After dinner, I stood alone at the end of the hallway, leaning against the balcony railing and smoking.

What happened in the hospital yesterday made me feel a little dazed, after all, Li Jin ran away from under our noses, and I heard that I couldn't find it now, so I was a little worried.

There was a sudden vibration in the left abdomen, it turned out that the phone in my pocket rang, I took it out and looked at it, it was my father calling.

My father told me the shocking news: my eldest sister Yu Miaomiao will get married next month.

School falls off next month.

I have two older sisters in the row above me, we are two years apart in turn, the eldest sister is called Yu Miaomiao, and the second sister is called Yu Maomao. Don't wonder, these two names were also given by my father.

The eldest sister's name is okay, because the seedlings in the field in front of my house grew very well when she was born, so my father named her Yu Miaomiao; My second sister's name is a little sympathetic to me, who let her be born when the family raccoon cat happened to jump on the bed and lick her face, so my second sister was called Yu Maomao. When I grew up, my second sister mentioned this incident many times, and she was always glad that it wasn't a dog that jumped on the bed and licked her face, otherwise she would have to call Yu Dog. This incident fully illustrates a truth from the side: Comrade, it is really important to study hard!

My dad usually doesn't talk much, and often hangs up the phone after a brief truncation of important things, but I didn't expect him to be unusual, first on the other end of the phone, and finally held back a sentence: "Remember to call me when you come back, and I'll pick you up." ”

When I heard this, my heart suddenly warmed, and my nose was a little pantothenic acid for some reason.

Then I mentioned Li Jin's matter to him by the way.

Oh yes, I forgot to tell you one thing when it comes to this: my dad has a little skill that is in line with yin and yang, which we call "blackening" here.

If a child cries at night for no reason, according to the rural people, it is the parents who "bump into it" when they go out at night with their children, and some places are also called "collisions", which means hitting evil spirits and ghosts.

Because a child's eye is not completely closed, it is easy to see dirty things. In addition, the child's yang energy is insufficient, and the luck is sluggish, so it is easy to be "bumped" at night, and then the dirty things will follow him home.

Generally speaking, most of the dirty things you encounter are lonely ghosts that roam at night, and this kind of ghost likes to play tricks on people, and there is no great harm. However, if you don't find someone to "collect the black" after a long time, the child's three souls and seven spirits will be scared away, and slowly people will die.

Therefore, when we have children here, we have to carry our children with a reverse strap when they go out at night, and a pair of folding scissors will be hung on the outside of the carrier, which is said to protect the child from evil spirits.

Now that I've talked about it, I'll put on another story about ghosts, which I personally experienced.

I remember that I was about six or seven years old at that time, and the countryside was very poor at that time, and the children did not have any toys, so they liked to run to the courtyard dam to play marbles, knock on triangle boards, catch stones and fight's feet, etc., and play until dark.

That night, we seemed to play until eight o'clock, when many little dolls were called home by their parents to go to bed, and there were fewer and fewer people playing games together, and my second sister Yu Maomao and my cousin and I also decided to go home.

On our way home, we had to pass through a bamboo forest, which was very luxuriant, and it was especially shaded on hot days, at the corner of the intersection about 100 meters away from the dam of my yard.

During the day, when I walked to the bamboo forest, I felt very gloomy, let alone at night: when the wind blew, the bamboo forest brushed and brushed and made a chaotic sound, and it sounded like someone was running inside, and goosebumps were all up.

The three of us held hands and walked to the bamboo forest tremblingly, not daring to say a word, for fear of attracting something terrifying. That night, the moon was very large and bright, illuminating the outlines of the surrounding tiled houses, the vegetables in the fields, and the grave bags beside the road.

The fluffy and dense bamboo forest left a large shadow in the moonlight, and when I was halfway there, I suddenly swept the corner of my eye to a figure standing by the stone wall of the bamboo forest, looking at us motionlessly.

I burst into tears and shook my sister's hand vigorously.

Sister, sister, there has to be someone standing at that point.

Now that I think about it, I actually admired my second sister's performance at that time, after hearing my words, not only did she not slip away, but held my cousin's hands tightly, and she had the courage to shout.

Which one is at the point, stand up!

As soon as my second sister Yu Maomao finished roaring, a "person" came out of the shadows. He was two or three meters away, facing us, and looked like an old man in ragged clothes with a hunched back, and a backpack on his back.

But the strange thing is that at this time, our eyes seem to have been forcibly added with a blurry filter effect, no matter how we look at it, we can't see his face clearly, and the moon is so bright that night.

My second sister didn't expect that a "person" would really be yelled out in her voice, she seemed to be frightened, and then she reflexively said stupidly, where are you going to be so late, grandpa.

In fact, we don't know whether the "person" in front of us is a man or a woman.

I didn't expect that "person" to tremble and say, I went to the mountains to find firewood.

As soon as I finished speaking, my second sister was so frightened that my second sister pulled me and my cousin all the way and rushed home at a speed like a 100-meter sprint.

I often ask my mother to buy something with pocket money to share her food.

In fact, there is one thing I have never said, I clearly remember that the "person" at that time was in the moonlight, without a shadow.

The next day I fell ill, groggy and began to talk nonsense, and the rice and water did not enter. My father first "blackened" me a few times, but it didn't work, and then my grandmother taught my mother a method.

For three nights in a row, my mother took me to the bamboo forest intersection in a daze, and she asked me to stand in the middle. Then she took the rake and called my name while grabbing the ground, and when she got home, she would spin around on top of my head with eggs and dried chili peppers. Three days later, I was fine.

When I grew up, I learned that this method is called "shouting souls". That is, when someone's soul is frightened, take that person to the crossroads, call that person's name, and grasp the ground with a rake. In fact, when I think of that scene now, it's really funny and scary.

Okay, let's get down to business.

After listening to my story, my dad was silent on the other end of the phone.

After a few seconds, he let out a sigh, "They've encountered something powerful, I don't know anything about it, if your grandfather is here, he will understand." ”

Then my father said majestically: "You'd better not care about these idle things, and give Lao Tzu home early after the holiday, otherwise you will break your feet." ”

Then my dad hung up.

When my father and his three brothers were still young, my grandfather disappeared mysteriously after going out to help a family surnamed Zhu do carpentry. My grandmother waited for him for most of her life, and she didn't hear from him until she died in March last year, and I don't know if he is alive or dead, and if he is still alive, he will be in his eighties. Every time I mentioned my grandfather, my father's mood always turned bad.