During the Song Dynasty, there was a young woman named Zhang Shujing in Yangzhou. She lost her father in her early years and lived with her mother. Zhang Shujing has beautiful appearance and graceful figure. She is a famous beauty in the village. She was supposed to have a good home, but she got pregnant unexpectedly before getting married. What happened?
The story begins half a year ago, when Zhang Shujing had just passed her seventeenth birthday and her mother started planning her marriage. Through the introduction of a matchmaker, she met a young man named Xuancheng from a neighboring village.
Xuancheng is a merchant. He runs a grocery store by himself and earns a lot of money. He can be said to be young and promising. The two were similar in age, and Xuancheng was well-informed, so Zhang Shujing had a good impression of him. With the help of the two families, the two quickly got together and agreed to get married.
But not long after the two got engaged, Xuancheng suddenly disappeared without leaving any trace. Everyone searched for three days, but found nothing. This incident was a big blow to Zhang Shujing. After all, he was her fiancé, so it was impossible to say she didn't care.
Early this morning, Zhang Shujing went to the well at the entrance of the village to fetch water. Because she was in a trance, she lost her balance and fell into the well. The bitingly cold well water woke her up instantly. She struggled hard and shouted for help. Just when she was about to sink, her body suddenly floated up, as if someone was holding her body up.
Fortunately, there were many people fetching water in the morning, and the villagers soon discovered Zhang Shujing who had fallen into the well and rescued her. At first, Zhang Shujing didn't take it seriously, and there was nothing wrong with her health. But on the third day, while she was eating at the table, she suddenly felt a strong sense of nausea, and then ran out and retched.
As an experienced mother, she could tell at a glance that this was a typical reaction to morning sickness, and immediately took her to see a doctor. The result was just as the mother expected, Zhang Shujing was pregnant.
Both mother and son were greatly shocked, especially Zhang Shujing. She had never even touched a man's hand, how could she possibly be pregnant. Her mother asked loudly, but Zhang Shujing looked confused and didn't know how to explain. Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. This story quickly spread in the village. People gossiped behind their backs and cursed Zhang Shujing for being unruly and dissolute.
But it didn’t take long for everyone to discover that Zhang Shujing was not an ordinary pregnancy. Her belly was getting bigger too fast. Only half a month after she was found to be pregnant, her belly bulged as if she had been pregnant for seven or eight months. At the same time, Zhang Shujing has had a strange dream every night since she became pregnant.
There was Xuancheng in the dream. He was standing under a willow tree with a very anxious expression. He shouted Zhang Shujing's name loudly, as if he wanted to tell her something. Although the two were not far away, his voice was very vague. , Zhang Shujing couldn't hear clearly. She wanted to get closer, but found that no matter how she walked, the distance between the two would not shorten.
When she was one month pregnant, Zhang Shujing suddenly showed signs of giving birth, and her mother immediately called a midwife for help. But when the child was born, everyone was dumbfounded.
To be precise, it was not a child at all, but a black and purple flesh ball. After leaving Zhang Shujing's body, cracks appeared on the surface of the flesh ball and slowly opened, but there was nothing inside, only black and purple liquid. . Not only that, when the meat ball was placed in water, it turned transparent and slowly melted.
This matter was so strange that the neighbors also advised the mother and son to find a Taoist priest to help them find out whether they were possessed by something evil. Zhang's mother thought it was reasonable, so she sent someone to a nearby Taoist temple to hire a Taoist priest.
After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, the Taoist priest checked Zhang Shujing again, then took out a charm and folded it into a paper crane. The Taoist priest placed the paper crane on the bedside, clasped his hands and chanted a mantra. The next second, the paper crane fluttered its wings and slowly flew out.
The Taoist priest quickly followed. Under the guidance of the paper crane, they came to a willow tree not far behind Zhang Shujing's house. The willow branches were lush and growing vigorously. The Taoist priest looked up and then said, "Bring an ax and chop down the willow tree behind this house!" Broken willow tree. When everyone dug out the roots of the willow tree, they found a rotten corpse. The Taoist priest told everyone that he was the missing Xuancheng.
It turned out that after Xuancheng died, he was buried under this willow tree, and there happened to be an underground river under the willow tree, together with the village well. The willow tree opened into the shade, and Xuancheng died unexpectedly and was unable to reincarnate normally, so his soul attached to the roots of the willow tree, followed the roots into the underground river, and ran to the bottom of the well.
That day, Zhang Shujing fell into the water, and Xuancheng took the opportunity to get into her body, which led to her bizarre pregnancy. However, this unconventional method of reincarnation was impossible to succeed. Xuancheng just wanted to take the opportunity to tell her the cause of his death, but because of his low magic power, he still failed.
That night, the Taoist priest opened the altar and recalled Xuancheng's soul, and learned the truth about his death from his mouth. The person who killed him was actually Zhang Shujing's childhood sweetheart, Liu Yang.
Liu Yang is an orphan who grew up eating hundreds of meals. Since he has no father or mother, he has been bullied by other children since he was a child. Only Zhang Shujing is kind-hearted and will protect him every time and even take him to the house for dinner. From that moment on, Liu Yang recognized her and vowed to marry her when he grew up.
When Liu Yang grew up, he became a salesman. In order to earn money, he went out early and came back late all day long. He went home less often and had fewer opportunities to meet Zhang Shujing. It wasn't until he received the news that Zhang Shujing was engaged to Xuancheng that he thought Zhang Shujing must have been deceived, and then betrayed him. For this reason, he took advantage of Xuancheng's opportunity to find Zhang Shujing, secretly killed him, and buried him under the willow tree.
After the truth was revealed, everyone was shocked. Zhang Shujing did not expect that Liu Yang, who had been bullied since childhood and was submissive, would turn into a murderer.
Later, the government sent troops to arrest Liu Yang, who was absconding, and he was duly punished. As for the dead Xuancheng, the Taoist priest cast a spell to help him re-enter reincarnation.
