Soon, the news spread throughout the village, and everyone rushed to the grave to see what was going on. Everyone thought it was very strange, and Gong Chao's family was a little suspicious. Were the ashes in the urn really their daughter's
In order to make them believe, the man surnamed Lu performed a ritual at their home that night. Almost all the villagers came, including Chen Xiulian and her son. The man surnamed Lu used the urn to summon the soul, and made Gong Cuiruo appear and admit in person that these were her ashes. As for how she died, even she herself didn't know. The man surnamed Lu let her say these few words, put away the ritual, and let Ruoruo's ghost go.
The man surnamed Lu told them that Zhao Chengshi's family had committed the Five Evil Spirits. He died on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which was also the time when Ruoruo disappeared. After his death, his body turned into evil spirits and killed Ruoruo, burned her to ashes, and sealed her in a coffin. This not only caused the downfall of the Gong family, but also destroyed the feng shui of Zhaozhuang, and there would be constant disasters in the future. If they wanted to break the spell, there was only one way, which was to have Zhao Chengshi's wife come to apologize, and seal her in the grave for 49 days, and then perform rituals to break the Five Evil Spirits.
Who knew that his son was suddenly possessed by evil spirits last night, and he became unconscious after going crazy for a while. He hurried to the provincial capital and invited Mr. Lu to come over. It was already dawn when he came back. Mr. Lu said that it was the evil spirit of Zhao Chengshi's family that caused the trouble. Now Chen Xiulian was buried in the graveyard, so he had to find his son to apologize. I know everything that happened afterwards.
After listening to him, I thought to myself, the man surnamed Lu came to my house on his own, and it seems that he intends to murder my eldest sister-in-law and her widow. However, it is absolutely true that Ruoruo's ashes were detained by Zhao Chengshi. Zhao Chengshi was not a good person. Maybe this was planned by Ruoruo's mother, but she didn't tell me the truth and lied that she met a fortune teller in Zhaozhuang Cemetery.
Looking at the watch, it is already past eleven o'clock. In fact, there is no need to wait until the second half of the night. Now everyone in the village is asleep. We can bury the body in the field without anyone noticing. I went to the inner room to check on Zhao Xiaosheng. He was still sleeping soundly. It was obvious that he had not slept well in the past few days. I guess he would not wake up for a while.
So he found a big lock at home, took two shovels, went out with Gong Chao, locked the door from the outside, and ran straight to the cornfield.
Gong Chao seemed quite nervous on the way. He kept calling me "brother" and making small talk with me, which made me feel annoyed.
"Don't be afraid. He's already dead. Why should you be afraid of him?" I comforted him.
"But I heard that people who were beaten to death will not let go of their enemies after they become ghosts. I..."
I smiled and said, "Do you know why we have to come in the late night?" The fields were muddy and difficult to walk on, and it was already past midnight when we arrived at the cornfield, which was considered the late night.
"Why?" Gong Chao asked in a trembling voice.
"After a person dies, before he becomes the Son of Heaven, he usually goes to the underworld to report, so there is no need to worry about his ghost seeking revenge."
Gong Chao sighed at first, but then asked, "What if it's the other case?"
I thought this guy was too timid, so I said to him, "The second situation is of course that the ghost is still holding on to its grievances and is refusing to leave."
As soon as he finished saying this, he happened to reach the edge of a cornfield. A light breeze blew past, causing a rustling sound in the cornfield, like ghosts clapping their hands, which was indescribably eerie and creepy.
Gong Chao sat down on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "If he doesn't leave, aren't we here to die?"
I pulled him up from the ground and said, "I am here, aren't I?"
“You...you are just a crematorium..." Gong Chao hesitated and didn't feel like continuing. What he meant was, I'm just a corpse watcher, so if I encounter a ghost, I'll die anyway
I smiled without saying anything, and went into the cornfield with the shovel in my hand. The wind started blowing again, and the corn leaves kept making noises. The dense corn stalks, in the dark night, looked like ghosts surrounding me, and I felt a chill in my heart.