folk legend

Chapter 29 Shaman Xiangtou
Life is like this, as much hope, so much disappointment.When everyone in the village thought that Wu Zhanzhong was a talisman and a window hook, after some arrangement, there would be no such thing happening again.On No. 12 of last month, that is, No. 20 eight days after Fatty Han's death, there was another bad news in the village. A villager named Han Baolin hanged himself again!

All of a sudden, the whole village of Han's Wopu was thrown into chaos. The dead people who died for several months were all hanged, and the interval was 28 days. What is this going to do?Is it possible that the underworld also pays attention to revolutionary friendship?

The most important thing is that they usually live in the same village, and there are no more sudden people, and the death is still so terrifying, it makes everyone feel a little bit nervous.I don't know who is so wicked. At this time, they even spread rumors that this year is the year to accept people, and that they will carry the sedan chair for Lord Hades.

Not afraid of bad things, but afraid of bad people. As soon as the rumor came out, people in the village became even more panicked. As soon as it got dark, every family quickly locked the door, watched the children in their own homes, and prevented the children from running around.

In such a tense atmosphere, Han Gui was so angry that he carried a broken lacquer basin and stood on the street beating and cursing for two days.Not to mention the old village head's scolding, the tense atmosphere really eased a little.

Although it has eased, it has not completely calmed down.In the final analysis, this is not a problem that can be solved with a few words of scolding. In the face of unknown fear, even if you scold for three years, it will not work.It might work, though, because after three years, what was supposed to happen has already happened, and ashes return to ashes.

If you say a thousand things and ten thousand things, you have to do what you should do.Life has to go on, life has to go on, what should I do?In the end, everyone agreed that it would be useless to find Mr. Yin Yang again, so let's find a Xiangtou to have a look.

Xiangtou is a local name in the paddock. In some places, it is called Chumaxian, Dingxiang, Kanxiang, Chutang; in other places, it is called Mingyan'er.Although the names are different in different places, the meaning is the same, and they all refer to some fairy families who are engaged in the horse-riding profession. This is also a unique shaman culture inherited from ancient times and developed in northern my country.

The paddock is controlled by Mongolia in the north, close to the capital in the south, and connected to Chahar on the right. It is located among the tribes of Monan Mongolia.It is a county where Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Hui, Uighur and other ethnic groups are integrated.According to the population ratio, the Manchu population is the majority, so the Manchu culture has a far-reaching influence.

The shaman culture is the cultural belief of the Manchu people, so the shaman culture with deep roots in the north is also quite prevalent in the paddock.

But because of the multi-ethnic integration, the shaman culture in the paddock is very different from the traditional Northeast shaman.The shamans in the Northeast mostly use dancing, beating drums and singing to achieve "soul out of the shell", so as to go to heaven and earth in the spiritual world, so that the shaman's soul can communicate with the gods.

It is also known as the God of Jumping in the Northeast.

But in the paddock, the shaman has another name, that is, Xiangtou.Moreover, the Xiangtou in the paddock usually seldom move. After the fairy family fell into the mansion, they sat upright and arranged things one by one.

Of course, the view on this matter means that the beholder sees benevolence, the wise sees wisdom, some say it works, and naturally some say it doesn't work, each sticks to his own opinion.Some people are still chattering and arguing about this, but it is actually unnecessary, because the existence of everything in this world is reasonable.Since it is passed down from ancient times, there are naturally reasons for its enduring.

This time looking for Xiangtou, Han Gui didn't care about the party members' face.Things have developed to this point, if you don't put down your dignity and do some practical things, once it causes panic in the whole village, I'm sorry, let alone the ancestors in the ancestral hall, and I can't explain it to the leaders above.

It was precisely because of these considerations that Han Gui personally took a few people to the home of Old Lady Han in Xiangtou.

Let's talk about this old lady Han, sitting on her kang, through the glass on the window sill, she saw Han Gui and his party enter the yard, and when they entered her three small earthen houses, the old lady didn't even move her nest on the kang. , and didn't even look at these people at all.

Han Gui, who lowered his head and entered the room, saw the old lady Han's indifferent attitude, and felt a little angry in his heart, and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, this is your fault, it's about the two of us, we're alone Said. But today everyone came to see you because of something in the village. Why can't you have this attitude?"

After Han Gui finished speaking, he pushed the village accountant who came with him forward and said, "Come on! Tell this old woman that I don't want to talk to her." Regardless of whether the village accountant agreed or not, he pulled a stool over by himself, Sit up and down.

When the two met, how could this be the case? It turned out that there was some grievance between Han Gui and the old lady Han, so that they walked across the street without talking.Speaking of it, the matter between the two of them was actually a misunderstanding, as long as the two of them sat down and talked it over, it wouldn't be a big deal at all, but the two of them refused to accept the other, and this ended up like this.

This matter has to be talked about from the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, the Criticism of Lin, Criticism of Confucianism, and the Movement of Destroying the Four Olds quickly began to sweep across the country.Coincidentally, when the higher-ups broke the spirit of the Four Olds and just arrived in the village where Han Gui lived, he was having a meeting in the village.

Hearing this instruction from above, Han Guiben planned to return to the Han's shack as soon as the meeting was over, and talk to the Xiangtou in the village, asking them to put away their tricks first and hide from the limelight.

But what he didn't expect was that on that day, the old Mrs. Han was also in the village, and she was watching the master chef in the kitchen of the township government.I don't know who to report it to, so I just caught the current one.

So, put up a sign to criticize the struggle, close the cowshed, shave the yin and yang hair, and wear a high hat to parade through the streets.After a pass, the old woman Han was left with only half her life.In the end, they promised and swore that they would never dare again. The people who criticized her saw that the old woman was really tormented. They were afraid that she would die and there was no way to explain it, so they asked someone from the family to take her back.

After the old Mrs. Han returned to the Han family's nest shop, she raised her for more than half a year before she could take care of herself.Just when she thought she was unlucky, she didn't know that the man was lying, and told her that Han Gui was also in the village on the day she was arrested.

In this way, Mrs. Han quit, thinking that Han Gui must have pushed herself out in order to buy a good one from the top, or why it happened so coincidentally that both of them were in the village at the same time.

You said that they all live in the same village, even if there are conflicts, you can't do this.Even if you are the village head, what's the matter? If you really talk about seniority, you still have to call me sister-in-law.

Since then, unless the two of them don't meet each other, once they meet, the old woman Han will make teasing and hurtful sarcasm about Han Gui.After all, Han Gui is a village head, so he naturally has his own thoughts in his heart. He feels that to reason with such an old woman, he can't explain the reason clearly.

Han Gui's forbearance, not only did not get the old lady Han's understanding, but she became more confident in her heart, believing that it was Han Gui who betrayed herself, otherwise why did she always hide from herself.That's it, the two of them stopped feuding.

Seeing Han Gui come to look for her today, the old lady Han was very proud and said, how about it, you, a big village head, may ask me sometimes.When I was thinking about how to deal with Han Gui properly, and let out the anger in my heart.However, Han Guiba village accountant pushed forward, and he was later.

In this way, even though the old Mrs. Han was full of anger, she was anxious and had nothing to do, because firstly, the village accountant was the nephew of his dead old man, and secondly, this time was for the affairs of the village.

The helpless old lady Han put on her shoes reluctantly, and moved towards the Westinghouse slowly.As soon as Han Gui saw her move, he hurriedly turned to those who came with him, and winked, telling them to follow her quickly.

Old Mrs. Han's home was the kind of earthen house that was common in the paddock at that time.There is a big room in the east and west, and there is a big kang covered with the windows in the room.There are two stoves in the middle, connected to the big kangs in the two houses.

Generally, the houses designed in this way are the largest in the east house, where the elderly or the main family lives.The Westinghouse is a side room for the juniors or guests to live in.

But after everyone followed the old lady Han to the Westinghouse, they found that the Westinghouse was a little different.Because there is no kang in this house.Just close to the wall, there is a row of cabinets in circles.Every foot above the cabinet, there is an incense burner bowl.On the wall corresponding to the incense burner bowl, there is a fairy house code made of yellow paper.

The Xianjia code is similar to a memorial tablet, but it is made of yellow mounted paper folded into a shoulder-smearing rectangle, with words such as enshrining the god of a certain immortal family written on it.On both sides of the Xianjia yard, there are couplets written on narrow red paper.

Most of the couplets are seven days in some caves, thousands of years in the world; I heard that there are fairy mountains on the sea, but I didn’t know that the fairy family had a relationship with the world; I played the pipa for a while, and once the wind and moon were like Zen couplets.

Seeing such a decoration in the house, everyone stopped at the door of the West House, not daring to enter the house, for fear that they would stand in the wrong place and offend these invisible immortals.

As soon as she entered the Westing Room, the old Han woman immediately seemed to be a different person, burning incense and burning yellow mounting paper in an orderly manner, she was completely different from the trembling old lady just now.

After finishing all this work, the old woman Han sat down on the only stool in the room, her eyes were tightly closed, and she bowed her head without saying a word, like an old monk in meditation.

The few people crowded at the door of the house didn't dare to breathe at this time, and they stared at the old lady Han together, for fear that they would miss a little bit of excitement.

About a minute or so, the old woman Han, who had kept her eyes closed, suddenly yawned, stretched her arms, and turned her head to make a fuss.

Everyone wondered what the old woman Han was doing, when suddenly there was a rattling sound in her ears, and then, the slightly hunchbacked old woman Han suddenly trembled, and after a cold war, her waist straightened , the head that had been lowered all the time, suddenly lifted up and looked towards everyone.

Although those eyes were still tightly closed, from the eyes of the few people at the door, they seemed to be able to see through everything about themselves.This strange feeling also frightened several people's hearts.

(End of this chapter)