My name is Chen Xichun, I was born in the spring equinox, and I live in spring and winter, and everything changes.

It is said that when I was born, the midwife picked me up, and after a moment of stagnation, my whole body trembled like chaff.

On my back and shoulder, for some reason, I gave birth to a very strange birthmark, like a scattered plum blossom, and like an open black palm. At that time, there was a bone touching master Master Hu who came to pinch my bones for me, and after looking at it carefully, he said a word with a solemn face.

The ghost hand climbs the back, and the yin qi invades the body.

According to Master Hu's words, when I was reincarnated, I was afraid that I would offend the evil ghosts in the hell of the underworld, and I was grabbed by the shoulders and dragged back, but I still fell into reincarnation.

"It won't let the baby go." Master Hu was silent for a long time before he spoke again.

It naturally refers to the evil spirits in hell that climb my back.

My father was outside the door, choking on his throat and smoking a few cigarettes, while my mother was red-eyed, begging Master Hu to help me survive the disaster.

I heard that when he was young, he was a powerful Taoist priest, almost omnipotent, he was happy in vain, and the town house went to evil, and a Dharma event can always make people feel at ease inexplicably.

Master Hu took it as a reason that he was a scattered Taoist priest, so he never married and had no children or daughters.

At the insistence of my father and mother, I worshipped Master Hu as my godfather.

For a long time after that, this old man in the age of the sixtieth year tried everything he could to soothe the ups and downs of my fate.

For example, every three days, I use incense burner ash to wipe out the ghost energy from the ghost birthmark, so that I will not be found by the evil spirits in the hell.

I grew up to 10 years old, and Master Hu was 70 years old.

I am always very worried, and I often secretly look at this old man who has been protecting me, with a few strands of gray hair on his head, and a few centimeters of his body.

In the middle of that year, Mr. Hu had a serious illness, lying on the futon all day long, occasionally calling me to bring a bowl of warm water and take a few sips.

Mother hurriedly boiled the old chicken soup and sent it to Master Hu's house with red eyes.

Master Hu didn't drink it until the chicken soup was cold, and cotton-like oil flowers formed on the soup noodles.

"I can't protect the spring girl." Master Hu's voice was hoarse, "I entrusted someone to ......"

Master Hu coughed again.

My mother covered her mouth, pressed my neck, and told me to kneel.

I knelt down and tears were pouring down my face.

Master Hu propped himself up and laughed, his voice hoarse, like a broken cowhide drum.

"Today's Zhongyuan, as in previous years, is going to knock on the streets."

In the past ten years, every year in the middle of the Yuan, Master Hu will always take me to patrol the streets, from the third watch to the fourth watch.

I once asked, why do you patrol the streets in the middle of the night?

You must know that Zhongyuan, also known as the Ghost Festival, is the day when the ghost door is opened.

Wild ghosts from all over the world can eat incense in the world.

"You belong to the ghost path, but you walk in the world, if you don't be tougher and deter the wild ghosts in all directions, how can you live in peace in the future!" Master Hu said.

Naturally, I wanted to settle down and live like other children, going to school and playing marbles.

In fact, I was not too frightened when Zhongyuan patrolled the streets at night, after all, Master Hu has always gone with me all these years.

"It's almost three watches, and I can't go with you this year." Master Hu stretched out his hand and wiped it on his dark and pale face.

"Go by yourself, if you want to settle down, be bolder." Master Hu said in a deep voice.

I hesitated, I remember when I was seven years old, when I was patrolling the streets, I suddenly encountered a gray coffin in the alley.

There was a voice crying and laughing in the coffin, as sharp as a pinprick and piercing the eardrums.

Master Hu asked me to close my eyes and walk forward slowly.

I kept my eyes closed, even though I felt that someone was pulling my clothes, but I never opened them.

It wasn't until I walked through a cold alleyway, and it wasn't until my body began to warm up that I opened my eyes crying.

So, I wasn't that bold.

My anxiety was in front of Master Hu, and there was nothing to hide.

"The charm of the world, if you want to hide! And how much have you been able to hide! Master Hu drank a sentence, and then coughed again.

Hearing this, I sighed in my heart, gritted my teeth and turned my back, walked to the corner of the wall of Mr. Hu's house, and picked up the small bangzi and the small bamboo hammer.

"I told you to look at the drip more and count the time." Master Hu said in a dumb voice.

"Ganzu, I remember."

Master Hu nodded, fell limply on the bed, but still stretched out his hand and pointed to the old willow tree outside the yard.

"Break a willow, and if a ghost comes, hit it."

Peach wood punishes demons, willow leaves fight ghosts.

"Ancestor, I know."

My mother was silent for a moment, then came out and escorted me to the entrance of the courtyard.

"Raid the spring, count the time, I will come back as soon as the fourth watch arrives, and my mother will boil eggs for you to eat."

"Mother, pound more spicy garlic, I'll dip eggs and eat it."

Folding a fresh willow branch, pinning it to the waistband of my trousers, and holding a small bamboo hammer, I stubbornly took small steps and stepped onto the dark alleyway.

Behind him, the sound of Master Hu's cough sounded again.

The old town is called Sifang Town, because the town is in all directions, and each town has a bronze beast that is too simple to distinguish its demeanor.

An old man said that hundreds of years ago, Sifang Town was built on a slope with extremely heavy yin qi due to a distant Taoist priest who looked away, causing strange things to happen in the town.

Fortunately, there was another wandering old Taoist, who taught the people in the town, cast four bronze beasts, and the town was in all directions, and the disaster slowly subsided.

The alleys in the town are vertical and horizontal, and in the Taoist books, they are called Taiping Road, which is the same as the bronze beast, and is designed to suppress the ghosts under the ground.

Not far away, I was a little shivering, three were cooler, four were colder, and five were more cloudy.

coincided with Zhongyuan, and the people at the end of the alley all offered three sticks of incense in front of the door.

The slightly cool dense fog, in the bleak moonlight, could not disperse and gather.

I gritted my teeth, pressed one hand on the willow branch, and turned one alley after another.

At this time, an old white dog, who was lying on his stomach around the corner, saw me coming, shook his head, and glared at me viciously with a pair of dog eyes.

I never thought a dog would have such a vicious look.

Startled, I hurriedly turned to the side and continued walking.

"Hit the shift! Hit more! The white dog's mouth was hoarse and fierce.

When I boarded, I felt a cold tingle in my back, and I quickened my pace and ran forward.

"Hit the shift! You can't run! When you turn back on the fifth watch, I will eat you! The white dog said viciously.

When I heard the sound, I wanted to run home immediately.

For a moment, I remembered Master Hu's words again.

You belong to the ghost path, but you walk in the world, if you don't be tougher and deter the wild ghosts in all directions, how can you live in peace in the future!

It is rumored that the husband knocked on the watch in the middle of the night, and the sound of the bangzi was like thunder, and the lonely souls and wild ghosts in all directions did not dare to approach.

Gritting my teeth, I pulled out the willow branch, put it in my hand, and glanced back at the old dog.

The old dog didn't chase after me, and when he saw me walking away, he got down again.

I breathed a sigh of relief, the old dog said that the fifth watch was going to eat me, I was afraid that I didn't know, I only patrolled to the fourth watch.

Shouting all the way, looking at the drip, calculating the time, about to touch it, ready to turn around and walk back.

Suddenly, a black bird landed on the wall next to me.

I glanced at it and ignored it.

This blackbird was very strange, and no matter where I went, it always stopped not far from me, and after a few futile urges, I simply let it go.

It's going to be four watches, and I feel relieved.

On the fourth watch, Bangzi is slow and fast.

When I was about to shout for a change, the blackbird next to me suddenly spoke, "No, no, it's still half a shift." ”

I looked at the blackbird suspiciously.

"Don't look at me, I'm a robin, so naturally I can calculate the most accurately."

Legend has it that the robin crow, crying in the mountains at night, the hour is exactly the same. However, robins are scavengers, and they like to eat the eyes of the dead.

There was silence for a while, and I didn't call out the four watches after all.

After walking for a while, I counted the time for half a shift, and was ready to shout.

"Some, some more!" Robin screamed.

Somehow, I suddenly felt a little dizzy in my head, and I also believed the words of this robin in a daze.

The alleyway was getting colder and colder, and a cool breeze was blowing, so I wrapped up my clothes tightly and walked forward.

"Little husband, your eyes are so round, I guess it's delicious." Robin screamed.

Listening to the vicious words of this scavenging bird, I was suddenly horrified, and an inexplicable uneasiness gradually came to my heart.

"Let me tell you, it's the fifth watch! You can't go! I can't go! ”

I gritted my teeth and struck the willow branch at the vicious scavenger.

The scavenger screamed sharply and quickly avoided it.

In an instant, a thick fog poured in all around.

Five more!

Yin!

I ran as hard as I could, but my head was even more confused, and I couldn't make out the way home.

At this time, somehow, I actually ran to the alley of the old white dog.

The old white dog saw me turn back and grinned, "Fight more!" As I said, when you turn back on the fifth watch, I will eat you! ”