Feng Chao died, in his own water tank.

Feng Chao's wife dragged a pair of children to the Yamen to report to the official, saying that her husband had been killed by a ghost. An on-site autopsy was conducted, but the conclusion was that he had drowned.

Feng Chao's wife didn't follow, crying and making trouble, and he insisted on stopping the arrest and the pretending to leave. She had a pair of red eyes, not saying that Feng Chao was strangled to death by a ghost. The ghost, she had seen, was an old woman dressed in navy blue.

Feng Chao's wife went crazy and dragged her aside by force, but she hugged her feet alive. She pointed to Feng Chao, who was lying on the ground, and shouted to the catchers, saying that Feng Chao had said a word before being choked by the neck. He said that the ghost was brought back from the mass grave.

Mass graves, the catchers are no strangers. Most of the inmates in the prison who have no relatives are dragged to mass graves after they die. When they are in a good mood, they will dig a pit and bury the person. When you're in a bad mood, just throw it inside. Anyway, after a long time, it will turn into bones.

The catchers shook off Feng Chao's wife, and one of them was grabbed by Feng Chao's ankle when he passed by Feng Chao. In a panic, the catcher actually raised his foot and kicked Feng Chao. Feng Chao rolled over, revealing his back.

The clothes on his back were torn, and through the tattered pieces of cloth, the catchers could see some words.

Those words were also recognized by the neighbors who were watching the excitement, and it read: "The tomb of Shuying of the Ma Wang family." ”

"The tomb of King Ma Shuying." Xing Ruyi put together the steles scattered in front of the lonely grave and came up with the above words. "Ma is your husband's surname, and your father's surname is Yu, as for this Wang Shuying, it shouldn't be your mother's name."

"It's not!" Yu An shook his head: "This Wang Shuying, I seem to have heard it somewhere." ”

"Heard?"

"By the way, it's her!" Yu An pointed to the coffin: "When I think of it, it must be her." ”

"Who is she?"

"The last grandmother of the beauty shop." Yu An looked at the broken coffin and fell into memories: "On the day our sisters entered the Beauty Place, we heard a story, a story about Ma Wang Shuying. ”

"Is the story long?"

"Hmm!" Yu An nodded slightly.

Wang Shuying was originally the eldest lady of the Wang family. This Wang family is a scholarly family, and compared with ordinary people, the daughter of the Wang family is more beautiful and wise, dignified and courteous.

The Wang family and the Ma family are neighbors, and Wang Shuying has known Ma Bonian, who lives next door, since she was a child. The two parents saw that the children had played well since childhood, the elder brother was long, and the younger sister was short, so they discussed and decided to marry the two children. The two families agreed that when Wang Shuying reached the age of sixteen, the Ma family would marry her in a beautiful manner.

But when Wang Shuying was fifteen years old, Ma Bonian's aunt brought his cousin Feng Susu to Ma's house as a guest. Feng Susu has a lively temperament, and Wang Shuying, who has known books and etiquette since childhood, is a completely different type. She always looked at Ma Bonian with adoring eyes, called him Brother Bonian with a joyful voice, and even ignored the eyes of others, saying that she liked him, so she had to drag his sleeve away.

At first, Ma Bonian resisted, but after getting along, he found that he liked this cousin, and he liked the relaxed and happy feeling when he got along with his cousin.

Feng Susu lived in Ma's house for half a month. In the past half a month, Ma Bonian has been pestered by this cousin every day, and he no longer has the energy and heart to write poems and paintings with Wang Shuying. Feng Susu left, but Ma Bonian also felt that his heart was taken away by this lively and clingy cousin.

Later, Ma Bonian begged his father and mother to withdraw from the Wang family, saying that the only person he really wanted to marry was his cousin Feng Susu. At that time, the Wang family was just an ordinary scholarly family, but Feng Susu's father was an official. Whether it is from the emotional consideration of his son or the consideration of the future, the Ma family also feels that Feng Susu is more suitable for Ma Bonian.

The Ma family came to the door to withdraw from their relatives, and they were scolded by the Wang family.

Scholars are stubborn and easy to think about. Because of the dismissal, Wang Shuying's father was angry and sick, and it didn't take long for the person to go. Later, Wang Shuying's mother also fell ill, and after a few days, people followed. In just a few months, Wang Shuying's parents are gone, and the family has exhausted all their savings because of treating her parents. As neighbors separated by a wall, the Ma family, who had promised a marriage contract, was doing a happy event for Ma Bonian and Feng Susu with great fanfare.

Wang Shuying was furious, ran to Ma's house, and stabbed Ma Bonian with a hairpin on his head.

Because of intentional injury, Wang Shuying was arrested and lived in prison for three years.

Three years later, when she returned to the Wang family, the Wang family was in tatters. The Ma family became an official because Ma Bo won the championship in the year, and the family moved to a more generous house. Wang Shuying had secretly gone to see it, but what she saw was a Ma Bonian who seemed completely strange to her.

Wang Shuying did not go to see Ma Bonian, who was dressed in the official mansion, had official authority, and had a beard, but returned home, sold everything, and built the current beauty workshop.

"And what about later? Has Wang Shuying ever met this Ma Bonian? ”

"I've seen it." Yu quietly looked at the grave pit: "In the year when Beauty Fang became famous, Ma Bonian's son disappeared. The Ma family looked for him for a long time, but they didn't find him. Another year passed, and Ma Bonian's youngest son also disappeared innocently, but this time someone saw that Ma Bonian's youngest son was brought into the beauty shop by a woman dressed in red. ”

"Did you find it?"

"Found it, in that pond in the backyard of Beauty Square. Oh, and now there is no pond in Beauty Square. ”

"Drowned?"

"I don't know." Yu An shook his head lightly: "The person who told us this story didn't tell it." She just told us that the child was dead and looked evil. The lower half of his body was buried in the mud, and the upper half of his body was lying on the dirt, his hands clutching the mud, and there were scratches all around him. It didn't look like someone had been thrown into the water and drowned, but it looked like something in the water had dragged it in. ”

"What can be in a small pond?"

"Another child." The child's two words, Yu An bit very hard: "People can't be resurrected after death." Although the child died in Beautyfang, Ma Bonian could not provide evidence to prove that his son's death must be related to Beautyfang, let alone evidence to prove that Wang Shuying killed his own son. Facing Wang Shuying, he was actually ashamed in his heart. He endured his grief and asked the catcher to dig his son's body out of the mud, but strangely enough, no matter how much they dragged it, they couldn't drag the child who was half-buried in the mud. ”

"It's a bit of an evil thing."

Ma Bonian couldn't bear it, so he stopped those rude catches. He took off his coat, walked up to his son, hugged his son's upper body with both arms, and said in his mouth: Good, go home with Daddy! When he looked down, he saw something. A black thread wrapped around his son's neck. He tugged at the thread with his hand and noticed that the black on the thread had fallen off.

It turned out that the black was the silt deposited in the pond, and the line was originally white. Ma Bonian recognized the thread, which he personally bought for his eldest son to put paper kites. When the eldest son disappeared, he was holding the paper kite in his hand.

He lay on his stomach on the mud, his hand running down the thread, and touched another familiar little hand.

Ma Bonian's eldest son, who had disappeared a year earlier, was also buried in the pond. Judging from the scene, his younger brother looks like he was caught in the mud. ”

"And then?"

"Ma Bonian is crazy! If he only found a child, he might not have done anything, but he couldn't control it when he saw the bodies of his two sons dug out of the pond in the backyard of Beauty Square, and both sons died so miserably. He rushed to Wang Shuying like a madman, asking if she had killed his two children. Wang Shuying just smiled and asked him: Is it okay to lose your favorite relatives one after another? Ma Bonian shouted, pulled out his fast saber in front of everyone, and slashed at Wang Shuying. ”

"Murder pays for life, this Ma Bonian will also be caught and imprisoned."

"Well, he was caught, and he was sentenced to beheading. Because of Ma Bonian's death, the Ma family was destroyed overnight, and it was no different from the Wang family back then. ”

"Poor people, there must be something hateful, this matter of right and wrong, I don't know who is right and who is wrong."

"yes. If Ma Bonian's aunt hadn't taken Feng Susu to Ma's house as a guest, Ma Bonian wouldn't have met her. If Feng Susu hadn't pestered Ma Bonian, Ma Bonian might not have liked her. If Ma Bonian hadn't liked Feng Susu, he would have married Wang Shuying when she was sixteen years old according to the marriage contract, and Wang Shuying's father and mother would not have died depressed because of repentance. Wang Shuying will not be annoyed and hateful because of the death of her father and mother, and stab Ma Bonian with a hairpin. The Ma family will not send Wang Shuying to prison because of their son's injury. Wang Shuying will not hate because of love and harming Ma Bonian's two children. Speaking of which, all these tragedies were caused by Ma Bonian. ”

"In my own life, no matter what I have experienced, when it comes to other people's mouths, it is just a story to be told and heard." Xing Ruyi stared at the half of the cat on the coffin: "Is there another story behind this?" ”

"Yes, it's just not as exciting as the previous ones." Yu An also set his eyes on the half cat: "Have you ever heard of the haunting of Beauty Square?" ”

"Is it Wang Shuying?"

"I don't know, because all the people I have seen are dead, and the people who are alive have only heard of it, and no one has seen it."

"Something to do with the backyard pond?"

"Hmm." Yu An nodded: "I heard the old man in the beauty shop say that there is something in the pond, and when the dark clouds cover the moon, that thing will crawl out of the pond, and when that thing disappears, there will also be a sister missing in the beauty shop." Eventually, the missing sisters were all dug out of the sludge. They looked exactly like the two missing children of Ma Bonian's family. Everyone said that the one hiding in the pond was Wang Shuying. In order to appease her, the sisters in the workshop pooled together the silver, buried her here, and asked the mage to carve the tombstone. Ma Wang Shuying, this is probably what she wants. ”