The bride's home is in Yong'an City.

The door is hidden.

The cold wind of the night, mixed with fine snow, swept in through the crack in the door one by one. The bride first looked inside the door and saw that there was only a line of shallow footprints on the snow, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you two, I'm home." ”

"Are you the only one in your house?"

The bride shook her head: "And my mother." My father died of illness at an early age, leaving me to live with my mother. ”

"What about your mother?"

"I guess I'm still asleep." The bride pointed to the shallow mark in front of the door: "I have observed that every time I am carried away by those paper figures, these shallow footprints are left on the ground. They didn't seem to want to hurt me, nor did they mean to hurt my mother, and every time they carried me away, my mother would fall into a deep slumber and would not wake up until the next day, when the rooster crowed. ”

"Can we go in and have a look?" Xing Ruyi pointed to the door: "That, we are passing by, and we originally wanted to find an inn to stay." But it's all here, and I don't think there's an inn willing to accept us. So, could you please take us in for one night? ”

"This ......" The bride seemed to be a little embarrassed, she lowered her head and pinched her clothes, and hesitated for a long time before agreeing: "It's not that I want to refuse the two benefactors, it's just that my family is simple, and I am afraid that the hospitality will not be good, so I have wronged the two." ”

"It doesn't matter. In this icy and snowy place, it is already a very happy thing to have a room and a bed. If you really reject us, we don't know what to do? Perhaps, I can only find a broken temple to avoid for a while. ”

Madame laughed. Madame, please, this gentleman, please. ”

The bride said, pushing the door open. When he closed the door, he seemed to glance out intentionally.

"My family is simple, with only three rooms. The small one is the kitchen, the one facing the sun in the middle is where my mother lives, and the one next to it is mine. If you don't dislike it, you can rest in my room tonight. Benefactors can rest assured that those paper figures will not come again after they have come once. ”

"What about you?"

"I'll go to my mother's room to rest, and I can take care of her old man."

As she spoke, the bride pushed open the door and led Xing Ruyi and the fox inside. As soon as the door opened, Xing Ruyi was stunned, because she saw a table facing the door, and a spirit card was placed on the table.

"It's ......"

"I'm sorry, didn't I scare you, madam."

"No, I just think it's a little strange, it's so dignified, why do you put a spirit card in the place directly facing the door. And this Yingzi is ......"

"It's me!"

"Is that you?" Xing Ruyi looked at the bride puzzled: "You put your own spirit card in your room." But aren't you still alive and well? ”

"Don't hide it from Madame, in fact, this is the idea given by a Taoist priest who traveled in the early years. said that the reason why I was entangled by those paper figures was because I had a previous life entanglement with the person in the grave. Those paper people are the ones he sent out to find me. The Taoist priest told my mother that all I had to do was to hold a fake funeral for me, so that the people in the grave would mistakenly think that I was dead, and that the paper figures would not come and disturb me.

The Taoist priest cast a spell and deliberately pasted my birthday on a clay doll, and found a place to bury it. At home, such a spiritual seat is also placed. ”

"The funeral is done, the doll is buried, and the spiritual position is placed, but it's still useless, right?"

"Hmm!" The bride, that is, Yingzi, nodded: "It can't be said that it is useless, at least those paper people did not come to the door back then." Unfortunately, from the second year onwards, everything went back to the way it was. I originally wanted to burn this spiritual position, but my mother said, since everything has been done and everything has been placed, then keep it. I thought about it and thought so. Anyway, it's been a year, and I'm used to it. Besides, if I was carried away by the paper man that day and didn't come back, my mother could also have the money left over for this spiritual position. ”

"Apart from you, is there a girl in this Yong'an City who has encountered such a strange thing?"

"Probably not." Yingzi shook her head uncertainly: "Anyway, neither my mother nor I have heard of it." Of course, we didn't dare to tell people about these things that happened to me, lest we scare others and drive me and my mother out of the city. ”

"Do you know who is buried in that tomb outside the city?"

"I've asked someone to inquire about this. It looked like a general was buried in the tomb. ”

"General?"

"Hmmm! However, there is another theory that he is not a general, but just a soldier. Because of his cowardice and fear, he delayed the military situation and was beheaded by the general at that time. His family, feeling ashamed, hastily buried him in the suburbs, without even leaving him a name. ”

"Then Yingzi, which statement do you prefer?"

"The second one." Yingzi smiled awkwardly: "Although I have never met a general, I also know that generals are very big officials. If the tomb is really the general's, why is it so lonely and so pitiful? ”

"That's right, even if it's a general who defects, it's not like there's not even a decent word on the tombstone." Xing Ruyi said, looking out.

Yingzi hummed softly, took a change of clothes from the closet, said goodnight, and walked out of the room.

Next door, there seemed to be a shallow moan, as if someone was trapped in a dream.

Xing Ruyi pushed open the window and glanced next door. The lights in the room turned on, then went out again, and in the darkness, Yingzi's voice to comfort her mother was faintly heard. As the shallow moaning gradually subsided, the whole courtyard returned to silence.

About half an hour later, the thing that was lying on the wall jumped down.

Xing Ruyi gave the fox a look, and the two of them outflanked it back and forth, and before the thing was discovered, they caught it back into the room.

It's also a paper figure, but it's much smaller.

Xing Ruyi lit a candle and shook it demonstratively in front of the paper figure.

"Say, Who is your master?"

The paper man shook his head in panic, and let out a series of sounds that Xing Ruyi couldn't understand at all.

"What is it talking about?"

"Probably in its own language." The fox poked the paper man: "I don't understand either." However, if it sneaks into someone else's house in the middle of the night, it will definitely not do anything good. Madame work hard, burn it. ”

"What the husband said is reasonable, I also think it's good to burn." Xing Ruyi said, bringing the flame closer to the paper figure.

The paper figure shrank back for a moment, then pointed to the room where Eiko's mother lived.

"Are you here to find Yingzi's mother?"

The paper man nodded.

"Doing bad things?"

The paper man shook his head.

"So, you're here to do good?"

The paper man nodded, and leaned slightly as if he were sleeping.

"You mean, the reason why Yingzi's mother is asleep is because you did it. Now, you're here to wake her up? ”

The paper man was stunned for a moment and nodded slightly.

"Alright then, I'll trust you for now."

Xing Ruyi put the candle aside, pinched the paper figure and went to Yingzi's mother's room. To her surprise, when she pushed open the door of Yingzi's mother's room, she and the fox saw another offering table. There was also a spiritual seat on the table, and the spiritual seat was half covered with a red cloth.

Judging from the words revealed, this spiritual position is not Yingzi's, nor is it Yingzi's mother's, but a man's.

"Guess, this man on the spiritual throne is not Yingzi's father?"

"Possibly." The fox replied ambiguously.

Xing Ruyi was a little disappointed, and pinched the paper figure into the inner room. The room is small and there are a lot of clutter, but the place is quite neat. Yingzi lay on the side of the bed, and had already fallen into a deep sleep.

Xing Ruyi let go of the paper man, and the paper man quickly ran to the bed, but because his arms, legs and feet were short, he jumped in front of the bed several times before he climbed onto the bed in embarrassment. Because it is a small paper figure and light weight, its appearance did not alarm Yingzi, who had fallen asleep.

Xing Ruyi and the fox came to the bed lightly, only to see the little paper figure crawling on Yingzi's mother's body with great difficulty, and then lying on the face of Yingzi's mother. Just when Xing Ruyi thought that this little paper man wanted to make a bad move, the little paper man bowed up and made a deep inhalation movement.

A puff of black smoke came out of Yingzi's mother's nostrils, and then directly into the body of the little paper man. Like a drunken person, the little paper figure staggered and fell from Yingzi's mother's body.

"Hey, are you alright?"

Xing Ruyi squatted down and poked his fingers at the little paper man. The little paper man shook his head weakly, and it took a long time to get up from the ground.

"Doesn't it seem that you and your master are not very bad. Let's go, take us to meet your master. ”

The little paper man shook his head.

"Don't want to? If you don't want to, you can. I'll burn you first, and then I'll look for the traces of your coming, and go to your master. ”

The little paper man shook his head in fear.

"Are you worried that we will hurt your master? Rest assured, we're just curious, curious why your master is bothering to do such boring things. ”

The little paper figure raised her head and stared at Xing Ruyi with her small drawn eyes, as if judging whether what she had just said was true or false.

The night breeze came with a small sound, and the little paper figure tensed up all of a sudden. Xing Ruyi listened attentively and found that the sound seemed to come from some ancient musical instrument. It's a pity that she doesn't study musical instruments, and she doesn't know much about listening to them, and she can't hear any doorways.

Just as she was distracted, the little paper figure suddenly rushed out the door. Xing Ruyi reached out to grab it, but couldn't catch it. Fortunately, there are still foxes, no matter how fast the little paper figure runs, it will not be traceless.

As he chased him out, the wind blew down the half of the red cloth on the spiritual seat. casually glanced at the spiritual position, and found that it was written "The spiritual position of the deceased husband Chu Shi".