On the Day I Came of Age, a Hundred People Sacrificed Themselves to Bring Me Out of the Village

This book is also known as: On the Day I Came of Age, I Got a Coffin, Got Rich, and Lost My Wife; Before Leaving the Village, the Whole Village Sacrificed Themselves to Ask Me to Marry; The Taishan Fujun Sacrifice; The High Priest

They say a man's three great joys in life are getting promoted, getting rich, and having his wife die.

When I turned eighteen, I got all three, but I didn't think they were good news at all.

That's because I only got half of each.

The coffin was a real coffin.

The wealth was the inheritance left behind by more than a hundred households in the village.

As for the dead wife, that's a much longer story. It begins with a rite of sacrifice called the Taishan Fujun Sacrifice...