As the old saying goes, if you are destined to meet someone thousands of miles away, if you are not destined to meet someone, it is difficult to hold hands with the other person. Marriage is such a mysterious thing. It's yours and you can't get away. It's not yours, and you can't

As the old saying goes, is destined to come thousands of miles to meet , but it is difficult to hold hands with the opposite person if not. Marriage is such a mysterious thing. It's yours and you can't get away. It's not yours, and you can't get it even if you cry and shout.

The story I told today is related to marriage. It tells the story of a young carpenter who picked up gold and pretended to be a bridegroom to sleep with the other person.

A long time ago, there was a young man named Xu En in Xiangyang Prefecture. His parents died one after another when he was very young. His family was impoverished and helpless. At the age of fifteen, he worked as a coolie at Beimen Wharf, moving goods and sacks.

Because of his young age and thin body, Xu En could not get any work every day, and even eating was a problem.

In order to have a full stomach, Xu En got up before dawn and went to the dock. As a result, he went too early and the work on the dock had not started yet. In desperation, I had no choice but to find a food stall, talk good things to the boss, help clean the table, sit by the stove and warm up, waiting for work to start.

Xu En was warming himself by the fire, and a guest came to have breakfast. In order not to affect the boss's business, he quickly hid behind the pot.

The guest was in his early thirties, found a clean table, put his robe aside, then ordered a bowl of hot soup and a few sesame seed cakes. After eating and drinking, he forgot to pick up his bag and walked away.

After Xu En waited for the guests to leave, he came out from behind the pot table and found an extra gauze bag on the ground. He immediately understood that this thing must have been left by the guest just now. So he hid aside with his robe and looked around.

Besides, the guest had walked half a mile, and then he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to pick up the robe, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out that he was the shopkeeper of a certain goods station in Wuchang Prefecture . He had just collected a payment for the goods for the owner, and he was all packed in the robe. Here, if someone takes it away, how will you explain it when you go back?

The guest hurriedly turned back to look for it. When I saw that the robe was gone, my heart suddenly became cold. I was filled with regrets and lost my mind. I staggered towards the embankment, wanting to jump into the Han River and be done with it.

Xu En saw it and hurriedly blocked the guest and asked: "Look, you were fine here just now. Why do you suddenly want to commit suicide?"

The guest hurriedly asked: "Young man, can you see my trousers?"

Xu En He nodded and said, "I've seen the robe, but I don't know if it's yours. Tell me what's in your robe."

The guest described it like this. Xu En opened the robe and took a look, it was exactly the same. He immediately returned the bag to the guest.

When the customer opened the bag and took a look, he saw that the money inside was not touched at all. He was so excited that he shed tears. He immediately took out the largest gold ingot and insisted on giving it to Xu En as a reward.

Xu En waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I can't ask for such a valuable thing."

The guest was even more moved and said: "Young man is a kind man. People like you are really rare nowadays. I think you have good conduct, and it just so happens that I If you have a daughter who is not married yet, why don't you become your wife?"

Xu En's eyes widened and he was even more afraid to accept it. "I can't even support myself, how can I dare to marry a wife?"

The guest laughed, "Don't bully young people into poverty. As long as you are willing and willing to endure hardship, who dares to say that you won't have a big future? How about this, Now you are still young. In a few years, you can come to Wuchang Mansion to find me, and with this token, you can become my son-in-law." After saying this, the guest took out a pair of silver bracelets from his arms, gave one to Xu En, and told him. For him, this pair of bracelets is a token of the marriage contract, and he will get married with it. After that, the guest left his address and left.

Xu En put the silver bracelet in his arms and pondered over what the guest said. It is natural for a man to marry a wife and have children, but if he really uses a token to become his son-in-law, it would really be a disgrace to the family. It's better to start a career on your own, accumulate enough assets, and then beat the gongs and drums, and bring your wife home in an eight-carat sedan chair, then you will be proud.

Having made up his mind, Xu En no longer had the heart to carry sacks, so he returned to his hometown to join his distant relatives and learn the craft from an old carpenter.

The old carpenter, who had no children, regarded Xu En as his own son, taught him all his skills, and took him to travel around the world, helping people make furniture and build houses.

Time flies by, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye. Xu En has become a twenty-year-old young man, with true skills and superb craftsmanship. Although he had saved a lot of money, he had a strong personality and didn't want to be looked down upon by his father-in-law, so he just wanted to make more money and never came to get married.

Besides, not long after the guest returned home, he moved for some reason. He waited for five years without seeing Xu En coming to get married, and asked around for his whereabouts, but to no avail. Thinking that he died unexpectedly, he was afraid that he would miss his daughter's lifelong event. Just then someone came to marry him, and he promised his daughter to the son of a member of the family.

The son of a member of the family was so ugly that on the day before his wedding, he felt so frightened that he dared not come to the house to marry his wife.

member was shaking with anger. He didn't expect his son to be so cowardly. However, hatred turns to hatred, the daughter-in-law always wants to marry back, and the son does not dare to go. As an old father-in-law, he is not suitable to go to pick up the bride. Who should he send?

It happened to be a coincidence that Xu En happened to be working in this house. When the clerk saw Xu En's handsome appearance and dignified appearance, he immediately had an idea. He immediately took out fifty taels of silver and gave it to Xu En, asking him to help him pretend to be the groom and go to pick him up.

Xu En wanted to refuse this ridiculous request, but when he thought that he was short of money to marry a wife, he reluctantly agreed.

Early the next morning, Xu En was decked out in red and colorful clothes, dressed cheerfully, and followed the wedding procession out the door. It was fine when they went there, but when they arrived at the woman's house, the weather suddenly changed and it rained heavily. Flash floods damaged the roads, so they had to stay at the woman's house temporarily at night.

The woman was worried that she would miss the auspicious day to worship in the church, so she suggested that since God had arranged it this way, it would be better to worship heaven and earth at her parents’ home.

This can be difficult for those who are getting married. It is unlucky to miss the date, but if the fake show comes true, there will be no way to explain it afterwards. But no one dared to pierce this layer of window paper. I had no choice but to tell Xu En quietly that after praying to heaven and earth at night, don't speak, let alone go to bed. Sit and wait until dawn, and leave when the flood recedes tomorrow.

Xu En thought to himself, since he is also singing for others, he can do whatever you say. So after praying to heaven and earth, and being sent to the bridal chamber, he didn't dare to take off his clothes and just sat upright and waited for dawn.

The bride felt strange when she saw that the groom did not take off his hijab and did not sleep. However, her daughter’s family was too shy to ask, so she had to sleep alone first.

In the middle of the night, Xu En had nothing to do. To pass the time, he turned over the girl's dowry on the table. I accidentally opened a box and found a silver bracelet inside, which was exactly the same as the silver bracelet in my arms.

He was shocked and quickly took out his silver bracelets and saw that they were indeed a pair. Suddenly I felt very angry.

"Okay, okay, I have worked hard to save money and prepare to marry a wife. But the father-in-law talked like farts, and actually secretly promised his daughter to someone else. Isn't this a scam?"

Thinking of this, Xu En became furious. , immediately dropped a pair of silver bracelets to the ground, making a sound.

The sound startled the bride. She opened her eyes and saw a pair of silver bracelets falling beside the bed. Her mouth was open in an O shape and she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear for a long time.

"Where did you get this silver bracelet?"

Xu En's face turned red with anger and he told the story exactly.

The bride is a well-educated person. After hearing this, she comforted and said: "It's not your fault, nor my father's fault. He didn't find your whereabouts and was worried about missing my youth, so he betrothed me to someone else. Now this When a pair of bracelets overlap again, it must be God's arrangement to fulfill your marriage."

Just like that, the bride shyly put down the curtain, pulled Xu En and got into the mandarin duck quilt...

The next morning, the bridegroom said he was leaving, but didn't see Xu En, so he immediately ran to knock on the door.

The bride stopped Xu En, told him to be quiet, and shouted loudly: "The groom is tired, let him sleep a little longer!

The married man was dumbfounded and hesitantly said: "To be honest, he is not the real groom, but a little carpenter pretending to be the groom." "

" pretending to be a groom? Anyway, if you open your mouth, you can say whatever you want. I didn’t say anything yesterday, but I changed my mind today. Aren't you destroying my innocence? "

The bride refused to give up, so the people getting married had to invite her father to explain the whole story.

When the old man heard this, he was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. He pretended to be the groom and came to get married. It was really nonsense. But At this point, I can only try to make up for the mistake and go into the house to discuss with my daughter what should be done.

The daughter placed a pair of bracelets in front of the old man and asked Xu En to tell her experience again.

The old man said with emotion: "That's it. Well, your fake show has become real. This is a marriage ordained by God, and I can’t object to it! . "

The old man went out and asked the bride's relatives to carry back the bride price. He also sent a message to the in-laws to cancel the marriage. Then he recognized Xu En as his son-in-law and asked him to take the bride away quickly to avoid long nights and dreams.

Xu En quietly returned to Xiangyang with his bride. He used the money he had saved over the years to buy a house and land, and opened a carpentry shop. From then on, he lived a good life.

Now that the story is over, if you have anything to say, feel free to say it.