Chapter 17: The Parents' Orders

The old white ghost said that he could steal my life, and my grandfather began to be silent after hearing this.

Rural people are superstitious and believe in the reincarnation of life and death. Wherever the reincarnation is made, it is arranged by Lord Yama, either to collect debts or to repay debts.

So my grandfather asked the old ghost Bai: "As the old saying goes, it's not a family that doesn't enter the door, is this child who stole his life considered the descendants of our Xie family?" ”

"Yes, of course. If you have milk, you are your mother, whoever raised him is your descendant, not to mention that what he has in him is the blood and blood of your Xie family. ”

Hearing what the old white ghost said, my grandfather made up his mind.

At that time, the people in the village were poor, and many men were multiple laborers, but it was not like now, whoever has an extra son has to take it for half his life.

Stealing one's life is acting against the sky, and the white old ghost wants my grandfather to go back and not talk nonsense. My grandfather said he knew, and then left me with the white ghost and went back alone.

I don't know what method the old white ghost used, but when he sent me home the next day, I came back to life......

After listening to my father's story, I fell into deep thought.

The white old ghost has repeatedly hinted at the mystery of my origins, but I never imagined that it would have something to do with stealing my life.

He also once said that if I want to find my own background in the future, I must use the water-dividing sword to personally explore the bottomless black hole under the Nine Dragon Grottoes.

Thinking about it now, eighty percent of the life he stole was also inseparable from the Nine Dragons Cave, but he didn't know whose life the old white ghost stole was.

"At first, your father and I thought you had been saved, and we didn't tell us about the theft until your grandfather died. Lan'er, you are always the meat that fell from your mother's body, and your mother doesn't care if you don't die, anyway, you are my son. Seeing that I was silent, my mother wiped her tears and said.

As soon as she shed tears, I also had red circles in my eyes, took her hand and said, "Mother, don't cry, I will always be your son Xie Lan." You gave birth to me and raised me, and without you there would be no me today. only blames his son for his unfilial piety, which has made you two sad in the past few years. ”

Speaking from the heart, my father and mother have really never treated me badly since I was a child, except that they didn't help me start a family.

But this is also because my family is too poor to come up with the bride price. The most important thing is that I don't compete myself, and I spend as much as I earn.

"Don't complain that your father and I don't have the ability to help you start a family, in fact, in addition to our family's poverty, there is something that even your mother and I haven't said." My dad said.

"Dad, what's the matter?"

"Over the years, I have seen that you have not made much money outside, so I want to help you marry a daughter-in-law and start a family. Our family didn't have any money, but the old white ghost had money, so I cheekily asked him to borrow it. Who knew that when I came to the door, the old white ghost told me that your marriage has not yet arrived, and he will have his own arrangements for starting a family in the future. ”

I was speechless, and I admired the old white ghost in my heart.

I really want to tell my father and mother that the old white ghost did arrange a marriage for me, and he arranged for me to have a yin marriage with the Yellow River Niangniang......

That night I lay in bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep.

At first, I listened to the old ghost Bai tell me about the origin of the Nine Dragon Grottoes, and I just talked about it as a ghost, but now I know that I may be deeper involved in this than the Bai family, otherwise he would not have bothered to plan so much for me.

I couldn't sleep left and right, so I turned on the light and took out the porcelain vase containing the merman's tears to look at it.

This porcelain bottle is filled with the pure water that the Wang family melted from the Kunlun Glacier, which itself is yin and pure. The merman's tears are suspended in it, faintly exuding a turquoise light.

Seeing the merman's tears, I couldn't help but think of the Yellow River Niangniang, remembered the Wang family's marriage proposal that day, and her voice and smile began to appear in my mind.

She can even give up the Yellow River Order for me, and I can't help but feel unmoved by this feeling. Especially the sentence she said, one daughter does not marry two husbands, which makes me unforgettable for life.

The next day, I went to Xiaba Village.

Since this ancient altar was renovated by the Wang family, it has immediately become a local scenic spot, and it is very popular with young people, and there are often big girls and young men dating here.

Now the statue of the Yellow River Niangniang has long been devoid of red cloth, and the finely carved facial features are nine points similar to herself.

Dignified and elegant, a little more holy. The white jade is flawless and does not stain the slightest ghost.

I looked at the statue of the god, thinking about the peerless beauty of the Yellow River Niangniang that night, and gradually became infatuated.

I don't know how long later, the cold wind in the river woke me up from my obsession.

I've been single for a long time, and my desire for affection is simply anxious day and night, and I really want someone to be with me in sleepless nights. Accompany me through the years, share each other's joys, sorrows, and take care of each other for a lifetime.

I am not a defender, on the contrary, my mysterious and unpredictable background is likely to stand on the opposite side of the world, but it is still difficult for me to make up my mind about marrying the Yellow River Niangniang.

Yin and yang are separated by different paths between people and ghosts, and the reason why taboos have become taboos is because there is a ruler of heaven and humanity to measure.

I can ignore her identity, but what about my family?

The old white ghost has no scruples because he is alone, and I, Xie Lan, am not.

For the next few days, I never set foot on the ancient altar again. Even if people come to Xiaba Village, they only take a look from afar on the shore.

As the old saying goes, my mother saw that I had something on my mind and asked me what was wrong.

In the past, the first thing I had on my mind was to talk to my mother, but Huanghe Niangniang's identity is special, and my mother is just an ordinary person, and saying it will only scare her.

But sooner or later, I have to let my mother know that the Yellow River Niangniang gave up the Yellow River Order for me, I can't bear her, and the best way for me to repay her kindness is to marry her and enter the door.

Huixiang has become a ghost, and she still hopes that the bones will be taken in, and the Yellow River Niangniang doesn't know how many years she has been lonely in the Yellow River, and she must be looking forward to a home.

I married her home, and from then on my home is her home, and my parents are her parents, and this is the destination. Otherwise, no matter how good my relationship with her is, it's just a bad relationship.

After thinking about this section, I decided to have a showdown with my mother!

"Mother, didn't my father say that Uncle Bai would arrange my marriage in the future, and he did arrange it."

"How is it arranged? Which girl, when to bring it home for my mother to see. "When my mother heard that my marriage had been settled, she was immediately overjoyed.

"Mother, you know about the marriage of the yin, right?" I slowed my tone and watched the expression on my mother's face a little nervously.

"You know, why do you suddenly talk about this?" My mother is a smart woman, and the joy on her face began to fade from the moment I said the word "marriage".

But I couldn't hide it anymore at this time, and said it in one breath: "Uncle Bai arranged a yin marriage for me, and the woman I want to marry is not a person!" ”

After listening to this, my mother took a few steps back and looked at me with a shocked face.

"Mother, there are some things I can't explain to you, I can only tell you that I can't help but marry this woman, and I am really willing to marry her, and I will never marry someone else in this life."

It took my mother a long time to go from shock to calm, and I have been waiting.

"Even if it's a ghost, there's always a background, let's talk about it, which girl she is."

Hearing my mother say this, I breathed a long sigh of relief in my heart, and the most difficult level was finally over.

There are a lot of rumors about the marriage of the Yellow River Niangniang in our local area, and most of them are good stories. Since my mother can accept that I can marry a ghost as a wife, she can naturally accept me to marry the mother of the Yellow River.

Sure enough, when I said that the woman was the Yellow River Niangniang, my mother didn't change her face again, but asked me with a little surprise if there is still a Yellow River Niangniang in the Yellow River?

"Yes. If you agree, I'll bring her to meet you two elders. I said.

"Don't, don't be busy yet, wait for me to inform your father first, your father's health has never been very good, I'm afraid he won't be able to stand this stimulation."

In the end, my mother said that since she knew about my life, she believed that there were ghosts and gods in the underworld. Later, Huixiang's incident was so bad that she believed that there were ghosts in the world.

But she never thought that I would marry a ghost in the future, and I was still a Yellow River lady who didn't know which dynasty and which generation.

The process of convincing my dad was easy because my dad was a man.

Men who grew up on the banks of the Yellow River since childhood are not curious about the legendary beauty of the Yellow River.

"Xie Lan, as long as you can lead her into the door, I will recognize her as our Xie family's daughter-in-law!"