My name is Jiang Cheng and I am a foreigner.

A year ago, I was picked up by Granny Bai, and I followed her to open a yin and yang inquiry hall in the town, and my life has been very peaceful.

Until that day, the town coincided with the rush day, and the town was originally crowded with people... A car from a provincial town is particularly eye-catching.

Listening to the lively people, the car was actually loaded with pumpkins.

There are even more onlookers now, after all, people in the present world have heard of eastmelon, watermelon, pumpkin, but they have never heard of pumpkin.

Many villagers stopped the luxury cars from the provincial capital, just to see what this pumpkin looks like.

The boss of the provincial city seemed to be very generous, and he couldn't stand the onlookers of the villagers, so he simply got out of the car and opened the trunk.... A strange stench suddenly spread, rushing straight to the brain.

The smell came from the white flower in bloom, which was exactly the same as the white flower at the funeral, and the paper makers on the side were terrified. He also muttered in his mouth: "I've been priding flowers for decades, but I never thought that there would be something of such color." ”

Immediately, the boss of the provincial city pulled a long vine, and there were really two very strange melons on the vine, and the melons let the people in the town see it, and no one had ever seen such a variety. The two melons are dark yellow, like the sallow skin of a dead man. There are also brown markings, which take on the appearance of corpse spots.

Only the white mother-in-law muttered in a low voice: "Yin melon!" ”

As he spoke, he admonished the boss of the provincial capital and the villagers in the town, and asked them to return the things in a hurry, otherwise the people who had seen it in these ten miles and eight towns would be in a bad situation.

But the people in the town are just here to see the excitement, who cares about these idle things? Just when the white granny is alarmist ... The things were also seen, and the villagers in the town hurriedly gave way and let the provincial boss drive away from the town.

At that time, no one was willing to believe Granny Bai, perhaps it was the fulfillment of that sentence, good words do not persuade damned ghosts.

In the end, Granny Bai could only helplessly look at the car, the disappearing taillights, she shook her head and sighed: "It's over, these people from ten miles and eight towns are all finished!" ”

"Granny Bai," in fact, even I doubted: "Are you exaggerating?" ”

Later, when I returned to the Inquiry Hall, I heard Granny Bai talk about the legend of the pumpkin... You can understand that as long as you swear, you have to keep your promise. Otherwise, even if you forget, someone will find you.

Legend has it that Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was a hero in troubled times, because when he seized power, several righteous brothers who rebelled with him once made an oath of "not seeking to be born on the same day in the same year, the same month, but to die in the same month and year in the same year". He could make a lot more vows.

However, when Li Shimin got the world and seized power, those righteous brothers who died in battle, and the brothers who were persecuted to death by villains after Li Shimin became emperor, after the people who swore that year died, Li Shimin forgot his oath.

Those dead brothers, of course, felt that Li Shimin should share life and death with them. Therefore, complain to Hades. He must not be allowed to live freely in the world by himself.

After hearing this, the king of Hades sent Niu Tou Ma Mian to arrest Li Shimin, but Li Shimin also knew that those who were officials would receive gifts, so he asked Wei Zheng to talk to the king of Hades about how to save him from death. Soon, Hades replied, hearing that the pumpkin was extremely delicious, and hoped to pay tribute to the Netherworld to taste it. Li Shimin immediately ordered to collect all the northern melons from the people and send Liu Quan to give them to Lord Yan. Lord Yama also spared Li Shimin's death. Since then, there is no longer a pumpkin in the world, and the pumpkin has been renamed the yin melon.

"Since ancient times, yin and yang have been divided into two worlds, and people and ghosts have different paths... When things from the underworld come to the yang world, how can those who have seen and touched them live in peace? Granny Bai sighed: "Wait and see, these ten miles and eight towns will not be peaceful from now on!" ”

"Wouldn't that be better," said I, like the townspeople, not taking it seriously at all, "and then you won't have a business!" ”

Granny Bai glared at me, then went back to the living room, and didn't even get up to eat lunch when she slept.

Until dusk, the boss of the tattoo parlor in the town came to the door in a hurry. This boss Jin is in his forties, a standard bald and greasy man, the kind that is famous in the town, groveling and begging when she wants someone, but when she has nothing to do, she can be angry when she speaks.

As soon as he entered the door tonight, he hurriedly asked, "Brother Jiang... Little brother of the Jiang family, is Granny Bai here? ”

"How?" I looked at him impatiently: "Panicked, are you hitting a ghost?" ”

"Ouch, I really let you kid talk about it," Boss Jin's face sank: "You hurry up and ask Granny Bai to go with me to take a look, this is evil." ”

I said, "What evil can happen to you in a tattoo parlor!" ”

Boss Jin immediately lowered his voice: "This eye-opening Guan Gong, do you know?" ”

"Of course I know," although I have never done tattoos, but I follow Granny Bai to eat yin and yang rice, I also know that this folk often say: "The tattooed dragon is not over the shoulder, the tattooed tiger does not go down the mountain, Guanyin does not save the world with his eyes closed, and Guan Yu will kill people when he opens his eyes." Tattoos don't tattoo old Zhong Kui, avoiding ghosts can't become thieves...."

"Wait," Speaking of this, I was suddenly stunned: "Could it be that you tattooed Guan Yu with open eyes?" ”