Chapter 17: The Echo of the Insect (2)
As mentioned in the last book, Yang Si'er, a servant of the Yang family who was sent to feed Yang Cong, was bloated for a while, so he stood on the side of the official road to untie his pants.
When Yang Si got into a joke, he used his own urine to pick up a bowl-covered pottery urn hidden in the knee-high barren grass, and asked the ancient urn with a playful face, what he thought of the taste of this urine.
This can cause a disaster in vain.
It turns out that in the past, the pottery urn that stood on the side of the road, and the urn mouth also buckled the porcelain bowl had a very rare use, not that the owner of the pottery urn thought it was useless and deliberately abandoned it here.
There is a cloud in the "Book of Burial", "The rich are buried in coffins, and the poor are wrapped in mats and burned, so that the corpses are not exposed to the sun, for there is a plague and plague."
This refers to several methods that can properly collect the body of the deceased after death in the past, whether it is buried in a coffin or burned on a dry pyre, which is an appropriate means of disposal, which can effectively avoid the plague caused by a large number of mosquitoes and flies due to exposure to the sun and decay.
However, in the Book of Burial, there are not only these two methods of burying the dead, but also some special burial methods that are implemented specifically for a special cause of death, such as the "urn burial" of the deceased with a pottery urn to collect the bones of the deceased!
According to the records in the "Book of Burial", this large pottery urn with a porcelain bowl with the mouth of the urn buckled was specially used to collect the corpses of those traveling merchants who were killed by bandits, and then gnawed and torn by wild beasts roaming in the nearby mountains and forests, resulting in incomplete corpses.
It is only because this kind of dead people are often very angry because of the incomplete body, but even if the corpse collector wants to calm his grievances and bury the bones of the deceased, he cannot find the part of the body that was bitten and swallowed by wild beasts or even dragged back to the nest.
If the resentment of the deceased cannot be appeased, once the soul of the deceased becomes an evil ghost under the influence of resentment, it will appear and harm the people of one side.
Therefore, in the past, potters would add a kind of yin limestone powder to the soil to make a special small-mouth pottery urn.
This urn was not used to hold grain and wine, but was specially used to collect the bones of the deceased who were incomplete, and then a porcelain sea bowl with a bowl coated with cinnabar (yang) was turned over to the mouth of the urn.
In this way, the yang cinnabar (simulating the sun hanging in the sky) will give the soul of the deceased the illusion that it is floating between heaven and earth in broad daylight.
You know, the spirit instinctively fears the sun in the sky, so the spirit of the dead with a grudge will always go around the bottom of the urn (mixed with limestone powder is yin) to find a place to hide from the sun.
As long as the outside world does not take the initiative to disturb the souls in the urn or break the urn body and the sea bowl, the soul of the deceased will always hover in the urn, and it will no longer care about the appearance of the ghost, which can be regarded as a helpless way.
As for the reason why the urn containing the bones of the deceased was placed on the side of the road, it was believed that in the past, people believed that the soul of the deceased would be particularly attached to their bones and refused to stay away, so placing the urn containing the bones of the deceased in the place where the bones of the deceased were found could attract the soul of the deceased to the greatest extent and no longer wander around to do evil.
Therefore, most of the passers-by who used to rush on the road avoided this kind of pottery urn placed on the side of the road, and once they met, most of them had to bow sincerely to the pottery urn, and ask the sleeping souls in the urn to forgive themselves for inadvertently colliding and offending.
However, this person is very different, since some people firmly believe in these gods and ghosts, there are naturally those who dare not believe in evil, and Yang Si is exactly the latter!
It turns out that Yang Si usually likes to listen to people talk about the ancients, especially those stories like ghosts, foxes, and monsters.
I don't know where he heard it, saying that these ghosts and elves in the world are most afraid of men's urine, especially the kind of boy who has never done anything with men and women.
Yang Si, who was taken aback at first sight of the bone pottery urn, secretly thought in his heart: "I often hear people say that there are ghosts hidden in this pottery urn, but I don't know if it is or not?
It just so happens that he is the body of a boy who has not broken his body, and his lower abdomen is swollen now, and even the boy's urine is ready-made. ”
So Yang Si made up his mind, and he had to unzip his pants and take out the "gun", and then a crystal line of water went straight to the pottery urn.
Or how else to say it, there is a master and a servant.
Since Yang Congxun Young Master Yang is able to do such a ridiculous thing as inviting a drink to the coffin, even when this master sees the zombie coming out of the coffin to worship the moon, he does not hurry up and escape, but hides behind the window to peep, and is also very happy that he has made a conversation that can be used to drink and brag.
From this point, it is not difficult to think of what kind of style Yang Congxun should be at home. If there were not a few people in the Yang family who were interested in Young Master Yang's spleen and stomach to help out with fun, it would be inconsistent with common sense.
This Yang Si happens to be one of the few servants of the Yang family who often go to make fun of Yang Congxun, and even Yang Si, who likes to listen to people talk about the ancient times to relieve boredom, is very likely to be used to by Yang Congxun.
Yang Xu, who is in charge of the Yang family's back house, will not restrict him in his daily diet even if he is stingy with Yang Cong's monthly allowance.
That Yang Congxun is a serious student, and he has to go out to study in the school every day. If Yang Congxun was so hungry that his face was yellow and thin, it would still be Yang Xu's own face, and there would be few people gossiping about her Yang Xu in front of people.
Therefore, Yang Congxun may be miserly in the Yang family, but when it comes to things like eating, Young Master Yang's words still count.
If you can coax Young Master Yang to make fun with a few stories, then a pot of fine wine and two good dishes are not a matter of one sentence?
This Yang Si is a servant who is a servant for others, and the salary he can receive every month is not very rich, and the money saved in addition to the monthly food and clothing needs to be taken home, and he asks his mother to save it up, waiting for it to be used when he marries his daughter-in-law in the future.
Being able to marry a daughter-in-law to inherit the family is a top priority, naturally Yang Si is usually not very willing to sell wine and buy meat to treat his stomach, and every day he is thinking about where he should go to find a few rare and surprising jokes to come back to make Master Yang happy, and he can get a few drinks and dishes from Yang Congxun to reward the hungry worms in his abdomen that are about to turn upside down.
In general, Yang Si is a little reckless in his actions against Meng Lang, and his character really has nothing to say.
Besides, if Yang Si is a no-go-to person who is good at gambling and sleeping flowers, Yang's father will never send him to his son Yang Congxun.
You must know that these more than 200 taels of silver are a lot of money, which is worth the money that ordinary people have to eat for several years.
In case Yang Si saw the wealth, he rolled up the silver halfway and ran away, and he was penniless in Guanliu Academy in Yixian County, and Yang Congxun, who was waiting for the rice to be put into the pot at the moment, was really sitting on wax.
Gossip and stop, Yang Si never expected that with his joking words, there was really a "person" on the opposite side who answered him.
But this pottery urn is only as high as Yang Si's knees, how can ordinary people get into it? But didn't you see a ghost in broad daylight?
And listening to the meaning of the other party's words, this ghost hidden in the pottery urn is not afraid of the boy urine that he spills at all, and he still has the leisure to really taste the saltiness?
Don't you want your own life?
Even if the evil ghost in that urn doesn't harm my Yang Si's life later, just let me taste its saltiness as it is...... I can't stand that!
Thinking of this, Yang Si no longer had the intention of relieving himself, and after a loud cry of "oops", he hurriedly turned over on the horse, picked up the horse whip in his hand, and slammed the horse's buttocks under his crotch, urging the horse to shake off its hooves and flee.