.Chapter 216: A Chinese Ghost Story

The shipboat rowed the boat slowly and said, "It's good for the young master to have this kind of heart. Mr. Jie Yuan had also been here back then. He was so arrogant."

There are too many Jie Yuan, but the most famous Jie Yuan in Jiangnan is Tang Bohu. ‘You boatman knows Tang Bohu too?’

'When I was young, I also carried Duke Jie Yuan to the Qinhuai here.' The shipkeeper said a lot of old shipkeepers who rowed the Qinhuai boat every day, but I think Tang Bohu was also a romantic figure back then. Even after their boats, there was nothing new about Qinhuai. However, the artists who were engaged in painting were valuable when they died. After Tang Bohu's death, the price of manuscripts of calligraphy and painting soared. Even these shipkeepers who rowed the Qinhuai boat every day kept the name of Duke Jie Yuan and increased their value.

The hull shook slightly, and the shipboat shouted, "Young Master, you're here."

‘Wait here, I packed the boat.’ I threw down a silver coin and jumped off the bow of the boat. The two of them followed closely behind, carrying the box.

The elderly boatman finally came to rock the boat. After arriving at the official of the Jiaosifang, the bidding for the first groom of the Cheng family had already begun. Everyone's attention was on the bidding field in the center of the hall. After I came in, I was so big that I didn't even greet me. I grabbed a turtle slave who served tea and poured water. "Can you participate in the bidding if you have money?"

Guinu, "This young master, you have to bid first. You have to pay a deposit to buy an account."

‘Take me to do it quickly.’ Seeing my teeth gritting, the Turtle Nu thought I was going to kill him.

The deposit of ten taels of silver, the name was registered, and then a sign was given a number of seventy-six. Is it competitive with seventy-five people? It's so fierce.

‘Mr. No. 1, Ma, eighty taels of silver.’

But this record was immediately refreshed. ‘Add three liang.’

‘Oh, there are eighty-three taels of silver over there. It is Mr. Xu No. 13."

At this time, there were very few people participating in the bidding, but the fierce competition still did not stop.

...After the bidding rounds, the value of Miss Cheng's eldest son has been pushed up to more than 90 taels of silver. You should know that the ** fee of a clean official who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting is only 10 taels of silver on weekdays. However, this price is obviously not applicable to the famous person in Nanjing - Miss Cheng's eldest son. The price has doubled ten times and everyone is still bidding.

Seeing my two subordinates bringing the box in, I stood among the crowd of luck. Dantian shouted, "No. 76, Prince Wang, one hundred taels of gold." As the house became quiet, I opened the lid on the small box, and the yellow gold ingots shone brightly under the candlelight. The price increased by more than ten times at once. I thought no one had competed with me.

The aunt, a tactful lord, saw the house quiet and announced, 'Today's price for the eldest lady of Cheng's first night has risen to 100 taels of gold. No. 76, Prince Wang, is there any higher one?' After shouting a few times, the house was still silent. It's not that these people don't have more than 1,000 taels of silver, but everyone didn't bring them with them. Sixteen taels per pound, more than 1,000 taels are at least fifty pounds. Who would have brought 180 pounds of silver? As for silver notes, the treasure notes issued by the court are simply a joke, and they only send them but not collect them. This kind of thing similar to military coupons is dirty when everyone treats them as toilet paper. Moreover, all the smart people here, and it's almost a thousand taels of silver for the eldest lady of Cheng's family. Everyone's silver is not blowing from the strong wind, so why bother to buy a three-day joy just to get the first place? Even those who had a holiday with the Cheng family stopped bidding.

The aunt called out several times, but there was still no one in the hall to answer, but they whispered to discuss who the prince was. ‘Since there was no higher price, the eldest lady of the Cheng family belonged to the prince on her first night. Congratulations to the prince.’ The aunt said the last sentence was staring at the gold in the box.

A group of losers comforted each other, but fortunately, not only the Cheng family's eldest daughter came out today. After the failure to serve the king a few months ago, many people were implicated. The official and educational staff also stocked up a large number of fresh goods. These people can continue to bid for the auction, but today's highlight is gone. Some people who came specifically for the Cheng family have recovered their deposits and shook the people. It feels even more uncomfortable to watch here.

Several girls changed into the groom's dress and waited to marry the eldest lady of the Cheng family. Although it was a government-run courtyard, this was quite familiar. However, when I pushed open the carved mahogany door of the new house surrounded by a group of girls, I said coldly, 'This taste is too heavy.'

To be honest, I have many women, and the heavy taste of candles and ropes is acceptable. However, the show performed in the Jiaosifang today is something I never expected - the Ghost Story of the Age. In the new house, a little maid fell to the ground and was unconscious. The bride, wearing a red dress, hung it on the beam of the house with three-foot white silk and swayed.

After a moment of silence, several girls beside her who were preparing to ask for red envelopes screamed hundreds of decibels, "It's dead." The aunt beside her gave these big speakers a few five hundred before they could calm them down. However, with just one call of this kind, the whole city of Nanjing will know tomorrow.

This shout was really more effective than the loudspeaker in the countryside. When a few of them were about to go out heard this, they rushed back to prepare for gossip. The turtle slave, aunt, guest, and ji girl in the hall were also in a mess.

Seeing that these people were unable to save people, I took off my groom's robe and pulled it out of the village. The eldest lady of the Cheng family, wearing a phoenix crown and a robe, was held in my arms before she could even land. The aunt who had just collected gold walked over carefully and tapped the pale Cheng family's young lady below with her index finger, then took two steps back and almost fell. The aunt stuttered, "No...no...no...no...no...no."

I stared at my aunt and asked, 'My one hundred taels of gold...'

The aunt stood up straight and replied with a professional and tough attitude, 'We are the industry of Jiaosifang. Once sold, we are not responsible.'

It turns out that there are some styles of state-owned units, but I really spend a hundred taels of gold to sleep to death. I have to sleep for three days. If the corpse is not transformed, it will rot and no one can stand it. If no one can withstand the official family, they will have to knock down their teeth and blood when they encounter this. Fortunately, I am not an ordinary person, and this mute person cannot eat the loss. Half of the iron card of the Jinyiwei lifted the clothes.

When the aunt saw the three-character Chinese characters on the iron plate, her eyes hopped, and she still pretended to be calm, 'This refund is impossible, but she can redeem herself for the eldest lady of the Cheng family.'

‘Hmm?’ I glared at this aunt. I bought a hundred taels of gold and had to be buried when I went back. I was not going to accompany me.

Seeing that I looked bad, my aunt immediately said, "I will also redeem my other second and third ladies in the Cheng family. At most, this is the only way to go."

‘Hmph, this is almost the same. This little maid will give it to me, just act as a matchmaker.’ I pointed to the little maid who fainted on the ground and said.

'This is fine. Even if the young master doesn't want her, she will be dead if she doesn't like Miss Cheng's family." The aunt knew the rules of the teachings. In this case, she usually wanted to kill a warning to her and be tortured to death by a Trojan horse. The scene can be said to be worse than death. According to ancient legend, this Trojan horse was invented by Zhuge Liang, the Marquis of Wu. However, after thousands of years, the torture of riding a Trojan horse was still left behind.

When my aunt recruited the second and third ladies of the Cheng family, I realized why this aunt agreed happily. Although the lifespan of ancient people was short and precocious, she was thirteen or fourteen years old when she was married. However, the second ladies of the Cheng family looked only eleven or twelve years old, and the third ladies of the Cheng family were only about ten years old. She couldn't eat it at all. The eldest ladies of the Cheng family in my arms were about fifteen years old and could eat it. But except for a few super heavy-tasting and unfinished companions, they still couldn't eat it.

When I walked out of the new house with a phoenix crown and a robe, there were a lot of discussions in the hall. A very small number of people think I am a man who values ​​love and righteousness. More people think I am a fellow man who never lets me go if I die, but I don’t let you go if I become a ghost.

I put the eldest lady of the Cheng family into the cabin. The second lady of the Cheng family and the third lady also stepped onto the bow of the boat with the maid awakened by the cold water. After seeing me, the two followers nodded and said in stiff Chinese, "Boatman, drive the boat."

The hull shook slightly and left the shore. I took a deep breath and immediately went in front of several people, especially the second and third lady Cheng family, who were surprised and pounced on the eldest lady Cheng family's eldest lady, the eldest lady, and began a French kiss. Then, on the eldest lady Cheng family, the legendary Shaolin skill - the Dragon Grab, and repeated this. Only two followers' eyes were unmoved, one was staring at the boatman paddling and the other was staring at the three little girls. The three little girls didn't understand what was going on. The boatman paddling was almost disgusted when he saw this scene, but the sharp gaze of the follower's eagle in front of him made the boatman dare not act rashly.

In this era, most people think that a person dies because he dies is absolutely wrong. It is mainly due to breathing and heartbeat or not. Even this is not necessarily correct. There are even cases of fake deaths in hospitals where they stop breathing and heartbeat and can survive when they are sent to the morgue.

When I caught the fallen Miss Cheng, my fingers were placed on the artery on Miss Cheng's neck. Using this pulse to determine whether there is still a heartbeat is more accurate than cutting the wrist. Before I left, Miss Cheng's family kept a weak heartbeat, so I judged that Miss Cheng's family was just a normal fake death. Although it was not in danger of life, it would still become a real death if it was delayed for a long time. I started first aid measures directly when I got on the boat. Of course, these first aid measures were invented by Westerners who did not know what kind of etiquette, integrity and shame. In the opinion of the shipkeeper who had already received the news of Miss Cheng's suicide, the taste was indeed a bit heavier. However, the three little girls were unaware of it, and they just naively thought that the elder brother took the opportunity to be intimate while his elder sister fell asleep.

With several times of pressing the lungs and people's breathing, the eldest lady of Cheng's family opened her lips and vomited a breath of turbid air, 'Ah, where is this? Is this the underworld?' At this time, my hands were still pressing on the chest and lungs of Miss Cheng's family. The eldest lady of Cheng's family felt that she was being pressed, and opened her eyes and saw me, 'Who are you?'

Before I could answer, the second and third lady of the Cheng family had already run over, 'Sister, you are awake. This prince has redeemed us.'

‘Wake up?’ The eldest lady of the Cheng family was still a little dizzy, ‘Aren’t I dead? Le'er, Su'er, why are you here too? And Xiaohong is here too. This is on the water, has it been to the Styx?’

At this time, the shipman was frightened to death when he saw the eldest lady of the Cheng family corpse. If the entourage had not put the sharp Japanese knife around his neck, the shipman might have forgotten how to paddle.

The three little girls tried their best to make the eldest lady of the Cheng family believe that they were not dead yet, and now they are not on the Styx River but on the Qinhuai River. Just now, the eldest lady of the Cheng family fell asleep and is now awake.

This time, the old ship spent more time to dock the ship by the Crescent Lake where I boarded the boat. I generously rewarded the old ship with dozens of taels of silver and personally patted the old ship on the shoulder. "The eldest lady of the Cheng family just fainted just now and is awake now. I hope you can keep the secret."

‘I understand, understand. I must keep the secret. I just can’t use so much money, it’s enough to buy my boat.’

'This is nothing, I just hope you can keep the secret.' After that, I helped the eldest lady into the carriage. The three girls also climbed up. The groom who had been staying here had been whipping the horse and whipping, and the carriage slowly left.

The old man in joy wanted to count the money, but soon saw the entourage of the prince who had just rowed his neck with a Japanese knife. The entourage said in stiff Chinese, "My master asks if you are interested in living in Japan or North Korea."

The shipkeeper tightly held his money bag and said with a sad face, "This guy, it's not that I don't want to go, I really can't go. I have an 80-year-old mother above and a wife and children who have just been out of the full moon. But don't worry, I will definitely help the young master keep the secret."

‘Spray oil… Thank you for helping my master keep the secret.’ The servant bowed to the shipyard ninety degrees. Seeing the guy being so polite, the shipyard was about to answer, a cold light flashed in front of him. The shipyard held the purse tightly and fell into the cabin. The servant wiped the blade with a handkerchief clean, and then bowed to the shipyard's body another ninety degrees, and continued in stiff Chinese, 'Thank you, my master often said that only dead people can keep the secret. You really know too much. My master has given you a chance. Please cherish it next time.’

‘This is my family.’ After seeing the big mansion clearly with the light of the lantern, the eldest lady of the Cheng family said in confusion.

‘Yes, you are the concubine I bought, of course this is your family.’ I helped the eldest lady in the Cheng family walk in, ‘Where did you live in before, and where can you live now, it’s good.’

The eldest lady of the Cheng family took me into her former boudoir in a daze. Except for the change of maid, her identity changed from a eldest lady to someone else's concubine. It seemed that everything was so illusory. Just when the eldest lady of the Cheng family was about to be pushed down, she suddenly woke up and grabbed the remaining little shirt on her body and shouted, "Don't, don't do this."

I have always been like this to the beauty. I don’t know what happened this time. ‘What else can I do if I don’t do this? You are the concubine I bought, please figure it out. Miss.”

The eldest lady of the Cheng family blushed and shy, and said loudly, "I mean, we haven't worshipped the world yet."

‘Okay, okay.’ It was the first time I saw such a troublesome thing, but beautiful women always had all the privileges. Fortunately, the incense tables were ready-made. I lit a candle and pulled the Cheng family’s eldest daughter who was not covered in clothes to worship the world on the ground.

The few months of life in Jiasifang allowed Miss Cheng's eldest son to learn how to serve men outside of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. She endured the pain and twisted her waist to cooperate with my attack. After the break, Miss Cheng's eldest son suddenly remembered something and quickly woke me up, "I haven't asked my husband's name yet."

I was stunned for a moment. If there are too many names, I will remember them. This is the worry of too many pseudonyms. After I was clear-headed, I replied, "Don't love, by the way, I didn't ask you."

‘My husband asked me to Cheng Cheng to put it.’ Cheng Cheng shrank his body in my arms. He went back and forth from region to heaven several times this day, and now Cheng Cheng finally got to know him.

‘Cheng Cheng?’ Why did you feel like Shanghai? Fortunately, it’s not the eldest lady of the Feng family. ‘By the way, Cheng Cheng, why did you think of committing suicide at that time? It seems that you are not as brave as you are?’

When asked this, Cheng Cheng shrank in my arms again, "I don't know, I was very scared at that time. I was so scared that I was dying, so I remembered hanging myself."

‘Diet because of fear, you are not even afraid of death, what else can you be afraid of?’ In the eyes of people in the 21st century, nothing is more important than their own life. Otherwise, there would be so many people who hate Japanese people, as long as one-tenth of them are willing to take action, they would have sunk the Japanese island long ago. But the actual answer is that there is not one.

Cheng Cheng's weak voice sounded in my arms, "Life and death are small and famous." Cheng Cheng, who understood the affairs of men and women for several months in Jiaosifang, had nightmares every day, with old and ugly men pressing on himself, and there were countless old and ugly men queuing behind him. However, after just becoming a real woman, Cheng Cheng found that it would be nice if he was such a handsome husband around him pressed on him every day.

‘Values, values.’ I can only sigh at the values ​​of human beings in the 16th century and in the 21st century. In ancient times, everyone was brainwashed to facilitate the feudal rule of the monarch. In modern times, there were few people who were not afraid of death except those in the Middle East who were brainwashed since childhood.

‘I can’t sleep anymore, Cheng Cheng, since you wake me up, you have to bear my anger.’ He turned over and pressed Cheng Cheng under him.

Cheng Cheng grabbed the brocade quilt tightly, "I am my husband's man in my life, and my husband's ghost in my death. Please enjoy it as much as possible."

The warm collapse was very big, Cheng Cheng and I didn't rest, and the three pairs of small eyes in the brocade quilt were also blinking.
Chapter completed!