Meng Yan's Transformation

Chapter 202: The Wronged Soul in the Well

Yunqing and Zhan Yingying were so frightened after listening to Wang Baoqin's story that they stared at her with wide eyes, not daring to breathe. Their mouths were slightly open and beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads.

"Why are you two staring at me like that? I'm not a ghost." Wang Baoqin said.

Yunqing and Zhan Yingying were instantly shocked by what was said. They were shocked. Zhan Yingying was both scared and wanted to know what was in the well.

"Aunt Baoqin, how many wronged souls are there in that big well? Is the well abandoned because of the wronged souls?" Zhan Yingying asked.

Wang Baoqin straightened her clothes and whispered, "I'm not sure how many wronged souls there are in this big well, but I know there are at least three. This big well was first built during the "Industry Learns from Daqing, Agriculture Learns from Dazhai" period. I can't remember the exact time. The water in this well was sweet and delicious. In addition to being used to irrigate nearby farmland, people in the village who didn't have pressurized wells often came to this big well to fetch water. At that time, the water level of the well was higher than it is now. You could touch the water surface by standing on the edge of the well. Ma Yuqin, the second daughter of the township head, was admitted to the Pingju Opera Troupe at the age of 18. She was beautiful, and the cinnabar mole at the corner of her eye became a beauty mole in the hearts of girls and boys at that time. Later, Ma Yuqin became the mainstay of the troupe. She played Liu Qiaoer in "Xiao Erhei Gets Married", Yang Sanjie in "Yang Sanjie Tells", "Flowers as Matchmakers", "Little Son-in-law", etc. She played many Pingju operas. When she was ten years old, she fell in love with a young man named Meng Fengyin who played the erhu in the troupe. At that time, the troupe did not allow people in the same troupe to have romantic relationships, so they dated secretly. However, the truth could not be hidden, and one day their relationship was discovered by the troupe, and they were both expelled from the Pingju Opera Troupe. The Pingju Opera Troupe Director had a son who had long coveted Ma Yuqin's beauty. He knew that Ma Yuqin loved her job very much, and thought that his chance to get Ma Yuqin had come, so he found the village chief Ma and said that if he recognized him as his son-in-law and married Ma Yuqin to him, he could ask his father to get Ma Yuqin back to work in the troupe. When the village chief Ma heard that it would be such a glorious thing for the Pingju Opera Troupe Director's son to be his son-in-law, he agreed to the marriage without asking his daughter Ma Yuqin's opinion. Soon Ma Yuqin returned to work in the troupe. Meng Fengyin heard that Ma Yuqin got the return because she was going to marry the troupe director's son. When Ma Yuqin wanted to find an opportunity to work in the Pingju Opera Troupe, she found Ma Yuqin and angrily scolded her for selling herself out in order to sing Pingju Opera. After being misunderstood by her lover, Ma Yuqin returned to the Pingju Opera Troupe to verify that she could only return to the job in the Pingju Opera Troupe if she married the son of the troupe leader. She resolutely chose to give up her job in the Pingju Opera Troupe. When Ma Yuqin was packing her things, the troupe leader's son rushed to stop her, forced her to have sex with him, and bullied Ma Yuqin. Ma Yuqin came to the big well with humiliation and misunderstanding from her lover. She jumped into the well and committed suicide in grief and anger. When the village head Ma learned that his daughter jumped into the well, he reported the case. The troupe leader's son and Meng Fengyin were both arrested by the public security bureau as criminal suspects. The forensic doctor examined Ma Yuqin's body and found that Ma Yuqin had been pregnant for more than two months. Later, I heard that the troupe leader's son was sentenced to three years in prison. The troupe leader got rid of his relationship and arranged for his son to be released on medical parole and serve his sentence outside the prison. Meng Fengyin learned that she had wronged Ma Yuqin. Qin also ran to the big well to commit suicide, but failed. Since Ma Yuqin jumped into the well to commit suicide, the water level of the well has dropped sharply. The water people drew from the well is bitter and unbearable. When the water is used to irrigate the fields, the crops in the fields will be infested with insects, sick and die, or the yield will be seriously reduced. Later, people no longer use the water from the well, and the well has become an abandoned well. It is said that the ghosts of Xiaoqin and her unborn child live in the well. She doesn't want others to disturb her. If someone disturbs her peace, her ghost will take her life. There is another saying that if someone in a bad mood goes to the well, it is easy to attract Xiaoqin's ghost, and she will become Xiaoqin's scapegoat. It is said that people who commit suicide are not easy to be reborn. Only by catching more scapegoats can she have the opportunity to be reborn as a human again... Xiaoqin's suicide by jumping into the well has become the most taboo thing in our village. It is considered unlucky and no one wants to mention it. But I didn’t tell you today because I was afraid you would go near the well again. When Xiaoqin died, your whole family was in Heilongjiang. I guess no one told you about Zhan Ziyou and Guihua, right? "

"Oh, it's such a pity for Xiaoqin. She was so pretty and so young. Today, if you hadn't told us, Baoqin, no one would have told us about the wronged souls in the big well. We can't force ourselves to believe in ghosts and gods, but sometimes we have to believe in them." Yunqing said with emotion.