Sometimes, when people buy buns early in the morning, they taste like they are chewing gluten. They think that the store has not risen the dough properly, but it is clearly a bun, but it tastes like dead bread.
Older people basically won’t buy the first round of steamed buns, that’s why.
They have more or less heard that this is actually the essence of the buns that has been absorbed by the hungry ghosts.
There is also a way to solve this problem. Just use a red pen to put a red dot on the buns when they come out of the pan.
If you encounter a group of ghosts competing for food, no matter how fast people light the red dots, they will not be able to absorb them faster than the hungry ghosts. There will always be one or two buns that are too late to light the red dots and are eaten by the hungry ghosts.
In some century-old shops, the first steamed buns were steamed in small steamers.
After the steamed buns are steamed, they will be placed on the left side of the door for hungry ghosts to absorb.
Chujiu said that we rarely encounter such a situation now because our living conditions are so good. There is a lot of oil and water in the food, and a hungry ghost will not feel hungry for many days after eating it once.
In the world of hungry ghosts in the six realms, the flow of time is different from that in the underworld. One day for them is equivalent to about a hundred years in the human world.
Therefore, it will take hundreds of years for a hungry ghost to come out for food once and come back a second time.
The time when the sun rises is the time when the human world dominates the six realms. Any monsters and ghosts will retreat and return to their own territory.
"Then will our house be robbed by hungry ghosts?"
When Chujiu was telling me something exciting, a middle-aged elder sister sitting behind me turned around and asked Chujiu with a smile. It seemed that the elder sister had been listening to what Chujiu said to me.
"You don't have to worry about this."
Chujiu told her that there would also be hungry ghosts at home, but they couldn't get food.
Every household has an offering to the Kitchen God. He is a god and ordinary hungry ghosts cannot steal his things.
The Kitchen God will send his boys to guard the kitchen. When encountering hungry ghosts, the boys will drive them away directly.
The eldest sister said with a smile that her daughter liked to listen to stories the most. Chujiu’s storytelling skills were so good that she could tell this story to her daughter when she got home this time.
"Guo Guo, I mean is this possible? There were a lot of hungry ghosts near the food stall just now, so our luck will be low."
After finishing telling the story of the hungry ghost on the ninth day of the lunar month, the train started to move slowly.
"It's possible, but I feel it should be something else. Hey, don't think about it so much. Just ask Grandpa when you get to the village and you'll know."
After the train started moving, I started to feel sleepy, so I said hello to Chujiu, then lay down on the table and started to sleep.
Maybe it's because I've been sleeping on the sofa and lying on the hard table in recent days, but I don't feel anything wrong.
"Ah! Guo Guo, wake up!"
I don’t know how long I slept, but I was awakened by the shout of the ninth day of the lunar month. I looked out the window, the scorching sun was in the sky, it looked like it was noon.
Chujiu's eyes were red and he pointed at my clothes and pants. It looked like he had just woken up.
"Holy shit!"
I woke up instantly and was not sleepy at all. My clothes and pants were covered with little ants.
Where the soles of my feet were, there was a circle of black ants surrounding them, still struggling to crawl up the trouser legs.
"Guo Guo, don't move!"
Chujiu called out, picked up a magazine from beside her seat, and swept it on my back.
After his magazine passed over my back, I saw two gray moths lying in the corridor of the train.
"What is going on? How come these things are there in winter?"
I shook the ants off my jacket and pants, and there were at least hundreds of ants under my feet, spinning in circles, seemingly still trying to find my direction.
The ninth day of the lunar month is also incredible. It is said that there will be no moths or ants in this season.
"Guo Guo, did you bring sugar and honey with you? Ants and moths love these the most."
"No, I just brought a backpack with clothes and sundries in it."
I answered truthfully, maybe it was because of the location of the train and something in the locker that attracted these little bugs.
"Guo Guo, there is a layer of ash left by moths on your back. Let me dust it off for you."
As soon as I turned around, I heard the eldest lady in the back seat screaming and blocking Chujiu who was reaching out to slap me on the back.
"Little baby, you can't touch this with your hands, it's poisonous! Why does this moth appear here?"
The eldest sister asked Chujiu to use a magazine to take photos, but never use your hands.
The powder falling off the moth's wings will stick to the skin and it will become red and itchy. The more you scratch it, the more itchy it will be. Eventually the skin will break, which is very difficult to heal.
The eldest sister told us that although this moth looks similar to an ordinary moth, it is very poisonous.
One year ago, there were so many moths in their village that one child almost lost his arm because of it.
According to what the eldest sister said, I lowered my head and looked carefully at the bodies of two moths lying in the aisle. Sure enough, the ends of the moths' wings were green.
The people in their village named this moth the green silk moth to distinguish it from ordinary moths.
Chujiu and I kept saying thank you to the eldest sister.
The honest elder sister smiled a little sheepishly and said that she had never seen this kind of moth in winter. The moth had only appeared in their village for one year.
When the dining car passed by our place, we bought three box lunches on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year. By the way, I asked the staff if the lockers had not been cleaned for a long time. There were a lot of bugs in them.
The staff looked at the circle of ants under the lockers, frowned and said in confusion, they disinfected every day.
Chu Jiu handed a lunch box to the eldest sister just now. The eldest sister refused to take it, saying that it was a waste to spend ten yuan to eat it.
In the end, she resisted for a long time, and the eldest sister still accepted the lunch box. However, she gave me a packet of peanuts to drink on Chujiu, saying that riding in the car was boring and I could eat it to kill time, and Chujiu happily accepted it.
The train staff, probably informed by the dining car staff, brought insecticide and disinfectant to the locker and cleaned it again.
The train stopped and stopped, staying at one platform for about an hour, and passengers got off the train one after another to stretch their hands and legs.
There were various snacks and snacks for sale on the platform. Chujiu jumped out of the car happily and bought a large bag of snacks and two chicken drumsticks.
"Guoguo, enough for us to eat Panzhihua. It will arrive tomorrow morning."
I gnawed on the chicken legs, opened a can of drink, and looked at the coming night.
It doesn’t seem so tiring for two people to take a train together.
I remember when I first came to Chongqing and sat there for more than ten hours, no part of my body felt comfortable.
"Guo Guo, do you want to go down and do some exercise? We still have half an hour before driving."
I refused Chujiu's proposal, changed seats with him by the window, and fell asleep leaning on his travel bag.