To the Zhao family to see, the Zhao family is really a big family, the high wall compound is very majestic, there are turrets in the four corners, at that time the northeast made a beard, so there are turrets at the door of the big households, very large gatehouses, there are upper horse stones and lower horse stones in front of the gatehouse, and a pair of bouldering drums, two boulders are often set up in front of the house before, one is the upper horse stone, one is the lower horse stone, the lower horse stone is the same as the upper horse stone because of the language taboo, so it is customary to call the upper horse stone, it is prepared for the horse rider, and there is a block for the corner to form a step, It is a stone with two steps. The first step is about 30 centimeters high, the second step is about 60 centimeters high, the stone weighs more than 1,000 kilograms, the stone is bluestone, and the future is carved on it.

The drum stone is also a symbol of the ancestor being an official, a pair of drum stones in front of the door, standing is a sign of fame. In the era of feudal hierarchy, those who have no merit and fame cannot stand in front of the door. In ancient times, there were people with stone drums, generally people who had meritorious names and officials in the imperial examination, the stone drum erected at the door of Zhao's house, standing on a square stone, surrounded by auspicious clouds, carved very exquisitely, the drum mountain carved with cranes and pine trees.

The tall gatehouse, the black lacquered gate, there are copper nails and the spirit beast guarding the door ring, there are two lanterns on both sides of the door, written with the word Zhao, a golden plaque with Zhao Mansion written, there is a shadow wall wall in the door, painted with exquisite pictures, the shadow wall wall is in feng shui, mainly to block evil, blessing, to prevent demons and monsters from running into the house to make trouble.

Entering the gate is more layers of courtyards, rows of houses, very neat, a little magnificent, Zhao Zhong arrived at home and instructed the family to prepare wine and food, and then invited us to the house, served fragrant tea, each introduced, Zhao Zhong is older than us, he asked us not to see outside, called him Brother Zhao, he respects the little fox Maomao, and naturally does not dare to sell big to us, and is very polite to us.

The wine and food came up, a good table, all of them were some delicacies from the mountains and seas, like bear's paws, deer breasts, sea cucumbers, abalone, not to mention that these things had been eaten, even if they had never seen them, Zhao Zhong said vigorously, poor and remote, there are no famous dishes, my obedient, this is also in the Northeast, if we are in Shandong, we will not see these dishes in our lifetime. Zhao Zhong asked people to bring good wine, poured wine for us, and everyone began to eat and drink, although those dishes were fragrant, they were a little strange, and they felt far worse than Zhao Sihai's chicken stewed mushrooms, which may be the difference between the taste of rich and poor. But the little fox Mao Mao is very happy to eat, we sit on the chair to eat, this guy, jump directly on the table, squat there to eat, what you want to eat, directly with the claw point, like the second uncle, Zhao Zhong saw where Mao Mao pointed, so he quickly stood up and used chopsticks to pick up vegetables, the little fox is more respectful than us, the world is like this, we are a group of big people, it is not as good as a talking little fox.

Whether it was before, or now, the wine table is the easiest place to make friends, after pushing the glass and changing the lamp a few times, we are familiar with it, as soon as we are familiar with Zhao Zhong, he said to us: "Brothers, I, Zhao Zhong, offended you today, I punished myself with three glasses of wine, which is regarded as making amends." ”

As he spoke, he drank three glasses of wine in a row, and then said: "Today I heard Fox Daxian say that my father has died a long time ago and is possessed by a big rabbit spirit, is this true?" ”

The little fox Mao Mao nodded, Zhao Zhong thought for a while and said, "It turned out that the big rabbit was doing tricks, no wonder my father looked like a rabbit." ”

I said, "Brother Zhao, can you tell me in detail, what's going on?" ”

Zhao Zhong thought for a while and said: "This matter has to start from the back garden Nagada, behind our yard, there is a natural rockery, the rockery, is composed of several boulders, there is a hole under the boulder, there used to be a temple there, called the Rabbit Temple, when the ancestor repaired the yard, watching the decay of the incense, he directly demolished it, and then planted flowers and plants in the backyard. That back garden used to be safe and sound, but when it came to my father's generation, something happened.

My dad has a hobby, that is, to eat rabbit meat, and as soon as there is Yaxing, he will call a few friends and go to the back garden to roast rabbit meat to eat. As for the rabbit temple, it has long been forgotten. On August 15 of this year, my father invited a few friends, bought a few hares, and roasted rabbit meat in the back garden.

My father eats roast rabbit meat, pays attention to live peeling and roasting, that is, the rabbit penetrates the lips alive, and then hangs on the tree, opens the rabbit from the head, and then tears it hard, the whole rabbit skin is torn off, the rabbit is not dead at this time, screaming there, the person who peels the rabbit takes advantage of the rabbit not dead, cuts open the belly and pulls out the internal organs, wears the barbecue with a pine stick, and the rabbit is still there when roasting. The rabbit meat roasted in this way is the most delicious, because when the rabbit barks, the blood on the body runs into the meat......"

When Luo Xihan heard this, he said: "Roast alive like this, your old man, it's really ruthless, no wonder the rabbit spirit will be attached to your old man's body." ”

Zhao Zhong said embarrassedly: "Those were all made by the old man, I was young at that time, and I didn't dare to persuade the old man." I went on to say that on the fifteenth day of August, the old man and his friends were there to barbecue the rabbits, and I went with them, and a few of them hung the rabbits on the tree, and there was already a charcoal fire burning there, and the housekeepers skillfully cut the skin off the rabbit's head, and then pulled it hard, and the rabbit meat was bloody in front of me, and the rabbits were howling in pain, and my father and his friends were there to chant poems against each other, so happy and cheerful.

The family quickly roasted the rabbit, the howl was gone, the rabbit was roasted by the charcoal fire, slowly did not move, then in the yard of the rockery there came the old man's cry, the old man's voice was sharp, very ugly, as if crying his own children, in the night the cry spread particularly far. Everyone was stunned when they heard the crying, and hurriedly looked for the source of the cry, and then someone shouted: "Look, there is a white shadow in the rockery, it must be a white shadow crying there, this crying in the middle of the night, it won't be haunted, right?" ”

As soon as I said this, my father's friends were frightened, and everyone wanted to get out of here quickly, when my father shouted: "What are you panicking about, under this bright world, we have so many people, what ghosts are we afraid of?" All ghosts are afraid of people. Let's go over and see what the hell it is, if it's a ghost, I'll be angry and bring him over and dance for all of us. ”

Someone persuaded my father, but my father just didn't listen, but the friends said dumbfounded, and finally my father led the family, towards there, I was following behind, to the rockery, everyone was stunned, because in front of the rockery, there is an extra hut, the hut is not big, just a one-headed house. There was no house here, so how could there be an extra hut for no reason?

What's even more curious is that in front of the hut, there is an old man, the old man is there, with a sharp voice, crying there all the time, he is wearing a white dress, lying there, three points like a person and seven points like a ghost, very weird, my father walked over and asked who the old man was, why he came here to cry.

The old man cried and said, "This is my home, I cry at home for my children and grandchildren who died miserably, they died miserably, they were skinned alive, and they wailed there, and I watched them die so miserably, and my old man felt pain in my heart." ”

When my father heard this, he said, "Your descendants have been killed, and they have been told by the yamen why they are crying here." ”

The old man cried and said, "My children and grandchildren have just been skinned, and now they are being grilled on the charcoal fire, and I want to sue them, but no one in the yang world cares about this, so I can only cry here." ”

As soon as my father heard that the old man was talking wrong, he could see the top of the old man's head in the dark, fluffy, like ears, but the old man could not see clearly in the black hole, so my father secretly asked a family member to get the lantern, and when he took the lantern, he took a picture of the old man, and found that the old man was too wrong, only to see that the old man was wearing a fur coat with fur, and there were two big ears on his head, he lowered his head, and he couldn't see what he looked like, and said to the old man: "Raise your head and let me see who you are?" ”

At this time, the old man said coldly: "I am Master Rabbit, don't regret it when you lift it up." ”