Chapter 276: The Mysterious Marriage A Thousand Years Ago
This is an extremely neat marriage letter written in block letters.
First, the time and person are written on it.
The time is indeed the early years of the Song Dynasty, but the emperor's reign name is not indicated, as if to avoid something.
Among the characters, the man is called the eldest son of the Wu family.
It also clearly stated what his name was, what his nickname was, when he was born on such a certain day of a certain year and a certain month, and how old he was at that time.
It's like recording a slave's personal information.
But the title given to the woman is very vague.
There is no description of the woman's surname or age, only that she is married to a noble girl, and that she is a noblewoman.
But the content after that seems very appalling.
The marriage letter directly describes the class differences between the parties to the marriage.
The status of this noble girl who was married in heaven is extremely noble, and she cannot be tolerated by ordinary people.
However, she married the eldest son of the Wu family and was given the wealth and honor of the Wu family in marriage, hoping that the marriage would flourish the Wu family. From then on, all the Wu family bloodline was the blood of the aristocratic side branch.
As a price, the Wu family must guard the secret place here for generations.
From now on, he can make a living by farming here with peace of mind and cleaning the mountains outside the secret realm.
In order to remain inconspicuous, his descendants are not allowed to engage in business, take part in scientific examinations, participate in government affairs, or become people of great achievements in the world.
Even if one has a great fortune, one can only live an ordinary life, keeping firewood and rice, and working as a woodcutter in the forest.
However, if an outsider attempts to invade the secret realm, he must resist with death and not take advantage of him.
Moreover, the formula for opening and closing the secret realm must be passed down from one generation to the next, and may not be passed on to others. Once lost, it will be irretrievable even by death.
And if any nobles enter the secret realm, they must avoid them quickly and cannot get close to them.
Otherwise, you will suffer the consequences of death and annihilation of your clan!]
The meaning described in this marriage letter is very clear and direct, without any human feelings. It is not so much a marriage letter as a threatening transaction contract.
But from beginning to end, the name of this noble lady was never mentioned, nor was it explained where the noblewoman was from or what kind of family she was...
But after turning the pages of the marriage letter, there was a paragraph of crude calligraphy at the back, and the content was even more unexpected.
This was obviously filled in later by the Wu family at that time.
Maybe it was because I was too frightened at the time, and the words were written in a mess. It can be seen that the person who wrote at that time was trembling and unable to control himself in writing.
This is an ancient text that is closer to vernacular, and its approximate content is:
[The sinner Wu, the old man, knelt before his death. He had committed a heinous crime and knew that he would not live. He wept and left this book behind, praying to the nobles to let me and my young son live.
I was originally from a rough background, mixed in the mountains and fields, as humble as grass and mustard, and had no intention of climbing up to the dragon and being attached to the phoenix.
But God, out of mercy, married the goddess to my son. My whole family is so grateful that I have nothing to repay.
We can only worship it every day and dare not desecrate it one day.
Looking up at the sky, I saw that the goddess gave birth to a baby girl one day, and the whole family of this old man was blessed with his glory. Even if he died, he would have no regrets.
However, something unexpected happened. Less than half a year after she married into our family, the goddess suddenly suffered from a strange illness and died.
I spent all my wealth and hired many famous doctors, but they couldn't cure it.
I am in fear day and night, looking for nobles but nowhere to be found!!
I had no choice but to give the goddess a grand burial and place her at the head of my family's ancestral tomb.
I knew that my crime was serious and I did not dare to live, so I killed my eldest son and buried him in the name of the goddess.
When the goddess got married, she did not dare to keep any of her slaves.
After I killed him, I sent him here to guard the bed of the goddess.
I dare not keep any of the property that the goddess brought with me, so I sent it all here to return to the nobles.
The old man did not dare to live, so he wept with his old wife, wishing that they would both commit suicide and be buried as a martyr for the goddess.
The nobleman taught me the secret of sealing the well, and I took him into the coffin. No one else in the world knew about it.
There is only one young son left in the family, who is young and ignorant.
Noble, please see that we are sincere, don’t vent your anger on him, pray for life, I and my old wife will work together forever to repay the kindness of the noble~~
After writing this passage, a name was left behind, Wu Changlu.
After reading the marriage letter and the message, what happened to this family in the early Song Dynasty has become very clear.
Judging from the marriage letter, this family, known as the "noble", has a very noble status and strong strength.
They married their daughter off to the old Wu family who was farming here at the time.
As a dowry, the new daughter-in-law brought a certain amount of wealth and a noble bloodline.
The original intention of this marriage was to allow the daughter of this nobleman to continue his descendants here, so that the Wu family in the mountains would have the bloodline of the nobles and become a branch of the nobles.
Then the Wu family will always guard the secret realm here for the nobles.
That stone well should be the passage leading to the secret realm.
They have mastered the secret formula for opening and closing the wellhead. If an outsider comes to invade, they must stand up to resist and then use the secret formula to seal the wellhead.
This is a marriage and a transaction.
However, what I didn't expect was that the transaction was quickly interrupted.
This woman who married into a noble family suddenly fell seriously ill and died within half a year.
The cause of her death may be illness, or there may be other reasons, which I will not go into details.
But the ending is that as the husband of this noble girl, the eldest son of the Wu family, he was killed and buried after his wife died.
And this old couple also died for their daughter-in-law because of fear.
This was very incredible in the moral concepts of the time.
And this old man named Wu, before he died, kept the dowry brought by this noble girl here, waiting for the nobles to come and take it away.
From this point of view, the marriage itself was not their original intention and felt a bit forced.
And it reflects two important messages:
First, although the old couple surnamed Wu are theoretically in-laws with the nobleman, their status is very different and they are very afraid of them.
They know that this so-called in-laws will not show mercy to them, and they can kill their entire family if they fall out.
Therefore, after the death of his new wife, he would kill his eldest son and bury him, and commit suicide together with his wife, just to spare the life of his youngest son.
Who are these in-laws? How could they be so cruel and cold-blooded?
The second is: the Wu family had no contact with the aristocrats at that time.
The connection that the nobles originally wanted to establish was within their own bloodline after the noble women gave birth to offspring.
So when a noble woman was seriously ill in bed and unable to speak, he could not seek help from the nobles.
After the incident, the old couple hid the bed and their dowry in this place, and no one has opened it for more than 1,000 years.
In other words, after the death of this noble lady, the nobles did not come after them.
Maybe I forgot about it, maybe I didn't take it to heart at all.
In short, this mysterious marriage of the Wu family during the Song Dynasty was buried behind the mud wall, and no one knew about it...