Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Moonlight flustered

According to legend, every year on the night of November 15th in the lunar calendar, at midnight, if you go outside the house, as long as the weather is good, the moon will hang brightly in the sky.When a person stands under the moon and looks down, there will be no shadows around this person.In a year, there is only such a night. At this moment, when you stand under the moon, you can’t see a shadow, but after that, the shadow following your feet will gradually appear again! Although there is only such a day in a year, there are at least dozens of months when people live for decades. Why is there a saying in the folks: How often do you see the moon in your life?

Because since ancient times, China has advocated the establishment of a country based on agriculture, so that most of the people have worked at sunrise and rested at sunset for thousands of years.Besides, who in country life doesn't cook at sunset and go to bed?It is almost impossible to get up in the middle of the night.Therefore, for the vast majority of Chinese people, although the moon happens every year, they have to get up to see the moon. How many times can there be in a mere life of decades of cold and heat?Chinese people have an extremely indescribable admiration for the moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival is related to the moon, and the moon is also a kind of praise to the moon; but in addition to admiring the beauty of the moon, it also has a bit of mystery and a bit of weirdness...

In 1961, agriculture was collectivized, and a lot of waste was waiting to be done. It is said that in Liaoyang County, Northeast Province, there is an outdoor Taoyuan with simple folk customs. There are two villages bordering each other in it. The one on the left is called Xiushan Village, and the one on the right is called Xiushui Village. It is said that food is the most important thing for the people, and the country people, of course, live on their own farmland. On weekdays, the villagers also live a self-sufficient life relying on their family's one-third of an acre of land.It's a bit out of the way, but it's not boring.Because every day, as soon as everyone finishes their work, they happily hold small benches and form a circle under the big pagoda tree in the village, basking in the sun, knocking sunflower seeds, setting up a dragon gate array, and getting involved with the Seventh Aunt The eighth aunt, the grandson of this family, and the daughter-in-law of that family, the day passed by like this, thinking about it, the small life is quite comfortable.

But I can't say the whole thing here, why? well!After all, it's too far away from the provincial capital!Besides, there are no counties in front and no shops in the back. Except for the small shop opened by the big head of the village, there are almost no facilities, and the goods in the small shop are not as diverse as our current supermarkets. It's nothing more than salt, Erguotou, candy to coax children to eat, etc. In short, you can count them all with ten fingers.If you want to go out, you have to climb a few small hills and walk for a few kilometers before you can see the bluestone road paved in the town, so that the villagers will not take this wronged road unless a major event is imminent.However, it is also because of the inconvenient transportation that the villagers have lived in peace for decades. Even when the little devils persecuted the elders in the Guandong, they did not figure out that there would still be people living in this ravine.Now, it is already 1950, the devils have been driven away, and the Kuomintang has also fled to Taiwan in desperation. Looking at the entire mainland of China, the competition is in full swing, and everything is waiting to be done.

It was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but the weather was a ghost. It rained for a while and clouded for a while. It was clearer than the fucking Qingming.Looking up, there is no starlight in the dark night, no waning moon, and no insects and frogs. Xiushan Village, Qingshiban Street is delicate and smooth, with rows of grayish-yellow light spots reflected on it. It turns out that a big white lantern is strangely hung outside the straw curtains of every household. On the lantern is written a square The word 'Dian' looks a bit pervasive on this cold night. Mrs. Hu died, on the night before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. He was so aggrieved and confused that he didn't even see his grandson who was studying in other places for the last time when he died.His family is a big family. Right now, these lanterns are just for him.Of course, this is also the custom of the village. One is to let the former neighbors walk more decently, and the other is to illuminate the path under the feet of the ghosts who have passed away, so that even if they become lonely ghosts, You can go home and have a look during the holidays, so you won’t be more lonely than a widow...

The small village, which used to be peaceful and peaceful, seemed a little too quiet this night. The candlelight was dimly lit, and the yellow halo light flickered with the cold wind blowing and the swing of the cage paper.Occasionally, the calls of wild turtledoves could be heard in the quiet night sky, adding a strange and eerie feeling to the quiet night for no reason. The sky and the ground were extremely wet after it had just rained, and there were still subtle raindrops in the air and the cool night wind hitting people's faces, making them bone-chillingly cold. "This damn day, it's surprisingly cold." On the dark country road, a man suddenly cursed, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps, which echoed strangely in the mountains, endlessly.

"Hush! Keep your voice down!" The woman's voice was a little hurried, perhaps because she realized that the man's voice was too abrupt before, and her voice was very low. "I think we'd better go quickly. Today is too unusual." After the words fell, the footsteps visibly quickened.After a long time, the man lowered his voice and asked. "Is what you said true? The old man of the Hu family really..." The latter words seemed a bit ambiguous. "It's absolutely true! It is said that the old man Hu died in a strange way, and he died in his room for no reason. Oh, what a dead look. Tsk tsk!" The woman did not continue.

"I've heard that too. It's said that the old man met a ghost and pinched someone..." The man's low voice was so strange that it made the listeners feel their scalps go numb.The woman quickly interrupted him: "Bah bah! Lord Buddha bless, Lord Buddha bless!" The man scoffed disdainfully. "What's the matter? It's the truth. That tongue sticks out a lot." "You..." The woman was a little annoyed, and her voice raised a little unconsciously: "If you talk nonsense, you can go to your mother-in-law's house by yourself! I won't serve you anymore, this black light..." After finishing speaking, she held it in her hand The few catties of glutinous rice cakes that were used as gifts fell into the arms of the man.

"Hey." The man smiled and didn't say anything more.The footsteps of the two began to speed up. The figures of the two gradually emerged from the dark night and walked onto the bluestone path in Xiushan Village.Because of the unlucky death, and the colder weather, I felt my limbs were stiff even when I put on my coat, so that the surrounding villages closed their doors tightly, and some of the white lanterns on the roadside had been covered. The wind blows away, and some even have burnt marks on the cage paper.On the entire road, the only faint light was the two lanterns at the gate of a large courtyard directly ahead.

I don't know if it's an illusion or what, the woman just feels that the further she walks, the more sinister the wind blows, as if it wants to penetrate into the bone marrow and reach the brain center.The woman shivered and rubbed her frozen arms with both hands.Looking around at the closed doors and windows on both sides.I always felt that there seemed to be eyes watching them from behind the dark window coffin.And the two big red lanterns at the gate of the big courtyard in front were like two bloodshot eyes of a monster, and the black hole in the half-open courtyard door was like a monster's bloody mouth.

The man held a kerosene lamp in his hand, taking advantage of the dots of light from the fire, he walked slowly in small steps, glanced at the daughter-in-law who shrank behind him, he shook his head, grandma, do you think you are the only one who is afraid?I'm so scared I want to pee now.But this can only be pondered in the stomach as a matter of heart, and it cannot be said on the bright side.He is a resident of Xiushui Village, and his wife is from the provincial capital. When he got married, he moved there to be his son-in-law.When I came back from the festival this time, I took my daughter-in-law to see the parents in the village. After all, I haven’t been back for a long time. After thinking about it, the two of them bypassed the house and walked along the side road. When they turned the first corner and were about to turn another corner to exit the village, something happened. It is said that this turn should turn to the west, that's right, the man did go west, but the bad thing is that when he was about to turn the next turn to the north, he suddenly found that the road to the north was not up!What blocked the view there was still the gloomy Hu family's house. "Huh? What happened to the ghost!" The man stretched his head and looked around, and after a while he stroked the stubble of his hair, his face was full of doubts. "Hush...Da Heitian, don't be a ghost, didn't you hear what the old man said? This is the easiest way to get dirty things!" The woman poked half of her face from behind the man's shoulder while burying her. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, as soon as you look at it, your face turns pale. "Zhuzi, I, I... you... why did you come back again!" Looking at the half-opened large courtyard, the woman stopped in mid-air with her trembling hands, and said sharply, for some reason, that man with both good fortune and longevity The plaque was like a basin of ice water in the winter, which kept her cold from the beginning to the end. "Eh..." The man didn't figure it out for a while, but just vaguely said: "I guess I haven't walked here for a long time, I remember the wrong way!" "Remember the wrong way?" The woman stroked her frightened chest, and her rosy face slowly calmed down due to nervousness: "A man from a big man's family, who has stayed here since he was a child, and still lost his way? Da Ya laughed out loud, and lived to the point of a dog's stomach!" "Okay, okay, stinky bitch, don't yell at me, let me think about it, let's go again!" The man interrupted the woman impatiently, and then went back to the second turning point and walked again. I checked it again, but was still blocked by this house. Go west first, then south, then west, yes!Well, the next one is heading north.However, this house is haunted there for the third time!The man's face changed, and he began to suspect that he had made a mistake. He suddenly looked to the south, and there was an extra road to the south! "This road is heading north, why did it go south?" The man seemed to know him, so he walked in and found that the residents on both sides of the road were very quiet, and the windows were dark inside. Unexpectedly, the road ended after a while, and there was a wall at the end.The man was so angry that he had no choice but to go back, but there was no way back.In other words, the alley they came in is gone!Looking back, there was a huge house in place of the red wall. Looking at the plaque on the beam and the two white lanterns at the door, it was undoubtedly the Hu family's house! The door was ajar, and the four-character plaque of "Fu Shou Shuang Quan" originally hung on the front was not clearly visible in the shadow of the eaves. The woman hurriedly grabbed the corner of the man's coarse coat and said anxiously. "Pillar, I... I'm afraid." The man extended the kerosene lamp in his hand and stretched it towards the red-painted courtyard gate.As far as the line of sight is concerned, it is not brightly lit, but at least there are lights. He weighed it in his mind, then turned his head and said to the woman: "Something is not right, I think there is something wrong? Could it be that he was fascinated by Huang Daxian?" (Huang Daxian is a weasel, in the old Northeast According to folklore, weasels are very spiritual animals, known as Huang Daxian. They can cultivate, become refined, and even confuse people. However, they also pay attention to rules. If you help them, they will help you. You guard your home and protect your children. Out of this mentality, many temples were built for Huang Daxian in the local area, and incense was offered.) "Let's go in and have a look!" Women still don't let go. "I still feel flustered, up and down. Let's not go in." "Let's take a look at the door to see if there is a way!" After the man finished speaking, he couldn't help but step on the mossy stepping stone in front of the courtyard with the kerosene lamp in his hand.He raised his hand and slowly pushed open the vermilion lacquered door. "Squeaking——" the sharp and long sound of pushing the door became smaller and smaller in the empty courtyard, a bit like the voice of a woman crying, soft and long, like crying.The woman was startled, and her face turned pale instantly. The man was also shocked, and the kerosene lamp in his hand trembled visibly.Taking a deep breath, he scanned the courtyard as far as he could see, and then stretched out his foot and took a step forward.When she stepped into the threshold of the yard, the woman suddenly let go of the hand that had been holding the man's clothes, and quickly took a few steps back.The woman trembled in the wind in horror, "Zhuzi, it's better not to go. Let's go to the villagers in the village to help." The woman's face was pale, and she even trembled when she spoke. "Hey, why are you scared right now? Besides, I, Wang Sanzhu, is also a man. If you really say what you say, he won't poke me in the back and call me a softie." The man said, striding forward with a kerosene lamp in his hand. Another step closer inside.The woman timidly glanced over the man's shoulder, and finally moved forward again.She pretended to be bold, but kept trembling at the door. "Strange, Mr. Hu's family is full of prosperity! Why are you venting your anger now? Fortunately, it is our family. If it is a thief, it will be strange if it is not stolen." The man looked around with a kerosene lamp , muttered. The woman shrugged her shoulders and looked up at the plaque above.At this time, the moonlight happened to break through the clouds, and the fluffy moonlight poured down, illuminating the entire narrow path and also shining on the woman, but it did not cast a single shadow. "Ah!" The woman's pupils widened instantly, looking at the yard, and she screamed in a low voice.The eyes are full of terror, but the eyes just can't be moved away, it seems that as long as the eyes are moved away, the things inside will pop out.But at this moment, the man's voice has not yet come. At the same time, there was a "clang" sound in the courtyard, the sound of something falling to the ground.Then came the burning sound of "Bippo". The woman took several steps back quickly, her legs were so weak that she almost fell down.When I looked into the yard again, I couldn't find the figure of the man anymore, only the cage paper that fell on the ground and was lit by the candle was burning ghostly.Jumping sparks, like a devil's smiling face...