Northeast China ambition

as soon as the tatami was covered with a blanket, Aunt Wang sat cross-legged on it, her right arm standing on the folding table on the bed, eating the overnight melon seeds on the table. "if the house is so dry, how come the melon seeds are still wet?" She said to me curiously. I shrugged.

A year ago, she had an illness and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. after she was rescued, she became not very smart, and there is still water in her brain. Not only did he lose a circle of weight, but his hair also faded from black to the dirty tan of a local dog, like unwashed hair dye.

I have to go, catch the train, from one piece of ice and snow to another, although there is no difference, I still have to go. Before leaving, we ate a meal of dumplings, pork cabbage stuffing, and a lot of cabbage, at this time the cabbage is almost dry, but this cabbage is not enough water, her son bought a good.

maybe I had a good meal. Aunt Wang asked me endlessly, "do you know Huang Daxian?"

I said yes, it's a weasel, but I haven't seen it.

your mother should have seen it. She thought for a moment and said to me.

my mother did see it, at the neighbor's house next door. At that time, she was still in primary school, and her neighbor's daughter was her classmate. In the 1970s, classmates liked to visit, but few people went to the girl's house because there was always a strange smell in her house, such as the stool was not washed clean.

the strange thing is that the family looks clean and the house is well cleaned. Of course, the toilet can't have poop or anything like that. So it is not clear what the problem is.

until one day, their families began to hear noises coming from under their floor at night. Finally found a day, asked the workers to pry open the floor.

that day, my mother and several other girls also went to watch the hustle and bustle. When the workers pried the floor open one by one, the opening became wider and wider, and the sun shone into the dark hole in the ground, and the girls screamed. Several pairs of the same frightened eyes appeared on the ground. It was a family of four weasels, and when they saw the crowd, they ran away, leaving a familiar smell for a long time.

is what weasels love to do. Aunt Wang said after hearing this but then added. This is nothing, the mature weasel is good.

her memory jumps back to when she went to the countryside in Jilin, her town had a barefoot doctor surnamed Sun, nearly forty, with a wife and children, and people in the town liked to see him when they were sick or in disaster. Then one day, the man disappeared without a trace, and no one knew what was going on.

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about half a year later, Aunt Wang met this barefoot doctor surnamed Sun in a place called Baishuigou. At that time, he had already taken root in this place called Baishuigou.

Why did you leave suddenly? everyone misses you. Aunt Wang said. Dr. Sun smiled shyly. He couldn't remember who the girl was, but he didn't forget how he left town in the first place.

well, it's because of the weasel.

in the countryside, it is common for weasels to possess themselves, and they especially like to attach to frail and dull people, women. There is no discrimination, just a statement of what people say.

this doctor surnamed Sun is also seen very often, and he has his way to deal with many things.

that time, someone asked him to see a doctor. The disease was very strange. The man who got sick was an old man with a bulging bag on his chin. Not only the drum bag, but also shouting in a mess, asking for both meat and fish, but I can't do it at home. Doctor Sun went over and knew immediately that it was a weasel possessed. So he took an acupuncture needle from the medicine box and shouted to the old man, animal, get out, or else, I'll stab you with a needle. As he said that, he held up the needle to bandage the pus on the old man's chin. As a result, the old man shouted away, don't stab me, I'll go. Before leaving the mouth is not clean, leave a message, you wait, I will let my second brother deal with you.

A few days later, the old man's son came to see Dr. Sun and said that his father was just like the last time. Dr. Sun followed him to the house, still doing it the old way. If he wanted to use a needle, the weasel begged for mercy. After running away, he left a message saying that he would let the eldest brother deal with him.

Brother Weasel is still very shrewd. Instead of finding the old man, he went to someone else's house. The family brought in Dr. Sun again. Dr. Sun used the old way, and the weasel ran away again, leaving a message this time that it would be his mother who would come to the door next time.

this time it took a long time, so long that Dr. Sun forgot a little. That day, after seeing a doctor, he ate at someone's house and drank some wine. His face was flushed and he was bragging to others. His son came to the door and was in a hurry, saying that his mother was crazy, crying and making noise at home, and the things in the house were almost smashed. On hearing this, Dr. Sun hurried home.

the house was already miserable. The dishes and bowls were all over the floor, the old New year pictures on the walls were torn to pieces, and the broken glass stubble of the thermos on the Kang made the quilts wet. His wife sat on that wet mattress, crying. There was nothing Dr. Sun could do on his own. the original method of needling was just to frighten the weasel, but it didn't work. In the end, he had to call the attendant to straighten things out.

can't afford Huang Tai Xian, so we have to run away. Dr. Sun said to Aunt Wang with a bitter face.

speaking of this, Aunt Wang laughed, as if she was happy with Huang Tai Xian's teasing. I frowned. I didn't think it was happy. I even thought the smile was cruel.

Why are weasels attached to people? What's good for it? I asked.

it's just for fun, sometimes to ask for something to eat. Aunt Wang said. The temperament of Wong Tai Sin? who can be sure?

I let out an ooh, a little dispirited. There was snoring in the next room. Aunt Wang's son had some wine at noon and was taking a nap. I looked at my eye watch. The train leaves in an hour and a half.

the sky outside floated through ribbon-like clouds. It was so blue that day as if it were going to disappear. No fog, no haze. Okay.Things, but it also means that it is cold and windy. I thought of losing my hat and leaving it in the cinema. But it was gone when she went back to look for it, and the cleaner said she didn't see it. Maybe she saw it, but she hid it.

I stood up and was going to say I had to go. But Aunt Wang's husband brought up a plate of grilled fish skin. The skin of sun-dried Mingtai fish. After burning on the fire, the fish skin immediately curled and turned into crisp, chewy, and crisp, full of human delicacy. I sat down guiltily again and swallowed the words I wanted to go, with a little bit of crispy fish skin.

you know, fox immortals are also possessed. Aunt Wang went on.

Hmm.

Fox fairy, I haven't seen it before, but my aunt has a friend. In the south, she had a fox fairy possession in that village.

Aunt Wang can't remember the exact time, and the name of the village is hidden. In short, it sounds very old, unlike what people of their time experienced. Against a vague background, Aunt Wang began to tell a story. This time she stumbled, and sometimes she dozed off herself.

that southern village has been uninhabited for a long time. There was only a lonely and widowed old man, leaning against the dilapidated door, sleeping in the open, and he didn't know how he survived. There is a temple in the village, which is very big, and there are some immortals in it. Aunt Wang is not sure. But there is indeed a coffin inside. In the coffin was the body of a woman, probably decomposed a long time ago.

this body belongs to the old man's daughter. Many years ago, the woman's husband joined the army and, like many soldiers who went to the front, soon lost word and disappeared into the distance. When the woman got lovesick, she always kept watching at the entrance of the village. She gradually became weak, and her body became worse and worse day by day, and finally disappeared.

the old man did not bury his daughter. He told people that he would wait for his uncle to come back and let him bury his daughter with his own hands. So he put his daughter in a coffin and put it in a temple in the village.

since the coffin was found in the temple, long sighs and cries of sorrow came in the middle of the night. The sound went around the chimneys, trees, and rivers, with the flying crows to and fro. The people in the village were so scared that they could not stand the disturbance every night, and they moved away from the house to house. In the end, only the old man was left.

in the past few years, the woman's husband finally came back from the front.

he was promoted to company commander and was honored to return home with several guards around him. You can see the decline of the village, leaving only his father-in-law, bitterness in his heart instead of honor, and then learning that his wife had already left, but also a cramping pain. He told his father-in-law that he would go to the temple to keep a vigil for his wife that night.

after nightfall, the company commander walked into the temple alone. He brought a little wine, a few fragrances, and a long confession. The guard was stopped by him outside the temple. He is going to talk to his wife.

first, he took a few sips of wine, then the company commander lit three incense, placed it safely on the coffin, and began to tell his wife, who had died young, about his situation over the years.

without saying a few words, the incense was blown out by a gust of wind. The moonlight leaked in through the dilapidated doorway of the temple. The company commander ignored it, went on talking, and lit the incense again.

however, before long, the incense went out again, and the company commander had to light it again. After going back and forth three times, the incense finally became more stable. The company commander was also a little drunk at this time, and as he spoke, his tongue began to tighten and his words became ladle.

in a daze, he was about to take a nap when the incense went out again. At the same time, the coffin lid retreated an inch, and the company commander was startled by the loud friction and suddenly woke up. He shook his head and lit the incense again, but then the incense went out again, and the lid of the coffin moved back.

the company commander did not know what was wrong. He drew his pistol from his waist, calmed himself, and prepared to remove the lid of the coffin completely.

his guard was outside the door at this time, worried that the company commander alone went into the courtyard of the temple and walked to the temple. When he was about to reach the door of the temple, he heard a gunshot coming from the temple. then the door suddenly opened and a fireball flew out of the door. The guard subconsciously pulled out his gun and fired several shots at the fireball.

the fireball whined and fell in mid-air, and the company commander ran out of the temple.

guess what that is? Asked Aunt Wang.

Fox. I said. Of course, it's the fox, but it can't be anything else.

Yes, you are so smart, you are a fox fairy, fiery red, dead, with human hair on your head. When a person dies, the body is swallowed up in three days, but the hair is still there and will remain for a hundred years. The fox fairy lives in this coffin, eats human flesh, cries to people, is about to run away, her hair does not lose hair, her hair and her fur are static, crackling sparks, like a fireball. He was found, aimed at it, and was shot down.

it's all about the hair. Aunt Wang's husband said.

Yes, it's all about the hair. My hair is bad. It's all white and gray. I can't afford static electricity.

time to go. It is Aunt Wang's son who is talking. He's awake.

Oh, I answered blankly and stood up. My legs are a little numb and my body seems to be somewhere else. I began to dress mechanically. First I wore a sweater, then a sweater, then a down jacket, and then a bib.

Aunt Wang's son put a woolen hat over my head. It's cold, he said.

Aunt Wang's daughter-in-law drove a car and took me to the railway station with Aunt Wang's son.

say hello to your parents, Aunt Wang said to me. I nodded and said take care. And close the door.

it's really cold outside, but the air is very good. After a breath, the lungs seem to be sweet.

Let's get on the bus. The car started for a while, became chilly, and finally left. I looked at the time. The train will leave in less than an hour. I haven't picked up the ticket yet. I don't know if it will be in time.

the front tire is somewhat flat. Aunt Wang's son said.

Yes, I saw it, too. After seeing him off, let's go to the 4s store to fix it. This tire is always like this. After it is punctured, no matter how it is mended, it can not be mended. It is always slow to let off steam.

I feel very embarrassed. Otherwise, you can just fix it. I can go to the station by myself. I said.

what does it matter? after I send you to fix it, it's the same.

We drove along the desolate outer ring to the railway station, where the roadside was covered with golden land and dry straw. As soon as the wind swept away, the golden sand flew, as if in the Gobi with vegetation.

bang.

Aunt Wang's daughter-in-law sighed and the car stopped. The front tire went down hopelessly.

Let's get out of the car and have a look. Don't worry. Aunt Wang's son said to me.

they got out of the car, started checking, and then called again, not knowing who they were contacting. I couldn't hear anything, but there seemed to be some howling wind.

somehow, I thought that I had also seen fox immortals, but I just didn't know whether it was true or not. That year, because I was so confused, I went to fortune-telling. It is said that the fortune-teller is the disciple of the fox fairy, who can be possessed by the fox fairy.

the female disciple combed her meticulous hair, but her nails were withered and long, bent like unhealthy eagle claws. Before she began to count, she said the mantra in silence, and then she looked like something, trembled all over, and immediately turned pale.

I don't understand what she said at all. It's a good thing her man is translating.

where should I go? I asked the fox fairy.

the fox fairy replied to me with a squeak. The man slowly smoked a cigarette and said, "stay here," said the fox fairy.

I looked anxiously at the fox fairy. Can't I go somewhere else?

the fox fairy popped out a few words. The man went on to translate, it's the same everywhere, you.

at that time, maybe I had the same disappointment on my face as now.

I can't go anywhere, just like at this time, I'm stuck in a car and I can never reach the station. It's too late. Let alone the finish line.

I turned my face out of the window and Aunt Wang's son and daughter-in-law were pointing to a wasteland not far away. I looked in the direction of their fingers and found the maple-leaf fox, which was sniffing something, but seemed to know our gaze and suddenly looked up at us.

We confronted each other quietly, and no one moved.

it must have noticed my eyes, so it gave me a contemptuous glance as it turned away. He was so crafty that he almost saw through me. I understood its meaning in an instant, which may be what its kind said to me many years ago. But I was confused. I didn't know my mood. I didn't know whether I should be happy or disappointed. So I didn't say anything, nor did I set out in a hurry, but stayed where I was and watched silently. Maybe one day you will understand.