Ghost Blowing Lantern II - Chapter 4 Huangpizi’s Tomb (Part 1)

The nickname “Zhe Tian” is probably taken from the meaning of lawlessness when a monk holds an umbrella. It is said that he saved Wong Tai Sin when he was a monk in his early years. He has been protected by his yellow skin all his life and no one can touch him. Of course this is a rumor. In fact, not only did he not save Huang Pizi, but he also caused many deaths.

When the bandit squad was chasing him, it happened to be snowing early in the mountains and it was freezing cold. Finally, they found the body of “Covering the Sky” in a snow nest. He was hanged on a crooked tree. The person who committed suicide had a little yellow man hanging opposite his body. He died exactly like him, with a small noose hanging around his neck. This man and the yellow man both stuck out their tongues and opened their eyes. My eyes were frozen stiff.

The fat man pretended to be mysterious and spoke vividly, pretending to be a hanged man sticking out his tongue, which scared the eyes of the swallows, but I was indifferent to it, because I had heard the fat man say this countless times, and “covered the sky” “The way he died was too weird. It would make sense to say that he hanged himself at the end of his life to escape the people’s judgment, but the little yellow skin hanging opposite him was too weird, “covering the sky. “How can a barbarian be so virtuous? He was not Emperor Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. Could it be that Huang Pizi wanted to be a eunuch to bury him?

Yanzi doesn’t think so. She is very convinced by Fatty’s words because there are many similar legends in the local area. It is said that Wong Tai Sin can only protect a person for one lifetime. Whoever saves Wong Tai Sin, such as helping Wong Tai Sin avoid disaster, etc., This person can be protected by Wong Tai Sin. Whatever he wants, Huang Pizi will steal it for him, so that he can have food and clothing for the rest of his life. But as long as this person’s life is over, his descendants will be under the protection of Wong Tai Sin. The scourge of the family, all the things stolen from this family had to be emptied out, and this was not the end. In the end, a little yellow man had to be sent to exchange lives with the descendants of this family. Yanzi felt that the bandit leader ” Covering the sky”, probably because the ancestors were saved by Wong Tai Sin, so they ended up like this.

This kind of thing happened in the villages before liberation. There was a man named Xu Erhei. His family had been protected by Wong Tai Sin a generation ago. One year, Xu Erhei’s father was about to pass away. At night, There were a lot of yellow men milling around the door of Xu Erhei’s house, as if they were planning how to harm the Xu family in the next few days. The yellow skins really bullied people too much. Xu Erhei became violent and set a trap at the door. In one night, he trapped more than twenty yellow skins in total, including the older ones and the younger ones. There is a railway track built by the Japanese at the foot of the mountain. It was the ninth day of winter when dripping water turned into ice. Xu Erhei cut the backs of these yellow leather men one by one, and pressed them all bloody onto the rails. The hot blood on the yellow leather men’s backs touched the steel. They were frozen immediately, and no matter how hard they struggled, they couldn’t escape at all. Xu Erhei froze a bunch of yellow skins on the railway. At dawn, the train came and crushed more than twenty yellow skins into meat patties.

As a result, we got into trouble. At night, around the village, weasels were heard crying and howling all over the mountains and plains, which shocked the hunting dogs in the village. At dawn, someone saw a piece of black yellow skin heading into the forest. He jumped away, and then someone discovered that Xu Erhei had hanged himself. The way of death was exactly the same as the fate of the bandit leader in the story told by the fat man.

Therefore, it was a bit inappropriate for the three of us to talk about these folklores in the forest farm hut. However, our forest farm is high in the mountains and the emperor is far away, and there are no outsiders. We only talk about the wind and moon, not the wind and clouds, which is much more relaxed and comfortable than the world outside the mountains.

Yanzi asked me to tell her some news. It was dark and cold outside. It was so comfortable to sit on the fire bed and chat. But I haven’t been out of the mountains for several months. There was no news, and I could only tell old news. It was almost done, so he said to her and the fat man: “Today is also full of evil. Why do you guys say that everything is yellow-skinned? Isn’t there a hill on Tuanshanzi called Huangpizi’s Tomb? There are many yellow-skinned people there. The place is not far from us. I have been joining the queue in the mountains for several months, but I have never been to Tuanshanzi. I think we should not just talk the talk but not practice. We might as well rely on our own efforts to have enough food and clothing, and go up the mountain overnight to buy a few condoms. , how about catching a few live weasels and playing with them?”

The fat man was overjoyed when he heard this. There is no more fun activity in the mountains than trapping yellow leather traps and trapping foxes. He immediately jumped up and said, “This is a great idea, kid. Although the yellow leather traps are not worth anything until Xiaoxue now, but you can still carry the yellow leather traps.” Going to the supply and marketing cooperative, it is not a problem to exchange for two kilograms of fruit candies. We haven’t eaten candies in a long time. If I don’t eat candies anymore, I may forget whether the taste of candies is spicy or salty. It’s just talk without practice. It’s a fake pose. It’s a stupid pose just to practice it, but it’s a good pose to talk and practice together. Let’s take practical actions now…” As he spoke, he jumped off the fire pit and casually killed the dog skin. The hat is put on the head, and it is time to set off to put on the yellow leather.

Yan Zi quickly stopped us and said, “You can’t go, you can’t go. Why do you want to do whatever you want? The party secretary has told us not to engage in liberalism. Let the three of us guard the forest farm.”

I secretly laughed in my heart. The old branch secretary in the village is an official as big as sesame seeds and mung beans. Do I have to obey what he says? My father’s title is countless times greater than that of the village party secretary. I have never listened to his words, and I don’t listen to anyone else. Life in the mountains is so monotonous. It’s hard for me to come up with some interesting ideas, but how can I finish them so easily? This cannot be said clearly. Don’t look at Huangpizi, although he is small, but he also has a body of fur and two ounces of flesh.

Yanzi was confused by what he heard, and he should have contributed to it, but the humans and bears on “Tuanshanzi” were not easy to provoke. The local hunters lacked modern weapons. They had three native methods of hunting. One was to set traps, use nooses, and traps. and the like, which are specially designed to capture some cunning and fast beasts, such as foxes and yellow-skinned animals. The hounds have no way to defeat them and can only outwit them with traps; in addition, hounds chase and bite, and hounds are the most vulnerable. The specialty is catching hares; the third is the musket nest, among which the shotgun that shoots pyrotechnics and iron sand is the most basic weapon. It is loaded in the front chamber, first puts the black pyrotechnics, then presses the tinder cloth, and finally loads the iron pellets, and presses them hard with the iron bars. It is true that the bullets stuck in the tinder will not slip out of the gun chamber. Only when the primer is on top can it be fired. The slow loading speed and too close range are fatal shortcomings. It is suitable for hunting roe deer, deer and wild boar.