The old lady twisted her head to the east, seemed to be looking at Xiaozhu Village, and said slowly: "The east of Cuiping Town is full of mountains, and after entering the mountain, we will go twenty miles forward, and we will turn over more than a dozen mountains to Xiaozhu Village." I went there once about 50 years ago, and there were forty or fifty families living in that village, and then after the fire, there were no people. ”

"Fire?"

The first thing that came to my mind was the female ghost who was haunting Yang Ye, she looked like charcoal, and she should have been burned to death in that fire.

"What's the fire all about? Have people been burned to death by fire? Or did they all move out? I asked, rubbing my fingers.

The old lady's face turned sallow, and she sighed and said, "I didn't burn to death, and I didn't move out, but they all died." ”

"What! Forty or fifty households, one or two hundred people all died? ”

The old lady's words made us jump straight away, and although I had a premonition that there was something wrong there, I didn't expect that the whole village would die.

With a look of horror on my face, I asked, "What the hell is going on?" The whole village is dead, and all the people who are haunting my classmates are female ghosts in red? ”

In the face of my series of questions, the old lady slowly told us about the events of the year.

She said: "In our case, when a girl reaches the age of seventeen, her mother will sew a wedding dress for her, and on the third day of March of the year of ten, they will put on their clothes and dress themselves up beautifully, and go to the opening ceremony, first, to show that the girl has grown up and is of age to marry, and second, to pray that she will find a good husband and marry a good mother-in-law in the future." ”

I know this custom, and many places call the third day of March of the lunar calendar the Daughter's Day, also called the Shangsi Festival, which is the day when the girl opens the flute.

"At the beginning, the opening ceremony was in the town, and then I don't know who came out, saying that there is a Yuelao Temple in Xiaozhu Village that is particularly effective, and the girls who go there to perform the opening ceremony have found the lifelong partner of their dreams. This matter soon spread, and then on the third day of March every year, many girls with yearning for it put on wedding dresses and went to the Yuelao Temple in Xiaozhu Village to open the ceremony. The first few years were fine, until that year, the Yuelao Temple suddenly caught fire, the fire continued to be in the sky, and soon the Yuelao Temple fell, and none of the dozens of girls ran out, all died in the Yuelao Temple. ”

The gray master, who had been silent, suddenly asked, "Dozens of girls were all burned to death?" ”

"yes!"

The fat man rolled his eyes and said, "This is not right, how big can the Yuelao Temple in a small mountain village be?" Suddenly there was a fire, and dozens of people could always run out of one or two, right? Why did they all burn to death inside? ”

"yes." The old lady continued, "At that time, the big guy also thought that there was something strange about it, and some of the girl's parents checked about it, but the old shrine had been burned to the ground, and there was no way to start it. ”

Speaking of this, the old lady took a deep breath, and then said, "Not long after this incident passed, all the people in Xiaozhu Village died. ”

"Could it be that those girls died and killed everyone in the village with their hearts set on revenge?"

The fat man's brain hole is really admirable.

The old lady shook her head and replied: "No one knows how they all died, after the fire of the Yuelao Temple, someone in the next village didn't know why they went to Xiaozhu Village, and after that, they saw broken arms and legs everywhere in the village, and some minced meat, so frightened that he ran back, and everyone knew about it." ”

"Some people say that these are made by ghosts, and some people say that there is a murderer in Xiaozhu Village, he first let go of burning those girls, and then slaughtered the entire village, in short, there is everything, but what is going on, no one knows."

"What about the female ghost?" I raised the question in my mind.

"That was all later. We have a particular point here, saying that if a girl dies before she is married, the family should build a temple for her to live in. If an unmarried man passing by mistakenly worships her temple, her yin marriage will follow the man until he is tortured to death. When the man died, he was married to her, and the girl was not lonely underground. ”

The parents of the girl who died in the fire later pooled money together to build a temple for girls in Xiaozhu Village. This is just a custom, I didn't expect that after the girl's temple was built, there were occasional unmarried men who didn't know about it and worshiped the temple by mistake, and a few days after they came out, they all said that they were entangled by the female ghost in red. It's useless to find a Taoist priest to drive him away, he drove him away today, and he will come back tomorrow until he tortures the man to death. ”

Before the old lady finished speaking, I saw that the fat man and Man Qiang gradually changed their faces, and then their whole bodies began to tremble.

Needless to say, I also knew that they must have visited the girl's temple.

"It's over...... How so? The fat man said to himself with a stalk around his neck, and his fat face turned eggplant color.

Look at Man Qiang again, he is no better.

"You ......," I said helplessly.

"Not only did we worship, but we also lived in that ruined temple...... Stayed overnight. The houses in the village had collapsed, and only the temple could barely accommodate people, and when we went in and saw a statue, we thought that it was not good to disturb it, so we kowtowed to it...... Who knows if it's not a god idol...... What the hell is this broken customs, and there are people who build temples for ghosts. Man Qiang stumbled, almost crying.

His aunt rubbed her hands back and forth at a loss, and kept muttering: "How is this good, how is it ......good?"

Things have finally been figured out.

I always thought that everyone was haunted by a ghost because they inadvertently damaged someone's grave and collided with a ghost. Unexpectedly, all this was actually because they worshipped the Yin Temple.

"Changsheng, the reason has been found, do you think this matter can be dealt with?" The fat man looked at me pitifully and asked, the meaning could not be more obvious, his life was in my hands.

There's no good way to deal with ghosts.

The first is to persuade them with good words, let them leave, and then cast spells and chant spells to overtake them.

The second is to directly come to the hard, suppress it, or beat it to the soul.

It's just that this ghost killing is extremely damaging to yin morality, so it's not the kind of evil ghost who is extremely vicious and harms people everywhere, and he can't come up and force it.

I discussed it with the gray master and decided to rest for the night tonight, and give them a salute tomorrow.

First persuade them not to pester their classmates anymore, they can promise the best, if they insist on refusing to leave, then they can only rely on my bone sword.

After discussing it, I asked Manqiang's aunt to prepare some sacrifices and paper money for us tomorrow......