Chapter 11: One Death and One Life

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After putting the paper figure into the coffin, Wang Shoudao instructed the two maids to go back, find Cai Zhang of the Cai family and ask the barmaids to come over and cover the coffin, and then carry it to the grave dug in the north of the city and bury it.

After the two maids agreed to leave, Wang Shoudao was not idle, he put the red thread in his hand into his mouth, soaked it with saliva, and then tied the two ends of the red thread to the left wrist of the male corpse and the right wrist of the female paper man.

After tying the red thread, Wang Shoudao took out the cigarette pouch in his waist, stood by the coffin, looked at the pair of "newcomers" in the coffin, and smoked a cigarette.

With a bag of cigarettes, the housekeeper Cai Zhang took a few barmen out of the house and came here. When Wang Shoudao saw it, he waved his hand at them from afar, signaling them to stop, and several people hurriedly stopped in place, and then Wang Shoudao focused his attention on the pair of "newcomers" in the coffin, staring at them with good eyes.

After a long while, I saw that the red cloth on the face of the male corpse in the coffin suddenly shook with a "poof", as if the corpse had blown the red cloth with a gasp.

Seeing this, Wang Shoudao beckoned to the housekeeper in the distance, and a few barmen came over to cover the coffin, and the housekeeper Cai Zhang sat in the carriage to lead the way for them, and carried the coffin towards the tomb in the north of the city.

At this point, Li Daitao's stiff and yin marriage can be regarded as a successful completion. As for why the red cloth on the corpse's face trembled, in my grandmother's words, the reason why the ghost stayed in the yang world was because it had not fulfilled its wish in the yang world, and when it died, there was a breath of life in the cavity, Wang Shoudao used a paper man instead of Cai Qingjun to become a relative to him, and even if he had his wish, the breath of life in his cavity naturally spit out. According to my deputy, this man was probably beaten to death by the woman's family, so he accumulated resentment.

Although the business of the dead is over, the business of the living is not over.

Wang Shoudao smoked a dry cigarette while walking towards Cai's mansion, thinking in his heart, how to get this beautiful daughter-in-law for his apprentice.

When Wang Shoudao returned to Cai's mansion, he hurriedly asked Cai Wenye to tell the maid to go to Miss Cai's room to talk to my great-grandfather, and remove the green cloth from Cai Qingjun's body.

Subsequently, Wang Shoudao said to Cai Wenye, can you let all the people in the hall avoid it first, and have something to say to Cai Wenye. Cai Wenye had already respected Wang Shoudao like a god at this time, and hurriedly ordered the others to leave.

After only Cai Wenye and Wang Shoudao were left in the hall, Wang Shoudao solemnly said to Cai Wenye: "Ling Qianjin is the only thing now, but she must get married immediately, and within three or five months, you will find out that the paper figure is not Miss Cai, and she will come to your house to make trouble." ”

When Cai Wenye heard this, his face immediately became ugly, obviously frightened and embarrassed. Now in Cai Qingjun's situation, it is difficult to get married, and he has to get married immediately, where can Cai Wenye find such a ready-made son-in-law?

At this time, Wang Shoudao observed Cai Wenye with slyly eyes, and when he saw Cai Wenye in embarrassment, he said unhurriedly: "If you have a suitable candidate, the old man will have one." ”

When Cai Wenye heard this, he was like grasping a life-saving straw, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said to Wang Shoudao: "Mr. Wang, if you can find your in-law's house for the little girl, Cai is grateful, grateful." ”

Wang Shoudao smiled, "Don't be grateful, don't be grateful, as long as you agree, Ling Qianjin will be able to marry tomorrow." ”

When Cai Wenye heard this, he seemed a little confused.

Wang Shoudao continued: "My apprentice Liu Yi, who is eight years old Chinese New Year's Eve today, has been following me to learn art when he was young, and he has delayed the matter of getting married. ”

As soon as Wang Shoudao said this, Cai Wenye became even more difficult, and it could be seen that he thought my great-grandfather was too old. In other words, my great-grandfather is only a few years younger than Cai Wenye.

Cai Wenye's concerns were actually in Wang Shoudao's calculations, Wang Shoudao still smiled, and continued: "Don't look at the age of my apprentice, he is not an ordinary person, he is the Dharma Protector Vajra, and he is Guanyin Bodhisattva in heaven...... Let's talk about the leakage of heavenly opportunities, the marriage between Ling Qianjin and my apprentice is a marriage given by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and it is destined that my apprentice cannot marry my daughter, and my daughter cannot marry my apprentice. ”

"Really?" Cai Wenye asked.

Wang Shoudao pretended to be true and nodded. Seeing this, Cai Wenye's heart was relieved, and finally he said to Wang Shoudao that he couldn't be the master himself, and he had to discuss this matter with his wife.

After Cai Wenye left the hall, Wang Shoudao smoked the tobacco on the cigarette pouch again, with a smile on his face.

After a few bags of cigarettes, Cai Wenye returned with his wife Li, Li is more optimistic about my great-grandfather, although he is a little older, it can be seen that my great-grandfather is a sincere person, honest and honest, the key is that he will also have the ability to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts, if this is to let my daughter marry my great-grandfather, not only will her daughter not have any evil things, there is this Guanyin Bodhisattva next to the protector Vajra where is standing, their Cai family can also be protected.

Cai Wenye and his wife discussed with Wang Shoudao, and set the date on the ninth day of June three days later, at that time, the marriage was the order of the matchmaker's parents, and it was difficult for the junior to decide on his marriage.

According to my grandmother, Cai Qingjun has a good impression of my great-grandfather, let alone my great-grandfather, it can be said that they are also happy.

The place of marriage is in Cai's Mansion, Wang Shoudao said that getting married in Cai's Mansion is to discourage Cai's mansion, and secondly, to refute rumors for Miss Cai. In fact, Wang Shoudao is not able to buy a banquet, the Cai family is rich and powerful, and there are many relatives and friends, and if the purchase is poor, it is likely to be looked down upon by them.

The marriage was very grand, the Cai family had a head and face in the local area, and countless people came to congratulate him, and Cai Wenye even took out 1,000 taels of gold to make a dowry for Cai Qingjun.

What is the concept of 1,000 taels of gold, you can calculate, 1,000 taels is 100 catties of gold, one catty is equal to 500 grams, and now the price of gold on the market is more than 300 yuan per gram. (Many friends say that the unit of measurement in the Qing Dynasty, one catty is equal to sixteen taels, no matter how much it is, anyway, it's quite a lot.) )

These gold has not been used up until my grandfather's generation, our family's tradition is to be diligent and thrifty, rarely spend money lavishly, although my grandfather squandered a lot, but there is still a little inventory, but, after the founding of New China, our family was deducted a big landlord's hat, my grandmother was beaten into a "cow ghost snake god", all day long by the village people to criticize the street, it is precisely because of this, these things my grandmother did not dare to pass on to my father, my father, at that time was also quite bloody, I think it is a cow ghost snake god, stunned not to learn.

Before the land reform, my grandmother found someone to build a new house, and put all the gold into the wall, and during the land reform, the house with gold was divided among other people, and when I was a teenager, the family turned over the house and dug the gold out of the wall, but at that time, they no longer belonged to our family. After they dug up the gold, our family negotiated with their family, but their family didn't give us a penny.

The family that divided our house had four daughters and a son, and the youngest son was the youngest. I was the same age as their third daughter, and I was a classmate from elementary school to junior high school, and their family had a good life with gold, but within a few years, when I was fifteen or sixteen, their youngest son committed suicide inexplicably, and died a miserable death, and at night he drank some wine and ran to the railway, met with the train, and was hung by a part of the locomotive, and dragged his body until he was left with only two legs and an empty chest, his head was gone, and the contents of his stomach were gone, and finally the train stopped, and the driver got off the car and dragged his empty body down. In the second half of the night, a group of wild dogs came out of nowhere, and ate his body again, and their family finally snatched a few pieces of meat from the dog's mouth and buried them.

There is also a plaque in our family, which was also divided by other people's families during the land reform, and they made two chopping boards for cutting vegetables, which we call the chopping board here, and as a result, their two sons went crazy within a few years.

What does this mean, it means that sometimes, if you take something that is not yours, you will be punished.

Straight to the point. After my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother got married, they lived in Caifu for about two months, and after that, my great-grandfather returned to Sanwangzhuang with Wang Shoudao and my great-grandmother.

Because the previous house was too small to live in, my great-grandfather took out some gold and built a decent big house.

At this time, Wang Shoudao seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden, and he could barely get off the ground, lying on the bed all day long, talking about hugging his apprentice grandson, and urging my great-grandfather all day long.

In 1866, the fifth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty and the year of Bingyin. My great-grandfather was thirty-nine years old, Wang Shoudao was one hundred and seven years old, and my great-grandmother Cai Qingjun was twenty-one years old.

This year, my great-grandmother became pregnant. Wang Shoudao was very happy when he learned about it, so he made an exception and got out of bed to let my great-grandfather help him and walk around the village.

It turned out that Wang Shoudao was looking for a cemetery for himself, and after the cemetery was found, he asked my great-grandfather to write down the place, and then he lay on the bed and waited for the birth of his apprentice.

In the spring of 1867, the sixth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the year of Ding Mao, and the seventh day of the second month, my grandfather was born, which should have been a happy thing, but Wang Shoudao swallowed his breath the night before, that is, on the night of the sixth day of the second lunar month, at the age of one hundred and eight.

Wang Shoudao, also known as Wang Sangen, Wang Banxian, exorcised evil spirits and chased ghosts for a lifetime, and his name was spread on both sides of the Yellow River, but in the end he ended up with regrets, thinking about it carefully, it was very sad, this may be the biggest regret in his life, a regret that can never be recovered