Chapter 16: The Ghost Bride
When Liu Fan and the people around him heard about this old incident, they were all aroused with curiosity, although they didn't know what this matter had to do with the master in Hanshan Temple? But since the host of Qihong instructed him to come here, presumably that person's demon obsession must be related to the ghost bride's soul, so Liu Fan urged Xiao Er to continue talking.
Xiao Er accepted Liu Fan's silver, so he didn't buy Guanzi, seeing Liu Fan urging himself to continue talking, Xiao Er went next door to drink a sip of cold water, moistened his throat, he continued to tell everyone the inside story of the strange incident that year, with Xiao Er's description, the old thing gradually unraveled the veil of dust.
Seeing the blood words, everyone was startled, and Zhu Zishan recognized it at a glance, it was Chun Ling's handwriting. After seeing these eight words, the people in Yizhuang felt their scalps numb and felt very unlucky, and Zhu Zishan's two sons also went home together because of their weak hearts, leaving Zhu Zishan alone to stand in Yizhuang in a daze.
Zhu Zishan has been mourning until the evening, and then returned to the inn in despair, but since they came back from Yizhuang, Zhu Zishan's house has been haunted, that night, the maids and family members in the inn all heard a strange noise in the Chunling room, but everyone pretended to have the courage to go in and check, but they didn't find anything.
In addition, whenever it was quiet at night, a woman's crying would be heard in Chunling's room, and if you listened carefully, that voice was Chunling's voice. It is also strange to say that everyone in the Zhu family, including the maids and servants, has heard the crying sound coming from Chunling's room, but Zhu Zishan can't hear it.
The more evil thing is still to come, one night, Zhu Zishan's son went to Baiyan Building to drink flower wine, I don't know what's going on? After getting drunk, he returned to the inn in a daze, and walked into the boudoir before Chun Ling alone.
As a result, as soon as he entered the house, he was stupid, because he saw the ghost of Chun Ling sitting in front of the dresser and fiddling with his hair, and at that time, Chun Ling was wearing the same red clothes as when he hanged himself, with a strange smile on his face. Seeing this scene, the eldest young master of the Zhu family fainted in fright on the spot.
Fortunately, at that time, the chess number Yayuan next door was a guest, and a scholar was feasting Zhang Banxian in the Yayuan next door, and after hearing the strange noise, the scholar and Zhang Banxian broke into the room and dragged the eldest young master of the Zhu family out.
With what happened that night, and then thinking of all the strange things before, Zhu Zishan's wife and son were scared, and they went to Zhenjunguan to invite Zhang Banxian to do it, and they wanted to get rid of the ghost of Chunling.
Zhang Banxian made a general method from the Zhu family compound, and found a pair of jade bracelets and a golden hairpin in the room where Chun Ling lived, saying that the jade bracelet and the golden hairpin were Chun Ling's belongings, and Chun Ling's unjust soul was possessed by these two items.
Subsequently, Zhang Banxian wrapped the jade bracelet and the golden hairpin in a talisman in front of everyone, recited a spell, and buried the talisman paper wrapped with the jade bracelet and the golden hairpin in the middle of the courtyard, saying that the talisman paper must not be turned out within a month, otherwise there will be a catastrophe.
Not to mention, in the first few days, the Zhu family did settle down a lot, but, more than 20 days later, a rainstorm came down, the rainstorm soaked the ground, and washed out the rune paper buried by Zhang Banxian, the next day, after the rain stopped, the people of the Zhu family found that the rune paper was drenched by the rain, and the whereabouts of the jade bracelet and golden hairpin suppressed inside were unknown.
That night, the Zhu family was gathering together to discuss business, but at this moment, the crying sound that had disappeared before came from Chun Ling's room again, and just as they were about to go out to check, a little maid ran in with a frightened expression, she told Zhu Zishan that Chun Ling had just appeared, and Chun Ling was wearing the red bridal dress and looking in the mirror in the house.
After hearing this, Zhu Zishan's son immediately led a group of men to the next room to check, and as a result, after entering the house, they saw that there was a copper mirror on the dresser that had been emptied earlier, and there was a wooden comb next to it, not only that, but there was also a stool in front of the dresser.
Seeing this situation, everyone seemed to see the scene of Chun Ling sitting on a stool, crying in a low voice and combing his hair in the mirror, looking at the scene in front of him, Zhu Zishan's second son collapsed to the ground in fright, and the guys around him were also so frightened that their scalps were numb, and they were covered in cold sweat.
The next day, Zhu Zishan's second son was found dead in the bedroom, and the cause of death was suffocation. Afterwards, I heard Zhu Zishan's wife describe that Zhu Zishan's second son had covered Chun Ling with a futon before, so everyone suspected that Chun Ling's ghost killed Zhu Zishan's second son.
A month after Zhu Zishan's second son was killed, Zhu Zishan's eldest son also died, he died suddenly while eating at home, the cause of death was food poisoning, seeing this, everyone thought of one thing, the person who gave Chunling abortion pills at that time was the boss.
Seeing the ghost bride asking for the soul one after another, the guys and maids hired by the Zhu family didn't dare to stay in the Zhu family, fearing that they would be asked for the soul by the ghost bride, everyone asked for their resignation, and finally, except for a few homeless maids who stayed, the rest of the servants all resigned and went home.
Two sons died one after another, so that Zhu Zishan's wife was frightened and frightened, all the actions against Chun Ling were instructed by her, so she was too scared to sleep at night, as long as she closed her eyes, she could hear Chun Ling's crying, frightened, she moved out of the house, led the few remaining maids to move to the next door to live.
I thought that I would be able to avoid the catastrophe in this way, but I didn't expect that on the first seven nights of Zhu Zishan's eldest son, Zhu Zishan's wife's personal maid Xiaoping hanged herself on the jujube tree at the entrance of the courtyard.
Hearing this, Liu Fan couldn't help but ask: "If the death of the first two people is the ghost of Chun Ling coming back for revenge, but what does this Xiaoping's death have to do with Chun Ling?" ”
"yes, yes, what's the relationship between them?" After Liu Fan asked, the other guests also followed suit.
The shopkeeper laughed and explained to Liu Fan: "Guest officer, you don't know about this, this Xiaoping, under the instructions of Zhu Zishan's wife, wanted to strangle Chun Ling with a rope, but later because Zhu Zishan arrived, she didn't succeed." Now she is hanged on a jujube tree, which is the result of the revenge of the spring spirit's ghost. ”
"How do you know in such detail?" Liu Fan was a little curious.
After hearing this, the shopkeeper's face was a little unnatural, and he laughed dryly, and then said: "I used to work in Zhu Zishan, and after his house was haunted, I jumped to work here." ”
"Oh, no wonder you know so much about the inside story?" Nodding, Liu Fan couldn't help but ask, "What about the back, what happened after Xiaoping hanged herself?" ”
"What's next, that's just wicked."
Xiao Er smacked his lips and continued to tell in a colorful voice: "After Xiaoping was asked for her soul, Zhu Zishan and his wife were all frightened, especially Zhu Zishan's wife, who was even more frightened and lost her mind, and asked someone to build a Buddhist hall for a Bodhisattva, kneeling in the Buddha hall all day long and kowtowing to atone, and kept chanting begging you to spare me.
But even if it is so pious, Zhu Zishan's wife still can't escape the doom, one night, Zhu Zishan's wife was found in the Buddhist hall, and later came to the scene for an autopsy, and the result was that the liver and gallbladder were split and died, and then someone inquired, the so-called liver and gallbladder were split and died, in fact, it was the meaning of being scared to death.
Zhu Zishan didn't see the death of those people before, but this time he witnessed the violent death of his wife, because Zhu Zishan was the only one present when the deceased died violently, so when the catcher in the yamen asked about the passing, Zhu Zishan told the catcher that his wife was in an accident after entering the Buddhist hall.
That night, his wife went to the Buddhist hall to atone for his sins after dinner, while Zhu Zishan rested in the bedroom, everything was normal at the beginning, but when he arrived, suddenly, a hysterical cry came from the Buddhist hall, Zhu Zishan and his wife shouted "Ghost," and after Zhu Zishan put on his clothes and rushed over, his wife was already dead.
At this point, Zhu Zishan is considered to be a broken family, after dealing with his wife's funeral, he dismissed all the guys and cooks in the inn, and repatriated the maids and nurses in the house, after doing this, Zhu Zishan closed the inn and persuaded all the guests to leave, he disappeared, and this Hongyun Inn also became a ghost house. ”
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"Xiao Er, if you don't go to work, what are you chewing on your tongue here? If you talk nonsense, you will be deducted from your salary for this month. At this moment, the owner of the teahouse came over to speak, and after calling the shopkeeper away, he hugged his fist to everyone apologetically: "The people are ignorant, and they have disturbed the dining of your distinguished guests, forgive your sins." ”
After listening to the shopkeeper's words, all the diners retracted their thoughts and began to enjoy the tea in front of them, but Liu Fan couldn't sit still at this time, his amateur detective addiction, Liu Fan was a detective fan in his previous life, and he began to flip through detective picture books since he read and write, and he was a die-hard fan of "Young Bao Qingtian" and "Detective Di Renjie" in the later stage.
In addition to studying all kinds of detective novels and watching all kinds of film and television works with criminal investigation themes, what directly made Liu Fan become a detective was a cartoon called "Detective Conan", and he couldn't extricate himself from it.
When Liu Fan saw more than 800 episodes, he felt that he could be a teacher, although he had not seen the ending yet, but at this time, Liu Fan already knew more than 600 ways to kill, more than 200 methods of killing people in a closed room, and more than 700 reasons for alibi.
It is precisely because of this background that Liu Fan decided to investigate this strange and frictional mystery case, sorted out the words that the shopkeeper said, and pondered for a long time, Liu Fan had an idea in his mind, he wanted to go to the Hongyun Inn to have a look.
After making up his mind, he glanced at the sun at noon, Liu Fan settled the tea fee, then stood up and walked out, he circled around several shops opposite, and then took advantage of the gap where no one was paying attention, and quietly got into the deserted Hongyun Inn.