Yin soup rice. This eerie-sounding name was given to her by her grandmother.

Grandma said that she was yin and always able to attract ghosts, and if she found this surname, she could avoid ghosts.

Tommy was okay with this until he was five years old, but after the age of five, she didn't agree with his grandmother's explanation.

Because since she remembered, she heard others call her grandmother 'Yin Granny', like her grandmother's surname is Yin.

Once, a strange thing happened in the village, a mother and daughter who were begging to come here, and they lived in a dilapidated temple at the south end of the village.

A broken bed was in a corner of the ruined temple, but strangely, every time the daughter was going to lie down on the bed to sleep, it always felt like someone was kicking her in the forehead.

It's not very heavy, but it's always itchy when you touch your face, and sometimes you feel it when you're walking around the house.

Not only daughters, but mothers sometimes feel this way.

At first, they thought it was their nervousness, so they didn't pay much attention to it, but over time, as soon as they walked into a corner of the house, they felt a feeling of being touched, but as soon as they left the room. The feeling is gone.

Finally, one day, the somewhat depressed mother finally knocked on the door of Tommy's house.

When Granny Yin stood in the courtyard and saw her, she said, "Your face is pale, have you encountered something unclean?" ”

The depressed mother cried, "We mother and daughter live in a ruined temple, I don't know what it is, as soon as we enter that broken house, we feel that someone in the house is gently kicking. We need to stay there and we can't leave. ”

As she said this, she began to choke. The appearance is very pitiful.

"Go and see whatever." Granny Yin paused for a moment before saying this.

At that time, Granny Yin took Tommy Yin and followed the down-and-out lady to the ruined temple.

The ragged woman did not enter, but crept through the window and looked in. Tommy was also standing in the doorway, tiptoeing his head to look inside.

Granny Yin walked into the house alone, picked up a kitchen knife on the side, and waved it in the air. Then he quickly took out a yellow talisman paper from his sleeve, blew slightly, and quickly pressed it on the ground, and then lowered his head to the ground and said, "You go where you should go, this is not the place for you to stay." ”

Then she walked out of the room softly, and said to the ragged woman who was trembling outside, "Well, there won't be another such situation." ”

The woman thanked her so much that she almost didn't kneel.

When he walked out of the broken temple and was about to reach his yard, Yin Tommy walked a few steps quickly, walked to his grandmother's side, and said, "Grandma, you seem to have been slashing in the air with a knife just now?" ”

"Yes, there is a passer-by in this ruined temple who hanged himself here, his feet hanging in the air. When they lived in this room, they could touch his feet when they came in and out, and it was strange that they didn't feel kicked. ”

"Huh?" Yin Tommy was taken aback and said, "Why didn't I see it?" ”

Could it be that grandma's yin qi is also heavy, and it is easy to provoke ghosts?

Every time I asked my grandmother, she always avoided answering, or she just closed her eyes and pretended to sleep, not knowing what she was thinking. If you ask too much, you will gently touch her forehead.

Tommy didn't know what it meant.

It was probably a summer when Tommy was five years old. At about seven o'clock in the evening, it was just getting dark, and you could still vaguely hear the sound of those mountain people carrying hoes and singing mountain songs down the mountain.

At that time, the mother-in-law was sitting and napping in the house, in fact, most of the time she was in this state, sitting in the house with her eyes closed at night and doing nothing.

Tommy was anxious and walked to the yard to pee. In the past, she was always like this, when she had urine, she went out by herself, squatted in the yard to find a convenient place to solve it on the spot.

Granny Yin has always lived in a bungalow, but in fact, the mountain people here live in this kind of house with a yard. Pull open the door and you'll see the lights. The faint light in the house can shine a little bit into the courtyard, a very narrow little light.

Because he was holding back so much, he walked out the door, and Tommy took off his pants to settle it. At this time, it was not far from her, probably only a few meters away. There was a little girl standing there, dressed like a flower dress with two ponytails.

But the face seems to be unclear. She was standing not far from her and kept jumping.

It looks like she's about the same age as her. Tommy's family rarely comes to play, and if it weren't for his grandmother's errands, there would be basically no one to hang out. I have never had such a big child.

Tommy forgot about his peeing at the time. At that time, he said happily, "Who are you?" What is your name? How did you get into our house? ”

At the time, Tommy didn't know that there was a concept of locking doors, and her grandmother always gently pushed the simple wooden door of their house shut, and then entered the house.

Tommy thinks she's pushed the door in too.

"My name is Apricot, and I live next to your house, the first house in the third alley. Can you come and play with me tomorrow? ”

Since she was sensible, Granny Yin almost didn't let her go out, and if she had to go out, she was led by Granny Yin, where did she know what the third alley was, and where was the first one?

But as long as she can sneak out, she is still very happy, and she is playing with this child. So she nodded happily and said, "I'll go over to look for you early tomorrow morning?" ”

"Tommy. Who are you talking to? Grandma suddenly opened her eyes and asked in a stern voice. Tommy had heard such a sound almost for the first time. Although Grandma didn't love her very much, she hadn't spoken to her like this before.

"I ...... I...... I ......" Tommy turned to look at his grandmother, who didn't know what to say. She was afraid to say it, and her grandmother wouldn't let her go out to play, so she didn't say anything for a long time.

When she looked again, the little girl was gone.

I don't know how the little girl got out, she didn't hear the door open, but the little girl just disappeared.

After she finished peeing, she deliberately opened the door, only to hear a 'squeak', isn't this door not making a sound?

By the time she turned back to the house, Grandma's eyes were already open.

She didn't know how old her grandmother was, and she didn't know if she had any other relatives besides her. Grandma's walnut skin condensed into a wrinkled face. Only the eyes and nose are distinct features on the whole face.

Her eyes were dark and bright, without a trace of cloudiness, and if it weren't for such a face, everyone would really mistake her for a young man.

Her nose is high and straight, and it stands out on her features. Maybe it's the combination of her nose and eyes that makes her look a little distant, making it difficult for people to approach.

Tommy was afraid of her, always afraid of her.

Although she never hit her or scolded her, she just had an indescribable palpitation for her.

"Who were you talking to in the courtyard just now?" Grandma asked again.

Tommy was good at school this time, she would rather lie and cheat on her grandmother than lose this little friend who ran to her house to play with her, in fact, she didn't even see the girl's face clearly.

Tommy shook his head vigorously and stammered, "Grandma...... Grandmother...... Did you hear the door open? I drove it, and I was talking to myself. ”

Granny Yin didn't know if she believed it or not. She just stared at Tommy's forehead, then slowly closed her eyes and muttered something in her mouth again. After that, his face was calm, as if nothing had happened.

Tommy didn't sleep that night. She always had that girl in her mind's head. What kind of face would she be?

White, black, handsome, ugly......

She imagined countless faces, but none of them felt appropriate.

The next day, before dawn, she got up. Gobbled up some breakfast, found an excuse and ran outside.

"Tommy, where are you going?" Granny Yin still shouted sternly in the back, with great intention to stop her.

Tommy stopped, then turned to look at her, with a strange look on his face, as if he was very embarrassed, and pointed outside, "Grandma, the little bird on the big locust tree at the door has laid a nest of eggs, I want to see if it has become a little bird?" ”

Granny Yin didn't say anything more.

Tommy was happy, did this mean that her grandmother had agreed?

So she nervously didn't say anything, opened the door and ran out. This was her first time going out, but she didn't know where the third alley next to her house was. But as long as she runs out and doesn't get lost, she's happy.

She ran outside like a wild horse.

She didn't know how many alleys she had walked through. Just when she was standing at an intersection and didn't know where to go. Suddenly, I heard someone crying, as if it was in pain.

"Come back, my apricot, apricot."

Tommy was stunned as he stood here, what was going on?

I saw many people carrying a small coffin, and the group walked towards the back hill of the village crying.

There is a small picture on the coffin, on which is a little girl, dressed in a colorful shirt, with two ponytails, and a sweet smile, about her age.

Isn't this the girl she saw last night?

Tommy was shocked, she stood there, grabbed an old man and said, "Grandma, I saw her last night, and she went to my house to play." ”