1. Substitute marriage
"If you dare to escape, I will break your legs! The Xiao family wants to marry you only because they can afford you, don't be bored, just like your dead mother! ”
The man grabbed his sister's head and slammed it against the wall, punched and kicked him before venting his anger, and scolding the door and going out.
I hid in the corner and watched it all, shivering.
This man was my adoptive father, and my mother married him when I was five years old, but unfortunately he was killed in a car accident, leaving my sister and I to live with my adoptive father. The adoptive father has a bad temper and is addicted to gambling, and when he loses money, he likes to make fun of our sisters, and at least punches and kicks.
I stepped forward to help my sister up, she was in a cold sweat in pain, tears were streaming down, and she was crying silently.
I patted my sister on the back, I hated that man very much, he not only lost all the money in the family, but also owed a lot of debts, and was chased by the creditor, yesterday the creditor's family said that it could eliminate the debt of the adoptive father, but there was a premise, to marry my sister into the Xiao family.
When his adoptive father heard that he could eliminate his gambling debts, he was excited and immediately wanted to send his sister to the Xiao family.
I don't know why the Xiao family wants to marry my sister, and I also said that I will send people over after nightfall, I think there must be nothing good, the Xiao family is a rich family, it is impossible to fall in love with my sister, there must be something greasy in this.
My sister was tired of crying, and she lay on the ground and spoke weakly: "Huanhuan, please, help me, I can't marry into the Xiao family." ”
My heart trembled, my sister has a lover, she is the class leader of their class, Yu Ge, she is handsome, and her family conditions are good, the key is to be good to her. She had already made a promise that she would not marry in this life, but now that the Xiao family is forcing her to come to the door, her adoptive father is afraid that her sister will run away, so he locks us up, except for three meals a day, he basically won't appear, sometimes he can't remember or has no money in his pocket, so he doesn't care about us.
"Sister, don't be like this, you say, how do you want me to help you?" I can't see my sister like this, she has been a strong girl in my heart since I was a child, even if my mother died a few years ago, my sister pulled me to grow up, she even went out for me to play several part-time jobs, and my college tuition was still given by my sister.
My sister wiped away the tears on her face, her eyes flashed, and she pulled me: "Huanhuan, will you marry into the Xiao family for me?" I can't fail Yu Ge, I won't marry anyone in my life except Yu Ge, if they force me, I will die in front of him. ”
"Sister, don't!" I let out a cry of horror, feeling a little flustered in my heart, my sister was a year older than me, and she looked so similar to me that people who were not familiar with us were basically unrecognizable.
My sister grabbed my hand and clenched it tightly, and she couldn't speak clearly.
"Huanhuan, my sister has nothing in this life, except for Yu Ge......" her sister said, she said that no one would want to touch her in this life except Yu Ge.
I was silent for a long time, but finally agreed, we planned to send my sister away tonight, my adoptive father would be drunk every night, take advantage of this opportunity, my sister can escape, and as long as I stay, my adoptive father will not blame, after all, the Xiao family wants only a woman.
My heart was inexplicably a little sour, and I saw that my sister was thanking me vigorously, and even kowtowed to me, and I was indescribably excited, and the injuries on my body were half healed.
It was rare to see my sister smile, she said that she would see Yu Ge soon, and soon she would be able to completely escape from this hell and pursue her love.
I watched Yu Ge take my sister away at the entrance of the alley, my eyes became sour inexplicably, and I muttered in my heart, I wish you happiness.
However, just as I turned around, a dark shadow came from behind me, and my adoptive father came here angrily with a wine bottle, shouting as he walked: "You stinky cousin, you dare to escape, see if I don't kill you." ”
The adoptive father came over with his body dangling, waving his wine bottle indiscriminately, unable to stand steadily, and he was like a drunkard.
I hated him, my eyes were red with irritation, and a bold idea suddenly popped into my head, and I rushed forward and pushed him out, and my adoptive father was so drunk that I pushed him like this, and hit the wall next to him, and fell asleep.
I took advantage of this gap to run home, and a bold thought sprung up in my heart, why don't I take this opportunity to run away, and let him be beaten to death, he will not be good to me anyway.
I fled in a hurry, but when I ran to the door of the house, two men in black suddenly came out, one left and one right, and I panicked, what was this going to do.
I yelled, "Who are you and why are you arresting me?" ”
The two men in black did not speak, but drove me to the door, and I saw a man standing at the door of my house, wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a straight suit, standing there waiting for me to pass, and I saw that there was a sedan chair beside him, and several sedan chair drivers were waiting there next to the sedan chair, waiting respectfully.
"You're a girl from the Dong family, right?" The man said softly, I shook my head, trembling with fright, I said that I was just a passerby, not a girl from the Dong family.
The man took out a picture from his arms, put her next to my face, looked at it for a long time, and glanced at the two men, and then I was tied up into a rice dumpling, and he gagged me with a sackcloth and threw me into the sedan chair.
Between the words, I heard that they were from the Xiao family, saying that the master of the Xiao family was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he asked people to pick up my sister, I was forcibly stuffed in a sedan chair, bumpy all the way, I don't know how long I walked, dizzy and uncomfortable, I fell asleep in a trance.
In my sleep, I saw my sister, her face was full of happy smiles, and she whispered to me: Thank you, Huanhuan.
I was frightened and trembled, and when I woke up from the dream, I found myself in a house, surprisingly large, and the things in it were very luxurious, and I knew that I had come to the Xiao family, but what did they want to do.
I took a step, and suddenly saw a red shadow leap in front of me, and when I looked at it, I realized that it was me, in the mirror, wearing a red wedding dress, like a bride in a TV series, I was stunned, when did I change this dress, why did I wear it like this?
A series of doubts in my heart, just when I was stunned, the door was opened, I saw a fat woman, dressed like a matchmaker, with a matchmaker mole on her face, she twisted her waist and said, "The girls are all dressed, don't come with me, don't miss the time." ”
"What are you going to do?" I subconsciously took a step back, but the woman's hand was clasped around my wrist, unusually cold, like handcuffs, I couldn't break free, and she carried me forward.
"Don't ask too much, when you arrive, you will know that a married woman can't cry, she has to be happy, and she can have a good life in the future." The woman said, taking me by the hand and going downstairs, and I gazed at her feet and found that she was actually hanging in the air, not touching the ground!
She...... What is she?
I was so frightened that I almost rolled down the stairs with empty feet, and there was a grim smile all around me.
Hell, hell -
Ghosts!
I was very flustered, trying to break free from this fat and thin body, but I couldn't do anything.
I was forced to follow the fat matchmaker downstairs, and she didn't know what to say in her hoarse voice.
Downstairs was full of white smoke, and I could hear the sound of small words, and I was scared, but I couldn't break free from her hand.
The Xiao family needs a woman to be happy, it was my sister who married into the Xiao family, but now it is me.
I couldn't help but think about it, the matchmaker pulled me over, faintly angry, there was a middle-aged couple sitting in the middle of the hall, the woman frowned and her eyes were full of disgust, but the man's eyes were amazing, staring at me with squinting eyes.
"Master, madam, the auspicious time has come, please come out and worship heaven and earth." Someone next to him spoke, everything here is in ancient layout, and everyone is wearing ancient costumes.
I was forced to kneel to the side, not daring to say a word, for fear of touching something.
I waited for a long time, I wanted to see how the Xiao family's son was born, but the matchmaker walked for a long time and brought a rooster over, and the big red flower was put on the rooster's head, and it walked over with its head held high.
My heart tightened, did they want me to worship this rooster?
"Let's start soon." The woman spoke in a deep voice, and the people around her moved, I worship with the rooster? I have lived for so many years, although my family is poor, but I also had sweet dreams when I was young, and I never thought it would be like this.
I struggled to get up, but my feet were so hard that I couldn't get up.
The matchmaker said fiercely: "The Xiao family can take a fancy to you, it is a blessing that you have cultivated in the third life, if this marriage is ruined, see that I don't kill you." ”
She glared at me, her face suddenly changed, and her originally chubby face suddenly became a blur of flesh and blood, and her eyes stared at me deadly, and my heart sank with fright.
I wanted to escape but couldn't escape, I was carried by someone to worship the rooster, and the rooster's eyes were also very strange, as if it could understand the scene in front of me, and it turned to stare at me.
My tears were in my eyes, and the fat matchmaker said that if I shed a single tear, she would cut out my eyes with a knife.
She said that it would be a pity that such beautiful eyes were gone.
In a marriage, I was like a walking corpse, and I realized that all the Xiao family needed was a girl with the same characters to cooperate with this secret marriage.
The so-called Xiao family had died long before this.
The matchmaker said, "Enter the cave room", she stuffed a tablet for me, someone came out from the side, tied my hands with a red rope, dotted a little cinnabar between my eyebrows, and carried it to another room.
I had long lost the ability to resist, I couldn't even die, they locked me in a room with a coffin, and I clutched the coffin in my palm, my palms were covered with cold sweat.
Instead, he turned the coffin over, and his name was seen on it.
Xiao is like calling, Xiao is like calling.
I muttered, fell to the side, and cried like a tearful man.
I live well, why should I bear such humiliation, God made me marry by mistake, do you want to be with this corpse in the future, the scene is underground.
Exhausted from crying, he had no strength, he fell to the side, fell asleep, and the pair of red candles in front of him were swaying, slowly, fading their original color, and turning into a pair of white candles.
In an instant, the hall became a mourning hall.
But I couldn't move, and my eyelids became heavier and heavier, so heavy that I couldn't open them anymore.
I'm afraid I'm going to die, but it's better to have a trace of it than to live in the world so miserably.