"I can't even tell whether it's a dream or reality. It's clearly a dream, so why would these paper figures of a boy and a girl appear at the head of my bed?" Wen Ning trembled with fear.
"Chao Chao, I like your second brother. I just want to be his wife. If I can't escape tonight..." Wen Ning's eyes were filled with cruelty.
"If I can't escape, I will risk my life and perish together with him!"
Lu Chao's face turned ashen with anger.
When her second brother went out to conquer the world, she couldn't even keep her future sister-in-law.
She could hardly hold back her Chaoyang Sword!
"Sister Aning, don't be afraid. Did he tell you the address?" Lu Chaochao asked.
Wen Ning's eyes reddened and he nodded.
"Yes, he asked me to go and get to know my home. But I was afraid, so I never went." Wen Ning was embarrassed, and she didn't dare to tell outsiders. In desperation, she told the two-year-old Chaochao.
"Chao Chao, you are still a child. Sister Aning will find a way to deal with it. You should go back to school first."
Lu Chaochao pouted: "That won't do. You are my future sister-in-law."
"I promised my second brother that I would protect Sister Aning."
Aning's face turned slightly red, and Lu Chaochao took her hand and walked out the door.
"Yushu, please ask for a day off for me."
Yu Shu said with a bitter face: "How can I ask you..."
Lu Chaochao climbed onto the carriage and into Sister Aning's arms: "Sister Aning, where is his home?"
Aning pursed her lips and took a deep breath: "In the dream, he told me that his home was three miles east of the city, and there was a huge locust tree at the entrance of the village. The village was called Dahuai Village."
"There are many residents in the village, and there is a river in front of the door..."
"He kept asking me to go find him, but I was afraid and never went. Last night, he was even angry..." In his dream, he asked her frantically why she didn't go find him, why she didn't go find him...
"Dahuai Village? Three miles away?" Lu Chaochao touched his head suspiciously, it sounded a little familiar.
The carriage headed out of the city.
Along the way, the maid kept asking for directions.
"Uncle, how do I get to Dahuai Village?" the maid asked the old man who was in a hurry.
The old man was stunned: "Dahuai Village? What are you going to do in Dahuai Village?"
Wen Ning opened the curtain.
Seeing that the old man was in rags, wearing a pair of straw sandals with exposed toes and the snow had not melted yet, she asked the maid to bring a thick blanket and gave him some loose change.
"I have a relative living in Dahuai Village and I want to visit him."
The old man thanked her profusely, but when he heard that she was going to visit relatives, his brows furrowed.
"Girl, you are a kind person, good people will be rewarded, go back quickly. I'm afraid you have been deceived. This Dahuai Village disappeared many years ago."
"The tyranny of the previous Emperor Xue caused widespread resentment and the people suffered. The Dahuai Village was at the foot of the emperor, and because of the offense against the previous Emperor Xue, the village was massacred long ago."
"That area is now a mass grave. There are no residents anymore... There are only rows and rows of graves."
"It's common to be scared passing by that area. You'd better go back..." The old man, wrapped in a thick blanket, advised seriously.
"I heard it was haunted a while ago."
"A ghost baby who died young crawled out of the grave, holding a soul-locking iron chain, and wanted to capture a living soul as a scapegoat..."
"Girl, listen to me and go back. Even fishermen don't dare to go to that place now." The old man was so scared that he shook his head.
Wen Ning's face was slightly stiff. She forced a smile and thanked him before sitting back in the carriage.
"It's a mass grave?"
"How could that be? Could it be that...he is really a wandering ghost?"
Thinking of the lonely ghost entering his dreams every night, Wen Ning shuddered violently.
"We're already out of the city anyway, why not go and take a look? Don't be afraid, Sister Aning..." Lu Chaochao held Wen Ning's hand and kept cheering her up.
Aning took a deep breath.
With a pale face: "Go and take a look first."
After leaving the city, we followed the path the old man pointed and walked into a small path.
Lu Chaochao only felt that this road was becoming more and more familiar.
Isn't this the mass grave where she slept when she ran away from home? ? ?
"I've been here..." Lu Chaochao said in a low voice.
"There is a river in front, and there is a big locust tree beside the river."
"I didn't find out whether it was haunted or not..."
"But there is a crazy old man who likes fishing."
"I only said a few words to him last time, and he ran away crying. It was so scary." Lu Chaochao patted his chest with a frightened look on his face.
"Crazy, horrible, horrible..."
Wen Ning was amused by her: "Is it really so scary?"
"Yes, he's crying...crying and shouting, who wouldn't be afraid..." The little guy spoke softly, sounding particularly cute.
The carriage stopped under the big locust tree.
"The locust tree gathers shade and there has always been a legend that it can summon ghosts. It's really scary..." The maid stood behind Wen Ning, feeling quite worried.
Lu Chaochao pointed to the riverside: "Look, that's where I met Crazy Grandpa..."
Wen Ning looked at the large number of graves behind him and his face had already turned pale.
She was shaky and could barely stand.
"Miss, shall we go back? Or, shall we go to Huguo Temple and ask the monks for help?" The maid's teeth were chattering as she saw countless graves.
"The abbot of Huguo Temple will not return to Beijing until March. He can't wait any longer." Wen Ning pinched his handkerchief.
"Sister Aning, what is that person's name?" Lu Chaochao asked.
"My name is Zhu Yonghe."
Lu Chaochao led the trembling Wen Ning forward.
Most of the graves in the mass grave are ownerless. Some have tombstones, but they are in ruins.
Most of them don’t even have monuments.
Wen Ning was walking when he suddenly looked around in panic.
"Wife...Wife, have you come to see me?"
"Tonight you are my bride, my wife... You are the wife I have chosen..."
Wen Ning suddenly raised his hands to cover his ears and looked around in horror.
"Who is it?" Wen Ning asked loudly, suppressing his fear.
The cold wind blew up countless snowflakes.
The surrounding trees began to shake.
The maidservant was so frightened that her face turned pale and she was shaking like a sieve.
At some point, Lu Chaochao appeared holding the Chaoyang Sword.
The sword has not yet been unsheathed, concealing the hostility in his body.
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