Chapter 4 Burning Paper

Experiencing two such bizarre suicides in a row made us feel very depressed, and when we returned to the dormitory, all four of us sat in their beds without saying a word.

If the deaths of Mr. Liu and the senior are not enough to collapse our psychological defense, then the words of the senior's girlfriend and the security uncle are the last straw that crushes the camel.

Looking at the ugly faces of Dawei and Lin Qian on the opposite bed, it is estimated that Luo Xiaoxiao on the top bunk is not much better.

I rubbed my slightly chilled forearm and said, "The deaths of Teacher Liu and Senior are too weird, not like a normal suicide, there must be some connection between this, what do you think?" ”

No one spoke.

After about two minutes, Lin Qian spoke: "Could it be that Teacher Liu came to ask the senior for his life..... When I was a child, I heard people say that the water ghost drowned in the river died too miserably, and the resentment was too heavy to be reincarnated, so he would pull people passing by to be reincarnated for the dead ghost. The more she spoke, the more frightened she became, and at last her voice began to tremble.

"Xiaoqian, don't scare yourself, according to what you said, a few of us were closest to him at the time, so don't you have to accompany Liu Zi... Teacher Liu go down. Da Wei leaned out half of her body from the top bunk and said to Lin Qian, and her sentence of "Liu Ziheng" that she almost spit out was forced back by her with "Teacher Liu".

Lin Qian sighed, and I raised my head to meet the gaze of Shang Dawei.

"Didn't you still talk about wild immortals at noon, why did you change your words now." I asked her a little more seriously, but I was just trying to get a reason from her not to believe it, after all, what had happened in the past two days was really scary for me.

Who knew that she was a paper tiger at all, and said to me with a sad face: "Ancestor, don't mention it, I'm now full of fox spirits and weasel spirits as soon as I close my eyes, it's too crazy." ”

I was so frightened by her words that I shrank into the quilt, and suddenly realized that Luo Xiaoxiao hadn't spoken since she returned to the dormitory, which was not like her style, so I hurriedly fed her and asked her what was going on. Her tone was calm, but the words she said revealed the fear in her heart.

"Xiaoqian, you said that the angry ghost can't be reincarnated and will find a substitute for the dead ghost, then I kicked Teacher Liu, will he ...... to me" She didn't continue halfway through her words, but we all understood what she meant, indeed, if Teacher Liu really wants to find someone to be a substitute for the dead ghost, I'm afraid that Luo Xiaoxiao will be the first one.

"Why don't we get some paper money or something to burn for Ya, so that Ya can be accommodating." Dawei suggested.

I just wanted to shake my head, but I didn't expect Luo Xiaoxiao and Lin Qian to agree with her idea.

"You're not, we're college students, educated!" I was speechless at the ridiculous idea of the three of them.

Luo Xiaoxiao climbed down from the top bunk and sat on the edge of my bed and said to me: "Lan Lan, it's too evil, if we really encounter something and regret it, it's too late, I still want to honor my father, you think about how mad that senior of the law department died." ”

I knew she was scared, and I didn't say anything more when I looked at her pleading eyes, after all, just burning paper money wouldn't hurt anyone.

When she saw my acquiescence, she asked Dawei, "How do you burn this thing, do you understand?" ”

Da Wei nodded and replied: "I have seen the family burn paper, let's go buy some ingots paper money, wrap it in white paper, write Teacher Liu's name on it, and wait for no one to go to the front of the library at night to secretly burn it for him, and say good things to him and beg him to let us go." ”

Just listening to what she said, I already felt chills all over my body, and I ran to the library in the middle of the night to burn paper money, and I didn't scare people's courage.

"Can't you burn it during the day, but do you have to do it at night?" Lin Qian muttered quietly.

Da Wei said a little impatiently: "Scared silly, have you heard of ghosts coming out in the daytime?" As soon as she said the word ghost, several of us shuddered unconsciously, is there really a ghost in this world?

Luo Xiaoxiao motioned for her not to continue, waved her hand and said, "Okay, I'll go out to buy paper money now, let's go burn it tonight, so as to save you from worrying all day long." After saying that, she got up and took the door and left, but only a few seconds after leaving, she returned.

"Lan Lan, you go with me, I'm afraid." I had no choice but to be dragged out of the dormitory by her.

Out of the school gate taxi ran a long way to find a shroud shop in a certain community, we both entered this kind of place for the first time, I always felt a little scared, hesitated in front of the door for a long time before finally mustered up the courage to push the door and walked in.

The small space was filled with all kinds of funeral supplies, the red and green paper products made people feel a fear of death, I always felt that the pale paper dolls in the corner were staring at me with their godless eyes, and just when we were nervous by the strange atmosphere, a man stepped out from behind the curtain in the back room.

This man must be the boss, he is short and fat, with an unfinished cigarette in his mouth, and he looks very dramatic in this environment full of paper wreaths in sportswear.

"Beauty, what do you want?" It's not a local accent, it sounds a bit like Northeast dialect.

Luo Xiaoxiao didn't want to stay here longer, looked at him and said, "Paper money, ingots, the kind burned for the dead, and four lighters." ”

The boss burst out laughing when he heard her words, and joked at us: "Beauty, I have all this for the dead, and the living don't dare to use it." With that, he turned around and took out two black plastic bags from under the counter and placed them in front of us.

"A pack of paper money, a bag of ingots, a total of seventy yuan, a lighter is counted." We had no interest in his sense of humor, so we paid for it and turned away.

After the dormitory door was locked at eleven o'clock that night, a group of four of us jumped out of the toilet window on the first floor with the prepared things, and one of the guardrails outside the window could be removed.

The campus was empty after eleven o'clock, and by the dim streetlights we walked through the path in front of the dormitory building and headed straight for the library in the East End.

The library was still closed, and the cordon in front of the door and the seal on the door were faithfully guarding the silence here, and I couldn't help but think of the horrific images that happened on the third floor yesterday, and gently shook my head to get them out of my brain.

I followed them all the way to the back of the staircase at the main entrance of the library, the door of the school library was on the second floor, extending from the staircase on the first floor to the doorway, the back of the long and wide staircase was just enough to hide.

"That's it, there's no one here. Hurry up and evacuate after burning. Luo Xiaoxiao whispered.

We squatted down and put the things in our hands on the ground and began to prepare to complete tonight's task, Luo Xiaoxiao took out the lighter prepared in advance, grabbed a few pieces of paper money from the bag and lit them and threw them into the basin they brought, the paper money was very thin and very dry, as soon as it came into contact with the tongue of fire spit out by the lighter, it burned violently, and the orange-red flame instantly rose up and illuminated the slightly frightened faces of several of us, just two or three breaths between the few pieces of paper money in the hand almost completely turned into a cloud of ashes.

"Sister, say something nice, don't burn it." Dawei reminded.

She glanced at Luo Xiaoxiao, and saw that she seemed to be a little open, so she took out the paper money and said to herself: "Teacher Liu, you are a character with a head and a face, don't worry about our hairy children, you can go to Sijiu City to inquire, we have always been good boys who help the old lady cross the road, can you stumble on me." ”

I saw that the more she talked, the more outrageous it became, so I hurriedly pushed her and said, "Say less, maybe people don't like to listen to your Beijing film tune." ”

She pursed her lips but ignored me, and ran to the side and continued to mumble quietly.

I thought to myself, let's burn it, hurry up and go back after burning, if it is discovered by the security guards, it will not be criticized by the whole school, and I also grabbed a handful of ingots and threw them into the brazier, but I couldn't say what I should say.

We didn't feel bad for a long time, although there was a lot of smoke from the burning of paper money, but it was not choking, but we forgot that the basin brought out of the dormitory was made of plastic, but it only burned for six or seven minutes, and there was a black smoke from the bottom of the basin, because we didn't have the tools to extinguish the fire, we could only watch the bottom of the basin burned out of a big black hole, and the four people were choked by this black smoke and coughed.

Just when we were at a loss, a man's coughing voice suddenly came from our ears, and the four of us farted and urinated instantly, could it really be that Mr. Liu appeared......

The coughing sound was too clear, I was absolutely sure that it was not an auditory hallucination, we were so frightened that we threw the paper money ingots in our hands into the brazier, and we didn't care about any embarrassment, several people scrambled to beg for mercy: "It's all for you, Mr. Liu, you have a lot of spare us." ”

Who would have thought that we threw out too much paper money at this time, and we actually crushed the fire in the pot at once, how can we honor Mr. Liu when the fire is extinguished!

We quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll give you another point, point it." As he spoke, he used a lighter to re-count the paper money in the pot.

"No need, I have received your filial piety, but I died too unjustly, I am so lonely down there, I need to find a few people to come down and accompany me." A man's whisper sounded in his ears, and the voice sounded a little gentle and magnetic, but the content of the words was creepy.

It's really manifested! I was almost scared to scream, the four of us looked at each other and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, Luo Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she almost cried, kowtowing and begging for mercy: "Teacher Liu, I was wrong, I shouldn't have kicked you, you spare me, I will accumulate virtue and do good deeds in the future, and on the fifteenth day of the new year, I will give you incense and burn paper, and kill chickens and sheep for you during the New Year's holidays." "I don't know if she really plans to burn incense paper in the future, but I know that she will definitely not slaughter sheep.

"Hahaha...... Hahaha......" A deliberately suppressed laughter came into our ears, and several of us were stunned, and then reacted that we had been tricked, and stood up and was about to find where the neurotic pervert was hiding, when suddenly a black figure jumped down the stairs overhead, the stairs were more than one floor high, but he fell down very easily, he stood firm and walked a few steps towards us, and through the dim moonlight, he saw that it was a short-haired man dressed in black.