Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 87 The Ghost Marriage (1)
The winter night comes very early, especially in the deep mountains. The cold, accompanied by the mountain wind, slowly descends with the night and invades the bone marrow.

In a dilapidated thatched cottage, someone's fire of life was about to be extinguished.

A haggard woman was lying on the mattress with only rags left. Her complexion was sallow, and she stretched out her thin hands to caress the head of a little girl.

The girl was only five or six years old, and she probably knew her mother was dying at this time, so she burst into tears.

"Pearl, if mother leaves, you have to take good care of yourself and listen to what your father and aunt say."

"Mother, don't call me Zhu'er, I don't want to have the same name as my sister..." She began to cry again as she spoke, as if she didn't quite understand what her mother meant when she left.

The shrill cry came from the hut, fell into the wind, and was torn apart by the cold mountain wind.

"What's the name of the ghost? It's so loud that the big girl is scared!" A thick woman with the appearance of a nanny is holding a girl in her hand. The girl looks a year or two older than the crying girl in the room just now. She is gorgeously dressed and looks arrogant. , holding a colored ball in his hands.

The leaky wooden door was slowly opened, and the little girl's dirty face was exposed through the crack of the door. Her hair was disheveled, and there was a strange look in her eyes.

It looked very abrupt in the dark, which startled the nurse outside the door.

"Sister," the little girl smiled, and stretched out her palm, in which the bright pearl could be seen faintly, "Look, this is the pearl my mother gave me."

The older girl stretched out her hand and slapped her younger sister's hand, and the beads rolled down on the dark ground without a trace, and the younger sister was so sad that she burst into tears.

My sister smiled happily, her smile was weird and sinister.

一
Ten years later.

"Fei Xiao, look at this map, did we go to the wrong place?" Since Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao walked out of the mansion, they have been wandering in the mountains for a few days and haven't come out yet. Take a break here.

"Let me take a look." Fei Xiao snatched the map from Prince Jin's hand, "Ah, Zijin, we are going in the opposite direction."

"Why is it the opposite?" Wang Zijin felt chilled when he heard that, no wonder they walked farther and farther, it turned out that the two had been running in opposite directions.

"When we go to Jiangling, we should go straight down. Why is this marked as going up?"

Hearing that he was confused, Wang Zijin hurriedly turned his head, but saw that Fei Xiao had held the map upside down and was still desperately studying it, so he snatched the map, "Let me do it!"

The white-bearded old man selling tea next to him glanced at them and said, "You two are going to Jiangling Mansion?"

"That's right, old man knows which way to go?" Wang Zijin was very happy when he heard that.

"Go down this small road and go straight. If you get on the main road, you will be able to go directly to Jiangling Mansion." The old tea seller held out a tea spoon to guide the two of them, as if pointing to the mountains and rivers, with a confident look.

"Thank you, old man." Fei Xiao took out a few copper coins from her bosom, threw them into the hands of the old man, got on the horse, and galloped away.

"Hey, wait for me..." Wang Zijin yelled and chased after him. It is true that the blood of animals is a little hotter than that of humans. , all by instinct.

In the blink of an eye, the mounts of the two raised a cloud of dust and disappeared on the rough dirt road.

A few people who looked like businessmen next to them looked in the direction where the two disappeared, dumbfounded.

"Old man, you seem to be pointing the wrong way..." one of them said.

"Ah?" cried the old tea seller, "I've never left here, and I always thought that road led to Jiangling." Finally, he complained, "You know why you don't talk?"

"Before we could talk, they ran away."

At this time, the figures of Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao had completely disappeared on the path, and they left without a trace.

One of the businessmen looked at the small road with a strange expression on his face, and said with a wry smile: "These two people have walked a particularly difficult road."

"How did you run so fast? I haven't had enough water yet."

"I heard that there is a kind of chicken in Jiangling that is very famous. I hope to come before dinner and try it." Fei Xiao hurriedly rushed out like the wind.

The two walked for another half an hour, and the path became wider and wider, but the official road mentioned by the old tea seller was nowhere to be seen.

"Where do I have to go to get on the official road?" Wang Zijin saw the mountains around him, and it seemed that he was getting deeper and deeper into the hinterland of the mountain.

"There are a lot of people ahead, let's go and have a look." Fei Xiao immediately stepped forward.

When Wang Zijin entered, he saw a place about ten feet away from the two of them, hundreds of people gathered, and the crowds were crowded, which was a bit more lively than the market.

When the two approached, they were even more stunned. They saw dozens of monks and Taoist priests scolding each other at the intersection.

One group was in gray monk uniforms, the other in blue Taoist uniforms. The two teams refused to give in to each other, and they talked happily.Because I am a monk, I don't hear the foul language in the market, but only hear "Amitabha Buddha" in my ears, occasionally mixed with "Taishang Laojun" and so on.

"What, what's the matter?" Wang Zijin has never seen such a battle at such a young age, and hurriedly asked a little novice.

"Amitabha." The little novice said, "Going back to the almsgiver, the people in the village said they wanted to exorcise evil spirits. They had already invited my master to perform rituals, but they invited Taoist priests over. The village met these Taoist priests here."

"Can't you just do it together?" Fei Xiao actually looked calm and showed no signs of panic.

"Amitabha, the donor doesn't know something, and there must be no conflict in doing things. How can we do it together? Good, good."

Wang Zijin also heard a little bit, it seems that Buddhism pays attention to a clean word, while Taoism pays attention to a driving character, a static and a moving, it is indeed conflicting with each other.

But there was a stout old man in the crowd, wearing an indigo satin robe, leading a group of villagers, his face was blushing and his neck was thick because of arguing in the middle.

"Is that the village chief?" Wang Zijin asked Fei Xiao.

"That's right, it looks like it is." Fei Xiao had already galloped over, "Ask him how to get there first, these monks and Taoist priests will talk about it later."

"This place is full of evil spirits." A Taoist priest in the crowd was clamoring with a mahogany sword, "Especially in the southwest direction." He turned the tip of the sword as he spoke, but he saw a horse behind him at some point, and a young man in white on it, The face is beautiful and unparalleled, and he is looking at himself with a smile.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing." The Taoist took back his sword and cursed at today's evil gate. There was clearly a demonic aura here just now, why was it suddenly washed away?

"Excuse me, is this person in charge of the village?" Fei Xiao asked the stout old man.

"That's right, it's me." The old man looked up, and there was joy in his eyes, as if the hunter saw the expression of the prey, and hurriedly smiled, "I don't know if this young man has a matchmaker?"

"Hey?" Fei Xiao was taken aback for a moment, never expecting that he would ask such a question, "I'm just asking for directions, so what's the matter with the matchmaker?"

"Why not? Naturally." He seemed to have completely forgotten the monks and Taoist priests, and said enthusiastically, "Please come and sit down in the house."

"It's okay to sit for a while, but I still have friends over there."

"You still have friends?" He rubbed his hands excitedly, "Hurry up and ask him to come with you."

After all, I called some servants to lead the horses for the two of them, very attentive.

The group walked away quickly, leaving the monk and the Taoist priest by the roadside, still fighting with each other.

"Fei Xiao, Fei Xiao, what's the matter?" Wang Zijin immediately wondered, "You know them?"

"I don't know." Fei Xiao seemed to be enjoying herself, with a light smile.

"The folk customs here are too warm." Wang Zijin looked at the servants and seemed to treat them as VIPs. If you can ask the way like this, students in the world don't need to study books, just sit and ask the way. Can.

"If you don't have anything to show gallantry, there must be something famous. Let's take a look." Fei Xiao blinked at him, as if waiting for a good show.

Wang Zijin rode on the horse ignorantly, and was surrounded by a group of people into the village, feeling like a hero returning triumphantly.

When he squinted, he saw that the old man in brocade clothes he saw before was secretly looking at them, his brows and eyes were full of smiles, and his expression was ambiguous.

Wang Zijin looked at him, and couldn't help getting goosebumps all over his body.

Amitabha, good, good, good.

two

A group of people walked for a while, and in the dense greenery, a few roofs of tile-roofed houses appeared. After walking for a while, there were more and more houses, which seemed to be a fairly large-scale village.

When the people in the village saw outsiders coming, they all ran out to watch, and some sat on the roof of their own houses and kept looking at the two of them.

"It's a man" "It's still two" "Zhao Shanren really took advantage of this time"...

Hearing the gossip, the prince couldn't help calling something bad, "Fei Xiao, haven't people here seen a man?"

"No." Fei Xiao pointed to more than a dozen family members and said, "It's not so many."

Wang Zijin was wondering, but the gang of servants hugged the two of them and stopped in front of a house.

The house is the largest house in the whole village, with bluestone steps and vermilion lacquer gate, it seems to be the place where rich families live in the countryside.

It's just that there seem to be more trees planted inside, casting many shadows indistinctly during the day, making this magnificent house look gloomy and gloomy.

When Fei Xiao saw the yard, she was stunned, and the horses under the two of them suddenly stood upright when they reached the yard, neighing.

"What, what's the matter?" The prince couldn't sit still and almost fell down.

"Zi Jin..." Fei Xiao stared at the courtyard and said, "Did you see anything?"

"No." Wang Zijin saw the lush shade of trees in front of him, green and pleasing, what's so strange?
"Forget me talking too much." Fei Xiao said as she got off her horse, "You can't stay here for long, and leave quickly when you find a chance."

"Young masters, please come in. Please wait in the living room for a while. The old man will come as soon as he goes." The fat old man led the two into the house, and walked to the backyard by himself, not knowing what tricks he was playing.

Sitting in the living room and waiting, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao felt that the room was too cold compared to the outside, and saw that the towering trees outside the window almost covered most of the sunlight.

"There are so many trees, why don't you cut down a few? It's so uncomfortable to live in this house." Wang Zijin muttered.

"This young master doesn't know something." A voice came from next to their ears, and the two of them looked back, only to see that the old man came out in a ochre-colored satin robe.

Wearing a cap on his head, he didn't seem to be rash at all.

"How do you say that?" Scarlet asked.

"The legend of the mountain ghost is widely spread here. It is said that the old trees are the eyes and ears of the mountain ghost, and they must not be moved."

"Oh." Fei Xiao nodded after hearing this, as if thinking.

But I heard him continue to say: "I am a villager here. My surname is Zhao. Outsiders call me Zhao Shanren, but it is just a false name."

"My lord, Wang Zijin, I don't know why Zhao Shanren asked us two to go to the treasure land?" Wang Zijin asked him, bowing to him.

But Zhao Shanren didn't answer, his two sly eyes were full of smiles, he looked back and forth at the two of them, Wang Zijin was taken aback by him, but he didn't know what to do.

"If there is nothing else, the two of us are still in a hurry, so I will take my leave. I hope Mr. Zhao can help us point out a way to Jiangling." Fei Xiao was also anxious to leave, probably thinking about Jiangling's roast chicken Woolen cloth.

"Why are you all right?" Zhao Shanren smiled, "I called the two young masters here to recruit sons-in-law."

"What?" Wang Zijin heard, his jaw almost fell to the ground.

"That's right." He came over very cordially, held the hands of the two of them and said, "Oh, I'm so blessed to be so handsome and elegant."

Between the words, this marriage seems to have been settled.

Wang Zijin hastily threw off his hand, and said in a trembling voice: "No, no, it's a lifelong event, and I haven't got my parents' permission, so how can I make a decision so easily?"

Zhao Shanren suddenly looked disappointed, took a step back and said: "You two don't want to?"

Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao had never had such a heart-to-heart connection before, and they both nodded fiercely.

Like a deflated ball, Zhao Shanren's fat body slumped on the chair, and said sadly: "Why am I so miserable! What will my two daughters do? It's a pity that I am as beautiful as a flower and as beautiful as a jade. The fairy's daughter."

After hearing this, Wang Zijin regained his energy and waited for him to continue.

But I heard Fei Xiao who was next to me ask: "Old Mr. Zhao recruited a son-in-law in such a hurry that he even dragged a stranger back from the main road. I'm afraid there is something difficult?"

Zhao Shanren raised his eyes and glanced at Feixiao, "Son-in-law, it seems that you are not only good-looking, but also have a good brain."

Fei Xiao couldn't laugh or cry when he heard him call himself so, but before he could deny it, he continued: "It's a long story, our village is deep in the mountains, we really depend on the mountains for food, and all the materials come from the mountains. "

Wang Zijin listened and nodded, this kind of remote place is indeed the case.

"But the mountain also has a soul, and there are monsters lurking in it. We call them mountain ghosts. They were fine before, and the big deal is that they play tricks on some woodcutters, but, but..." He said excitedly, It seems that I can't help myself.

"But what?"

"In the past ten years, the mountain ghosts have become more and more rampant. They actually want to pay tribute to a girl a year, otherwise there will be mountain floods or landslides, and I don't know how many people died."

Fei Xiao seemed to understand when she heard this, she frowned and said, "But the mountain ghost is getting married?"

"That's right." He choked up his sobs as he spoke, "Those girls never came back after entering the mountain. Later, their bodies were found deep in the mountain, and some of them even disappeared with the wedding procession." Wiping away tears, "As soon as a daughter is born in this village, matchmaking is done in a hurry, so that families with sons can marry several daughters at once."

"Neither you nor your two daughters are married?" Hearing this, Wang Zijin understood a lot.

"That's right, even the three-year-old boy in this village has married several relatives, and my two daughters didn't want to find a young husband, so they dragged the two of them here."

After hearing this, Fei Xiao and Wang Zijin looked at each other in blank dismay, never expecting this to be the reason.

Seeing this old man crying sadly, and this marriage is absolutely unacceptable, it would be too cold-blooded to leave like this.Wang Zijin had no idea for a while, only the big tree in front of the court was lush and green, waving its branches with the wind like a soul.

Mountain ghost?Is there really such a thing?

The mountains in front of him were endless, and a grimace with green face and fangs appeared in his mind, as if there was an unknown horror hidden in the deep green forest.

three

"Feixiao, what should I do?" Wang Zijin quietly tugged at Feixiao's sleeve.

Fei Xiao had an indifferent expression on her face, "We have no way to intervene, and this house is not suitable for staying for a long time. Zijin, let's hurry up and get on the road."

"Then, let's go, what about this girl?" Wang Zijin couldn't help but asked anxiously, "Are you seeing them die before your own eyes?"

Fei Xiao rolled her eyes when she heard this, and immediately understood what he was thinking, and said jokingly: "As a human being, sooner or later I have to see the King of Hades, and it's not too late for decades."

After listening to the conversation between the two, Zhao Shanren seemed to have heard the trick, so he stopped crying, grabbed Feixiao and said, "My son-in-law, my son-in-law, can you save my little girl? If you can, help the old man." Come on me."

Seeing that he was in tears all the time, she cried very sadly, thinking that he was a parent and he was old, the pain of losing a child was really unbearable, so she couldn't help teasing: "There is no way, but I also I can't guarantee whether it can be solved, it depends on the prince."

"Me?" Wang Zijin yelled, pointing at his nose, Zhao Shanren's obese body rushed towards him, clutching at his lapel with snot and tears, and wailing, "My son-in-law, you can't just leave him alone. ..."

Wang Zijin looked at Feixiao's smirking face, then looked at the weeping Zhao Shanren, knowing that Feixiao kicked the difficult ball to his side, he nodded helplessly and agreed: "Mr. To be sad, we must do our best."

"My son-in-law...you really are the reincarnation of a living Bodhisattva..."

That night, Wang Zijin and Fei Xiao were treated like VIPs. Although they had not arrived in Jiangling, Zhao Shanren's cook still steamed a Poria chicken for him. After drinking for three rounds, Wang Zijin still did not see the two ladies. , I can't help but be disappointed.

(End of this chapter)