Chapter 169 The yellowed piece of cloth
"Of course it's because this village doesn't like girls." A cold voice interrupted.
Wu Pannan woke up. She glanced at the empty space in front of the hall, and the emotions in her eyes gradually calmed down.
"There are fewer girls in the village, so there are naturally fewer women." She broke away from Ran Ran and Dong Sheng's support and stood firm on her own.
"There are few women in the village nowadays. When a man sees a strange woman, he is like a hungry wolf whose eyes glow green when he sees a naked woman..."
She twitched the corners of her mouth with a cold face, "This is retribution!"
Hearing the familiar sarcastic words again, Shen Dinghai tilted his elbow excitedly and accidentally hit the edge of the base surface, causing the surface of the base to tilt up.
He clutched his numb elbow and grinned.
"Master, I am really made of steel! I can knock over any rocks!"
Ran Ran thought Shen Dinghai was in so much pain that he was talking nonsense, "Second nephew, please come out first and let us take a look at the wound."
Shen Dinghai twisted his body and came out of the shrine, his whole body looking disgraced.
"It's not very painful, it's just numb that makes me want to pass out!"
He lifted up his sleeves to show everyone. Sure enough, there was no big problem, not even a scratch on his skin.
Wu Pannan was not surprised, "It's just a bruise. It'll be fine after a while. But can you stop talking nonsense? A man made of flesh can knock over a stone?"
Shen Dinghai muttered aggrievedly, "But I'm really not bragging. If you don't believe me, go take a look at the stone base."
Dongsheng and Ranran looked at each other, then Ranran turned on the phone light and walked in.
She was the smallest among the people present, so it was really the most appropriate for her to touch the nooks and crannies of the organs.
But this correct decision obviously made Shen Dinghai very dissatisfied.
He looked at Dongsheng with a fierce look in his eyes, as if to say: "Why don't you go?" 】
He was still in a group with Wu Pannan discussing the topic just now, "How can you use wolf to describe those shameless men in the village? It's such an insult to wolves!"
Ran Ran has dexterously slipped through the narrow gap between the black stone base and the wall.
Outside the shrine, Shen Dinghai winked at Wu Pannan, "This kid... is not mute, nor is he a man!"
Only when he saw the trembling expression in Wu Pannan's pupils did he smile with satisfaction.
"Something has been discovered!" Ran Ran's voice came from the dark corner of the hall. After a while, she bent over and walked out, holding something in her hand and waving to everyone.
"I found this."
Everyone came forward to find out.
"What? A rag?"
Ran Ran took a deep breath: "It does feel like cloth in your hand. It was pulled out from the edge of the black stone that the second nephew knocked open."
She looked at Shen Dinghai seriously, "Human beings are made of flesh and blood, how can they break open a stone? That piece will be loose because it can be opened in the first place."
"It's like there is a mezzanine under the black stone, and this piece of cloth is placed inside. Second nephew, you used brute force to damage the mechanism, and the edge will be raised."
Shen Dinghai scratched his head, "We have found the mechanism, but unfortunately it is not the one we need."
He said and looked at Dongsheng, "It shouldn't matter if this mechanism is broken, right? If you hold the blame afterwards, it won't be on me, right?"
Dongsheng lowered his eyes and said silently: "I don't know anything about the Shentang. Please don't ask me, Mr. Shen."
"Good guy! If you don't know anything about it, then she definitely doesn't know what is written on this cloth."
As the yellowed and dirty cloth was slowly spread out, the eye-catching dense red fonts intertwined like pouring blood.
"What's...the name on it?" Ran Ran asked uncertainly.
"Wu Huifen, Wu Suhua, Wu Yanlan, Wu Nianqiao..."
At the front of the list is a large list of names with the surname Wu, occupying almost half of the cloth, and then some other surnames appear one after another.
Ran Ran unconsciously clenched the cloth in her hand, "What is this?"
She looked at Dongsheng eagerly, but found that Dongsheng's face was even uglier than hers. "Suhua...is my grandmother's name..."
Wu Pannan seemed to be reminded by these names, "I know Aunt Suhua, I know Aunt Huifen, and I also know Aunt Yanlan..."
Ran Ran's expression became serious unconsciously, "So what's written on it is the name of the previous generation woman in the village?"
"No!" Dongsheng glanced at the last name on the yellowed cloth, "No!"
The color of this name is brighter than the other names, as if it was added not long ago.
"It's not just the previous generation! Yunxiang! Yunxiang's name is also on it!"
Ran Ran couldn't help but lower her voice, "Who is Yunxiang?"
Dongsheng covered his face and cried bitterly, "Yunxiang is my best friend! She was not originally from the village, and she only came to the village a few years ago. Today..."
"Today she will become Wu Mingguang's bride!"
Shen Dinghai's eyes widened, "Is this the girl who is about to get married?"
Dongsheng's body trembled, "...right..."
"You just let your best friend marry a ghost?! Are you a fake friend?!"
Wu Pannan glared at Shen Dinghai dissatisfied, "Shut your mouth if you can't speak!"
Ran Ran unfolded the cloth completely so that Dongsheng could see it better, "Dongsheng, I need you to calm down. I want to know if the people written on this are still alive?"
When Dongsheng heard this, he stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears and recognized it vaguely.
Everyone waited patiently for her to finish reading. It wasn't until her eyes swept across the last name - Yun Xiang that she couldn't bear to look away.
Tears were streaming down her face.
"These people have all passed away..." Dongsheng said with difficulty in a hoarse voice, "Except Yunxiang."
Shen Dinghai was shocked, "Is this some kind of death cloth? It's too outrageous! Does it mean that Yunxiang's name is written together with the name of a dead person..."
"No!" Dongsheng said first, her face full of panic.
"Yunxiang is just having a ghost marriage, she won't lose her life!" She gritted her teeth, "It is much better to marry a dead person than to marry a man from the village!"
Clear tears fell from the corners of her eyes, and her dark eyes firmly held this belief, "That's what she told me obviously."
It was difficult for everyone to speak.
Wu Pannan held back his astringency and said with difficulty: "You two are stupid girls."
"Maybe Yunxiang just wants to comfort you and ask you to stay out of her business so as not to get into trouble. After all, you still have the heavy responsibility of taking care of your mother."
"It's okay with the village chief's temperament..."
"He wants to have a ghost marriage so that his dead son will not be a lonely ghost in the underworld. Can having a living person marry his son really solve this problem?"
Wu Pannan sighed, "What the village chief wants has always been Yunxiang's body... so that his son will not be lonely in the underworld..."
Dongsheng suddenly opened his eyes wide, and tears fell from his eyes.
She said in a hard voice: "You mean... Yunxiang is dead?"
Ran Ran hurriedly comforted her, "This is the worst case scenario. It's also possible that the village chief wanted to kill her, but he didn't do it yet. He just wrote her name first according to the plan."
"After all, there will be a ceremony during the day, right? It's unlikely that the village chief will let everyone see a dead bride. Maybe..."
"We still have a chance!"
Dongsheng's gray eyes suddenly shone a little again, "Then we have to hurry up and find her!"
Ranran nodded, "Since the joyful sound of the wedding comes from here, the bride is most likely nearby."
While everyone was talking, there was a faint sound coming from the bottom of the mountain.
It was a man from the village who came.
