Zhang Wenwen's family lives in Kangjin, Hulan.
At that time, Kangjin was still a town, and Hulan had just been removed from the county and changed into a district, becoming a municipal district of Harbin.
People outside of Hulan may not know it when I mention it, but when I mention this person, everyone should have an impression.
In the 1980s, a tough bandit, Hulan Daxia, appeared here and committed many cases, but no one has been arrested yet. As for what he did, I won’t go into details. Anyway, he is very famous and can be found online.
I accompanied Zhang Wenwen to Hulan. Her family was very enthusiastic, and they probably thought I was Zhang Wenwen's "leader" and made preparations for me as soon as I walked in.
Only then did I learn that Zhang Wenwen’s mother’s name was Wang Xiuying, and her father’s name was Zhang Hongxiang. She also had an older brother who was studying at Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin.
Because her family's conditions were average, Zhang Wenwen worked outside her home after graduating from high school. Firstly, she made money to supplement the family's income, and secondly, her brother needed money to study.
During the meal, Wang Xiuying came out. She looked about forty years old and very haggard. She was quite enthusiastic when I greeted her, but I felt that her eyes looked strange when she looked at people.
But none of us dared to mention her illness. After finishing the meal soon, she pushed the bowl and chopsticks away and said to Zhang Wenwen: "You play with your friends first, I have to go to trial a case."
This sentence made everyone at the table look at each other in confusion. Zhang Wenwen was also embarrassed and smiled at me sheepishly.
In fact, I have seen this kind of thing when I was a child. The man was a bachelor in our village who was not in good spirits. For a while, he told everyone he met that he would go to the underworld to try cases. The old people in the village warned him not to talk nonsense, but he did not Listen, you talk nonsense all day long.
Once he told someone that an official in the next village had embezzled a lot of money and done many immoral things. Now the underworld has sentenced him to death on the eighth day of the next month.
Everyone thought what he said was crazy, but on the day he said it, the official choked to death on a piece of chicken bone when he was eating at home.
Not long after this incident, the bachelor also died, and his death was inexplicable. He suddenly sat up while sleeping, ran outside and laughed a few times before passing away.
Some people say that he revealed too many secrets and was taken away by the underworld.
Wang Xiuying is obviously in the same situation now. After we finished eating, Zhang Hongxiang dared to tell us about the family affairs and said that Wang Xiuying's condition was getting worse and worse in the past two days.
This is a rural man who is less than fifty years old, but he looks like he is almost sixty.
He sighed and told us that Wang Xiuying said every day that she was going to try the case, and she also said that she couldn't go because there was a kid guarding her, so she had to do some dirty work.
In fact, the so-called trial case means going back to the house and sleeping.
As for the trial time, there is no fixed time. Sometimes I will pass out without warning while eating or talking to others.
Sometimes she is not in a hurry and just gives instructions to her family before leaving.
But every time she fell into a coma, she seemed to have passed away, even if there was thunder in her ears, she would not wake up.
When her family asked her what cases she was trying, she said that they wouldn't let her talk about it and she would die if she talked too much.
After we talked for a while, Wang Xiuying woke up. When she walked in, she was staring straight ahead, not speaking, with her hands on her legs and an angry look on her face.
From the look in her eyes, it was obvious that she was not who she was.
Zhang Wenwen was too frightened to say anything. Zhang Hongxiang was probably used to it, so he walked over and asked her who she was.
Wang Xiuying's face turned pale with anger and her body was trembling. Zhang Hongxiang asked her for a long time before she spoke.
"I am Zhang Xiaowu!"
Upon hearing this name, Zhang Hongxiang's expression suddenly changed.
"Xiao Wu, you've been gone for seven or eight years. If there's anything you still can't let go of, let your Aunt Xiuying tell your family not to torment us."
Wang Xiuying slapped her thigh: "Three years ago, blind man Yang pressed me into the Earth Temple and said he would let me out in three months. It has been three years now. I carry a big stone on my back every day. I have no money to wear, no clothes to wear, and no pants." Rotten!"
Zhang Hongxiang said cautiously: "But Blind Yang has been dead for several years, so you have to go to him for this matter."
Wang Xiuying snorted: "Then I don't care, you have to handle this matter for me."
Seeing this scene, Zhang Hongxiang was so frightened that he did not dare to say a word and was so anxious that he was at a loss.
At this time, it is impossible for me to say that I am not afraid at all, but I have been used to this kind of thing since I was a child, and I know that at this juncture, someone must come forward.
"I don't care if you are Zhang Xiaowu or Li Xiaowu. Even if you are the King of Hell, I still have to be reasonable. How can anyone in the world be so arrogant when asking for help?"
I had the courage to say these words with a cold face. This "Zhang Xiaowu" couldn't help but weaken a little. He stared at me for a long time before speaking.
"Anyway, you have to take care of me today, otherwise I will give you a hard time!"
"If you bother, no one will care about you. Anyway, we are not the ones carrying stones every day. If you think one stone is too few, then just add another."
I remember hearing a saying before: Good ghosts listen to people's advice, while evil ghosts pester evil people.
You can't tolerate a devil like this!
When Wang Xiuying heard what I said, her eyes began to roll up in anger, and her whole body started to pull out her breath, just like a person is about to die, and it seemed like someone was strangling her neck.
Zhang Wenwen and her father rushed forward to pat her back and rub her chest. It took a while for Wang Xiuying to recover, and her eyes gradually returned to normal.
Zhang Hongxiang told me that Zhang Xiaowu just now was a scum in the town. He relied on his family's power to bully men and women. He did a lot of bad things and still had people's lives on his hands. Later, he was sentenced to death in 1999. Dead.
But he was not honest even after his death and made trouble everywhere. Someone invited Yang Xiazi, a famous immortal in the town, to force Zhang Xiaowu under the old locust tree behind the Tutu Temple.
Not long after, Blind Yang also fell ill and died, so no one knew what happened next.
At this time, Wang Xiuying regained her consciousness and told us that Zhang Xiaowu filed a complaint in the underworld, saying that he had taken the blame for someone else and died unjustly.
Moreover, he has been detained in the Tutu Temple for several years. If he is not released, he will cause trouble to Wang Xiuying's family.
I'm a little confused. This Xiaowu has been pressed into the earth temple, how can he still get up?
Wang Xiuying said that the judge allowed it so that he could tell the story through his own words.
Moreover, she was not the one who actually tried the case, but the judge. However, there had to be a few people from the human world present. As jurors, they could help make suggestions and also serve as witnesses.
Only then did I understand what the so-called trial was. It turned out to be the equivalent of a jury.
Wang Xiuying added: "Blind Yang has been dead a long time ago. No one wants to take care of the Qingfeng ghost he suppressed for fear of causing trouble. But today the judge asked Zhang Xiaowu to 'take the lead' here because a Bodhisattva came to my house. Little boy, you can help save him."
"Come out" here means to get out of trouble and eliminate disasters.
But this is so bizarre that anyone who hears it will probably think that Wang Xiuying is having a mental illness.
When I was a child, someone did say that I was destined to be a child. She said that I was with the Bodhisattva, and I was a little complacent.
At the request of Zhang Wenwen's family, although I was a little skeptical, I went to the Tutu Temple in the town with them.
