Our family is in a remote rural area, due to the lack of mountain roads, life here is barely enough to eat, and I am twenty-three years old this year, and I don't have a daughter-in-law, you must know that in the countryside, marriage is relatively early.

I'm not in a hurry about this, my third uncle is in a hurry, and the Lin family is left with me and the third uncle, the third uncle was married in his early years, but he didn't have children, and then his wife died, so he treated me as his own son.

But what's the use of being in a hurry? I am also greedy when I see others marrying daughters-in-law, but if I want to marry a daughter-in-law, I have to come up with a bride price of 100,000 yuan.

I don't eat or drink and I have to save for ten years!

There was little hope in life, so I got involved in gambling with a few young people in the village, and I would not come back without losing a single sperm every day, and sometimes I won once in a while, and went to drink again.

Soon, the three ancestral houses left by the grandparents were left only with an earthen kang and a stove. If these two can't move away, I guess I will lose them all.

On this day, I sat at home, looking at the four walls of my home, I really felt sorry, and thought to myself, if I have the capital, I may be able to turn over the book, play a big game, win back what I lost before, and never gamble again.

But now I am worried that I have no capital, and all the relatives in the village who can be borrowed by me have been borrowed by me, and then everyone knows that I am going to gamble, and no one is willing to lend it to me.

Thinking about it, I only think of my third uncle.

If I tell my third uncle that I will marry my daughter-in-law, he will definitely lend it to me.

"Is it really a daughter-in-law?" The third uncle understood my intentions and asked suspiciously.

I know that the third uncle doesn't believe me very much now, so he made it up very true, "Can I still lie about this kind of thing?" Erniu introduced me to me, which is three miles away from Jiacun, only twenty this year, and he looks good, which is very interesting to me. And her family conditions are good, and she doesn't care about the bride price. I'm going to visit her house this time, but I can't go empty-handed, so I always buy some gifts......"

The third uncle saw that I had a nose and eyes and thought for a moment.

"Okay. , I'll give you 3,000 yuan, you buy more things for others, and invite the girl to eat a few meals, so that people can't think that our family is shabby. ”

Hearing the third uncle say this, I couldn't be happier in my heart! With these 3,000 dollars, I can show off my skills in the gambling game. This time you can win it back!

Leaving the third uncle's house, I went straight to the casino.

I was thinking about turning the book, success or failure in one fell swoop, so the bet was also very large, but I didn't expect that after a few games, I lost it all.

I don't want to mention how depressed I am, my intestines are repentant, I knew that I would listen to the third uncle's words and never gamble again.

Now that I've lost all my money, I don't know how to go back and pay the difference. It was a trivial matter for the third uncle to beat me up, mainly because of the 3,000 yuan, which was the money he got from a year in the ground with his back to the loess, sweat beads and eight petals, and the grain he planted, and I lost it all in one day.

Although I am obsessed with gambling, I am not so unsympathetic that I really don't have the face to go back.

But where can you go if you don't go back?

Wandered all the way to the entrance of the village. There is a land temple at the entrance of the village.

I heard that the land temple in other places is dedicated to the land grandfather, but the land temple here is dedicated to the land lady. Moreover, the temple is also larger and more beautiful than the general land temple.

I think people try anything when they're desperate.

In the past, I didn't believe in any ghosts and gods at all, and I could snore when I slept in the cemetery in the middle of the night, but now, I want to go in and worship in case the spirit happens.

I walked into the temple and knelt in front of the statue, which stunned me at the sight of the clay statue in my grandmother's temple, which looked like a young girl. Especially the delicate face, smeared with white pastel, thin willow eyebrows, like black feathers.

If this comes at night, I think I'll see a hell. It's too human-like. Standing there so slim at the moment, I was a little fascinated by what I saw.

After I worshiped my grandmother's temple, I was about to leave, looking at the beautiful figure of the statue, I suddenly thought of an idea, I can't go back, it's better to carry this statue back, anyway, at night, the broken house I live in only has a small light bulb of twenty-five watts, and I can't see anything clearly, maybe I can fool my third uncle.

Mess him up first, and then talk about it later, I don't know where the courage came from, anyway, I don't believe in ghosts and gods, I looked around and saw that there was no one, and I directly resisted the statue.

Although it is a clay sculpture, it is estimated that the inside is hollow, but it is not heavy, and the sky outside has already been darkened at this moment, so I trotted all the way to our village in the night.

Rural people have no entertainment, go to bed early at night, although the sky is just dark, but there are no people on the road, when trotting all the way, I suddenly felt that the clay sculpture I was carrying was actually soft, the texture was similar to human skin, so scared that I almost threw the clay sculpture!

But on second thought, I stopped, and then put the clay sculpture on the ground, and saw her silhouette in the night, which actually startled me.

I reached out and pinched her body, but fortunately, it was a clay sculpture, maybe I was too scared just now, so I had some hallucinations.

Where are there any ghosts and gods, I don't believe in them. I gave myself confidence, after all, it was dark now, different from the day, I carried the clay sculpture and continued to walk, there was still a trace of grievance in my heart, what am I trying to do, I will not gamble in the future, be a good man.

It's not bad to go out and find a job. When I got home, I put the clay sculpture on the ground and opened the door, and I didn't know why I was nervous.

Although I don't believe in God, I still said to the clay sculpture, "Just borrow one day, be my daughter-in-law today, and send you back tomorrow, to ensure that it is intact, and not a single hair will fall out, although you have no hair." ”

I folded my hands and prayed for a while, before carrying the clay sculpture into the house, turning on my twenty-five-watt small light bulb, in the dim light, it still looked like a beauty, that graceful figure, delicate face, let me see a little fascinated by the single.

But this is not enough, the third uncle will come to see me later, and ask my daughter-in-law how things are, if you just put it like this, it will definitely be a goof, I thought about it, lifted the quilt on the bed, put the clay sculpture in, and then covered the quilt, only the head was exposed.

A few steps away, I really can't see it. After everything was arranged, I felt a little more relaxed, mainly because the third uncle was also in his fifties, and he had no children, so he always wanted me to find a daughter-in-law, and he was so down-to-earth.

As soon as I was ready, I heard a knock on the door outside, and I didn't need to ask, I knew that it was my third uncle who came, so I hurriedly walked over and opened the door.