Chapter 1: The Strange Marriage
The woman in costume quickly flew away from the space with me, standing on a small hillside, I looked back at the space, where the ambilight was dazzling, and the seven-colored light slowly covered everything inside, and then gradually merged with the surroundings until it disappeared completely. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Let's go, we will naturally meet again when we have the opportunity in the future, but now she needs to absorb the power of the earth, after all, she spent too much essence to maintain the immortality of the physical body before." The woman in ancient costume silently looked at all this and said, "By the way, the words of the previous summoning are too long, why don't you give me a name, so as not to summon it too much time in the future." After saying that, she looked at me carefully, as if she wanted to sink me deep into her heart.
"I remember that the words shouted at the end were Soul Lovers Blade Butterfly Dance, well, Butterfly Dance, Dream Butterfly? Hey, there you have it! Shall I call you Meng Caiyi? A thought crossed my mind, and I blurted out. The costume beauty frowned slightly and muttered in a low voice: "Meng Caiyi? This name is curious, what is the saying, it feels very, wonderful. ”
"Caiyi, this is a very affectionate woman, or a very dedicated goblin! As the so-called spring flowers can be frosted a few times, who shares the lonely light in the autumn moon. If you are infatuated with true affection, you will wear red makeup. I blurted out the poem in the fairy sword game, and then briefly told the woman in ancient costume about the plot of Die Caiyi.
The woman in ancient costume listened quietly, and said with emotion for a long time: "Alas, yes, it seems that someone has already understood the true meaning of love, otherwise how could he have thought of such a plot?" I couldn't help but sigh softly: "Alas! Yes, as the saying goes, there are ruthless people in the world, but there are sentient demons! Sometimes the human heart is even more terrifying! ”
"There are ruthless people in the world, but there are sentient demons!" The woman in ancient costume whispered this sentence repeatedly for a while before she raised her head and said: "Yes, I like this name, then I will be called Meng Caiyi in the future, I hope you can give me a good memory." I suddenly felt a faint sadness in her words, and just wanted to ask her a few words, but she said: "Hey, I'm going back first, and if you want to call me in the future, call me by my name, from today onwards I will change my name to Meng Caiyi." Also, I'm usually hiding inside you, so just call me out to your consciousness. With that, she spun around, followed by a flash of blue light, quickly disappearing into my left arm, and soon the surroundings returned to normal.
When I got home and took a quick shower, I felt a strong sleepiness coming, so I didn't bother to brush up on the circle of friends, and I really couldn't stop the sleepiness and fell asleep after glancing at it casually. In a daze, I felt something fluffy rubbing against my nose from time to time, and after a few strokes, I rolled over, and suddenly there was a sharp knock on the door.
I asked who it was with some complaint, there was only a dead silence outside, I closed my eyes and groped around the bedside for a while and finally touched the phone, so I tried to open my eyes and look, it was ten o'clock at midnight, this point knocked on the door? Maybe some man was drunk and knocked on the wrong door, and I went back to sleep thinking about it.
However, the knock on the door did not stop because of this, it would appear every once in a while, and the knock sounded from time to time while half-asleep, and finally I couldn't bear to get up and rub my eyes, yawned and walked to the door and asked who it was, and the only thing that answered me was the knock, and I turned on the light outside the house with some annoyance, and then I looked out through the cat's eye.
It was empty outside the house, and it didn't look like there was anyone at all, and I was a little shocked to look around again, and there was indeed no one. I turned off the light suspiciously, and before I could turn around, a knock sounded again, I quickly turned on the light and looked again, it was still empty outside, I waited patiently until suddenly the knock sounded again, but I didn't see anyone appear outside my door or on the stairs in the corridor!
I panicked, and for a long time I turned off the light, put my ear to the door, and listened with bated breath, until after a while the knock sounded again, and nothing else. I hesitated for a long time, ready to open the door the next time there was a knock to see what was going on.
After another anxious wait, the knock on the door rang again, and I was just about to open the door, when suddenly the wall clock on the wall struck three times, and at the same time the knock stopped abruptly! I was a little stunned for a long time, and then I waited patiently for a while, there was dead silence outside, I frowned and opened the door, there was not even a trace of wind outside, I walked into the aisle again and looked up and down, obviously no one was moving.
I rubbed my head and then went back to the house and continued to lie on the bed, tossing and turning without any sleepiness, so I took out my mobile phone and flipped up the circle of friends, and accidentally found that Su Tiannan posted a small video, and then I jokingly replied: Yo, it's quite hilarious, but what's floating behind you? Soon he sent a message: Bajiale in the city center, came to call me, there is something important to say.
The three watches in the middle of the night still don't let people sleep? I muttered and laughed, I couldn't be completely sleepy, let's go over and see, I haven't sung for a long time, but why did Anan come out to sing so late? It's not like he's just going to go to the bar in the morning and evening, so forget it, let's go over and have a look.
I quickly put on my clothes, washed up, and went out. After reaching out to stop the taxi, I watched the neon lights flickering outside the car, and my thoughts gradually flew up. I have been to some relatively remote mountain villages during that period of discouragement, where the simple folk customs, fresh air and clear starry sky have rekindled my originally dead heart with hope.
I remember one year in the early summer, I settled in a small village in SX, teaching Chinese in the only school within a radius of five kilometers, although life was poor but I also listened to freedom, sometimes I would follow a few children to the mountains to herd sheep or something, and occasionally listen to them tell me some local anecdotes.
Once, a seventeen-year-old girl in the school did not come home three days after school, and her parents climbed the mountains and waded through the mountains and rivers to find the school, and learned that their daughter had indeed left the school and gone home, and then the two of them sat on the ground and sighed, at which point the principal smoked a few puffs of hookah and said, "Otherwise, let's ask the blind man." ”
The blind man mentioned by the principal is a man surnamed Wang who lives at the end of the village, and their family is about ten years old, one eye gradually turns pale, and then they will go out for three years, and when they come back, they will bring a good-looking wife, and some people have asked him, but he said that this is an ancestral heirloom, and if he wants to know, he will be blind in one eye like them.
Although their family will be blind, but they can pinch and calculate, and usually help the villagers to exorcise evil spirits or something, and their lives are stable, so if the villagers encounter a trouble, they will go to him to help calculate.
Soon I followed the principal and the girl's parents to the blind man's house, and he was already waiting outside the house, and when we were all standing, he looked the girl's parents up and down with his pale and cloudy eyes, and after a long time he said to his wife behind him, "Cui'er, go and bring the black cat." Soon Cui'er took out a brightly colored black cat from the house.
Then he took out a sharp one-finger dagger from his waist, and then said to the girl's parents: "I have to borrow the blood from the middle finger of your left hand to find your girl." The two looked at each other and then nodded and stretched out their hands, the blind man quickly slashed the middle fingers of the two, and then motioned for the two to each squeeze out a drop of blood and drip into the left and right eyes of the black cat, the black cat blinked quickly, and then looked up at the two.
"You can tell your girl's name and birthday, okay, let's stay away, don't eavesdrop on this birthday, you say it's okay to follow the black cat, we'll wait at the entrance of the village." After the blind man finished speaking, he led Cui'er away first, and then the village chief also signaled me to follow to the entrance of the village.
After waiting for a while, the black cat stared at the two blood-red eyes and walked out slowly, followed by the girl's parents, the black cat came to the blind man Wang and rubbed his left leg lightly, then turned around and walked to a river in front of the village, and then screamed sadly at the river.
The blind man sighed, pointed to the river, and said, "Find someone to go down to the river and see." Behind her, the girl's parents fell to their knees and cried bitterly. The village chief immediately called ten young men with good water skills to go down to the river to search, and after about twenty minutes, someone suddenly shouted: "Here! ”
Everyone came to the man's side, and soon a female corpse was brought up, and the child's parents took one look at the completely swollen female corpse and immediately wept bitterly. Resisting the urge to vomit, I observed that the female corpse looked to be about seventeen years old, dressed in patched coarse cloth trousers, the blue pants had been washed almost white.
The female corpse's face was severely swollen, there was a shallow scar under her eyelids, it seemed that the bleeding had just stopped for a long time, and a small section of aquatic grass was exposed in the left nostril, and from time to time there was turbid water with silt flowing down the aquatic grass. There is a strange pattern on the wrist of the girl's left hand, which looks like a Wu character, and what is even more bizarre is that this character seems to be reflected under the skin.
The blind man peeled back the crowd and carefully examined the girl's body with his blind eye, and finally his eyes were fixed on the word, and after a long time he said to the girl's parents: "Have you provoked any enemies or creditors surnamed Wu?" The two shook their heads blankly, and the blind man frowned and said: "That is, he was favored by someone who was married to the underworld, and he directly asked for his life and took his soul!" With that, he nodded to Cui'er.
Cui'er picked up the black cat and gently rubbed the cat's head a few times, the black cat quickly squinted and fell asleep, and in a moment two tears of blood flowed down from the cat's eyes. Then Cui'er gently took off a jade bracelet from her left hand and placed it on the girl's forehead, and then the blind man half-squatted and waved his arms around the girl, as if touching something invisible.
Suddenly, there was an obvious block in his left arm, so he quickly grabbed something with his backhand, while getting up and quickly swiping with the dagger before, and after a while, three lines of viscous and fishy yellow pus oozed from the place where he was scratched, and at the same time, a heart-rending sound instantly pierced the air, and the river in the distance was stirred up by the waves half a meter high.
The girl's father suddenly raised his head and asked the blind man with a frightened face: "Wang Gaoren just said that my daughter was married to the underworld?" The blind man nodded, and then he grabbed the girl's mother's hair and shouted, "Say! Is it the secret marriage that you went to match? The girl's mother also looked frightened and said: "I, I did have this idea, but I didn't agree, this, how can this be ......?"
The blind man suddenly interjected: "Have you ever received a deposit from someone surnamed Wu?" The girl's mother thought for a while and replied, "No, there has been a family surnamed Wu who has also come to talk, but they haven't given me any deposit?" The blind man suddenly remembered something and asked: "You don't have to say the deposit, as long as you collect the money, it may be a deposit, and now they must have invited a master, otherwise your daughter would not have left so early!" ”
The girl's father put down the girl's mother's hair, and then smashed his fist on the ground in annoyance, the blind man picked up the jade bracelet, and then pulled a hair from the girl's head and slowly wrapped it around the bracelet, and soon the original emerald green bracelet slowly turned blood-red, and then the blind man suddenly said to the village chief: "It seems that this time there is a big deal, just in case I have to go out, but I still need help." ”
Saying that, he pointed at me with his finger and said: "You and I are the same surname, speaking of which, it is really possible to be our own family five hundred years ago, this time we are going to pursue the girl's soul, but the other party is obviously prepared, I can't use some Taoism, but because you are not from this village, so the other party should not be able to calculate, so this time I need your help to go together." ”
As soon as the blind man finished speaking, the girl's parents knelt down at me and were about to kowtow, but I quickly stopped me and said that I would go with me. Then the blind man told the village chief to bury the female corpse in a hurry, and then he whispered a few words to Cui'er, and let me simply take a few changes of clothes and leave the village.
Almost all of them are mountain roads here, and it is difficult to have relatively smooth roads, and I feel that my feet are extremely sore after only half a day, but the blind man does not seem to feel a little uncomfortable. When he saw that I was gradually slowing down, he stopped and said to me with a smile: "What's the matter, you can't be as young as me, a half-crippled middle-aged man, right?" He looked at me with a wicked smile.
I found a relatively flat place and sat down, and then gasped and asked him why he was in such a hurry, and the blind man suddenly turned gloomy: "Actually, this is not just a simple marriage!" In fact, the original ghost marriage is still a very popular custom in this area, these are those unmarried men and their families in order to let their son Jiuquan have a companion, so they found a female corpse who also died unmarried and was the right person, and buried it together, which is called the ghost marriage! ”
"Huh? In this case, there is no need to deliberately create corpses, right? I asked, a little puzzled. Wang Blind Man's face was extremely resentful at the moment, and he said slowly and gloomily: "If it is really as you think, it's a pity, it's a pity that it has deteriorated a little now, the so-called price has no market, and now the value of the female corpse is getting heavier and heavier, first of all, the more complete the female corpse, the more valuable it is!" ”
"Secondly, the more beautiful the female corpse, the more valuable it is; In addition, if the female corpse is still in its primordial form, it will also increase its value. Therefore, some people began to use this to collect money and steal female corpses to sell, and now some people even deliberately make corpses. The blind man said in the end, and he sighed and said: "Actually, our ancestors also did underworld marriages, but once they stole a female corpse who entered the world and died, so they fell a curse from this generation to be blind and plague the four wilds, but fortunately, we later found a way to alleviate it, and the ancestors inadvertently found that marrying a woman with a congenital yin spirit would reduce the curse, and with more grace at least you can end up without a problem." ”
"No wonder you've been doing good deeds and accumulating virtues, it's because of this!" I said with a sudden realization.
The blind man said with a face that did not improve: "But this time there is something strange, it stands to reason that if it is just to make a corpse, then it must be to keep a complete and beautiful corpse as much as possible, but this drowning is the most impossible to maintain the integrity of the corpse, this is where I am alert!" ”
"In this case, isn't it for the sake of a secret marriage? But didn't you say that this was a sign of a secret marriage, and her mother also indirectly admitted it? "I raised my doubts.
"That's right, I recognized it at the beginning that it was a secret marriage, but then I thought of the conditions in the dark marriage and found that it seems that all this is not for the so-called matching of the dark marriage, or to be more precise, this is the taboo in the matching of the dark marriage!" Blood suddenly flowed out of the blind eyes of the blind man, who had already been muddy and pale, and he also highlighted two words with a painful face: "Ghost fate!" ”
In an instant, the originally clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and the dark and heavy clouds pressed on the top of my head like lead, and I found that the air gradually became thicker and thicker, and my chest felt a feeling of suffocation being pressed by a thousand pounds of boulders.
The sky suddenly began to rain, the size of soybeans of raindrops soon densed, I looked around and suddenly found a small temple not far away, so happily said to the blind king: "Master, there seems to be a small temple in front of us, let's go there to avoid the rain, besides, there are gods and Buddha statues in the temple, there should not be any moths." ”
However, the blind man seemed to be a little taboo and looked carefully at the temple in front of him and said with some hesitation: "There is a broken temple in the wilderness, there must be something strange in it, and many people will say that there are gods and Buddhas under the temple, so they will think that it is the safest in the temple, but in fact, there is a misunderstanding, just imagine that this temple is built by man after all, and in the deserted temple like this kind of wilderness, there is not much incense, and these gods and Buddhas rely on it is not the breath of those incense, but more is the worship of various spiritual objects, In addition, many cows, ghosts, snakes and gods are built in temples, and it is better to be careful when staying in this kind of deserted temple. ”
I looked up at the continuous rain, then wiped the water from my face and said, "But now I can't care so much, now that the rain is so heavy, if we don't find a place to shelter from the rain, will we still sleep in the wilderness?" What if something comes out on this big night? The blind man also looked up at the sky, and finally nodded in agreement.
When I walked to the temple, there was a sudden thunderbolt in the sky, and I was startled and hurriedly jumped into the temple. I began to look at this small temple, the place here is not too big, the main hall and the side hall have a total of three rooms, there are more than 20 Buddha statues in it, except for the Maitreya Buddha I know, the Jade Emperor, the land and Guan Gong, the rest are basically not very familiar, and some Buddha statues are obviously hideous human heads and beast bodies.
The blind man followed him into the temple, and then he also looked at it carefully, and watched him suddenly stand in front of a strange statue, and a panicked look appeared on his face.