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Seeing that the expression on her face and the tone of her words did not look like a fake, my great-grandfather thought about it, pointed to the two blood-red characters on the cloth man's chest, and asked, "The words 'Zhangjiang', did you cut your fingertips and write miles with five finger blood?" ”

When the woman heard this, she looked surprised and asked my great-grandfather, "How do you know?" ”

My great-grandfather didn't answer, and then asked: "Is the tablet in Zhangjiang placed in the northwest corner of the house, facing the wall on the front and outward on the back, with an incense burner in front of the tablet and a brazier in front of the incense burner. ”

The woman was even more surprised when she heard this, and seemed to want to ask my great-grandfather again. My great-grandfather didn't wait for her to ask, and then said, "You are 'burning incense', let me tell you, this is a kind of evil art, summoning the souls of the dead, after you summon the souls of the dead, the more the soul stays at home for one day, you will lose one year's life." ”

"What?" When the woman heard this, her face turned pale, and she didn't seem to know what was at stake.

My great-grandfather glanced at the woman and took the opportunity to ask: "Don't be afraid, you tell me, who taught you this method?" ”

It seems that the phrase "stay one more day and reduce your life expectancy by one year" made the woman afraid, and in addition to confusion, there was also an inexplicable anger in her eyes. She asked my great-grandfather, "Does this really reduce life expectancy?" ”

My great-grandfather nodded, "Reducing your life, the people who taught you this method are not helping you, they are trying to harm you, you tell me, who taught you?" "My great-grandfather felt that since this woman didn't know anything about "burning incense", she must have been deceived, someone must have instructed her behind the scenes, and the woman was just deceived, and that person was the culprit.

The woman hesitated, and after a while, she said with a look of resentment: "It's me who taught me...... A while ago, I didn't come to see me for a few days, and later, I had a dream, he asked me to do this, I said that he was killed by the people in Cai's house, and I did what he said, and he would be able to take revenge. I later came to Cai's Mansion to inquire, and my father-in-law really died in Cai's Mansion, so I did what he said in his dream. I also said that this matter should not be known to the second person......"

When my great-grandfather heard this, he frowned and asked casually, "Why do you know this?" ”

The woman replied, "My husband told me in a dream that he learned this from an old man named Hanako when he was a child. ”

My great-grandfather sighed and said, "This is a kind of evil art, only people with bad intentions will learn it, Zhang Jiang doesn't want you to help him, he wants to harm you, he wants you to die early, so I can go down and accompany him, kill two birds with one stone, this person, the heart is poisonous......

The woman was shocked, angry and a little unconvinced when she heard my great-grandfather say this, but the woman's eyes quickly moistened, and she muttered, "No, no, no......"

At this time, my grandmother's second brother on the side was a little impatient, after all, the souls of Zhang Jiang and Xiaolan had been in his house for so long, and even the clay man was angry, and now he found a culprit who could be punished, and he just used it to vent his anger.

My great-grandmother's second brother said coldly, "What will you do, take it away, if you have anything to say in the yamen!" ”

After my great-grandmother's second brother finished speaking, he glanced at the two catchers, and the two catchers jumped up and grabbed the woman's two arms, and the woman struggled at this time, and her struggle didn't matter, my great-grandfather saw something under her wide plain clothes, and hurriedly walked over to stop the two catchers, and then raised his hand and grabbed one of the woman's wrists, and his fingers touched the pulse of the woman's wrist, and his face suddenly became ugly.

After letting go of the woman's wrist, my great-grandfather sighed lightly, turned back to my great-grandmother's second brother and said, "Zhang Jiang is really a sin, and if he dies, he will be fine, and he wants his wife and children to go down with him, this woman...... I was pregnant. ”

Burning incense is a kind of witchcraft that was widely spread among the people in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, what exactly is this witchcraft for, I don't know too well, I only know that according to the steps mentioned above, write the name of the deceased on the tablet with five finger blood, and face the wall, that is, the front of the wall mentioned above, and the reverse side facing outward. Put it in the northwest corner of the living room, and then sew a cloth man, and then write the name of the deceased with five finger blood on the cloth man, and put it in the southeast corner of the wardrobe, and then three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, burn incense and paper for the tablet. In this way, the soul of the deceased can be detained and not dispersed, even if it is dispersed, as long as the cloth and the tablet are still there, the soul can be dispersed and reunited, which is very evil.

However, this method seems to have been lost, and I have not heard of it in modern times. Of course, the specific operation process of "burning incense" is not as simple as what I wrote, it requires a very cumbersome set of procedures, and there seems to be a sect, but I don't know how to get it. Besides, it is better to encounter such evil arts that harm others and oneself less.

As soon as the cloth and tablet were burned, Zhang Jiang's soul would have no place to live, so he would naturally leave, or go to where it should go, or his soul would be scattered, I can't say clearly.

As for the plain-clothed woman, my great-grandmother's second brother wanted her to be escorted back to the county government for questioning. My great-grandfather couldn't bear to look at it, so he pulled my great-grandmother's second brother aside and begged the woman for a favor.

At that time, the whole country was in the limelight for the arrest of cults, and if a woman was escorted to the county office, she was likely to be beaten as a cultist, beheaded on the street, or sent to the frontier. Strictly speaking, the woman was bewitched by Zhang Jiang's ghost without knowing it, and she was also a victim, even if she was guilty, the child in her womb was not guilty.

My great-grandmother's second brother is not an unreasonable person, after all, he is a well-educated and well-established intellectual, and he knows more than my great-grandfather.

After thinking about it, my great-grandmother's second brother didn't speak, patted my great-grandfather's shoulder, and then waved at the few catchers he brought, and said, "Let's go, this official invites you to drink in the restaurant today." The catchers cheered and followed my grandmother's second brother to drink.

After my great-grandmother's second brother left with the catchers, my great-grandfather enlightened the woman a few more words, and finally touched himself.

To say that my great-grandfather was also humble enough, he was reluctant to spend a thousand taels of gold at home, and he brought a few small pieces of broken silver with him when he went far away. My great-grandfather wanted to give these taels of silver to the woman, but he felt that it was too little to take it.

In the end, he took the woman to the gate of Cai's mansion and asked her to wait at the gate of Cai's mansion, and he himself entered Cai's mansion to find my great-grandmother to find a way. In fact, my great-grandfather could have gone to Cai's account office to pay a few hundred taels of silver, and he would have just told Cai Wenye in the future, but he didn't do it.

At this time, my great-grandmother was chatting with my mother, Li, and after my great-grandfather greeted Li, he called my great-grandmother aside and told me about the woman's situation.

My great-grandmother was a very kind and reasonable woman, but she didn't have much silver on her, so she took off her pair of gold earrings and gave them to my great-grandfather.

My great-grandfather was so moved that he took the earrings to the pawnshop and gave them all to the woman.

In ancient times, pawnshops were divided into dead and alive, and when they died, that is, I don't want this thing, estimate the price, and exchange it for some money directly, which is generally less. It is equivalent to borrowing money with collateral for goods, and it will be redeemed in the future, which will generally be given a little more, of course, when you redeem it with silver, it will not be the original price.

My great-grandmother's pair of earrings are very exquisite, they are the dowry of the Li family, and they are considered a work of art and an antique, and they are worth a lot of money, so to speak, far more than two hundred taels. Of course, my great-grandfather couldn't have treated it as a death, and when he had the opportunity, he still had to redeem it.

The woman took the silver and knelt down directly to my great-grandfather. My great-grandfather hurriedly helped her up, and told her to get out of here as soon as possible, as far away as possible, and if possible, find a good family to marry in the future.

The woman thanked my great-grandfather for her kindness and left with tears in her eyes.

My great-grandfather looked at the woman's back as she left and sighed softly. This woman is actually quite bitter, she eloped here with Zhang Jiang, and now she can't go back home, and even she doesn't know where to go. These are what the woman told my great-grandfather personally on the way to Caifu with my great-grandfather. But my great-grandfather can only help her, all he can do is give her some silver taels, and there is really nothing else he can do.

In fact, in the eyes of my juniors, my great-grandfather did a bit ...... Anyway, it's a bit too magnanimous. In my heart, I still want Xiaolan, if I depend on me, it is estimated that it is the biggest limit to ask this woman for a favor and avoid her imprisonment, if you want to give her two more silver or something, I estimate that I am not as big as my great-grandfather. My grandmother said that my temperament was very similar to that of my great-grandfather, because it didn't stop me, and if it did, I would do the same. I'm silent about my grandmother's statement.

Two days later, on September 14, the day when Xiaolan and Xiaohuajiang got married, Cai's mansion had already prepared all the things for Xiaolan's marriage.

In the night, just after the second hour, that is, just after the third watch, the team of little florists came to the gate of Caifu.

The bridegroom is a paper man, two thirteen or fourteen-year-old children, a boy and a girl, one left and one right, holding the paper man, which is called the golden boy and jade girl escort. The paper figure was wearing a big red dress, that is, a groom's outfit, which looked very festive and presentable. Behind the groom, there is a papier-mâché sedan chair, carried by four people. This papier-mâché sedan chair is almost exactly the same as the real sedan chair, and it looks like it is almost real in the middle of the night, but it is many times larger than the real sedan chair, and the only difference between the real sedan chair is that there is no bottom under the papier-mâché sedan chair