Su Qin looked at me, and then looked at the archway, she felt that the string of classical Chinese was too difficult to understand. I carefully read the words carved on the torii several times, and slowly talked about the past and present lives of the woman who lived in this room more than 100 years ago.

"This archway was given by Qianlong." I slowly read out the words on the archway of chastity.

"Qianlong's imperial gift? So much! Su Qin's face was full of surprise.

"More outrageous is yet to come." I pouted: "In fact, most of the arches of chastity are given by the emperor, although the years have eroded, the font on the archway is somewhat incomplete." But the story of that year can still be read in general terms. The original owner of the courtyard house, surnamed Yang, you should know this. He is a big family in Tuxue Town, and his position is equivalent to the current head of a county, and he is quite upright. He has a daughter, an only daughter, who only got a daughter because she was older, so she loves her very much.

There is a Confucian student surnamed Zhang in the town, who is both talented and good-looking, and proposes marriage to the Yang family and wants to marry a young lady surnamed Yang. The owner of this house inspected him and felt that the Confucian surnamed Zhang was indeed a rare good husband, so he readily agreed. On the wedding night, the bride is graceful and moving. A cousin of the groom, a man surnamed Liu, had bad intentions and sneaked into the new house while he was drinking. In ancient times, the bride and groom had never met. When the hijab was lifted, the bride mistook the name 'groom' and entered the cave by mistake, which eventually led to a tragedy.

After the incident, the bride was ashamed. In order to prove his innocence, he hanged himself in a new house that night. The groom was unwilling, and the bride's family jointly sued the cousin surnamed Liu. Emperor Qianlong heard about this, and in the twenty-first year of Qianlong, he set up a memorial arch for the bride. ”

"It's miserable." Su Qin stuck out his little tongue: "I didn't expect that the archway in my house would have such a story." ”

"What's worse, this young lady is not clean when she dies." I pointed to the inscription on the archway: "Liu Shifang, the wife of the Confucian scholar Zhang Xue, hum, it is estimated that she will not be able to rest in peace under the nine springs." ”

Su Qin looked carefully at the line of words I pointed out, looked at it for a long time, and suddenly came back to her senses: "Yes, the woman's surname is Yang, and her husband's surname is Zhang, how did she become Liu in the end?" This chaste archway is actually called Liu's Fang! ”

"Nothing surprising. The moral etiquette of ancient times was that whoever a woman actually possessed belonged to whomever she was. Although she married a man surnamed Zhang, she was indeed possessed by a man surnamed Liu, so she was actually Liu's man, and in the end, when she died, she also followed the surname of the rapist. My voice was low, lamenting the misfortune of this woman.

Su Qin smacked her tongue: "I used to think that I was quite unlucky, but now that I have read her story, my sorrow seems to be no big deal." At least I didn't have to die as a rapist, and luckily I wasn't born in ancient times. Cut, I really don't know what the authors of those women crossed over think, the status of women in ancient times was so low, and there were still people who wanted to travel back! ”

"Actually, it's just that this Miss Yang is particularly miserable." I took back the hand that was placed on the archway, and suddenly, I found that the position of the archway was one person high, and the place where Liu's name was engraved was full of scratches. It was as if someone was scratching hard with his fingernails, and even his own blood was stained on the stone. The blood stains were red, as if they had just been left behind.

At least, not as old as hundreds of years.

Su Qin still looked at the archway in a daze, and asked: "That night is silent, why is the archway of chastity put in the house and painted black?" ”

"Because I can't see anyone. As soon as her daughter got married, she was raped and hanged herself at her husband's house. This is a disgrace to the Yang family, a famous local family. And the emperor's chastity archway can not be accepted, can only be hidden and tucked in the woman's former boudoir. As for the black, I'm afraid that the husband's family can't afford to lose that face and proposes to withdraw from the marriage. I explained.

"This woman is probably the worst woman I have ever seen in my life." Su Qin shook her head, inexplicably sad.

I saw that I couldn't find any more clues in this room, so I prepared to leave. Su Qin, who was walking to the door with me, suddenly turned around again, and said in surprise inexplicably: "This Liu family should have been called the Yang family, right?" ”

"Yes, your family was originally the Yang family's courtyard. You should know better than I do! I replied.

Su Qin's face suddenly turned pale, white and bloodless. Her whole body trembled with fright, and even her lips trembled. The girl grabbed my sleeve tightly, and it was difficult to move, and it took a long time for her to slow down, and she said word by word: "Night is silent, do you remember the story I told you about the soul?" ”

"I remember it very well." I was a little confused by her strange reaction.

"You guessed it, that did happen in this quadrangle. It was indeed my sister who disappeared, she killed the Taoist priest and my parents, and she has not been found. I don't know if I should hate her or worry about her. She is, after all, my last direct relative! Su Qin said in a low tone, with two lines of tears streaming down her cheeks.

I looked like I knew it was like this. Her words did not make her own. But what the girl said next really stunned me.

"Whether you can do it or not, after my sister goes insane, she often comes to this door inexplicably, and looks inside in a daze." Su Qin was a little frightened: "Moreover, her voice is not like herself at all, singing strange songs, and calling herself Yang." You say, will she be possessed by Miss Yang who died with a grudge? ”

I looked at her in shock, my head a little confused. I came to investigate Su Qing's disappearance, how did I get caught up in the incident of Su Qin's sister after entering the Su family. This Yang family's mansion is really weird. There are not too many oddities for strange people and strange things to appear in the family, but in the Su family, there are two people and two kinds of things. It's incredible. If you want to say that the house is fine, I'm afraid I don't believe it.

Suddenly I remembered the bloody scratches on the archway of chastity, and only a person with infinite hatred for something or something would do such a madman-like act. Otherwise, what normal person would grab a torii made of stones?

"Your sister, when did she go missing?" I asked.

"Two years ago." Su Qin replied.

I walked back under the torii and studied the scratches carefully. Two years is no more, no less, and these scratches do fit that time period. I touched my head, my brain was messy, and I was getting more and more confused about the affairs of the Su family. If it was the missing Su Qin's sister who caught the archway of chastity, then the statement that she was possessed by Miss Yang is also reasonable.

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