In the seventies and eighties, the livelihood of the people in Huanggu Village was still based on farming, and eating depended on God's face.

In a year of famine, it is common for people to starve to death.

People in this environment are often very superstitious and like to worship gods in the event of natural disasters.

According to the old people in the village, many years ago, the village sacrificed a pair of boys and girls in the jar and buried them alive in the ground.

Since then, Huanggu Village has been smooth for 30 years and has not had a disaster.

But the following year, the famine struck again.

According to the lunar calendar, this year is the Year of the Rat, and it is eventful.

As soon as the crops emerged in the spring, there was a flood of waterlogging, and it rained heavily for five days and five nights, and the crops were flooded.

According to tradition, waterlogging should be sacrificed to the mountain god.

But human sacrifice is not a trivial matter, and no one wants to sacrifice their own children.

In the end, the village chief killed his relatives and sacrificed his own daughter, plus me, a baby without a father and a mother, to get together a pair of boys and girls.

After sacrificing to the mountain god, sure enough, the rain stopped within two days.

According to past experience, children and boys are sent into the mountains without returning.

But half a month later, someone found me and Xu Cuiying in the mountains, two three-year-old children who had not eaten or drunk in the mountains for half a month, not only did not die but were still alive.

The old man in the village said that this was the mercy of the mountain god, who didn't want me and Cuiying's lives, but just took the "aura" from us.

And the price of losing this aura is that I became blind, and Cui Ying became deaf and mute.

After this incident, the village chief felt that he owed me a debt, so he took me to his house and raised me as half of his own son.

I used to be an abandoned baby and was taken in by the villagers, and because most of the people in the village were surnamed Xu, I got my name Xu Changsheng.

Sometime after that, the village chief got me and Cui Ying engaged early, trying to let our two incomplete people spend the rest of our lives together.

I didn't have any objection to this, but then I heard some gossip from the villagers.

They said that Cui Ying was very beautiful and very capable, and such a woman would not lack people even if she was deaf and dumb.

The village chief married her to me, a blind man, because he was afraid that I would have no one to take care of me in the future, and in the final analysis, he was ashamed of me because of what happened back then.

After listening to these words, I felt very uncomfortable, and I didn't want to delay Cui Ying, so I found the village chief to dissolve the marriage contract.

The village chief was very angry, but I insisted on refusing to marry him, and I couldn't do anything about it.

In desperation, he promised Cuiying to a rich peasant surnamed Sun in the east of the village.

After this incident, I asked someone to rent a house for me in the town, and I could barely make ends meet by weaving and selling willow baskets.

The village chief has always been reassuring of me, thinking that the blind man still needs to be taken care of.

I don't want to marry Cui Ying, so he will help me talk about matchmaking.

In my condition, normal girls are naturally not in consideration.

The village chief is looking for girls who either have physical defects or are very ugly.

But I don't care, after all, I'm blind, and I can't see whether my daughter-in-law is ugly or beautiful.

But that's it, no one looked down on me in that era of labor supremacy.

Over time, I lost much hope for this, and people became very inferior.

Every time the village chief told me about kissing, the first question I asked was not what was good about the other party, but whether she was ugly enough.

Because I don't think it's ugly enough and "doesn't deserve" me.

Over time, I became a laughing stock in the town.

When I set up a stall selling willow baskets on the street, some little girls often came to tease me and make fun of me.

"Little trick, do you want your aunt? Why don't I marry you and be your aunt? ”

"Walking tricks" is a contempt for the blind, because the eyes have a nickname called zhaozi.

I was disgusted by their teasing, but I couldn't lose my temper.

It was half a year before the seventh lunar month, and Cui Ying and I were about to reach adulthood.

Our birthday coincides with the Midyear Festival.

According to the old people in the village, the Midyear Festival is a ghost festival, and people who are born in this place are often fated and unlucky.

At this time, Cui Ying and the Sun family in the east of the village have been engaged for more than half a year, and the Sun family can't wait, just waiting for Cui Ying to marry at the age of eighteen.

However, it was too unlucky to marry on the Midyear Festival, and the Sun family decided to postpone it by one day after discussing with the village head, and do things on July 16.

On the day of the Midyear Festival, I went to buy some gifts after closing the stall and planned to go back to the village to attend the wedding, but before I went out, I suddenly felt someone standing at the door.

"Who?"

All of a sudden, I smelled the smell of fat powder.

"You are Xu Changsheng?"

Listening to the voice is a young girl.

"It's me, you're it?"

"My name is Zhu Moyu, and I am your future wife."

I chuckled in my heart, thinking that it might be another girl who had come to tease me, after all, this happens so often.

"Is it interesting for me to say that you people are all boring, and you always come to bully me as a blind man?"

There was a very special smell in her cold voice, and she didn't seem to be a mundane person.

"Whoever wants to bully you, I'm serious."

I didn't seem to be joking, and I chuckled in my heart.

Thinking that the village chief might have introduced her over, I hurriedly poured water for her.

From previous experience, I knew that this girl was either disabled or strangely ugly.

I wanted to know more about her, but I didn't dare to ask more.

After all, this is the first time we meet, and I have to ask you if you lack arms and legs, or lack eyes and nose, which is too offensive.

So I had to cough and say, "Well, Miss Zhu, you should already know my situation."

Except for the fact that I can't see, everything else is quite normal. ”

She immediately said, "Of course, I know, and I also know that you will be eighteen years old at three o'clock tonight. ”

I didn't expect the village chief to tell her in such detail, and then said, "What do you think?" ”

"What's the matter, I'm here to tell you today, from now on you are my person."

Listening to her tone, it seemed that she still wanted me to get into trouble, but I still didn't dare to say anything, after all, I knew this condition myself.

"Okay, let's settle this matter first, and I'll come to the door myself another day......"

I didn't say anything, I just felt a strong aroma come to my face, and then my brain became dizzy, and I fell over.

I don't know when I woke up again, but I felt naked on the bed.

Zhu Moyu's voice sounded in his ears.

"Xu Changsheng, the time has passed, you and I have done the gift of Zhou Gong, and we have the reality of husband and wife.

Listen, I want you to come to the Sanguang Cave of White Ape Mountain in March to propose, if you dare to break the appointment and fail me, I will let the rest of your life worse than death. ”

At this time, I was stunned.

"Huh? We've ...... it now."

"Don't be surprised, just remember my words anyway."

With that, she got up and got out of bed.

"You rest first, I'm going back first, and we'll see you on the wedding day in March."

I lay on the bed, smelling the fragrance around me, and it felt like a dream.

But according to what she said, we already have the reality of husband and wife, and I can't dislike her no matter how ugly she is.

So I made up my mind that I would definitely go to White Ape Mountain to propose marriage after three months.