Today is the middle of July, and the day when the ghost door is wide open will be paid attention to not only in China, but also in Japan, Southeast Asian countries, the Korean Peninsula, and places where there are Chinese overseas.

It's a true story, and as a special, I'm here purely timingly.

There is a place called "Shangtian" not far from Hongcun, this is a small village with a population of more than 100 households, before liberation, in order to facilitate the people of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces to engage in some trading and relatives, some people began to do some road business in the mountains, and then gradually became a village, the name is "Shangtian".

Tianmu Mountain Range is the boundary monument of the administrative division of Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, the boundary monument is distributed along the back of the Tianmu Mountain Range, there is a flat land one hundred meters down the boundary monument, and heaven is in this flat place.

There is a winding mountain path down the village, and in the past you could only walk some cows, horses and bicycles, and you had to walk down the mountain for more than 20 miles to reach the next village. Go up, over the boundary monument is Anhui Xuancheng Realm, there is also a village similar to Upper Heaven, but the village is relatively scattered, called Lower Heaven.

The two villages are close to each other, so the villagers have more contacts with each other, first trading and then marriage, slowly, the girls who go to heaven also marry to Hong Village, there is a person in the village named Zhu Liujin, and Xia Lao Liu is the same generation, and his mother-in-law's family is in the next heaven.

Upper Heaven produces bamboo, dried bamboo shoots, and tea leaves, while Lower Heaven produces canola oil and shiitake mushrooms. In the early eighties, oil was still relatively tight, especially in the northwest of Zhejiang, where there was a general shortage of oil. Zhu Liujin's mother-in-law felt sorry for her daughter and son-in-law, and would save some oil for Zhu Liujin to take back every year.

It took five hours to walk from Hongcun to Heaven, and Zhu Liujin borrowed a bicycle, which belonged to Xia Laoliu, the most fashionable 28 bars of that era. I got up early in the morning and went to my mother-in-law's house for lunch, helped with some farm work in the afternoon, and in the evening my father-in-law gave him some wine and persuaded him not to leave, but Zhu Liujin promised his mother-in-law that he wanted to go back, his mother-in-law was a very suspicious woman, and she always suspected that Liujin was stealing people outside, and Zhu Liujin was afraid that he would have to fight again if he went back and did not explain clearly, so he decided to leave before dark.

The old man said, "Six catties, what day is today?" ”

Zhu Liujin replied: "On the fifteenth day of the old calendar, the moon is full, and I can see it in a hurry." ”

"It's Halloween!" The old man sighed and said: "If you really want to go back, remember to see any living people on the road, don't talk to them, don't enter the gate before you get home, go to the thatched house to make it more convenient, and then take a broom and sweep it on your legs before entering the house." ”

Zhu Liujin is a person who does not believe in gods and ghosts, he was a well-known Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, and he doesn't know how many graves and ancestral halls he has smashed in his hands, and he promised him that his father-in-law didn't take it seriously at all.

I took a pot of oil, a full ten catties, this is the ration for the second half of the year, a large plastic pot, sealed with a plastic bag and then twisted to explain, put it on the schoolbag shelf of the 28 bars, and the rope outside is tied to the five flowers, anyway, it will never fall off without a knife.

The six-pound old man is located at the tail of the lower heaven, and if he wants to go home, he has to walk through a Jiulian Bay.

There is a reservoir in Lower Heaven, and this reservoir has had accidents one after another since it was built. In the first year, there was a woman who committed suicide because of domestic violence, and when she died, she still had a child in her belly, and she had two lives.

The next year, it was a pair of teenage children who went swimming, one of them sank for some reason, and the other went to rescue, but neither of them came up, and when they were picked up, the calves of the two children had red marks on their calves as if they had been pinched by someone, and the old people said that they were dragged by water ghosts

In the third year, it was an electrician who died, and at that time there was a reservoir to generate electricity, and the electrician found that the canal was blocked, so he went to the outlet under the dam to check, and he didn't know what he had taken out of there, anyway, the water suddenly gushed out of the canal, and the electrician didn't even have a chance to escape.

After the accident one after another, the people who went to heaven panicked and asked Mr. Guo to come and see. Mr. said that when the reservoir was built, a grave sank under the water, and because the house was crushed by the water and could no longer be used, it would harm people every year to vent their anger.

At that time, someone tied a bamboo raft, and the gentleman searched everywhere on the water and finally determined the direction. Later, after the reservoir drained the water, digging down in the direction pointed by the gentleman, I really found an old tomb, the coffin inside had long been soaked, and after taking out the remains, it was reburied again, and then it was a little safer.

However, the reservoir happened to be located on the shady side, and there was no sun all year round, so it looked very cold. Jiulian Bay is a road left when the reservoir was built, around the reservoir to the upper plate, inside is attached to the cliff, but can barely walk a wheelbarrow.

Zhu Liujin can't ride up the mountain, he has to use a push, he has an old-fashioned flashlight pinned to the front of the car, the moon has risen at seven o'clock, not a single star can be seen that night, and the moon is covered with a layer of hair. Halfway through, Zhu Liujin felt a little tired and stopped to smoke a cigarette.

At this time, a woman with a big belly came from behind, Zhu Liujin looked at the woman and felt very strange, how could a pregnant woman come down alone at such a late hour. He talks a lot, he just likes to talk, and when he just rested and felt that he was fine, he asked, "Big sister, where are you going?" ”

The woman said, "Go to the foot of the front ridge and bring food to my father-in-law." ”

At that time, it was also very common to work at night, especially when it was the season when the corn was busy harvesting, and he was still helping his father-in-law harvest it in the afternoon.

Zhu Liujin said: "I don't think it's easy for you to have a good stomach, it's so late and you don't bring a lamp, or your things are resting on my car, just so we can still light up together." ”

The woman thanked Zhu Liujin, and hung the basket on the front of the car, and the two chatted while walking, Zhu Liujin knew that her surname was Cai, and the family she married was surnamed Jin, so Zhu Liujin asked: "Is it the old Jintou's family on the Tiantian Field, who grows shiitake mushrooms?" ”

The woman said, "Yes, the eldest brother still knows his father-in-law." ”

In fact, Zhu Liujin knew that there was such a good person, where did he recognize that old man Jin, so in order to show off himself, he blew away: "I am familiar with your father-in-law." He glanced at the woman indiscriminately, guessed that she had only been married for less than two years, and then boasted: "More than ten years ago, I sold shiitake mushrooms with Old Man Jin, and it was a few days and nights on the mountain road to carry the burden, you are still early, and you are still a little girl at home." ”

The woman said, "Big brother, your oil smells so good, can you sell me a little?" The oil in the house is all gone, and the child will not grow much without oil and water. "At that time, oil was a scarce material, and it was necessary to buy it from the supply and marketing cooperatives with oil tickets, and private individuals could only buy it on the black market at a high price, and if they didn't do well, they would be arrested as speculation.

This Zhu Liujin thought that it would be good to sell a few catties for private use, anyway, his wife didn't know how many catties of oil she had taken back, and when the time came, she said that she would only give eight catties and it would be over.

"Big sister, I also see that you are a pregnant woman, so I will sell you some, how much do you want?"

The woman took out a flower bowl from her basket pocket and said, "I don't know how much, you just need to fill this up." ”

It's dark, the sight is not good, the bowl looks like there is still a gap, where does anyone buy oil and still use the bowl, Zhu Liujin tightened the rope and said: "Big sister, I just sold it to you, you will spill it when you get home, I think it's better to forget it." ”

As he spoke, he continued to push the cart while walking, and the woman thought about it and caught up and said, "Big brother, if I don't buy oil, my man will beat me, you are like this, you wake up, I have some private money here for you, I just need this bowl to fill." ”

Zhu Liujin looked back, the woman was holding a large handful of banknotes in her hand, and it was really a lot when she looked at it, his eyes were about to glow, and he knew in his heart that he had met a fool today, and he would not slaughter it. So he said: "I see that your bowl is not small, anyway, until I fill it for you, it will be calculated according to one pound of oil, and you will give me six dimes." ”

The woman carefully counted out a few small gross tickets and gave them to Zhu Liujin, and he happily borrowed the money and stuffed it into his arms and began to pour oil.

That bowl looked like an ordinary person's rice bowl, and it was at most half a catty of oil when it was full, but he asked the girl for six dimes, which could already buy two catties of oil at that time, which was equivalent to a fourfold increase in one fell swoop.

I poured the vegetable oil into that small bowl, I thought it would be full at once, but the oil in that bowl always couldn't go up at more than half a point! At first, Zhu Liujin didn't care at all, but after pouring more than a pound into it, it was not full, Zhu Liujin felt that something was wrong, so he put away the oil pot and said: "Big sister, is your bowl leaking, why am I only a little bit after pouring so much?" ”

Instead, the woman said, "Didn't you say you were going to fill it for me, why don't you want to coax me for money now?" ”

Zhu Liujin picked up the oil pot and gestured: "My pot is ten catties, you can see for yourself, it was originally full, and there are already so many poured for you, more than a catty, you still say that I lied to you?" Otherwise, you take the money back, and I won't sell the oil! ”

Seeing this, the woman hurriedly said, "Otherwise, big brother, you are doing me a favor, and I just need this little oil." ”

"What's the busy?" Zhu Liujin asked.

The woman said, "I see that you have cotton stuffed inside the mat of your bicycle, can you rub a cotton strip for me?" As long as you rub it well, I'll give you six dimes. ”

Zhu Liujin also felt strange about this request, but who would have trouble with money? Anyway, Xia Lao Liu's cushion was also broken, what did it matter if he buckled some cotton, so he really did it, and after rubbing a tampon to the woman, the woman said: "Big brother, you can help me light a fire on this tampon again, the night is too dark, I can't see ...... when I walk."