The Qin family under the street lamp, the door is mottled with paint, there are no couplets, there is no blessing word, and there are a few round paper money in the snow nest next to the door, indicating that the family has just held a funeral not long ago.

The Qin family still has a warm filial piety, and they can't go to the door to pay New Year's greetings during the New Year, plus the matter of Wong Tai Sin, their family is very quiet for a few days, only occasionally there is a roar of Diao Fengqin, and there is no fierce quarrel, and the whole street seems to be much quieter.

Lu Xiuzhi hated the Qin family to death, and they caused her heroic son to suffer unjustified disasters, be talked about, and affect his reputation. In vain, she kindly helped Mrs. Qin to decorate the funeral, but she didn't get a good job. But he couldn't scold the door, so he had to think that he was unlucky to have such a bad neighbor and avoid the Qin family everywhere.

There have been several versions of the manifestation of Wong Tai Sin on the street, and it is said that Wong Tai Sin possessed Qin Meiru, otherwise how could she not cling to the heroes of Lao Mountain; It is said that Wong Tai Sin possessed Qin Meimei, sang and made a big fuss on the day of the funeral, and jumped up and slapped Diao Fengqin......

What's even more good thing, she went to Lu Xiuzhi for verification, and she was angrily scolded back, "Then it's good to go to Lao Qin's house and ask, I don't know!" ”

Weasel, in the Northeast is a special existence, you can say that you are not afraid of the black blind, not afraid of Zhang San (wolf), but you must not say that you are not afraid of the yellow skin, that thing is the most evil, but also hold grudges, eyes will be revenge, even if there are weasels into the house to steal chickens to eat, ordinary people will not shout and shout to kill, to say good things to send Wong Tai Sin.

Legend has it that a man was caught in anger because the weasel ate the hen in the house, and skinned it alive to vent his hatred, but the next day the man disappeared, and there was only a half-skinned weasel in the house, and the footprints of the weasel in the yard were messy. People were terrified, and they didn't dare to hunt and kill when they encountered similar things again, so they could only make offerings.

Another family put a mouse trap in the barn, and at the same time killed a weasel, which frightened the old lady to kneel and kowtow immediately, and secretly placed offerings in the house. A month later, the old lady's son had the month's salary in his arms, but when he came home from work, he couldn't find a penny, and he couldn't tell where he left it. The old lady slapped her thigh, kowtowed three times in the warehouse, and thanked her for her kindness, saying that it was much better to break her wealth than to hurt her body, and this catastrophe was avoided!

People's reverence for the unknown is really not something that can be offset by breaking feudal superstition in one or two sentences.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, although everyone said that they did not believe in ghosts and gods, they still quietly retained some mysterious customs, such as when children were frightened, the old people in the family would erect a pair of chopsticks in the water bowl, if the chopsticks stood upright, it was the old man who died in the family who missed the child too much, causing the child to be uneasy, so he would break the chopsticks, throw them to the ground, and scold a few times;

When the child is frightened, he has to rub his head and chant a few words, "I can't be scared by touching the hair";

For another example, when a child cries at night, he burns a few stamped stamps that come from afar, or goes to a telephone pole and pastes a piece of paper with the words "There is a night cryer", and passers-by read it, and the child will stop crying;

Some people don't go out with babies after dark, saying that children's eyes are so bright that they can see things that adults can't see......

Some Manchu people live in places, and even keep the dancing god to cure the disease, many Manchu old ladies refuse to take medicine all their lives, and when they are seriously ill, they invite the shaman to dance the great god.

It can only be said that science is not the only way to explain all phenomena.

Shen Mengxi's cognition of the weasel is limited to knowing that its hair is used to make wolf brushes, knowing that its stinky glands can drive away enemies, and also knowing that weasels mainly feed on rats and do not always "give New Year's greetings to chickens".

As for the strange events on the day of the Qin family's funeral, with Shen Mengxi's experience and knowledge, he still can't explain it well, and he has no interest in getting to the bottom of it.

At this time, Qin Meiyu, the third elder of the Qin family who opened the door, the eldest sister washed her hair, and the swill bucket was full, so she came out to pour the bucket.

The foundation of the Qi family's house is high, and the gate is half a meter higher than theirs, and when she was in the yard, she saw Lu Xiuzhi hurriedly pushing and shoving, knowing that she heard the movement of her own house, guarding against the eldest sister, and couldn't help but feel ashamed.

She finally poured the swill, and she stood in the cold wind for a while before returning home.

Back in the house, Diao Fengqin was scolding Qin Meiru with a sharp voice, "I know stinky beauty all day long!" What kind of hair do you wash at night, such long hair, water and shampoo, you wash so diligently, can people take a more look? ”

Qin Meiyu didn't want to stay in this house for a minute, she was seventeen years old this year, and she didn't even have a drawer of her own at home, and the clothes of the sisters were mixed in a box, and sometimes, she had to change her clothes.

The two younger sisters still slept in the kangqin, and at night, when they pulled the futon out of the kangqin, they both went in to sleep, and in the morning they got out and put the futon in again.

She graduated from junior high school soon, and she wanted to find a unit with a dormitory, but now there are more and more unemployed people, and it is difficult to find a job. But she would rather go to the countryside than be in this house.

Diao Fengqin glanced at Qin Meiyu, "It's half a day to pour swill!" ”

"It's going to the bathroom."

"There is a lot of and urine on the lazy donkey!"

Qin Meiru was by the stove, combing her long hair by herself, her face expressionless.

After such a farce on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Meiru never smiled again, she bowed her head to work every day, bowed her head to get off work, never greeted people again, and no longer met Qi Health Care by chance.

This is a catastrophe like the sky is falling, and it is a shame like being stripped of one's clothes in public. - It was her mother who picked up the clothes.

She cried at home for two days, but after the New Year, she still bravely walked out of the house, her trousers were still straight, and her knees were still not bent, as if that was her last dignity.

But the uncontrollable trembling of the heart is unknown to anyone.

There's no privacy in a small town, and people talk about it.

Qi Health Care is the same as usual, as if he doesn't know what people are talking about, he still works and studies wholeheartedly, and still refuses to go on a blind date. When others asked him about the recovery of his leg injury and about Qin Meiru, he laughed and didn't answer.

Han Bing next door is the opposite, he is the same age as Qin Meiru, they are junior high school classmates, and they have always had a good impression of the tall and beautiful Qin Meiru, although Li Qiaofeng has always been strictly guarded, but he can't suppress the budding heart of the young man at all.

After graduating from high school, Han Bing found a job at the shipping station, and now the unit is idle in winter, so it will be replaced by Han Bing staring at the gate of Qin's house in the crack of the door, after the fifth day of the new year, all units have gone to work, Han Bing knows that Qin Meiru is the most sad now, and after Qin Meiru goes to work, he will ride a bicycle out, pretending to pass by, and want to use a bicycle to carry people to work, but Qin Meiru bowed his head and refused, which made Han Bing scratch his heart.

He also bought fashionable scarves and gloves for Qin Meiru, but was caught twice by Li Qiaofeng. She was so angry that she trembled, pulled her son home, and slapped her face on the face, "I'll fuck your eight-generation ancestor, Han Bing!" Other people's families are hiding from the plague god, and you still make up! You don't want a fucking reputation, your parents still have a face! ”

Han Bing is twenty-one years old and has been working for two years, and he was still slapped, feeling extremely humiliated, and he couldn't do anything with his mother, so he pursed his lips and slammed the door without saying a word.

Li Qiaofeng was so angry that she sat on the ground and cried.