About hundreds of years ago, the land of China was still under the rule of the Zhu Dynasty, and there was a house on the outskirts of the city of Beijing, with seven courtyards and a vast area. The house was newly renovated, and after a few years of living, the original occupants moved out with their families and put the house up for sale.

The house was new, the location was good, and the selling price was low, so someone quickly took over and bought it.

It's just strange to say that the new tenant bought the house less than a year ago, and just like the previous resident, he hurriedly moved out and sold the house to another person.

Over the next ten years, the house had four owners, the shortest of which lasted only three months, and the longest of which lasted only two years.

Later, rumors of a haunted house came out, and no matter how low the price of the house was, no one dared to buy it.

Gradually, the house was abandoned and became a famous murderous house on the outskirts of Beijing, and no one dared to approach it. It is said that the grass in the house was so tall that in the dead of night, there would be ghosts playing in the house, and if any unlucky fellow passed by the house, even if he did not enter, he would be taken away by those ghosts.

and the living become ghosts.

So at night, the area within a radius of a few miles of the murderous mansion has become the darkest and most gloomy ghost domain.

One night, a scholar surnamed Zhu appeared near the murderous house, although his surname was Zhu, he had little to do with the royal family, just an ordinary young man who entered Beijing to take the exam.

The imperial court is about to open the imperial examination, he has worked hard for a few years, just for this spring exam, if he is in the first place, then he will be able to return to his hometown in a beautiful manner, and let the family of the power see that he is not a poor boy with no future, but a potential stock with a bright future.

Make them regret what they did to them before.

The scholar walked on the road of the night, thinking of the mean face of the family, and thinking of their insults and betrayals to him, he couldn't help but be indignant.

"Although it is insulting to say that a scholar swears, I still want to say, **, you will regret it!" The scholar's face was angry, there were words in his mouth, he scolded while walking, scolded for a long time, and took a bad breath in his chest, and then slowly calmed down, "It's just a pity that the late mother, what a good girl, but she was born in such a family......"

He didn't want to go to Beijing to take the exam, he knew his level, although he was a scholar, but his qualifications were limited, and the champion would never dare to think of it, even if it was a third-class jinshi, it was beyond the reach of the clouds in the sky for him.

So after being admitted to Xiucai, he was already very satisfied, especially after his family told him a family matter, he had no idea of going to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination.

It's just that...... There are unpredictable circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.

Not long after he finished telling him about his family affairs at home, before the bride passed the door, he suddenly fell seriously ill.

The illness lasted for more than half a year, and the family used up all the family's money in order to treat him, and in the end even the family property had to be sold, but he was still not cured.

Seeing that he was about to report to the king of Yama, and that his family had become destitute and could no longer afford to buy medicine for him, he suddenly recovered.

No one can tell what kind of strange disease he had, and they don't know how he got better.

The scholar himself couldn't speak, lying on the hospital bed for more than half a year, he felt as if he had a nightmare, and then when the nightmare woke up, he was fine.

Of course, his feelings were skewed, and he thought he had woken up from a nightmare, but in fact the nightmare had just begun.

His family was originally well-off, although it was not a rich and noble family, but it was also worry-free, but after his serious illness, the family's fields and houses were sold out, leaving only a dilapidated tiled house, for him and the old father and mother in the family.

Although the family did not come to quit his relatives during his serious illness, he knew that it was not the other party's affection, but that the family was waiting for him to die of natural illness. If he dies of illness, the family will naturally cease to exist, and the family will not have to fall into a bad reputation for treachery. It's just that no one expected that he would crawl back from the ghost gate.

Soon after he recovered, the family sent someone to return the gift money from the betrothal to cancel the family business.

His parents disagreed, and the man sent by the family was very vicious, humiliated the whole family, and then walked away.

After this incident, his old father fell ill on the spot, and died within a few days. His mother was in very poor health, and she was saddened by her husband's death, and died within a few months.

A serious illness ruined his family, and he also saw the warmth and coldness of the world. He didn't hate fate, he only hated the viciousness and ruthlessness of that family.

It's okay to withdraw from his relatives, but it is necessary to say those vicious words to harm his parents?

After burying his parents, he personally went to the family's home to theorize, but he did not expect to suffer greater humiliation and be beaten with a stick.

The scholar was inexplicably sad and indignant, and vowed to get justice and make the family regret it.

He is a scholar, and what he thinks of is the imperial examination. As long as he passed the Jinshi examination, he had the ability to seek justice, so he began to study hard.

After the news came out that he was going to participate in the imperial examination, the family did not know what kind of psychology they had, but they actually sent people to his door every day to shout and scold him, which disturbed him day and night, and he could not even read a single page of the book.

Where did the scholar think that there was such a brazen person in the world, he was the only son in the family, after the death of his parents, no one helped him out, seeing that the family was too deceitful to study at ease, this last road to get ahead was also blocked, the scholar was completely desperate, and he thought of suicide.

But he didn't kill himself in the end, because one morning a little girl came to the door of his dilapidated tiled house and knocked on his door.

The little girl's name was Wanniang, and if it hadn't been for that serious illness, she would have been his wife.

The late mother reported to the scholar and apologized to the scholar on behalf of her parents. She promised the scholar that she would not marry until the scholar returned from the imperial examination. As long as the scholar can enter the first class in high school, she will maintain the previous marriage contract and marry him as his wife.

The late lady was very beautiful and did very fair things, and after she left, those who shouted and scolded in front of the door never came again.

The scholar still hates the family, but for the late mother, he fell in love at first sight.

So his goal changed from 'being admitted to the Jinshi and slapping the family's face' to 'being a first-class jinshi in the exam, slapping the family's face, and then marrying his late wife'.

There are only three first-class jinshi - champion, Bangyan, and Tanhua.

Compared with the original entrance examination, the difficulty has increased by dozens of times, but the scholar's motivation to read has also been greatly improved than before.

It's all because of his late mother, such a good girl, he wants to marry her.

This is the background of the scholar who went to Beijing to catch the exam, such a scholar who has no way out, can only succeed and cannot fail, traveled thousands of miles alone to the suburbs of the capital, unfortunately, it was already dark at this time, and it was even more unfortunate that no one told him about the existence of the murderous house.

So he rushed headlong into danger without realizing it.

What will happen to him? What kind of ending will there be?

But said that the scholar saw that it was dark, and there was no village or shop before and after, and he was a little anxious, and then he suddenly saw a house on the side of the road, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly went over and knocked on the door.

At this moment, a strange voice suddenly appeared in his ears, which seemed to tell him to leave quickly, otherwise there would be disaster. The scholar thought that he was overworked and had auditory hallucinations, so he ignored it.

The murderous house has been abandoned for a long time, and naturally it should not be knocked for a long time, and the scholar is strange in his heart, he has traveled all the way, and he doesn't know how many suburban nightclubs he has lived in, and he is also bold, so he pushed the door in.

"Anyone?" He shouted into the house, startled by a crow and a chirping of birds.

"Xiaosheng is in a hurry, I missed someone's house, I don't know if I can bother here for a night, and I invite the master's family to come out to see him."

The scholar shouted for a long time, thinking that there should be no one in this house, he was at peace with what he encountered, and he was satisfied with having a place to stay at night, and he didn't think much about anything else, so he found a shelter in the house, and lay down to rest.

The scholar didn't believe in ghosts, so he was not afraid at all when he lived in this house, and he fell asleep after a while.

In the middle of the night, the scholar suddenly felt some noise in his ears, and when he opened his eyes, he couldn't help but be terrified.

I saw that between the courtyards and pavilions, there were lonely souls and wild ghosts, grinning at him.

Those ghosts were male and female, some had no heads and only limbs, some were blind, had no ears and incomplete facial features, and they couldn't find a single ghost with normal limbs.

The scholar thought he was dreaming, and couldn't help but close his eyes again, but after a while, he felt that the wind around him was gusting and ghostly, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that those ghosts surrounded him.

Surrounded by hundreds of ghosts, the scholar did not dare to move, shrunk in the corner and shivered, just begging for the blessing of the dead father, the scene in front of him was just a dream, but the remnants of the ghosts in front of him were so real, and the gloomy ghost atmosphere was so compelling, he couldn't help but believe it. The scholar is bold, that is also relatively speaking, seeing so many terrible ghosts, even the most daring person has to be scared to death, the scholar insisted for a while, almost scared to death, at this time, a tall ghost came out of the group of ghosts.

The tall ghost walked up to the scholar and asked him gloomily if he wanted to live or die. When the scholar saw that it was extraordinary, except for the lack of an arm, it was no different from ordinary people, so he gave birth to some hope in his heart, and hurriedly said that he wanted to live.

The tall ghost said that he was the leader of the hundred ghosts of this murderous house, and asked the scholar who else was in his family, and the scholar said that his parents were dead, and he was alone, and the ghost leader shook his head at the scholar with a disappointed look on his face.

The scholar knew that the ghost leader was dissatisfied and his death was approaching, so he couldn't help but think of his late mother, remembering that his grand ideals could not be realized, and he was so unwilling.

Because he was unwilling, the scholar didn't want to die, he pleaded with the ghost leader, told him about his family changes, told him the reason why he entered Beijing to take the exam, and hoped that the ghost leader could let him go, let him go to the imperial examination, and marry his wife. If it is done, there will be heavy thanks.

When the ghost leader heard that the scholar had a fiancée, his eyes lit up and he said something nonsense to the scholar.