Grandpa begged for a wife when he was young, that is called a beautiful, even if decades have passed, the people in the village have been chattering, saying that my grandmother must be the reincarnation of Su Daji, otherwise how can she be so beautiful, it is strange to say, my grandma looks like a fairy-like beauty, but to ask my father for a daughter-in-law, but to ask for an ugly monster who is staggering in ten miles and eight villages.

People in the village said that my grandmother was jealous and was afraid that her daughter-in-law would be more beautiful than herself, so she did it on purpose.

My dad was against it at the time, but my grandmother was adamant.

My dad had to give in, but the next day, after the round house, my dad left a letter saying that he went to work in other places and never came back.

My grandfather died early, and my dad left.

My grandmother and my mother depend on each other, an old widow and a widow, and the people in the village will make fun of each other when they are fine.

But my grandmother and my mother never blushed with others.

On the day I was born, the heavy rain was pouring, and with my cry, my mother's life was not saved, my grandmother didn't say anything, she pulled my mother's body with a cart, and buried it, and didn't even do the funeral, and the people in the village bit their tongues, saying that my grandmother was really ruthless, and even worse, saying that my grandmother killed my mother.

These gossips accompanied me to the age of twenty, my name is Lin Shengyue, although my mother is ugly, but I look like my grandmother, it can be said that she is very handsome.

Because I didn't do well in school, I ran a fragrant paper shop at home with my grandmother very early.

For as long as I can remember, the gossip in the village has reached my ears, and I have asked my grandmother several times to verify those past stories, but my grandmother always told me not to ask.

I didn't resent my grandmother because of these things.

One day, my grandmother and I closed the door of the shop, and when we were having dinner, my grandmother said to me in a serious voice: "Shengyue, you are not young, it is time to find a wife." ”

I smiled and said to my grandmother, "Grandma, I'm still young, so I'm not in a hurry. ”

After I finished speaking, my grandmother changed her previous gentleness and said to me with a straight face: "Shengyue, grandma has found you a family affair, and you will go to the back mountain tonight to bring the bride back." ”

I was stunned, go to the back mountain to pick up the bride?

Seeing that I was stunned, my grandmother said in a serious tone: "Shengyue, if you don't marry at the age of twenty, it will be difficult to marry in the future." ”

Grandma's expression was very serious when she spoke, of course I believed in my grandmother's words, and the reason why I believed it was definitely not because she was my grandmother, but because my grandma also had a stunt, that is, she would show people, and she could see it quite accurately, otherwise she really couldn't raise me just by selling paper money or something.

I don't have a strong sense of resistance to marrying a daughter-in-law, because people in the countryside get married relatively early, and some of my childhood playmates have become fathers at the age of sixteen.

It's just that I'm curious in my heart, why did my grandmother let me go to Houshan to pick up the bride, and I know that there is no village in Houshan.

And they are all deep mountains and old forests.

I asked my grandmother and said, "Grandma, even if you ask me to marry, but which bride to pick up, there is no village in front of the mountain, and there is no shop in the back." ”

Grandma's face was pale: "Grandma will let you go, but before you go, grandma told you a few things, you have to remember them." ”

I looked at my grandmother like this, not like a joke, so I let my grandmother say.

Grandma sighed and said slowly, tonight at half past eleven, you start from home, all the way to the direction of the back mountain, remember to go straight, walk for a while, you will see a locust tree, around the locust tree left four circles, right four circles, and then shouted, bride, I will pick you up, the second is, no matter what the bride looks like, you are not allowed to dislike it, you must take it home, take good care, otherwise grandma will not let you go.

I smiled bitterly after hearing this, thinking to myself, grandma won't pit my father, come to pit me again, and go back and introduce me to an ugly monster as a wife, then how wronged I am!

Could it be true that the rumors in the village that grandma is jealous?

Seeing that I was stunned, my grandmother slapped the table and asked me, "Shengyue, did you hear me?" ”

I replied with all my might, saying I heard it.

Grandma's face suddenly became gloomy, I thought that grandma was unhappy and wanted to be angry, I hurriedly said, grandma, I can't listen to you, don't be angry.

Grandma shook her head and said, "Grandma is not angry, grandma has one last thing to tell you." ”

I asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Grandma was about to say it, but then she swallowed it and said, "I'll talk about it when you bring the bride back." ”

I mumbled and said yes.

In the end, my grandmother told me that I should not tell anyone about this matter.

I said I knew, and my grandmother began to prepare a cloth bag for me, which put ingots and candles on my back, and told me that when it was time to wait, I burned the ingots candles in front of the locust tree, and then turned in circles, and no matter what happened, don't be afraid.

I followed my grandmother to sell these dead people's things, but in fact, I was not as afraid of ghosts and evil as ordinary people.

I looked at the time, it was ten o'clock in the evening, in fact, I still had no bottom in my heart, I didn't understand what my grandmother said about picking up the bride, and I had to go to the back mountain to pick up at night, which was really strange. I even thought my grandma was talking nonsense.

But nonsense is nonsense, just think of it as fulfilling one of the old man's wishes.

It wasn't until half past eleven in the evening that my grandmother urged me to set off, and when I was leaving, she said to me very seriously: "Shengyue, remember, no matter what the bride looks like, you have to take it back and treat it well." ”

I said to my grandmother, "Okay, I got it." ”

In the middle of the night, I walked towards the back mountain, and the light of the flashlight shone out, and I found a light mark through the night.

There is no moon in the sky tonight, the evening breeze blows, and there is a cold chill, entering the mountains and forests, this feeling becomes even stronger, and all the grass and trees around are blown whirring, so that I always feel as if someone is following behind me.

But looking back, it was empty.

My heart began to get furious, and I couldn't help but speed up my pace, thinking, finish my grandmother's business early and go home early.

Of course, I didn't expect much from my grandmother about the bride.

I walked forward step by step, walked for half an hour, I saw that there was really a tall locust tree in front of me, the flashlight shone, I could see the locust tree towering into the sky, I don't know if it was because of the bad light at night, I didn't see the top of the locust tree.

And the strange thing is that the locust tree is still blooming, you must know that the locust tree blooms in late summer, but now it is only April, and the flowering is unreasonable.

But I can't do that much.

The wind was blowing, I couldn't help but shiver, took out the ingots candle and began to burn paper money, and read in my mouth: "Locust tree fairy, I will circle around your torso later, and please don't be angry." ”

The ingot candle was lit by me, and I carefully guarded it, for fear that it would be blown away by the wind.

But to my surprise, I lit the ingot candle, and the wind that was blowing suddenly stopped.

I was stunned, and looked around, and then my complexion changed, and I thought that it was really an evil sect, as if the wind had stopped near the locust tree, and the wind had not stopped in the rest of the place!

Could it be that this locust tree is really a fairy?

Thinking about it, I hurriedly bowed again, anyway, it's right to worship the gods.

After worshipping, I said a word of offense, began to circle around the locust tree, according to my grandmother's instructions, began to circle around the locust tree, I was the first left four circles, after the left four circles, the left grass and trees, suddenly was blown by the whirring sound.

I looked to the right and found that the grass and trees on the right and the left seemed to be two worlds, not moving at all.

I became more and more uneasy, and even began to be a little scared.

Didn't you really run into a ghost? My hand holding the flashlight couldn't help but tremble, my eyes became vigilant, and I thought to myself, if something is wrong, I will run away!

I took a deep breath to stabilize my emotions and began to turn four times to the right, and when I finished the four turns to the right, the wind sounded.

I froze in place, looking at the grass and trees on both sides, and everything seemed to have become normal.

I held my breath and started doing what my grandmother said, and I opened my mouth and shouted, "Bride, where are you?" I'm here to pick you up. ”

I shouted three times in a row, but when I called out the bride, I was completely confused.