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Chapter 149 The Night Owl Enters the House

On the country road, there is the sound of suona, and the sound of gongs and drums.

A procession of seeing off relatives bumps forward with the protection of the sedan chair.In the front is the bridegroom officer in red and colorful, behind are the brothers who meet the relatives, and then the brothers and sisters who send the relatives off and eight large sedan chairs.

Most of the suonas in the world are the same voice, the tone is majestic, high-pitched, and accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, I don’t know how many birds are startled along the way.

cuckoo-

An owl hooted overhead, and a gray bird of prey slid past the procession.

A girl in the team frowned, picked up a stone and threw it into the sky. The owl flew very high, and the stone naturally emptied, crossed an arc and fell again.

"What's the matter? What's the use of hitting it well?"

The girl turned her head and saw that the person who spoke was a young scholar. She recognized him as the youngest and handsome one among the four benefactors who had saved her before. She blushed slightly and said, "Brother Tang... that night owl is an unlucky bird." .The night owl is calling for the funeral. Today is my sister’s big day. How unlucky is it to see a night owl? So I chased it away.”

Tang Zhao pondered, "Is that so..."

The owl just now belonged to him. He traveled all the way, and the owl kept flying around his head.He saw a lot of owls on the mountain, and almost everyone in the same school had one owl, which could report messages and scout. He only thought it was cute and convenient, and he didn't think about anything auspicious or inauspicious.

Although he never thought owls were unlucky birds, since there was such a local taboo and it was a happy day, there was no need to argue, so he whistled and gestured for the owl to fly forward first.

The owl flew away, and the girl sighed softly, not relieved, but rather worried.

Tang Zhao asked, "What? Is there something else on your mind?"

The girl said softly: "It's not when I'm happy to say something depressing... At first, I thought that my brother-in-law was handsome and his family was well-off. Although he didn't have a lot of promise, he had a gentle temper. My sister would be happy if she married. But today I feel a little vague. You see The groom, who married my sister, was not really happy when he greeted her. Instead, he looked weird, as if someone forced him to marry him. What will happen in the future... If I knew it, I would have advised my sister not to marry him. "

Tang Zhao looked at the bridegroom officer, and sure enough, he saw that although he was dressed up, he was riding a tall horse, and he was a good-looking man, but he seemed really unhappy. Although he smiled, it was forced, just like what the girl said, revealing It's kind of weird.

But it may not be really unhappy, maybe it’s because I don’t care about the horse, and I’ve been riding on dirt roads for so long, and I’ve coughed up my butt?

Just then, the owl flew back again.Just circled three times above the heads of several people.

Tang Zhao's face darkened, he thought for a while, touched Jiang Shenyi, and said, "Senior brother, watch carefully, I'll go over there and have a look."

Jiang Shenyi raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there something wrong?"

Tang Zhaodao: "The owl called the police. It may be that Lu Yu Mao is robbing. It is not surprising that there are thieves in this place. Today is a day of great joy, don't ask someone to destroy it."

Jiang Shenyi said: "I'll go. I'm fast." He has been teaching his children martial arts for the past few days, and he just wants to change his mood.

Seeing that he was eager to try, Tang Zhao handed him the refractor and said, "Try to lure the thief to other places, and don't run into the wedding procession."

Jiang Shenyi smiled and said: "Please be all right—brother." He opened the refractor, his body was hidden behind the twisting light, he spread his wings, and flew away with the owl.

Looking at the direction of the owl, Tang Zhao pondered in his heart: Isn't this direction the direction where they send their relatives off?Could it be that there are blind thieves who want to rob the wedding team?
Looking back, Liang of the Sang family was riding a big mule talking and laughing with his brother-in-law who was picking up his relatives. He didn't bother, and turned his head to the two partners in Liangzhou.

A group of people walked all morning and arrived at Huzhuang before noon.Huzhuang is decorated with lanterns and festoons, which is very lively.After all, the girl from the Sang family married Zhuangtou's son, and her family was relatively well-off, so the wedding was not a small affair.

When Tang Zhao first saw the scene, he thought that Huzhuang was richer than Wushubao, but when he went in, he realized that he was thinking too much.Eighty percent of Huzhuang's families are really poor, with scant clothes and bare walls, which is worse than Wushubao.But Zhuangtou's house is much wider than that of Sang's and Liang's, almost like a big mansion of a rich family.

A flower hall has already been set up in the compound, waiting for newcomers to come to worship.Zhuangtou and his wife greeted him at the door.

The bride's father died early, and Sang Jialiang greeted his in-laws as the uncle who saw him off.Tang Zhao followed the crowd to watch, and saw that the old Zhuangtou was okay, and he couldn't tell anything unusual. His wife smiled very reluctantly, and there was really no smile in her eyes.

how?Was this marriage forced?Husband and wife are not compatible, or...

Thinking about it, Tang Zhao squeezed forward regardless of the crowd, and squeezed to the side of Sangjialiang.Sang Jialiang saw him at a glance, quickly grabbed him, and introduced him to Zhuangtou.Lao Zhuangtou saw that Tang Zhao was well-dressed and had a strange face, he was surprised, but he didn't dare to neglect, and said a lot of polite words.

Originally, Tang Zhao was not related to him, so he should step aside after the introduction, but he just poked at Sang Jialiang's side in a daze, and followed through the whole wedding ceremony.During this series of procedures, apart from Hu Zhuangtou looking at him with a strange expression, nothing unexpected happened.

After a while, the courtyard opened up a table.Outside is a covered banquet, and inside the compound is a serious banquet, where the whole village eats together.As the head of the woman's family, Sang Jialiang naturally sat at the main table, and the parents-in-law also sat at the table.Tang Zhao squeezed in front, Sang Jialiang naturally pulled him to the main table, and asked Tang Zhao, "Where are the others?"

Tang Zhao said vaguely: "They don't eat alcohol, they go out to play after visiting the wedding."

Sang Jialiang felt sorry for him and pulled him to sit beside him.Tang Zhao noticed that Hu Zhuangtou on the opposite side was looking more and more wrongly, and instead became more impolite, so he sat down firmly with a smile.

The homemade village mash was served at the banquet, and Tang Zhao tasted it first, and there was nothing wrong with it except for the bad taste, so he didn't delay everyone's drinking.Sang Jialiang took a bowl of wine and said, "Why didn't you see the second brother?"

He was asking about the groom's younger brother, Hu Zhuangtou's second son. Hu Zhuangtou murmured, "He's gone out."

At this time, an old man next to him came over drunk, and said with a smile: "The young master is very promising now, he has learned martial arts, and joined the Donghe Water Village, and he only eats passing merchants. Now he drinks heavily and eats meat, I don't know how much Have a good time..."

The people next to him hurriedly pulled him away, Sang Jialiang's face darkened, he endured and endured, put down his wine glass, and said, "Okay, I'm really promising, let's go into the water! The waves on the river are big. Be careful, Lord Dragon!"

The people at the banquet looked at each other, and some relatives of the Hu family were upset, and shouted: "It's a happy day, what are you talking about..." Old man Hu hurriedly pressed down, and said: "My in-laws are right, floating on the boat, is it not under the control of the Dragon King? Drink and eat!" He offered wine to Sang Jialiang, and said: "What are you doing with that prodigal seed on the day of great joy? I can't help it, that kid has been a bastard since he was a child, and no one can control him when he grows up. Let him go. He deserves to die outside. But my eldest son is definitely a good man, hardworking and honest, a person who lives a life, don't worry."

Sang Jialiang was really angry, he hated those thieves the most, Wushubao hadn't had a single thieves for many years, he didn't expect his sister to marry a thieves.At this time, I was hesitant, and wanted to take the girl away for a while, but then I thought that this brother-in-law had been inspected by myself, and there was really nothing wrong with it, and the girl liked it, so I couldn't let my own whim mess things up.But there was a faint uneasiness in my heart-there was no bridal chamber at this time, and there was still room for repentance, if he hesitated, it would be too late to regret.

He hesitated here, his face darkened, and he sat motionless.The atmosphere at the table was extremely awkward.Several relatives drank a few glasses of wine indiscriminately, and left one after another, and the banquet outside also broke up hastily.Only Tang Zhao sat beside him, as if he was going to sit forever.

Old man Hu went out to see people off, and when he came back, he said, "Uncle Sang, read it and see your brother-in-law's face. I have always regarded the youngest son as dead, and I just live a good life with my eldest son. Our two villages are not far apart. Well, making this marriage is like forming an alliance. Wouldn’t it be a good thing to advance and retreat together and resist thieves together in the future? The old man has a jar of good wine hidden in the cellar since my son was born. It will be twenty years this year. I'll take it out, let's have a good drink." After that, he got up to get the wine.

As soon as he left, Sang Jialiang exhaled and said to Tang Zhao, "Master, I told you to watch a joke."

Tang Zhaodao: "What kind of joke? There are always things that go wrong in the world. It's up to Brother Sang to decide this kind of thing."

Sang Jialiang shook his head and said, "I can't control it, or I don't want to. I know that although there are people in other villages who are afraid of and hate thieves, they wish they could become thieves themselves. They are not afraid of embarrassing their ancestors or bringing blessings to their children and grandchildren. This is still I don't know how to die. I have an unfeeling request. The young master will tell him later how those thieves were stabbed one by one when they met the knights in the rivers and lakes. Especially how the water thieves were thrown into the water to feed the fish. Call this old man I was scared and advised his son to come back."

Tang Zhao said, "Yes. I'm good at this."

Coincidentally, they had killed a boat of water thieves before, and they were electrified in the water, and they died miserably.

Wouldn't it be so coincidental?
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They are waiting to drink good wine here, and there are people waiting in the inner hall.

The bridegroom sent off the guests and went back to the inner hall, where he saw a short clown sitting in the hall, staring at him.

The groom squeezed out a smile, bowed and said, "The third leader."

The ugly man stared at two mouse eyes, and said: "Why are you so slow? You still haven't put that tricky man down?"

The bridegroom said with a smile: "There were a lot of people outside just now. Daddy was afraid that he would make a big fuss in front of everyone and mess up the plans of the kings, so he didn't move. He waited for the banquet to be over and started alone. Now that the medicine has been brought up, immediately Just put him down."

The ugly man picked his teeth and said: "Why are there too many people? You are just procrastinating on your own excuses. If you procrastinate for a long time, my fourth child will lie in ambush outside and wait in a hurry. He will lead the younger ones into the village and bump into a Kill one. With his temper, he doesn't care if there are too many people!"

The groom was sweating profusely, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, we have no intention of delaying! The one surnamed Sang is outside, and my father is thorough in everything, and there is absolutely no reason for it!"

The ugly man ignored him and said, "Your wife has entered the bridal chamber."

The groom's face was ugly, and he said, "Just now..."

The ugly man clicked his tongue and said, "Okay, I'm waiting anyway, you wait outside, I'll go in and wait. The bridal chamber is a good place, I'll go in for you." After saying that, he reached out and grabbed the groom's hat and put it on On his own head, he wandered into the bridal chamber.

The groom's legs softened, and he sat down on the ground pale.

"Those water bandits died so badly at that time. After being electrocuted, they floated on the river like dead fish. All of them were completely changed, even their own parents couldn't recognize them..."

At the wine table, Tang Zhaozheng talked about his own experience.

The old beard's face turned ashen when he heard it. On the one hand, Tang Zhao's words were vivid and lifelike, which made him feel like he was in the scene and reminded him of his youngest son.

Seeing that Tang Zhao had finished speaking, the old beard wiped his sweat and said, "Young Master, Sang Ye, let's stop talking, drink and eat first."

Tang Zhao waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I just finished telling the story of the Pingshui bandits and the town of black shops. I can't get tired of telling the story of evil with evil. Let's just say that we got off the boat that day and arrived on the road. A side shop, I want to have a bowl of tea. The proprietress has a fierce look on her face, she looks like a bad person. She poured tea for us, that tea, as soon as I smell it—”

As he spoke, he picked up the wine bowl next to him and brought it to his mouth.Old man Hu swallowed, staring at his wine bowl.

"As soon as I smell it, the smell of anesthetic is exactly the same as today's wine!"

"Snapped--"

The wine bowl was smashed to pieces on the ground!
(End of this chapter)