So in this way, it can explain why female ghosts repeatedly appear in the dormitory of educated youth, and that is because female ghosts died in that place. The reason why he got entangled with the young man may have been just an accident, and the young man just happened to run into it when he was passing by. Or maybe the room where the young man lives now happens to be the house where the female ghost lived before her death.

And the female ghost first appeared in front of Su Pinggui's tomb, according to the information currently available, it should be venting hatred, and the hatred is that Su Pinggui killed her. But her revenge was also terrible, and the entire family died because of it, and they all died in the dormitory of the educated youth.

The female ghost is a ghost that kills people, and it is also the one with the most resentment. If a living person is killed by a ghost, then even if he becomes a ghost after death, he will be bound and suppressed by the female ghost who killed him. This part of the ghost will always be enslaved by this female ghost until the female ghost loses power. Especially Su Pinggui, if he is really a bully as Uncle Su said, although he died a tragic death, he deserved it.

When I was talking to Uncle Su, the young man had been standing next to me all the time, so he also learned that the dormitory he lived in now was actually the former Su family's house, and his face suddenly changed. So after I said goodbye to Uncle Su with him, we began to walk back.

I told the young man that I had spent a lot of time looking for traces of ghosts in your dormitory, but I couldn't find them. Now it seems that most of my terracotta incense was also suppressed by female ghosts, so I can't find it. That makes some sense, because if everyone in the Su family dies in the house, then with their number, they should be detected by my soldiers and horses. And these ghosts are all suppressed objects, think about it, they are more eager to be free and leave than anyone else, and after I release the soldiers and horses, they should take the initiative to lead the way.

I said, and according to what Uncle Su said, after the family died before, it was the people in the village who helped clean up the corpses, and although leprosy was easy to die at that time, the corpse after death could not be fragmented, at least a whole corpse. If the corpses are all taken away, and no trace of ghosts can be found at the scene, coupled with the huge power of the female ghost to suppress the rest of the ghosts, including my soldiers and horses, there is only one more possibility that can produce such a great power.

The young man asked me, what was that like? I said, a part of this female ghost's body must still be hidden somewhere in your educated youth dormitory.

The young man stopped talking, and seemed a little frightened. But he also said that when he moved in before, the house was unobstructed and empty, and if there was anything hidden, it would have been found long ago. I shook my head and said, "Not necessarily, if you take the time to look carefully, there must be a way to find it."

Soon we were back in the dormitory, which was empty, and everyone had gone out to work. This gave me and the young man plenty of time to find. I searched each room from left to right, starting at the door. I personally went to find everything I could see and touch, and I didn't even let go of the hearth of the stove room, the old trees in the yard that were pulled by the intellectuals to hang their clothes, and the thatched toilet. It's just that I directly inspected these places, so I can only find them by lighting incense.

I lit incense at the mouth of the hearth, under the roots of the trees, outside the latrines, and other places that I could not find myself, and if there were things hidden in these places, the smoke would give me a definite answer, but to no avail. I was about to climb to the roof and search among the rubble, when I suddenly caught my sights on the inconspicuous but sealed well in a corner of the yard.

When I was a child, I could always hear such a similar episode, the concubines in the palace were jealous, so one of them set up a plan to kill the other concubine, and then asked the palace maid to push the body of the dead concubine into the well at night, and then tried her best to block the well.

Although it was just a play, various former histories of the government and the opposition show that such a thing did happen. In addition, I searched the whole house, except for the sealed dry well, and found everywhere. Naturally, I refused to give up this only possibility, so I went to the mouth of the well and examined it carefully.

The diameter of the wellhead is more than two feet, and in terms of size, it is enough to accommodate one person in and out. The edge of the well is not high, only about four or five inches above the ground. In other words, if there is no fence and no manhole cover, if you don't pay attention to the approach, you may stumble and fall into the well.

There is a round stone slab on the wellhead, the size is about an inch wider than the wellhead, judging from the color of the stone and the color of the edge of the wellhead, it should be made in the same period, that is, when the well was dug at the beginning, it was already considered that there would be a risk of someone falling into the well, so the stone slab of the manhole cover was made at the same time. However, on the top of the slate, a layer of sticky mud was pasted, and the manhole cover and the edge of the well were glued together, but there were some broken parts in the middle, and I reached out and picked off some relatively soft powder, which showed that this layer of slime was applied later.

And what puzzled me the most was that the top of the slime was covered with moss, which meant that it had existed for a long time, and on the moss, there was a large round stone with a handle, and there was a rusty iron chain on the handle, and the chain had been broken, and a section of the stone handle was connected, and the wellhead on the ground had changed, and there was a chisel that had been hit underneath, and one end of the chisel was tied to another broken section. Although the fracture of the iron chain is also rusty, the rust is obviously much lighter than the appearance, and it is not difficult to see that the time when the chain was broken is actually not long, and even recently broken.

The texture of the stone is ordinary granite, with ravines of different depths, which are carved out by hand, and such lines are often used as whetstones in the old society.

I called the young man to him and asked, "Do you know what this thing is?" Why is this broken with the chain? The young man said, "Isn't this a stone dumbbell?" In the past, strong men would use this handle to practice arm strength, and this chain was originally good, but after we male intellectuals moved in, we saw this thing and felt that it could be used for exercise, but the chain could not be taken off, so it was directly broken.

So I was even more sure of one thing, there was something in the well!

I thought that this stone thing was not a stone dumbbell in the young man's mouth, but a stone lock. In ancient times, granite stone locks were often used to town tombs. In the feng shui of the yin house, the things of the town tomb are divided into many kinds, the most common are the town tomb beasts, human figurines and other things, and the stone lock is also one of them, which is usually tied with iron chains. On the one hand, in order to prevent the undead in the tombs from wandering around, and on the other hand, in order to prevent the items of these tombs from moving around, they were fixed with iron chains. In the well of the house, there is a stone lock chained to the well, the purpose of which is to suppress the things under the well. This method is called the "Soul Lock" in metaphysics.

Then it means that if there is nothing underground, it is naturally impossible to press such a large soul lock to suppress it. The iron chain was broken by the educated youth, and it is even very likely that the ghost who had already taken revenge and lived in peace, because of the suppression of the soul lock, had not appeared for many years, but after the chain was broken, it was equivalent to destroying the form of suppression, so it began to reappear in the world.

In this way, it explains the question that has always bothered me the most, why the young man and I have witnessed two funeral mourners in a row in just a few days, and no one in the village has encountered it in the decades before their young people have arrived.

I sighed, looked at the young man and said, you educated youth, maybe you have rich cultural knowledge, but you are still far from good at common sense. Ignorant people are happy, but ignorant people are also terrible.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one, I moved the stone lock reasonably with the male intellectual, and it was really heavy, about more than fifty pounds. Then I found a shovel from the yard that the intellectuals used when they were working, and shoveled away the thick layer of clay on the manhole cover. Then the manhole cover was exposed, and the young man and I took out the mud at the joint between the manhole cover and the wellhead, tried to push it, and found that the manhole cover had been loosened, so I reached out and pushed the manhole cover to the side, and with a muffled sound, the manhole cover fell to the ground.

I covered my nose because I didn't know what was going down the well. I heard that it was a dry well before, but it may not seem like it is at this moment. When the air had cleared a little, I looked into the well and saw that it was full of stones of different sizes, the smallest of which was about the size of my head, and it was densely packed with the whole well.

Presumably, when the well was filled, a lot of stones were poured into it. So at this time, I was at the well and lit the terracotta incense again. Unlike the previous times, this time the smoke of the terracotta incense did not disperse in all directions, but circled a few times before falling straight in the direction of the stones in the well. So I realized at this moment that it turned out that the traces of the ghost could not be found by the soldiers and horses before, not entirely because of the suppression of the female ghost, but also because of this soul lock placed on the well! And all this, as early as when I just stepped into the door of this courtyard, the strange pain behind my ankle was actually telling me that there were suppressed souls here, resisting the entry of outsiders.

I said to the young man, "Let's dig up the stones, there must be something strange at the bottom of this well." After saying that, I stretched out my foot and stepped into the well, and first stepped on it a few times, and found that it was not loose, so I jumped into the well with confidence and boldness.