After that, nothing happened.
After summing up the experience of the previous rounds, Lu Chu thought that since the prompt of this "round" was "building a bone corpse", there must be people and clues related to it among the people around him. Lu Chu intends to ask his family members whether there is a custom of ghost marriage in their hometown, but has never found a chance to ask.
After all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, when it should be joyous, it is not suitable to ask about the dead.
So Lu Chu had no choice but to continue to search for relevant information on the Internet.
Soon, he discovered something that he was very concerned about.
"Ghost marriage" is a custom that has existed since the Han Dynasty.
At that time, if a child of a family who had already been married passed away, and if the family had power, the unmarried woman could continue to worship and be buried with the deceased. As for the common people, if their children and grandchildren die early, they will find boys and girls who also died early. After calculating the horoscopes, if the horoscopes match, Mr. Yin Yang will find a day to get married and bury them together. Later, there was also a form of yin marriage in which the living did not need to be buried with the dead, but directly married the dead, and kept a widow for a lifetime.
This kind of ghost marriage was very popular and lasted until the Qing Dynasty. Because the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were Manchus and there was no custom of ghost marriage, this form of ghost marriage gradually declined.
"Ghost marriage" not only refers to the marriage between the dead, but also the marriage between the dead and the living, which is also called "ghost marriage". And the reminder given by the bureau was not "marriage in the dark", but "building a corpse".
"Take a bone corpse" specifically refers to the marriage between the dead and the dead in the late Qing Dynasty.
So, this time referring to the two corpses
That being the case, why is the requirement of this "game" to cut off the marriage...
The use of the word "cut" shows that this marriage is not consensual. So, does it mean that one of the two married parties is still alive.
One living person and one dead person worshiping at the church cannot be called "building a bone corpse". It can be seen that once the marriage is successful, it means the fate of the living person-it is a word "death".
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Three days later, under Lu's mother's reminder, Lu Chu hung the red rope with a copper plate around his neck behind the door handle.
Unexpectedly, just two days after taking off the copper plate, Mother Lu got up early in the morning, went to the neighboring village around four in the morning, and begged him for the same red cloth and copper plate.
Lu Chu looked at the things in front of him, and asked suspiciously, "Mom, why are you begging again?"
Mother Lu smiled, with deep wrinkles on her face: "After the New Year, when you are about to go to school, Mom will have to ask for another one, more good luck, and more safety. Come on, bring it first. Take this one off for three days and six days and hang it on the handle inside your door."
This was Lu's mother's wish. Lu Chu didn't refuse, but took it and put it on his neck.
On the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, it entered the new year, and every household was busy; when the end of the year was approaching, there was a heavy snowfall. The snow is so thick that an adult can almost submerge his knees when he steps on it.
The Chinese New Year in the countryside is much more particular, and they have been busy since the beginning of the year, and until the New Year's Eve, there are still many things to be busy.
On the night of Thirty, every household will not turn off the lights all night, and the lights will be bright all night, which symbolizes a smooth and bright year ahead.
Lu Chu instructed Lu Chu to take a small red candle five or six centimeters long and a handful of loose incense, light it, and put it in the incense basket in front of the portraits of the gods. There was a lighter in Lu Chu's pocket. According to Lu's mother, a small candle and a stick of incense were inserted in the portraits of each god.
The gods of heaven and earth, the god of kitchen... After this round, only two sets of wax and incense are left, and they have to go to the door to plug in the two door gods.
Lu Chu's home is on the outskirts of the village, and a few houses further north, there are stretches of farmland. There is a vast expanse of uninhabited land, and it looks gloomy at night.
It was already dark at this time, although paper-stuffed red lanterns were hung in front of the gates of each house, and lights were lit in the walkways from the gates to the yard, but because the lights in the village were all dim yellow lights. Because of this, there is still a gloomy feeling when you leave the courtyard door.
The snow in front of the door was shoveled away by the Lu family and piled aside. I don’t know which family’s children were naughty and piled the shoveled snow into a snowman. The snowman used tree branches as limbs, plastic buttons removed from his clothes as eyes, and red cloth strips as mouths. They were piled crookedly and ugly, and they could only be seen as human.
Lu Chu squatted in front of the courtyard gate, with his back facing the street, facing the angle between the gate and the courtyard wall, blocking the chilly night wind, trying to light the candles and incense in his hand.
A gust of cold wind blew past, Lu Chudong shivered, and the candle that was just lit was extinguished.
Lu Chu didn't care, and went to light the candles again, but another gust of wind blew, and the candles were extinguished again.
He thought for a while, and prepared to light the incense first. The incense is different from the candle, as long as it is lit, the wind of this level will only burn more and more prosperously.
However, what Lu Chu did not expect was that the incense could not be lit at all.
Another gust of wind blew by, and Lu Chu immediately stood up and turned to face the direction of the street. Holding the scented wax and lighter in his hand, he looked warily at the direction of the north side of the path in front of his house.
Because everyone's house structure is facing south, the neighbors in the neighborhood call their neighbors on the north as their back neighbors, and their neighbors on the south as their front neighbors. When building houses in the village, due to the consideration of the terrain and farmland, some places are not built one by one in a regular rectangle. Lu Chu's house is staggered with his neighbor's house at a distance of five or six feet. The bungalow of the family opposite Chu's door is also in a relative dislocation with their neighbors.
In this way, after the small road continued to Lu's house, the neighbor's house began to turn, so people standing on the road could not always see the situation in the north clearly.
Looking north from the position where Lu Chu was standing, there was no other light source except the light of the dim red lantern; if he looked far away, his sight was blocked by the curve and the night, which made Lu Chu always feel that something would come out of the dark corner of the trail. dirty stuff.
At this time, gusts of wind came from the north, making "whoosh" sounds in the alleyway. The lanterns had a dim red light, and the shadows cast by the lanterns on the ground swayed with the wind.
In the next moment, Lu Chu felt a sticky coolness swiftly passing by his side, and the decals on the gates of various houses were rattled.
Lu Chu narrowed his eyes slightly, and took a step back unconsciously.
The gloomy and weird feeling quickly disappeared. Lu Chu came back to his senses and looked at the portraits of Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong on the gate behind him. For some reason, he settled down.
At this time, Lu Chu went to light incense and candles, and they were easily lit.
It seems that something did pass by just now.
Lu Chu glanced at the snowman piled up by the children when they were playing by the door, and always felt that the snowman's eyes decorated with black plastic buttons were particularly weird.
Thinking of this, he went back to the house, took out a shovel, and leveled the snowman.
After finishing all this work, he went back to the house. Mother Lu asked him why he had been away for so long. Lu Chu thought about it and told Mother Lu what he had just seen.
At the end, Lu Chu asked, "Mom, do you think something dirty has passed?"
"Bah, bah, bah!" Mother Lu frowned and patted Lu Chu's shoulder, then folded her hands together and bowed to the heaven and earth, muttering, "There are no taboos, no taboos..."
After she finished talking, she said to Lu Chu with a solemn expression: "Xiao Chu, mom knows you read a lot, and you always say... believe... science? Yes, you believe in science. But this is in our village, and everyone believes in it." This, New Year's Eve, don't talk nonsense, lest you get offended, that just now might just be a passing fairy—this kind of thing, if you don't provoke it, it won't provoke you."
After listening to Mother Lu's words, Lu Chu knew that there was nothing more to ask this time, so he had to promise Mother Lu that he would not talk nonsense again, and Mother Lu was relieved, and took him to the living room to have a New Year's Eve dinner and watch the Spring Festival Gala.
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After walking the streets and alleys for several days and visiting relatives from all walks of life, the busy new year is finally over.
In a blink of an eye, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month came, and Lu Chu was about to start school.
On this day, Mother Lu brought another copper plate with a red thread on it. Seeing this, Lu Chu knew that this was the third copper plate that Mother Lu had mentioned. Without thinking too much, she took it and hung it around her neck.
The moment the copper plate touched his body, Lu Chu was shocked.
Lu Chu touched the position of the copper plate with his hand through his clothes. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect. He always felt that this copper plate was colder than the previous two.
Lu's mother was helping Lu Chu make the bed - plus this one, there were already three red cloths under Lu Chu.
Looking at the bright red cloth, Lu Chu suddenly felt a little weird.
When the school day was approaching, Lu Chu also took off the copper plate around his neck and gave it to Mother Lu.
When taking a bath at night, Lu Chu had just taken off his sweater. When he lowered his head, he found a red copper plate-shaped imprint on his chest—it was where the copper plate was placed next to his body.
Lu Chu froze for a moment, then rubbed the red mark with his hands, turning the originally fair skin into red, almost bleeding, but it was of no use except to make the mark more beautiful.
They installed a water heater at home, but because there was no heating in the bathroom, it was still very cold in the twelfth lunar month. At this time, Lu Chu's hands and feet were numb from the cold. He reached out and turned on the shower, and the hot water flowed over his body, dispelling the chill. Lu Chu continued to wipe the birthmark-like red mark on his chest with the help of water, but the mark seemed to grow on the flesh and blood, and it couldn't be removed no matter what.
Seeing this, Lu Chu had no choice but to take a shower as soon as possible, return to his room, turn on the light and sit on the bed, clutching the red mark and thinking about its origin.
Something to do with that copper plate? But why there was no response the first two times...
While thinking about it, Lu Chu suddenly felt a scorching heat at the imprint on his chest, as if a fire had caught fire from the inside of his skin, and his hot fingertips moved slightly.
Suddenly, the lights in the house suddenly went out, and the room fell into a deep and complete darkness.
"Plop-plop-" The sound of Lu Chu's heart beating was particularly obvious in the quiet darkness.
A gloomy feeling came over him, and the red marks on Lu Chu's chest no longer burned, but he was forced to lie down on the bed by the oppressive feeling, his whole body was like a heavy weight, unable to move no matter how he struggled half point.
The black shadow didn't mean to harm him, but just continued to approach him, and turned on the button of the lamp beside his bed by the way.
There was light in the room instantly, and Lu Chu's upper eyelids slightly covered his eyes to look at the soul floating above his body.
Soul's body is translucent, even if it is translucent, it can be seen that his cheeks and thin lips are gloomy and pale, but this does not detract from the handsomeness of his face and the handsomeness of his facial features. Chu's body completely surrounded Lu Chu.
Yes... 7.
The moment he saw 7's appearance clearly, Lu Chu instantly relaxed, looked at him, bent his brows and eyes unconsciously, and smiled softly: "Who are you?"
7 Hooked lips: "Your guardian spirit."