Chapter 60 The Eight-Bearer Sedan Chair (6)
Upon hearing this, Lin Chujiu looked up uneasily—
He met Master Lin's sinister gaze.
He was staring at me intently, his tiny, beady eyes gleaming.
Seeing that Lin Chujiu did not reply, his pointed, monkey-like face gradually lengthened, and the silver-white beard on his chin almost hung down to his legs.
He's testing himself! Any behavior that doesn't conform to her status as a daughter could result in her being killed on the spot!
Lin Chujiu felt her breathing quicken as she desperately tried to recall the rules in her mind!
Master Lin's beard continued to grow longer, gradually reaching the ground and extending towards Lin Chujiu, as if trying to entangle her!
"What's wrong? You've become so lax after just a few days without asking?"
"If you're so lazy, how will you ever be able to help your husband's family?"
You've completely disgraced the Lin family's daughter!
Seeing that she didn't answer for a long time, Master Lin's face gradually turned ugly, and a red light was faintly shining in his small eyes!
Oh no, this is a sign that he's about to go berserk!
Lin Chujiu was terrified!
The beard at her feet grew longer and longer, almost wrapping around her legs!
Lin Chujiu's brain was spinning wildly!
The chat was filled with screams!
【My goodness, what kind of test is this?】
[No way, Jiu Jiu, don't die!]
[You deadbeat eyes, just die already! Stop causing trouble for people!]
Just a second before her beard was about to touch her feet, Lin Chujiu answered in a nearly exhausted voice:
"Gentleness and obedience are the foundation of feminine virtue."
She looked at Master Lin with suspicion and uncertainty, carefully observing his expression.
[What is that? What did Jiu Jiu just say?]
What exactly are you asking? I feel like my CPU is about to overheat.
[Is she trying to fool the supernatural? She better know that those who try to fool the supernatural always die.]
To everyone's surprise, after hearing these words, Master Lin's expression gradually relaxed, and even his eyebrows and eyes seemed to become kind and gentle.
That's right.
Master Lin took another sip of tea, and the beard on his chin gradually receded.
Lin Chujiu breathed a sigh of relief when she felt the snake-like whiskers beneath her feet recede.
In less than fifteen minutes, she has already experienced such a profound mental shock.
Thanks to Lin Chujiu's past reading of "The Legend of a Certain Person" when she was in school, she saw in the classic plot that Sister Mei had read these two books, so she made a special trip to look it up.
Looking back now, it was really "The Biography of So-and-So" that saved her.
Master Lin poured the tea in his hand into the tea set in front of him and began to speak slowly and deliberately:
"Women value gentleness and obedience the most."
The husband is the head of the household, and men are superior to women. You are almost of marriageable age now. After you come to the Zhou family, remember to be gentle and obedient in everything you do.
Never disobey your husband or his family.
Lin Chujiu listened in one ear and out the other.
As a modern person, even though I know that the formation of ideas in a certain period must have its limitations, I still can't help but feel speechless.
However, when in Rome, do as the Romans do, especially in a horror world, so she couldn't directly rebel.
Lin Chujiu listened obediently to Master Lin's reprimand, intending to see if there was any valuable information.
Sure enough, the next sentence was...
"Now that your elder brother and the young master of the Zhou family have returned, and you are both of marriageable age, I have already discussed it with Master Zhou today, and you will get married on the second day of next month."
Lin Chujiu looked up in surprise.
The wedding is on the 2nd of next month, and it's already the 27th. Doesn't that mean we'll be getting married in five days?
That's too fast.
Seeing her expression, Master Lin assumed she was unwilling to marry him and sneered:
"The two families should get married as soon as possible. Then, Miss Zhou will serve your brother, and you will serve Young Master Zhou. This will also make it easier for both of you to study."
"Don't be unwilling. The Lin family raised you for sixteen years just so you could get married."
Lin Chujiu already knew the background of the dungeon, so she wasn't unwilling, but she still couldn't help feeling rushed.
She reluctantly agreed:
"Father, that's not what I meant. I'm just afraid that if I leave home, I won't be able to take care of you anymore."
Master Lin waved her away, saying, "From now on, you're a member of the Zhou family. What's the point of talking about filial piety?"
Also, if you have any news about the Zhou family in the future, please let me know when you return to your parents' home.
Upon hearing the previous sentence, Lin Chujiu thought she wouldn't have to return to the Lin family for almost ten days.
Hearing the last sentence, I couldn't help but feel annoyed.
Are we going to have to deal with these two strange entities again? The difficulty of the dungeon is increasing dramatically.
She offered a few words of comfort to Master Lin, then returned to her room.
She wants to go back and take another look at "Rules for Women" and "Instructions for Women".
Although she knows some classic lines, she will definitely be exposed if you test her closely.
Lin Chujiu sighed, feeling that her fate was full of twists and turns.
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Meanwhile, on the other side, the Zhou family...
Zhou Ruoruo casually scrolled through her phone; it was her privilege.
She asked Pei Yu, who was standing beside her, in a sweet and charming voice:
"Ah Yu, tell me, in this day and age, what happens to a girl if the man she's going to marry dies?"
Pei Yu, unaware of her thoughts, coldly uttered two words: "Ghost marriage."
His mother was forced into a ghost marriage and gave birth to him, a child born of a ghost.
Zhou Ruoruo's eyes darted around, and then a sinister glint flashed in them.
She wasn't unaware of the fate of girls who were forced into ghost marriages in this era; she was just asking a question she already knew the answer to, to confirm the outcome she wanted.
She wrapped her arms around Pei Yu's and gently reached out to hug him.
Sensing the annoyance behind him, Pei Yu flicked his sleeves and shook off Zhou Ruoruo.
Zhou Ruoruo lay on the bed, her face contorted with tears:
"Ah Yu really has no sense of romance..."
Pei Yu had experienced this situation countless times.
He rubbed his temples in frustration and spoke sharply:
“Zhou Ruoruo, I’m only staying by your side to repay your past kindness. Please understand your place.”
If they overstep their bounds again, the consequences won't be as simple as they are now.
This was the first time he had made such a harsh statement, and Zhou Ruoruo shrank back, not daring to say a word.
Pei Yu sighed heavily, then climbed out of the window, scaling walls and rooftops, disappearing from sight in no time.
Seeing that Pei Yu had left, Zhou Ruoruo finally felt relieved and called her maid over.
She took out the medicinal powder she had redeemed from the system shop and said gently:
"Tomorrow, my brother and Young Master Lin are going horseback riding in the countryside. Remember to put this powder in my brother's horse feed."
The maid looked at the powdered medicine handed to her, her face pale, and she dared not accept it.
"Miss, I wouldn't dare..."
The gentleness on Zhou Ruoruo's face vanished instantly, replaced by a ferocious expression as she said:
"You are my servant. You do whatever I ask you to do. Who gave you the audacity to disobey me?"
While she was doing all this, the live stream could only capture her back view, and even her voice was muted.
The maid, seeing her mistress's sudden change in expression, tremblingly accepted the medicine powder.
Zhou Ruoruo's expression softened, and she patted the maid's face, saying:
"That's more like it. Don't worry, this medicine isn't poisonous. It's just to make your brother's horse run more diligently."
The maidservant held the medicine powder, trembling with fear.
For some reason, the usually gentle young lady has suddenly changed her expression these past few days.
She would verbally abuse the servants at the slightest provocation. This morning, her companion was beaten to death for pulling out a few strands of her mistress's hair while combing her hair.
Seeing her companion's gruesome corpse, the maid felt a surge of fear, but there was nothing she could do.
She was just a servant, and in order to protect herself, she had no choice but to obey her mistress.
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