Chapter Seventy-Four: The Funeral on the Shroud

Seeing the red-clothed figure and narrowing the distance again, Zhou Fan couldn't bear it anymore, the ancient sword in his hand was a sword against the red-clothed figure in front of him, at the moment when Zhou Fan's ancient sword fell, Zimeng and Feng Long quickly left Zhou Fan's side, and came to the red-clothed side to form an encirclement on both sides, but at the moment when Zhou Fan's sword slashed the red-clothed figure, it began to blur until Zhou Fan's sword fell to the ground, and the red-clothed figure disappeared without a trace.

The three of them looked at the figure that disappeared under their noses with a little disbelief, Zhou Fan looked at the surrounding environment, tilted his head at Zimeng Fenglong, and motioned for them to withdraw.

Zhou Fan faintly felt that the ghost thing was not scared away by his sword, but he didn't want to fight with them, but now everything is still guessing, the three of them walked all the way and looked back behind them, just when the three of them looked back again, they saw the red-clothed figure again, and in an instant, the red-clothed figure came to them again, but it no longer stood as quietly as before, but let out a "woo..." ..” The sound of crying.

Zhou Fan frowned and looked at the red-clothed figure, Feng Long and Zimeng were confused, just when Zimeng couldn't help but want to ask, he saw Zhou Fan waved his hand, took a step forward and came to the red-clothed figure and whispered: "Does the girl have any grievances, do you still need us to help you, if there are any difficulties, just say, we can help you." ”

As soon as Zhou Fan's words fell, he saw a very shabby wrap in his hand in the red-clothed figure in his hand, which was full of dense inscriptions and some strange patterns, and it looked older than the Warring States Period.

The three of you, look at me, I'll look at you, Zhou Fan still took the wrapping cloth in the hand of the red-clothed figure and came to Feng Longzimeng's side, and the red-clothed figure at this time stopped crying after Zhou Fan took the wrapping, and began to stand there quietly. Zhou Fan couldn't help but glance at the red-clothed figure in front of him, and thought, "What are the plans of this female ghost, should I marry her." ”

Looking at the female ghost in front of him, Zhou Fan couldn't help but think of it, because this female ghost didn't harm them, and second, they had no cause and effect with the female ghost, and it was impossible to find revenge.

In ancient times, women were sixteen years old, eighteen boudoirs, twenty to be married, twenty-three had children, if in ancient times twenty-three women who had not been married, they were all out of the door, one was afraid that the neighbors would gossip, and the other was not good for her to marry in the future, and there were legends that twenty-three unmarried women who died unjustly could not enter the family tree, and could only become a lonely ghost and a ghost.

It is necessary to find an adult man or an unmarried man who has died, and marry the unjustly killed woman in the form of a secret marriage, and then he can be reincarnated. When it comes to the ghost marriage, Xiangxi is the most famous, the ancients often said that Xiangxi has a double unique: one is to drive away the corpse, the other is to match the yin marriage, Xiangxi people from generation to generation to drive the corpse and match the ghost marriage is mysterious and mysterious, outsiders don't know at all, let alone just heard of it, but it is really very rare.

Zhou Fanzhi said that he understood that the marriage was still a fragment of a single book left to him by his grandfather before, but at that time his grandfather did not explain to him the origin of this book, only told Zhou Fan that it was given to him by a close friend of his early years, but his grandfather said that he had never read the things in the book, and the reason why he passed it on to Zhou Fan was just that he didn't want it to be lost.

As for Zhou Fan, he can't care if he doesn't learn, according to Zhou Fan's grandfather's words: "Some things are fate, and the destined fate can't be escaped." Until now, Zhou Fan still didn't understand what this meant.

When Zhou Fan fell into contemplation, Zimeng and Feng Long had already looked back and forth at the shroud, but except for some ghost painting talismans that could see some ways to see a little, it was equivalent to reading the book of heaven, and it was not easy to disturb them when they saw Zhou Fan selected to meditate, time gradually passed, Feng Long and Feng Long also lost interest in the shroud in front of them, the two looked at each other, and Zimeng touched Zhou Fan with his elbow.

Zhou Fan, who was still recalling the previous events, suddenly disturbed by Zimeng, and all his thoughts began to blur again, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "Unlucky", but he didn't blame Zimeng, he looked at his watch at the moment he came over clearly, he had unconsciously fallen into contemplation for almost half an hour, no wonder they were in a hurry.

He looked at the red-clothed figure who was still standing in the distance and said, "How is it, have you found anything?" ”

Feng Long shook his head and handed the wrapping cloth in his hand to Zhou Fan and said: "I don't understand, you know that we are not good at some things, we can only understand some pictures, but..." Feng Long only said half of his words, obviously the following is important, Zhou Fan did not interrupt him but quietly waited for the following: "It's just that the pattern on this wrapping can see some tracks, if I guess well, it should be embroidered with a funeral pattern."

Although it only occupies a little corner on the wrap and can't be seen clearly, I can barely see it when I zoom in after taking a high-definition picture with my mobile phone, but I'm curious about what age this thing is, and it can make such a fine pattern in ancient times, even in modern times, this kind of craft is very rare. ”

Taking the wrapping Zhou Fan listened to Feng Long's explanation, while looking, sure enough, there was a very small and complex pattern in the left corner of the wrapping, which was basically difficult to see clearly with the naked eye, Zhou Fan looked at the wrapping cloth smoothly, and looked at the wrapping cloth for a while before slowly saying: "The wrapping should be a narrative of the burial time, and the epitaph of the later Tang and Song dynasties is of the same nature, but there was no epitaph before the Warring States Period, all of them are made of stone tablets or like this wrapper or animal skin in front of us, to record the process of burial and the life deeds of the tomb owner. ”

Saying that, Zhou Fan folded the wrapping cloth in half in the middle, and folded it in half several times, and finally only four small patterns on the four corners were left, and now the whole wrapping has shrunk a lot and only a small pattern remains, but when he looked at the wrapping again, he found that the four small pictures were no longer unclear to the naked eye, and after Zhou Fan's several folds, the four small pictures were closely linked together, forming a clearly visible funeral picture.

The whole pattern clearly depicts how the owner of the tomb was buried, and what a scale, but the scene in this picture is too mythical, Zhou Fan and the three carefully observed this cloth, and found that the funeral procession described in it reached nearly tens of thousands of people, and it is not difficult to find that most of them are chained by their hands and feet, and it is obvious that more than half of these tens of thousands of people are used to accompany the funeral, and only a small part is for the funeral.

What's even more shocking is that the coffin is not a person, but a strange creature with four bird heads, three body and three bone claws, and the three of them can't help but be surprised when they see this. Zimeng was even more surprised: "Isn't this the half-stone statue and half-bone statue under the previous burial pit?" ”

"A half-cut stone statue?" Listening to Zimeng's words, Feng Long was obviously a little drumming, he hadn't gone down with Zhou Fan and a few people before, and he hadn't seen that weird stone statue, so he naturally didn't know what it was.

Zhou Fan withdrew his gaze from the shroud and took a deep breath before saying: "Now I can basically confirm that this red-clothed figure has a relationship with the burial pit below, but I don't know why it appeared here, as for the matter of the stone statue, you are asking God you after you go back, now I am worried that it will identify us, and it will go there if we go there, if we carry this thing along the way, Twilight Snow and Qing'er are afraid that they will kick me out of the car and let me walk back." Zhou Fan already looked dejected, he could already imagine the scene of being kicked out of the car by two women after getting into the car with this ghost thing.

"What can I do, this thing has been following us now, or we will go back first, you stay here, and we will pick you up after we send Qing'er and Twilight back." said that, Zimeng looked gloating.

"Get out, you're warm..."Zhou Fan kicked him unhappily when he heard Zimeng's words, but Zimeng dodged it.

"Okay, don't make a fuss, isn't there still a text on the shroud? Zhou Fan, can you read it, I think the mystery may be in these words. Feng Long stopped the two of them from messing around, and opened the folded shroud again.

Zhou Fan watched Feng Long open the shroud again, so he stopped messing with Zimeng, and looked at the shroud covered with dense words again by the faint light, except for the small patterns on the four corners, there seemed to be something hidden in the dense text, and the more Zhou Fan looked at it, the more incredible he felt.

Zimeng looked at the shroud and still didn't find anything, stood aside boredly and smoked, and from time to time he returned a ticket to see Feng Long and Zhou Fan, when he saw Zhou Fan's surprised expression, he couldn't help but burp in his heart, and said secretly, "Did Zhou Fan find something?" Thinking about it, he began to look at the wrap again.

Just when Zimeng wanted to observe further, Zhou Fan fried the wrapping and put it away. Feng Long, who was still looking at it in a good manner, was startled by Zhou Fan's sudden snatching of the wrap in his hand, and looked up at Zhou Fan suspiciously.

Zhou Fan looked at the two of them with puzzled looks, ignored them, walked to the red-clothed figure and said: "Girl, I don't know why you follow us, and I don't know where you come from, I can't help you with this shroud alone, it's just that I can understand the above (blood sacrifice contract), but I don't know how to untie it yet, but I promise you, within a year, I will figure out the origin of this thing to save you from the sea of suffering, if you believe me, I will let me take this shroud." With that, his eyes stared at the red-clothed figure.

Time was passing little by little, Feng Longzimeng also fell silent after listening to Zhou Fan's words, Zhou Fan did not make a sound and quietly waited for the reply of the red-clothed figure, and after a while, the red-clothed figure who was originally standing there quietly became a little blurred, and gradually disappeared into the confused moonlight.

"Zhou Fan, what did you just say? What contract? What did you agree with her? Looking at the disappearing red-clothed figure, Feng Long had a lot of questions, he didn't know what Zhou Fan meant by the red-clothed figure now, let alone what Zhou Fan's plans were.

"Let's go, let's go back and talk about it, this explanation is not clear, but for the time being, it will not follow us anymore and will not harm us." Zhou Fan said that he had already walked on the way back.

Seeing this, Feng Longzimeng had no choice but to bow his head and think about keeping up, and the three of them came to the car silently, opened the door and got into the car.

Seeing that the three of them were silent, Tianyou asked, "What's wrong with you, why don't you speak, what about the female ghost in red, has it been solved?" ”

Zimeng buckled the seat belt with his backhand, turned the key and said without replying: "I don't know, ask Zhou Fan." ”

Tianyou was puzzled and set his eyes on Zhou Fan, but he didn't see Zhou Fan explaining, so he only waved his hand and said, "Drive." ”

Zimeng Fenglong listened attentively, and was about to listen to Zhou Fan's explanation, but he didn't wait for the explanation that should have been, Fenglong was a little speechless, but he didn't want to urge Zhou Fan, after all, some things can't be too anxious, Zhou Fan didn't want to explain, maybe there were some things that even he couldn't understand, and it would be in vain to ask again.

After figuring it out, he stretched his waist and said, "Let's drive, Zimeng, when you get home, you call me again, I'll squint for a while." After saying that, he didn't understand Zimeng's complaints, tilted his head and took a nap.

The time was already three o'clock in the night, except for Zimeng, who was driving the car, was awake, only Zhou Fan was left alone to think there, Tianyou looked shameless and slept with his head up, Duxue was lying in his arms, Qing'er was also leaning on Zhou Fan's arms, and now the whole car was extremely quiet.

Some are just the sound of the wind whistling on the secondary national highway at a fast speed, Zimeng secretly looked at the rearview mirror with his spare eyes while driving the car, and kept looking at Zhou Fan, it is strange to say, the people in the car are asleep, Zhou Fan still looks thoughtful, Zimeng can observe everything about Zhou Fan in the back seat because he is sitting in the main driver.