Early the next morning, I squatted on the edge of the dojo and brushed my teeth, still wondering in my heart about the height of the snake that Ma Cheng had said. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I still remember when I was a child, I smashed a snake, and then a meter-long snake stood up to look at me, this should be what Ma Chengcheng said about the snake than Gao, so why did she say that the snake is the real Gu Jing? The snake is taller and sounds like a very evil thing, but after all, it's animal predation, and the black mamba in Africa can still run straight around, what's so strange about that.

It's like the older generation always said that what spirits and ghosts, in the final analysis, this is all feudal superstition, so if there are really so many ghosts in this world, why haven't I ever encountered them? I don't believe in gods and ghosts, and when I was a child, I was beaten more than once because I passed by the old man's temple and talked nonsense, so I really didn't have a good impression of ghosts and gods.

At noon, when we went to visit the door and walked through a small road, Ma Chengcheng suddenly pointed to a place and asked me if I knew what it was.

As soon as I heard her, I quickly followed what she was pointing at.

This is an overhead haystack, made of dry poles and leaves from the bud valley, which is said to be a haystack but not like a haystack. It's a bit like a shed, and there are wood in it, but this shed is very low, and people can't get in even if they bend down, I think this can't be a place where farmers put things, and I didn't find anything in it when I bent down and looked at it, so I could only shake my head and say to Ma Chengcheng I don't know.

Ma Chengcheng smiled, looking at her reminiscing expression, I knew that there was another story to hear, and hurriedly answered, "Then tell me what this is." ”

She didn't sell it, and she talked about it very happily.

When Ma Chengcheng was taken by his grandmother when he was a child, he really didn't have a good time, he was running all day long and all day long, and he passed by this path a lot, so he had a strong interest in this shed.

There are no people around the path, what is this shed for?

At that time, about 00 years, the countryside was still very closed, almost all the people in Laohugou would have cellars, and generally adults would not let children go in to see, Ma Chengcheng didn't know how to guess that this shed was a cellar, she wanted to go in to see, and just about to get into it, she was shouted by the township party who was turning the ground not far away. The people of a village, who have been related to each other for several generations, have to call someone an aunt when it comes to generation, and this aunt will tell Ma Chengcheng that he can't go in.

How could Ma Chengcheng let go of the opportunity to ask, so she hurriedly asked her aunt what this shed was for, and her aunt told her vaguely that this shed was to hide from the rain.

Children are easier to fool, a little tendon, when I was a child, my thinking was different from adults in many places, Ma Chengcheng thought at that time that since this shed is for people to hide from the rain, does that mean that as long as it rains, she can go in and see it justifiably?

So for that while, Ma Chengcheng stayed on the mountain every day and waited for the rain.

Luckily, she had a rainy day within a few days.

It's a pity -

That day, my grandmother saw that it was raining and hurriedly went up the mountain to look for her. Ma Chengcheng just missed this opportunity, and when she passed by the shed to go home, she suddenly found that there was another shed next to the shed.

The extra shed is the same as the previous one, but there are people sitting in it.

It was a middle-aged man and an old man, and there was a small table between the two, and they seemed to be gossiping.

The light in the new shed was unexpectedly good.

Ma Chengcheng hurriedly glanced at it and was pulled home by his grandmother.

After this time, she became more interested in this shed, and coincidentally, it was sunny days again, and she had no excuse to sneak in. The child's curiosity is very strong, and Ma Chengcheng has been looking forward to a rainy day for a long time. That day, she was playing at an aunt's house, and her aunt looked at the rainy day, so she left Ma Chengcheng to eat by herself. How could Ma Chengcheng be willing, what she was looking forward to was rain? Now I immediately said goodbye and went home.

She walked the path with the shed.

Halfway through, the rain began to fall, and Ma Chengcheng hid in the bud valley shed as he wished.

After entering, he found that the inside was even shorter than expected, and Ma Cheng looked around with a hunched waist, a little disappointed. This low little shed is covered with bud grain poles and the ground is covered with bud grain poles, and there is really nothing special about it.

Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in the sky, and it was this lightning that illuminated the situation in the shed.

Ma Chengcheng's hair exploded all of a sudden.

When she first entered the shed, she saw a pile of gray things at her feet, and subconsciously took this as a bud pole, and only then did she see what this pile was.

It's a living thing!

A gray snake.

The snake squirmed slowly.

There was a muffled thunder outside the shed.

Ma Chengcheng dared to stay anywhere, and crawled out of this shed.

The snake did not move, turned its head to her, spit out the letter slowly, and then retracted back into the shed.

Ma Chengcheng ran all the way home.

Frightened, she rested for a long time before relieving.

Later, Ma Chengcheng grew up slowly, and sorted out the ins and outs of the whole thing from the words of his grandparents.

In the past, people paid great attention to feng shui, and some people passed away, because of the problem of mountain direction, they could not go directly into the earth, and they had to mourn. The mountain direction involves the feng shui of the yin house, to put it bluntly, it is the feng shui direction of the cemetery, and the auspiciousness of the mountain direction is related to the year, month and day, so if the mountain is fierce, the deceased will have to mourn. This mourning is not the other mourning, this mourning is not the meaning of the family wearing filial piety for the deceased, but the body of the deceased cannot be buried, and it must wait until the mountain is auspicious.

Hearing this, I was dizzy and interrupted Ma Chengcheng's narration, "Don't say anything about mountain direction, feng shui, I don't understand." ”

Ma Chengcheng shook his head, "To put it simply, there is a custom that some people can't be buried immediately when they die, do you understand?" ”

I nodded.

Ma Chengcheng continued, "So you understand what that shed is for? ”

I was dumbfounded, this brainless talk about the direction of the mountain and the mourning, how do I know what this shed is for? Then I was embarrassed to say that I didn't know, so I nodded and said modestly: "I know, this shed is mountain-oriented." ”

Ma Chengcheng laughed all of a sudden.

I laughed along.

Ma Chengcheng shook his head with a smile and continued: "You can't have a place to put the body in the burial, this shed is used for this. ”

Hearing her say this, I remembered that I had just bent down to look at the shed, and I couldn't help but shudder, and for a while fear came to my heart.

Ma Chengcheng looked at me with a frightened look, shook his head with a smile, and continued to tell the story.

Later, Ma Chengcheng once overheard her grandmother say that the shed was for the dead, and she remembered that there were still people in another shed she had seen before, so of course she refuted her grandmother, saying that she saw someone sitting in the shed next to her, or two people, and her grandmother didn't take her words seriously at all, because there was only one shed for many years, and her grandmother took her as a joke about being a child.

Later, my mother and grandmother gossiped about this shed, and my grandmother told Ma Chengcheng's words to my mother as a joke, and my mother naturally talked about her childhood.

When she was a child, there were two sheds, and there were corpses in it, and everyone would avoid this path when walking. Soon after, a shed was demolished.

Ma Chengcheng was playing on the side at the time, but his ears were open to listen to these words, and when his mother and grandmother finished saying these words, she interjected: "Is there an old grandfather and an uncle who are mourning there?" ”

When her mother asked her how she knew, her grandmother remembered what Ma Chengcheng had said before.

Only then did they know that Ma Chengcheng's eyes were different from ours.

In fact, Ma Chengcheng has seen all kinds of things since he was a child, and it is not like many movies that ghosts will have a clear and vicious image, and many times they are a fleeting existence. Either it's just a very vague color block, or it's just a fleeting human figure, and it's impossible to communicate like that, so she naturally feels used to seeing a lot.

My mother and grandmother are not as calm as her, but there is no way, they can't do anything about it, so they can only tell Ma Chengcheng that it will be good to wait for her to grow up. At that time, it was said that children's eyes were clean, but as they grew older, their eyes were closed, and those things would gradually stop seeing.

Ma Chengcheng pouted, in fact, she didn't take the matter of seeing strange things to heart at all.

I heard it with bursts of hairs standing on end, not to mention the truth or falsehood of this incident, this story alone is still very scary. I kept thinking about the two men Ma Chengcheng saw at the time, glancing at the shed that had disappeared around the corner, muttering something strange.

Ma Chengcheng opened his mouth again: "Do you know why I told you this?" ”

If I know why you're talking, then why have I listened to the story for so long? The heart said that Ma Chengcheng was really getting better and better as a teacher, and how to tell a ghost story would be a guided teaching, so I put on my attitude with great disdain - I asked her why in a low voice.

Ma Chengcheng's face became very serious, and he said seriously: "Because of that snake." ”

I was shocked, "Shouldn't it be how those two people are squatting in the shed chatting?" I gestured again, "The shed is so small, you should have noticed that those two people were not human." ”

Ma Chengcheng suddenly said thoughtlessly, "Do you know out of Ma Xian?" ”

I was taken aback.

At this time, we had already arrived at the door of our relatives, and our relatives and friends began to pull us to ask our parents about their shortcomings, and I did not have time to ask Ma Chengcheng what she meant.

Out of the horse fairy I know.

Although I don't believe in gods and ghosts, I love to read novels, and I have read a lot of horror and fantasy. After Ma Chengcheng said this, I suddenly remembered a novel I had read about the horse fairy, and the novel said that there were four kinds of 'fairies' invited by the horse fairy, yellow skin, fox, snake, and ghost.

When people have a curious thing, this heart is like being scratched by a cat, there is no peace at all, I can't wait to immediately pull Ma Chengcheng to understand.

Finally, when I got home, it was slowly getting dark, and Ma Chengcheng took me and my cousins to sit around the charcoal basin.

In the overcast bamboo forest, the dense branches and leaves swayed in the moonlight.

Today's story is finally about to begin.

What would rural people do when they got sick in the past? Many times the choice is not to go to the doctor, but to use side remedies.

Why?

In fact, the reason is not the familiar feudal superstitious thoughts, or the magical power of those unknown rural remedies of gods and ghosts, the reason is very simple, there is only one word.

Poor.

It's not that people at that time were resistant to hospitals and didn't believe in scientific methods, they trusted hospitals very much, and the reason why they didn't go was because they were poor. On the one hand, it is because of the fact that the number of times to find a horse immortal to treat the disease will be much less than the number of times to go to the hospital, and the cost will be relatively cheaper. On the other hand, there is no way to cure many unconventional diseases by conventional methods.

For example, hysteria.

Nowadays, many diseases that cannot be classified by patients are considered hysteria, such as ghosts.

Out of the horse fairy is not as mysterious as we imagined, but it is also much more knowledgeable than we imagined, I dare not say that I know astronomy and geography, first of all, Zhou Yi gossip must be a good man. Different from the charlatans who cheat money, the immortals in each village are villagers in the same village. is not as divine and divine as outsiders say, what out of the horse fairy is good at inviting fox fairies and snake fairies to come up, omniscient and omnipotent. What Izuma Xian is best at is fortune-telling and feng shui, which are all hard goods handed down from the ancestral books, and they are definitely not empty words.

Numerology metaphysics, feng shui palmistry, true and false, false and false, true and true, learn one subject and one fine one, we may not be able to do it after so many years of students, not to mention the illiterate croppers who face the loess with their backs to the sky?

Therefore, the horse fairy with real skills is still quite powerful.

I listened with a sad face, "Ma Chengcheng, didn't I say it, what does this have to do with the snake being taller?" ”

Ma Chengcheng rolled his eyes, "Don't worry, I haven't gotten to the point yet." ”

She cleared her throat and spoke of the snake ratio:

Experienced croppers know that the snake ratio is high. The serpent is divided into two kinds than the highest, the living and the dead.

A serpent is more than the living, and a dead man is better than a serpent.

There was a saying circulating online before. If your pet snake suddenly does not eat or drink, and uses its body to be larger than the owner's size, then the owner should be careful, because at that time the snake is emptying its stomach, larger than your size, to see if it can eat you. In fact, this is a kind of rumor, there are many examples of anacondas eating sheep and dying alive in the animal world, if the snake is smart enough to compare the size first, these things will not happen. And there has never been a documentary about snakes using their bodies to compare their prey in their eating habits.

The snake is more than a living person, and it is often said that it is very evil in the country weird talk.

If you are in the ground and suddenly you come across a snake that straightens up, you must be taller than it at this time, and if you stand on tiptoe, the snake will straighten up more and more.

Often after being compared to a snake, if the snake is taller than you, then later, you will be killed by this snake anyway, you will be bitten to death by a snake when you go to the ground, and you will be poisoned by a snake swimming in you when you hide at home; If you're taller than a snake, you're out of the way.

I remembered smashing snakes when I was a child, and quickly interrupted Ma Chengcheng's words and asked, "Actually, the snake is preyed on by demonized snakes, right?" Snakes in their attacking state look as if they are taller than humans. ”

Ma Chengcheng nodded approvingly, "Yes, yes, now I will analyze it myself, it is very likely that you say this." ”

I asked, "What about the dead?" ”

Ma Chengcheng continued:

When my mother was a child, there were two sheds used for mourning, but when Ma Chengcheng was a child, there was only one, which is certainly not accidental. Just like the scene she saw when she was a child, she didn't just see two people, but also saw an extra shed, which also didn't exist, and that's the point.

Why did one of the sheds of the same period survive to this day? Why are there two 'people' sitting in the extra shed?

The source of the problem is the snake.

It took over the sheds and made them nests.

How big does a shed with a length of two meters and a width of about one meter and a half occupy the ground, so that Ma Chengcheng thinks it is a pole of bud grain? And what serpent will take over the place where the dead mourn and make a nest?

The older generation would say that if the snake is more than the dead, that is, the snake will become a sperm through the body of the dead, and no one knows the reason for the statement, but it is impossible to think that there is a snake standing straight next to the dead man, and it is impossible to say that it is not scary.

Ma Chengcheng finished explaining the matter of the snake ratio, and we fell into silence.

For a moment there was only the crackling sound of a charcoal fire.

I remembered the shed I saw during the day, and raised the doubt in my heart: "Then why is there no snake in that shed now?" ”

Ma Chengcheng smiled, "I don't know, maybe it won't stay there during the day, maybe it moved, or ......"

My cousin answered, "Sister, or what's wrong?" ”

Ma Chengcheng lowered his voice, "Or maybe it's already a sperm." ”

A spark burst out of the charcoal fire.

I was startled, and suddenly felt that something seemed to be moving in the shadowy bamboo forest, and it seemed that there were countless ancient spirits and ghosts lurking in the invisible darkness around me, and the already somewhat infiltrating night was even more eerie and terrifying at this time.

Ma Chengcheng laughed, "I'm joking, you have to know ......"

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "Know what?" ”

Ma Chengcheng said a word to us and lowered her head to make the charcoal basin, she used tongs to stir the charcoal fire in the charcoal basin, and a series of small sparks poured out of the charcoal blocks, which looked very beautiful in the dark night.

Thinking about her words, I suddenly felt that Tiger Gully was not as scary as in the story, and I couldn't help but laugh when I thought about it.

What Ma Chengcheng said is-

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, animals were not allowed to become sperm.