Chapter 12 Chapter Ten Dark Marriage

Dream. Another dream. The dream this time was too indescribable, and it was hard to guess whether I was really dreaming. The shadow of that photo still seems to be condensed on the retina.That shadow led me through time and space, to the memory that has been hidden deep in my brain. By the way, I did get married when I was five years old, it was a ghost marriage.But who is my wife?I have to think about it, I should, I will remember it! Some people say that in life, people are constantly leaving or entering.So, what is seen is invisible; what is remembered is forgotten.Life, there are constantly getting and lost.So, what is invisible is seen; what is forgotten is remembered.

However, if you can't see it, does it mean it doesn't exist?Keep in mind, it is not forever? For me, the forgotten things seem to be able to slowly start to recall. "I do live a difficult life. I have to bear all kinds of external pressure, and I also have to face my own inner confusion. In the midst of struggling, if someone looks at you with understanding, you will feel the warmth of life, Maybe just a short glimpse is enough to make me excited. Xiaoye, this is why I like you more than my life.” The girl was sitting on a snow-white ox cart, she was wearing a snow-white dress, The flowing long hair hangs down softly, being stroked by the wind from time to time.

The sacrificial team formed by the villagers was very long, but they all stopped at this moment.The whole team stopped.Because on the road that the team had to pass, there was a small figure blocking the front with outstretched hands. That was me when I was five years old. I had no expression on my face, and my teeth were clenched tightly. No matter how the villagers in front of me persuaded me, I refused to move a step, like a rock.The elder became anxious, and wanted to ask a few middle-aged men to take me away. So, the girl walked out of the car silently.Regardless of any surprised eyes, she walked up to me.

"I want to say a few words to Xiao Ye." She said to the elder coldly. As the sacrificial saint, the last wish was very sacred during the sacrifice, so the elders and the surrounding villagers all retreated.Watching us from a distance. "You lied." I glared at her. Li Xiaoyou smiled peacefully: "I don't know, I told you that I was going to serve the Great God." "You didn't tell me it was today." "Wouldn't it be better not to see each other when we broke up? At least there is still a little I feel that the other party will finally see it someday." Xiaoyou's voice dropped, "Xiaoye, I used to not know what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong. But when I finally understood Only then did I realize that being right or wrong doesn’t really matter at all. All I can do now is try my best to do everything well and wait to die.” “I don’t understand what you’re talking about.” I still stared at her, "But I know you lied to me. You said you wanted to marry me, but you ran away quietly!" "No one else. Look, I still wear our wedding ring." She pulled the ring from her underwear. A red thread came out, and at the other end of the thread was firmly tied a fragment of an octave stone.

"Xiaoye, do you know? The eight-tone stone can make beautiful sounds, so the ancients also called it the three-life stone. They think that the sound from the stone is the memory left by the lover in the previous life. I really hope that , Memories of Xiao Ye and I can also remain in this stone, so that you won't forget me." Crystal tears flowed from Xiao You's bright eyes. Little I don't know what else to say, just look at her.Sometimes I really feel that she is far more mature than a five-year-old child.The environment made this girl who suffered from misfortune since she was a child learn a lot, and also lost a lot.

"I have never hated anyone, because the people in the village are very kind to me. I don't want them to suffer any longer." She turned around and looked at the torrential flood in the distance. There are fields and houses, and dead bodies are constantly drifting in the roaring water.I just don't know whether those people died to fight the flood, or died suddenly because they were caught off guard. "Although there is no memory of my father, I read a sentence in the letter he left me: Regret is a mentally draining emotion. Regret is a greater loss than a loss, and a greater mistake than a mistake, so absolutely Don't regret it. But now, I think I'm beginning to regret it." She took my hand, her hand was soft but very cold, and her whole body seemed to be trembling slightly, "Since I met Xiaoye, I have begun to regret it Yes. I have heard a saying, among thousands of people, you meet the person you meet; in the endless wilderness of time, there is no one step earlier or one step later, just happened to catch up. Maybe my life is really bad. When I first felt that I was about to grasp happiness, everything was over." I grabbed her hand hard, "Are you really going? What should I do? I will Where can I find you?" She was silent, and after a long time she said slowly in a hoarse voice: "I don't know where the palace of the Great God is, but the eight-tone stone will tell you where I am, what I am doing, and where I live. Is it okay, did the Great God abuse me?" Xiaoyou smiled, and smiled bitterly: "So don't worry, one day, we will meet again." "When?" "When you return to raising horses again On that day in the village, I swear, I will appear in front of you! If I die by accident, Xiaoye, I will stay on the Naihe Bridge and wait for you for ninety-five years!" The sunset that day was very dim, and the scenery was as before A little poem by an unknown poet.All happiness is in sorrow, all joy is in pain, and all joy is exalted.The silent dancer, with the most colorful rhetoric, passed away in melancholy, the dust flew, and then, the dust settled...

The girl got on the bullock cart again, and the sacrificial procession moved again.But since that day, I have never seen her again. The sun rises in the East China Sea and sets in the West Mountain, a day of sorrow and joy.I used to think that happiness must be accompanied by sadness, and that after the rain, there should be sunshine.But after my rainy day, it's still raining, and after my sadness, it's still sad.Every day without Xiaoyou's company is difficult. After Xiaoyou went to serve the Great God, the water of the Yangma River showed no sign of retreating, and instead grew even bigger.

More and more places were washed away by the flood, and human beings died like weeds. No one cared whose life was gone, but worried about whether it would be their turn next. There are an endless stream of flood fighting organizations from all over the world, but in the face of such a huge natural disaster, they have no effect at all, and more people have died in vain. In those extraordinary days, I often sat by the Yangma River, watched the river flow, and devoured life with my teeth and claws. I didn't care about it. , can you go in?Can I take another look at Xiaoyou? Such persistent feelings, thinking about it so far, perhaps, in the young heart, what is sad is nothing but the first love that is in its infancy but has been broken.

The flood did not recede for a long time, and the people in Yangma Village began to prepare for something again.Until one day, my dad called me home and asked me to play a game with the villagers, a game of getting married. That game is the ghost marriage frozen in the photos. Ghost marriage is a kind of bad custom among Chinese people. Usually, it is a man and a woman who died after the engagement, or a child who died before the engagement. The parents are in the mood of love and miss, and they want to marry them. This is a ghost marriage.In addition, 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 held for the deceased.

This bad habit appeared as early as before the Han Dynasty and lasted until the early Republic of China, and it is often heard even today.In the Song Dynasty, ghost marriages were the most popular, almost unmarried family members would perform ghost marriages for them. The ceremony of ghost marriage is a mixture of red and white etiquette, and the form varies greatly depending on the opinions of the parties.Generally speaking, a ghost marriage needs to be introduced by a matchmaker, and the two parties go through the portal post, fate and get the dragon and phoenix post after marriage.The man's place is also to be carried out, half of which is real silk, gold and silver, and half of various clothes made of paper, and finally incinerated at the door of the woman's house or on the grave.

This is the custom of ghost marriage between human beings, but what if the marriage is a god? In the wedding game that the people of Yangma Village have painstakingly arranged for me, the bride is the God of the Golden Baby. In the dream, it rained heavily on the night of the wedding, and the black sky was like a crying dirty ugly face. Mom sobbed and changed the groom's clothes for me.Dad smoked silently, and patted my shoulder hard, "It's okay, come and see how handsome Xiao Ye is at my house! It's just a game, and it won't lose a piece of meat, and it will be over soon!" I said I don't know why I was chosen as the husband of the Golden Baby God. Some villagers said it was God's will, but I still don't understand how the god's will was conveyed to the Yangma Village people. In short, I, who was only five years old at the time, didn't have a clear understanding of marriage. Although I said that I wanted to marry Li Xiaoyou, the deep concept of how many wives a person can legally have was completely unclear. After struggling for a long time, it turned out that I had violated the current marriage law thirteen years ago, and married the second wife of the first wife. I have two wives in total. What is even more depressing is that one of the wives is still a strange thing that does not know whether it is a ghost or a god. The welcoming team has already arrived.They were all dressed in black, with a white cloth bag tied around their waists, and they were making a lot of noise in front of my house, blowing shrill suonas. My mother held my little hand tightly, as if I would leave her forever if I let go. Dad comforted her again, and then he stuffed me out.Depressed, generally speaking, at a wedding, the woman should be carried in a sedan chair to the man's home. Am I a married woman? The little me was wearing a black groom's attire and a black hat, and I sat in a white sedan chair, and was carried to the threshing floor bumpingly all the way. In the dream, this sedan chair was also very strange. The wedding used to be a large red satin sedan chair with eight loads.But this top is indeed white, so white that it dazzles the eyes.Preliminary estimates, it is basically used to carry the saint during the sacrifice! Although it was late at night, a large shed was built around the corpse pavilion, and a raging flame was burning underneath.Almost all the adults from Yangma Village came.Seeing the white sedan chair approaching, the bride also came out to welcome her. I glanced through the window at the bride's place.It turned out to be a five-year-old girl in snow-white clothes.She was a very pretty girl, but she was expressionless, and she was dragged forward by the elder in a daze. She was holding a small plaque in her hand, and it was hard for me to see it clearly.Impressively written on it: Bride's Golden Baby. The flood of the Yangma River has been submerged to a place only more than ten meters away from the corpse pavilion, which also means that most of the Yangma Village has sunk to the bottom. I got off the sedan chair slowly, and the wedding began to proceed step by step.The elder led me and the girl holding the bridal tablet into the corpse pavilion.At that time, I had never entered this place where the dead were placed. Looking at the inside of the corpse pavilion through my five-year-old eyes, I couldn't help but feel terrified in my dreams. In the already gloomy corpse hall, every bed is densely filled with ancestral tablets.On the opposite side of the door, there are several relatively large memorial tablets. I am afraid that they are from the ancestors thousands of years ago. The golden baby god and I worshiped the heavens and the earth, worshiped the ancestors, and then the husband and wife worshiped each other, and finally entered the bridal chamber. The so-called bridal chamber was a room that was painted all white, even more white than a lunatic asylum. The girl in white sat down on the edge of the bed in a daze, holding the tablet of my second wife, the golden baby, tightly with both hands.We just sat there all night, being extremely idiotic, without looking at each other. The next day, just after dawn, I heard extremely excited cheers and loud and piercing firecrackers outside the house. The flood finally receded! "So, you were married thirteen years ago, and you married two wives?" Zhao Yunhan was drinking water when he slowly told the lost memory.But as soon as she heard that she married the golden baby god, she immediately spit out all the liquid she drank in her mouth in a very unladylike manner.Fortunately, my motor nerves are not bad, so I escaped! "However, it's good that you're fine, and you almost didn't scare me to death just now." She burst out laughing for a long time, which was really not elegant, and finally restrained herself, and said with difficulty, clutching her slender waist. I stared at her fiercely, and said angrily: "Keep laughing, I knew it would end badly if I told you!" "Definitely stop laughing. I'm sorry, because who would think of such a thing!" I clapped my hands, thinking that I could hide the extremely uncomfortable facial expression, "Then what happened later? Why did you lose your memory?" "I haven't remembered the reason in the middle." I said disappointedly: "It should have happened after the flood subsided. What is the right thing. After I go back, I must definitely torture my father carefully. That old guy actually married me off casually!" In my eyes, it is actually a female. This is not recorded in any related books!" Zhao Yunhan took out a notebook, wrote and drew on it, and raised her head to ask: "Then, what do you say to your little wife? What do you think?" "My opinion? Hell's opinion!" I said loudly, "I really want to know how the aborigines choose the husband of the saint and the golden baby! Looking at the many priests in the world, When they want to use humans as sacrifices, they all have a very complicated selection process, but it has never been mentioned in the legend of the golden doll by Yangma River. Few people even know that for thousands of years, here There have always been saints who were used for sacrifices." Zhao Yunhan thought for a moment, "It's really puzzling. But I always feel that the flood ended because you got married." "Crazy! What? Possibly? What evidence do you have?" I heard that my breath was choked in my throat, and I almost died. "Just relying on a woman's intuition and the inexplicability of that flood!" She snapped her slender fingers, "Thirteen years ago, the Yangma River suddenly flooded, and that shocking flood only affected the 300-kilometer Yangma River basin." , Using various manpower and material resources, the loss cannot be mitigated. "The disaster lasted for 31 days. A total of 53,039 people died, 16,700 people were missing, injured and disabled, and collapsed houses and flooded farmland were countless. The loss is really hard to estimate. . "No one could have foreseen the flood before, and the cause of the flood could not be found during the period. Even if the upstream dam cut off all the water sources, the flood peak in the Yangma River Basin still did not decrease. Where did the water source that caused the disaster come from? This weird phenomenon has not yet been explained. And many experts estimate that the flood peak will continue to rage for at least half a month, but the flood suddenly disappeared... Xiaoye, you should know this information better than me. What do you think explains it?" My face was pale, and I had some guesses in my heart, but because they were too unimaginable, I really couldn't gather them together in detail. "This shows that behind the flood, there may be some mysterious force unknown to human beings manipulating it. In the history of Yangma River for thousands of years, the situation like thirteen years ago was not once or twice. It's the ghost of the golden baby god in the mouth of the aborigines. You say that the golden baby is a creature left over from the Ice Age or even the dinosaur age, but does a creature really have this ability to destroy the world?" Zhao Yunhan said emphatically talking. I remained noncommittal, refuting her argument with reticence.Although in the face of the mysterious phenomenon that happened during this period of time, I was a little shaken. She sighed softly, "Speaking of which, didn't your eldest wife swear that she would appear in front of you when you came back again? Have you ever seen anyone!" "I'm afraid not yet." I remembered I saw Li Xiaoyou's delicate and delicate figure, although I only met her in a dream, and I didn't have a pedophile, but whenever I recalled her, I felt a dull pain in my heart. "I used to suspect a girl who had a double-sided relationship with me, and finally overthrew it. Although they both give me a similar feeling." "Then do you think that the soy milk and fried dough sticks were delivered in the morning a few days ago? That Xiaoyou?" "I don't know." "Don't know anything? Recently, I've noticed that you're not like you anymore." Zhao Yunhan pursed her lips, propped her head with both hands and leaned on the table, "After investigating for so long, you should at least come up with some ideas or conclusions!" I shook my head in frustration, "Don't talk about it, the only thing I have learned is that I am going crazy! I used to think that everything can be done by my own hands Solve it, but now, not only do I have no clue, but I'm stuck in it. I really can't calm down! Didn't you notice that every sentence I have is followed by an exclamation point? In these four days, I have almost used up all the exclamation points in my life Already!" Zhao Yunhan smiled softly: "You can still joke, proving that there is still a certain distance from collapse. Have you ever thought about what we should investigate next? I think the phenomenon of fake jobs should be put aside, and now we will focus on Sort out all the things before and after the flood thirteen years ago, and it would be best to find out where your eldest wife Li Xiaoyou is." There are a pile of bones left." She glared at me, "Why do you sound like you are cursing a sworn enemy." At this moment, the outside suddenly became noisy.The sound of panic, as well as the sound of warning firecrackers, gongs, and suona rang together. The hotel owner kicked the door open and yelled at us: "Run away, the flood is coming!" "What flood?" Zhao Yunhan and I couldn't turn our minds for a while. The owner of the shop was full of anxiety, "Whatever the flood, run for your life. Run to the west, and you will die if you rush to the mountain!" I subconsciously turned my head and looked out the window. On the horizon in the distance, there was a vast expanse of white objects Slowly approaching this side, it reflects the sun's luster, rolls out white waves, and impacts silently...