The story begins ten days ago.
That afternoon, Xu Er and several of his rogue brothers lost all the little money they had managed to get in a gambling house in the county town.
After leaving the gambling house, several people complained to each other.
One said that money should not be gambled, and the other said that the money should be spent in the sand dance hall to let the little brothers relax.
Some people also said that there was a dancing girl from the Western Regions in the Sand Dance Hall. She was very interesting and a group of people were very attracted to her. They gathered on the roadside to discuss ways to make money so that they could ride a Western Region horse.
Several rogues discussed and discussed, but there was no good way.
They want to take advantage, but now everyone is guarding them, so it is difficult to succeed.
Go work, even if someone is willing to do it, the scoundrels who are used to being lazy and lazy will not be able to endure the hardship.
So workmanship is impossible, and it is impossible in this life.
Just when several rogues were at their wits' end, a rogue named Brother Liao came.
Brother Liao heard about their troubles and pointed out a way for them to get money. He said that there was a wealthy family named Fan in Lingjie Village. The youngest son of the family owner died unexpectedly. He wanted to find another one who had just died. The corpse of a female of the right age was placed with the young son's skeleton.
Bone-building is a type of ghost marriage, in which both parties involved in the marriage are dead.
The entire marriage process is similar to that of a living marriage.
But in the end, the bodies of men and women must be buried together in a tomb, so that they cannot become husband and wife during their lifetime, and they will have a dark marriage in the underworld after death.
According to Brother Liao, the Fan family was quite anxious and offered a very high 'bride price' in order to match the underworld marriage.
After several rogues heard about this, they were all upset that there was no female family member of the right age at home, otherwise they would be related to the Fan family.
Not only can you get a large amount of bride price on the spot, but you can also rely on this relationship to go to the relatives of the corpse every now and then to get some money to spend.
Seeing that this good business could not be done, several rogues were very disappointed.
Unexpectedly, Brother Liao came to find them again early the next morning.
He said that he had inquired about the burial of a female corpse in Maliuping a few days ago. The deceased was about the same age as the young master of the Fan family, so she could be used as a suitable corpse for a shady marriage.
Several gangsters thought that Brother Liao was asking them to set up bridges and earn kickbacks.
But Brother Liao instigated them to dig graves and steal corpses, and he took the bride price.
A few thugs have done many immoral things, and they don't think there's anything wrong with this. Instead, they think it's a good idea. They can get more money, so they bring their tools and follow them to dig graves and rob corpses.
They were also afraid that they would be provoked by sneaks, so they did not dare to do anything at night. Instead, they chose to go to Maliuping at noon, when the sun was strongest, to dig graves and steal corpses.
There are graves everywhere in Maliuping, and no one usually goes there.
In addition, Xu Er and other scoundrels specially sent people to look out, so no one discovered him.
After stealing the female body that Brother Liao mentioned, they immediately drove the donkey cart to Lingjie Village.
After the Fan family inspected it, they were very satisfied and paid them the promised bride price on the spot.
A group of thugs divided the money and then went to the county town to spend several days drinking and drinking until all the money was spent before they went home.
Unexpectedly, Xu Er died just after returning home.
And the devil is still asking for his life!
So the gangsters thought that the female ghost whose corpse they dug up and robbed must be here to take revenge!
The fair-faced and beardless rogue also regretted it after telling what happened.
"If I had known that I would offend the evil spirits, I would have never followed them to dig graves and steal corpses. But I can't understand why we dug graves at noon and specially opened the coffins to expose the corpses to the sun. , how can it still attract evil spirits?"
This issue also puzzled Zhu Xiucai, Qin Shaoyou and others.
Nowadays, the world is not peaceful. There are not too many tombs that have been stolen and destroyed by bandits and rogues. There are even many cases of corpses being lifted out and exposed in the wilderness and being eaten by wild dogs and crows.
But these dead people did not turn into ghosts and come back to claim their lives.
But this female corpse turned into a fierce ghost, and her attacks were so ruthless...
There may be a problem behind this.
Thinking of this, Qin Shaoyou asked: "Did you find anything strange when you were digging tombs and robbing corpses?"
He walked out of the room just as he opened his mouth to confess.
"Weird situation?"
The pale-faced rogue thought carefully for a moment.
"If we want to talk about strange things, there is one thing. After we dug out the coffin and opened it, we found the female body lying inside. She looked as if she was still alive. She didn't look like she had been dead for several days at all. There was no trace of blood on her body. What stink and changes..."
"oh?"
Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai looked at each other.
They all felt that there might be something wrong with this female corpse.
Generally speaking, after a person dies, if the body is not refrigerated, a corpse smell will come out within one to two days, and green corpses will appear.
Three to five days later, the gas produced by the decay of the corpse will enter the subcutaneous tissue, causing the face to swell and turn black, the eyeballs to bulge, the lips to become thicker, and the abdomen to swell, giving the appearance of a giant.
However, both thugs mentioned that the female corpse they stole did not show the changes that it should have.
Something is clearly wrong.
In addition, there is another place that is also quite weird.
Generally speaking, the more wealthy a family is, the more particular it will be when it comes to marriage.
Calculating horoscopes, accepting wedding invitations, welcoming brides to the church...the whole process is more elaborate than a real marriage. What I'm afraid of is that the marriage is not well matched, and a good thing will be turned into a wrong thing.
But the attitude of the Fan family in Lingjie Village is interesting.
After the thugs drove the donkey cart and delivered the female corpse to the Fan family, the Fan family just looked at the condition of the female corpse and asked about the approximate date of death.
Neither asked for the birth date of the female corpse when she was alive, nor checked the identity of the gangsters, nor their true relationship with the female corpse, so they kept the female corpse and paid the bride price to the gangsters.
And according to what the two scoundrels said, the Fan family did not hold any wedding ceremony. They dug up the grave of the family head's youngest son and buried the female body in it that day.
After Zhu Xiucai heard this, he couldn't help but said: "The Fan family in Lingjie Village may also have problems."
Qin Shaoyou nodded, he thought so too.
Monk Ma said seriously: "Sir, these scoundrels who dig graves and steal corpses are naturally unpardonable. But the female ghost who asked for her life must also be eliminated. Because she not only killed Xu Er, but also mutilated innocent people. . If left alone, it will kill more innocent people. And if it turns into a ghost because of this, the harm will be great."
Qin Shaoyou nodded again and made an arrangement: "Old Liao, you take two people to the houses of other rogues to see their situation. If they are still alive, catch them for me."
"Yes!" Liao Lishi accepted the order and immediately tortured the two thugs and asked them to tell them the address of their companions.
In fact, there was no need to torture him. I heard that Qin Shaoyou was going to send someone to capture his companions. The two gangsters asked one to cooperate and even offered to help lead the way.
Their idea is very simple: We have all committed capital crimes, why should we be the only ones to suffer? It is only fair that we must die together! Besides, when I chopped off the chicken head and burned the yellow paper, I made it very clear: I don’t want to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but I want to die in the same year, the same month and the same day.
Now is the time for everyone to be sentenced to hang together and hanged together.
Qin Shaoyou ignored what the two rogues were thinking, and then made another arrangement: "Monk, take people to the homes of these two rogues to lay traps. The female ghost will probably come to them tonight, so we can make arrangements in advance so that we can be prepared. . Remember, there must be many traps, and they must be arranged secretly enough so that the female ghost doesn’t discover them as soon as they arrive.”
"Okay." Monk Ma nodded and accepted the order.
Qin Shaoyou himself was not idle either.
After arranging various matters and giving the trap layout plan to Monk Ma, he turned to Zhu Xiucai and said:
"You come with me to Lingjie Village, and we go see what's going on in the Fan family!"
