What is the crossing of the Yin soldiers? I guess no one can describe it specifically. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt seems that people just say that there is such a "phenomenon" by word of mouth.

Some say they are hallucinations caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, while others say they are "poisonous miasma" caused by the accumulation of dead people's corpses after a catastrophe. In short, after a major disaster, there is a legend called "Yin Soldier" transiting.

People who believe in science interpret these from a scientific point of view, and those who don't know much or have religious beliefs think that those Yin soldiers are the "ghosts" who escort the dead in the underworld.

In short, there are many explanations for the crossing of the Yin soldiers. Some say it's an entity, some say it's an illusion, some say it's science, and some say it's superstition.

But there is one thing that everyone agrees on.

"The appearance of the Yin soldiers" must mean that there will be a great killing.

However, very few people know that before and after the crossing of the Yin soldiers, similar to the earthquake, we can often find many "omens" of the crossing of the Yin soldiers. Such as the night cry of a hundred babies, the willow forest smiling, the magpie moving, the well bleeding and so on.

What I call Yin Cao "buy Yin soldier food". It is one of these "omens" that circulates in the cook's circle.

All this starts with an ancient "ritual", that is, the meaning of "buying military rations" itself.

The so-called "buying soldiers' rations", as the name suggests, is the rations given to the soldiers, but this kind of rations refers specifically to the first rations issued by ancient recruits after joining the army.

Moreover, this grain is not so much a "grain salary" as a ritual.

The process of the ceremony is as follows:

In ancient times, there was an unwritten rule in our army that once a civilian was requisitioned as a soldier, no matter what his physical fitness or ability, he would be given a bowl of wine immediately.

This bowl of wine is called "Zhuangxing wine", and there are only two kinds of people who can drink this kind of wine, one is a death row prisoner, and the other is a soldier who goes out to fight in the army.

The way of drinking Zhuangxing wine is also very particular. Whoever this wine is given to, whether they drink it or not, they have to drink it on the spot. It's just that the way death row prisoners and soldiers drink is completely different.

An said that death row prisoners would drink all the wine, and then drop the bowl and go on the road to "go on a red business". The soldiers, on the other hand, must not finish drinking, nor can they drop bowls.

When recruits drink alcohol, they must leave half of it, and splash the rest into the sky, and let the wine fall on the land, preferably on the yellow earth, to show that they are sacrificing to the ancestors of heaven and earth and the mountains and rivers, so as to beg for peace and wealth.

When the bowl was empty, the recruits would leave the bowl and let the officers fill the bowl with white rice, preferably glutinous rice, which was ****** "buy rations."

After that, the recruit would give his first handful of "salary" to the marching cooks, so that they could cook a full meal for themselves.

For thousands of years, this unwritten rule has been implemented in our army, and this habit of "buying military rations" is not only us, but also imperceptibly, affecting many countries around our country, such as Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, etc., all follow or disguise this custom. Even until World War II, the Japanese army and navy still had the custom of giving recruits "red bean sticky rice" as a way to buy military rations.

The modern explanation for why Zhuangxing wine is given is the soldier's longing for peace and courage. However, there are many explanations as to why military rations are being sent, but none of them are conclusive.

I have to say, it's a pity.

Modern China's "chef's circle" lacks the spirit of in-depth exploration of China's food culture and traditions, and is more simply satisfied with ingredients and taste, which makes Chinese cuisine form an embarrassing situation of empty food but no "food etiquette".

In many cases, this is also the main reason why foreigners always feel that our Chinese food is not high-grade, the environment is harsh, and it is not civilized.

Right now...... Few people remember it anymore, right? Cooks should pay attention to "knife, fire, gong, and etiquette", and "etiquette" is the key to "food and spirituality".

…… Of course, the reason why I think so much about a moldy glutinous rice is not because I complain, but because I have heard some rumors about this moldy glutinous rice from the old squad leader and the rumors in the community for a long time.

According to word of mouth in the temple, moldy glutinous rice, in ancient times, was specially used to recruit "Yin soldiers" to buy soldiers.

This statement comes from a phenomenon.

Legend has it that when the Yin soldiers cross the border, they will always find some inexplicable moldy food at the place where they "transit", such as rice and noodles that were originally good, which will quickly spoil and disappear at a speed that is visible to the human eye. The vegetables and fruits that were fresh before became moldy and rotten in a blink of an eye.

People cannot understand and explain this phenomenon, which is often said to be the "soldier food" that the Yin soldiers "eat" when they cross the border.

When my old squad leader once told me about these dark taboos, he mentioned it a little once, saying that there is a "branch" in the temple of the five internal organs that will take advantage of this phenomenon to make a special glutinous rice that is "moldy". Those glutinous rice are made of the obscure atmosphere of heaven and earth, and it is easy to attract ghosts, and once the ghosts who are attracted eat those glutinous rice, they will become Yin soldiers for people to drive, serving their temporary "masters......

After a little thought, I regretted and was surprised, I regretted why I didn't ask the old squad leader more, I was surprised why this five visceral temple would produce this kind of weird person who studied the "ingredients" of ghosts, and he was not a Taoist, what was the use of recruiting ghosts? Stir-fry......

When I thought of this, I immediately pinched the glutinous rice in the palm of my hand. At the same time, holding on to the last bit of luck, he looked to the ground.

"Looking for what?" Zhao Hong looked at my strange movements and couldn't help but ask me, "Is there only soil on the ground?" ”

I waved my hand and said, "You are looking carefully, is there any rice on the ground...... If so, take a look at ......"

But before I could finish my instructions, the sharp-eyed Ah Si interrupted me and said, "Brother Tian! I have rice here! It's all glutinous rice! ”

As Xiao Ah Si spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the ground in front of him in a panic.

I hurriedly ran over, took out my phone, turned on the flashlight and shone it on the ground.

The gray mold-colored glutinous rice was mixed between the stones, slowly extending like a snake and swaning forward on the Lao Qi Road, pointing intermittently from the direction of the three tables...... Our car.

"Moldy glutinous rice, square table, big red paper, white porcelain bowl, three sticks of incense......" I looked at these things, recalled all the information I could use in my head, and soon came up with a very surprising idea. I can't even believe this idea, after all, what age is it?!

"These three tables are not inviting others to eat or sacrifice!" I suddenly "realized" and said, "I think, someone is putting up a formation here!" The purpose is to ...... Summoning the Yin Soldiers! ”

"Summoning Yin Soldiers?! Sure enough, it's a Yin soldier?! Zhao Hong was also surprised when he heard my words, and his face suddenly had beads of sweat the size of beans. That expression seemed to have touched some taboo in his heart with my words.

And his next words also applied to my thoughts.

Zhao Hong immediately said in a hurry: "Hurry back to the car!" What you said made me understand it all. ”

"Understand what?"

Zhao Hong eagerly pointed to the driveway: "Go back and talk about it, it's not safe outside, and the landslide is by no means accidental, I'll tell you......"

At this juncture when Zhao Hong said what he didn't say, the lights of our pickup truck, which had been shining, suddenly went out.

"Ah~!" A scream streaked across the sky.

In the darkness, we were stunned to hear a sharp woman's shout from the direction of the pickup! Immediately afterwards, Zhao Hong's second uncle's black dog barked wildly.

In the barking of the dog, Zhao Hong and I did not slow down for a while, so that in the face of this sudden situation, none of them moved.

"The woman's name is ......," Zhao Hong was the first to speak.

His words also made me come back to my senses immediately, and then I immediately said: "Xian Hongye! ”

Then, as soon as I grabbed Ah Si, who had short legs, and ran towards the pickup truck with Zhao Hong, one after the other.

In the dark, we didn't run very fast, and I didn't have any good premonitions of sudden outbreaks. But what I didn't expect was that when we ran back to the pickup truck out of breath, the situation there had deteriorated more than all of us had imagined.

I was amazed to see that in just a dozen seconds of our running back, everything inside and outside the pickup truck had changed!

At this time, Wang Roar and Hongye had already disappeared, the door of the pickup truck was open, the right side glass was smashed open by something, and the two headlights were also completely destroyed.

From the outside, the whole pickup truck is empty, dilapidated and desolate, as if it has just been ransacked, and the only thing that remains seems to be the black dog "Dudu" in the back pocket.

At this moment, the dog was roaring in the direction of the old Qi Road, and the black dog's strength was also very strong, and the chain of the dog was a little stretched and thinner.

In the desolation of the barking dog, I watched all this in a daze...... Enough to turn everything on my mind upside down.

Two big living people, just evaporated? I can't understand it.

If Hyun Hongye was "killed" alone, it may be explained, but what about Wang Roar? He is the second place in the competition of our military region, a figure that more than a dozen strong men may not have beaten, and he is a killing machine!

Even Wang Roar disappeared in just a few tens of seconds, what does it mean? Or is it really an "opponent" in the dark...... Yin soldiers?

I don't know, and I don't want to, but I dare to think about it.

Unwillingly, I was helpless, and gently stretched out my hand like a puppet to open the door of the pickup truck.

Although I knew that it was probably empty, I still opened the door with a hint of luck, hoping that Wang Roar and Hongye were still in the car, maybe they were lying under the seats?

Soon, the doors opened.

When I opened the door and saw everything in the bleak moonlight, my last glimmer of hope was ...... It's still shattered.

There, there is no Wang Roar and Xian Hongye, there are just a car and a place of glass ballast, and ...... Two blood-stained stones placed on the seats of the two of them.

"Stones! It's a Yin Soldier! Zhao Hong, who also saw everything, was a little hysterical, he pointed to the two very ordinary stones and shouted: "You're right! It's the Yin Soldier Crossing! We're all going to be turned to stone! ”