Chapter 50
Chapter 50
When Yitu saw Dong Haoyue's fiancé, Chu Sichi, he had just come out of the Dong family's ancestral hall.
The man was tall and handsome, but his face was too haggard.
Even though Dong Haoyue was not his married wife yet, Chu Sichi still wore a white hemp gown for her mourning.
He didn't look surprised when he saw so many guests looking for him, instead he calmly asked the servant at the side:
"Where are Mr. Dong and Mrs. Dong?"
"Master Chu, Mr. Dong is sick, and he couldn't get up to bed today." The servant hurriedly replied, "Madam Hui is waiting for you in the lobby."
Chu Sichi nodded, and then said to other players:
"Everyone, let's talk in the lobby."
After speaking, he took the lead and walked towards the lobby, the rest of the players had to follow, and Yitu and Song Jingchen walked at the back.
There is still a difference between a low-level card field and a high-level card field. The NPC characters in the plot here are more and more flexible, almost close to real people.
Yitu thought quietly, but he didn't know what kind of role Chu Sichi played in this story.
If it's just a pure plot NPC, there's nothing to be afraid of, but I'm afraid that the plot NPC will also become a ghost NPC.
With the shadow of the pair of red embroidered shoes last night, another one died in the morning. In this depressing and empty Dong residence, there are at least two ghost NPCs.
Thinking of this, Yitu looked at Song Jingchen, but the latter was not in the mood at all, with a melancholy look on his brows.
"Xiao Song, was there any strange movement in your east wing last night?"
Hearing Yitu's question, Song Jingchen came back to his senses.
"Have."
"Last night, there was a ghost standing in front of the window of Qian Yang and I's room. It was so tall that it didn't look like a human being."
Qian Yang is Lu Nan's pseudonym.
Song Jingchen couldn't describe the horrifying feeling. Dong's house was haunted to such an extent that even ghosts would not avoid people.
Not only the servants in the family are taboo, but even the housekeeper is worried.
After hearing this, Yitu couldn't help frowning. Now they have received too little information, and the most worrying thing is that they don't understand the rules of killing ghosts.
"Last night, a drowned ghost in a red wedding dress appeared in our room." Yitu said, "It doesn't look like Miss Dong."
Song Jingchen was taken aback, "Red wedding dress? Is there anyone else in the Dong family getting married besides Dong Haoyue?"
Yitu shook his head, "It doesn't have to be the bride of the Dong family."
Jiang Hanyu said that it was the second happy event that appeared, and the so-called double happiness did not only come to the Dong family.
A few people came to the lobby soon, Madam Hui sat on the high chair with a sad face, and a bloated old mother stood beside her.
The rest of the players who hadn't met were already sitting in the hall at this time.
Yitu caught a glimpse of Jiang Hanyu who was sitting in the lower left corner at a glance. It seemed that the man was just getting up, so he happened to be called over by the servants.
"Sichi, you're here."
After seeing Chu Sichi, Mrs. Hui finally became more sad. She called everyone to sit down, but Chu Sichi stood still.
"Ma'am, a guest died this morning, and I was the first to find out."
Mentioning this matter, Hui Furen's pretty face became sad again, and she sighed softly.
"We all know that the honored guest may have... probably died unexpectedly."
"This matter has nothing to do with you, Si Chi, you should sit down and talk."
After all, the guest died in a miserable state, and no one heard any movement when he died. This is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.
Chu Sichi shook his head and insisted on standing. Madam Hui had no choice but to let him go.
"I have already called my servants for that distinguished guest and sent him to the back mountain to be buried." Mrs. Hui clutched her chest, still feeling lingering fear.
"It was only the first night after Xiaoyue's death, and something like this happened."
Mrs. Hui smiled wryly, "I think everyone already has an idea in their hearts, and I'm afraid it's Xiaoyue's ghost who is making trouble for us to give her an explanation."
"Especially if you were murdered before the big wedding day, and you have resentment in your heart, how can you reincarnate with peace of mind."
"Although I was mentally prepared, I never expected someone to die so quickly and in such a miserable way."
"Xiaoyue has always been gentle and pleasant, how could she do such a thing after death." Madam Hui murmured.
Then someone asked:
"What is the lady going to do? We were invited to attend the wedding, not to catch ghosts."
Yitu heard the sound and looked at the man, the man who spoke had distinct facial features, especially the tall hooked nose.
His question seemed to remind Mrs. Hui on purpose, Yitu's heart moved, and he roughly understood the purpose of this man.
After all, one of the conditions for them to pass the level is to complete the mandatory tasks of the card field.
And the mandatory task of this card game is to complete the red "囍" wedding.
Even if the player doesn't take the initiative to bring it up, the wedding will still be held for various reasons in the end, it's just a matter of time.
But it was never too late for this matter. One more day they dragged on in the poker field was another day's risk.
Instead of being pushed away by the plot, it is better to be anti-client.
The level of the card field has become higher, and the attitude of the players towards the game has changed a lot.
Most of the players in the low-level card field want to escape, while the middle and high-level players want to cooperate.
Mrs. Hui was stunned for a moment, and it took a long time before she opened her mouth to say:
"Since this is the case, I am afraid that only a ghost marriage can resolve Xiaoyue's resentment."
"Just doing this, how will Master Chu marry a wife and have children normally in the future? I really can't decide this matter."
At this time, Chu Sichi suddenly said:
"Ma'am, I am willing to have a ghost marriage with Haoyue. In this life, I will only have one wife, Haoyue."
"It doesn't matter whether she is a human or a ghost."
Mrs. Hui held her forehead with a complex expression:
"Sichi, I know that you and Xiaoyue love each other deeply, but this is not a trivial matter..."
Chu Sichi raised the corners of his lips slightly, "Ma'am, I know what you are worried about. Now I have the final say on the Chu family, and no one can be my master."
"I said that I would marry her and never break my promise."
Speaking of this, a touch of nostalgia and love appeared on Chu Sichi's face.
Yitu couldn't help frowning, someone's tragic death in Dong's house not only had no effect on Chu Sichi, but it was considered a good thing.
Because he wanted to be with Dong Haoyue forever, and at this time Dong Haoyue's ghost was lingering in the compound.
Extreme love makes people lose their minds.
Madam Hui was silent for a long time, then sighed and said:
"Okay, since that's the case, there's no other choice. Apart from a ghost marriage, there is no other way to appease Xiaoyue's undead."
"The eighteenth day of the first lunar month is a good day, so I'll order people to start preparing for it."
As soon as Mrs. Hui's words fell, a plot reminder popped up on the players' game panels.
[The plot of the card game in this seat has been advanced to 15%, please keep up the good work! 】
When everyone left the hall, Yitu stopped Chu Sichi who turned around and wanted to go back to the ancestral hall.
"Sir, what's the matter?" Chu Sichi frowned slightly.
Yitu stepped forward, "Master Chu, I want to take the liberty of asking you something about Miss Dong."
Chu Sichi was slightly taken aback, "Please tell me."
Yitu cut to the chase and said, "Did Miss Dong have a boudoir close friend?"
"How do you know?" A trace of surprise flashed across Chu Sichi's face, "Haoyue had a very good playmate before she was alive. She was Du Jinyu, the cousin of the Du family."
"Miss Du's Biao?" Song Jingchen asked, "Is it the Du's house next door to Dong's?"
Chu Sichi glanced at him, "That's right."
"Sir, why are you asking such a question all of a sudden?"
Chu Sichi's frown deepened, and his eyes fell on Yitu's body.
Lu Nan, who was planning to leave on his own, also stopped.
"Because she appeared in my room last night." Yitu said softly.
Chu Sichi was stunned for a few seconds, and then immediately realized the meaning of Yitu's words.
Dong Haoyue is Dong Qingshan's only only daughter, apart from Mrs. Hui, there is no other young woman in this house.
But Yitu was sure that the person who appeared in his room was Du Jinyu. This was impossible, but because of Dong Haoyue's death, it was the only possibility.
That was Du Jinyu's death.
It was her undead that appeared in Yitu's room.
"How could this be?" Chu Sichi was shocked, but there was a flash of understanding in his eyes.
Yitu didn't let go of this detail, Chu Sichi must know something.
Sure enough, at the next moment, Chu Sichi said with a little melancholy:
"Haoyue and Jinyu have a very good relationship, they had a promise before their lives."
"That's having a wedding together on the same day."
"If Haoyue hadn't died, if Jinyu was still alive, this wedding should have belonged to us."
Chu Sichi smiled wryly, "But it's the sisters who love each other deeply. How could it be such a coincidence that they all died on the same day."
"Leave me alone to bear the pain."
"Master Chu, what is your relationship with Miss Du's cousin?"
At this time, Jiang Hanyu's faint voice sounded behind Yitu.
Chu Sichi looked up, with a slightly complicated expression:
"We...are playmates who grew up together."
The Dong family and the Chu family are family friends, and Dong Haoyue and him are well-matched couples who were married at birth.
They grew up together, almost inseparable, with deep feelings.
When Du Jinyu was six years old, she returned to the Du family with her widowed mother and changed her surname.
Originally, Chu Sichi didn't know Du Jinyu, until Dong Haoyue happened to pick up Du Jinyu who was deliberately left behind by the servants at a street meeting.
Dong Haoyue was kind-hearted, and brought such a cute little friend back to Dong's house, and stayed here for three or four days.
When the Du family found her, Du Jinyu was already reluctant to leave.
She took the hands of the two little friends, and wept silently, tears dripping into a string of pearls.
Master Du's family felt ashamed and his face turned blue.
But Dong Qingshan thought it would be good for his daughter to have a playmate, so he promised Du Jinyu that he could come to Dong's house to play with his daughter anytime.
With Master Dong's words, Du Jinyu finally obediently followed her mother home.
From then on, behind him and Dong Haoyue, there was such a little tail.
But now, the two beauties are no longer there, and Chu Sichi's heart is terribly depressed.
"Before Jinyu died..."
He wanted to ask what Du Jinyu looked like before he died, what crime he suffered, and whether he was killed like Dong Haoyue.
But his voice was hoarse earlier, Yitu saw this and said:
"Miss Du is covered in water, she must have drowned."
"Drowning?" Chu Sichi was stunned for a while, and then said in a deep voice:
"Why don't you all come with me to Du's house and ask for clarification."
They followed Chu Sichi out of Dong's house, knocked on the door of Du's house for a while, and a servant opened the door.
"Master Chu, why are you here?"
"Mrs. Hui brought a group of guests in just now. This is..."
Yitu was slightly stunned, it seemed that someone was one step ahead of them and climbed to the gate of Du's house.
After entering, he discovered that the Du family was bigger than the Dong family and had more servants.
Compared with the white flowers and white cloths everywhere in Dong's residence, Du Jinyu's death was like a drop of water falling into a pond without splashing the slightest splash.
There were no white flowers, and the Chinese character "囍" was torn off. The sadness on the faces of the Du family could not be seen, and the children were still playing in the yard.
As luck would have it, the naughty child bumped into Jiang Hanyu's leg without saying a word, and burst into tears.
Yitu raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the displeased man, with a hint of ridicule in his eyes.
However, before the old woman came to comfort the child, Jiang Hanyu frowned and gave the child a cold look, and the cry of the child was choked in his throat.
Now it's Yitu's turn to be dumbfounded, is that okay?
Song Jingchen couldn't help but laughed.
Yitu chuckled, "It's pretty good, but this NPC is not very professional."
"I think it's very vivid." Song Jingchen said quietly: "Brother Yu treats children like this in reality."
"Really?" Yitu was a little surprised.
Song Jingchen nodded, and just about to say something, the cold knife started flying towards him, and he could only shut up in embarrassment.
They were taken into the side hall by the Du family's servants, where Du Jinyu's coffin was placed, and they were not even eligible to enter the Du family's ancestral hall.
The ones who arrived one step ahead of them were Hai Ling who had found Mrs. Hui.
"Oh, what a coincidence, we meet again."
Hai Ling greeted them with a smile, but no one answered him.
He was not annoyed, touched his nose and said:
"I heard from the servant that Du Jinyu committed suicide by throwing herself into a well at night. She died very quietly and no one knew about it."
"And she doesn't like her current fiancé, and she was arguing with Mrs. Li about the dissolution of the engagement before she died."
Mrs. Li is Du Jinyu's mother.
Speaking of this, Hai Ling looked at Chu Sichi who stood silently by the side.
"Master Chu, does Miss Du's death have something to do with you? Or does it have something to do with Miss Dong?"
Chu Sichi suddenly looked up at him, his eyes dark.
Hai Ling was not afraid, and narrowed his fox eyes slightly: "Why don't you speak? It can't be nothing, otherwise, why would Du Jinyu go to Dong's house?"
"In fact, she has been buried in this coffin three times, but failed every time."
Hearing this, Yitu subconsciously looked at the corner of the coffin, there was indeed some moist brown soil on it.
"Miss Du must be unwilling, so every time she is buried, she will return to the well again."
At this time, Mrs. Hui, who had been silent all this time, spoke, "Master Du can't help it, but the corpse has been parked here, even in March, it will stink."
Dozens of people in the Du family had to fetch a lot of water from the well every day, but Du Jinyu's body sank in the well, and there was no way to bury him. This made Mr. Du very angry.
Fortunately, Du's house still had a well to eat, so Du Jinyu's body was left in the side hall and no one cared about it.
"Mrs. Li is really cruel. Why don't you let her stink and rot even if you don't guard her daughter?" Song Jingchen said on the way back.
Yitu did not deny that the groom Du Jinyu was going to marry was the second young master of a wealthy family.
After falling in love with Du Jinyu's beauty, she forced her to come to propose marriage, and stayed at Du's house for a long time.
Although Du Jinyu didn't like it, but due to the wishes of her mother and uncle, she reluctantly got along with this person.
And in the end, he couldn't escape the fate of a forced marriage.
The Dong family's lunch was delivered to the room by the servants, so the four of them separated.
Yitu and Jiang Hanyu returned to the West Wing, and since Bai Ling was not seen on the eaves of Miss Dong's room, Yitu was relieved a lot.
Even though the level of this card field is not low, so far, apart from understanding the background of the story, nothing terrible has happened.
But because of this, Yitu felt particularly uneasy, the sense of fear that he could not control, that death would come at any time, had been shrouding him all the time.
It was probably because his expression was too serious, which affected someone's appetite.
Jiang Hanyu put down his chopsticks and sighed softly:
"Don't think too much, this card game is actually very simple."
"How to say?" Yitu's heart moved.
Jiang Hanyu saw that he was clearly trying to be an empty-handed white wolf, and slightly raised the corners of his lips:
"The card game requires players to complete the wedding ceremony, so that's it."
Yitu was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he finally understood what the man meant.
Yes, why didn't he think of it?
No matter how complicated the plot is and how intertwined the characters are, they themselves are already outside the story.
Apart from ensuring that they will not die, the only thing they have to do is to complete the wedding ceremony.
The prerequisite for the completion of the Hongxi wedding is that the two grooms should not die.
Once one of Chu Sichi and Xie Feng died, there was no way for the wedding to be completed as desired.
If there is no accident, they can only be trapped in the card field.
Jiang Hanyu had already seen through the essence of the game from the very beginning when he entered the poker field.
To some extent, it is said that not only are they not the protagonists here, but they are all supporting roles who must keep the protagonist.
Jiang Hanyu's point was broken, and Yitu instantly felt a pain in the ass.
Originally, it was difficult for the mud bodhisattva to cross the river by himself, but in the end he had to protect two key NPCs.
As for Chu Sichi and Xie Feng, the latter was most likely to be killed by a ghost.
Du Jinyu was forced to death by Shao Feng, but it may also be related to Chu Sichi and Dong Haoyue.
As for Dong Haoyue's motive for killing, they still don't know.
Love triangle?
This thought just flashed in his mind, and Yitu stopped thinking about it.
Over time, everything will come to the surface, it's just a matter of time.
After lunch, Jianghanyu was about to take a nap, and Yitu was planning to go for a stroll.
At this time, Song Jingchen came in a hurry again, with a sense of fear still on his face.
"Something happened in the main room!"
"What's wrong?" Yitu was taken aback, "Speak slowly."
After seeing the two of them, Song Jingchen finally found a sense of security in his heart.
"On the eaves on the left and right sides of the main house, many servants were hanged to death!"
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