Chen Chichi looked at the gully on his stomach and felt his scalp numb. After listening to the old lady's words, he asked doubtfully:
"Your grandson?"
The old lady rubbed her eyes, patted her mouth like a child who had done something wrong, and apologized:
"I'm old, my eyesight is dazzled, I've seen something wrong, I've seen something wrong..."
Chen Chichi still had lingering fears.
"I'm afraid you have an allergy. Grandma has some local ointment. Just put it on."
"seriously?"
With questions in mind, Grandma Ding Mu took out a tube of ointment wrapped in linen from the pulp-coated wooden cabinet in the outer room, spread it out and looked at the dark piece, and the heavy smell of Chinese medicine hit her face.
The three of them didn't carry any emergency supplies with them. If they had to resist like this until they returned to the city, Chen Chichi would have gone crazy with itching, so they had no choice but to use Grandma Ding Mu's ointment to apply it first.
As soon as the ointment was applied to his belly, Chen Chichi felt a chill, which immediately relieved the itching.
"Don't tell me, it seems to be working."
"Grandma can still hurt you, go on and eat, there are still vegetables."
Li Huixi and the fox looked at each other. Even through the fox's facial makeup, Li Huixi could guess that the other person's expression must be the same as hers, and felt a little strange.
After eating and drinking, the bodies of the three of them have warmed up. There are no entertainment facilities in the house. There is only the squeaking sound of the kitchen fire. Along with the howling wind outside, sleepiness and rising blood sugar flood into Chen Chichi's mind. .
Winter is coming, and the dark time here is much earlier than in summer. In addition, Li Huixi didn't have much rest in the previous world. After being infected by Chen Chichi's yawn, her eyelids became heavier and heavier. .
In the early morning, compared with the environment last night, the village suddenly became more lively. Chen Chichi was woken up by the shouts of the crowd. He looked beside him and saw that Li Huixi and Fox had already gotten up at some time.
Grandma Ding Mu had already prepared breakfast. Smelling the aroma of the food, Chen Chichi's resentment at being woken up dissipated, and he completely forgot about what happened in his stomach last night.
"Grandma, your craftsmanship is really good, right Xixi?"
Li Huixi felt a little at a loss when she heard Chen Chichi call her that for the first time. After a few seconds, she responded to Chen Chichi:
"Well, eat more. We'll go back after breakfast."
Grandma Ding Mu was obviously unhappy when she heard that they were leaving. Her expression was complicated and she said with a hint of confusion:
"Is it because grandma didn't entertain you well? Why do you have to leave so early?"
"Yes, Xixi, I don't have a clue. I won't have anything to do when I go back."
Li Huixi's voice became even colder, causing the atmosphere to suddenly drop to freezing point:
"Leave after eating."
Chen Chichi felt something was wrong in the atmosphere, so he had to eat in silence.
Suddenly the only sound left in the room was the sound of chopsticks clashing with bowls, and the noise in the village outside the window had disappeared at some point.
After a period of silence, the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums reached the ears of the four people at the table, breaking the atmosphere that had just cooled down.
Grandma Ding Mu suddenly remembered something and said to the three of them with some surprise:
"Someone is getting married in the village today. Why don't you leave first and have a wedding banquet before leaving? Our wedding is different from other places. It's very interesting."
Upon seeing this, Chen Chichi also echoed:
"Look Xixi, how lucky we are. There's no rush anyway. It's not too late to stay and watch the wedding before leaving."
Li Huixi looked at Chen Chichi helplessly, and seeing her excitement, she had no choice but to nod.
The three of them simply packed up. Grandma Ding Mu led the way and they all walked towards the entrance of the village.
Different from the current wedding ceremony that has been invaded by Western wedding culture, the wedding process here is very traditional and retains some of the ancient look.
It happened that the bride was coming from the entrance of the village in a sedan chair, and there were countless people carrying the sedan chairs in front and back.
The entire motorcade was dressed in red. What was strange was that the sedan bearers all wore uniform hats, leaving only one eye for seeing the road, and they were all of the same stature.
The leader was blowing the suona and setting off firecrackers, which made Chen Chichi's eardrums ache on the roadside. The man farthest from the sedan was scattering flowers on both sides. Maybe the temperature was relatively low in the early morning, but Chen Chichi always felt a chill around him. of.
Fox looked at the convoy and gently pushed Li Huixi beside him. The voice under the mask was dull:
"Do you feel unlucky?"
"Throwing flowers? It's really like throwing paper money."
"And the sedan chair, if it comes sideways..."
"Like a coffin? It's really narrow."
"Um……"
"In such an old village, are there too many children?"
"It seems so. Why are there so many children here?"
The people following the convoy walked into the village, and the uncles and aunts were also busy all the way. The sedan chair team stopped in front of a house that didn't look too wealthy. Although there was a yard, it could only be regarded as standard in this rural area. .
However, the house has indeed been carefully decorated, with hand-cut red flower stickers, high-hanging firecrackers, and a banquet that has been laid out long ago.
The scale of this wedding banquet was indeed not small, and it seemed to be a grand event, worthy of the large sedan chair carried by the crowd.
The groom also walked out amidst the cheers of the crowd, and the sound of firecrackers also ignited to the center, getting louder and louder.
Chen Chichi looked at the groom's face and couldn't help but complain to the two people around him:
"Are you getting married at such an old age? This man looks like he is forty years old."
Li Huixi and Fox didn't respond to her. Instead, a little girl heard this and gave Chen Chichi a look.
The groom's expression was filled with joy and his steps were brisk. He held the wedding ring and walked to the door of the sedan. In order to see the bride's face clearly, Chen Chichi squeezed to the front of the sedan.
Amid the cheers of the crowd, the groom opened the curtain of the sedan chair.
After seeing the bride's appearance clearly, Chen Chichi's expression suddenly changed, and he looked at Li Huixi and Li Huixi with horror in his eyes.
Li Huixi immediately sensed something was wrong, walked to Chen Chichi, and asked softly:
"What's wrong?"
Chen Chichi hesitated for a long time and couldn't say a word.
The groom stood at the door of the sedan for a long time, not knowing what he was doing to the bride inside. After a while, he carried the bride into the house. The strange thing was that the bride’s face was buried in the groom’s chest, and her limbs did not make any move. In this movement, the thigh is straight and horizontal on the groom's arm, which is a little stiff.
When the groom entered the room, everyone's focus shifted again. Chen Chi breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Huixi and Fox:
"I seem to know that person..."
"From No. 5 Middle School?"
"She really looks like our classmate...Fang Xue from Class 4, she looks exactly the same."
"Why is she here?"
"Why it doesn't matter here, I think I saw a few lumps on her face."
"not……"
Following Chen Chichi's words, Fox turned his head and looked at each other with Li Huixi. The three of them had the same mind and said in unison:
"Corpse?!"
The three of them once again looked at the house that the groom had just walked into. At this time, the door had been locked and no guests were allowed to enter. Almost everyone went to eat the wedding banquet.
"Do you want to tell them?"
Li Huixi shook her head and said slowly to the two of them:
"Originally, I thought that Ding Mu was the source of this world. I just had to detect his death like last time. Now there's Fang Xue. It seems like we really can't go back for a while."
Chen Chichi blamed himself a little, but in his heart, he still felt more fear after seeing the dead.
The three of them had already had breakfast and didn't feel hungry. They were about to return to Grandma Ding Mu's house. When Chen Chichi turned around, Grandma Ding Mu's face was expressionless on his own, which frightened Chen Chi. Chi wailed.
