We were feeling good and wanted to leave this villa with Lei Qiaoqiao.
But before we left, that ghost bride climbed up from her wooden box and a mass of hair appeared from below the bed.
That black hair tripped us and made us stumble.
We stumbled at the door, and that ghost bride suddenly stood up and came towards us, step by step.
"Oh Brother Chun, why is she still alive, since Brother Yu shot her already?"
"Of course, l have checked and found that there is a piece of the spike on her forehead. It must have been left by him, but why doesn't it take effect?" Feng Chunsheng was also puzzled.
Now that Chen Yuhao had left, would we stayt here and wait for death?
Then I looked at Chen Zhixin, whose dead body was hanging from the ceiling by his clavicle. The question was: would we also be killed like that?"
I was in a deep panic.
When we heard that ghost bride coming close to us, a voice came from outside the window: "What a pity Just a pity."
Then I heard the ghost's nursery rhyme from the ghost outside the window.
"The wedding hall is bright, the bride and bridegroom live a long life together."
Then I saw that the bride's mouth was moving. She climbed up the windowsill and jumped out.
At the same time, the hair wrapped around our feet disappeared completely.
We hurried to the window to check what that bride wanted to do. What if she blocked the door? Then we would die if we ran downstairs.
We three lay on the edge of the windowsill and craned our necks to look out. I could see that there was a group of brides in red clothes outside. They were moving around with their hands on each other's shoulders.
The leader was a cured human skin.
It was a shriveled human woman's skin that was walking crookedly. It was sighing as it walked: "Pity Pity."
That human skin bride took the ghost wedding bride with her, and they slowly walked away until they disappeared from view.
It was several years later when I went to the Miao lands for a business trip. We talked about ghost weddings at the drinking table with my business partners.
He told me: "Ghost weddings are very common in the Miao lands and there are many examples in Xiangxi, too. Actually, it was a bad judgment. Many years ago there was a woman forced to be married to a dead man. She lived with that dead man for five or six years, but one day she went mad and tore her bloody skin off."
In my opinion, that human skin bride was hurt by the ghost and removed her skin so that she became a terrible ghost and always wanted to create those women for the ghost marriages.
We resolved Lei Qiaoqiao's matter successfully. Actually, they were both victims.
Lei Qiaoqiao was a victim because she was tricked by Chen Zhixin.
And Chen Zhixin sacrificed himself due to the ghost wedding.
So, what about that bride? She was actually a dead person and should have been sent to the coffin or cremated and then reincarnated in a new body, rather than being married to a live person.
It was just a violation of human ethics.
When we left that coffin villa, Feng Chunsheng told me secretly: "Actually, that ghost bride could move because Chen Yuhao showed mercy. Well, Chen Yuhao didn't just want to kill her, and wanted to reincarnate her as a human skin bride."
Maybe, in Chen Yuha's eyes, it was pitiful for a woman to be a ghost bride and hide below for so many years.
Feng Chunsheng and I, we knew more about Chen Yuhao.
He looked cold, but he was a kind-hearted person.
After we three left the villa, I asked Lei Qiaoqiao to pay more attention She should be more cautious and decisive in love.
Whenever she encountered any uncertainties, she had to make a quick decision.
Lei Qiaoqiao nodded, saying that she would have been killed by Chen Zhixin and that ghost bride if Feng Chunsheng, Chen Yuhao and I hadn't helped.
"Happiness would follow if you survived after encountering great dangers", I told Lei Qiaoqiao, and in order to suppress the ghost that made her soul so fearful, I would give her a tattoo of the Ananda Buddha Karma ring.
Lei Qiaoqiao was sincere and frank in love, she would never be crazy like Li Muzi.
After all this had been done, it was already five or six in the afternoon.
As previously agreed, Lei Qiaoqiao gave us her brother's old Toyota Corolla, and she would help with the transfer process.
Anyway, the vehicle management bureau in our little city was not so strict, and we could bribe them.
But now, there was another question for us Who would drive that car?
I couldn't drive any vehicles except my electric bike.
However, Feng Chunsheng put out the cigarette and said sincerely and seriously: "I could drive."
I was very suspicious and never expected he was such a cool person He must have been a very experienced driver since he drove so well.
Maybe he drove for a long time before, but while he was driving, I could never accept the fact that he was only a beggar some time ago.
Well, Feng Chunsheng might be fishing at my shop and wanted to get a big fish from me.
Anyway, forget it, since it was all in the past.
After dinner, Feng Chunsheng and I discussed Mimi and the ghost house.
I called Mimi and invited her to my shop.
She came after only a few minutes and asked me what the matter was.
I studied her and found that there was no sign of fear on her, except that she looked a little languid.
Then I took out of the photo from Ruan Qinse's ghost house.
There were seven women and two men besides Ruan Qinse.
I put the photo on the table and asked Mimi if it looked familiar.
Panic surged through Mimi when she looked it down. She asked me: "How did you get this photo?"
I smiled and said: "Mimi, let me tell you the truth. Well, were you in that house recently with these seven women and two men?"
She nodded and replied that she didn't go there recently. She had been involved in helping to sell a house but quit later since she was too timid and didn't dare to do so while it was so easy to earn money.
I pressed her in a hurry and put her on the chair, saying: "Forget that house. It was not a normal house, but a ghost house."
"A ghost house?" Mimi got scared hearing the words.
I asked her: "Just think How did Xiao Hong die?"
"Actually there were three more deaths besides hers." She said: "I knew there was something wrong in this matter, but we were forced to sell the house."
I asked Mimi: "By those two men?"
"Yes," she nodded.
I asked her again: "Who are they?"
"Well I really can't tell you, really." She shook her head very hard and told me: "I would be killed if I told you about their names."
Obviously, those two men who couldn't be seen clearly were actually those seven women's bosses They came from a big family with a large business, so those women couldn't offend them.
I thought for a while and said: "Well, you don't need to talk about those two men. What about the others? Except those two men?"
"Yes Of course." Mimi thought for a long while before agreeing.
Then she said it hadn't been long since she joined this business, and it might be better if she stayed with Liao Min.
I also thought so and called Liao Min: "Hello, Liao Min."
"It's me, Mr. Yu, but I really can't say anything about that matter."
I said to her: "Take it easy, I am not prying about that, nor do I want to know about the bosses in the background. I just want to know what happened to you, so that I could help you through it."
"You don't want to know about the bosses?" Liao Min asked suddenly.
I nodded: "No I don't want to know who your bosses were, I only want to help you. In any case, I know you were selling ghost houses."
"Alright Thanks, Mr. Yu, thank you."
Liao Min said thanks to me again and again when she heard I wouldn't ask her more but only help with her problems.
At nine o' clock, Liao Min, Feng Chunsheng, Mimi and I were sitting at my tattoo shop.
I got some dishes and a grilled fish and put them in the shop. We were chatting like friends and listened to Liao Min and Mimi's stories.
So, it went like this.
Half a year ago, those two bosses got seven women together. They were able to satisfy the male buyers and also served as real-estate agents.
Liao Min also told me, those bosses had checked their dates of birth and Bazi whey they chose them.
"Really?" I asked Liao Min.
Liao Min also felt it was strange, but her bosses told her that it was those rich men who bought their houses and they believed in fate very much, and that's why they had to know it.
Then Mimi said she was also asked about this and that.
At this time, Feng Chunsheng patted the table and spoke: "Show me your dates of birth and Bazi."
Mimi and Liao Min each took a small paper bag from the bottom of their handbags and handed them to Feng Chunsheng.
He opened the paper bags, checking them carefully, and nodded: "I have the answer I've got it; those house-selling girls all had the same fate."
He took the wine glass and quickly gulped the wine, saying: "It's useful when people are working hard to change their lives. The ones with good fates would become successful more easily while investing only a little effort."
He said something that we did not completely understand.