Paper horse incense shop

[It’s really strange. I saw that ghost wearing the clothes of the Salt Gang.
The second uncle was puzzled, asked, and visited, but came back with no results and was unhappy.

This part of the manuscript records a large section of useless dialogue, but when the record reaches the end, it always returns to the beginning and writes words such as 'useless, abandoned'.

More than thirty years later and thousands of miles away, one can feel that the young second uncle is actually very confused and helpless.

Especially, he was still talking to a group of villagers who refused to take hard and soft measures in an area with strong folk customs.

If we look at it according to modern people's thinking and my thinking, there is no unusually consistent answer and an attitude of avoiding talking about it.
To some extent, it is very illustrative.

This answer is most likely to be unified.

It is very likely that everyone in the Salt Gang of the previous generation was a murderer.

But the social environment was different at that time, and the second uncle would not rashly doubt the people around him.

Therefore, after searching for several days, the second uncle finally came to his senses——

Are these people lying to themselves? !

The second uncle received several rejections, and felt very angry. He was sharpening his knife and thinking about how to get those people to ask about what happened in the past. He would know a lot about the evil ghost wandering the ancient mountain road.

But at this moment, Boss Yan brought the little brother who had been exorcised by his second uncle to thank him for saving his life, and also brought a piece of news——

The Salt Gang is back on the road.

The second uncle scratched his head again and again before he came up with the best way for him -

Man, he really can't figure it out.

Then simply ask the ghost to find out what happened.

So, the second uncle followed the group of people from the Yan Gang back on the road. After a month, he returned to the ancient road.

In the world under the paper, the ugly ghost with almost no skin on his body is still stumbling.

The second uncle walked up to him directly. No, he walked up and said hello politely:

"Hello, little brother, how did you die?"

How do you say this?
Whether it’s a human or a ghost, you’ll be stunned when you hear it.

The evil spirit took some time to react before finally realizing that the person opposite was asking him.

Li Gui can be regarded as retaining some of his temperament in life, and he can be regarded as a generous person.

He hadn't talked to humans for a long time. When he heard someone asking him, he first tried to step on a few feet. After making sure that the other person was hiding from him and could really see it, he began to ask excitedly:
"Do you know Chen Laosi and Zhang Mazi?"

Li Gui announced the names of more than 20 people, as if reporting cross talk, and immediately confused the second uncle.

My second uncle has never heard of any of these names.

Li Gui saw that his second uncle really didn't know, so he lost interest in talking. Yin energy gathered in his body, and he wanted to forcefully break through his second uncle's blockage and leave.

Although the second uncle doesn't know the names of these people, the second uncle will ask.

Then he asked:

"The number of people you mentioned seems to be about the same as the number of people in a Salt Gang team. Are you asking about the group of people from the Salt Gang that you originally belonged to?"

As soon as these words came out, Li Gui's steps were instantly stopped.

Li Gui nodded repeatedly, his voice was very cold:
"Yes, I'm looking for them, but they never dare to take this ancient road again."

"There is only one road from our hometown to the outside world. If you go further, you can only go around the mountains. Not only will the trip add more than half a year, but you also have to cross the snow-capped mountains."

"I don't believe they're going to change the route."

"I'm waiting for them, I must find them!"

Li Gui said the last sentence firmly. The second uncle scratched his head and said frankly:

"Although I don't know who you are talking about, they should be the ancestors of the current Salt Gang. Maybe I saw them last time when I followed the Salt Gang home."

"If you don't talk about this, little brother, how on earth did you die? Tell me?"

You know, ordinary ghosts don't have the opportunity to communicate.

The second uncle was just following the pole to see if he could talk more.

But what people never expected was that these two words of his seemed to give Li Gui some warning.

Li Gui muttered to himself dozens of times, "At home," "Yeah, it should be at home," "I won't hit the road when I get home," and so on, and then he laughed crazily.

The second uncle was so laughed at by the devil that his scalp went numb, and he almost thought that he would take action in the next second.

But after Li Gui laughed, he calmed down strangely, and said seriously to his second uncle:

"Thank you, brother."

"I understand, I understand everything."

"If you want to know the cause of my death, then I will tell you that I was killed by my brothers in the Salt Gang."

"Everyone, everyone in the Salt Gang who I considered a brother or sister, was attacked."

The second uncle was such an upright person. Of course he was very surprised when he heard this and asked repeatedly for the reason.

Li Gui was silent for a long time, and then said two words that shocked his second uncle for many years:
".Lack of food."

The second uncle didn't realize what the lack of food meant at first, but when he realized it, he felt cold from head to toe in the dog days of summer.

Anyone who has experienced the famine years knows what these two words mean.

Food has been the basis for maintaining order since ancient times.

If there is a shortage of food, the originally stable order will be loosened.

The consequences of continued loosening often mean that poor people who are hungry will have only the last straw to overthrow their long-established concepts.

When that wall was torn down, of course it was deafening.

But people who are crazy about hunger will not care about this. They will only go to the base of the wall to find some crumbs that can barely satisfy their hunger.

Until there is enough debris to build a wall again, everything starts over again.

The second uncle is just a decent man, but he is not stupid.

When Li Gui said these two words, the second uncle roughly understood what happened.
Just like a few numbers written in history books, "When people are hungry every year, people eat each other."

The story of this wandering ghost is even simpler:
"We came out to sell specialties and buy salt. That year coincided with the rising brine. We could salvage a lot of brine to make salt bricks without any effort. There was more, so it was cheaper."

"Our old leader, the boss of the Salt Gang, was greedy. He thought that he could make more money by selling food all the way back, so he left all the places where the food should be carried for Salt, leaving only room for one horse. .”

"The old boss had a good idea, that is, there should be people along the way. Just exchange salt for money and use money to buy food."

"But that time, spring was cold in the northwest, heavy snow fell more than a month early, and herders moved to the mountains early. Supplies were cut off."

"The old boss made the second mistake again, that is, he thought that it would be over after a while, and forced us to hurry up."

"The price of the journey is that the house leaks and it rains all night. The rocky mountain road in the heavy snow is even more slippery. We are trapped here in a dilemma."

"Some of the horses in our caravan got frightened and got lost, some fell off the cliff, and a few of them were eaten by us."

"then"

"When the horse is gone, the day of decision has come."]