Chapter 279: Ghost on the bed (10)

I heard that in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a family named Ding on the mountain not far from our village, who made a living by hunting. There were six boys in the family, all of them were as strong as oxen and had a strong body.

Good hunter.

Brothers hunting tigers, father and son soldiers, they go up to the mountains to hunt in groups of seven. No matter they encounter tigers or packs of wolves, they are not afraid of the stage. They have always gained a lot, and their family situation is naturally getting better and better.

In addition to Lao Ding's six sons who are as strong as tigers, the youngest child is a daughter, the seventh in the family. She was named Shuangshuang, which means that children have both children and good things come in pairs.

That Shuangshuang is beautiful and unparalleled in the Northeast. Anyway, she is very outstanding. Because she is the seventh eldest child in the family, she is called the Seventh Fairy by the people around her.

Lao Ding treated this little girl like a sweetheart and loved her very much. When Shuangshuang was very young, he asked an expert to tell her fortune.

The fortune teller listened to Shuangshuang's birth date and didn't say anything else. He just said a few words lightly: He said that she was destined to be a queen, and she was a royal palace, so her parents should pay close attention to her.

The strange thing is that the fortune teller did not accept the divination money from Old Ding, which puzzled Old Ding. It is said that only if the fortune teller predicts bad luck, the divination money is exempted, but both of them have good luck in the palace, so how could they not accept it?

What about money? Maybe the gentleman wanted to have a good relationship, so he didn't take it to heart.

Old Man Ding and his wife knew that this was a big deal and they must not let outsiders know about it, so they tried their best to protect them and did not let her do housework or do menial tasks. They also paid for an old private school teacher to teach her how to read and write at home.

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When both of them grew up, their parents refused to agree even though the matchmaker proposed to marry them. They didn't care about the person's character or appearance, let alone their family background, and they refused regardless of being unorthodox. Even though they were embarrassed to tell them,

Your daughter is the order of the palace, but you must not miss her daughter's life-long event.

As the saying goes, people make plans and God makes things happen. Even those emperors who pride themselves on their destiny cannot guarantee that the country will last forever. No, the Revolution of 1911 brought the Qing Dynasty to an end.

With the establishment of the Republic of China and the abdication of Emperor Xuantong, that family had been waiting for so many years, and now they were completely dumbfounded - the sky had changed, the emperor was gone, and both the empresses in the palace were probably gone.

A dream!

At this time, both of them have passed their prime years, and they have rejected almost all the famous families in the past few years, so it is not easy to find a son-in-law of similar age!

Just as Shuangshuang's family was shaking their heads and sighing over their daughter's life-long event, a matchmaker they had never met suddenly came to visit, claiming to be entrusted by someone to make a match.

The matchmaker said that there was a wealthy family named Wang in a market town at the foot of the mountain. His son was named Tiger King. He was handsome, well-educated in both civil and military affairs, and had a high vision. He was still unmarried. He heard that he had a daughter, so he asked me to come and propose marriage.

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Moreover, the few people who came with the matchmaker all brought high-quality red fox and sable skins, which were worth tens of thousands of gold.

Lao Ding's family was originally a hunter, and they usually dealt with a lot of tiger and wolf furs, but they really didn't get much from things like red foxes and sables, so they naturally knew the value of these betrothal gifts--after all, there was no hope for the royal palace, so marrying a rich man

The big business owner was also pretty good, so I agreed.

I originally thought that the wedding of such a wealthy family must be grand and lavish. After all, the bride price is worth tens of thousands of gold, so there must be no shortage of money.

What people didn't expect was that after the two families exchanged gifts, on the day when they both came out of the palace, there was only one sedan. This made the Ding family very angry - who doesn't want their children's wedding to be a success?

It’s light and lively!

The matchmaker also came with the sedan, and quickly stepped forward to explain that the emperor had just abdicated, the world was unstable, there were many strong men, the scene was too big, and too ostentatious, which might cause disaster...

Lao Ding's family only has this precious daughter, so of course he can't let the auspicious day pass by. Moreover, what the matchmaker said makes some sense. If he attracts some strong man with a beard, it will be a penny wise and pound foolish, so I agree.

Get married.

It's really unexpected that weddings in a wealthy family need to be low-key and cautious. But what's even more unexpected is that since the wealthy family married both of them, they didn't come back at all, let alone anything else, which made the two old people anxious.

I had no choice but to deign to go down the mountain and go to that market town to see Shuangshuang and find out what was going on.

What shocked Lao Ding and his wife even more was that after they walked around the market town and inquired about it, people said that there was no big family named Wang at all, and no one had held any weddings recently...

Of course, Lao Ding couldn't believe that all this was true. The two of them searched the entire market town and asked many people, but the result was unimaginable - not only had no one done anything in this market town recently,

Marriage, and indeed there is no Wang Shanjun family!

At this time, Lao Ding was dumbfounded! Could it be that his precious daughter just disappeared out of thin air? Did the other party plan to cheat into the marriage? But those betrothal gifts and so on were really worth tens of thousands of gold!

Regardless of being tired and angry, the two hurried back all night, called the whole family, and asked relatives and friends to inquire about almost all the surrounding markets and towns, inquiring about the whereabouts of the King of Tigers. Even though they visited a hundred miles around, they still found nothing.

No trace, no news!

Is it a sudden change in the Wang family and an urgent move? Is it because the Wang family's original beard is pretending to deceive others? Or is it that the Wang family was originally a royal relative and was afraid of revolution...

No one knows where these two people are or whether they are well!

Report to the official? Haha, the world was in chaos at that time, the emperor abdicated, and the new country was not stable. How could anyone care about such trivial matters of ordinary people!

The dragon has its own way, and the snake has its own way. If relying on the officials is not possible, the people will use their own methods to solve the problem.

Lao Ding really couldn't find out any information about Shuangshuang, so he had no choice but to ask ghosts and gods for advice. He found an old fortune teller who was known as a straight-talking man.

After reading the birth date and fortune-telling, Lao Ding muttered some calculations. Without even asking what was going on, Lao Ding simply told her that this woman had a rough fate and many disasters, and it was rare for her to have a good marriage in this life...

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Old Ding hurriedly said that when this child was young, there were fortune tellers who said that she was destined to be the empress of the palace and so on.

The fortune teller smiled and said, I'm afraid what you want to calculate now is not about her marriage, but you want to ask where she is now, right?

Old Ding was shocked and nodded repeatedly - this is what common people in the mountains do when looking for someone to tell someone's fortune. They can't ask directly. They always try to see if the fortune teller is really capable. From this, it seems that this fortune teller is indeed quite good.

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Just when Lao Ding was eagerly waiting for the fortune teller to tell him where Shuang Shuang was now, the fortune teller shook his head and sighed, saying that what his colleague told his daughter was true; and now, she is safe and sound.

It’s because I’m very shallow and can’t figure out the specific place;

But one thing is certain, that is, the daughter is definitely not in the market town now, but should be in the mountains; the husband she is marrying is not a normal human being, and his own magic is very weak, so he is no match for her. Please ask the two of you.

Please be wise and never alert the snake...

When the man said this, Old Ding immediately felt that something bad was going on! Thinking again about the wedding day, there was only a small sedan chair and a few people accompanying him, which was very unusual. It was a pity that he was deceived by the matchmaker's clever words!

Is the son-in-law not a normal person? Does it take advanced magic to find Shuang Shuang? Old Ding finally understood: It turns out that the person who deceived Shuang Shuang was either a ghost or a demon!

We don’t dare to delay this matter, and we can’t find some ordinary magicians and witches. Delaying the matter is still a minor matter. If we scare the snake and let the man who suffered a thousand cuts get wind of something, and then run away with both of them, it will be really troublesome.

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Later, Lao Ding found several half-immortal wizards, old monks, etc., but all of them expressed that they were helpless, and some of them were ridiculous and could not even tell what Lao Ding was asking for.

Just when Lao Ding was anxious and restless, a relative suggested to him that although the Lingfeng Taoist temple on the mountainside was in dilapidated condition, there was an old Taoist living there. He was said to be from the Maoshan Sect of the Shangqing sect.

It's very powerful. It's called Taoist Master Dongxuan. You might as well ask him to give it a try.

Since ancient times, there have been three choices: food over hunger, road over panic, and wife over poverty. Nowadays, the old man's heart is on fire and he has no good ideas, so he will leave wherever he can. After hearing what the relative said, he immediately rushed to Lingfeng Taoist Temple without saying a word -

--The temple is small and demonic, but the Taoism can be broken. What I need are magicians and magicians with profound Taoism. I don't want to live in that Taoist temple permanently, regardless of whether it is broken or not!

Lao Ding rushed to the Lingyun Taoist Temple out of breath after a long journey. He saw that in the dilapidated Taoist temple, there was the fragrance of flowers and light smoke. A thin old Taoist with a childlike face and a smile came down the steps to greet him and asked.

Next, it is Taoist Master Dongxuan.

As soon as he saw the immortal wind, Old Ding quickly bowed his body and saluted. However, Taoist Master Dongxuan made a silent gesture to prevent Old Ding from speaking.

Taoist priest Dongxuan led Lao Ding to the inner room with the phoenix seal talisman hanging outside the door, and then he said, "You were very evil just now. I was worried that it would be revealed and alert others, so I didn't let you say..."

Lao Ding explained the whole story in detail. Taoist Master Dongxuan recited some verses and after a while he said, I already know this. It’s just that it’s easy to catch ghosts and subdue evil spirits, but it’s hard to save people, so you must not

Reveal the news.

The Taoist Master of Dongxuan thought for a moment, took out a stack of strange-shaped talismans and a packet of powdery things, handed them to Lao Ding and told him to do this and so on, so that he could both eliminate evil spirits and save people.

Old Ding thanked him profusely and left as he was told.

When he returned home, no matter how much his family asked him, Lao Ding did not say a word. Instead, he found a pen and paper and wrote down the method taught to him by the Taoist priest for their family to review.

After the whole family saw it, they were all shocked, but they didn't dare to say anything. They could only act according to the plan and go separately according to the instructions of the Taoist Master.

Since ancient times, it has been easier to get things done when there are more people. According to the method written by Lao Ding, the six children did not dare to say anything and went down the mountain in silence. They bought several baskets of freshly slaughtered pig heads and a lot of paper money for incense candles.

Old Ding carefully put the packet of powdery stuff into the pot, cooked all the pig heads and took them out.

After the pig heads were dry, he stuffed each pig head into his mouth with the stack of talismans given to him by the Taoist priest, closed the mouth and covered it. Then he led his six sons, took the wax paper cannons and the pig heads, and walked up the mountain.

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The seven of them each placed a cooked pig's head in a valley at many intersections, burned three sticks of incense next to it, and prayed loudly, saying that the tree would branch out, the children's family would be separated, the daughter's eldest daughter would get married, and leave her natal family; there would be comings and goings.

﹑Fang is a relative. Please invite that virtuous son-in-law to come back and sit down...

The seven of them, father and son, finally finished all this after a tiring day, and just waited for the next day to see if it worked.

Feeling exhausted and anxious, they closed their eyes for a moment and heard the rooster crow. Before they could get up and open the door, there were hurried knocks on the door.

Lao Ding and his family didn't have time to put on their shoes, so they got out of bed with bare feet and hurriedly opened the door. Standing outside the door was a familiar face - the person knocking on the door at dawn was none other than the matchmaker who had defrauded both of them.

Lao Ding's family couldn't help but beat him up and down, beating the matchmaker until she held her head in her hands, howled like a ghost, rolled on the ground, and begged for mercy...

Of course, the most important thing is to vent their anger, and the whereabouts of their daughters are the most important. So after a while of punching and kicking, they stopped and asked why they had deceived him in the first place and caused their whole family so much pain.

After the matchmaker whined for a while, she rubbed her bruised and swollen head and began to speak slowly.

It turns out that she is not a matchmaker, let alone a matchmaker, but a half-immortal who asks ghosts and gods for help.

The immortal family she invited was indeed very powerful and very powerful. Not to mention some lonely ghosts or imps, those five immortal families who were always very arrogant and no one dared to offend were just as submissive when they met it.

﹑Stay away.

So she also relied on that fairy family, did a lot of good deeds, and made a lot of money.
To be continued...