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Chapter 548 Clay Doll Determined Destiny
Song Yushan took out the marriage book.

The marriages in Marriage Book are presented in groups.

In each group, there are more than two names, including one or several pairs of marriage relationships.

Some people have more than one marriage.

Some marriages involve more than one person.

Some marriages happen at the same time, and some marriages happen before and after.

It can range from two people to several hundred people.

Generally speaking, the clay dolls corresponding to the names of the people in each group of marriages should be pinched out, and then tied with red threads according to their corresponding relationships.

The names of people who are destined to be married will appear in the marriage book.

When the marriage is gone, the name will disappear.

Although this world is already a big world, most of the gods are not in place yet, and the law of heaven still manages the operation of the world.

Previously, marriages in the human world were all ordained by heaven.

The authority of heaven is higher than that of gods. There is no need to go through the trouble of replacing mortals with clay dolls and signing marriages with red threads like gods.

Most of the names on the marriage book show that the marriage has been signed.

Only those born after a period of sixty years are unbound by marriage.

You have to wait in line to be reincarnated as a true spirit, you have to wait to receive your reincarnation identity, and after you receive your identity, you still have to wait for the opportunity to come, and even a few seconds is not enough.

The marriage in the marriage book, after the true spirit takes the identity, the heaven predicts its fate, and the marriage is seen from its destiny.

Therefore, the person who is about to be born and is destined for marriage will be shown a month in advance.

This is to provide convenience for the God of Red Joy. It takes time for the God of Red Joy to pull the red thread. Unlike the way of heaven, which can tie the red thread of marriage at the moment of birth.

Heaven knows a person's fate in marriage from the moment he receives his reincarnation identity.

However, the red line of marriage is not omnipotent.

If a person has a strong will, or if there are variables, it is possible to break away from the red line.

All the red threads on the body were broken free. From then on, the name disappeared from the marriage book and the marriage was determined by itself.

Heaven will no longer prescribe marriage.

Song Yushan compared the names in the marriage book and found the names that were destined to be married but had not yet been tied with a red thread, and exchanged them for a ball of yellow mud and a bottle of purified water at the Fanzhen Hall.

Mud is ordinary mud, and water is ordinary water.

But if you knead it using the clay puppet determination method, you can turn it into an extraordinary clay puppet.

This was Song Yushan's first time making a clay figurine, and his technique was very rough.

However, the clay puppet determination method does not have high technical requirements for shaping the clay figures. It does not matter whether the clay figures look good or not, and whether they are exquisite or not.

As long as you can see that the person you are pinching is a person, with a head, body, arms, legs and feet that can be easily tied with red strings, and can stand firmly on the ground, that's all.

She didn't strive for perfection in making the clay figurine. In order to make the clay figurine stand firm, she made it look short and chubby.

Then round the head, make the neck a little thinner than the head and body, and then separate the arms and legs.
It doesn’t matter if the arms and legs are the same, as long as there is a place to tie the red thread.

It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t look strong. After kneading it using the clay puppet method, it will naturally become strong.

Because the requirements were so low, Song Yushan never failed.

After pinching a clay figurine to the end, practice it with the names in the marriage book. If the name appears on the clay figurine's head, it is considered a success.

Song Yushan's clay kneading skills were really poor, so Song Yushan kneaded several clay pots in a row. Each one was different, but the style was very unified, and the ugliness was all kinds of weird. The clay figurines didn’t even figure out any details, and they relied on the names on their heads to identify who was who.

Song Yushan was worried about getting mixed up and delaying things. After pinching one, he put it into the corresponding name in the marriage book and took it out when needed.

Tying the red thread of marriage is not as easy as tying the clay figurines. She is going to knead everyone's clay figurines and then tie the red thread one by one.

This will allow the novice to make more preparations before completing the task.

As soon as the novice task is completed, the serious daily tasks will come. By then, she may not be able to tie the red thread skillfully!
While making clay figures, she also tended to the flowers and plants in the cave. In less than a year, she had matched all the names of people who were missing in the marriage book with clay figures.

Finally, we have reached the last step, tying the red thread of marriage.

Different marriage relationships have different ways of tying the red thread.

In some groups, there are only two people, and both of them are only destined to marry each other. All they need is a red thread.

In some groups, there are many people, and each person has more than one red line. The marriage relationship is complicated and troublesome.

Song Yushan specially selected a group of people with the most complicated marriage relationships from the marriage book.

There are more than hundreds of people.

When I took out the clay doll, I couldn't even place it in the room.

If she can tie this set of red threads well, the rest will definitely be fine.

Song Yushan arrived at the thatched cottage by the lake. It was spacious, airy, and well-lit. The most important thing was that there were minimal furniture and plenty of open space, and hundreds of clay figures could be placed there.

The marriage relationship between this group of people is complicated. Song Yushan is managing their relationship while making clay figurines.

"The core figure...should be him!" Song Yushan took out Cao Ziye's clay figurine and placed it in the center of the floor.

This Cao Ziye is a prince of a country in the mortal world who lives among the people. He is the bloodline left behind by the emperor during his private visit in disguise.

Before the age of twenty, he lived outside the palace.

When he was fifteen years old, he married Tan Shuhui, the daughter of a private school teacher.

This is Cao Ziye's first marriage.

Song Yushan placed Tan Shuhui's clay figurine next to Cao Ziye.

Although the marriage was short-lived, Tan Shuhui was regarded as a white moonlight figure in Cao Ziye's heart.

Two years after their marriage, when Cao Ziye was seventeen years old, he met Yang Hongwen, the eldest son of the Hou family, who was studying abroad, and became acquainted with him.

Soon after, one of Tan Shuhui and her child became seriously ill, and the other fell into the well and died.

Cao Ziye suddenly became a loner, suffered a blow, and became depressed.

Yang Hongwen invited Cao Ziye to go on a study tour to relax and help him do some clerical and staff work to offset the expenses of the study tour.

Cao Ziye followed.

But he didn't know that everything was Yang Hongwen's plan, and even the death of his wife and children was done by Yang Hongwen.

On the surface, he is a gentle gentleman, courteous to virtuous people, likes to make friends and study abroad, and is generous. He loves to help poor students the most.

In fact, Yang Hongwen's socializing and study tour was fake, and he was actually looking for prey.

He is a good person with Longyang qualities, who hides very deeply. He likes to pick on unpowerful students and conquer others step by step. Once he has truly conquered someone, he is no longer interested.

Because he was generous and clever, making people love and hate him, students who had a relationship with him concealed this past in order not to affect their academic examinations and career.

Cao Ziye was the target of Yang Hongwen's selection this time.

Yang Hongwen was very patient and generally disdainful of using strong tactics, so that Cao Ziye didn't notice at all.