Chapter 18: Yin Fate (XII)
Zhou Lian didn't expect that after arguing with reason, he would end up in a more dangerous time period.
However, Brother Chen was obviously very satisfied with his arrangement. Fearing that it would backfire, everyone had no choice but to accept it and took advantage of this time to return to the village chief's home to rest.
Because of this incident, the atmosphere during the meal became quite tense. Zhou Lian was visibly tired from the series of events and the lack of rest. This time, he did not give Qiao Yuan and Su Yan the usual instructions and went back to his room. Lan Lan and Li Lei were no longer in the mood to change rooms and followed Zhou Lian back.
Qiao Yuan and the other two also began their own actions.
Taking advantage of the broken curtains in the room, Su Yan and Song Yanchi led the village chief into the room to attract his attention, while Qiao Yuan slipped to the front yard to find the village chief's wife.
Neither she nor Song Yanchi could let go of the village chief's wife, so they decided to cooperate temporarily.
Originally, the task of chatting with the village chief should have been left to her since she had taken Zhou Lian's social class, but the village chief hid when he saw her, so she had to be pushed to the front line.
The previous plans went smoothly. The village chief was led away, and Qiao Yuan went to the village chief's room in the front yard.
The curtains were drawn, so Qiao Yuan couldn't see clearly what was going on inside. She tried to push the door, but it was locked and she couldn't push it open. She could only tentatively ask, "Grandma?"
After a while, footsteps were heard in the room. A corner of the curtain was lifted, revealing the old woman's wrinkled face. She looked at Qiao Yuan expressionlessly, looking like a doll at first glance.
After discovering that it was Qiao Yuan, the old man subconsciously wanted to lower the curtains.
Qiao Yuan experienced the difference in treatment between married and unmarried people. When she didn't know whether she was married or not, the old man didn't want to let her go.
"Grandma, do you know Li Yaozu?" Before the old woman closed the curtains, Qiao Yuan hurriedly asked, looking at the old woman nervously.
I was afraid that the old man was hard of hearing and couldn't hear clearly, and I was also afraid that he would faint after hearing the name like the villager Song Yanchi met.
Because he didn't know which name the villagers were responding to, Qiao Yuan could only use the controlled variable method.
The old man's expression showed pride: "My son."
Qiao Yuan changed another variable: "What about Sun Peipei?"
The old woman paused, and suddenly slammed her skinny hand against the window with such force that the glass in front of her shook. She pressed her cheek against the glass and stared at Qiao Yuan, her bloodshot eyes bulging out: "Bitch!"
After a pause, she laughed crazily. Her already old voice sounded even hoarser: "I opened the coffin and saw that she was dead. She was dead. Hahahaha..."
Fortunately, the window blocked some of her voice, otherwise everyone in the backyard would have been called over.
However, Qiao Yuan was worried about the speed of the village chief's repairs, so he did not dare to delay: "How did she die?"
Old man: “She’s dead hahahaha…”
Qiao Yuan: "How long has she known your son?"
Old man: “She’s dead…”
Qiao Yuan called the system in his heart: "Is this NPC stuck? Why is it repeating the same sentence over and over again?"
Why does this kind of game have bugs? Is there a chance to avoid being killed by the bugs?
System: [After testing, "She is dead" is the answer to your question. ]
Qiao Yuan said disappointedly that he knew it.
After finding no way to get an answer from the old woman, Qiao Yuan said to her, "You can close the curtains."
“Otherwise, if the village chief finds out you’re talking to me, he’ll be as angry as he was during the day.”
Since morning, Qiao Yuan noticed that the old man reacted to the village chief's words, so he moved the village chief out.
After saying the second half of the sentence, the old man closed the curtains.
Just as the system said, the old man’s words just now were indeed an answer to her.
She stopped asking and the old man stopped smiling.
After turning around, Qiao Yuan's heart sank.
Things were sliding towards the guess she least wanted to be verified.
According to the old lady, Sun Peipei might not have been dead before entering the coffin.
The heavy coffin lid blocked her voice, the narrow space confined her body, and the thin air struggled to sustain her life.
The scratches left on the coffin were once her last struggle.
When she returned to the room, the village chief had just fixed the curtains. When he saw her coming, he didn't even bother to see her off, but just got up and left.
Qiao Yuan shared this information with the other two.
"So pitiful..." Su Yan's eyes were shallow and red. She couldn't imagine what it would be like to be locked alive in a coffin. "So the female corpse we saw last night was her?"
Qiao Yuan nodded, but at the same time, a series of questions came to his mind.
According to her previous guess, Sun Peipei might have been in a state of suspended animation at the time, causing others to mistakenly believe that she was dead, so she was put into the coffin until Sun Peipei woke up in the coffin.
But from what the village chief's wife said, it seemed that she knew early on that Sun Peipei was alive when she entered the coffin.
Also, the other party said in the morning that he didn't have a daughter-in-law, but the village chief kept calling her a daughter-in-law...
However, these questions are destined to remain unanswered at the moment. For the three of them, the most important thing is to rest, after all, they will have to work overtime later.
At twelve o'clock midnight, the six people gathered again and followed Brother Chen, who was holding a flashlight, to the ancestral hall.
There is no moon tonight, and we have to rely on Brother Chen’s flashlight to walk along the dark path.
Qiao Yuan noticed that Brother Chen had two more black bags in his hands, which were bulging and obviously contained something.
Zhou Lian obviously saw it as well and asked a question, but Brother Chen seemed much more aloof at night and did not answer, just told them to follow him.
There were no lights in the ancestral hall at night. The lanterns they had hung up earlier looked like wild beasts lurking at the door, and the chilling feeling that seemed to penetrate into the bone marrow became more and more profound.
As soon as she entered the ancestral hall, Su Yan looked around nervously.
Before coming, she still held on to the beautiful wish that the female ghost would stare at Zhou Lian alone, but Qiao Yuan told her not to be blindly optimistic. After all, this night, they could not stay in the room like before, but in the ancestral hall, and Sun Peipei's body should be here too.
Moreover, Qiao Yuan always felt that the village chief was deliberately prolonging their time in the ancestral hall. The problems he picked out were all minor ones, but they would cause them to have to redo the work and even spend the night in the ancestral hall tonight.
After arriving, Brother Chen put down his bag and then spoke: "Tonight, the village chief said that the wedding dress ordered by the newlyweds has arrived, but I don't know if the size needs to be adjusted. You can let the newlyweds try it on first. If there that needs to be adjusted, please tell me."
"If you don't have it, then you don't have to take it off. You don't have to put it on again before the wedding."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone present changed their expressions.
"Let's go change the clothes of the corpse?!" Lanlan stammered out the truth that was embellished by Brother Chen's words.
After all, everyone knew that the so-called newcomers Brother Chen mentioned were the deceased Li Yaozu and Sun Peipei.
Hearing Lan Lan's threats, Brother Chen said in dissatisfaction: "What corpse? That's our newcomer."
Brother Chen's words did not make everyone look better. After all, no matter how much he talked, he could not give life to Li Yaozu and Pepe.
Moreover, it was obvious that the other party's words were just a sanctimonious way of comforting them. The other party asked them to go in, but he only said that he would wait for them in the courtyard.
Brother Chen also divided the people into two teams: "One team of you goes in, and the other team takes this time to help me decorate the wedding venue. Wait for the previous team to come out and continue decorating, and then the next team can go in."
Qiao Yuan: “…”
Perhaps what Zhou Lian said was not a lie. People like Brother Chen might really be able to become bosses in the future. Otherwise, how could he come up with such a capitalist approach.
Moreover, Brother Chen divided the teams very randomly. Zhou Lian, Qiao Yuan and Lan Lan were in one team, while Song Yanchi, Su Yan and Li Lei were in another team.
Lanlan found that she was not in the same team with her boyfriend. She pouted and wanted Brother Chen to give up his idea. It was only with Li Lei's comfort that she reluctantly accepted the fact that they were going to separate.
Because the door of the room where the bodies were kept was closed, the few people could only enter through the room where miscellaneous items were placed.
The room where the sundries were kept had no lights on and was completely dark.
The first team is Song Yanchi and his team.
Song Yanchi casually took a black bag and a flashlight from Brother Chen and walked into the room first, followed by Su Yan. Li Lei didn't want to show his shyness in front of his girlfriend, so he followed him naturally.
As the footsteps grew farther and farther away, the three were grabbed by Brother Chen to set up the venue, and they could only glimpse the occasional light in the room from the corner of their eyes.
About twenty minutes later, Song Yanchi and the other two walked out of the room.
Among the three, only Song Yanchi looked normal, Li Lei looked pale, and Su Yan looked like she was about to vomit.
Qiao Yuan wanted to ask Song Yanchi what was going on in their room, but Brother Chen obviously didn't want to waste time: "It's just a change of clothes, what's there to discuss?"
After hearing what Brother Chen said, Qiao Yuan and the others had to disperse quickly. They only had time to hear Su Yan say that they were changing clothes for Li Yaozu.
After hearing Su Yan's words, Qiao Yuan and the other two realized that they wanted to change Sun Peipei's clothes.
The remaining black bag was held in Zhou Lian's hand and became hot at this moment.
Because he knew that the bride who was about to change her clothes was the female ghost he had encountered before, this time he would undoubtedly have a head-on contact with the female ghost.
Fortunately, there were two people by his side, which was enough for him to escape safely.
Lan Lan was simply afraid of having to change the corpse's clothes: "Can someone go for me? Or can two people go?"
Because of Lan Lan's previous attitude, Brother Chen was very dissatisfied with her. When he heard Lan Lan talking to herself, he couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Who will go for you?"
Lan Lan's eyes fell on Song Yanchi and Su Yan. She didn't dare to mention the former, and the latter avoided her sight. She finally looked at her boyfriend pitifully.
Li Lei had long been fed up with Lan Lan coming to him for everything, but he said with an embarrassed look on his face: "The main thing is that everyone is going, so if you don't go, it won't be a bad idea, right?"
"It'll be nothing."
Li Lei's words reminded Zhou Lian, and he subconsciously looked at Qiao Yuan. It seemed that Qiao Yuan had not had any major reaction since entering the ancestral hall. When Lan Lan, who had experienced a copy, did not want to touch the corpse, Qiao Yuan still seemed so silent.
strangeness.
