At about seven o'clock that night, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother had just rushed back from the city, and they canceled Zhou Xiaoliu's benefit of sleeping on a shelf bed.

"Your mother is pregnant with a little brother, you can't touch it, the bed is too crowded", Zhou's father touched Zhou Xiaoliu's head, wiped the small round table with a rag, took a few freshly taken off cotton jackets with body temperature, wrapped Zhou Xiaoliu and laid it flat on the small table, "You will sleep here in the future." ”

Zhou Xiaoliu nodded obediently and closed his eyes, as the master of the bed in both lifetimes, it was strange that he could sleep just after changing his sleeping place.

When everyone fell asleep, Zhou's father blew out the oil lamp, and about ten minutes later, a few rhythmic snoring sounds, Zhou Xiaoliu opened his eyes a small slit, and peeked at the door with the moonlight coming in from the bright tile. Sure enough, the old man floated in again.

The old man would appear every night, holding a few pieces of rune paper in his hand, and waving them vigorously at Zhou Xiaoliu in turn, his mouth opening and closing, as if he was chanting some incantation.

Zhou Xiaoliu simply closed his eyes, there was nothing new at all, the old man was tired of dancing and still looked sad and decadent, and then sat on the ground in a daze, and floated away after the rooster crowed.

When Zhou Xiaoliu first saw the old man in infancy, he was still a green shadow in the ditch in front of her grandfather's grave, and with the development of Zhou Xiaoliu's eyesight, he could gradually see his outline and dress.

One night, when Zhou Xiaoliu found that this old man who was always around and looking very anxious was holding a few runes in his hand, he was really frightened, the old man didn't want to take her, right? Or is her rebirth about to change the overall pattern, and the way of heaven does not allow the old man to be sent to set things right? She has never had a big idea of changing anything, and when she is idle, at most she just thinks about how to earn a few bucks, how to eat better than in her previous life.

After turning one year old, Zhou Xiaoliu could see the old man's eyebrows and eyes clearly, and then he realized that the old man turned out to be his grandfather, and the old man waved the talisman paper for a year, and she didn't have any problems, so she put her mind at ease for the time being, and just pretended not to see it.

Zhou Xiaoliu spent most of the night brewing sleepiness with her eyes closed, and finally she fell into a state of confusion, who knew that the wrapped cotton jacket dispersed when she turned over, and the cold wind penetrated in, and she was a little more awake.

"Why is it useless, useless...... a somewhat distant but very clear, helpless and unwilling voice, as if through the telephone receiver, Zhou Xiaoliu was startled, forgot about the disguise, and stopped his eyes on the old man.

She could only see, but not hear. What's going on today?

The old man obviously felt Zhou Xiaoliu's gaze, so he floated above Zhou Xiaoliu and faced Zhou Xiaoliu face to face, "Dead girl, pretend, continue to pretend", he conjured up a bleeding face, and then said, "Let you keep pretending not to see, grandpa, I'll scare you to death!"

The old man saw that Zhou Xiaoliuyuan had dilated pupils with his eyes open but covered his mouth tightly and didn't make a sound, so he changed back to his original face, floated to the beam of the room stupidly, and looked at her with his head down and blame.

Zhou Xiaoliu calmed down, cleared his throat to find his voice, and said softly: "Can they hear us talking?" She pointed to Zhou's father, Zhou's mother, Zhou Peng, and the three sisters on the door bed on the shelf.

"I can't hear you, I've crossed the barrier. He shook the rune paper in his hand and signaled that the barrier was drawn with rune paper.

"If you don't get me wrong, you're a ghost, right? Why are you still working part-time as a Taoist priest?" Zhou Xiaoliu pointed to the rune paper in the old man's hand that once frightened her, according to the story she heard, as long as the talisman was pasted on the door and window, the ghost couldn't get in, so the rune paper drove away evil spirits and avoided ghosts, was it fake?

“… Haven't you heard of ghost talismans?" the old man gave Zhou Xiaoliu a "You really don't know" look.

Zhou Xiaoliu: "......"

Zhou Xiaoliu recalled that the last time she came into contact with this word was when she was in the first grade of primary school in her previous life, when she had just learned to write and handed in her homework book, the teacher opened it and glanced at it, and then gave this word as a comment, so she had always misunderstood? The teacher was actually praising what she wrote at that time for being able to reach the spiritual realm and communicate yin and yang?

Definitely not. So she replied to the old man with a "you are talking nonsense, I don't believe it" look.

The old man straightened his back, his eyes widened angrily, and he looked like "you don't believe I'm in a hurry with you". One person and one ghost looked at each other like this for a while, the old man stretched out his hand and patted his forehead, "Hey, what am I fighting with you about this, let's get down to business, you memorized these books for me", he took out the wide cuffs, took out several books, and then took out the actual one and threw it to Zhou Xiaoliu, "Carry this one first, and then change the others when you are familiar with it." ”

Zhou Xiaoliu took the book but didn't look away, still staring at his cuffs: "Could it be that this is the legendary 'sleeve in the sleeve'?"

The old man was silent for a while, and then said, "No, but I'm a spirit body, and I don't have much weight, so I seem empty, don't you see me floating when I walk?"

Zhou Xiaoliu looked at the book in his hand, "Hug Puzi Inner Chapter" looked quite new......

I remember that when I moved to a new house in my previous life, Zhou Xiaoliu took out several old books from the place where the box was placed on the beam partition of the old house, and it is said that Zhou's father watched the movie "Shaolin Temple" and triggered the martial arts dream to buy.

Yishui's martial arts cheats include those who tie sandbags to their legs and walk the cylinder to practice light skills, those who poke tree trunks to practice acupoints, and those who stick hot sand into their hands to refine iron and sand palms. Of course, there is no "Shaolin Boy Gong", Zhou's father is no longer a boy at that time, and he can't practice it if he buys it. It's just that he didn't see anything refined after he turned over these books, and Zhou's mother scratched it casually, and he still had to put a few marks on his face.

Zhou Xiaoliu flipped through the book cover and saw a few words printed inside: 1985 edition. So she looked at the old man suspiciously.

The old man pulled into his cuffs again, took out an old bamboo pipe, and took a puff at the moonlight that came through the bright tile: Let me pretend to smoke a cigarette and be calm and calm......

"I remember that Daoist Li in the neighboring village bought the book from his dead ghost father, don't look at Daoist Li now only singing big dramas to fool people and ghosts, his father was guided by the Taoist priest on Longhu Mountain back then, and he is a real skill. You carry it on your back, and when the time comes, I will tell you the cause and effect in detail, okay?" said the old man, changing his tone of discussion.

He thought to himself, the dark coins that he had saved for more than ten years were all used on this girl, except for the various psychic talismans that he bought from Yin Cha and these books he bought from Lao Daoist Li, the rest of his pocket was only enough for him to smell a few incense candles, and he was probably the poorest of the ghosts who had not yet reincarnated.

Zhou Xiaoliu looked a little lonely when she saw the old man finish speaking, and her heart for the elderly, which had not been beating for a long time, suddenly moved, and she couldn't help but explain: "I couldn't hear you speak before, I could only see your movements, and anyone who saw an old man waving a talisman at him would be afraid, so I pretended not to see ......."

"I'm glad you heard it," the old man said quietly. He turned his head and glanced at the clock, then took out a stack of talisman papers, took out one of them and threw it to Zhou Xiaoliu: "You stick this talisman on the book cover, drop a drop of blood on it, say the word 'hidden', start at six o'clock every morning, sing and recite to the East for an hour, and I will look for you after memorizing." With that, the old man floated away through the crack in the door.