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 in excitement and accidentally hit the edge of the base surface, causing the surface of the base to break. He was so angry that he raised his eyebrows.
He clutched his numb elbow and grinned.
"Young master, I am really made of steel! I can knock over any stone!"
Ran Ran thought that Shen Dinghai was in so much pain that he was talking nonsense, "Second nephew, come out first and let us take a look. Wound.”
Shen Dinghai twisted his body and came out of the shrine, his whole body looking disgraced.
"It doesn't hurt very much, 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 at all, "It's just a bruise. It will be fine after a while. But can you not say big words? You, a man made of flesh, can knock over rocks?"< br>
Shen Dinghai muttered aggrievedly, "But I'm really not bragging. If you don't believe me, go take a look at that stone base."
Dongsheng and Ranran looked at each other, then Ranran turned on the phone light and walked in.
She is the smallest among the people present, so it is indeed the most appropriate for her to go to those nooks and crannies to touch 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 gathering with Wu Pannan to discuss the topic just now, "How can you use wolves to describe those shameless men in the village? It's such an insult to wolves!"
Ran Ran had already dexterously gotten through the narrow gap between the black stone base and the wall.
Shen Dinghai winked at Wu Pannan outside the shrine, "This kid... is not a mute, nor a man!"
After seeing the trembling expression in Wu Pannan's pupils, Only then did he smile with satisfaction.
"I found something!" Ranran's voice came from the dark corner of the hall. After a while, she bent over and walked out, holding the thing in her hand and waving to everyone.
“I found this.”
Everyone came forward to find out.
"What? A piece of 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 the stone? That piece will be loose because it can be opened in the first place."
"Quite. There is a mezzanine under the black stone, and there is this piece of cloth in it. Second nephew, you used brute force to damage the mechanism, so that the edge will be raised. "
Shen Dinghai scratched his head, "We have found the mechanism, but it's a pity that it's not the one we need."
He looked at Dongsheng as he said, "It doesn't matter if this mechanism is broken, right? We won't find it if we hold people accountable afterwards. On my head?"
Dongsheng lowered his eyes and said silently: "I don't know anything about Shen Tang, please don't ask me."
"Good guy! If you don’t know, then she definitely doesn’t know what is written on this cloth.”
As Ran Ran slowly unfolded the yellow and dirty cloth, the eye-catching dense red fonts were intertwined like pouring blood. Together.
"What's...the name on it?" Ran Ran asked uncertainly.
"Wu Huifen, Wu Suhua, Wu Yanlan, Wu Nianqiao..."
In the front is a long list of names with the surname Wu, occupying almost half of the space on this piece of cloth, followed by Lu Other surnames appeared 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 brought back by these names, "I know Aunt Suhua, I know Aunt Huifen, and I also know Aunt Yanlan..."
Ran Ran's expression was uneasy. Feeling serious, he asked, "So what is written on this is the name of the previous generation woman in the village?"
"No!" Dongsheng glanced at the last name on the yellowed cloth, "No!"
< br>The color of this name is brighter than 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 cheeks and cried bitterly, " Yunxiang is my best friend! She is not from the village, and she has only been in the village for a few years. 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, "...Yes..."
"You just let your best friend marry a ghost?! Are you a fake friend?!"
< br>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 clearly, "Dongsheng, I need you Calm down, I want to know if the people written on this are still alive?"
Dongsheng reached out 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 are all dead..." Dongsheng said with difficulty in a hoarse voice, "Except Yunxiang."
Shen Dinghai was shocked, "Is this some kind of death cloth? That's outrageous! Does it mean that Yunxiang's name is written together with the name of a dead person..."
"No!" Dongsheng spoke up 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. Sliding down, the belief was firm in his dark eyes, "She obviously told me that."
Everyone found it difficult to speak for a while.
Wu Pannan held back his astringency and said with difficulty: "You two are stupid girls."
"Yunxiang may just want to comfort you and ask you to ignore her affairs so as not to get into trouble. , after all, you still have the important 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. It is really possible for a living person to marry his son. Can we solve this problem?"
Wu Pannan sighed, "The village chief has always wanted 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 wants to kill her, but he hasn't done anything yet. He just wrote her name first according to the plan."
"After all, we have to kill her during the day. Holding a ceremony, isn't it? It's unlikely that the village chief will let everyone see a dead bride, maybe..."
"We still have a chance!"
Dongsheng's gray eyes are like this. Only then did a little light shine again, "Then we have to hurry up and find her!"
Ranran nodded, "Since the happy voice of the wedding came from here, the bride is very likely nearby. .”
While everyone was talking, there was a faint sound coming from the bottom of the mountain.
The man from the village is here.