I'm catching tricks in the Hong Kong variety show world

Although it is late autumn, it is a bit hot during the day, but at night if the air conditioner is turned on all night, the temperature inside is still very low.

Su Hao suddenly grabbed the other person's arm and said, "Does my third uncle's house live on the hillside behind the village? While it's still dark, could the secretary take us there to have a look?"

When Jiang Xiaoya heard this, she also put down her luggage, saying that she also wanted to go and visit.

In fact, what Su Hao called "third uncle" was not accurate. It would be more appropriate if Jiang Xiaoya called him "third uncle".

The village secretary was a little embarrassed, but he still agreed and said at the same time: "But your third uncle's place is not normal here. Don't believe everything he says."

Su Hao chuckled and was noncommittal.

Several people locked the conference room door again and walked along the road in the village towards the end of the village.

Su Hao and Jiang Xiaoya were dressed like villagers, walking in the village and attracting the attention of the villagers from time to time. Because the village secretary was with them, these villagers were not in a position to come up and talk to them. They just followed their footsteps with curious eyes until they were completely lost. figure.

On the way, the village secretary kept asking for credit, "I helped get your third uncle's job as a forest ranger at that time. It was 500 yuan a month, which is [-] yuan a year. There were a lot of people who were greedy for it. .”

"Here in our country, we can earn less than [-] dollars a year just from farming. Farming is so hard."

"I have been helping your third uncle Zhang Luo apply for the subsistence allowance in the past two years. Unfortunately, people in the town said that your third uncle has a job and income and does not meet the conditions for the subsistence allowance."

(In 2002, the minimum living allowance policy was implemented for laid-off urban workers. In 2004, the minimum living allowance policy was gradually implemented in first-tier cities and rural areas. Basically, in 2006, the rural minimum living allowance policy was implemented.)

Su Hao joked casually and said, "Thank you to the village secretary for your secret help. My third uncle will definitely understand the village secretary's painstaking efforts, and our old Chen family will also bear it in mind."

The village secretary declined: "You are too polite. You are just seeking political power in my position. Who asked me to be the village secretary?"

After arriving at the end of the village, the terrain gradually rises.

Su Hao once again noticed the dense forest at the top of the mountain ahead, and took the opportunity to inquire: "How big is this forest?"

"It's a radius of one or two hundred kilometers, but there aren't many commercial trees in it. They're all bushes. The reason why we specially set up forest ranger posts is to prevent wildfires and to prevent people from poaching or cutting down trees in the mountains. We in Aoki County There are many coal mines and serious geological damage. Now the higher-ups are beginning to advocate a sustainable development strategy in which mountains of gold and silver are not as good as green waters and green mountains. Naturally, we below will support it.”

Su Hao asked again: "Are there any predatory beasts in this forest?"

The village secretary said: "What is a predatory beast? There is just such a small forest. This is not other counties, nor is it Heilongjiang. I have only seen some wild boars, pheasants, etc., and by the way, there are also a lot of pythons and weasels. This Is it considered a predatory beast?”

Between the two of them asking and answering questions, they were already halfway up the mountain.

A forest hut made of thatch and wood appeared in front of me, with a small fenced yard at the door.

There were still some unpacked clothes in the yard.

The old secretary shouted at the door, "Aiyang, your relatives are here, are they at home?"

I shouted for a long time, but no one responded.

The old secretary introduced him familiarly: "Your third uncle is either feeding cows outside or patrolling the mountains. He will definitely come back before dark. Let's just go in and sit down. You are not outsiders, and this does not count as trespassing in a private house." .”

Chapter 247 Five Animal Gods

Chen Ergou proposed to go in and sit down first, and Su Hao and Jiang Xiaoya naturally had no objection.

During this period, Jiang Xiaoya acted more or less nervous.

She had learned from Su Hao that the person she was visiting now was her third uncle, her biological father's younger brother, and the only elder left in her hometown.

Jiang Xiaoya suggested, "How about I go back and bring the gift over first?"

The gift she was talking about was specifically an electric shaver.

Chen Aiyang doesn't need the other two.

Su Hao shook his head and said, "No need. Anyway, we have to deal with Third Uncle later. We have plenty of time, so don't rush for this moment."

Chen Ergou pushed open the courtyard door and entered, walking straight to the central hall.

There are only three rooms in this forest cabin, none of which are large. The middle one should be the living room. There is a lock on the concierge on the far right, which is probably a bedroom. The one on the far left is unlocked and looks the smallest, so it is probably the kitchen.

As for the toilet, I didn't see it.

On this hillside, it is rare to see living people in broad daylight. Where can I go out and urinate?

Chen Ergou opened the living room door. The living room was less than 15 square meters in size. There was a rectangular table with a crippled leg at the end of the room. On the uneven table were a shallow incense burner and a porcelain bowl. The incense burner The incense in it has burned out, leaving only a pile of ashes.

There is half a bowl of cooked rice in the porcelain bowl. There is something dark on the rice, which can't be seen clearly from a distance.

Su Hao's eyes swept across the rectangular table and quickly landed on the wall behind the table.

There is a black and white portrait that is about one meter long.

The thing in this portrait has a bull head and a human body, with a pair of round eyes staring strangely at the people who broke in.

Jiang Xiaoya suddenly let out an ouch, shrank behind Su Hao, and asked, "What is this?"

Su Hao translated it for her and put the question directly on Chen Ergou's head.

The latter quietly lit a cigarette and said after a long silence: "The five animal gods here are enshrined here."

Su Hao was surprised and said: "What are the Five Animal Gods?"

Chen Ergou explained: "The five livestock refer to cattle, dogs, sheep, pigs, and chickens. In addition, in pastoral areas, herders refer to cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and camels as the five grassland livestock."

"Although worshiping this thing is rare here, it is not unusual. It is regarded as a beautiful vision and rural custom."

"The fundamental reason is that we farmers in the countryside are poor, with their faces facing the loess and their backs facing the sky. You people in the city will definitely not understand."

Next, Chen Ergou explained a few more words.

What caught Su Hao's attention was that Chen Ergou actually mentioned the Five Immortals of the Northeast.

Among the five livestock in a farmer's home, cattle are the first, because cattle are not only expensive, but they can also help cultivate the land. They are a large amount of labor and are naturally the most precious.

Not all rural people can afford a tractor or a harvester.

Dogs are the guardians of homes and homes, and are good partners of humans.

Sheep and pigs most of the time serve as the main disposable property of farmers' families. Whether the family has money depends first on whether the house is big and whether it is a building, and secondly on whether there are many pigs and sheep in the family.

As for the last of the five animals, farmers can raise chickens to lay eggs. They can use these eggs to go to town to exchange for some pocket money, and then buy back the salt and seasonings they need. They can also eat them themselves to improve their lives.

If cows are laborers and helpers, dogs are helpers and partners in guarding homes and homes, and sheep and pigs are fixed assets, then chickens are equal to the working capital of farmers' families.

Not all farmers have someone working in the city, especially those who have no children or pensions.

Su Hao asked: "What is the relationship between these five animal gods and the five great immortals?"

Chen Ergou took a puff of smoke and said: "Farmers worship the Five Animal Gods in the hope that their property and helpers will be healthy and smooth, and their property will not be devalued. This is both a vision and a custom, and the source of the custom is the Northeast. Fairy."

"You should have heard that there are five great immortals in our northeast, but that was before the founding of the People's Republic of China."

Su Hao found a short table and sat down, next to an Eight Immortals table in the living room with Chen Ergou, which was on the left and right. The Eight Immortals table was shorter than the ordinary ones. It was leaning against the wall and had a few books on it.

Su Hao took a casual look and saw several popular novels such as "A Certain Ping Mei" and "Water Margin". What surprised him was that there were also "Book of Changes" and "Zi Zhi Tong Xuan" in them.

Moreover, the surface of these pages is yellowed, and many of the papers inside are torn. It is obvious that the head of the household has read and browsed many times on weekdays.

Su Hao couldn't help but become curious about this third uncle who had never been masked before.

A widower with no children and no idea of ​​his level of education, maybe just literate, actually read these books at home.

Take Su Hao's previous life as an example. It was easy to understand and accept the Plum Blossoms in a Ping and Water Margin, but it was incomprehensible when he read Zizhi Tongshuan and Zhouyi Bagua. Can you understand this stuff?

This interest is too mixed.

Next to her, Jiang Xiaoya also found a short stool and sat quietly under the eaves at the door.

Chen Ergou continued to ramble, "These five family immortals are basically monopolized by several major local families. They are married to each other for offense and defense. It is difficult for outsiders to integrate in. Even if they recruit disciples, they are selected from among the heirs within the family. Outsiders can only Get married or get married, otherwise they won’t really teach you how to make a living.”

"Ordinary people also have religious needs, what should they do? Eventually, the Five Animal Gods gradually emerged."

Su Hao interrupted: "Is this thing effective?"

Su Hao thought of the several Chuma Immortal masters he had seen in Yue Ya'er's dungeon space. One of them was called Ma Sanye, and he worshiped a Hu Immortal.

The other person is called Ma Sanniang, who worships a white immortal.

The remaining one was thin and taciturn, his name was Master Zhou, and the person he worshiped was actually a Liuxian.

Among them, Ma Sanye and Ma Sanniang are from the Ma family in the Northeast, which is also the most important family among the five immortal families, and Tuesday Ye is Ma Sanniang's man.

The two families are considered a marriage.

Chen Ergou chuckled and said: "Is it effective? It depends on who you ask, and what you think after hearing it. If I hadn't received three expensive gifts from you, it would be inconvenient for me to say these words. It doesn't fit with my current situation. If my identity were to spread, people outside would probably criticize me for taking the lead in engaging in landscape superstition."

Su Hao said something ambiguous, "If you believe it, there will be it; if you don't believe it, there will be nothing."

Chen Ergou glanced at him and said: "Wrong, if the Five Animal Gods are a belief and vision, a custom and spiritual sustenance of the lower class farmers, then the Chuma Immortal is a real existence and is indeed efficacious. When I was a child I’ve seen it before.”

"There was a family of immortals in our Kaoshan Town, but that was in the past. Later, everything was demolished and the business was probably lost."

The more Su Hao listened, the more frightened he became, and he asked quietly: "I wonder which family is your sponsor?"

Chen Ergou saw from Su Hao's eyes that the other party had believed what he said. He looked a little proud and whispered, "The family in our backer town is named Liu."

Su Hao nodded to express his understanding.

The five great immortals in Northeast China refer to Hu Xian (fox), Huang Xian (weasel), Bai Xian (hedgehog), Liu Xian (snake), and Gray Xian (mouse).

Among the five great immortals, Hu Xian is the first.

Each of the five great immortals has different magical powers and meanings.

They are:

[Hu Xian: Represents wisdom and sensitivity, with keen senses, good at hunting, seeing through illusion traps and creating illusions]

[Huang Xian: revengeful, good at confusing the mind, bewitching people, and creating hysteria]

[Baixian: Symbolizes good luck and wealth, is proficient in witchcraft, and can cure all diseases]

[Liu Xian: powerful, good at swallowing and strangulation]

[Grey Fairy: predicts the future and determines good and bad luck, and is called the Cang God]

Su Hao secretly thought, since Han Yuerong is a character in the Yue Ya'er dungeon and can also appear in Jin City, does the Ma family and Zhou family that he met in the Yue Ya'er dungeon also really exist in the Northeast?

This possibility is very high.

It's just that the time span has spanned seven to eighty years. Han Yuerong can always exist as a soul nourished by the power of folk belief, but the people of the Zhou family and the Ma family may have fallen into decline or perished after many twists and turns.

Su Hao asked around and asked, "Is this family in your patron town surnamed Liu or Zhou?"

This sentence made Chen Ergou look strange. He glanced at Su Hao again for a while and muttered in his heart, "Why does the other party, a foreigner from Hong Kong Island, know this?"

Chen Ergou couldn't bear it any longer and couldn't help but ask: "How do you know that the family in our Kaoshan Town was originally named Zhou, but now its surname is Liu?"

Su Hao smiled and said nothing.

He knows a lot.

If he didn't occasionally hit Chen Ergou in front of him, the old fox would most likely use some tricks to tease him out of ten sentences that include seven or eight truths and two lies.

Of course, even if he was beaten, Su Hao would not believe that what the other person said was the truth. In short, he would make his own judgment.

The copy of Yue Ya'er is technically called Qing Mo (a homophonic word for preventing harmony), and it spans seven to eighty years. It is not surprising that the Zhou family changed their last name this year.

Su Hao continued: "Does the Liu family in Kaoshan Town still exist? Is it far from here? If it really exists, I have to go and pay a visit."

Chen Ergou shook his head and said: "It no longer exists a long time ago. Their family was pulled out and smashed to pieces in Landlord. Like them, there is the Huang family. The Huang family is also in our Jilin Province. The families of these two families The descendants changed their names and moved away with their families under anonymity. I heard that they went abroad, and their contact information can no longer be found."

Su Hao couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

If he goes to visit and has some interactions with these people, under his magical golden finger, maybe the soul beads will be able to reveal related skills in the future.

It was like Su Hao had used a wave of skills in vain.

Since they no longer exist, it would not be an exaggeration to say that a good opportunity has been missed.

Su Hao sighed. Seeing Su Hao's expression of regret, Chen Ergou was silent for a moment and then said, "I received three valuable gifts from you today. If it weren't for this, there are some things I would never have said."

"If you want to visit the Xia Liu family, it's not impossible."

Su Hao was surprised: "Didn't you say that the Liu family no longer exists?"

Chen Ergou said: "It no longer exists, but Liu Shen may still be there, in the lotus pond in our backing town. It depends on whether you have the courage, but I don't recommend you to go. It's too dangerous. The water was low last year." Has anyone seen a big willow god inside during the day? Is its body so thick?"

Chen Ergou gestured with both hands, "It is at least more than ten meters long. I don't know how many years it has lived. In the past 20 years, no less than 50 people have disappeared near Hehuadang. One person disappeared last year. It is said that they were all killed by that person." The willow god swallowed it."

After saying this, Chen Ergou's expression became very cautious, and he warned again: "I know you city people like to see rare things. There are also these things in the city zoo. You can buy a ticket for tens of yuan to see them. There is no danger all day long, but people have really died in the Lotus Pond here."

Su Hao secretly wrote down the words Lotus Dang, "What you're telling me is, am I going to seek death in such a dangerous place?"

The conversation between the two slowly ended.

Su Hao stood up again and began to look at the furnishings in the living room.