"What did you ask him to do?" Wu Ling asked.
Qin Kai scratched his hair, "It's a ghost marriage, it's a ghost marriage thing! We don't understand it... My wife thinks that finding someone to take care of our son... He is not married, after all, there is always something incomplete and something wrong. Jie Ming Regardless of whether you get married or not, you have to get married after all. It’s not harmful to anyone. It’s not harmful to anyone! I just want... the other party too, and the woman too! We must have a good deal with the other party. If the other party only has one child, he is also a middle-aged man. Son, if... our two families... we can be considered friends. It's really... so sad... "
Qin Kai's tears hit the floor, "It's so sad... You young people don't understand at all. We raised him to such a big age and watched him grow up day by day. Suddenly, suddenly... there was no preparation at all. I received the call that day. When we made the phone call and rushed to the hospital, neither of us knew what we were doing. Those days were like floating in the sky. We had no idea what was happening... Our son was just gone... Just gone... He was just Not long after I started working, he was still like a child. He stayed up all night watching football matches with his friends, said he would take us on a trip, said he would go to watch football live with friends, and he also liked to play those kid's games. He is only twenty-five years old! Only... twenty-five years old... I haven't had any friends yet, haven't gotten married yet, haven't had children yet... neither of us has retired yet... When I introduced him to friends, he was unwilling. We thought he hadn't grown up before. This time We found out that he had a girl he liked... He died three years ago, and we only found out that he liked a classmate of ours for so many years... We were just... just sad... so sad... There was suddenly someone missing from the family, and when we saw his shoes, Seeing his room... ugh... At that time, we all thought about just dying... Until last year, we still thought that it would be better to just die... This is already happening... This is already happening... The two of us haven't had a good talk for three years. It’s over. We will only talk on the anniversary of his death and the Qingming Festival... It’s really, too painful... "
Qin Kai burst into tears.
Wu Ling, Ye Qing, and Liu Miao didn't speak.
After Qin Kai's mood calmed down, Wu Ling asked: "What exactly did you do? Mr. Qin, this is related to your current safety. We need how that person helped your son get married."
Qin Kai wiped his face and said, "He didn't agree. The first time we came to the door, he didn't agree. He said he didn't do this anymore and couldn't find the goods... At that time... We were just holding on... He said that, but I didn’t hear it at the time. He said he didn’t have the goods, so I told him that if there was anyone with the right age, please contact us. What we thought at the time was that he might be a funeral director and knew who died and what happened. If you meet the right person... I think the age is the right one. My wife is more picky, and she also wants to ask about people's conditions and whether their temper is good. She is a bit... a bit crazy. But this kind of thing... is a bit hopeful. Well, it’s good to do something and get busy.”
"Um."
"He didn't contact us after that. We looked for other people, but they couldn't find anyone suitable. Either there was no way, or someone else found him... In the words of my wife, it's like a car accident, like when someone dies. All... She was dissatisfied. She felt that the same thing would happen to the lower level. There were also people with low education and unattractive looks... Take your pick... We went around like this and contacted him again. That is, touch and touch Luck. And he looks... he looks different. The first time we went there, his neighbors talked to us, and the people in the village seemed... they all knew him. That's probably it. They were also curious about him. He said that he used to perform ghost marriages for wealthy families. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, he performed ghost marriages for wealthy families. He was very rich and could tell fortunes. There were many details about fortune telling for ghost marriages. Their family also knew how to tie paper. People who make things for burials, know Feng Shui, find tombs and so on... I don’t know if it’s true or not. My wife wants the best for her son, and she has some... I have some hope. We went to see him a few times later. . He was a little relieved and asked us for the horoscope. After a while, a call came home and he said he found it."
"You just went to him again? Or did he come to you?"
"We went to his place. He said that if we were sincere and our horoscopes were just right, he would give us special treatment or something. I didn't understand... He was talking in a very eloquent way. My wife and I went to his house. It was a bit shabby, no one seemed to be cleaning the house, and there were no living people... When I went there, it felt very cold. His air conditioner was on, very low, and he even had a freezer... He opened the freezer and showed it to us. of… "
"Corpse?"
"Um… "
"Is that the woman in the photo?"
"No! Not at all! That woman was pretty, very beautiful, much prettier than in the photo. He said she died of stomach cancer, and he also showed us the scars on her stomach and that she had undergone surgery. . He also took her case report, identity certificate, and death certificate. Everything was in order. She had no family. It seemed that she came from the countryside and came to Minqing to work. Her family knew that she was dead and took her things. The man was left in the hospital and ran away. He said that a ghost marriage must be like this... otherwise there would be no confusion in the family. He said that there was another one who had just died, but they didn't believe it at all. Now he is willing to get into a ghost marriage. There are fewer and fewer people, and there are fewer and fewer people with suitable horoscopes. He... said a lot... My wife read those documents very carefully. I just listened to what he said. I didn't know what he said about the horoscopes. Got it...that's it..."
"Is this settled?"
"Um."
"What's the process of ghost marriage?"
"My son has been cremated, so the process is a bit troublesome... We... We stayed in his house with that... that body for three days. During the wedding, he called a man, held a rooster, and worshiped heaven and earth. , Worshiping parents... I did it late at night. No gongs or drums were played, it was quiet... That night... it was very scary... It was that kind of atmosphere... There was a dead man there... Just like that... Three days later, he said To go back, the way back for ghost marriage is to go back downstairs... He sent the person to be cremated, burned the paper, and then asked us to kneel, kowtow, and offer incense... After five or six days of tossing, he I said it was okay... My head was spinning, and I didn't know exactly... He asked us to pay directly for the money collected in the middle, including cremation money, paper money, etc., and finally gave him 50,000 yuan. Before After that, it cost nearly two hundred thousand. The ashes were not buried with my son. It was said that it would take a year. The ashes were placed with him... "
"Put the ashes at his place?"
"Hmm... Well, it showed up at home... My wife and I were frightened. My wife told her colleague... We were so tortured before that our brains were not very clear. Kowtow, worship Buddha, what else should we eat? One after another... After it was over, we all breathed a sigh of relief and felt as if we had died for the first time. Every time that kind of atmosphere... I really don't want to think about it... I went looking for it later! We looked for it! He said, yes The new daughter-in-law is following the rules and telling us not to be nervous. We, we thought... our colleagues and relatives all fooled us. They all took pity on us and thought we were out of our minds. Later, it was over... One year is here Period, he said we were buried together... After we were buried together, um... we didn't want others to know about this kind of thing. Too... we would have to be criticized... We would never do such superstitious things before. He He said it didn't matter. My son's tomb was bought with three holes, and the other two were reserved for us. So... He said he would take care of it. We thought it was completely over. We all wanted to adopt. Children, they all want to start over... Obviously... Obviously that woman didn't appear much later... Who knew it would be like this... "
"Didn't you look for him again after that?"
“…”
"Mr. Qin?"
Qin Kai held his head and said, "Can't find it. He disappeared. People in their village said he went out. We later told the police that we wanted to call the police, and they told the truth. That person is a liar! He is a liar! There is no body at all. , are all fake. That is not a body! The man is his son and the woman is his daughter-in-law! Not only do they have a house here in Minqing to cheat people, they also have houses in other places! They run around every year, where is the business? Just go wherever you go... Their village also does this! They make paper money, incense candles, shrouds and other businesses. There are also people working in the crematorium and cemeteries. They are all fake... Obviously... they are all fake... "