After Zhao Xiaoxue fell ill, Zhao Jie took her to the county hospital, but he didn't find out what the illness was.

At this time, I was a little scared in my heart, could it be related to the yellow temple paper, but fortunately, no one saw me stuffing that thing into Zhao Xiaoxue's pocket.

A few days after the end of the high school entrance examination, my grandmother's cousin came to our house to play, my cousin is three years older than me, we have no genes for reading in our blood, he is more awesome than me, his study is too poor, and he has stayed several levels intermittently.

If Uncle is a trendy man in our village (Uncle has already gone to the south to work at that time), he is the pioneer of their village. At that time, he had a bald head, he was not afraid of heaven and earth, and I told my cousin about the matter, and my cousin said that I was superstitious, and I didn't believe that Zhao Xiaoxue's illness had anything to do with the yellow temple paper.

I wanted him to go to Taoist Bay with me and ask Daoist Chen, but I didn't want to send the news of Zhao Xiaoxue's death.

Because I don't live far away, my family also took me and my cousin to Zhao Xiaoxue's house, which can be regarded as condolences.

The door of the Zhao family was full of people, talking about the affairs of the Zhao family, and Zhao Jie greeted the people who came sadly. Mother took me and my cousin into the Zhao family's house, which was crowded with relatives of the Zhao family, Aunt Zhao and Zhao Xiaoyu sat on the edge of the bed crying, Zhao Xiaoxue's body was lying on the bed, already wearing a red shroud (because the deceased was a child, our local custom is to wear a red shroud), the face was covered with yellow burning paper, revealing a white neck, my mother walked over, lifted the burning paper, took a look, and cried, I didn't dare to look at it through the gap, I just felt that the face was white and scary. Her eyes were closed, her sockets were a little sunken, and I was so scared that she would suddenly open her eyes and look at me.

My cousin was too bored in his spare time, so he called me out.

My cousin found the fruit bowl full of sweets, and he beckoned me to sit there and eat.

I ate candy and listened to the gossip of the old people next to me.

The old man said that soon after the birth of the Zhao sisters, because they had not been boys, Aunt Zhao went to Zhang Wan to ask Zhang Blind to tell his fortune, Zhang Blind is a famous fortune teller in our area, Zhang Blind said that there are no boys in the Zhao family's life, that is, two girls, I am afraid that one of them will not live to adulthood. Aunt Zhao asked if there was a way to crack it, Zhang Blind could only tell fortunes, not crack it. Later, Aunt Zhao went to ask a fairy girl on her mother's side (that is, the one in the countryside who can invite souls to the body), and taught her a method: when the child is sick, burn the charm and feed the child sesame oil. And this method eventually caused Zhao Xiaoxue to become mute when she was sick.

Although she became mute, Aunt Zhao was still happy, at least she didn't die. I didn't want to be destined for the catastrophe, but I still didn't escape.

When I listened, I felt a lot relieved, this is someone's life, and it should have nothing to do with the Yellow Temple paper man.

In the afternoon, Daoist Chen was invited.

He wore a blue-black Taoist robe, a Zhuangzi scarf on his head, various props, leggings, white socks, and black cloth shoes. When he came, the people got busy and set up an altar with tables and chairs.

The table is placed below, there is a chair on it, sitting north and facing south, there are three clear tablets on the chair, and the tablets of various gods are also placed outward in all four directions on the table, and a candle is placed in front of each tablet.

Then someone cut down a bamboo several meters long, and hung a white banner on it, which means a soul-attracting flag, and erected it at the door.

In the main hall of the house, there is also a large table, on which 2 candles are lit, and there are 7 bowls of dishes on the table, all of which are chicken, duck and fish and a few vegetarian dishes. Next to the table is an iron porcelain basin, which is used to burn paper.

After Chen Daoshi was busy with all this, he set up a small table by the kitchen and began to write on it, a book of the deceased, against the family to write the deceased relatives. A genealogy of a living person, written about relatives such as Wufu.

Wait until it gets dark, and then start fasting.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, my mother stayed to help and told me and my cousin to go back quickly, because the deceased was a child, and I and Zhao Xiaoxue were in the same phase, so I should not come over at night.

My cousin and I obediently went back.

When it was dark and the meal was over, my cousin couldn't bear it anymore and said that he wanted to go and see it and join in the fun. It's really the sadness of someone else's family, and it has nothing to do with yourself.

I was so frightened that I didn't want to go, so my cousin provoked me and asked me if I was a man, and I was so provoked that I agreed to go with him.

At this time, it was already dark, and as soon as I crossed the ridge, I saw the white soul-attracting flag, fluttering with the wind, and from time to time there was the sound of Taoist priests singing (singing scriptures), as well as the crying and mourning of relatives.

My cousin was very excited and asked me to leave.

As a result, when he was about to arrive at Zhao's house, he didn't hear anything.

I asked my cousin, "Why is there no sound at all?" My cousin didn't speak, just motioned for me to leave.

When I came to the door of Zhao's house, I found that the scene was brightly lit, but there was no one. I turned around to ask my cousin, only to find that he was grinning, and not like a normal person, but a distorted one. My cousin ran into the hall with a smile and rushed into the house, I had to chase it in, but I found that the inner room was dim, there was no light, and the light outside the window seemed to be unable to penetrate it, and the door behind it suddenly closed, leaving only a little gap, I wanted to call my cousin, but I didn't dare to make a loud noise, groped forward, and suddenly touched a furry thing.

I felt a chill in my heart, and when I got closer to my eyes, I realized that it was a bear toy.

I laughed in my heart that I was really scared of myself, but I was afraid of the dark, and I didn't know where my cousin had gone, so I wanted to turn around and go out, but when I turned around, I found that the light in the crack of the door seemed to be far away from me, I obviously didn't take a few steps, I began to touch the direction of the light, but I didn't take two steps, I bumped into something, I touched, it should be a bed, I wanted to go around, so I touched to the side, but the bed seemed to be boundless, there was no edge at all, then I was really scared, so I jumped on the bed, ran towards the light of the crack in the door, I didn't want the bed to be softAs soon as I was forced, I fell to the bed without noticing. I reached out and touched it as if there was someone next to me, and I asked, "Is it my cousin?" "But the man seemed to be very thin, and there was a faint aroma, and I touched it up and down, and it was burning paper.

I was very scared in my heart, if I guessed correctly, then under the burning paper, it should be Zhao Xiaoxue's face.

I suddenly thought of the bloodless white face with deep-set eye sockets.

I hurried towards the light that crept towards the crack in the door, and at last I came to the door, and opened it, and the main hall outside the door was full of people, but all of them were bloodless, and when they heard me open the door, they all looked at me.

I was stared at, and I didn't know any of the people in front of me, could it be that they were all relatives of Zhao Xiaoxue. But some of them are not wearing modern clothes. They stared at me, and they all slowly smiled weirdly.

I felt a hand slowly moving along my arm in the dark room behind me, I didn't dare to look back, that hand slowly swam to my shoulder, and then to my neck, I felt cold, the hand seemed to want to touch my face, I hurriedly pushed away, through the main hall, and broke out.

There are still tables and chairs at the door of the hall, and the candles on them are lit, but on the tablet, it is not Sanqing and various immortals that are written, but the names of various Zhao families.

The key is that I still know this font, which is Zhao Xiaoxue's character.

The candles in front of the tablet are burning brightly, but the flames are swinging strangely.

I'm afraid I'm going to fall for it. Looking up, the Soul Banner was still fluttering, but I couldn't feel the slightest wind, and the white moon in the sky turned blood red.

I felt the world spin around and passed out.

After a long time, I finally heard someone call my name, and my crotch felt wet, and I was afraid that I was scared to pee.

I opened my eyes and saw my mother holding me, shouting my name, Daoist Chen was constantly approaching my acupoint with three sticks of incense, I felt a little hot, the smoke was a little choking, Daoist Chen took it away, and stretched it out again in a few seconds. When Daoist Chen saw that I was awake, he told my mother that the child had just been hit.

My mother sat me next to me, and she talked to the kitchen and took me home. Daoist Chen sat down, stood in front of the table with the tablet, held the score written in the afternoon, and continued to sing the name of the deceased.

I was feeling a little cold, my cousin was sitting next to me, and I hurriedly asked him what was wrong with me just now.

My cousin said: "Just now after we crossed the mountain, you kept staring at the soul attraction banner and did not speak, and when you arrived at the door of the Zhao family, I saw that something was wrong with you, because you stared at the soul attraction banner and your eyes did not blink for a long time, I patted you, and you fell to the ground and convulsed." The old Taoist priest came over and gestured on your hand, and at the same time scented you, and then he saw you peeing your pants. ”

My cousin smiled and asked me, "When did you get mad?" I glared at him and said, "You're crazy." ”

At this time, my mother came over and said, "The person in the kitchen just now said that we are going to cross the Nai He Bridge soon, you can drink some soup here after crossing the Nai He Bridge, and then wait for Daoist Chen to eat, and then look at you after eating, if there is nothing wrong, we will go back." If we go back now, and something dirty follows you, it will be easy to ask God to send God, and it will be difficult to do it later. ”

I turned my head again to look at Daoist Chen, who stopped singing, but built a bridge leading to the main hall with a white cloth and chairs. This is the so-called Nai Ho Bridge.

Daoist Chen called Zhao Jie, took out a tablet from Zhao Xiaoxue's room, the two walked to the main hall, Zhao Jie first held the tablet, kowtowed to the north three times, Daoist Chen sang: "Thank you for the care of your ancestors and ancestors." Then walked to the front of the main hall, facing the outside world, Zhao Jie held the tablet and kowtowed three times, and Chen Taoist sang: "Thank you for the care of heaven and earth." Then turning around and kowtowing three times in the direction of the kitchen, Daoist Chen sang: "Thank you for your relatives and friends and the care of the world." Then let Zhao Jie get up, and the two of them held the tablet together, respectively on both sides of the Nai He Bridge made of white cloth, Chen Daoist swept the tablet three times before and after with a whisk, and sang: "Wash away the hardships of marriage in the world, and forget the sorrows in the world." Then the two of them walked up along the white cloth.

Daoist Chen walked and sang a eulogy, surrounded by people standing around him, watching with interest, I looked at Zhao Jie's expression, and suddenly felt very sad. People often say that there are three major pains in life: the loss of a mother at a young age, the loss of a wife in middle age, and the loss of a child in old age. In fact, the death of any loved one will be broken, but in the eyes of outsiders, it is just a lively scene.

Suddenly, I felt cold, but now there was no wind and it was almost midsummer.

Daoist Chen was next to me, I wasn't too scared, and there were my cousin and people from the village sitting next to me. I thought it was an illusion, but the chill kept eating away at me, and suddenly, I felt a pair of cold hands grabbing my neck, I opened my mouth wide, but I couldn't make a sound, I couldn't even breathe.

People are still looking at the bridge, and I want to turn back, but I can't move.

There are people all around, but no one notices my abnormality, which is the most terrifying thing.

Daoist Chen had already guided the tablet to the end of the white cloth and sang: "If you don't bring it in life, you won't take it with you in death, come cleanly, go cleanly, cross the Nai He Bridge, and be reincarnated in another life." Then I felt the power, slowly disappeared, and before it disappeared, it touched my face again.

After singing these, Daoist Chen instructed the bridge to be removed, and the next singing of the Sutra of Salvation was over.

Daoist Chen sat down to drink a cup of tea, and Zhao Jie asked if he wanted to sing more, money didn't matter. Daoist Chen said: "After the age of eighty, it is a happy funeral, generally singing for 3 days and 3 nights, and after the age of forty, it is a black funeral, and you can sing for a day and a night." The rest is to mourn in vain, sing as little as possible, not to mention that she is still a child, so try to be thrifty, let her come and go quickly in the world. Let's be reincarnated as soon as possible. ”

I hurriedly asked, "Did she cross the Nai He Bridge and be reincarnated?" ”

Daoist Chen looked at me and said, "It's so fast, she still has to return to the soul for the first seven times, see the last look in the world, and then go to Hades to report, determine good and evil, and then determine when to reincarnate." Then he beckoned me over, looked at my neck, and said how there were a few red finger prints on it.

Then tell me to go to the brazier and burn some paper, remember to bend down or kneel and burn, don't squat down and burn.

Zhao Jie knew that I had just crashed, so he took the paper and asked me to go in and burn it.

I walked to the brazier, Zhao Xiaoyu was kneeling there burning paper, crying pear blossoms with rain, she asked me: "They said, I am a woman, and my sister can't receive the paper burning, is it true?" I was noncommittal, so I knelt down, took her burning paper, and said, "Then I'll burn more for you, and she will be able to collect it." Don't cry, go eat. At this time, Zhao Jie also came over, hugged Zhao Xiaoyu, and asked her to eat.

After burning the paper, Daoist Chen had just finished eating, so he called me over, took off his shoes, asked me to wrap my feet in burning paper, and then kept sweeping the soles of my feet with burning incense. I felt hot and itchy, and after a while the paper caught fire, and he told me to throw it on the floor, and then he took a glass from the kitchen, and when it was almost finished, he took a sip of wine and sprayed it.

Then he took out the unburned fragments from the ash heap and looked at them in the palm of his hand. Then he said okay, it's okay, let's go back.

After that, he returned the cup to the kitchen and was ready to start singing the next show.

My mother took my cousin and me home.

On the way, my mother told me that when Daoist Chen returned the wine glass, he whispered to her that when I was called Zhao Xiaoxue's first seventh, I must stay at home. The mother said angrily: "I told you not to come here, I didn't run here secretly, and it was a lot of trouble." ”

In fact, what I am really afraid of in my heart is whether Zhao Xiaoxue's death is really related to the paper man in the Yellow Temple, whether it is really me who hurt her, and Daoist Chen, what can I see from the paper ashes.