Chapter 148 – Mysterious Ancient Street of Ghosts Vendors and Undying Husks, Leisurely Fishing by the Creek - Part 1
A door. What was a door? A door was an object placed in a barrier that allowed passage between one place and another. A house door was a door, a township gate was a door; even lifting a carriage curtain could count as a door.
Following that logic, perhaps any threshold at all might have been considered a door. If you entered some new place, be it a cave or even a closet, you had effectively stepped through a door.
Yet no matter which door you crossed, you never arrived at your intended destination; you ended up in the carpenter’s workshop instead.
And the carpenter had work to do. That work was you. He was waiting for you.
Li Yuan and Pang Yuanhua were not fools. Both of them realized that this carpenter’s workshop represented a terrifying curse.
Unless they did something, they would have had to live in the open, avoiding anywhere with doors. They would even have had to watch out for twisted branches in a forest that might have arched together to form a door.
They’d have had no choice but to live in a place so vast that there was no chance of crossing any kind of threshold.
But would that really have guaranteed their safety?
They knew too little about the carpenter’s workshop.
Li Yuan thought he was safe after leaving Flowerpath County. After all, he was still unharmed after interacting face-to-face with ghost servants. He never dreamed that lifting a carriage curtain would trigger the curse.
It happened because he had lacked information. Were there other hidden pitfalls waiting? Most likely, yes. Neither Li Yuan nor Pang Yuanhua was arrogant or prone to taking foolish risks.
The evening shadows grew long, a gentle breeze blowing under the sunset.