During the Qing Dynasty, there was a small mountain village in the border area of Shaanxi. There was a young man named Ye Haoyang. He ran fast since he was a child. In addition, he grew up in the mountains and walked on the mountain roads as if he were on the flat ground. Therefore, when he grew up, Ye Haoyang became a messenger, and he specially traveled to and from several nearby villages to deliver messages and convey messages.
At the beginning, most of the letters from home or some irrelevant news were sent. However, as time went by, the food famine continued, and more and more bandits occupied the mountains and became kings around the village. The clan leader began to contact several nearby villages and was ready to deal with the bandits at any time. Most of the letters he sent became expedited letters.
The first letter Ye Haoyang saw chicken feathers was when he was twenty years old. The envelope was purple-red and dyed with a big rooster who had been raised for more than five years. The surface of the envelope was stained with chicken feathers. One of them means ordinary, two of them mean expedited. Three of them usually encounter major changes and need to be delivered as quickly as possible.
Ye Haoyang sent three urgent letters twice, and his second experience was the most memorable thing for him. If he hadn't brought that letter with him, he would have died.
The story took place in the autumn harvest in one year. That year, due to the drought, the harvest in many villages was not good, but the bandits on the hills didn't care about so much, and went down the mountain to rob and rob the few grains in the village from time to time.
On this day, the village head received a message that it was that in three days the bandits would go to several nearby villages to plunder food. He immediately gathered the villagers and asked them to transfer all the remaining grains to the hidden granary in the back mountain, and wrote a letter to several nearby villages.
That night, he called Ye Haoyang in front of him and used an urgent chicken feather letter of three chicken feathers, so that he must deliver it to the patriarch of two nearby villages before dawn, so that he could make plans early.
Ye Haoyang knew the task was arduous and had no time to go home. He got the letter of chicken feather and left the village. If you walk on the main road, you will have to run for at least one night, but there is a small road in the mountains, which can save half of the time. Moreover, he is fast, so he will probably be sent to his first village in the middle of the night.
It's done, and Ye Haoyang immediately turned around and ran towards the small path in the mountains. Fortunately, everything was normal and there was no danger on the road, but when he was going down the mountain, he accidentally fell down and his head hit a stone and he fainted. Fortunately, he didn't faint for long, and when he woke up to check the location of the moon, he only fainted for a quarter of an hour.
But just as he got up and was about to rush to go, he suddenly heard a cat cry. He turned around and looked at it. Under the bright moonlight, a cat was covered with darkness.
Black cat stared at him with green eyes, turning around and running while shouting. For some reason, Ye Haoyang always felt that the black cat seemed to be leading the way for him. For a moment, Jing forgot to deliver the letter and followed the black cat over.
Soon, the black cat led him to a deserted house at the foot of the mountain. The house was very desolate and covered with weeds. It seemed that it had not lived in a long time. The black cat looked back at him and got into the deserted house. Strangely, the lights were lit in the window. Could it be that there were still people living here?
Thinking of this, Ye Haoyang immediately followed him in, but as soon as he entered the door, the door of the house was "bang" closed. He was shocked and turned around and wanted to open the door, but found that it was useless at all. At the same time, the room became dark again, and he could only barely see clearly with the light outside the window. Only then did Ye Haoyang realize something was wrong.
At this moment, a cat moan came from his ears. He followed the sound and found that there was a bed and an old dressing table in the room, which looked like it was a girl's room. He slowly stepped forward, but when he walked to the bed, something touched his shoulder. He looked up and was immediately shocked and sweated.
A female corpse was hanging on the beam of the room, obviously she died of hanging.The light was too dark, and he couldn't see the face of the female corpse, but he saw that the black cat who had just led him into the room was lying on the shoulder of the corpse, and his green eyes were shining with strange light in the dark night.
Immediately afterwards, the black cat rushed towards him. Ye Haoyang was so scared that he sat on the ground. The chicken feather letter in his arms fell out. After seeing the chicken feather letter, the black cat let out a shrill scream, and then turned into a ball of black smoke and disappeared. Ye Haoyang then found that the door of the house had been opened. He picked up the chicken feather letter, and he rushed out immediately without thinking about it.
After that, he successfully delivered the letter to the patriarchs of two nearby villages, and everyone also successfully transferred the food, which was spared from the difficulties. But after this incident, Ye Haoyang always had nightmares. In the dream, he returned to that room again, and he tied the white silk without being controlled, trying to hang himself.
But every time at a critical moment, the chicken feather letter in his arms will fall to the ground, and he will wake up from his dream and find himself pinching his neck with both hands.
Now he couldn't sit still and immediately found the patriarch of the neighboring village. Only then did he know this question. It turned out that there was a beautiful young widow living in the house. Once, the bandits entered the village and not only robbed all her food, but also defiled it. Then she hanged herself.
But since then, some strange things have always happened around the house, and the villagers dare not approach it. The patriarch guessed that he must have been attracted by the female ghost and wanted him to be his scapegoat. The black cat might be her incarnation. Fortunately, the rooster blood wards off evil spirits, and the chicken feather letter he carried with him saved his life.
After learning the truth, Ye Haoyang was extremely shocked, but he also sympathized with the widow's experience. Afterwards, he invited a Taoist priest to do his best to save him. The Taoist priest opened an altar outside the deserted house for three days before he finally eliminated the resentment of the female ghost and helped him to save him. Half a month later, the government organized the bandits to wipe out the bandits, and the bandits entrenched around the village were finally wiped out.
