The clattering sound of chopsticks continued as everyone scooped the porridge into their mouths.
Today was a day of traveling, so they had to eat more, or else they would be hungry before noon, and their stomachs would be very uncomfortable.
However, this was obviously not Li Huowang's current concern. He glanced sideways at Bai Lingmiao.
The girl's face was a bit gloomy because he didn't let her in last night and instead let her sleep with Chun Xiaoman.
Taking advantage of this brief moment, he cleaned up all the red things in the room to prevent the other party from finding out that he had inexplicably gotten married without his knowledge.
Although the aftermath had been resolved, he only had one question in his mind now, "What did I sleep with last night?"
From the bite marks on his fingers, it was clear that it was not an ordinary person.
Now thinking back, Li Huowang realized many suspicious points.
Why did she have to extinguish the candle first when she removed the red veil? Why was the difference between her and Bai Lingmiao so great in bed?
And in the darkness, the hairpin on her head, perhaps that was not a hairpin at all! It was something that she had on her head.
"Why did she do this? What is the benefit to her?" Li Huowang was puzzled.
He hardly slept last night, always on guard against her appearing again, but she did not appear again.
As for who that person was, when Li Huowang thought back to the red veil, he already had a vague answer in his heart. But he wanted to confirm it.
Li Huowang quietly watched as Bai Lingmiao ate five pieces of guo tie with porridge.
He had been paying attention to her petite body, when did her appetite become so big?
When he saw that she had eaten enough, Li Huowang kicked her foot and walked towards the bedroom.
Bai Lingmiao wiped her mouth and put down her bowl, following him.
When she walked into the room, she saw her senior brother Li with a very solemn expression, looking at her.
"Senior Brother Li, what's wrong? Is there something you want to ask me?" She felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange and her voice became quieter.
"Sit down, I want to ask you something." Li Huowang pressed her onto a chair.
After some consideration, Li Huowang spoke.
"I learned from Li Zhi that it usually takes two people to perform a shaman dance, one shaman inviting the spirits and the other shaman impersonating the spirits. Since you can use shaman dance to treat me, there must be another shaman besides you, right?"
Both wearing red veils, Li Huowang couldn't ignore the fact that it was Bai Lingmiao's Twin Soul last night.
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"Yeah." Bai Lingmiao nodded.
"Is she a living person? Or a celestial being? Or something else?"
"She's a living person, not a celestial being. Celestial beings have to be invited to come out.""When did Li Zhi's wife crawl out? Didn't her head rot with Gao Zhijian's when they were buried together?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Lingmiao was stunned. "Senior Li, Twin Soul is not Li Zhi's wife."
"What? She's not? Twin Soul still has different identities?" Li Huowang was surprised.
"Um, they told me that Twin Soul is connected to the Great Spirit and cannot be used by others."
Li Huowang remembered Li Zhi's Twin Soul. Besides heavy makeup, she also had some terrifying growths. That Twin Soul was exactly like Li Zhi.
"Could it be..." Thinking of the familiar voice of Bai Lingmiao from last night, Li Huowang suddenly realized something.
"Remove the growths on your face, and your Twin Soul looks just like you?"
After hesitating for a moment, Bai Lingmiao nodded. "Yes, she looks like me, and other Twin Souls look like the Great Spirit."
"How did she come out? How did the immortals turn a living person like her into existence?" Li Huowang asked the crucial question.
This time, Bai Lingmiao did not answer immediately. She struggled with her expression, twisting the hem of her shirt with both hands.
"Senior Li, I really want to tell you. I really want to make it clear. But I really don't know how to say it. On the night when she appeared, Twin Soul came to me in my dream, and then... and then..."
Seeing Bai Lingmiao's almost tearful expression, Li Huowang no longer pressed for an answer. He also understood that there were some things that could not be explained too clearly in this haunted place.
"Call her out. I have something to ask her." Li Huowang's eyes were full of hostility.
Bai Lingmiao carefully looked at Li Huowang and then turned around to open the door. A woman with a red hood on her head and red embroidered shoes stood there.
Li Huowang walked over, enduring his anger, and faced Twin Soul through the red hood.
He could clearly feel something inside was staring at him, and his sensitivity to other people's gaze had increased a lot.
Carefully observing the wrinkles on her clothes and her figure, Li Huowang confirmed once again that she was the one in his bed last night!
"Senior Li, what happened to her? What happened?" Bai Lingmiao asked worriedly.
Li Huowang was about to speak, but he stopped when he saw Bai Lingmiao's face. He really wanted to ask Twin Soul why she did what she did last night, but he couldn't say it in front of Bai Lingmiao.
He couldn't just say that he slept with a strange creature last night that may or may not have a soul, could he?"Senior Brother Li, what happened? Please talk to me, what did she do to you?" Bai Lingmiao's repeated questioning only made Li Huowang give up his inquiry. He pointed at Twin Soul's face with his hand, gave a threatening look, and then pushed open another door and left. "Forget it, let's go."
At this moment, Bai Lingmiao was completely confused. She turned to Twin Soul beside her and asked again, "What happened?"
But Twin Soul stood there like a zombie, motionless.
"This is strange, what's going on?" Bai Lingmiao was clearly bewildered.
Two carriages were brought out from the backyard, carrying everyone away from the Wu family village, which was about to become a beggar's nest. They returned on the same road, passing through the withered bamboo forest.
The journey was over 200 miles, not too long or too short. They hurried back to the foot of Henghua Mountain as fast as they could. Compared to before, the small town at the foot of the mountain was obviously a bit more "lively," with more beggars begging on the roadside.
Li Huowang opened the lacquered box, took another look at the pair of blood-red eyes staring at him, and walked down the mountain.
But this time, Bai Lingmiao stopped him. "Senior Brother Li, I'll go with you this time. I can jump like a shaman now, I'm no longer a burden."