Chapter 230: Strict over Leniency

After sweeping the floor, I looked back and saw Xia Yubing’s reply on my notebook:

[So sudden? ]

【Okay, I’ll go now.】

After a while:

[Your home is quite close to where I live. But the security guard didn’t seem to believe that I was your girlfriend. He said that Ning Zhe’s girlfriend just came here to help him clean the room the day before yesterday. What’s going on?]

Ning Zhe did not answer her question, but wrote:

[Buy a pack of cigarettes for the security guard. He likes to smoke Jinsheng. Don’t buy the wrong one.]

Xia Yubing’s reply was just one word: [OK]

After waiting for more than ten minutes, new blue words appeared on the notebook:

[I entered your house and found the ring. Now what? Do you want to wear it? ]

Ning Zhe then breathed a sigh of relief and changed his body back to his normal appearance. He took out a small red cloth bag from his clothes pocket, which contained his grandfather’s wedding ring when he was young.

Putting the red cloth bag on the box, Ning Zhe picked up his pen and continued writing:
[Don’t wear it yet. We need to match the marriage before we get engaged. I will write down my birth date and time for you. During this time, you can ask your aunt for your birth date and time, and then write it down to me. Hurry.]

Matching marriages is a traditional custom with a long history. It refers to men and women who are interested in getting married meeting and talking before marriage, exchanging engagement letters, and judging whether the other party is a good match for them.

The Geng Tie will contain the name of the man and woman, their place of origin, date of birth, family situation, three generations of ancestors… and so on. It was an important part of the ancient marriage etiquette.

Things like the Gengtie can be very complicated for wealthy families or very simple for smaller families, with just the date of birth. But to be on the safe side, Ning Zhe still wrote down the names and occupations of his grandparents, and told Xia Yubing to do the same.

Not long after, Ning Zhe stopped writing, and blue words began to appear on the notebook. It was Xia Yubing writing his own birth certificate, completing their “marriage compatibility”.

A few minutes later, Xia Yubing finished writing his anniversary letter.

Ning Zhe quickly picked up his pen and wrote:
[Have you read my horoscope and family situation? ]

Xia Yubing replied instantly:
【Finished reading.】

Looking at the blue handwriting on the notebook paper, Ning Zhe continued to write:
[OK, then finally I ask you, will you marry me? ]

This is the final confirmation stage of the marriage match. It doesn’t matter whether you agree or not. As long as there is a result, it can be considered a complete marriage match. But now Ning Zhe obviously needs Xia Yubing’s consent.

After a moment of silence, blue words appeared on the paper again:
[What can I do if I don’t want to? Actually, my aunt is right. I can’t find anyone better than you. ]

【I do. 】

Ning Zhe nodded and continued writing:

[Okay, then put the ring on the middle finger of your left hand. Be careful not to wear it on the wrong finger. It must be the middle finger of your left hand.]

There are many different opinions on the etiquette of wearing rings. The internationally popular one is that wearing a ring on the left ring finger is considered to be married, and the left middle finger is considered to be engaged. Of course, there are also places that consider wearing a ring on the left middle finger to be “in love”. There are different opinions in different countries and regions. Ningzhe takes the greatest common divisor.

Looking at the words “I’ve put it on” written stroke by stroke on the notebook, Ning Zhe also put his grandfather’s ring on his own hand, completing this invisible engagement.

Then, a wedding dress as red as blood slowly appeared beside him. Ning Zhe turned his head and looked at the almanac in He Nianjun’s hand again:
【Lunar June 27th】

[Suitable for: traveling, cleaning, moving, marriage, engagement, burial, coffining]

[Avoid: moving graves, breaking ground, accepting money, accepting livestock, digging wells, digging ponds, planting, praying for children, and consecrating ceremonies]

There are a total of 7 auspicious events on the lunar calendar today. Ning Zhe has already completed 5 of them: burial, coffining, marriage matching, engagement, and cleaning. He is only two items away from reaching the maximum level of [Good Luck]: traveling and moving to a new home.

Moving cannot be completed here, but Ning Zhe can roughly guess what the conditions are for triggering the trip. To complete this task, he needs to get something first.

“In ancient times, the boundary between the indoors and outdoors was the threshold. Stepping out of the threshold was considered going out, and walking a little further was considered traveling. Although I have been in and out of the prison many times before, I either climbed over the wall or flew out directly, neither of which met the condition of ‘traveling out’.”

To trigger ‘travel’, you need to go through the door.

However, he was previously chased all over the prison by a mad dog, and had no chance to go through the main gate. Now he can relax a little.

“Let’s go find the key.” Ning Zhe closed the notebook and put it in his arms. He turned into a flying insect, slipped through the crack in the door, and left the clean room that had just been cleaned.

Perhaps because of good luck, Ning Zhe had just walked a few steps out of the door when he met a dead prison guard at a corner. There was a large bunch of shiny keys hanging on his waist, and it seemed that he was a team leader or something like that.

After taking off the key, Ning Zhe briefly examined the body of the prison guard. There were no external injuries, only that the body was turned upside down. The facial features and hairstyle were completely opposite to the ID photo on the work badge.

“He was killed by the inverted ghost.” Ning Zhe put the key in his arms, got up and left.

So far, he still hasn’t figured out the killing rules of the inverted ghost, and doesn’t know what kind of medium this ghost needs to kill people. He can only hope that the good luck provided by the snake god will make his future journey as easy as possible.

When Ning Zhe left the prison and rushed towards the main gate of the prison.

Also in the prison building, a man in a prison guard uniform was walking on the fire escape stairs, going down step by step.

But the strange thing was that although his steps were clearly downward, with each step he took, the step he was on would be one step higher than the previous one, and he kept going higher and higher, until his feet were almost at the top of the stairwell.

Fen Wu frowned slightly, knowing in his heart: “Old Li was killed.”

Without the restraint of the ascended ones, the rules of the inverted ghosts have gone out of control and started to affect every aspect of this world.

“Sure enough, he has some skills. No wonder he can control Zhao You.” Fen Wu nodded in appreciation. At this time, a woman’s voice sounded from behind him:
“Yan Yukuan, why don’t you go home?”

Hearing the call of the Ghost Blowing Lanterns, Fen Wu quickly became alert, and at the same time he was a little confused: “Who is Yan Yukuan?”

Although he was confused, the voice gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity. After hearing the woman’s call, Fenwu couldn’t help but want to look back.

“The ghost is affecting my consciousness.” Fen Wu instantly understood the current situation.

The next second, his body suddenly froze, as if the gears of a machine were stuck. His pupils dilated slightly, and after a moment of absence, they quickly shrank back as if nothing had happened.

Fen Wu took a step backwards toward the top of the stairs without saying a word, but his foot stepped on the next step right in front of him.

(End of this chapter)