Gucheng

On the day I died, the house was completely decorated, the beams, roofs, corners, and every corner were filled with auspicious and festive bright red. The most famous troupe in the south of the Yangtze River set up a stage to sing in the garden early in the morning, and half of the city was lit up. Decoration.

That day was my wedding day, and a strange man I had never met.

My mother in the previous life lied to me to go back with a serious illness, just because the family had a lot of debts, and the man was a wealthy man, and my mother said that marrying him would solve the family's debts.

"Yulan, you're a girl, you always want to marry, what's the matter with running around all day? It's serious when you settle down." Mother was embroidering a wedding hijab, and the mandarin ducks were swimming in the water. A pair of mandarin ducks are lifelike.

"Mother, does it not matter even if he is a dandy looking for flowers and flowers?" I asked unwillingly.

"What kind of dandy is not a dandy, who is not a man who has three wives and four concubines? It's very normal, look at your father's concubines." She was holding an embroidery needle as thin as a hair, flying up and down, and the colored thread Walking back and forth in the air, it's so lively, the tone in the words is used to it, "You are passing through the door now, that is a decent lady, no matter how many concubines he has, why don't you just let you rub them down?"

"I don't want to marry, I already have someone I love, and I will never marry a strange man."

Daddy knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, and there was a large group of kneeling behind him. Those aunts, brothers and sisters who didn't see each other on weekdays were all crying to death, and I was forcefully forced into the sedan chair by them.

The brocade gown with intricate embroidery, the scarlet hijab with mandarin ducks playing in the water, my Axue is still thousands of miles away waiting for me to go back and marry her.

I sat in front of the bronze mirror and lifted my hijab. The woman in the mirror had gorgeous makeup and sad eyes.

My good Axue, I can't go back.

Before I take you away, will your parents also promise you a marriage that they have never met and ruin your life?

The singing and drumming outside the new house was very lively, and I heard someone saying congratulations from a long distance away.

Congratulations, where is the joy.

The woman in the mirror pulled out the golden hairpin from her head and pierced it into her heart without hesitation.

"My name is Li Xue. My mother said that there was a lot of snow on the day I was born, so she gave me this name. What's your name?"

"Yulan? What a nice name."

"Yulan, I seem to fall in love with you, what should I do?"

Ashe, I love you too.

Axue, I also want to teach you how to sing, show you the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and spend the rest of my life with you.

Axue, how about the afterlife?In the next life, I will be reincarnated as a man, and I will marry you as my wife in an open and honest manner.

Axue, sing me another song.

……

When I opened my eyes, the sky was still dark, but I felt like a dream that had lasted a lifetime for 20 years was finally complete.

"You finally woke up."

A ghost said.

We are at the top of the tallest tower in Litai City, very close to the moon, and today's night is extraordinarily long.

"Why did I fall asleep?" I didn't know how long I had been asleep, I stood up with my drowsy head, my eyes were spinning.

"I didn't know, you've been sleeping for a day and a night." Ah Gui sat on the railing with her legs facing outwards, and she changed into another outfit. It was the goose yellow skirt when we first met. This kind of clothes is not common in Damo. Yes, she said to me as if offering a treasure, it was brought back by her father when he was doing business in the Central Plains.

"What time is it?"

Ah Gui glanced at me, "Wei Shi."

I took a look at the sky, the night was dark and the wind was high, it was not the time, it was about the same time as the time of Xu and Hai.

"Don't think about it, there is no daylight in Litai City."

A Gui jumped off the fence, barely floating in the air, and stretched out his hand to me, "An Xun, I'll take you down."

I looked down at the ground dozens of feet away, swallowed, and then looked at Agui.She still held out her hand to me, her eyes full of expectation.Heartbroken, I handed over to Ah Gui.

She really flew me up, and I realized only after I floated to the ground that she no longer called me "Yu Lan".

She said that when Li Xue died, Ke Yulan died too.

On the wedding night, Ke Yulan pierced her heart with a golden hairpin, and Li Xue was hanged to death on the beam with a three-foot white silk.Ke Yulan was relieved, but Li Xue was stuck in that moment forever.

"Does it hurt?" I asked.

Ghost was stunned, "What?".

I boldly stepped forward and reached out to touch her neck, but there was still no temperature and no scars.

"Does it hurt when you die?"

Ah Gui blinked his eyes and thought for a while, then rubbed his neck, "It hurt a lot at first, and there was something stuck in his neck, and he couldn't spit it out or swallow it, but then he didn't feel it anymore." She pinched her neck and stuck out her tongue to do it. He made a squinting expression, "Then my soul separated from the corpse, and that corpse looked like this." It was funny, but I couldn't laugh.

Seeing that I didn't smile, Ah Gui put away his expression and said embarrassingly: "It's really boring."

For a while, we both fell silent.

There are no living things in Litai City, except for the wind and sand, and even the sound of insects can hardly be heard. I don't know how the ghost survived these 200 years.

After a while, Ah Gui laughed at himself and said, "I thought I would be free after death. No wonder people say that death is worse than life."

"I failed you."

Ah Gui glanced at me and was about to speak when he suddenly turned cold and said with a sneer, "There's another guest here."

A man dressed as a Taoist priest walked into the city, with many weapons clattering on his body, stood in front of us, and said to me: "Mr. Bai, Bai Yuanwai specially asked Pindao to take you back."

I recognized at a glance that she was the fake Taoist priest who swindled food and drink at my house back then.

This fake Taoist priest asked others to call her Taoist Master Wuzhen. After telling my fortune, she came to my house and came to see her every three to five years. Later I found out that she was also a woman disguised as a man. No bogey, I love cheating food and drink at my house.

It turns out that besides cheating food and drink, she still has some skills, so she was able to enter Litai City.

"She owed me a debt and hasn't paid it off, leave? Are you able to leave?" Ghost said contemptuously.

Wuzhen glanced at A Gui, and said indifferently: "You have some skills, you sneaky, and you can survive until today." A Gui's face turned pale, and she said again: "If I were you, I would find a secluded place to hide today, so as not to be killed Being watched by other sneaky creatures."

I couldn't understand the meaning of the fake Taoist's words for a moment, "Master Taoist, what do you mean by finding a secluded place to hide?"

"Master Bai doesn't know something, this ghost..."

A Gui interrupted Wuzhen's words, and leaned on my shoulder to pretend to be relaxed, "The Taoist priest is indeed a good man with good eyesight, but Mr. Bai is already a little girl, and the little girl advises the Taoist priest, don't take people away." Love."

"Poverty is just entrusted by others. Loyalty is a matter of loyalty. Girl, people and ghosts have different paths. It is better to let go of grievances and wash away your sins as soon as possible, so as to avoid the pain of burning hearts." Wuzhen pinched his fingers, his eyes darkened , "The time has come."

Ah Gui, who was lying on my shoulder, gritted his teeth suddenly, and knelt down on the ground, clutching his heart.