Licheng is going to celebrate the New Year in the past two days, and there is a New Year in Licheng, and our New Year is not the same time, I just watched the small shops around are hung with red lanterns, and the whole Licheng has some more festive colors.

After all, there are a lot of living people and ghosts here, at first glance I thought I was back in Hecheng, there are countless small vendors selling couplets on the street, what I didn't expect is that there are snowflakes floating here, and there are still rock sugar gourds sold on the street.

These vendors selling rock sugar gourds are also smart, not only rock sugar gourds made of hawthorn, rock sugar gourds made of strawberries and other fruits, but even sweet potatoes are made into rock sugar gourds by them.

Out of curiosity, I bought a rock sugar gourd made of sweet potatoes, I took a bite, a sweet and refreshing fragrance, I have to say that the sweet sweet potato is also sweet, and the taste is still relatively good.

While we were strolling around, I saw a sashimi shop that was doing very good business, and I couldn't help but be interested, "Let's go, there are so many people here, let's go in and see what is in here." I said to them.

"Then let's go in and have a look, I don't know what sashimi is in it, and so many people can eat it." Wei Huaiqi said with some curiosity, and our group walked into the store.

There are a lot of people in the sashimi shop, and we queued for a long time before there was an empty table, "A few of them are the menu, you can take a look at it casually, our special bat sashimi, the authentic Licheng chrysanthemum bat, the taste is first-class." The shopkeeper said with a mouthful of water.

"Damn, there are still people who eat bats?" Xia Baobao said with a shocked face, Wei Huaiqi also retched, I couldn't help frowning and said: "I can understand eating bats, but eating raw bats is a little disgusting." ”

The shopkeeper smiled slightly: "The guest officer doesn't know, the history of this bat sashimi has been decades, and this Licheng chrysanthemum bat has a big fat meat, and if it is cooked, it will destroy its freshness." ”

"And this sashimi is paired with our special oil dish, the taste is even fresher, how about it, what do you want to eat?" The shopkeeper continued to smile and said, Wei Huaiqi finally couldn't help it, ran out and vomited all of a sudden.

Even Yan Xing couldn't accept this kind of food, and at this time I saw a plate of bat sashimi on the table next to me, with special juice poured on the sashimi, which looked really tempting, but when I saw the shape of this thing, I was a little unappetizing.

This bat grinned, spread its wings, and put it on a plate, and when you looked closely, the appearance of this bat was even more hideous and terrifying, with a fierce look, which immediately gave people a creepy feeling.

I really wonder how many flavors people can eat this stuff have? Normal people will get goosebumps all over their bodies when they see this picture, which is extremely weird and disgusting.

In fact, eating a centipede silkworm chrysalis or something, although it looks disgusting, it is barely acceptable, but the bat has an extremely large number of viruses on its body, if this bat is cooked, it is okay to eat it once, but this sashimi is obviously raw.

If a person eats this bat directly, it may lead to various diseases, so when they see this bat sashimi, everyone can't help but change their faces, and they don't dare to try it casually, after all, life is important!

Yan Xing also hurriedly waved his hand at the shopkeeper at this moment, he didn't dare to stay here for a second longer, otherwise he would have to vomit here, I walked out of the sashimi shop with Wei Huaiqi and them, and this kind of food can only be consumed by those ghosts and monsters.

After leaving the sashimi shop, we planned to go shopping casually, and Wei Huaiqi also eased up at this time, "Sanqing, why do you say that anyone eats such a thing?" Wei Huaiqi said puzzledly, and Jiang Han also had a disgusted expression on the side.

"I don't know, maybe it was just curiosity at first, but then someone took advantage of people's curiosity and started selling this kind of thing." I thought about it and said.

We were walking down the street, and suddenly a big black dog caught my attention, and the big black dog was shaking his head and talking to a woman, and I looked at the woman, well, it was beautiful, and it was a little familiar.

"Mo Dao?" I said to Wei Huaiqi next to me, who is it not Mo Dao who is walking with the big black dog? Mo Dao also saw us at this time and walked towards us with a big black dog.

"Hua Sanqing? I didn't expect to see you here. Mo Dao smiled slightly, "I was also surprised that you were mixed with a dog, and I thought you were the same kind." I laughed a little, too.

"Xiaobai is a noble white fox, you are a dog!" The big black dog looked up and said, I knocked on his head and said, "Look in the mirror and see, what point do you look like a fox?" It's still white, and the black one is the same as charcoal. ”

When the big black dog saw me knocking on his head, he immediately wanted to jump up and bite me, "Okay, Xiaobai, you give me a little quiet." Mo Dao's fluttering words, the big black dog suddenly became dumbfounded, and he didn't dare to say anything more.

"Long story short, we have now found a way to get out, but it is a little difficult, to collect the tokens of the four ghost paths and the twelve ghost emperors." Mo Dao said slowly.

"What are you looking for these tokens?" Xia Baobao asked a little puzzled, "You don't need to ask more about this, it will be unclear for a while, anyway, let's find these tokens first." Mo Dao thought for a while and said.

"Okay, but it's the New Year here, why don't you go and find these tokens after the New Year?" Wei Huaiqi suggested, "It's not impossible, then let's talk about it after the New Year." Mo Dao nodded.

The big black dog suddenly said: "There are Year Beasts here in Licheng every year, and I don't know why, the Year Beasts are extremely fierce, so every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, a Year Hunt is held to hunt the Year Beasts." ”

I thought for a moment and asked, "Year Beast?" Is there really such a thing? "Of course, the Year Beasts come in groups every time, and they don't look like they are stepping on it." The big black dog replied.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a four-horned and four-legged beast, its head was large and the body was small, the body was more than ten feet long, and its eyes were like copper bells, coming and going like the wind; When roaring, it makes the sound of "Nian ~", so it is called the Year Beast.

The head of the beast has horns, the fangs are very sharp, and the eyes usually reveal a fierce light, which is very fierce, so that people can't help but shiver when they see it.

The beast lives deep under the sea for many years, and when it is hungry in winter, it will climb ashore to find food in nearby villages, devour livestock and even kill people.

Because the body of the Nian Beast is extremely large, and the temper is also particularly irritable, ferocious and abnormal, which brings great disasters to the villagers, so at the end of each month, people tidy up their clothes, take the old people and children at home, and go to the nearby bamboo forest to hide from the Nian Beast.

This year, while packing up and fleeing, the people of the village came across a child about seven or eight years old who collapsed on the side of the road hungry.

A kind old woman woke up the child and took the child up the mountain to avoid the beast, and the clever child followed the people of the village to the bamboo forest behind the village.

Due to the cold in the bamboo forest in winter, everyone is so cold that they have cut down bamboo to build houses and burn fires for warmth, and the child who was rescued by the old woman asked everyone curiously: Our bamboo forest is so close to the village, are we not afraid that the beast will come here?

An old man replied to him: "When I was young, I came here with the villagers to hide from the New Year beasts, and in the years when the snow was very heavy, I chased after it because it was very hungry, but every time it saw the villagers cutting bamboo in this bamboo forest, it hurried away." ”

The child thought for a moment and told everyone: "I have a way to get rid of the New Year Beast, so that everyone will not have to come out and flee every month from now on." Everyone was very happy and asked what to do.

This clever child told everyone: cut more bamboo knots and take them with you, and the whole village can go home tonight! Hang a red cloth outside the door of your house, and wait until tomorrow after dawn, and the beast will never come again.

The villagers listened to the child's words in disbelief, and the old man of the village took them back to their homes, and soon it was night, and no one dared to sleep because the villagers were afraid that the beast would come.

These people, in addition to hanging red cloth strips outside their doors, went to the open space in the middle of the village to guard some broken bamboo knots brought back from the bamboo forest.

The weather was cold, everyone lit a fire to keep warm, and when they were hungry, they took some food out, waiting for the arrival of the beast, and at midnight, they heard a loud roar that shook the sky, and everyone shrank into a ball in fear.

Then the clever boy suddenly stood up and said, "I'll go and bring him in, and then we will throw into the fire the broken bamboos that we have been keeping watch all night on." ”

Before the kind old woman could reach out and pull it, the child had already arrived at the entrance of the village, and the child saw that the Nian beast was breaking into the village and destroying a lot of things.

When the boy saw the beast, he shouted at him, "You come every year, and you can't live and work in peace, I must give you something powerful today!" ”

When the beast heard the child's cry, it followed the sound and chased after it, but it did not dare to enter when it saw that the red cloth was hanging on the walls of the house, so it followed the child's voice and endured its hungry belly to the open space in the middle of the village.

Then the child said loudly, "Folks, throw broken bamboo into the fire!" But everyone had already stood there for fear of this, and at this moment the beast picked up the child with his horns and threw him heavily on the ground.

The villagers reacted when they heard the sound of the child falling to the ground, and threw the bamboo into the fire.

Hearing the sound, the beast turned around and scurried, but did not damage anything in the village, and when the day dawned, the beast was frightened away by the sound of the crackling of the bamboo knots that people threw into the fire.

The house was saved because of the red stripe hanging in front of the door, and although the child was seriously injured, he had amazing healing abilities, and he came back to life on the verge of death, and people rejoiced.

Later, people learned that the child turned out to be the reincarnation of the gods in the sky, and this day was the first day of the first lunar month, because the year beast did not die, so every year in the wax moon, everyone guarded the broken bamboo festival and waited, in the night to get rid of this monster, Chinese New Year's Eve came from this.

But year after year, no one has ever seen the Nian Beast again, and some are just firecrackers and red cloth strips hung in front of the door to prevent the arrival of the Nian Beast, but they have left us this legend and the customs of the New Year.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, everyone gathered together to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, watch the New Year's Eve and wait for the bell of Chinese New Year's Eve, set off firecrackers, and paste the Spring Festival.

When the morning dawns, they visit each other's neighbors and give greetings and blessings. On the morning of the first day of the new year, the villagers visited each other to see if the neighbors were injured and said some auspicious and polite words, hoping that the next year's Wax Moon and New Year Beasts would not come again.

"The people here have fenced the place where the Year Beast came in a special way, and after the Year Beast came in, they sealed the entrance and directly trapped the Year Beast inside." The big black dog continued.