Chapter 0044: Ghost Marriage and Lost Corpse
It was obvious that Mo Xiu had something to do, as he came and went in a hurry and left.
The big snake lay on the eaves, looked at me with its sullen eyes, then slowly coiled back up and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Qin Mipo started coughing so much when she got excited that I quickly got her a glass of water and then went to see the frightened old woman.
She was just scared and fainted. I pinched her philtrum, but she didn't wake up.
"Use a needle to prick your index finger." Qin Mipo said to me while drinking water, "Squeeze out the blood clot on your fingertip. It will be fine after you bleed a little."
I turned around and went in to find a needle, then pricked the old woman's fingers one by one to let the blood flow: "That snake is..."
"It was the village next door that sprayed snakes with poison. The four alchemists were later caught and used it to deal with you and the Snake King." Qin Mipo sipped the water.
He looked up and said, "Most snakes that can communicate with humans have developed intelligence and can be invisible or reappear. It is not bad for the Snake King to let it protect you temporarily."
"But I remember it wasn't this big that night?" The old woman's fingertips were bleeding black, and I didn't let go until the blood turned bright.
Qin Mipo coughed softly and smiled bitterly, "Snakes can actually cultivate very quickly, and their size is not measured by years. When they reach a certain level and return to their original nature, they will become smaller and smaller as they cultivate."
I thought that when Liu Longting's snake body was trapped in the glass box, it really wasn't that big.
Just as I was helping the old woman pinch her fingers, I heard the noise again.
Those who came with the old woman to cause trouble have called a lot of people to kill the snake.
The fear of snakes seems to be written into human genes.
A bunch of people took hoes and sticks just to watch the fun.
The people who came with the old lady no longer cared about her condition. They just exaggerated and described in vivid detail how big the snake was.
Sometimes I pinched the size of it with both hands, sometimes it was as big as a bucket, and sometimes it was as big as a washbasin.
After the old woman had pierced her ten fingers, I gave her a needle in her philtrum. She suddenly sat up and said, "Snake..."
He faced me, turned over, and crawled out.
Those onlookers hurriedly pulled her up, but she pointed at me and said, "Dragon... Dragon..."
She was still trembling from the shock, "You are the daughter of that snake wine dragon from Huilong Village!"
The recent events in Huilong Village are probably quite sensational, not to mention that the entire village has fallen.
"People from Huilong Village..."
"Is that the father and son with the surname Chen? I heard that they drank snake wine, and then the snake came back to life..."
"She is the evil star. The incident in Huilong Village started from her family. Now everyone in the village is dead except her."
There was a lot of discussion going on, so I just sat back holding the needle and helped Qin Mipo fix the overturned sieve.
Anyway, because there might be a big snake there, those who were watching the fun didn't dare to get close.
The old woman started crying again. Everyone looked at Qin Mipo, seemed to try to persuade her, and then took her away.
Even if you sweep the rice clean after it falls to the ground, it will be covered with dust and you won't be able to eat it.
I put it in a basket and said, "You should buy some chickens to pick up the broken rice to eat."
Qin Mipo sat there drinking water, looking at me with serious eyes.
I put the things down, looked at her, opened my mouth but didn't know how to start.
Mo Xiu told me to live here, but wherever I go, there is really no good place. It is really an unlucky place.
Those few words of Old Zhou, the diviner with heavenly eyes, seem to be echoing in my mind all the time.
It's actually a good idea for Niu Er to go with him to Wentian Sect. I'll discuss it with Mo Xiu when he arrives...
"I'm going to die anyway." Qin Mipo drank some water, combed her hair and looked at me: "You can't kill me."
Her tuberculosis is already in the late stage and she coughs all day and all night.
I know she meant well, but suddenly when it was just her and me, everything became quiet, as if I didn't know where to put my hands and feet, and I felt awkward.
"The village chief will bring them over soon and ask me to ask that old woman for rice. Do you believe it? " Qin Mipo looked at me with a cup of water, patted the bench beside her, and motioned me to sit over.
Actually, I was a little curious when I heard that the body was missing.
I sat over and Qin Mipo spoke to me as if she was telling me a story.
The old woman married a bricklayer named Wei. She had a son who was in his thirties and worked as a laborer. He had never married.
There are more bachelors in rural areas now than before. Girls no longer go to school and go out to work. They are no longer restricted to marrying nearby as before.
In addition, since they can earn their own money, no one is willing to go back to the countryside. Even if they marry someone from the same village, the couple will go out to work.
After the baby is born, the two elderly people are brought out to take care of the child or do odd jobs.
Mrs. Wei’s husband is an old cement worker who earns a lot of money. Her family used to be well off, so she has high standards.
I used to want to marry my son off to a college student, but I delayed it for a few years. Now that I'm older, I can lower my standards, but it's still too late to get someone who's neither too high nor too low.
It was delayed until she was in her thirties. In the end, there was nothing she could do. Her family just wanted to find someone, have a baby, and know how to do laundry and cook.
Gu Xiaolan is from the next village. Her mother ran away with someone when she was a child. Her father suspected that she was not his biological daughter, so he beat her when he was drunk. She has not received much education and looks dull and stupid, but she is pretty.
Mrs. Wei asked someone to get the horoscope and gave it to Mrs. Qin Mi to interpret.
"I've seen Gu Xiaolan before." Qin Mipo looked at me and said with a wry smile, "She has a bad fate, full of hardships and difficulties. In fact, when she came to read her fortune, she was about the same age as you, but she looked very dull."
"But she wants to get married herself." Qin Mipo turned her head and looked at me, her eyes heavy. "She secretly begged me to say something nice. She wants to marry Wei Pozi's son."
So it’s done?
Qin Mipo laughed softly: "She is destined to be childless. I told her that, but it is better for her to get married than to be beaten by her father at home, right?"
"She was fine for the first six months after she got married. But after six months of not getting pregnant, Mrs. Wei took her to pray for talismans and water, and to various hospitals for checkups, but it was all useless. Her life became difficult, and she was still beaten from time to time."
"Mrs. Wei also came to see me at that time. Gu Xiaolan had become so thin that she looked unrecognizable. She used to be just dull, but at that time, a look from Mrs. Wei would make her tremble with fear." Qin Mipo seemed a little sighing.
He smiled bitterly and said, "Not long after that, we heard that she died. Mrs. Wei didn't let her be buried in the ancestral tomb. Her son wanted to find a new wife. If Gu Xiaolan was buried in the ancestral tomb, it would be difficult for him to marry again. So he was buried at the end of her family's vegetable garden."
"How long have you been dead?" I suddenly found myself not knowing what to feel.
Stupid, ignorant?
Or selfish?
"It's been more than a year." Qin Mipo turned her head and looked at me, and said in a deep voice: "Do you know why Wei Pozi suddenly wanted to find her body?"
"Since she can't marry him, she wants to be buried in the ancestral tomb and buried together with her son in the future?" This is the only possibility I can think of.
After all, he is in his thirties and this is his second marriage. Gu Xiaolan's death was probably not very glorious, so it would be difficult for him to remarry.
"Her son wants to buy a wife from outside, which will cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. But he doesn't have enough money. He also spent some money to marry Gu Xiaolan, so he thought of selling her body to arrange a marriage. The deal has been agreed. It will be sent over for 80,000 yuan." Qin Mipo pinched the glass.
She whispered, "But when they went to open the coffin, they found that Gu Xiaolan's body was missing. They searched for half a month but couldn't find it. They had already received the money and were making trouble at her house."
"So this person, once he is useless, even if he dies, he will not be let go. Nothing can be solved by death! There is no use in running away. You can only face the challenge head-on!" Qin Mipo's voice was cold, and she turned her head to look at me: "You understand."
I felt a chill all over my body, and suddenly I didn't know whether Qin Mipo was talking about Gu Xiaolan or me...
"How did the body get lost?" I thought it was in the vegetable garden next to my house, so even if it had been dug up, someone should have known about it.
Qin Mipo turned her head and looked at me, and said in a deep voice: "When Mrs. Wei was praying for a child, she went to Huilong Village."
I was a little surprised when I heard it, and then I suddenly realized something.
Mrs. Wei must have checked Gu Xiaolan's fate for you later. She was destined to have no children, which was the standard for marrying a daughter-in-law in Huilong Village. However, every family in Huilong Village later had children.
So Mrs. Wei must have taken Gu Xiaolan to Huilong Village to find some recipe for having a child.
"Does it have anything to do with Huilong Village?" I became even more confused.
Qin Mipo just shook her head and said in a deep voice: "But I have visited Gu Xiaolan's grave. There is no sign of the soil being disturbed. The nails on the coffin have never been loosened. But the body was sealed in by the whole village. It can't be fake."
"So, it disappeared in the coffin?" That's strange.
I don’t know why, but I suddenly thought of the wives who were married into Huilong Village.
It seems that I didn’t have a ancestral tomb after I died, but where and how to bury myself? I don’t even know!
