"I seem to have seen these paper people somewhere. Copy this address and browse," she muttered, as if she was talking to herself.

"You used to watch things from your hometown when I was a child." I was a little unimpressed: "Making paper people so real can indeed cast a shadow on a child's childhood." ”

Li Nuoyi shook his head and did not continue the conversation.

The door of the peach house was wide open, and as last night, Old Man Li's coffin was placed in the central position. In the depths of the house was a table of eight immortals, with chickens, ducks and some fruits as offerings. The incense wax is inserted in the incense burner at the center of the Eight Immortals Table, the red candle does not have a trace of festivity, and the orange-red candlelight shaking seems to be extinguished at any time, emitting an ominous and strange light.

The door of the peach house is actually pasted with two pairs of door gods. But I don't know any of the door gods on the side of the painting. The so-called door god, should be Taoism and folk common belief in the door god of the guardian of the door of the gods, in the old days people have their statues pasted on the door, in order to drive away evil spirits and avoid ghosts, guard the house, keep peace, help utilitarianism, descend auspiciousness, etc., is one of the most popular protective gods among the people.

Generally speaking, when someone dies to prevent the soul from coming back, it is supposed to temporarily tear off the door god. But why did the Li family deliberately post two more door gods on the door of the peach house, which was not a door god? Did they deliberately want Old Man Li's soul to linger outside the door?

Li Nuoyi guessed my doubts: "It's weird, I've always thought it was weird." But the custom of Liluo Village has always been like this, and it never sticks to the door god during the New Year's Festival. Our door gods here are only posted when the vigil begins after the death of a person, and the body is torn down immediately after the burial. ”

"Strange customs." I couldn't figure it out, but it was the first time I had encountered such a contradictory custom after I had studied folklore for a long time.

"There's more to the weird places, and you're getting used to it." Li Nuoyi winked at me, "Let's go, go burn some paper money for my grandfather." ”

The sun had set behind the mountain again, and the sky had darkened. The Li family has basically returned, and Li Nuoyi's uncles and aunts looked at me with evasive eyes, afraid of angering me. They're afraid of my guns. Perhaps these old and young minds have portrayed me as an angry and threatening neurotic.

There is no legal responsibility for neurotic homicide, and no one wants to become a dead soul for some reason. Therefore, most of the Li family members who are far away from me no longer dare to stimulate Li Nuoyi with words. I'd love to see where it is.

Dinner was a big pot of rice made by the chef invited from the courtyard, and a total of 6 tables were set, and all the Li family members and the villagers who invited them to help ate it buried their heads in eating. The originally noisy courtyard was strangely quiet during meals, and their quietness was definitely not because of me.

As the night deepened, the people eating became even quieter. Many people looked up at the sky from time to time and sped up their meals.

As I ate, I looked at the busy faces of the people around me, who seemed to be afraid of the coming of night.

Finally, the last person put down the dishes and chopsticks. Yin Yang looked at his watch, "It's not early, except for the people who keep vigil, let's go home early." What has happened in the village recently, everyone is clear. When you get home, keep the door closed and don't go out easily. ”

Everyone answered, and hurried out of the courtyard. The flow of people quickly dispersed, and in the end, only the grandchildren of the Li family remained, plus me and Li Nuoyi, a total of ten.

Yin and Yang bring us together to explain the taboo of the vigil "Today is the second day of Old Man Li's death, and it is the grandchildren who keep vigil. You are all very young, I am afraid that you are from this village, and you also have a lot of precautions that do not know much about the village. I will say it all and hear it all clearly, lest disaster come. ”

It was almost dark, and Yin Yang obviously wanted to leave as soon as possible. His expression was very serious, but the second generation of the Li family, who was also a young man in his twenties and thirties, didn't buy his account too much, and they all looked lazy and didn't listen carefully.

Yin Yang sped up his speech, "After I leave, the boss will close the door of the peach house and will not open until the sun is completely out at seven o'clock tomorrow morning." It doesn't matter what you're doing in the peach house, but you must pay attention to the fact that there is an oil lamp under the table of the Eight Immortals, which is a soul-attracting lamp, and it must not be extinguished. ”

One of them, a girl dressed in a very non-mainstream way, raised her hand and asked, "It's not okay to go out to pee late?" ”

Yin and Yang's face twitched, "No." There is a toilet in the room, and urine is in it. In short, don't open the door, and don't let the soul-attracting lamp go out. ”

"Why bother?" The boy who put his arm around the waist of the non-mainstream girl asked disdainfully.

"This is a tradition since the establishment of the village, and it is said that if it is not done, the soul of the deceased will not be able to return. Wandering ghosts can bring disaster to loved ones. Yin Yang felt tired of talking to these people, and after throwing out these words, he left in a hurry.

Li Jia saw that Yin Yang was gone, a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, his gaze deliberately avoided me, and shouted to the brothers and sisters behind him, "Come in, hehe, it's our turn to keep vigil for the dead old man." ”

When everyone was inside, he closed the peach house and locked the door.

A second before the door closed, a gloomy wind blew from outside the courtyard, causing a wreath and paper to rattle. It was finally completely dark, and the high-wattage white weaving lamps in the courtyard were shaking badly in the wind. The light flickered with the lamp, as if the whole world was unreal.

Li Nuoyi and I found two stools on the right side of the peach house, next to the coffin, and sat down silently. Li Nuoyi looked at his grandfather's corpse and was fascinated, while I kept recalling the taboo of keeping spirits that Yin and Yang said. These taboos are funny. In the very popular customs, there are some unique local folk customs, which are contradictory and complementary, and are indeed worth studying.

After the initial silence, the people in the room began to croak.

One of them shouted at me, "Hey, you, that little white face. Why don't you introduce yourself? ”

I ignored him and looked at Linoi. She came back to her senses because of the roar from the other side, and explained in my ear one by one the members of the Li family and the people in the house, "Grandpa has a total of five children, four boys and one girl. You've seen the eldest uncle, the second uncle, the third uncle and the little aunt, and my dad is the fourth. The uncle and aunt of the Li family, the son of the eldest uncle is called Li Jia, and he is the one who hates me to the bone. The second uncle's daughter is called Li Li, and she is a very non-mainstream one. The third uncle's son is called Li Yuan, and he is the one who wants you to introduce himself. ”

She pointed to a pair of twins not far away, "Their names are Li Shuang and Li He, and they are the children of my aunt and ex-husband." I don't know the rest, it should be the male or female companions they brought. ”

There were ten people keeping vigil in the house, six immediate relatives, and the remaining five were all outsiders. Li Nuoyi had me next to her, and Li Jia sat next to a girl with long hair and a sweet appearance. The non-mainstream Li Li is hugging her boyfriend, who is also non-mainstream, kissing as if no one is around. Li Yuan looked at me, the light in his eyes was a little annoying, and this guy was obviously angry when he saw that I had ignored him for a long time.

Twins Li Shuang and Li He sat tightly together, they were silent, and they didn't seem interested in anything. There were many bruises on the arms of the two of them, as if someone had pinched them out. Breaking out of wealth and single-parent families, children with this status are more or less quirky, are their sexual orientations abnormal, or ****?

I looked at the scars on their bodies and speculated maliciously.

"Hey, my husband is asking you, little white face!" Seeing that her boyfriend was angry, Li Yuan's girlfriend, a beautiful but obviously snobbish girl, hurriedly shouted at me as if asking for credit.

I looked up slowly, "Oh, I've been in the sun a bit lately, my face shouldn't be white." ”

"He looks like a little white face. How much does Li Nuoyi give you a month? Li Yuan's girlfriend asked arrogantly.

I scratched my head, "What's your quote?" ”

She was about to answer, but Li Yuan slapped her on the back of the head, "Idiot, he's playing with you." ”

This kid can't see that he's a little clever. Li Yuan squinted his eyes, and looked at me with a very gloomy look, "I don't care if you eat soft rice, or if you want to cheat money." Don't think that if you climb the big tree of Li Nuoyi, you can jump into the company and hold real power. The company is our Li family, hum, maybe as soon as the dead old man's funeral is over, this dead woman will also be thrown out of the company. ”

His eyes slipped from my face to Li Nuoyi's body, and he looked at his cousin in confusion for a while, and then he looked away without getting enough of it.

I frowned, what do you mean by this guy's words? Sounds like he has some lethal handle in his house, which is enough to turn the company's shares in Li's hand into ashes?

Li Nuoyi was also very puzzled, her face was blue with the **** eyes of her third cousin, and she gritted her teeth and said to me, "This relative has always had intentions for me." Hmph, my parents died, and he almost raped me when I was at my most emotionally unstable. Fortunately, not only did I not succeed, but I finally broke my tail vertebrae. After the entire Li family found out, except for my grandfather, they all scolded me for being a slut. The Li family, there is no good thing anymore. ”

Hearing this, my lungs almost burst with anger. What kind of family is this, as the saying goes, the bottom of the pot is black, and none of the prosperous families are clean. It's appalling that it's probably not clean like that. I grimaced and held back my anger. I was secretly thinking about how to make Li Yuan half-parameric.

Li Yuan saw that I didn't speak, thinking that I was afraid, and proudly hugged his girlfriend Qingqing and I got up.

Li Jia knew that I had a gun, and he gloated when Li Yuan provoked me.

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