Chapter 31: The Secret Marriage (Part II)
Underworld marriage is the search for a spouse for the deceased.
This custom began before the Han Dynasty and was a very inhumane feudal custom. In ancient times, people who died before marriage were regarded as ominous, and the clan teachers of the family did not allow such people to be buried in the ancestral land.
For those poor people who don't even have a cemetery, it certainly doesn't matter, as long as there is a place to bury their bones, but for large families and wealthy nobles, it is particularly important to find a feng shui treasure for their children.
Not only for the prosperity of the family, but also for the sake of the family's smooth weather, so there is the term "secret marriage".
At the beginning, it was only for the early death of men and women who were destined to have a baby, and in order to fear that their children would be lonely, they held a wedding after their death and let the two be buried together.
The latter custom became more and more perverted, and even annihilated human nature and buried it with a living person.
The rules of ghost marriage vary from place to place, and it is said that in some places the cruel method of nailing the living to the coffin is cruel.
Jiang Yuan could see this scene, and he knew that it was the female ghost who told him her resentful memories through the magnetic field in this way.
He could only be a bystander, quietly watching this previous event.
He hoped that he had guessed wrong, so that there would be one less human tragedy.
The coffin was uncovered, and inside was a man dressed in the groom's costume, whose face was bloody and fleshy. I don't know what kind of blow he suffered and died.
He was dressed in a black brocade vest, a red satin robe embroidered with gold thread and copper coins, and a small round black hat, revealing gray and blue skin, and corpse spots on his body, which should have been parked for several days.
When the coffin arrived in the lobby, the woman struggled violently, and several older people in the hall looked indifferent, and one of the white-bearded old men shouted, but he couldn't hear what he said.
A chubby middle-aged woman walked over, and behind her stood a mage, looking dressed not like domestic, and a bit like Azan in Southeast Asia.
This mage has tattoos on his face, wears a voluminous robe, wears a pair of slippers, and has numerous tattoos on his chest and hands.
The scene could only be seen, not heard, like a silent pantomime.
The fat woman came out with her hands folded and exchanged a few words with the mage, who nodded and looked at the bride.
The bride's face was full of horror, her mouth was open as if she was shouting loudly, and no one present stood up for her or stopped it.
The fat woman walked over and gave the two men next to her a firm grip on the bride, then took a pair of scissors in her hand to cut the groom's hair, stuffed it into the bride's mouth, and pressed her mouth with her hand before she could spit it out.
The bride struggled more and more violently, and both men could barely hold her.
Two women stood up next to her to help clamp it, and the fat woman took out a long needle of about ten centimeters and sewed the bride's mouth directly!
Bright red blood flowed down his mouth, and the people in the hall were still indifferent, only a few women didn't dare to look at it and lowered their heads.
Jiang Yuan was furious when he saw this, shouting and rushing to the crowd, but these were all illusions, he could only watch, and he couldn't do anything.
Jiang Yuan burst into tears, watching all this happen and being powerless, what kind of people are these who can make them ruthless and do such terrible things!
The bride is still a woman after all, she struggled for a long time and almost lost her strength, and her mouth was sewn up, she couldn't shout, and she hung her head and didn't know whether she was dead or alive.
Seeing that she was no longer struggling, the two strong men dragged her out with the coffin and walked to the happy room with the person who had just carried the coffin into the hall.
Jiang Yuan only went out with him.
The crowd poured out of the hall and followed the bride and groom to the wedding room.
The happy room is in the side room, out of the hall to pass an arch, waiting for a group of people outside the door, carrying a paper sedan chair, by a single drum, a single horn, a single suona to play the lead.
All the way to the wedding room, the four men put down the coffin, the fat matchmaker tried a look, and the two strong men sent the bride into the coffin.
Behind the bride was the corpse, her expression terrified to the extreme, her legs and feet struggling to escape.
However, her strength was greater than that of those two men, and she was firmly fixed by them in a few clicks.
In order to prevent her from continuing to disturb the interior of the coffin, several coffin sealers who had been waiting for a long time, with sharp coffin nails, stepped forward and fixed the bride with hammers to fix the nails inside.
Jiang Yuan didn't dare to look at everything behind, he found that the ignorance of people in this world was more terrifying than ghosts.
What kind of people, and how stupid they are, would make their group of people indifferent to the death of an innocent life.
There was a fire burning in his heart, and he sympathized with the bride, who was unfortunate in such a dark society.
At this moment, he also understands why the female ghost has so much resentment, so that she has not lost half a point in forty years!
If you are any other person, you will feel resentment when you encounter such a thing, and you will definitely take revenge on everyone present.
When the coffin board was closed, the illusion in front of him disappeared, and it was restored to the master bedroom of Li Qingqing's house.
Jiang Yuan still had tears on his eyes, and he felt some sympathy for this female ghost and forgave it for everything it had done.
The bedroom was brightly lit, not as dark as it had been when he came in.
The master bedroom is luxuriously furnished, and without the shadow of a female ghost, everything has become normal.
Could it be that this female ghost believes in herself and wants to let herself help her resolve this grudge, so it will let herself see the cause of its death?
If this female ghost is the one in the big fishing village, the news report has arrived, saying that the whole village of the big fishing village died mysteriously forty years ago, could it be that something happened during this time?
Is it true that Lin Guo went to Dayu Village unintentionally? Was her death really innocent?
He stood there thinking about it all when suddenly a hurried bell interrupted his thoughts.
Jiang Yuan connected the phone, and Zhou Daozi's voice came from there.
"Lao Yuan, are you okay, are you going to take the little worm and shout the soul? Hurry back, you've been gone for over two hours! ”
Hearing Zhou Daozi's voice, he suddenly remembered the purpose of his coming here.
He looked at the empty room and said, "I don't know your name, but thank you for trusting me, don't worry, I will find out what happened and give you justice!" ”
After he finished speaking, the curtain of the master bedroom flew high, as if in response to his promise.
Jiang Yuan smoothly returned to the living room, picked up the cup, and after experiencing the scene just now, his heart was full of pity and a lot less fear.
The two ghosts in the house did not embarrass him and let him out of the room.
Jiang Yuan has been thinking about this matter on the way back, although it has only been three days, but there are too many things that have happened, they are all strange things beyond his cognition, and there is no way to judge and analyze them, what he can do now is to save his friend first, and then ask the fourth uncle.
Everyone says that if there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, the fourth uncle may be the key to open the mystery by himself.