"I respect him!"

Four words came to my ears word by word.

Listening to her tone, she was also very proud, and it seemed that if I was asked to marry her and become her person, I thought it was a great gift, and as for the noble and lowly, it was naturally in order.

Born in the countryside, my thinking is inevitably feudal, I have known since I was a child that marrying a chicken with a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog, and it is common sense for a woman to marry a man, and there has never been a custom of a man marrying a woman.

And those who plug the door upside down can't hold their heads up for the rest of their lives, and they will be the laughing stock of other people's mouths for the rest of their lives.

Although grandma is a woman, her thoughts are the same as normal people, and she thinks that men are inferior to women is the right reason, and then listen to the other party's tone, if it is really supposed to come down, I am afraid that my life will not be good in the future.

"Although you have the ability, you can't be so forced, my grandson is a man, how can he marry a woman, this is unethical."

In the invisible smoke, there was a sound again.

"Hmph, if that's the case, then this river god asks God to order you to solve it yourself."

Grandma's face was ugly, she knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times, and her tone softened.

"I really can't promise you about this, you can put forward other conditions, you want my wife to do anything..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the voice.

"You don't have any value to me now."

"I beg you—" Grandma pleaded again.

Ever since I was a child, I have never seen such a humble gesture as my grandmother, and no one in the whole town dared to provoke her, and how could I ever beg for someone like this.

I already had a sense of resentment in my heart, and seeing my grandmother being so humiliated instantly aroused the fire in my heart.

"You're not even a normal person, I still feel wronged by marrying you!"

As I spoke, I stopped kneeling, got up from the ground, stretched out my hand and pointed at the smoke in front of me and cursed.

"Yes, you saved me from the corpse, and I know how grateful I am. But if it wasn't for my grandmother's request, even if I died, I wouldn't need you to save me, because I didn't want to marry an abnormal daughter-in-law! Now you want me to marry you, I humbish you, it's ridiculous. ”

"Today, I will tell you clearly, even if I die, I will not marry you, I will be subordinate to you, I am a man, and marrying a daughter-in-law is naturally marrying an obedient one!"

After saying it in one breath, I felt a lot more comfortable.

The smoke that condensed in mid-air began to sway because of my words, and there was a faint tendency to dissipate.

Grandma raised her hand and slapped me: "You kid, what nonsense are you talking about!" ”

I twisted my head and said, "I'm not talking nonsense, this is what I think in my heart, love is as good as it is, what kind of river god asks for military orders, maybe it's still scaring people." ”

"Okay, then I'll wait to see what you're capable of. If you regret it, come to me step by step from your house, and I will forgive you. ”

The sound fell, and the smoke disappeared.

Grandma wanted to explain something, but it was too late, so she could only look in a daze at the direction where the smoke disappeared.

It was a long time before she let out a deep sigh.

"Alas!"

I know that everything my grandmother did was for me, and I didn't feel good about seeing her like this.

"Grandma, everyone has their own fate, if I really deserve to die, it's useless to force it, and I don't want to live on it."

Hearing my words, she took a deep look and a helpless smile appeared on her face: "That's what I said." ”

She turned around and walked into the house, whispering as she went, "I thought I could find a backer for my grandson, but it seems that I was too whimsical..."

I was left alone in the courtyard, looking at the two incense sticks that had just been burned, and I don't know when, the two incense sticks had been extinguished.

After this day, my family was peaceful, my mother did not appear again, the trouble of sacrificing the corpse was solved, and the daughter-in-law in the mass grave did not move, and began a normal life.

As for the river god's order to ask for troops, I also put it aside, and nothing special appeared, as if all the terrible things I said about it before were just legends to scare people.

Two days later, I also went back to school, and the past few days have been delayed for several days because of the mess, and if I don't go again, the teacher may not be able to spare me.

During the school day, everything was normal and nothing special and dangerous happened.

The only oddity is my grandmother, who I always see making padded jackets and pants every time I come back from school, and they are the right size for me.

In the past, my grandmother used to make a cotton dress for me every year, but this year, it was already done, but she did so much.

When I asked her why, she only said that she was afraid that I would freeze and didn't say much.

The days of apparent peace passed quickly, and the time recorded on the turtle shell came to the ninth day of the tenth month, the so-called day of the river god's army.

That day, as soon as I came home from school, I saw Mr. Liu and two apprentices at my doorstep.

The door to my house was closed, and it was obvious that my grandmother had shut them out.

Mr. Liu at such an age, being able to come here in person is already a great face and affection.

No matter what my grandmother's attitude was, I was grateful and respectful to Mr. Liu, and pushed the bicycle up.

"Mr. Liu, why are you here?"

When he saw that I was back, he greeted me and said, "He's safe, I'm back from school, I'm here today to look for you." ”

Needless to say, I can naturally guess the purpose of his search for me, after all, the river god's request for military orders is my life, I don't say anything on my face, and I don't dare to forget it in my heart.

"For the sake of the river god?!" I immediately asked.

Mr. Liu nodded: "That's right, today is the time written on the river god's order, and I won't hide it, let's just say it, tonight's fifth watch is the day when the river god invites you, that is, your death." ”

At this time, a voice came from the side.

"Hehe, isn't your grandma very capable, can you find a solution?"

At a glance, I recognized that it was Liu Qiang, a well-known corpse collector on the Wenshui River, who had a great opinion of my family and his tone was not good.

I shook my head and didn't speak.

Mr. Liu said again: "Does your grandmother really care about your life or death?" ”

"It's not."

"Then she won't give you a way?"

I shook my head again, in fact, it was not that my grandmother didn't give me a way, but she pinned all her hopes on the mass grave, and now there is no hope at all.

Mr. Liu took a deep breath and said: "Ping'an, I see that you are a good boy, I just came here today, whether you are a corpse collector or not, I want to help you once, if you believe me, then follow me, I will do my best to keep you safe tonight." ”

"This—" I was in a quandary.

You don't have to think about it to know that grandma will definitely not agree, she has always looked down on Mr. Liu.

But Mr. Liu is also kind-hearted, and besides, the matter of the river god's request for military orders has reached this level, and I don't believe that this is completely fake.

After thinking for a moment, I replied, "Wait a minute, I'll go home and ask grandma what she means." ”

"Okay." Mr. Liu seemed to have thought of my answer a long time ago, and he didn't think much about it, and agreed directly.

I nodded, glanced at them, and said politely with some embarrassment: "Mr. Liu, will you come in with me and sit for a while?" ”

I really didn't have the confidence to say it, and I was ashamed to blush.

Liu Qiang said sarcastically on the side: "Hehe, let's go in and do it, just now your grandmother beat us out with a stick." ”

That's exactly what I thought.

Mr. Liu said without complaining, and shook his head with a smile: "It's okay, let's just wait here for a while." ”

"Okay, I'll come out as soon as possible."

With a word, I pushed my bike through the door.

"Grandma!"

"Hey, I'm in the house, come in." Grandma responded.

I stopped the car, put down my school bag, and walked into the house, where my grandmother was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, and in a conspicuous place on the table, there was a folded red dress, which was a simple style, which was worn when I got married in ancient times.

"Ping'an, did you see those water ghosts just now?"

The corpse digger, nicknamed the water ghost, naturally refers to Mr. Liu.

I walked over and nodded back, "Well, Mr. Liu is outside." ”

"Mr. Liu said that he wanted to save me and let him follow him..."

Grandma interrupted me: "Do you remember what day it is?" ”

"Huh? Today... It's not the ninth day of October, and the turtle shell is written today..."

"No!" Grandma interrupted me again, "What I want to say is that today is the big day for you to get married, and in a while, around ten o'clock in the evening, you come to me, and I will arrange for you to marry the one in the mass grave." ”

"Still married?!" I shouted.

I just scolded her the other day, can she still marry me, and I don't have the slightest interest in her now.

Grandma said: "Of course you want to get married, the river god asked for the military order not to mention, she promised before, she will naturally keep her promise, today is the day agreed by both of us, I have arranged everything, and then you can do what I say." ”

"But Mr. Liu is still outside..."

She didn't give me a chance to finish, and interrupted me for the third time: "Okay, you can leave the rest alone, stay at home until ten o'clock honestly, go to the mass grave and marry her, as for the river god to ask for military orders, everything is as fate would be." Now you go out, I'm going to sleep for a while. ”

I opened my mouth to say something, but I swallowed it back, stood for a while, and then left silently.

returned to the gate, apologized to Mr. Liu and the others who were waiting, and implicitly said to let them leave.

Mr. Liu understood what I meant, shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Alas, your grandmother is still that temperamental, do you really want to let your old Chen family break off..."

As he spoke, he turned around and left, without further ado.

I didn't have the heart to do anything else, and when I got back to the house, I sat on the chair with the river god turtle shell and was stunned.

It wasn't until almost ten o'clock that the shouts of the blind man came from outside.

"Peace! Peaceful! ”

I went out when I heard the sound, but I found that Sun Blind Man's face was not quite right.

"What's wrong?"

He pointed to my grandmother's house and said, "Ping, your grandmother should leave, he asked me to tell you, everything is according to her instructions, hold her head and go to the mass grave to get married, don't..."

Without waiting for him to finish, I went straight to my grandmother's house.

"Grandma!"

Running to the bed, the quilt was lifted, a strong smell of blood penetrated into the nostrils, and something "purred" rolled to the ground, and only grandma's body remained on the bed.

When the thing that was rolling down stopped, I looked at my grandmother's kind face.