Chapter 11: Substitutionary Death
As the so-called chaotic times produce demons, all kinds of supernatural events recorded in the notes in Shanhe Village began in 1928 and then became more and more, which made the villagers in Shanhe Village feel uneasy at the same time, but they also slowly got used to it.
The people of Shanhe Village are convinced of the existence of ghosts and gods, and they also believe that humans and ghosts can coexist peacefully on both sides of a line, but if necessary, they can also cross this line and trade with ghosts and gods.
On December 26, 1929, Xu Dayi, who opened a cereal shop in the south of Shanhe Village, knelt tremblingly at the door of Jin Taizhi's house with a cloth bag and cried, begging Jin Taizhi to save his life. But the door of Kim Tae-chi's house never opened.
Xu Dayi knelt and begged all morning, but when he saw that it was useless, he had to get up tremblingly, walk back with his pocket, and fell into the snow halfway and died.
The family carried him back and inspected the cloth bag he was carrying, which contained the title deed, a large pile of money, and a few small yellow croakers. When the family saw it, this was all the belongings of the family.
Xu Dayi took out all his belongings and gave them to Jin Taizhi, just begging her to save her life, but Jin Taizhi was gone, don't, don't save it.
In fact, Xu Dayi's matter is well known to everyone in the entire Shanhe Village.
Xu Dayi's health has not been good since he was a child, he has been taking medicine for many years, and fortunately, his ancestors left a miscellaneous grain shop, and he can still afford to take medicine to treat diseases.
Xu Dayi and Xiang's husband and wife respected each other like guests, raised their eyebrows, and lived a good life, and soon had two children. But at this time, Xu Dayi's body quickly deteriorated, coughing up blood every day, not to mention, and finally couldn't even get out of bed, and the doctor also diagnosed tuberculosis, which could not be treated anymore, seeing that people had no more days to live.
Xiang saw her husband like this, thinking that the two children were still young, and the family had given her husband medical treatment over the years, and there was no savings, if her husband died, she didn't understand anything as a woman, and it was estimated that it would be difficult for the grain shop to open again, and the children would follow her in the future, and they would inevitably starve and freeze.
The more I thought about it, the more worried I became, and suddenly one day, this Xiang suddenly had a flash of inspiration somehow: Can I die for my husband?
She thought that if she died and her husband lived, she would be able to continue to open the shop, and if she was completely well, she would no longer need to take medicine to treat her illness, and she would save a lot of money to raise her two children well.
Thinking like this, Xiang went to discuss with her husband and said:
"I went to the temple to pray to God that I would die for you, so that your illness would be cured, and there would be no need to take medicine in the future. But I have one condition, after you are well, you must raise the two children well, and you are not allowed to remarry, I am worried that my stepmother will abuse my son, even if you don't abuse it, you will have more children in the future, and you will also take away my son's property. Do you say yes or not? ”
Where did Xu Dayi believe that he could die for him, he felt that his daughter-in-law was stupid and foolish, but he was seriously ill and had no spirit to reason with her, so he wanted to send his daughter-in-law casually, so he said casually:
"Okay, I promise you not to remarry."
After Xiang got her husband's words, she began to pray everywhere, she first went to the city god temple in the village to pray, asking the city god to bless her husband's illness to be cured, and she was willing to exchange her life for her husband to die. Then he prayed the same in front of the ancestral tablet.
Strange to say, since Xiang finished praying, he slowly became ill, but Xu Dayi's illness gradually improved, not only was he able to get out of bed, but even his daily weakness and weakness were completely eliminated, and the whole person was refreshed and no longer needed to take medicine.
Xiang didn't hide it from others when he did this, and he also said it when chatting with some women in the village, so everyone was very surprised to see that Xiang was sick, and Xu Dayi, a tuberculosis ghost who had been suffering for many years, was getting better, so he used the excuse of visiting Xiang's to inquire, and Xiang also explained the process to people one by one.
Within a few days, Xiang died.
A few years after Xiang's death, Xu Dayi kept his promises, his health was better, his spirit was full, he ran a grain shop with his heart, his business was getting better and better, he opened two more branches, bought a lot of land to become a landlord, and built a new house.
At this time, someone gave Xu Dayi a matchmaker, who was the daughter of the He family in the neighboring village. Xu Dayi didn't want to agree, but as soon as he saw the beauty of the He family, he was immediately moved.
Xu Dayi thought that his deceased wife would not allow him to remarry, just because he was worried that his stepmother would abuse the two children and if he had another child, he would take away the family property. These two are actually easy to do, I only need to take care of the two children from time to time, so that they don't get wronged, as for the family property, today's family property is far from being comparable to the original, even if half of it is divided, it is far more than when Xiang was alive, so these two things are actually not a problem.
After pondering it like this, Xu Dayi felt that even if he remarried now, it would not be considered a violation of his promise to the Xiang family, so he agreed.
On the day of the wedding, a big banquet was very lively, because the two children were not sensible when Xiang died, so I didn't know what was wrong with my father marrying my stepmother, but they were very happy, and they were laughing and running in the crowd, and the eldest son accidentally knocked over a table.
On the day of the big day, he knocked over the dishes, Xu Dayi was very taboo, and kicked his eldest son out of the distance in a fit of anger, the child cried, and was finally coaxed by his uncle to play, and the wedding banquet continued.
That night in the cave room, Xu Dayi saw that the Zhu family was as beautiful as a flower, he was overjoyed, and he was busy drinking the wine and extinguishing the lamp on the kang, but he always felt that there was a cold thing between the two, like a person in the middle, after lighting the lamp, he saw that there was nothing, and the cold feeling appeared again after the lights were turned off, so he tossed seven or eight times a night, and finally failed to have the same room.
Early the next morning, before Xu Dayi got up, he heard the door being smashed "bang", and then there was a scolding sound, which sounded like a maid at home.
Xu Dayi was furious, got up and opened the door, the maid pointed at Xu Dayi and began to scold, scolding him for breaking his promise, remarrying his stepwife, beating and scolding my son on the day of marriage, and I died for you in vain, but you are so wolf-hearted!
Xu Dayi saw that this was his deceased wife possessing the maidservant, so he comforted and persuaded him in every possible way, but it was all useless. The possessed maid picked up a stick and drove away Xiang's family, which made the family restless, and Xu Dayi found a lot of Taoist priests to see it to no avail.
After two days of trouble, one day the maid possessed by his deceased wife proposed to share the bed with Xu Dayi, Xu Dayi did not dare to disobey, and after two months of sleeping together, Xu Dayi felt that his health was slowly not good, and he gradually began to cough again, coughing up blood from time to time, and he needed help to walk, and he was sick again.
After Xu Dayi fell ill, the maid came to her senses, and Xiang's ghost was gone.
Xu Dayi's condition is getting more and more serious, if he has never gotten better since he was a child, he doesn't feel anything, but after being a healthy person without illness and disaster for several years, Xu Dayi is suddenly very afraid of death, imagining that if he can exchange for a healthy and good body, even if he scatters his family wealth, he is willing, as long as he is still alive, he is willing to work as a tenant all day.
Thinking like this, Xu Dayi packed up the house deed and land deed at home, and packed them together to ask for Jin Taizhi. But Jin Taiji ignored him in the end, and Xu Dayi died on the road when he had no choice but to walk back.
After Xu Dayi died, except for a few close relatives, not many people took pity on him, and they all felt that he had broken his promise to the Xiang family.
Since Xu Dayi's incident, the villagers of Shanhe Village seem to have received some kind of inspiration, thinking that as long as they sincerely pray, they can die instead, so later there was a son who was seriously ill, and his parents begged Chenghuang to die for him...... But none of them succeeded.