"Thought" battle
When I heard Han Qiguo say this, I couldn't help frowning and asked, "Is it such an exaggeration, ideological struggle, did you say something too much?"
Han Qiguo couldn't help blushing and said, "I'm sorry, it's easy for me to get on the line, it's a bit exaggerated to say that, in fact, there is a conflict between the two groups of people in our place, and the root cause of the conflict is whether to continue worshiping the fox. fairy."
When I heard this, I asked, "Didn't you say that there has always been a fox fairy in your place, why would someone propose not to worship the fox fairy?"
Han Qiguo said: "At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was still the appearance of the fox fairy, and after the death of the last 'goddess' who communicated with the fox fairy, there was no such thing as the appearance of the fox fairy on our side. , which means that I lived to be nineteen years old at the time, and I have never seen a fox fairy appear, and everything I heard was the legend of the villagers."
"You haven't seen the fox fairy with your own eyes?" I asked Han Qiguo.
Han Qiguo said, "If nothing happened, I would have never seen it with my own eyes..."
Speaking of this, Han Qiguo seemed a little excited, and he could not help coughing twice, and Han Xun and Han Ting hurriedly asked how Han Qiguo was, Han Qiguo waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I'm old, and my anger is not as smooth as when I was young. It’s easy to hold your breath when you’re in a hurry, and it’s easy to cough when you hold your breath.”
I looked at Han Qiguo and said apologetically, "Okay, go ahead and talk."
Han Qiguo didn't start talking right away, but picked up a cup of tea and wanted to drink it. You Xiaoqing said at this moment: "This tea is already a little cold, I'll make you a new pot of tea, you are not healthy, drink it in winter. Herbal tea can easily hurt the stomach.”
Speaking of which, You Xiaoqing went to make us a pot of hot tea again.
After drinking the hot tea, Han Qiguo said to You Xiaoqing, "Thank you."
You Xiaoqing smiled and said, "Go ahead and tell the story."
No one in the young people of Dongzaofen Village has ever seen the fox fairy appear, so some people pay attention to the fox den in Suanzaofen, because some people in the city collect fox skins to make clothes for those dignitaries, and the price is not too high.
Moreover, this person went to the vicinity of Suanzaofen to really catch a fox and sell it. As a result, he made money, and the fox fairy did not find him to retaliate, so more people came up with the idea of a fox nest in Suanzaofen.
At this time, an old woman named Han Xia in the village came out to stop her. She was the younger sister of the previous generation of goddess in the village. Although she was also the current goddess in the village, it was a pity that she could not get in touch with the fox fairy.
In order to protect the foxes in the Suanzao Grave, Han Xia and her family lived near the Suanzao Grave, and set up a tent here to drive away those who came here to hunt foxes day and night.
And Han Qiguo is Han Xia's youngest child.
Of course, the strength of the Han family alone is not enough. Many people in the village who have been favored by the fox immortals also came to help them guard them in turn. In this way, the foxes in the sour jujube tomb were temporarily saved from a catastrophe.
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of thieves. I don’t know who spread the news that hundreds of foxes lived in the sour jujube tomb, and also made a rumor that the reason why the Han family guarded the fox den was because of those graves. There are countless treasures of gold and silver buried under it.
As soon as the news spread, the entire county town was buzzing, so a big man came to the county town and brought a large number of policemen over, saying that he was going to dig a sour jujube grave. It is said that the person who took the lead was the county magistrate.
Facing these people, Han Xia's family had no good solution, but when the magistrate ordered the graves to be dug, the whole sour jujube grave was covered in green smoke, which scared the magistrate, so he Quickly ordered everyone to pull back.
The blue smoke gradually receded.
Seeing this scene, the county magistrate did not dare to act rashly, so he called Han Xia over to ask about the situation. Han Xia told the magistrate about the fox immortal living in the sour jujube tomb. There was no further action, but left with the police angrily.
But who knows that the county magistrate did not give up. While inquiring about the way to deal with the fox fairy, he sent someone to contact Han Qiguo secretly, and wanted to find out the truth about the fox fairy from Han Qiguo's mouth, so he gave Han Qiguo a large sum of money. money.
Han Qiguo was young, so he heard everything and never experienced it himself, so he told the inquirer that he had never seen Huxian, nor had he seen his mother communicate with Huxian, or even he Mother doesn't even know the slightest magic.
After the county magistrate got the news, he gave Han Qiguo another sum of money to let him see his mother and observe everything about Suanzaofen.
Hearing this, I couldn't help looking at Han Qiguo and asked, "You agree?"
Han Qiguo said with a look of guilt: "At that time, our family was very poor, and we couldn't even eat a full meal. At that time, I thought, if there really is a fox fairy, why doesn't she come out to help us, we follow each other every year. She offered incense and worshipped, but what did she give us?"
People who haven't experienced something personally will always be suspicious of all good things because of their own misfortune, and that was how Han Qiguo was at that time.
I didn't say anything, but Han Qiguo continued: "I was really poor at the time, my father went early, and my mother took our four children alone. I have never seen so much money. I thought at the time, there is With this money, I can make a good life for me and my family, but I didn't expect it to end like that."
I poured a cup of tea for Han Qiguo, and said, "You calm down your emotions and continue to tell this story."
Han Qiguo looked at it, then took a sip of hot tea and said, "Thank you."
But he didn't start talking right away, but stopped while covering his teacup, frowning and thinking, maybe he was organizing language, or maybe he was screening some fragments, and decided to tell us which ones he didn't want to say. of.
Thinking of this, I reminded Han Qiguo: "Elder Han, if you want this matter to be completely resolved, I hope you don't hide anything from us, because any concealment may lead to this matter going 'evil'. In terms of development, you may have made some mistakes in the past, but those mistakes are not necessarily irreparable, as long as you dare to face them, the results may not be as bad as you expected."
After listening to my words, Han Qiguo also said "um": "This matter has been hidden in my heart for decades, some things I haven't even said about Xiaoxun and Xiaoting, I will say them all today, I've lived in my eighties, I'm almost ninety, I've had enough, and I should face these things too."
After saying this, Han Qiguo also started to tell the next story intermittently.
Han Qiguo kept the county magistrate's money to monitor his mother, and began to figure out how to help the magistrate dig the sour jujube grave, because the county magistrate promised him that as long as he could help dig the sour jujube grave, the county magistrate would give him Ten times your current pay.
Han Qiguo kept the sour jujube grave every day, and he found that these foxes would stand on the grave and look westward every night, as if they were expecting something to come back.
Seeing such a situation, Han Qiguo was curious and couldn't help but asked his mother what was going on. Han Qiguo's mother said, "They are coming back with the fox immortals. I can't communicate with the fox fairy, but the fox fairy went west for some reason. As for the smoke that came out of the day when the county magistrate dug the grave, it was the fox fairy who stayed behind to protect the many foxes in the sour jujube tomb, and it was just a simple fright. No one else will be hurt."
Hearing what his mother said, Han Qiguo asked in surprise, "Is there really a fox fairy?"
She hadn't seen the fox fairy for so many years. Although Han Xia did not give up the protection of the sour jujube tomb, she no longer held any hope for the fox fairy to come back. She felt that the fox fairy must find a better place to live, and then forever Will never go back to this backcountry again.
Han Xia grumbled like this, and Han Qiguo believed it. He also felt that the fox fairy would not come back, and the sour jujube tomb they guarded was meaningless, because there were only ordinary foxes living here.
So Han Qiguo told the people in the village about this, and some people in the village who helped take care of the soanzao grave gradually stopped coming. They felt that they were abandoned by the fox fairy.
These people not only abandoned the guardian of the sour jujube tomb, but even colluded to hunt the foxes who were in the sour jujube tomb. They felt that they had been abandoned by their faith, so they began to take revenge on their faith, and they completely complied with the favor of the fox fairy to them.
Hearing Han Qiguo talk about this, I couldn't help but say: "Fox immortals were their true beliefs, what they believed in was what the fox immortals gave them, and it was their selfishness. Once their selfishness could not be satisfied, Their true nature is exposed."
Han Qiguo did not refute my words, but closed his eyes helplessly, showing that what happened next would be even more unbearable.
The people of Dongzaofen Village began to hunt foxes. Han Xia was unable to organize, and the foxes who saw Suanzaofen were becoming more and more afraid of people. Not to mention the daytime, they didn't dare to show their faces even at night.
The people of the village did not give up, they poured water into the fox's hole, forced the fox to run out of the other hole with traps, and then fell into their hands; Heat, run out and die on your own.
In that year, all the foxes in Suanzaofen were captured and killed, except for a few that escaped the claws of the villagers...
And the foxes who are about to be caught have only one fate waiting for them, and that is to peel off their fur and make them into the clothes of dignitaries.
Hearing this, You Xiaoqing said, "You guys, you are too cruel."
Han Qiguo didn't defend, but continued: "Yes, what we did was cruel, but God is fair, the same cruelty will soon retaliate on us, and what happened next is me A nightmare that will never be forgotten!"