"Hey, Brother Li," I asked casually: "Have you ever been to that Guiziling? What kind of place is it specifically?"
Talking about this, Li Tiecheng, who was driving, frowned and said: "I'm not from that place, but I went there once in the 1980s. It was summer at that time. I just remember that the woods were very gloomy. In summer, it was only about ten degrees.
Some rotten stone men were half-buried in the soil. Later, the village chief found out and kicked me out, and I was almost beaten."
"Please listen to my arrangements later. It's getting late now. Let's find a place to settle down after arriving in the village."
We arrived at Tianguangsi Village at around six o'clock in the evening. We got out of the car with our bags and walked on the small roads in the village. I found that there were very old tile-roofed houses and few red brick houses. The ancient carved doors and windows could be seen everywhere.
The villagers are not very tall, and some of them are leading their cattle as if they have just come back from the fields.
Li Tiecheng stopped a villager who was passing by with a cigarette in his mouth and said in the local dialect: "Brother, wait, it's like this. We are traveling from other places. Could you please help us to find out whose old house is uninhabitable?"
Yes, let’s rent it for a few days.”
"It's a small thing, brother," Li Tiecheng stuffed a packet of Yuxi into the person's hand.
The villager spat, kicked the cigarette in his pocket and said something with a smile.
Li Tiecheng nodded and said: "He said there are some good places to visit in the village, and he also said that if you want to live in a house, you don't have to bother others. His family has an old house that they can't live in, but it's too dirty and needs to be cleaned."
I said, what are you waiting for? It’s getting dark today. It’s better to rent a house by yourself than live in someone else’s house.
The rent was fifty yuan a month. This person was very happy and enthusiastically brought a few quilts from home.
This old house is located in the north of the village. The old tile-roofed house has two rooms, the east and the west. There is a big pit in the house, and there are orange poles on the kang. When cooking, there is an earthen iron pot in the courtyard. You can clean it up and burn firewood for cooking.
The only drawback is that there is no electricity.
If we want to charge, we can only go to someone else's house. The neighbor's house is an old lady who lives with her granddaughter. Her family is half Yao people.
The mobile phones were all collected and the others stayed in the room. Li Tiecheng and I went together.
The old lady’s granddaughter went to school in the county town. She was 16 or 17 years old. She was playing hula hoop in the courtyard at the time. We pushed the door open and were startled when we walked in. I’ll call her Xiao Tang.
The old lady can speak Mandarin that is not standard, but her granddaughter who goes to school in the county town speaks more standard Mandarin. Although she has an accent, she can understand it.
I said, aunt, I will give you ten yuan to recharge the electricity. She said no money, no money, you can go to the house to recharge.
At that time, there was no fast charger with hundreds of watts, charging was as slow as an ox. It was almost nine o'clock in the evening and the courtyard was dark. I was sitting on the horse and chatting with the old lady. Naturally, the topic was brought up by me intentionally or unintentionally.
ridge.
"Ah? You want to go to Zaizailing?" (People in their village don't call it Guizailing. They call it Zaizailing.)
Li Tiecheng smiled and said no, he was just curious and wanted to know how far that place was from here.
Xiao Tang's eyes were a little panicked. She shook her head back and forth and said, "You can't go to Zaizailing. My dad said that there is a passage of Yin soldiers there. My dad said that the Yin soldiers wear straw hats and ragged clothes. If you look at them, your soul will be destroyed."
If you are taken away, even if you are rescued, you will still be in a vegetative state. There are two such vegetative people in our village."
Seeing Xiao Tang saying this seriously, I felt like laughing for no reason, but I didn't dare to laugh, so I just sat on the horse with a sullen face.
Also, Xiao Tang said that anyone who wants to cross Zaizailing must go to Yapo (I understand it as Shenpo) and write a red couplet.
Write your name on the red couplet, and at 12 noon during the day, ask Yapo to take the couplet and paper money and burn it under the Zaizai Temple. This will tell the Yin soldiers that someone is passing by and make it convenient for them.
After hearing this, Li Tiecheng was surprised and said: "I haven't heard from my Daoxian friends that there is a temple in Guiziling? Where is it?"
Xiao Tang opened her mouth to speak, but her grandmother stopped her and told her not to talk nonsense.
I looked at the old lady's expression.
It's a bit like talking about a tiger's color changing.
