Chapter 23: Whose New Clothes 8
After Dai Jie's death, the Dai family will certainly not give up. They can't accept the sudden death of their son, and even if they can't find a murderer alive, they must find out if there will be something sneaky. Although the idea that ghosts can kill people in the 80s was a bit ridiculous, the Dai family not only believed it, but also tried their best to find someone with real talent in this area to solve the case.
Sometimes it's not a bad thing to get by, but if you dig up the truth, no one knows what's behind it.
Burning red paper clothes on the Winter Clothes Festival, such a strange thing, the shopkeeper Zhang really heard it once, it was still the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.
"The custom of burning paper clothes in the winter clothes festival in Beijing has lasted for many years, and everyone knows that the things burned to the yin soul are generally plain, even if they are bright colors, they rarely appear red, most of them are reddish, or mixed with purple, this is because the color of red is close to the color of blood, and the evil spirit is extremely heavy.
When I was a child, I heard a rumored story that happened on the Winter Clothes Festival, but it had nothing to do with burning paper clothes. It must be what's happening in the western area. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the rules in the capital were not as strict as they were in the early Qing Dynasty, including the fact that Manchus and Han were not allowed to intermarry.
I heard that there was a small official family in the capital, and the second ancestor of his family took a fancy to a girl and wanted to take her home as a concubine. Of course, the girl is unwilling, but who gives the second ancestor some power and money in the family, if the girl does not agree, it is very likely that what awaits her is the ruin of the family. The girl has two younger brothers, and her parents did not hesitate to agree to the family to dissolve their daughter's original marriage contract for the sake of her brother's future, and let the girl enter the family as a concubine.
In fact, this kind of thing happens in all dynasties or every year, although it is sad but it is not new. If things develop to this point, it can only be the end of a girl who is abandoned by her family and suffers for half her life, but things take a turn in the seventh lunar month a year after the girl enters the door.
The girl was pregnant, but the wives and concubines in the big family were not in harmony, and the means of killing a fetus often occurred, and the child could not be born, and the girl was born prematurely in the seventh and a half months, and the child died, but the girl saved her life.
Outsiders don't know what is in this, but more than two months later, the girl wore a red wedding dress on the first day of the tenth lunar month and caught fire*. A fire can only kill one person in a house, but after that, the family is like a curse, first the second ancestor and his wife died, and then the eighty-year-old ancestor and the six or seven-year-old children and sons did not survive. The cause of their death was all sudden bleeding from the seven orifices, and they couldn't find any other cause of death, it should be a cerebral hemorrhage.
The succession of deaths did not stop because the family died, and the Manchu families of the Qing Dynasty could find relatives as many as they could count, and this death began to spread to their relatives' homes.
This frightened a lot of people, and no one wanted to wait for death, so they had to find out why.
Later, a Taoist priest really came, and the antecedents were removed, this qiē was done by that girl, and she did not have a surviving child who was born in the middle of July, which was the day when the ghost door was opened with the heaviest yin qi in the year, and this child was born into a ghost fetus and wandered in the world with great resentment.
In addition, the girl did not know who she had obtained the curse method, and she actually used the ghost of the ghost fetus as a sacrifice and burned herself* to death on the first day of the first day of October, and her great resentment and yin made her successfully cast a curse on the family.
It is impossible to verify what kind of curse it is, and the only thing that is known is that all the relatives of this family who shed the same blood will die one by one.
This is really the whole clan is going to be buried for the sake of a second ancestor, fortunately, the Taoist priest said that there is no way to crack it, the first thing is to bury the body of the girl and the baby, and the second is to stop the evil, and burn a red dress to the girl during the Winter Clothes Festival every year. That girl has three hatreds, one hates being abandoned by her biological parents, the second hates not being able to marry a wishful husband, and the third hates her child being killed.
It can be seen from the fact that she has to wear a wedding dress until she dies, and among the three hatreds, she is most obsessed with not meeting her lover, so she has to burn a red dress with a charm to that girl every year, firstly, to make her fulfill her wish to marry a beloved, and secondly, because she will only be willing to wear a wedding dress, and she can only control this powerful ghost by making a talisman on that dress. ”
When the shopkeeper told this story, Mu Feng and Ying Wei also came, combined with some clues found in the local chronicles, it is not difficult to guess that the big family should be surnamed Dai.
And what is the origin of Yang Lianghe, who is actually investigating Dai Jie's death.
These questions are not the most critical, Mu Feng listened to the story, this story has no end, "Shopkeeper, did the Taoist priest say that such a red dress will be burned for a few years?" What happens if it doesn't burn? ”