"She's your family, if there's something really going on in the cemetery, she knows it, and she should be, what are you worried about!"

Liansheng and I persuaded each other.

As soon as the landlord heard that it made sense, he was in a better mood again, and began to greet Liansheng, and cleaned the place he had just cleaned again, saying that it was not clean and that the flying fish would not be able to live later.

Seeing Fang **'s excited appearance, forcing Liansheng to become a cleaner, I decisively turned around and left, and continued to buy food.

The landlady told me that there were shops and delicatessens at the west end of the village.

It is close to the sand field, and the workers who work in it like to buy cigarettes and alcohol, and it is convenient for the people in the village to go there.

The village is indeed not very large, and when I passed through the village, I found that many of the houses here were half-collapsed, the doors were closed or half-hidden, and the thatch in the courtyard gate was overgrown.

Although it is not said that there are ten rooms and nine empty, nearly half of the houses are unoccupied.

The exodus of the rural population, leaving some lonely and widowed elderly people, has become a common phenomenon, and the situation is similar in all parts of the country.

Perhaps because of poverty, the situation in this village is more serious, and after the young people go out, they don't want to come back.

At the west end of the village, there was a small square like that, where three or two old men sat and chatted.

On the edge of the square, there are several irregular rows of houses, some tall brick houses, others low rammed earth houses.

To my surprise, at the very edge of these houses, there was actually a paper tie shop, with paper money, gold ingots and so on at the door.

This surprised me, so I couldn't help but take a few more steps and look inside.

Even though it was still relatively bright, the room felt dark, and an eerie cool air was bubbling from the inside.

There was an old woman in the house, who was pasting paper there.

Seeing me pass by the doorway, the old woman looked up at me, visibly stunned.

His eyes looked straight at me, and in his slightly cracked mouth, only three or two yellow teeth remained, and the movements in his hands stopped.

This old lady gave me a very strange feeling that tying paper belongs to the yin line, and it is inevitable that people who are engaged in this line will have yin energy.

But the yin aura on this old woman's body is so strong and scary, she is about to catch up with my bardo body, and I don't know how this old lady survived until now.

But everyone has their own secrets, and they don't want to get into trouble by digging into them.

Considering that it was a colleague, I smiled at her, turned around and left, entering the store not far away.

There are not many varieties of things in the small shop, and many items are covered with dust, and I don't know if it is because of the large dust in the countryside, or if it has been left for too long.

There was bread and other food, but I was worried that it would go bad, so I didn't dare to buy it.

I picked some that are not easy to break, such as stool, beer, peanuts and rice.

When I went out of the store, I accidentally glanced at the paper shop, but I was surprised to find that the old woman was actually standing at the door, her eyes were always looking here.

Although I don't want to be "self-inflicted", I really feel that the reason why she is standing at the door is to look at me.

It wasn't until I walked for a long time and turned a corner that I felt the peeping feeling behind me disappear.

After I went back, I told the landlord about what I had met with this old woman.

The landlord was familiar with this old woman and knew a little about her.

"Oh, that old woman's name is Mrs. Chen, and she died many years ago, and she has no descendants. Some people say that she has been in the shadows a lot, so she has suffered retribution, and some people say that she married a ghost as a mother-in-law, anyway, she is quite a mysterious person. ”

"Lower yin?" I didn't expect that.

"Yes, it's yin! This Mrs. Chen does everything, in addition to tying paper people, selling incense, candles, and paper money, she will also go to the yin, help people cry spirits, etc., as long as there are dead people in ten miles and eight villages, she is always indispensable. Said the landlord.

"Oh, no wonder this old lady's body is so heavy!"

I thought to myself, this wife's "business scope" is also quite wide.

"Don't underestimate this woman, she is very weird, I guess she has some means like you." The landlord reminded me.

As soon as the landlord said this, I was interested, and I was idle anyway, so I simply asked the landlord to talk about it, what a weird method.

Anyway, the house was almost cleaned, and the landlord didn't shirk it, so he talked about Mrs. Chen's affairs, and it was related to his own family.

The landlord's father is a cultural person, and he came here when he went to the mountains and the countryside.

Therefore, he did not believe in Granny Chen's backward feudal superstitious thoughts and behaviors.

During the special period, several educated youths who came with the landlord's father also specially criticized Mrs. Chen.

However, the strange thing is that none of these people who participated in the criticism died well.

One walked straight into the river in the middle of the night and drowned in the river.

It wasn't until a few days later, swollen by the river's blisters, that it surfaced and was discovered.

The second one was repairing the pigsty when he was actually knocked down by the pig and fell to his death on the spot.

The third, together with a local woman, was messing around in a cornfield when he suddenly went crazy and died on the spot.

In less than half a year, three people died one after another, which frightened the remaining two.

One of them had a relationship with his family, plus he had caught up with a good time and returned to the city early, and no one knew what happened to him later.

But the villagers are generally not optimistic about his results.

Because everyone thinks that the death of these people is because Mrs. Chen used a spell. Some people even said that they once saw several small paper figures at Mrs. Chen's place, thinking that they were the carriers of Mrs. Chen's curses.

But no matter how you say it, since then, no one dares to provoke Mrs. Chen.

"Uncle landlady, you're not right to say that, didn't your father survive well?" Liansheng listened carefully to the story, and thought that the landlord was wrong, so he shouted.

The landlord said angrily, "You know, my father is one of the remaining two." The reason why my father survived was because my father found the village chief and spent money to buy a lot of things and go to Mrs. Chen's house to kowtow and apologize. ”

"The village chief at that time was my mother's uncle, and my father and my mother had just established a relationship at that time, so the village chief was willing to help with this matter."

"In that case, this Mrs. Chen really has two brushes! It's just that this method is really vicious! Liansheng said with some surprise.

"Whether it's the Dharma teachings or the yin behavior, if you are exposed to things that are dark, evil, and dead, your personal mind will naturally be affected, so it's normal for this kind of person to be vicious and ruthless!"

I followed in passing, not to defend Mrs. Chen, but my thinking and understanding of this line.