During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom peasant uprising broke out, which was called the "Hong Yang Rebellion" because the main leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing.
The scale of the war was unprecedented, affecting many provinces, and too many people died.
In addition to those who died in battle, there were also those who were massacred by insurgents and bandits, and died of disease and famine.
According to statistics, hundreds of millions of people died abnormally during this period, and the population of the entire Qing Dynasty was reduced by at least half.
At that time, there was a businessman named Ding Mingsheng, who was in his forties and in his prime.
His family originally lived in Hangzhou, and his ancestral home was burned down by the war.
When the chaos subsided, he built an abandoned garden in Suzhou and planned to bring his family and settle down to live there.
Suzhou City has the largest number of gardens, all of which were left by wealthy households in the previous dynasty.
According to legend, the abandoned garden purchased by the Ding family was also the legacy of a wealthy family.
Long before the bandits broke out, this abandoned garden was haunted and strange things often happened.
It has been abandoned to this day.
Many people died during the war.
In addition, it was in disrepair and was in disrepair from the inside to the outside. , are all dilapidated and abandoned.
Ding Sheng bought this abandoned garden just for cheap.
When I opened the garden door and went in, I saw corpses lying all over the courtyard, with hundreds of severed heads.
Between the fake mangosteen trees, there were rotten bones and rotten flesh everywhere, and the smell was amazing.
There was a small pond in the back garden. , filled with rotten fallen leaves, the water in the pond is scarlet in color and sticky like paste.
Just looking at it can make you so sick that you won't be able to eat for three days.
After the Ding family purchased the garden, in order to save money, they did not hire anyone to do the work.
Instead, the whole family, men, women, old and young, worked together to gradually clean up and repair the garden.
There was an old man next door who also returned to his hometown after the chaos.
When he saw Ding Sheng and his family moving into the abandoned garden, he kindly advised that this garden must not be lived in.
People in the garden often disappeared for no reason.
No one was seen alive, and no corpses were found dead.
It was already regarded as a haunted house, and even thieves who committed murder without blinking an eye would not dare to live there.
Ding Sheng has always been bold.
As the saying goes, "Life and death are determined by fate, wealth is in heaven."
Even if you don't meet a ghost, you will die.
I moved in with my family.
The Ding family moved into the abandoned garden, and nothing happened that day.
However, in the dead of night, there was a strange sound coming from the pond.
It sounded like a duck quacking, and the sound was shrill and hair-raising.
When the sky got brighter, the strange noise disappeared.
The next day, I discovered that there were unexpectedly a few ducks, geese, and chickens raised at home.
For three days in a row, I could hear chickens noisily crowing and geese croaking every night.
The sound was extremely frightening.
It made people's scalp numb.
In the morning, several ducks and geese must have been lost.
Everyone in the family was panicking.
They didn't know what was hidden in this abandoned garden.
They all tried to persuade Ding Sheng to move quickly.
Ding Sheng shook his head and scolded: "It's nothing more than a wild raccoon dragging a chicken, it's not worth making a fuss about."
A servant said tremblingly: "Sir, didn't you listen to what your neighbor said?
People often disappear for no reason in the abandoned garden.
Just imagine that wild raccoons can drag away chickens, but can they drag away people?"
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Ding Sheng was furious when he heard this, and said to everyone: "Our Ding family used to be very wealthy, but due to banditry, all our wealth has been robbed, and our ancestral home has been burned down by the war.
Now only some money and belongings that we brought with us when we fled are left.
The whole family has so many mouths to eat.
Drinking, clothing expenses, daily expenses, there is money everywhere.
It is not easy to buy this abandoned garden.
With a place to live, we can settle down and use the remaining money to make a profit.
Doing business to make a living, how can we change easily?
Change the budget.
Moreover, in all the haunted houses in the world, misfortunes often occur at one time.
If people live there for a long time, the yang energy can suppress the yin energy.
This is called evil not overpowering the good.
Our Ding family is full of good men and women.
Those who violate the law will not do it, and those who commit evil will not do it.
Eat, there has never been a case of male stealing and female prostitution. , I don’t believe that we can’t suppress this abandoned garden.
Even if we really want to sell it, it will have to wait at least a year or two.
If we are eager to sell it right after we bought it, wouldn’t we tell others that there is a ghost in this garden?
Those who can afford it are willing to spend a lot of money to buy a haunted house."
When the night was overcast and strange noises started to appear again, Ding Sheng took courage, took his sword and lantern and followed the sound, all the way around to the pond in the back garden.
However, when he found the east side, the sound came from the west; when he found the north side, the sound came again.
From the south, there was a commotion for a long time, but no result was found.
At the third watch, I suddenly saw a big white hand stretching out from the water of the pond, more than a foot long, as if to invite people to enter the water.
It was dark at that time, and the lights flickered on and off.
Ding Sheng stood far away and could not see clearly.
He quickly rubbed his eyes to take a closer look, but saw the white hand stretched out for more than a foot.
Caught him.
Although Ding Sheng was brave, he was so frightened when he encountered this situation that he turned around and ran away with the help of his legs.
He ran behind the rockery, then looked back and saw that the night fog was in front of him.
Nothing to see.
Terrified, he hurried back to his room and lay down undressed.
Thinking of the strange hand in the pond, he couldn't help but be frightened and suspicious, and couldn't sleep
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