Compared with joyful mourning, violent mourning is not only a difference in the way of death, but also whether or not you can be reincarnated smoothly. For those who die violently, they cannot be reincarnated immediately, and from the moment they die, their souls can only wander in the underworld, and there is no chance to enter reincarnation.

So with so many ghosts that have nowhere to place, do they really have no chance of being reincarnated? Of course not. If you want to enter reincarnation, there are several ways, one is to overtake the soul through artificial means, this method is called soul crossing, because it needs people from the yang world to do it, so it is very cumbersome, so this phenomenon is not common.

Another way also needs people in the Yang world to do it, but the method is very simple, it is also called soul holding. The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of Dafan every year is also known as the Lantern Festival in the countryside. When people hold lanterns to celebrate, a few people will hold lantern pots and scatter lanterns along the road. This kind of lamp is wrapped in oiled paper, lit with fire, and several people put it on as they walk, scattering it wherever they go. At this time, the ghosts who died because of the violent mourning will come out one after another and pick up the lamps scattered on the ground, so that they can enter the samsara.

However, in this way, it is necessary to find the lamp that has not been extinguished, but not let other ghosts snatch it, and it is necessary to avoid the crowd, so holding the lamp is not so simple and easy for many ghosts.

The last way, which is also what we will talk about today, is that it is all up to the ghosts themselves, and it is also the most cruel way. In the countryside, this method is called a stand-in. As the name suggests, this kind of ghost who dies violently, if no one exceeds it, and there is no soul on the fifteenth day of the first month, then it can only choose this way, that is, it needs to find a living person by itself, and let this person die in the way of his own death through his own way, so even if this ghost catches a stand-in, that is, replaces his position in the underworld, he can be reincarnated smoothly.

Today's story is about a hanged ghost who catches a stand-in.

Liu Wuye's family lives in the north of the village, with their back against the mountain, next door to his house, there is also a family, the head of the family is surnamed Han, the family conditions are not very good, the house is the kind of old-fashioned old house, the yard is quite large, because there is no courtyard wall, it is a fence with short wood.

Originally, there was a family of three, the old couple and a daughter, the girl married a few years ago, and now the old couple is left to live, the age of the head of the household is more than ten years younger than the fifth master, called Han Wu, a man with five big and three rough, honest and honest, in addition to planting his own few acres of land, he is also responsible for herding cattle for the people in the village.

It is said that in the autumn of that year, every household was busy with the autumn harvest, and Han Wu's own land, the two of them got up early and were greedy for darkness and quickly harvested it. Han Wu's daughter-in-law has been picking mushrooms in the mountains these days, and in our mountain village, the mushrooms in the mountains grow everywhere in autumn, and these mushrooms can be eaten at home and sold for money.

This morning, Han Wu's daughter-in-law went up the mountain with a basket early, and Han Wu went to help his father-in-law's family because his land was harvested. Counting the third day that he has gone to help today, the land of his father-in-law's family can be harvested today, so Han Wu went early.

In the blink of an eye, the day was over, and the land was almost harvested, Han Wu's mother-in-law prepared a meal and entertained her aunt well, she was tired enough these days, without her uncle's help, the dealer would not have collected it so quickly. On the last day of today, I drank some wine, so the time was delayed, and by the time Han Wu came out of his father-in-law's house, it was already dark. Han Wu hurriedly walked home, because it was still some distance away from home, after all, he had to climb over a mountain beam.

While speaking, Han Wu arrived at the top of the beam, the cold wind blew, and the wine woke up for most of the time, at this time it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and the daughter-in-law was waiting at home. If you go home from the top of the beam, there is a road that people usually walk, and you need to make a few detours, although it is easy to walk, but the time to get home will be much longer. There is also a road, which is the road that people usually walk up the mountain to chop firewood, this road is half a meter wider, and the road is potholes, but this road is a short road, which can go directly to the back mountain of Han Wujia.

Han Wu wanted to go home as soon as possible, so he decided to take this shortcut. With that, Han Wu wrapped his clothes tightly and walked towards the shortcut road.

Although this road is not easy to walk, but Han Wu often walks, and the moon is very round tonight, so the night road is not very dark, looking up at the foot of the mountain, the village is not far away, and Han Wu sped up his pace as he spoke.

After walking for a while, I saw the big elm tree in front of me, which had grown on the side of the path, and had been growing here for some years, and its branches completely covered the vicinity. Immediately walked to the tree, about ten steps or so, suddenly found that there seemed to be a person sitting under the tree, I saw that this person was wearing a dog skin jacket with turned out, with an octagonal hat, his face was facing the trunk of the tree, and he was sitting under the tree with his back to Han Wu, looking at the back Han Wu always felt familiar.

Han Wu was shocked, so he quickly stopped, thinking to himself who would run here and sit here in the middle of the night? With suspicion, Han Wu took a few more steps forward, and then the person turned his head around, and this turn of his head almost scared Han Wu to sit on the ground, a blood-red tongue drooped down from the person's mouth, his eyes were round, staring at Han Wu deadly, Han Wu's legs trembled, and his mouth wanted to shout but didn't dare to shout.

However, Han Wu still recognized this person, this person's name is Niu Er, and he is also a cattle herder, so he is very familiar with Han Wu, and last year, I don't know what happened, so he hanged himself under this elm tree.

Han Wu was only five steps away from this person now, and it was impossible to go back if he wanted to. Although he was scared enough, after all, Han Wu was also a notoriously bold person, since he couldn't go back, he would go forward.

As he spoke, Han Wu lowered his head, pretended not to see it, and walked quickly in front of this person. When he walked over, Han Wu's heart had just relaxed, and he only felt that his left shoulder sank, and one hand was on Han Wu's shoulder, and the force was very great. With this hand, Han Wu completely collapsed, and he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he grabbed that hand with both hands, only to feel that the hand was like a dry branch, without a trace of temperature, and threw it out to the ravine on the side of the road.

This run ran into the house in one breath, kicked open the door, and rushed into the kang head, at this time Han Wu's daughter-in-law also woke up, and when she saw Han Wu like this, she asked what the reason was.

"Why did you come back so late, what the hell is going on?"

Han Wu recovered after a while, and then said to his daughter-in-law, "When I came back just now, I saw Niu Er." ”

"Don't scare people in the middle of the night!" His daughter-in-law was quite angry.

"It's true, he grabbed me on the shoulder." As he spoke, Han Wu took off his clothes, only to see a black paw print on his shoulder!

One evening two days after this incident, Han Wu's daughter-in-law came back from the mountain, picked a basket of mushrooms, and was picking mushrooms in the yard, Han Wu came back and said to his daughter-in-law: "Daughter-in-law, hurry up and cook, I'm hungry, take advantage of this time, I'll go to the back mountain to chop some firewood." Then he took a rope from the fence and went up.

Han Wu's daughter-in-law was quite puzzled, she was usually a lazy person, why did she take the initiative to chop firewood today, and she didn't care, so she went into the house to make dinner.

After the dinner was done, it was already dark, Han Wu had not come back, Han Wu's daughter-in-law waited for another hour, but still did not come back, she was a little anxious, and then she remembered that the day before yesterday she met the hanged ghost in the middle of the night, and she was even more uneasy, and then she went to the next door to call Liu Wuye, told her about the situation, and went to the back mountain to look for it.

This search is an hour, seeing that it is dark, but there is no one, when the two came to a ravine, suddenly heard the side of the ravine, a clang, Han Wu's daughter-in-law said: "It must be over there, hurry up and take a look." As soon as the two of them left, a pheasant flew up from the other side of the ravine. As soon as the two saw that it was the sound of a pheasant, they did not pass.

The next day, Han Wu's daughter-in-law still didn't give up, so she came to the back mountain alone, and then she came to the ravine where she heard the sound yesterday. At this time, there was a gust of wind, and his body swayed from side to side with the wind. When I got closer, my face was pale, my tongue had been strangled, and it was placed diagonally on my lower lip......

Han Wu hanged himself like this, as for the reason, it is still a mystery, only Liu Wuye knows what is going on.