husband from hell

Chapter 71 The Five-legged Frog
Is it a local minority?Moreover, they all carried baskets on their backs, presumably they went up the mountain to collect herbs?
The young man who helped us out was also dressed in a clean handmade white stand-up collar shirt with an antique button tab at the neckline.

Although it looks like a costume from a TV series, it fits him very well. He looks neat and energetic, and he also loves to smile. He looks very cheerful. Seeing that there are only two of us left in the front hall The table was full, so he turned sideways and chatted with us: "Look at your clothes and accent, aren't you from Xichuan?"

I nodded: "I'm here for a trip."

"Let me guess..." The man smiled slightly, a dimple appeared on the left side of his face: "Ah, such a standardized Mandarin, is it from near Yuning?"

I was taken aback, the whole country is so big, and it is not only Yuning who speaks standard Mandarin, this person guessed too accurately, so I couldn't help but nodded.

The man said with a mischievous smile, "Are you surprised by me? I'm sorry! Actually, I just came back from Yuning, so I heard it."

"So that's how it is!" Saying that, it made people feel a little close.

"My name is Luo Weilan, and I live next door to you." The young man smiled at me, his teeth were white: "When you came here yesterday, I was still awake, and after a quick glance, I thought it was a good match, so Very impressive, I don’t know what you call it?”

I introduced myself and Cheng Ke, and said, "I don't know where you lived in Yuning before? It's really fate."

"I live in the Ziyuchai community," Luo Weilan said cheerfully, "During this period, Yuning and Xichuan often went back and forth, so I bought a house in the Ziyuchai community."

My heart skipped a beat, the neighborhood I live in is the Ziyuchai neighborhood, not only coincidentally, but also a little strangely coincident.

But Cheng Ke lowered his head slightly, and never paid attention to Luo Weilan. He looked at the table, as if thinking.

I followed Cheng Ke's gaze and saw a small calamus flower engraved on the corner of the table.

The scratches are naive and clumsy, like a child's handwriting, but they are obviously old and have experienced a hundred years of wind and frost.

My heart twitched, calamus, calamus everywhere.

"Is that the reason you came this time for that too?" Luo Weilan seemed to be trying to find something to talk about in the silence, "It's also a rare day."

Only then did I react, and the interface asked, "Something? Is there anything around here, please?"

"Didn't you come here for that?" Luo Weilan was a little surprised, this is the look of slipping the tongue, and said a little embarrassedly: "Yes, this is a local festival, how do you know, it's me Misunderstood, I thought you came here for fame!"

"Anyway, I'm here." I became interested and asked, "I don't know, what kind of celebration is it?"

"It's a local, a ceremony on Lover's Mountain," Luo Weilan said with a little embarrassment, "It's not particularly interesting, you guys... you better not go. Just pretend I didn't say it." Saying, tidy up After a while, he stood up and left.

He also carried a pannier.

Strange, the more secretive it is, the more curious it is.

I looked at Cheng Ke: "Do you still remember what kind of celebration it was?"

Cheng Ke shook his head, glanced at Luo Weilan, and said, "This man is a ghost raiser."

I just kept silent, and after thinking about it, such a handsome and upright person really didn't belong to the Du family, so I asked Cheng Ke: "Then yesterday's movement, did it have something to do with him?"

Cheng Ke shook his head and squinted his peach blossom eyes: "Yesterday's yin energy dodged very quickly, and I couldn't tell. If it was really him who moved his hands and feet, then his ability is indeed not small."

Those who can avoid Cheng Ke's eyes must be a big deal.

Just at this moment, the fat steamed bun came and put the things Cheng Ke wanted on it, still with the expressionless expression on his face, just like a clay sculpture.

I learned how to be good, and took the opportunity to pretend that I knew it well, and asked opportunistically, "Boss, I don't know when today's boxing ceremony will start? How do I get there?"

"You mean Shigujie?" The fat mantou glanced at me, and said indifferently: "You guys want to go too?"

Picking up bones?This name... I nodded and said, "I came here for the name."

"It starts at noon," said the shop owner, "it's on the stairs at the back of the mountain, just go up and you'll be there."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and left.

Cheng Ke frowned: "Hmm... so it's a bone picking joint."

"Why, do you remember?" I hurriedly asked, "What was that about?"

"It's July and a half." Cheng Ke replied: "In other places, it should be to burn incense and send paper to the dead to renovate the tomb, but in some places in Xichuan, the ghost raiser is going to take the bones of the ancestors buried in the ground. Come out, at the highest place in the vicinity, after the sun at noon on July [-]th, the cool bones of the ancestors will be warmed up, and the next generation will be blessed with success in raising ghosts and going out, safe and smooth. "

No wonder it is called "Bone Picking Festival"!It turned out to be digging out the bones of the ancestors!No wonder...they all wear that kind of backpack...

"Let's go and have a look too." Cheng Ke rinsed my spoon in his porridge casually, and inserted it into my bowl: "Eat it. I hope it will satisfy your appetite."

He obviously knows what this porridge tastes like.

I ate it with calamus before I was alive.

I smiled and nodded, and drank the porridge spoon by spoon, pretending to like it very much.

In fact, I didn't eat it, what was it like.

After eating, the sun was not too low. Cheng Ke took me to find the place according to the shop owner's instructions. Sure enough, I found the long stone stairs and went up. The sun was dazzling. Cheng Ke The tall and straight figure stood in front of me and blocked the light for me, and asked, "Are you tired?"

I shook my head, he took my hand and walked up all the way, because his legs were too long, I was a little struggling to follow, he saw that my forehead was slightly sweating, and I was short, and didn't ask me if I wanted to , put me on the back that is not wide, but very stable.

The weather is very hot, but on him, I only feel the refreshing coolness. Seeing the stairs behind him getting longer and longer, I am inexplicably startled, have I been to this place before?

The wild flowers blooming all over the mountain are various and complex, and they are all varieties that I have never seen before, but I only feel that they are strangely familiar.

When I got to the top, Cheng Ke put me down. I looked at the top of the mountain and saw a few people standing sparsely on the top of the mountain. They were spreading the things in their back baskets on the ground and turning them with branches. They looked very serious. , the figure is not clear from a distance, but I feel that these people should be the ones who met in the hotel.

It's all... ghost raisers?

Cheng Ke let go of mine, and squinted his eyes under the dazzling sunlight, looking at those bright white bones, as if he remembered something.

I was afraid that I would disturb him, so I didn't dare to speak. I also turned around by myself, and suddenly saw a small clear spring in the west.

The clear spring slowly flows out from under a strange stone, which looks very clear, and the appearance of that strange stone, upon closer inspection, is actually lifelike, like a frog, but this frog has five legs under its body .

People say that "three-legged toads can't be found, and two-legged people are everywhere", but I have heard of the three-legged frog. In the legend, it is called the golden toad. People bring fortune, and this is the first time I have seen these five-legged ones.

I couldn't help being curious, so I passed by, and when I got closer, I realized that the stone frog was not too big. Because of its age, it was covered with a layer of gaudy moss, and it looked more like a real frog.

The water flowing out from under the frog has been stored as a natural pool, and the green clouds reflect the clouds in the sky. It looks very pleasing. I was a little hot, so I couldn't help but put my hands down. At this moment, behind me But there was a scream: "Don't touch the water there!"

(End of this chapter)