During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a butcher named Song Beir in Baishi Village, who was upright and kind-hearted, and was extremely popular in the eight villages of Shili. Song Bilai's work was extremely sharp, and whenever he helped the master's family to kill livestock, he always helped the main family clean up and then leave, so people in the vicinity liked to find him if they wanted to kill pigs and sheep.
One day, Song Beir went to help a large family to kill pigs, and when he returned home after he was busy, it was already dark. Song Bi was very tired after a busy day, and after eating, he lay down on the bed to rest, but he had just laid down when he suddenly heard a rapid knock at the door.
The knocking on the door kept ringing, the people outside the door seemed to have something urgent, Song Bilai heard the knocking, hurriedly put on his clothes to open the door, but unexpectedly he opened the door but laughed, he smiled and asked the person outside the door: "Cousin Wei, how did you come?" ”
The person who came was Song Wallai's cousin Zhang Wei, the two grew up together, and later Zhang Wei's family made a fortune from business, so they moved to the city to live, and the two gradually became less in contact. Song Beirian saw that Zhang Wei was very happy, and immediately invited Zhang Wei to the house, and after Zhang Wei entered the house, he smiled and took out an invitation, saying that he would get married tomorrow night, and specially invited Song Beir to attend his wedding. When Song Bilai learned that Zhang Wei was going to marry, he was happy for him, so he agreed to drink happy wine, but Song Bilai went to Zhang Wei's wedding feast and found that something was wrong.
On the day of Zhang Wei's marriage, Song Bilai came to the wedding feast happily, who knew that when the banquet was opened, Song Bilai found that the bride had sneaked to the banquet and hid in the corner to eat meat. When Song Bilai came, she heard that Zhang Wei's bride was a bridesmaid, very knowledgeable and sensible, at this time the bride should be waiting for the groom in the cave room, how could she have such an unruly behavior?
At that time, Song Beir was about to go to the latrine, but accidentally saw the bride in a big red wedding dress sneaking out of the cave room, hiding in a no-man's corner, secretly eating food on the spare table. What made Song Wallai feel strange was that the bride only ate meat, vegetarian food was not touched at all, and the way she ate was wolfing, it didn't look like everyone was showing off.
Song Beirei was very surprised to see this scene, just when he hesitated to tell Zhang Wei, the bride suddenly turned away, Song Beirle saw the shoes on the bride's feet, and suddenly changed her face, a newly married bride, why not wear big red embroidered shoes, but instead wear a pair of blue cloth shoes that dead people can wear?
The more Song Bilai thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, he was worried about the safety of his cousin Zhang Wei, and when it was time to disperse, Song Bilai stayed in the Zhang family under the pretext of being drunk. After Zhang Wei sent away the guests, he turned around and walked towards the cave room, Song Beirle had been hiding in the dark to observe Zhang Wei, and when Zhang Wei was about to enter the cave room, Song Beirai rushed forward to pull Zhang Wei: "Don't enter the cave room, there is danger!" ”
Zhang Wei saw that Song Bilai was not drunk in the slightest, and when he heard him say that there was danger in the cave room, he felt very surprised, so he asked Song Bilai what he meant, and Song Bilai did not say anything more, but pushed Zhang Wei away, directly took out the pig-killing knife hidden behind his back, and rushed into the cave room with a straight face.
Song Bilai's pig-killing knife was ancestral, and the killing qi was even heavier, and he had always carried this pig-killing knife with him. When Song Beirao rushed into the cave with a pig-killing knife, the bride saw the pig-killing knife and immediately turned into a female ghost with a shawl, her face was iron blue, full of burn marks, and her body emitted a burning smell, which looked very frightening.
Song Beirai hurriedly turned back to let Zhang Wei come to see the bride, wanting to tell Zhang Wei that he was not married to a human, but a female ghost, but he did not expect to look back and see Zhang Wei's appearance, but he was frightened and pale, only to see that Zhang Wei had also become the same as the bride, his whole body was burned by fire, and half of his face was burned to disfigurement.
Song Bilai was shocked and frightened when he saw this scene, and hurriedly asked Zhang Wei what had happened, and Zhang Wei smiled bitterly and explained the truth. It turned out that after Zhang Wei's family became rich, they looked down on their former poor relatives and broke off contact with them, and Zhang Wei did not invite them when he got married. Who knows that on the day of Zhang Wei's marriage, because the fire in the stove was not extinguished, causing a big fire, that night, the people of the Zhang family were busy all day, tired and sleepy, and no one found the fire, and the Zhang family was burned to death by the fire.
In fact, Zhang Wei's wedding was three days ago, after he died, he thought that he was going to the prefectural government to report, and suddenly he missed the good times before, and he missed his former good brother even more, so the ghosts of him and his wife did not immediately go to the prefectural government to report, they reproduced the wedding at that time, and invited Song Bilai to drink happy wine, that is, they wanted to apologize for their previous behavior of feeling poor and loving the rich.
In fact, when Song Beir wanted to go to the latrine, the bride thought that the latrine was filthy, worried that Song Beir would find the truth after going to the latrine, so she pretended to steal food to attract Song Beir's attention, but she did not expect that the shoes she was wearing exposed everything. After Zhang Wei and his wife explained the truth, they resigned and left, Song Bilai sighed after knowing the truth, life is short, sometimes it may be just a turn, many people will never see it again.
Later, Song Bilai went to the grave of Zhang Wei's family to worship, and he never encountered strange things again.