Concealing his whereabouts and not seeing anyone, often being a thief in the dark at night, wearing gray clothes to lead food and wealth, how do you know that he is among the five gods.

At the end of the five immortals of the gray fairy, the prototype is a mouse, commonly known as a mouse, and it was also called a night grinder in ancient times. The original worship of the rat was because it was nocturnal and active in the dark, so it was considered to be a highly intelligent god, and in some places it was regarded as a warehouse god, and there were related sacrifices during the folk warehouse filling festival.

Legend has it that since the old lady of the gray fairy was enlightened, the gray fairy clan has been the best at changing his life against the sky, arranging the array, circling the transportation, relocating, and reclamation. At the same time, the Gray Immortal is the first good hand to break the camp to save, no matter how complex the terrain and how sinister the formation, the Gray Immortal will complete it with the fastest and shortest speed.

I have been bold since I was a child, and I can say that I can go up to demons and monsters, down to snakes, insects, and all kinds of things, but I have an extreme fear of one thing, that is, mice, the kind of fear that smells rats. This little thing is strange from beginning to end, black bean-like eyes, pointed mouth, earthworm-like tail, nothing is acceptable to me, until now, it is a sharp weapon that can defeat me at any time.

There are folk legends that there are two taboos for those who are in the line of gray fairy, one is to avoid dirty and sloppy, and the gray fairy loves to be clean, and the hall must be spotless. The second taboo is to borrow and repay, and it is not difficult to borrow again, all the gray immortals pay to give, they must be exchanged in equal amounts, otherwise they will have to pay a very serious price.

My grandfather experienced the era of famine, when people often ate people, and I heard my grandfather say that in some places, the elderly, women, and children would be packed in baskets and sold in the market, and some fragments of arms, thighs, and buttocks would be put on the board table for retail. And this kind of unethical thing has been there since ancient times, and it is not a very unusual thing, but my grandfather also told me a story about the gray fairy rat spirit, which became a nightmare of my childhood.

There is a family surnamed Zhou in the village where the grandfather is located, the Zhou family has a total of four people, a middle-aged couple, a little boy about 10 years old, and an old man in his seventies. In these years, it does not mean that you can have food if you have the strength, because the great drought for many years has made the crops in the field not harvested, and it is impossible to make only the grain at home, so you must always leave some to plant.

On this day, Zhou Da went down to check the situation as usual, and when he stood on the ground, he saw that there were patches of dry and cracked land, and some cracks were already big and outrageous. Zhou Da walked forward little by little along the ridge, observing the situation as he walked. Suddenly, a black thing flashed in front of him, and when Zhou Da hurriedly turned his head to look over, he only saw a tail disappearing into a crack.

Two words subconsciously popped out of his mind, living creatures, food, which aroused the gluttony in Zhou Da's mouth, and he picked up the hoe and ran towards the place where the thing disappeared. When he ran to him, there was nothing left on the ground except for a bottomless crack, and without thinking about it, Zhou Da picked up the hoe and dug up the soil, and at this moment there was only one thought left in his heart, grab it and give it a good meal to the family.

The crack was gradually dug into a pit by Zhou Da from the hole, and then gradually dug into a deep pit from the pit, and there was no trace of the thing just now, Zhou Da stopped to rest for a while, gasping for breath while not forgetting to stretch out his head to check the situation in the pit. Seeing that the crack had changed from its original appearance to a hole the size of a fan, Zhou Da pondered in his heart, looking at the size of the hole, there must be a lot of meat in this thing, maybe there are its companions in the hole, and it will not be enough to eat for several days.

Thinking of this, he felt that he had regained his strength, as if he had just eaten a big bowl of stew, and he threw off his arms and began to dig again. This time he didn't dig much, and there was something strange in the cave, but what was puzzling was that there was no scene in the cave as he imagined, but some corn kernels were unusually piled up, and the huge and full corn kernels seemed to have been carefully selected.

As a senior farmer, Zhou Da immediately thought of mice, to be precise, voles, the kind of rats that like to store food, which is not common in the countryside, but it is not a very uncommon thing. In this way, that thing just now is a big mouse, and the size is about to catch up with the size of an adult domestic cat, thinking of this, the corners of Zhou's mouth rose again, and he couldn't eat meat, so it's good to get some food to go back, so he thought about it and dug it up again.

With the goal of doing the work, there is naturally energy, and without much effort, Zhou Da dug out more than ten catties of grain from the hole, if this is seen, it is estimated that it will be robbed on the spot. For safety, Zhou Da put the grain into his pocket, and dug a lot of wild vegetables from nearby and put them in, preparing to go home after dark, during which he sat on the ground and hugged his pocket tightly, looking around from time to time, like a mouse that had just stolen something, what he didn't pay attention to was that from the hole he had just dug up, a black head with a long mouth and long beard poked out, and his dark eyes stared at Zhou Da.

As soon as it was dark, Zhou Da carried a bag of food to his home, and there was no one on the road at this time, and the villagers stopped going out early in order to save food, and some people even went to bed before it was dark. Under the cover of the night, Zhou Da's nervous heart was slightly comforted, and the speed under his feet slowed down a lot, and just when he was in a serious hurry, a human voice suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"Big brother, big brother~ Okay, give me something to eat! My children are dying of hunger! ”

This sudden sentence made Zhou Da shudder, and he quickly looked around, and saw a person squatting on the side of the road not far in front of him, listening to the voice and looking at his appearance, he judged that this should be a short old man. Zhou Da walked to the old man in a few steps, what made people feel strange was that the old man was wearing a black cloth, wrapped the whole person, and couldn't see the face clearly, only a pair of shriveled hands like dry bones were exposed, Zhou Da just wanted to go home quickly, ignored the old man's call for help, lowered his head and accelerated the pace of going home.

As soon as he stepped into the door of the house, Zhou Da immediately turned around and bolted the door, and pressed the door with a wooden stick, his wife was shocked by his series of strange behaviors, and went home so late today, so she hurriedly asked.

"I said, Why did you come back so late today? When you go home, you are so flustered? ”

Zhou Da did not immediately answer his wife's words, but pulled his wife back to the back room quickly, and then picked up the old lady in the side room, and the son also jumped over when he heard the sound, and the family sat around the house and looked at Zhou Da suspiciously. After making sure that there was no problem around, Zhou Da put his pocket on the ground, opened the wild vegetables covered on it, and took out a handful of corn kernels.

As the saying goes, there will be a windfall from heaven, but in that era of cannibalism, who would care so much, that night, the family grinded a part of the corn kernels into flour, steamed steamed buns with noodles, and had a beautiful meal. Since then, the Zhou family has a little more smile on their faces, and there is a lot less decadence caused by not having enough to eat, and the neighbors feel very strange when they look at it, but they don't know the specific reason.

Zhou Da soaked in the ground for several days, thinking about digging near the hole, whether he would dig something out, but since that day, he found nothing, but he found a lot of holes, but they were all empty, and he had never even touched the big rat he had seen that day. This made him puzzled in his heart, this thing generally lives in groups, and there will not be only a few in a family, there should be more than these stored grains, as if they knew that he would come to dig again and transferred in advance.

Slowly, Zhou Da did not go to the ground frequently, only occasionally went around, at this time there were already starving people in the village, which made him have to calculate carefully, the grain stored before plus the second digging, should be able to last for a while. It's really not good, just go down to the ground and grab something to eat, along the position where you bumped into the big mouse last time, there will definitely be a harvest, thinking of this, Zhou Da wiped the corners of his mouth, and laughed stupidly.

A few days later, in the evening, the Zhou family was eating, and the door was suddenly knocked on the "bang", Zhou Da didn't know who would come to his house at night, and now the neighbors will say hello when they meet, and they will not visit each other the rest of the time. Confused, the door was knocked again, Zhou Da motioned to his wife to open the door to see who it was, his wife put down the dishes and chopsticks and trotted out, and after a while, his wife shouted at Zhou Da and others in the house.

"Mother, his aunt is here!"

Hearing that his sister was coming, Zhou Da's wife hurriedly got up and went out to greet her, Zhou Da also followed, just out of the inner room door, I saw my wife walking over with an old lady, the old lady was wearing a green cloth gown, a rickety waist, and her face was full of wrinkles. Zhou Da hurriedly stepped forward to say hello to the old lady, the old lady looked up and smiled at him, this time, Zhou Da suddenly felt that something strange, his aunt seemed to have never laughed like this, strange is strange, the family still let the old lady into the house with a high heart.

At the dinner table, the old lady took Mrs. Zhou's hand and explained the reason, thinking that she was getting older and older, and then she would encounter this disgraceful year, I was afraid that I would not live long, so I thought that I would come to see my relatives, and I would not regret dying at that time. In the interval between speaking, the old lady's eyes were a little fluttering, staring at the steamed buns on the table from time to time and swallowing saliva, Zhou Da thought that his aunt was hungry, so he beckoned to eat together, the old lady was not polite when she heard it, she picked it up and ate it, not like an old lady who was half-buried in the ground.

That night, Zhou's wife left her sister behind, and the two lived in Zhou's side room, and Zhou Da and his wife went back to sleep after cleaning up. In the middle of the night, Zhou Da was woken up by urine, he got up and walked towards the toilet in the yard, and when he returned to the house, he suddenly heard the sound of "crunch ~ crunch" from the old lady's house, which was extremely harsh in the quiet late night, like grinding his teeth, and like eating, Zhou Da couldn't help but approach the window of the old lady's side room, lying on his stomach and looking in.

After his eyes adjusted to the dark environment in the room, by the moonlight, he saw the old lady sitting on the bed gnawing something, and the sound of "crunch~crunch" was the sound of gnawing something. Zhou Da looked around the situation in the house, and what made him feel strange was that he didn't find his aunt's figure, and was about to ask, when the old lady who was gnawing on the bed suddenly stopped moving, and then saw the old lady slowly turn her head to the window, just one glance, Zhou Da's eyes widened in fright.

Under the moonlight, he saw clearly that the person who was gnawing in the house was not his wife, he was wearing his aunt's green cloth coat, and what the aunt was eating in her mouth was actually a small amputated hand, and the "crunch~crunch" sound was the sound of gnawing on the hand bones. The most terrible thing is that the face covered with blood, no one is seen, it is actually a mouse face, seeing this, Zhou Da can no longer suppress the fear in his heart, and faints on the spot.

The next day, the neighbors found that the four members of the Zhou family had disappeared, and there were blood stains and scattered rat droppings inside and outside the house.

When I listened to my grandfather's story, I was having dinner, and I was so scared that I ran home before I finished eating, and that night I had a nightmare, a big rat eating human hands and running after me.