The Spirit World

Chapter 489 The Beginning of Tragedy

【jia'ke'suo'la, ke{keng}hong'】

Yu Zhi,

The people in our village,
Something has been amiss lately.

Everyone in the village seemed to know about it.

They didn't know about it, because Yu Zhi always exposed his abnormal behavior: for example, he always grabbed the chopsticks to eat, holding the ends of the chopsticks with both hands, and then put the empty chopsticks into his mouth one by one. How could he eat the rice? But he didn't care. The good rice fell to the ground, but he felt full. He didn't listen to his mother and father's scolding.

Also, he always strolled around the village street, the village entrance, and then the village bridge with a sly look on his face... yes, he just strolled around aimlessly... he kept his head down, looking here and there. Everyone was working in the fields, but he just didn't go. When you checked the number of people, you would know he was not there.

Whenever he was not around, he would just wander around the village.

He looked very haggard, with dark circles under his eyes, unkempt hair, skinny as a stick, and dressed strangely, not caring about his torn clothes. His parents probably felt sorry for losing a son who didn't work and had mental problems, so the village made room for him to live, but the old people, children, and women all avoided him.

Fortunately, he didn't hurt anyone, otherwise he would have been driven out of the village by us long ago.

His brother gave him a chance to live and provided him with food, which was the most he could do for him.

He's crazy and there's nothing we can do.

Of course why he went crazy...

The story began a month ago. It was said that Yu Zhi's parents wanted to find a wife for Yu Zhi, who was not young anymore. He was not crazy at that time. He was a handsome young man who could read and write. His family was poor, so as long as he was not lazy and was decent, it should not be difficult for him to find a wife in the surrounding area.

But, you may say it's strange, when Yu Zhi's parents arranged blind dates for him, the girls came, saw his appearance, heard his reputation, and were all happy. This shows that they were willing to marry him. How could they be happy if they didn't want to marry him?

Yu Ming had a pretty good reputation, more than a month ago.

But this matter of finding a wife always failed. He stubbornly said that there was no hope. He didn't like the girl, and the girl couldn't do anything about it. He couldn't force her to marry him. So, he went on blind dates again and again, but failed again and again. His parents got anxious and asked him what kind of girl he liked. He told him to be honest now. He was not old yet, and he would find a matchmaker to marry him even if he spent all his savings.

Yu Zhi hesitated for a long time before his family knew who he wanted to marry.

He wanted to marry Yupang, the daughter of Yutu, the chief of the town.

Good boy, his parents were shocked, their own toad wanted to eat swan meat. This was most likely a lie.

Because Yu Pang is the daughter of Yu Tu, as I just mentioned, Yu Tu is a local gentry, in charge of the village seals of the surrounding villages. You said that the Yu family is nothing, we are just farmers in Yujialing, how can we marry into the Yu Tu family...

They asked Yu Zhi why he liked this...Yu Pang's...

He said that when Yutu inspected the village, he fell in love with the beautiful Yupang who followed him.

I was listening outside the Yu Family Ancestral Hall, and many people were gathered outside the Yu Family Ancestral Hall to listen. Because getting married has always been a big event in a small village. When a girl marries into the family, she is included in the Yu Family genealogy. Everyone was concerned about Yu Zhi's marriage. Although it didn't work out, it was a lot of gossip after dinner. The village was so small that if it didn't spread to the east, it would spread to the west. If someone heard it and then let it out, it would be a big deal.

I was outside the house. I was a child, so I naturally couldn't squeeze past the adults. I climbed up the tree in Yu Zhi's yard and watched Yu Zhi kneeling there as if he had committed a mistake, with his head down and speaking hesitantly.

"I want... to marry Yupang from the village... I will not marry anyone else in my life..." Yu Zhi's words were still firm, but he could not withstand his old father's anger.

"You marry! You marry! How do you marry? Sell the sheep? Sell the cows? You might as well sell me and see if you can marry that Yupang girl!" Yu Laosan, this is what my dad called Yu Zhi's father. I had to call him uncle at that time. After all, people with the surname Yu in Yujialing all have a very high status.

"Old man, don't..." Yu Zhi's mother looked at the people watching the excitement outside the door, including me of course.

His father probably felt embarrassed too, so he softened his tone a little bit, patted the mat and said, "Tell me! Those girls I found for you are so good! Smart! Capable! Virtuous, which one is not good? Why do you like Yu Pangshi? Tell me! I'm telling you! If you don't change your mind! From tomorrow on, don't leave this house! I won't let you starve to death!"

"Those girls are good! I know! But I don't like them! I want to marry the one I like!" Although Yu Zhi lowered his head, his words were firm and I could hear them clearly from the tree: "I like Yu Pangshi. If I don't marry Yu Pangshi, I will never marry anyone in my life!"

The whole audience was in uproar...including me...

If I had known earlier that my last name was not Yu, but a different one, I would have been thankful to heaven if I could marry any girl that Yu Zhi introduced...

To be honest with you... as for me... hehe... I really like any girl who is pretty.

Yu Zhi's words were too much. Yu Lao San only had one son...

This means that Yu Laosan will have no descendants... Can Yu Laosan tolerate this?
With a loud slap, the tree hit Yu Zhi's face, and there was another uproar. I laughed so hard that I almost lost my grip on the tree trunk.

"You!!" Yu Laosan pointed at Yu Zhi, not knowing what to say. His beard moved up and down, and he was furious.

He put his hand down, sighed, and stood up: "Think carefully here! Beast! Rebellious son!"

Yu Laosan was so angry that he felt dizzy and dazed. When he saw the people outside the door watching the fun, he shook his head and walked back home.

The door of the Yu Family Ancestral Hall was closed.

Yu Zhi knew that this was like being put in solitary confinement. He had no food to eat and was hungry for several days.

I ate with my bowl in hand by the ancestral hall, just to see if Yu Zhi would come out. People can't live without food. I have to work in the fields and have to eat enough. He, should not need to eat enough. After all, if he doesn't work, he can stay in the ancestral hall and accompany the ancestors of the Yu family, so he won't be lonely.

Xu Laosan's wife still came to deliver food... Of course, she couldn't bear to leave her own son, that's for sure. Yu Zhi also ate, but he couldn't leave the ancestral hall.

He should reflect on himself...why he didn't marry a girl from our country...and why he had to like a girl from the town...and the daughter of the famous Yutu family, Yupang.

As I just said, I am from a different family, so I am happy to marry anyone. As long as the girl likes me, I will work like a slave for her, and I will not hesitate. I am not picky about anything, and I like them all.

Anyway, the matter was decided by Yu Zhi's resistance to the end. He refused to give in for half a month. Yu Laosan had no choice but to come up with a solution, which was to exorcise the devil for his son. He probably thought that this child whom he had raised with so much effort was possessed and was thinking about Yupang every day. He persuaded the village chief, who sent Niu Er at the entrance of the village to find Yutu, saying that the village was going to hold a harvest festival and that Yutu must be invited to attend.

We did have a good harvest, so this idea is fine. It would be unreasonable if the Yutu clan didn't come. If the Yutu clan came, the Yupang clan would definitely come too...

Yu Lao San probably wanted his son to give it a try...otherwise he wouldn't have done this...

His son is not bad, he just has no money...If Yu Pang wants to marry, she will marry into their family...Maybe he wants his son Yu Zhi to give up.

It’s the Harvest Festival, let’s enjoy it together… In the past, I just ate along with them. I can’t usually get to eat chicken, duck, fish and meat, but this time I will definitely enjoy a feast.

Of course, the most important thing is to meet Yutu's daughter...Yupan...

I want to see her too... My God, who wouldn't want to see a woman who has fascinated a man and wants to marry her? They say she is very beautiful and exquisite. If you come to the village, you will miss out if you don't see her.

But to be honest, I'm not a toad who wants to eat swan meat. I've never even held a girl's hand since I was a child... If Yu Pangshi comes and knows the gap, he will definitely fall flat on his face. After that, I guess he will give up...

But things don’t seem to be as simple as I thought.

At the harvest party, Yu Pangshi did show up... She was so beautiful... She wasn't wearing the rags we patched up... She was wearing white silk clothes! Oh my God... I almost called her a fairy...

I was eating duck meat, maybe I had driven this duck before... It tasted salty and spicy, so fragrant. I looked at Yu Pang sitting next to Yu Tu in a dignified manner, my heart was pounding, I had never seen such a beauty... I know that girls in towns and villages would put on rouge to make themselves beautiful, but this one was too beautiful... We, a group of young men, were staring at this fairy girl from a distance.

"Damn... no wonder... no wonder Yu Zhi wants to marry her..." Niu Er drank a glass of wine and burped at me: "This is... a fairy descending to earth!"

He was a little fat, and he felt heavy pressing on my shoulders.

"Go away... She's pretty... But with such a small body, I can tell from the looks of it that she can't work in the fields. That's definitely not possible..." Zhang Xiaohu bit a chicken wing, biting the bone with his sharp teeth, sucking the marrow, smacking his lips: "What's the use of being pretty... If she can't work in the fields, she'll starve to death..."

"Hey! I don't like to hear that!" I put down the duck bone, looked at him, and picked my teeth with a small wooden stick: "She is beautiful, that's for sure. You can't say that beauty is useless... because her surname is Yupang, so she doesn't have to work in the fields... If she marries a young talent in the town, she doesn't have to work, she just needs to be beautiful."

"Tsk... Little Wolf, you are not a young talent in the town... Why are you belittling yourself..." Zhang Xiaohu didn't want to listen to me either. He grabbed the chicken wings and started to bite them.

"Ah? How did I belittle myself..." I don't know what these two mean...

"Can't this Yu Pang marry poor people like us? Why does she have to marry those oily devils in the towns?" Zhang Xiaohu really spoke without thinking, with a hint of sarcasm and playfulness. He sucked the bone marrow from the chicken wing with his smacking lips. It felt like he was sucking my brain...

“What, what, what…” I didn’t understand what they were saying: “What, what, what… That’s not what I meant… I meant that this person is beautiful and was born into a good family, so she doesn’t have to do hard labor since she was born, isn’t that right… You have to admit it… This is the fact, why are you belittling yourself…”

"Hey... stop arguing..." Niu Er drank another glass of wine, which made me feel sick... I covered my nose and went to see Yupang, but she was gone... Yu Zhi, who was sitting next to Yu Laosan, was also gone.

Boy, I smell something interesting.

Hurry and ask them to go and see.

"Where are you going?" Zhang Xiaohu and Niu Er both looked at me, and then I went to look for them.

"The outhouse?" Niu Er said drunkenly.

I always feel that Niu Er likes shit, piss and farts... This person doesn't think positively...

Can two people be alone in the toilet?

She must have gone to the room to get something... You said Yu Zhi stopped the girl from going to the toilet, he wasn't embarrassed, but I felt embarrassed just listening to it.

I don't think I'd be that stupid...

"The storage room... or the room where Yu Pangshi lives..." I stood up and spoke in a low voice. This kind of thing, done secretly, just some gossip and progress, of course I can't make it public, otherwise I would feel uncomfortable.

"Go and listen, go and listen..." Zhang Xiaohu grabbed Niu Er and we looked at each other, then pretended to be sleepy and walked down the table.

"I'm full, I'm full..." The three of us patted our stomachs.

We turned back when we got to a deserted place... That was what we had originally planned, but we were stopped...

"Little Wolf...Have you seen my brother?"

"What?"

It’s Yu Hong…she has a chubby face and a generous look. She is looking for his younger brother, Yu Anke.

Come and ask me, I definitely don’t know…

"How would I know..." Niu Er and Zhang Xiaohu were urging me, and I also sighed, wanting to end the conversation as soon as possible.

"Shall we go over here and help you look for it? We'll come back and tell you when we find it, okay?"

"Okay..." Xiaohong's eyes looked strange, probably because she was anxious. She stood in front of me holding the handkerchief with some hesitation. To be honest, I have never seen her so delicate. She is well-known for being generous and open.

I left, and I could see her looking back at me...

I was so curious... But I couldn't resist Niu Er and Zhang Xiaohu's urging. We had to go see Yu Pangshi, the fairy Yu Pangshi. Of course, we also wanted to see what would happen to Yu Zhi...

After a few tries, we found them in the reception room like thieves.

We dared not make a sound, hiding by the window and listening. Of course, we didn’t just listen, we also wanted to see Yu Pangshi! How beautiful she was! We would be at a loss if we didn’t see her…

So, when we all went to see Yu Pangshi by the window, we were also mesmerized... This girl was really pretty... She made my heart tremble.

"You said...you like me...and want to...marry me?"

The sound she made was also nice, as light as a cloud... Oh my god... Niu Er was pressing half of my body, and he was almost drooling...

nausea……

"Yes...we met before...you even praised me, don't you remember?" Yu Zhi was dressed neatly...and he didn't look like a farmer's kid. He really looked like the greasy devil in the town that Xiaohu described.

"Oh? Really? What did I praise you for?"

"You said I was brave...and responsible..."

Yu Zhi's words... made me stunned...

What do you mean? This... Yu Zhi, are you a child?
If a girl praises you for being brave and responsible...it doesn't necessarily mean she likes you...it doesn't necessarily mean you should marry someone else...

Sure enough, Yupang laughed. Perhaps she felt that this man was simple-minded. Her smile sounded so sweet, like the sound of a silver bell.

"You are so cute..." she said...looking at Yu Zhi with fiery eyes.

What I can feel is...it's a tragedy...a complete tragedy.

(End of this chapter)