Chapter 15: Substitutionary Marriage
When we arrived at the entrance of the village, we put away our skills.
The entrance of the village is a fork in the road, to the right is the big banyan tree, to the left is the peach blossom valley.
After entering Taohuayu, the second home is my home. Although the matter was urgent, I still couldn't pass the door three times without entering, so I asked Gu Qinghuan to wait for me, and hurriedly entered the house by myself.
Seeing that I was back, Grandma Tai and Grandma were first shocked, and then showed joy.
"Luoluo, but I think grandma is bad. Early holiday? Let Grandma look at her eyes. Grandma hurriedly poured water and asked me to hurry to the kang to warm up.
"Grandma, grandma, I came back this time because I have something to deal with." I asked my grandmother not to be busy, so I briefly told the second elder about Guan Yue.
Grandma Tai's brows tightened, "Hmph! Wang Qiang's kid doesn't do good things, and he is uneasy and kind! What age is this, and he still wants to be his soil emperor. If you harm people's lives, you will be damned! ”
It seems that the family that caused Guan Yue's accident this time is also known to Grandma Tai.
I hurriedly said goodbye to my grandmother and my grandmother, and according to my grandmother's guidance, I took Gu Qing and went straight to the two-story brick building in Big Banyan Village.
Although the big banyan village is a village, it is relatively large, more than twice as big as our Taohuayu, and before I walked to the two-story brick building, I heard the sound of beating gongs and drumming suona.
It seems that this is right, and the pomp is really not small.
In the courtyard that is not too big, there are twenty tables squeezed in. The main house should be a happy hall, it is said to be a happy hall, but it is better to say that it is arranged into a red mourning hall, there is a coffin parked in the middle, and the word "lay" is written on the red lacquered wood, which is particularly mad.
"Where are you until Guan Yue?" I asked Gu Dumping.
"Generally speaking, the left transept is where the bride dresses." Gu Qinghuan replied. As Mr. Yin and Yang, he knows a little about things like underworld marriages.
When I looked, there was a light in the transept on the left.
Great, it doesn't seem too late.
I asked Gu Qinghuan not to follow me, to contact Fang Aiying and them, and to wait for the police at the entrance of the village by the way.
"Luoluo, I'll stay with you." Gu Qinghuan said to me with some worry.
"No need." I said to him, "You are such a big man, you are still a fresh face, following me will definitely arouse their suspicion, it is not enough to rescue Yueyue, I heard that this family is rich and powerful in the village, we saved Yueyue today, and her family may suffer tomorrow." Don't worry, I can do it. "I gave him a confident smile.
Gu Qinghuan looked at me and hesitated, he knew that as long as it was something I decided, it would not be changed.
"Then be careful." He gave me a word of advice, and went to the entrance of the village.
Seeing Gu Qing walking away, I walked straight to the left ear room by myself. There are too many people in the yard, and the people in the countryside are busy doing happy events, regardless of whether they know each other or not, as soon as someone does a happy event, the people of ten miles and eight villages will know it early in the morning, and they all come to eat and drink to join in the fun. I saw several familiar faces, Aunt Li, who looked at me growing up, and Uncle Niu, who often played cards at the fork in the road at the entrance of the village. I immediately covered my face with a scarf, but fortunately everyone was busy and no one noticed me.
And when he came to the door of the transept, there were two gatekeepers. One of them was actually Aunt Cui from our village.
Aunt Cui recognized me and was surprised.
"It's the old girl, girl, didn't you go to school in the city?"
I looked at Aunt Cui, "Yes, Auntie, I'm Luoluo, that, I'm on vacation, come back to see my grandma." Look at the excitement here, it turned out to be a happy event, I'm here to join in the fun, you know, I've loved to join in the fun since I was a child. ”
As I spoke, I took Aunt Cui's hand. Aunt Cui is a well-known matchmaker in ten miles and eight villages, she is very upright, the so-called Ming media is marrying, who has a daughter-in-law to marry a daughter, and is willing to find Aunt Cui to protect a big matchmaker in the past few decades. Today, I was probably coerced, and Aunt Cui would definitely not accept this unconscionable job.
When my aunt touched something in my palm, she reacted very quickly, and her eyes rolled: "Oh, I'll just say it." That, Luoluo, today's bride is about the same age as you, I feel too young, embarrassed to marry, you young people have something to say, just help the eldest mother. Otherwise, I'm not a matchmaker. ”
I knew in my heart that Aunt Cui was telling me that the wall had ears and intended to let me in.
Aunt Cui said to another gatekeeper next to her: "Big sister, this is my old in-law's daughter, come and have a good time, look at the one in the house, you and I are not good at dealing with each other, just let her go in and persuade her, we can't mix them with their young people, and it will be done after a while?" ”
The lady next to her lowered her head and thought about it, and said, "That's okay, but you have to hurry, don't delay the hour." ”
Aunt Cui responded: "Yes." He pushed the door open and let me in.
This is a firewood room, the room is full of autumn harvest buds, Guan Yue is wearing a bright red Xiuhe suit, her eyes are blindfolded, her mouth is blocked, her hands and feet are tied, she is sitting on the ground and panting for breath by leaning on the buds. As soon as she heard someone come in, she writhed desperately.
"Don't be afraid, Guan Yue, I'm Luoluo." I scurried up and whispered to her.
I took off the red cloth tied around her eyes and took out the cloth that was stuffed in her mouth, and she cried when she saw that it was me.
"Luoluo, is it really you, Luoluo."
"Shh......h
I immediately made a silent gesture to her.
"What's going on, what's going on inside?" It was the voice of the strange girl.
"Her aunt, don't worry, this girl was grown up by me, and she has the same heart as me" was Aunt Cui's voice.
"Ah, I'm trying to persuade her! Sister, this Wang family is also one of the best rich and noble families in your village, and you will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life if you marry in. Isn't getting married just one day earlier and one day later, don't you say, ah! I deliberately raised my voice and said, winking at Guan Yue.
"No, no, I still have my parents to take care of at home!"
Guan Yue also deliberately made the sound louder.
I heard the strange god say, "This kid is quite filial." ”
Then there was no sound.
I saw that there was no movement outside the door, so I hurriedly untied Guan Yue. While helping her untie, he said, "Hurry up and take off your clothes!" ”
"What?" Guan Yue looked at me and was stunned for a moment.
I didn't have time to explain, so I reached out and took off my clothes.
Guan Yue seemed to understand what I was going to do.
"Luoluo, even if I die here, I can't let you die for me!"
I glanced at her, and I couldn't imagine that the little girl who was weak on weekdays had a righteous and awe-inspiring expression at this time.
It seems that I have saved this person.
I burst out laughing, "Don't be stupid, the person who wants to kill me hasn't been born yet!" ”
I took off the clothes that Gu Tanrao bought for me, feeling a little reluctant. It was an aqua blue cashmere coat that I particularly liked.
But now is not the time to think about that.
I asked Guan Yue to put on my clothes, loose her hair, and tie a scarf, anyway, people outside didn't know what the bride looked like, so it would be even more difficult to see her face.
The big red Xiuhe suit was piled on the ground, although the workmanship was not very good, but it was as red as fire, which was quite good-looking.
I laughed self-deprecating in my heart, "Because of Luoluo, because of Luoluo, you never dreamed that the first time you wore a wedding dress in your life was to marry someone else, right?" ”
Before the bitterness in his heart could wells up, he swallowed it with the shouting outside the door.
"Girl, have you persuaded you? The hour has come. "It's Aunt Cui's voice.
"Oh, auntie, it's okay, it's almost hijab." I shouted.
At this time, I heard someone shouting: "The auspicious time has come, take the bride." ”
I still understand the rules of marriage in the countryside. I picked up the red paper on the table next to me, put it between my lips and bit it gently, and my lips instantly became bright, like a flame blooming in the night. Leaned over to pick up the red hijab on the ground, and glanced at Guan Yue, who was trembling beside him.
"Don't be afraid, help me out later, there are a lot of people outside, you see the right time to run quickly."
Hearing my words, Guan Yue nodded in fear and grabbed my sleeve with her hand.
Aunt Cui pushed the door open at this time.
"Bride, the auspicious time has come, it's time to pay homage." Aunt Cui walked over, but saw that it was me who was wearing the bridal dress, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
I looked at her and nodded imperceptibly.
Aunt Cui came over to get my hijab for me, then grabbed me and patted me on the hand.
I walked out with their help.
Outside the door was lively and lively, all of which were the voices of the villagers. No one knows what this poor bride will experience tonight, and even if they do, they can't afford to offend with the power of the Wang family alone.
It is said to be a chapel, but it is a one-man wedding. Under the cover of the big red hijab, I couldn't see anything. I heard only someone chanting aloud.
"Worship heaven and earth."
Aunt Cui beside me whispered to me: "Kneel." ”
I obediently knelt down and kowtowed.
"Second worship high hall!"
Aunt Cui helped me turn around, I knew that the person sitting in front of me was the culprit Wang Qiang, and now for Guan Yue, I can only bend down and worship him.
Kneeling down, kowtowed.
I heard Wang Qiang's bastard laughter.
You don't need to laugh, when you cry!
"Husband and wife worship each other!"
I was turned around and faced the coffin, and through the gap in the hijab, I could see the corner of the coffin's red paint.
"Licheng!"
As the words fell, I was suddenly held down by two people, I instinctively struggled, but the two people pressed harder. At the same time, the muffled sound of the coffin lid opening came.
This is to stuff the living into a coffin.
In order to keep the Yue family in trouble, I was stuffed into a coffin.
The lid on top of my head gradually closed, I felt the noisy environment around me become quieter, the air became thinner and thinner, it was the first time I entered the coffin, and I really couldn't breathe.
The terrible thing about the secret marriage is to suffocate the living person to death!
I clenched my fists with both hands, and the tattoo on my wrist was already glowing and ready to move.
Now is not the time, Guan Yue probably hasn't gone far, and the police probably haven't come yet. If there is an abnormality here, the Wang family will inevitably have suspicions, and the matter of substitution marriage will soon be exposed. With Gu Qinghuan's character, if he knew that I was married for someone else and was stuffed into a coffin, he would definitely wash the Wang family in blood.
I don't want to make it that big.
I quietly pulled out a golden needle, which glowed yellow in the darkness, faint, but completely able to illuminate the space inside the coffin.
The coffin is not as spacious as in the movie, and there is no place to put gold and silver treasures when lying two people. Fortunately, the three-eyed ghosts I come into contact with on weekdays are all three-eyed ghosts, otherwise an ordinary person would be stuffed in, and I would have to be scared to death before I suffocated to death. Lying beside me was a young man in a wedding dress, slightly older than me, with a yellow face and thin muscles, who looked to have been sick for a long time.
"It's really sick and dead." I thought to myself, but even if you die of illness, you can't pull a living person as a backdrop.
I'm reminded of what I read in a book about yin marriage. Yin marriage, also known as ghost marriage, is a folk custom. When both men and women die after being engaged, or children who die before the engagement, parents want to marry them out of love. The old people believed that if they were not married, their ghosts would make the house uneasy. Therefore, it is necessary to hold a yin marriage ceremony for them, and finally bury them together, become husband and wife, and bury them together, so that there will be no lonely graves in the fields of the male and female families. There are two types of marriages: the dead and the dead and the dead and the living. In the past, secret marriages in the folk mostly appeared in rich families, and there were few secret marriages in poor families.
However, with the gradual development of modern science, people's understanding of feudal superstition has increased, and the theory of yin marriage is no longer prevalent. In particular, it is not allowed by law for the dead to marry the living.
I sighed, thinking that Guan Yue was really pitiful, obviously living in such a good era, but still suffering from the customs and persecution that only existed in the last century.
After thinking about it for so long, this little girl should have escaped, and Bacheng Gu Qing went around there and almost waited for the police. It's time for me to go out and teach Wang Qiang a lesson.
Dantian luck in the palm of his right hand, waving his wrist, a cold wind floated in the palm.
"Broken!" I let out a low growl.
With a "pop", the coffin was shattered from the middle, and the red lacquered wooden strips were torn apart and flew in all directions. At the same time, on my tiptoes, I rose from the coffin.