The story of the folk crow

This is a folk horror story that began to spread in my grandfather's generation. I heard about it since I was a child. The story is told in dialect. It's probably not as good as written in vernacular Chinese now, but I'll try my best to repeat it.

I remember when I first started listening to this story, I was seven years old. I was sewing the Mid-Autumn Festival that night, and my elders were all around the fire. There were many children, so I told some stories to scare them. Here's the story. Grandpa used a very slow sentence: in the past (I think it was the Qing Dynasty, a strange story from a strange studio), there was a family in the countryside with three sisters, which coincided with the busy farming season. Three sisters went to the fields to help with farm work, the elder sister and the second sister. After doing farm work for a while, I like to walk down the hill and pick some flowers and plants. Once, my mother told Third Sister that it would bring good luck to see if there were any magpies outside.

Later, every time Third Sister followed her out to do farm work, she liked to go out and find magpies. She doesn't know what kind of leader is. She heard from her mother that the magpie's mouth is red, so every time she sees a red-billed bird, she has to ask someone. Third Sister, as usual, strolled in Onosato on the edge of the field in her spare time. One day, she found a bird beside a small ditch, all black and with long green eyes. Third sister stepped forward carefully and found the bird motionless, not afraid of third sister at all. The blackbird croaked, as if it were a short croak, as if calling for help. Third sister crouched down and picked it up.

I secretly wrapped up the snakehead and kept it in the chicken house at home. Her mother found out two days later. When her mother feeds the chickens, it is especially strange to the blackbird. Her mother didn't do anything out of line for blackbird. After feeding the chicken, she turned and went back to the kitchen. In the countryside, the kitchen is independent and not with the bedroom. My mother looked at her daughters and asked, "Who is that crow in the henhouse?" .

Eyes turned to my sister, silent. Second sister kept silent. Third sister said uneasily, "I saw this black bird with a broken leg, which was very pitiful, so I took it back." I didn't know it was a crow. "

Her mother looked unhappy and wanted to turn around and go out and lose the crow, but she finally held back and said, "You can take it back later!" " "

Third sister "oh oh"

Crow has always been a taboo in the village, which indicates a disaster. In short, it is unlucky.

In the evening, Third Sister took the shiny black crow to a small forest, put it under a tree and said to the black crow, "Let's go, I hope you can live and bring good luck."

Third sister turned away and looked back from time to time. The black crow followed a few steps forward and then stopped.

Every few days, Third Sister will come around the tree to see if the crow is still there. Strangely, this black crow has been here all the time. Third sister always catches some mice to keep the crows alive.

Third sister once met a trafficker and saw a child holding someone else's house, so she ran away in a hurry. Third sister let out a cry and ran after her desperately. /kloc-at the age of 0/2, she doesn't know anything about safety. The trafficker suddenly stopped, and a kid dared to take care of it at night. Third Sister suddenly got scared, and when she shouted, no one responded, so she was chased by traffickers in turn. Traffickers can't catch up with their children. I grabbed the stone on the ground and threw it at Third Sister. I didn't hear a scream after three or two times, and I didn't hear an answer again. The trafficker broke out in a cold sweat. If he is caught, he will be killed on the spot.

"Three elder sister? Why didn't anyone come back? " Mom asked.

It's getting dark and no one has come back yet. The family was so anxious that they all went out to find Third Sister with weak flashlights. The elder sister seems to know where the third sister often goes, so she keeps looking for it along the path, and a dark path slips past a shadow from time to time. After a while, Big Sister saw Third Sister lying in the grass beside the road, her head was bleeding, and the grass beside the road was dyed red. Sister cried and shook her hand hard. After a while, she didn't see Third Sister's response and ran home in tears.

It was already dark when I ran home. My parents looked at the big sister with tears on her face and eagerly asked, "What's wrong with you, big sister? Have you seen Third Sister? "

The elder sister cried louder and louder, sobbing and saying, "Third sister is dead, third sister is dead. . Third sister is lying on the path next to our rice fields ... "

Her mother almost fainted, and her father quickly held it, and the whole family looked panicked. My father rushed to the paddy field path quickly. At that time, Third Sister's blood had solidified and people were dead. Father looked at this photo and froze. He heard the crow crow several times, and it took him a long time to come to his senses.

Third sister died at the age of 12. The villagers said that the coffin was not allowed to be buried, so they had to wrap it in straw mats, bury it hastily and bury it in the barren hills.

A fortune teller was hired at home, saying that it was a crow's fault, and Third Sister ordered the crow to stop the disaster.

In the days of poverty, the family can't care about the pain of losing their daughter, and they are busy all day for food and clothing. A few years later, bandits came to the village, and many people failed to escape the disaster. Many people died, some of them starved to death.

Everyone in this family can escape robbery by robbers. Later, my mother dreamed of the black crow saved by the third sister, and dreamed that the third sister resisted the disaster at home with her life in order to save the family. As long as the black crow appears, nothing good will happen. Crows appeared before several bandits came to rob them, so they hid in advance every time. There are two old hens at home who lay eggs every day, but fortunately they have survived the most difficult period.

Mom knows that Third Sister really blocked all the disasters at home. The crow with broken feet seems to have recovered its feet, and its eyes look like those of Third Sister. From time to time, it flies to a tree not far from home.

Postscript: Shortly after Third Sister's death, the murderer of Third Sister was found through the lost children in the neighboring village and brought to justice. Third sister's body was actually not buried, but abandoned on the mountain. Crows ate the flesh of her eyes and thighs. Many years later, Mr. Murano Feng Shui found that the abandoned place of Third Sister was a "crow land" and became his own Feng Shui. The crow picked up the dirt with its mouth and buried the body of Third Sister.