The death of the matchmaker

During the Republic of China, the Baojia system was implemented. Li Gang was the head of Shuijingwan, Long Fu Town, and was responsible for the safety of villagers. After the winter, on the fifth day, Jia from the other side of the mountain came in in the rain with a beard and said, "Khufu is crazy! Pestering me! "

Hu Lan, the daughter of Hu Laohan, got married in the winter, targeting the son of the Li family in the market. She should have returned to the door the day before yesterday, but Hu Laohan waited all day and didn't see her daughter and son-in-law. He hurried to find the Li family, only to find that their only son was only 3 years old. They firmly denied the marriage. So, Hu Laohan found a beard and began to look for it in the whole village. As a result, he didn't even find a ghost.

Hearing this, Li Gang quickly organized people to go out and look for it. Soon, Lao Hua came back and reported that suspicious shoe prints were found outside the bamboo forest leading to the market. Hearing this, all the people present turned white. There once lived a bachelor named Shui Sheng in that bamboo grove. This year, on the day of heavy snow, he froze to death at home at night.

"Unless it's water?" The beard said. I'm afraid that after the death of Shuishui, ghosts will never leave, and Hulan will be abducted to the underworld as his wife.

Li Gang and others came to the bamboo forest and saw that there were indeed three sets of shoe prints in the bamboo forest, but they looked very strange. These three sets of footprints are combined into a row, and there are three pairs of shoe prints, each of which is with the left and right feet together. The straw sandals in the middle are long and big, left by men's feet, with two groups of women's shoes on both sides, and finally extend to the water residence.

"Are they jumping around?" The beard turned white. Li Gang kept silent and pretended to be calm.

There is a cotton-padded jacket under the damp straw in the room. Beard forward a straw, Hulan blue-black face appeared in front of everyone, lying next to a male carrion, which is aquatic.

The village was worried that the aquatic products would come out again, so they pooled their money and asked the master to do it. Li Gang disagreed. There are three sets of shoe prints in the bamboo forest, and the matchmaker Wang enters the bamboo forest. There are no shoe prints on the other side of the bamboo forest, which means that matchmaker Wang failed to escape. Aquatic killed people, why did you hide the body of the matchmaker Wang?

Wang Can, the matchmaker, didn't see anyone dead or dead, but she was lonely. She searched in the village for several days, but she had to give up without results.

When Li Gang came home, his wife asked him to try on new shoes. Li Gang put on his shoes and walked around the room several times, saying, "It really fits!" " "Say that finish this sentence, he suddenly froze.

How can an aquatic corpse walk out of sandals and shoes with bare feet? When I was in the bamboo forest, Li Gang felt that the three sets of footprints were wrong. Obviously, it was formed by a living man jumping around in the bamboo forest carrying two female corpses, so the shoe prints of the man in the middle were deep, while those of the women on both sides were shallow. Someone killed Hulan and the matchmaker Wang, hid the bodies in the bamboo forest while it was dark, dug up the aquatic bodies and made them look like aquatic ghosts killing people. It was Hu Laohan who killed people!

When the beard crashed into Hu Laohan's house, Hu Laohan was drinking at home half crazy and half stupid. Beard found a pair of straw sandals in the ashes in front of the stove, and there was a bloody shoulder pole next to it. They compared this pair of shoes with the ones that were not damaged in the bamboo forest. They are indeed the shoes of Hu Laohan.

Hu Laohan lost his wife in his early years and lived alone with his daughter. All the people who went to his house as matchmakers were driven away by him, and Hulan always dared to be angry and dare not speak. One day in winter, the matchmaker Wang came to his house for matchmaking, and he wanted to drive the matchmaker Wang out of the house. But his daughter didn't die or live this time, so she cried with him. He accidentally strangled her in a rage, then killed the runaway matchmaker Wang with a pole, took the bodies to the bamboo forest while it was dark, tied two bodies at both ends of the pole, and made shoe prints of three people jumping into the bamboo forest. Then he dug up the aquatic body and pretended to be the ghost of aquatic creatures.

"Bullshit! There is no matchmaker's body in the bamboo forest! You saw it yourself! " Shouted beard. "I have admitted to killing people. What's the point of lying to you? " Hu Laohan said.

"He has a point." Li gang thought, "You and Li Guyou have a great hatred? Why do you say that your daughter is married to his family? "

"The matchmaker Wang is a relative of the Li family," replied Hu Laohan. "The only son of the Li family is only 3 years old." Li Ganglu.

"Wait," bearded suddenly said, "Lao Li, if Lao Li's eldest son is still alive, it's time to marry a wife this year."

"Yin marriage?" Li Gang suddenly thought of the local customs, but whenever the man born in Ding Si died young, if he didn't marry his daughter-in-law who was born on the solstice of winter, the family would be restless and die, and Hulan was born on the solstice of winter.

Matchmaker Wang's house is a series of rooms made of bamboo strips and covered with mud. Two rooms, tables and chairs outside, a bed full of clothes and a wardrobe in the back room, and a locked box in the closet.

Li Gang took the box out and put it on the bed, ready to find tools to pry it open. A big mouse suddenly emerged from under the bed and ran on Li Gang's instep. A rancid smell came to my face. Li Gang squatted down, lifted the sheets, and a white bone suddenly appeared, wearing the matchmaker Wang's big flower coat! I can see the bones. I've been dead for at least 20 years. Is this a ghost who has been a matchmaker in Longfu Town for more than 20 years? That's why we can't find the body.

Li gang gradually calmed down. Matchmaker Wang has a bullet hole in the back of his head. The bullet was fired by a soil gun. Someone shot the matchmaker king in the back?

Li Gang pried open the padlock on the box, which contained two pamphlets, which recorded the names and dates of birth of the men and women that the matchmaker Wang had kissed over the years.

Sure enough, Li Gang found the name of Li's late eldest son in the booklet. He looked down again and found that the matchmaker Wang arranged as many as six pairs of yin marriages!

Li gang felt even more strange when he looked at it again. All the living women were born on the solstice of winter, while the dead men were born on the fourth day. In addition, matchmaker Wang has been dead for at least 20 years, but that was seven years ago, that is, matchmaker Wang died at least 13 years. Is there pressure here?

Xiang Jun walked into the room and asked her husband to light a firecracker. Li Gang asked, "The matchmaker king in your village. What is her origin? "

"Her real name is Xiang Hui. She fled from other places to Shuijingwan more than 20 years ago. "

"She is very good in your village. Why did she move to Shuijingwan? "

"Alas, it's still haunted!" Xiang Jun recalled, "On the winter solstice more than 20 years ago, the daughter-in-law Swallow abducted by Jong Li in the village gave birth to twins. He couldn't afford two babies, so he threw away the baby girl and left the baby boy. He asked the matchmaker Wang to throw the child in the biogas digester behind the village. "

Xiang Jun sighed: "Since then, I have always heard children crying in the biogas digester behind the village in the middle of the night. Not long after, the boy suddenly got malaria and died. One night, the swallow heard the cry again and ran out wearing only a thin coat. As a result, the swallow disappeared after that night, and the child's crying was never heard in the village at midnight. Everyone said that it was the girl's soul that hooked the swallow and the boy. Strangely, the brave people in the village went to the biogas digester and the girl's body disappeared! The matchmaker Wang was afraid and moved to Shuijingwan. "

But what does this have to do with the murder of matchmaker Wang? Was matchmaker Wang killed by that girl? But ghosts don't shoot people. ...

On the second day of New Year's Day, many relatives go home to pay New Year's greetings. Jong Li mentioned to Jun is actually her cousin. Li Gang took out the book of the matchmaker Wang and said, "The matchmaker Wang was shot twenty years ago. Li Ge was born an Orion. When matchmaker Wang died, you were the only one with a gun in the village. " Jong Li quickly shook his head: "I once lost a shotgun! A few days after my baby boy died. It must be that girl. She died unjustly, so she came back to save her life! "

Li Gang also knows that even if the matchmaker Wang, the swallow and the baby boy were all killed by the baby girl of that year, @ can't explain that the ghost of the matchmaker Wang lingered after her death. In the 13 year after her death, she was looking for a daughter's house born in winter to match the deceased. What does 13 year mean?

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Jong Li's body was found in that bamboo forest. The back of his head cracked, and all the bullets in the shotgun were exhausted. Next to the corpse of matchmaker Wang, it was beaten into a hornet's nest. ...

Judging from the blood on the scene, the queen who shot the matchmaker accidentally fell down because of slipping in the middle of the snow, and her head hit a stone and died. Li Gang turned over the matchmaker Wang's body. The body is still hot. Definitely just died soon! A person cannot have two bodies. If the deceased is the matchmaker Wang, then the body under the bed is another person!

"Swallow?" Li gang suddenly realized and pointed to the body. "This is a swallow."

The man who killed the matchmaker Wang knew where Li Zhongjia put his gun, and it was the swallow who killed him! The matchmaker king died more than 20 years ago! The matchmaker Wang is a foreigner. She just moved to Shuijingwan, and few people know her. She usually wears heavy makeup. For more than 20 years, the matchmaker Wang Yizhi has been pretending to be a swallow!

"How can I understand!" Li gang patted his head. "13 is not just enough for a girl to grow up?"

More than 20 years ago, the girl was thrown away by the matchmaker Wang, but there was no body in the biogas digester, and the swallow's daughter was not dead! But he was hidden in the village by the matchmaker Wang, so he cried in the middle of the night. Swallow stole a gun 20 years ago and asked the matchmaker Wang about the whereabouts of his daughter. I don't know what the dispute started, so I shot and killed the matchmaker Wang.

The swallow was abducted, and everyone in the village was very wary of her, unwilling to tell her daughter's whereabouts. Now she has killed someone, so she has to live as the matchmaker king.

No one but a fortune teller will ask a girl's birthday for no reason. Even the matchmaker can only ask the woman's name and eight characters after she promises to talk to the man about marriage. Swallow's daughter was born on the solstice of winter. She pretended to be the matchmaker king just to find her daughter for the next winter! The swallow didn't die when Hu Laohan killed someone. She was afraid that her identity would be exposed, so she had to play tricks.

"Let's bury them." Li Gang took one last look at the bodies of Jong Li and Zheng Xiaoyan, and then turned to look at them again. At home, two booklets of matchmaker Wang were placed in front of him. He glanced at it that day and only noticed the boy Ding Siwei's yin marriage. If you look closely today, you will find that there are not only yin marriages, but also girls born in the winter solstice in many marriages of the living.

At that time, he was preoccupied with ghosts and ghosts, thinking about shadow marriage, only to find that what the swallow really cared about was not shadow marriage, but the girl born in winter to the sun.

And the swallow didn't find her daughter after all. Li Gang turned to the last page of the booklet, his eyes blurred. The last page reads: My daughter is getting married this day. Behind this sentence is the wedding date of all girls born in the winter solstice, all arranged by swallows. ...