Bearing the blue sky

Zhu Ge's threat worked.

Ma Laizi's face turned deathly pale: "What exactly are you trying to say...?"

Zhu Ge looked around and tugged at Ma Laizi's clothes: "Come with me, let's go to a quiet place to talk."

Ma Laizi swallowed hard and gritted his teeth, saying, "Don't even think about harming us. The master will be back soon."

"Harm you?" Zhu Ge felt a bit like laughing and crying at the same time. "You're a notorious deadbeat who never pays back his debts, and now you're afraid someone will harm you?"

Ma Laizi got his nickname "Laizi" from this incident; he owed money and refused to pay it back, and he often tried to abduct women.

If it weren't for Mr. [Name], he would probably have been utterly wicked by now, becoming a truly heinous criminal.

Now, Ma Laizi, who fears nothing in the village all day long, is he afraid of being harmed by others?

"I, I was..." Ma Laizi was about to make a fuss, but Zhu Ge had already dragged him to the open space behind the house.

"What, what do you want to do..." Ma Laizi looked terrified, like a woman about to be forcibly taken away.

"Tell me quickly!" Zhu Ge said, somewhat exasperated, "This is a critical moment. We must find a way out, or we'll all die!"

"You, you really weren't deified?" Ma Laizi watched Zhu Ge's vivid expression, his face gradually changing from horror to suspicion.

"Being deified is like being a walking corpse!" Zhu Ge said irritably. "Look at my mother, she's like that, but do I look like one?"

"That's true..." Ma Laizi nodded slightly, then added, "Should we go tell Scholar Yu?"

"I told you, there's something wrong with Scholar Yu! He just came to check on you to make sure you were alright!"

Zhu Ge sighed and said, "Otherwise, with the handwritten words left by the master and the Taoist skills of Scholar Yu, our village would not have been invaded by ordinary gods."

"Yu Xiucai has a problem..." Ma Laizi frowned upon hearing this, trying to come up with a solution with Zhu Ge: "But today he also asked how your and Hua Xiaomei's wedding room is being decorated."

Hua Xiaomei?

Marriage room?

Zhu Ge couldn't help but ask, "Speaking of which, when was the last time you saw Hua Xiaomei?"

When Zhu Ge asked about Hua Xiaomei, Ma Laizi raised an eyebrow: "Why are you asking me about your own fiancée? I have no interest in that slender woman; she can't have children."

People here prefer women with thick waists and large hips, as they are considered more fertile.

However, what Zhu Ge was troubled about was not this, but Hua Xiaomei's existence itself.

In his memory, Hua Xiaomei and her mother were both dead!

Moreover, the parents instinctively revealed their memories of Hua Xiaomei and her mother having died long ago.

This means that before the gods were taken away, the parents already had the memory of "Hua Xiaomei and her mother were already dead".

But those who are still alive today have a memory of "Hua Xiaomei and Zhu Ge getting married".

Which memory is wrong?

and……

Could there be other beings besides the Tiger God...? Zhu Ge felt her mind was in complete chaos.

"You can't be missing Hua Xiaomei, can you?" Ma Laizi asked in surprise. "She's your fiancée! I was wondering why her mother had been looking for her."

"Is her mother looking for her?" Zhu Ge remembered this and asked, "Where is she?"

He needs to go see the young Chinese woman's mother and see where things went wrong!

"It's at the village entrance," Ma Laizi pointed north.

"Okay... Anyway, remember these next two days, don't stray too far from the moonlight," Zhu Ge said.

"My parents were possessed by spirits, and I survived because I happened to be bathed in moonlight... Don't believe Scholar Yu!"

As she spoke, Zhu Ge turned to leave, but then, as if remembering something, she turned back halfway and said:

"By the way, if I remember correctly, Hua Xiaomei died during the plague not long ago. There's something wrong with this bridal chamber; you'd better avoid it!"

After saying that, Zhu Ge ignored Ma Laizi's drastically changed expression and turned to leave.

Ma Laizi stood there, his face contorted in a violent struggle, but he didn't put down his work and continued to work.

Zhu Ge followed the direction Ma Laizi pointed and headed to the other end of the village to find the so-called Hua Xiaomei's mother.

He came up empty-handed and couldn't find anyone.

Unwilling to give up, Zhu Ge searched most of the village, but couldn't find Hua Xiaomei, and her mother was nowhere to be seen.

But right now, the breakthrough point for Tiger God lies with Hua Xiaomei.

Therefore, Zhu Ge ultimately decided to venture down the mountain to visit the burial site of Hua Xiaomei and her mother.

……

The weather was hot, and Zhu Ge took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to dig out Hua Xiaomei and her mother's coffins.

When the coffin lid was opened, there was no overwhelming stench as I had imagined.

There was only an empty coffin, and some fungi and moss growing inside.

"really!"

Zhu Ge put down the hoe, wiped the sweat from his face, and looked deep in thought with bloodshot eyes.

There were no bodies, or even anything at all.

The absence of a body means either Hua Xiaomei is alive and has escaped.

Either they died, then something like a zombie emerged, and eventually escaped.

They couldn't possibly have vanished into thin air.

No, it's also possible that they simply vanished into thin air!

What if Hua Xiaomei becomes a goddess, uses her own body as a shrine, and then hides the shrine in another place?

For example, could it be hidden in the bridal chamber?

The door to that bridal chamber was tightly closed, and no one knew what was inside; the shrine to the corpse was very likely inside.

The appearance of Hua Xiaomei during the earlier plowing, and the fact that she even composed a nursery rhyme to confuse Zhu Ge, was also intentional.

This led him to mistakenly believe that an outsider tiger god had taken control of the village.

"So, either the Tiger God really exists, or the Tiger God was fabricated by the God of Happiness to confuse the public?"

Zhu Ge thought of that eerie wedding room.

Thinking of the character "囍", Zhu Ge felt that calling him the God of Happiness was quite appropriate.

Therefore, there were only two possibilities for Hua Xiaomei's appearance back then.

One theory is that Hua Xiaomei herself became a god after her death, namely the Goddess of Happiness, and came to deceive Zhu Ge for some purpose.

Another possibility is that Hua Xiaomei is not a god, but some other mysterious being who appeared in the field to remind him and for his own good.

If Hua Xiaomei is the goddess of happiness, then why would she mislead him?

"Could it be that they discovered I wasn't under their control, so they tried to regain control, but because my soul comes from another world, they failed for some reason?"

"Or is the condition for control to make me believe something? So now you want me to believe that I'm engaged to her?"

Zhu Ge frowned.

As initially thought, the god was a tiger god, which is why he was able to prevent people from becoming vegetative after taking the god's power.

This is Lenovo, and the process of making this connection wouldn't have been possible without the help of that nursery rhyme.

But what if his initial assumption was wrong?

Was it actually a misleading message from the God of Happiness?

Moreover, since Scholar Yu also has problems, could it be that there is no god at all?

The seemingly mechanical and rigid people around you are actually being controlled by another force?

Or is it possible that their Jianshan Village has more than one god?

There are two gods: the Tiger God and the Double Happiness God?

"What exactly is it...?"

Zhu Ge felt a splitting headache.

chaos!

too messy!

I don't even know what I'm thinking!

Despite the apparent numerous suspicious points and seemingly discovered clues, it remains a complete mess!

Currently, a breakthrough is still lacking!

He lacks a point of certainty that allows him to trust and discover the truth!

"It seems we still have to rely on the Kunpeng's special qualities..."

Zhu Ge sighed.

He then painstakingly buried the coffin back.

Fortunately, no one usually comes to the grave, and since he saw many people along the way whose spirits had been taken away, even fewer people come here.

After burying it back, Zhu Ge, exhausted and covered in sweat, went up the mountain again and returned to Jianshan Village.

Father has returned, and Mother is mechanically heating up the dishes.

For example, stir-frying Boletus luridus or Boletus edulis.

People in Yunjiang like to eat mushrooms, and Zhu Ge also knows that mushrooms are delicious. However, he was afraid of being poisoned and hallucinating, so he only ate some food and then rested.

He said he was resting, but actually he opened the system as soon as he lay down on the bed.

"Kunpeng, wear it!"