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After a while, a gray-haired old man dressed in ancient official clothing came out with a cane.

"Go keep an eye on the Wang family. Nothing can happen to that little girl."

Mr. Zhang gave the order, and soon several villagers left.

The rest of the villagers began to busy themselves with things like offering sacrifices, coming in and out of the yard.

Chu Lu and Lu Liang hid back.

The ancestral hall is not far from the Zhang family's backyard. The villagers who came to help seemed to be members of the Zhang family. Judging from their attitude towards Old Man Zhang, it is obvious that Old Man Zhang is the current patriarch.

"Go ahead, Lu Liang."

"?? What the hell?"

"Aren't you here to help me complete the mission?" Chu Lu smiled, "You don't want them to have a ghost marriage, do you?"

"Shouldn't stealing someone be done secretly?"

"Yeah, you draw the firepower, and I'll come here secretly."

"..." Lu Liang snorted and laughed, "You want me to be a living target?"

"You won't be defeated, right? Lu Liang? Are you so cowardly?"

"Shut up!"

Lu Liang was a little annoyed. Seeing Chu Lu still smiling, he couldn't help but pinch her face.

"You're trying to provoke me?"

"Are you going or not?" Chu Lu slapped his hand away, "Stop being so aggressive. Do you think I know you well?"

"White-eyed wolf!"

Lu Liang turned around and jumped off the roof, looking at Chu Lu, "Wait."

Chu Lu made an “OK” gesture.

The yard was still very busy. The ceremony seemed very complicated and preparations were constantly underway.

Lu Liang turned around and landed outside the yard, not knowing where he was going.

After a while, someone was heard shouting "Fire."

The fire broke out not far from the Zhang family's house, or in other words, right under the Zhang family's wall.

The Zhang family's yard was full of paper things. Mr. Zhang was afraid of any accidents, so he asked them all to help put out the fire.

There were not many people in the chaotic yard, so Chu Lu jumped off the roof during the confusion and walked straight to the bed in the middle.

When the white cloth was lifted, the man's face was just a little pale, no different from a living person, and no one knew how many days he had been dead.

But he was the smallest man Chu Lu had ever seen in this village.

Looks like he's only three or four years old...

Why rush to get married?

Chu Lu took out some straw from under the bed and stuffed it under the white cloth. Then he stuffed Zhang Yaoer into the basket, randomly spread some straw on it and hid it. Chu Lu picked it up and left.

Returning the same way, they saw Lu Liang leaning casually against the wall, only a few meters away from the fire, watching them put out the fire coldly.

"You're really good at hiding."

When I first walked over there, I found that this location was fucking amazing.

Lu Liang lowered his eyes, only to see that she had nothing in her hands. He asked casually, "Where is the person?"

Chu Lu raised his head towards the fire.

"…You fucking burned someone?"

Lack of virtue!!

Chu Lu smiled and said, "What are you going to do with a dead body if you don't want to burn it? To warm the bed?"

"..."

Lu Liang began to think about how to quietly send the villagers away who were putting out the fire so that they would not discover that their clan leader's son had been cremated.

"Just teasing you, I'm hiding."

Chu Lu raised his hand and flicked his head, saying in an ambiguous tone: "I can't tell, you're quite naive."

"……hehe."

There's nothing you can't do, you little lunatic.

While no one was paying attention, they went back to Zhang Laocui's house first.

After a while they started shouting so that they could justify themselves by making up an alibi.

Almost as soon as I entered the door, I heard someone at the village entrance shouting hurriedly, "Zhang Yaoer is missing."

Lu Liang and Chu Lu were not in a hurry. In the middle of the night, they still had to stew the chicken raised by Zhang Laocui.

"Are you hungry again?"

"I have nothing to do anyway. I might as well stew it today and have it for breakfast tomorrow."

Zhang Laocui was so angry that he chopped wood fiercely with a dark face and gritted his teeth.

"Where did you hide the person?" Lu Liang asked her quietly.

She was not slow in coming out, so she could only hide on the same road she came from.

Wouldn't he be found sooner or later?

Chu Lu smiled mysteriously in response, "I can't find it anyway."

As soon as I put the chicken in the pot, the village chief came with his men.

He politely said that something happened to the Zhang family and asked if they could go and help.

In fact, it was just a euphemism to take them to the scene for questioning.

But Chu Lu was happy to join in the fun, so he naturally followed along to see how this farce would end.

Lu Liang sighed helplessly. He couldn't sleep at all today.

This is indeed a big shame for the Zhang family.

Almost everyone in the village was called to their house by the village chief.

Including Fu Shaoyan and Shi Lin who were soundly asleep.

They had no idea what was going on and asked Chu Lu in a daze:

"What's wrong? What happened? Why is it so lively all of a sudden? Aren't you sleeping so late at night?"

"It's the custom. There will be opera performances in the evening." Chu Lu said casually.

"Ah?" Fu Shaoyan was puzzled. Is there such a custom?

"Tsk, aren't you afraid of attracting ghosts by performing opera in the middle of the night?"

Lu Liang is habitually bad-mouthed.

A few minutes later, Shi Cunxi and Ji Yang also arrived.

Shi Cunxi's face turned slightly red. There was something a little unnatural about the two of them interacting with each other, and no one knew what was going on.

At the same time, a villager came forward and whispered something to Mr. Zhang.

Probably thinking it was bad news, Mr. Zhang's face changed drastically.

Then I heard the two old men and women from the Wang family crying and protesting their injustice with tears and snot.

The granddaughter of the Wang family was also lost.

No need to think, it was Ji Yang and Shi Cunxi who did it.

The Zhang and Wang families were extremely anxious. Instead of going to look for the person, they gathered all the villagers together and insisted that they were the ones who stole the person away.

We have to search house by house.

Although they guessed correctly.

But will those who caused the trouble admit it?

Not only did he refuse to admit it, he even turned the tables.

"They both disappeared together. It's obvious that they eloped. Why are you so anxious?"

It’s nice to watch the fun when you first come to the rescue.

Shi Cunxi pulled Chu Lu who was making sarcastic remarks and said, "The girl the Wang family is going to marry is a little girl of six or seven years old."

"Oh my goodness, a baby kiss!"

Are the two children willing?

No, does the Marriage Law agree?

"You are guests. I just treat you equally when I ask you to come here. But please don't make trouble."

Old Master Zhang looked at Chu Lu steadily and said, "The loss of a child is a minor matter for the Zhang family, but the failure of the ghost marriage is a major matter."

"Yes, yes, if the ghost marriage fails, the whole village will suffer!"

"This is how to do ah?"

"How could the children disappear? Someone must have stolen them away to harm the village!"

The villagers shook their heads in agreement.

The Zhang family members were sent by the clan leader to search house by house, fearing that someone might be hiding something selfish, so they were gathered together to prevent them from committing a crime.

"Why does the whole village suffer if a ghost marriage fails?"

Shi Lin didn't quite understand what was going on at first, but after Shi Cunxi briefly explained it to him, he quickly understood the situation.

"Da'an Village used to be called Zhang Village, and all the people there are Zhang clan members. The Zhang clan temple has protected the village for a hundred years. All Zhang men, no matter how old or young, must get married before they die. This has been a rule since the founding of Da'an Village."

The village chief spoke in a serious tone.

"There are still many problems. Are you worried that the ancestors won't have grandchildren when they pass away?" Chu Lu replied lazily.

Get married and have children? ?

Lu Liang looked at Mr. Zhang and asked the village chief, "Is it his son who is missing?"

Chu Lu said that the little brat was only three or four years old.

More than enough to be his great-grandson.

"Yes, Mrs. Zhang had a son at an old age and loved him very much. What a pity..."

The village chief sighed, and it was unclear whether he was mourning the early death of his young son or the curse of the Zhang family.

"You can still have a baby at such an old age? Aren't you afraid that you will die of exhaustion soon?"

The village chief turned a blind eye to Chu Lu's repeated rudeness and maintained the necessary magnanimity like a caring village chief.

"What's the matter with the Zhang family's curse?" Lu Liang felt that this might be a key clue.

"Village chief, isn't your surname also Zhang?" Chu Lu suddenly remembered this.

As a member of the Zhang family, how come I don’t have a sense of family belonging?

He actually turned a deaf ear to her sarcasm and was even tolerant and generous.

"We are all side branches, and the Zhang family is the main family. Since outsiders were introduced into the village and the young people went out to work, the family relationship is closer to the main family."

The village chief deliberately avoided the question about the Zhang family's curse, and it seemed that he didn't want to talk about it.

"It seems that you don't like your last name very much either."

Chu Lu smiled and said, "Why don't you take my last name? My last name is Xiang, which means I'm positive and cheerful. I can support whoever I want, right?"

The village chief echoed with a forced smile.

I don't really want to bother with Chu Lu anymore.

When talking to her, two out of three sentences are meant to challenge him.