Chapter 285 - 159: Rats Have Their Ways, Officials Have Their Thefts
The mouse wedding, also called marriage of the mouse, mouse’s daughter getting married, or mouse getting a bride, is a widely spread folk belief.
As a result, many mouse-worshipping activities have emerged in folklore.
In the Jiangnan area, people often say that mice are harmful spirits and unlucky, so they need to be married off on the night of the thirtieth of the lunar calendar to ensure peace and prosperity for the coming year.
Further south, in some places, it’s said that when the mouse’s daughter is being married off, every household should fry sesame sugar, claiming it as wedding candy to ’celebrate the mouse’s marriage’.
As long as the mouse eats the wedding candy, it cannot come out to harm people anymore.
In some places, people perform ’blessing child witchcraft’ following the custom of the mouse’s daughter’s wedding.
The mouse is a ’child mouse’, implying it can bring offspring. Any family that practices blessing child witchcraft will make mouse-shaped buns when the mouse’s daughter is being married.
It’s said that as long as the new bride eats the tail of the mouse bun that year, she’ll get pregnant.
In Jin Sect, there is also a folk belief in the mouse wedding, but it usually takes place in January. Now, in such an off-season time, why would the demon mice in the grain storage hold a wedding?
Facing Xu Qing’s question, the leading team of big mice squeaked noisily.
The storehouse officer was curious and asked, "What are they saying? Could it be that you understand the language of beasts?"
Who’s the beast? Why are you insulting people!