The news that I was going to marry Cuigu quickly spread throughout the village. The villagers were talking a lot. They didn't understand why a good college student like me didn't even go to school and suddenly wanted to come back and marry a fool? Isn't this a disease?
My parents are both honest people, and they dare not say a word "no" under my grandfather's pressure.
It was my second uncle who complained about my injustice and bit the bullet and asked my grandfather.
"Dad, are you out of your mind? My eldest nephew is a college student and will marry Bai Fumei from the city. If you let him marry a fool, aren't you trashing him?"
Before he finished speaking, my grandfather picked up the stool and smashed it over.
"You know nothing, get out."
Outsiders are puzzled, but as a person involved, I am even more puzzled, shocked, and even angry.
I, who have always been obedient, fell out with my grandfather for the first time.
"I want to go to school. I don't want to marry a wife, let alone Cuigu. Even if I kill her, I won't marry her." I said harsh words.
As expected, grandpa was so angry that he slapped me so hard that stars appeared in my eyes and my mouth and nose bleeded. My mother cried in distress, but did not dare to step forward to stop me.
Grandpa carried me into the Xiangtang and slammed the door.
On the altar table in the incense hall, there is a drum.
Grandpa pointed at the drum and said, "Do you remember this thing? Do you remember that beautiful woman? Do you remember how your grandma died?"
I looked at the drum blankly, and it turned out that all this was because of it.
Grandpa brought the drum to me.
"Do you know what this thing is?"
"Soul Soul Drum." Grandpa spat out three words.
"The soul-suppressing drum, the soul-suppressing person, can suppress the demons, ghosts and gods in the world."
"The soul-suppressing man, the soul-suppressing drum, all the demons and monsters turn to earth."
I do not understand.
Grandpa said: "Do you know what it means when this thing comes to my house? From the moment you meet that beautiful woman, from the moment you take this drum home, your fate has been determined."
"This is a great calamity for our Li family, and this calamity will fall on you."
I asked blankly: "What calamity? Grandpa, what on earth is going on?"
Grandpa's face was serious and depressed.
"After receiving the soul-suppressing drum, you have to become a soul-suppressing person. Although the soul-suppressing drum and the soul-suppressing person are invincible in the world, they are the ways of evil spirits. In the future, they will have to bring evil gods into the world, which will surely destroy all living beings and even cause chaos in the Three Realms. , so this soul-suppressing drum is a sealed demon sacrificial weapon."
"The drum is engraved with beard, yellow, white, blue and gray, Wulong, Wolf, Dog, Black, Long Python and twelve great animal immortals. The big-headed dolls engraved on the bottom of the drum are the Twenty-Four Breezes, which are ghosts."
"This is the symbol of evil. The last divination of Master Tiansuan calculated that forty years later, the sealed evil sacrificial vessel will reappear in the world and will be in the hands of my Li family. Someone from my Li family will definitely become Soul-suppressing person, this is a great disaster."
"In order to avoid this disaster, your grandmother and I washed our hands in the golden basin and lived in seclusion in the mountain village for many years. We lived a life of poverty and mediocrity. I only hoped to escape this disaster, but in the end... we still..."
I still don’t quite understand, what kind of demon sacrificial weapon? What soul-soothing drum and soul-soothing person? This is too bizarre and far-fetched for me, a person who went to college to receive a new-age education.
I have to believe what grandpa said, he would not lie to me.
Grandpa leaned down and regained his kind appearance.
"You took the soul-suppressing drum. If you don't become a soul-suppressing person, you will die. But even if your grandma and I fight for our lives, we can't let you become a soul-suppressing person, and we can't let you enter the path of the devil. "
"Your grandma's life bought you twelve years of peace. If possible, I would also trade my old life for your peace. Unfortunately, that thing has been angered, so this method won't work."
"So now, the only way to go is to marry Cuigu."
"But what does this have to do with Cui Gu? If I marry her, can I survive? Can I stop being a soul-killer?" I asked.
"Cui Gu is not an ordinary person. You don't think she is really a fool, do you?"
I was confused for a while.
"She, isn't she just a fool?"
Grandpa shook his head, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't.
"There are some things that cannot be said before the fate has come, otherwise it will reveal the secret. But you believe Grandpa, everything I do is for your own good."
Of course I know that grandpa will not harm me, and what grandpa has said so much is that he wants me to marry Cui Gu as his wife according to his arrangement. This is the only way at the moment.
But when I think of that old and ugly fool, I feel sick in my heart. Besides, I already have a girl I like in my heart. She is my college classmate Pei Xinyun, who is perfectly fair and beautiful.
Moreover, marrying a wife is a major event in life. If I marry this fool, my life will be ruined.
I would rather die than marry this fool.
Grandpa was furious and overturned the altar table in the incense hall.
"I've said so much, in vain? You ignorant thing, do you really think this is your fault alone?"
My bad temper got worse, I scratched my head and said, "Anyway, I would rather die if I had to live with a fool for the rest of my life."
Grandpa's face was livid, he was breathing heavily, and pointed his trembling fingers at me.
"Okay, you, you won't shed tears until you see the coffin, right? Then let me see the price of not marrying Cuigu, and see if our Li family can afford it?"
I argued with grandpa like this for two days, and on the third day, something happened.
My eldest sister, who was already married, suddenly contracted a strange illness and was dying. She died within a day.
The death was sudden and bizarre.
The whole family was saddened by the sudden death of my aunt, but my grandfather looked at me and said something that made my skin stand on end.
"This is the price you pay for not marrying Cuigu. The next one will be your second aunt."
My heart felt like it was cut by a knife.
The next day, the second aunt fell ill as expected. The life was suddenly drained from her whole body, and she died in the afternoon.
Grandpa said: "Aren't you still willing to marry Cuigu? The next one is your second uncle."
My heart sank into the ice cave.
Sure enough, the second uncle soon became pale and dying, just like the two aunts.
Thinking that my second uncle, who had always loved me, was going to die, I finally collapsed. I knelt at my grandfather's feet and cried, "Master, don't let my second uncle die. I agree. I agree to marry Cui Gu."
Grandpa took me into the incense hall and took out the drum again.
The drum turned red, blood red, I don't know if it was my imagination or something? The big-headed dolls engraved on the bottom of the drum are actually smiling, and their eyes seem to be moving.
I was startled, my hand shook, and the drum fell to the ground.
Grandpa said: "There is no time. You and Cuigu will have a wedding today."
