CHAPTER 167 - LETTUCE COMMENCE THE WEDDING FEAST CELERY-BRATION
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Yinuo smirked at me and introduced her husbands. “My lady, these are my husbands, Muchen and Yichen. Muchen is an artist while Yichen is a hunter. Thank you for allowing us all to stay here.”
“Welcome to Emberstone Farm,” I said. “Congratulations on your marriage.”
I did have a somewhat vague idea that polygamy was rare but allowed in this world, so I tried to play it cool.
Muchen and Yichen were identical twins dressed in the same way. They were indeed extremely handsome, with dark brown eyes and high cheekbones. Their long, glossy black hair fell to their waists, with half of it tied in black ribbons in low ponytails at the backs of their necks. I remembered that Yinuo said her husband was in debt and she had to buy him from the family he was indentured to. Now that I knew she married two husbands, I wondered how much she had spent. She had to be almost broke now.
Standing beside the twins was a cute girl of around five or six years old dressed in pink. The strong family resemblance let me know that she must be their sister.
Yinuo introduced her spouses to the others and then made as if to enter the main house’s gate, but I stopped her.
“Hey, why aren't you introducing this cute little girl?” I bent down and said to the girl, “Hello, I’m Violet.”
The little girl ran behind her brothers. I straightened up and smiled at her when she peered at me from behind them.
“My lady…” Yinuo and her husbands exchanged a confused look.
“Come inside, it’s too hot here.” I waved a hand as a signal, and we all went inside into the blessedly cool, temperature-controlled house.
Except for the little girl who stayed outside the gate looking up at something.
“Hey, come in, come in!” I said to her.
Yinuo, Muchen, and Yichen turned to look.
“She’s not coming in?” Muchen frowned.
“What’s her name?” I asked him.
“We call her Shufen,” said Muchen.
“Oh, all your names rhyme!” I took the little girl by the hand. “Let’s go. I think you’ll like the house.”
“That-” Yinuo seemed about to say something, but Yichen grabbed her hand and whispered something in her ear.
I helped the little girl step over the threshold. “You’re so cute. I can’t believe we have a cute-”
Suddenly, the girl’s body blurred and turned into a glowing golden mist that flew upward into the sky.
I screamed in shock.
“Thank you.” The voice reverberated in my head.
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A System popup appeared.
Seriously?! A quest? Now?
Shouldn’t I have gotten the quest before the girl disappeared?
[The Mystery of the Twin’s Sister:
Find out Shufen’s true identity.
Reward: Farming Exp]
Dang, well, I was going to do that anyway, so I mentally clicked the [Accept] button.
“Did you hear that? She said ‘thank you’ to us!” said Muchen. He was looking around as though searching for the source of the voice.
“I heard it!” said Yichen.
They turned to Yinuo, who shrugged. “Sorry, I didn’t hear anything.”
The brothers then bowed to me as one.
“Thank you for helping my sister,” said Muchen.
“I believe she’s been laid to rest now,” said Yichen.
I still had no idea what happened. “Wha-what-why did she just disappear into thin air?”
“My lady, why don’t we go inside? You should sit down and have a drink of water,” said Yinuo.
I put a hand on my chest. My heart was beating fast like I was running a race. “Yes, you’re right. I need to calm down.”
We went to the outer courtyard where a lovely post-wedding banquet had been prepared.
“Uh, can you hold the banquet for a while? We have something to talk about,” I said to Fengying. “I’ll try to make it fast.”
Fengying nodded, and Yinuo, Muchen, Yichen, and I sat down in the main hall. I drank some water then said, “Okay, please sit down and explain.”
“I’ll explain as best as I can, Baroness, but we don’t know for sure what happened.” Muchen fiddled with a loose thread on his sleeve. “Could you please tell us what you saw?”
“I saw a little girl that looks like you guys. She was dressed in pink, and, after I helped her enter the house, she turned into a golden mist that flew up and disappeared.”
Yinuo reached out and took the brothers' hands in hers. I patiently kept silent while they wordlessly communicated.
“A year ago, our mother died. Her last wish was that we should take care of our sister Shufen. Of course, we promised. She was insistent and we wanted her to depart in peace,” said Muchen.
“Of course,” I said.
“Except we didn’t have a sister. We never have,” said Muchen.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and I felt cold all over. I opened my mouth to speak several times but closed it again because I was too afraid to ask more.
Muchen said, “Since then we’ve been plagued with minor mishaps almost every day. They were mostly harmless things. For example, my brushes might be moved to a different location or there would be cold drafts on a hot summer day.”
“Nothing harmful?” I asked.
“Nothing harmful,” said Muchen. “Eventually, we consulted a shaman, and he advised us to marry.”
“Marry? Why?” Wasn't their problem a ghost? How would marriage exorcize a ghost?
“The shaman was right, marriage did solve your problems!” Yinuo was taking it in stride.
Was I the only one who was scared of ghosts?
“The shaman just said that was the solution. That is all we know,” said Muchen. “Our sister, he said, was simply a mischievous but harmless spirit who was attracted to our family.”
“Mother had the second sight, you forgot to tell her that,” said Yichen.
I was confused. “Gosh, so she’s not your actual sister?”
Muchen and Yichen exchanged a look and shrugged at the same time and in the same way.
“Maybe mother saw her and adopted her,” said Muchen. “That’s all we know. We’re sorry for inconveniencing you. Thank you for helping us.”
[The Mystery of the Twin’s Sister: Quest Complete
Reward: Farming Exp]
The Farming exp wasn’t much, but it had been easy to get. Checking my stats calmed me down, and I decided to just forget all about ghosts and enjoy the banquet.
“You’re welcome. Do you mind leaving me alone with Yinuo for a few minutes? I would like to talk to her.” I cleared my throat. “Girl talk, you know.”
“Yes, baroness,” said Muchen.
The brothers bowed to me and left.
I left my chair in the center of the hall and sat beside Yinuo. Today, she was dressed in festive red robes and looked unbearably smug.
I raised an eyebrow. “Twins? Really?”
She looked very satisfied with herself. “It’s double the fun.”
We both let out high-pitched screams of delight and hugged each other, looking extremely undignified.
“Women have greater endurance anyway, so two is just right for me!” she said.
“Oh my gosh! You! You!” I couldn’t articulate my thoughts.
Yinuo whispered in my ear. “Imagine if there were two Prince Baiyus.”
“No! My imagination is running away with me!” I covered my blushing cheeks with my hands. “Stop it… we have to go to the banquet. But you have to tell me all the details later.”
Giggling, we got up from our seats and joined the rest of my household in the courtyard.