During the period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a young woman named Manyu in Daizhou. She and her husband Chen Mengji were very loving. Three days ago, Chen Mengji suffered a sudden illness and died suddenly. Manyu became a widow at a young age. Perhaps Chen Mengji's death had brought a great blow to Manyu. News suddenly spread in the village that Manyu was going to sell the house to the village chief and move back to his parents' home.
On this day, a beggar came to beg in front of Manyu's house. Seeing that he was pitiful, Manyu let him into the courtyard and served him a lot of food. The beggar thanked Manyu profusely. After eating and drinking, he even praised Manyu and said that her husband was really lucky. The beggar's words touched Manyu's sadness, and she couldn't help crying when she thought of her husband's current appearance.
Seeing Manyu crying, the beggar panicked and asked Manyu what happened. Manyu had been afraid for a long time, but she never dared to tell anyone. Now that the beggar asked her, she couldn't help it anymore, and she told the whole story like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.
"I'm going to sell this house soon. My husband was very good to me during his lifetime. This house is his family's ancestral home. I really can't forgive him for this move. But if I don't sell it, I'm afraid my life will be in danger." Man Yu choked and said.
On the day Chen Mengji died, in the middle of the night, Manyu knelt blankly in the mourning hall to keep vigil for her husband. Thinking of her husband's voice and smile during his lifetime, Manyu's tears couldn't stop flowing out. She lay on her husband's body and cried bitterly. At this time, a sudden change occurred.
"My husband's body suddenly started to flow out, and the straw mat spread under him was soaked in a large area." Man Yu's face was frightened, and he said in a trembling voice: "That's corpse water."
There is a legend in Man Yu's village that people who die with resentment will have corpse water flowing out from their bodies, which is a very ominous thing. Once corpse water appears, someone in this family will definitely die.
"My husband and I are the only two people in our family. If there is corpse water, I will definitely die. Just when I was panicking, the village chief who came to express condolences early the next morning discovered the corpse water. He gave me an idea." Man Yu said in a low voice, "The village chief said that as long as the corpse is buried in time, the house can be sold. If I go, the disaster will not happen. He also said that he was willing to buy the house. I was scared at the time, so I agreed after hearing what he said." After hearing what happened, the beggar frowned. He asked Manyu to take him to the backyard mourning hall and inspected Chen Mengji's body. Then he walked around the house and measured the location of the house. After doing all this, his expression darkened.
"This house cannot be sold." The beggar said to Manyu, "Your husband has no resentment at all, which shows that he did not die unjustly. There is something fishy in this body. In addition, the village chief I'm afraid there is something wrong. Your house has excellent feng shui. I suspect that he is interested in the land where your house is located and is secretly causing trouble."
After hearing these words, Manyu was confused. Seeing this, the beggar gave her an idea. After listening to the beggar's plan, Manyu thanked him repeatedly and then went out to the village chief's house.
That night, the village chief was invited to the funeral hall of Manyu's family. He is an old man in his seventies and has a kind face. Man Yu glanced at the village chief's sad face and said sadly: "Village Chief, I thought about it again and again, and I decided not to sell this house."
Hearing Man Yu's words, a trace of dissatisfaction flashed on the village chief's face, but soon, he hid his dissatisfaction and said warmly: "Man Yu, this is related to your life. It's a big deal, you have to think about it carefully. If you really die, it will be too late."
Man Yu choked and said, "Village chief, it's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't dare. The night before, Chen Mengji told me in a dream that you were not a good person and wanted to cheat me into buying my house. He told me not to sell the house."
"Here, where do I start with this? I am helping you out of kindness, Manyu, dreams may not be true, life is the most important thing. "After listening to Man Yu's words, the village chief rolled his eyes, and an unnatural look appeared on his face.
A gust of wind blew through the mourning hall, the candle flickered a few times, and on the branches outside, a crow suddenly screamed from nowhere. A faint voice sounded behind the village chief, "Village Chief, don't you remember what you did? "
The village chief turned around in shock and saw Chen Mengji, who was lying on the straw mat, standing up with disheveled hair. He lifted his heels off the ground and approached the village chief little by little. The village chief screamed in fear. He tried to run away, but fell to the ground because his legs were weak. Seeing Chen Mengji getting closer and closer to him, he said with a trembling voice: "I can't help you, I don't dare anymore, please let me go! "
In the village chief's narration, Man Yu understood the whole story.
The village chief's family is very wealthy. He has six sons, but none of these sons can live up to his expectations. He knows well that if the family property is handed over to his sons, within three years, the family property will be completely destroyed.
The adopted son is one hundred years old and often worries about ninety-nine. In order to let his descendants continue to live a prosperous life after his death, the village chief has an idea. He wants to find a geomantic treasure land and bury his body there after his death to protect his descendants.
"I looked around with Mr. Yin Yang and found that the place where your house is located has the best Feng Shui. I was thinking about how to buy your house. Chen Mengji became seriously ill and was dying, so I came up with an idea. I bribed the doctor and asked him to inject water into Chen Mengji's body after Chen Mengji died, and also poked small holes in his body. This way, he looked like he was bleeding from the corpse, and I could take the opportunity to scare Manyu into selling her house to me. "The village chief said with a gloomy look.
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Mengji, who was standing in front of him, put his heels on the ground. He pushed away the hair that was covering his face, revealing the beggar's face. It turned out that Chen Mengji, who was pretending to be a corpse, was pretending to be a beggar. During the day, he and Man Yu made a plan, and he pretended to be Chen Mengji to scare people. Bluff the village chief and force him to tell the truth.
The village chief was stunned when he saw the beggar. But it was too late. Manyu already knew the truth. She glared at the village chief. It was obvious that she would never sell the house to the village chief.
Later, after Manyu buried her husband, she entertained the beggar again. Then she gave the beggar a lot of dry food and watched him leave the village.
That day, after the village chief told the truth, he left Man Yu's home in despair. A few days later, Man Yu heard about the death of the village chief. The village chief's sons did not feel sad about his death. They quickly divided up the village chief's property and squandered it all in a very short period of time, and then they lived a life of poverty. The thing that the village chief worried about most during his lifetime has happened. If he knew about it, he would definitely be full of regrets.
