"If you are haunted by a ghost, will it leave traces?"

I looked at my hands and asked curiously.

"How do I know? Besides, haven't you ever been in a cave with a ghost? Anyway, you're from here. ”

Without saying a few words, the fat man was out of line, and I gave him a blank look and looked at the strangulation marks on my arm.

Indeed, Daba's divination was fulfilled, and there was nothing good about coming back along the way. But seeing that I was about to arrive in Shanghai, my heart was still settled.

At noon, the train arrived at the station, and everyone said goodbye.

After returning to Shanghai, it has been very peaceful, and I have not dreamed again at night, perhaps because the passer-by ghost who haunted me has gone. My family is busy helping me find a job, but I am not in a hurry at all, I hide at home every day and read the book "Strange Tales of the Mountains", which contains many earth beasts and ghosts that make me more and more fascinated, and I always feel like I exist in another world.

After about half a month, it rained lightly one day, and the fat man came to my house with an umbrella. After entering the house, I exchanged a few words with my parents and then entered my room.

"It's been half a month since you kid disappeared, I thought you went to the border again."

I said with a smile. But seeing that the fat man lowered his head, there seemed to be something wrong with his expression, so he restrained his joking expression and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Do you have any money there? Lend me something. ”

The fat man muttered, he is a good-looking person, and his family also has a foundation, and I never expected that such a thing as borrowing money would come out of his mouth. Having him borrow money from me seems to have gotten a lot worse.

"I haven't gone to work yet, and I don't have much money, so if you need it urgently, I'll ask my parents for something. How much do you lack? ”

I asked.

"About five or six hundred thousand."

He muttered again, this sentence almost didn't scare me to death, when I was young, my salary was only a few dozen yuan a month, and there were not even tens of thousands of yuan in China! As soon as the fat man opened his mouth, he asked me to borrow five or six hundred thousand, which my parents couldn't take out even if they were willing.

"Why do you want so much money? Is it gambling? Or are you playing with women? ”

I asked in surprise.

"Damn, am I such an unreliable person?" The fat man was anxious all of a sudden, in fact, I also knew that he was a very upright person, and he just deliberately provoked him to tell the truth.

"It's my uncle." The fat man shook his head and said, "He owes a wagon of goods to the Soviet Union, and now the red-haired man is chasing him for debts, and his family is also trying to help him, but he is still short of five or six hundred thousand yuan." Hongmaozi said that if he didn't give this money, he would not be able to do business in the future, and he would have to send someone to get him. ”

The fat man's uncle has always been a rich man in my eyes, mainly because he got a train line from the Northeast to the Soviet Union in the early years, specializing in running merchants on both sides, and he can earn tens of thousands of dollars by pulling a wagon. But there are unforeseen circumstances, business is always good and bad, this time his uncle wanted to fight big, and he didn't want to suffer a big loss because of a big order.

"Forget it, I also know you don't have any money, I'll think of a way again......"

The fat man shook his head, and when I was about to leave, I suddenly remembered something, and shouted, "You wait." ”

The fat man was stunned, and I held "Strange Tales of the Mountains" and said after a while: "Do you remember Lee Dun-joo? ”

"The gnome?"

The fat man asked suspiciously.

"I've got his phone here, he's in a special business, and he might be able to get us some money. Five or six hundred thousand is estimated to be hanging, but it is good to get a few thousand. ”

I didn't quite understand what I said, and the fat man also didn't understand it.

"Do you remember the ancient temple we went to when we were kids?" I said in a low voice. In fact, he was afraid that his parents would hear it, the fat man was stunned for a moment, and then said, "You mean the one next to Li Jiadu when you were a child?" What are you doing with that ancient temple? ”

"Li Dunzhu should be the one who collects this kind of things that have anything to do with ghosts and monsters, the ancient temple next to Li Jiadu has been empty, and it is not clean inside. If we can get something out of it and sell it to Lee Dunzhu, it shouldn't be a problem to get some money. ”

I made my words clear, and the fat man frowned, then shook his head like a rattle, and whispered, "No, no! None of us have the ability of Daba, what if it's really not clean inside? Don't put your life on the line. ”

"Hey, you're scared now, I've been reading this book recently, and it says a lot about the characteristics of ghosts. I don't think we're going to be so miserable, even if we really meet a ghost, I'll die together! What are you afraid of, otherwise you will watch your uncle die at the hands of the red hair? ”

I instigated a few times, the fat man has been with his uncle since he was a child, and he lowered his head and thought for a long time before saying: "That's it, I'll go to the ancient temple with you early tomorrow morning to see the situation, if it's too evil, forget it." ”

The two agreed on a fixed time, and the fat man went back.

In fact, I also hid my selfishness at that time, this time it is also a temple, and the temple is blessed by the Bodhisattva, is it possible that I can still die in the temple? Second, I watched so many strange earth beasts and ghosts in "Strange Tales of the Mountains", and I itched to verify and verify, there are not many supernatural places in Shanghai, and the ancient temple is also one of the choices that I don't know much.

At noon the next day, when the sun was at its best, I made an appointment with the fat man to meet in Lijiadu, and the two of us brought a few rolls of red cloth, and the fat man also put on his grandfather's Buddha bead bracelet.

"I called Lee Dunzhu yesterday, and Brother Zhu said that as long as the things are good, you can take the ticket. He also said that if the thing is of high quality, it is possible to sell it for tens of thousands. ”

I made up the second half of this sentence by myself, but when the fat man heard it, he felt like he had been beaten with chicken blood, and he immediately came to his senses.

"Let's go, let's go over and have a look."

Lijiadu is the name of a village in rural Shanghai, there is a small river next to the village called Lijiahe, most of the people in the village are surnamed Li, and it is not far from the primary school where we studied. In the past, after class, a group of kids often came here to swim and fish. Later, the fat man moved to the city, and I lived in public housing, so I lost these opportunities.

The old temple is in the farmland next to the Lijia River, a lonely one, I don't know when it was built, it looks very dilapidated, and one of the two lions at the door has been half broken. But the sign is still there, called Xuanming Temple.

I walked to the front of Xuanming Temple one after the other, surrounded by farmland, I stood at the door, looked through the gap in the wooden door, the temple was empty, there was no one, the whole temple was not big, the whole was square, and I could see a Buddha statue standing on the temple in the middle.

At that time, the Bodhisattva, the Buddha couldn't tell what the gods looked like, but he just said, "No one!" ”

"Then let's go in."

The fat man stood behind me, stretched out his hand and pushed the wooden door open, I didn't stand firm and stumbled into the temple, just wanted to stand up but didn't know what was going on, my brain was confused, and my body was a little fluttering. There was a feeling like heat stroke, and he shouted, "Fatty, I can't fucking stand it." ”

The fat man hurriedly came forward to help me, and I tried to take a step forward, but my legs were weak and boneless, and I kept shaking my head and shouting, "No, fat man, help me out." ”

After the two of us got out of the Xuanming Temple and sat under the big tree, I gradually eased up, the weather was not very hot, it was not long after the beginning of spring, I squatted on the ground and the fat man handed over a cigarette, I smoked and said: "Damn, there must be something wrong with this temple." As soon as I entered, my feet went limp, and my bones trembled. ”

"Don't have anything unclean in there......"

The fat man said hurriedly.

I thought about it for a moment and replied, "Not necessarily, if there's something unclean in there, then why are you?" Or do you have more yang energy than me? I think maybe the bodhisattvas inside aren't very happy......"

"What then?"

Even if the fat man is in a hurry to use the money, it is impossible to offend the Bodhisattva, I didn't think of a reason after smoking, I turned around and shouted: "Forget it, go back first, wait for me to ask Brother Zhuzi to see if he has a way." ”

It was not good to be out of school, and I went home that night, and the Internet was not developed at that time, and there were people who knew how to do it in society, but I couldn't meet it, and I asked the beads, and I couldn't say why.

I went to bed full of doubts, but at night, something strange happened!

It's been so long since I got back from the train, and I thought that the incident of encountering a passerby was over, but I never expected that Zhengxiang, who slept that night, would suddenly hear messy laughter. It seemed to be two voices, one low and hoarse, and the other sharp and harsh, and I opened my eyes vaguely and looked over, and was immediately awakened by fright!

Right in front of me, two heads floating in the air, were the two passers-by I bumped into on the train, a terrible old woman and that eerie child!