Dong Pai put the gold ring neatly in a flowered handkerchief and put it next to him. He gently pushed the basket full of eggs and said, "Matchmaker, no matter whether you agree on this marriage or not, this basket of eggs will still be given to you." The Kuaizui matchmaker said, I accepted your small gift and can't help you, so why am I embarrassed?
It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter! Dong Pai exited the room while talking.
Kuaizui's matchmaker followed up and said, "Old Dong, can't I find you a widow about your age who has left a man?" Dong Pai turned around and said, "No need, I only have Bao Maoying in my heart, and I won't marry anyone but her." The quick-talking matchmaker said, "Then I have no choice. How can you want the sun to rise from the west?"
forget about it. Dong Pai dropped these words, turned around and left.
Then thank you for sending me eggs. The quick-talking matchmaker watched him talk politely.
A few days later, while Kuaizui Matchmaker was busy in the house, she suddenly heard footsteps outside. She looked up and saw a familiar woman walking in. She couldn't remember where she had seen her before, so she pointed at the woman and asked. ,Who are you?
I am Bao Maoying's mother, and you don't know me. You visited my house last time. the woman prompted.
oh! I remembered, you are Qu Xiaolan. The quick-talking matchmaker smiled and narrowed her eyes. Asked again, what's the matter?
I want to ask you to help me propose a marriage to my daughter. Qu Xiaolan got straight to the point.
Your daughter's tone is too high, and I can't help you with that. The quick-tongued matchmaker remembered that she was in trouble last time and was still frightened, so she answered like this.
This time I tell you, it’s easy to talk about. All we need is a little bit of talk from you, our family has already found a prospective son-in-law, all you need to do is pull the strings. Bao Maoying said so. The quick matchmaker asked, who is the prospective son-in-law that your family has found?
It was Dong Pai who lived in Ma'anshan and was still a boy in his fifties. Qu Xiaolan said this, with a look of helplessness on her face. The quick-talking matchmaker really didn't believe her ears and asked, "What did you say?" Say it again. Qu Xiaolan repeated it again. Kuaizui Matchmaker was very surprised and asked why it was him?
It's him, that's how weird this thing is. Qu Xiaolan said, and emphasized that only Dong Pai can save my daughter now.
What happened to your daughter?
There is something wrong with the body.
The two women asked and answered each other, and they got involved in the strange incident of the dead old man Zou Laoyong who was guarding the watermelon.
It was said that Zou Laoyong would not die, but he died, and his death was unjust and unjust. how do I say this? It all started when Zou Laoyong, the watermelon guard, brought a basin of watermelon cut into cubes a few months ago and gave it to Bao Maoying who was passing by.
At that time, Bao Maoying felt a little disgusted when she saw how old-fashioned he was. She felt blind and nauseous when she saw him. Plus, he was a stranger in her eyes. How could she believe him? How could he easily eat the watermelon he brought to quench his thirst?
At that time, Bao Maoying's parents were coming down from the mountain carrying a load of firewood, and they encountered this incident. In order to prove that there was nothing wrong with the watermelon he gave to Bao Maoying, Zou Laoyong ate all the watermelon in the basin in front of them. There was no problem with this originally. The problem was that no outsiders saw what Zou Laoyong did before he walked out of the shed with the watermelon. Only the mountain god saw it. The mountain god saw his every move, but he could not see the mountain god. This was because the mountain god moved freely in multi-dimensional time and space, while human activities were limited to four-dimensional time and space.
What did the mountain god see? When Zou Laoyong was still in the hayloft, he took out a pack of sleeping pills and ground them into powder, put them in a large cup of warm water and stirred them with a teaspoon, then took out a large box stored under the bamboo bed and opened it. , and take out a syringe from it.
He inserted the needle of the syringe into the tea cup and filled it with warm water mixed with sleeping pills. Then he injected the needle one by one into a green watermelon pressed in front of his feet. He repeated this many times until the cup was filled with warm water. Then, he pressed the watermelon on a spare wooden board, took out a fruit knife, cut it into pieces, and put them into a basin.
The mountain god stared, a little puzzled by Zou Laoyong's behavior. He secretly asked: Do you want to sleep by eating lumpy watermelon mixed with sleeping pills? Why not just swallow sleeping pills? Why mix a pack of sleeping pills into a watermelon through liquid injection? Isn’t that too much of a sleeping pill? The mountain god clarified these questions during the observation process.
At that time, Zou Laoyong did not eat the watermelon mixed with sleeping pills. He squatted at the door of the hut and looked towards the mountain road. Suddenly he saw a tall girl resting on the road carrying a load of firewood.
He immediately took out the basin of watermelon from the hayloft and gave it to the girl who was so thirsty that her throat almost smoked. Fortunately, the girl refused to eat no matter how thirsty she was. The mountain god, who had been following Zou Laoyong out of the hut, understood something when he saw it. He scolded her at that time: Damn it, you gave this girl watermelon mixed with a lot of sleeping pills, but you didn't eat it yourself. What's your intention?
Of course Zou Laoyong couldn't hear what the mountain god said. Unexpectedly, he failed to succeed. Finally, in order to relieve the suspicion of the girl and her parents, Zou Laoyong ate all the watermelon in the basin in front of them.
How could Zou Laoyong consider that eating these watermelons mixed with excessive amounts of sleeping pills would kill someone? He thought: At worst, he could go back to the hut and lie down on the bamboo bed to sleep for a few more days. The medicine would wear off and people would wake up, so it would be no big deal. Zou Laoyong's idea is not too wrong and should be said to work. But as luck would have it, his disgraceful actions were watched by the mountain god.
After Zou Laoyong ate the pot of watermelon mixed with an overdose of sleeping pills, he returned to the hut, fell on the bamboo bed, and fell asleep. He did not wake up for three days.
The very next day, the mountain god, who was a little aggrieved, made a special trip to the City God's Temple on the outskirts of Jinse City to report to the City God exactly what happened to Zou Laoyong'an, who was kind enough to inject watermelon mixed with sleeping potion tea into a girl. The city god was also very indignant, but he shook his head and said, this is a matter of the underworld, I can't control it. He also ordered the Yin messenger to bring a book of merits and demerits to record the immoral things Zou Laoyong had done. He also said that in the future when Zou Laoyongyang's life is over, his soul will be brought here, and I will interrogate him again and repair him. The memorial asked the King of Hell to accuse him.
The mountain god left and came back on the third day. The city god sat high in the hall and asked the mountain god why he came again? The mountain god said, Your Majesty, I have something to tell you. Zou Laoyong has slept for three whole days without waking up because he ate too much watermelon mixed with sleeping potion. His soul has left his body. Why not save him? The soul was detained for questioning.
The city god said, OK! He immediately ordered two ghost agents acting as spies to capture the soul of Zou Laoyong who was wandering in the wild, and ordered him to kneel in the palace. The city god asked him what his intention was in injecting sleeping potion into the watermelon for his girl to eat. Zou Laoyong's soul strongly denied it and refused to admit it. The city god called the mountain god who had not yet left to bear witness. The mountain god described Zou Laoyong's every move accurately, and Zou Laoyong's soul had no choice but to admit that this happened, but the girl did not eat the watermelon mixed with sleeping potion.
The city god slapped the table and shouted, "But you have behaved like this." If the officer asks you, you must answer truthfully. Zou Laoyong's soul said, City God, just ask!
Zou Laoyong, you didn’t make it clear. What do you want your girl to do by letting her eat the watermelon mixed with sleeping potion? The city god stared at him with his big copper bell-like eyes and asked.
I just wanted the girl to go home and sleep after eating, because it was hard enough for her to carry the load of firewood down from the mountain. I mean well! Zou Laoyong's soul argued like this.
According to what you say, should I take credit from you? The city god said, sneered, and then yelled, Zou Laoyong, you think everyone is a fool, you mixed a large dose of sleeping pills in the watermelon pulp, if the girl takes it, she will fall asleep in a few minutes. , how can I have the energy to walk home and sleep again? Aren't you lying? Do you want to take advantage of the girl's sleep after eating your watermelon, drag her into the mountains or your hut and rape her?
City God, no, no, absolutely not. Zou Laoyong denied it with a confused look.
Zou Laoyong, you are dishonest. The City God signaled the two ghost guards in the palace to imprison him in the City God's cell for four days.
