Chapter 12: Purple Dried Corpse
I nodded, after his grandfather died, I just thought it would be good to delay for a few days at first, after all, life and death are not up to you and me, but then my actions were indeed a little abnormal.
"Well, I thought about contacting him and asking him out to talk, but he couldn't get through." I was also worried, and his father told me the address of his hometown and asked me to take the time to enlighten and enlighten.
Of course, as a friend, it is obligatory to do so, Jia Ren's hometown is in the county next door, and it can be reached by car for more than an hour, whether this kid is at home or not, I plan to go and see.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, I arrived at the place, it was a typical rural courtyard house, the door was open, I knocked on the door and shouted inside twice, but no one answered.
It happened that an old man was passing by outside the door, and I quickly grabbed him and asked if this was Jiafu, and the old man nodded in affirmatively, so I pushed the door in uninvited and walked in.
The small courtyard at the entrance looks fairly neat, with a large pool on the left and an L-shaped bungalow in front.
I walked straight into the hall in front of me, the floor tiles on the floor were spotless, and Jia Ren was quite diligent.
I moved the chaise longue under the eaves to the courtyard and lay down, surrounded by birds and flowers, and I lay here to rest and wait for him to come back, reimagining the story that I was about to write in my head.
The idea in my mind was to use the incident of the encounter with the yin marriage as an introduction, and then lead to a series of stories that followed.
I have learned about the information about yin marriage before, and yin marriage, also known as ghost marriage, was the most popular in the Song Dynasty.
Kang Yuzhi's "Yesterday's Dream Record" records that "when an unmarried man or woman dies, his parents must entrust a "ghost matchmaker" to say goodbye, and then carry out divination, and after receiving the marriage in the divination, they will each make a dark robe for the ghost, hold a marriage sacrifice, and bury the man and woman together'.
"Yuan History: The Biography of the Daughters" also has a cloud 'children who die without a wife, or ask for the bones of the deceased women to be buried together', and the most famous secret marriage in history is Cao Cao for his son Cao Chong.
However, this kind of feudal superstitious bad habit is mostly criticized by the current dynasty, and it is also a waste of manpower, material and financial resources.
But even so, it is still repeatedly banned, not to mention the close, many years ago the news reported that a certain celebrity had a secret marriage ceremony with his deceased girlfriend, which seemed unbelievable to me at the time.
"Damn, as soon as I entered the door, I saw your lewd and obscene expression, and you had a spring dream in broad daylight?"
Jia Ren's voice came from the door, and I quickly straightened up and bounced off the recliner, and after looking up and down, I found that this guy was not abnormal except for some seriousness on his face.
I frowned and asked, "No one answered your phone these days, and I almost went to the temple to find a monk to overtake you." ”
"Go, go, I can't hang up if you hang up." Jia Ren suddenly laughed as he spoke, "It seems that you still have a little conscience, I am almost moldy in this place." ”
"It's not nice to stay here, why don't you go back? Calls are not answered. "I'm a little complaining.
"It's not that I don't want to go back, it's that I can't go back!" Jia Ren looked up to the sky and sighed, and I asked puzzledly, "What do you mean?" What do you mean you can't go back? Hiding from debt here? ”
"You know the."
"If you don't tell me, I know a hammer."
My tone is not very good, this guy has always been clueless since his grandfather went, he smiled and put his arm on my shoulder, "So, we haven't seen each other for a long time, invite me to have a drink today, I'll tell you everything." ”
"Come on, I drove for more than an hour to find you, and you still want to beat me up? If you like to talk about it, you can say it or not, and you won't serve it. ”
I turned around and pretended to leave, but Jia Ren hurriedly grabbed me, "Why are you so careless?" Come on, I'll ask you to cook it yourself today, how about it? ”
"That's pretty much it."
I followed him to the vegetable market to buy some wine and meat, and after I went back, the two men were busy in the kitchen, and the dishes were served on the table in about an hour.
"Brother, I'm miserable."
After two cans of beer, the door of Jia Ren's heart opened, and he looked up at me and said seriously: "My grandfather, I killed him." ”
"Just because of that piece of jade? You think too much, even if that piece of jade is highly poisonous Danding Red, then it is me and you who are going to die, what is the matter with the old man? ”
I took a sip of wine and felt a little weak, I still have some trust in Mo Daoshi, and I haven't forgotten the things that the other party told me, especially about Jia Ren and his grandfather, Mo Daoshi said very clearly, Jia Ren and his grandfather died for us.
That thing is indeed an evil thing, and it is unknown why Jia Ren and his grandfather knew or would go to find it.
"Do you believe in dreams?" He asked, and I shook my head and nodded, "It's hard to say, there are so many things in this world that are beyond our common sense." ”
If I hadn't encountered Daoist Mo and the series of things that followed, I would definitely be skeptical about the dream.
After all, there are scientific explanations for dreams, you think about it day and night you dream about it, and if you think about certain things during the day, you will dream about those things in the dreams you have at night.
"My grandfather gave me a dream." Jia Ren was very serious, he stared at me and continued: "In the dream, my grandfather told me that the jade pendant we took was an evil thing, and he will not continue to be so curious about everything when he is gone, it will kill me. ”
"Well, whether the dream is true or not, it's always good to be careful." I echo.
Jia Ren sighed, there was a little struggle in his eyes, he seemed to have something complicated in his heart that he wanted to tell me but didn't know how to speak, I raised a beer at him: "What else can't I say?" ”
"It's not that I can't tell you, it's just that I don't know how to speak."
He drank the beer in his hand, then pressed the can into a cake, took a few deep breaths, looked at me and said, "You know what it looks like to be a person who has just died, right?" ”
"Isn't it like falling asleep? It will take at least a few hours for a noticeable change to occur, and it depends on the weather, and judging from the crisp autumn weather right now, it will take at least a day for any corruption or something to happen, right? ”
After I finished speaking, Jia Ren nodded and said, "Well, I can understand any corpse spots and the like, but what scares me the most is it." ”
He took a deep breath and his voice trembled, "Do you know what I saw after I lifted the white cloth?" ”
My heart suddenly tightened and I didn't answer, Jia Ren said in a low voice, "Old man, his skin has turned purple!" The whole corpse looks like a dried corpse after decades of drying!
It's as if the skin is completely, completely separated from the flesh and bones! It feels like something has a human skin on it! ”