The mouse belongs to the Hui family among the five immortals.
It ranks eighth among the Eight Immortals of animals, so it is also called "The Eighth Lord Gray".
Folks worship the rat because it is active in the dark day and night, making its tracks unpredictable.
Therefore, it is considered to be highly intelligent and deified.
Others regard it as the "Cang God" and worship it during the rural warehouse filling festival.
Others believe that rats can predict the future, tell fortunes, and make people rich.
Therefore, they are regarded as the god of wealth and are expected to bring treasures to their owners in the dark.
Folks also imagine that the world of rats is the same as the human world, and the themes of New Year paintings are There is "a mouse marrying a girl".
This kind of story can often be seen in paper-cutting or shadow puppet shows.
Let's talk about this anecdote below.
Every year on the tenth day of the first lunar month is the "Stone Festival", which means "ten" is the same as "stone".
On this day, it is forbidden to use stone utensils and do not move stones.
Because the foundation of the wall is built with stones, rats often live in the holes in the corners.
Because of this, there is also a folk legend that that day is "the day when mice take wives".
According to the old tradition, rice flour is used to make steamed food, called "Shizi Tuan".
Before turning off the lights at night, it is placed in a hole in the wall for rats to eat.
It is said that in the early years of the Republic of China, there was a severe drought that had never happened in a century.
The rivers in southern Jiangsu were dry.
The area in southern Jiangsu, which had always been prosperous, was devastated.
It was also divided by warlords and wars were frequent.
The people were in dire straits and many poor people starved to death.
At that time, there was a businessman named Hua.
Seeing the turbulence of the current situation and the decline of the world, he had no intention of running a business, so he stopped his business and moved back to his ancestral home from the city with his servants.
Although the ancestral house in the countryside has three entrances, with large houses spanning courtyards on both sides, it has not been inhabited all year round.
Many places are in disrepair and some walls are cracked, making it uninhabitable for a while.
Therefore, the head of the Hua family lives in the village.
I rented a few apartments to live in temporarily, planning to wait for the situation to stabilize before renovating the ancestral home.
One night when the master was sleeping, the servant who was guarding the ancestral house came to report that something strange was happening in the house.
The master immediately got up and rushed to investigate, and saw that the attic of the back house was brightly lit, and it was very noisy inside.
The owner was very surprised.
The attic had been vacant for many years.
How could there be anyone in it?
He immediately peeped through the cracks in the wall and saw countless little people in the attic. , seems to be cleaning up the house.
After watching for a long time, the owner was extremely shocked.
He knew that the things in the attic were either ghosts or monsters, but he did not dare to disturb him.
He opened the attic during the day and went in to check, but the building was empty and nothing was found.
But the next night, there was another strange noise in the attic.
The owner looked through the wall again and saw lanterns and colorful lights, dazzling red candles, and little people playing and playing, surrounding a sedan chair, and the bride was whimpering in the sedan chair.
Crying, obviously She was reluctant to leave her parents' home, and there was another sedan behind her.
In the sedan sat an old woman over fifty years old.
She was the mother who was sending her daughter off.
She was surrounded by many maids and maids.
The noisy procession walked into the wall and gradually disappeared. .
A few days later, at night, I heard the sound of a baby crying from the attic again.
The owner took a peek and found that the little wife who had just walked through the door had already hugged a big fat boy.
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A few days later, the baby bowed to another child.
Mr.
Zui became his teacher and began to read and write.
At that time, people were very superstitious.
The owner saw it in front of his eyes and was anxious in his heart.
He saw that his ancestral home was occupied by monsters, but he did not dare to alarm rashly, for fear that he would not be able to kill the snake, but would be bitten by the snake instead.
One day the master was sitting in front of the door worrying, and happened to have an old Taoist pass by.
The Taoist was short in stature, fat, black and bearded, with a gray beard and thick eyebrows, so that his face could not be seen clearly.
He carried a mahogany sword behind his back, describing his behavior.
They were all very strange.
He came and bowed in front of the master's door: "Infinite Heavenly Lord, I am so polite to you."
The host hurriedly returned the gift: "I dare to ask where the master came from and what he did to this remote and remote place."
The old Taoist said: "The poor Taoist has always only practiced the Five Elements Taoism in Longhu Mountain, but he has a lot of magical power.
He can see thousands of miles away with just a quick look.
Because he saw a monster in your house, he came to get rid of it.
The devil defends the way and puts things in order.”
The master was overjoyed, and immediately invited the old Taoist home for dinner, and entertained him with good wine and delicious food.
At night, the old Taoist carried a mahogany sword, barefoot and with his hair disheveled, and went straight to the attic door of the back house with the master, shouting loudly: "Who dares to be evil here?"
"You are causing trouble, I am here, why don't you just surrender and capture me?"
He cursed and kicked the door in.
The little people in the attic were all shocked when they saw the old man coming.
They immediately behaved like birds and animals and fled into the caves in the wall.
The old Taoist refused to say anything at this point, muttering something in his mouth, and stabbing at the spot with his mahogany sword like a vicious man.
His sword would never miss, and every time the sword came out, it would stab a little man about a foot tall.
After the little people were hit by the sword, their bodies lay on the ground.
The old Taoist picked them up from the ground and threw them into a big sack.
In less than half a cup of tea, the sack was full.
It looked like it weighed about a hundred.
Weighing ten pounds, the attic was completely quiet this time.
The owner and the neighbors who were watching were all convinced and admired, and they couldn't stop praising: "What a fairy, so amazing."
The old Taoist stroked his beard and laughed, looking very proud.
He tied his bag and threw it on the ground.
He rolled his eyes and said, "The poor Taoist came here from the Longhu Mountain, which is thousands of miles away.
He was able to subdue the monsters all because of the help of all kinds of people."
The Luxian family helps, which ones are Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, Taiqing Daode Tianzun, Qiyao Tianzun "Xingjun, Nandou Xingjun, the Eight Immortals of Shangdong, and the Four Spirits and Twenty-eight Souvenirs" mentioned a long list of names of the immortals in each cave, claiming that the host family and the neighbors should hold a big banquet, prepare more fat chickens, cooked ducks, and fine wines, He would take the fruit cakes back to worship the ancestors and gods, otherwise the immortals would blame him, but no one could afford it.
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be a little confused.
Now that there is a severe drought in the world, it is not easy for the people to have enough to eat.
How can there be fat chickens and fine wines to worship God?
Besides, Taoism emphasizes being pure and reticent, and doing nothing.
Taking this opportunity, the lion opened his mouth to ask for it.
Drinking and eating meat is really not what monks do.
Unexpectedly, the old Taoist turned his face faster than turning the book.
He thought that the villagers were neglecting the Xian family, so he immediately became angry, untied the rope that tied the mouth of the sack, and shook it off on the spot.
Countless big rats came out of it with a "squawk".
Among them was an old bird with a sharp beak, which jumped into the villagers' homes and gnawed everywhere, destroying many clothes and wooden utensils.
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Only then did everyone realize that these were all tricks of the old Taoist priest.
The little man in the attic was a mouse, and the teacher was an old bird with a sharp mouth.
The old Taoist might also be a monster, but because there was famine everywhere, these things escaped.
Came to the village to steal food.
Most of the ignorant people in the village are honest farmers who don't know a word of Chinese characters.
No one dares to come forward when such a thing happens, so they have to let the host take the lead in bowing and begging for mercy, promising to serve wine in the village the next day to make amends, and prepare something else.
Fat chicken cakes, please all the immortals to calm down, that's all.
On the evening of the next day, the village opened the grain cellar that was intended to be used to survive the famine, and each family collected some wine and meat.
When the old Taoist arrived as scheduled with a group of little people, they wolfed down the banquet.
He was very drunk, and before leaving, he carried the fat chicken and cakes brought by the villagers on his back and staggered away.
The son of the owner surnamed Hua was young, energetic and courageous.
When he saw that his neighbors were being harmed by his own family, he had spent all the food needed to survive the famine, and he didn't know how many innocent people would starve to death.
He couldn't help but secretly resented and thought: "The origin of that old Taoist is unknown." , although he knew there was a grain cellar in the village, he didn’t know how to move it, otherwise there would be no need to do so.
This is a lot of trouble, and it seems that it is at least some evil way to deceive people.
I should try to eliminate the harm for the people."
So while Ye Laodao was drunk, he put a lime bag under the bag of cakes and added another.
A small hole was made, and when the old man went back, the lime leaked out of the hole little by little, and was scattered all the way intermittently.
The young master made an appointment with a few brave friends, lit lamps and torches, and followed the lime lines on the ground.
Finally, he found a tomb in the barren mountains.
Looking at the traces of lime leading straight into the tomb hole, he guessed that the old Taoist was hiding there.
In this ancient tomb, they immediately found several bundles of dry thatch, lit thick smoke and poured it into the cave, and then blocked the entrance.
After dawn, they called on the young and middle-aged people in the village to come to help with hoes, picks, and shovels.
When everyone dug up the ancient tomb, they saw a big rat lurking in the tomb passage.
It was bigger than an old cat, with a fat body and short limbs.
It was probably the original form of the demon.
It had been smoked to death after being drunk.
The villagers dragged the giant rat out and burned it to charcoal, then crushed its bones and spread ashes to avoid future troubles
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