There are not many guests in Sanyou Hotel. In order to save electricity, the lights are not turned on in the corridor of the hotel. The smell of burning leather is even greater when the door is opened.
There was no flashlight at hand, so I held up my mobile phone for lighting and walked outside the corridor.
This is the second floor, and there is a third floor above. In the middle of the corridor is the stairway to the third floor.
There was a public green leather trash can at the entrance of the stairs. The smell of burning leather came from there, and there was a faint light from the fire around the corner.
It's not really on fire, is it?
I took my phone and walked over quickly.
"who!"
"Who's there!" I just walked to the stairwell when I suddenly saw a woman squatting on the ground.
There was a washbasin on the floor, something was burning in the basin, and some chicken feathers were scattered around the washbasin.
Hearing me calling her, the woman who was burning things looked up, and I suddenly saw her face, which nearly scared me to death in the middle of the night.
This middle-aged woman was in her forties or fifties, had short hair, and was wearing red plush pajamas. What frightened people was her face. Her face was covered with dense red pimples, which might be a skin disease like acne.
Damn it, I was so scared that I cursed loudly, couldn't hold it back, and kicked this woman on the head.
I kicked her in the head and she was lying on the stairs screaming.
Only then did I realize that this was a person, and I immediately had the courage to ask loudly: "You're so scared! What are you doing! Burning something at the entrance of the corridor in the middle of the night!"
The middle-aged woman sat up and covered her head. Her voice was like a rooster's crow, thin and long.
"I see you guys are about to die, and I want to save your lives out of kindness. Why are you kicking me? It hurts my aunt to death."
When I heard her curse us to death, I frowned and said, "Are you sick? I think you are about to die."
This woman in pajamas with acne on her face stood up holding on to the railing, pointed at me and said: "I know you don't believe it, but... young man, I think you will be in jail in the future. Not only you, but also anyone who follows you from now on."
If you want to solve the problem, come to the live poultry market to find me tomorrow afternoon."
After speaking, the woman with acne looked at me deeply, put a rag on her face, carried the washbasin, and went downstairs to leave.
I was stunned on the spot, or rather, frightened by her words.
< br> "The disaster of death row is jail time."
These words have always been the deepest fear buried in my heart.
I returned to my room feeling a little dejected, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep and suffering from insomnia.
When I got up the next morning and went downstairs, I saw Bald Mopping the floor on the first floor, so I asked him: "Brother Fa, let me ask you something. Is there a woman in your building who is in her forties or fifty years old?"
, short hair, and acne all over her face, it looks a bit scary.”
The bald man held the mop cloth, looked at me and nodded: "Yes, brother, you are talking about Chicken Feet Woman, right? She sets up a stall in the live poultry market and sells chickens. She doesn't stay in my hotel. Why, brother, have you seen her?"
Did she? Did it scare you? "
I shook my head and said that it really scared me last night.
I took out a cigarette and gave it to Bald Hair, and asked him where this chicken-footed woman was from.
The bald man put the mop aside, lit the cigarette I handed over, took a puff and said: "She, what do you want me to say? Everyone who lives near the old town of Lanzhou knows her. Some people call her a magic stick, and some call her
Chicken witch, if a child loses his soul, an old man dies, or suffers from hysteria, people who believe in this will go to her."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
I nodded, shook my head, and said I didn't say anything. I was just curious and asked.
Perhaps because he got into the mood while smoking, Bald Hair told me something that he said happened a few months ago.
At that time, this incident was very famous in the Chengguan District of Lanzhou.
The bald man said that there is a family in Yaxinyuan, Chengguan District, with a family of three. The man works at a substation as an electrician, and the woman takes care of her child at home. The child is nine years old. Last month, the child suddenly seemed to have changed.
Like a human being, he always locks his parents in the room with the key when they are not paying attention. Then the child turns on the TV in the room alone and learns to dance square dance on the TV.
After hearing this, I frowned and asked, "What does this mean?"
The bald man held a cigarette in one hand and said, brother, don't panic, I haven't finished talking yet.
"This incident caused a big fuss. I heard it was even published in the morning paper. Not only Yaxinyuan, but also Lianxi
Dam, it has spread all over Renjiazhuang."
Bald Hair continues.
The child in the Yaxinyuan family is getting more and more aggressive. Not only does she lock the door every day, she sometimes gets angry and curses while eating, saying why her mother cooks the rice so hard because she doesn't know if she has bad teeth.
The seven or eight-year-old child said that he had bad teeth and had various abnormal behaviors in the past. His parents became scared and began to wonder if their child had bumped into something unclean.
The parents took their children to the Jade Buddha Temple of Baita Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, but it didn't work. When they got home, it was still the same. The parents were worried, so they took their children to Zhi Gong Temple, a Taoist temple, and asked the Taoist priests to take a look and spend money.
I bought an amulet.
As a result, the amulets invited by the Taoist temple were useless. Later, someone told the parents of the children that they should take their children to the live poultry market. I heard that there was a woman selling chickens there, nicknamed Chicken Feet Woman, who could see things.
Son.
So the family went with their children.
The chicken-foot woman glanced at the child and said with a straight face: "This is not your child. There is an old woman in her seventies riding on the child's neck. You shouldn't waste time by going to the temple or Taoist temple. You are late and the child is early."
Lost my soul."
The child's parents were frightened and said, "You must save me. We only have one seedling in our family. As long as our child is cured, we can spend any amount of money."
In the end, the child's parents spent 60,000 yuan, which was not a small amount of money, to ask her to help save the child.
There are two local legends about how to treat this child with chicken feet. The one the bald man told me should be the first one.
He said that Chicken Feet Woman spent two days choosing an egg, and then put the egg in a jar and soaked it with vinegar and quicklime. After soaking for ten days, the eggshell of the egg softened and became very soft.
soft.
Then, the chicken-foot woman used a square mold made of wood to press the round egg into a square egg.
After stuffing the square egg into the child's arms, the parents drove the child around the entire city of Lanzhou.
After coming back, I took the egg out of the child's arms and after breaking the eggshell, two winding paths appeared on the surface of the egg, which may be indentations.
Chickenfoot Woman said: "Near this road is the place where your child lost his soul. As long as you bring your child here at twelve o'clock in the evening and keep shouting Say the child's nickname three times and your baby will be fine."
The story goes that the results have come out, and the little boy has recovered and returned to normal. His parents also asked him about it afterwards, and the child said that he could not remember clearly what happened before.
I had robbed graves, dug into pits, traveled all over the country, and this was the first time I encountered this kind of thing. At that time, I couldn't make up my mind. Plus, I had encountered the bean sprouts incident before, which made me really scared.
The woman who went up to the corridor to burn something last night was Chickenfoot Woman. She asserted that I was going to jail and even said that she could help me solve the problem. So I planned to go to the live poultry market in the afternoon to see her.
I originally planned to hide this matter from Dou Yazai and Xiaoxuan, but Bald Hair let it slip at noon.
Xiaoxuan asked me what was going on and whether I was hiding something from her and Douyazai.
I couldn't express my pain, so I talked about what happened last night in a hesitant way.
Douyazai is not superstitious, but when Xiaoxuan's father was alive, she always went to Feng Shui masters to tell fortunes, so Xiaoxuan sometimes believed in these things.
We know best what we do.
Prison is too scary.
So, at about two o'clock that afternoon, the three of us took a taxi to the Lanzhou Live Poultry Market.
I found out the location just by asking someone.
"Young man, you're here." At that time, Chickenfoot Woman was sitting on a chair reading a newspaper. Her stall was surrounded by chicken cages, and the cages were full of live chickens, which smelled very good.
"Let's talk in the house," she put down the newspaper, stood up and took us into the house.
There is a tribute table in the room. In front of the table is an incense burner with yellow paper, and behind the incense burner is a clay statue.
This clay figurine is very strangely made, with a woman's face pinched out of clay. There are a lot of beards cut from black cloth stuck to the chin of the clay figurine, one by one.
What's even more strange is that the lower body of the clay figure does not have human feet, but only one foot, which is a chicken foot with only claws.
When Dou Sprout saw it, he was speechless. He pointed and said, "What is this, a monster? Is it this?"
Upon hearing this, the woman's face became gloomy and angry.
She looked at Dou Sprout and said coldly: "Young people are used to talking without restraint. Be careful of being hit by a car while walking at night."