The moon rises, like white silk sprinkled with silver glow all over the courtyard, the yard is very cool, clean, the night is as cool as water, the loofah vines in the yard are swaying up infinitely under the moonlight, and the tender green branches are stretched infinitely, and the purple sycamore flowers scattered all over the place appear mottled under the illumination of the white moonlight.

Wang Ping hadn't slept yet, she sat in the moonlight and repeatedly teased her with a needle on the bottom of the mille-feuille, she said that she wanted to give her daughter-in-law a pair of cloth shoes, and it would be more comfortable to walk in the countryside with cloth shoes.

Yang Yu pulled Hu Yuxuan to sit on the high roof of his house and look at the moon, the sky was blue, a round of jade plates hanging in the sky seemed clear and clear, Yang Yu could vaguely hear the high-pitched sound of frogs and crickets in the distance, and the autumn fireflies in the rotten grass also began to wander around the night sky aimlessly, all these scenes give people a kind of beauty lost in the old time, and this beauty is unique to the countryside.

Suddenly, Wang Ping's shout came from the courtyard, "Little Er, why did you take other girls to the roof, don't let the girls suffer from the wind when the autumn breeze is cold." ”

Yang Yu smiled at the corner of his mouth and shouted, "Mother is fine, let's sit down for a while." ”

Suddenly, a meteor crossed and disappeared into the blue night sky with a long tail, Hu Yuxuan closed his eyes and quietly made a wish.

After coming over for a long time, Hu Yuxuan opened his eyes and looked at Yang Yu innocently: "You tell me a story about your local customs and folklore, I want to hear you tell me a story." ”

Yang Yu smacked his lips and thought for a while: "Daughter-in-law, I'll tell you about my fierce life experience, this matter can be regarded as weird." ”

Hu Yuxuan clinged to Yang Yu's arms and smiled sweetly: "Then Yang Yu, you can talk about it, I'll listen." ”

After sorting out the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Yang Yu began to slowly recount a memory that had been emaciated in the past.

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"There is a custom in our village that people die outside or when they are young, and the people in their families are afraid that these dead people will come back because they are too homesick, so their families will bury the graves of these people on the side of the road and let people trample on them, so that the souls of these people will not go home. ”

"At that time, I heard from the people in the village that a rural woman surnamed Zhang went to work on a construction site, perhaps because she was too unlucky, and the woman surnamed Zhang happened to be hit in the head by a truck of ash falling from a crane, and she died on the spot. ”

"Because the rural woman surnamed Zhang died outside, so her grave was buried on the side of the road in Yinshan, I remember that the place in Yinshan was a mass grave, I used to go there at night to catch scorpions, where there are many tombstones, the cypress trees on the grave will always perch on some black crows to make a creepy-sounding sound, in short, at that time at that time, when I heard the crow's cry, I would feel cold behind me, full of eerie and weird. ”

"I remember that when the woman surnamed Zhang went out of the funeral, I was about seven or eight years old, at that time, people carried a big red coffin, and the bell class blew and blew and beat to make a big battle, when I was a child, my other hobby in addition to reading was to watch the excitement, so I followed the mighty funeral procession to Yinshan. ”

"At that time, the organizer of the funeral, Old Man Sun, handed me a paper man with red cheeks, and he said that I would send this paper man to the grave on the other side of Yinshan and give me a box of monkeys on the tree. ”

"Along the way, the most I noticed was that there was someone in the drum team holding a fat big rooster, I had heard my wife say that the rooster was used to lead the soul of the dead on the road, this kind of rooster will lead the soul of the person to the Yellow Spring, and only the people who died in the field can use this kind of chicken to use this kind of chicken, I saw the person holding the chicken walking, he threw rice and paper money along the way. ”

"Later, after I saw people burying the big red coffin, I followed the wreath bearer and threw the paper figure in his hand to the grave, and watched Old Man Sun burn all these funeral items. ”

Then the old man Sun sent me a box of five monkeys on the tree, I was happy at that time, I put the monkey on the tree into my pocket, and when I was leaving with the funeral procession, I also took a special look at the big rooster at the grave that let the drummer rub the blood on the coffin lid with a cockscomb, and then put it on the grave, I thought to myself that it was a pity that such a fat big rooster made people lose their graves like this. ”

"Because my family was poor, I could say that I didn't see meat for a month at that time, so I thought to myself, since they don't want that big fat chicken anymore, I will go and catch the big fat chicken and ask my mother to give me a meal just to use for a tooth sacrifice. ”

With such a careful thought, I didn't go back with the funeral procession, but hid alone behind a crooked stone tablet in the mass grave in Yinshan, and after the funeral people left, I secretly came out and began to catch the big fat chicken that attracted the soul. ”

"The mass grave near Yinshan is very open, at that time I have been running with the soul-attracting chicken, it is around the grave of the Zhang women's has been circling and refusing to leave, but this soul-attracting big fat chicken will be my opponent of the child who often climbs the mountain and the tree, I chased the cooing soul-attracting chicken in the grave after running three laps, and then suddenly threw the soul-attracting chicken in my arms. ”

"In the end, I carried the neck of the big fat chicken with one hand, and the box of monkeys in the pocket of the other hand for fear of falling back home, as soon as I got home, my mother said that this kind of chicken ate a taboo to let me catch the big fat chicken, I refused to let my mother put the soul-attracting chicken, and finally my mother could not help me had to stew the chicken, at that time I felt that eating chicken was really called a beauty. ”

Yang Yu's voice stopped abruptly, he salvaged himself from his memories and began to light a Zhongnanhai sitting on the roof and puffing out smoke.

Hu Yu stared at Yang Yu curiously with big watery eyes and asked, "Why does the soul-attracting chicken you caught keep running around the grave?"

"At first, I didn't know, and then I was curious to ask the east of the village to ask the car repair king about it, he said that because the feng shui aura of the tomb is good, so the big rooster will not leave, and he also said that the soul chicken is very spiritual can not be eaten casually, if the person who is not lucky enough to eat this kind of rooster will have a serious illness, the car repair king said that the reason why I eat the soul chicken is okay is because I am a person with a deep fortune. Yang Yu smoked a cigarette and spoke unhurriedly.

Hu Yuxuan's long eyelashes blinked and said, "If you eat someone's, that person's soul won't be able to return to Huangquan." ”

"I'm too lazy to care about those things, first of all, I am famous in our village for being fond of reading, and secondly, I am famous for eating more and taking advantage of more than I can. Yang Yu smoked a cigarette with a leisurely expression.

Hu Yuxuan was amused by Yang Yu's temperament, and she quipped: "If you do this immoral thing, you won't be afraid of retribution!"

Yang Yu smiled and said: "Since ancient times, good people do not live long, and disasters will last for thousands of years!"