Chapter 37 The Groom

In a village in the south of the Yangtze River, there were teenagers who married, and their neighbors, relatives and friends came to congratulate and set up a banquet. After drinking until he was half drunk, the teenager went out to relieve his hand. Suddenly, he saw a woman in the courtyard, Feng Guanxia. Her body and appearance were very similar to that of her new daughter-in-law. She moved gently and slowly walked to the back of the house.

The teenager wondered, "The bride didn't stay in the wedding room. Why did she run out?" He quietly followed him to a small river behind the yard. There was a stone bridge on the river. The "bride" crossed the bridge. The teenager became more and more suspicious and quickly shouted, "Madam, where are you going?"

The "bride" smiled and said nothing, but waved to the teenager frequently, which meant that he was asked to walk with him. The teenager met and caught up. The couple was one foot apart. The teenager reached out to pull the woman's sleeve and tried seven or eight times. Although the woman was close, she could not reach it.

Walking for several miles to a village, the "bride" stopped and said to the teenager, "My husband's family is lonely, and I can't get used to living. Please ask your father-in-law to stay with my concubine for a few days. In a couple of days, we will go home to visit the second elders.

The teenager had no choice but to agree. The bride pulled out her hairpin and knocked on the door. Soon after, the two maidservant came out to greet her and entered a hall. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law were all in the hall and said to the teenager, "My daughter is spoiled and has not been away from her parents for a moment. We can't bear to get married today. At present, your husband and wife are going back to your mother's house together. Very good, very good. Don't worry about living for a few days, and I will send you two back. On the one hand, he ordered the servants to make the bed and fold the quilt.

On the other side of the teenager's house, when the guests saw that the groom had not returned for a long time, they were anxious to search around and disappeared. When they opened the wedding room, only the bride sat alone. He sent someone to inquire near Fang Yuan, but there was no news from the groom. The teenager's parents were very sad and cried, "I've been haunted recently. My son must have been caught and killed by a devil."

After half a year, the life and death of the teenager were unpredictable. The bride's parents did not want their daughter to be widowed and proposed to let her remarry. The young father exclaimed angrily, "My son's bones and clothes have not been found. Maybe he is still alive. Even if you want to remarry, why wait another year? Why are you so impatient?"

The bride's parents refused, and the two families went to the court. The county magistrate Sun Gong accepted the case and couldn't figure it out for a while. For the time being, it was decided that the bride would go home and wait for three years. If there was still no news from the teenager at that time, she would definitely get married again. On the one hand, the case file was filed and the plaintiff and the defendant were sent home.

Besides, the groom lives in a fake daughter-in-law's house, and the whole family is very kind to him. The teenager often discusses with his daughter-in-law that he wants to go back to his hometown to see his parents. The bride agreed on the surface, but she refused to move.

After another half a year, the teenager really missed his parents and said to his daughter-in-law, "I'm going back alone."

The "bride" tried his best to keep it, but he had no choice but to stay for a few more days. On this day, the "bride" family was in panic and seemed to be in great trouble. They hurriedly said to the teenager, "I was going to wait for the luggage to be ready and send your couple home in two or three days, but now there is trouble, and our daughter can't get away. So I'm sorry, I have to ask your son-in-law to go back alone. With that, he urged him to send the teenager out of the door.

The teenager came out of the courtyard and was looking for a way back. He inadvertently looked back. The house and courtyard disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving only a high raised tomb. The teenager suddenly realized, "This is not my father-in-law and mother-in-law's house. It's obviously a haunted house. Nine times out of ten, my 'bride' is not a human being, but a female ghost. In a hurry and fear, he ran wildly and hurried home.

When I mentioned this to my parents, my father said, "My son doesn't have to worry about chagrin. The fake daughter-in-law has been lost, and the real daughter-in-law is still there. Don't worry, I'll give you back a delicate and beautiful woman.

The next morning, the young man's parents went to the government to explain the situation. The Sun County magistrate handed down a document: the bride's parents were ordered to immediately send their daughter back to their mother-in-law's house and get married immediately.