The old people in the village said that if someone knocks on the door at night, and you open the door but no one has been there, someone will call your name later.

Ye Jin heard a story like this: at that time, there was a custom in the village that if someone in the family died, for the first seven days after the person entered the ground, a family member would go to the grave every night to burn paper, which was said to prevent the dead from being embarrassed on the road, and to burn more paper money, so that he could go to the little ghosts on the road.

In the summer of this year, Zhao Erlin's father in the village died, so Erlin and his brother Dalin discussed that Dalin would burn the first four days and Erlin in the next three days.

Everything went smoothly for the first six days, and soon on the evening of the seventh day, Zhao Erlin was about to go out, when it rained heavily, and there were still dirt roads everywhere, and the roads quickly became muddy after the rain.

Erlin is usually a very lazy person, but now when he saw that the road to the grave outside was so difficult, he retreated: "There is only a broken umbrella at home, and this road will definitely be watered through, not to mention that the road outside is so difficult to walk."

Even if you get to the grave, just because of the weather outside, I don't know if you can light the paper. Either you will burn the paper at home, and it will be the last day anyway. Thinking so, Erlin left the paper in a corner of the courtyard and burned it, and then went to bed.

In the middle of the night, when he was sleeping in a daze, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door as if it was "peeling", and at first he thought it was the sound of the wind blowing a branch against the door, so he ignored it, so he turned over and wanted to continue sleeping.

But after a while, there was another sound of "peeling" on the door, and it was louder than the last time. He thought to himself: "The courtyard door of the house is locked, how can someone knock on the door, could it be a thief?"

Thinking of this, he quickly got out of bed and opened the door with the iron bar of the stove, but where was there anyone in the empty yard?

Erlin closed the door again and went to bed, but when he just reheated the quilt and wanted to sleep, the sound of "stripping" sounded again, this time, he was completely angry, picked up the flashlight and shone all the corners of the yard one by one, but there was still nothing. At this time, he wondered if there was something unclean in the house, and he didn't dare to sleep all night, so he sat in bed until dawn.

At dawn the next day, Zhao Erlin hurriedly ran to the earthen temple at the east end of the village and asked Zhang Men God to paste it on the door. But in the middle of the night he was awakened by the knock on the door, and when he sat up, there was no sound again, and as soon as he lay down, the knock sounded again. He had no choice but to sit on the bed again and wait until dawn.

And so every night you wake up, and if you ignore him, he will continue to ring, and when you are about to open the door, the sound will be gone. Erlin finally couldn't hold it anymore for a few days, and on the day of the temple fair, he bought two catties of meat and sent it to Mr. Zhou, a fortune teller in the village, and wanted him to help find a way to drive away the "thing" at home.

After listening to this, Mr. Zhou thought for a long time, and said firmly: "This must be something you offended over there, you should think about what you have done recently." ”

Erlin sat on the small stool and thought about it for a long time, and suddenly slapped his thigh with an "ah" and told him that he didn't burn paper for his father. When Mr. Zhou heard this, he angrily smashed two pots on Erlin's head with a cigarette pouch, "This is your son, you are still so lazy, what's the matter, just because it rains, the paper is not burned? I can't complain that your father wants to knock on your door, he can't get on, and the road is in a hurry." Mr. Zhou raised his foot and gave Erlin a moment, Erlin stumbled and fell into a dog and ate. "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and make up for your father!"

Erlin hurriedly trotted all the way to the market to buy tribute paper money, and also bought his father's favorite pig's head meat, and went to the cemetery to kowtow and burn paper for his father, and made a handful of snot and tears for a long time. After that, no one knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and Erlin could finally sleep peacefully.

The story is over, but Ye Jin is indeed getting more and more scared, he has seen the power of the female ghost yesterday, and knows that this thing is real, this ghost knocks on the door, he doesn't dare to respond.

But looking back, he hasn't done anything bad in the past 20 years, how can he still have that thing to find him?

"No, this is the master's dojo, could it be that the master provoked him?" Ye Jin looked puzzled, but he quickly determined, "That's right, the master is a cultivator, and he has seen more people and things, and it is normal to get into trouble with one or two ghosts!"

Suddenly, Ye Jin had an idea, and he pulled out a handful of yellow paper from the drawer cabinet under the shrine and divided them into rectangles the size of paper money. It also imitates the banknotes sold on the market, and draws a portrait of the Jade Emperor on the front, with "Tiandi General Bank Company" written on the top left and "One Hundred Billion" in the middle. Subsequently, according to such a design, more than a dozen copies were made.

Then Ye Jin found a washbasin, threw all these handwritten fame and fortune into it, lit it with a match, and the fire quickly burned.

Strange to say, after the paper was burned, the knock on the door disappeared.

"Hehe, it's easy to solve!Only I, Ye Jin, can think of this trick!"

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When Zhang Daofeng came back, he was already very happy to tell him about it. However, before Zhang Daofeng finished listening, his brows became more and more wrinkled.

"Do you remember how many times that knock on the door?" Zhang Daofeng asked.

Ye Jin frowned, pursed his lips, and recalled for a long time, "It seems to be four times!"

Zhang Daofeng suddenly became panicked, and he also went to the shrine to take some yellow rune paper, but instead of drawing the dark coin, he used a brush dipped in cinnabar to draw a figure that Ye Jin didn't know on the red paper, which is what we call a "ghost drawing rune".

Zhang Daofeng drew seventy-seven and forty-nine runes in a row, and after the drawing was completed, he asked Ye Jin to strip naked, and then pasted these runes all over his body. Immediately afterwards, Zhang Daofeng took Ye Jin as a circle, and while circling around him, he muttered something in his mouth, and he read for three hours before stopping.

Even so, it wasn't over, Zhang Dafeng took off all the rune papers on Ye Jin's body and burned them all in the brazier.

He asked Ye Jin to grab two handfuls of incense ash from the incense burner in front of the shrine and smear them all over his body, and then sat on the futon in front of the shrine and meditated.

After doing all this, Zhang Daofeng finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Disciple, you have caused a big disaster! The ghost knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and you didn't have to worry about it, so you didn't have anything to do." Even if you burn paper money, you have to burn some real coins! However, you are clever enough to burn hand-painted yellow paper coins, which is a big taboo!"