Chapter 43(1/2)
Early morning, Qiebi Village.
Shi Tao clutched a red handkerchief, and the smile on his heavily made-up face was a bit stiff. Men are used to sitting with their legs spread apart, but after being glanced at by others for a few times, Shi Tao found that in his current status, sitting with his legs crossed was really indecent and frustrating.
legs together.
"I'm sorry to trouble you about Pingping's marriage."
An old and weak voice came from the room blocked by bamboo curtains, mixed with several coughs, as if there was thick phlegm stuck in the throat, and the sound of breathing was very heavy, as if he would lose his breath in the next moment. Shi Tao noticed that there was something in the room.
The windows were all closed, and there was no light. The room seemed to be smoked by herbs, so strong that it made people breathless.
"Village chief, don't worry."
The capable woman in the lead smiled and said: "We have watched Pingping grow up, and she will definitely manage it beautifully."
"Ahem...that's good, that's good cough, cough, cough..."
There was another series of heartbreaking coughs, and I was out of breath. It sounded like the patients inside were almost dying of coughing. But Shi Tao looked on with cold eyes and found that the women in the room did not look worried or nervous at all, and no one was in a hurry. Only
The leading woman asked a few questions about the main points of the ceremony, and also asked about the situation of the village chief inside.
But apart from coughing, the village chief kept repeating a few words, asking them to pay more attention to Pingping.
After leaving the house that was overly smoked by herbs, Shi Tao took a deep breath of fresh air, always feeling like he had become bacon. The women dispersed in twos and threes after leaving the house, Shi Tao deliberately slowed down, and sure enough, after a while
Someone came from behind.
"Shi A'duo, I still want to talk to you about Pingping's marriage."
The person who caught up with Shi Tao was the capable woman who had just taken the lead. Shi Tao glanced at her wrist and saw a small spotted snake coiled there like a bracelet. It was hard to see clearly even if you didn't pay close attention.
"good."
The two returned to the house. This house was specially designed for people like them who were invited by the village chief to live in. There were three buildings in total, scattered in a triangle shape. I wonder if it was a coincidence that the stilted building where Pingping was located happened to be surrounded.
in the middle.
"I saw Pingping going out today."
After entering the house, the capable woman said, rather worriedly: "I see, she still can't let go of Cheng."
"That's what happened."
Shi Tao echoed: "If you ask me, everyone in the village knows that Pingping and Acheng are childhood sweethearts, which is a pity."
Shi Tao and Miao Fangfei were exchanging information. After they started the third scenic spot, they woke up in their respective houses. When Miao Fangfei looked at her own clothes and then looked at the unfamiliar face in the bronze mirror, she knew that this was probably a crying marriage.
It's the restoration of old scenes, scene acting, and the like.
Crying marriage is a tradition for many ethnic minority brides before they get married. In addition to the bride, the participants are the bride's female relatives. Miao Fangfei plays the role of Pingping's 'aunt'. Of course, this tradition of the village chief's family has been passed down to this day.
There was only one seedling of Ping Ping left. The so-called "sister-in-law", "aunt", "aunt" of Ping Ping were mostly replaced by women from the village.
They had stayed in this room since they woke up, four to a room. Miao Fangfei quickly recognized Shi Tao. The two met, but there were two "Qiebi Villagers" in the room. It was not easy to see them in front of them.
They communicated face to face and then temporarily dispersed to collect information.
"Sister-in-law Zhao, Sister-in-law Hou and Sister-in-law Wang live in the north house, and Grandma Lin, Grandma Xu and Grandma Yu live in the southwest house."
Shi Tao said that he and Miao Fangfei were in the southeast. The different names represented the different identities of the roles they played.
Ping Ping's "sister-in-law" and "aunt", he, Miao Fangfei and the woman in the room played the role of Ping Ping's "mother".
It can be seen that the village chief cares about his only daughter. There is no female elder in the family to take charge, so he invited the women in the village to let Pingping get married grandly.
"Poor, I can't go out to get some air."
Miao Fangfei said with a deep tone: "Looking at Pingping being unhappy every day, she doesn't look like a newlywed, but more like she is in jail."
"Why did Sister Miao say that?"
A dissatisfied voice sounded from the door. It was the woman from Qiebi Village named Asang who had returned. She had high cheekbones, a thin chin, a mean face, and a sharp voice: "Pingping's marriage is a great event for our village. Why?"
She can look dejected. Pingping is young and doesn’t understand the rules. Doesn’t it mean that Sister Miao doesn’t understand the rules too?”
"Yes, we were selected and entrusted with important responsibilities by the village chief. We cannot miss Pingping's happy event."
The short and thin woman next to Asang looked at Miao Fangfei and Shi Tao with suspicious eyes, as if they were going to tell the village chief if they showed the slightest reluctance to come.
"Sister-in-law Asang, Sister-in-law Awen misunderstood. Of course we are in full support of this happy event. But today we saw Ah Cheng, he..."
Miao Fangfei stepped forward lightly and cleared the two people's suspicions with a few words. It seemed that they had become closer to each other. Shi Tao didn't understand women gossiping to enhance their relationship, so he kept his mouth shut and pretended to be a wallflower.
Miao Fangfei caused trouble.
After Ah Sang and Awen both went back to the house to sleep, Shi Tao listened carefully and confirmed that Ah Sang was asleep due to the snoring. Then he went back to the house to talk to Miao Fangfei.
"The people from Qiebi Village in each room are the ones supervising us."
Shi Tao whispered, and Miao Fangfei nodded, her voice very soft: "We, the people in these three houses, are monitoring Ping Ping."
There was only one window in the room, facing Pingping's house. While going to the village chief's house for a meeting today, Miao Fangfei walked around and got on line with Zhao Hongtu and the others to confirm that all three houses had exactly one window.
The window faces Pingping's house.
Zhao Hongtu and others only had one person from Qiebi Village in their room. Fortunately, they found a loophole, but there were two people, Asang and Awen, in their room. If they wanted to say anything, they had to do it while they were asleep.
"It's early in the morning, and I'm crying for the first time today."
Shi Tao's voice was very soft, and there was only one oil lamp lit in the room. The dim light reflected on his face, unable to hide his worry.
"Team Miao, is there any way?"
“There is too little introduction to the Crying Marriage Project.”
Miao Fangfei's tone was solemn: "We are just allowed to experience the traditional crying wedding. The journey will end at noon on the sixth day."
At eight o'clock in the evening on the fourth day, there was the three-chao cocktail party, and then came the crying wedding. When they woke up in Qiebi Village, it was already half past ten in the middle of the night, and at eleven o'clock they were summoned by the village chief for a meeting. It is now twelve in the morning
Half past o'clock.
It’s the fifth day.
The beautiful Xiangxi is a six-day and five-night trip, and the journey will end at noon on the sixth day. In other words, as long as they can survive for a day and a half, they will pass the journey.
The end of the journey was so close, but Miao Fangfei and Shi Tao didn't have any relaxed expressions on their faces. The information was too little and too vague, and they didn't have Pingping's diary that Wei Xun had obtained. Now they could only base their knowledge of Pingping's life on the facts.
There is information to speculate.
"Pingping is getting married, but she is not marrying her sweetheart, Cheng."
Shi Tao said: "Everyone in Qiebi Village attaches great importance to this wedding. Their enthusiasm is a bit too much. Even if Pingping is the village chief's daughter, she shouldn't be so enthusiastic."
"The one who is seriously ill is the village chief, Pingping's father."
Miao Fangfei sorted out: "He is extremely ill and needs special fetal meat treatment."
During the third bath, the ghost baby's favorable impression of Miao Fangfei reached full value, so Miao Fangfei received an additional reward of memory fragments and saw a bit of Pingping's past: "Pingping gave birth hiding in a cave. She knew that the villagers wanted to deal with it."
Her child is evil."
"The village chief desperately wants Pingping to get married, is it to make her pregnant with a special fetus?"
Shi Tao followed Miao Fangfei's words and speculated: "As for this project, are we going to ruin the wedding?"
There are three crying weddings in total, namely at noon on the fifth day, early morning on the sixth day, and noon on the sixth day. After the three crying weddings are over, Pingping will get married. They can only enter Pingping's house when they are crying.
, contact Ping Ping. If you want to ruin the wedding, you must make preparations in advance.
"No."
Miao Fangfei shook her head and said slowly: "Our ultimate goal is to survive until noon on the sixth day."
Whether it is to promote the wedding or to destroy the wedding, their task is actually to survive until noon on the sixth day and the journey ends. This is success.
"To destroy the wedding, our enemies are everyone in Qiebi Village and the village chief."
In the west room, while the third person was sleeping, Xu Chen said to Lin Xi, while he was analyzing and sorting out his thoughts:
"Before we entered the third attraction, we watched Pingping cry and cut out the head of a paper-cutting person. This also illustrates the dangerous point of this project, when she is crying to get married."
"If we follow the course of history, the danger point is Pingping, but the people and village chief of Qiebi Village will be our natural allies."
Xu Chen analyzed, his tone was so calm that it was almost cold: "Whether we ruin the wedding or do it again, our ultimate goal is to survive until noon on the sixth day. Which way to choose depends on which one is more beneficial to us."
"Judging from the first two projects, Pingping should have finally gotten married and even got pregnant with a child. Her revenge on the villagers started when the child was boiled into soup and ended when everyone in Xiaolong Yizhuang was destroyed."
"That is to say, at this period in history when it came to getting married, Pingping's strength was weaker than that of Qiebi Village. The strength of Qiebi Village and the village chief's side was stronger, so the wedding would go ahead."
“However, although our project this time is a re-enactment of history, it is not entirely a re-enactment of history.”
Xu Chen made a twist: "I speculate that what everyone is going to encounter this time is not the weak and bully Pingping in the past, but the fierce ghost Pingping."
Before entering the project, Pingping in a red wedding dress was the biggest reminder.
"So that's it!"
Yu He'an listened very seriously. Seeing Xu Chen pause, he asked, "Then what should we do?"
"In other words, if we choose to protect the wedding, our teammates will be from Qiebi Village and our enemies will be Li Gui Pingping. The danger will come when we cry to get married, and maybe when we get married."
Xu Chen continued: "We chose to destroy the wedding. Our teammate is Li Gui Pingping, and the enemy is Qiebi Village. Danger is always everywhere, and I doubt that Li Gui Pingping will not easily help us. This friendly force is almost non-existent.
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To be continued...