Li Guiniang's father, Li Daddy, has six daughters and three sons, but among the daughters, only Li Guiniang is good-looking, in the words of the local people, it means that she looks neat, which means good-looking.

Daddy Li is very poor, the Li family has no land, and they live by renting other people's land, of course, as a tenant farmer, life is poor, and there are many children, life is even worse, and the Li family often has a time when they can't open the pot.

Daddy Li's biggest wish in this life is to have a piece of his own land, but this wish is too difficult to achieve.

Because he has three sons, Daddy Li can only marry a daughter first, and after getting the financial gift, he will use the financial gift as a dowry to marry his son's daughter-in-law, fortunately, he has many daughters, and after marrying three daughters, he successfully married a daughter-in-law for his three sons.

When it was time to marry the fourth daughter, that is, Li Guiniang, Daddy Li's mind was lively, the four girls were neat, and the sons were married to daughters-in-law, so there was no need to worry anymore, so it was better to increase Li Guiniang's financial gifts and buy a few acres of land for his family.

So, Daddy Li declared to the public that if he wanted to marry his four daughters, he had to take five acres of good land, or the money equivalent to five acres of good land, and if he couldn't get it, he didn't want to marry his fourth daughter, Li Guiniang.

As soon as the price of this gift was said, no one immediately came to the door to ask to marry his four daughters, and the gift of five acres of good land, don't say that ordinary people can't take it, even if they can get it, so much money to marry a tenant farmer's daughter, it's not worth it!

In this era, it is very important to pay attention to the right family, and the right family with the Li family will never be able to come up with such a large amount of money, so Li Guiniang will not be able to get married, until she is eighteen years old, even the five daughters and six daughters of the Li family have been married, and she still has not found her in-laws.

The eighteen-year-old girl is still unmarried, of course Li Guiniang has complaints about her father, but Daddy Li just doesn't let go, he has been a tenant farmer all his life, and he must have his own land in his lifetime, and this land has nothing else to rely on except for counting on Li Guiniang to marry well, so Daddy Li will never let go.

Coincidentally, Aunt Ma asked someone to ask and asked, and asked about the Li family, and found that the girl who Ma tied up and took a fancy to was the four daughters of the Li family, a famous old girl, the financial gift was ridiculously high, the financial gift of five acres of good land, Li Guiniang's father was obviously poor and crazy!

Aunt Ma learned who Li Guiniang was, so she told her son, saying that Li Guiniang's father had a brain problem, maybe Li Guiniang would have a son in the future, and he would have a brain problem, which would outweigh the losses, so she wanted to persuade Ma to give up.

But Ma tied it up and just refused, so he didn't say that he fell in love with Li Guiniang, except for Li Guiniang, he didn't marry anyone, and he wanted to die or live, and the age of Ma was not young, and he was exactly eighteen years old, Ma Laohan and Aunt Ma discussed it, and they compromised.

Ma Laohan also comforted Aunt Ma at the time, and said to her: "Five acres is five acres, it doesn't matter if you have a good field, just give it, although Gui Niang's father is a little poor and crazy, but our family is not marrying her father, then Gui Niang looks very neat, and after we tie up and get married, if you give birth to a child, you should also look good, that's it, let's be the elderly, as long as the child can be safe and stable, nothing else cares." ”

Aunt Ma still felt that it was not worth it, but her husband compromised, and her son was very stubborn, so she had no choice but to ask the matchmaker to propose marriage, and promised to give the Li family five acres of good land, anyway, the Ma family has a hundred or dozens of acres of good land, and it is not bad for these five acres!

The matchmaker heard that he went to the Li family to propose marriage, married the four daughters of the Li family, and gave a dowry of five acres of good land, the matchmaker almost went crazy, and someone really wanted to marry Li Guiniang, what good is she, then Daddy Li is poor and crazy, but Ma Laohan is also in the water!

The matchmaker went to Li's house to propose marriage, and as soon as he told the matter, the son of a famous rich family in Pony Village fell in love with Li Guiniang, and was willing to give a dowry of five acres of good land to marry Li Guiniang home, and Daddy Li immediately agreed, his purpose of marrying his daughter is this, whoever gives him the land, the daughter will give it to whom!

When Li Guiniang was blown and beaten, and sat in a sedan chair and sent into the gate of the Ma family, the villagers of Pony Village all came to see the excitement, Li Guiniang is the bride with the highest dowry in the history of Pony Village, and deserves to be the first expensive!

After Li Guiniang married into the Ma family, she could be regarded as keeping her duty and being able to endure hardships, but the Ma family didn't need her to suffer anything, so Li Guiniang worked hard, and almost all of them could be a male laborer, which could be regarded as a little comfort to the Ma family and his wife, after all, five acres of good land, it was distressing to think about it.

After half a year, Li Guiniang said that she missed her relatives at home, so she wanted to go back to her parents' house, Ma Xuanzhu was obedient to her, so she sent her back to her parents' house, originally thought that Li Guiniang would be able to go back to Ma's house after a few days, but she had been living for more than a month, Ma Xuanzhu was unwilling, and he began to think about his daughter-in-law.

So, Ma Xuanzhu led his own healthy mule, went to Xiaoli Village, and took Li Guiniang back, the Li family has a field, life is a lot better, and Ma Xuanzhu is naturally very stammered, and they don't want Li Guiniang to live too long, after all, there is an extra mouth to eat.

Ma Xuanzhu picked Li Guiniang out of Li's house very smoothly, but on the way home, they had to pass through a large forest, which was very large, and there were several hills in between, and the road was not very easy to walk.

The mountain road was difficult to walk, the horse bolted the distressed daughter-in-law, not long after entering the forest, don't find a place, let Li Guiniang get off the mule to rest, and gave Li Guiniang some water to drink, ate a few pieces of snacks, and took care of it meticulously.

After resting, he walked again, and as he walked, he came to the center of the woods, where there was an abandoned mountain temple.

When passing by the mountain temple, Li Guiniang said that it was convenient to enter the mountain temple, and she didn't wait for the horse to tie up and help her, so she jumped off the mule and entered the mountain temple by herself, so it was convenient to go.

The horse bolted and felt strange, the daughter-in-law wanted to be convenient, so why was it inconvenient when she was resting just now, and I asked her, it didn't take long to leave, why did she have to be convenient, and it was convenient to enter this mountain temple, did she hit the evil spirit?

It is said that many years ago, there was a man-eating tiger in this forest, and it ate a lot of people, and those people became ghosts after death, helping the tiger to harm people, and the tiger became a tiger demon, which harmed this place for many years.

The government has a heavy bounty, no matter who it is, as long as they can get rid of the tiger demon, they can get a bounty enough to spend a lifetime, but no one can kill the tiger demon!

Later, a scholar came here, the scholar wanted to go to the capital to be an official, passing through here, he heard the people talk about the tiger demon, he went into the woods alone, found the tiger demon, and told a lot of truth to the tiger demon, such as the truth of the Confucian sage, Confucianism.

As a result, the tiger demon was probationed, swore not to eat people again, and died of hunger strike, the scholar went out of the woods, called the nearby people, and moved the body of the tiger demon out of the woods, and the people saw that the tiger demon was so hungry that he was indeed starving to death, and after listening to the words of the reader, they believed that it was the scholar who benefited the people in addition to this harm.

During this period, no one doubted the truth of the matter, and no one doubted whether the tiger was too old to hunt, so the tiger died of starvation.

The people were grateful for the kindness of the scholar and built the temple in the woods, and made a statue of the scholar and worshipped him as the god of the mountain.

A few years later, the mountain temple fell into disrepair, collapsed, and the statue of the mountain god was destroyed, after all, it was a statue made of mud, without the protection of the roof, but it could not withstand the wind and rain, and the people said that this was a bad omen, without the mountain temple, would the tiger demon and the ghost come out again to harm people?

Ma tied up and believed in ghosts and gods, and suddenly saw his daughter-in-law run into the mountain temple by herself, he felt a lot of strangeness, but it was convenient for his daughter-in-law to go, and he was not interested in accompanying him, just waiting outside.

After a while, Li Guiniang came out of it, but when she went in, she was wearing a pair of blue plain shoes made of muslin, without any patterns on the shoes, but when she came out, she was wearing a pair of red embroidered shoes with beautiful patterns on the embroidered shoes.

The horse was amazed, so he asked Li Guiniang what was going on, how to enter the mountain temple for convenience, so he changed a pair of shoes, this pair of red embroidered shoes, he had never seen before, it was a completely new pair of shoes.

But Li Guiniang said that the shoes she was wearing were made when she was at her mother's house, and she wore these red embroidered shoes when she went out.

But the horse was tied to think that he was not mistaken, the contrast between the red shoes and the blue shoes was very great, how could he be wrong, and when he walked, he did not ride a mule, but was ridden by Li Guiniang, and Li Guiniang's feet were on both sides of the mule, just as far as he could see, how could he be wrong.

But Li Guiniang didn't argue with him, and went straight to the mule, and the horse was tied and had to follow behind, but he felt more and more that he had hit the evil, but it was not him who hit the evil, but his daughter-in-law Li Guiniang who ran into the evil.

There were no accidents along the way, and when I returned to Xiaoli Village, after entering the house, Ma Bolted and told Aunt Ma about it, Aunt Ma listened, but said: "Bolt, are you mistaken, Gui Niang is just going to make it convenient, how can you change her shoes, and besides, do you see her entering the mountain temple with her shoes?" ”

The horse bolted but said: "No, the burden was placed on the mule's back at that time, she didn't bring it in, and after she came out, the blue shoes were gone, isn't this a very evil thing, will it really meet a ghost?" ”

"It's not necessarily a ghost, but maybe it's a monster, I heard that when the tiger demon was not eliminated before, he loved to eat women, but he didn't like to eat women in red shoes, I don't know this, and I haven't heard anyone else say it." Aunt Ma was also a little scared, afraid that her daughter-in-law would run into evil.

But after the daughter-in-law came home, she swept the floor and cooked, what should she do, and she couldn't see anything abnormal at all, but Ma was still very worried, and until the evening, his worries became a reality.