Chapter 44.1

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“This pair of silver bracelets is a token of the love between Pingping and I.”

Wei Xun’s voice trembled slightly as he took out the two silver bracelets. His eyes reluctantly fell on them and he murmured, “Pingping returned hers to me, but I know that she couldn’t help but return it to me. She still has me in her heart.”

Couldn’t help but return it?

Miao Fangfei’s expression changed slightly, but it didn’t show on the surface. She looked at Ah Cheng and said, “You, sigh, Pingping is going to get married in the end…”

“What kind of marriage is she getting herself into!”

Ah Cheng’s voice suddenly rose, but he suddenly stopped after speaking half a sentence. A look of hesitation and fear appeared on his face, as if he was afraid of something. Finally, he stopped talking. He simply solemnly handed one of the silver bracelets to Miao Fangfei. With a little sadness and a slight hint of anticipation, he solemnly said, “Sister Miao, thank you. If you can, please hide this silver bracelet in the pig’s liver. Pingping will naturally know my feelings for her after seeing it.”

Miao Fangfei took the silver bracelet. Ah Cheng smiled sadly, and then turned and left. If nothing unexpected happened to Miao Fangfei, she would return to the stove to continue to deal with the pig liver and find a chance to tell Shi Tao and Xu Chen the news.

“Pingping can’t help but get married. ‘What kind of marriage is she getting herself into.'”

Xu Chen deliberated over the two sentences carefully with a serious expression. “Indeed, we still don’t know who Pingping is going to marry.”

“Ah Sang and Ah Wen kept us in the dark about it.”

Miao Fangfei nodded. Yesterday, when she talked with the two people in an attempt to worm out some information, she found that the two people were very talkative regarding many trivial matters. However, when it came to Pingping’s marriage, they would only repeat that Pingping’s marriage was a major event in the village and careful arrangements must be made for it. If Miao Fangfei kept making oblique references to Pingping’s marriage, the two would stare at her with alert expressions.

“She’s probably not marrying a good fellow.”

Shi Tao spoke, his eyes shifting to the stove, “Are we going to deliver this silver bracelet to Pingping?”

If they really acted based on Ah Cheng’s instructions, they had to prepare as early as possible while they could get in touch with the pig liver.

“We will be able to obtain more information from Ah Cheng. This attraction could indeed proceed based on the different choices we make.”

Xu Chen said calmly, “We should spread this information and warn Zhao Hongtu and the others to pay more attention.”

They talked briefly. Once Ah Sang and Ah Wen looked over, they began to seriously cook pig liver again.

On the other side of the village, after Wei Xun had left the village head’s house, he had been called to the village head’s room. Looking through the bamboo curtain, Wei Xun could only vaguely see the human figure beneath the bedding on the bed. The village head coughed constantly. It was obvious that he was seriously ill and couldn’t get out of bed. However, even though his voice was old and weak, he still felt a strange sense of danger after hearing his voice.

“Ah Cheng, did you go to meet Pingping again?”

“Yes.”

Wei Xun didn’t bother to put on a pretense this time, so he replied straightforwardly. Along the way, he recalled his experiences before he had arrived at Cordoned-off Village and Pingping’s two diaries. He had some new guesses about her, so Wei Xun began to test his hypotheses. He responded in such a tone, but the village head was not angry. It was just as Wei Xun expected.

“I know that you like Pingping.”

The village head’s voice sounded kind. He was still coughing. His tone was helpless and regretful as he said slowly, “You were born on the same day as Ah Long. In my eyes, you are just like my child, and I treat you as my own child.”

“Pingping, Pingping likes you too. You’re the only person she wants to marry. If it was not for, sigh, she had no other solution but to marry.”

The village head cut off his words in order to guide Wei Xun into prompting him. It was as if he wanted Ah Cheng to ask the questions himself. However, Wei Xun had gotten the information he wanted from the village head’s words just now, so he did not fall into the village head’s trap. With a wave of his large hand, he said in a sonorous and powerful voice, “Happiness can only be earned by myself.”

“As long as Pingping is happy, I will be happy. Village head, you don’t have to persuade me anymore.”

After that, Wei Xun turned and left. He only heard the village head’s cough getting worse behind him, but no one stopped him. Wei Xun was more confident in his hypotheses now. On the way back to Ah Cheng’s house, he linked the relationships between Pingping’s diary, the zombified flying fox king, Ah Cheng, and the other information in his mind.

On that day, the zombified flying fox king’s illusion said that Pingping had eloped with Ah Cheng. Maybe it was right.

However, it was not necessarily Ah Cheng who had eloped with her.

Ah Cheng’s house was on the edge of Cordoned-off Village. Based on the traditions of Cordoned-off Village, when a man grew up, he had to leave his parents and build a new house. Only then could he officially become an adult and be able to marry a wife. Ah Cheng had always wanted to marry Pingping, so he built a house near the village as soon as he was an adult. In fact, this place was not far from the cave behind the mountain where Pingping had given birth to her child.

“Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp.”

As soon as Wei Xun entered the door, he heard the tender cries of chicks. Ah Cheng kept two cages of chicks. The sight of the bright yellow and clean chicks was very cute. Wei Xun could almost hear the sound of drooling in his mind.

The sight of the young chicks made the young fox really excited. However, Wei Xun’s misunderstanding of the fox’s dietary preference previously may have made him angry, so the young fox held back his urges this time and didn’t coquettishly say things like, “Master, I’m hungryyyy.”

Wei Xun didn’t care about the fox and put the two cages of chicks on the table, teasing the chicks with grass stalks.

This man is really too annoying to This Fox!

“I’ve been always thinking. Why did I become Ah Cheng?”

Wei Xun sat by the table and his index finger tapped the table rhythmically. The tapping sound coincided with Wei Xun’s heartbeat, but if a person with excellent hearing listened carefully, they would be surprised to find that there were two faint heartbeats coming from within his body.

[Countdown to Incubation——15:25:13]

“Miao Fangfei and the other’s attraction is directly related to the crying marriage, but mine isn’t.”

Wei Xun talked to himself as he carelessly placed two fingers on the side of his neck and felt his pulse. If Wei Xun wanted to, he could even completely avoid the crying marriage. He could just use the reason that Ah Cheng was too sad and didn’t want to see the crying marriage and think of Pingping. And based on Miao Fangfei’s interaction with him, he felt that she thought he was a native of Cordoned-off Village. The most important thing was that Wang Pengpai didn’t immediately find out that Ah Cheng was him.

In other words, Wang Pengpai hadn’t expected Wei Xun to get Ah Cheng’s identity.

There was a reason for everything. Wei Xun wouldn’t pretend to think that Pingping had a crush on him and wanted him to be her sweetheart. That was to say, there was definitely an internal reason why Wei Xun had become Ah Cheng.

The dialogue with the village head finally made Wei Xun put together the last piece to complete the incomplete puzzle.

“Is it because of you?”

Wei Xun pressed his fingers against the side of his neck, pressing the blood vessels in the area for a long time. Doing so would cause one to feel dizzy, but Wei Xun only felt that his heart was beating fast and his body felt heavy, as if he was falling. It seemed that a sense of crisis surfaced from the bottom of his heart and made him want to remove his fingers. Wei Xun decided to follow the correct option and removed the pressure. He supported his head with his hands and quietly felt the flustered feeling dissipate, while the corners of his lips quirked up slightly.

“I found you.”

After killing the zombified flying fox king, Wei Xun had encountered an unexpected danger because he had used the scenic spot experience ball. Since then, a new status of [Countdown to Incubation] had been added to his personal information page.

If Wei Xun stopped it from hatching, defeated it, or killed it, Wei Xun would be rewarded for finally opening up the scenic spot. However, the Travel Services didn’t remind him what “it” was or where “it” was.

But now, Wei Xun could confirm that “it” was the parasite in his body, and there were 15 hours before it hatched. It was currently 4:30 in the morning.

In other words, it would hatch around 8 o’clock tonight.

“The zombified flying fox king possessed Ah Long’s soul.”

“The village head wants Pingping and Ah Long to conduct a underworld marriage.”

“Pingping eloped with Ah Cheng.”

“For Pingping to bring Yang energy into her body, during the night of her wedding, she was raped continuously by the men of Cordoned-off Village.”

These four sentences could be established as the truth at this time.

After Wei Xun had obtained Ah Cheng’s identity, Wei Xun knew that although Ah Cheng was troublesomely indecisive, he had no bad intentions and was sincere to Pingping. If he had really eloped with Pingping, it was impossible for him to deceive her and not arrive at the rendezvous location with Pingping, allowing her to be raped continuously in the village.

Unless he had been trapped or controlled by something.

Wei Xun should have needed more information before he could finally confirm this, but because he had replaced Ah Cheng, the similarities between him and Ah Cheng allowed Wei Xun to quickly lock in on the truth.

It must be something like the zombified flying fox king, or its cubs, eggs, and so on.

There was something in Wei Xun’s body, and Wei Xun was afraid it was in Ah Cheng’s body as well. It was precisely because of this similarity that Wei Xun had become Ah Cheng.

“The village head still wants his son to come back to life,” Wei Xun whispered.

Therefore, the village head had chosen Ah Cheng, who was born on the same day as Ah Long. Maybe he had targeted Ah Cheng because there was something special in his eight characters.

Since he knew that there was probably a zombified flying fox in his body, Wei Xun wondered, how did the zombified flying fox entered his body?

After analyzing everything, Wei Xun knew that he only fought with the zombified flying fox king and drank its blood essence. Perhaps it had entered Wei Xun’s body through physical contact. Ah Cheng and Pingping had grown up as childhood sweethearts, so Ah Cheng could have touched the zombified flying fox king she raised. Therefore, there were eggs in Ah Cheng’s body, or something that had Ah Long’s consciousness attached to it.

The village head clearly knew that Ah Cheng and Pingping had privately met up before Pingping had gotten married, but he hadn’t stopped it. If the village head had spoken to the Ah Cheng who cherished Pingping, it might have strengthened Ah Cheng’s intentions of eloping with Pingping.

The eggs would hatch at eight o’clock tonight. Perhaps Pingping’s elopement with Ah Cheng was supposed to be at eight o’clock tonight as well. It was just that when she arrived at the agreed location, Pingping, who was nervously waiting for her lover, could only meet with the “controlled” Ah Cheng.

Wei Xun arranged everything properly and just waited for the situation to develop further, playing with a dagger in his hand. Pingping’s blood grudge dagger could kill the person against whom Pingping held the most resentment.

Who was Pingping the most resentful against? The village head, her brother Ah Long, Ah Cheng, or the whole village?

“I’ll just have to wait for information from Miao Fangfei and the others.”

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Miao Fangfei was soaked in cold sweat, and her face was white. She was surrounded by the fishy smell of pig liver. After cooking pig liver in the kitchen for a very long time, she had almost been pickled by the smell, and Shi Tao was no better than her.

“Hurry, act quickly.”

Miao Fangfei looked at the door from time to time and appeared anxious. The pig livers had been cooked earlier than they had expected it to be. Miao Fangfei had cooked them quickly, and when she had been resting, she had tried digging out information from Ah Sang and Ah Wen again. Miao Fangfei heard that the village head’s illness had grown much more serious. Pingping was filial and wanted to get married as soon as possible to save his life by allowing him to witness her wedding to counteract the bad luck. Therefore, all the events that would happen might be pushed forward. This immediately caused Miao Fangfei to grow more nervous.

Hence, the three of them took turns to lead away Ah Sang and Ah Wen, while the others took the opportunity to place the silver bracelet into the pig liver. A whole pig liver was very large, and after being cut into four pieces, each piece was as large as Shi Tao’s palm. The pig liver was cooked until it was soft and mushy, so they should be able to insert a silver bracelet in it. But when Miao Fangfei really tried doing so, she found that something was wrong.

After the silver bracelet touched the pig liver, it turned black!

This pig liver was poisonous!

This discovery was shocking. Miao Fangfei tried putting the silver bracelet in different sections of the pig livers one after another, and found that not only were the cooked and cut pig livers poisonous, but those raw pig livers also turned the silver jewelry black. The most bizarre thing was that the pig liver that was fished out of the boiling water was also poisonous.

These pig livers were supposed to be served to Pingping and the rest of the village. How could they be poisonous??