During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a young man named Zhang Ziqing in Xushui County, who looked like a table of talents, was a good hand in business, accumulated a lot of wealth at a young age, and was very popular in the local area.
Zhang Ziqing refused a lot of rich family money, and when he was twenty years old, he married the daughter of a peasant family, this girl was named Xiumei, her appearance was beautiful, she knew the book, the husband and wife were in love, and the husband sang with the woman.
In the second year after marriage, Xiumei gave birth to a big fat boy named Xi'er, hoping that he could grow up happily.
After giving birth to a son, Xiumei's body has been very weak, Zhang Ziqing hired a nurse named Sanniang for Xi'er, who was very good to Xi'er, regarded it as her own, and took good care of it.
However, bad luck still befell this family. When Xi'er was two years old, Xiu mei died, the family was devastated, and the child cried all day looking for his mother.
Zhang Ziqing endured the grief and invited the Daoist priest on the mountain to overdo it for his wife, and it is said that this Daoist priest has great supernatural powers and has the ability to lower demons and demons.
After his wife was buried, the Taoist priest said to him: "Your wife died at a young age, the child is still so young, she must still have worries, the first seven soul nights you must close the doors and windows of the home, no matter what sounds you hear, do not go out, in case you are hurt." ”
Before the Taoist priest left, he left a few more spirit runes, and he told Zhang Ziqing: "On the night of your wife's return to the soul, you must paste these spirit runes on the door of the child's room, don't forget!" ”
Although Zhang Ziqing did not agree with the Taoist's words, for the sake of politeness, he still took the few runes and thanked him.
As soon as she reached the first seven of her wife, Zhang Ziqing set up a table of delicious food at home to enshrine her soul, hoping that she would not be hungry on the way there.
Sanniang reminded Ziqing to paste the spirit rune given by the Taoist priest on the door of his room, because Xi'er was sleeping with him, and it was better to be careful just in case.
Zi Qing then gave the spirit rune to the Third Lady, and then went back to the house and closed the door.
However, after a long time, there was no movement outside, and Ziqing suspected that what the Taoist priest said was a lie, so he stopped waiting, turned off the lights, and went to bed.
At about three o'clock, a strange sound suddenly appeared in the courtyard, Ziqing was woken up in his sleep, and listened carefully to this voice as if he was vaguely calling Xi'er's name, but this voice did not look like his wife's voice at all.
Zhang Ziqing and his family felt very scared, and no one dared to go out to see. At this moment, the third lady's room suddenly heard Xi'er's crying, mixed with his voice calling out to his mother.
It turned out that Xi'er woke up after hearing her mother call out her name, and he began to look for her mother.
The Daoist priest's spirit rune seemed to be very magical, and the sound only sounded in the courtyard, and he did not dare to go near the third lady's room.
At this moment, Sanniang was frightened and unincorporated, and when she heard Xi'er's cries, she hurriedly picked him up to comfort him, but Xi'er listened to the call of her mother outside, cried even harder, and struggled to go out to find Niang.
Hearing Xi'er's cries, the voice outside seemed to become more and more impatient, and the voice of responding to her son became more and more urgent, and people were even more afraid to hear it.
In a hurry, the third lady covered Xi'er's mouth with her hand, and Xi'er could not cry, and a whimpering sound was emitted from her mouth.
The people outside seemed to know that their son was in danger, and suddenly, a terrible roar resounded through the compound, and then a woman dressed in white with a shawl slammed into the window of the third lady, and the third lady saw a pale woman, shouted, and the hand covering Xi'er's mouth subconsciously covered it even tighter.
Seeing that Xi'er was about to suffocate, the white-clad woman suddenly opened her hands and strangled Sanniang's neck fiercely, and after a while, Sanniang fell to the ground.
Xi'er broke free from the third lady's arms and ran toward the woman in white, stretching out her hands to ask for her to hug her. However, the white-clad woman's eyes suddenly dimmed, and when Xi'er ran towards her, she hurriedly hid behind to prevent him from touching her body.
Who knows, after she took a few steps back, she accidentally bumped into the door attached to the spirit rune, and then a green light flashed, and the woman in white immediately turned into a wisp of green smoke.
When Zhang Ziqing slammed the door and came in, he found Xi'er sitting on the ground crying, constantly shouting at the mother; and the third lady was lying on the ground and had no sound, and there was a blue-purple palm print on her neck.
After dawn, Ziqing hurriedly sent someone up the mountain again to ask the Daoist priest to come back and see. The Taoist priest came to his home and listened to him talk about the whole thing, and said, "After a person dies, he will come back again on the night of the return of the soul, which is the final farewell, but her soul has been detached from the body and no longer knows her relatives in the world, so whoever touches her will die." But this thing is very strange, she actually remembers Xi'er, in order not to hurt Xi'er, she would rather let herself be destroyed, can not be born, I can only say that the power of maternal love is too great! You don't have to be afraid anymore, she won't be there again. ”
Zhang Ziqing finished the Taoist's words, his eyes gradually became moist, he came to his wife's grave again with the paper money offerings, knowing that she had vanished, he still religiously burned a handful of paper money, knelt in front of his wife's grave, he said silently: I will raise Xi'er well, and you can go with peace of mind!