Chapter 925 The Truth
of the Ancestral Hall The resentment that surged into the sky was knocked back after hitting Chu Beihe's golden barrier.
The scattered resentment flowed in the barrier.
The tangible resentment made the Ninth Clan members in the ancestral hall stunned.
The resentment seemed to turn into substance, wailing in pain in the barrier.
This movement also made the Ninth Clan women who were originally blocking outside respond.
Taking advantage of the moment when they were distracted, Fang Wei quickly rushed into the ancestral hall.
Seeing this, the women or unmarried girls of the Ninth Clan wanted to stop them, but they stopped before reaching the threshold of the second gate.
They couldn't go in anymore.
Further inside was the main hall of the ancestral hall, a place that women like them were absolutely not allowed to enter.
Even when they ran through the first door, they had already violated the taboo.
The group was hesitating whether to leave when they heard a cry of surprise,
"What's in there?!"
Through the screen wall of the second gate, the women vaguely saw the scene in the main temple. Subconsciously, someone stepped over the threshold of the second gate and walked in.
With the first one, there was the second one. When everyone walked around the screen wall and saw the scene in the main temple, they were all shocked. When
the ninth clan leader saw the newcomers, his already serious face was even more furious,
"Who allowed you to enter the ancestral temple?!"
And Fang Wei, she actually broke in directly.
But the clan members were all knocked down by the strange turtle and the little paper man, and no one stopped her!
Fang Wei didn't know what was wrong with her.
From the moment she stepped into the ninth village, it seemed that something had been attracting her invisibly.
It was a sense of belonging that she felt from the Ninth Liancheng.
It made her want to get closer to him.
But vaguely, she denied this sense of belonging.
It was more like a sense
of fate. And it was an inescapable fate.
Obviously, there were some scary scenes in front of her, but ever since she stepped into the ancestral hall and looked at the black resentment howling in pain in the barrier, her tears fell uncontrollably.
Jiang Xuxu obviously also noticed her and the women on the other side of the screen wall.
She was not in a hurry to deal with the chaotic resentment in the barrier, because she knew that these grievances would not hurt her.
Turning around, she faced Fang Wei and the women of the Ninth Clan.
They were either young or old, but everyone's luck was taken away little by little when they married into the Ninth Village.
After a long while, she looked at them and finally spoke slowly,
"Seven hundred years ago, the Ninth Clan was awarded the "Chastity and Loyalty" memorial archway by Emperor Sheng because of the loyalty of Fang, the wife of the young patriarch.
The Ninth Clan was proud of this and regarded Fang as a role model for women in the clan.
In the following years, all newly widowed and divorced women in the clan were not allowed to remarry or leave the clan..."
In that dynasty, the customs were relatively open, and the court did not strictly order women to divorce and remarry.
But because Fang was awarded the chastity memorial archway by the court as the Ninth Chaste Woman,
the elders of the Ninth Clan forced all women, whether they married into the clan or were original girls in the clan, not to divorce or remarry.
Even if the husband's family was cruel, the husband was infertile, and the mother-in-law treated them harshly.
In short, they had to remain chaste.
They had to take Fang as a role model.
The Ninth Clan was considered powerful at the time, but because of this chastity memorial archway, the original married-out daughters not only failed to get the protection of the clan.
Instead, the clan became a death warrant that crushed them. Some
died of depression, or were imprisoned in the family temple and watched every day, holding a grudge until death.
Or, they lived their lives like zombies, living in torture and suffering.
Especially for women who married into the Ninth Clan, even if their parents' families intervened, the clan members would not give in.
The clan members even built a place near the memorial archway.
Anyone who wanted to divorce and remarry would be forcibly locked up in a small house, so that they could look at the memorial archway in the distance and reflect on themselves every day.
Fang Shi had a deep love with the young clan leader when she was young, so she had no regrets even though she was a widow.
Even when the chastity memorial archway commended by the court was erected for her, she felt a little proud in her heart.
However, such pride completely collapsed when she saw the women in the tribe being oppressed one by one because of her memorial archway.
She had no children in her life, but she had no regrets.
She was faithful to her duty and remained a widow, but she had no regrets.
But when she saw the women and girls in the tribe being persecuted because of her, she felt extremely remorseful.
In order to correct this mistake, Fang made an astonishing decision at the age of 59.
She wanted to leave the tribe and remarry.
Not for herself, but to give the women in the tribe a way out.
Even if this action angered the king, she would not hesitate to take back the memorial archway.
But before her action could be heard by the king, the members of the Ninth Tribe were the first to be angered by her.
They didn't understand why an old lady who had been chaste for many years would be so confused in her old age and do something that would destroy her reputation.
It was simply crazy!
Fang's decision was naturally met with anger and suppression from the entire clan.
Even though she was prepared to pay the price of eternal damnation, she still could not escape the suppression from her clan.
In the end, she could only crash into the stone pillar of the Chastity Archway and die.
"Fang thought that even if she couldn't destroy the Chastity Archway, as long as it was tarnished, the women in the clan might have a chance of survival in the future.
But she greatly underestimated the prejudice and anger of the clan elders."
Jiang Xuxu said this, looking at Fang Wei who was already crying uncontrollably, and told her everything that happened on the stone plaque.
"The then leader of the Ninth Clan found a master of Miao Zhu curses. Out of resentment towards Fang, he had the master suppress Fang's corpse under the memorial archway and cast a curse on her soul.
After Fang's death, she will be reincarnated and can only marry into the ninth family for eternity. "
As soon as Jiang Xuxu said this, both Fang Wei and other tribesmen were shocked. Except for
the obviously older clan leader and the other older elder.
This is a secret that has been passed down in the clan for many years.
Except for the clan leader and a few elders, other clan members are unable to know.
And these elders who know the truth and are responsible for the inheritance of the clan also enjoy more luck and nourishment, unlike other people in the village who cannot live beyond the age of sixty.
The ninth clan leader had an ugly face, but because Zhao Long was shocked in the middle and even suffered a backlash, he was powerless to stop him at this moment.
If she only told the secret of the Fang family, he was afraid that she would tell the others.
But since Jiang Xuxu had said it, it would be impossible to hide the other half.
She looked at the women at the screen wall and said another sentence that shocked everyone.
"The curse of the Fang family is not the end of all this, but another beginning."
She said,
"The evil master saw the bias and selfish nature of the Ninth Clan members and took the initiative to give them another way to ensure the prosperity of the family."
That is to rebuild a clan temple at the location of the original memorial archway.
That is the location of the clan temple where they are now.
"Set up an evil formation under the clan temple, with the suppressed Fang family as the center of the formation, and select 18 chaste women, use their bones as sacrifices, plant the same curse as Fang's, and use the resentment accumulated from their continuous reincarnation and death to transform into luck to provide for the entire clan...
After that, every ten years, a woman is selected from the clan to offer sacrifice to maintain the formation. "
Jiang Xuxu said this, his almond eyes swept through the tribesmen in front of him, and he coldly told the final truth,
"You said that women are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall, but the truth is that the bottom of this ancestral hall, with the stone plaque as the center, has long been filled with women's corpses. "