Chapter 22: The Essence of the Cooking Pestle
In the mountain village, because it is remote and remote, all kinds of strange things emerge in endlessly. Many living creatures can be cultivated to attain the Tao, for example, a fox can be cultivated into a fox fairy, and a yellow skin can become a essence. And for many dead things, it can also become refined over time, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, and slowly cultivating a human form.
The following five masters will tell a true story about the essence of dead things, which is commonly used in mountain villages - cooking pestle. This kind of object may be very novel to many people, but in fact, it is a must-have daily item in our rural areas. It is made by tying sorghum ears with the grain removed, and is usually used to brush pots.
At the east end of the village, there is a widow Li (mentioned above), her husband died at an early age, and she was left alone, because she was married to the village from other places, and there was no one in her mother's family, so it was really a single family.
This widow Li Er is a very delicate woman, in her forties, the only thing that is different is that her body will tremble unconsciously from time to time, as if it is uncontrollable, readers may have watched "Country Love", just like Zhao Si in the TV Bureau, the corners of her mouth twitched from time to time. This is the case with this second widow Li. I used to think that she was born like this, but once Liu Wuye told me a story about her, and I figured out what was going on.
The story has to start when Li Er was alive. Li Er's house is a simple three-room black tile house, although the life is poor, but it is also safe and sound. The only thing that worries Li Er is that he has never had children. But after a long time, Li Er also saw it, if the child wants to believe in fate, there must be something that should be, and he can't barely come.
But I don't know when the family started, there are always strange things, sometimes I wake up, I get up in the morning and see that a full tank of water suddenly has no drop left, and the water tank is fine. Or maybe the lights in the outhouse come on as soon as they say they come on.
At first, the two of them were quite scared of these things, but after looking for someone to see it, it was still the same, and the two of them were not surprised, after all, things were weird, but they didn't hurt people.
It is said that one night, it was already dark, and the people in the countryside had rested early, and the village had turned off the lights and went to bed from house to house. The two of them plan to rest early. At this time, Li's second daughter-in-law suddenly wanted to go to the toilet.
His toilet is on the east side of the house. Li's second daughter-in-law put on her clothes and came to the east side of the house alone. When I got to the toilet, I just squatted down, and when I looked up, I suddenly saw something a meter away from me. Through the light shining out of the window, Li's second daughter-in-law could see clearly.
This thing is like a small person, more than a foot tall, with arms and legs, and two small arms swinging from side to side, but this thing has no head. Just like this, standing in front of Li's second daughter-in-law.
Li's second daughter-in-law, Mom! He shouted at the top of his voice, and then collapsed in fright. Li Er heard his daughter-in-law's screams in the house, and knew that something must be wrong, so he put on his shoes and ran out.
When I went to the toilet, I saw that my daughter-in-law had fainted, so I hurriedly carried her to the house, and after tossing for a long time, Li's second daughter-in-law woke up slowly, but her body was still trembling. Then I told Li Er what happened just now.
The next day, Li Er found a famous yin-yang fairy in the outer village. After coming to Li Er's house, this yin and yang fairy walked around the house, inside and outside the house, in front of the house and behind the house. When he came to the east side of the ridge, he suddenly stopped, and his eyes kept staring at a pile of debris.
This pile of miscellaneous items is what Li Er usually piles up, and they are all old objects that are not used such as some torn clothes and shoes.
Li Er looked at the Yin Yang Fairy and said, "Master, is there anything wrong with this?" ”
This yin and yang fairy didn't say anything, pulled it with a wooden stick for a while, pointed to something and said to Li Er: "Look at this." ”
At this time, Li Er looked at the wooden stick and saw that it was a cooking pestle that was not used at home, and the sorghum ears at the top of the cooking pestle were almost smoothed out because of the age. Li Er looked at the broken pestle and didn't see anything special.
At this time, I looked at the yin and yang fairy, squatted down in front of this pile of miscellaneous items, took out a piece of red rope from the bag on his back, and then picked up the broken cooking pestle, wrapped it around with the red rope, and then took out a wooden sword more than an inch long from the bag, which seemed to be made of peach wood.
As he spoke, he stabbed the peachwood sword on the cooking pestle, and poked it to the end. At this time, I saw bright red blood flowing from the pestle, and it was bubbling out along the large strands of the peach wood sword.
Then, the Yin Yang Fairy asked Li Er to light a fire next to him, and the Yin Yang Fairy took out a talisman drawn on yellow paper and threw it into the fire along with the cooking pestle. At this time, I heard the sound of babbling from the fire, like a child crying, which was creepy. In a few moments, the broken pestle was reduced to ashes.
After the incident, Li Er learned through the Yin Yang Fairy that it was a cooking pestle used at home, and it had been too long, and after being stained with human blood, it slowly became refined and cultivated into a human form. Fortunately, it was discovered in time that if it really reached a certain level, it would suck menstrual blood.
Although the matter was solved, Li's second daughter-in-law fell into this problem, and her body would tremble unconsciously, and it could not be cured.