Chapter 14: The Dark Shadow Outside the Window (1)

The moon is bright before the spring night, and the driving is wanton.

Ascending to the top can get rid of the dust, ______________.

______________,______________。

There is still a fire in the air, which is not a clash of gunfire and a clash of blades, but a romance that only Chinese understand. Although most of the industries have already started, the pedestrians on this street are endless, unhurried to play.

Yu Xiaochuan lay on his back on the bed; The dim ceiling, illuminated by the lamp, beats frequently; The lights outside the window are bright and green, which does not affect the quiet and peaceful inside the window in the slightest.

Feng Xue hadn't been here for a few days, and she hadn't received even a single message.

The ticking sound lingers in the ears, and the lullaby makes people fall asleep; With a glow, everything is blurry. Sleepiness had caused him to turn his head uncontrollably.

Just as his eyes were about to close, something flashed in the afterglow, accompanied by the sound of the wind.

Yu Xiaochuan's long-brewing sleepiness was instantly dispelled, his eyes widened, and he sat up at a speed that broke his neck only by inertia.

This scene seems familiar, and it was more than ten years ago when I mentioned this.

At that time, he was still young, just entering elementary school, and his parents ran a small clothing store, and they went to Beijing to stock goods a few days a week, leaving Xiaochuan alone at home, and sometimes his grandparents would come to take care of it.

Every night, the dense maple tree outside the window of the house swayed by the moonlight, and the black shadow hit the curtains, as if a figure stood sideways outside the window.

Of course, this is the explanation that Xiao Chuan got from his parents, but he himself clearly remembers that the shadow outside the window is clearly a projection of a figure and not a maple tree, not to mention elementary school students, the projection of a figure and a tree can still be distinguished.

These shadows followed Yu Xiaochuan until junior high school, because of the divorce of his parents in elementary school and the remarriage of his mother, he moved to his father's house in the second year of junior high school, and there has been no black shadow since then.

After more than ten years, the black shadow reappeared, and it happened to be after experiencing all the previous things, at this time, Yu Xiaochuan had to wonder if he had been being monitored from beginning to end, but he didn't notice it for some reason before or these monitors couldn't monitor it.

Yu Xiaochuan looked at the window for a while, there was nothing suspicious, people were the first thing to eliminate, the number of floors where Xiaochuan lived was not low, it was impossible for someone to leave so quickly, and it was impossible for him to be so agile and flash.

"Study hard, and you will be the head of a place in the future; But now you can't go to that place······"

This familiar and inexplicable word came vaguely from the dream; This is the middle of one day in elementary school, grandma suddenly walked into the house and said something to Xiaochuan in a serious and mysterious manner, and I remember telling Xiaochuan not to tell anyone else. And Ogawa's repeated inquiries were not answered.

This sudden black shadow dragged his thoughts into memory.

Yu Xiaochuan's life was not happy, first his parents were busy making a living, leaving Xiaochuan alone at home; Later, his parents divorced, his family wealth was scattered, and he depended on his mother for his life.

At that time, Xiaochuan was lonely, helpless, and had low self-esteem, and being able to laugh was when he was in harmony with his friends. Of course, Xiaochuan has been less hearty than others since he was a child, and most of them are played around and don't know at all.

At that time, the neighborhood was also strange and weird, and people died almost every week, at least two; Grandma didn't go to school when she was young, and she didn't have much education, so she liked to listen to the trumpet, and it was more likely that she was old and listened to it with loss and reluctance. Every time Xiaochuan followed, in the green cloth shed was a brazier on the ground and a table with longevity products and portraits, two chairs, one of which was always sitting, and the immediate family of the deceased, mostly the younger generation, sat and kept vigil; Outside the green cloth tent is a round cushion, the kind used to kneel and bow; On both sides are "auspicious" and "ruyi", the boy is "auspicious", the girl is "ruyi", and "auspicious" leads the ox cart; And looking behind you are rows of wreaths.

The residents of the community come from different places, and there are different processes here in both the north and the south, and even the adjacent townships.

Some began to blow the trumpet at night, from the beginning of the day to twelve o'clock in the evening; Some are blowing from 11 o'clock in the evening to 2 o'clock in the morning, which is more in line with the fact that the time when the ghost door closes is about this time, but if you wait for the ghost door to open and then rush away, we don't know.

There is also a kind of blowing that is only started on the last night of the three-day vigil, until the auspicious time of dawn can be dragged to the cemetery; It should be mentioned here that some of them seem to have been unrefined, and they were not taken away by the crematorium until the third auspicious day.

Of course, there is also a more eclectic one, which is the performance; spent a lot of money to invite two local people to change the team, and the team invited was not ordinary, and they could always deal with some emergencies; However, the content of the performance is a little unbearable, and everyone must have heard the news that "the scale of the big family banquet or funeral troupe in a small town is too large", but that different funeral, everyone who watched it had to give money, not in vain.

There doesn't seem to be any fixed repertoire for blowing the trumpet, some of them are playing the songs that the deceased loved during his lifetime, and some of them are playing some songs that the younger generation is nostalgic for the deceased.

Xiaochuan followed behind his grandmother, and the sound of the horn was deafening, and he could indeed pierce the clouds and hear it across the other side of the moat; Yu Xiaochuan's small eyes are not confused by these troupes; His curiosity always drove him to look at the statue so that he could know who had died.

Paper people are different, and now most of the white life stores are purchased from some factories, and they are down the assembly line, and they have no soul.

As mentioned here, the soul is not a popular Internet language now; This paper piercing man really has a soul, this is the rule.

The deceased wants to go on the road, the road is first no different from the ordinary world, and after a quarter of the way, it begins to be cloudy, there will be a lot of lonely souls and wild ghosts here, all trapped in this fog and unable to find the way to reincarnation, after their first seven souls will be scattered, and then there will be any Xudu City and so on, and this paper piercing person is the guide, or the maid who carries it.

The last step of the old craftsman in making the paper man is to inject a stream of soul into it, which is the soul of the paper man. The appearance of this paper piercing person is undoubted, and its interior is very mysterious, and the average young child can notice the difference, and will suddenly have an inexplicable psychological panic, and the abdomen is cold and painful.

Xiao Chuan looked along the wreath to the green cloth shed, and through the crowd, a pair of shining, black eyes; The light is cold; Frightened, Yu Xiaochuan couldn't help but retreat, and suddenly felt a chill.

Ogawa no longer dared to stay here, arguing to go home.

At night, the dark shadow by the window crossed, Xiaochuan woke up, everything around him became so terrifying, the red maple outside the window was dark by the dark green moonlight; Suddenly, there was a scream of pain behind him, Xiao Chuan shuddered, and a middle-aged woman in front of him who had never seen before fell to the ground, her abdomen was shaved open, and her internal organs were scattered all over the ground.