Paper Maker

Chapter 17 ghost marriage
The judges must ask, what is wrong with Wang Qingshan's daughter?In the first few days, she had strange dreams every night. She dreamed that she was wearing a red Tang suit wedding dress and bright red embroidered shoes, which meant that she was going to get married soon.

Every night in her dreams, she always saw Duanyang coming to her home, and every time she came, she brought baskets of silk and satin, new clothes, dressing table, embroidered shoes, red scissors and other ancient betrothal gifts.She wanted to call him, but he ignored her, just like this, he took the servants to bring the bride price and then turned and left. He just told her that he would come to marry her on the wedding day.

Maybe everyone will say that Wang Qingshan's daughter and Duanyang are about to get married. As the saying goes, it is normal to dream that you are going to get married.

Originally, when Wang Qingshan heard his daughter say this, he thought it was normal just like everyone else, but then her daughter told him that every time after waking up from the dream, there would be more of these things in her room. There are several large baskets of gifts.

How could Wang Qingshan believe it, so he went to his daughter's room to have a look, and his face turned green with fright, because there were indeed baskets of betrothal gifts in the daughter's room, including silk and satin, new clothes, a dressing table, embroidered shoes, red Scissors, marriage certificate, Jinlin, Shoupao, etc. are complete.If these things are just inexplicably extra, it will only make them dare to be surprised. The reason why Wang Qingshan is terrified is that these betrothal gifts are all made of paper!
That's right, the baskets of silk and satin in Wang Qingshan's daughter's room, new clothes, dressing table, embroidered shoes, red scissors, marriage certificate, Jinlin, birthday handkerchiefs, etc. are all made of paper, the kind sold in paper-making shops. The kind of paper things that are burned to the dead.

This frightened Wang Qingshan enough, think about it, dreaming that other people sent baskets of bride price every night, and then after waking up from the dream, these betrothal gifts in the dream really appeared in reality, and they were still paper , Do you think Wang Qingshan can't be scared?

However, this is not the end, because Wang Qingshan found that his daughter Yiran couldn't see that these betrothal gifts were made of paper.When Wang Qingshan wanted to burn the pasted paper, his daughter refused, saying that it would be a pity to burn such fine clothes and satins, and that maybe this was a gift from Duanyang.

This time Wang Qingshan burst into tears, knowing in his heart that his daughter had hit the devil.

But something happened that made Wang Qingshan even more anxious, because after his daughter had this kind of dream for a few nights, she seemed to be a different person. The more sluggish and lacklustre, listless and silent all day long, he suddenly looked like a patient with severe depression.

Logically speaking, Wang Qingshan agreed to their marriage, and the couple should be in a happy and happy mood, but why did it suddenly become like this?
Wang Qingshan was worried that his daughter was ill, so he took his daughter to the hospital for various examinations, but nothing was found.The wife of Wang Qingshan hugged her daughter and cried.

So Wang Qingshan, who had no choice but to find a few masters in a hurry, but the masters came and did a few rituals, but there was no effect, and the condition of his daughter declined every day, getting worse and worse. Later, he started muttering to himself alone.

Seeing his precious daughter suddenly become like this, Wang Qingshan was so anxious that he was going crazy, but there was no cure in the hospital, and he had millions of dollars in property, so there was nothing he could do.

Just a few days ago, when Wang Qingshan's rural relatives heard about his daughter's situation, they advised him that there was a master who opened a paper-making shop in Yaoshan Village who was very capable and had a good reputation. , maybe it can be saved.

Ever since, this is how Wang Qingshan came to look for me today.

Speaking of this, Wang Qingshan was already in tears, crying, looking very pitiful.

Seeing him like this made me sad too.A father, to worry about his children, has become like this, and no one will feel good when he sees it.

I hastily poured him a glass of water, comforted him a few words, and told him not to be too sad.

Wang Qingshan took the water, knelt down in front of me with a plop, hugged my leg and said, master, please save my daughter, she is still young, so nothing will happen, and our two elders still count on her to take care of us in the old age Well, master, if you are merciful, show kindness...

Seeing this, I was startled, and hastily helped him up, how could I accept his kneeling at such an old age?What's more, I still can't bear to kneel for his daughter.So I said to him, don't worry, since you have found me for this matter, I will naturally not stand idly by, don't worry, I will take this matter.

Next, I hastily packed up some outfits, and then rushed to the county seat with Wang Qingshan...

On the way, Wang Qingshan asked me if I knew what was wrong with his daughter.I told him that nine out of ten his daughter had a dark marriage contract with someone.

The so-called yin marriage, also known as ghost marriage, bone marriage, ghost marriage, ghost marriage, etc., is a folk custom.After the engagement, the man and woman both die, or the children who died before the engagement, the parents want to marry them out of love, and there are two types of ghost marriage: the marriage between the dead and the dead, and the marriage between the dead and the living.In the past, it was believed that a lonely tomb in the ancestral tomb would affect the prosperity of the offspring, which was unlucky, so a ghost marriage was arranged for the deceased.To put it bluntly, it is to find a spouse for the dead.Some young boys and girls are engaged, but they both perish for some reason before they get married.The old people think that if they don't get married for them, their ghosts will play tricks and make the house uneasy.Therefore, a yin marriage ceremony must be held for them, and finally they are buried together as husband and wife, and their bones are buried together, so as to avoid solitary graves in the cemetery of male and female families.

The ghost marriage needs to be introduced by a matchmaker, the two parties go through the door post, fate and get the dragon and phoenix post after marriage.In Beijing at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were still remnants of the custom of yin marriages, and some families held "happy events" for the dead to marry the dead, which was called "bonded corpses". .In the early years, the wedding ceremonies of this kind of "wedding" were mostly held at night. Sometimes, when people were sleeping peacefully, they were suddenly awakened by the drum music in the streets and alleys.Carrying a paper sedan chair, played by the single drum, odd number, and single suona.Some don't use this form, still use eight big sedan chairs, full of golden lamp deacons, and originally only married a photo of a woman. After the 30s, there were also "civilized marriage" ceremonies imitated, with a western band leading the way, followed by four people carrying a funeral photo booth with photos of the "bride" inside.

The yin marriage between the living and the dead is divided into two types, one is yin and yang marriage, and the other is life-threatening marriage.The so-called yin-yang marriage means that one person is in the yang world and the other is in the underworld. They just exist as a husband and wife, but they can't really be together. other side.And another kind of life-demanding marriage refers to which living person the dead person has his eyes on, and once the living person agrees to this marriage, the other party will come to pick up the soul of the living person when they get married. , Received a wedding in the underworld.

Listening to what Wang Qingshan said, in fact, I can almost come to a conclusion in my heart. His daughter must have been taken in by a ghost, and then set up a life-threatening yin marriage.

Wang Qingshan was very frightened, saying that his daughter was only engaged to Duanyang, so could it be that Duanyang is dead?

I said, I wasn't sure if he was dead before, but since your daughter had frequent strange dreams, he should have been dead.

Wang Qingshan was anxious and angry, and asked me what to do.I said go to your house to see your daughter's condition first, then let's talk!

When we arrived at Wang Qingshan's house, he took me into his daughter's room. Before I saw his daughter, he saw her room was full of red baskets, and the baskets were full of papered silk and satin, new clothes. , dressing table, embroidered shoes, red scissors, marriage certificate, Jinlin, Shou handkerchief and other things.There are also some food boxes and brocade boxes made of big red flowers and paper, which are all over the book counter table. The whole room looks red and full of paper, so it looks very weird.

Looking at her daughter again, she is sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze at this moment, holding a pair of red paper paste embroidered shoes, stroking gently like stroking a sweetheart, her eyes are dull, and her mouth is still whispering softly. Say something unintelligible to yourself.

When Wang Qingshan saw his daughter, he sighed helplessly, turned around and left the room early, obviously unable to accept his daughter's sudden appearance like this.

It was obvious that Wang Qingshan's daughter was in serious condition, and it was clear that she had made a ghost marriage.Seeing this situation, I sighed, this matter is really difficult!

You know, ghost marriage is not a violation of the laws and regulations of the underworld. In other words, because both parties have signed a marriage contract, it is equivalent to signing the ghost marriage contract. The underworld messenger knew about it, so he wouldn't bother with it.And as Mr. Yin Yang, it is even more impossible to forcibly kill the ghost for this matter, right?You must know that ghosts can be divided into good ghosts and evil ghosts, just like people. For people who eat yin and yang, killing ghosts without reason is no different from killing people. If you want to solve the current troubles, there is only one way to get the other party to agree to take it down. Dark marriage!
But fortunately, according to what Wang Qingshan said, they didn't know that Duanyang had engaged them in a yin marriage, so there was still hope for this matter, after all, there must be a misunderstanding.In other words, there is some truth to this.

The so-called reasoning, ghosts are very afraid of reasoning, reasoning represents the righteous way, and the qi of the most yang, as long as it is not a vicious ghost, generally can use reasoning to resolve troubles, which is why yin and yang are collectively called Tao.All kinds of rituals such as sending souls and crossing over in the folk are actually using reason to persuade ghosts to leave or resolve grievances and reincarnate with peace of mind.

I wanted to understand this, so I left the room. At this time, Wang Qingshan was comforting his sad and tearful wife.Seeing that I had come out, the two hurriedly approached and asked me what should I do?

I said, if you want to resolve this matter, you have to find Duanyang.You have been to Duanyang's house before, how about this, now you take me to Duanyang's house, hoping to find him!
Wang Qingshan nodded, thanked him, then told his wife to prepare dinner, he took me out, and drove to Duanyang's house...

(End of this chapter)