Northeastern Wild Fairy Tales Record

  A roof leaks on a rainy night, and when this person is unlucky, drinking a mouthful of cold water gets stuck in his teeth. Letting out a fart can hurt the heel of his foot. I am obviously a very good example, originally nothing was wrong with me, but because of my dad's loud scolding, suddenly my soul was scared out of my body.

  And, as it happens, the yellow-skinned guy came, but I didn't know he was the one I kicked. He wore an old-fashioned Qing dynasty robe, with a head of long hair tied together with a yellow string, and when I saw him clearly.

  This person is about twenty-seven or eight years old, with a smile all over his face, but he doesn't give people the feeling of being in a warm spring breeze. Instead, it's as if he's been trapped in a deep autumn and winter, and a chill has risen from the soles of his feet.

  But he was someone I had never seen before, and the clothes were something I had never seen either. However, the style was familiar, it was what my grandfather wore when he died.

  All I saw was him rushing towards me with a smile and asking: "Little kid, whose family are you from?"

  As soon as I heard that, he asked me whose family it was, and I didn't even know him. My cautious eyes just rolled a few times, and with my head tilted to one side, I counter-questioned: "Who are you? Why haven't I seen you before? What brings you to my house?"

  At that time, I still thought I was at home and didn't realize that my soul had left my body. And this person was the yellow-skinned man I kicked, who came looking for me by smell. Because there was a Longevity Lock in my house, he couldn't enter my house, so he originally planned to wait outside for a while to see if there was an opportunity to make a move.

  To his delight, for some reason, the culprit himself floated out vaguely and he could even see his illusory body.

  He was overjoyed and came up to chat with me.

  But I didn't expect that although I was small, my eyes and heart were not few, and I didn't tell him anything, but instead asked him questions. But at such an old age, how could a yellow-skinned person be embarrassed by a child? So, the yellow-skinned person's face changed, and he said with great sadness: "I am from the front village, and when I returned home at night, I was beaten up by someone, and now my body is no longer strong enough to return home. It just so happens that I passed by here, so I wanted to borrow a place to stay for one night, but seeing that most of your village's lights were out, it wasn't good to disturb them, so I came here. Just as I saw the light on in your house, I wanted to ask if I could borrow a place to stay for one night?"

  As soon as I heard that, although I didn't like his smile, seeing him alone so late was indeed inconvenient to go back. Moreover, it's already pitch black outside, and you can't see your fingers when you stretch out your hand. It's better to let him rest here for the night and leave tomorrow. But our home definitely won't allow him to stay. To say nothing of my family having only me and my grandmother, two old and weak people, if he were to cause any trouble in the middle of the night, we wouldn't be able to do anything.

  At this time, I remembered that there was an old ancestral temple in our village. The old ancestral temple was the home of a very wealthy landlord in the past, but later because of the struggle against the landlords, it was overthrown, and the house has been uninhabited ever since, so now it's already dilapidated beyond recognition.

  But for us kids, it was a paradise, especially in autumn. Because of the dense weeds, there were countless cicadas and grasshoppers inside. My friend Dog Egg and I would often go there to catch cicadas and roast them for food, or catch big generals (grasshoppers).

  So I looked up at this person and said, "Alright, you look quite pitiful. I'll find a place for you to spend the night, and tomorrow you can go home."

  "It's okay, as long as there is a place to avoid the wind, you are really a good kid, I wish I had a child like you." After that person finished speaking, he wanted to touch my head. At this time, I suddenly remembered what my grandfather had told me before, which was not to let strangers touch my head when meeting them for the first time.

  I don't know why, at that time I asked my grandfather, but he didn't tell me either. When I saw him about to touch my head, I quickly retreated a few steps and looked at him warily.

  That person also saw through my caution and forced a smile, saying: "Can that kid take me there? I'm really too tired."

  I watched him warily and warned him in a not-so-friendly tone, "I can take you there, but don't touch my head. My grandfather said that strangers shouldn't touch my head casually, got it? Otherwise, I won't take you there. You can go wherever you want, and I'll just ignore you."

  I was foolishly warning others, unaware that they didn't need to treat me like this. As long as I followed him, my soul would be lost. If my family couldn't find my soul in time, my fate would be a soul not attached to the body, and my life would return to the Yellow Springs.

  But after he nodded in agreement, it was as if he had won a victory, and felt that his threat had taken effect, so he led the person to Laozu Temple with a proud smile.

  The scene shifted to inside my house, where my grandparents and parents heard a sentence from my uncle, and they all became stunned, standing in place with their mouths agape.

  I had just said that nothing unexpected would happen, but this unexpected event came too quickly. My grandmother is still old and has experienced many things, she reacted first, facing my second uncle: "Second brother, hurry up and think of a way to call back Xiaosan's soul, if it's late, I'm afraid something will happen!"

  After finishing, she gave my dad a glare that seemed to say if anything happened to me, she would never forgive him. Seeing the look in my grandma's eyes, my dad was also filled with bitterness in his heart. After all, it was for my own good, and he just wanted me to learn a lesson, so I wouldn't cause any more trouble in the future. Who knew things would turn out like this? He was actually scared out of his wits! If only she knew, even if you killed him, he wouldn't do such a thing.

  Not daring to say a word, he looked at my second uncle with a worried face, waiting for his instructions on what to do.

  My second uncle is also very experienced. In the Northeast, calling a soul back isn't a big deal. So he hastily asked my mom: "Sister-in-law, where does San'er usually go?"

  "This... this I really can't think of for the time being, wait for me to think." My mom was anxious and almost cried, but it's true that I couldn't remember where I often went to play. After all, I'm like a loach, slippery and wandering around every day without a fixed place.

  Finally, my mom was a bit thoughtful, poor parents' hearts, and in the end, she really guessed that I liked going to Laozu Temple.

  Then, tentatively, I said to my second uncle: "Second brother, at this time of year, I think San'er should like going to the old ancestral temple. There are more frogs and grasshoppers there, he and Danhuang should go there often, I don't know if that place counts?"

  At this time, my second uncle couldn't care about so much anymore, and hurriedly picked up the outer jacket I had taken off and handed it to my mother, letting her take it out to the old ancestral temple to call my soul back. He was also afraid that my mother wouldn't dare to go, so he let me follow along as well, and also handed over the longevity lock to them, taking it together with them on the road, telling them to shout my name all the way until they reached the old ancestral temple. When they arrived at the old ancestral temple, they would wrap the clothes up like a package, shake it a few times, and then shout: "Third son, come home with mom!"

  All the way, he kept shouting, don't stop, after finishing the handover, he called my mom and they left.

  At home, my second uncle picked up my shoes and placed them upside down under the pillow. At the same time, he took out yellow paper, wrote my name on it, and burned three pieces of paper at the kitchen door.

  Just waiting inside the house for my mom and them to come back, but I'm extremely anxious and worried in my heart.

  I led the person to the front of the old ancestral temple quickly, a big gate that should have been very majestic was now dilapidated due to wind and rain, with no one repairing it. The courtyard inside was overgrown with weeds, only the house inside could barely accommodate people.

  But no one would leave their own home to come here, only us kids would come here to catch grasshoppers and crickets, which adds a bit of atmosphere to this old ancestral temple.

  "I turned around and said to him: 'Alright, we're here, you go in yourself, I'm going home.'"

  "I'm not familiar with this place, won't you take me in to get familiar with it? What if I walk the wrong way and something bad happens?" At this time, the person's face had already changed color. Since he was still young, he didn't pay much attention and thought he was just scared, so he teased him saying: "You're already so big, what are you afraid of? Honestly, do you want to go in or not, I'm going home now, if I don't go back my dad will scold me."

  After finishing speaking, I turned around to leave, but at this time my footsteps were like stepping on a layer of glue underground, and I couldn't move my feet. Out of curiosity, I looked down at the ground again, but found nothing.

  Indeed, a sharp laughter echoed from behind: "Hahaha... Heaven has a road you don't take, hell has no door you charge in. It's truly effortless to find you, I was thinking how to find you, tonight you kicked me and threw me around like a soccer ball. Now you want to leave? Hehe... what a foolish dream."

  At this time, even a fool would know what's going on. Although I'm just a kid, I also knew that something was up. Plucking up the courage to turn around and shout loudly: "You yellow-skinned brat, if you dare move me, my second uncle will definitely deal with you."

  "There's really no one here who can move me, so you'd better just accept your fate. You think kicking me is that easy? It comes with a price." After saying this, Huang Pizi seemed to have thought of something and added, "I'm too lazy to waste words on you, hurry up and get ready to meet your end, I'll be leaving soon."

  All I saw was Huang Pizi raising his hand, and a burst of yellow smoke came towards me. At this time, I was also scared, and let out a loud howl. Tears flowed from my eyes, and I shouted: "Grandma, mom, save me..."