Hu Laohan's daughter, Hu Lan, got married on the winter solstice with the son of the Li family in the market. She was supposed to return home the day before yesterday, but Hu Laohan waited all day and didn't see her daughter and son-in-law. He hurried to find the Li family, only to find that the only son of the Li family was only 3 years old. They firmly denied the marriage. So, Hu Laohan found the beard and started the whole village to look for it. As a result, he didn't even find a ghost.
when Li gang heard this, he quickly organized people to go out and look for it. Soon, Lao Hua came back to report that suspicious shoe prints were found outside the bamboo forest that led to the market. Hearing this, all the people present turned white. There used to live a bachelor named Shuisheng in that bamboo forest. This year, on the day of heavy snow, he was frozen to death at home at night.
"Isn't it water?" Beard said. I'm afraid that after the death of Shuishui, the ghosts will not leave, and Hulan will be turned to the underworld as a wife.
Li Gang and the others came to the bamboo forest, and they saw that there were indeed three sets of shoe prints in the bamboo forest, but they looked very strange. The three sets of footprints lined up in a row, and each pair of shoe prints was the left and right feet together. The straw sandals in the middle are long and big, left by men's feet, and on both sides are two groups of women's little shoes, which finally extend to the aquatic residence.
"Are they skipping?" Beard turned white. Li Gang remained silent and pretended to be calm.
There is a cotton-padded jacket under the wet straw in the room. Beard forward a straw, Hulan's blue-black face appeared in front of everyone, and there was a male carrion lying next to it, which was aquatic.
The village was worried that aquatic animals would come out again, so they pooled their money and invited the master to do it. Li Gang didn't agree. There were three groups of shoe prints in the bamboo forest, and the matchmaker Wang entered the bamboo forest. There are no shoe prints on the other side of the bamboo forest, indicating that matchmaker Wang failed to escape. Aquatic killed people, why did you hide the body of matchmaker Wang?
matchmaker Wang can't see anyone dead or dead, but she is alone. She searched in the village for a few days and had to give up without results.
When Li Gang came home, his wife Xiang Jun asked him to try on new shoes. Li Gang put on his shoes and walked around the house several times, saying, "It really fits!" " Say that finish this sentence, he suddenly froze.
The aquatic corpse is barefoot, so how can it get out of the sandals? When he was in the bamboo forest, Li Gang felt that the three sets of footprints were wrong. It was obviously formed by a big living person carrying two female corpses jumping around in the bamboo forest, so the shoe prints of the middle man were very deep, while the shoes of the women on both sides were shallow. Someone killed Hulan and matchmaker Wang, hid the bodies in the bamboo forest while it was dark, and dug up the aquatic bodies to make them look like aquatic ghosts killing people. It was Hu Laohan who killed people!
When the beard broke into Hu Laohan's house, Hu Laohan was half crazy and half stupid drinking at home. Beard found a pair of straw sandals in the ashes in front of the stove, and there was a bloody shoulder pole next to them. They compared the shoes with the ones that had not been destroyed in the bamboo forest, and it was indeed the shoes of Hu Laohan.
Hu Laohan lost his wife in his early years, and lived alone with his daughter. All the people who went to his house for matchmaking were driven away by him, and Hu Lan always dared not speak out. On the day of the winter solstice, matchmaker Wang came to his house for matchmaking, and he wanted to drive matchmaker Wang out of the house. But his daughter didn't live or die this time and cried with him. He accidentally strangled her in a rage, then knocked the runaway matchmaker Wang to death with a pole, took the body to the bamboo forest while it was dark, tied two bodies at both ends of the pole and made shoe prints of three people jumping into the bamboo forest. Then he dug up the aquatic body and pretended to be the ghost of aquatic life.
"Bullshit! There is no body of matchmaker Wang in the bamboo forest! You saw it yourself! " Beard yelled. "I've confessed to killing people. What's the point of lying to you?" Hu Laohan said.
"He has a point." Li Gang thought, "You and Li Guyou have a vendetta? Why do you say that your daughter is married to his family? "
"Matchmaker Wang is a relative for the Li family." Hu Laohan replied. "The only son of the Li family is only 3 years old." Li gang road.
"Wait," bearded suddenly said, "Lao Li, if Lao Li's eldest son were alive, it would be time to marry a wife this year."
"Yin marriage?" Li Gang suddenly thought of local customs, but whenever a man born in Ding Si died young, if he was not married with a daughter-in-law born in Renshen Day, that is, the winter solstice, the family would be restless and die, and Hulan was born in the winter solstice.
matchmaker Wang's house is a two-story house with bamboo strips woven together and covered with paste and mud. Two rooms, with tables and chairs outside, a bed full of clothes and a closet in the back room, and a locked box in the closet.
Li Gang took the box out and put it on the bed, ready to find a tool to pry it open. A big mouse suddenly emerged from under the bed and ran over on the instep of Li Gang, and a rancid smell came out. Li Gang squatted down, lifted the sheets, and a white bone suddenly appeared, wearing the big flower coat of the matchmaker Wang! Can see the appearance of bones, dead for at least 2 years. Is this a ghost matchmaking in fulong town for more than 2 years? Is that why we couldn't find the body?
Li Gang gradually calmed down. Matchmaker Wang has a bullet hole in the back of her head. The bullet was fired by a soil gun. Someone shot and killed matchmaker Wang in the back?
Li Gang pried open the padlock on the box, and inside it were two booklets, which recorded the names of the men and women who had been married by matchmaker Wang over the years and birthdates.
Sure enough, Li Gang found the name of Li's dead eldest son in the booklet. He then turned down and found that there were as many as six pairs of yin marriages arranged by matchmaker Wang!
Li Gang felt even more strange when he saw it again. All the living women were born on the winter solstice, while the dead men were born on the fourth day. In addition, matchmaker Wang has been dead for at least 2 years, but it was seven years ago, that is, at least the thirteenth year after matchmaker Wang's death. Is there any stress here?
Xiang Jun came into the room and asked her husband to light a firecracker. Li Gang asked, "Xiang Jun, the matchmaker Wang used to be from your village. What's her origin?"
"Her real name is Huixiang. She fled from other places and moved to Shuijingwan more than 2 years ago."
"She is fine in your village. Why did she move to Shuijingwan?"
"Alas, it's haunted!" Xiang Jun recalled, "On the winter solstice more than 2 years ago, the daughter-in-law Swallow abducted by Jong Li in the village gave birth to a pair of twins. He couldn't afford two babies, so he threw away the baby girl and kept the baby boy. He asked the matchmaker Wang to throw the child in the biogas digester behind the village. "
Xiang Jun sighed: "After that, I always heard children crying at the biogas digester behind the village in the middle of the night. Not long after, the boy suddenly got malaria and died. One night, the swallow heard the cry again and ran out wearing only a light coat. As a result, the swallows disappeared after that night, and the children's crying was never heard in the village in the middle of the night. Everyone said that it was the girl's soul that hooked the swallow and the boy. Strangely enough, the brave people in the village went to the biogas digester and the girl's body was gone! Matchmaker Wang was afraid and moved to Shuijingwan. "
but what does this have to do with the murder of matchmaker Wang? Was matchmaker Wang killed by that girl? But ghosts don't use guns to kill people ...
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, many relatives visit home to pay New Year greetings. Jong Li mentioned by Xiang Jun is actually her maiden cousin. Li Gang took out the book of matchmaker Wang and said, "Matchmaker Wang was shot dead 2 years ago. Li Ge was born as an Orion. When matchmaker Wang died, you were the only one with a gun in the village. " Jong Li shook his head hastily: "I lost my shotgun once! Just a few days after my baby boy died. It must be that girl. She died unjustly, so she came back for her life! "
Li Gang also knows that even if the matchmaker Wang, the swallow and the baby boy were all killed by the baby girl of that year, @ can't explain why the ghost of the matchmaker Wang persisted after her death, and in the 13th year after her death, she sought out the daughter's home born on the winter solstice to match the dead. What does it mean to be 13 years?
On the third day of New Year's Eve, Jong Li's body was found in that bamboo forest. The back of his head broke open, and all the bullets in the shotgun were shot. Next to him lay the body of matchmaker Wang, which was beaten into a hornet's nest ...
Judging from the blood on the scene, after Jong Li shot matchmaker Wang, he accidentally fell down because of the slippery road in the snow, and the back of his head hit a stone and died. Li Gang turned over the body of matchmaker Wang. The body was still warm. It definitely just died soon! A person can't have two bodies. If the dead one is Wang Matchmaker, then the body under the bed is another person!
"Swallow?" Li Gang suddenly realized and pointed to the body. "This is a swallow."
The man who killed the matchmaker Wang knew where Li Zhongjia put his gun, and it was the swallow who killed him! Matchmaker Wang died over 2 years ago! Matchmaker Wang is a foreigner. She has just moved to Shuijingwan, and few people know her. She usually wears heavy makeup. For more than 2 years, matchmaker Wang has been pretending to be a swallow!
"How can I figure it out!" Li Gang patted his head. "Isn't 13 years just enough for a girl to grow up?"
The baby girl was thrown by matchmaker Wang more than 2 years ago, but there was no body in the biogas digester, and the swallow's daughter didn't die! But was hidden in the village by matchmaker Wang, so I cried in the middle of the night. Swallow stole a gun 2 years ago and inquired about the whereabouts of his daughter from matchmaker Wang. I don't know what dispute arose and shot and killed matchmaker Wang.
Swallow was abducted. Everyone in the village was wary of her and wouldn't tell her daughter's whereabouts. Now she killed someone, so she had to live as a matchmaker.
Except the fortune teller, no one will ask the girl's birthdates for no reason. Even the matchmaker can only ask the woman's name and eight characters after she promises to discuss her marriage with the man. Swallow's daughter was born on the winter solstice. She pretended to be a matchmaker Wang just to find her daughter born on the winter solstice! When Hu Laohan killed people, the swallow didn't die. She was afraid that her identity would be exposed and she could only play tricks.
"Let's bury them." Li Gang finally took one look at the bodies of Jong Li and Swallow, then turned around and couldn't bear to look again. When he got home, two booklets of matchmaker Wang were placed in front of him. On that day, he glanced through it and only noticed the yin marriage of the boy born in Ding Siwei. A closer look today shows that not only are there yin marriages, but there are also girls born on the winter solstice in many marriages of the living.
At that time, he was preoccupied with ghosts and ghosts, thinking about the shadow marriage, only to find that the swallow really cared not about the shadow marriage, but about the girl born on the winter solstice.
and the swallow didn't find her daughter after all. Li Gang turned to the last page of the booklet, his eyes blurred. The last page reads: My daughter got married this day. Behind this sentence, it is the wedding date of all the girls born in the winter solstice, which is arranged by Swallow ...