Chapter Twenty-Four: It is absurd for a dead son to marry a wife

One

The Wang family was very lively on this day, and aunts, relatives and friends came to celebrate. There was a lot of joy at home. Wang Deguang smiled for the first time since his son's death. He and his wife looked at their relatives and friends, looked at the tall paper shape pasted for their son, and murmured in their hearts: "Son, you are home, today is your big day, you marry a wife, your parents are happy, from today on, you are really a big man." It's a pity that you can't pass on your heirs in the underworld, you can't shade the family's virtues, you can't accompany your parents, your parents have no other requirements, they just hope that you will keep your family safe in the underworld, and heaven will say good. After speaking, the smile was gone, two lines of tears rolled down, and the hearts of my parents were extremely sad and sad. The husband and wife faced their son's papier-mâché man, a papier-mâché son with no soul, no body, no words, no communication, just a decoration staring at him for a long time. The paper-shaped man who stared at his son had an indescribable sorrow in his heart: it was a real joy to think that someone else's son would marry a wife, and my son's wife was a paper-shaped person. But what can be done about it? The couple was thinking about this unsatisfactory alternative happy event, only to hear shouting outside: "Is this firecracker still off?" ”

"Do you need to ask? No one is married, and there are still firecrackers. ”

Wang Deguang and his wife were shocked when they heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" Didn't you get married? Why didn't anyone get married? Didn't the matchmaker already make an agreement with the woman's parents? Why haven't you married yet? He anxiously asked about marrying his relatives, and then hurriedly repeated, "What's the matter?" Isn't the matchmaker accommodating? ”

The marrying relatives said loudly: "The matchmaker is accommodating, but the bride to be married is dead!" ”

Friends and relatives were shocked when they heard this. My mother was also surprised and asked, "Is the bride dead?" How could the bride die? ”

Wang Deguang heard the words and muttered to himself: "How can you die? How could he die? What if she dies and my son? Who else is my son married? ”

"Who are you marrying? Let's buy another daughter-in-law for my son! Said the person who officiated at the wedding.

"That's going to cost money." Wang Deguang said anxiously. At this point, he was distraught and overwhelmed. Why did the daughter-in-law who was about to marry suddenly die again? He asked himself, puzzled. I was worried about the death of my daughter-in-law, and suddenly, he seemed to understand something, and as if he had taken a stimulant, he suddenly became happy, and laughed loudly and said: "Yes, my daughter-in-law went to the underworld to find my son to get married, she knew that my son was lonely, knew that my son missed her, and knew that my son was worried about marrying her, so she took the first step to accompany my son." He was overjoyed to think of this.

Two

And contrary to the emotions of the dead ghost parents are Qiu Ping's parents.

Qiu Ping's parents were distressed to see their daughter run away from marriage. I feel sorry for my daughter, but I am also worried about the approaching marriage. What should I do, what should I do if the Wang family comes to marry someone? Daughters have a marriage contract, and the marriage contract is not allowed to be broken. Once this marriage contract is set, the daughter will be born into the Wang family, and die as a ghost of the Wang family. But there is no one in this life, and there is no ghost in death, what can I do? The couple was at a loss, the Wang family couldn't marry a daughter, and their family was going to have a lawsuit. The couple had trouble sleeping for this. Because I know that if I go to court, I will pay compensation at least and go to jail at worst. The couple was in trouble for their daughter's escape, and they were so anxious that they sighed and scratched their heads in the room. Mom said, "What should I do?" The wedding date is getting closer and closer, and we are about to face a big disaster. ”

At this time, after some thought, my father said: "Don't panic when we encounter something, let's first be calm and calm." He repeated. Then he said, "Let me think about it, and we will come up with a foolproof plan to get through the trick and avoid trouble." ”

"How can there be such a foolproof solution?"

"Use your brain, think!" The old man angrily scolded his wife. only then did he angrily reprimand his wife, and the clouds on his face instantly dispersed and said, "Child, I have a trick." ”

The wife was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What trick?" ”

"Use the way of others to govern their bodies. If his son dies and he wants to take a wife, why don't we blow him up? Let's just say that my daughter is dead. ”

The wife said uneasily: "What should I do if people want to see the grave and open the coffin for an autopsy?" ”

"It's hard to say, she committed suicide by throwing herself into the river, and the body was not found. His royal family has to see people alive, and when they see corpses when they die, let them go to the river to salvage the corpses by themselves. ”

The wife said, "What if they can't be salvaged?" ”

The old man said, "Silly wife, what does it have to do with us if they can't be salvage?" Jumping into a river is not like jumping into a well, the well is just the bottom of a well. But this river is different, isn't it? The river stretches for thousands of miles, the river is wide, the river is fast, who knows where she jumped? Even if they knew where they jumped into the river, would the body just stay there and wait for them to salvage it? Isn't that a joke? Let me tell you, the river is so turbulent, and the corpse has already been washed away by the river. Don't worry, his royal family won't salvage the body. ”

The wife was thrilled to hear the old man's self-made lies. He clapped his hands and said repeatedly: "It makes sense, it makes sense." And praised the old man and said, "Good idea, good idea, really good idea!" That's it. For this reason, the couple cried all day long in a fake show, looking for their daughter's body along the river every day, and kept the paper-shaped daughter for the Wang family to marry and spare.

Three

On the day of the wedding, before dawn, the Wang family came to the woman's house, and the woman's parents took out the daughter's paper-shaped person with tears on their faces and said, "Marry and leave." ”

The marrying relatives were stunned and said, "We are here to marry a daughter-in-law, to marry a person of flesh and blood, not to marry a paper-shaped person." ”

Qiuping's parents cried and complained: "Why don't I want you to marry someone of flesh and blood? That's the top of my heart, God doesn't take my daughter's life if he doesn't do it, what can I do? This time, she ran away by herself, and went to the underworld to get married and become husband and wife. It will also save you the trouble of marrying her. He wept bitterly.

"My daughter is gone, we haven't even seen the corpse, I don't know where to drift with the waves?" Mom cried bitterly. Then he said: "My daughter wants to marry her deceased husband and live a sweet married life as soon as possible, and this time we will be together forever." Ignoring her parents' nurturing grace and longing, she followed her deceased husband like this. After speaking, the couple collapsed to the ground.

Seeing that the couple was paralyzed on the ground, they quickly rescued, and with the help of the relatives, the husband and wife returned to normal in a moment, and the wife lamented and said to the relatives: "For the daughter, you can marry the paper-shaped person!" It is also good for her in-laws to see that her daughter-in-law is happy for his son, and that my daughter will follow her deceased husband to the underworld to marry her deceased husband. ”

Marrying relatives to look at each other can only accept reality. So, Qiuping's parents held their daughter's paper-shaped figure and gave it to their relatives. The marrying relatives returned dejected with the paper-shaped bride they married.

Wang Deguang said: "My son is in a hurry, we as parents failed to get married to our son as soon as possible, and my son robbed his daughter-in-law, which is a good thing." If we set off firecrackers to celebrate, wouldn't it be the same as not congratulating and not caring about our son's marriage? In that case, we won't be happy! So he shouted, "The bride has arrived, set off firecrackers." ”

I only listened to the firecrackers in unison, the two feet rushed to the sky, and the small hanging whip "crackled, crackled" and rang non-stop.

In the celebration of firecrackers, the deceased couple's shape was burned down, the wedding vanished, and the banquet was held, celebrated, and dispersed for a pair of paper figures. Qiu Ju's parents also escaped. The dead of Hades do not know whether to be happy, to cry, or to be confused.

Four.

And Lan Ying's escape was not as lucky as Qiu Ju. Because her parents are traditional old feudal, and the poison of feudalism is deeply ingrained in her mind, her daughter's escape is a good thing to save herself. But in order to keep the "doll" marriage contract, for the sake of credibility, and in order to comply with feudal etiquette, the parents were furious about their daughter's escape. The mother cried and scolded her daughter: "Why am I so immoral, raising a daughter who does not abide by the rules, does not respect etiquette, does not keep the marriage contract, and does not feel sorry for her parents?" When people come to marry, how do I deal with it? How do you tell the man's family? Didn't I slap myself in the mouth when I ruined the marriage agreement like this? What a sin it is for me to have such a daughter! "I cried as I spoke.

For the sake of his own face, for his own dignity, in order to keep his promise, and for the sake of the agreement of the baby's parents, he would rather sacrifice his daughter's future, and would rather his daughter and this special man live a life without happiness, joy, and husband and wife emotion than let her daughter escape from marriage. The mother does not consider her daughter's feelings, and does not consider the pain in her daughter's heart. Blindly pursuing the agreement of the baby's parents, blindly pursuing his own integrity, face and feudal stubborn system, and enslaving the people's rules and rituals. Because of this, the mother cried and scolded her daughter. scolded her daughter for not abiding by the house rules and not keeping the agreement. Trample on the eternal rites. She cried and scolded, but she couldn't do anything about it. The wedding date is approaching, and the mother is more and more frightened: her heart is bottomless, her behavior is chaotic, and her family is gone. How good is that? The couple couldn't think of a better way but to escape. So, the family fled to other places.