Chapter 26: Fate (Twenty)
Qiao Yuan was not surprised by this answer. She had previously suspected that the old man was not an ordinary tailor at all, and now it seemed to be true.
Qiao Yuan thought about it and described the old man's recognizable appearance again. Sure enough, this time the village women were no longer confused, but their faces changed. Some of them turned around and were about to leave, but Qiao Yuan had finally found a breakthrough, so how could he let them go so easily?
Perhaps unable to bear Qiao Yuan's repeated mention, someone finally spoke up, with a look of fear and awe: "That's our Granny Agu, the village chief's sister. If it weren't for her, everyone in our village would have been killed by Sun... "
Although the village woman changed her words temporarily, Qiao Yuan still recognized her surname: "Sun Peipei?"
The next second, Qiao Yuan experienced the same situation that Song Yanchi encountered——
Hearing the name called out by Qiao Yuan, the village woman's body trembled violently, as if she was going to faint in the next second. Fortunately, Qiao Yuan reacted quickly enough and pinched the woman's philtrum, saying earnestly: "Don't faint!"
She hasn't gotten the news she wanted yet!
Even if you tell her where Grandma Agu lives, she can come and visit!
The village woman whose philtrum was pinched by Qiao Yuan did not faint, but her philtrum was red. She glanced at her companions and wanted to cry but could not: "Why didn't you pinch the others?"
"You are closest to me." Qiao Yuan put his hand away, revealing his principle of liking to be close to others.
Pretending not to notice that the village woman distanced herself from her after she finished speaking, Qiao Yuan asked, "So what happened between Granny Agu and Sun Peipei? Why did Sun Peipei want to harm your village?"
In fact, what made Qiao Yuan feel strange was that these people were so afraid of Sun Peipei, so why would they come to attend the wedding of Sun Peipei and Li Yaozu according to the village chief's words?
Although the pain in her philtrum pulled at her nerves and prevented her from fainting, it did not prevent the village woman from trembling every time she heard Sun Peipei's name. Her whole body trembled like a fallen leaf in the wind, and her eyelids trembled violently.
Seeing that Qiao Yuan had been staring at her, taking a step closer to her every time he blinked, rubbing his hands together and ready to make a move, as if he would not give up until he got the answer, the village woman could only wave her hands frantically: "Don't do it, I'm not fainted! You, don't mention that name. Although Granny Agu said that she has been sealed, what if she is brought back because of the mention of the name?"
She swallowed, looked around, and after making sure that there was no one around, she said, "Well, forget it. Since you want to know so much, I'll tell you alone." She moved closer to Qiao Yuan, as if afraid of being heard by others, and whispered, "Her parents died when she was born. Because her parents came from other villages, she didn't have any relatives, so she had to eat at other people's houses since she was a child. Alas, she also came to my house for dinner. She was only three or four years old at that time, and she knew to wash the dishes on her own initiative. She looked normal, but who knew that later..."
She shuddered and then continued speaking.
Sun Peipei, who grew up eating at other people's homes, turned 18 in a blink of an eye. Because of her hard work, she was admitted to university and became the first college student in the village. The village chief also said that he would contact Li Yan, who had been favored by him, to help Sun Peipei pay for her tuition and living expenses. At that time, Sun Peipei and Li Yaozu became closer and went to the city together. The villagers could see that they were in love. But they didn't expect that Li Yaozu died not long after. The village chief's wife, who loved her son dearly, went crazy because of this.
At that time, everyone thought it was just a coincidence, but Grandma A Gu, who had always lived in seclusion, stood up and said that Sun Peipei was born with an evil spirit and was unlucky with people close to her. This led to the deaths of her parents and Li Yaozu, who was close to her. The next one might be someone in the village.
Qiao Yuan frowned: "Do you believe it?"
In her opinion, such a thing as a curse on someone is too absurd. Not to mention that Qiao Yuan has always believed that her fate is determined by her, how could she die if she was cursed by someone? If there really is such a fate that curses people close to you, it would have been found by some unscrupulous stars and hired at a high price, and put as an assistant to the rival, and it would be a sure thing.
The fear in the eyes of the village woman did not dissipate. She nodded, as if she could tell that Qiao Yuan did not quite believe her. She argued anxiously, "That was what Grandma Agu said..."
The village woman was vague about the details of Sun Peipei's death, but from the few words she gave, Qiao Yuan was able to infer that most of the villagers were present at the time and that Sun Peipei was dealt with according to what Grandma Agu had said.
She previously thought that Sun Peipei entered the coffin after she fell into a coma, but now it seems that everyone present at the time knew that Sun Peipei was not dead when she entered the coffin.
"We thought everything would be fine after her death, but we didn't expect that after her death, more and more strange things happened in the village..." The village woman widened her eyes and trembled when she thought of the scene she had heard people mention at that time.
The day after Sun Peipei's death, a woman in the village encountered a strange thing. She was waiting for her husband to come home, but when he didn't come back in the middle of the night, she got dressed and prepared to go out and knocked on the neighbor's door, holding a lantern to look for him. Unexpectedly, when she opened the door, she found her husband standing at the door, with his head down, not saying a word.
Although the woman felt strange, she still raised her hand and tried to pull the other person in. However, she didn't expect that she failed to pull him in the first time, and her husband even shouted "it hurts".
The woman knew that she didn't use much strength, so she thought the other person was playing a joke with her. She said impatiently, "Look how late it is. I'm not in the mood to joke with you," while trying to continue pulling the other person in.
But this time the husband fell directly to his knees, allowing the woman to finally see the scene behind him: one side of his intestines was connected to his body, and the other side was tied firmly to the thick tree at the door of the house. It was just that the woman did not see it clearly because of the cover of darkness.
And every time she pulled, the man suffered the pain of being pulled.
The woman took a closer look and found that the man in front of her was lifeless and could only repeat the word "it hurts" blankly. He didn't look like a living person anymore.
She fainted immediately, and when she woke up, the man was nowhere to be seen.
Her husband just disappeared.
At first everyone thought it was the woman's hallucination, until the second, third, and other people in the village also encountered similar things. Some villagers also went missing, and they could not be found even after the entire village was searched thoroughly.
It was not until someone saw Sun Peipei's figure that they realized it was an evil ghost.
And those who got into the accident were the ones who were present at the time.
Fortunately, Granny Agu is still reliable, saying that Sun Peipei's grievances are hard to settle. Granny Agu's ancestors were once the imperial tutors around the emperor, and they can suppress the resentment by burying the other party in their Li family's ancestral tomb.
However, it is impossible to bury Sun Peipei’s identity directly, so she can only be combined with the deceased Li Yaozu first.
In order to deceive the ancestors, this had to look like a normal wedding, so in order to avoid encountering such things in the future, the villagers had to pretend to be guests at that time.
After hearing what the village woman said, Qiao Yuan realized an important issue.
Normally, the village chief would be very anxious when encountering such a thing. But she still remembered that when they first entered the village, the village chief said that if they didn't want to, he would let them go back. Later, he gave them two dates and found fault everywhere. It didn't seem like he was in a hurry to hold the wedding.
