Carrying the roe deer that had just been beaten, Gu Yuekai walked slowly on the path in the village, thinking that he would wait to pick up the roe deer meat and burn it in a pot at night, and then take two sips of wine with the old branch secretary and Brother Cheng, and listen to the old branch secretary tell the story of the war years, and the whole person's steps seemed brisk.

At this time, there are not many people in the village, or basically there are few people, of course, except for so many families, those families and the rest of the village seem to be a little unsociable, or they don't like to be lively, when everyone else in the village followed the old branch secretary to the back hillside to see the medicinal herbs, those families should not have moved, they were too lazy to join in the excitement.

There is a row of paper figures placed in front of the door of a house, the paper figures are very smart, it looks very "vibrant", and you may mistake it for a real person pestle when you see it at night.

However, if the paper figure is more "realistic", the more profound and weird it will be to give people, Gu Yuekai couldn't help but shrink his neck, even if he saw such a row of paper people in broad daylight, he would have a cold feeling in his neck, as if someone was lying behind him and kept blowing his neck.

Behind a row of paper figures, there are some various animals made of paper, cows, dogs, cats, etc., all of which are lifelike, as if they have become fine, as if they are still staring at you when you walk over, and at this time, the wolf dog next to Gu Yuekai's feet squatted slightly and seemed to do a flutter, it is obvious that the wolf dog has regarded those animals made of paper as a kind of "living thing".

"Don't be stupid, that's fake." Gu Yuekai gently kicked the wolf dog under his feet. He didn't understand why the wolfdog was a very spiritual animal, so why was he stupid at this time.

The wolf dog was lightly kicked by his master, glanced at Gu Yuekai aggrievedly, and then whimpered a few times and obediently retreated behind Gu Yuekai.

"Damn, how do you feel that the turtle son of the old Wu family is getting more and more powerful, and he is piercing like a real person, and he can actually scare me in broad daylight." Gu Yuekai couldn't help but mutter.

The old Wu family is different from the rest of the people in the village, and their family does not live by farming, but by paper people, which is an ancestral craft. Every ten days and half a month, people from outside the mountain will come into the mountain to find people from the old Wu family to go out to catch up with the white affairs. That is, when someone in the family will hold a funeral after the death, build a shed next to it, prepare various materials, and invite those masters who can tie paper people to tie some children's sedan chairs and the like, so as to burn them to the ancestors underground on the day of the official funeral. It's a kind of work to eat the dead.

However, there are many taboos in this meal. It's also more obscure. Probably because of this, the old Wu family has passed down to the present, and there is only one man named Wu Ji left. However, this kid is better than the blue, and the method of tying paper people is much more powerful than that of his father and his grandfather, and the people in the village dare not walk in front of his house at night, just because the paper people in the yard seem to be all alive at night in a hurry.

Gu Yuekai sniffed, his pace sped up a little, and hurriedly walked past the door of Wu Ji's house, and then, outside a house, he heard a sound that seemed to be chanting, and after a closer look, Gu Yuekai was happy, and waved his hand at the guy sitting alone in the courtyard of the house and shouted:

"I said Fanzi, you are a Taoist scholar, how can you chant the scriptures every day like a monk, do Taoist priests also recite the scriptures?"

Taoist priests naturally also chant scriptures, but the mud-legged Taoist priests that Gu Yuekai has seen on weekdays are all holding peachwood swords, and they will breathe fire to catch ghosts when they burn them with rune paper, so they are not majestic, and the sullen monk seems to only recite boring scriptures in Gu Yuekai's cognition.

The young man in the courtyard looked ordinary but had an indescribable temperament, hearing Gu Yuekai's shouts outside, Xu Fan also smiled and shook his head slightly, and then continued to look down at the book in his hand, completely treating Gu Yuekai as a fart, and "letting go" like this.

It's just that Gu Yuekai is crazy alone, he saw that others didn't want to take care of him, but he was even more energetic, and shouted at Xu Fan:

"Oh, I said Fanzi, you can take me with you when you go out to do things in the future, I don't have your ability to fool people, but I can help you get started, I don't have any other requirements, just count on following you out of Lu to rub a sip of good wine and good food, what do you say, hahaha."

Xu Fan had to raise his head again and glanced at Gu Yuekai, probably because he was really helpless against him, and went straight into his house.

Seeing that others were being squeezed back to the house by themselves, Gu Yue Kaiha smiled, touched his chin, and walked away with the roe deer step by step.

Just now, the family's surname is Xu, and the family has been a Taoist priest for several generations, saying that he is a Taoist priest, but in fact, he is not a Taoist priest, it is nothing more than a family that has white things and shouts that he will go over to see the field and do some commands, which can be regarded as a kind of eating dead man's food. This kind of mud-legged Taoist priest is all over the countryside of China, which family in the countryside will not invite this kind of Taoist priest to come over when he dies?

Maybe it's because the business of eating dead people's food is really unlucky, the old Wu family of the paper-making man is left with only Wu Ji in this generation, and the old Xu family is only left with Xu Fan in this generation, and the people are thin to such a point.

After walking for a while, I saw a half-open courtyard, in which a girl dressed in plain clothes was combing her old mother's hair, and the girl was very careful to comb it, as if she was afraid of breaking one of her old mother's hair.

"Yo, dancing girl, comb your wife's hair, tsk, I'll just say, dancing girl is virtuous, who can get dancing girl to be an aunt in the future, it's a blessing from eight lifetimes of cultivation."

Gu Yuekai couldn't help but open her mouth to "tease" again, just because Yao Wu is not only beautiful and thoughtful, but also very good-looking, when she grows up, she will support the burden of the whole family by herself, take care of her old mother, and would rather be a girl to take care of all the things in the family and the field, and she doesn't want her old mother to suffer a little tired, which is really filial.

At this time, Yao Wu Niang stretched out her finger and pointed at Gu Yuekai outside the fence and scolded with a smile: "You kid, you don't have a shape all day long." ”

On the side, Yao Wu, who was combing her mother's hair, listened to Gu Yuekai's ridicule, her face was slightly red, and she lowered her head.

"Dancing girl, wait, brother, I hunted a roe deer today, and I'll send you a piece of meat later."

After speaking, Gu Yuekai continued to walk away, this is the way of life of the villagers, everyone walks all the way and chatters, and they don't feel lonely and lonely, anyway, life is like this, isn't it?

Gu Yuekai arrived home, he kicked open the door of his yard with his big smirk, turned around, and saw that the man in the family next door to his house also happened to come back with two loads of water, Gu Yuekai greeted with a smile:

"Brother Cheng, I'm back from carrying water."

Xi Cheng nodded at Gu Yuekai, walked to the water tank in his yard, lifted the lid on the water tank, and poured all the two loads of water into it very neatly, and at this time, a woman came out of the house, holding a handkerchief, and wiped the sweat from Xi Cheng's face with pity. There is an old well at the head of the village in the village, and the whole village has to go there to fetch water, and Gu Yuekai and Xi Cheng's family are at the end of the village.

"Brother Cheng, sister-in-law, younger brother, I have good luck today, I hunted a roe deer, and I came to my brother's house to drink wine and eat meat at night, and the old branch secretary also came at night." Gu Yuekai invited Xi Cheng.

Xi Cheng smiled and nodded to Gu Yuekai, it was time to come down, Gu Yuekai walked back to his house happily, he didn't need to look at it to know that his water tank must have been filled with water by Brother Cheng, and he was a bachelor, if there was any place to sew clothes, he was cheeky to beg Brother Cheng'er's mother-in-law to sew for himself, and during the New Year's holidays, Brother Cheng'er's mother-in-law would also give a pair of cloth shoes to the single, the two families were like a family, and Gu Yuekai also regarded Xi Cheng as his own brother in his heart.

"I'm tired of picking up so many trips to the water."

"Not tired." Xi Cheng smiled and gently hugged Dong Min's waist, and said with a smile: "You don't have to stare at those needlework all day long, it's not good for your eyes." ”

"Got it." Dong Min retreated from Xi Cheng's arms, after all, this is a courtyard, the rural people have thin faces and simple atmospheres, even if the two husbands and wives do this kind of intimate behavior in broad daylight, they will be gossiped about.

But at this moment, the sky suddenly darkened, and for a while, the rain was pouring and the wind was blowing.

It didn't take long for the villagers who had gone to the back of the village to follow the old branch secretary to see the medicinal herbs one after another, and everyone had a strong panicked look in their eyes, and they all closed the door tightly after returning home.

"What's going on?" Dong Min frowned slightly and asked her husband.

"I don't know." Xi Cheng shook his head, "It's raining, let's go back to the house first." ”

"No, I have to go and help Brother Kaizi clean up the roe deer meat, his man is careless, and he can't do this class." Dong Min picked up the scissors and kitchen knives at home, and trotted all the way to Gu Yuekai's house in the rain.

Xi Cheng raised his head and looked at the sky, he always felt that today's weather was always so strange, as if something ominous was about to happen, but then he laughed at himself again, he was sensitive to something here.

The mountain village fell into a kind of silence, and each family seemed to stay in their own homes, even if the rain stopped and the wind stopped, no one came to the door or spoke.

In the evening, a figure appeared at the entrance of the village, and the shabby tunic on his body became a strip of cloth at this time, and there were several bloody cuts on his face, and one of the shoes under his feet was lost, which looked so embarrassing, and his whole face seemed to be hidden in the dark, which made people unable to see it really.

There was a family of children who were more naughty, ran out to play, saw the person standing at the entrance of the village, pointed at him and shouted: "The old branch secretary is back!" (To be continued......)