Chapter 3: Marriage in the Dead

When she got home, under the faint candlelight, Wang Wuniang looked at the newly obtained five gold coins, smiled, put a gold coin in her mouth and took a bite, and looked at the sleeping female doll on the simple bed with satisfaction.

After tossing so much and not seeing her wake up, it seems that the medicine is really effective.

Wang Wuniang lost her husband at an early age and pulled her eldest son alone. About three years ago, Wang Wuniang's son was bitten by a wolf while hunting and was seriously ill, so she bought a one-horned lady from the one-horn market and came back to Chongxi, because the one-horn lost his eyes and was disfigured, Wang Wuniang cut the price with the seller for a long time, and finally bought her back at a price that was closer to the people.

But a few days after the one-horned lady entered the door, Wang Wuniang's son died of illness.

Wang Wuniang decided that this unicorn was a broom star of Kefu, and she was beaten and scolded on weekdays. Once at the entrance of the village, Wang Wuniang was resentful in her heart, and she added fists and kicks to the unicorn woman, and happened to be bumped into by the ice transporter who came back.

Unexpectedly, the Bai Chop fell in love with the one-horned lady at first sight, and bought her back from Wang Wuniang at double the price, and the one-horned lady gave birth to a baby girl within half a year.

The rumors in the village have spread, saying that the unicorn must have been sold here because of stealing the man of the master's family, and when Wang Wuniang bought it, the unicorn must have been a seed, but Wang Wuniang didn't know it at all, and tried in vain to give his son Chongxi, and now it was sold to Bai Chop at double the price, but it was not a loss.

It's just a pity that Bai Chop was cuckolded and didn't know it, and he gave his wife and children to others for nothing.

Just when the whole village was waiting to see a good show, the two Baiqi couples became more and more affectionate, and they lived a harmonious and beautiful life, and they could often hear the laughter coming from the dilapidated hut.

It's a pity that although the baby girl was born pink and white, she was found to be a deaf, dumb, stupid and stupid child when she was one year old.

In order to heal his beloved daughter, Bai Chop did not hesitate to go to the Desperate Mountain Range to take a hundred years of ice in exchange for a high salary.

But just a month ago, Bai Chop went to pick ice as usual but didn't hear from him for half a month, and later learned that a sudden snowstorm broke out in the Desperate Mountain Range, and Bai Chop and his party all disappeared into the vast snowfield, and their life and death were uncertain.

The one-horned girl was born a slave, and the one-horned lady lost her shelter and became a fish for others to slaughter.

After Wang Wuniang learned that Bai Kill was more auspicious, she took people to Bai Kill's house to rob people.

At the beginning, this unicorn was bought by her to her son Chongxi, but after a serious visit, Wang Wuniang thought that she could be regarded as the mother-in-law of the unicorn lady, and now that she was killed, this unicorn is naturally under her control.

Later, the hundred ghost women looked around for the bride of the "bone corpse", and Wang Wuniang suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of that stupid and sick child.

She remembered that this stupid child was born on "Halloween", so the people in the village were disgusted with the Baichu family, saying that they had a little ghost in their house, and they were afraid to contact them for fear of being contaminated with sneaky and evil spirits.

There are also rumors that because the stupid sick child has been ill for a long time, the one-horned lady washes her face with tears all day long, and there is really no way to do it, so she invited the goddess to drive away evil spirits and disasters for the child, but she didn't know that the goddess said that the child was not sick, but ...... There is no soul at all!

Mortals have three souls and seven spirits, but this child is a white body born without a soul and a soulless body, and it is simply an empty jar, so the goddess persuaded the Baiqi couple to drown and abandon the child as soon as possible, otherwise it will attract many ghosts and demons to rush to invade the child's body, bringing unwarranted disasters.

Furious, he immediately drove the goddess out, and not long after, he died in a blizzard in the Desperate Mountains.

After hearing that Wang Wuniang sold her child to the hundred ghost woman to make a "bone corpse", the one-horned lady ran away with the child in the middle of the night, but unfortunately she was blind, and it didn't take long for her to be captured.

After getting acquainted with the lady who "built the bone corpse", the Liu family began to open up.

The hundred ghost woman calculated the day, the two handed over the "door post", the hundred ghost woman set up the law platform, went to the underworld life hall to get the "dragon and phoenix sticker", and thus ushered in Wang Wuniang's most happy "release day"

"Release" is actually the bride price of the man to the woman's coffin, because the woman of this "secret marriage" is a "living person", so the bride price that the man gives to the woman is true.

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, the Liu family beat gongs and drums and led a group of people to Wang Wuniang's house to "settle", and put two large boxes full of bride price at the door of Wang Wuniang's house.

It contains a few silk rulers, half a box of gold and silver treasures, a piece of cotton, a clip, and a single piece of clothing, a set of tailor-made phoenix crown and red wedding dress, two pairs of brocade boxes, and jewelry such as earrings, bracelets, rings, and hairpins.

For this "secret marriage" Wang Wuniang is also the first time in her life, originally only heard the hundred ghost woman say that if she can sell the female doll to the Liu family as a "bone corpse", the hundred ghost woman is willing to pay her ten gold coins.

But I never thought that in addition to the ten gold coins, I could still receive such a rich dowry, and it was really happy that Wang Wuniang couldn't put her hands together.

The man gives the bride price, and the woman naturally has to have a dowry.

It's just that because this man is a "dead man", Wang Wuniang picked up a big bargain, and almost all the dowries were made of paper paste.

There are a few houses, a few horses, a few horsemen, maids and servants who wait, and the carriages and sedan cars they ride in are all paper work, and a few boxes of gold and silver treasures are also paper work.

At midnight the next day, at ten o'clock, Wang Wuniang took a group of people to get married, beat gongs and drums, walked around the ancestral tomb of the Liu family a few times, and then burned the paper one by one.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, there is a formal marriage ceremony, which is almost the same as that of the living, except that the living are mostly held during the day, while the dead are held at night.

The girl doll was stupid and sick, afraid that she would cry on a good day, so Wang Wuniang poured her a sufficient amount of sweat medicine, anyway, after tonight, she would also sink into the lake.

Wang Wuniang dressed the female doll neatly with the phoenix crown xia curtain sent by the Liu family, and painted rouge powder all over her face, and when the Liu family's sedan chair arrived, she sent the girl to the sedan chair.

According to custom, Wang Wuniang also pretended to be sad and weeping when sending the sedan chair, which is the funeral ceremony.

It was the quiet of midnight, a group of people carried the sedan chair through the village, the music of blowing and beating resounded in the sky, and the villagers were awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of crying and howling and drumming, and muttered that it was a corpse, and then fell into a deep sleep again.

After the sedan chair returned to Liu's house, Aunt Liu took out the female doll in a big red wedding dress, walked through the foyer and courtyard, and walked hurriedly all the way into the new house with the word "happy" on the window lattice.