During the Ming Dynasty, there was a Kuye Town in Huainan area. There was an old lady named Yu in the town. She was kind and kind, and her neighbors all liked her very much. But Old Lady Yu was blessed and was lonely and helpless all her life. She had several marriages when she was young, but they were all divorced by the man.
There are many different opinions about this matter. Some people say that it is Mrs. Yu’s behavior and some people say that it is the man’s problem. But not long after, the neighbors discovered that Old Lady Yu's house was enshrined with a special statue of god, neither the Three Pure Ones nor the Kitchen God. The statue not only had no solemn spirit, but revealed a hint of weirdness.
Until this day, an old Taoist priest in the town told everyone that the statue of the god was named "Five Tongs Gods", which was an evil god that some merchants in the south of the Yangtze River liked to worship, and revealed the truth about the lonely life of Mrs. Yu.
The story starts forty years ago. At that time, Old Lady Yu was still a little girl. Her father was named Yu Erhu, and she was a second-coat craftsman. Speaking of Ercoat, we have to mention the executioner. Both are one of the Laoyinmen. However, Ercoat is even more strange and terrifying. They are professions that specialize in sewing the bodies of the dead with broken heads and limbs.
As the saying goes, fallen leaves return to their roots. At that time, everyone believed that only when a complete body was buried, the soul could be at peace, enter the underworld and reincarnation. It is also true that the task of Ercoder is much more important.
But Yu Erhu has been naughty since childhood and does not abide by the rules. After becoming a second cobbler, he even thought of a sinister way to make money.
Whenever a beheaded prisoner is sent to him, he will not sew the body as soon as possible, but will ask for money from the families of these prisoners. Only when the money is in place will he carefully sew the body and send it back. If the money is not given, or the money does not meet his expectations, when sewing the corpse, Yu Erhu will secretly take off a bone from the body. Because the corpse is incomplete, the soul cannot rest in peace. After the burial, the master's family will often have nightmares and dream of the dead.
At this time, Yu Erhu would come to the door with the bones that had been taken off long ago. If the family members don’t want the dead, they have to pay a high price to buy them.
Relying on this method, Yu Erhu, a member of the Liaoyinmen, earned more and more. Not only did he move into a luxury house, he also wore gold and silver, which was extremely luxurious. The villagers scoffed at his behavior, but he was the only second cobbler in the nearby area, so it was difficult not to ask him for help.
Until the autumn of that year, the county government arrested a thief. This person's name is A Wu, and he is a righteous thief. He steals all the property of exploiting the people and humiliating the poor, and will distribute all the money to the poor. It is also true that after Ah Wu was arrested, many people came to plead for him to plead for justice, but those wealthy families who were stolen by him bribed the county magistrate and sentenced Ah Wu to behead him.
After Yu Erhu learned of this, he thought that Ah Wu had been a thief for many years and must have hidden many treasures, so he took the initiative to come to him and wanted to talk to him about the conditions. A Wu naturally heard that he was too famous for Erhu. After learning about his purpose, A Wu refused without thinking.
Yu Erhu was not in a hurry. As expected, within a few days, Awu's parents received the message and rushed over. But the result is already destined. All they can do is to let their son suffer less when they leave and return to their hometown after death. For this reason, they took the initiative to find Yu Erhu.
Yu Erhu was not polite either. The lion spoke up and actually asked for a hundred taels of silver . But all the money A Wu stolen over the years was distributed to others, and the family didn't have that much money at all. A Wu's parents raised several days before they raised more than fifty taels, and knelt in front of Erhu, begging him to help.
No matter how small a fly is, it is still flesh. Yu Erhu took the money and nodded in agreement, but he still thought that Awu's parents were not in line with him, so Awu must have hidden some treasure.
As for A Wu, who was in prison, he learned that his parents had borrowed money for their funeral and knelt down for Yu Erhu, and his hatred for Erhu increased day by day.
In the blink of an eye, Yu Erhu came to the execution ground to prepare to collect the body. When the noon arrives, the executioner raises his knife and cuts it. With a squeak, A Wu's head rolled out like a ball, just in front of Yu Erhu. Before Awu's eyes closed, he just looked at Yu Erhu straight. Although he had seen big scenes, Yu Erhu was still furrowed all over his body by those eyes, and he couldn't help but take out a handkerchief and cover it on his head. After
, he took A Wu's body home as agreed and prepared to sew it on his behalf. But while he was sewing, he started to take out a bone from A Wu's neck and prepared to ask A Wu's parents for compensation in the future.
After doing all this, Yu Erhu handed over the patched corpse to A Wu's parents. The parents didn't know the hidden truth, so they were grateful to Erhu and wanted to kowtow to thank him. I thought everything would go as planned, but that night, Yu Erhu had a strange dream, and in the dream he saw the dead Awu again.
A Wu looked at him with a wicked smile, then silently reached out and took off his head and hugged it in his arms, pointed to his neck, making a sharp sound: "Yu Erhu, return my bones to me!"
Yu Erhu was frightened and was about to escape, but he found countless figures in white clothes appeared around him. They were all dead people who had been stitched by Yu Erhu. They all held their heads like Yu Erhu, and shouted that Yu Erhu would return the bones they took to them.
Yu Erhu suddenly woke up from his dream, his whole body was soaked in cold sweat. He thought it was just an ordinary nightmare, but for half a month later, he was invaded by nightmare, and even his wife encountered strange things. It is said that during the day, her wife was washing vegetables in the yard. When she looked up, she saw a translucent person floating in the air, which scared her to death.
Yu Erhu realized the seriousness of the problem and asked someone to find a Taoist priest to help. The Taoist priest said that there were unclean things in his house and advised him to post some door gods or invite a kitchen master to the house. After hearing this, Yu Erhu immediately did as he did, but what he didn't expect was that no matter what method he used, the door god statue could not be posted. Even the statue of the Kitchen God who was invited to go home fell to the ground for no reason and fell to pieces.
Taoist was shocked to see this. It seemed that Yu Erhu had committed too many sins and the righteous god was unwilling to protect him. Yu Erhu was shocked after hearing this and did not dare to ask for money anymore. He immediately returned A Wu's bones honestly. But A Wu's soul obviously did not let him go, and he was still troubled by nightmares every night.
Until this day, his friend gave him an idea. Since the righteous god cannot invite it, he can only ask the evil god to go home. It happened that he knew that there was an evil god circulating in the Jiangnan region, called the Five Tongs God. There are many merchants there and more profiteers, so the righteous gods will not protect these cheating people. In order to attract wealth, they asked Wutongshen home to help.
After hearing this, Yu Erhu didn't care whether he was an evil god. He immediately got a statue of the Five Gods and moved it back home. As expected, since the Five Gods were worshipped, nothing strange happened to the family. But what Yu Erhu didn't expect was that since the Five Gods of Gods, the family has become more and more difficult, and it is easy to ask Gods to send him to Gods. It is this Five Gods of Gods that make their daughter live alone to live in their old age.
At the beginning, Erhu didn't know until his daughter got married. As a result, less than half a year after the marriage, his daughter was divorced and rushed back. It turned out that at night, as long as the incense candle is blown out, her daughter's face will be dry and wrinkled, like a rag that has been kneaded into a ball, which is very creepy, but as long as the incense candle is lit, her face will recover.
The man couldn't stand it, so he had to rest. Yu Erhu was frightened and immediately asked a Taoist priest for help. But when the Taoist priest saw the Five Gods in his family, his face suddenly changed. He threw away his words "I took it upon myself" and left. After
, Yu Erhu's daughter married several more people, but the situation was still the case, and they were all divorced and sent home. He also thought about sending away the Five Gods, but no matter what method was used, the statue of the gods would always appear in his home intact. In the end, Yu Erhu was exhausted and couldn't afford to get sick, and died soon.
