★ red fish
When Che Gui was sixteen years old, he once held a ghost festival, which made the villagers talk endlessly. Now, more than ten years later, if anyone mentions the Che Gui Ghost Fair, they still treat it as a ghost story, and it can be said that it only takes one or two cigarettes.
But he said that Che Gui's family was poor at that time, so he went to fish in the river near the village and then sent it to the market to exchange for money to support his family.
One evening, Che Gui actually caught a two-pound red fish in a net by the river. Generally, this kind of red fish is rare and valuable, not to mention a two-pound fish, which is even more rare. Not to mention how happy Che Gui was, he put the red fish in the basket, fearing that it would escape, and covered the mouth of the basket with a towel, then hummed a little tune and walked towards home with the basket in his arms.
The creek was two miles away from his home, and as he walked, it became dark. There was no moon that day, and it was so dark that it was like being blind and unable to see. Che Gui was familiar with this road. He didn't take the darkness seriously at all and just walked around with one foot high and one foot shallow.
After walking for a while, he suddenly saw a line of lights in front of him. The buildings in the lights looked like a street. He wondered: "Why is there a street here? There are lights going up and down. There are also beautiful buildings in this street?" But what makes people feel very strange is that when you look closely, these buildings look like fish one by one. I am sixteen years older and I have never seen a building where I live. What on earth is this place?" Thinking like this, he saw many figures moving in front of him, and then heard the buzzing sound of people. It was very lively. If he looked closely, he couldn't see the appearance of a person. He listened carefully, but he couldn't hear a single word. …
Che Gui suddenly panicked and hugged the basket tightly in his arms. The red fish suddenly jumped under the towel. At the same time, his feet stopped working and he started running around in the market with flashing lights. As he was running, Che Gui suddenly trembled, and someone hit him with his leg. The ghost in Lan Keer's journey who was lying down and talking about going home , fell to the ground with a somersault, and then went to look at the person who hit him. , there was no one there, only a fluttering shadow of a person drifted away in the direction he came from. Then he saw that the basket in his hand had already been dropped into a pool of flashing water in front of him, and then he saw the red fish in the basket standing upright on its head with a towel, stripes of red light, as tall as a person …
Che Gui has lived so long, and he has never seen such a terrifying thing. The ghost in Lan Keer's journey who was lying down and talking about going home quickly fainted from fear. When he woke up again, it was already bright. He was not lying in the lively market with buildings, but by the small river where he was catching red fish. Only then did he realize that it was a fish spirit, and he was lying there. It was the mischief that caused him to drive away a ghost gathering.
From then on, Che Gui no longer dared to go fishing by the river, but a few years later, he actually led the villagers into the city to build buildings that were exactly the same as the fish-shaped buildings he saw in the ghost market. This type of building was very popular among city residents, and soon he became a well-known rich man. Later, when someone asked him the secret of his success, he said that a big red fish brought him such good luck. In this way, every festival, the villagers began to offer red fish as offerings.