Ning Wanlai didn't know why Xie Lingya suddenly looked indifferent, he thought that Xie Lingya's face would be more solemn when he said it, "Uh, Teacher Xie, so you think...?"
"I think it's quite a coincidence. I also have a little friendship with the ghost king." Xie Lingya said in a low-key manner, "What do you think, go to the female ghost's parents first?"
Ning Wanlai was pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that what he was most worried about was not a big problem with Teacher Xie. Teacher Xie was so amazing, and he actually had a little friendship with the ghost king, and it was a coincidence that there were not four ghost kings, and Teacher Xie also Knowing the Eastern Ghost King, I just don't know if Sun Qingxiang has a deep friendship.
He hurriedly said, "Yes, I have already asked for the address."
"Then go find it." Xie Lingya said.
Ghost marriage is also called yin marriage. When an unmarried man or woman died in the early years, the family would arrange a ghost marriage and bury both parties together so that they would not be alone in the underground.
Moreover, in the old days, women were buried in their husbands' ancestral graves, and they were not allowed to be buried in their own ancestral graves when unmarried. Parents couldn't bear to have their children buried alone, so they found a yin relative.
In fact, even in ancient times, this custom has been criticized, and it is believed that ghost marriage "is against national prohibition and incestuous."
The bad custom of ghost marriage is rare now, but it is not unique, especially in the more remote countryside. When Xie Lingya was a child, he heard from his uncle that someone wanted to marry a child who died of illness, so he called to find out where he could sell his own folded and recited ingots.
This is not bad. In some places, bad habits are revived, and there is an intensified trend. Some people will steal bones, buy them, and sell them to their relatives. In serious cases, there have also been criminal acts of mutilating innocent people without corpses.
Moreover, Sun Qingxiang's situation is different from others, and his thinking is even more different.
The real name of the ghost he wanted to marry for his son was Chen Man. Her parents were ordinary workers. After Chen Man's daughter passed away a few years ago, the family who lost her only child was too sad. Adopted one.
After Xie Lingya and Ning Wanlai discussed, he first took Ning Wanlai to Chen Man's parents' house, and he didn't have to bother Shi Changxuan this time.
Chen Man's parents live in the old city, and the two took the bus to the community. Because it is an old community and the security is not strict, they went straight in.
Downstairs from Chen Man's parents, he saw an aunt carrying boxes from the car. Xie Lingya looked at it and asked, "Auntie want to help?"
"Thank you, my things are not heavy." The woman gave Xie Lingya a very kind smile. She picked up a cardboard box in one hand and walked to the door downstairs.
When passing by Xie Lingya, Xie Lingya looked down and saw that in her half-open box, there was a piece of gold and paper ingots.
Xie Lingya had a flash of inspiration at that time and said to Ning Wanlai, "Isn't this Chen Man's mother?"
Ning Wanlai didn't look at Auntie's face carefully. She couldn't remember if she was similar to Chen Man, but she also said, "It's possible, unless the neighbors in the same building happen to be doing white affairs."
They followed the woman and went up to the fifth floor. When they saw her stop, she was indeed at Chen Man's house.
Mother Chen opened the door and saw that the two young men stopped behind her, puzzled. Many houses in this community were rented out, and she didn't care when she saw them coming up. She thought they were new tenants, why did they stop at his door.
"Excuse me, are you Chen Man's mother?" Ning Wanlai asked.
Mother Chen looked strange, "... I am, are you?"
She never knew these two people. It had been a few years since Chen Man passed away. Could it be that she had a friend before her death that she only found him at this time
"Is it convenient to go in and chat? I'm a friend of Chen Man." Ning Wanlai said, seeing that Mother Chen looked a little distrustful, and said, "I want to discuss something with you about her."
Mother Chen originally thought that these two young men were handsome and wanted to help downstairs, so they should not look like liars, but as soon as Ning Wanlai said this, she immediately felt like a scam, her face sank, and she reached out and closed the door, "Why don't you? Find out, my daughter passed away a few years ago, what else do you want to discuss!"
As soon as Xie Lingya arrived at the door, he said, "Of course it's to discuss her marriage!"
Mother Chen moved for a while, and said doubtfully, "Did Mr. Sun ask you to come?"
They only told a few relatives that they were going to marry Chen Man, because they had to be guests of honor during the ghost marriage.
"I said, I'm Chen Man's friend." Ning Wanlai emphasized again.
At this time, a man came out of the house, "What's wrong? Who is it?"
"They said they were Manman's friends and wanted to discuss Manman's marriage." Mother Chen said, still in shock, but seeing her husband at home, she wasn't so nervous anymore.
Father Chen looked at them, but he didn't think too much about what they could do in broad daylight, "Then come in and talk."
Mother Chen had to let them in, but did not close the door.
Xie Lingya saw that there were still some paper-wrapped houses, computers, etc. in their home. According to custom, these should have been sent by the man.
In addition, there was a seven- or eight-year-old child who was sleeping on the sofa. It must have been a child adopted later. Mother Chen carried the child into the room before coming out.
"Are you Manman's friends before he died?" Father Chen asked.
"It's a friend, but it wasn't made during his lifetime." Ning Wanlai said, he was a little nervous, it was the first time to do such a thing.
Father Chen and Mother Chen were speechless, feeling that Ning Wanlai was talking nonsense.
"He can see some things that ordinary people can't," Xie Lingya explained, "so he met the two daughters because Chen Man told him that he would be forced to marry."
The word "forced" Xie Lingya made Chen's father and Chen's mother lose their suspicions, and said very embarrassedly: "Manman has passed away, and he is lonely... Mr. Sun said this... We are also for Manman. it is good."
"It's said that the two of you don't believe in ghosts and gods at all, and you haven't even tried to save yourself. How can you do such a thing because you think about your child's loneliness?" Ning Wanlai was a little unhappy when she mentioned it, "I'm afraid you all feel that death is like death in your heart. If the lights are off, you can leave it alone, and you can make some money when you do it.”
Chen Man told Ning Wanlai that they were not superstitious, and his expression changed, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Father Chen had asked them to come in to chat, but he couldn't sit still and stood up to chase people away.
"You all know in your heart that what I'm saying is true or false. Chen Man told me personally that you don't believe it at all. You just took other people's money to go out." Ning Wanlai said, "Even if she dies, you can't use her marriage for profit without authorization. Bar!"
Xie Lingya pressed Ning Wanlai and said, "You two, you probably didn't believe in ghosts in the world before, so Sun Qingxiang didn't take much effort to get you to agree. We came here to explain that Chen Man does exist in another form. , and she is very reluctant to marry Sun Qingxiang's son. Can you consider whether to suspend the marriage? We believe that your relationship for more than 20 years will not bear to make her suffer so much after her death. If necessary, I can try to Let you see Chen Man and ask her in person."
Chen's father and Chen's mother were burning with panic, Xie Lingya's words were a little more euphemistic than Ning Wanlai's, but they still meant the same thing. They were afraid that what Xie Lingya said was true, and they wanted to know if Chen Man still had thoughts, and they didn't want to.
That's right, when Sun Qingxiang first approached them, they thought it was ridiculous and refused. But Sun Qingxiang mentioned that he is willing to give a betrothal gift money, which is also a lot of income for them. There is still a child at home, thinking about having a ghost marriage, it may not have any effect, and finally agreed.
To those few relatives and friends, they all said that they had changed their minds, but they were still afraid that their daughter would be lonely, but when Ning Wanlai told them, it was really embarrassing whether there were ghosts in the world or not.
Seeing their expressions, Xie Lingya seemed to have loosened up, so he whispered to Ning Wanlai a few times. He couldn't open his spiritual eyes to others, so he used Ning Wanlai's body to summon Chen Man.
Ning Wanlai is an impermanent person and is very suitable for inviting ghosts. Although he has never done it before, Xie Lingya taught him the method in advance, and it is done step by step.
Ning Wanlai lit three sticks of incense, put seven grains of glutinous rice in his mouth, chanted an incantation, pointed out the place where Chen Man was buried, and suddenly passed out, stiff and cold.
Chen's father and Chen's mother were in fact hesitant. Seeing Ning Wanlai suddenly passed by and died, they were so frightened that they wanted to call an ambulance.
"It's okay, wait." Xie Lingya said, and just a few seconds later, "Ning Wanlai" slowly woke up.
"Ning Wanlai" turned over and pinched the fingers of his left hand on his right.
With such a small action, both Father Chen and Mother Chen were stunned. Chen Man had tenosynovitis before his death, and his hands were often painful, so he usually rubbed his hands when he had nothing to do.
"Ning Wanlai" is almost exactly the same as Chen Man in both movement and demeanor!
At this time, "Ning Wanlai" saw them and called out with a complicated expression, "Dad, Mom."
Chen's father and Chen's mother were a little afraid to agree, "You, are you really Manman?"
"Yeah." Chen Man's attitude towards her parents was a little awkward, saying that it was impossible for her to have no complaints in her heart, but she calmed down for a while and said, "When I was young, our family lived in an old house, and my mother took me to my neighbor's grandma's house. When I was a guest, the door of her house was loose. I pushed hard and I fell out and knocked on my chin. At that time, my mother laughed. Later, I found out that my face was covered in blood, and the neighbor's grandmother took the wound. Post it."
No one knows about this. Chen Man still has a thin scar on his chin. She told the details, and the muscles on Chen's mother's face trembled.
Even if he married Chen Man, his parents didn't quite believe that people would turn into ghosts after death, until Chen Man became Ning Wanlai's body.
From the details that outsiders don't know, to the speed and rhythm of speaking, it is clearly their daughter.
When the three views of Chen's father and Chen's mother were overturned, they couldn't help feeling a lot of guilt. Chen's mother cried: "Manman, my mother is sorry for you."
Chen Man's expression was still a little indifferent, she had been crying for too long, and at this time she couldn't cry anymore, she only ordered: "Mom, I really don't want to marry Sun Qingxiang's son, I know that I am dead, and there is no real money to be trusted. But if you can remember the love for more than 20 years, just let me go, I will be really grateful."
After speaking, the three sticks of incense were almost burnt to the end, Ning Wanlai's body fell back, and Chen Man left.
When Ning Wanlai regained consciousness, he saw that Chen's mother was already crying, and Chen's father also covered his face with one hand, looking very guilty. Chen Man's words made them feel so uncomfortable, and they could not wait to pay back the money they received now. Although they were confused about money for a while, the couple still had feelings for their daughter after all.
Ning Wanlai could hear them talking just now, and now asked, "Do you believe it now?"
Mother Chen whispered, "Old Chen, we are still..."
"I don't want it anymore." Father Chen said with a painful expression, "I don't want to get married. I've returned everything."
Xie Lingya asked, "Did he just send these paper sticks?"
Mother Chen said, "There are still a few pieces of paper." She took it out from the drawer and showed it to Xie Lingya, "It seems to be a marriage certificate."
Those were several handwritten ghost marriage documents, all written with a brush. Xie Lingya opened a document and saw the names of both parties, witnesses and other information written on it, as well as a few lines:
Er died young and slept alone in the Spring Palace. If you are not married, you will die alone. Two surnames and Xu, in order to get married. When choosing a good one, propriety is auspicious.
The specific date of the auspicious time is also written on the back, and the two parties are buried together.
In addition, there are other documents such as tomb sacrificial texts and warnings to ghosts and gods, all of which are written in classical Chinese and should be written by Sun Qingxiang.
"Have you already signed the marriage certificate?" Xie Lingya looked serious. "Fortunately, the marriage certificate has not been burned yet, so we have to cancel it quickly. This is only the last step to be relocated. In the past, your daughter was half a ghost from the Sun family."
"It should be fine, I'll call Mr. Sun now." Father Chen took out the phone.
Xie Lingya saw that they didn't seem to know Sun Qingxiang's real occupation. Seeing that Chen's father was going to call, he didn't say anything for the time being.
After Chen's father made a phone call, he apologized to Sun Qingxiang and wanted to cancel the engagement. He returned everything and money. There was probably a question over there. Father Chen and Xie Lingya looked at each other and said, "...My daughter gave me a dream, she, she has someone she likes."
Then, not knowing what Sun Qingxiang said, Father Chen took off the phone.
"How?" Ning Wanlai asked.
Father Chen's expression was not very good-looking, "Hang up." After a while, he said again, "... Let us keep the things and burn them ourselves."
"This..." Mother Chen felt uncomfortable. Although it was not good for them to go back on their word, this curse was quite vicious.
Xie Lingya was concerned, but Sun Qingxiang had a grudge. "Convert these into RMB, and pay him back with the previous deposit. It is better to calculate more than to be short."
He took out three more amulets, "One for each member of the family, wear it on the body, and do not take it off except for bathing."
Father Chen and Mother Chen didn't understand why, so Xie Lingya said: "Sun Qingxiang himself is also proficient in feng shui, so I'm afraid he will take revenge on you.
Father Chen took a look at the talisman, and there were three small characters on the outer rubber: Hold Yang Guan.
"It turns out that you are people who hold Yangguan." Father Chen remembered that he had heard of this place, and someone told him that the talisman in this place was very spiritual, but he didn't believe it. It's a little safer now. sense.
…
Chen Man's parents told them to stay for lunch. It was thanks to Ning Wanlai that they met Chen Man when he was in a state of flux. Otherwise, based on their previous thoughts, let alone Chen Man's inability to support his dreams, it was true that they would. won't take it seriously.
But before the dinner, Father Chen called again and said in a panic, "The people in the cemetery told me that Manman's urn is gone!"
Because it was planned to be relocated and buried together with Sun Qingxiang's son, Chen's father had already contacted the cemetery to relocate. But I just called to inform him that he would not move, and they told him that the tomb had been opened and the urn was ready to be taken out, but now he found that the urn was gone.
How long has it been since I informed Sun Qingxiang that this matter has nothing to do with him, and everyone doesn't believe it.
Xie Lingya thought that he would take revenge on Chen Man's parents, or Chen Man himself, but he didn't expect to dig the grave directly, so he still wanted to marry Chen Man back. But this time it's going to be stronger.
"Damn! Call him!" Ning Wanlai was furious.
"It's useless." Xie Lingya said calmly, "It's okay, I'll take Chen Man's soul back to Baoyang Temple first. Even if the ceremony is successful, he won't let Chen Man's soul go away. Then, we'll go to get Chen Man's soul. ashes."
Sun Qingxiang probably didn't expect someone behind him to give instructions. Xie Lingya took Chen Man to Baoyang Temple, and Wang Lingguan was on top, so no one could take Chen Man away from here.
Seeing Xie Lingya's confident appearance, Chen's father and Chen's mother felt more at ease and entrusted the matter to him.
Xie Lingya took away the documents, which stated that the venue of the "ghost marriage" was in the cemetery where the burial was originally planned, and the time was at night. It is difficult to find Sun Qingxiang people, but it is easy to stay here and wait for the rabbits.
Xie Lingya went to the cemetery to find Sun Qingxiang and made an appointment with Shi Changxuan. He didn't want to take Ning Wanlai at first. He was just being impermanent and didn't know much, but Ning Wanlai was going to scold Sun Qingxiang, so Xie Lingya put a few more talismans on him.
The three of them took a taxi to the cemetery at night, but they jumped into the wall because there were security guards at the gate.
The cemetery was built on the mountain. Xie Lingya used the moonlight to find Sun Qingxiang's son's cemetery in the dark. Shi Changxuan was also helping, and Ning Wanlai's legs were weak. Wandering around in the cemetery at night, my heart is really empty.
"I said you don't come, you are afraid when you come, or you will sit here and wait for us?" Xie Lingya said.
"I don't, I don't!" Ning Wanlai's face turned pale, how dare he, it's okay to follow Xie Lingya, sitting here alone is really going to die.
Xie Lingya was speechless and continued to search.
After a while, they were really found. The tombstone was lying flat on the ground, waiting for burial. Obviously, it also showed that Sun Qingxiang was coming here tonight.
"Let's go, let's hide." Xie Lingya led the two of them to the top, hiding behind other tombs, leaning against the tomb's retaining wall, and sitting on the ground.
Seeing the tombstones all around, Ning Wanlai shivered, "Mr. Xie, do you feel a little cold?"
Xie Lingya: "I told you it's a little cold at night."
"..." Actually, Ning Wanlai felt that it was strangely gloomy and cold, and the cemetery was too dark, but Xie Lingya was particularly honest about the weather.
Ning Wanlai really regretted it at this time. Why did he come with a passionate request at that time
Ning Wanlai thought about it and put her head on Xie Lingya's shoulder.
As soon as he put it on, he saw Daochang Shi looked over coldly, and he was very excited. Just as he was about to say something wrong, he heard a thin voice ringing in his ears in the silence.
"You're on top of me."
"I—" Ning Wanlai jumped up and broke out in cold sweat, covering her mouth with her hands, afraid that she would shout.
The voice was thin and cold, and it sounded in his ear, Ning Wanlai burst into tears, and kept bowing to the tomb in front of him: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Xie Lingya was startled by him, turned the whole thing to the side, and planted Shi Changxuan in his arms. If it wasn't for Shi Changxuan's follow-up, he would probably have rushed into the street, and then the black line said: "You scared me to death."
With a crying voice, Ning Wanlai pointed to the tomb in front of him and said, "... woo, he said I was pressing him."
"You're leaning against the retaining wall, how could you press on someone's tomb." Xie Lingya pointed at the little wooden man on his shoulder, "That's what it said."
Ning Wanlai: "..."
Ning Wanlai's eyes were almost bulging out. When the wooden man spoke, it wasn't much better than the tomb owner's speech, and it was terrifying! !
Xie Lingya also said: "Didn't I tell you earlier, I am a wooden man who can speak like a belly fairy."
Ning Wanlai: "..."
Just as he was about to say something, Xie Lingya's expression froze, "Squat down, here we come."
Ning Wanlai quickly squatted down, but he didn't dare to approach Xie Lingya any more—if he killed him in the future, he wouldn't come any more!
Xie Lingya slowly got up from Shi Changxuan's arms. Just now, Liu Lingtong reminded him. He stared down at this time, and it didn't take long for a group of five or six people to come up the mountain.
They were definitely different from Xie Lingya. They walked in from the main entrance with a lot of things in their hands.
The last step in a ghost marriage is to go to the cemetery where they are buried together, prepare fruit wine, small flags and other things, and hold the ceremony. There were still two chairs in the hands of those people.
Xie Lingya heard Ning Wanlai's retelling of Sun Qingxiang's description, and now he recognizes that he is the middle-aged man in the lead. He saw them standing at the present, placing sacrifices, seats and small flags, and the urns were also placed on two chairs.
Sun Qingxiang nodded, "Let's start."
A woman next to her took out a handful of documents and began to recite. She should be the ghost matchmaker in this ghost marriage. Now it is time to read the libations, and invite both men and women to come and sit. The two small flags are inserted behind the seats. During the ceremony, if the husband and wife are satisfied when they meet each other, the small flags will flutter.
The ghost matchmaker was reciting the laying text, but Sun Qingxiang stopped him expressionlessly, and looked around, "No, why didn't Chen Man come."
The ghost matchmaker said hesitantly, "No way, I read a word correctly."
Sun Qingxiang frowned, "Wait a minute, I'll figure out why Chen Man didn't come."
"Don't forget, Chen Man won't come." Xie Lingya stood up from behind and said slowly.
In the darkness, Xie Lingya startled everyone other than Sun Qingxiang, "Who are you?"
"Ah, I'm numb..." Xie Lingya muttered. Fortunately, Shi Changxuan stood up and gave him a hand, and he said, "We are entrusted by Chen Man to combat your immoral behavior of forcibly marrying a female ghost."
Sun Qingxiang sneered, "What are you?"
Ning Wanlai also got up and scolded: "You are not a thing, a scum, don't you know that Chen Man doesn't want to marry your son? Tell you, I am a servant in the underworld, I, I will sue you!"
"My son is willing to do it." Sun Qingxiang said lightly, "Don't blame me for not giving you a chance, leave now, otherwise, even if you are impermanent, it will be useless."
He heard it right away, Ning Wanlai was an impermanent person. But so what, a few young people were not in his eyes. Not to mention impermanence, even if it is really bad, it will not be able to control this yin kiss that he runs.
Ning Wanlai glanced at Xie Lingya, only to see Xie Lingya nodded affirmatively to him, and tried to be as confident as possible: "Stop talking nonsense, leave the urn, and get out."
Sun Qingxiang glanced at him and sneered a few times. He didn't want to miss the auspicious time, and he was not in the mood to entangle with the juniors. Ghost King."
The flames engulfed the Fire Solitaire card slot in an instant, and it was extremely conspicuous in the darkness. When Sun Qingxiang threw it, the Fire Solitaire card slot turned into ashes before it hit the ground, and floated to the east in a circle with the wind.
The cemetery was suddenly cloudy, and Ning Wanlai couldn't help shaking, "... Teacher Xie, you can discuss it with the ghost king later!"
Xie Lingya nodded: "I will try my best."
…
The plants in the cemetery were rustled, and a gust of gloomy wind rolled in from the east, forming a huge black shadow on the ground.
"This king is drinking, what bothers me?" The ghost king said coldly.
Sun Qingxiang bowed his hands and said: "The dog is married today, and I invite the ghost king to come and have a drink. By the way, talk to the impermanence and tell him to leave my family business."
Sun Qingxiang's eyebrows were quite lustrous, and he enjoyed the joy of shocking everyone at this moment. As a result, Ning Wanlai, who was above him, became more and more uneasy.
As soon as the ghost king turned around, his red eyes looked back, "Which one doesn't—"
He was only halfway through, his eyes fell on Shi Changxuan, and then moved to Xie Lingya next to him.
The ghost king said quickly, "I'm sorry to disturb you."