The little apprentice had wine to drink, but he didn't think much about it, but the amount of alcohol he drank when he was young was really not good, so he fell asleep on the table after drinking only three or five glasses. Liu Wuye helped him back into the house, and when he heard the even snoring, he was relieved to come out.

The deacon took a bite of food, "Slept?"

Liu Wuye nodded, sat down and raised his head to drink, "Brother, you said, he is..."

Zhibin put down his chopsticks, "Brother Liu, you are always bolder, do you want to accompany me to have a look?"

Liu Wuye was furious in his heart, but Zhibin said so, and the two of them walked together, so he was not so afraid. "Then I'll go get the ink fountain. ”

"Hey, no, just go and see, if my guess is right, you don't have to say anything, I'll cook it myself." ”

Liu Wuye listened to what Zhibin said, and he was a little more confident at the moment, tightened his belt, and then got up and followed him out of the back door. Not far from the back door of the courtyard is the paddy field, and behind it is a dirt slope, only some crooked-neck trees, and half-exposed rocks.

According to the little apprentice, the place where he saw the child was on the dirt slope, and the deacon walked up cautiously, looked left and right, and did not see any little boy. After thinking about it, he pulled Liu Wuye to sit on the stone. Liu Wuye was a little unsure of why, and wanted to ask, but the deacon asked him not to make a sound, just wait quietly, and calm down when he sees everything for a while.

The two of them sat like this for a quarter of an hour, and fortunately, the two of them had drunk a lot of wine before, and they didn't feel cold at all when they were drinking. Liu Wuye looked left and right, and suddenly he heard a voice, it was a burst of laughter, the voice was very soft, and very immature, like a child.

He immediately sat up straight, pricked up his ears and listened carefully, and soon he heard the voice again, clearer than before, as if it was coming from behind him. He turned to look, and saw that the deacon had already stood up, and he had taken two steps back, and there were also a few stones, but they were so irregular that they could not sit on. Liu Wuye also stood up, wanting to see what was over there.

He saw that the deacon suddenly moved, stretched out his hand to the stone and shook it, walked over to take a look, and couldn't help but feel a shock to his spirit, between the two stones, there was really a little boy, with a lovely face, dressed appropriately, and was playing with the deacon.

Deacon hung his hand in front of him, and he raised a hand high, as if he wanted to hold Deacin's hand, but because Deacon had been teasing him, he couldn't hold it. But the little boy was not discouraged, and continued to be there, laughing happily, and looking very cute.

Liu Wuye was amazed, and stood next to him to watch, the deacon teased for a while, suddenly lowered his hand and let the child hold it, and then also held the little boy's hand, and said in his mouth: "Come on, come on, take you to see a good thing." ”

In two steps, the little boy was pulled out of the pile of rocks, and then walked to the back door. Liu Wuye hurriedly followed, and the little boy was not in a hurry or making trouble, as if he was very happy, so he followed the deacon forward. The three of them entered the side courtyard with their front and back feet, but when Liu Wuye opened the door to see the little boy, he unexpectedly found that Zhibin's hands were empty.

Liu Wuye hurriedly pushed open the door again and looked outside, but he didn't see the child, so he turned around and asked, "Hey, what about the little baby?"

Zhibin slowly shook his hands left and right, "Dust to dust to dust, and it has returned to the avenue." ”

"What's going on!"

"Don't worry, come on, wait for me to explain to you slowly. ”

The two sat back at the table, and the deacon told Liu Wuye that the child they had seen just now was not an ordinary person, or a person at all. It's a spirit, what is a spirit? We've introduced this thing in depth many times before, so I won't repeat it here, this kind of spirit is called a ghost.

This thing is occasionally recorded in ancient books, and the more famous one is from "Sou Shen Ji", which is said to be a native of Wu County, Zhuge Ke, who once went out hunting when he served as the Taishou of Danyang. Between the two mountains, a child was found and stretched out his hand to lead someone. Zhuge Ke took him by the hand and took him away from his original place. And when the child left the place, he turned to dust. His subordinates were very surprised, thinking that Zhuge Ke was a god.

Zhuge Ke explained to him, saying that this matter was recorded in Bai Zetu, saying: Between the two mountains, its essence is like a child, and when he sees people, he stretches out his hand to attract people, and his name is "Fu Bag", and if he leads to his hometown, he will die. It's not that I'm magical, it's that you haven't heard the story.

Zhibin explained this story, and Liu Wuye naturally understood. Zhibin said: "I also heard this story from the elders, I naturally didn't have the opportunity to see "Bai Zetu", but I can still find "Sou Shen Ji", there is indeed such a story. Later, I asked the elders about the origin of this bag, and it was quite bitter to talk about it. ”

"Oh? Is there a reason for this?"

Zhibin nodded, "Brother Liu, you are the one who made the coffin, so you naturally know that the son of the young man died without a coffin." ”

"This naturally knows that when a child dies young, it has never been buried in a coffin. ”

"Yes, because he is still young, he is afraid that it is not good for the living to use the coffin in the ancestral grave. Therefore, the sons who died young are all looking for another cemetery, and it is possible to bury them in an urn if they are particular, and they will be buried if they are not particular about taking a straw sweep. There was no grave but not even a tablet, and a white cloth was tied to the grave tree to guide the spirits of the dead, and they were no longer to worship. ”

"I've heard of these, the urn burial is quite popular in the south, not only children, some adults are buried many years later, descendants have to open the coffin to pick up the bones, and bury them in the urn for the second time, called picking up gold. ”

"Yes, this is one of the forms of reburial, and the age is very old, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin Baiyue era. But did you know that those who die young, do not pick up gold? And this kind of urn burial has a special feature, ordinary urn burial, the urn contains bones, and then use a clay basin as a coffin lid to buckle upside down at the mouth of the urn, and take broken tiles on the top to press two pieces of yellow table paper. And the lid of the coffin of the deceased, that is, the clay pot, actually has a small hole in it. ”

"Oh?"

"This little hole was either drilled with a tool or chiseled out at random, but there must be such a small hole. Then press the yellow table paper with broken tiles, which cannot be distinguished from the outside, and it is impossible for ordinary people to touch the yellow table paper pressed on the top of the urn. ”

"What's the matter?"

There are many theories, and most of the urn burials are to simulate the mother's womb, putting the human bones into the urn in the form of a baby, hoping that he will be reborn smoothly. Those who died prematurely or died unexpectedly either had their souls not yet strong or were severely damaged, and the ancients believed that such souls were powerless to penetrate the urn coffin and ascend to heaven and reincarnate. In order to help them, a hole was cut in the clay basin of the coffin so that it could be lifted out of the coffin and ascended to heaven. ”

I see, although the ideas of the ancients are absurd, they are very reasonable. ”

In fact, it is always the sorrow of the living, and I am afraid that the deceased will have no home after death, so I buy a coffin and put it in the house. And bitter that there is no money to use, this is to burn the paper with wax. Speaking of which, no one knows whether the deceased have enjoyed it or not. But the living always feel better in their hearts, and you and I are both living people. If we don't sympathize with these sad people, do we really have to take care of the deceased? I'm afraid that we are also powerless. ”

"Haha, my brother drank too much today, and he actually told all the things about breaking his own livelihood. ”

"yes, how did you get here, say that bag. This person who died young, buried in the ground, because there is no monument, no one knows about it for a long time. But I have heard that if the child is still young, but has wisdom beyond his peers, the soul will not easily disperse after death, but will remain on the bones, and if it changes under a special environment, it will form a spirit sac. ”

"In other words, the sac is born of the soul of the son of the deceased?"

"Yes, so the sac is harmless by nature, I am afraid that it remembers some things in life, and when it sees someone coming, it will hold hands and make trouble like an ordinary child. If you have the heart, it's okay to play with him, but after all, the bag is a spirit generated by a corpse, and it has corpse poison on its body. If you play with him, it is easy for the corpse to get into the body, and it is not uncommon for the weak to fall into a coma at the least, or to fall seriously ill at the worst. ”

Therefore, when I saw the bag, although I was grateful that he died early in his life, I felt sorry for him, but I still had to get rid of him, so as not to harm others by mistake. It was easy to get rid of him, and the sac was born of a corpse, and he could not leave the urn where the coffin was. If you leave, you will soon turn to dust and return to the road. ”

Liu Wuye suddenly realized, "That's why you just brought him into the side courtyard, and he turned into nothing in an instant." But doesn't he know it, and how could he follow you?"

The chief of the deacon sighed, "He... He's still a kid after all. Before he was born, he was very smart, and he liked it very much when he saw adults. And he has been born from a corpse to a spirit I don't know how many years, and the loneliness here is unbearable for adults, let alone a child. When he sees you, he stretches out his hand to take you by and play with you. If you want to take him away, how can he not allow it?"

When Liu Wuye heard this, he was a little stunned, and stretched out his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes, "Let's go, it's good that these dead people have already returned to the Great Road, but they want to be demons to cheat some tears, if I see him next time, I will take him back." ”

This is the end of the story, and the shopkeeper Liu sandwiched a piece of pig's head meat, "When I used to listen to my grandfather, I always listened to the story. But today, when I saw the disease of corpse poison, I still believed it a little in my heart. However, it is not clear whether the sac exists or not, after all, none of us have seen it. ”

I picked up the cup and touched one with Chang Wei, who said I hadn't seen it, I met him separately once. In other words, the little boy we see is supposed to be the bag, and this bag is from a mysterious organization. But after listening to the story of the shopkeeper Liu, we were a little puzzled, according to Liu Wuye's guest friend, the bag could not leave the urn coffin, and once it left, it would die. But this baby not only left, but also slipped us away like something.

At this time, someone shouted at the door of the store: "Shopkeeper Liu, you want the dish." ”

"Alas, send in. ”

"I don't, you can come out and get it. ”

"Coward. ”

There is no mistake