Chapter Seventy-Four: The Unlucky Bridegroom
May twenty-three, night.
The waning moon is like a hook, and the night is as cool as water.
The head catcher of the new Jingshi is ready to invite a guest, a guest who is very important to him. Since he was inviting someone, of course he had to prepare good wine and suitable snacks.
The banquet was held outside the morgue in the compound of the Jingzhao Mansion Patrol House.
The morgue was brightly lit, and three corpses lay upright on the cold bed. After these corpses were specially treated as old knives, the gray faces that had lost their moisture were particularly hideous and indescribably terrifying under the bleak oil lamp.
Two of the bodies had just arrived from out of town, and the cold air in the morgue was blowing, but the old knife was sweating profusely.
Outside the morgue, there were two jars of good wine from the wine pool on a dilapidated table of eight immortals, which Cang'er specially explained to his subordinates before dusk. In addition to these two jars of wine, there was also an official document on the table, and there was no appetizer.
Won't the dignified head catcher just invite people to a bar?
Cang'er's eyes fell on the gloomy morgue, could it be that the appetizers he prepared for his guests were these four corpses beyond recognition? Lao Hei is still burying his head in examining the new corpse, as if he is creating a beautiful "feast".
Before the twenty-second day of May, there were two bodies lying in the morgue, and by the morning of the twenty-third of May, the number had increased to three.
Du Sanye, Lei 1, and Lei 2 transported a corpse from Longmu Mountain.
In broad daylight, Lei Er recognized the corpse, this person's surname was Guo, a tailor on the streets of Chang'an, and the neighbors called him Guo Da Tailor. Lei Er once ordered a set of shrouds for his old mother in this person's tailor shop.
On the afternoon of May 23, another corpse was added to the morgue, making it four larger.
It's not early, it stands to reason that the guest invited by the head catcher should come, but for some reason there is still no one. The time of waiting for others is always very slow, Cang Er sighed and picked up the official document on the table.
This is an urgent official letter from the local government to the Criminal Department, which will be forwarded by the Criminal Department to the Jingzhao Prefecture Judicial Staff and Military Academy, and then issued by the Judicial Staff to the patrol room. For Cang'er, this letter may be one of the best appetizers for tonight.
Cang'er typed the official document, and the payment was made by the Jingxi Mansion.
The official document stated that a deceased dressed as a bride was found in the Jingxi Gaoliang field, and during the investigation, a very important witness was found: the bride's husband, the guardian of the Beijing surnamed Huo. According to Huo Huyuan's recollection, he was also the husband who became a bride for no reason......
β»On the second day of the fifth month, Huo Huyuan, as usual, walked into the fairy casino. It's just that his luck today is not very good, and he lost the gamble in a moment.
Huo Huyuan set himself the goal of winning two or three dollars of silver every day, and it was unfavorable for him to go out of school, Huo Huyuan was unwilling, and took some gambling money to turn over, but unexpectedly lost all his money. Gambling again, losing again, Huo Huyuan lost red-eyed, lost decently, and all the money he had worked hard to save for marrying his mother-in-law went to other people's pockets.
Huo Huyuan lost all his blood, returned to his residence with a sad face, and sighed again and again: "That's it, I am destined to be a bachelor in this life." β
As the saying goes, the casino is frustrated, and the love is proud. Huang Po, who was on the other side, actually told him that she was here.
Huang Po told Huo Nursing Home that the age is similar to that of Huo Nursing Yuan, she lost her husband in her early years, had a few shops, usually collected some rent, and saved a lot of money in a few years, afraid that she would be lonely when she was old, so she wanted to find a home.
Huang Po told the truth, that woman was not very good-looking, and she was big-handed. But the woman said that as long as the man is willing to accept her, she doesn't want a gift money, even if it is upside down, even her family property will be given away.
Huang Po said it wildly, Huo Huyuan suspected that he was daydreaming, he bit his finger, it hurt!
Huang Po finally said, if Huo Huyuan agrees to this family business, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, and today is in the cave room of the woman's house.
The more Huo Huyuan listened, the more surprised he became: How could there be a woman in the world who couldn't wait to marry herself off, probably because she wanted a man to go crazy, right?
Huo Huyuan originally thought that he would fight a bachelor for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect joy to fall from the sky.
There are not many men in this world who refuse to send women to the door for nothing, not to mention Huo Huyuan, who has nothing, nodded like a chicken pecking at the moment.
The hard days came to an end all of a sudden, Huo Huyuan smiled, his smile filled his wrinkles, and he suddenly became young.
Seeing that Huo Huyuan agreed, Huang Po quickly untied the package she brought with her hands and feet, which contained a set of new red clothes and red pants, and Huang Po even brought the groom's wedding clothes.
Seeing the dazzling wedding clothes, Huo Huyuan was at a loss for a while, and stammered to Huang Po: "I'll go...... Wash your face ......"
Huang Po was impatient and interrupted Huo Huyuan's words: "What are you waiting for, the auspicious time is coming, hurry up and go to the cave room." β
Huo Huyuan changed his clothes in a panic, and a big red sedan chair waited outside the door. Huo Huyuan chuckled in his heart: Why is Huang Po even ready for a sedan chair? It seems that it is difficult for him to "marry" anyone if he doesn't want to, and Huang Po has to tie him up.
Huo Huyuan got on the sedan chair nervously, not knowing whether it was a disaster or a blessing, and resigned himself to fate.
After the sedan chair was carried to the woman's house, the new house had already been arranged, draped in red and gold, and the lanterns were colorful, a festive scene.
Huang Po is in a hurry, Zhang Luobai is married.
The bride never came out, and Huo Huyuan was confused.
Huang Po told Huo Huyuan that the bride had suffered a little cold in the past two days, and she had a nervous breakdown, so she was not suitable to see the light. The worship ceremony had to be completed by Huo Huyuan alone, putting on a show. Anyway, with Huang Po testifying, the two immediately became husband and wife, and they didn't have to stick to the old rituals.
Huo Huyuan understood, and he "married" this woman to be happy. I'm afraid that this woman is terminally ill, and before three days have passed, her life is whining, and he is happy when his cat bites feces.
Seeing that Huo Huyuan was sullen, Huang Po scolded: "Your brain was pecked by an owl?" She has no children and no daughters, and when she leaves, all the family property will be yours. β
Huo Huyuan waved his hand, what he needed was a woman, a woman who could rely on him for his life, and he had lived for most of his life without a woman, only he understood the taste.
Huang Po persuaded bitterly: "What if Chongxi can eliminate the root of the bride's disease?" β
"But," Huo Huyuan worried: "After she recovers, can she really live with me, a poor old man?" β
Seeing that Huo Huyuan was so illiterate, Huang Po kicked him fiercely: "You are really old and confused, you have worshiped the church, and the person is not yours." β
Huo Huyuan thinks about it.
Huang Po saluted: "One worships heaven and earth, two worships the high hall, and husband and wife worship each other." β
Huo Huyuan pretended to salute, and then he was sent into the cave room, and then he saw a large bed with exquisite workmanship, and then he had an inexplicable impulse in his heart.
Man's impulsiveness!
The red candle in the cave room has a high fever, and it is as warm as spring. A pair of dragons and phoenixes were neatly folded, the mandarin ducks on the pillow were lifelike, and a big happy word was pasted on the bronze mirror of the dresser.
The fragrance in the room is refreshing.
Huo Huyuan couldn't laugh, because there was one less person in the cave room, a person called the bride, and he couldn't have sex with him.
Huo Huyuan was impetuous, the window door was pushed open, and Huang Po's smiling face was revealed in the window, and Huang Po beckoned to him.
"What kind of fame are you going to make?" Huo Huyuan scolded and scolded, he suspected that he had been deceived by Huang Po, who could speak well, Huang Po shook her head and disappeared into the window.
Huo Huyuan lay on the windowsill and looked, outside is a path, stopping at the big red sedan chair that "married" him, the sedan chair is tightly covered on all sides, and there are Huang Po and two sedan chair men standing next to it, Huang Po points to the sedan chair, which means that the person you want is here.
Huo Huyuan was completely confused, and Huang Po asked him to come out and have something to say. Although Huo Huyuan was annoyed, he still turned out the window as he said.
Huang Po explained the reason to Huo Nursing Hospital:
The bride was friendly with Huang Po before she got married, and she was closer than her sisters for a long time. This time, she couldn't afford to be sick, Huang Po took care of her enthusiastically in front of and behind the bed, asked for a good doctor, and boiled soup with decoction, the patient did not improve, wheezing and coughing, sweating did not stop, and the deficiency and cold turned into severe cold.
Huang Po heard that there was a small mountain village a hundred miles away from the capital, and there was a hermit in the small mountain village who specialized in treating severe cold and evil diseases. Huang Po has the intention to take the patient to the doctor, but she is afraid that she will travel a long way and take good care of the patient, and she will get sicker and sicker. In desperation, Huang Po came up with the idea of letting the patient get married, one came to be happy, and the other was to take care of multiple relatives on the way to the hospital, killing two birds with one stone.
The patient was worried that it would be difficult to find a single man of the same age, and Huang Po said that it was not difficult, and she had a ready-made person at the door: Huo Nursing Home.
The truth was revealed, and Huo Huyuan hid again and again.
The raw rice was cooked into cooked rice, and the women of Huo Huyuan were in the sedan chair, fate had tied them tightly together, and Huo Huyuan had to take on the responsibility of a man and escort her to a small mountain village hundreds of miles away to see a doctor.
"She is your wife, and you have to protect her with all your life." Huang Po advised.
Huo Huyuan Daigo empowerment: He is already the husband of a woman. Isn't it for this day that all the years of hard work? Although the woman in the sedan chair was terminally ill, it was his wife after all.
"I will!" He promised Huang Po, and it was a man's promise to a wife.