"The first time I saw a ghost was three years ago, the year I met Wanru." Chen Dezhi endured the fear in his heart and looked in the direction of the female ghost.

He knew there was a ghost behind him, but he had never really seen it. After hearing what was like that terrible scream, he picked up the cow's tears that had fallen to the ground and dropped the last few drops into his eyes. He was scared, but he still hugged Wanru tightly, and then comforted her in a voice as calm as possible: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I will never ask her to hurt you." ”

The female ghost in red was pasted with a talisman on her forehead, and it was a talisman drawn by the nine-tailed fox herself, even if she had hundreds of years of Taoism, she couldn't move at the moment.

"You saw her when you met me?" It was like hugging Chen Dezhi's arm: "Then why didn't you say it at that time?" No, you just looked like you had seen her for the first time. So what do you mean by three years ago? ”

"It's in a dream, not like it is now." Chen Dezhi explained: "I always see a woman in my dreams, a woman who is dressed very strangely and has strange hair. What's even stranger is that I can't see her face, never see hers. ”

"If it's a dream, why do you say you're a ghost?"

"I wouldn't say that if it was just a dream, but every time I wake up from a dream, I have a very strange feeling, as if this strange woman who appeared in the dream was also with me. At first, this feeling was very vague, I just thought that I had been dreaming for a long time, dreaming at night and thinking about it every day, until one day, when I suddenly turned my head to look at my shadow, I found that there was a thing superimposed on my shadow, and that thing was also a shadow, just like the woman who appeared in the dream. Later, the dream got longer and longer, and the woman appeared more and more frequently in my dreams, until I realized that I could see her even when I was not sleeping with my eyes open. Not only can I see her, but I can't help but say things I don't want to say and do things I don't want to do. What's even more terrifying is that I only have memories when I do those things, and I don't remember anything when I'm done.

I was born in Lingnan, and when I was a child, I spent time with my grandparents on the beach, and when I had nothing to do, I would pester them to tell me stories, and my grandfather told me a story about a living person haunted by ghosts.

This story happened in the village next door to us. There is a villain in the village who does not think about working all day long, refuses to follow his father and mother to farm, nor does he refuse to follow his uncle to the sea, either stealing chickens and dogs, or bullying men and women, which makes the whole village complain. The government had no choice but to arrest the villain and let him stay for a few days. But after coming out, this villain not only did not repent, but intensified.

Finally, a villager who was used to being bullied by him beat the villain to death in anger. After being killed, he did not report to the police, but threw his body into a dry well. The villagers all knew that this person had beaten the villain to death, but they all chose to remain silent, and no one went to report it. When someone asked, they said that the villain might have been discovered by his conscience and left his homeland, or that he had gone to sea and died at sea.

The days passed peacefully, until a year later, a series of tragic events began to occur in the village. Every day, people disappear for no reason, and the whole village is terrified. When the matter reached the government, the county lord sent someone to investigate in the village. In order to catch the evildoer, these trappers simply set up a shed in the middle of the village and kept watch day and night, waiting for the man to come out and commit the crime.

On the third day after the capture arrived in the village, the assailant was finally caught. Do you know who this murderer is? It was the same man who killed the villain a year ago. At this time, he said that it was him, but it didn't look like him, it was like a tiger in the body of a kitten, in short, it made people feel very awkward. When the county lord asked him who he was, the name he reported turned out to be the villain's.

There was a master beside the county lord, who said that he could distinguish yin and yang, and he circled around that person, and said that the perpetrator was not him, but an evil ghost attached to him. As he spoke, he drew a charm on the spot and put it on the person's body, and the demon ran out of the person's body screaming.

He argued on the spot, saying that the reason why he killed was because he was also killed. But those villagers, knowing who killed him, still blindly shielded the murderer and let him bury his body at the bottom of the well, and he couldn't live in peace day and night. So, he turned into a ghost, returned to the village to take revenge, and possessed the murderer who killed him, and he wanted to make the murderer become like himself, a villain that everyone in the village shouted and scolded.

The truth of the case was revealed, and the person also pleaded guilty on the spot, and the villain was accepted by the county lord's master with a magic weapon.

This story is not the scariest of all the stories my grandfather told me, but it is the one that scares me the most. What I'm afraid of is not the villain, nor what the person who is possessed by the villain does, but the fear that a person who is good and good will be possessed by a demon and do so many bad things without knowing it. What's even more terrifying is that all the people in the village don't know what happened to him, and they don't know that he was possessed by the villain. If there is no such master by the county master's side, then he will not die very unjustly, and he will not really want the villain to say and become another villain.

When I noticed the change in myself, I was also scared, afraid of becoming a person who did bad things that I didn't even know. ”

Chen Dezhi said, looking at Wanru.

"Do you remember? I have secretly left. ”

"Are you talking about when we first got here? That's when you're sick. ”

"No, it's not sick, I lied to you. At that time, I was not sick, but I clearly felt that this female ghost was by my side, and I felt as if I was being controlled by her. That was probably the first time I was angry with you, and your eyes were red just like they were just now. I was so scared, afraid that I would hurt you, so I secretly left. Later, I heard that you had been looking for me, and I was not at ease, so I came back again. It's like, this time I'm telling the truth, and I'm not lying to you anymore. ”

"Fool!"

"You said I didn't want to marry you, no, I didn't want to marry you, but I didn't dare to marry you. I'm afraid that one day I'll lose control of myself, and I'm afraid I'll be unaware of it after I've hurt you. I've always thought that if I can help you find someone more worthy of trusting for life, I'll leave quietly. I thought, I won't be too far away from you, but I won't be too close to you, just watching you from a short distance, watching you get married, watching you have children, watching you live a happy life. I asked Aunt Shu to introduce you to a lot of people, but you couldn't look down on them, and you didn't even look at them. Like, you don't know how tormented I was at that time. On the one hand, I'm happy, glad that you rejected Aunt Shu, and glad that you only have me in your heart. On the one hand, I'm anxious, anxious that you can't let go of me, anxious that you will really be hurt by me one day. ”

"Then why did you change your mind now, why are you willing to marry me?"

"I met a Taoist priest, a Taoist priest surnamed Mo, and he told me that he could help me."

"Can the Daoist help you get rid of her?" It was as if he pointed to the female ghost in red who was still standing in the corner.

"Mo Daochang said so, but he also said that he can't drive away now, and he wants me to wait a little longer, until the night we got married, and when this female ghost is really angry. Mo Daochang said that angry women are the most terrible, but they are also the most vulnerable, only at that time, can he kill with one blow and completely drive this female ghost away from my side. I thought, it's only been a few days since we got married, so I won't tell you about these things first. I know you're timid, and I'm afraid you'll be scared to be with me after hearing this. It's like, you believe me, I really only have you in my heart. ”

"Whew!"

Hearing Chen Dezhi's words, the female ghost in red seemed to have been touched by some nerve, and began to become restless.

Xing Ruyi frowned and walked up to the female ghost in red, first pinched the corner of the rune paper, and then said to her in a soothing tone: "You'd better not move, and don't try to use your ghost power to forcibly break through the suppression of this spell." You know very well that once you force your way through, you will be instantly dissolved. ”

The female ghost made a "huh" sound, and after listening to it for a while, Xing Ruyi turned her face to Chen Dezhi.

"She said that you had failed her, and that you had promised that you would marry her."

"No, it can't be, I've never met her. Three years ago, three years ago, when I met Wanru, I was only seventeen years old. I remember very well that I was not married at home, nor was I ever nice to any woman. ”

"Not now, but in a past life, your last life. She says her name is Apricot, but you prefer to call her Apricot. She was a native of Fuso and arrived in Lingnan with the ships of the Fuso bandits. She also said that she did not upload it voluntarily, and that it was the Fusang robbers who captured her father and mother, and by the way, they also caught her on the ship. In your previous life, you were a general who found her while fighting against the Fuso bandits and rescued her from the bandits' den.

You love her very much, and she loves you very much, but you, one is a general of the Tang Dynasty, and the other is an ordinary woman in Fusang, with a huge disparity in status and status, your father and mother will not agree to let you marry her no matter what, even if it is a slave or a maid. You thought about eloping with her, but your father stopped you. Because of fornication with robbers, once it is known, it will be all over the house. You can not want your own life, but you can't want your father and mother, and you don't want the lives of dozens of people in your family.

In desperation, you decide to follow your father's arrangement and marry a woman with a similar family background. At the same time, you also want your father and mother to promise to find a good family for Xing'er, so that she will not be displaced for the rest of her life and live a peaceful life.

On the day you parted from Xing'er, you swore to heaven and promised her that you would have to take her in this life as a last resort, and that you would marry her in the next life. ”

"How can I remember it since it was from the previous life?" Chen Dezhi looked at the female ghost in red standing in the corner: "Is she an apricot?" So why did she become like this again? ”

"That's because your father and mother in your previous life did not fulfill their promise to find a good family for Xing'er and properly settle her for the rest of her life, but let people cut off her facial features and seal her in an iron coffin, so that even if she is a ghost, she can no longer haunt you." Xing Ruyi asked Chen Dezhi: "When you were picking herbs for Wanru, did you accidentally fall into a hole, and then erase something with your hand?" ”