After a few days, I played crazy with my cousin every day, if it wasn't for my mother's reminder, I forgot that it was the day of Zhao Xiaoxue's first seven souls, and there was nothing to do during the day, and in the evening, my mother told me to eat and go to bed early, I was scared in my heart, I couldn't help playing, and went to bed before 8 o'clock, when my eldest brother had already gone to live in the high school in the town, my cousin slept in the eldest brother's bed, and I was in the same room, I thought to myself that as long as I survived this night, it would be fine.

It was only in the second half of the night that I was woken up by my cousin's snoring, and I wanted to sleep again, but I found that I was not sleepy at all, probably because I went to bed early, and at this time, I heard a sound from the window, as if someone had thrown sand and spilled it on the window.

There was a mountain behind our house, and there could be no one in the middle of the night, and there were very few thieves at that time. I held my breath and listened carefully, as if someone would throw a handful of sand at the window, making a rustling sound.

I was so scared that as soon as I was nervous, my stomach began to feel bad, and I thought to myself, if I just endure it, it will be dawn soon. Originally, I slept on the mat, only a thin quilt covered my stomach, but now I hurriedly wrapped the whole quilt around my body and hid in the quilt, and it happened that the clock in the hall rang three times, which means that it is now 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, it is already summer, and in more than 2 hours, it will be dawn at 5 o'clock.

After a while, the sound of the sand finally disappeared, but then I heard the sound of my fingernails scraping against the glass, and I felt numb and uncomfortable to hear it, and after a while, it disappeared again. I shrunk into the quilt, and then a crack peeked out of the quilt, and I couldn't help but look at the window.

There was nothing outside the window, the moonlight illuminated the outside white, and I could clearly see the pine trees next to it, but further down, it was the shadows of the trees, and I couldn't see anything, and then I suddenly saw a stream of sand, from the depths of the trees, and was thrown to the window, I was startled, and then I saw the shadows of the woods, and suddenly there were two points of green light, a bit like the eyes of a cat, and then disappeared again in an instant.

This fright made me nervous to the extreme, and I felt like my adrenaline was soaring and my stomach was cramping. I need to go to the bathroom, or I'm going to fall into bed.

I hurriedly pulled off the quilt, got up, turned on the light, ran to the opposite bed, and desperately called out to my cousin.

My cousin seemed to be dead, no matter how I screamed, I tried, and breathed, I couldn't help but slap him a few times, but he didn't seem to feel it, he still didn't wake up, and his stomach was cramping again, I really couldn't help it, I put on slippers, took a flashlight, ran to the next door and knocked on the door, thinking that my parents would wake up and accompany me to the outside toilet, but how I slapped the door, I just didn't answer, as if there was no one inside at all.

I stopped banging on the door, and the whole world seemed to fall silent in an instant, except for the sound of the clock hands moving in the hall, but my stomach couldn't bear it.

I thought in my heart, either I could pull it in the house, but the next day I would be scolded for stability, and my cousin had a big mouth, and it would be known all over the world. But if you go out now, maybe your life will be gone. I suddenly saw dried wormwood next to it, which is our local custom, fermented with soybeans, covered with wormwood, which can be made into soybean paste. I've heard adults say that wormwood can ward off evil spirits. I hurriedly tied the wormwood into bunches, lit it with a lighter, opened the door, and ran to the toilet next to the rice field.

I panicked, ran away with my left slipper, didn't care, rushed to the toilet, and closed the door.

When I took off my pants, I felt a lot more comfortable.

The toilet was small, but it was very safe, although the stench was terrible, and the small torches made of wormwood were about to burn out, and I threw them on the floor of the toilet, when I heard another sound in the rice field, like the sound of someone dragging the sand on the ground with a twig. The sound reached the edge of the toilet and then disappeared.

When I entered the toilet, I turned off the flashlight, and the light of the flashlight would reveal my location, which made me feel very insecure.

At this time, there was no sound outside, and I couldn't help but look through the crack in the toilet door.

I was so scared that I would see my eyes through the crack in the door like a ghost movie, but I couldn't help but look at it.

Fortunately, there were no eyes on the side of the door, and the outside was bright by the moonlight, and I saw a person in red standing on the edge of the rice field not far away, the red clothes were the shroud that Zhao Xiaoxue wore that day, but his face was blurred, but he was facing the direction of the toilet.

I felt my adrenaline rush again, my stomach rumbled, and I couldn't help but let out several loud farts.

The man in red seemed to hear the sound and began to walk towards the toilet. It's not so much walking, it's more like moving without her feet hitting the ground, because she only touches the ground with her toes, and she can't support the weight of a person at all.

More than ten steps from the toilet, stopped.

By the light of the moon, I could see her face clearly.

It is indeed Zhao Xiaoxue's face, but her face is like white paper, her mouth is like blood red, her eyes are already very big, and they are even wider at this time, the key is that the whole eyeball is red, and there is no white pupil at all.

She seemed to notice that I was looking at her, and she slowly smiled, twisted and weird.

I was so frightened that I didn't even pull up my pants, I hurriedly stood up and retreated, but I squatted for a long time, my feet were numb, and then I was frightened, and I felt that my whole head was congested, and it seemed that this was over, and I felt a little spinning, and I fainted again.

When I woke up in the morning, I found that on the bed, there was a red ribbon tied on my head (an inch-wide red ribbon spun from silk in our hometown for children to ward off evil spirits), and my mother was sitting next to me.

At this time, I saw Daoist Chen come in with a bowl with a red slimy thing in it, and handed it to my mother and told me to feed it. I ate it, with sugar in it and the fragrance of mahogany.

Taoist Chen said that this is peach gum, which is the oil flowing from the peach tree, which can drive away evil spirits and calm the mind.

When I had finished eating, Daoist Chen asked the family to find sake lees (the dregs left over from brewing), and then asked the family to boil a bucket of water in a large wooden barrel, and then put the sake lees in it and bathed me. To boil water, you have to use peach wood to boil it.

After arranging everything, he said that Song Hao lost his soul because of excessive fright, and he wanted to help me summon my soul so that no one could enter the house.

After everyone left, he brought another bowl with water in it, and in the other hand, he held three chopsticks.

He brought a chair, put it at the head of my bed, grabbed three chopsticks with his fingers, and shouted the word Zhao Xiaoxue in his mouth, and the three were erected upright in the center of the bowl. Then he smiled and asked me, "How did you offend Xiaoxue?" ”

I told him all the things about the Huangmiao paper man and all the things before.

He smiled and said: "The money and paper people you pick up on the road should give people a chance to prevent disasters, some people tend to be good and avoid evil, so they come up with such a lack of morality, move the disaster to the Huangmiao paper people, and then use money to seduce people to pick up, if you don't stuff it into Xiaoxue's pocket that day, it is estimated that you will suffer, Xiaoxue may be the destiny of heaven, in the past, Zhang Blind told her sisters' fortunes, and there should be a catastrophe in her fate." Everyone is trying to avoid disaster, in fact, how can the destiny of heaven be changed, if it can be changed, it will not be called fate. The one who used the paper man to avoid the disaster was afraid that he would not be able to escape for a while. On the day of the fasting for Xiaoxue, you hit Bai Sha, it is estimated that the ancestors of the Zhao family saw that you often bullied Zhao Xiaoxue, so they punished you, and the strange person you saw in the hall of the Zhao family that day should be Zhao Xiaoxue's ancestral relatives. And last night, it was probably just Xiaoxue who came to scare you. Xiaoxue, this child, I used to know that she was kind by nature, and when she encountered this scourge, although it was related to you, she knew that the wood was already in the boat, so she had no intention of harming you, she just wanted to scare you. That night, I looked at the unburned paper on the soles of your feet, which looked like a play. I also heard that after Xiaoxue became dumb, she was often teased by children, so I estimated that when Xiaoxue returned to her soul, she might come back and tease you, which would be counted as revenge. If she really wants to harm you, it is estimated that when you went out of the gate last night, you might not have run to the toilet, but a pond or something, and you drowned directly. ”

I hurriedly said, "She didn't hurt me, it's because when I ran out last night, I had wormwood in my hand, which can ward off evil spirits." ”

Daoist Chen said with a smile: "Your wormwood was covered on top when the soybeans were fermenting, and the soybeans were moldy, which was already filthy, and the wormwood was useless for a long time." After speaking, he found a red paper, on which was written my birth date, and an apology, and then asked me to stamp my handprint, then rolled it up, recited a mantra, lit it and put it on the chopsticks, the red paper burned quickly, and the ashes slowly fell into the bowl below, and when the ashes fell, the three chopsticks scattered and fell.

Daoist Chen explained: "This is tantamount to a letter of apology to her, and your earthly grievances can be counted as a write-off." You had a soul scared away last night, and tonight you will ask your mother to call your soul at the door, and you will take a good shower, sleep well at night, and tomorrow will be completely fine. ”

I asked, "What if Xiaoxue doesn't accept my apology and comes back to retaliate against me?" ”

Daoist Chen said: "The chopsticks are poured, which proves that Xiaoxue has accepted it, and it is poured so quickly, which proves that she just came to scare you last night." Now it's time for her to forget about the world, go to Hades to report, and wait to be reincarnated again. ”

I nodded reassuringly, and then Daoist Chen asked me how the high school entrance examination was, telling me not to be naughty in the future, to fight and laugh at others, and to be a good person in the future.

I suddenly felt that he was so kind and so capable, which gave me the idea of becoming a Taoist priest as well.

In the afternoon, Daoist Chen looked at the firewood and wine lees, and said that it was okay, so he asked his family to boil water for me to bathe, and then beckoned my mother to help me shout the soul at night, and the family gave him twenty yuan, which was counted as a hardship fee, and he also accepted it, and then came to see me and prepared to leave.

Seeing him come in, I hurriedly got up from the bed, knelt down, and asked him to take me as a disciple, and I also want to be a Taoist priest.

Daoist Chen smiled and said, "It's very hard to be a Taoist, and your family will not agree to you being a Taoist." "My mother was on the sidelines, talking nonsense about children.

I have always emphasized that I really want to be a Taoist priest, and I asked Taoist Chen, is it because I have no talent?

Daoist Chen said with a smile: "Being a Taoist priest is not about practicing martial arts, you can only talk about talent, and you can just combine the eight characters." After that, my mother was really afraid that I would run away with him, so she hurriedly led Daoist Chen out and asked my cousin to take care of me.

After two days, I was alive and kicking, and my cousin also went back to my grandmother's house, so I pestered my mother every day to become a Taoist priest.

There are two brothers in my family, my brother is better at studying, and he goes to high school in the town, which is the pride of the family, but being a mother always loves her youngest son the most, so she has not agreed, so I went to grind my father, and then my father was impatient, and said that he would talk about it after reading the results of the high school entrance examination.

After 1 month, the results of the high school entrance examination came out, and I scored less than 200 points in the test unexpectedly, so I basically didn't have a high school to go to, so there were two ways to go: work in the family farm or go out to work. But I was still young, and my mother didn't want me to go out to work at all, so I continued to grind her, saying that I wanted to become a Taoist priest.

My father later said to my mother, no, you can take him to tell his fortune and see if he can become a Taoist priest, and if he can be a Taoist priest, he will be a year and a half.

So my mother took me to Zhangwan to find a blind man Zhang and calculate whether I could become a Taoist priest.