Perhaps due to the lack of discipline from his father, Zhang Sheng has been living on the streets since he was a child, and has done a lot of sneaky things. The villagers saw that he was pitiful, so they didn't care about him. When Zhang Sheng was twenty years old, in order to re

During the Song Dynasty, there was a small mountain village on the edge of the Yellow River. There was a young man named Zhang Sheng in the village. He lost his father in his early years and lived with his mother. Perhaps due to the lack of discipline from his father, Zhang Sheng has been living on the streets since he was a child, and has done a lot of sneaky things. The villagers saw that he was pitiful, so they didn't care about him.

When Zhang Sheng was twenty years old, in order to reassure her son, Zhang's mother asked someone to introduce her son to a girl named Chunmei. Chunmei is gentle and generous, has a sweet appearance, and is very efficient at work. Zhang Sheng was very satisfied with this and immediately agreed to the marriage.

The relationship between the two of them was pretty good after their marriage, and Zhang Sheng also restrained himself somewhat. However, the situation is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. As time went by, Zhang Sheng regained his past good-natured and lazy nature. In addition, he also learned to gamble from a friend. He hung out in gambling houses all day long, and when he came home, he asked Chunmei for money.

Chunmei would sternly refuse to help him quit gambling, which caused the couple to have deep grudges and quarrel almost all day long. When the words were heated, Zhang Sheng would beat his wife. Although life was manageable, not long after, an accident happened.

On this day, when the neighbors got up, they heard heartbreaking cries from Chunmei's house. Everyone came to check the situation, but found that Chunmei was dead.

It turned out that the night before, Zhang Sheng asked his wife for money again. After being refused, the two had a fierce quarrel. Zhang Sheng was so angry that he threw Chunmei into the vegetable cellar in the courtyard, saying that he wanted her to reflect on herself. Upon seeing this, Zhang's mother quickly came forward to comfort her, and after Zhang Sheng left home, she persuaded her daughter-in-law to come out. But Chunmei was also stubborn and said that she would not go out unless Zhang Sheng apologized to her.

Mother Zhang couldn't resist her, so after giving her a set of bedding, she went back to her room to rest alone. But who would have thought that in the middle of the night, there was a heavy rain in the sky, and the rain kept pouring into the vegetable cellar, drowning Chunmei alive. Zhang Sheng went crazy all night while his mother was sleeping soundly in the house and could not hear Chunmei's cry for help. When she was found in the morning, her body was swollen and swollen.

The villagers felt very sorry, but they were also a little confused. If it really rained, how could Chunmei not feel it and not climb out of the cellar. When examining Chunmei's body, everyone discovered the scars on the back of her head, and then realized that she might have accidentally fallen from the ladder while climbing out, hit the back of her head, and fainted. It was just flooded.

Three days after the corpse was laid to rest, Zhang’s mother asked someone to invite a Taoist priest for help. In the local area, most of the villagers believe in Taoism, and they will go to Taoist priests to handle ordinary matters. After the Taoist priest opened the altar, he made many paper cranes with talisman paper and placed them in the mourning hall. This crane is called the Soul-Chasing Crane, and a piece of Chunmei's hair is wrapped inside.

In the local area, people believe that the dead cannot reincarnate themselves, and their souls can only be forced to stay in place. At this time, Taoist priests are needed to help make soul-chasing cranes to guide the souls of the deceased into the underworld.

On the day of the funeral, Zhang Sheng found a coffin bearer and led everyone towards the cemetery. But not long after they left, their neighbor Gao Yuan caught up with them in a hurry. Gao Yuan was Zhang Sheng's childhood friend, and it was also the first time he took Zhang Sheng into a gambling house. The two were as close as brothers.

After Gao Yuan caught up with the funeral team, he shouted loudly: "No, no, Zhang Sheng, all your paper cranes are alive!"

After hearing this, everyone was shocked, and the leading Taoist priest even more His expression changed drastically, he told everyone to take a break, and hurried home with Zhang Sheng. Sure enough, as Gao Yuan said, all the soul-chasing cranes in the room came to life, and kept flapping their wings and flying around.

"The world is turned upside down, and the paper cranes are tumbling; if you die with your eyes closed, your resentment will never go away!" Seeing the paper cranes flying wildly in the room, the Taoist priest frowned slightly and said silently.

The Taoist priest told Zhang Sheng that before Chunmei was buried, the soul-chasing crane came to life, which meant that its soul was still in the world and had no intention of leaving. The hair in these paper cranes had been cut off by Chunmei’s soul, and Just like this, the paper crane, which cannot find its soul, is like a headless fly, which can only fly up and down in the house until the spiritual energy dissipates.

As of now, the funeral can only be cancelled. The Taoist priest immediately asked someone to carry the coffin back. Then he built a shelf in the courtyard and hoisted the coffin. The four wooden corners of the shelf were placed on a piece of water. In the basin, it is used to isolate the earth's air.

Zhang Sheng was a little puzzled, but the Taoist priest said solemnly: "The deceased soul of the respected lady does not want to die, which shows that the resentment in her heart has not been eliminated. If she is buried like this, there will be endless troubles. She cannot be buried now, and she must be buried for three years to eliminate all the resentment in her heart. !”

Zhang Sheng nodded after hearing this and agreed with the Taoist priest. After the Taoist priest left, Zhang Sheng, who was in a depressed mood, took Gao Yuan to have a drink. The two sat in the yard and drank until midnight.

Seeing that it was getting late and the two of them were standing next to a coffin, Gao Yuan felt a little nervous, so he stood up and prepared to leave. But at this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the courtyard, and the soul-chasing cranes that had not been burned in the corner fluttered their wings again and surrounded the two people who were drinking.

The two of them were frightened by this scene, and they almost woke up from the wine. When the paper cranes dispersed, a figure appeared in front of the coffin. Under the dim light, Zhang Sheng clearly saw that the man had disheveled hair and was wearing the shroud worn by his wife when she was buried. He was horrified, and then he said cautiously: "Madam, are you back?"

In front of the coffin The man didn't respond, but the next second, she suddenly stretched out her hands and let out several miserable screams: "Zhang Sheng, I died so miserably. It was you who killed me and trapped me." In the cellar!"

Zhang Sheng and Gao Yuan were so frightened that they knelt down on the spot. They thought it was Chunmei's ghost who had come back to seek revenge, so they kowtowed and begged for mercy. Seeing Chunmei gradually walking towards them, Gao Yuan on the side shouted loudly: "Chunmei, it's me, I hurt you, please forgive me, I will burn more paper money for you!"

It turns out that Gao Yuan He has always coveted the gentle and beautiful Chunmei, and tried every means to be alone with her. After Zhang Sheng left that night, Gao Yuan quietly sneaked into his house and got into the cellar. He originally wanted to use this to comfort him and sneak in, but he didn't expect that Chunmei had a strong temper and sternly rejected him. Gao Yuan became angry and planned to defile it, but she resisted wildly.

In the chaos, Gao Yuan picked up a stick, hit Chunmei on the back of the head, knocked her out, and then escaped. However, before leaving, he deliberately kicked over the ladder in the cellar. It was still very laborious to put it up again. As a result, not long after he left, it started to rain heavily, and the unconscious Chunmei was drowned in the cellar.

After the truth was revealed, Zhang Sheng's eyes widened. He never imagined that the man behind the scenes was actually a friend who had been with him day and night. At the same time, Chunmei in front of her also stopped and immediately lifted her hair from her face. She was actually a villager pretending to be her.

Immediately afterwards, the Taoist priest led a group of people and rushed in and held Gao Yuan down. It turned out that all this was a Taoist priest's plan. After seeing the wound on the back of Chunmei's head, he knew that it was caused by a blow, not a fall. The Taoist priest originally thought that Zhang Sheng had killed his wife, so he planned to use this method to defraud him. Who had ever thought of defrauding the real murderer Gao Yuan?

Later, Gao Yuan was sent to the government and received the punishment he deserved. Zhang Sheng successfully buried his wife's body, successfully quit gambling, and lived a stable and peaceful life.