There is a trick

Chapter 34 Tuesday Sheep

The bride burning paper money by the pond was Bai Xiu'e.

The sky gradually darkened and a cold wind swirled through the woods.

Zhou Chang looked at the flickering firelight by the pond, which reflected the dazzling red of Bai Xiu'e's wedding dress. He paused where he was, then took a step and walked to Bai Xiu'e's side.

Bai Xiu'e's hair fell down, covering half of her face.

She concentrated intently on throwing pieces of paper money into the fire, humming a sad song.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chang suddenly approached her, which really scared her.

She was caught off guard when someone walked towards her. She hurriedly covered half of her face with the paper money in her hand, then looked up at the tall figure approaching.

When she saw Zhou Chang's face clearly, Bai Xiu'e's eyes suddenly lit up, and then suddenly dimmed.

"W-why are you here?"

Bai Xiu'e spoke in a panic, using the paper money in her hand to cover half of her face even more tightly.

Zhou Chang stared at her intently, and she lowered her head in fear. He said calmly: "I'm here to take you back."

He said it as if it was a matter of course.

"Who wants, who wants to go back with you... We have no relatives or friends..." Bai Xiu'e lowered her head even more. She kind of liked the current feeling, but the fear and worry in her heart made her dare not stay.

She stood up in a hurry and said to Zhou Chang: "Go away, go away... This is not a place for you to come."

"What's wrong?" Zhou Chang squatted down beside the pond and looked at her with raised eyebrows. "Is it cold under the pond? Does your neck still hurt?"

"You..." Bai Xiu'e was stunned when she heard the voice.

She looked as if she had done something wrong, her eyes were a little ashamed, and she slowly lowered her head: "I, I didn't mean to hurt you and Uncle Zhou... I'm, I'm sorry..."

"What's wrong with you?"

Zhou Chang sighed. He was not here to question Bai Xiu'e.

But the other party seemed to have misunderstood his meaning.

Bai Xiu'e, who lowered her head in shame, was still speaking slowly, but her voice had changed, becoming soft and affectionate: "But, my dear, do you really want to know what the situation is like under this pool of water?"

She slowly raised her face. Half of her face had slender eyebrows and eyes, charming and affectionate. The other half had delicate eyebrows and eyes, pale and weak, but covered with dense pores.

The slightly white and transparent lotus root silk swam out from those holes, turning into pale and tender little hands, swaying like water plants in front of Zhou Chang's eyes. Zhou Chang heard many young girls' romantic voices in those lotus root silks: "Come, come..."

The half of Bai Xiu'e's face, which was covered with lotus root holes, looked at Zhou Chang with shame and fear, and she signaled Zhou Chang to run away with her eyes.

She couldn't make any sound now.

The one who now dominates her body is the 'paper-faced boy' who took the initiative to marry Zhou Chang.

Zhou Chang looked at Bai Xiu'e's face, which was too ashamed to look him in the face. Even though this was Bai Xiu'e's face, and it looked much more terrifying than the paper face at this moment, he instead felt that this face was cuter.

“Seeing how you two are now, I’m actually more curious about how you get along with each other on a daily basis?
"We are in the same body, and we have arguments every day, so how can we fight each other?" Zhou Chang asked Paper Face curiously, "But if you are willing to tell me about the scene under the water, why not listen to it?"

“No, no…

Go away! She will kill you! " At this moment, Bai Xiu'e struggled violently and took control of herself temporarily. She grabbed Zhou Chang's arm and begged him to run away.

However, the next moment, Paper Face returned. She still held Zhou Chang's arm and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, since more than 200 years ago, a woman named Bai Pandi drowned in this pond on her way to get married, more and more ghost stories have been caused by this pond.

Over the past two hundred years, dozens of women have hanged themselves, drowned themselves, or committed suicide near this pond.

Most of those girls were either still married or about to get married. They mostly came from a place nearby called "Baijiafen".

This pool of water was therefore named Bride's Pool.

But in order to avoid too many associations with the tragic events that happened in this pond, people who passed by renamed it the Jade Maiden Pond. However, the name of the Bride Pond remained and was mentioned from time to time... This name was more widely spread than the Jade Maiden Pond.

Paper Face lowered his eyes and looked at the quiet pond: "Some people say that the reason why countless women in the boudoir committed suicide by jumping into the water here is mainly because the atmosphere in the Bai Family Tomb is not good.

The men in Baijiafen all have rat braids and imitate the style of people in the Qing Dynasty.

Their clan elders and parents forced the men to flee and the women to commit suicide.

——Before the grandmother of the Bai family named Bai Pandi jumped into the water, there was a son-in-law from another family named Zhou Eryang who was thrown into the pond by the Bai family and soaked in a pig cage.

The reason why that 'Zhou Eryang' was put into the pig cage was because people in the Bai family's tomb spread the rumor that he had hooked up with Bai Pandi, who was about to get married, and helped Bai Pandi carry water and cut grass..."

Hearing the name 'Zhou Eryang', Zhou Chang frowned and cast his gaze towards the dark and bottomless cold pool.

“Of course, some people also say that there is something fishy going on in this Bride’s Pond.

They said that the bodies of the deceased grandmother of the Bai family and her adulterer Zhou Eryang were trapped in the mud at the bottom of the pond and gradually grew into a lotus root. After that, every time a woman died in the pond, the lotus root would grow a little longer...

Otherwise, where did so many lotuses come from on the surface of this pond?

Look, those large patches of dead lotus leaves are what's left over after the lotus flowers in the pond withered in the summer." Paper Face said softly.

In a corner of the pond, there were indeed large pieces of withered lotus leaves floating quietly on the water.

Like corpses floating on the water.

"If you ask me..." At this time, Zhou Chang turned his eyes to the hand of Paper Face that had been holding his arm, and suddenly said, "Seeing is believing, hearing is not, nothing is better than going down to the pond to take a look in person.

What do you think? "

Paper Face was stunned for a moment when he heard the voice.

She looked into Zhou Chang's eyes, wondering whether this man was simply brave or fearless.
——Zhou Chang is actually neither.

He just guessed that this Paper Face would not kill him now. If she wanted to kill him, she would have killed him at the mass grave, and would not have told him these stories and talked nonsense here.

So why not make good use of this opportunity?

Especially since he now has some ability to protect himself, it would be difficult for him to actually find a demon to test it out.

Paper Face is relatively close and is in a stalemate with Bai Xiu'e, so he is an excellent testing subject. Once things change, he can also take the opportunity to test his abilities.

"My Lord is right..."

Paper Face held Zhou Chang's arm, gently pulled him, and led him into the pool of water: "Then please come and see for yourself...

What is under the lake? "

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