Chapter 245: Be Careful When Getting Married
The actor who plays the drowning old man is also a veteran actor with rich acting experience.
She raised her head slowly, the expression on her face like a zombie.
"I heard from them that you can help lonely ghosts fulfill their wishes."
Wuyou flicked his sleeves, turned lightly, and lay back down. He picked a grape and played with it in his hand. He stared at the grape and said, "Well, they are wrong. I can't fulfill every wish."
The old woman looked at her in silence.
After eating the grapes, Wuyou finally gave the old woman a look and said, "Tell me, what do you want me to do for you? But let me be frank, I won't help you for free. After I help you, you need to pay a little bit."
Wuyou gestured with his hand to indicate a so-called little bit.
The old woman's numb expression finally showed some movement. "No matter what the price is, even if you want to make my soul fly away, as long as you can save my granddaughter."
The plot just stops here, and the next part is the flashback scene as the old man tells the story.
After Su Zi called cut, both of them looked relaxed, and both were very satisfied with the experience of acting together for the first time.
Especially the actress who played the old woman, she had a direct change in her opinion of Bai Youyou, because before starring in this play, the younger generations around her said that Bai Youyou was an impetuous person and that she was able to win this drama entirely because of her backstage support.
For her, who has been acting for half her life and is very conscientious and responsible in acting, the behavior described by the younger generation as Bai Youyou is an insult to the profession of an actor.
The old saying is true: what you hear is not as good as what you see.
Fortunately, she did not show obvious aversion at the beginning, and the two of them developed a deep friendship after interacting with each other in a unit of the plot.
She gradually distanced herself from the person who had whispered Bai Youyou's gossip in her ear before.
She originally wanted to use the connections she had accumulated over the years to help Bai Youyou get more roles.
Little did she know that in the days that followed, Bai Youyou became her biggest connection, allowing her to remain active on the screen even after she was 50 years old.
Of course, this is a later story.
The story of the first unit tells a story of a family being wiped out by folly.
The old woman's son died in the battlefield. When the daughter-in-law got the news, she couldn't accept the shock for a while and followed her son that day.
Only a granddaughter and an old wife were left.
Because the court issued a pension and the family also had two acres of thin land, although the clan members had always wanted to marry the grandparents and grandchildren, because the old woman's son died for the country and there were many scholars in the clan, for the sake of the reputation of their educated children, they had to give up the idea.
Therefore, before their granddaughter came of age, life for the grandparents was not particularly difficult.
The turning point of the matter occurred when the old woman wanted to find a live-in son-in-law for her granddaughter.
The granddaughter did not want to get married, but the old woman felt that it was not appropriate for a girl to not get married when she reached a certain age, so she was very active in finding a suitable candidate for her granddaughter.
It was at this time that the scholar in the village came to their house and wanted to have his youngest son become their son-in-law.
But the old woman needs to pay a betrothal gift, because the scholar wants to use the money as travel expenses for his eldest son to go to Beijing for the imperial examination.
The two families hit it off immediately and the marriage was settled.
Although this grandson-in-law was always rude to them, untalkative, and was always distant and sometimes close to their granddaughter, at least the family had someone to support it.
The old woman was quite satisfied.
However, the old woman never expected that the seemingly honest and indifferent man actually had such a wolfish ambition.
While the old woman was washing clothes by the river, he pushed her into the river and watched her drown.
The pregnant granddaughter was so shocked that she was bedridden.
The man tampered with the pregnancy-preserving medicine his granddaughter drank, hoping to kill both her and her granddaughter.
Because once his granddaughter died, everything in this house belonged to him.
After she died and became a ghost, the old woman realized that the reason her grandson-in-law was willing to come to her house was because her family was poor and could not afford to support her two sons to go to Beijing for the imperial examinations at the same time.
They planned to have their youngest son come to live with the family and find ways to make the two of them have accidents one after another, so that they could take over their property openly.
After selling their land and housing plots, they could use the money to go to Beijing to take the imperial examinations.
The old woman heard her father-in-law, who had been speaking to her in a friendly manner, say to his ruthless grandson-in-law in a very vicious way: "After you have achieved fame, you can marry a lady from a famous family, and the children you give birth to will also be outstanding."
"If we go to the capital, the road is long and the sky is high. No one will know what happened here."
"You don't have to feel sorry for that woman. If she was sensible, she should have died earlier so that you could have more time to review your studies."
After hearing the conversation between the two, the old woman wanted to tear them apart on the spot, but she was just a wandering ghost and had no way to deal with ordinary people.
She was completely surrounded by regret. At the beginning, her granddaughter said many times that she felt that this family might not really want to be a son-in-law.
But she was dazzled by the title of Scholar and was unwilling to listen to what her granddaughter said. She insisted on letting her granddaughter marry this man.
Even when her granddaughter told her that she could live a good life without getting married, she refused to listen and continued to insist on her own way, believing that a woman must get married to be complete.
I watched my granddaughter grow weaker day by day and realized she would not live long.
She was desperate and tried all kinds of methods. She heard about the existence of Worry-Free Inn from some wandering ghost and finally found it.
The scene in the story where Wuyou helps the old woman to take revenge on the scholar's family is also very satisfying.
First, someone was asked to play the role of the old woman’s son’s comrade-in-arms, and this comrade-in-arms appeared as a nobleman of extremely high status.
The first step is to rescue the granddaughter.
The second step was to have the doctor who brought the girl over to check in front of everyone and find out that the granddaughter had been poisoned and the fetus in her belly was dead.
The third step was to break the man’s leg in anger, causing it to never heal, thus ending his path to the imperial examination.
The fourth step was to manipulate the villagers to testify that they saw the grandson-in-law pushing the old woman into the water.
Step five: report to the authorities.
After the scholar had to reluctantly sever ties with his younger son for the sake of his eldest son's future, he manipulated his younger son into going crazy and involved the scholar and his eldest son in the case.
In the end, the youngest son was sentenced to beheading in the autumn, and the scholar and the eldest son were sentenced to exile.
The granddaughter never got married and stayed in the old house.
Wuyou would send an old maid to visit from time to time.
Later, the granddaughter picked up a baby girl and raised her alone. She learned her lesson and allowed her adopted daughter to marry freely without forcing her. Later, she died of old age in the old house.
The whole revenge process was neat and satisfying.
When the first unit was broadcast, netizens who watched the show felt refreshed both physically and mentally.
Many people who are being urged to get married can't help but feel the same way.
[I am the only daughter in my family. My father has health problems. After divorcing my mother, he found a stepmother who still didn't give birth to a son. My father wants me to find a live-in son-in-law to carry on the family line. I didn't care at first, but now for the sake of my life, I'd better be cautious.]
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