On this day in the late autumn of 1957, it was night, more than ten miles north of Hongdong County, Shanxi, among the desolate weeds, and I walked among them with a knife.

The night was very cold, the sky was gloomy, and it was shrouded in my surroundings, so that I felt a little breathless, I shook my collar, and the "boning knife" in my hand was clutched, tonight it was supposed to be my grandfather running this errand, but my grandfather went hunting in the mountains early in the morning, and said that he would rush back as soon as possible, but he didn't come back in the middle of the night, so I had to carry a knife instead of my grandfather.

The boning knife is the treasure that grandpa has relied on to survive for ten years, because grandpa is a well-known craftsman, not a pig killer or a carpenter, but a daunting skinner!

Skinner, the body and bones of any living creature come to the hands of such craftsmen, only three or two knives can be peeled off a complete skin, and there will be no less than a penny, grandpa's boning knife, it is said that only one and a half knives can smoothly peel off the skin of any kind of animal, of course, although I have been dependent on my grandfather for so many years, but I dare not look at grandpa's skinning skills every time, it is too scary......

The body of the boning knife is thin and short, about one foot and three inches, and when the grandfather peels the animal skin, the first knife goes down, and then gently pats three times, the skeleton of the whole animal will be scattered, and then the whole skin can be smoothed down with a lift, so the grandfather is often jokingly called "one knife three", but the errand I am going to run tonight has nothing to do with the skill of the skinner, but has something to do with this boning knife.

Maybe this knife has stripped the skin of countless animals, the whole knife exudes a bloody breath all year round, very infiltrating, but grandpa said that it is not a bloody gas, but a kind of evil gas, a fierce gas, this kind of fierce gas, not only a single person smells the cold, but also those invisible ghosts are afraid, walking at night with this knife, let that lonely soul and wild ghost have to stand aside.

Even this boning knife is still a little famous in the Fangyuan area, digging graves in the West Mountain, opening a kiln in the East Mountain, will find grandpa to borrow this knife to fight the evil spirit, no, there is a deal tonight that has something to do with this knife.

An old hunter who often goes into the mountains to hunt with his grandfather, Zhao Liushun of Zhaozhuang, who lives in the north five miles of Hongdong County, found his grandfather this time, just because his family has to do an evil thing recently, and he must use my grandfather's baby boning knife!

Some people say that Zhao Liushun hunted a lot when he was young, killed too many animals, suffered from the world, and gave birth to a son who was sick from childhood to adulthood, no, his son Zhao Wensheng is in his early thirties, has not married a daughter-in-law, and has a sallow face all day long, either sitting in the west of the village or leaning on the east of the village, quiet like a dead man, recently Zhao Liushun said that he found a fortune teller in the south of the county, and gave his son Zhao Wensheng a hexagram.

said that he wanted to give Zhao Wensheng a rush to Yin Xi, and the illness around him could be washed away, and he officially became a master, to put it bluntly, that is, Zhao Liushun killed too many prey, and those prey were also spiritual, and he turned back to take revenge on their family, this retribution fell on Zhao Wensheng's body, and he was sick and painful in the second half, and it was difficult to start a family, Zhao Liushun would also cut off his children and grandchildren, and he would suffer a crime with the help of Chong Yin Xi, the so-called Chong Yin Xi was to marry a dead person, and after this incident, it would be a good thing to find a woman who could give birth and raise to marry.

The day of Chongyin is set at three o'clock tonight, to say that a big living person and a dead person get married, but anyone who is a normal person has to tremble, no, Zhao Liushun found my grandfather, and wanted my grandfather to carry a skinning boning knife to escort their team of yin relatives, there is an object that deters all evils, and those neighbors who help can also rest assured.

Grandpa can't come back, I can only take this trip instead of grandpa, to say that I Li Ergou has been growing for 17 years, I really haven't seen any evil things, what the hell, weird, I haven't seen it at all, naturally I'm not afraid, besides, holding grandpa's boning knife in my hand, what else can I be afraid of?!

But if you want to say that you are not afraid, I walked all the way, I always felt that my back was cold, and my hand holding the boning knife was also cold sweating, his grandmother's, did I say that I was not afraid, but I was still a little stunned in my heart?

"Poof" cut off a finger-thick grass stem, shook my shoulder, I smiled slightly, grandpa's knife is really sharp, somehow, holding the knife and pulling it twice, or strong courage!

To get to Zhaozhuang, you have to walk seven or eight miles, and there is a mountain depression in front of it, which is full of cemeteries......

I suddenly realized that I had forgotten about this stubble, and if I wanted to go to Zhaozhuang, I had to go through that cemetery, otherwise I would have to take a long detour, so even if I got to Zhaozhuang, it would be dawn, I looked up at the dark sky, I knew that my grandfather would not be able to come back so late tonight, I should have set off before it was dark, and now I have to go through that cemetery.

The earthworm cries of "chirp" came and went one after another around the grass, and in the desolate surroundings, there was no light or human figure in sight, only the direction was vaguely discernible, and the grass in front was slightly lush, I knew that the cemetery should have arrived, because the weeds around the cemetery were growing very vigorously!

I'm holding my grandfather's boning knife in my hand, and I'm afraid of a fart!

I felt a sudden suddenness in my heart, and reluctantly comforted myself, besides, I haven't seen anything evil when I've grown so big? Grandpa said that this knife is very fierce, and no ghost dares to come closer, but ...... It's just that I'm not sure it's true or not, after all, I haven't verified it.

Not far away, I saw the mountain depression in front, and the cemetery that seeped into the people, some broken stone tablets, lying there, this place for a long time no one came to worship, it is said that the people who died here are the places where the Qing Dynasty committed crimes and executed here, and after they died, they were buried on the spot, and their families were not allowed to worship.

During the Anti-Japanese War, many people died nearby, and no one cared about this mass graveyard, and no one knew who died inside, in short, few people came here.

A hint of cool breeze blew on my face, I shivered inexplicably, my scalp was slightly numb, my heart was horizontal, I was afraid of a ball, I was afraid, I was holding a guy in my hand just to not let people be afraid of this errand, but now I encountered a mass graveyard and I was afraid of it first, and my grandfather knew that I would definitely scold me for being unproductive.

Stepping into the land of the mass graveyard, I slightly feel that the soil here is a little soft, at least much softer than the soil outside, maybe it is because no one has stepped on it for a long, long time, there are a lot of dry shrubs and weeds, unkempt, looking up, it seems that the area of this mass graveyard is not small, I inexplicably got goosebumps again, and it is important to hurry up.

said that he was concentrating on the road, but the afterglow of his eyes still couldn't help but touch around, some of the steles were broken at the waist, and some of them were almost blown away by the wind and rain.

With a crisp sound of "click", I was suddenly startled, and hurriedly lowered my head to see, it turned out that I had stepped on a dry grass stem, and scolded in my heart, how could my courage become smaller.

Settle down, I continued to move forward, as long as I passed through this mass graveyard, and then walked a few miles briskly to Zhaozhuang, the people over there should be in a hurry, thinking to myself, and the speed under my feet also increased, but suddenly, I stopped suddenly, as if I had just seen something from the corner of my eye rushing past me, as if it was a petite white thing.

Could it be a hare?

Well, I secretly affirmed my thoughts, and turned my head sharply, and I almost screamed, and then, the white thing suddenly rushed in front of me again, and this time I seemed to see it clearly, and the tail was very long, so that I was sure that I was not a rabbit!

The rabbit's tail is not that long, and the running posture is not right, the rabbit is jumping forward, and the thing is running straight past, very fast.

What the hell?!

I swallowed my saliva, my legs couldn't help but drift a little, I've never seen anything evil, I won't touch my brow tonight, right?

Thinking of this, I can't care what it is, holding my grandfather's boning knife in my hand is tighter, and now I have a faint doubt in my heart whether the ferocious aura of this boning knife can really ward off evil spirits!

Walking briskly through several graves, just as I was about to see the edge of the mass graveyard, I suddenly turned my head, and I was horrified to see a pair of dark blue eyes staring at me behind a half-cut grave bag, staring at me with a look of those eyes, and instantly staring at me with cold hairs standing on end, and the cold breath above my head swished into my body.

I held back my screams, my legs almost went limp, and I hurriedly turned around and ran, but after a few steps, I stopped again in horror, and wasn't I about to walk out of the mass graveyard in front of me? Why, how did I run these few steps, and then I looked, there was a large mass graveyard in front of me!

Am I also lost in this mass grave?!

No, no, is this what the old people often say about ghosts hitting the wall? Yes!