While smoking a cigarette, my friend mysteriously raised his index finger to show me. "Look, everyone's index finger represents people's greed, because the desire to eat is the most basic and primitive desire of human beings. Do you know why it is called the index finger? Because the ancients said that once they saw something delicious, the index finger would jump. Isn't it true? Is that an idiom called 'moving the index finger'? I'll tell you a story about the index finger right now." As he spoke, he put out his cigarette and began to narrate the story. "When I went to a small town in the southwest, I stayed with a family. There was a very old man there. The old man was in good spirits. I chatted with him when I had nothing to do. I learned such a story from him. During the period of the Republic of China, if a girl here wants to marry a good family, she must first have a good figure, especially the waist. It is said that some families have clear norms, accurate to millimeters. (I laughed: "This is too exaggerated "). The thinner the girl, the more beautiful they think it is. It seems to be the opposite of fat in the Tang Dynasty. Maybe the local people are very disgusted with pigs, so they think that as long as they are fat, they are ugly. Yes. So the girls there are desperately on a diet, in order to have a soft figure with three steps and three shakes, and the catkins fluttering in the wind.

Among them is a girl named Xiu, who has stopped eating meat since she realized that her life's happiness is inversely proportional to her waistline, including pasta.But it seems that fate likes to play jokes on people.Even if Xiu kept exercising from morning to night and only ate a little fruit, she would gain weight.Maybe it's a genetic problem according to the current words, maybe it's a disease at all.But people at the time didn't think so.Those skinny girls laughed at Xiu from behind, saying that she was reincarnated from pig essence.The family members couldn't help sighing.Because Xiu's figure is getting fatter and fatter, not to mention marrying a good family, I am afraid that even the poorest old family in the area will not want her.

Speaking of the fourth child, I can actually find a few traces of relatives with Xiu's family, but such relatives are like the hair on the head, there are too many to count, and a few strands can't be lost every day.But the fourth son, Yuexiu, was a childhood sweetheart, and the two often played together when they were young.However, since Xiuli decided to marry into a rich family, she severed her relationship with her fourth son.But the fourth son's son has always kept Xiu in his heart.At this time, Xiu's parents can't take care of it anymore. Their greatest wish is to marry Xiu as soon as possible, so as not to be ashamed and conspicuous at home.After all, they think that their daughter still has a lot of goods like this at home.

The fourth son's name is Min. In fact, he is handsome in appearance, but his family is poor, and his clothes are shabby, but very clean, both in person and clothes.Xiu's father mentioned this matter to the fourth son, and the fourth father and son agreed without thinking about it.As a result, the cumbersome procedures such as marriage proposal, appointment, letter reply, and banquet were completed within one day, which was considered a record at the time. Although Xiu complained in every possible way, there was nothing she could do about it, because her fate was not good.If I don't marry again, I'm afraid even the people will look down on me in a few years, not to mention that my husband is very obedient and loving to me, and the days will pass by.

Things are often so coincidental, maybe because of Feng Shui, maybe because of mood.After Xiu married into the fourth family's family, she became thinner and thinner day by day, and finally became a well-known local skinny beauty.It's a pity that she is already a married woman.But there are still a lot of people thinking about her.The people there don't care about the first marriage or the second marriage.Because for those people, the daughter-in-law is just a tool for fertility and an improvement in the family's feng shui. Xiu himself became restless.And she insisted on not having children.This makes people very distressed.He knew that he couldn't keep Xiu without children.In fact, if you have children, can you keep them?Xiu didn't do any work at home anymore, and Jiantian chatted with some friends and went shopping, or went to a rich family's house as a guest.She looks like a daughter-in-law of a poor family.

It seems that it's all the fault of being thin. Min knows that only when Xiu becomes fat again, can she stay at home with peace of mind. Not long after, Xiu really gained weight again, and everything seemed to be back to the past.She was once again reduced to a peasant woman.She resented the tricks of fate.Only Min secretly laughed.On the surface, he complained with her while comforting her. The days are like the shuttle of weaving clothes, shuttling repeatedly.Fast forward ten years.Xiu also gave birth to several children.She is no longer dreaming.Live with peace of mind.Until their daughter Yue'er grew up.

Yue'er was born very beautiful and absorbed the advantages of her parents.But it seems that she has always been in a state of neither fat nor thin.Even occasionally fuller.In fact, according to today's standards, not fat at all.But Xiu didn't want her daughter to repeat her mistakes.She started to control Yue'er's diet very early.But the effect is not great.Seeing that Yue'er is almost sixteen.But the waist is one lap longer than girls of his age.The anxious Xiu couldn't sleep every day. Looking at the dark circles under my wife's eyes every day.Min finally couldn't bear it anymore, maybe he thought that time had dilute everything.At this time, tell the wife that it has nothing to do with it.

The two slept on the bed with their clothes on that day.Xiu still tossed and turned to sleep and couldn't find her.Min broke her body over.Seriously said: "Do you know why you suddenly lost weight when you passed the door?" Xiu shook her head strangely, then asked, "Why?" "That's because of me. Although our family is poor, we know a method that can make people lose weight. However, the ancestors confessed that it is a forbidden technique. If you use too much and control it poorly, you will get retribution, but you don't know what kind of retribution. You I performed this operation on you when I came home, and then I removed the operation when you wanted to leave, so you became fat again." Min said sadly.

Soo is past the age of being angry.In fact, she had long thought that her sudden weight loss might be caused by her husband, but she was also curious when she heard this wonderful square character. "Forget it, it's over, I don't blame you, but you can't delay Yue'er, I want her to marry a good man! Tell me quickly!" Min looked at his anxious wife, hesitant to speak.Finally he raised his index finger and said to Xiu, "It's the finger." "Finger? What do you mean?" Xiu asked strangely.Min told Xiu that according to legend, hundreds of years ago, the ancestors kindly took in a beggar during the famine.It is said that this beggar is not an ordinary person, but a Maoshan magician who traveled among the people, but he is just pretending to be a beggar to see the kindness of everyone.He saw that the ancestors of the people were kind-hearted.He taught some spells to the ancestors of the people.Later, it was passed down from generation to generation, and most of them have been lost. Only this thinning method is strangely preserved.Danmin's family has been in decline ever since.I'm afraid this has something to do with the many taboos about using Maoshan method spread among the people.There are many taboos in Maoshan Shu. Once it is destroyed, it will cause financial loss and bad luck, and severe disasters and even disasters for future generations.Compared to Min's ancestors, they must have done some unrighteous things with magic to get rewarded.

As for this spell, Min told Xiu that he only needed to swallow the nail of his index finger.But this technique can only last for a few years at a time.And there is a limit to how thin each person can be.If you use it too much, it is said that terrible things will happen in the end.Min's family seldom used it because it was only getting thinner, but Min's father taught him how to use it. "No wonder you were so kind to do my nails every time you saw me." Xiu said in a strange tone.People feel a little embarrassed.Touching his wife's face, "Isn't it because I like you?"

"Forget it, I won't be angry anymore, you can perform this technique tomorrow, and quickly make Yue'er lose weight." Min nodded, and the couple fell asleep again in peace. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Yue'er to lose weight, and she was the most beautiful and energetic among the thinnest people in all the villages.The neighbors all praised Minhexiu for raising such a good daughter, so she would definitely be able to marry a good family.The husband and wife couldn't close their mouths after hearing this. Unfortunately, the biggest wealthy family in the area was looking for a daughter-in-law.This rich man is the kind of person whose daughter-in-law's weight and waist circumference are all accurate to the smallest unit mentioned earlier.Of course Xiu asked her daughter to try it.It's a pity that it's just a little bit short.And Yue'er is already the lightest.The rich man said that if no one is qualified within a week, he will go to other places to look for it.Xiu wanted her daughter to marry him wholeheartedly.He forced the people to cast spells again.Min said helplessly: "Have you ever heard of Dai Zong, the Taibao of Shenxing? In fact, there are different degrees of that kind of magic. It is said that a messenger was delayed in delivering the letter. Afraid of being scolded, a new Maoshan magician taught He pricked the soles of his feet with silver needles, endured the pain, and released miscellaneous blood. He could walk three hundred times a day and three hundred times at night. It was true. Later, the messenger asked the magician again for a faster way to run. The magician said that as long as the kneecaps of both legs were dug out Go, you can travel two thousand miles day and night. But the messenger ran away in fright.” "Why are you telling me this?" Xiu asked strangely. "I want to tell you that if you still want Yue'er to lose weight, what you pay is not nails." Min said worriedly.Xiu was silent for a long time, but in the end she still insisted that Yue'er must join the wealthy family.Min asked her daughter's opinion, and Yue'er naturally wanted her mother to be happy, and the family got rid of poverty, so she agreed.There are no more than two people.But what is needed this time is that Yue'er must eat her own index finger! Wealthy families don't care about missing fingers, as long as other standards are met, it can be said that the fingers were injured when they were young.So Yue'er just gritted her teeth and chopped off her index finger, and ate it.Sure enough, Yue'er lost weight obviously the next day. As soon as the injury on his hand healed, he went to the rich man's house immediately. The rich man was worried, and when he saw Yue'er, he was overjoyed.The marriage was quickly settled.Everyone seems to have gradually forgotten about the finger.Things slowly returned to calm.Min Hexiu also lived a wealthy life with the money from the rich man's family.Although the Central Plains is at war at this time.But the flames of war could not reach this place, and it was still a paradise. Not long after, Yue'er who passed through the door became pregnant and gave birth to a son.Seems like a good thing.But soon Yue'er's body swelled up like a balloon.unstoppable.The husband's family was puzzled by Yue'er's sudden weight gain. They told Min Hexiu about it, and said that it would be okay to gain weight after marriage, but it would be difficult for Yue'er to be their daughter-in-law.If Yue'er continued to gain weight, they decided to divorce her. Xiu cried and asked Min, who thought hard for a long time.Read some books.I finally know that when the mother is in childbirth, a lot of blood loss will break the spell.Xiu had already gained weight when she gave birth to Yueer, so Min didn't care that this technique would be undone.When things got to this point, Xiu looked at her daughter's balloon-like body and cried and asked Min: "Even if it will change back to the original, our Yue'er shouldn't be like this!" Min told Xiu that once the spell is rescued, the body will rebound violently like a spring that has been accumulated for a long time, and the nutrition is rich during confinement, even ordinary people are easy to gain weight. "I don't care. Our family won't be able to gain a foothold here, and my grandson and Xiu's son won't be able to see him anymore. Can you bear it?" Min scratched his head, looked at the tearful daughter and wife who were crying beside him, and finally said with difficulty; "This operation can still be done again, but..." "Don't give up, I will give anything to save my daughter." Xiu cried and begged the people, and Yue'er also knelt on the ground and begged her father. "I don't know what the consequences will be, because even the ancestors have never cast spells like this again and again. They have repeatedly warned future generations that if they use too many spells, they will be punished by heaven." "Maybe it's just that Taoist priest scaring you, and you also said that no one has used it, so how do you know you will be punished by heaven?" Xiu asked back.Min kept silent, and finally had to agree to perform the operation one last time. This time it is not Yue'er's finger, but Min and Xiu's index fingers, because children and parents have an invisible bond.If one party transfers some of his diseases or pains to the other party in the way of transfer.So Yue'er swallowed the index finger cut off by her parents.Min Hexiu endured the severe pain and settled her daughter to sleep.The two stayed by their side all night, fearing that something bad would happen, but everything seemed to be going well. The next morning, Yue'er returned to her pre-marriage appearance, just like a young girl.Only then did the couple send Yue'er back to her father-in-law's house with peace of mind. The husband and others over there were also surprised when they saw it, but since it was a good thing to lose weight, the family went back with a smile.Min Hexiu also went home to recuperate well. But it was late at night the next day.While Min Hexiu was sleeping soundly, the in-laws suddenly sent someone to announce the funeral, asking Min Hexiu to come quickly.It turned out that Ye Yue'er died suddenly.And death is horrible.Xiu Yi fainted on the spot.Min had no choice but to identify the corpse alone.Along the way, Min's mind was blank, and he was led into the scene like a walking corpse.It was really hard for him to accept that his daughter just went away like this.But when he saw his daughter's body, let's call it a body, he almost fainted from fright. Yue'er looked as if she had been bitten by some animal, she didn't have a piece of good meat all over her body, she was almost like a skeleton.The distance of nearly two meters from the bed to the ground is the traces dragged by Yue'er. Blood and broken flesh are scattered everywhere. Yue'er's head is held high, and her hand is stretched out of the door. She probably rolled down from the bed and wanted to open the door. , but died after climbing only a few meters, and I am afraid that he suffered a lot of pain before he died.How can the people not understand, is this the so-called retribution?Looking at his daughter's body, he threw his ass on the ground and burst into tears. Due to the horrible death and the fact that this rich man has a very strict family style.Few people know the truth about Yue'er's death.It was said to the outside world that the young mistress died of a sudden illness.The rich man gave Min and Xiu a lot of money to get them out of here.It's a pity that Xiu blamed herself after knowing her daughter's tragic death, and later committed suicide.The people also evaporated. It is said that Maoshan technique itself is a kind of magic to drive away ghosts and transfer.For example, the performer can transfer other people's meat or food into his own hands, or transfer his own pain to others.It is estimated that this technique is also to transfer the obesity that was originally on oneself to others.But every technique always has a self-destructive side.Min repeatedly performed spells and finally suffered retribution, but it was a pity that the retribution fell on his family.As for Yue'er's tragic death.In fact, it is the backlash of the technique.Among the six realms of Buddhism, there is a kind of ghosts called starving ghosts. They are small, like ants, but they are numerous.They were hungry when they were alive, and turned into ghosts after death and would eat everything.The index finger is a symbol of human appetite.Eating your own index finger is actually a contract with the starving ghost.They'll help you eat those nasty fats and fats you don't want.But when contracts get out of hand or in excess, they can eat you whole. " When my friend said this, he leaned over and whispered to me: "When I finished listening to the story told by this old man, I couldn't help stroking my own index finger. I thought, can I really lose weight by eating my index finger? Just when I was wondering, the old man smiled and got up and left. I noticed that he only had four fingers on one hand, except for the index finger. I asked around later, and people in the side said I didn’t know the old man, and said that the old man seemed to come after liberation, and everyone called him Uncle Min.” I opened my mouth and didn't speak.I also caressed my index finger like a friend, and suddenly remembered the ant colony I saw a few days ago.Suddenly felt numb.Seeing me in a daze, my friend laughed and slapped me on the shoulder, "Don't worry, if something is there, it's there; "That's not necessarily true. It depends on human effort. Don't just talk about fate." I also refuted with a smile. My friend looked at me, "Then have you heard the story of Half Face?" "No." I looked at him, and suddenly there was a little bit of weirdness on his face, which seemed to be made of clay. "Forget it, let's talk about it tomorrow, you see the sun is out." The friend suddenly returned to normal, and pointed to the sun outside the window.I had no choice but to suppress my curiosity and go to bed first.Wait until the evening to continue.