"Well, that's because he crawled out of the grave, so the mandala blooms for him alone."
"Crawling out of the grave?"
"This matter is a long story, it has to be traced back to the epidemic sixteen years ago, at that time, the epidemic has just passed, everything is decaying, the residents of the town have just experienced a catastrophe, there is no rice in the cook, there is no clothing on the body, everyone is worried, afraid that the disease is gone, the famine is coming again, so a total, ready to leave Shudi, to flee elsewhere.
I was only two years old at the time, not yet the age I can remember, but I heard from my mother that just as everyone was sorting out their meager possessions and preparing to go on the road together, they met a horse next to Qinglun Mountain. ” "Horses?
This is not unusual. ” "If it's just an ordinary horse, of course, it's nothing unusual, but this horse standing in the morning light, with a colorful circle of light on its head, stands under a mulberry tree, like a bodhisattva descending to earth.
Did you know that horses have another meaning for the inhabitants of Tamsui Town, because the silkworm god is also called King Ma Ming, and legend has it that he often wanders the world in the form of a horse, and if he sees the people in misery and the people are struggling, he will come to help.
So, when the townsfolk saw the white horse with a halo on its head, they fell down one after another, and bowed down to it.
Ignoring their piety, the White Horse passed past the townsfolk and ran down the main street of Tamsui as fast as a white mist through the town, round and round.
Finally, it stood in front of a house and crept in. ” "And then?"
Jiang Xixi listened fascinated.
"That mansion is the Yu family, everyone under the leadership of Master Yu, that is, Yu Gongzi's grandfather, carefully walked into the house, and just a few steps in, they heard a rustling sound.
This sound lifted everyone's spirits, and silkworm farmers all knew what this rustling sound was, which was the sound of silkworms eating leaves.
Sure enough, the situation in the house was the same as everyone guessed, the Yu family's silkworm room was full of white and fat mulberry silkworms, lying on the tender mulberry leaves, greedily ingesting nutrients.
Seeing this scene, the townspeople hurriedly ran towards their homes, as they expected, the silkworm chambers of each house were crawling with silkworms, but it was clear that not long ago, these silkworm chambers were covered with dust, so everyone said that the horse was made of silkworm gods and came to Tamsui Town to save people. ” "What about the white horse?"
"The white horse has lived in the Yu family since then, but it looks like an ordinary horse, no different from other horses."
"But what do these things have to do with Yu Gongzi, he looks about the same age as me, and he shouldn't have been born at that time."
"Master Yu has an only daughter, named Xiaocui, she cherishes the white horse very much, takes care of its diet every day, washes its body, and takes care of its mane.
Ma Er also likes Xiaocui very much, and often walks with her in the streets and alleys of Tamsui Town, one person and one horse, intimate, like a pair of lovers day and night.
But one day, the white horse and Xiao Cui were gone, and some people said that they saw the white horse carrying Xiao Cui to Qinglun Mountain, so the townspeople came to the mountain with torches and searched for a whole night, and finally, at dawn, they were found in the silkworm temple.
The reason why he didn't find out until early in the morning was not that no one had ever been to the silkworm temple to look for someone, but because the night was misty, he thought it was just a big rock. ” "How can a man and a horse be like a stone?"
Jiang Xi was stunned.
"A man is not like a stone when he is wrapped in a horse's skin."
"Horseskin?"
"That's right, the townsfolk found something like a silkworm cocoon in the mountain temple, but it was much bigger than a cocoon, half a man long.
When I looked closer, I realized that it was a horse skin, a white horse skin.
Just when everyone was at a loss, there was a cry of a baby from inside the horseskin, and the townspeople were so frightened that they withdrew outside the temple one by one, and no one dared to step forward, for fear that something strange might happen.
But others didn't go, but Master Yu couldn't help but go, because he had already recognized that the snow-white horse skin belonged to the white horse of his own family, he squatted next to this giant silkworm cocoon, and carefully cut a hole on it with the knife he carried, and the hole became bigger and bigger, and soon, the whole skin was divided into two sections, and a person curled up in it appeared.
It was Xiao Cui, however, her eyes were closed, and she had obviously been dead for a long time.
In her arms, she held a small baby, the newborn children are naturally very small, but this baby is especially small, shorter than the children next to him, that is because, he has no legs, his body is cut off to the waist, the navel is slippery, no ulcers, no wounds, he was born like this, like an oval cocoon.
Because he was born in the silkworm temple and was cut out of the horseskin, everyone thinks that Yu Wuxian is the child of the silkworm god, and he is a little superstitious, and he will make a special trip to invite Yu Gongzi to his silkworm room to touch the silkworm cocoons one by one before the silkworm cocoons, so that he can bless the silkworms well in the coming year. ” Jiang Xixi was dumbfounded when she heard this, "Is this all true?"
Is Yu Gongzi really the child of the silkworm god?
” Fan Yin shook his head, "I don't believe it, according to my guess, it is very likely that Xiaocui had an affair with an unknown man, for fear of being known, she gave birth to a son in the mountains, she died in childbirth, leaving a deformed child, this is the truth of the matter, as for the horse skin bag people, it is just to whitewash the ugliness of the Yu family." ” Jiang Xixi's eyes rolled, "Then, why do you say that Yu Gongzi crawled out of the tomb?"
” "It's real, because I saw it with my own eyes.
Fan Qing and I were six years old that year, which was the age of naughty, going up to the tree to dig birds, going down to the river to touch shrimp, and doing whatever it took to work.
One night, for some unknown reason, the two sisters and the other playmates made a bet that whoever could go to the cemetery on the west side of the town would be the king, and that the other children would listen to what they said.
I still remember that the moon was very round that night, just after Qingming, and the graves were full of gold and silver paper money, which was shining in the moonlight.
Fan Qing and I were the most courageous, and we were the first to walk into the cemetery, but according to the prior agreement, we had to go around the cemetery alone to count, so as soon as we entered the cemetery, we divided into two roads and walked in different directions.
I wasn't afraid, this place we often come to during the day, hide and seek, touch the blind, this is a place for adults to mourn and hurt their spirits, but it is a place for children to play. ”