Chapter 17: The Ghost Marriage I

As mentioned earlier, there are two ghosts who helped my parents and saved them from the catastrophe, but they wanted to help them. Master went to the river beach that day, the name of the river was Beichuan River, and in those days, the river was still very large, and there would be a flash flood every few years. The houses in the county with low terrain are always flooded when the flood occurs.

On the other side of the river, across the road, is the county hospital. Walking upstream along the river, it is a wasteland, and it is also a mass grave of the year, and then the government built a new city, and this land was drawn out, and the whole government moved here, built a school, built a park, and did it very well in just two years. Just looking at the development behind it, no one would have thought that this place turned out to be a mass grave! This was later, and at the time of Master's visit, it still retained the original appearance of the mass grave. Generations, unclaimed corpses, and families who can't afford to bury them, are buried here. If you dig through the earth, you might even dig up a dead man's bone. Every time a flash flood erupts, it always passes through this area, and many bones are washed into the river with the flood and sinks. The master went at night, and went to recruit ghosts in the daytime, although there was reform and opening up at that time, and the investigation of these things was not as strict as before, it would also be regarded as a psychopath. Lighting three incense sticks, shaking the bell and reciting the conjuring spell, for the sake of safety, the master deliberately opened the path to the underworld, instead of relying on his vague yin and yang eyes. Seeing that there were a lot of lonely souls and wild ghosts densely around him, the master felt that it was almost over, and the words in his mouth became to ask the second ghost who helped the Guo couple last night to step forward. After chattering for a while, two ghosts, a man and a woman, floated over, and finally threw a handful of paper money, recited the soul charm spell, and sent away the irrelevant ghosts around him safely, and the ritual of inviting ghosts was considered a success.

Later, when Master talked about this, his tone was full of joy. It is very dangerous to invite ghosts in such a place. Most of the ghosts wandering in the mass graves are very resentful. After death, if the mind is weak, the soul will dissipate, or the remnant soul will be left behind, turning into ghost fire and floating around. If you are lucky and have a strong mind, you will become a ghost on the first seven days, go to the underworld to register, and wait in line to be reincarnated. There are still many people who have gone wrong and have not gone to the underworld, and if they hurt people in the world and stay for a long time, they will become real lonely ghosts, and they can't be reincarnated, and going to the underworld is often the fate of being directly dispersed, and they can only hide in the dark corners of the world, so as not to be scattered by ghosts and Mr. Yin and Yang. And those ghosts who went to the underworld to report are also different. It's like we have a government in the world, and the underworld is also in charge of ghosts, and there are always many unspoken rules. This group of people who go to reincarnation, there is a good management of the yin house, and they always give priority to reincarnation, and the people buried in this mass grave, it is difficult to wait for a chance to reincarnate, although they are not the real lonely souls and wild ghosts, but they have been floating in this world for a long time, but they are no different from lonely souls, they have suffered a lot of sourness before they were born, and they will be treated like this after death, and the grievances of these ghosts are not heavy. Summoning spirits in mass graves, a careless, ghost riot, and a precedent of swarming up and tearing you apart is not nothing, and what is even more terrifying is that it has recruited evil ghosts hiding here, and both are always invincible.

The master was lucky that nothing went wrong, sent away the ghosts, wiped his sweat, and then turned his head to look at the two ghosts, "I don't know what the two of you call them?" "The male ghost arched his hand: The master is polite, my name is Zhao Zheng, I was originally from Shandong, and I was later captured and enlisted in the army, and I was unfortunately killed when I came here to fight, and the bones were left in the back mountain." After speaking, he took the female ghost's hand and introduced: "This is my wife, named Wang Mei." A few years ago, my bones came to this river with a flash torrent, and I came to this place. Xiaomei's family is poor, and she was buried here by her father after her death, and by accident, we met and decided that the other party was each other's other half. The two of us like each other, and we are privately called husband and wife, but after all, it is not a relationship that is recognized. Xiaomei heard the old man in the village say before her death that if we can find a master with Taoism to help us do a ghost marriage, it will be considered a husband and wife relationship recognized by the underworld, and the two will be together in the next life after forming this ghost relationship. There are many neighbors in this place, and we heard your name, and we happened to meet your apprentice's family last night, so we wondered if we could ask you to help us. When Zhao Zheng spoke, the female ghost named Xiaomei had been hiding behind him, just showing her head, listening to him shyly, and at the same time looking at the master expectantly.

Ghost marriage, as the name suggests, is the marriage of two ghosts. And the secret marriage is to marry the deceased with a living person after death, and after marriage, the living person will be haunted by ghosts for the rest of his life, and keep filial piety for the dead person. It is fundamentally different from ghost marriage. In fact, Zhao Zheng still said that it was a little less, and this ghost marriage had a role in addition to being able to tie the fate of the afterlife. People like them who don't have a ghost house after death, if someone is willing to help them hold a ghost marriage and start a family, they will be regarded as ghosts with household registration approved by the prefecture. If you are reincarnated or something, you can enjoy the treatment of a ghost with a yin house, and you don't have to wait for many years to be reincarnated hopelessly.

Seeing that these two ghosts were not evil ghosts in the first place, and that they had saved my parents' lives, Master agreed. Ghost marriages are not just something that can be married casually, just like getting married in the world, it is very troublesome. First of all, we must know the birth dates of these two ghosts, which is easy to say, they know it themselves. Then two paper figures, a man and a woman, were written on the eight characters of Zhao Zheng and Xiaomei, and served as a temporary carrier for the two ghosts on the wedding day. Then, they have to take one of their bones, after the ceremony, with the two paper people buried together in the paper coffin, and finally ask the gods to burn it, set up a husband and wife card, a ghost marriage can be considered a consummation. Other miscellaneous things, such as entertaining ghosts who come to join in the fun, are nothing, and the wine is fragrant. The most important thing is actually to choose a good day, just like choosing an auspicious day for marriage in the world, ghost marriage also pays attention to choosing an auspicious day for ghosts, and it is even much stricter than the requirements of the world. Many ghosts hold ghost marriages, and everything is ready, but they are stuck on this day. It's not uncommon to wait for more than half a year.

The most common ghost day is July 14, when the ghost door is wide open and the yin energy is extremely strong. But once you miss this day, it's not often that you want to find a ghost day. It's also the blessing of these two ghosts, the master calculated, and three days later it happened to be an auspicious day for the ghosts of yin and yang, so he set the day. Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, I agreed to come to them tomorrow night to collect bones, and then went home first.