Returning to my hometown to inherit three mountains: Don't stop me from raising pigs

Chapter 259 The Weird Story of Cai Shi'er

A long time ago, people living in the mountains were isolated from information, extremely superstitious, and had many legends about gods and ghosts.

In the past, children were brought up in fear by all kinds of strange and bizarre legends told by their elders!

Whenever night falls and after dinner, the idle villagers gather around the old man and listen to him tell strange stories that have been passed down for who knows how many generations.

Qi Tianming really likes listening to these messy things.

After listening, you will analyze the causes of these stories based on current scientific knowledge!

Especially not like a normal person.

Now, after hearing that there are many taboos in mining ear, I immediately became interested!

What kind of taboos?

"A long time ago, when the villagers went up the mountain to collect stone ears, they had to carry out special sacrificial activities; they had to prepare various offerings before going up the mountain." said a villager nearby.

Qi Tianming nodded. This operation was quite normal. He offered a sacrifice and prayed for peace.

Shen Long added: "On the night before going into the mountains, you must cleanse yourself, burn incense, and ask the mountain god of the mountain you are going to for divination and pray for peace. If there is a phenomenon of intervening hexagrams, you must never go up the mountain."

"This is called Tongbai Mountain God."

Qi Tianming's eyes lit up, this statement was interesting.

"After you have received permission from the mountain god to go up the mountain, you must walk quietly when you leave the mountain, and not make any noise or talk too much."

"If any of the three phenomena occur, turn around and go home, never go up the mountain."

"First, the crows are calling on the branches. When the crows are calling, disaster is coming. This is an ominous sign!"

"Second, women are in the way. If the first person you meet while cleaning your ears is a woman, you should turn back the way you came and not go up the mountain."

"However, this rule was abolished after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Men and women are equal and there should be no gender discrimination." Shen Long said with a smile.

"You guys have quite advanced ideas here." Qi Tianming said with a smile.

"There used to be an aunt who was the village chief. Anyone who dared to disrespect women in the village would be scolded by her for three days. Over time, all these messy rules disappeared."

"666, this aunt is quite an important figure!"

"Third, if you hear the sound of dogs barking or chickens crowing, it means something unclean has appeared. At this time, the ear cleaner should go home immediately to avoid being contaminated by unclean things."

"These three are iron rules. If you find any of them, go down the mountain and go home immediately."

After listening to Shen Long and the villagers next to him, Qi Tianming touched his chin and thought about these statements.

"Apart from these, are there anything else?" Gu Chang found it very interesting and asked curiously.

"Also, if there are multiple people in the family engaged in ear picking, only one person is allowed to go at a time."

"I know why." Qi Tianming said excitedly.

"I'm afraid everyone will go digging for stone ears. If something happens, there will be no one left at home."

Gu Chang rolled his eyes at him. What kind of words were these?

"There are some other things, such as tying pheasant feathers on shoes to make it easier to collect stone ears. It is best to drip dog blood on the rope to ward off evil and avoid disasters..."

Gu Chang and the other two listened to Shen Long and the others talking about these taboos with great curiosity.

The three of them really didn't expect that digging a stone ear would involve so many rules and techniques.

"I have the strangest and scariest one!" another villager said in a low voice.

"What, what, tell me quickly?" Qi Tianming immediately took two steps closer to him and asked excitedly.

His expression is just like an excited civet looking at a pile of melons in a melon field!

"I heard an old man tell a story before, it was so weird and scary!"

"Once upon a time, someone went up the mountain to pick stone ears. When the person who went down was digging for the stone ears, he suddenly felt something wrong. He looked up. Guess what he saw?" asked a villager on the side with a strange look on his face.

"What did you see?" Qi Tianming looked at him and asked in a low voice.

"He looked up and saw a man dressed in blood-red clothes, his whole body covered in blood. He looked like a ghost. He raised an extremely large axe and chopped the rope frantically!"

"The ear picker was so frightened that he almost let go and fell off the cliff!"

"This... this man in red, what... is this thing?" Qi Tianming asked tremblingly.

"Some people say that these are the ghosts of those who went to the mountains to collect stone ears and fell to their death!"

The villagers had blank expressions on their faces and their tones were eerie and terrifying.

"These ghosts fell to their death while digging for stone ears. They have too much resentment and cannot be reincarnated after death. They can only wander in this mountain."

"Only by letting the new ear pickers fall to their death can they be replaced and reincarnate in the underworld..."

"hiss……"

"Ho..."

"..."

Gu Chang and Qi Tianming took a breath of cold air at the same time!

(ps: Most of the above content is true, and many strange rules exist in reality. Not all of them are nonsense, hehe)