The next morning, my parents went to the vegetable market to buy a rooster and came back. I had a casual chat with the middle-aged man and learned his identity.

His name is Jiang Xiu, and he was originally my neighbor. But since his parents died early and he didn't have the strength to farm, it was my parents who gave him food to eat, so that he could survive his childhood, and later went out of the mountain village to become a Taoist priest.

I know a little about Taoist monks, and I'm a little envious. I heard that Taoist monks are very profitable now, but they can't be if they don't have a bachelor's degree, and their English is even better. People like Jiang Xiu just took advantage of the early years to enter the industry.

He tied a yellow ribbon around the rooster and wrote my name and date of birth on it. I was puzzled and asked what was going on, and he said he would find out then.

After that, he also pasted a white letter on the door of the new house, which made me a little annoyed. Everyone else is in red, why am I in white?

After eating lunch angrily, I heard a shout outside: "Jiang Cheng, what about a happy event?" Actually, you don't need to do it, your wife will have a car accident tomorrow! ”

The voice sounded familiar, and when I stepped out to look at it, I was furious. There was a sloppy man standing at the door, this was a person from the next village, named Tan Dongyu, a laizi who was known in the township. He was so lazy that he first gnawed at the old man, and later stole his parents' coffins to eat and drink, so angry that the two old men kicked him out of the house. For so many years, he never worked, and whenever someone had a happy event, he would come out and say bad things.

Someone got married, and he said that the bride had been slept with. Someone held a funeral, and he said that tomorrow the whole family would die together. Someone gave the child a full moon wine, and he said that the child died within two days.

There is no way, he has to give money before he is willing to leave, it is like blackmail. And he couldn't beat him, otherwise he would call the police and tell the police that he had been beaten and asked for compensation, and the villagers felt disgusted when they saw him.

I was about to scold Tan Dongyu to drive him away, but Jiang Xiu suddenly said to me: "Let him continue to scold, scold hard." ”

I wondered, this has to be a happy event, how can I give Tan Dongyu a casual scolding. But Jiang Xiu looked at Tan Dongyu with a smile on his face, and scolded.

The time slowly came to night, and Tan Dongyu never left. It is estimated that this is the first time he has encountered such a hard bone in my family, and he rolled his eyes with scolding. A few times Tan Dongyu wanted to give up and leave, Jiang Xiu would shout: "Don't go, whoever is cowardly today will be born and die on the road tomorrow." ”

So the sun set, Tan Dongyu was still scolding, but he refused to leave.

After it got dark, Jiang Xiu asked me to pick up the rooster, and he said to me seriously and seriously: "I know you don't believe in some things, but it's better to do it, your parents raised you so big, it's good to do it for them." Hold this rooster and walk around the house three times. Remember not to speak, not to run, not to look back, you know? Remember, you'll have to count the steps you've taken. ”

I said I got it, so I picked up the rooster and walked outside. Tan Dongyu saw me coming out with a rooster in his arms, and he continued to scold: "Your wife is a chicken!" ”

I ignored him, and when I walked out and walked around the yard for the first ∵, I thought it was nothing, just like walking on a normal day. And by the time I got on the second lap, I felt something was wrong.

Because I vaguely feel that my family seems to be a little bigger than it used to be. Originally, I could turn a corner after 12 steps, but when I walked the second lap, I had to walk 18 steps to turn. After one lap, I walked twenty steps more than the first lap.

It's weird.

It's the same as before, it's walking around my house, why is the number of steps different?

The rooster quietly buried his head in my arms, did not bark, and seemed particularly silent. Coupled with the fact that it was quite dark all around, and this strange thing happened, I felt a little hairy in my heart.

When I walked the third lap, I found that Tan Dongyu was no longer at my door, and at this time, a breath suddenly blew from behind my ear. It wasn't wind, I was sure someone was blowing behind my ears, because I didn't feel a trace of wind coming from the back and back of my head.

Who is it?

I wanted to look back, but I remembered that Jiang Xiu had told me that I couldn't turn back, so I could only endure fear and continue walking.

Slowly, I felt that my body was heavy, and with each step I took it heavier and heavier, as if I was carrying someone behind my back. The point is, this person seems to have been blowing cold air into my ears and the back of my neck, freezing so cold that I can only shrink my neck.

The number of steps on the third lap was different again, because the house seemed to suddenly become smaller, at first it was a twelve-step turn, then an eighteen-step turn, and now it was ...... But it can be turned in ten steps. When I finally reached the end, I only felt that my whole body was heavy, and when I came down, it was six steps less than I started.

I already feel like something strange has happened to me, whose house is suddenly big and small?

Walking into the courtyard, Jiang Xiu stood at the door of my house. He said, "Throw the rooster away, pat the dust off your shoulders, and come in again." ”

I put down the rooster, and the moment it hit the ground, the rooster suddenly wasn't as calm as before, and ran around the yard like crazy. I tapped both shoulders and took a step forward.

Suddenly, there was a bang, and a lot of things fell out of my sleeves and trouser legs. I looked down and felt white, and it was a little bright. Squatted down and took a look, and found that it was all money.

One point, five points, one corner, and quite a few. Now I was really puzzled, and raised my head to look at Jiang Xiu, hoping that he could give me an answer.

What age is this, how can you still see a penny and a penny?

Jiang Xiu asked me how many steps I had taken and when I started to feel that something was wrong. I said that the first lap was thirty-eight steps, the second fifty-eight steps, the third thirty-two steps, and it was not right from the second lap.

"Thirty-eight plus thirty-two, minus fifty-eight, and here are twelve dollars."

I counted in confusion, and it was exactly twelve dollars!

Jiang Xiu sighed and said that it was really twelve yuan, I asked what was wrong, and he said that it was gift money.

"I'm right, since I paid the gift money, she will come to marry you tonight. Jiang Cheng, don't let the skin get carried away by your brain, now do you still think, can this woman marry? ”

His words made me cold from head to toe.

Do you dare to marry?

Then you will definitely not dare to marry!

I finally understood how evil things were, and quickly asked him what to do now. Jiang Xiu asked me to go into the house first, he smoked the tobacco leaves made by my father himself, shook his head and said, "Don't worry for the time being, that woman is looking for trouble with that Laizi." I asked Raiko to scold like this before, just to arouse the anger of women. ”

I just remembered that when I walked the third lap, Tan Dongyu suddenly disappeared, and at that time I thought he was bored and left. Now I understand that there is a reason for that.

Is he in danger?

Jiang Xiu caught the rooster at this time, and he shouted in a low voice: "Don't be distracted, do you want to be that Laizi?" A disgusting laizi, no one regrets even if he dies. Grab your groom's dress from yesterday and put it on the. You walked three laps with it before, and on the second lap, I had swapped your identities with the rooster, and it was as if the rooster had received the gift. Put the in your room tonight and lock the door. ”

I asked, "So where do I go?" ”

"You can't stay ten meters away from the rooster, and you can't let her see it, find a place to hide by yourself, this is your new house, how can I be familiar with you. Be careful, I'll have a chance to help you get through today. If I can't survive tonight, then ......" he didn't finish the rest of his words, and looked at me meaningfully.

I gasped, I had to hide, not let my beautiful sister see me, and I had to get within ten meters of the.

I looked around and felt that there was nowhere to hide, and then I said it would be better to hide under the bed, the most dangerous place is the safest place. He said it would be fine, as long as it wasn't seen.

I hurriedly brought the groom's clothes and carefully put on the rooster, because I was afraid of falling off, I also tied a rope around the rooster several times to fix the clothes. Then I went upstairs with the rooster in my arms, put it on the bed, and hid myself under the bed.

There was a sound of the door closing outside, and it should be that Jiang Xiu didn't dare to stay for a long time. I lay on my stomach, trying to keep my breath down.

Suddenly, the dogs of several houses outside suddenly barked loudly, and many of them barked together, as if they were living people, and then I heard a squeak.

The gate of the courtyard was opened......