August 8 is a good day for getting married, visiting relatives, and breaking ground.
Wu Xiaoming rode a tall horse, followed by 108 carrying betrothal gifts, holding his birth date, and walked into the Liu family gate with joy on his face.
After the Liu family became rich, although they did not build a new home, they expanded the old house several times.
I saw that the courtyard was full of distinguished guests, almost all the respectable people in Huaishu Village were here, and there were more than a hundred tables of running water mats.
"It turned out to be a dowry gift of 108 taels. The year before last, the county prince married his daughter and received only 64 taels of dowry gift. This Wu family is really generous!"
"Who is the county magistrate? The Wu family has a lot of money. I heard that the monthly interest paid to the servants is brought back by horse-drawn carriage."
Sixty-four betrothal gifts are called full betrothal gifts, thirty-six betrothal gifts are called half betrothal gifts, and one hundred and eight betrothal gifts are called double betrothal gifts.
For ordinary rural families, it is enough to carry a few chickens as a betrothal gift, and those who are richer can only carry twelve chickens.
What is the concept of "one hundred and eight lifts"? It takes twenty minutes to walk from Wu's house to Liu's house, which is almost three miles.
In the front, Wu Xiaoming came in with the betrothal gift, while in the back the betrothal gift had just left the house. The so-called red makeup could not be better than this.
"Uncle, aunt"
After entering the Liu family gate, Wu Xiaoming bowed respectfully to say hello and handed over his horoscope birthday card.
Liu Changnian and Mrs. Liu were all smiles. This betrothal gift gave the Liu family a lot of face, and it also represented the importance they attached to Yin Niang.
Ms. Liu nodded with a smile, put away the eight-character birthday card in front of everyone, and gave Yinniang's birthday card to Wu Xiaoming.
Engagement, when men and women exchange birthdays and horoscopes, also means giving themselves to each other.
Mr. Wu smiled and nodded to Liu Changnian, asked the matchmaker to put away Yinniang's post, and said, "We are all not outsiders. Let's join in the fun today. We have enough food and wine!"
There are more than a hundred tables of flowing seats, divided into different grades.
In the Liu Family Courtyard, all the people sitting there were neighbors, saying that it would be better to eat two more mouthfuls of meat than to say a thousand things.
Hearing Mr. Wu's words, the neighbors present beamed with joy, and they ate and drank without greeting each other. As for the people who really needed company, they were the officials and businessmen in the living room. Those people were the real guests.
The seven county magistrates, two local generals guarding the place, and Lu Tongpan, who came from the state capital, were all top guests.
Under the witness of these people, Wu Xiaoming and Yinniang toasted one by one, and the marriage was settled.
"I'm so tired, my face froze with laughter!" Outside the living room, Yinniang complained softly to Wu Xiaoming while holding a wine bottle.
When he heard his future wife complaining that she was tired, Wu Xiaoming lowered his head slightly, took a sip of fragrance on Yinniang's little face, and said, "I'll let it go now. I'll go out with you to play tomorrow."
"Yes." Yinniang leaned on Wu Xiaoming's shoulder, feeling sweeter than eating honey.
By chance, Liu Niang walked in at this time. When she heard that she wanted to go out to play, she whispered: "Brother-in-law, where are you going?"
Seeing that it was Liu Niang, Wu Xiaoming didn't care and said with a smile: "The osmanthus flowers on the mountain are blooming. I am planning to take your sister to enjoy the flowers. Do you want to go?"
"If you don't go, I will disturb you." Liu Niang covered her mouth and smiled softly, holding a small mirror in her hand and ran away quickly.
Watching Liu Niang leave, neither Wu Xiaoming nor Yin Niang noticed that when Liu Niang passed by them, she turned the small mirror outwards.
"Miss, what did you see?"
After closing the door, Liu Niang leaned against the door and heard Qiu Hua's voice.
Liu Niang bit her lower lip, tightened the mirror in her hand, and whispered: "Golden light, there is golden light behind my sister, spinning like a halo. Brother Wu has a glow on his body, and the five colors complement each other. He looks very beautiful.
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Qiu Hua's body was erratic. One second he was still in the shadow, and the next second he was lying next to Liu Niang, blowing and saying: "Miss, my magic power is on the mirror. You can see things that are invisible to the naked eye. I doubt it."
, your sister and Brother Wu are the reincarnations of immortals. Their golden light and glow represent the power of the past life, and this power is about to awaken."
Liu Niang didn't speak. If she hadn't met Qiu Hua, she wouldn't have known that there was an unknown side to this world.
Fairies, demons, ghosts, a strange and bizarre world.
She always thought that she had traveled through time and had followed the ancient peasant girl route of getting rich and becoming well-off, and that she was the protagonist of this world.
In a trance, he discovered that this was not an imaginary ancient world at all, and he was not here to play palace battles, but had stepped into a myth.
"Qiu Hua, who were my sister and Brother Wu in their previous lives?" Liu Niang wanted to know the answer, but Qiu Hua couldn't answer this question.
Qiu Hua is a water ghost who has been practicing for eight hundred years. She is not very powerful in ghost cultivation. She knows that people with strange sounds cannot be provoked, but she doesn't know about the rest.
Seeing that Qiu Hua couldn't answer, Liu Niang's eyes flashed with disappointment, and she could only ask again: "Then what do you think we should do?"
"Miss, let's run."
Qiu Hua lay on Liu Niang's shoulder and replied: Although I don't know who they were in their previous life, I know that people with golden wheels and colorful rays of light are definitely not people we can provoke. Before they wake up, we have to
Just leave as soon as possible. After all, you and I are both twin souls. Once they find their past lives, we will have nothing to hide. We can only escape as far away as possible."
Liu Niang doesn't want to leave. She has too many worries here and everything she has struggled with.
In the past five years, she worked hard from dawn to dusk to achieve the wealthy life she now has, and her hard work is reflected in every plant and tree.
To put it bluntly, if she had not replaced the real Liu Niang, the Liu family would probably still be the Liu family of five years ago.
Not having enough to eat, not being warmly clothed, facing the loess and back to the sky, there is no hope for the rest of your life.
The Liu family can now become rich, and eighty percent of the success is due to her, so why are they willing to give up everything and follow Qiu Hua to a foreign country?
"Miss, if you keep cutting off, you will suffer chaos!" Qiu Hua said with an anxious look on his face: "You still have several thousand taels of private money on hand. With this money, we can buy two taels outside."
You are a Zhuangzi, and you have been free all your life. Being a ghost is actually very hard. We have finally become human beings, and we may be thrown into reincarnation before we enjoy it. Are you really willing to do it?"
"Yeah, don't be afraid of 10,000, just be afraid of the eventuality. What should you do if there is an eventuality!"
Liu Niang gritted her teeth and finally made up her mind, saying resolutely: "Pack your things, let's leave now, tonight."
Novels are all lies. What kind of soul penetration? To put it bluntly, it is not a ghost.
After a person dies, the soul becomes a ghost. By chance, instead of going to the underworld, he accidentally passes through the passage of time and space and possesses a human again.
If it were an ordinary world, it would be okay if there was no mythological system, and the differences in souls would not be noticeable.
But in the mythological system, or the world involving souls, it is a shame that such double souls, substitute souls, and soul-changing people will end well.
After packing their bags, Liu Niang and Qiu Hua left overnight, leaving only a farewell letter and no one knew their whereabouts.
It was a pity that she left in a hurry. It was not until Qiu Hua took her with her and walked hundreds of miles overnight that Liu Niang realized that she had not taken her small mirror.
the next day
"No, Liu Niang ran away from home!"
"What, how is this possible?"
The Liu family was in chaos, and the Wu family was also in a state of panic, which wiped out yesterday's celebration.
After searching for a whole day, they could not find the whereabouts of Liu Niang. Only the small bronze mirror fell into Yin Niang's hand.