Chapter 65 The Married Girl (2)
Pei Yu's pupils suddenly contracted, and for a moment he almost stood up and jumped off the carriage!
Zhou Ruoruo saw Lin Chujiu's face through the curtain and felt her blood run cold.
She felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.
She pulled out a prop knife and stabbed herself hard in the waist, shouting:
"Ah Yu!"
This sound was like a hook, suddenly pulling Pei Yu's unsteady mind back.
Pei Yu was stunned for a second before Lin Chujiu's sedan chair was pulled over.
He turned his head blankly, his eyes shifting from Lin Chujiu's terrified face to Zhou Ruoruo's hands covered in blood.
Zhou Ruoruo raised her hand, her eyes filled with sorrow and almost pleading as she looked at Pei Yu—
"Ayu, I hurt my hand."
Pei Yu's gaze lingered on her hand, but he didn't move for a long time.
Seeing that he remained silent, Zhou Ruoruo's tone became increasingly anxious:
"Ah Yu, there was a knife hidden in this sedan chair. My waist was cut."
"I saved you, and you promised you'd protect me for life!"
After saying her last words, she looked at Pei Yu with a pitiful expression, hoping to gain his pity.
However, Pei Yu looked at her for a while but did not make a move.
Just when Zhou Ruoruo was about to collapse from waiting, Pei Yu suddenly sat down.
He looked dejected, as if his spirit had been drained by that one glance, and he appeared helpless and forlorn.
He blankly tossed a bottle of elixir to Zhou Ruoruo, then sat there, ignoring her occasional interruptions, like a statue.
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Lin Chujiu sat in the sedan chair, unaware of when it would end.
She had no way to break free of the ropes, so she took out a butcher's knife and started cutting.
Because her hands were tied behind her back, which was extremely inconvenient, and the rope was very strong, Lin Chujiu struggled for a long time but could not untie it.
She looked at the sedan curtain in front of her, and despair rose and fell in her heart.
Suddenly, the sedan chair stopped inexplicably.
The surroundings were eerily quiet; the only sound was the wind whistling through the air.
It made a rustling sound.
It seemed as if countless monsters were about to conjure up in an instant, ready to claim her life.
Lin Chujiu was so anxious that tears streamed down her face. Just then, the rope was cut.
Lin Chujiu excitedly swung the rope and gently moved behind the curtain to look, only to find herself face to face with the paper figure outside the curtain!
Lin Chujiu: !
The paper doll dressed as a matchmaker stared intently at Lin Chujiu as she looked at her. Her tiny, beady eyes darted around, and then a strange smile crept across her pale face.
A strange face suddenly loomed closer!
Lin Chujiu could almost see the rolled-up fibers on the paper doll's face!
"Miss Lin...we've arrived..."
The paper figure spoke unclearly, as if the person who created it was not very skilled. Lin Chujiu was startled and instinctively backed away.
In the midst of her struggle, she glanced out of the sedan chair—
That one glance terrified her to death!
Countless paper figures, including sedan chair bearers, maids, and servants carrying things, were all looking at her through the narrow gap in the sedan chair curtain, with a half-smile on their faces!
At first glance, the red dressing case and white paper figures complement each other, creating an eerie scene on the dark road!
The viewers in the live stream saw it and started shouting:
【Aaaaaaah! What is that thing?! It's terrifying!】
[Non-stick, non-stick, may it bless my whole family]
Get out of here! What's going on here?!
【Mommy, Mommy!】
The safe house can accommodate 1000 people; just deduct one.
The lanterns behind the paper figures cast a few dim rays of light.
"Miss Lin, let's go..."
The matchmaker spoke softly, stepped into the sedan chair, assumed a welcoming gesture, and then stared intently at her.
Lin Chujiu could feel the faint gazes from behind.
Besieged on all sides, attacked from both sides.
Lin Chujiu gritted her teeth and placed her hand on the matchmaker's hand.
Her hands were sweaty with nervousness, the sweat soaking the matchmaker's hands, but she was completely unaware. She pulled Lin Chujiu outside, her grip surprisingly strong.
Lin Chujiu regretted giving her hand to the matchmaker so readily; she should have delayed a little longer.
Xiao Yu took the veil that Lin Chujiu had thrown off from the sedan chair and put it back on her head. In an instant, Lin Chujiu's vision was blocked again.
Surrounded by a terrifying expanse of red, with no visual guidance and her injured leg, Lin Chujiu felt an unprecedented sense of unease.
A shiver ran through her, and she felt a strange palpitation in her heart.
The matchmaker skillfully led her forward, and perhaps because of the ghost marriage, the surroundings were unusually quiet.
Lin Chujiu now only hopes that she was just married into the family and will live a life of widowhood.
She had read in books before that in some remote and backward places, there was a practice of ghost marriage between a female corpse and a male corpse who had just died, just so that the male corpse could also have someone to serve him in the afterlife and to reproduce children.
Lin Chujiu found it ridiculous at the time, and after watching a little bit, she didn't want to watch anymore, so she didn't know much about this custom.
She wasn't quite sure what would happen next, but she instinctively felt uneasy.
The matchmaker, with a strange smile on her face, led her across a brazier with flames half a meter high.
Lin Chujiu didn't want to cross the threshold when she saw it; the matchmaker forced her to.
"It will ward off bad luck and bring prosperity to the husband's family!"
The matchmaker smiled and called out, and Lin Chujiu felt a chill run down her spine.
Her feet stepped over the flames, and the moment she pressed down, her small feet almost lost their footing.
After a painful burning sensation, she was pulled along by the matchmaker to continue walking forward.
Next came the wedding ceremony. Although Lin Chujiu couldn't see the expressions on Zhou's parents' faces, she could faintly hear Zhou's mother crying.
As they were about to enter the bridal chamber, Zhou's mother took off her bracelet, wept, and handed it to her, saying:
"When you get there, you must take good care of my son!"
Over there? Which way?
Lin Chujiu was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized that they were trying to kill her! Go down and join Young Master Zhou!
Lin Chu felt a chill run down her spine after drinking, realized what was happening, and immediately tried to run away!
But as soon as she turned around, she bumped into a group of servants.
The lead matchmaker looked at her with a sinister smile:
"Miss Lin, why are you running around on such a joyous day?"
Lin Chujiu was so frightened by her words that her teeth were chattering.
At the same time, she could feel several malicious gazes falling on her.
Those were Zhou's parents, looking at her with scrutinizing eyes as they regarded their future daughter-in-law.
Now that things had come to this, Lin Chujiu ripped off her red veil and began to curse:
"Are you all sick? Your own son is not chaste, he likes men, and he even killed himself by sleeping with men. You are not ashamed, and you even want to harm other people's daughters. Are you idiots?"
Despite her trembling voice, Lin Chujiu continued to curse with unwavering resolve, as if she wanted to vent all the awful things she had experienced in the dungeon.
She'd had enough. Now they wanted her dead, and she'd curse them out even in death.
"You scoundrel, disrespectful to your parents-in-law! Drag him away immediately!"
The father in front of him had a sinister and angry expression; his face was covered in pockmarks that looked as if they were wriggling black worms crawling out.
A group of servants immediately came over to pull Lin Chujiu away!
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