The Nineteenth Story: The Ghost Husband (4)
Maybe it's a psychological effect, Xiao Dong really didn't dream of that man again that night, but she was so uneasy that she didn't feel at ease...... It always feels like something is going to happen.
In the midst of such anxiety, the days passed for a few more days.
At noon that day, Xiaodong came to the store as usual to open a shop, and after a while, a customer walked in. He was in a hurry, and his face was also very bad, and Xiao Dong took a closer look and turned out to be the man who bought the red sandalwood comb a few days ago.
"Hello, how is business lately?" When the man saw Xiao Dongxian, he greeted her warmly.
Xiao Dong was a little surprised, he didn't expect to see him again so soon. "Hello, what do you need?" Xiao Dong said with a smile.
The man didn't know how to speak, so he hesitated for a long time before he said, "Boss, do you think I can put the comb I bought from you a few days ago back to you and sell it on your behalf?" ”
When Xiao Dong heard this, he knew that something strange had happened, so he asked him, "Of course you can, but didn't you say that you wanted to give it to your wife?" Doesn't she like it? ”
The man said helplessly: "Not only do I not like it, but I am not even allowed to put it at home, so I have to take it back to you again, and you can do it at the price." ”
Seeing what the man said politely, Xiao Dong knew in his heart that the problem must be with this comb, so he didn't ask any more questions and left the comb. The man thanked him again and again when he left, and said that he would come here again and again in the future.
After the man left, Xiao Dong looked at the comb placed on the counter, and a chill rose in his heart. It seems that I really can't get rid of this demon! But who is he? Why does Liu Blind say that he has a bad relationship with himself and is gone?
At night, her husband was not at home after working overtime, and Xiaodong was lying on the bed alone, feeling messy. She remembered that the ghost had said that his name was "Tan Zimo", and it seemed that she was going to find her friend in Changsha to find out about this person.
"Zimo, are they all true? Do you really want to marry Miss Song? A beautiful woman with teary eyes asked the man in front of her sadly.
The man said coldly: "Actually, there are some things, you should have figured it out a long time ago, with your identity, how can you marry into my family, let alone be a wife, and you are not qualified to be a concubine." ”
The woman's body shook and she didn't speak again, but just took a deep look at the man and turned to leave.
The man looked at the woman's distant figure, and the corners of his eyes slowly became wet......
In the morning, Xiao Dong was woken up by an alarm bell, and last night she dreamed of the man again, only this time there was a woman in the dream. They should love each other, but why would a man hurt that woman so ruthlessly?
Xiao Dong gave the name and approximate time of Tan Zimo to his friends in Changsha, and asked him to help find out the situation of the Tan family during the Republic of China. It took my friend two days to finally find out something about the Tan family in Changsha.
It turned out that this Tan family was a big family in Changsha at that time, and the patriarch Tan Qinghua was the richest man in Changsha, and was known as "Tan Bancheng" at that time. He has a three-generation son named Tan Zimo, who has been extremely smart since he was a child, was sent to the UK by Tan Qinghua at the age of 12 to study business management, and after returning to China at the age of 26, he took over his father's business.
After returning to China, although he restrained a lot, he still liked to go my way, and later the Tan family failed because of poor management, and Tan Qinghua couldn't afford to be ill, and died not long after. In order to save the family business on the verge of bankruptcy, Tan Zimo married another wealthy businessman in Changsha at that time, Song Youliang, and married his only daughter Song Tianying.
But things didn't go in a good direction, and in the end, Tan Zimo didn't know why, he brutally killed his father-in-law's family and disappeared from then on. It wasn't until after liberation that someone found out that his body had been in the Tan family's old mansion all along. Later, it began to be rumored that the Tan family's old house was haunted, and after liberation, the land was divided, but no one was willing to want this old house. In the end, the government had to tear down the house and build a school on it. Only then did the rumors of the haunting of the Tan Mansion have been quelled.
Xiao Dong finished reading the information sent by his friend, and there were still many, many questions in his heart that he couldn't solve. It seems that I still have to go to Changsha in person to see if I can find the descendants of the Tan family back then and understand the real situation back then.
So the next day, Xiaodong told her husband that she planned to go to Changsha.
But my husband said, "Daughter-in-law, I can't go with you, what should I do?" ”
Xiao Dong smiled and said, "It's okay husband, I'm just going to buy some goods and I'll be back in a few days, don't worry." ”
At Changsha Huanghua Airport, Xiaodong's college classmate Li Nansheng came to pick her up at the airport. The two of them haven't seen each other for four or five years since they graduated from college, and they came to Changsha this time to borrow to live in her house.
"Xiaodong, it's rare for you to come to Changsha once, but you have to play here for a few more days!" Nan Sheng said enthusiastically.
Xiao Dong said happily: "Don't worry, we haven't seen each other for many years, so we must catch up with you." ”
After Xiao Dong played in Changsha for a few days, he really found the descendant of the Tan family in Changsha through Nansheng, a 101-year-old old lady. It is said that this centenarian is not deaf, blind, and his thinking is still very clear. This made Xiao Dong secretly happy, this is the last descendant of the Tan family to know what happened back then, if she is really confused, she will come in vain this time.
Mrs. Tan lives in a small courtyard in the countryside, where the air is fresh and the environment is beautiful, no wonder she can live a long life. As soon as Xiao Dong entered the yard, the old lady came out of the house, grabbed her and said, "Yuyan? Why are you here, to pick me up? ”
This can confuse Xiao Dong's question, but fortunately, the old lady's daughter stepped forward in time to relieve the siege and said: "Mom, this girl is Xiao Dong, the person I told you to inquire about my uncle." ”
Mrs. Tan looked at Xiao Dong for a long time, and muttered, "Alas, it's really not rain and smoke...... Looks like I'm going to have to get through for a few more years. ”
Xiao Dong and Mrs. Tan's daughter helped her into the house and sat down, and she smiled and said to Mrs. Tan, "Grandma Tan, can I inquire with you about some of the past events of your Tan family." ”
Old Mrs. Tan glanced at Xiao Dong and said, "You want to know about my eldest brother?" ”
Xiao Dong nodded hurriedly. Mrs. Tan pondered for a while before she began to talk about the dusty past that she couldn't forget if she wanted to......
At that time, my brother had just returned from England, and he was good-looking, and he stayed in the ocean. The local matchmakers are about to break the threshold of my house! But my brother doesn't look down on any of them! It's no wonder that he is a man who has seen the world, how can he take a fancy to these local girls in the countryside.
My parents are very anxious, my eldest brother has reached the age of establishment, but he has no intention of marrying a wife, which makes many people talk about my brother behind his back, whether he married a foreign woman in the UK! But my brother didn't care about any of this criticism until he met her......
It was a rainy season, and my brother and his friend Zhu Zishan went to a newly opened Qinglou to listen to music. As a result, as soon as I sat down, I heard the person next to me say that there would be a new beauty tonight, and it was said that she would not sell her body unless she could answer her three questions correctly.
My brother was interested when he heard it, but he didn't expect such an interesting thing to exist in this gaudy place. So I waited until the evening, and sure enough, as soon as it was dark, a beautiful woman came out from behind. But she is not the new beauty in the mouth, but just the girl's girl.
The benefactors are even more crazy, a girl around her is so good-looking, that young lady can't be a fairy! But this woman seemed to be hanging people's appetites, and she didn't show up to meet everyone, but just asked the girl to take out a blank piece of paper with three questions written on it.
If you can solve three questions correctly, you can let the guest stay in the lady's room for one night. Everyone is crazy to pay for the problem, but no one can answer the question correctly.
Tan Zimo, who had been watching all this from the sidelines, was amused in his heart, he looked up at the questions on the paper, and thought to himself, how could this group of morning bags know about these problems?
It turns out that the three questions on the paper are: 1. Is the earth round or square, and why? 2. Does the sun revolve around us, or do we revolve around the sun, and why? 3. When thunder strikes on a rainy day, do you hear thunder or lightning first, and why?
For the Chinese at that time, it was impossible to know the answers to these questions, so how could they be answered? But Tan Zimo is different, he went to the UK to study at the age of 12, how could he not know about these natural knowledge?
What he is most curious about now is, how could a woman in a green building ask such a question? Could it be that she has also been to foreign countries? But how could such a knowledgeable woman fall into such a land of fireworks? He was getting more and more curious about this woman now.