"Your face, old sir." Zhou Yan asked fearfully, pointing to Mr. Yin Yang's face.

"Xiao Yan, how does your father teach you usually, don't talk nonsense." Dad hurriedly apologized to Mr. Yin Yang: "Children are not sensible, don't blame sir." ”

Mr. Yin Yang's smile felt gloomy no matter how he looked at it, and he waved his hand: "It's okay." ”

After speaking, he looked at Zhou Yan again, and the left eye was motionless, as if he was using his life to see his appearance clearly: "Child, your name is Zhou Yan, right?" ”

Zhou Yan nodded.

Mr. Yin Yang rolled his eyes and touched his head: "You belong here, one day, you will still come back here!" ”

Zhou Yan felt very inexplicable. Even his father is a little baffled.

"You're interested in my face?" Mr. Yin Yang asked, and he pointed to his face with his right hand: "This is called knowing the destiny of heaven." Yin and Yang have always been leaking heavenly opportunities, which is not tolerated by heaven and earth. Therefore, the mantle of our family has been passed down through generations, and the facial muscles will die, and the eyeballs will rot in the eye sockets, which can only be dug out. By the time I lose sight in both eyes and my face is broken, I'll be gone. ”

Zhou Yan said strangely: "Then old man, why do you still do this business?" ”

"If you don't do it, you can't do it, this is our life." Mr. Yin Yang shook his head and sighed constantly: "Can't escape, can't escape." Kid, you can't escape. ”

Zhou Yan was even more inexplicable. At the age of six, he was still too young to understand what Mr. Yin and Yang meant. Even, until now, he didn't quite understand.

"On the seventh day, the day the ghost gate is closed, I will keep vigil." After Mr. Yin and Yang said this, he left with his apprentice.

Because the funeral was to be cremated on the eighth day after seven days, my father and mother asked the company for a few more days off, and took him to play around River City for a few days. The river city is quite beautiful, and there is a park on the embankment by the river, and the greenery is good. However, unlike in big cities, because it is Halloween, people can be seen burning paper money for their ancestors everywhere day and night.

Usually, his parents are very busy, and he has not had much time to spend with him, and these days may be the happiest days for Zhou Yan in many years. As the saying goes, happy days are always the days when you don't feel like time slipping away.

Six days have passed in a blink of an eye.

At six o'clock in the afternoon of the seventh day, Mr. Yin Yang and his apprentices arrived at the courtyard of the Zhou family on time. Even with ice packs, the lowest 29-degree weather in River City still made the corpse of my aunt who had been left for about ten days emit a foul smell. Mr. Yin and Yang asked his apprentice to take the paper talismans he had drawn and paste all the doors and windows of the hall.

The dense yellow spells made people's hearts tremble.

"What do they want to do?" Zhou Yan asked his father.

"I don't know." Dad touched his head: "Recently, I heard from a few cousins that there seems to be something wrong with your aunt's body." I was always moving around at night, and if I hadn't tied it with straw, I would have gotten up a long time ago. ”

"Deceiving people, you are all deceiving children, I'm not afraid." Zhou Yan shrunk his neck while saying that he was not afraid: "That straw is so fine, if the corpse can really move, it can be broken with a single movement." ”

"I don't know the specific situation, who knows, haven't I been playing around with you kid these days?" Dad pointed to nearby relatives: "But my cousins and cousins don't look very good, it seems that there must be something wrong." ”

Zhou Yan turned his head to look and saw that the faces of the distant uncles and aunts were really not very good, cloudy, and some even had layers of fear.

It seems that there really is something wrong.

Mr. Yin Yang lifted the white cloth on his aunt's body, looked at it with his only remaining left eyeball, and showed a solemn expression on his stiff face: "Are the four major sacrifices ready?" ”

"Ready." With a wave of her sister-in-law's sons, the relatives carried the steamed whole chicken, a whole duck, a whole lamb, and a whole pig into the hall and placed them on the altar.

Mr. Yin and Yang looked up at the sky. The sun had sunk in the west, and even the afterglow had sunk into the distant mountain streams, and the sky was silent and dark, and the gloomy darkness enveloped River City. The Zhou family's compound in River City, no matter how many people there are, still gives people a sense of coldness and weirdness.

At least Zhou Yan subjectively thinks so.

He felt that there seemed to be something different about the Zhou family's compound today.

"Get us something to eat, and a big bag of salt. Mixed sea salt, not refined salt. Mr. Yin and Yang checked the contents of a large bag he had brought with him. His words made the atmosphere around him tense even more.

Although Zhou Yan didn't understand, what did this Mr. Yin and Yang want salt for.

"Oh no, in River City's folklore, salt is used to deal with evil spirits and zombies. Could it be that something is really wrong with my aunt? Dad frowned.

Mom spoke: "It's a shame that when you were still in college, what era were you?" How many years have you been away from River City, and you still believe this? ”

Dad laughed awkwardly: "The customs of each place are different, and if you believe it, you don't believe it." I ...... when I was a kid."

"Come on, come on, I don't want to care about what happened when you were a child. Tomorrow as soon as your old man is cremated, we will leave that night. There's an important meeting the day after tomorrow. Mom said.

"Okay, okay. Tomorrow after dinner, we'll drive away. Dad was silent for a moment: "The old man is also dead, and the last reason to go back to his hometown in the future is also broken." Alas, I don't belong here at all. ”

Mr. Yin and Yang and the others prepared everything and instructed the apprentices to enter the hall and sit and wait. He walked around the courtyard a few times, pasted some notes on the places that looked uncomfortable, and the moment he was about to enter the hall, his legs over the threshold stopped suddenly.

He turned around, looked at Zhou Yan in a daze, stretched out his finger and said, "Let that kid keep vigil with us." ”

"No way!" Zhou Yan's parents immediately refused.

Mr. Yin Yang looked at the other relatives of the Zhou family: "You have thought about it, so many strange things have happened to the old man." Today is the most critical day again, the ghost door is closed, and everything is easy to say. If you can't close it, it's a bit of a hassle. ”

"How troublesome?" Some relatives immediately asked.

"It's troublesome." Mr. Yin Yang's one-eyed swept over everyone in the courtyard of the Zhou family: "I'm afraid that those surnamed Zhou will die." ”

Everyone was taken aback, and pulled Zhou Yan's parents aside to talk about it, and they didn't know how many promises they made and what agreements they reached. In short, in the end, the parents finally agreed.

Zhou Yan didn't know what had happened during the six days of the vigil, and he followed Mr. Yin Yang into the hall in a daze, and he only felt very interesting.

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