I am the old, fiery-faced man from the senior department.

If the journey goes smoothly.

"What can be considered difficult in front of you and me?"

He picked up a peach and slowly savored it.

"At most, it's just some minor, troublesome troubles."

Some things aren't even considered troublesome. For example, if they encounter bandits, the end result might be that the bandits beg and plead for more money so they'd never come back.

But there are also some, which can be considered the biggest kind of trouble.

For example, what's for dinner tonight?

"Are we going to have to eat wild berries again...?"

Nian threw away the peach pit in his hand and spat out a few mouthfuls of saliva.

I've been eating fruit all day, and even my saliva tastes like fruit.

Even if fruit is good for your health, you can't eat it all the time.

She wanted to eat meat that would burst with juice when she took a bite, or she wanted to stuff her mouth full of fluffy white rice.

"Just make do with this, sister."

“Aside from those few fruit trees, there are hardly any feathered beasts nesting around here.”

After eating an apricot and savoring the sweet and sour taste that filled his mouth, Bai Zhou happily hummed that quirky little tune.

"Okay... sigh."

Without delicious food, Nian lost her motivation to eat, and being on the bus, she couldn't think of anything to do, so she simply lay down on the mat and started to doze off.

The light rain has passed, and the warm sun hangs in the sky again, accompanied by a gentle and warm breeze. Before we know it, the year has fallen into a deep sleep.

Just as she was sleeping soundly, she suddenly heard the sounds of gongs, drums, and zithers, which kept her awake.

"Ugh...it's so noisy..."

Nian, still grumpy from waking up, sat up and looked toward the source of the sound.

She wanted to know who was so inconsiderate, making such a racket so late at night.

But upon closer inspection, she was stunned with confusion.

What comes into view is a lively wedding procession.

Eight-bearer sedan chair, ten miles of red bridal procession.

The wedding party's new clothes were as bright as blood, and their faces were as white as frost.

"This is... a wedding procession? But... it's dusk."

Who waits until this time to pick up the bride after a wedding?

Years looked at the daylight with a puzzled expression.

"It wasn't a normal wedding..."

Bai Zhou raised a finger and gestured towards Nian, indicating that she should not make a sound.

“?…!”

As if lost in thought, he raised his head and looked again.

Upon closer inspection, Nian keenly noticed something amiss.

Without exception, all the servants carrying the sedan chair were lame, their bodies like soft bones, swaying with every step, making the sedan chair teeter on the verge of collapse.

For a normal person to achieve this effect, the only outcome would be being fired.

"they……"

Nian frowned as he stared at the noisy "band," trying to discern something more. Unfortunately, the distance was too great, and even with Nian's eagle-like eyesight, he couldn't see the finer details clearly.

"It's probably... a ghost marriage."

The words spoken in broad daylight completely roused Nian from his half-awake state.

"Ghost marriage..."

Looking again the following year, sure enough, the instruments played in the band were all single drums, single horns, and single suonas.

"No wonder..."

No wonder those dozen or so large boxes looked so light.

No wonder that tall horse looked like it would fall over in the wind.

"What's being carried inside that sedan chair... is it a person...?"

Year after year, he inquired about the "bride" in the main sedan chair.

"It is...alive."

Bai Zhou frowned, seemingly quite dissatisfied with the situation.

The purpose of ghost marriages is to fulfill the regrets of the deceased, not to allow them to engage in private transactions.

"Alive..."

A hint of disgust crept into Nian's eyes.

"They actually wanted to use living people as sacrifices..."

"The groom's family must not be any good people either."

"Ah Xi, how is the girl? Should we perform a ritual to help the groom pass on to the afterlife?"

Since we've encountered this situation, I figured I should lend a hand if I could.

"The girl is fine. She seems to have been drugged and is sleeping soundly now."

"Let's go and take a look first, and it won't be too late to take action after we find out the truth."

Bai Zhan did not rashly agree to the year.

Apart from the bride, the rest of the group consisted of paper figures shrouded in a thick aura of yin energy, all manipulated by the controller behind the scenes to do these things.

And Bai Zhou has never been the kind of person who leaves things half-done.

Now that we know there's someone else pulling the strings behind the scenes, we have to find out the whole story.

It is unforgivable to do such disgusting things on his turf.

Once they got closer to the procession, the two of them could clearly see what the wedding procession looked like.

No wonder all the servants' new clothes were stained with blood; they were all precious items painted with some unknown bloodstain.

And how could his face, so pale and lifeless, be anything but a paper doll's face, covered in white paste, not be deathly white?

Looking at the attendants on both sides, they were all paper figures and horses, carrying underworld coins.

Fortunately, they were just fakes, and the two of them blended into the group during the day without anyone noticing or expelling them.

"Just follow them."

Bai Zhou had already sealed off the beast's autonomous movement, and instead personally linked to its arcane energy to manually control it and avoid panic.

The wedding procession was long, and the monotonous and drawn-out music kept the couple from conserving their energy for any potential enemy.

If it weren't for the desire to see clearly what the person behind it looked like, Bai Zhou would have already shattered these precious objects with the thunder of justice.

"It's so noisy... How much longer until we get there?"

Nian covered his ears and asked with a frown.

"They should have arrived long ago."

After being reminded by Nian, Bai Zhou noticed something was amiss.

It's too obvious if you walk for less than half an hour on even the longest road.

The person in charge of the wedding procession has already spotted the two of them and is now playing them for fools.

"Heh heh, you fools, blinded by your own self-confidence and sense of justice! How dare you obstruct my grand plan! You have no idea what terrors await you between life and death!"

A cold, chilling sound, like a biting wind, rang out. It seemed to be gloating, clapping its hands in glee at having successfully outwitted the two.

"What a hassle... It really comes down to violence. It's not kind at all."

Now that the truth has been revealed, Bai Zhou has no intention of hiding his abilities. This is both a guarantee for the safety of the bride and a way to make it extremely convenient to clean up the trash.

In broad daylight, he raised his hand and summoned countless bolts of lightning. The purple lightning shattered the paper figures and horses, along with the eerie wind and cold air he had summoned, into ashes.

"..."

In this situation, the trader froze on the spot without making a sound.

The wind is tight, shout!

Thirty-fourth month, Frosty Moon bravely intervened, while the monstrous creature, emboldened by lust, dared to defy the heavens.

"They run really fast."

The demonic wind came and went in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye it had already fled dozens of miles away. At the same time, it made Bai Zhou temporarily suppress the idea of ​​chasing after it and annihilating it in one fell swoop.

"Quick, Xiaobai, quickly check how that girl is doing."

The daytime thunder was too domineering; it plowed through the ground within a radius of several meters, turning all the paper figures and horses to ashes. The sedan chair carrying the bride also dissipated in the aftershocks, leaving the red-clad Volper girl on the ground.

"It's nothing, I was just sleeping too soundly and fell to the ground, bumping my forehead and it's red."

After examining the little fox closely, Bai Zhou came to a conclusion.

"This child is a bit too ambitious."

Looking at the girl, Wolper, who seemed completely oblivious to what was happening around her and was even snoring comfortably, even Nian couldn't help but praise her for her easygoing nature.

"what?"

After carefully examining Walper's face, Bai Zhou frowned slightly.

"What's wrong, Xiaobai? Did that thieving monster do something to her?"

Seeing Bai Zhou frowning in thought, Nian thought the child had been cursed by the demon.