I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 40 The bride's car-binding fee must not be less than one cent.

The bride ate a few bites of the hand-pulled noodles that Liu Shulan had made herself, with two poached eggs added. Yu Han took the rest and put it aside.

The groom, dressed in a neat, coarse gray Zhongshan suit, entered the house early to prepare to carry the bride to the car.

Zou Jun's little follower placed the red quilt that Zuo Fu had used on the red carriage covered with poplar grass.

Yuqiu shed a few golden tears, then Zou Jun held her and placed her on the bright red quilt, with the red quilt face up.

Yang Yuhan carried the basin containing scallions, red dates, and copper coins into the car and sat next to Yuqiu. Yumei and Diaoyan, each carrying a red bundle with the character "double happiness" on it, also sat in the car.

The carriage was filled with the bride's family members who came to welcome her. Then, the old ox gently drove the red carriage to slowly circle the dirt road around the village, and finally went to the Zou family to complete the wedding.

The old man and woman remained in the courtyard, along with Liu Shulan, who stood at the gate watching the red wedding carriage depart, tears streaming down her face.

As Liu Shulan watched the red carriage drive away, she quickly returned to the west room. Suddenly, the room felt empty, and she felt like many people were missing. Her eldest daughter had been married for many years, and she only saw her once a year. Her second daughter, when she was only eighteen, had a relationship with a young man from the production team, was punished, and later drowned herself. Her third daughter was now married.

Only then did she realize that she regretted slapping Yu Han across the face because of that telegram. Now that Yu Han had married and left, she was all alone. She had been a woman of the Yang family for almost her entire life, had given birth to four daughters, and was looked down upon by her mother-in-law and husband. Her husband's family members were always cold and unfriendly, and she didn't even have anyone to confide in. Yu Han was her only close confidante.

She knew that Yu Han had hidden the telegram for her and her family's sake. What else could she do when the roads were blocked by heavy snow? Could she go to another province to see her eldest daughter one last time?

The house was empty now, except for the bowl of longevity noodles that Yuqiu had left uneaten. She said her tears flowed like pearls from a broken string.

All mothers feel this way. They carry a child for ten months, from childbirth to raising the child to adulthood, living together every day, almost inseparable. If a wolf suddenly snatches the child away, it feels like a piece of her flesh has been torn off.

She thought back to when she first got married, and how her own mother felt the same reluctance to let her go.

Thinking that all girls have gone through this, I felt relieved.

She started tidying up the messy room. The sudden quiet after the commotion was hard to accept, so she tried to distract herself from her thoughts by keeping busy.

After tidying up the house, she went to the yard to see where else she could tidy up. As soon as she entered the yard, she found the two elderly people standing in front of the open wooden door, looking westward at the snow-covered road with tears in their eyes.

She was about to comfort him and invite him inside, but then she immediately dismissed the idea, deciding to let the two elders vent their reluctance to part with their third granddaughter.

Then he went back to the south wing and went to the room by himself. After a while, she saw through the glass window that the two old people were helping each other walk into the east wing.

The wedding procession, a red horse-drawn carriage, slowly made its way along the narrow dirt road at the back of the village, towards the Zou family's house, when it was blocked by a procession of people from the opposite direction, a white horse-drawn carriage adorned with white flowers carrying a large red coffin.

Then the two vehicles, one for a wedding and the other for a funeral, put on a show of refusing to give way to each other, neither willing to back up.

This road is the narrowest dirt road in the village. The snow has been cleared away. The two carriages are going in opposite directions. The red carriage is going east and the white carriage is going west.

The Yang family man in the red carriage and the men in the white carriage were glaring at each other, the old man beside the white carriage saying, "I don't care what kind of wedding you're having, you must make way for my daughter. If you block her way and prevent her from marrying a good man in her next life, you'll be in deep trouble."

Another middle-aged man, dressed in mourning clothes and carrying a mourning banner, echoed him, "Yes, yes, father-in-law, you're right. It's all my fault. Xiaoling died so tragically. If I hadn't insisted on having a son, she would have given birth to her fifth child... It's all my fault for not taking good care of her. While I was out playing cards, she gave birth to a son, and there was no one with her. Both the newborn son and she... Waaah..."

Then the middle-aged man turned to the people in the red carriage and shouted angrily, "If you delay my deceased wife's reincarnation, if my father-in-law beats me bloody again, you..."

Yang Yuhan felt a surge of amusement when she saw this, but she didn't show it. If others saw it, they would think she was a bit too disappointing. She thought to herself, "So this is because she died during childbirth, and her family is here to punish her husband's family on her behalf."

Suddenly she remembered that the middle-aged man's deceased wife was the husband of the pregnant woman who had told fortune teller Song the other day in the county town whether the child would be a boy or a girl. The fortune teller had told the deceased man's wife that she was pregnant with a boy, and she left with a satisfied smile.

This is really difficult to handle. My third sister's wedding has gone through too many troubles before the New Year, including heavy snow blocking the roads. The wedding was not held until after the New Year, and on the way, she suddenly encountered a Chen Sanjin.

If this drags on, they probably won't resolve the matter by nightfall. They all live in the same village, so it's possible that the man from out of town, whom they know, is writing this to avenge his deceased daughter's actions. This could indirectly affect the Yang family's daughter's marriage prospects.

Just as Yu Han was struggling with this problem, a middle-aged man who looked very familiar from the village appeared from a corner on the north side of the dirt road.

His appearance immediately eased the furrowed brows of Yu Han!

This middle-aged man is a fortune teller who travels frequently. His surname is Lang, but he is called Lang Si (Wolf Four).

It is said that his divination is very accurate. He has been away from home for a long time, and people in the village can never find him when they go to him for a reading. Today is a rare opportunity.

After she finished thinking, she immediately called her fourth uncle, who was confronting the other party, over to the red carriage, whispered a few words to him, and then her fourth uncle walked to the road where Wolf Four was.

Fourth Uncle blocked his way, whispered a few words to him, and then took out a ten-yuan note from his pocket and stuffed it into Wolf Fourth's hand.

Wolf Four immediately agreed and quickly walked to the white carriage, saying to the middle-aged man and his father-in-law, "Please calm down, everyone. We all live in the same village and see each other all the time. Can you allow me to say something? In order for the woman in the coffin to be freed from suffering and ascend to heaven as soon as possible, and not be reborn as a mortal woman in the next life, whether she will be reincarnated as an immortal or become something else depends on your attitude towards her."

"Can't you speak properly? As her father, if I don't want to seek justice for my daughter lying in her coffin and let her be reborn into a good family, what am I doing here?"

"Father-in-law, please calm down. He is a well-known fortune teller in this village. His surname is Lang, and everyone calls him Lang Si."

"Wolf Four?"

"Yes, sir, I am Wolf Four. I've been running around telling fortunes and rarely come home. I had some business to attend to today, so I was able to take a break and just happened to be passing by."

“Mr. Wolf, I remember now, weren’t you telling fortunes on a main road in Beicun Brigade, Nan Commune, Xixian County, Dong Province last year? You told my father’s fortune and said he would be promoted, and my father really was promoted.”

“Yes, yes. A promotion is good! You said back then that your old man always wore a dark green general's uniform and carried a blunt weapon.” Wolf Four chimed in.

"My father gave birth to a donkey."

"It's good that your father is a brigade commander in the army. You can benefit from it and make money. Otherwise, who can afford to wear a general's uniform these days?"

"My father's general's uniform was a gift from relatives in the city, and the blunt weapon he was carrying wasn't..."

"Anyway, it's good that Dad got promoted to brigade commander!"

"He's a brigade commander, not a real military commander. His father spent years feeding livestock and donkeys in the production team. He even had a donkey brooder, and the blunt weapon he carried was a donkey whip!"

(Holy crap!) (Haha!)

"Father-in-law, I always said Mr. Wolf's fortune-telling is very accurate. He had my wife, your daughter, told her fortune in the county town before. That fortune teller is this Mr. Wolf Four. He predicted that she was having a boy, and it turned out that Xiaoling really did give birth to..."

"Alright, stop talking about your wife. Who knows who your wife will be in the next life? Whoever becomes your wife won't live long."

“Mr. Wolf Four, I understand what you mean. You want us to hold a funeral, so let the people holding a wedding on the other side pass first, so that my deceased daughter can have a good reincarnation. Okay, I agree to give way and retreat,” the old man said.

As soon as he finished speaking, the white carriage reversed.

The red horse-drawn carriage traveled a short distance before arriving at the Zou family's courtyard.

Finally, the red carriage stopped, and after everyone got off, only the bride and the escort, Yang Yuhan, remained in the carriage.

Yang Yuhan initially refused the two yuan Yu Yanli offered him as payment for stopping the car. He wouldn't let the bride get out of the car unless she received a satisfactory amount. In the end, Yu Yanli took off her family heirloom silver bracelet and gave it to the bride. She then gave Yuhan, who was stopping the car, two yuan, turning it into twenty yuan.

Yu Yanli's sincerity finally convinced the bride to get out of the car.

Yang Yuqiu's wedding concluded successfully.

Not long after, the fortune teller known as Wolf Four was accidentally run over and killed by a train while traveling to another place.