Chapter Twenty-Six
"Brother Feng, you're a little nervous."
Liu Fan looked at Feng Jincai, who was a little distracted, thought for a while, and then he said slowly: "Regarding the haunting of the Hongyun Inn, you are all people who know the inside story, I will not repeat it, this matter was rumored back then, Zhu Zishan's family was all killed, and the Hongyun Inn was closed down and abandoned, which is really a bit embarrassing to say."
After the incident, Zhu Zishan disappeared, the Hongyun Inn closed down, and the government found no results, because the bitter master Zhu Zishan disappeared, so the yamen slacked off in the later period, and as time went by, this matter simply became an unsolved case, and people may still talk about it after dinner, but no one can say what the truth of the year was.
I was also in this matter by chance, although the matter has been sealed for a long time, but fortunately, the emperor has lived up to his wishes, and finally let me sort out the truth of the year, this matter is actually a coincidence, as if there is a providence in the dark, and now I will tell a few people about the inside story of the Fortune Inn.
The origin of this case is actually that Zhu Zishan, the shopkeeper of Hongyun Inn, married the Chunling girl of Baiyan Building, and after marriage, Zhu Zishan was busy running a business, while his original partner and two sons could not tolerate Chunling, and took the opportunity to persecute and humiliate her.
Especially in the later period of Chunling's pregnancy, this incident directly became the fuse of the tragedy of this case, several of them teamed up to abort the child in Chunling's arms, forcing the Chunling girl to commit suicide by hanging the beam, and when the arrester of the god hunting room and the presumptuous went to the scene for an autopsy, they actually found that the Chunling girl was dead without blinking her eyes, which shows how deep the resentment in Chunling's heart is.
The next thing is even more bizarre, the government asked Zhu Zishan's family to send the body of Miss Chunling to Yizhuang, and after putting the body in the coffin, the body disappeared inexplicably the next day. According to his recollection, he did not hear any unusual noise in Yizhuang that night.
Just when everyone was puzzled by the disappearance of Chunling's body, Zhu Zishan's eldest son suddenly found eight blood characters written in blood from the top of the coffin lid containing Chunling, the content was: Blood debt and blood repayment, asking for life and hooking the soul. And Zhu Zishan immediately recognized that the eight blood characters were Chunling's handwriting.
The blood word is gloomy, it is prohibitive, after seeing the eight blood words left by the spring spirit, the people in the Yizhuang felt that the scalp was numb, and Zhu Zishan's two sons also went home together because of their weak hearts, leaving Zhu Zishan to stand alone in the Yizhuang to pay tribute to the spring spirit, and Zhu Zishan continued to pay tribute until the evening before returning to the inn.
But something strange happened, on the night when Zhu Zishan and a few of them came back from Yizhuang, the Hongyun Inn began to be haunted, and the maids and servants hired in the inn all heard a strange sound in Chunling's room, but after everyone pretended to be brave enough to go in and check, they didn't find anything abnormal.
This is just the beginning, from that day on, every time in the dead of night, there will be a strange noise and a woman's crying in Chun Ling's room, everyone can hear it, that voice is Chun Ling's voice, it seems that Chun Ling lives in her boudoir, and the strange thing is that Zhu Zishan has never heard anything unusual.
It is also very evil, everyone in the Hongyun Inn, including the maids and servants, have heard the crying sound coming from the Chunling room, but only Zhu Zishan can't hear it. What's even more evil is that one night Zhu Zishan's eldest son went to Baiyan Building to drink flower wine, I don't know what's going on? After returning to the inn drunk, he actually walked into the boudoir of Chun Ling's life.
And when he entered the room, he was frightened, because he saw the ghost of Chun Ling sitting in front of the dresser and fiddling with his hair, at that time, Chun Ling was wearing the red clothes he wore when he hanged himself, with a strange smile on his face, as if the ghost of Chun Ling was staring at him, this scene is somewhat similar to the scene I saw last night.
At that time, fortunately, He Qingming, the son of the prefect of Suzhou, was banqueting Zhang Banxian in the elegant courtyard next door, after hearing the strange noise on the side of the Qin Courtyard, He Qingming and Zhang Banxian ran to the room of Chun Ling in the Qin Courtyard next door, and dragged out the frightened and paralyzed young master of the Zhu family. ”
"Didn't I explain the truth to you? You're going to expose my shortcomings again. Hearing Liu Fan ask him about the haunting in public, Zhang Banxian thought that Liu Fan deliberately exposed the ugliness of stealing Chunling jewelry in the name of exorcism, so he glared at Liu Fan and said angrily:
"Isn't that all there is to it? What is there to ask. I didn't see a ghost at all after I went in that night, there was no one in the house, so the eldest young master of the Zhu family lay on the ground and foamed at the mouth, and the people in the He Qingming He Inn were afraid that the female ghost would find them for their lives, so no one dared to enter the house, so I went in myself and dragged the eldest young master of the Zhu family out. ”
"No ghosts?" Feng Jincai looked at Zhang Banxian with a questioning expression, and said unconvinced: "Let's not talk about those visions before, let me ask, if there are no ghosts, then how can the jewelry you wrapped in the rune paper disappear?" Why did the ghost of the Spring Spirit appear as soon as the jewelry suppressed by the rune paper disappeared? ”
"Well...... this" Hearing this, Zhang Banxian showed a trace of embarrassment, hesitated for a moment, he laughed dryly, and said: "You all know what my business is like." I finally met someone who asked me to do something, how can I say that there are no ghosts in the inn? If I say there's no ghost, why are people looking for me?
At that time, Poor Dao was a little short of money, so I moved some crooked thoughts, in order to earn some extra money, I lied that there were ghosts in the Hongyun Inn, and then began to do it, as for the jade bracelets and gold ornaments wrapped in rune paper...... Ahem...... Actually, I used a trick to transfer flowers and trees, and took them away, planning to go to the pawnshop to exchange some silver. ”
"What? Jewelry stolen by you? What's going on with that female ghost? Feng Jincai asked dumbfounded.
"How do I know what's going on?" Zhang Banxian waved his hand depressedly: "I wanted to exchange those two pieces of jewelry for some money, but before I could do it, I heard that the Hongyun Inn was haunted, saying that the Chunling girl had appeared again, and there was such a thing, how could I dare to pay attention to those two pieces of jewelry."
To tell the truth, in fact, I was also afraid of the female ghost asking for the ghost, and when I heard that the ghost of the spring spirit appeared, I was worried that she would come to me, so I put the rune paper of the jewelry in the package in the Zhenjun Temple, this is the truth that the spring spirit jewelry disappeared, as for the ghost of the spring spirit to appear at night, to be honest, I really don't know. ”
When the words fell, Zhang Banxian took out a small bag wrapped in yellow rune paper from his sleeve, the rune paper was worn and old, it seemed to be some years, and threw the paper bag into Liu Fan's hand, Zhang Banxian said: "Didn't you want this pair of jewelry before, I turned a corner on the way to Hanshan Temple to deliver the letter, and I helped you get it back by the way, give it to you." ”
Taking the paper bag handed by Zhang Banxian, Liu Fan uncovered the rune paper wrapped outside, only to see a round and transparent jade bracelet and a beautifully shaped gold hairpin revealed inside. After showing the two pieces of jewelry to everyone, Liu Fan then put them away and said with a playful face:
"Now these two pieces of jewelry have appeared, and the so-called female ghost possession is just a lie told by Zhang Banxian in order to make money, and there is no ghost possession on these two pieces of jewelry at all. I wonder if you have any doubts in your minds? Since the matter of the female ghost possessing the jewelry is fake, will the matter of the female ghost asking for her life also be fake? ”
"Even if the thing about the Spring Spirit ghost possessing these two pieces of jewelry is fake, the thing about the female ghost asking for her life is always true, right? How can such a strange and weird thing be faked? At that time, many people saw the ghost of the spring spirit appear, and many people heard the cry of the spring spirit, which is absolutely true. Feng Jincai said.
"Yes, there were indeed many people who saw the ghost of Chun Ling at that time, and many people did hear Chun Ling's cry, but just like the process of Zhang Banxian using his technique to drop the jewelry, what he saw and heard with his own eyes may not be the truth." Liu Fan said meaningfully.
"This kind of thing can't be faked." Feng Jincai was slightly excited, he looked at Liu Fan and asked, "Since you said that what you saw may not be true, and what you saw with your own eyes and heard with your own ears is not the truth, then you can explain what happened to the female ghost soul that happened in the future?" How did those parties die? ”
"Since Brother Feng asked this question, then I will tell you about the cause of death of Zhu Zishan's original partner, eldest son, second son, and maid Xiaoping, these four people were not actually killed by the so-called ghosts, and the murderers who killed them were actually people." Speaking of this, Liu Fan paused, and after glancing around, he continued:
"Everyone ignored a person from beginning to end, people described her as a ghost, and they all thought she was dead, but I found out that that person was not actually dead, she was always alive, everything that happened in the Fortune Inn was her revenge, and this person was the first person to die in this case...... Ghost bride spring spirit. ”
"What? Chun Ling is not dead? It can't be, right? She had obviously hanged herself. Zhang Banxian was stunned.
"As far as Lao Wei knows, many people saw her commit suicide by hanging herself from a beam at that time, could everyone be wrong?" Qihong was also a little suspicious.
"Chun Ling's body was examined by my own hands, and the Divine Capture Room signed her death certificate, how could she not be dead?" Feng Jincai said angrily with a little anger.
"You don't believe me?" Glancing at everyone, Liu Fan smiled faintly: "Okay, since you all think that Chun Ling is dead, then let me ask you, where is Chun Ling's body?" Why is there only an empty coffin here? ”
"Well...... this"
Hearing Liu Fan's inquiry, Feng Jincai and the three of them all fell into a stupor.