Chapter 8: Ghost Marriage 2. Strange ghost marriage
Wu Yu went out to the street in a state of anxiety, thinking about the strange ghost marriage. Could Su Wei's mysterious disappearance be related to the strange ghost marriage? Otherwise, why were there only these five words on the envelope he wrote to him?
The streets were deserted at this time. The spring rain was still lingering and falling, hitting the bluestone streets, creating a layer of light mist. The eaves of the houses on the street were also scattered with rain and mist. The riverside at the pier in the distance was vast and blue, and fishermen gathered.
Wu Yu walked on the street, feeling very confused and not knowing where to go. He was wandering like a ghost, thinking only about the mysterious letter and not thinking about Yunyun.
There were only a few pedestrians on the street, all holding umbrellas. Seeing Wu Yu holding a strange umbrella, they all looked over curiously. Wu Yu was thinking about the letter and didn't pay attention to it.
Suddenly, he felt a flash in front of his eyes, and a figure quickly passed by him. He was startled and looked over. Through the vague umbrellas, he saw a familiar figure walking forward. Suddenly, he thought of who that figure was and hurriedly chased after it.
The figure quickly disappeared from the umbrellas, like a ghost. Wu Yu followed him to the corner of the street but could not see him. He was wondering, when suddenly he saw him appear on another street, so he hurriedly followed him. The man hurriedly walked forward without looking back, as if there was something waiting for him to deal with. Wu Yu followed him, and vaguely felt that he was deliberately leading him somewhere. Wu Yu looked at his back, and for some reason he always felt that it was Su Wei.
Wu Yu followed him through several ancient streets of Wuzhen and gradually went out to the suburbs. Once out of the suburbs, it instantly became desolate. In the suburbs was a quiet forest with not many trees. Wu Yu watched him walk quickly into the forest and was stunned. But he didn't have time to think about it and hurriedly followed him.
As soon as Wu Yu entered the woods, he felt a chill rushing towards him. He couldn't help but shiver and felt goose bumps all over his body. In the dark forest, light rain fell quietly through the gaps between the trees. Although Wu Yu felt weird and uneasy, he still walked forward bravely in order to find the truth. He followed him almost not far away. The man appeared and disappeared in the woods, and never looked back once.
Wu Yu followed him through the forest full of fallen leaves. Suddenly, Wu Yu realized that he had disappeared. Through the dim light, he found that there was nothing in the forest except silence. Wu Yu felt scared at this time and shuddered in his heart.
Wu Yu didn't know what to do at this moment. He remembered that the man should walk forward, so he bravely walked towards the darker woods.
Wu Yu walked for a while and found that the forest seemed to be getting darker and darker, as if it was evening. Suddenly, he felt hungry and suddenly realized that he had not eaten breakfast and lunch. In the silence, suddenly, a strange sound rang out, and he couldn't help but hissed. He secretly cursed Jay Chou and took out his phone. It turned out to be an unfamiliar number. He was shocked to answer the call, but there was silence on the other end, and Wu Yu's heart was chilled.
"Who is it?" Wu Yu asked timidly.
"Don't care who I am, you are still in the quiet forest over there..." A strange and vicissitudes of life male voice came from the other end of the phone. Wu Yu felt more and more timid when he heard it, and stammered: "Who are you?" Wu Yu guessed that he was Su Wei.
"Don't worry about who I am. Just keep moving forward. You will soon be out of the mysterious forest. Remember, don't stay in the forest for too long, or something bad will happen."
Wu Yu wanted to continue asking, but the other party hung up. Wu Yu thought he might as well call him, but he felt that the other party was so mysterious that it would be useless to call him. He just followed the man's instructions and walked forward quickly.
Not long after Wu Yu left, just as the mysterious caller had said, he had walked out of the woods, but he found that it was getting dark and his stomach was getting more and more uncomfortable.
As soon as he came out of the woods, there was a row of villages in front of him, so Wu Yu walked towards the nearest village.
Before Wu Yu reached the village, he heard bursts of small, strange music. He listened carefully and found that they were not ordinary sounds, so he walked a few steps faster in confusion.
Before Wu Yu arrived at the village, he saw a large group of black things gathered together in the distance. Wu Yu became more and more confused and surprised. When he got closer, he found that the black things were people. They seemed to be whispering something, and next to them there was someone blowing a whistling sound like a crow. There were also tall white scarves next to them. Wu Yu realized that someone had died.
At this time , the sky was still drizzling, and the fields between the villages were filled with smoke, and the dark light gradually covered the village. Wu Yu found that there was an old house in front of him. From the outside, it seemed to be a house where a large family lived.
The villagers seemed to have seen Wu Yu and cast surprised glances at him, which made Wu Yu feel strange and surprised. Suddenly, a male villager in his 50s or 60s came towards him, looked him up and down strangely, and said with a faint smile: "Young man, you must be from another place, right?"
Wu Yu was puzzled after hearing this and asked, "Well, what's the matter?"
"Do you want to marry a ghost lady?"
"Ghost lady?" Wu Yu was shocked when he heard it.
"Haven't you heard of the local custom of ghost marriage?"
After hearing this, Wu Yu remembered what the man at the post office said about the strange ghost marriage, and then he understood.
Seeing Wu Yu silent, the man thought he was thinking, and smiled mysteriously, "You can marry a ghost girl with money, don't you want to?"
Wu Yu hurriedly shook his head and said in a serious tone, "I won't do that."
The man showed a look of pity on his face. Suddenly, he put his face almost close to Wu Yu's and whispered, "You will." Then he turned and walked back the way he came.
Wu Yu felt that his words were as cold as ice, and he couldn't help but shiver in his heart.
While Wu Yu was still panicking, the sound of the suona that was playing for the dead suddenly stopped, and then he saw four villagers carrying a coffin painted in red from the mansion in front. A man in red and green followed the coffin. When Wu Yu saw the man, he was shocked and almost screamed.
"How could it be him? Why did he do this? What was his purpose in bringing him here? Did he want him to see a weird ghost wedding?" The more Wu Yu thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
As Wu Yu was surprised, suddenly a suona sound was slowly blown out from the mouths of those skinny old men, which made people feel vaguely uneasy and scared him.
The people carrying the coffin, the so-called groom, and the deceased's family members followed the old man playing the suona and slowly walked past Wu Yu, forming a long queue to welcome the bride. Wu Yu looked at the groom with surprised eyes, thinking that he would look over, but he didn't even turn his head, as if he was cursed and stood there in a daze.
Wu Yu remembered something, so he quickly took out his cell phone and called the strange number coming from the forest. Suddenly, a mysterious ringtone of "La La La..." came from the other end, and Wu Yu couldn't help but be startled.
The phone rang, but no one answered. Wu Yu felt that the number must be the groom's. He didn't know why he had such an uneasy feeling.
Wu Yu saw them gradually walking towards the woods where he had walked before, and suddenly realized that he still had to go back to the ancient town, so he followed them without thinking.
When Wu Yu followed them into the woods, he felt a vibration between his thighs. He was startled and woke up to find that it was his cell phone. He took it out and saw that it was Yunyun calling. Wu Yu screamed inwardly, wondering what happened to him today and how he had completely forgotten that Yunyun had disappeared.
Wu Yu quickly answered the call, and Yunyun asked anxiously, "Where have you been?"
Wu Yu suddenly remembered that he didn't know where Yunyun had been all day, otherwise she wouldn't have noticed that he was missing just now, so he said in a reproachful tone: "I'm outside now, Yunyun, why didn't you tell me where you were going today?"
"I went to Xinluo and Niao Niao's school. I was busy getting my phone, so..."
Wu Yu heard Yunyun's apologetic tone and softened his heart. He said, "Wait for me at the old house. I won't be back until later."
"Hmm." Yunyun murmured.
Seeing that they had already walked into the woods, Wu Yu quickly hung up the phone and followed them.
Those people welcoming the bride just kept walking forward and never looked back, so Wu Yu followed behind without worrying about anything.
Wu Yu followed them as they walked slowly through the dark woods, stepping on the fine fallen leaves. Wu Yu felt that they were not welcoming a wedding, but rather a funeral procession, and the joyful music sounded very much like mourning music.
Soon after the wedding procession entered the woods, they lit up the red lanterns, casting a reddish glow in the woods. Wu Yu watched in amazement from behind, and at this moment he felt as if he had entered the forest atmosphere described in the Liao Zhai novels.
Apart from the continuous sound of mournful music in the dark woods, the silence all around seemed to exude a chilling air.
Wu Yu followed them quietly. He had no idea where they were going, but he had to follow them to get out of the woods.
After walking like this for a long time, Wu Yu realized that they were gradually walking out of the woods. Through the gloomy night, he vaguely saw a range of dim lights not far ahead. When Wu Yu saw it, he couldn't help but feel secretly surprised. He felt as if he had walked through the gates of hell.
As soon as Wu Yu followed them into the town, his tense mood suddenly relaxed.
The street lights in the town were like fireflies, and the surroundings were quiet. There were few pedestrians on the deserted streets, but when the wedding procession passed through the street, the sound of suona attracted people to come and watch.
The wedding procession turned several streets and the sound of suona stopped abruptly. The coffin then stopped at the riverside pier. They put down the white lanterns and walked towards a teahouse at the riverside pier.
Wu Yu was so focused on looking at the groom and the coffin that he didn't notice a dark figure behind him looking at him from a distance. After the wedding guests and the groom sat down in the teahouse, the owner of the teahouse came over with a teapot to pour tea, and seemed to be whispering something to them.
Wu Yu didn't know why, but from the beginning to now, he was full of curiosity about the bride in the coffin. He seemed to be bewitched by the ghost bride and slowly walked towards the coffin.
When he walked to the side of the coffin, it suddenly shook for no reason, which scared Wu Yu. Just when he was panicking, the lid of the coffin suddenly moved slowly, and then with a bang, the lid of the coffin fell heavily to the ground. Wu Yu was still in shock, and a dead body slowly stood up from the coffin. Its face turned pale, and it looked at Wu Yu tenderly with a pair of ghost-like eyes, and said in a hoarse voice that seemed to come from the ground: "You... come..."
After hearing this, Wu Yu was so frightened that he instantly collapsed, then fainted and lost consciousness.
Wu Yu felt a series of tiny sounds ringing in his ears. After a while, he slowly opened his eyes and saw a strange man. He whispered, "What's wrong with you?"
Wu Yu slowly came to his senses after hearing this and found that he was lying on the ground, and the man was leaning over and talking to him. Wu Yu quickly stood up and asked the man, "What happened just now?"
"I just happened to pass by here and saw you intently watching the ghost wedding. I suspected that you must have been bewitched by the ghost lady, and it turned out to be true. You fainted after a while."
Wu Yu thought of what he had just seen and was very confused. Could it be that he was bewitched by the ghost lady as he said? Thinking of this, he turned around to look at the place where the coffin was parked, but found that the coffin and those people had mysteriously disappeared. While he was stunned, the sound of suona faintly came into his ears from somewhere.
Wu Yu turned around to look at the man again, but he couldn't see him anymore. He was so surprised that he couldn't speak. He looked into the distance and found that the man was walking towards the end of the street. The dim light stretched his shadow long, like a ghost, and it was faintly visible.
Suddenly, the cell phone rang with a vibration, and Wu Yu suddenly realized that he was in real life. He quickly took out his cell phone and saw that it was Yunyun calling. He realized that Yunyun had been calling him for an unknown amount of time.
Yunyun asked anxiously and worriedly, "Where have you been, Yu? Why haven't you come back yet?"
"I... am eating at a restaurant in town and will be back soon. Have you eaten?" Wu Yu lied hurriedly and perfectly.
"I've eaten here at Xinluo's. Come back soon. I have something important to tell you." Yunyun smiled mysteriously on the other end of the phone.
Wu Yu felt that Yunyun's laughter was very strange, like the feeling of a gust of cold wind blowing by.
Wu Yu didn't want to talk to Yunyun anymore, so he hung up the phone and hurried to the restaurant. He felt like he was about to faint. He hadn't eaten anything for the entire day, not even a drop of water.
