Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

In the winter of the Renzi year of Yongzheng, a family named Xu married their daughter to a certain family in Hangzhou.

According to local customs in Hangzhou. After one month of marriage, the newlyweds have to go back to their parents' home together. This is called the "returning ceremony".

On this day, the son-in-law and his newlywed wife went to his father-in-law Xu's house for a homecoming ceremony.

When a new son-in-law comes to visit, the Xu family will naturally hold a banquet to entertain him.

The new son-in-law was drinking and having fun at Xu's house. He drank too much without realizing it. It was getting late, so his father-in-law and mother-in-law asked him to stay overnight.

According to old customs in Hangzhou, newlyweds are not allowed to sleep in the same room when they return home for the first time.

The Xu family set up a bed under the stairs in the living room and arranged for him to sleep there.

The new son-in-law was lying on the bed, but before he fell asleep, he heard footsteps on the stairs.

The new son-in-law was a little curious, so he looked out through the mosquito net. Only four people were seen walking down the stairs and standing in front of the lamp in the living room.

One of them is wearing a gauze hat and red clothes; another is wearing a square scarf and Taoist uniform; the other two are wearing warm hats and leather robes. Their clothes are different from those of today.

The four of them stood there talking about something, sighing together from time to time.

After a while, five more gorgeously dressed women arrived, walked to the lamp and hid their faces in tears.

Suddenly, one of the elderly women pointed to the new son-in-law lying under the mosquito net on the bed next to the living room and said, "Can you entrust the matter to this man?"

The man wearing a gauze hat who came first waved his hands and said, "It doesn't help!"

Perhaps suddenly remembering something sad, he started crying and said, "I should ask Mr. Zhang to leave some hope for our family."

Everyone comforted each other, some were sitting and some were walking around, looking restless.

The new son-in-law was lying on the bed so scared that he didn't dare to move or make any sound.

At five o'clock in the morning, when the rooster began to crow and the sky gradually became brighter, the group of people supported each other and prepared to go upstairs.

At this time, a black-faced man suddenly walked out from under the table in the living room, hurriedly went up the stairs, pulled the man wearing a gauze hat and red clothes and said, "Can you also leave a bloodline for me?"

The man in red saw that he was sincere and agreed.

By this time, the rooster had crowed for the second time, and the black-faced man hurriedly ran down the stairs. He got back under the table again.

When the new son-in-law saw that it was getting dark, he put on his clothes and ran to the room where his wife slept and asked who lived upstairs.

Mrs. Xu told him: "It is my family's New Year's day upstairs. The statues of the Xu family's ancestors are enshrined upstairs. No one lives there."

The new son-in-law had doubts in his mind, so he went upstairs to look at the portraits of the Xu family's ancestors. I saw that the appearance and clothing of the characters in the painting were all different from what I saw last night.

He was even more confused, so he kept this secret in his heart and didn't tell anyone about it.

It is said that before this, the three sons of the Xu family were all Zhang Youqian (this person was mentioned in the previous chapter. It seems that he had some magic and sold charms to suppress ghosts. There is indeed such a person in history. Mr. Yuan Mei Introducing him, he said that at the age of ninety-three, the emperor granted him the title of Mr. Juren’s student.

This year, Mr. Zhang Youqian opened a teaching school in Songjiang (now Shanghai).

In mid-May, Mr. Zhang received a letter from home and learned that his mother was ill, so he wanted to return to Hangzhou to visit her.

But once he left, Songjiang Academy was leaderless. So, he went to the Xu family and wanted three of his students to be tutored by one person for a period of time.

The Xu family is a wealthy family, and none of their three sons can endure hardships, so they don't want to go to Songjiang.

But Mr. Zhang couldn't find anyone else to take his place. He had no choice but to force them to go in the name of the teacher.

The head of the Xu family had no choice but to let his youngest third son go to Songjiang out of sympathy. When a kid from a rich family goes out, he must always be accompanied by a servant.

Among the servants of the Xu family, there is a man named A Shou, the son of an old slave of the Xu family. He used to be Mr. Zhang Youqian's book boy and he is cautious in dealing with people.

The head of the Xu family sent him to go with the Third Young Master to take care of the Third Young Master's food and daily life.

Less than twenty days after the master and servant left home, a large-scale outbreak of shrimp toad plague (a plague also called big head disease and big head wind) broke out in Hangzhou. Twelve members of the Xu family, old and young, died of the disease. Ten people.

Only the third son and his servant Ah Shou were spared because they went to Songjiang to work for Mr. Zhang Youqian.

When Mr. Xu learned the bad news, he immediately went home to deal with the aftermath.

Of course, the son-in-law of the Xu family would also go to the Xu family to attend the funeral.

Thinking about what he saw and heard that night when he returned home, the son-in-law of the Xu family suddenly realized that the ancestors of the Xu family had already predicted that a plague would spread in Hangzhou.

Their request for Mr. Zhang to leave a trace of his blood to the Xu family seems to have come true.

So, he told the third young master about the strange things he encountered that day. He also said that the black-faced man also asked the ancestor of the Xu family to take care of the person who left a bloodline, but he didn't know where he should be.

The Third Young Master was stunned when he heard about it and said: "It seems that it has come true for Ah Shou! Ah Shou's father's name is Ah Hei. This is because he has a dark face and everyone calls him that. Brother-in-law, you saw it That man with the black face coming out from under the table is him!"