Lin Kai was woken up by the phone, and when he saw that nearly three hours had passed, the electronic screen in front of the carriage showed that there were still two stations left for him to get off the train.

After sleeping for so long, he still felt groggy and his mind was not working well, and he guessed the previous experience...... Let's call it an illusion, let yourself have a problem with your brain.

The call came from his mother Wu Xuan, and Lin Kai slid the answer button and said, "Mom, I still have two stations!" ”

"Well, your uncle and I are waiting for you at the station and call me when we leave the station. Did the road go well? ”

A familiar voice came from the earpiece, and Lin Kai suddenly felt extremely relieved, and responded, "It's okay!" ”

Halfway through the graduation trip, I received a notice that my grandfather had passed away suddenly, and I asked him to go directly to his uncle's house for the funeral. Wu Xuan set off from Donghai City one step ahead of him, and had already arrived here in the morning.

Lin Kai's voice was a little weak, Wu Xuan heard the abnormality, his heart tightened, and he asked, "What's wrong, you don't seem to be well?" ”

"It's okay, I just haven't slept well lately." Lin Kai didn't want his mother to worry, so he dealt with it casually.

Wu Xuan was silent for a moment, and sighed: "I still want you and your cousin to keep a vigil for your grandfather at night, it seems that you can't count on it!" ”

Wake? That is the third watch in the middle of the night guarding the coffin in the mourning hall!

Lin Kai, who had just experienced a strange incident, immediately felt empty in his heart, but he still said: "It's okay, Mom, don't worry, I can do it!" ”

From the moment he was sensible, he did not allow himself to show cowardice in front of his mother.

He lifted his spirits, wondered if he would find a pharmacy to buy some refreshing Chinese patent medicines, and then asked where there were evil things...... By the way, I have a charm!

He touched his heart through his clothes, and the charm was pressed by his clothes, but it was still well attached to his body.

At 4:05 p.m., Lin Kai arrived at the station.

As soon as Lin Kai came out of the ticket gate, he saw Wu Xuan waiting outside and a middle-aged man dressed in the countryside, it was his uncle Wu Shengsong, a man who claimed to be strong in martial arts and more powerful than the tiger heroes in history.

"Xiaokai, I haven't seen you for a few years, this is bigger than my uncle!" Wu Shengsong patted Lin Kai's shoulder with a smile and took his suitcase.

"I was going to call your cousin to pick you up, but your mother didn't control her emotions well, so my uncle had to take her out slowly."

Lin Kai saw that his mother, who was originally graceful and temperamental, was haggard, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she knew that her grandfather's death without warning hit her very hard, so she couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart, hugged her and comforted: "Mom, don't be sad, grandpa has a spirit in the sky, and I don't want to see you like this!" ”

Wu Xuan's already controlled emotions broke out again, crying to death in Lin Kai's arms. This cry, her emotions were almost cathartic, and then she pulled Lin Kai to follow Wu Shengsong to the van outside.

As soon as he got into the car and sat down, Lin Kai couldn't help but sleep, even if Wu Xuan was too sad, he could see that something was wrong, and asked with concern: "What's wrong, why are you in such a bad state?" My eyes are black! ”

Wu Shengsong glanced at Lin Kai from the upper rearview mirror and said, "Your health is so poor, have you been lazy all these years and haven't practiced the Bajiquan taught by your uncle?" ”

"No, I didn't have a good rest, and I had a nightmare on the way!" Lin Kai muttered.

"Then you hurry up and get some more sleep!" Wu Xuan hurriedly said.

There is still nearly an hour from the high-speed rail station to my uncle's house, there is a section of county road, and the longer road is the country road.

After vigorous construction over the years, the countryside has been paved with cement roads, although it can only ensure that two cars can pass and avoid, but it will not be bumpy and difficult to walk like the previous dirt roads, and it will be muddy when it rains.

In a stable state, Lin Kai soon fell asleep on his mother again.

The van passes through several towns and into a small village on the edge of the mountains. Wu Shengsong's home is a newly built five-story building near the edge of the village, and as soon as he entered the village, he faintly heard the music of the funeral ceremony.

The car stopped in a vacant lot not far from home, Wu Shengsong opened the car door, and the rhythmic gong sounded so that Lin Kai woke up from his deep sleep and sat up straight.

He is now sensitive to the sound of "dang" from time to time.

Wu Xuan was taken aback by her son's reaction, all her sadness turned into nothing, and she asked with a worried face: "What's wrong, are you having nightmares again?" ”

Lin Kai heard the lively rituals outside, took a few deep breaths, and said with a bitter smile: "No, I just remembered the nightmare I had before." ”

He pulled the car door to help Wu Xuan get out of the car, and saw that his cousin Wu Jiaming had received the news and came over.

Although the two had not seen each other for many years, they were not in the mood to say anything at this time, and after a brief greeting, Wu Jiaming helped Lin Kai pull the suitcase from the side door to the guest room to place it.

"Let's go and incense your grandfather first!" Wu Xuan pulled Lin Kai to the front door. As soon as he returned to the main road, Lin Kai saw a Dharma altar set up in the open space at the door, and several people wearing mage coats were chanting scriptures.

It's a mage again, I hate gowns!

Lin Kai's body stiffened slightly, especially when he saw that the mage who was presiding over the Dharma was holding a Dharma flag in his hand, and he was swaying from time to time, he felt uncomfortable for a while, and his eyes were aimed at the other party's neck unkindly.

After the mage finished singing, he played the instrument next to him.

"Money, money, money...... Banknotes are ......"

The lively scene did not alleviate Lin Kai's reaction at all, but instead swallowed dryly, and wanted to turn around and leave.

Before the incense of my grandfather entered the hall of the house, there was the mourning hall. Lin Kai stared at the mage vigilantly, always feeling that the other party had a sly smile hidden on his face, he cautiously bypassed the altar, entered the room, raised his eyes and saw a big red coffin, and immediately froze in the door.

The coffin was dark red as blood, and the word "Lay" with black characters on a white background at the top was enlarged in the eyes, as if rushing to the face. Lin Kai couldn't help but think of his experience of being carried into the coffin by the evil spirit, and the sticky and rancid feeling was so fresh in his memory that he almost threw up.

Wu Xuan found that Lin Kai was stiff and his face was terrifyingly white, thinking that he was too sad, so he said: "Grandpa cared about you very much when he was alive, and often thought about you, asking about your school and life. Come, incense to grandpa! ”

With a grunt, Lin Kai swallowed his saliva, he only heard the words "often thinking about you", and only felt that the temperature around him dropped suddenly.

Wu Xuan lit the three pillars of incense and handed it over, Lin Kai took it mechanically, and inserted it stiffly on the temporary incense burner made of banana wood. When Wu Xuan also finished the incense, he couldn't wait to pull her out of the house.

Call...... The air outside is so fresh!

At this time, he would rather face the mage outside than stay by the coffin for an extra second, and even wondered if the night wake-up mission was postponed.

It's too much of a shadow!

There are a lot of people outside the house, the whole village here has a surname, they are all of the same clan, no matter whether it is red or white, the whole village will help, and at this time the white banquet is being prepared. Some ignorant children were running around, which made Lin Kai feel better.

Wu Xuan was dragged away by some sisters, Lin Kai rubbed his swollen head, and he could still remember when he came back with his mother when he was a child, he once followed his cousin and a group of bear children to the cemetery in the mountains behind the village at night to play, pretending to be a ghost and hide and seek.

But now...... He shook his head.

Only the ignorant can be fearless, and Lin Kai can no longer be regarded as an ignorant person.

He touched his heart and found that the only remaining talisman was still attached to his body, and he felt a little more confident in his heart.

Some girls of all ages pointed at Lin Kai from a distance, they were all Lin Kai's cousins and cousins, and Lin Kai was indifferent to this.

Wu Jiaming walked out of the house, came to Lin Kai's side, smoked a cigarette and signaled to him.

Lin Kai shook his head to indicate that he would not smoke, so he lit it in his mouth, took a long breath, spit out a pillar of smoke, and said: "I heard that you are traveling, and it is a pity to suddenly come back halfway." ”

"It's nothing, I'm walking alone!" Lin Kai said, "Grandpa has been practicing martial arts for a long time, hasn't his body always been good, why did he go all of a sudden?" ”

"I don't know, five days ago, I went out in the morning and was still alive, came back at noon to eat, habitually took a nap, and never woke up until the evening." Wu Jiaming was depressed and took a hard puff of his cigarette.

Thinking of his grandfather's love for him since he was a child, his eyes were red and his heart was uncomfortable.

Lin Kai was silent for a long time, letting his drowsy brain digest the meaning of his cousin's words before he continued to ask, "Hasn't the body been examined or tested, why are you in a hurry to hold a funeral?" ”

"In the past five days, the morning test has been completed, and the reason has not been found, so I have notified my aunt and you. Tomorrow is the first seven, and according to our custom here, we must be buried, so you can accompany me to wake tonight. ”

"Good!"

Wu Jiaming was silent for a while, and it wasn't until he finished smoking a cigarette that he signaled to the mage who was presiding over the Dharma over there, and said in a low voice: "That guy said that grandpa encountered an unclean evil thing. ”

Lin Kai turned his gaze back to the altar, just as the Dharma was over, the mage holding the Dharma flag turned his head and looked at Lin Kai. Lin Kai couldn't help but jump out of the corner of his eyes, as if he saw a sly smile on his face again.

"Bang...... Boom...... Bang ......"

After a round of cannons and firecrackers, the three people next to him who played suona and knocked other magic weapons put the guy in their hands down, drinking water and discussing something.

Lin Kai's eyes fell on the three portraits hanging on the wall next to the altar, on which were painted the sacred in an unknown way, one was written about Buddhism, the other was written about Legalism, and the other was blocked by a temporarily hung light bulb, and he couldn't see which one it was, he guessed that it should be Taoism.

There was an iron pestle on the incense case, and there were Taolin swords and magic flags, and Lin Kai couldn't tell which camp this group of mages belonged to based on the knowledge he gained from the novel. In fact, he knew that these people had other names, called Mr. Yin and Yang, or Mr. for short, and most of them were part-time jobs from villagers in various villages.

He looked down and saw two newly made paper figures, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but jump again.

Except for the intact heads, the two paper figures were exactly the same as the ones he saw in the hallucinations on the high-speed train, with bamboo strips as bodies and colored paper as clothes, and they were placed on the side of the incense table.

Nearby, some people are still making houses, sedan chairs, and carriages out of bamboo strips and colored paper......

Wu Jiaming noticed Lin Kai's gaze and said, "These are funeral goods bundled with the ritual package, and they are also handmade, which is really backward." I bought my grandfather a full set of mansions, luxury cars, mobile phones, computers, and household appliances from the funeral company in the county......"

“…… You just said that my grandfather encountered an unclean evil thing? Lin Kai reacted sluggishly and pressed the fast rewind button for his cousin.