Chapter 10: The Corpse Thief
These yellow-skinned people squatted silently in the yard, although they did not harm my chickens, but my chickens were also frightened and shrunk in the chicken coop and did not dare to come out.
I'm also a little scared, I've never seen this battle in all these years of being with the old man.
When I opened the door and saw that something was wrong in the courtyard, I quickly retracted back into the house and closed the door again.
At this time, I heard a loud sound behind me, and when I looked back, the yellow skin I was holding in the iron frame was scurrying around in that frame.
When I looked back at it, the thing immediately crouched there and didn't move.
But as soon as I mislooked, it continued to wander around.
As soon as I glanced at it, it was honest.
"You want to come up?" I asked the yellow-skinned man, although I had been holding this thing in an iron frame for a few days, I didn't say that I had ever thought of it by scurrying around.
Thinking about the yellow skins in the courtyard at this time, I can't wait to throw away this hot potato.
Hearing my question, the yellow skin quickly scurried around in the frame again, and then squatted there staring at me with a pair of small black bean-like eyes.
"Then we have to say it, I saved your life because you didn't harm anyone's life, and now I can let you go, but you can't trouble Uncle Li's family anymore, and you can't trouble me again."
I stood in front of the iron frame and consulted with the yellow-skinned man.
Hearing me say this, the yellow skin immediately ran around again, looking like a pleasing puppy, I was afraid that it would regret it, so I scared it again, saying that if I was caught doing something bad again, I would feed it to the big black dog.
This yellow-skinned man squatted honestly in the frame, as if to indicate that he would not make trouble.
Seeing that it had compromised, I quickly picked up the box and opened the door.
The yellow skin swooped out, but its rolled hind legs were still a little lame.
Jumping to the center of the courtyard, Huang Pizi turned around and squatted on the ground to look at me.
I was nervous at it, my hands on the doorknobs, ready to close at any moment.
But the little beast did not embarrass me, but looked at me for a moment, and then ran towards the courtyard wall, and the yellow skins behind followed me like a swarm, and then crowded at the base of the wall, and let the lame yellow skin be a foot.
I stood in the doorway and watched these little things turn out of the wall with their heads turned out, and I was really relieved.
Although Mr. Yin Yang is not a monk and does not pay attention to not killing or anything, but when we encounter these little beasts who lead the way, as long as they have no evil obstacles, we really can't kill them casually.
Otherwise, it is no different from murder.
Sending away the yellow skin, I cooked the dumplings and went to bed after eating.
Because my grandfather is gone, and no one will come to my house to pay New Year's greetings, I originally planned to sleep until noon, but at eight o'clock, the courtyard gate was smashed.
I was afraid that someone was in a hurry, so I got dressed and went out to have a look.
As soon as I opened the door, before I could see who was outside, a handful of snow was poured over my head, and a lot of it was poured into my collar, giving me a chill.
"New Year's surprise!"
Lin Miao was wearing a bright red padded jacket, standing outside the door, looking at me with a smile, and a porcelain white face didn't know whether it was frozen, or reflected by the little padded jacket, red fluttering.
On the first day of the new year, I was finally greeted with someone to talk to, and I was so happy that I asked her, "Why are you here?" What about Uncle Lin? ”
"What? Don't want me to come? Lin Miao's tone was a little complaining, but she still had a smile on her face, and continued, "My dad is at home, and there are people from the same village who came here to pay New Year's greetings, and I came with the car." ”
Seeing Lin Miao standing at the door and freezing straight air, I remembered to hurry up and let her into the house to warm up.
Entering the house, I grabbed sugar and melon seeds for her, remembered that there was no hot water, and hurriedly boiled the water, seeing that I was busy inside and outside the house, this girl did not stop, quietly on the kang, and folded my quilt.
I was a little embarrassed to say that I didn't have any relatives at home, so I wanted to sleep for a while.
Lin Miao smiled and didn't say anything, but instead asked me what the big iron frame in the outhouse was for, saying that if there were any relatives, for the New Year, this house would have to be cleaned up, otherwise it would affect the God of Wealth to enter the door.
I saw that she was quite superstitious, and I didn't care where she heard the rumors, so I moved the big iron frame out, and by the way, I also told her the story of the yellow skin.
Lin Miao was stunned when she heard this, saying that there were a lot of yellow skins in Sanpo Gangzi, and she also knew that Lin Jiazhuang had also made trouble with yellow skins before, and that thing was fierce and killed a family.
I told her that this kind of spiritual little beast is actually the same as people, there are good and bad, and it cannot be generalized.
Just chattering like this, when it was time for lunch, Lin Miao rolled up her arms and sleeves to make two dishes, but I didn't eat it, two people came to the village, saying that someone was doing something on the edge of the village, let me go and see.
These two people are the rangers in the village, and they have to go up the mountain to go around when they have nothing to do, especially at this time of the year, when people have to go up the mountain to worship their ancestors on the thirtieth day, for fear that there will be a fire on the mountain, and there are children playing with artillery battles, and they are also afraid of burning the forest.
So on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I still have to work shifts.
Just this morning, when the two of them went out of the village and went up the mountain, they found that a big red cloth had been hung in the field of the mountain pass.
At this glance, I found that the boss had dug a pit in the ground, and some paper gadgets were thrown.
As soon as the two of them said this, I asked the specific location of the field, and I was anxious because it was the field where I buried Wu Laokan'er's son.
Let Lin Miao eat first, and I followed the two to the edge of the village.
When I went to the field, I saw that this was indeed the place where I buried the child, and indeed as the two men said, a big hole had been dug in the place, and the child's body was gone.
There was also a big red cloth hanging on the big tree next to it, and the paper gadgets on the ground looked like children's toys, with rattles, small wooden horses, etc., which had been burned incompletely, but it seemed that the person who stole the corpse should be in a hurry, and before the paper was burned, the corpse was gone.
I tore off the big red cloth on the tree and looked at it, and found that there was a charm drawn on it with cinnabar, because each person's charm has its own characteristics, just like everyone's handwriting is different, so I can't see what kind of charm it is for a while.
Moreover, the charm painted with cinnabar is the same color as this red cloth, and it was hung on the tree and shook for a night, and it was too hard to see clearly.
At this time, the two rangers also saw that something was drawn on the red cloth, and they immediately became more nervous, and asked me if this could be some lack of virtue to ruin the financial road of Daliang Village, and cursed the village.
I rolled up the red cloth, and saw that these two people were thinking a lot, so I said that it was not a big deal, and let them go back first, and they were quite uneasy, saying that if there was any use of their place, they could talk at any time.
I nodded in agreement before the two left.
When the others were gone, I quickly jumped into the pit and scooped it down with my hands.
Because the soil was very deep in winter, when I buried the child, I couldn't bury it too deeply, but the thief dug such a big hole, and eighty percent buried something underneath.
Sure enough, I picked it up a few times with my hands, and I touched a hard thing, and pulled it out to see, it was a small clay figure, with a handful of hair stubble on the clay figure's head, and a rag wrapped around it, and I recognized it as the clothes on the child's corpse.
The thief stole the corpse, but bought a clay figurine here, and was afraid that the child's soul would find him.
I buried the clay figurines back and went home.
When Lin Miao saw me coming back, she hurriedly brought me food again, asked me what was wrong, and said that the dish had changed its flavor when it was hot in the pot.
I washed my hands and told me about it while I ate.
"Stealing corpses?" Lin Miao stared, but her expression was a little unsightly.
I asked her what was wrong, and I heard Lin Miao say that her second uncle used to be a corpse thief, but after an accident, he hadn't done it for many years.
I asked her what happened, and Lin Miao told me about her second uncle's 'three hollow graves and hitting evil corpses'.
I really didn't expect that this girl was addicted to listening to this kind of story, and it was so vivid to tell it that I was so scared that I couldn't eat.