During the reign of Renzong in the Song Dynasty , there was a family named Zhao in Suzhou and Hangzhou. The Zhao family had been doing business for generations and had a lot of wealth. It was one of the largest families in the area. The head of the family, Mr. Zhao, has two sons. The eldest is called Zhao Gongren and the second is called Zhao Gongzi.
The two brothers have very different personalities. The eldest is mature, stable and neat. He has been helping his father with family affairs since he was seventeen. The second brother is a ghost who only thinks of crooked ideas all day long. No skills, just eating, drinking and having fun all day long. However, compared to the eldest son, Mr. Zhao favored Zhao Gongzi. The main reason was that he was the son of his first wife, and Zhao Gongren was just the son of a side wife.
It is also the father's preference that creates a gap between the two brothers, and no matter what they encounter, the two will fight. It was not until two years later that Zhao Gongren married a local girl named Hongxue that the intrigues stopped.
Hongxue comes from a scholarly family. She is gentle, virtuous, and looks like a fairy. She is a rare beauty. After marrying into the Zhao family, she became Zhao Gongren's right-hand man. The two ran business and handled family affairs together. But something unexpected happened, and not long after the two got married, something happened to Zhao Gongren.
In the spring of this year, the Zhao family purchased a batch of precious stones to be shipped to Guangxi for sale. Due to the long distance, Zhao Gongren was worried about something happening, so he chose to escort the goods in person. As for the transportation route of the freight team, it was top secret, and few people knew about it. .
What no one expected was that their whereabouts were leaked and they were attacked by a group of thieves. In the chaos, Zhao Gongren was killed...
Her husband's death had a great impact on Hongxue. She cried all day long and was in a trance. Not only that, the Zhao family's business also suffered a serious blow, and Mr. Zhao became ill as a result. Perhaps it was the successive changes that made Zhao Gongzi mature a lot. He was handling family affairs while comforting his widowed sister-in-law Hongxue. After all, Hongxue was still young, so Zhao Gongzi persuaded her to remarry and start a new life. However, Hongxue fell deeply in love with Zhao Gongren and even began to secretly investigate the whereabouts of the freight team.
Not many people know about this matter, and the scope of the investigation is not large. But not long after this happened, something strange happened to Hongxue.
One evening, when Zhao Gongzi came home from a party, he saw his widowed sister-in-law sneaking out of the house with a basket of clothes. Out of curiosity, Zhao Gongzi followed quietly, and the two of them arrived at the river outside the city one after another.
Under the dim moonlight, Hongxue squatted by the river and washed clothes. It was unbelievable to do laundry in the middle of the night, but Zhao Gongzi noticed that all the clothes in the basket belonged to his late brother. After about half a stick of incense, a figure suddenly appeared on the water. Seeing this, Hongxue excitedly waved her hands to him.
Zhao Gongzi was very surprised when he saw this scene, but the next second, he showed a meaningful smile and left silently.
As for Hongxue, going to the river in the middle of the night to clean her late husband's clothes was actually taught to him by an expert. The man said that water is the most psychic. As long as the clothes of the deceased are soaked at night, the ghost of the deceased can find its way back, and Hongxue can be reunited with Zhao Gongren again.
Hongxue was dubious at first, but in order to see her husband again, she chose to believe it. After trying several times, she really found a figure appearing in the river, but the strange thing was that the figure could not see its face clearly, and it just stood there without speaking.
Hongxue was a little puzzled, so she went to the expert again to ask about the situation. The master's surname was Liu, a man of yin and yang who traveled around the world. Hongxue also met him accidentally when she went out. After Mr. Liu showed her a few hands, she took him home and treated him as a guest.
Mr. Liu told Hongxue that ordinary ghosts cannot walk to the shore to meet living people, otherwise they will be injured by Yang Qi.At this time, Hongxue needs to go into the water and swim in front of him. The yin energy in the water can suppress part of the yang energy in his body to achieve a harmonious effect.
Hongxue nodded repeatedly after hearing this. At this moment, she had completely lost her mind in order to reunite with her late husband. That night, she came to the river again. After the figure appeared, Hongxue immediately got into the water.
As Mr. Liu said, as soon as she got out of the water, the figure in the distance started to move and slowly began to float towards her. Just when Hongxue thought she had succeeded, a big hand suddenly grabbed her belt and dragged her directly to the shore. Hongxue turned around and saw that the person pulling her was an old monk with a gray beard and wearing a robe.
The old monk didn’t waste any time, and directly dragged Hongxue into the grass beside him, and took out a piece of wet clothes and put it in front of him. He said in a hurry: “Female donor, quickly, put this wet clothes on.” Go!"
Hongxue looked confused and a little angry. After all, she was about to meet her late husband. But just as she was about to have an attack, there was a sudden ticking sound from the shore. She thought it was her husband coming. Unexpectedly, the old monk pushed aside the grass, and the scene in front of her scared her out of her mind.
What came to the shore was not the dead soul of Zhao Gongren at all, but a drowned ghost with swollen and rotten body and white eyes. The drowned ghost was currently looking for the whereabouts of Hongxue, and slowly moved towards the grass where the two were hiding. Come. Hongxue was so frightened that she froze on the spot and was at a loss. Fortunately, the old monk at the side reacted quickly and immediately put the wet clothes on Hongxue.
For a moment, the drowned ghost seemed to have lost its target, let out a scream, then silently returned to the water, and finally disappeared.
Hongxue, who had escaped, collapsed on the ground. She thanked the old monk and asked what was going on. From the mouth of the old monk, Hongxue learned that washing the clothes of the deceased by the river in the middle of the night was not to summon the soul, but to attract the soul.
After the general deceased has been laid to rest in the grave, there will be a mysterious event that takes them to the underworld to register for reincarnation. Only those lonely ghosts whose corpses are exposed in the wilderness will remain in the world. The clothes of the deceased are actually a medium that connects the worlds of humans and ghosts. If you wash clothes by the river in the middle of the night, the mixture of life and death will attract the drowned ghosts in the river. At this time, if you enter the water rashly, your aura will be locked and you will be dragged into the water by the drowning ghost and become its scapegoat.
At this time, you need to put the wet dead man's clothes on your body and cover your own breath with the breath of the dead, so that the drowned ghost cannot find anyone. This is how the old monk saved Hongxue.
Hongxue was shocked after hearing this. If this was really the case, wouldn't Mr. Liu be deceiving himself to die? Thinking of this, Hongxue immediately rushed home, and at this moment, Mr. Liu was in the room of his brother-in-law Zhao Gongzi.
It turned out that all this was Zhao Gongzi's conspiracy. Now the two of them thought Hongxue would not survive. In fact, it was Zhao Gongzi who leaked the whereabouts of Zhao Gongren's cargo team. He was jealous that his brother had such a beautiful wife as Hongxue, so he wanted to take her as his own. However, Hongxue never agreed to remarry and even rejected him many times. He also secretly investigated the truth behind Zhao Gongren's murder.
Zhao Gongzi became angry and worried that the matter would be exposed, so he secretly bribed Mr. Liu and asked him for help, using the method of attracting souls to ask the drowned ghost to kill Hongxue.
After learning the truth, Hongxue was filled with grief and anger. She immediately rushed to the county government office to report the incident to the county government, and the officers and soldiers arrested Zhao Gongzi and Mr. Liu overnight. After some torture and interrogation, the two confessed their crimes and received the punishment they deserved. As for Hongxue, after caring for Mr. Zhao until his death, she left her hometown and never came back.
