"Braided ghost", Feng Lian grimaced, " According to the old generation, during the Qing Dynasty, there was a big family in our area, there was a young lady in this family, she had been married to the son of the county lord since she was a child, we are a poor place here, the county lord is not a corrupt official, he is honest and honest, his son has been full of poetry and books since he was a child, and his character is good, although the young lady and the son have not met, but they love each other, and on the day of the wedding, the young lady thought that she could finally stay with the person she liked, but inadvertently learned from a wet nurse that the county master did not know what official he offended, and the whole family was wrongfully imprisoned, and the son also died unjustly in prison。 Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info It turned out that a local rich man accidentally saw the young lady, because the young lady was very beautiful, the rich man suddenly had bad intentions, the rich man's brother was a big official in Beijing, the rich man bought the prefect through his brother, killed the son of the county master, and wanted to occupy the young lady, the big family had no choice but to agree to the rich man's request without telling the young lady, and it was not the son of the county lord at all, but to make a concubine for the rich man. When the young lady learned about this, she was so grief-stricken that she hid a pair of scissors and committed suicide while people were not paying attention on the way to greet her relatives. When the rich man saw that the young lady was dead, he no longer pursued it, and the big family secretly buried the young lady and the son of the county magistrate together, and buried them in this Helan Mountain. Because the son and the young lady died too unjustly, they have become powerful ghosts after death, and every time the moon is full, when the moon is empty...... Well, just like today, in Helan Mountain, some people will see a team to welcome relatives, all dressed in the Qing Dynasty, with long braids, but not a sedan chair but a big red coffin, in the coffin is the young lady of the big family, to meet the son in the grave of the county grandfather, if someone sees this team, they will be wrapped around their necks by their long braids, and they will be taken to the grave to be buried together, so this team is called the pigtail ghost.

After listening, I pretended to be very scared, "Look, behind you, the braids are ......", Feng Lian is a girl after all, and when she saw my appearance, she immediately became scared, "Where? What braids", I couldn't help laughing, "I still scare others, I scared myself first, I said that behind you is your own braids, haha"

Feng Lian understood what it meant, and pretended to be angry and said, "Hmph, ignore you", the eldest cousin just shook his head and smiled when he saw us like this. Since we had walked a long way, we were all a little tired, and we fell asleep not long after saying that we would be lucky enough to keep it in the middle of the night. When I was sleeping soundly, I suddenly felt someone shaking my arm, I opened my eyes to see that it was Fengyun, and my eldest cousin and Fenglian had also been woken up, I asked in a daze: "What's wrong, is it a leopard?"

"No", said Fengyun, "listen, what is this sound"

I listened carefully, and there was a faint sound of sheng flute and suona, which was getting closer and closer, and we quickly hid in the bushes.

After a while, the voice was already approaching, and Feng pointed with his hand, "Look, what is that?"

We looked along the place he pointed, and there was a send-off team dozens of meters away from us, all dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes, with long braids, carrying a vermilion coffin......

There are about more than ten "people" in the family sending team, which looks particularly strange in the bright moonlight, and the sound of the sheng flute and suona is more like the music of the funeral, in this barren mountain and wilderness, this scene is terrifying.

Feng Lian hid behind Feng Yun, grabbed Feng Yun's arm tightly, and said in a trembling voice: "Braided ghost?!"

I also had my hair blowing up at the roots, and whispered to my eldest cousin, "Cousin, let's run, if they find out, it will be bad."

The eldest cousin snorted lightly, "Don't be afraid, pretend to be a ghost, Fengyun, is there a cemetery near here?"

"Yes, there is a cemetery, on the eastern slope behind the woods", Fengyun Road.

"Okay, you're familiar with this area, let's take a shortcut," said the eldest cousin, "and we'll know what's going on when we get there."

My cousin quietly returned to the tent and took the shotgun he borrowed from Uncle Zhao, and Fengyun took us through the woods and took a shortcut to the east slope, and sure enough, we saw a cemetery.

We found a hidden place to hide, and before the family delivery team arrived, I couldn't wait to ask my cousin, "Cousin, what's going on? Aren't those pigtailed ghosts?"

My cousin said: "The legends of pigtailed ghosts are made up to fool and scare the people nearby, I heard the professor tell us that there is a kind of criminal activity in the northwest area, called "ghost marriage", that is, some men are not married when they die, and the family is superstitious, thinking that they will become lonely ghosts and wild ghosts in the underworld, and their grievances will not be dispersed, and they cannot be reincarnated, and some criminals will take advantage of the superstitious psychology of the common people, and kidnap some women from other places, sell them to these people, and let the abducted women "marry" the dead men , and then buried her with the dead man, in fact, buried alive, very cruel, these criminals in order to hide people's eyes, they made up the legend of the pigtailed ghost, pretending to be a pigtailed ghost to send relatives, so that people who don't know the inside story feel afraid, so that they can carry out criminal activities. ”

"Oh, that's so," I realised, "then that red coffin must be a living person, and we must find a way to get her out," I said.

"Yes, there's such a cemetery around here, they're going to come here, and we'll see you again when we come," said my cousin.

Sure enough, after a while, the sound of the sheng flute and suona came again, and the family send-off team carried the coffin to this cemetery.

I saw that one of the leaders waved his hand, the sound of the sheng flute suona stopped, they put the coffin next to a grave, and two people came out of the team to worship and burn paper in front of the grave, and we found out that these two people were not dressed in the Qing Dynasty, they were far away, and they were scared, and they didn't notice. These two people are supposed to be the families of the deceased.

The others dug a pit beside them, and after the two men had worshiped for a while, some more rituals were performed, and the pit next to the grave was dug and it looked like it was ready for burial.

"It's too late to bury the coffin, people won't survive, we have guns in our hands, hurry out and scare this group away to save people," I whispered.

Feng Yun and Feng Lian were also beside them, anxiously saying that no matter what, it was important to save people.

"Okay", said the eldest cousin, picking up the shotgun, and we were ready to go out and save people.

"Don't move!", and suddenly a dagger was pressed against the back of the eldest cousin. The other snatched the shotgun from his eldest cousin's hand.

Just as we were engrossed in watching our relatives to worship, digging pits, and discussing how to go out to save people, we didn't know when the leader and two people quietly came behind us. It turned out that this group of people were all veterans, and when they were digging a pit for worship, the leader led people to quietly check in the vicinity to prevent anyone from discovering them.

"Put your hands behind your head and get out!", said the leader.

We have to do it.

They escorted us to the coffin, and one of them asked the leader, "Big brother, what to do with these children?"

The leader sneered, "Count them unlucky, meddling in their affairs, and accompanying the funeral!"

These are outlaws, after the leader finished speaking, the two people next to him each took a dagger and prepared to start.

I closed my eyes and said, "It's over!"

Suddenly, I heard someone shouting "Ah!", and when I opened my eyes, I was stunned by what I saw.

I saw a person holding a dagger in front of me, the dagger had fallen to the ground, and a whip was tightly wrapped around his neck, not his own fake whip, but I don't know when, a hole appeared on the grave next to me, and a braid with the thickness of an arm stretched out from it, tightly wrapped around the person's neck, and in an instant, the braid was quickly withdrawn, and the person was dragged into the hole before he could struggle!

"! what's going on!" shouted the leader.

Before he could finish shouting, another braid stretched out from the entrance of the cave, and the speed was extremely fast, and it wrapped around the neck of the leader at once, and the leader struggled desperately, but to no avail, and was dragged into the hole in an instant.

When the others saw this, someone shouted, "Run, pigtailed ghost!", and then the gang fled in all directions, and the eldest cousin quickly took us behind the coffin, and after a while, the graveyard was silent again.

I was stupefied and asked my cousin in a trembling voice, "Cousin, what is that?"

"I don't know either", the eldest cousin was still very calm, "Quickly save the people in the coffin first"

After all, Feng Yun and Feng Lian are children who grew up in the mountains, and although they were scared at first, they quickly came back to their senses. The eldest cousin asked me and Feng Lian to still hide behind the coffin, he and Feng Yun picked up two pickaxes, pried open the coffin lid, and lifted the coffin lid, and there was indeed a woman inside, with her hands and feet tied and stuffed in her mouth.

The eldest cousin picked up a dagger, quickly cut the ropes on the woman's hands and feet, took the contents from her mouth, and helped her out of the coffin with Feng Yun.

The eldest cousin said: "This place is too dangerous, hurry up and get out of here first." ”

The eldest cousin asked Feng Lian to hold the woman and pick up the shotgun on the ground herself, and Feng Yun led us out of the cemetery quickly, through the woods, and back to where our tent was.

When we arrived, we were stunned by what we saw again, only to see that our tent had collapsed, the bushes and things in the tent were scattered all over the ground, and what was even more strange was that there was a large blood stain next to the tent, and a leopard was lying on the ground. Feng Lian hurriedly turned around, and the rescued woman had already vomited.

Feng Yun walked over and kicked the leopard twice, "already dead."

"How did you die?" did the guy who sent you your relatives do it?" I asked.

"No," said the eldest cousin, "although the leopards in Helan Mountain are fierce and can attack people, but a team of so many people, and they are all holding torches, the leopards will definitely hide and dare not take the initiative to attack, in addition, it is not so easy to kill a leopard, and it is not that group of people who did it in terms of time." ”

Feng Yun squatted down to inspect the leopard's corpse, and said in surprise: "Strange, it seems to have been bitten to death by something." ”

The eldest cousin also walked over and looked at it carefully for a while, and also felt very strange: "It really looks like he was bitten to death, and it seems that he was bitten to death after being chased here."

"That's weird," I said, "didn't you say that this leopard is at the top of the food chain in Helan Mountain, and that the wild leopard is extremely ferocious, and what can bite it to death?"

"yes, I can't figure it out either," said the eldest cousin, "and it's also a little strange, this leopard was chased here before it was bitten to death, and there was a circle of Yellow River carp scales scattered outside our tent, and the leopard generally doesn't approach when it smells this thing, even if it is chased by something, it will run to other places, why did it run here and be bitten to death?"

At this time, Feng Lian pointed to the ground next to her and said, "Look, what is that?"