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But walls had ears.Early the next morning，the Village God of Xuchang Village knew about the tryst between the girl and the young man.

He tugged at his daughter's hair violently，pushed her into a dark room where he could not see a light.Then he locked the room with a big iron lock.He then sighed and said to his wife，“Our daughter has become a horse without a bridle.It's your fault to coddle her like this！”

“Cows eat pineapple dishes and each has its own love.”Unconvincingly，his wife defended her daughter，“When we came back from Jizu Mountain，I told you how nice the young man was.The young man cut wood to make ends meet！Besides...”

“Nice，nice，nice！How nice is he？Is he nice enough to become immoral？”The Village God impatiently interrupted his wife，and reproached her harshly，“How many times have I told you like hitting a wooden fish？we are the Lord of our own land.Although we show concern for mundane affairs，we are half immortal and half divine.Our daughter mustn't be matched to a folk man.”

The daughter was locked in the dark room.Although the Village God exhorted her three times to nine times a day，she did not eat and did not drink.One day，the Village God went to see his daughter with a red candle in his hand.When he found his daughter was as thin as a crescent moon in the sky on the 4th and 5th of the lunar month，he hurriedly sent a messenger to Wenshui Village.On the seventh day，he bundled his daughter with green vines and yellow jute to a sedan chair and married her to the man in Wenshui Village with beating drums and blowing trumpets.

The young woodcutter in Xiahu Village played flute across the river every night，but he couldn't see his sweetheart under the big banyan tree.Although he still went up the mountain to cut wood during the day，he was thinking about his sweetheart all the time.He was so angry that he stamped his foot on the ground，shaking the green hills.And if a tree with a thick mouth blocked the way，he would cut it off with a machete.

The daughter married off，but the Village God of Dali was still driving the caravan to propose a marriage alliance with gold on its left and silver on its right.Until now，in the mountain entrance leading from Hedian to Xiangyun and then to Dali，if the moon is bright and the wind is soft on a quiet night，you can still hear the tinkling of horse bells.