Wuchuan City has always been a region with lagging economic development, except for the relatively developed ghost marriage industry.
When searching for the term "ghost marriage" on the Internet, only a few stills from horror movies can be found. This traditional custom has existed since ancient times. After it was exposed, many netizens were very interested in it and opened many posts inviting local people from Wuchuan to come in and answer.
Those netizens with Wuchuan IP are like riddlers. They say a few words mysteriously and then keep silent when asked further.
Only a netizen with the nickname "Sin" said a few more words.
They said they came from a remote village in Wuchuan City, and that they had held one or two ceremonies in every household. In that place, there was a serious preference for boys over girls, and basically there were more girls than boys. Those who were not raised or died in accidents were sold by their families and arranged to marry the dead.
The owner of the floor is the male in the family. Every time he goes home, the elders in the family remind him not to go out at night.
Don't look back, don't open your eyes, don't make a sound.
There are many taboos in the village. It is said that there was a child from the neighboring village who sneaked out at night and ran into the wedding procession.
His family almost turned over all the grass in the village to search for the body, and finally found it in the coffin where the woman was nailed to death.
Before it gets dark, families start sending their children home.
At night, you can hear the sounds of suona and drums from the wedding procession outside, and occasionally the sobbing of women.
The poster said that when he was a child, he couldn't sleep at all, so he opened the window a little and looked out secretly. As a result, he saw a spectacular paper wedding procession. The paper figures that were placed at the door of the paper shop during the day actually moved, with black eyes and red mouths. The leading paper figure walked and shouted something in a hoarse voice, and the paper figures on both sides held big red lanterns and scattered paper money.
The first part of the article was still a bit creepy, but netizens urged the author to write more and more, and by the end it had become an online article.
Ah Jin has seen that "I" have learned the supreme Taoism and is about to compete with the foreigners in catching ghosts.
Ajin was dumbfounded on the spot, and was being used to gain traffic again.
In general, this article is of little use for reference.
In recent years, the government has cracked down on the ghost marriage industry chain, and has apparently achieved certain results. However, who would have thought that the supernatural would revive not long after.
Strange stories have come to the world. Science has confirmed the existence of strange things. Coupled with the chaos and the skyrocketing death rate, the upper class of society are the most superstitious and taboo. In order to seek peace of mind, they listen to some feng shui masters and psychics and start to revert to their old ways.
Ghost marriages are mostly carried out through transactions involving women. With the help of a ghost matchmaker, the corpses of women who have been matched with each other in terms of horoscopes are sold to wealthy families. The cost of purchasing the corpses is the betrothal gift given to the girl’s parents.
Twenty or thirty years ago, when the custom of ghost marriages was at its most rampant, if you drove along the national highway from Wuchuan City, you could see pried-open graves everywhere in the fields not far away. They were empty, with all the bodies and ashes gone.
These ghost matchmakers have handled a lot of corpses, and they like to find poor and backward villages and towns. In these places, girls are particularly objectified, and they cannot be buried in the ancestral tombs after death. The general idea of these parents is that since the bodies of their family members are buried outside like this, they may be stolen by those people for marriage, so it is better to bury them in someone else's tomb. After all, after death, they are still part of the family, and it is only right for them to fulfill some obligations.
Ghost stories are strange things that grow out of the dark hearts of people.
The more remote and backward a place is, the more likely it is to breed crime.
These businesses with no capital and huge profits are no longer as simple as stealing corpses. If there are not enough corpses and the buyers offer a high price that is impossible to refuse, many people will take risks and look for opportunities to kill people and then trade the corpses.
For example, what Jiang Ji encountered before, the Su family designated her to have a secret marriage.
Ajin was not surprised at all that such a place was the subject of ghost stories.
But no one expected that after these people turned into monsters, they were still trying to trick the girls who had already escaped into going back.
If chatting had skill points, Jiang Ji would definitely be at the maximum level.
She showed Ajin what it meant to tell lies fluently, with perfect logic, one thing connected to another, and no flaws.
In just a few words, he took control of the rhythm. Without revealing much information, he had a pretty good understanding of the other party's basic information.
The girl sitting in the hard seat opposite is named Fang He.
He is from Shangshan County, Wuchuan City and is 26 years old this year.
She went to a pretty good university in Tonghua City. After graduation, she opened a dessert shop with her boyfriend. It was ranked in the top three on the review platform. Ajin had passed by and seen it before. It was located in the city center and was doing good business.
Her parents are farmers and have little education. She is the third child in the family. Her eldest sister stayed in the county after graduating from high school and is married. Her second sister is a dispatched data clerk at a construction site and is often in the mountains and forests and cannot be contacted. Her younger brother is also 20 years old this year.
She had a big fight with her family and never went back.
The two chatted for about half an hour, and Fang He's cell phone on the table rang again. The ringtone was an ethereal and soothing English song.
She glanced at her phone speechlessly, but when she saw the name of the caller, the annoyance on her face dissipated a little.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
The train was noisy, and with the sharp hearing of the psychic, Jin heard a female voice on the other end of the conversation that had never appeared before.
The voice sounded relatively young, and the speech was still dull and rigid without any ups and downs: "Nannan, the next one is you..."
"Sister, I'll wait for you here..."
Speaking in a dialect with a heavy accent, A Jin had to repeat it several times before he could hear it clearly. The sinister voice seemed to come from the underworld, and it was so cold that it seemed to be frozen. Fang He didn't even notice it.
"Why, you're going back too?"
The other end of the line repeated this sentence several times, and the phone hung up with a beep. Fang He was stunned, "I don't understand."
"Don't you feel something is wrong?" Ajin couldn't help but ask.
"It's quite strange," Fang Hezhen followed his guidance and recalled, "My second sister made such a fuss back then, and she directly said that she would never go back to that place in her life. I didn't expect that she actually went back this time. It's strange."
"...You didn't receive the text message?"
"Ah?" Fang He said, "I don't usually read text messages."
Ajin stopped talking.
After confirming that Shangshan County had indeed disappeared from the satellite and receiving many strange alarm calls, the Wuchuan City Investigation Bureau immediately reported the situation to the central control. All citizens whose registered residence was in Shangshan County but whose current IP location was outside the city received a text message reminder from the official, kindly reminding them: Go to Shangshan County.