"Hey, to be honest, what are your plans after the New Year?"

Ku Junwei suddenly asked me seriously, and I was still a little uncomfortable.

If Ku Junwei didn't ask me what I said, I would never have thought about any plans.

In the past, my life goal was to build a new house for my family. Now that the goal has been completed, I find that I am somewhat content with the current situation of life.

Not only did I build a new house, but I also had some savings. The shop I opened with Lei Zi was on the right track, and my fame in the villages became famous. The villagers all recognized the golden signboard of "Jiu Ye". Life should be about food and clothing. If you go back and marry a wife, you will feel that life is perfect.

I scratched my head and said embarrassedly: "Haha, to be honest, I really don't have any big plans!"

Ku Junwei asked me in a smoke ring, "Are you going to stay in this mountain valley for the rest of your life?"

"The mountains are pretty good, not as complicated as the outside world!" I said.

Ku Junwei said: "With your current cultivation level, you can go to the outside world and explore it! If you want to make a lot of money, you have to go out of the mountains. You should be very clear that even if you are very famous in this area, your appearance fee is only more than a thousand yuan. How much can you earn in a year? There is indeed no problem in supporting your family, but there is almost no room for improvement. How great can you achieve in your life?"

"Brother Wei, I will consider it!" I nodded, knowing that Ku Junwei said this is for my own good.

In fact, for me, it is not realistic to live and work in a complete and peaceful manner. Master’s great revenge has not been avenged, his own mystery has not been resolved, and there are also grudges, love and hatred between various sects. I don’t know where to start. For the time being, I can only take one step at a time.

I also know that the world is very big, and it is definitely impossible to be confined to the depths of the mountains forever.

But at the same time, I also know my abilities. Although I have a certain level of cultivation, I have not reached the level of Ku Junwei's independent position.

The road to the world is long, and the journey is long!

Ku Junwei snatched out the cigarette butt: "Anyway, we are brothers. If you have any needs, come to me!"

"I know! Brother Wei, thank you!" I said.

The next day was New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve in the countryside was very lively. I would post Spring Festival couplets when I woke up early in the morning, slaughter pigs and sheep to prepare a New Year's Eve dinner. Every household was busy.

In the evening, our family gathered together, watching the Spring Festival Gala, and having fun drinking and eating.

There is a coal ball stove in the middle, and an iron pot is installed on it. The pot is sautéed with mutton.

My mother said, "The chicken, duck and fish are all ready at home. What are you going to buy mutton?"

The father said, "This is given by the Shepherd Sun!"

The mother asked strangely: "Sun Shepherd, so generous?"

The father sipped his wine: "Hey, in two days, the shepherd Sun got married, so he killed a few sheep and gave it to the villagers, so that everyone would go to his wedding in two days! So, in fact, this mutton was not given for free. Don't we have to get a gift when he gets married? Haha!"

The father smiled honestly and picked up a piece of mutton: "But to be honest, this Sun Shepherd's earthy goat is really delicious, and the meat is so fragrant!"

"Sun Shepherd is getting married?!"

I put down my chopsticks and asked curiously: "In my impression, Sun Shepherd is not sixty, but fifty, and is he still married?"

The father smiled and said, "Everyone has the right to pursue love!"

The mother said, "Then the Shepherd Sun died more than ten years ago. She has been alone. Her family is not good or bad. However, because she grazing sheep on the mountain all day long, she introduced several women in the middle, but they didn't reach an agreement. After dragging it, it took more than ten years. I don't know which woman from the family agreed to this marriage this time?"

The father coughed twice and lowered his voice, "I heard that the Shepherd Sun married not a living person this time..."

"What?! Not a living person?!"

As soon as my father said this, my hands couldn't help but tremble, and the peanuts that were clamped on the chopsticks fell to the ground.

"Uncle Second, this shepherd Sun is not married to a living person, who is that?" Ku Junwei asked lowered his chopsticks.

Dad put down his wine glass: "I heard that Sun Shepherd is getting married this time!"

Getting married?!

Ku Junwei and I looked at each other and showed a look of surprise.

Ghost marriage is also called bone matching or ghost marriage.

Getting married in ghosts sounds a bit scary, but it is even more unfamiliar to people in many cities.

But in fact, in remote mountainous areas, especially in western Hunan, getting married is not particularly rare.

Didn’t Chen Xiucai match me with a ghost marriage in order to prolong my life?

Of course, that ghost marriage is not the same as a real ghost marriage.

In fact, the true etiquette and customs of the ghost marriage are exactly the same as those of marriage. The only difference is that the partner of marriage is not a living person!

Generally speaking, there are three situations that fall into the category of ghost marriage:

The first type is that the groom passes away; the second type is that the bride passes away; the third type is that the groom and the bride are both dead people.

Among these three situations, the last one is the most common, and the groom and the bride are dead.

Some families, their sons or daughters, died prematurely due to illness or accidental death, died prematurely, and passed away. Especially for young men and women in their teens and twenty years old, children of this age die, parents will feel that they are very lonely and want to find a companion in the underworld so that they will not leave so lonely.

This situation is like a normal marriage. Both parents will find matchmakers to help see if there are any men and women with a combination of birth dates and horoscopes. So this is how ghost marriage is also called "bone matching".

If you find a compatible partner, the parents of both parties will meet each other, and the man will also send a betrothal gift to the woman, choose a good day, invite relatives and friends, hold a lively wedding, and then bury the children of both parties together, even if they help them complete the major events in their lives.

The first situation is rare. The groom is a dead person. When the bride marrys, it is equivalent to staying a widow, so there are not many women who are willing to marry. Most women are widows who are willing to marry. Life is difficult and it is difficult for them to support the family with their own family, so she would rather stay a widow so that the man's family can help take care of her.

In fact, this is a very sad type of woman. There is no emotion in this kind of marriage, and it is not possible to "divorce". She has to live a life of widow for the rest of her life, which is very miserable.

The second situation is a little more common. The groom is a living person, and the bride is a dead woman, that is, the shepherd grandson is in this situation. In this case, most of the grooms are older men, or they are old bachelors, and they have no marriage in their entire lives. They feel that there is no marriage in this life and there are flaws in their lives, so they try their best to buy a female corpse and get married.

There are also men who have died and have never remarried after their wives. Due to various reasons, they could not find a suitable wife, so they had to marry a female corpse in the end.

Anyway, no matter what the situation is, getting married is a thing that exists in the country and the country, and this custom has been going on for thousands of years.

However, with the progress and development of society, the old custom of getting married is not advocated by people.

My mother said, "It turns out that it's a ghost marriage. I think it's a woman from which family sees through the world and decides to spend the rest of her life with the Shepherd Sun!"

The father said, "Hey, don't talk about me gossip. Sun Shepherd's earthen goat business is pretty good. He is considered a rich man in the village. Otherwise, it would be impossible to get married in a glorious way, right? Those women should be willing to marry him! But why are those women unwilling? Tsk tsk, I heard that it is not because Sun Shepherd's problem that she can't go home after years of going up the mountain to herd sheep!"

"What's the problem?" asked the mother.

The father laughed inwardly: "I heard that there is something wrong with the Shepherd Sun!"

I was also naive. I actually asked: "Which aspect is there any problem? Is intelligence?"

Dad pointed at my crotch: "Here!"

I suddenly realized that it was a problem with men, but this was a big problem. No wonder those women were unwilling to do so. What is the difference between marrying the Shepherd Sun and staying at a widow?

The mother blushed and poked her father with chopsticks: "What are you saying in front of the child!"

The father laughed silly: "I didn't say anything, let's tell the truth. Everyone is a man, right, Jiu Yazi?"

Ku Junwei said: "Haha, this is very interesting. I have attended many red and white wedding banquets, but this is the first time I have participated in this ghost marriage. I am lucky and fortunate. This time I have been regarded as an eye-opener!"

The father sighed: "Actually, this Shepherd Sun is quite pitiful. Because of that problem, he will not be able to live a normal life in this life. Apart from herding sheep and earning money, he probably has never tasted the happiness of a family!"

"There is a problem in that aspect. Didn't you go to the hospital for a look? The science is now very advanced, and many of them can be treated!" Ku Junwei said.

"It's not cured!" said the father: "I heard that Sun Shepherd was not born with problems. He went to herd sheep when he was young and picked up sheep manure behind the sheep's butt. Somehow he was kicked by the sheep's hooves. He was impartial and just kicked the balls and broke them from then on, and he fell into the root of the disease!"

"Then didn't he get married?" said the mother.

The father said, "Hey, what kind of marriage is that? The dead wife before was bought with money. The woman was born sick and the woman's family was in trouble. Unexpectedly, the Shepherd Sun was willing to take over this hot potato. The woman's family asked for it and didn't even ask for a bride price. She directly sent the woman to Sun's house. As a result, the woman died of illness within a few years after the marriage!"

My father and mother discussed the gift for a while, and finally decided to be 200 yuan.

At that time, when rural people got married, two hundred yuan was not low.

Some families only rushed to eat the gift of fifty yuan, and the whole family went to eat it for three days.
Chapter completed!