The new daughter-in-law and her family insisted that the new daughter-in-law's cousin had indeed been a bandit, which many people knew, but they received news many years ago that the cousin had died.

But if you want to see people in life and see corpses in death, the thief's cousin died in the line of duty, and the corpses are in the wilderness, how can there be any corpses as evidence?

There is a reply letter from the thief and a letter written by Ding Chuanzong as evidence; The cousin of the new daughter-in-law is indeed a bandit; Five thousand taels of silver disappeared with the thieves, and the letter agreeing on the place of meeting and sharing the spoils had not yet been delivered, and the silver taels could not be recovered.

The two presiding judges were also a little anxious to find a responsible person to report the errand.

Therefore, even if Ding Chuanzong resolutely pleaded not guilty under torture, even the people of the county were willing to vouch for Ding Chuanzong, and in the end he was still sentenced to a summary sentence.

On the day of the beheading, there were still thousands of empty alleys, and the people of the county were wearing filial piety clothes and crying for Ding Chuanzong.

They firmly believed in the innocence of this honest parent, and believed that the master forged the letter and framed him.

No wonder the people think so, the master is the chief secretary of the county government, and the most contact is all kinds of documents every day, and he is most familiar with Ding Chuanzong's handwriting and font, and he is a literati himself, so it is not difficult to imitate.

And although the master is a subordinate of the Qing official Ding Chuanzong on the surface, in fact, he and Ding Chuanzong are not the same kind of people at all.

Someone once heard that the master complained about Ding Chuanzong after he was drunk, saying that he was a dead brain, so that he, the master, had to follow him to die brainlessly, and he couldn't get any oil and water. He didn't want to stay in Pingchuan County for a long time.

And after this case, the master was indeed able to be arranged by the prefect because of his meritorious report, and went to other counties to follow the more active magistrate to be the master.

On the day of the execution, the master also pretended to wear mourning clothes to watch the beheading and crying, crying and shouting something like "Lord Ding is confused" and "I will collect the body for you".

When Ding Chuanzong's head landed, the master was really the first person to run forward and hug Ding Chuanzong's head.

Just when the people were shocked, the master had already hugged the head and ran away.

It turns out that the master's so-called collection of corpses is to collect the head. That's right, he can't hold the corpse, and he can't run if he can hold it.

A few days later, a wandering Taoist priest came to Pingchuan County, heard about the incident, and answered the questions of the people.

Why did the master take away Ding Chuanzong's head in the first place? That's because there are high-level people behind it.

Ding Chuanzong was unjustly killed by his master, and after his death, he will definitely turn into a ghost to seek revenge from his master. But there is a premise for this matter, and that is - the whole corpse.

If the master failed to take away Ding Chuanzong's head, and the Ding family or the people spontaneously buried the head and body together, then Ding Chuanzong's ghost would be able to go to the enemy for revenge.

But if the corpse is incomplete, only the corpse has no head, then Ding Chuanzong's ghost is equivalent to having no head function, in short, it is a disabled ghost who can't see, hear, speak, or smell.

The word disabled Zhijian is not applicable to ghosts, how can such a disabled ghost take revenge? You can't even find the way to take revenge, you can't get in the right door, and you can't tell the enemy apart.

After hearing this, the people suddenly realized, and they were even more sure that it was the master who framed Ding Chuanzong, and they couldn't wait to collectively break the master's body into pieces.

But after all, the people are still sensible, and they still have their own days to live, and they can't go to eggs and stones and kill themselves.

What they can do is to ask this wandering Taoist priest to go and give Ding Chuanzong a surplus. They are willing to raise funds to handle the funeral affairs for Ding Chuanzong.

This Taoist priest's name is Wu Xinyou, although he is also a wandering Taoist priest who has no door and no faction, and he feeds his whole family without hunger, but after hearing this story, he was very nostalgic, and promised to go down to exceed, and did not take a penny.

However, the overdose failed, Wu Xinyou said that Ding Chuanzong's ghost resentment was too deep, and he only wanted to take revenge, not to mention one him, even ten of him couldn't be exceeded. If you want to go over, you have to wait for Ding Chuanzong to take revenge.

So the question is, how can the disabled ghost take revenge? Do you want the people or Taoist priests to guide him and help him kill the master?

Wu Xinyou said, that's not good.

First, if you don't see it with your own eyes, in the eyes of Ding Chuanzong's ghost, it is not real revenge.

Second, the person who leads the way can't ensure safety, because Ding Chuanzong's ghost can't know that someone is leading the way, he is now an evil ghost, and whoever comes close to him will ask for someone's life.

The people asked, "What then?"

Wu Xinyou thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a foolproof strategy:

First of all, the people need to raise funds to build a tomb for Ding Chuanzong in the feng shui treasure place he chooses, which is to give Ding Chuanzong's ghost a place to live, and play a role in temporarily pacifying and trapping him.

Second, there is a need to place as many animal heads as possible in this burial chamber. The head must be about the size of a human head, such as a pig, cow, sheep, horse, or even a wolf, a dog, a deer, or the like, not a chicken, duck, or fish.

The purpose of this move is to borrow.

Animals also have souls, but they are nothing compared to the resentful souls of people, especially those who died in vain. They were enslaved while they were alive, and they were enslaved when they died.

In other words, over time, Ding Chuanzong's ghost can subdue and enslave the soul of an animal, establish a connection with the animal's head, and thus use its head for its own use, becoming a ghost with an animal's head and a human body.

But there is also a premise, that is, Ding Chuanzong's eight characters must match the eight characters of this animal.

The eight characters of people are easy to say, but how can the eight characters of animals know to go?

So there is only one way, and that is to get as many animal heads as possible, and there are always those that can happen to match.

If it happens, although the image is a little worse, but fortunately, Ding Chuanzong has a head, and he has sight and hearing, although he can't speak human words, but it is enough to go to the master for revenge.

Even if the master is no longer alive by then, it doesn't matter, the father's debt is repaid, in the eyes of Ding Chuanzong's ghost, as long as he kills the enemy's descendants, it can be regarded as a successful revenge.

Third, in order to prevent the master from breaking into the tomb when he got the news, and then destroying Ding Chuanzong's body will never be a disaster, so Wu Xinyou had to find a skilled carpenter to make a special coffin, which could not be opened after it was sealed. In addition, after the tomb is built, it must also be completely sealed.

Finally, Wu Xinyou reminded the people that they must not break into the tomb without permission, otherwise they will inevitably be killed as an enemy by the ghost of Ding Chuanzong, who has not yet "grown" the head of an animal.

Ding Chuanzong is now a powerful ghost with a severed head, and he is no longer the honest and fair parent official he used to be.

After some discussion, the people agreed with Wu Xinyou's statement and were willing to do something for Ding Chuanzong.

But the problem is that now that there is a drought, how can they have any money, and at most they can contribute the heads of their livestock or go up to the mountains to hunt.

Fortunately, as long as the head and body can be left to eat, otherwise they really can't take it out.

Wu Xinyou thought about it, so he took out his only savings, and found the construction team he had cooperated with in the past, and dug a tomb in Cumulus Valley near Pingchuan County because of its simplicity.

The people of Pingchuan fully cooperated with Wu Xinyou, and on the day the tomb was closed, they collectively knelt down in front of the tomb.

In the past 20 years, the people of Pingchuan have also managed not to disturb Ding Chuanzong, and quietly waited for Ding Chuanzong to take revenge and reincarnate.

The tomb robbers also heard the story of Ding Chuanzong, so even if they went to dig the graves of ordinary people, they would not touch Ding Chuanzong's tomb.

Because Ding Chuanzong was beheaded, there was no head of Ding Chuanzong in the tomb, and his soul turned into a ghost and was trapped in the tomb. So over time, Ding Chuanzong's tomb was called the severed head ghost mound.