In this way, it can be explained why the female ghost appears repeatedly in the educated youth dormitory. It is because the female ghost died in that place. Perhaps the reason why he got entangled with that young man was just an accident. The young man just happened to bump into it when he was passing by. Or maybe the house where the young man lives now happens to be the house where the female ghost lived before her death.
The female ghost first appeared in front of Su Pinggui's tomb. According to the information currently available, she should be venting her hatred. She hated Su Pinggui for killing her. But her revenge was also terrible. The entire family died because of it, and they all died in the educated youth dormitory.
The female ghost is the one who kills people, and she is also the most resentful among them. If a living person is killed by a ghost, even if he becomes a ghost after death, he will be bound and suppressed by the female ghost who killed him. These ghosts will always be enslaved by the female ghost until she loses her power. Especially Su Pinggui, if he was a bully as Uncle Su said, his death would be tragic, but he deserved it.
When I was talking to Uncle Su, the young man stood next to me the whole time. So he also learned that the educated youth dormitory where he now lived was actually the former Su family house, and his expression suddenly changed. So after I said goodbye to Uncle Su, I started walking back.
I told the young man that I had spent a lot of time looking for traces of ghosts in the dormitories of your educated youths, but I could never find them. Now it seems that most of my soldiers and horses are also suppressed by the female ghost, so I can't find them. That doesn't make sense, because if everyone in the Su family died in the house, then with their number, they should have been noticed by my soldiers and horses. Moreover, these ghosts are all suppressed objects. If you think about it from another person's perspective, they are eager to be freed and leave more than anyone else. After I release my troops, they should take the initiative to lead the way.
I said, and according to what Uncle Su said, after the family died before, people in the village helped to clean up the bodies, and although leprosy was easy to kill at the time, the bodies after death could not be seventy. Eight pieces of it, at least a complete corpse. If all the corpses are taken away and no trace of the ghost is found at the scene, and the huge power of the female ghost suppresses the other ghosts including my soldiers and horses, there is only one other possibility that can generate such a powerful force. .
The young man asked me, what kind of possibility is that? I said, part of the body of this female ghost must still be hidden somewhere in your educated youth dormitory.
The young man stopped talking and looked a little scared. But he also said that when he moved in before, the house was completely empty, and if there was anything hidden, it would have been found long ago. I shook my head and said, that's not necessarily the case. If you are willing to take the time to search carefully, there must be a way to find it.
Soon we returned to the dormitory of the educated youth. It was already deserted and everyone had gone out to work. This gave the young man and I plenty of time to search. I started at the door and searched each room carefully from left to right. I personally searched for everything I could see and touch. I even didn't spare the hearth of the kitchen, the old tree in the yard where educated youths pulled ropes to hang clothes, and the toilets. But these places were directly inspected by my eyes, so I could only burn incense to search for them.
I lit incense at the heart of the stove, under the roots of trees, outside the toilet and other places where I couldn't find it myself. If there were relevant things hidden in these places, the smoke would give me a clear answer, but still to no avail. I was about to climb to the roof and search among the rubble. At this time, I suddenly glanced at the inconspicuous but sealed well in the corner of the yard.
When I was listening to operas when I was a child, I could always hear similar scenes. The concubines in the palace were jealous, so one of them set up a scheme to kill another concubine, and then asked the palace maid to push the body of the dead concubine into the well at night, and then thought I tried my best to block the well.
Although it was just a play, various previous and unofficial histories show that such a thing did happen. In addition, I searched all over the house, except for the sealed dry well. Naturally, I refused to give up this only possibility, so I walked to the mouth of the well and examined the well carefully.
The diameter of the well mouth is more than two feet, which 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 a person doesn't pay attention and walks up to it, he may stumble and fall into the well.
There is a round stone slab above the wellhead, which 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 have been made at the same time. In other words, when the well was dug, it was The danger of someone slipping and falling into the well was considered, so stone slabs for the manhole covers were made at the same time. However, there is a layer of clay on top of the stone slab, which sticks the manhole cover and the edge of the well together. However, there are some damaged parts in the middle. I reached out and dug out some relatively soft powder. This shows that this layer of slime was applied later.
What puzzles me the most is that the top of the slime is covered with moss, which means it has been there for a long time. But on the moss, there is a large round stone with a handle. , there is a rusty iron chain on the handle, the iron chain has broken, a section is connected to the stone handle, and at the wellhead above the ground, there is a chisel driven into the bottom, and one end of the chisel is tied to another broken section. Although there is rust at the broken end of the iron chain, the rust is obviously much lighter than the appearance. It is not difficult to see that the chain broke not very long ago, and it was even broken recently.
The texture of the stone is ordinary granite, with ravines of varying depths on it, which were carved manually. Such patterns were often used as whetstones in the old society.
I called the young man to me and asked him, do you know what this is? Why is this chain broken? The young man said, isn't this a stone dumbbell? In the past, strong men would use this handle to practice their arm strength. This chain was originally good, but after we male educated youths moved in, we saw this thing and thought it could be used to exercise, but the chain could not be removed, so we It was broken directly.
So I became even more sure of one thing, there was something underground!
The thing that he thought was a stone was not the stone dumbbell the young man mentioned, but a stone lock. Granite stone locks were often used to guard tombs in ancient times. In Yinzhai Feng Shui, there are many types of tomb-suppressing things. The most common ones are tomb-suppressing animals, human figurines and other things. Stone locks are also one of them, usually tied with iron chains. On the one hand, it is to prevent the undead in the tomb from wandering around, and on the other hand, it is to prevent these tomb-suppressing items from moving around, so they must be fixed with iron chains. There is a stone lock tied with an iron chain on the well at home, its purpose is to restrain things underground. This method is called "soul-falling lock" in metaphysics.
That means that if there is nothing underground, there is no need to put such a big soul-falling lock on it to suppress it. The iron chain was broken by the educated youth. It is even very possible that the ghost who had taken revenge and lived in peace had not appeared for many years due to the suppression of the soul-falling lock. But after the iron chain was broken, it was equivalent to suppressing this form. It was destroyed, 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 witnessed two funeral soldiers passing through the tunnel in just a few days, but dozens of people before they came here as educated youths In years, no one in the village has encountered this reason.
I sighed, looked at the young man and said, you educated youths, maybe you have rich cultural knowledge, but your common sense of life is still far behind. Although ignorant people are happy, ignorant people are also terrible.
When no one was around, the male educated youth and I moved the stone lock down properly. It was really heavy, weighing about fifty kilograms. Then I found a shovel from the yard that the educated youth used when working, and shoveled away the thick layer of mud on the manhole cover. Because it had solidified for a long time, I shoveled it, and it was still there. It took a lot of time. Then the manhole cover was exposed, and the young man and I dug out the mud at the joint between the manhole cover and the wellhead. We tried to push it and found that the manhole cover was loose, so I reached out and pushed the manhole cover to one side. There was a muffled sound and the manhole cover fell to the ground.
I covered my nose because I didn't know what was under the well. I heard before that it was a dry well, but now I don’t think so. After some of the air in the well dispersed, I looked into the well and found that it was full of rocks of different sizes. The smallest ones were almost as big as my head, and they were densely packed into the whole well.
Presumably a lot of stones were poured in when the well was being filled. So at this time, I was at the well and lit the incense of soldiers and horses again. Different from the previous times, this time the smoke from Bingma Xiang did not disperse in all directions. Instead, after circling for a few times, it fell straight towards the stones in the well. So I realized at this moment that Bing Ma Xiang could not find traces of the ghost before, not entirely because of the suppression of the female ghost, but also because of the soul-falling lock placed on the well! And all this, as early as when I just stepped through the door of this courtyard, the weird pain on the back of 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 out rocks. There must be something weird down there. After saying that, I stretched out my foot and stepped into the well. I stepped on it a few times and found that it was not loose, so I jumped into the well with confidence.
