Chapter 25: The Secret of the Xinluo Family 2. The story of Xinluo and Niao Niao's family
After Xinluo and Niao Niao placed their grandfather's ashes in the mourning hall in the inner hall, they walked out in silence with sad faces and sat down opposite Wu Yu and Yunyun.
Xin Luo said: "You will stay here tonight, and Niao Niao will arrange a room for you."
Wu Yu heard Xin Luo's unhappy words and knew her mood at the moment. On the one hand, it was about her grandfather's matter, and on the other hand, it was about the love between her and Wu Yu that was never revealed. Wu Yu always felt guilty about this, so he didn't dare to look at her directly.
"Niao Niao, are you going to hold a funeral for grandpa?" Yunyun suddenly asked.
"According to the customs of the ancient city, funerals cannot be held for people who drift to a foreign land. Just like the looks in those people's eyes you saw tonight , you can see the clues." Niao Niao raised her tearful face and looked at Yunyun.
"Local customs are really peculiar, like the ghost weddings in Wuzhen, which are so mysterious and weird." Wu Yu deliberately brought up this topic to see how they would react.
"Oh, by the way," Niao Niao suddenly looked at Wu Yu in surprise and said, "Didn't Brother Yu experience a ghost marriage?"
Wu Yu was stunned for a moment, thinking that Su Wei might have told him about this, and cursed Su Wei inwardly. Just as he thought, Niao Niao said: " Many outsiders in Wuzhen have experienced ghost marriages, including my grandfather, of course, so I suspect his death may be related to the ghost marriage."
"Do all men who have experienced ghost marriages die mysteriously?" Yunyun looked at Niao Niao in surprise.
"I don't know, I hope not." Niao Niao murmured.
"Can you tell me what the ghost marriage that grandpa experienced was about?" Wu Yu asked doubtfully.
"Grandpa never allowed us to mention it before, but now he is gone, so it's okay to tell you." Niao Niao pondered for a moment and said, "In my memory, Grandpa was always mysterious and strange. I remember that I was still young at that time, and we had already moved away from the ancient city to Wuzhen..."
Niao Niao recounted the story of her grandfather marrying a ghost bride. Wu Yu was slightly surprised after hearing this, as the ghost marriage his grandfather experienced was not much different from his.
"It was the same with the ghost marriage that Yu experienced. I wonder if he will be like your grandfather, appearing strange and mysterious from now on, and soon be haunted by a ghost bride..." Yunyun became more and more worried as she spoke.
"It's just a legend. We are all people of the 21st century. How can we still believe this?" Wu Yu comforted everyone. In fact, he was even more worried. Impossible things often become reality.
"By the way, Niao Niao, Xinluo, who did you grow up with?" Yunyun suddenly asked the question that Xinluo and Niao Niao had always been reluctant to answer.
Xinluo and Niao Niao looked at each other and said nothing, and Xinluo seemed very uneasy.
"If you don't want to mention it, we won't ask any more questions." Wu Yu winked at Yunyun, signaling her not to ask any more questions.
Xinluo finally told it, but her eyes looked so sad when she mentioned it, as if she was a hundred times sadder than her grandfather's death.
"Grandpa didn't want to talk to us about our parents for many years, but we vaguely know that my mother married my father after her death." When Xinluo said this, Wu Yu and Yunyun were stunned. They couldn't imagine that their father was also a person who had experienced a ghost marriage, but Wu Yu suddenly thought of something; Xinluo's mother married her father after her death, so they... Could it be... Could it be that Xinluo and Niao Niao were really born to a ghost bride? As he imagined this, his face turned pale and his whole body became cold.
The three women saw him like this and thought he was possessed by evil spirits, so they were startled. Yunyun hurriedly slapped him. The sound of "slap" was even louder in the silence.
Wu Yu covered his red face, looked at Yunyun in surprise, and asked angrily, "What's wrong with you?"
"Why did your face suddenly turn pale? We were worried." Yunyun caressed Wu Yu's face lovingly.
Seeing them like this, Xinluo felt a pang of pain in his heart.
"Brother Yu may have misunderstood what I meant. In fact, when my father and my mother fell in love, my mother was already seriously ill. Later... out of custom and love, my father and my mother held the most mysterious and strange ghost wedding of the year. Everyone in the ancient city knew about this. Later, it was because the people in the ancient city were afraid of us that we had no choice but to leave the ancient city and go to Wuzhen."
Xinluo paused and continued.
"My parents were in love for five years. My sister Meixin was born in the first year of their love. I was born two years before they died. Niao Niao was born a few days before they died."
After hearing this, Wu Yu and Yun Yun were silent for a long time. They began to understand why Xin Luo and the others were reluctant to talk about family matters. Wu Yu could feel that their hearts were still aching.
At night, Wu Yu and Yun Yun entered the guest room. Xin Luo and Niao Niao were in the next room.
After Wu Yu fell asleep, he thought about Xinluo and her parents whom she had been reluctant to mention. His heart was also tangled with Xinluo's tears. He decided to find time to confess , but he was afraid that Yunyun would go crazy after he confessed. He suddenly remembered the poem written under Xinluo's portrait. The handwriting was exactly the same as the letter Su Wei sent to her. He could not imagine that everything was done by this woman. He was terrified when he thought of this.
Yunyun had just arrived in the ancient city and lived in a dark room, smelling the rotten smell, and she barely slept all night. Wu Yu slept until midnight, and when he turned over, he saw Yunyun looking at him with her eyes rolled back. He was startled.
"Yunyun." Wu Yu called timidly.
"You deceived me about the matter between you and Xinluo..." Yunyun murmured.
Wu Yu was so shocked that he couldn't even speak. After a moment of silence, he said, "Yunyun, you..."
Yunyun suddenly turned around and said, "You and Xinluo deceived me..."
Wu Yu knew that Yunyun was talking in her sleep, and his nervous mood slowly relaxed.
