Originally, we had a boxed lunch with those criminal policemen, but Li Yuncong didn't know where to borrow the pressure cooker, so he was able to eat it happily today.

The criminal police and police officers also got a few chickens, and they all went out, probably to a nearby restaurant to ask the chef of the restaurant to help make it.

When our conversation was over, the chicken was stewed, put it on the small table, opened a bottle of wine, and I was about to put down the chopsticks, Li Yuncong hit me with his hand, took out the chicken head and chicken butt and chicken feet from the pot, put it in a bowl, got some potatoes, and then inserted the chopsticks in the middle, and went out.

I knew that I was going to make offerings to the oni, because only the food for the oni would stick the chopsticks straight in the center of the bowl. It's just a pity that those two chicken feet, that's my favorite, it's a pity to give it to the ghost.

Speaking of which, I'm going to tell a little story again, which also happened when I was a child, a neighbor of mine across the door, surnamed Wen, is called Wen Yuan, which is a rather secluded surname.

But I was about seven or eight years old at the time, Wen Yuan was as old as me, he was so naughty, he recruited cats and dogs, dared to do anything that lacked virtue, and was often beaten by his father.

I was quite honest at that time, but Wen Yuan was not good, naughty and mischievous, and often did some pranks.

As the saying goes, at the age of seven or eight, the child at that time was the most naughty time, and he didn't even want to see the dog.

Wen Yuan and I were a pair of scourges in the village at that time, as the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, I Wen Yuan didn't learn well together, smashing a hornet's nest and sting people today, lighting people's firewood stacks tomorrow, and poking the dog's nose with the cigarette butts that are still burning left by adults.

Anyway, as long as it's naughty and mischievous, we're almost done, and sometimes we'll catch a snake to scare the girls we beat, but we were beaten up by others, not to mention, and sued home, so that I ate a meal of fried pork with broom gnocchi.

Once, an old man in our village passed away, and the adults went to help build the funeral shed, put on the dead people's life clothes, prepare coffins, etc., and the two of us watched the excitement behind the adults' butts.

I don't know when, Wen Yuan saw a bowl of rice at the head of the coffin, and the bowl was covered with a dough cake, and a pair of chopsticks were inserted in the middle of the dough cake.

This one has a name, and later I learned that this is called a rice jar, which is not the bowl we usually use, but a small pot of clay pottery, which is not much bigger than a bowl, and there are five small holes drilled in the bottom.

It is said that this was a bowl of rice for the deceased to eat on the way, and after eating, he took this thing to the underworld.

After death, everyone will be judged by the king of the underworld, how many good things have been done in this life, how many bad things, and then they will be sentenced to suffer in the next few layers of hell, or then reincarnate, or directly stay in the underworld as an errand, those who are particularly good, only those who do good deeds in their lives have the opportunity to ascend to heaven.

The idea that water is the source of life and should not be wasted is now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but in ancient times, people also knew the importance of water. In many places, it is very difficult to get water, and in some places, especially in some places in Gansu, it is common for water to be as expensive as oil, and it is completely dependent on the rain from the sky, and it is stored in the cellar to maintain the living water for a year.

But as long as you are a human being, there is no one who does not deal with water, and how much water you have wasted in the yang world in this life, you must drink the water you wasted in the yang world after you reach the underworld.

How big is a person's belly, and you can't drink it even if you waste a little water! But in Hades, it is not possible to drink it in Hades, it must be drunk.

But the hell does not prepare a bowl for you, you must bring your own, and the bowl with five holes drilled in the bottom is your tool for cheating, and you pretend to drink it on it, but in fact the water leaks out of the five holes, so that you don't suffer after death.

There is another point in this legend, that is, a man's rice jar after death is five eyes, and a woman's is seven, as for the saying, a man is the honor of ninety-five, nine is the extreme, only the emperor can use it, and ordinary men can only use five.

There is also a more reliable statement, saying that it is because men rarely deal with water after all, and the waste of water is limited, five eyes are enough, and women are not in pain, brush pots and dishes, wash clothes, etc., these are all wastes of water, and women love to be clean, unlike some rural men, it is rare to take a bath several times a year, and women are different, bathing is also a waste of water.

Women waste more water than men, and when they go to hell, they drink so much that men have enough to leak five eyes, while women have to have seven.

I know that now, we still retain such a tradition there, even if cremation is popular, but the village party secretary is not impersonal at all, and the rules that have been handed down for thousands of years cannot be broken overnight.

Therefore, as long as it is brought to the crematorium for cremation, as for whether to use a coffin or not, seal the soil and erect a monument, that is your ability, he has completed the cremation index, and he must not offend the villagers.

So in many places on our side, although there are cremations, there are still coffins, and the graves are buried very high, and they are not the kind of wreaths that are very common in the city, but covers.

The so-called cover is similar to the house, the cover on the coffin, not the coffin cover, the coffin cover is splendid, very valuable, and the cover is the kind that Lao Yang has made, using straw to make the skeleton, and then covering it with some colorful paper and cloth, and painting some pictures like the villain book on it.

The most common ones are the three Ying Zhan Lu Bu, and Hai Rui is an official, in short, the kind that is very vivid, the cover is quite gorgeous, there are doors and windows, but the doors and windows can't be opened, it's just a look. On the windowsill of the hood there are also small figures made of mud and bamboo sticks, and these little figures will later become the servants of the deceased.

At the front there is also a pair of paper boys and girls, whose heads are made of clay and have facial features drawn, which look beautiful, but very weird.

It is said that the villain is used to treat night terrors, and if a child has symptoms of night terrors, they can be treated by pulling out one of them and placing them under the pillow before the mask is burned.

Of course, we didn't have night terrors at that time, but it was fun to look at that thing, and often before people went out, we just pulled it off and ran away.

That's it this time, we Shen didn't pay attention, directly pulled off the two villains from the cover and ran away, and took them outside to play, because I don't know when someone will set off the cannon, the sound is deafening, I'm quite afraid.

Wen Yuan and I were two small people, and the adults didn't care, but they came out smoothly, and after coming out, I saw an old man in front of the firewood pile not far away.

We all know this old man, he often comes to our village, and only the one in the village who specializes in iron cannons.

Now many people don't know what an iron cannon is, here to popularize it, the so-called iron cannon is a three-eyed gun, the appearance is similar to a grenade on TV, but there are three eyes on it, gunpowder is placed in it, and it is raised after ignition, the sound is very loud, but it can only be sounded three times at a time, so it is called a three-eyed gun.

There is a popular folk slang saying that the three-eyed gun beats the rabbit, which has no accurate meaning, and it is this thing.

This old man is a lonely old man, and he has no relatives at home, only a nephew from the side door to take care of him occasionally, and the picture is also his inheritance.

He is a professional iron cannon, and at the moment when the coffin goes out, he makes three consecutive sounds, announcing that the deceased has set off, just like the ancients set out on an expedition, to fire three cannons.

Then he saw that the time was almost up, and he got up and walked towards the dead man's house, with his hands behind his back, and in his hands the iron cannon on which he depended.

Wen Yuan rolled his eyes, picked up the cigarette that the old man had just thrown away from the ground, and followed the old man, and I watched the excitement from the side.

Wen Yuan himself was short, and when he was tiptoeing, the old man didn't even realize that he was followed by a little kid who was about to plot against him.

Wen Yuan poked the cigarette butt several times, and finally lit a fuse, and ran back in fright.

The gunpowder fuses of the past burned relatively quickly, not as slowly as they do now, and as soon as he ran two steps, the iron cannon exploded, and the old man was so frightened that he jumped up like a frightened donkey, and threw the iron cannon in his hand.

When he came to his senses, he chased us for several streets with the soles of his shoes and cursed, and I saw that his hands were blackened, and he looked badly injured, otherwise he would not have been so angry.

Later, of course, this matter was over, but Wen Yuan's kid had a super ability to imitate, and within a few days, their family ate sticky cakes, and this product bit the sticky cakes into a round shape, and then buckled them on the bowl, and inserted them in the middle with a pair of chopsticks.

When his father found out about this, he immediately became angry and beat him so hard that he almost beat his ass into four pieces.

Therefore, these ways of sacrificing the dead and some taboos are best not to be used on the living, otherwise I don't know what bad things will happen.

As for what happened to the Wen Yuan family, I don't know, because that incident was discovered early, and at that time, rural people knew more or less how to crack it, and maybe it was not necessary to solve the disaster.

These just flashed in my mind, and Li Yuncong came back, and he didn't explain to me where to put it, and I didn't ask, after pouring the wine, we began to eat and drink.

From the morning to now, I haven't touched my teeth with water and rice, I've been hungry for a long time, and I can't take care of burning my mouth with a piece of meat, and the one I eat is called a fragrant.

The meal lasted from three o'clock in the afternoon until it was dark, and in the meantime, Li Yuncong also told me some of my experiences, of course, these experiences were encountered when he had not yet come into contact with magic arts, and it was scary and scary, but most of them had little to do with ghosts and the like.

After all, there are still not many people in this world who can have this kind of weird experience, most of them are false, and some of them are simply made up and cannot withstand scrutiny.

Li Yuncong's hometown is a small town on the southwest border, not far from the national border, and the most famous place in that place is poison and Gu, which belongs to the category of Miao Jiang.

Of course, Li Yuncong is not a Miao person, but a descendant of the Han people who migrated in the past, and he has a good relationship with the local Miao people, Li Yuncong was exposed to Gu art when he was a child.

The so-called Gu art is relatively mysterious in the eyes of ordinary people, and it is the same as the magic technique, and the Gu art is also a very powerful magic developed by the Miao people, killing people hundreds of miles away.

The first experience Li Yuncong told me was an experience when he was a child who inadvertently saw others raising five poisonous Gu......

Asking for collections and recommendations, I can't get on the list on the strong push, which is really depressing.