Chapter 115: Sundance position, wind
"Let's just say," Jiang Luo reacted evenly, "but why did you have to give me medicine when you came in the door?"
The teenage Chi You looked at him steadily for a few seconds, leaned down closer and laughed inexplicably, "Ah, so you don't know yet."
Jiang Luo felt that he looked like a snake spitting out its letters, but Chi You raised his lips and popularized the Chi family legend for Jiang Luo with great enthusiasm, "Every wife of the first line of the Chi family dies early. No one has ever lived to thirty. My father didn't want to take a wife that would harm others, but the Chi family forced him to marry my mother. He wanted to break the curse and proposed to marry a daughter-in-law with a hard life who had already lived past thirty, but the clan's calculations showed that all the wives were young women. As it turned out, my mother died early, and when it was my turn, I didn't want to drag others down, but the clan always pushed me, so I had no choice but to ask the clan to choose a male wife for me."
He gently pushed Jiang Luo's hair behind his ear, his cool fingers gently touched the contour of his ear, "So you married into the Chi family, and gave me a happy ending. Don't worry, you are not a woman, your horoscope is a long life, there are still eight years to go before you turn thirty. When you pass this deadline, and accompany me to break this curse, Chi family will let you go, and will also give you and the Jiang family countless rewards."
Chi You smiled apologetically, his brows wrinkled in despair, "We are husband and wife in name, but in reality we are brothers. In normal days, you can feel free to do as you please, don't be formal, letting you accompany me for eight years is really hard on you."
The expression is sincere, the tone is sincere, the feelings are true, such a flamboyant young man, but suffered such a pitiful thing, such a posture, I am afraid that the iron heart of the great Luo gods have to soften their hearts for him.
Is this the mask of hypocrisy in which Chi You lives?
No wonder he could confuse so many people both in and out of the book; who could think he was cunning and sinister when the beautiful boy frowned?
Jiang Luo followed his pretense and said with a fake smile, "Not hard, not hard at all."
After this conversation, Jiang Luo was sure that this Chi You was definitely not the Chi You who had turned into an evil spirit, but the real Chi You who was a teenager.
This was even more fun, Jiang Luo looked at him, his mind reeling.
Chi You stood up and undid her shirt, "Rest then."
Although he was only eighteen years old, his stature was already slender. Every move was graceful and dignified, and no one could tell the symptoms of his years of illness except for his overly pale complexion.
"By the way," he suddenly turned back to Jiang Luo, "are you going to bathe?"
Jiang Luo was trying to find a separate opportunity to rationalize his thoughts and look for others who had entered the Mirror World in the meantime, so he nodded and Chi You said, "Go out the door and turn right, the innermost room is the one, go ahead."
Jiang Luo casually found a change of clothes in the closet, opened the door and was about to go out when Chi You, who had her back to him and was unbuttoning her head, slowly said, "The floor of the bathroom is wet and slippery, so be more careful."
Tailpiece raised.
Jiang Luo Yu Guang glanced over his back, "Thanks for the reminder, I know."
The door to the room was closed, leaving Chi You alone in the room. He was still unhurriedly taking off his clothes, his slightly lean-looking figure on the surface only visible after the clothes were reduced to reveal the thin muscles and the strength hidden underneath.
He lifted the red, protruding bedding and lay down on the bed, picking up a book from the bedside table and reading it leisurely.
The still young brow was hidden under the pages of the book with an evil and treacherous coldness, he turned a page of the book, "How many days can he last before he dies?"
The room was light and quiet, but as if he had heard something, he let out a laugh and said with a lack of interest, "Live through tonight and he'll surprise me."
The sky outside the house was overcast.
Jiang Luo stood in the hallway and looked at the sky for a while before heading towards the bathroom.
Weddings are all about auspicious days and good times, when the sun is right in the middle of the day to carry out the happy event. Nowadays, the sun is covered, Jiang Luo see now is not what time, but this day, obviously not suitable for the wedding.
The ghostly atmosphere is more like the moment of meeting the devil.
All the way to the bathroom, Jiang Luo did not see Lian Xue and others. The bathroom is divided into two rooms, and the left room has the words "Young Master Jiang" written on it, so it should be a single-room bathroom.
Jiang Luo entered the left room and saw that it was divided into two parts by a layer of white cloth. On the outside was a place to change clothes, and on the wall was a white paper with the bathing time. On the upper part of the paper, it was written when the water was boiled every day and when it was best for the young masters to come and wash themselves. Jiang Luo put his change of clothes on the bench and opened the white cloth curtain to see a white porcelain bathtub inside.
Now there is no shower, only a bathtub. Inside the bathtub has already put a good hot water, Jiang Luo tried the water temperature, it is exactly the right temperature for comfort, he was satisfied with the finished undressing, comfortably soaked in the bathtub.
The sound of water pattering, the water in the bathtub gushed out and spilled on the ground. Jiang Luo closed his eyes and washed his hair, washing, there are hair strands scratching the side of the shoulder itch, he reached out to touch his shoulder, but touched a handful of lost hair.
Jiang Luo was shocked, and touched another hand, once again touching a large mass of lost hair.
He's not going bald, is he?
Jiang Luo opened his eyes and looked into his hand. In his hand was a messy mass of black hair, as thick as water plants. Jiang Luo looked over his shoulder with an odd expression. The side of his shoulder had a strand of hair as thick as his thumb, he reached out and touched these strands of hair, gently exerted himself, and the hair as thick as his thumb was yanked down by him without any pain or sensation.
"......"
When his heart was about to go cold, Jiang Luo realized that there was something wrong with these hairs, which were much longer than his own. Jiang Luo looked up to the ceiling and saw a human head falling down on the ceiling, the scalp rotting, and the scalp with the strands of hair falling down on Jiang Luo's body in pieces.
Jiang Luo's heart stopped for a moment, and then his face turned blue, he abruptly stood up from the bathtub, stepped on the side of the bathtub to build up his strength, and violently yanked on the head with 3,000 strands of green silk.
With a strong wrist, he slammed the head heavily on the ground, and the head disappeared the moment it hit the ground.
Jiang Luo sank his face, he drained the bathtub and replaced it with a fresh pool of water, washing his shoulders vigorously. Within a few minutes, Jiang Luo felt as if someone was approaching, he looked up beyond the white curtain and a blurred figure was imprinted on it.
"Who?"
Jiang Luo asked.
The silhouette did not reply, but got closer and closer. The blurred silhouette turned into a diminutive woman's figure, and Jiang Luo increased his tone of voice, placed the middle finger of his left hand on his lips, and asked once again, "Who are you?"
In the next instant, the silhouette violently jumped in front of Jiang Luo through the white curtain. Flesh-colored skin was hidden under the white curtain, the neck stood out, and the eyes and lips were sunken into shadows, as horrifying as if the white curtain had turned into a human being.
Jiang Luo calmly bit through his middle finger and flung blood onto the top of the white curtain.
As if corroded by sulfuric acid, thick white smoke emerged from the white cloth curtain, and after a moment, the windless white cloth curtain slowly calmed down.
Jiang Luo took the opportunity to speed up his shower and put on his clothes.
*
Chi You closed the book and looked at the Western clock in the corner.
An hour had passed and his new "wife" had not returned.
I'm afraid it's been a disaster.
Chi You changed books carelessly, with a decidedly tedious
The Chi family is a swamp, a quagmire, a hell on earth. It is not a pity to die knowing that the Chi family wife is short-lived and still married into the Chi family for money.
It just wasted his day of worship.
He reached out his hand and untied the bed curtains. The large red bed curtains closed together, separating the bed of joy into a separate space. Just as Chi You turned the first page of the book, the closed bed curtain suddenly reached into a white hand.
This hand five fingers long and slender, bone knuckles, in the red veil of the reflection, covered with a layer of hazy ambiguity that the teenager has not been touched. The hand slowly bubbled with the hot air and fragrance after bathing, and suddenly held the window veil on one side and lifted it up towards the bed.
Jiang Luo, with water dripping from the ends of his hair, caught Chi You's eye.
Jiang Luo was unharmed, his face covered with a healthy reddish color. Mist was steaming around his hair, his expression was displeased, and his lips were pursed.
Chi You's pupils contracted slightly, and then, without a trace, he sat up and said worriedly, "Why did you come back so late?"
Jiang Luo pulled his lips, "Met with a little accident." He looked around, "Got a dry towel for your hair?"
Chi You got out of bed and got him a dry towel, and as Jiang Luo rubbed his hair, he scanned up and down Jiang Luo's body without a trace. From his entire body, to the toiletries he held in his hand.
The changed wedding clothes were placed in a wooden basin, looking undamaged, and the light was too dim for Chi You to see if they were stained with blood.
But in any case, the "new wife" did surprise him.
The "new wife" asked coldly, "What are you looking at?"
The teenager in pajamas said warmly, "I was wondering what kind of accident you met."
"A small matter of no consequence," Jiang Luo put the towel on his head and smiled brightly at Chi You, "Good brother, come and sit down."
Chi You's brow twitched slightly as she walked over.
Jiang Luo patted the bed beside him and Chi You sat down. Jiang Luo looked at him tenderly, "Thank you for reminding me to be careful, otherwise I would have fallen."
Chi You said, "I should."
Jiang Luo said softly and honeyedly, "Although we are good brothers, today is our good day, shouldn't we do some rituals as well?"
Chi You: "Hmm?"
"For example, in ancient times, a married couple with knotted hair, " Jiang Luo pulled out a bunch of thumb-thick hair from his coat pocket and smiled, "I prepared such a strand of hair to be knotted with yours when I took a bath, Chi You, you pull out a strand of your hair down as well. "
Chi You silently looked at the thickness of the hair in his hand that was almost half a person's head, and suddenly lowered his head and laughed out loud.
He laughed too much and rubbed his brow, "I'm sorry, I just didn't realize that you could have ...... so much hair."
Jiang Luo laughed amiably twice, looking at Chi You's unmoving and unready to cut his hair, he rolled his eyes and simply threw the hair belonging to the long-haired ghost in his hands into his arms, "If you're not ready to cut it tonight, then save it for me."
Chi You responded warmly and watched Jiang Luo lie down on the bed.
With a twinkle in his eye, he casually tossed his hair in the corner, blew out the candle, and returned to the bed as well.
Jiang Luo has slept with many people. We are all men, friends and brothers sleep in the same bed is normal, but Chi You ...... is fortunate to be a teenage Chi You, so that he does not have to tighten the whole body defense.
But that doesn't mean teenage Chi You is a relaxing experience. Jiang Luo had a restless night's sleep, punctuated by a dream of being suffocated by a black python.
He violently opened his eyes from the dream, and the sky outside the window was already slightly cool. Jiang Luo was breathing heavily, and sweat was seeping out from his forehead.
The bed curtains were pulled up and Chi You stood beside the bed, his back to the light coming in through the window. Jiang Luo was unable to see what kind of expression he had on his face, but he sounded like he was in a good mood, "You're awake."
Jiang Luo slowly sat up from the bed, Chi You took a step back, the light illuminated half of the side of his face, the darkness met the darkness, Chi You's immature face suddenly became weird and twisted.
The corners of his lips quirked, the curve of his smile like carefully measured perfection, "It's time for breakfast."
Jiang Luo looked at him and woke up sleepy all of a sudden, thinking that in terms of the degree of fright, the two ghosts he met in the bathroom last night were really nothing compared to Chi You.
Jiang Luo met Lian Xue again at breakfast, and after the meal, on the pretext of going around the Chi family, he asked Lian Xue to show him the way, which gave him the opportunity to speak alone.
Lian Xue whispered, "I spoke with Lian Qiang Lian Bing last night and told them to wait in the backyard wigwam, let's go to the backyard first."
There is a hidden cave in the rockery in the backyard, and when Lian Xue and Jiang Luo went into it, it was already full of people.
Not only Lian Qiang Lian Bing, but also four young students from the photography club, all eight of them were there.
Lian Qiang waved at them and took the lead in looking at Jiang Luo, curious, "Senior brother, I heard that it was you who married in yesterday, is this true?"
Jiang Luo glanced at him, and Lian Qiang let out a sarcastic laugh and hastily changed the subject, "Let's all talk about who we are."
Of the eight, Jiang Luo is the most senior, the new wife of the only young master in the Chi family. Qin Yun comes next, as the eldest maid in the house of the Chi family elders. Lian Qiang and Du Ge are Chi You's servants in the front yard, Lian Bing and Duanzi work in the kitchen, and Li Xiao is the maid of a young lady in the side family.
Jiang Luo mused, "It looks like we are all unnoticeable minor characters."
"You're a sight for sore eyes," Qin Yun said, "You're the wife of a first-born young master."
"This family is burdened with a curse. The wives of the first family are all destined to die early, and as a 'dead man' who will sooner or later die, not many people will pay much attention to me." Jiang Luo explains.
The crowd was thoughtful, and Lian Bing, who was a bit more resourceful and intelligent than his senior brother Lian Qiang, raised his hand and said, "Did you hear a voice when you woke up?"
"Is that the voice that told us to kill the evil spirits?" Du Ge frowned.
Lian Bing nodded, "I remember clearly, this voice told me this sentence - 'just kill the evil spirits, you can get out'. I work in the kitchen as a handyman, and although it's hard work and I don't have access to the master of the house, I can contact people outside. When I went out this morning to get the ingredients for today's cooking, I heard a couple of vendors delivering food talking about a couple of murders in town."
"Homicide?"
Lian Bing Solely squatted on the ground, found a piece of branch on the ground writing and drawing, easy to memorize, "They said the town died almost ten people, the death method is also strange. Every few days a dead one, every few days a dead one, so that the town is terrified, the darkness of the day do not dare to go out. I heard them discussing it in whispers, and I heard one more word-"
He wrote the word "evil spirit" on the ground.
"These vendors believe that the murderer who killed these people is a spiteful, evil spirit."
Lian Xue pondered carefully, but Du Ge said, "Whether there are evil spirits out there or not, I always feel that the evil spirits we are looking for have nothing to do with the Chi family. The eight of us are all gathered in the Chi family, and that's exactly what we have in common."
"But the Chi family is so big, how can we find the evil spirit? Even if we find it, how do we kill it?"
The crowd fell silent. Duanzi suddenly held his head and crouched on the ground, choking and apologizing, "I'm sorry, I didn't know playing this game could turn out like this. It's all my fault, I wish, I wish I hadn't mentioned this order."
Li Xiao followed suit and squatted down, carefully wiping Duanzi's tears.
Qin Yun s face was also a bit ugly, she snapped her nails, "Don t cry, what is the use of crying now. I didn t believe that there were ghosts in the world before ...... It was really bad luck, we shouldn t have gone up the mountain."
Lian Xue sighed and gently comforted, "Don't worry guys, there must be a way for us to get out. As for killing the evil spirits," she pursed her lips and smiled, not worrying much, "There's still a way."
Qin Yun immediately asked, "What solution?"
Lian Xue looked towards Jiang Luo, "Senior brother, I am good at treating and curing people. But when it comes to this kind of thing, it's up to you."
Jiang Luo's face remained unchanged, not mentioning the evil ghosts, and instead asked, "Have you met any ghosts since you entered this world?"
All seven shook their heads once.
Jiang Luo's eyelids jumped, not really knowing whether this was his bad luck or Feng Li's claim to be pleasing to the netherworld, he calmly continued, "Mirrors are yin, metaphysical and mysterious. We were pulled into the world of mirrors when we looked into the mirrors at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and the ghostly aura is at its peak during this time of the day. The world in the mirror is mostly weird and eerie, and there is definitely more than one ghost in this world. As for evil ghosts, how evil is considered an evil ghost? Which evil ghost is it? We know nothing about that."
In fact, Chi You was the first thing that came to Jiang Luo's mind when he heard the word "evil spirit".
But the Chi You of this world haven't turned into evil spirits yet, so let's leave it at that for now. On top of that, the man behind the curtain's demand is to kill the evil ghost in order to get out, and this feeling of being blackmailed and forced to do something is really so off-putting.
Hearing Jiang Luo's words, Lian Xue's three faces remained unchanged. The four ordinary college students all froze, and Qin Yun looked at him with an odd expression, "You wouldn't be like Duanzi, you usually have some kind of hobby about paranormal events, right?"
Jiang Luo smiled casually and suddenly reached out, his hands forming a seal in front of him, "Sundance character position, wind."
A harsh wind swept up from the ground, whistling and spinning to roll up the clothes of the crowd.
Dust and dead leaves were swept up with the wind, which was getting stronger and stronger, almost on the verge of topping the head of the cave.
The crowd stared at the wind in disbelief, unable to move their eyes even when their hair was blown into a chicken nest, and their three views were all about to be shattered.
Jiang Luo said, "Scatter."
The wind suddenly dissipated into the air, and dust and broken leaves and branches fell from the sky, choking the crowd with coughs. They used their palms to wave away the floating earth and miasma smoke in front of them, and stared at Jiang Luo with burning eyes.
Jiang Luo, who had idly practiced this move for ten days in Lian's house but had never used it before, showed a relaxed smile as he loosened his hands, "From now on, everything will be under my command, is there a problem?"
"No no no, not at all!"
Published at: 07/09/2024 05:00