Chapter 5 Huang Xian
The customs of the old folk in the Northeast pay attention to that is very much, but also very strange, we have heard of many folk strange tales mostly from the Northeast, among which the most widely spread every household believes that it must belong to Huangxian. Huang Xian is not an immortal, just a symbolic ornament, in fact, it is the best yellow-skinned weasel who comes to the farmer's house to steal chickens.
This is quite strange to say, the yellow skin should be a pest, and they have stolen other people's chickens, so why do you want it to call it a yellow fairy? In fact, this has to do with some kind of superstition, because the yellow skin is very spiritual, as long as one is killed, it must be retaliated by other yellow skins, and two heads come to toss in three days, either bite the doors and windows or kill the livestock, so that people do not have a good life. After a long time, people naturally have a memory, that is, they don't play the yellow skin, but they still worship it as a fairy, but this yellow skin seems to know some things, as long as the family for the yellow fairy basically will not recruit the yellow skin. Later, it gradually evolved into a traditional custom, including foxes, snakes and other spiritual objects, collectively known as Tang Xian or Baojia Xian.
But the hunters in the mountains are rude and live more casually, they don't care whether the animal has spirituality or not, anyway, this meat can eat the fur and catch it if it can pay back, and the yellow skin makes them get a lot, but it is the first time they meet the yellow skin who comes to knock on the door at night, and they throw themselves into the net.
The story continues that after the hunter peeled off a fat yellow skin, he casually put the yellow skin that was still steaming hot and exposed red flesh on the side, and went into the house to go back to sleep, but when he woke up in the morning, he found that the skinned yellow skin actually entered the house, leaving a string of bloody footprints, and walked to the side of the kang, but the strange thing is that the yellow skin is gone, and the house is not big. And there are only footprints that come in and don't go out, so they can't be found anywhere.
Orion, he didn't believe in evil, so he looked down and looked for footprints and walked around the house, and suddenly heard a burst of laughter from the kang, and when he looked up, he found that his mother-in-law sat up without knowing what, and I don't know why his daughter-in-law was covering her mouth and laughing. A pair of eyes are squinted, and it looks very strange.
So Orion asked his daughter-in-law, "Why do you get up early in the morning and laugh?" What's wrong with this? But I heard this daughter-in-law say in a strange tone that she was going to get married, and she said it several times in a row, and confused the hunter, and she didn't understand what his daughter-in-law was talking nonsense, and she didn't take it seriously even if she was a rough person, so she thought that her mother-in-law hadn't woken up yet, so she scolded and went out to find that nice skin. I was also thinking about what good price this skin could sell, and if I was rich, I would buy a few jars of good wine and come back to drink.
In the middle of the afternoon of the same day, the hunters carried their skins and some other mountain goods out of the mountains and went to the nearby county town to look for fur dealers. But when the leather dealer counted the skins, he was startled when he suddenly saw the big leather that was still fresh, and hurriedly pointed to the skin and asked where the hunter got it. Orion told the truth, saying that the beast had sent it to the door by himself, and that he had peeled off the skin after he caught it last night. But the fur dealer suddenly asked him a little nervously, where was the meat? Didn't you eat it? Orion heard him ask this. At this time, I couldn't help but think of this stubble, and I also muttered in my heart. An animal without a skin doesn't live long, but how did it disappear into its house? Where did you hide?
When the fur dealer saw him like this, he grabbed him and said, "I have heard that there is a group of yellow skins in our mountain, and among them there is a very rare yellow fairy, which has been seen several times, and that yellow fairy is very large. It's three or four percent bigger than the ordinary yellow skin, and it's particularly cunning, and often leads a group of yellow skins to people's homes to steal chickens and ducks, but no one dares to touch it, do you know what it is? At the end of the dealer's words, he suddenly asked Orion, who did not know. He lived in the mountains, and rarely interacted with people, so he had never heard of such a thing, so he shook his head.
The fur dealer touched the soft fur with a little mystery and said: "The yellow skin you caught, it should be the yellow fairy, if he was deliberately sent to death by throwing himself into the net, then there must be a problem, maybe it is really going to become an immortal, but you need to use some external force, take off this animal skin and find someone to be a mold!" Didn't you say that the yellow skin was skinned and then there was no one in the house? It must be attached to someone's body! ”
Orion was frightened by the call of the fur dealer, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was really like that, and suddenly thought of his daughter-in-law's strange appearance in the morning, and he felt that it must be a yellow skin attached to his daughter-in-law, so he immediately collected the money and hurried home.
Originally, even if he sold mountain goods in the county this time, he still came to buy some daily necessities and rice, flour, oil and grain, but he made the leather dealer scared, and he didn't count how much money the leather dealer gave him, he didn't care about it at this time, and he didn't buy anything and planned to go home directly, he remembered some details of last night and felt faintly uneasy, don't be really told by this leather dealer, it's too scary.
It is not easy to get out of the mountains, there is no road in the mountains and forests, and there are black blind people wandering, few people will have nothing to do to wander around the forest, so it still maintains a primitive and undeveloped appearance. Only those with weapons can walk through the forest, but they must be careful of their surroundings and beware of hidden dangers.
Orion was in a hurry, and he was in a hurry, thinking too much and not being so distracted that he got lost in the unfamiliar woods, and did not know how many times he had turned around in the same place, until the sun went down and it was dark, and he did not go out. Thinking that his daughter-in-law let Huang Xian possess him, the more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, the more he thought about it, the more scared he became, and the forest gradually darkened, an instinctive fear made his scalp numb, and when he finally stabilized his mind, he was about to find the footprints on the ground and go out, when he suddenly heard a sound of gongs and drums in the forest not far away, and the sound was getting closer and closer, it seemed that there was a team of relatives coming.
But Orion thought about it and felt that something was wrong, this deep mountain and old forest was full of ravines and undulating mountains, and there were dense and towering trees, there was no road at all, how could the welcoming team go here, unless it was the folk ghost marriage.
As the drumming and drumming drew nearer and the sky darkened, Orion took the opportunity to hide, and at that moment a string of dark shadows swayed out of the weeds and walked in one direction. Orion squinted and took a closer look, and saw that it was a group of yellow-skinned people, all standing on their hind feet, their tails dragging the ground, one in front of them was actually blowing suona, followed by two gongs and drums, and carrying a small flat burden, in the middle of which hung a wooden box tied with red cloth, a total of more than a dozen of them walked like the man, walking staggering and unhurried, like a welcoming team, and the Orion was dumbfounded. (To be continued......)