Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 1 Chicken

"Blood! Blood!"

"Why so much blood?"

"Mom, this is going to scare people to death!"

"..."

The exclamations in the yard woke up Zhu Badger from her sleep. She turned over and continued to sleep, muttering: "I'm so scared. It doesn't matter if I get so much blood every month that it hurts my life. You see?" What do you mean by some blood?"

Zhu Badger hasn't been sleeping well these past few days. He's always feeling sleepy and wants to sleep but can't sleep. He's so uncomfortable that he's going crazy.

"Hey, did you go see that notice?"

"Notice? What notice?"

"It's the notice posted on the big camphor tree, saying that our village will be demolished soon."

"..."

"Demolition? Our village is going to be demolished?" Zhu Badger jumped up from the bed, rushed out of the room barefoot, and rushed to the yard.

The yard was full of people, all of whom were villagers living in this old house, Zhu Badger's neighbors.

The old house where Zhu Badger lives is the Bajin Courtyard, which is said to have been built in the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang were fighting in the south of the Yangtze River, they were defeated. Zhu Yuanzhang fled to a deep mountain forest in eastern Zhejiang. Fortunately, an old woman hid him in a broken vat in her house.

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he did not forget the old woman and sent people to welcome her to the capital. The old woman declined, so Zhu Yuanzhang allocated 13.5 acres of land (equivalent to 9,000 square meters) and sent skilled craftsmen to build a 99-room mansion for the old woman according to the scale of the palace.

The old woman couldn't resist, but she only allowed the craftsmen to build an eight-room mansion with 88 rooms on more than 8,000 square meters of land. This is the old house where Zhu Badger lives today.

The old woman is the ancestor of Zhu Badger. She was originally nameless and had no surname. After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he gave the surname Zhu to the old woman, and it has been passed down from generation to generation.

Rumor has it that the old woman was the only one living in this small mountain village where Zhu Yuanzhang was located. The current villagers are descendants of the servants sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to serve the old woman. The old woman is kind and treats her servants like family members, letting them take her own surname.

Zhu Badger rushed to the center of the yard barefoot, looked up and asked urgently: "Demolition? When will it be demolished?"

The yard was originally chirping, but now it was silent, and all eyes were fixed on the red badger.

Zhu Badger wanted to ask again, but her old lady came over and grabbed her hair and dragged her into the house. While dragging her, she cursed: "You Badger Eight Immortals, do you still want to be shameless?"

"Mom, why are you grabbing my hair? It hurts!" Zhu Badger is not afraid of anyone, he is afraid of his own mother. He thought to himself, you can take it or not, but you want to give me a wild animal that is not like a pig or a mouse. As for the names of things, could these "red badgers" and "pig badgers" be the "Eight Immortals"?

Zhu Badger's village, Lvbuo Xiaoshan, is located in the mountainous area of ​​eastern Zhejiang. "Eight Immortals" is a curse word for women in the local area, which means stupid, crazy, and indifferent.

Zhu Badger is tall and thick, and at 1.78 meters, she is more masculine than a man. It is natural to catch Zhu Badger, who is only 1.58 meters and less than 90 pounds. After throwing the red badger into the room with his big hand, he cursed: "Why don't I grab your hair? What's the point of showing off with your bean sprout-like body?"

"Ah? I'm not wearing any clothes?" Zhu Badger looked down and saw that he was indeed naked.

Naoxi was in prison, why did he rush out like this? No wonder those spirits were looking up at something in the yard? Seeing me go out, everyone's eyes were shining, as if they had been poisoned.

Blame it on that bed, why is it always so hot when sleeping on it? It's so hot that I don't need to cover myself with a quilt during these nine cold days, and I feel so irritated that I want to peel off my own skin.

Zhu Badger is twenty-one years old this year. His surname is Pig and he is named after Pig Badger. Naturally, he has the same habits as Pig Badger. He likes to stay at home during the day and move around at night. He likes to smell all kinds of new things and turn them upside down.

Ma Liu was naked and put on her cotton clothes, and Zhu Badger rushed out of the room again. She saw that the neighbors ignored her, and they all just looked up at a bamboo pole in the middle of the yard, wanting to ask again what the demolition was about? His feet slipped and he fell onto the cobblestone ground.

Zhu Badger got up with his hands on the ground. There was a sticky stain on it. He subconsciously put it under his nose and smelled it. It made him feel sick to his stomach. After a closer look, he saw that it was blood.

Blood? Is there really blood? Where did the blood come from? Zhu Badger was not afraid of blood, but when he saw that the ground and his hands were all covered with blood, he became a little angry and cursed secretly: "You are in trouble, you are shouting blood, blood, blood so early in the morning, why don't you sweep it away and flush it?"
Angrily, he rushed to the crowd and looked up. The fearless Zhu Badger couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

A large bamboo pole in the middle of the yard was lined with dead chickens, seventy or eighty from top to bottom. It was feared that all the chickens in the village were hanging on this bamboo pole.

These chickens had their legs pointing upwards, no heads, and blood dripping from their necks.

"Haha, I was gnawing on chicken feet in my dream. You really brought them to me!"

Zhu Badger laughed, and everyone lowered their heads and turned, their eyes squinting at her blankly.

With your brain locked up, all you can do is look blankly blank? I exclaimed more or less as at the beginning and asked: Zhu Badger, did you really eat chicken feet in your dream?
Forget it, no one in the village except Mr. Zhu seriously calls me by my name. Calling me "Eight Badger Immortals" is already very polite.

"Mom, boil water, boil chicken feathers, and eat chicken."

Zhu Badger's bloody hands went over to pull out the bamboo pole and take it to his home.

There were so many chickens hanging on the bamboo pole that Zhu Badger's thin body almost fell down with the bamboo pole, so he just dragged it away.

"You, you really want to drag these chickens back?" The squinty-eyed woman who lives next to Zhu Badger's house has squinty eyes that are almost black.

Zhu Badger responded angrily while dragging the chicken: "This bamboo pole is stuck in the path of our home. Of course these chickens belong to our home."

With squinting eyes, Zhu Badger dragged a chicken on a bamboo pole into his home. The squinty-eyed woman and everyone waited for Zhu Badger to come out and ask what was going on with the demolition? None of them could react.

"Dan'er, tell me!" Zhu Badger walked up to a seven or eight-year-old boy.

The boy opened his mouth several times, took breaths several times, and stammered in reply: "A notice, a notice, a notice has been posted."

"Notice? Where is the notice posted? Just tell me, my family will have chicken for lunch." Zhu Badger gave the boy the most gentle tone and the most beautiful smile.

The boy immediately jumped to life, took Zhu Badger's left hand, which was stained with chicken blood, and ran towards the entrance of the village. As he ran, he said: "There is a notice posted on the big camphor tree, saying that our village is going to be demolished."

Is there a notice posted on the big camphor tree? Are you saying that our village is going to be demolished? is it possible? Last night at midnight I ran to do errands under the big camphor tree, but I didn't notice any notice posted on the tree. Did the people above come to the village so early? Impossible. It takes at least an hour and a half from the town to the village. It's just dawn. How can the people above be so diligent?
There were not many people under the large camphor tree shrouded in mist, and most people ran to see the chickens.

Zhu Badger shook off the hand of the boy she called Dan'er and rushed under the big camphor tree.

Sure enough, there was a piece of paper taped to the big camphor tree, but it wasn't the black and white notice that Zhu Badger had imagined, but something similar to the yellow bulletin posted in the village when people go to the dojo after death.

On a piece of yellow paper about the size of a square banana fan are six large red characters: "If you want to demolish, don't be greedy."

What's the meaning? Who is responsible?

It speaks plainly, but has a bit of a bookish tone. Could it be written by him?
Well, it's his handwriting, I have to go ask him!

Just as Zhu Badger was about to lift his legs and leave, a greasy voice came from behind: "Little fairy, it's time to copy some paper."

Zhu Badger turned her head, and the wretched face of a middle-aged man licked in front of her.

"Take a prison in your head, go to hell!"

Zhu Badger spoke out, opened his bow left and right, and slapped the middle-aged man twice.

The middle-aged man fell to the ground. Zhu Badger ignored it and turned around and ran to her old house. She wanted to find the person who wrote the notice and ask him clearly: What does it mean?
If he couldn't explain why, she wanted to make him look good today, even better than those chickens, seal his throat even more when he saw blood, and completely make him look polite. Wasn't this what he cared about the most?
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