Found a cat on the side of the road

Chapter 35 Burning paper to invite ghosts
Xiuai looked at Qin Sisi and murmured: "You are right, I have been dead for a long time, but I always remember that day..."

Xiu Ai raised her head slightly, her confused eyes glanced at the unfamiliar environment in front of her, and traveled through more than 100 years, returning to the devastated post-Qing Dynasty.

September 24, Guangxu 23, was just an ordinary day for others, but it seemed like a new life for Xiuai.

In the early morning of autumn, the misty sunlight falls on the earth leisurely, and the autumn wind brings a touch of coolness.

The community where Qin Sisi lives now was still a few alleys back then, with several families scattered in a patchwork manner, with antique wooden gates.A piece of red cloth was hung on the gate of one of the houses, announcing that there will be happy events at the door.

In the newly furnished boudoir, a young girl in her twenties and eight years was sitting nervously and shyly at a pear wood round table, surrounded by a group of maids and women in brand-new clothes and full of smiles, busy and unhurried. She opened her face, combed her hair, put on the brightest red wedding dress, and painted the most beautiful makeup...

"The head crown filled with jewels and emeralds is so heavy that it makes my head hurt, but I'm so happy in my heart. Soon I will be with Brother Heng forever."

The girl's clear eyes, like streams of water, exuded a strange light, as if she had returned to that lively and joyful morning, and was immersed in the full expectation and longing for love and marriage.

Xiu Ai paused for a moment, and when she spoke again, her voice was slightly choked: "But, after all, I didn't wait for him. Brother Heng was arrested by the government on the morning when he was preparing to get married because he participated in the reform movement. I heard After the news, I almost fainted, my mother asked me to take off the wedding dress first, but I refused, I waited for several days in the bright red wedding dress, but I waited for the news that Brother Heng passed away due to illness in prison."

Xiu Ai covered her face with her hands, sobbing softly, her delicate shoulders trembling slightly, the pain and grief of losing her lover lasted for more than 100 years and lingered for a long time.

Qin Sisi also couldn't help feeling sad. The so-called greater hope means greater disappointment. It is really unacceptable that something happened on the day of the wedding, and the beauty that I had been waiting for and looking forward to disappeared in a flash.

Qin Sisi asked in a low voice: "Then what happened to you then?"

Xiu Ai sighed faintly, crying silently, and smiling helplessly, she said slowly: "I didn't eat or drink for several days, and went with brother Heng."

Qin Sisi looked at Xiu Ai in surprise, it turned out that Xiu Ai died for love, and she was waiting for a high-profile bridegroom, but who knew that what she was waiting for was the desolation where the Sri Lankan had passed away. In grief and despair, she chose life and death to accompany her.

Xiu Ai continued: "After I passed away, there was still a trace of obsession in my heart. I refused to leave with the ecstasy messenger. I insisted on staying in the world and continued to wait at the door of my house. I told myself that as long as I wait, he will definitely come. .”

Then, the flowers bloomed and fell, the clouds rolled and the clouds calmed down, and more than 100 years passed by like a white horse, but the person the girl was waiting for never appeared again.

Qin Sisi had a general understanding of the whole incident, but she couldn't guess what kind of unfulfilled wish Xiuai had, who had been waiting for more than 100 years and knew that her waiting would not bear fruit.

So Qin Sisi asked: "Xiuai, that's it. I need soul power now. I can help you realize a wish. I hope you can dedicate your soul power to me."

Xiu Ai looked at Qin Sisi in surprise. After a long time, she seemed to understand Qin Sisi's meaning. She lowered her eyes and said sadly: "Since it's useless to wait any longer, there's no point in forcing me to stay in this world. I can I dedicate my soul power to you, but I want a wedding, I want to have a bridal chamber with Brother Heng." Xiu Ai's voice became smaller and smaller, and at the end of the sentence, a thick blush appeared on her fair cheeks.

"Wedding?" Qin Sisi was stunned.

Xiu Ai nodded vigorously, and said seriously: "I have never encountered Brother Heng's ghost, so he may have been reincarnated."

"But..." Qin Sisi still felt that this matter was unreliable. Even if this "Brother Heng" was reincarnated, who knew whether he was an eight-year-old child or an 80-year-old man.Taking a step back, even if he is lucky, he is a young man of marriageable age, so how could he marry a ghost?
Just as Qin Sisi wanted to persuade Xiuai to let go of this obsession, Yeyou suddenly said something.

Qin Sisi gave Ye You a suspicious look, so she handed Xiu Ai a piece of paper and a pen as he said, and said, "Write down his name and birthday."

Xiu Ai nodded, and took the pen and paper. She was obviously not used to modern things, so she wrote very slowly, but very neatly, and wrote down what Qin Sisi wanted stroke by stroke.

Just as Xiu Ai put down her pen, Ye You's purple eyes flashed lightly, and a purple light shot out from her eyes, quickly covering Xiu Ai's figure, and in the next second, Xiu Ai had disappeared in that piece of purple light.

Qin Sisi froze for a moment, and quickly realized: "You took her back?"

"En." Ye You responded, then jumped onto the table, looked down at the white paper on which Xiu Ai wrote, with an unclear expression.

Qin Sisi stepped forward and saw the name that Xiuai had been thinking about for more than 100 years—Shen Hengzhi, followed by his exact date of birth.

Qin Sisi asked hesitantly, "Do you think this can be done?"

"How will you know if you don't try it?" Although Yeyou's tone was light, it revealed unquestionable firmness.

Although Qin Sisi didn't know what Yeyou could do, his calm and unhurried attitude reassured Qin Sisi a lot.

As a result, Qin Sisi also quickly entered the state and asked, "What should I do next?"

Yeyou pondered and said, "I remember you bought a pack of yellow paper two days ago and put it in the cabinet."

"Yes, what's the matter?" Qin Sisi nodded, her mother's May [-]th was coming soon, and when she came home from get off work that day, she bought a pack of yellow paper at the grocery store, and she was going to use it for her mother's grave.

Ye You said, "Take it to the northwest corner of the room and burn it."

Qin Sisi opened her mouth in surprise and wanted to say something, but seeing Yeyou's serious eyes, she swallowed the words again, got up silently, went to the cabinet to take out the yellow paper, and then walked to the In the northwest corner of the room, burnt paper was lit with a lighter.

Yeyou also came over, stretched out his paws and sprinkled some sparkling powder on the yellow paper. The powder fell lightly on the burning paper and disappeared immediately.

The dancing flames spread rapidly on the dark yellow burnt paper, and the black ashes danced without wind, like illusory ghosts.

Qin Sisi carefully looked around, Yeyou must have a reason for doing so, maybe, something strange will happen soon.

(End of this chapter)