The Last Daoist Priest ------Chapter 1 Aunt's Strange Disease
In the mountainous area of Western Zhejiang province, has a village called Hong village, the village has a family named Xu, the man is a carpenter, who do a good job, called Xu Luban*, his ancestors do coffin business from their generation to his offspring naturally. Although XuLuban possesses a good craft, few woman is willing to marry him due to his dead people business. After several twists and turns, the matchmaker finally find a neighboring daughter for him. At that time , people often ignored contraception, therefore, his wife gave birth to 3 daughters and 2 sons within ten years. Such large family need even larger expenditure, so the couple had to gave one of their daughters-in-law sent to do the ligation .
*LuBan (507–440 BC) was an ancient Chinese carpenter, engineer, and inventor. He was a contemporary of Mozi, and is the patron saint of Chinese builders and contractors.
Who is Xu Luban? Is my grandfather
And after a decade, my grandmother got pregnant again, my grandfather also did not know he should be happy or worry, his wife had made ligation before, how she got pregnant again? Her Belly up day by day, my grandfather never believed that he could even had a daughter at his 40s , he gave the youngest daughter named "xiu", who is my aunt , and that yearwas 1977.
Grandfather was very happy. when the baby girl grew one mouth , large banquet was held for her birth, the village neighbors all came to the family for celebration. while Xu family was celebrating, a dressed robe Daoist priest with an Eight-Diagram bag passing by . people stopped the priest and telling the priest that the host family just got a daughter, so could you tell fortune for this baby girl.
Grandfather was very happy. when the baby girl grew one mouth , large banquet was held for her birth, the village neighbors all came to the family for celebration. while Xu family was celebrating, a dressed robe Daoist priest with an Eight-Diagram bag passing by . people stopped the priest and telling the priest that the host family just got a daughter, so could you tell fortune to this baby girl. That priest was pretty straightforward, came in and took a look at the baby infant, immediately nipped his fingers to certain gesture, then suddenly shocked . The priest called the host Xu Luban into the inner room, whispered:
" it should be a gratifying thing to have a daughter, but I am wondering whether my words are properly speaking.”
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