When he arrived, Xing Ruyi was stunned, because it was not the ordinary female ghost who was caught by the fox, but a paper man, the kind of paper man who was pasted with rice paper.

The original fire disappeared in an instant. Xing Ruyi pointed to the thing in front of him and asked the fox, "What's going on?" ”

"How am I going to explain that to you?" The fox frowned: "This phenomenon, you can call it possession, or you can call it borrowing spirits." The so-called life has a hundred forms, there are a hundred kinds of death, different ways of death, and the soul after death is also different. For example, a drowned ghost, in addition to not being able to reincarnate and needing to find a stand-in, will also be covered in **. If the house in which you live is neither the bottom nor the shade, but it is wet all day long, then it means that your house is constantly visited by drowned ghosts.

Another example is the hanging ghost, because it is a suicide, so according to the rules of the Yin Division, it is not allowed to enter reincarnation, in addition to the countless repetitions of hanging before death before death, its soul is also sticking out the tongue, falling off the neck, unusually ugly. If he commits suicide by cutting his wrists, no matter where his soul goes after death, it will be bloody. ”

Xing Ruyi's scalp was furious when he listened, and he said: "No wonder the ancestors have said that it is better to die than to live." By the way, then how did she die? ”

"Suffocate to death!" The fox said, letting go of his hand.

The paper figure, which was originally crumpled, began to stretch slowly, and finally turned into the appearance of an ordinary woman. She knew that there was no hope of escape, so she stood there motionless and listened to the fox and Xingruyi. When the fox said the words suffocation, she raised her head slightly, but there was no fluctuation on her blurred face.

"Suffocation? Like this" Xing Ruyi made a gesture of pinching his neck with his hand, and then glanced at the female ghost and said, "Stinky fox, are you bullying me for not reading much?" A female ghost who was strangled to death can become such a ghost after death? ”

As soon as Xing Ruyi finished speaking, the female ghost Hula suddenly floated in front of her, and it was only a little bit away from her, and it stuck to her again. But this time, she stopped. Xing Ruyi tried to discern the position of her facial features from the female ghost's face, and then smiled at the female ghost, and took a step back. Between his fingers, he also pinched out a ghost fire.

"I warn you, don't go up on me again. My Netherworld Fire is no ordinary fire in the stove, if you take a step closer, my soul will be scattered. ”

The female ghost looked at Xing Ruyi, and then at the ghost fire between her fingers, and returned to the same place lightly.

The fox shook his head and walked over: "Don't worry, she can't get on you." ”

"You're talking nonsense, you've been on it before." Xing Ruyi said, glaring at the female ghost. That kind of **, suffocating feeling, she still can't forget it.

"I did it on purpose!" The fox held Xing Ruyi's hand: "Her soul is attached to rice paper, if you don't let her get on your body, I'm afraid it will be difficult to catch." The feeling you just had was the way she felt when she was dying. Ruyi, you are a smart person, you should be able to guess how she died. ”

In the mind of Xuan Paper, **, and vague facial features, a picture suddenly appeared. It is a method of drowning a living person, and in some cases, to cover up the real cause of death and the scene of death. The operation is also very simple, bind the living person, and then first cover a piece of rice paper on her face, then pour a layer of water, then cover, and then water, after a few times, the person will be drowned alive, that is, suffocated to death. In the same way, the murderer will also throw it in the closest place to the water, giving the person who investigates the case the illusion that the person has accidentally fallen into the water, and if he encounters that kind of confused official, he will be given a hasty sentence.

"I guess, you've thought of it. However, she was drowned alive by that method, or criminal law. The fox said and waved his hand, and the layer of rice paper that had originally covered the woman's face was slowly peeled off, revealing a beautiful face. She should be the missing fisherwoman mentioned by Chang Daren when he was watching the county chronicles. ”

As soon as the fox's words fell, the female ghost knelt down in front of the fox, "Thank you Gongzi for rescuing, the fish can't be rewarded."

"In the next life, you can be a cow and a horse, as for the promise of the body, don't talk about it. First, I won't allow it, and second, the fox won't want you. After all, ghosts and demons are in love, and there is nothing to watch. Xing Ruyi stopped between the fox and the female ghost domineeringly: "By the way, you just called yourself Yu'er, is this your name?" ”

The female ghost nodded, but her gaze bypassed Xingruyi and fell on the fox's face.

"Alright, okay, don't look at it. He's your benefactor, but he's not the man you can covet! Xing Ruyi stretched out his hand and covered the female ghost's eyes: "You better tell me how you died." Also, why do you want to pester Brother Chang, he is a hundred years away from you, he shouldn't be an enemy, right? ”

The female ghost shook her head.

At this time, Chang Tai, who had been standing in the corner, couldn't help it. He walked over, looked at the female ghost, and asked, "Then why, are you pestering me?" ”

"Yu'er didn't mean to pester Childe, but Childe had something on his body, which was something that Yu'er had before he was alive, and he thought about things and people, so he couldn't help but follow Childe from time to time." The female ghost said, glancing at Chang Tai's waist. There is only an ordinary piece of jadeite hanging there, which is of average color, and even if it is sold, it is not worth a few dollars. Xing Ruyi once asked Chang Tai about the origin of the jadeite, Chang Tai said that it was given by his mother in the early years, as for the origin, he couldn't say clearly, maybe it was left by the clan.

Brother Chang's family background is average, and there is nothing suspicious about such an explanation. It's just that right now, the piece of jade on Brother Chang's waist is involved with the female ghost in the Xie family's old mansion, which makes people wonder about the origin of this piece of jade.

Brother Chang's mother has passed away, and I am afraid that it will not be possible to find the roots. At the moment, we can only start from the female ghost's side.

"You said that the jadeite on Brother Chang's waist is yours, so do you remember how this jadeite was lost?"

"It's not lost!" The fish said, smiling faintly. Originally, it was just a beautiful face, but because of this smile, it was a little more colorful. Yu'er's face is the most popular one in the Tang Dynasty nowadays, and it just so happens that the two pear vortices on her cheeks add a bit of agility to her.

Yu'er pointed to the piece of jade around Chang Tai's waist and said, "I once gave this jade to a person." This person has the same surname as this son, and his surname is Chang. If Yu'er didn't admit it, Chang Gongzi should be the descendant of the person Yu'er recognized. ”

"You are a fisherman's girl, although this jadeite is of average color, but for ordinary people, it is also a valuable thing. I don't know why you, Miss Yu'er, gave this jade to Brother Chang's ancestors? Could it be, what else is the origin here? ”

"That man is the lifesaver of the fish." Yu'er said, lowered her head slightly, and looked at Chang Tai's gaze, and there was a little more emotion: "Yu'er was born in a fisherman's family, and she is a woman, and she has not been treated by her father and mother since she was a child, and even this name is taken at will." But as the fish grew up year by year, the father and mother who were originally harsh on the fish began to treat the fish well.

Inadvertently, Yu'er learned that the reason why her father and mother changed their attitude towards Yu'er was because Yu'er was still good-looking, and the number of people who came to the house to ask for relatives was increasing year by year. Father and mother plan to use Yu'er's family affairs to make a deal. Yu'er didn't feel anything about this, because as a woman, she had to marry sooner or later. The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, even the children of the House of the Son of Heaven, I am afraid they can't help themselves, right?

But Yu'er never thought that the first family thing that his father and mother promised for Yu'er was an old man who knew the destiny of heaven. He hit his wife, and he kept continuing the strings since he was young, but the longest one only lived for three years. Such a person, Yu'er naturally couldn't agree, and for the first time in his life, he disobeyed his father and mother and ran away from home. Yu'er knew that if he went home, his father and mother would be persecuted, and in desperation, he could only choose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river. ”

"You committed suicide?" Xing Ruyi looked at the water vapor on her body, and glanced at the fox again: "What about suffocation and death?" ”

Yu'er snorted and laughed: "The girl misunderstood, Yu'er didn't die that time, otherwise there would be no follow-up." ”

"Is that Brother Chang's ancestors saved you?" Xing Ruyi asked again, and this time the fish nodded.

"Yes! At that time, the man was traveling in a boat and happened to pass by the riverbank. He saw me when I was throwing myself into the water, so he dropped all his belongings and jumped into the water to save me. When he took me back to the riverbank, I found that the ferryman was not waiting for him, and that all his belongings had been left on the ferry. We were together for two days, but not as you might think, and he was always distant from me. Perhaps, in his eyes, I am just a girl he happened to pass by and rescued by him. He is like a chivalrous man in the mouth of a storyteller, and an ordinary fisherman like me cannot match it. ”

Hearing this, Xing Ruyi couldn't help but stab Chang Tai with his hand, and asked in a low voice: "Do you know who your grandfather, or your grandfather, married?" ”

"Ordinary peasant girl!" Chang Tai thought for a while and replied: "Since I can remember, my grandmother and mother, they are just ordinary peasant girls. If there is any difference, it should be that they are more open-minded and never care about others. In my father's words, it is heartless, heartless, and heartless. ”

"Brother Chang, I never thought that you would be such a big brother Chang."

"What's wrong with me?"

"It's nothing, I just don't think you're a person who can use words like heartlessness and heartlessness, especially to describe your family."

"I was probably used to hearing my father say it when I was a child, and besides, such words are not bad words in my family, but a compliment." Chang Tai said, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, as if he thought of something: "In my memory, my grandmother is illiterate, but she can tell many stories on the rivers and lakes. My mother's temperament, in retrospect, is a little similar to Ruyi's you. She also likes to fiddle with all kinds of medicinal herbs, but not for rouge gouache, but for cooking. It's a pity that her craftsmanship has always stayed on barely cooking the dishes, and it is a blessing to eat it in the stomach and not let your stomach ache. So, my mother loves to cook, but my father has never been reluctant to let her do it, and he doesn't dare to let her do it. For this reason, my mother complained a lot about my father. After my father passed away, my mother's desire to cook faded, but I went into the kitchen early until I made a quick catch. ”

"I really didn't expect that there would be such a story on you, Brother Chang. But it sounds like the relationship between the aunt and the uncle should be excellent. Xing Ruyi patted Chang Tai's shoulder comfortingly, and then fell on the female ghost's body: "Then, two days later, you separated from Brother Chang's ancestors, and you had nothing to lose, so you gave him that piece of jade?" ”

"Yes! Because he lost all his belongings when he rescued me, and the most valuable thing on me was the jade, I gave him the jade and asked him to pawn it in exchange for the passage home. But according to his temperament, this piece of jade is bound to remain. The female ghost said, and glanced at the jade hanging on Chang Tai's waist again: "That day, I met this son in the Xie family's old mansion. Because my facial features are covered and my vision is not clear, only this jade is my private thing, and it is contaminated with my breath, so I regarded this son as him for a while. I thought he had come back to look for me. ”

The female ghost said, turned around, and bowed to Xing Ruyi: "Thanks to the girl's action, otherwise the fish would have killed the benefactor's descendants." Although this is not the meaning of the fish, but the fish is an evil thing after all, if it is possessed, it hurts Chang Gongzi's life. Under the nine springs, how should the fish face the benefactor. ”

"Brother Chang's matter, you can be considered to have explained it clearly, and we believe that what you just said is the truth. What about the Lu family and the Xie family? The county chronicle said that you were the bride that Lu Gongzi wanted to marry, but why did you lose your life, and you still lived in the portrait and hid in the Xie family's old house. Are those murders in the Xie family's old mansion related to you? ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)