In the early days of the Republic of China, the specific year is not clear, there are four generations of families in the Northeast, the old lady is more than seventy, the wrinkles on the face are the same as orange peel, in addition to eating and drinking, it is to live in the courtyard house with a civet cat, this civet cat does not know what year came to this house, anyway, after having it, the family has never seen the face of the mouse. However, this raccoon cat has lived at home for so long and still recognizes life, except for shrinking the old lady's house, and other idlers can't see it.

Finally arrived on the day when the old lady was going to Quanxia to see the old man who left early, the family changed the old lady into a shroud and longevity clothes, please on the bamboo couch in the lobby, for two days in a row, the old lady was angry, and the rice did not enter, but she just couldn't swallow the last breath, the children and grandchildren panicked, and hurriedly invited the well-informed old uncle, the old uncle looked at the old lady, and asked tentatively: Sister, isn't there anyone else who wants to see?

The old lady felt a sound in her throat, her eyes looked at the hut where she used to live, tears flowed out, and the old lady stood up and asked: Is there anything in the house where my sister lives that she can't put down? The filial sons and grandchildren looked at each other and did not dare to speak, and the eldest son of the old lady pulled the old uncle aside: Uncle, there is something in the house, that is, the big civet cat you have seen, you say, my mother is like this now, can I let it out of this accident?

The old uncle was shocked: Mother, my nephew is right, people who are dying can't see cats, dogs, and these things, not to mention cats and dogs, and rats can't see them. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that animals cut off their qi, that is, when people live with one breath, their anger is gone, and their lives are gone. This qi can't be seen or touched, but a living person of one hundred and eighty catties is supported by this breath in the body, and the person is going to die, and the qi will run away. In case it happens that cats and dogs pass by and intercept this breath, then you can become a sperm, and you can eat people and lose.

So whoever wants to die, you have to take care of the livestock, and you can't get close to the dying person, but this old lady's feelings are too deep with the tanuki, and if she doesn't see the big tanuki, she can't let this breath, so she is her own sister, can she be so reluctant? The old uncle made a difficulty, and asked his nephew: What about the tanuki? What did you do? The old lady's son replied: What else, a few people blocked it in the house, and finally tied it up, and hung it on the roof beam with an iron chain, and when my mother left, I scalded it and skinned it to warm my uncle's knees. If you want to say that this tanuki is fierce, look at your nephew's face, this paw print, and the one who was caught, look at it.

The old uncle was angry, and went up to the nephew's big face is a big ear scraper, and scolded: My sister is not dead yet, you will trample on her heart, if it weren't for you unfilial things who ignore the old man on weekdays, would my sister stay in the house all day long with the tanuki as a companion? You do this, you sincerely don't want my sister to close her eyes? Be careful that she will not let you go if she is a ghost!

The old lady's filial sons and grandchildren all said aggrievedly: "Old uncle, look at what you said, when the old man was here, we didn't lack her food and clothing, how can we say that we are not filial?" The old uncle often sighed: You, the old man wants to warm his heart, not warm his body, what he wants is someone to accompany him to talk, not to eat three meals a day and wait for death, this will be known when you are old, and now you don't understand, so quickly take me to release the tanuki.

The children and grandchildren did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly took the old uncle to the hut, and saw that the tanuki hair was pulled off piece by piece, and the four hooves were tied with hemp rope like tying piglets, and a hemp core was stuffed in the mouth, and a dog chain was tied around the waist and hung in the air of the girder. The old uncle stomped his feet angrily, you brutes, the tanuki has helped your family for so many years, and the rats have no credit and hard work, so spoil it, quick, quick, put it down.

The descendants hurriedly hung the dog chain tied to the raccoon cat to the ground, and the old uncle took out the hemp core from the cat's mouth, and the tanuki immediately screamed lifelessly, like crying, the cat's head twisted desperately to the old lady's hall arranged in the spirit house. The meaning of the tanuki is obvious, but the old uncle is difficult again: the person who is going to die can't see the cat or dog, but he can't close his eyes when he doesn't see his sister die, so what can I do? Finally, I thought of a compromise solution: loosen the hemp rope of the tanuki's limbs, tie the dog chain to the cat's neck, and lead the cat to meet the old lady far away outside the mourning hall, neither close contact, but also the mind of one person and one animal, so that the old lady can also go at ease. The idea was right, but in the end, something went wrong.

It is said that the old lady's son is holding the cat, and the old uncle is trembling with a cane, and just outside the threshold of the mourning hall, the second son of the old lady who stayed in the mourning hall shouted in the mourning hall: Brother, uncle, my mother has just left! The tanuki turned his head, somehow got out of the dog chain, pulled into the house, and pounced on the old lady's face, the second son was so frightened that he picked up the mourning stick and smashed it on the tanuki's head, and rolled the tanuki fan out of the distance, and was about to go up to make up for another guy, suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right, everyone looked at their backs dumbfounded, turned their heads and looked, and was so frightened that they ran out of the way. The old lady's corpse sat up with a hula, her two eyes staring straight at herself, and everyone shouted in fright: Fake the corpse, cheat the corpse......

The person who is going to die is pounced on by a cat or dog, and the person who is already dead is pounced on by a cat or dog is not called a cuff, which is called a corpse, and to put it bluntly, it is a zombie resurrection. Everyone knows that zombies are going to eat human flesh and drink human blood, and the mourning hall immediately jumped up and down, making a mess, if you want to say that you are bold or an old uncle, you can stand on crutches and shout: Sister, sister, if there is anything that you can't let go, don't scare the family. After shouting for a while, I saw that the old lady was lying down again, and I had the courage to go up and touch the old lady's nose, and said angrily: Who is blind and says that my sister is dead, isn't this still angry?

Things are so strange, the old lady's second son is indistinguishable, scolded by everyone like a shrug, had to clean up the ground smashed head flowering cat corpse to hide, after this toss, the old lady actually day by day more air in and out, filial sons and grandchildren are dumbfounded, dare to love this mourning hall is ready, but as long as people are angry, they can't bury the old lady alive, right? So I had to carry the old lady back to the hut where she used to live.

This is the real beginning of the story of the cat-faced old lady, and strange things happen in a row:

The first strange thing is that during the day, I always saw the old lady lying on the bed, and the rice and porridge sent to me were not moved, but I also did not see the old lady hungry. But in the middle of the night, the old lady's family always felt that someone was walking gently in the yard. The second strange thing is that the surrounding radius of a few miles, suddenly the rats are gone, someone saw the rats in the granary move during the day, in groups, panicked and fled, but everyone is not rich in the years, to say that the rat moved that is a good thing, but before he had time to be happy, the third thing happened.

The third thing is: the child is missing. At first, it was a baby less than a year old, and when the baby was gone, the 3 or 4-year-old children began to be unable to save, and people were panicked for a while, saying that the flower party was coming, and everyone squeezed the children in the middle to sleep at night, but when it came to dawn, the originally locked door was wide open, and the child was gone. How did this flower party sneak into the locked door without knowing it?

Finally, careful parents found that after the child disappeared, when cleaning under the bed or in the dust on the beam found shoe prints wrapped around small feet, in the early years of the Republic of China, the women who wrapped small feet are a little old, everyone then remembered the old lady who was resurrected by the raccoon cat, some people suspected that the old lady who came back to life was the raccoon cat wearing the skin of a dead man.

Suspicion is suspicion, no one dares to be so sure, but the rumors reached the ears of the old lady's son, he couldn't sleep, he fell asleep on the mattress that night was turning over, suddenly heard a child in the yard cry softly, abruptly stopped. The eldest son hurriedly got up and poked a small hole in the window, and saw that the old lady in the courtyard seemed to be holding something in the moonlight, and gently flashed into the room...... The eldest son didn't dare to think about it, so he quietly pushed the door open, secretly walked to the door of the house, and slammed the door.

Under the moonlight, the old lady kneeling on the mattress and facing the wall hurriedly lay down, looking at her son with dripping eyes on one side of her face, and the eldest son walked to the bed and asked softly: Mom, can you get up and walk around? What is that behind you? The old lady looked up, revealing the other half of her face buried in the pillow, half of the hairy cat face, blood was dripping down the side of the cat's mouth, and she smiled gloomily at the eldest son......

The eldest son screamed, stumbled out of the threshold, turned over and pulled up the door and shouted: Come on, come on, help, my mother is possessed by flower skin. The lights were lit up in various rooms in the courtyard, and after a while, everyone ran out with their clothes on, and roughly listened to what the son said, all of them stood on end, and they didn't care about the ugliness of the family, so they opened the courtyard door and called the neighbors to help.

Seeing so many people around him who were fighting sticks, he plucked up the courage to open the door and see: there was no old lady in the house, only on the kang there was a body of a boy who had been bitten and flesh blurred, and lifted the kang, and I didn't know when a big hole was dug up under the kang, and I didn't know how long it was, and there was a short and bold neighbor who led the rope and climbed in until the end, and found that the place where it came out was already on the mass grave.

Since then, there are often buried coffins that are not deep in the mass graves are dug out indiscriminately, and the corpses inside are gnawed to pieces, and later develop to the living people who pass by the mass graves at night are also disemboweled, and the intestines are dragged to the ground, and then the people in the town pooled money to invite a few hunters to collapse the cat-faced old lady who has not been able to tell whether it is a person or a cat, it is said that when cremated, the human skin is twisted in the fire, and no matter how you look at it, you feel that there is a tanuki-like thing under the human skin to be drilled out.