Jiang Xuxu frowned slightly when he heard those four words.
She had never heard of the eldest daughter-in-law being a washerwoman, but she had read about it in a book distributed by the Taoist Academy.
"The eldest son of the family washes the daughter, washes the daughter for nine generations, and the family prospers."
The female ghost recited these twelve words in a low voice, but there was a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
Zhou Chacha looked confused and quietly asked Shang Lu next to him,
"What is a washwoman?"
Shang Lu had obviously heard of it, and his expression was not very good at the moment, but he still explained,
"That was a kind of Feng Shui magic that people believed in in ancient times. The so-called girl-washing was to drown the first-born daughter of the eldest son. They believed that after nine generations of girl-washing, the family's fortune would change and the descendants of the family would prosper in the future."
After hearing Shang Lu's explanation, not only Zhou Chacha, but also the staff nearby and the audience in front of the live broadcast room couldn't help but widen their eyes.
I knew that there were many bad feudal customs in ancient times, but I never thought that there were such vicious and evil spells.
As if she heard Shang Lu's explanation, the female ghost suddenly fell slowly from mid-air.
He ignored the soul-binding talisman that trapped him, and just sneered as he talked about his family.
"My family, although our ancestors had a small fortune, was not a prominent family. I don't know which generation the head of the family wanted to make the family prosperous. He heard about the method of washing women, and began washing women for nine generations."
"In each subsequent generation, the firstborn daughter of the eldest son's family would be drowned in front of the tribe members, and her body would be buried in front of the door and trampled on. This continued for eight generations... and I was the ninth-generation baby girl."
"I am luckier than the previous eight generations because I have a sensible mother who loves me."
"My mother was born into a family of scholars, and was one of the few women who could read. Before she got married, she didn't know about this family's 'tradition'. It was not until she became pregnant with her first child that she found out everything by chance, but she didn't accept her fate like her mother-in-law did."
"After learning that the first child was most likely to be a girl, in order to save me, she bribed the midwife and announced to the public that I was a son. She raised me as a boy from then on. At the same time, in order to avoid giving birth to daughters in the future, she secretly took contraceptive medicine until her body could no longer bear children."
"Although I am a woman, I have never been a woman for a day. Since I was old enough to understand, my mother has always taught me to keep secrets. I know that once my identity is revealed, my mother and I will be doomed, so I have always done a very good job."
Grow up like a man.
Go to school, study, fight, and practice martial arts.
Gradually, I also thought that I was a man.
But as long as it is a secret, it will be exposed one day.
On the day the truth was revealed, the vicious and ferocious faces of the tribesmen were still vivid in people’s minds even after a hundred years.
The elders who used to be kind to her because of her status as the "eldest son" now had distorted and ferocious expressions. They looked at her and her mother with vicious eyes, scolding them for ruining the family's plans and bringing a century of hard work to waste.
That day, she was gagged, tied up and locked in a water cage, and then watched helplessly as the tribesmen carried her mother over a fire on the shore.
Everyone was clamoring angrily to punish the mother and daughter.
And her father didn't say a word from beginning to end.
She just watched helplessly as the tribesmen burned her mother to death.
Until the body turned into charcoal, those people looked pleased.
Then, he turned his gaze to her again.
She was tied with rocks and drowned in the pond.
Just before she died in despair, she saw several similar stones sunk around the bottom of the pond.
She knew those were the stones where eight generations of previous girls had been drowned.
When she dies, perhaps like the eight baby girls before her, her body will be eaten clean by the fish in the pond. Then her bones will be salvaged again, broken into pieces, and laid on the stone slabs in front of the door, thus completing the task of washing the female body for nine generations and welcoming the prosperity of the family in future generations.
But why?
Why should she and her mother die for such a tribe member?
Why after they died, those people could step on their corpses and enjoy wealth and prosperity as if it were their right?
She was unwilling to accept it.
Perhaps because she was the crucial ninth generation, or perhaps because she was unwilling to accept her fate, she absorbed the resentment of the previous eight generations of infant spirits that were trapped in the pond and turned into a fierce ghost.
She wanted to kill all those members of the tribe and let them experience the feeling of the family being destroyed in advance.
Such a family should not exist.
Unfortunately, before she could do anything, the clan elder and her father who had taken action were taken away directly by her mother who had turned into a ghost.
She said that being born into such a family was a debt to her.
She said that as a mother, it was a pity that she could not protect her daughter throughout her life, and she could not let her daughter be tainted with the sin of murder after her death.
So she took the blame for the murder and at the same time cast a final curse on the remaining tribesmen.
She would not let them die. She wanted them to watch helplessly as no more male descendants were born in their family, and that they would live in poverty and hardship for the next hundred years, with no day of prosperity.
After casting that curse, her mother disappeared before her eyes.
"I carried eight generations of resentment, and instead of being reincarnated as my mother wished, I stayed in the clan."
The ghost smiled and said, "I want to fulfill my mother's curse and watch my family decline step by step."
And she did it.
In the following years, no males were born in the family she was in charge of, and all the members of the family became poor and lived a miserable life.
This year marks the centenary.
She watched with her own eyes the last member of that clan breathe his last, and watched all members of that clan die.
Having lost her goal, she returned to the old house that had been sunk into the pond.
But I found that a film and television city had been built here.
She kept in mind her mother's teachings during her lifetime and after her death and refrained from harming others.
But I happened to see the scene in "The Prosperity of Youth" where the crew mocked the daughter of a legitimate wife.
Her resentment towards her family had dissipated a lot after a hundred years, but when she saw the actors' words belittling and mocking the woman, she couldn't help but think of the faces of her former clan members.
So she took action.
At first she was just making trouble, but as the story progressed, her past complaints against her people and the injustice of the world were little by little brought back to her as the plot progressed.
Just now, after hearing the girl played by Jiang Xuxu talk about her life experience and the words "destroy the Zhou family", the female ghost and the resentment that had been suppressed for eight generations could no longer be controlled and overflowed...
After hearing the story of the female ghost, everyone:
I didn't know whether to lament the ghost's life experience.
I was still moved by the mother-daughter relationship between the ghost girl and her mother.
Still, I was impressed by how Jiang Xuxu could so accurately grasp the pain points of the female ghost and resonate with her...
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