marry a ghost

It is not particularly difficult to find out the identity of the ghost old man. Tongcheng Normal University has preserved the files over the years fairly well. The only problem is that those files are not just for people to see casually.

Wei Shi first looked for Luo Liang, who was studying at Tongcheng Normal University, but he couldn't find anyone, and Luo Liang dropped out of school due to illness.

Hearing this, Wei Shi was taken aback for a moment. He was so busy these past few months that he felt dizzy and dizzy. He didn't even think that Luo Liang hadn't contacted him for several months. Something happened unexpectedly, so he immediately called Went to Luo Liang's house, but no one answered.

He put this matter in his heart, thought for a while, and decisively called his uncle Wei Chengbin. His uncle still has some connections with the city's education circles. After all his guarantees, it is absolutely nothing wrong to check the information. After thinking about it, his uncle reluctantly agreed to get him a "special library card".

Because it was summer vacation, the library of Tongcheng Normal University was not open every day, and usually opened in sections. Wei Shi found the open archives and went there that day.

The archives are on the fourth floor of the library.

The library was quiet, especially the archives on the fourth floor. In the room full of shelves, except for a middle-aged woman sitting behind the computer with a straight face and playing poker, Wei Shi was the only one.Wei Shi handed the library card to the middle-aged woman. The middle-aged woman looked at Wei Shi and frowned, "The files here are all precious materials. Be careful when reading them. Don't fold them. It must be dirty, and it is not allowed to take it out, and if you want to copy it, you have to go through additional procedures."

Wei Shi nodded.

The dusty files exude a smell of corruption.

Wei Shi went straight to the archives area before the founding of the People's Republic of China. There was a shelf of materials there.

He picked up a yellowed book and flipped through it. The text in it was actually in traditional traditional and vertical. If Wei Shi hadn’t read some books in traditional and vertical when he was a child, and later when he was learning things with Xu Laosan, he would have read it. Most of them are traditional vertical books, and the progress is estimated to be several times slower.

However, soon, Wei Shi was delighted to find that maybe things were not as difficult as he imagined.

Because the content of these files is actually separate, school history, teachers, outstanding students, etc.Wei Shi directly found the files that recorded the resumes of the teachers in Tongcheng National Normal School over the years, which were two thick books.

It wasn't until the library was about to close that Wei Shi finished reading the first book. There was no Gu Yancheng in it, that is to say, there must be one in the second book. down.

After paying ten times the cost of copying outside, and being sneered at by the middle-aged woman because of the delay in getting off work, Wei Shi returned to school with a bag of copy paper.

While eating, he flipped through the pile of papers with his hands stained with vegetable oil. All his roommates went home for the summer vacation, so he was alone in the dormitory, so he was at ease, except for poking his head behind his back to touch the copy paper. Everything is fine, except that the ghost old man looks a bit unpleasant.

After Wei Shi finished his meal, he casually picked up a piece of copy paper that he had read and wiped his hands, and under the disapproving gaze of the old ghost, he accurately threw the crumpled copy paper into the trash can.

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, he finally found Gu Yancheng.

Gu Yancheng, born in Qingyuan, was born in 1900. He graduated from Tongcheng National Normal School in 1922. After graduation, he served as the secretary of a certain brigade of the army. From 1928 to 1945, he taught in the Chinese Department of our school. His wife Zhang Lan had a son and a son. Female, died of illness in 1946 at the age of 46.This is Gu Yancheng's life. Of course, some of his other aspects are also recorded, such as work and academic aspects, but it is not within the scope of Wei Shi's attention.

In other words, the person you are looking for is Zhang Lan?

It is not easy to find someone's ancestral grave, Wei Shi thought with a melancholy expression.

Obviously they are two husband and wife, but the old man can't find the old lady. Either the years of death are too far apart, something happened, and later generations didn't bury the old man together, or they were buried together but the grave was dug later. Yes, the bones are separated.

Do you want to go to the hometown of the ghost old man?

So many years have passed, the stars have changed, and the world has changed. Whether they can find their descendants and their graves is also a problem. However, things must be done first to know the result.

Wei Shi thought for a while, and running over like this must be impossible.

In the life of the old ghost, he simply said "people from Qingyuan". Qingyuan is a county in the current administrative division. Even before liberation, it was also a township. If you find someone to come out, that is blind arrest.

The old ghost is still talking there.

Wei Shi stared at it blankly. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, he slammed the table, and thought of a way.The matter of finding someone will still fall on the old ghost.Generally speaking, ghosts should not be too far away from the place where they died or were buried. It should not be accidental that the old ghost appeared in the flower garden. The cemetery, the dead people around are buried here.Developers don't dare to do anything like this kind of land where the bones of the dead are dug out. In many cases, these lands are directly assigned to the school, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Only with so many young and energetic students in the school can they control the yin energy of the cemetery.

Wei Shi waited until late at night.

In the midsummer weather, even in the middle of the night, the sky is still dark.

Wei Shi took a hoe and came to the flower garden. Except for insects and frogs, there was no other sound. Fortunately, this place is quite remote. Now it is holiday time, and no one comes here during the day, let alone at night. However, such a blatant act of sabotage still made Wei Shi's palms sweat a little.

While asking the ghost old man for his direction, he "destroyed the flowers with hot hands", tearing and hoeing the swaying flowers in the flower garden, working in full swing.In fact, after the school took over the land, it has already cleaned it up. If descendants can be found, those descendants will be notified to move the graves out; After cremation, those burnt ashes were buried in another cemetery, which is considered the utmost kindness.

However, when it comes to cleaning up, there will be some omissions to some extent.

It's like occasionally postings on the school BBS, saying that a human bone was found somewhere, and so on, which made all kinds of campus ghost stories emerge in an endless stream. All kinds of ghost stories are simply creepy, and any student can tell one or two .

With a small flashlight in his mouth, Wei Shi dug a deep hole.

The ghost old man stood by the pit with his arms folded, telling him to work harder.

Wei Shi had a black line on his forehead.

Suddenly, Wei Shi found that the hoe hit something, so he hurriedly used the flashlight to shine a light on it. It was half of the arm bone, which was cut in half by his hoe. Still crying about hand pain.

Wei Shi's face was dark, he didn't know how many years he had been dead, and he still knew what pain it was.

He picked up the bones.

Wei Shi wrapped the two bone fragments, which were still covered in mud, with the white cloth he brought and put them aside.

Things are done, but there is still a long way to go for the follow-up work. Wei Shi has to level this deep hole, and try to restore those flowers. These tasks have been busy until almost dawn. Wei Shi heard that there were early risers in the distance. He heard the sound of people walking, so he hurriedly tidied up and ran back to the dormitory.

The next day, he went to Qingyuan.

Qingyuan is not far away, it is in the province, and it only takes three hours to get there by car. Wei Shi caught an early bus, and after eleven o'clock, he was already standing in Qingyuan County. He left the city by car and found Take out the two broken bones in a place where no one is there.

The ghost old man was attached to one of the broken bones, and the other broken bone had another use.

The place Wei Shi chose was a low forest on the left, and a canal on the right. The ground was relatively wet, and there should be groundwater below. He stood in the woods, took out a candle, lit it with a lighter, and then used a The blank yellow talisman paper wrapped the bone and put it on the flames to burn.

The bones were buzzing with fire.

Puffs of thick smoke came out. It was hard to imagine that such a small piece of bone could produce such heavy smoke. The smell of burnt smell was caught in the thick smoke. After a while, Wei Shi wrapped the yellow talisman paper from the fire. After taking it off, he opened the yellow talisman paper that had been burned for a long time but was intact. The bones inside had been burned to white fine ash.

Wei Shi mixed the fine ash with black dog's blood, and drew talismans on the blank yellow talisman paper.

Wei Shi was already very proficient at drawing talismans, with both speed and quality. He finished drawing the talisman in a short while. He picked up the talisman, blew on it, and unfolded it. After the air dried, he slowly walked out of the woods.

On the road, he kept changing directions and looked down at the yellow talisman paper from time to time. Whenever he walked in the right direction, the yellow talisman paper would become slightly hot. There was no response. This kind of talisman drawn from bones burned into ashes is called the talisman of asking relatives. It can neither suppress ghosts nor exorcise evil spirits. It has no other use except to find the descendants of this bone or the cemetery of the dead.

Following the guidance of this piece of yellow talisman paper, Wei Shi found a family in the evening.

Wei Shi went up and knocked on the door, and asked the owner if his surname was Gu.

The old man who came out to answer the door looked at him suspiciously, nodded and said yes.