Chapter 310

Outside Huangshan Village.

Amidst the melodious sound of a flute.

Paper money fluttered and danced in the air.

Li Qiang stood up, his back to Ah Ming, and sighed: "It was truly an unjust death."

"I never thought that after so long, she would still be unable to calm her anger."

"Aunt Mei... Aunt Mei, forget it, let them go."

Li Qiang looked around, tears in his eyes, his tone pleading.

Suddenly.

A strong wind blew.

Bending the bodies of the wild grass and also blowing out the paper money Li Qiang had just burned for Chu Renmei.

"Aunt Mei, it's been almost a hundred years, let them go... Aunt Mei... Aunt Mei..." Li Qiang's tears streamed down his face.

At this time.

An extremely pleasant Cantonese opera singing voice echoed faintly in the desolate village.

It was just that this Cantonese opera singing, paired with the atmosphere of a horror movie and the desolate village that had just been haunted, had an indescribable eeriness.

The scene switched.

Entering Li Qiang's memory.

The screen specifically displayed the time: 1936.

When the audience saw this time, their gazes froze in unison, and they sighed faintly in their hearts.

That era...

Was precisely when China was in turmoil.

A speck of dust from the era, when it falls on an individual, is a mountain.

In that era, not many people had an easy life.

On the screen, on a brightly lit stage, a stunningly beautiful opera singer in a blue costume, pinching an orchid finger, was singing:

"The husband is where the heart is happy, the wife is at the moment of heartbreak, the aggrieved mood is known to the moon, meeting is not easy but parting is easy, the abandoned woman now regrets it too late, do you remember the day the phoenixes were happy together, and do you remember the betrayal of kindness and turning to another branch..."

"It's the Cantonese opera 'Selling Meat to Raise a Hundred Orphans'!" Among the Cantonese audience, those familiar with Cantonese opera immediately recognized it.

On stage, the beautiful singer sang.

Off stage, there were many listeners, and cheers erupted.

Among them were two children, a boy and a girl.

That boy was Li Qiang, who was ten years old at the time.

This segment was modified by the girl.

It referenced Si Teng singing opera.

Li Qiang recalled: "Aunt Mei had a miserable childhood. When she was three, she was abandoned by her biological parents outside the opera garden. Fortunately, the famous Cantonese opera singer Mr. Chu Xuan had a compassionate heart and adopted Aunt Mei, naming her Chu Renmei and teaching her to sing opera."

"The time she spent learning opera with Mr. Chu Xuan was probably the best time of Aunt Mei's life..."

The scene switched.

A cute little girl was seen starting from learning to read and write, then beginning to learn to sing opera... In the process of learning, she grew up day by day, eventually blossoming into a beautiful young woman.

A girl in the opera garden had grown up, peerlessly beautiful.

The audience had to "painfully" endure the beauty attack from Youyue.

One by one, they were mesmerized.

It was hard to imagine that such a brutal female ghost could have been so beautiful and stunning in her lifetime.

In fact.

The Chu Renmei in the original movie wasn't particularly beautiful, as the production cost wasn't high.

But with Xu Mingyue's beauty, figure, temperament, and acting skills playing Chu Renmei, everyone felt... this is too good-looking, right?

Why did they suddenly want to defect to the fierce ghost camp?

Aunt Mei, kill me!

As long as you're brave enough, Chu Renmei will go on maternity leave!

Both male and female audience members were letting their imaginations run wild.

Only the children had pure thoughts.

They only felt that the big sister on the big screen was really pretty.

In the film, Chu Renmei smiled sweetly, and her sweet smile instantly struck countless female audience members.

The next second.

Her smile froze.

"However, good times didn't last. When Aunt Mei was twenty, Mr. Chu Xuan passed away due to illness, and the opera garden also disbanded due to years of turmoil and poor management. Aunt Mei, having nowhere to go, followed a teacher to Huangshan Village."

"That teacher was named Bu Bu Wantian, and all the tragedy originated from this beast!!!" Li Qiang's expression was extremely agitated; when mentioning this person, even after nearly a hundred years, he still gritted his teeth, hating him to the bone.

If Bu Bu Wantian hadn't been blinded by greed, there wouldn't have been the later Chu Renmei, whose resentment soared to the heavens.

On the big screen, the scene switched.

One day in 1936, after Chu Renmei finished singing, she was teaching Zeng Xiang and Qian'er to sing opera at a tea shop.

This Qian'er was actually the female ghost in red that the four people saw when they closed their eyes at the very beginning of the movie while playing the soul-summoning game.

In the ancestral hall in the desolate village, there was also Qian'er's spirit tablet, right next to Chu Renmei's.

And Zeng Xiang was the foolish old man in the restaurant; after he leaked Chu Renmei's secret in the restaurant, Qian'er subsequently appeared in the elevator and killed Zeng Xiang.

After Zeng Xiang and Qian'er left.

A young Li Qiang ran over, sat on a stool, and asked: "Congratulations, Aunt Mei, what is the name of that theater troupe?"

"Enter My Mirror Theater Troupe."

"Theater troupe?"

Chu Renmei patiently explained: "It's shadow play."

"However, you don't need to understand so much, Xiao Qiang, you must keep it a secret, don't let Bu Wantian know."

Li Qiang said: "You're really bad, Teacher Bu will definitely scold you, a girl performing civilized drama with people..."

Audience:???

Everyone instantly perked up.

Could it be that kind of indescribable drama???

Chu Renmei was quite open-minded a hundred years ago.

But thinking about it carefully, they felt something was wrong; that era couldn't have been so open.

In fact, so-called shadow drama refers to early movies, and civilized drama refers to a type of stage play in early China, using speech and action as the main performance techniques, also known as new drama.

In that era, it broke with tradition, and for those with conservative thoughts at the time, it was considered lowly.

Chu Renmei performed civilized drama to make money because Bu Bu Wantian was addicted to opium and owed a mountain of debt, and she had to earn money to pay it off.

She asked Li Qiang to keep it a secret for her and gave Li Qiang an exquisite peace bracelet, saying she would grant him any request...

The movie played quickly.

Chu Renmei died.

And she was beaten to death by people!

It turned out that in order to marry the wealthy daughter of Guangdong's number one bank, Bu Bu Wantian decided to kill his wife, Chu Renmei.

He conspired with the thug Tian Qi to set a trap.

They framed Chu Renmei as a promiscuous woman who had illicit affairs, which at the time ruined the reputation of the entire village and meant she had to be beaten to death.

But that woman, infatuated with love, cried to Bu Bu Wantian before she died:

"Tian Qi's money, I hid it under the stairs."

"After you take the money, pay it back to them as soon as possible, and don't smoke opium anymore. Opium isn't something we can afford."

"Everything is fate. Let's just say Tian Qi's affair was me committing adultery with him. If you tell people you arranged it, it will only implicate you. You've been so good to me these past two years, just consider it me repaying you. You should live a good life from now on, and find another good woman to marry..."

Then, Chu Renmei was beaten to death alive.

This foolish woman, until the very end, was still thinking about her husband.

Little did she know that Bu Bu Wantian was the true mastermind behind the scenes.

Li Qiang said he had a heart of a snake and scorpion, and that a man without poison is not a man, and he wasn't wrong at all.

Seeing this scene, countless audience members clenched their fists, their anger soaring to the heavens.

"Chu Renmei is so pitiful."

"No wonder her resentment is so heavy!"

"She truly fed her sincere heart to a dog."

"This Bu Bu Wantian is really not a thing, and those villagers, they deserved it too."

"Beaten to death alive, so pitiful."

"So angry, why do beauties always encounter scumbags!!!"

"So cruel."

"Terrifying human nature."

"Sometimes people are more terrifying than ghosts!"

"Ironically, in real society, there are many such things... sigh."

"..."

The audience discussed in low voices.

On the screen, after Chu Renmei died, Zhang San brought a broken straw mat, wrapped Chu Renmei's corpse, and threw it into the desolate grave on the back mountain.

No one expected that a generation of famous Cantonese opera singers would meet such a miserable end because of meeting the wrong person.

In the night sky.

Dark clouds covered the bright moon, and the sky was inexplicably gloomy.

A cold wind blew past.

The air was filled with the smell of decay and blood.

Occasionally, there was the chilling ghost cry of an unknown bird.

At the desolate grave, a roll of straw mat lay quietly on the ground, wrapping a female corpse inside.

The hair-raising eerie music also began to play at this moment.