Chapter 431 The Missing Bride
The group had just returned to the capital and sent people to Xiaoshanzi Village back.
The Han family in Xiaoshanzi Village did have a marriage tribute to their son a few years ago. It is said that the bride is from a foreign country and she will die soon after her new death.
According to the customs of Xiaoshanzi Village, several old ladies of the Han family of about the same generation need to "recognize relatives". The so-called recognizing relatives means burying the bride's coffin into the Han family's cemetery, opening the coffin to look at the bride's face, saying that it was recognizing relatives, but in fact it was also a look at the goods.
There are such rules in Xiaoshanzi Village and even in several nearby villages, because there was a ridiculous story about a young man marrying an old lady in the early years.
Although they are all dead, the price of a little girl is a little girl and the price of an old lady is an old lady. The difference between the two is dozens of taels of silver.
It is said that several old ladies in the Han family saw the bride's face at that time, so they were sure that they were new. They were not dying and not scary. They were a young girl and were also beautiful. The woman's family came to her father and brother-in-law. The father was very honest and didn't say a few words from beginning to end. However, the brother-in-law spoke in Beijing, like he came from the capital and had seen the world.
After recognizing the relatives, according to the customs of Xiaoshanzi Village, the Han family gave the 100 taels of silver that had been promised in advance to the woman's family. The mother's family covered the bride's face with a wedding veil. The marriage was completed, and then it was buried. After the burial, several tables of wedding banquets were set up in the village. My father and brother-in-law left Xiaoshanzi Village without having the wedding banquet.
"The young men paid a tael of silver, and an aunt in the village told us something quietly," the guards continued, "At the time, someone talked about the appearance of the bride at the table, saying that he was a young girl who had died soon after, and was quite beautiful. The men in the village drank a few more drinks and said that the Han son was also lucky. He didn't even marry his wife when he was alive, but after he died, he married a beautiful wife."
The speaker is unintentional, and the listener is intentional. Although this small mountain village is in the valley, there are often merchants from Beijing who come to the village to purchase mountain goods. The small mountain village is not poor. On the contrary, it is richer than Beihou Village before the planting of herbs.
However, there are very few women who are willing to marry into Xiaoshanzi Village. There are many people in the village who are still bachelors in their thirties and forties in their twenties. The reason for this is that many people in this village suffer from horn madness. This disease does not hinder eating or drinking, and can work normally, but it is scary when it occurs.
Several nearby villages knew the truth and would rather marry their daughter far away than marry into Xiaoshanzi Village.
At the banquet that day, there was an old bachelor named Han Dabao.
No one expected that before the Han family's banquet ended that night, Han Dabao became terrified. While the villagers were drinking at the Han family, he actually went to dig the grave of the bride of the Han family!
The aunt glanced at the silver in the guard's hand, spit out the melon seed skin in her mouth, and lowered her voice and said, "Not many people know about this. They are all from the same village and are all kissed. Speaking of which, the deceased son of the Han family wants to call Han Dabao "Uncle, do you think, when the uncle wants to do that with his niece-in-law, don't care whether the niece-in-law is alive or dead, this is a shameful thing. The villagers can beat Han Dabao to death with one punch. That night, Han Guangxiu and Han Dabao drank on the same table. Seeing that Han Dabao left early, he felt it was rare. In the past, Han Dabao loved drinking the most, but if he had a request, he felt it was rare.
He was reluctant to leave the table early when drinking, so Han Guangxiu followed behind, wanting to see if Han Dabao had stolen any wife from a family, but he didn't expect that Han Dabao went to the direction of the cemetery. Han Guangxiu simply went back and called his younger brother to watch the fun together. With this delay, Han Dabao disappeared, so the two of them went to the cemetery. Guess what, Han Dabao was pressing on a woman to do that. That day there was a moon land. Han Guangxiu saw with his own eyes that the new tomb next to him was dug up. You don't need to ask how he knew who the woman Han Dabao was pressing."
Next, the Han Guangxiu brothers rushed over and beat Han Dabao up.
Speaking of which, Han Dabao begged for mercy and agreed to take out three taels of silver as hush money. The Han Guangxiu brothers gave up. They were thinking of putting the bride back into the coffin before the Han family's banquet had not yet fallen, but when they turned around, the body that was originally lying on the ground disappeared at some point.
The three of them were frightened, especially Han Dabao, who was scared to death at that time.
After the fright, the three of them hurriedly covered the coffin lid and restored the new grave to its original state.
Han Dabao took three taels of silver to their brothers, and the three of them agreed that no one would mention this matter in the future.
The aunt said, "But this is really scary. Han Guangxiu's younger brother is only fourteen. After returning home, he had a high fever. Han Guangxiu was frightened and came to ask me for help. Of course, I had to ask the reason. Han Guangxiu had no choice but to tell the matter. I took a lot of effort to invite the female ghost attached to his younger brother."
After the guard finished speaking, he was a little embarrassed. This matter was very unbearable. He originally wanted to find a place where no one was, and he quietly told Mr. Chen Si, but Mr. Chen insisted on letting him say in front of Miss Hua that he had finished speaking with a bit of the bullet, but he was scared now. If Princess Zhaoyang knew about it, would he blame the fourth son of his family?
Ping An had advised that if it was because of their lifelong affairs that affected the fourth son, the old man and the old lady would come to find them in the middle of the night.
The guards were trembling and looked at Miss Hua, and then looked at Mr. Chen like a request for help.
Miss Hua asked curiously: "That aunt is a witch?"
The guard recovered and hurriedly said, "It's not a special witch, but if the villagers encounter illness and disaster, they will ask her to be a great god."
Hua Jingyao understood, no wonder the aunt knew such a secret thing. Han Guangxiu felt sorry for her brothers and would tell the witch all the causes and consequences of this matter so that she could exorcise the ghost accurately.
"So the tomb in the Han family's cemetery is empty, with only one coffin?" Hua Jingyao asked.
The guard quickly shook his head: "I don't know that the tomb is different from that of Beihou Village. It's not a lonely tomb, so the young people dare not dig it out."
Hua Jingyao nodded. She could understand that even if the people in the yamen were taking official documents over, if the people in Xiaoshanzi Village were blocked, the grave would not be dug.
After the guard left, Hua Jingyao asked Chen Xiao: "You have been with the miracle doctor since you were a child. Have you ever heard of the resurrection from the dead?"
Chen Xiao nodded and said, "When we were young, we lived on the mountain. Ping An and Xile were people in the village at the foot of the mountain. Something happened in their village. An old lady died. The mourning shed at home was just set up, and the old lady was still sunny. She knocked on the coffin inside, scaring the descendants who were guarding the spirits to death."
Chapter completed!