The eldest daughter and the second daughter both married into wealthy families in the county and were very popular with their husbands' families.
The third daughter is naturally not bad, but the strange thing is that this third daughter has actually reached the age of marriage early. She looks like she is almost 20, but for some reason she has never gotten married.
Of course, Gu Zhongqi would not dislike his sister-in-law's age. Besides, his senior brother was also in his thirties. It was not too late to be happy that he could marry such a good-looking woman.
Little did he know that there was another story behind this marriage.
It turned out that the third daughter of the Laoxiang Hakka family had actually been promised to someone a long time ago. She was also the young master of a wealthy family in Shiyan. It was considered a good match for her to be well-matched, but just before they were about to get married, the young master accidentally fell down while riding a horse. , he was accidentally trampled by a horse's hooves on his descendants' roots. After many treatments, he was saved, but he can no longer do anything.
When the old pilgrim found out, he wanted to regret his marriage. Who wants to marry his daughter to an inhumane husband and leave her a widow?
But which big family has good face? If your own son is dead, you will already lose face. Now you want to add insult to injury and break off the engagement. Where can you put the face of our big family?
No, I have to get married even if I am a living widow. Who knows if she will be cured in the future? I firmly do not agree to break off the engagement.
The old pilgrim was also angry. Doesn't this force my daughter to jump into the fire pit? So they used various excuses to shirk the marriage and were reluctant to get married.
This matter has been in a stalemate for three years. Seeing that my daughter is getting older and older, the old pilgrims can't sit still anymore. Moreover, they already have a matchmaking appointment with that wealthy family, and it is impossible to marry someone else. Only then Suddenly I thought of the time when I went to Wudang Mountain to offer incense.
You might as well just use a dead horse as a living horse doctor and marry your daughter to Wudang Mountain. The Wudang Dragon Sect can rely on its good medical skills to not starve your daughter, right?
When Gu Zhongqi heard the old pilgrim's confession, he immediately became angry. You must know that at that time, a woman had a matchmaker agreement with someone else. Even if she did not get married, her reputation was equivalent to being someone else's daughter-in-law. This was equivalent to My senior brother has married someone else's wife. Do I still need the reputation of the Wudang Sect?
Gu Zhongqi immediately wanted to call a few junior brothers and run away, but he just missed beating this old pilgrim. He really made his master happy in vain.
But the old pilgrim's pleading words made him hesitate again.
"Can my good nephew just have the heart to die and not save me? My daughter's mother died early. How much pain and sorrow she has felt in these years, only I, the father, know! In a few years, I will either have to watch. Watch her jump into the fire pit, or watch her be stabbed to death in the back."
The old pilgrim looked at Gu Zhongqi with some hesitation, and immediately said: "Wudang Mountain is hundreds of miles away from here. My daughter is married. Who would know that she has a husband? Besides, your senior brother is already over thirty, so you can't bear to watch." Will he have no descendants?"
Gu Zhongqi was a little moved after hearing this, and he couldn't bear it in his heart. He couldn't bear the tragic ending of this beautiful girl he had met before, nor could he bear the fact that his master and senior brother were waiting eagerly on the mountain while he went back with bad news.
What's more, all the fellow disciples inside and outside the mountain knew that the senior brother was getting married, and even the congratulatory gifts were prepared. If he just went back like this, it would be hard for the whole family to explain!
Seeing the old pilgrim looking at him pitifully, he thought: "Tell me, how do you bring Miss Chen back to Wudang? You can't get married by beating gongs and drums, right?"
The old pilgrim took a deep breath, bowed and said: "I won't say thank you very much. From now on we are a family, and the Longmen Sect will definitely make offerings every year."
"Oh, we'll talk about the sacrifice in the future, but you can tell us the rules for how to get married."
"My dear nephew, you came all the way with the betrothal gift. Someone must have informed the family. In order not to arouse any suspicion, you will take my daughter and leave overnight today. Your junior brothers will stay one night and bring the betrothal gift tomorrow. When I go back, I will tell the public that I reject your marriage proposal. Two days after you leave, I will report it to the officials and say that my third daughter was robbed by bandits when she went out."
"Ah? Then wouldn't I become a bandit?"
"It's an expedient measure, it's just an expedient measure, it just makes everyone look good. I also have connections in the county. Who would really take it seriously and send troops to chase you? Besides, there are so many bandits in this world. Who knows what kind of gang they are?" Bandits did it?”
Gu Zhongqi thought about it for a long time, but he didn't have any good ideas at the moment. He was not a person who was good at calculations. Now that he had agreed to this, he could only agree to the old pilgrim's idea.
So, in the evening of that day, Gu Zhongqi, who was dressed in green shirt, and Chen, who was riding on a donkey and dressed as a man, quietly left Zhuangzi.
The following story is very bloody. Miss Chen has been miserable and desperate for several years. Now she is saved from a desperate situation. Naturally, she is inexplicably grateful to Gu Zhongqi. However, Gu Zhongqi has never had the experience of being alone with a woman, let alone such a beautiful woman. It is also carefully taken care of and maintained.
On the journey of more than one hundred miles from Shiyan to Wudang Mountain, the two of them had a good meal and slept in the open. On the way, they actually encountered several bandits who were robbing the road, but they were all dispatched by the three and two moves of the valley. Unexpectedly, in just a few days, the two of them They all have a crush on each other, especially Gu Zhongqi. They know it is wrong and know that the other person is their future sister-in-law and cannot be admired by them. However, once a single person of thirty years falls in love, it is like a raging fire that can no longer be extinguished.
Miss Chen's smile and eyes, her strangeness and anger, always lingered in his mind. Seeing that Wudang Mountain was getting closer and closer, Gu Zhongqi felt more and more painful and reluctant to leave.
After the juniors all caught up, Gu Zhongqi and Miss Chen deliberately avoided each other. However, for Gu Zhongqi, the torment, guilt, despair, lovesickness and other emotions were so intertwined that they were completely unable to extricate themselves.
When he thought of his senior brother who was as close as an elder brother, he felt more and more disdainful of his thoughts, but he could not erase Miss Chen's beautiful face from his mind.
When he finally returned to Wudang and saw the warm smiles of the old master and senior brother, and their greetings, Gu Zhongqi felt even more ashamed.
And he knew that if he continued like this, he was afraid that he would do something even more embarrassing. If his master and senior brother knew about his thoughts, how would he face it?
On the day of his senior brother's wedding, Gu Zhongqi understood that from then on, every time he saw his senior sister-in-law, he felt torment, and every time he saw his senior brother, he felt guilty and ashamed.
So, that night, Gu Zhongqi, who had made up his mind, drifted down the mountain alone, and never returned to Wudang Mountain in a sea of people.
From then on, there was one less Qi in the Valley and one more Taoist Priest Ziqing in the world.
