Chapter VI Rules
Last night, in front of the Bai family's lobby, white banners and wreaths were hung around the house. Bai Rong was wearing plain clothes and sat in the center of the lobby. On both sides were the Bai family in black.
He was wearing the top scholar's uniform and holding a red hydrangea in his hand. There was a black tablet tied to the other end of the ball, and was held in Chuntao's arms.
The two of them bowed in front of the hall, and led by Yue Chanyi and two boys who spread paper money into the room in the backyard.
There was a huge black coffin parked in the room. The one lying in the coffin was a young woman in a red wedding robe. Her face was covered with a red veil, her bright red wedding robe was embroidered with dark plum blossoms, and her hands covered with red nails were folded on her chest, and her pale skin was bloodless.
"I told you Jia and Yi that since you died early, there was no good friend. You only sleep in the Quan Palace and carry the man and woman. Without being hired, you will be in trouble with Zhongdemen and died together. The two surnames are in harmony and get married to the ghost. When you choose a divine marriage, you will be together now."
After Yue Chanyi finished singing the sacrificial text, she walked over straight.
The last freeze in my mind was Li Taiyuan who saw herself crawling into the coffin and lying next to the woman.
The two memories are intertwined, so that Li Taiyuan can't tell which one is true and which one is false.
Although he was very confused, he still squeezed out a smile on his face and said to Chuntao: "I was drugged by my family last night, and my mind was already confused. I just woke up and couldn't remember it. I suddenly heard you say something about the ghost marriage, and I couldn't accept it psychologically for a while..."
His explanation sounds reasonable. Chuntao and Huixiang are not old, they are extremely simple in their minds, and they believe them if they are confused.
"After all, I've got married, can I ask how the eldest lady died?" Li Taiyuan looked at Chuntao.
"Miss died of illness." Chuntao said.
According to other servants, the eldest lady Bai Ruoyan has been in poor health since she was a child and is naturally stubborn. Since she was born, she has been kept in the North Courtyard room without leaving the house. Until she died of illness last night, she had never seen this mysterious eldest lady.
Li Taiyuan was stunned when she heard this, but she didn't expect that she would become a widower as soon as she passed the door.
Thinking of Yue Chanyi's words last night, he murmured with his cheeks: "Isn't the purpose of the Bai family's marriage the purpose of wanting children to inherit the position of patriarch? Since the eldest lady is dead, it seems that this hope can only fall on the second lady..."
In ancient times, there was also a custom called remarriage, which said that women could remarry other men in their husband's family after their husband's death.
After hearing what Li Taiyuan said, Chuntao hesitated and spoke, with a strange expression on her face: "Miss II is only thirteen years old this year and is not yet at the age of marriage."
"I know, I don't smelly copper. I don't have any messy thoughts about Bai Muya. Don't look at me like that."
Li Taiyuan held his forehead: "I'm just curious. How is the Bai family planning to resettle me now? Could it be that I have been living in the Bai Mansion to guard widowing the rest of my life?"
Chuntao lowered her head, with a shy expression: "I'm sorry, my son-in-law, I misunderstood you. Huixiang and I are just maids. I only entered the mansion five years ago. Huixiang came later, and it only took three years to complete the whole plan. We don't know what the master has done, and they all do things as ordered."
"Okay."
Li Taiyuan stopped asking questions, and he didn't look like Chuntao's stupid appearance, but he didn't seem to know the inside story. It seems that if you want to inquire about the news, you have to find other servants.
The things in his mind are now in a mess. It would be fine if he just saw some strange scenes of blood whirlwinds like he did just now. What Li Taiyuan was afraid of was that what happened last night happened again: the scenes he saw when he was sick and the things he experienced were extremely close to reality, and even he could not tell the truth and falsehood.
What's even more troublesome is that the stability medicine I carried with me had long been detained by Su Youguang and his wife. Without the medicine, their illness would occur at any time.
If this disease comes inappropriately and there are no trustworthy people around you, you may be worried about your life when you act.
For the current plan, I can only keep a low profile and strive to persevere. If nothing unexpected happens, Chen Bin should find this place soon.
After breakfast, Li Taiyuan walked around the Bai Mansion under Chuntao's leadership.
The Bai Mansion is very big, and Li Taiyuan is interested in recording the road, so it took him nearly three hours to visit.
Although the furnishings in Bai Mansion were very luxurious, the atmosphere was always dead. Last night it was too dark, and Li Taiyuan just took a quick glance. Now, everyone here has more or less defects: either blind or deaf, or even missing arms and legs.
Seeing that they looked numb, Li Taiyuan felt that these things seemed not humans, but the body of the soul had been hollowed out. In addition to the necessary greetings, every servant lowered his head and did his own thing quietly.
In contrast, Chuntao and Huika seem much more normal.
When he walked to the courtyard, Li Taiyuan saw that there was no one around, so he asked Chuntao what he needed to do after marrying into the Bai family.
"Yue Chanyi said, you don't have to worry about anything now. From now on, you will be the owner of the Bai Mansion, just stay there with peace of mind." Chuntao said with a plea to the eye.
"I understand." Li Taiyuan said it clearly, but had already made a small plan in her heart.
"By the way, Chuntao, before coming here, I heard people talk about the weirdness of Bai Mansion. When I arrived in such a place, are there anything to be taboo?" Li Taiyuan asked the other party directly without bending around the bush.
The layout of the Bai Mansion is very strange, it is a pattern facing south and north.
The north courtyard is the main room of the master, and Bai Rong and Bai Muya live there; although they have married, because of the man outside, Li Taiyuan was arranged to be in the wing room of the west courtyard. Except for the housekeeper Yue Chanyi, all the servants in the mansion live in the west courtyard and the south courtyard respectively.
On the east side is a courtyard, and there is a pond in the courtyard. Most of the trees planted in the palace are locust and mulberry.
It is worth noting that at the corner between a pavilion and the courtyard wall, an extremely huge mulberry tree grows.
Because it cannot absorb sunlight and the two high walls hinder its growth, the tree grows crookedly and has a very strange shape. The tree is full of deep black fruits like insect eggs. At first glance, it looks densely packed with large areas. The fruits are falling on the branches, but no one has picked them.
When approaching the mulberry tree, Li Taiyuan felt an unusually gloomy atmosphere.
As he walked, he felt something sounded above his head, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand.
"Pu"
A ripe mulberry fell into Li Taiyuan's palm.
The purple-black juice flowed everywhere along Li Taiyuan's fingers. Seeing this, Chuntao quickly handed over a square parcel.
Li Taiyuan raised her head and looked at the mulberry tree in a daze.
"Son-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
Chuntao didn't understand why, so he asked carefully.
Li Taiyuan couldn't describe this strange feeling, so he shook his head and said nothing. He looked at the mulberry fruit and felt strange: locust and mulberry belong to the Yin tree, which is extremely taboo in Feng Shui, which is easy to cause bad luck and ominous things. Ordinary Yang houses will not plant them at all.
Not only that, from the overall structure, the wall of the wing on the west side is completely higher than the courtyard on the east side, corresponding to the pattern of the white tiger covered and the blue dragon. This kind of building is prone to blood disasters, and people may become possessed by evil spirits and hit ghosts after living for a long time.
The roof eaves in the mansion are built very long, with poor lighting, and it is difficult to see the sun all day long. The entire structure is in which yin and yang are reversed, and yin is strong and yang is weak.
Such a house is a yin house in Feng Shui. Too heavy yin energy will inevitably lead to evil spirits.
Even someone who knows a little about Feng Shui can see all kinds of strange things. It is impossible for people to discover all kinds of disadvantages when they were built.
From this we can see that the layout of this house was deliberately done by Baifu.
The Bai Mansion is interesting to deliberately build one's own ancestral home into a shady house.
Perhaps because of the butler's instructions, Chuntao thought for a moment and explained to Li Taiyuan:
"Yes, son-in-law. The Bai family is no more than ordinary families. Whenever you enter the house, no matter what your identity is, you must abide by the rules here, even the patriarch and other elders are no exception. If you violate it, you may be worried about your life."
"Oh? Let's hear it."
Li Taiyuan immediately became interested.
Unexpectedly, the White Mansion has become like the Land of Nothingness, and is affected by unspeakable power. From this point of view, the Black Tai Sui must have not run away here.
Next, Chuntao listed a bunch of strange taboo things.
Li Taiyuan quickly digested what she said and listed the following information in his mind:
1. Everyone’s room is fixed and cannot be replaced privately.
2. Never accept barter from anyone who proposes.
3. Except for the patriarch and the second lady wearing white clothes, all the servants in the mansion are wearing blue shirts; the butler and elder are in black robes. If you see people with different colors in the mansion, no matter men or women, you must not communicate with them, and you must not look at each other with your eyes. Just pretend that you didn’t see them and leave quickly.
4. There are strict standards for three meals a day in Baifu. Everyone needs to eat in their own room and cannot be wasted. The three meals are from 7 to 8 am, from 11 to 12 noon, and from 18 to 19 pm.
5. The kitchen does not serve late-night snacks. If you are really hungry, you can go to the kitchen to find food, but you must not use fire in the kitchen, nor can you eat meat.
6. Whether you are a master or a servant, you must not leave your room after twelve o'clock in the evening.
7. After twelve o'clock, the lights must be turned off in the house and no lighting candles must be lit.
8. When the environment falls into darkness and there is only one person in the house, it is absolutely safe.
9. If you find that your own or other people's shadow becomes weird, don't say it out. Be sure to keep an eye on it until it disappears.
10. Rainy days are very special for Shengquan Village. Whenever it rains, everyone must stay indoors no matter how early or later to ensure that they are not wet.
11. Last and most important point: the North Courtyard leads to the ancestral hall on the mountain, which is the forbidden area of Shengquan Village. Except for the patriarch and other elders, anyone is forbidden to approach.
Chapter completed!