Daily life in Kaifeng dormitory

Everyone frowned when they heard about Marriage.

The policeman said "Hi" and said, "That's true, but in our place, this kind of thing really happens, and it's not new at all."

Marriage was indeed strictly prohibited in the Song Dynasty, but in many places the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and no one would take care of it. Marriage still happened frequently.

Speaking of marriage, it is actually a ghost marriage, but it is not a ghost marriage in the consciousness of modern people.

In the Song Dynasty, men who reached their twenties and crowned their crowns were called Yaoshang when they died before reaching their twenties, and marriages to men who died young were called Jianshang.

This kind of thing usually happens in small places, and it is the home of rich people.

A son who did not reach the crown died in a rich man's family. When the family was sad, they thought of this method because they were afraid that the man would be alone in the underground.

A wealthy family would buy a woman of about the same age, put the woman in a bright red wedding dress, and marry a man who had died young.After the ghost marriage, the woman will not be left in the rich man's mansion as a young mistress to enjoy the blessings, but will be asked to be buried, and the woman will be buried in the same coffin with the young man.

Marrying such a thing is no different from murder. It sounds cruel enough, so the court has already banned it. Ni Yexin didn't expect him to hear about it today.

The policeman said: "I heard that this widow, Mrs. Zhu, had a son before, but he died before he was a child. The widow Mrs. Zhu died not long ago, her husband first, and then her son. She was very sad, so she found someone , I want to get a married man for my son."

The widow Zhu has money, so she wants to buy a martyr, find a woman of about the same age to marry her dead son, and then bury his son as a sacrifice.In the end, someone really set up a line for help and got a young girl.

The catcher quickly said: "I heard that she is a great beauty, and she is not very old. Jiao Didi is a girl. I don't know if her family is too poor, so she sold such a good girl, or sold it to someone else to be a martyr. ……Hi……"

The catcher said with a look of regret, but there are many people in small places who can't afford food and sell their children. In ancient times, such things abound.

The girl was taken to see the widow Zhu, who was very satisfied, and then the beating of gongs and drums arranged the marriage for her dead son.

It is said that many people went to the wedding banquet that day, and it was very lively.

After getting married, the girl was required to be buried. She was taken to the cemetery, her hands and feet were bound, her mouth was gagged, and she was forced into a coffin and buried in the soil with a dead man.

The policeman said: "I heard that in the next few days, someone passed by that area in the middle of the night and heard the sound of a woman crying. It seemed to be coming from underground. And it was not the only one who heard it." , many people have heard of it.”

The girl just died, and no one has seen her since.But there are many rumors that the girl turned into a female ghost, refused to reincarnate, and cried bitterly on the grave every night.

The widow Zhu didn't believe these words, and her life became happier and happier.Before her son's death, she had a few lovers, but she didn't dare to show it to her. After her son died, no one dared to care about the widow Mrs. Zhu. Those things about her must have become the talk of the city after dinner.

The policeman said: "I think it might be the girl's ghost who came back to take revenge! Otherwise, you said, a little maid killed her master, why did she put the body in the Xu family in a blink of an eye? The Xu family is a big family, There are so many little servants in the Ding Maid's Nursing Home, how could an outsider bring a corpse into it."

Ni Yexin frowned and said, "Do you know the name of the dead girl and where she lived before?"

The catcher said: "I don't know. It happened a few years ago. None of us have seen that girl before, and we don't know her name or where her home is."

Ni Yexin nodded and said, "Forget it, let's go and see that maid who claims to be the murderer first."

The catcher quickly said: "Master Ni, come here, that maid is locked in prison."

The story told by the policeman is both creepy and embarrassing.Although Ni Yexin didn't believe in the theory of ghosts killing people, he clearly felt that the death of the widow Zhu Shi should have something to do with the story of the wedding.

Back then that girl should have been suffocated to death in the coffin, but now the widow Zhu was killed, and she died in the same way.

The murderer worked so hard, it should definitely not be as simple as a whim.

If it had something to do with the girl's incident, then the murderer probably came for revenge.

A group of them went to the prison in the yamen. There were no prisoners here, and all the prisoners were petty theft, and they hadn't been imprisoned for murder and arson.

The cell was mostly empty, and the maid was locked in the innermost one alone.

Ni Yexin and the others walked in, and the inside was dim and dark. As soon as they entered, they heard someone shouting inside. Because the distance was far away, the voice was not very real, but they could still hear clearly. They kept shouting wronged, and it must be that maidservant.

The servant girl was locked in a separate cell, her face was devastated, her lips were chapped and bloody, she sat on the ground and kept yelling for innocence.

The servant girl suddenly saw someone coming, her eyes sparkled with hope, she jumped up from the ground, grabbed the iron grille of the cell door with both hands, and shouted: "I am wronged, Mr. Guan, I am wronged! Really! I didn't kill anyone!"

The catcher quickly pointed to the maid and said, "It's her."

The servant girl looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was not tall and strong, she was a little thin and weak. She didn't know how long she had been locked up here, and she seemed to be in a trance.

Ni Yexin said: "Get her out first, I have something to ask her."

The servant girl looked really pitiful, and the arrester didn't say much, he opened the cell and brought the servant girl out, then led her out of the cell, and went to the front to talk.

Ni Yexin and the others also left the cell, Murong Changqing walked beside Ni Yexin, glanced sideways at him, and said, "You will be sympathetic."

Ni Yexin laughed and said in a low voice: "Hero Murong, you misunderstood me. The cell is stuffy and dirty. I'm afraid that you will feel uncomfortable if you stay there a little longer, Hero Murong."

Murong Chang smiled lightly and said, "Really?"

The servant girl was brought out with surprise on her face, her eyes filled with gratitude and hope as she watched them, she knelt down in front of Ni Yexin with a "plop", and cried, "My lord, please make the decision for me, I really didn't kill anyone, really! I was wronged, how could I kill someone..."

Ni Yexin was taken aback by her action, and quickly said: "But some people say that you confessed to the murder."

"Then... I lied to him!" The little maid immediately became anxious, and said, "That's not the truth, I had no choice but to lie to him!"

Ni Yexin raised her eyebrows and said, "What's going on, please tell me carefully."

The servant girl once admitted that she killed the widow Zhu Shi. This was heard by a scholar surnamed Sun, and the scholar surnamed Sun was very sure.

As soon as the servant girl heard about the scholar named Sun, her face was full of anger, and she gritted her teeth in hatred at first glance, but there was a look of grievance in her expression, as if there was something hidden and she didn't want to explain.

Ni Yexin said: "If you don't want to say something, I can't help you, then you can only go back to the cell and wait."

"I say I say!" the servant girl said hastily.

The servant girl had just come out of the cell, and there was a stark contrast between the inside and the outside. She had tasted the feeling of hope, but how could she bear the endless disappointment, she didn't dare to hesitate right now, and said everything immediately.

The servant girl said aggrievedly: "I did say those things to the scholar named Sun, but it wasn't true, it was just to scare him!"

The maid is the widow Zhu's personal maid, and it is said that she has been by the widow Zhu's side for several years.Because the widow Zhu has a lot of friends, it is inconvenient to have many maids and servants in the house, so as not to be seen by others.

A few days ago, the widow Mrs. Zhu was going to a good friend's house, but by coincidence, the little maid was sick at that time, so the widow Mrs. Zhu left with the other two maids, leaving the little maid to look after the mansion.

The little maid said: "Originally the housekeeper was always in the mansion, but it happened by coincidence that the housekeeper had to go out for three days, saying that he had an important business negotiation, but I was the only one left in the mansion."

There is only one little maid left in the mansion, but that's okay, the folk customs in this place are quite simple, and there are no thieves who break into the house and rob.

It's just that the widow Mrs. Zhu left for a long time this time and never came back.She was not at home, but a person came suddenly, that is the scholar named Sun.The scholar surnamed Sun is a friend of the widow Zhu's family. The little maid has seen him and knows that he has an extraordinary relationship with the master, so she treats him very politely.

The scholar surnamed Sun came to look for the widow Zhu, but the little girl said that the widow Zhu was not there. The scholar surnamed Sun was very happy when he heard that, and came in swaggeringly.

The little maid stopped him from entering, but she couldn't.

The scholar surnamed Sun was very arrogant after he came in, saying that he would stay here and let the little maid entertain him.

The little maid refused, so the scholar surnamed Sun said that he was the widow Zhu’s friend and master, and if she didn’t serve her well, the widow Zhu would sell her when the widow Zhu came back and sell her to a brothel to pick up customers. .

The little maid had no choice but to watch him live in the mansion.

The scholar surnamed Sun was extremely arrogant. Not only did he stay, but after staying for two days, he found that the widow Zhu Shi hadn't come back, so he became even more arrogant.

The little maid said: "That day, I suddenly saw him sneaking into the master's room, stuffing the master's golden hairpin into his bosom, stealing something!"

The little maid was angry and annoyed, and rushed over to argue with the scholar named Sun, but the scholar was not afraid, relying on his strength as a man, he kicked the little maid to the ground, and went even more recklessly to take those jewelry and valuables.

The little maid said: "I was very angry and scared at the time. The scholar threatened me. He said that my master didn't come back anyway, so he would leave after taking the things, and beat me if I tried to stop him. He also said, anyway, he took the things. Things, my master will never doubt him when he comes back, as long as he says a word, the master will definitely believe that I stole all the things and framed him."

The scholar obviously has a thick skin and looks like a hooligan.

The little servant girl was annoyed, but she couldn't beat the scholar, and she couldn't report to the official, so she suddenly had a quick wit and thought of a way.

Ni Yexin raised her eyebrows, as if she had understood it, and said, "You said you killed the widow Mrs. Zhu?"

The little maid nodded.

In order to drive away the scholar, the little maid performed a play.She suddenly pretended to be crazy, and yelled at the scholar, asking the scholar if he knew why the widow Zhu hadn't come back for so long, saying that it was impossible for the widow Zhu to come back, because she was already dead and killed by herself.

The servant girl said: "The scholar didn't believe it at first, but then he looked scared. My master did go for a long time this time, and I also found it strange. I guess the scholar also thought it was strange after thinking about it carefully. Later, he panicked. , was scared away by me, and when he ran away, he still had my master's gold hairpin in his arms. How did I know that he ran to report to the police, and... and I didn't expect that my master really died……"