Chapter II: Letter of Appointment
The house relatives are like faces:
The little girl and the prince of your mansion talked about the matchmaker's concubine, and pre-married Qin and Jin.
I would like to schedule tomorrow as the day of the wedding of the dog girl and your son.
Special forecast is the best period.
When I saw this piece of paper, I was stunned and couldn't help but go through what had happened from the beginning.
I went to the river and saw a woman in red jumping into the river, only to find out that the woman in red was a water ghost after being tricked.
The red-clothed water ghost was unwilling after his mistake, and stuffed a letter of appointment into my arms, wanting to come and marry me tomorrow.
The thought of being dragged alive into the water by a group of imps made me shudder, and my eyes were full of horror.
"Now you know you're panicking?" The old man sneered, and no longer promised to be the original: "It's too late for you to run now, it's already eyeing you, and from now on, unless you don't take a bath, don't wash your face, and don't drink water, it will haunt you to death." ”
Looking at the old man, although I was a little aggrieved, I also knew that the responsibility was not him, I was self-aware, and hurriedly asked him how to remedy it.
Seeing that I had a good attitude of admitting my mistakes, the old man didn't say anything cool, he lowered his head and thought about it, and said slowly: "It's definitely not okay to come hard, do you know what kind of place this is?" ”
I nodded, Li Ruxian lived here was originally a dragon king temple, and the incense here was flourishing when the townspeople were still fishing on the river earlier, but in recent years, people have gone out to work, so even this place has declined.
Because no one usually comes, Li Ruxian settled in the backyard of the Dragon King Temple, and usually serves as the temple secretary of the Dragon King Temple.
"Jiang Longwang My father is said to have seen it once when he was a child, and he overturned two ferries, and I can't provoke that thing, but I have been a temple in this temple for a few years, and I have made a lot of efforts for its old people, and we still have some incense for each other, you and I go to the front to see if the old man will give me this face."
I was completely out of idea at this time, I will do whatever Li Ruxian asks me to do, and when I knelt down in front of the statue and kowtowed three times and paid an incense salute, the old man bowed to the ground to the statue.
"The old dragon king is on top, my family is ignorant in the future, disturbed the dragon girl, should have sent the river to serve your old man, but this kid is the only seedling in the family, the fate is thin, not worthy of being the dragon girl's son-in-law, and I hope that the old dragon king will raise his noble hand and prepare five sacrifices to serve you in the future!"
After saying that, the old man stood up and told me that if the incense could be burned, it would be fine, and I opened my mouth to ask him what would happen if he didn't finish it, but he had already turned around and went to the backyard.
I waited anxiously in the temple for a while, but fortunately, under my gaze, the incense did not mean to be extinguished at all, which made my heart settle down a little, but when there was still a small section of incense, an accident happened.
I only heard a soft click, and the three sticks of incense were under my nose, cracks appeared at the roots, and finally the unburned incense fell to the ground!
Incense, broken!
I had never encountered such a thing, and I didn't know why the incense was broken, and by the time I came back to my senses, the old man was already standing beside me.
"Sure enough."
The old man pinched the broken incense in his hand, sighed softly, and when he saw my confused expression, he explained: "The Dragon King is too fond of you, and he refutes my face." ”
I asked him what to do, and the old man smiled bitterly: "What should I do?" It wants you to go to the bottom of the river to be its son-in-law, are you willing? ”
I quickly shook my head, I don't want to go to the bottom of the river to be a water ghost husband.
"That's it!" The old man threw away the broken incense, turned around and said, "You don't want to, I can't tie you up, go to sleep, I'll think of a way for you." ”
I wanted to go home, but I didn't dare, if something really happened, don't involve my family, but I didn't come home so late, I didn't know how to explain it to my parents.
Fortunately, the old man saw my difficulties, called my parents and said that I was there and told my parents not to worry, my parents were still a little nervous, but they were relieved when they heard this, and said that it would be okay for me to go back a few days later.
Hearing this, I was a little speechless for a moment, and I couldn't figure out for a while whether I was biological or not, but I also thought about it in my heart, in fact, my parents wanted me to recognize the old man as a godfather early on, but I didn't want to, and now I am willing to get close to the old man, how happy my parents are.
With a stomach full of worries, I was not sleepy in a bed of oily, sour bedding, and I was still thinking about what had happened today, in fact, I was still a little confused, because what had happened today was so unreasonable.
Water ghosts, dragon kings.
These words, which can only be heard in novels and stories of old people, really exist!
And, am I still being remembered by them?
Growing up so big, the first time I was pursued by a girl was in this way, I didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
I thought about it all night, and when the sky was slightly bright, and the sound of roosters crowing reached my ears, I couldn't resist the lingering sleepiness and slept until the afternoon.
When I woke up again, my first feeling was hunger, so I got up and searched for a long time, only to see some leftovers mixed together in the pot of the small coal stove outside the door.
When the meal was almost done, the old man also came back, and I saw him holding a paper figure in his hand, wearing a black Tang costume, a long braid behind him, red makeup on his cheeks, and his narrow eyes squinted slightly to look particularly penetrating.
I timidly asked him what he was doing with the paper man, in fact, I was panicked at this time, for fear that the old man would say that I was hopeless, so I bought a paper man in advance so that I could go back and burn it and serve me.
"Put this paper figure on the bed at night, you sleep under the bed, no matter what you hear or see, don't say anything, if you can survive tonight, maybe you will be fine in the future, if you can't survive...... In short, it's up to you to create. ”
My scalp is a little numb, the old man's words make me feel like a catastrophe is coming, since this happened, the old man seems to have changed completely, he used to give people the feeling that he is a good person, even if others point to his nose and scold, he can also smile and nod yes.
But now, he is completely different, not only has he become stronger, but his words are also somewhat targeted, which is completely two people before and after!
I couldn't figure out this change, but no matter how I asked, Li Ruxian refused to say anything more, and when it got dark, he pushed me into the room, and left in a hurry by himself.
I stayed in the room, looking at the candle on the table, struggling in my heart, instinctively told me that I should leave here immediately, take the car back to Guangdong overnight, and walk far, but reason told me that I should listen to the old man, after all, I have already approved it once before, and if I die again, I'm afraid the director won't be able to save me.
Eventually, reason overrode instinct, I stood up, put the paper figure beside me on the bed and covered it with a quilt, and then, as the old man had said, blew out the candle and got under the bed, waiting patiently for what I didn't know what it was.
As the night deepened, I lay quietly on the stone bricks, the cold stone bricks kept piercing the chill into my body, the room was very dark, if it weren't for the moonlight outside the window, I was afraid that I couldn't see anything clearly, and even the surrounding environment was a dead silence, which was particularly depressing.
In this atmosphere, time seems to stand still, and I can even hear my own heartbeat! I don't know how long it was, maybe five minutes, maybe five hours, but I heard a sudden sound of gongs and drums beating outside the door.
This sound came from far and near, and I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, today is not an auspicious day of the zodiac, and it is a big night......
Thinking about it, I was stunned, and then my scalp exploded violently, why can't this be the dragon girl who married me?! But what's going on with this band, is there such a thing in Ryugu?!
No matter how much I roared in my heart, the group of gongs and drums still stopped in front of the door, and then there was an eerie silence around for a moment, and a shrill voice came through the crack in the door:
"Is the horse at home?"
I hurriedly covered my mouth, but my heart was still beating wildly in this environment, and I turned to look forward to the turtle breath gong that can slow down the heartbeat in martial arts novels!
"Is the horse at home?"
"Is the horse at home?"
"Is the horse at home?"
“……”
The shrill voice was like a repeater, repeating a dozen sentences in a row before it stopped.
Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, I heard another voice outside the door.
"Forgive the little one for offending, the little one is coming first."
Don't come in!
My inner roar was useless, I only heard a creak, the door was pushed open from the outside, and then I saw a pair of legs, drenched, dripping with water, slowly floating towards the bed.
That's right, it's Gone with the Wind!
"Master Horse, Her Royal Highness the princess is waiting for you in the palace, the little one helps you up, don't miss the time!"
Then came the sound of the quilt being lifted, and the shrill man carried the paper figure behind him and began to walk out.
Seeing that its figure was about to disappear in the doorway, I covered my mouth and let out a long breath in my heart.
"Master, it's time to call! Master, come call! ”
The moment before the door closed automatically, I encountered a bloody scene that I dare not shoot in horror movies now, and I only heard the crisp cry of a girl coming from my trouser pocket, and I felt as if the air around me was frozen.
Not only me, but also the legs, froze, and it paused in the doorway for a moment before turning and floating towards me.
I was under the bed at the moment, and there was still a wall on the other side, and there was no way to escape, but to watch the legs come to me.
I don't know how long later, when I was about to stop breathing, a pair of miserable white faces suddenly poked down, looking straight at me, and my mouth almost grinned at the back of my ear:
"Master Pony, why are you here?"