Chapter 26: Telling Ghost Stories (Second Watch, Thanks for the Twisted Scales' Reward)
After returning to the house, Cheng Qi and Ma Zhen went back to the second floor as if they were nothing, talking and laughing, which made Han Yi, who was about to watch a good show, puzzled, and Wan Jingjing next to him also wondered: "What's the matter?" ”
Han Yi looked at her coldly: "Didn't you put that medicine?" ”
Wan Jingjing was very afraid of her, so she hurriedly bowed her head and said, "I'll let it go." ”
"How can it be okay if you let it go!"
As soon as she raised her voice, the voices of talking and laughing around her immediately stopped, and they all cast their eyes.
Han Yiling raised his eyebrows: "What do you see!" ”
The men turned their heads like mice to cats, and lay down cautiously to sleep.
And Wan Jingjing said: "Maybe they didn't use that water." ”
Han Yi didn't bother to listen to her nonsense, so he only said: "Waste, you can't do anything." Pushed her, turned around and lay down to sleep, and was still scolding Wan Jingjing for being useless.
The man looked helpless and aggrieved, sat down, and lay down.
It was about two o'clock in the morning, Han Yi fell asleep in a daze, only felt that something was agitating in the quilt, and woke up in a daze, and found a red face next to the bed!
It was Cheng Qi, who was lying on the side of the bed with an oil lamp.
The flickering light of the fire illuminated half of her face, and her eyes were soaked in it, and they were also stained blood-red.
"What do you do!"
Han Yi shouted in fright, and the people in the room woke up, and when they saw Cheng Qi reflecting the firelight, they were also shocked, angry and frightened: "Cheng Qi! What are you messing around with in the middle of the night! ’
Han Yi was the most, but before he could scold, he was squeezed up by Cheng Qisheng, who put the oil lamp next to him, looked around at the girls who had all woken up, and whispered: "I just told a story to the sisters on the second floor, and I thought I would tell it to you too, so I came down." ”
Han Yi was annoyed and pushed her out: "Get out of here!" ”
Cheng Qi was able to push her, and she pressed Han Yi with one hand, pressed her head into the soft pillow hard, and said in an ethereal voice: "Anyway, everyone is awake now, I'll talk quickly, and I'll go back to sleep later." ”
The girl in the blue bedding on a brocade bed opposite said lightly: "What story?" ”
Cheng Qi recognized this person, her name was Feng Se, she was the second daughter of Sima Feng Mao of Xiping, the sister of Feng Yi, the famous lady of Xiping, who was only ten years old today.
In this Suzaku Building, she and Ma Zhen did not take the initiative to bully the original owner.
Besides, this person's status is high, and no one takes the initiative to provoke him.
Seeing Feng Se speak, the rest of the people were also curious.
Cheng Qi glanced at Han Yi, who was struggling in vain in the pillow, turned a blind eye directly, turned his head and said: "There used to be a rich businessman, who was wandering outside when he was young, and was a thief. ”
"And then?" Someone asked.
"There is just one thing, this rich merchant was drunk and bedridden one day, fell asleep in a daze, slept until midnight, vaguely heard a voice coming from the room, and didn't pay attention to it at first, but the sound became louder and louder, and the rich businessman who disturbed listened carefully, and found that someone was chanting, and the sound of knocking on the wooden fish, tuk tuk tuk ......"
"Cheng Qi, don't talk about it."
There are cowardly, and they are scared by Cheng Qi's strange tone.
"The rich merchant is completely sleepy, he is the only one in this mansion, where does the chanting sound come from? He got up to look for it, and when he heard where the voice came from, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, the voice was actually coming from the ground! ”
"Cheng Qi, you go back for me."
Han Yi was shocked when he was a child, so he was most afraid of demons and monsters, so it was easy to break free of her, and he wanted to drive this person upstairs again and again.
Cheng Qi easily pressed her again: "This rich businessman felt frightened, listening to the voice all night, the next morning to find someone to tell the matter, but no one cared, all said that it was his drunken hallucination, after his friend left, that night the rich businessman heard the chanting again, this time I heard it clearly, the chanting sound from the ground was very strange, big and small, fast and slow, just and soft, so that the rich businessman was afraid of another night of sleeplessness. ”
"The next day, the rich merchant came again, and said that he wanted to see what was buried in the ground, and his friend couldn't persuade him to dig it, and when he was about a foot deep, it seemed that he had dug something, and everyone brushed off the soil on it, and they were immediately shocked, it was a coffin!"
"Cheng Qi!" Han Yu said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about here!" ”
Feng Se said: "Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, Han Yi, what are you afraid of." ”
Han Yi's face froze, and when he saw that everyone was staring at him, he immediately recklessly said, "Who is afraid!" Let's talk! ”
Cheng Qi continued: "Out of curiosity, everyone opened the coffin, and there was a skeleton in the coffin, which was dressed in a robe, with Buddhist beads around its neck, and a wooden fish next to it, which was the skeleton of a monk. ”
"No wonder there is chanting." Someone sighed.
"Yes, remembering the sound of chanting in the middle of the night that the rich merchant said, his friend also felt a chill on his back, and he didn't know what to do, and the rich merchant was also afraid, but he didn't want to give up this mansion, and asked everyone to carry the coffin away and bury it elsewhere, but everyone brought ropes to carry the coffin, and the coffin did not move, and they were afraid in their hearts, and they didn't dare to try again, so they had to give up, and although the rich merchant was reluctant to carry this mansion, he couldn't carry the coffin away, and he didn't dare to live in the same room with the deceased anymore, so he had no choice but to move and live in a relative's house temporarily."
Feng Se said: "Then what? ”
"But what the rich merchant didn't expect was that the dead monk seemed to be entangled with him, even if he moved elsewhere, the sound of chanting would also come into his ears in the middle of the night, so that he couldn't sleep at night, he was in a trance during the day, and one day of bad luck was at the head, walking on the road, he was hit by a carriage under the loss of consciousness, and almost died, the rich merchant was frightened to ask God and worship Buddha everywhere, and asked the Taoist priest to exorcise evil spirits, and asked the monk to cross over, all to no avail, and finally the body and mind were exhausted, and the person was getting thinner and thinner, like a withered tree."
"What then?"
"When a parent heard about this, he told the wealthy merchant that there was a temple where his mansion was located, and it was expected that the deceased monk was a person in the temple before his death, and the deceased would not entangle the people in the yang world for no reason.
"It turns out that there is a temple where the house is located, the abbot in the temple is greedy for money, deceives the believers in the name of the Buddha, and collects money in a big way, after the country changes hands, the new emperor ascends the throne, hates the greed of Buddhism, the abbot was denounced, arrested and imprisoned, and then sentenced to death, killed in the wilderness, after the abbot died, the believers could not bear to see his corpse in the wilderness, so they raised money to make a thin coffin for it, buried it in the backyard of the temple, and then the wind of destroying the Buddha intensified, the temple was destroyed, razed to the ground."
"Cheng Qi, please don't talk about it, I'm afraid." Someone lamented.
Feng Se squinted: "I'm afraid of making a mistake." ”
Cheng Qi also refused to stop: "The rich merchant knew the life experience of the dead monk, read his good wealth, so he threw a gold ingots in his coffin, and the chanting sound was really a little smaller that night, so he had to continue to throw money into the coffin, every time he threw some money, the coffin was a little lighter, until the monk's bones were buried with money, so that the coffin could be lifted, and the rich merchant promised him that after the burial, he would change a golden silk nanmu coffin, and then he was successfully buried. ”
"Is the rich merchant okay?"
"Yes and no, he never heard the chanting at night, but almost all of Wanguan's family wealth was taken away by the dead monk, coupled with the business was not smooth, and he knew how to spend money in moderation, and it didn't take long for him to be poor, and even the mansion was sold, and finally he was reduced to living on people's alms."
Feng Se asked again: "What about the dead monk?" ”
But it was said that after the bones of the dead monk were reburied, the matter of hiding money in the coffin spread, and it was targeted by several outlaws, and it didn't take long to break the coffin and steal all the money, but that night, those outlaws died violently for no reason, and the government sent people to investigate and came to the conclusion that it was...... He was frightened and died. “
Cheng Qi said the last few words slowly, her eyes deliberately widened, and she was really scared when she was illuminated by the oil lamp, which made everyone scold her and ask her to go upstairs.
Han Yi was the most, her palms were sweating, and she pushed her vigorously.
Cheng Qi grinned, revealing two rows of small white teeth, since he had achieved his goal, he got up with the oil lamp, and said again: "Everyone...... Watch out for the sound of knocking wooden fish. ”
With that, he walked briskly up to the second floor, leaving behind the frightened crowd.