The cold night was like ice, the mountain wind was cold, and the snow creaked under his feet, Wu Zheng carefully held Liu Shenxue's little hand, and a warmth was transmitted between the two of them.

Jia Ye said slowly in a calm voice: "For many years, people have said that the inside of the ghost cave is not clean, but I know that it is not the ghost cave that is not clean, but the human heart!" People are unkind, there are no ghosts in the ghost cave, and there are actually other secrets in the ghost cave! ”

There are no ghosts in the ghost cave? What do the villagers who disappeared inside explain before? Wu Zheng muttered in his heart, and just as he wanted to ask, he was gently dragged by Liu Shenxue.

Liu Shenxue signaled Wu Zheng with her eyes not to talk too much, Wu Zheng thought about it, since his grandfather talked about these things, he would naturally explain it clearly, and he just listened to him, and it was not good to interrupt his old man's thoughts.

At this time, Jia Ye stopped, took out a roll of dry cigarettes, lit it, and took two puffs before he said quietly:

"The ghost cave has a name, called the Rat Fairy Cave, the legend is that a long time ago, there were two black and white spirit rats in the cave to cultivate the Tao, ranked in the immortal class, so the villagers under the mountain gave this name, and treated the Rat Fairy Cave as a temple, and often went up the mountain to worship and pray."

"It is said that the rat fairy cave is very effective, the villagers ask for a son to get a son, ask for wealth and get wealth, and around the rat fairy cave within a radius of 100 miles, the wind and rain are smooth all year round, no disaster is harmless, and every household has enough food and clothing."

Wu Zheng listened and thought that if the legend was true, then the entire area around Knee Mountain should have become a rich place, but look at the present, whether it is Yin Yang Village, Shujia Village or Qijia Village, there are not a few wealthy families, they are ordinary people, it can be seen that the legend has an apocryphal component.

Jia Ye smoked a roll of dry tobacco, rubbed his hands and continued to move forward, and said: "Of course, the legends and legends are actually the sayings handed down by the common people, and the credibility is not high. ”

Here's what Jia Ye said.

Probably in a Mid-Autumn Festival more than 50 years ago, Yin Yang Village was preparing to worship the rat fairy cave as usual, when Jia Ye was still a six or seven year old child, he didn't know what worship etiquette, only knew that whenever the village people were ready to go up the mountain to worship, the family would make a lot of delicious food.

Those delicious foods were to be sent to the Rat Fairy Cave, but Jia Ye's parents would make more every time to satisfy Jia Ye's cravings, so Jia Ye was looking forward to the worship ceremony at that time.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, every household locks the door, brings tribute, and meets on the mountain, which is a festive day, so everyone talks and laughs, and it is very lively.

But as soon as he walked halfway up the mountain, when he was still about 100 meters away from the Rat Fairy Cave, he heard a young man shout in surprise: "Mom, look at what it is?" ”

Although it was a good festival, after all, it was in the mountains at night, and the shout of the young man still lifted everyone's hearts.

On the 15th day of August, the moonlight was as bright as day, and a group of people looked in the direction pointed by the young man, and saw a mouse crawling in the lush grass and trees.

To say that the people present are all villagers, they should have been surprised by rats for a long time, especially in the mountains, what kind of snakes, insects, rats and ants are not unusual, but the rat frightened a group of villagers, all of them were stunned, and they didn't dare to make a sound.

It was a mouse that was a meter long, and this was not counting the tail, if the tail was unfolded, it would be more than two meters, and the mouse was covered with long black hair, and its two small eyes were bright, and it seemed not afraid at all in the surprised gaze of everyone, and it crawled slowly and leisurely.

This is not the end, the most bizarre thing is that the rat is still wearing clothes, no, to be precise, it should be wearing a battle robe, the robe is the right size, just covering the back of the mouse, one end is tied to the mouse's neck, and the other end is swaying in the wind.

I don't know what the material of that robe is, it's just golden, it's very dazzling, and there are strange patterns drawn on it, good guy, it's clearly a mouse general!

Immediately afterwards, the living creatures in the mountains seemed to be afraid of the rat general, and they ran out of their hiding places, screaming and fleeing in all directions, and the whole mountain seemed to have exploded, and all kinds of animals roared, and the whole mountain was shaken.

Not to mention the young people, even the old people in the village who have lived for seventy or eighty years are the first time to see such a mouse, the first time to see such a formation, everyone held their breath, did not dare to make a sound, quietly watched the rat general through the mountains and forests, and finally climbed into the rat fairy cave.

As soon as the rat general entered the cave, the commotion in the mountain instantly stopped, and the silence was terrifying.

After a period of silence, an old man in the crowd said happily: "Don't be afraid, this is a good sign, it must be the manifestation of the rat fairy, everyone hurry up and place tributes, kneel down and kowtow to the rat fairy, if you don't make a sound, be careful that the rat fairy is not happy!" ”

In an instant, everyone was excited, no matter what the situation was under their feet, they knelt down and began to kowtow, some people knocked on the stone and banged, their brains cracked, and blood flowed, but no one shouted pain, and they all muttered their wishes in their mouths, hoping that the rat fairy could help realize it.

Wu Zheng felt that something was wrong when he heard this, and thought to himself that if it was really a rat fairy manifestation, it should also appear in front of people with a more powerful image, why did he appear in the form of a mouse?

Thinking of the rabbit spirit and fox spirit in the past few days, Wu Zheng subconsciously felt that the rat general was probably not a god, and it was very likely to be evil.

Sure enough, the day after the villagers finished worshipping the rat fairy, something happened.

At that time, there was a reckless man in the village, a single person, who was used to talking freely on weekdays, and the next day he drank a little wine with a few friends, and began to blow nonsense, saying that the mouse last night was not a fairy at all, nor was it a general, and the robe on the mouse was actually a rare treasure!

What the reckless man said was very mysterious, saying that if the baby is obtained, it can prolong its life, the ghost can be reincarnated and resurrected, and the demon can go straight to the immortal path if he gets it, and the mouse is so huge because he got the baby.

The reckless man's group of friends are not fuel-efficient lamps, so they immediately instigated the reckless man to go to the rat fairy cave and steal the treasure out.

As the saying goes, wine is strong and courageous, the reckless man really agreed, the group of people went up the mountain in clusters, a few friends were waiting at the entrance of the cave, and the reckless man swaggered into the rat fairy cave.

But less than two minutes after entering, I heard the heart-rending scream of the reckless man, the sound was not like a joke, and the few people at the entrance of the cave were very frightened, and they tried to call out a few reckless man's names without any response, and ran back to the village.

Since then, the reckless man has completely disappeared, and the world has evaporated.

The matter soon spread in Shili and eight towns, and everyone began to be afraid of the Rat Fairy Cave, and later a few brave villagers entered the Rat Fairy Cave, and they also never came out again, and disappeared without a trace.

In this way, almost everyone talks about the rat fairy cave, and it becomes a haunted rat fairy cave when it is passed on, and no one dares to go up the mountain to worship, and the name "ghost cave" has gradually replaced the rat fairy cave, and has been used to this day.