A long time ago, there was a night watchman, a night watchman whose past no one knew. Legend has it that he fell in love with a female corpse in the morgue, a female corpse wearing a red wedding dress. He washed the female corpse every day and talked to her. Later, when the female corpse was taken for cremation, the night watchman still accompanied her as they passed through the scorching furnace to another world.
No one noticed the night watchman's death for a long time. It wasn't until the next body came that people discovered that there seemed to be something missing in the morgue, a person was missing. After the night watchman died, people began to discuss him after meals. Finally, a migrant worker from another province talked about his past. He said that he and the night watchman who committed suicide were from the same hometown…
——The past of the Night Watch
"The night watchman's name is A Liang. A few years ago, he was still a white-collar worker. This guy has some merits from his ancestors. His girlfriend is a famous beauty in our village. Every time the young couple walks around the village When I walked around, I didn’t know how many villains I would be greedy for. Hey, but A Liang was a white-collar worker at that time. Could it be that such a beautiful lady would fall in love with migrant workers like us who have a hard time eating and drinking?" People from other provinces tried their best. He smoked a cigarette, with an ugly smile on his face, and continued. "But that woman was unlucky enough. I heard that on the day of the official wedding, the woman was hit by a car and died on the way to the groom's house. A Liang has never left the door of his house since that incident. , according to his two elders, A Liang is now trapped in his room every day, mumbling to himself about going to accompany his former girlfriend. Then the incident of holding the bride happened. I still don’t know what to say. Who said it seems that the female bride he was holding also wore a red wedding dress."
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——The death of the mage
People finally know a little bit about the Night Watch's past, but the Night Watch's story is not over yet.
Legend has it that after the night watchman died, he was still in the morgue. But he is no longer guarding the dead, but the living. Many people who visit the morgue die mysteriously a day or two later. Some old people said that his death was not only a sacrifice of love, but also a curse. As for who he was cursing, no one knew. As a result, the morgue slowly became deserted, and no one dared to go in again. Some people even said that they faintly heard the sound of the night watchman when they passed by there at night. He is shouting: "Bride, my bride!"…
People from other villages no longer dared to come to this village, and people in the village began to be unable to bear such fright, so the village chief proposed to hire a mage to exorcise Aliang's soul.
Maybe A Liang didn't like others harassing him, because the mage died on the night of the expulsion. That day, the villagers were still watching him perform rituals. Suddenly, a black shadow passed over the mage's back, and then slowly sneaked into his body. A dark wind immediately rose from the ground, and the candles on the altar were suddenly extinguished. The mage shouted: "Run!" The villagers were shocked and ran back immediately. Behind the cold, the mage suddenly heard the heart-rending scream. , so harsh that it echoed near the morgue for a long time, as if it would never dissipate.
From that time on, the villagers became even more afraid. No one dared to suggest expelling Aliang, and no one even had the courage to pass by the morgue. And that morgue became even more gloomy. The corpses there have never been touched. Some old people said that they have also turned into ghosts. Anyone who disturbs them will be cursed in the most vicious way. The atmosphere of KB enveloped the entire village.
——TV station
But to the TV station, these strange things seem like white banknotes. The story about A Liang was told by some people who left the village. They hoped that someone could help them, but they didn't expect that the person coming to their village was not a respected mage, but someone from the TV station. They persuaded the TV station people to stop the interview, but what was the use? The next day, the TV station's camera crew drove to the small village.
Everyone in the village was afraid that they would disturb A Liang again, and no one would cooperate with their work. On the night of the shooting, everyone in the village closed the doors of their homes, turned off the lights and went to bed early.
The camera crew drove a van to the rumored morgue. The road leading to the morgue had not been visited for a long time and was overgrown with weeds. In the dark night, even the stars were so afraid that they hid in the clouds. From time to time, there were sounds like howling wolves in the silence. Someone in the photography team asked to leave at that time, but the director didn't allow it. After driving for about twenty minutes, we finally arrived at the morgue.
There was a suffocating atmosphere surrounding the morgue. The wolf's cry seems to be getting closer and closer, as if it is barking right next to your ear. Someone in the photography team also said that this was A Liang's cry. Finally, someone couldn't control their panic and shouted to go back. How could the director agree? He did not allow the driver to turn back. The timid man suddenly jumped out of the car window and ran back, saying along the way: "You will regret it." His voice disappeared in the tall grass. No one knew whether his people returned to the village safely.
The director found a hole in the wall of the morgue and placed a camera outside. After everything was ready, he and other colleagues played "Bone Fairy" inside. (Legend has it that this is an ancient method that can bring in some dead ghosts.) The two hands were crossed together, and the pen in the middle began to move. The surroundings were deathly silent, and even the howling of wolves could not be heard suddenly. Is it A Liang? The pen slowly rose up, and there seemed to be a dark shadow between the pen and the hand, but I couldn't see it clearly. The director spoke: "Are you A Liang?"
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With the crow of the chicken, the sun rises as usual. The morgue returned to its original calm. Some nosy people wanted to see the "harvest" of that photography team. Unexpectedly, he also had a "gain". On the way to the morgue, on a road overgrown with weeds, there was a body. The eye frames were hollowed out, the mouth was opened unusually wide, and the white shirt on his upper body was stained bright red with blood, but there was not a single wound on his body…
Within half an hour, three police cars arrived. They confirmed that this was one of the members of the photography team. As for the others? Not found. The final clue is the video recorder outside the morgue. An old man in the village said angrily that it was their fault for not listening to us and irritating A Liang. It is easier to invite a ghost than to send one away.
Pol.ice decided to go back and watch the videotape, trying to find some clues. What they saw was: In the dark morgue, the people from the photography team were using the "Bone Immortal" method to invite ghosts. Then, the pen slowly rose up, and there seemed to be something black under the pen. . The director moved his mouth a few times, and the other people's mouths also moved a few times.Suddenly, the pen hit the ground hard, and the black shadow from before slowly spread to the surroundings. Slowly, it enveloped several people in the photography team. After that, there were snowflakes all over again…——Prepare to infer. marriage
The small village began to discuss A Liang again. Some people suggested that A Liang was not married during his lifetime and must have been very lonely after his death, which is why his ghost lingers. If A Liang had a "shadow wedding" (a wedding for a dead person), the problem might be solved. After some discussion, the elders in the village agreed that this was the only way to go.
The next day, they found the "ghost matchmaker" in the village – the fourth wife. The fourth mother-in-law said that an innocent soul like A Liang could not just give him a female corpse. If he wanted to find one, he should look for a female corpse that looked similar to the woman he loved during his lifetime. When everyone heard this, they all thought of red wedding dress! But besides the red wedding dress, what other characteristics does A Liang’s ex-girlfriend have? A Liang's fellow villagers were invited. But unfortunately, he said, it has been more than a year and he has no memory at all.
A villager had an idea and said that maybe the female corpse cremated with A Liang was very similar to A Liang's former girlfriend. Wouldn't it be enough to find a female corpse that looked similar? Everyone else said yes, this is also the only solution. The fourth wife warned everyone that if this idea is right, it would be the best, but if the found female corpse A Liang is not satisfied, the consequences will be disastrous. besides……
Although the fourth mother-in-law had many concerns, she finally told her how to get married in the dark: the first step was to make the underworld clothes. The style should be the same as for a living wedding, with dragon and phoenix needlework, but since it is a wedding for a dead person, white should be used. Then, when people are sleeping peacefully, they "build the corpse" (that is, the washed female corpse is placed safely in the sedan chair). Four men are asked to put on black clothes and carry a sedan chair. A single drum, a single trumpet, and a single suona are played to lead the way. Yin Gong (the person who walks at the front to guide the innocent souls) leads the way.
Remember, the four men are not allowed to speak no matter what they see while carrying the sedan, let alone stop midway.
There are also a lot of things tied with paper used in ghost marriages. The fourth wife said that some of them are betrothal gifts and some are dowries. These are not problems, the key thing is the female corpse. It has been more than a year since Ah Liang died. Does anyone remember what kind of female corpse he "succumbed to his love" for? The village party secretary called in the villagers near the morgue and asked them, but who would pay attention to the appearance of a dead body? ——The past of the female corpse
Everyone was silent for a long time. Suddenly, the village party secretary remembered something. In the past, every corpse in the morgue had a record. You can check it out. Therefore, the village cadres found a name from a large number of files – Li Xuanyue, who lived at No. 47 Tianqing Lane during his lifetime. Two village cadres recognized this address – it was the home of a poor household.
The two village cadres (Xiao Pengfei and Sun Wei) found Li Xuanyue's home according to the address on the file. After calling a few times, the door creaked open. What stood in front of Pengfei and Sun Wei was a portrait of a young girl. In the yellowed black and white photo, the girl had a smile as bright as a flower.
"It's a cadre in the village. Is something wrong?" Pengfei and Sun Wei came to their senses. Standing next to the door was Granny Li. She was in her seventies, a little hunched over, and her gray temples covered half of her face. , seems a bit weird.
"That's right, we want to know about Li Xuanyue." Sun Wei asked.
"Please come in." Granny Li turned around and entered the house, her thin back staggering.
The lights in the room were dim, and on the altar, which was lit red by candles, a tape recorder kept singing Buddhist verses that no one could understand. What surprised Sun Wei and Pengfei was that in addition to Li Xuanyue's photo on the altar, there was also a black and white photo of a person – an old man with a kind face and a smiling face. "That's my wife, Yue'er's father." Granny Li saw two cadres staring at the photo of her old man.
"Xuan Yue is our only daughter." Grandma Li started to get down to business. "Although she is not as smart as Bing Xue, she is still filial to us. She made friends with a man two years ago, and the two of them couldn't control themselves and did that. . As a result, Yue'er had a child, and finally the man really liked our Yue'er and said he wanted to marry her. At that time, my old man was sick and had not worked for several years, so he couldn't spare any money to buy Yue'er a baby. A nicer dowry. The man didn’t care anymore, but the old man had a stubborn temper and insisted on going to work on the construction site for two months to earn money to buy a piece of jewelry for his daughter. But… in the end, something happened, and the old man left the construction site. I fell down and never woke up again…"
Grandma Li choked up a bit when she said this.
"After the man's family heard the news, their attitude changed drastically. They said that we were born in a low life and that our biological father was killed before we got married. There was no way this marriage could go ahead. That man was so cowardly that he couldn't say anything. I didn't dare to say a word to my family, leaving us, Yue'er, crying at home every day. I advised Yue'er to look away and be careful of the fetus, but within a few days, I found her passed out at the entrance of the stairs with bleeding from her lower body. I rushed to her By the time we were in the hospital, the child could no longer be saved.”
"Yue'er was completely broken. She was trapped in her room all day long. Every time I brought her food, I saw her staring out the window and talking to herself. I was very busy at work at the time. I couldn't stay with her every day. But one day I came home and saw Yue'er lying in a pool of blood wearing the red wedding dress we prepared for her. There was a bright red scar on her right arm…"
"Silly child, I know she wants to marry that man even after she dies. It's a pity that our lives are so miserable." Aunt Li let out a long sigh. There were obviously traces of tears on her face with ravines and her eyes were dull. He looked out the window and said nothing for a long time.
"It turns out that Li Xuanyue suffered so many grievances during his lifetime." Pengfei interrupted Granny Li's deep thoughts. "No wonder she turned into a ghost after her death and harmed people with A Liang." Sun Wei glared at Peng Fei.
"Xuan Yue won't harm anyone. I also know that the person who dies wearing these red clothes will turn into a ghost because of his resentment. At first, I thought Yue'er would come back to take revenge on the man's family. But the night before the first seven days, I She dreamed of her. The silly girl said that she was afraid that she would harm the man's family and that the man would not see her again even if he died. She couldn't do it. The silly girl also said that she could not be reincarnated as a ghost bride in Cantonese , can wait, wait until the man dies of old age, and his family members are reincarnated, and she has to go find him. She has to ask again, are you still willing to marry me? As long as the man nods, all the grudges from the past life will be over for her. You can pretend it never happened. She will be reincarnated with that man, and she will be his woman in the next life. Yue'er knows that as long as she harms others, the King of Hell will not let her reincarnate, and Yue'er will never harm anyone. Human." Granny Li's tone was very firm. Sun Wei and Pengfei were a little surprised by this answer. At the same time, they also secretly admired Li Xuanyue's infatuation.
Sun Wei and Pengfei both knew almost everything about Li Xuanyue's life. So, they asked Grandma Li for a photo of Xuan Yue before she was alive, and then returned to the village meeting hall. Before leaving, they gave Granny Li four hundred yuan, asking her to buy more food for themselves and burn more ingots for Xuan Yue. Granny Li said almost pleadingly: "If you meet Xuan Yue in the future, can you not hurt her? Can you help me tell her that I have been thinking about her so hard this year? Xuan Yue, can you repay her more?" How many dreams can you give me?" Sun Wei and Pengfei's eyes became a little wet when they heard this.
Finally, they didn't return empty-handed. The two of them returned to the village meeting hall to talk about Granny Li's words and took out Xuan Yue's photo. It will be easier to handle the secret marriage if there are photos. As long as you find a female corpse that looks similar to the photo and marry it to A Liang, the danger in the village may be eliminated. So several elderly people in the village began to prepare for secret marriages.
Everything was going on nervously, and the date was chosen on the 22nd of next month. The fourth mother-in-law said that the day of the shady marriage should not be too auspicious, as the dead would not be able to bear it, and it should not be too fierce, for fear that the people carrying the coffin would be in danger. Especially for a shady marriage for an evil person like A Liang, you must be careful when choosing the date.
On the 18th, all the dowries and utensils for the ghost marriage were ready, except for the female corpse. On the 19th, a village cadre bought a recently deceased female body from a tomb robber in another village for 7,000 yuan. On the 20th, the fourth mother-in-law performed a ritual outside the abandoned morgue and told A-Liang that she wanted to arrange a secret marriage for him in the next two days. She hoped that he would agree and not to embarrass the person who arranged the marriage for him on the night of the 22nd. On the 21st, the elders in the village found four brave people to be the bridge bearers tomorrow, a Taoist priest to be the Yin Gong, and five people from other villages to be the musical instrument players. Everything was ready and waiting for tomorrow The hour has come. ——Yin marriage
On the night of the wedding, there was no gloomy wind as the villagers imagined. The moonlight poured down quietly, illuminating the outline of every plant and tree in the village, making them blurry. Almost all the villagers closed their doors early and went to bed. The surroundings were dead silent, and there were only a few barking dogs in the huge village.
"It's midnight, get up the sedan!" Yin Gong shouted, scattering the money in his hand, and the four sedan bearers gritted their teeth and lifted the sedan onto their shoulders. For a moment, the suona, single trumpet, and single drum sounded in unison, as if a stranger was getting married. Sun Wei and Pengfei are two of the four bearers.
"Do you think we'll see that… that later?" Pengfei asked Sun Wei in a low voice.
"Shh!" Sun Wei immediately replied, "In the evening, this kind of topic is taboo."
"The marriage of an unjust soul ends the unfinished business of the previous life. The evil spirits give way, and the wild ghosts avoid…" Yin Gong sang in front.
Not long after, the corpse sedan had passed through the long grass and stopped in front of the dark door of the morgue. Yin Gong took a stack of charms from his pocket and sprinkled them to the sky, then murmured. The person playing the ritual music had stopped talking, and the surroundings were eerily quiet. Everyone heard their own heartbeats sounding like thunder, and they didn't dare to take a breath.
"Bury the body!" Yin Gong gave the order, and the four bearers immediately took out the shovels prepared at their waists, dug a deep hole, and put the "bride" in with her body and the sedan. At this moment, a dark wind rose, and dogs barked all around. The bearers' palms were sweating, and they worked harder, hoping to finish their work and leave this hellish place as soon as possible.
After burying the sedan, everyone was exhausted, and it was almost dawn. Take a closer look at the patch of grass where you came just now. It was filled with mist, and it was vaguely a human face. Pengfei was the first to see this strange face, and was so frightened that his throat became hoarse. He pulled Sun Wei's sleeve hard. Sun Wei turned his head to look, swallowed hard, and did not dare to scream.
"Go." Yin Gong shouted, and Mu Mu disappeared out of thin air.
Finally, we waited until the rooster crow, and finally completed the first step of the dark marriage. The elders in the village were overjoyed to see everyone return safely. The fourth mother-in-law said that this was a good thing, which meant that A Liang accepted the marriage, and all that was left was to burn the dowry for A Liang in broad daylight.
Things went surprisingly smoothly. After the secret marriage, even at night, the morgue no longer made those miserable cries and wolf howls. The villagers breathed a sigh of relief. Unfortunately, things are far from as simple as they imagined——
haunted house
The peace of the village was broken by a wealthy businessman about half a year later. This wealthy businessman from out of town wanted to build a villa in the village to enjoy life, and he fell in love with the wasteland in the morgue at a glance. The country people were honest and told the rich businessman everything about the land, but the rich businessman instead made fun of them for being superstitious. He even said richly that if there really was a ghost, he would pay a lot of money to hire the most powerful magician and let the magician do it. Help him design the feng shui of his villa.
At first, everyone in the village disapproved of selling the morgue land to a wealthy businessman. But then the price he paid became higher and higher. This amount of money was indeed a big deal for the small village. So, the village party secretary suggested that we sell it, since we don’t live there anyway. Although some people still disagree, the village party secretary has already nodded. What else can be done?
The persuasion was fruitless and the project went on as scheduled. As a result, strange things began to happen one after another. At the beginning, workers sleeping in the construction site said they often heard children crying, women calling for help and men shouting at night. These KB screams are noisy all night long, and it feels like a murder is happening around you.
But as soon as the lights were turned on, all the sounds stopped suddenly, and the surroundings returned to calm. In the next few weeks, the workers continued to find blood and water seeping out from under the floor of the house, accompanied by bursts of fishy odor. Some brave people opened the floor and took a look. There was nothing inside except steel and concrete. For a time, people were panicked. About ten days later, people in the village no longer saw workers working on the land where the morgue used to be. The wealthy businessman was very angry and wanted to see why they were lazy. When I went to the construction site, I saw that the bodies of all the workers were lying in the house that I had not yet built. The first floor was full, as were the second floor, and the third floor. Every floor of a tall villa was filled with corpses. The wealthy businessman was so scared that he pissed himself and left the village.
The wealthy businessman did not expect that his prophecy came true, so he hurriedly said that he was going to invite the mage. As a result, before the mage came back, someone in the village said that he had died in a car accident. There were even rumors that A Liang was so angry that he wanted to take revenge on everyone in the village. The small village that had been peaceful for half a year was once again enveloped in the atmosphere of KB. ——Looking for someone
The old people in the village were once again helpless, and even the fourth wife said she had never encountered such a strange thing. Things seemed to have reached a dead end here. It wasn't until Sun Wei came back from attending a funeral for a wealthy businessman that a glimmer of light appeared.
After the wealthy businessman died, many people in the village felt very guilty, so Sun Wei decided to go to the wealthy businessman's home in the city to attend the funeral. As a result, this decision brought an unexpected harvest to their village. It turned out that the wealthy businessman had found a highly respected mage in Jiangsu before the car accident and even paid the money. However, he had a car accident while picking up the mage and going down the mountain. Sun Wei told the news, and everyone was very happy and put all their hopes on this mage. The village party secretary made a speech. Since the rich businessman has found a powerful mage, we should ask him to come down the mountain immediately. Maybe he will take the money from the rich businessman and later help us perform this ritual for free. Therefore, Sun Wei and Pengfei received a new task – to find the mage hired by the wealthy businessman in the shortest possible time. ——The ghost descends his head
Sun Wei and Pengfei lived up to expectations. In less than two weeks, they invited the mage that the wealthy businessman was looking for back from Maoshan, Jiangsu. The older generation in the village had heard that Taoism in Maoshan, Jiangsu Province was very powerful, and that this mage was hired by a wealthy businessman who paid a lot of money during his lifetime. Everyone felt that there was hope this time.
On the morning of the first day, the Master went to take a look near the morgue, then returned to the hotel in the village expressionlessly.
The next night, an emergency meeting was held in the village, and all village officials and the mage arrived.
"Master, what do you think we should do?" the village party secretary asked anxiously.
"Forgive me to be honest, the real murderer in the morgue is not a ghost, but a human being." The master said calmly.
"Damn it, it turns out that we have been deceived all the time, since we are human beings. Why should I be afraid of him? Village party secretary, lend me the knife you usually use to kill pigs. I will rush into the morgue and kill that bastard in a moment. Bring back Dan's head." Pengfei jumped up, feeling that he had been deceived like a fool for a long time, and he couldn't help but feel angry.
"But this is not an ordinary person. He is using ghosts to kill people. What ordinary people say is to lower his head." The master said.
"Village party secretary…" Pengfei suddenly stopped, thought for a moment, and said, "Sun Wei, after I get the knife, I will trouble you to buy an insurance for me. Just write my wife as the beneficiary. ." Pengfei immediately changed his mind, but was too embarrassed to say anything anymore.
"Don't be ridiculous, listen to the master." Sun Wei interrupted Pengfei.
"The murderer who killed people in your village didn't use ordinary head-dropping techniques. What we learn is called "Jiang-Shang-Jiang". It means first using a fierce ghost as a medium, and then unjustly killing a person to practice surrendering, so that the two grievances can be combined. Usually this kind of surrender is called ghost surrender." Everyone heard this and knew that what happened this time was not trivial. "Is there a pregnant woman who died wearing red clothes in the morgue after giving birth to her child?" the master asked. Almost everyone present thought of Li Xuanyue. "Usually, after such a person dies, he will turn into a ghost. Before her first seven days, when she is most resentful, if a head-dropping master stuffs a living person into this woman's coffin and lets the living person lie on her If someone dies under the corpse, the ghost they turn into will be even more powerful, and may even be beyond the control of the Toujiu Master. However, there is an exception, that is, the living person's IQ was not normal during his life, and after death, he will be controlled by the Toujiu Master wholeheartedly. . I have only read about this kind of ferocious surrender in books, but I never thought it actually existed in the world. To be honest, I am not sure about surrender…" The master's tone was always calm, but the village cadres who listened to him couldn't help but feel… Taking a breath of cold air, everyone knew that the mage was talking about A Liang. It turns out that A Liang did not commit suicide because of his love. He was killed by someone. Who was the murderer? ——Before the fight
When Pengfei, Sun Wei, the village party secretary and other village elders heard this, their palms became sweaty and they felt waves of cool wind blowing on their backs.
"There are only two solutions now." The master clasped his hands and closed his eyes tightly. "The first one is for Pindao to have a fight with the evil man. But if the loser of the fight does not die immediately, he will become a useless person in the future… The second option is for everyone to find the Jiantou Master from the village. The Jiutou Master is also a human being. If he is discovered and it is too late to do anything, he may not be able to withstand the butcher's knife of Pengfei's benefactor."
Pengfei immediately said: "Okay, let's choose the second method. Since we are highly educated, we should follow the materialist revolutionary line. Leave the investigation work to me."
"Before this, there is one more thing I must make clear. Generally, all the head-dropping masters will raise little ghosts to protect themselves. In other words, the head-turning masters will usually not be discovered by others, even if we can really find the big evil person , usually people who do detective work will be tortured to death by imps, and will never be reincarnated." The master's eyes were still closed.
"I have known for a long time that Pengfei, a young man like you, is courageous. Don't worry, if you really sacrifice bravely for our village this time, I will definitely write an elegiac couplet for you." The village party secretary patted Pengfei on the shoulder and smiled. said. In fact, among the three people, the village party secretary has the highest position and should also have the greatest responsibility. Now that I heard that Pengfei recommended himself to be a scout from the beginning, why don't you immediately push this matter away from yourself?
Pengfei's face immediately turned blue, his forehead was sweating, and he said tremblingly: "Village Party Secretary, I thought about it seriously. Since we have come all the way to invite the master, it would be disrespectful to not let the master take action to slay the demon. We have been highly educated. As an educator, you should still choose a method that respects others.”
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