Chapter 11: The Cat-Faced Granny
[The following is narrated in Zhou Yun's tone]
In other words, in the early days of the Republic of China, it is not clear which year it was. In the Northeast, there is a family with the first four generations of the same family.
The old lady of the family is also in her seventies, and the wrinkles on her face are as many as orange peels. In addition to eating and drinking every day, this old lady was a companion with the tanuki who lived in the courtyard house. The children are busy making money in the big city, and the children are also studying and going to school in the city. Only she was left at home in the countryside as a lonely old lady. The children occasionally brought in something good to eat, drink, and wear, and it didn't take long for them to go back to the city.
Only this tanuki has been with the old lady. Sometimes when it's cold at night, I hold it in my arms to keep warm.
Anyway, this tanuki doesn't know what year it came to this house. Anyway, since having it, the family has never seen the face of the mouse master again. But it's strange to say that this tanuki has lived at home for so long, but it is still very recognizable. Except for the old lady's room, the others could not see it.
After all, there will be such a day when people are old, and finally the day when the old lady will go to Jiuquan to see the old man who left early. The family changed the old lady into a shroud and a shroud, please put on the bamboo couch in the lobby. The filial sons and grandsons who rarely go home usually occupy a room this time.
But for two days in a row, although the old lady was so angry that she couldn't get a drop of water, she just couldn't swallow her last breath. At this moment, the children and grandchildren in the house were panicked, and hurriedly invited a well-informed old uncle.
The old uncle looked at the old lady and asked tentatively, "Sister, aren't you someone else you want to meet?" ”
It didn't matter, the old lady's throat rattled, and a pair of dead eyes stared straight at the hut where she used to live, and tears flowed out.
When the old uncle saw this, he stood up and asked, "Is there anything in the house where my sister lives that she can't put down?" The filial sons and grandchildren looked at each other, and they all dared not speak.
The old lady's eldest son had no choice but to pull the old uncle aside and say, "Uncle, there is something in the house, and it is the big civet cat you have seen." But you say, my mother is like this now, this thing, can my nephew let it out?"
When the old uncle heard this, he was shocked: Mother, my nephew did the right thing about this. Those who are dying cannot see those cats and dogs.
Not to mention cats and dogs, even rats can't be seen. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that animals cut off their qi, that is, if a person lives for a breath, his anger is gone, and his life is gone. Although this qi is invisible and intangible, a living person of one hundred and eighty catties is supported by this breath in his body. If a person dies, the anger will run away. In case it happens that a cat or dog happens to pass by and intercepts this breath, then you can become a demon and become a spirit, and it is okay to eat live people and lose your family's business.
Therefore, whoever wants to die must first take care of the domestic animals, and must not get close to the dying person.
But this old lady has too deep a relationship with this tanuki, and she can't go along with this breath if she doesn't see this big tanuki, how can she say that she is her own sister, can she be so reluctant to go?
The old uncle was also in trouble, so he asked his nephew, "What about the tanuki?" How did you deal with it? ”
The old lady's son replied, "What else can I do, a few people blocked it in the house, and finally tied it up." Hang it on the roof beam with an iron chain, and when my mother leaves, I scald it and peeled it to warm my uncle's knees. If you want to say that this tanuki is fierce, look at the nephew's face, this paw print, all of them were caught by it, look at it. As he spoke, he leaned over his face and let the old uncle see it.
The old uncle was angry, and went up to the nephew's big face with a big ear scraper, and scolded: | My sister is not dead yet, so you will trample on her heart! If it weren't for you unfilial things, wouldn't my sister, who usually ignores her, stay in the house all day long with a tanuki as a companion? You did this because you didn't want my sister to close her eyes! Be careful, she won't let you little cubs go!
The old lady's filial sons and grandchildren all said aggrievedly: "Uncle look at what you said, when the old man was here, we didn't lack her food and clothing, how can we say that we are not filial?" ”
The old uncle sighed: "You, the old man wants to warm his heart, not his body." People accompany and talk, not eat three meals and wait for death. You'll know this when you're old, and now you don't understand it, so take me to release the tanuki. ”
The children and grandchildren did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly took the old uncle to the hut. It doesn't matter what it seems, the tanuki's hair was pulled off piece by piece, the four little hooves were tied with hemp rope like a piglet, a hemp core was stuffed in the mouth, and a dog chain was tied around the waist, hanging in the air of the girder. When it saw the old uncle coming in at this time, it was anxious but couldn't scream, and its cat eyes were moist.
The old uncle stomped his feet angrily, you brutes, the tanuki has helped your family for so many years, there is no merit and hard work, so spoil it, hurry, hurry, put it down.
The children and grandchildren hurriedly hung the dog chain tied to the raccoon cat on the ground, and the old uncle took out the hemp kernel from the cat's mouth at this time, and the tanuki immediately barked deadly, like crying, the cat's head twisted desperately to the old lady's hall arranged in the spiritual house.
The meaning of the tanuki is obvious, but the old uncle is difficult again: the person who wants to die can't see the cat or dog, but he can't close his eyes when he doesn't see his sister die, what can I do?
In the end, I thought of a compromise solution: loosen the hemp rope of the tanuki's limbs, tie the dog chain to the cat's neck, and lead the cat to meet the old lady far away outside the mourning hall. This was a true idea, but in the end it went wrong.
It is said that the eldest son of the old lady is holding the cat, and the old uncle is standing on crutches tremblingly. As soon as he arrived at the threshold of the mourning hall, the second son of the old lady who stayed in the mourning hall shouted in the mourning hall: Brother, uncle, my mother has just left! When the tanuki heard this, he turned his head, and somehow broke free from the leash, and ran into the house with a sigh, and pounced on the old lady in the face. The second son was so frightened that he picked up the mourning stick, and one of them smashed it on the tanuki's head and rolled the tanuki fan out of the way. When I was about to go up and make up for another guy, I suddenly felt that the atmosphere was wrong, and everyone looked behind them in amazement. Turning his head like this, he was so frightened that he ran out all of a sudden.
The corpse of the old lady behind him sat up by herself, her two empty eyes stared straight at her, and everyone shouted in fright: Fake the corpse, cheat the corpse......
The person who is about to die is pounced on by a cat or dog and is called to intercept his breath, and the person who is already dead is pounced on by a cat or dog is not called to intercept his breath, that is called a corpse. To put it bluntly, it is the resurrection of zombies.
Everyone knows that zombies want to eat human flesh and drink human blood, and the mourning hall immediately jumps and makes a mess.
If you want to say that you are bold or an old uncle, you stepped forward with a cane and shouted: Sister, sister, if there is anything you can't let go, don't scare the family. After shouting for a while, the old lady lay down again.
The old uncle had the courage to go up and touch the old lady's nose, and said angrily: Who is blind and said that my sister is dead, isn't this still angry?
Things are so weird, the old lady's second son couldn't tell the difference, and he hung his head when he was scolded by everyone, so he had to clean up the cat corpse on the ground with a smashed head and a flowering flower and hide out. After this toss, the old lady actually got more in and out of air every day, and the filial sons and grandsons were dumbfounded, and they dared to prepare for this mourning. But as long as people are angry, they can't bury the old lady alive, right? So I had to carry the old lady back to the hut where she had lived before.
This is the real beginning of the story of the cat-faced old lady, and strange things happen in a row:
The first strange thing is that I always see the old lady lying on the bed during the day, and the rice and porridge sent to me are not moved, but I also do not see the old lady hungry. But in the middle of the night, the old lady's family always felt that someone was walking gently in the yard.
The second strange thing is that the rats in the surrounding radius of several miles are suddenly gone, and some people have seen the rats in the granary move during the day, in groups, panicking as if fleeing for their lives. However, everyone is not rich in the years, and it is a good thing to say that the mouse master moved, but before he had time to be happy, the third thing happened.
The third thing is: the child is missing. At first, it was a baby who was less than a year old, and when the baby was gone, the 3 or 4-year-old children began to be unable to keep it. For a while, people were panicked, and they all said that the flower party was coming, and everyone squeezed the children in the middle to sleep at night, but when it came to dawn, the originally locked door was wide open, and the children on the bed were gone. How did this flower party sneak into the locked door without knowing it?
Traffickers who abduct children by means of drugs and deception.
Finally, attentive parents found out that after the child disappeared, when cleaning, shoe prints wrapped around small feet were found under the bed or in the dust on the beam. In the early years of the Republic of China, the women who wrapped their little feet were a little old, and everyone remembered the old lady who was resurrected by a raccoon cat.
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