There was sun outside and she couldn't go, so she had to stay in the house, but grandpa hit her twice in a row, grandpa stood next to her, she shivered from time to time, grandpa also saw it, held a cigarette gun behind his back and said, "I have something to go out, you two stay well, Chen Tian, if she is hungry, bring some incense and candles to her." ”

I nodded, and when my grandfather left, I stood with them staring at each other, unable to say a word. I saw that she was very aggrieved, and my grandfather used to beat me, and he would always comfort me with food, and I thought that this method would also work for her, so I went into the house and took out a lot of incense and candles, and lit a dozen or so candles, and the whole house was full of smoke.

After about twenty minutes, she began to hiccup, and then secretly looked at me to see if I heard it, and although I did, I pretended not to hear it, and when the incense was burned, I saw that she was a lot more bloated, and asked her, "Do you want more?" ”

She quickly shook her head, and then asked me, "Can you lend me an umbrella, I want to go back." ”

I saw that the sun was too big outside, and I was worried that something would happen to her when she went out, but it was not good to keep her, after all, it was not a parent, and it was not like to leave a female ghost at home, so I hesitated again and again, went into the house and took an umbrella for her, and she walked away with an umbrella.

Soon after, dogs barked in the village, and the dogs seemed to be mad, but it didn't take long for them to stop.

Grandpa didn't come back until noon that day, I told grandpa about the girl's return, grandpa only simply grateful, didn't say anything else, grandpa went into the stove house to cook on the fire, I followed up and said, "Grandpa, her parents are coming to me at night......"

Grandpa said, "People are afraid of ghosts for three points, and ghosts are afraid of people for seven points, so if they come, they will come, but they will not come." ”

I see that my grandfather is very calm, and I don't have much to worry about, after lunch, I can't stay idle in the house, and I explained to my grandfather and ran out to go around, at that time there was nothing to entertain in the countryside, the whole village had two fourteen-inch black and white TVs, one was broken, and the other was silent from time to time.

And in order to save electricity in the countryside, it is rare to turn on the TV to watch, and it is generally open at night to watch for a while, unless there is a particularly good-looking TV series during the day, it will be turned on, once it is turned on, the whole house will be crowded with people, and I am naturally among them.

When I was watching TV, the originally sunny day suddenly thundered and rained, and in our case, this is called easterly rain. The owner of the TV probably wanted to save some electricity, so he said, "It's thundering, I can't watch TV, it's raining outside, so I can't go back quickly, and I can't go back when it's big for a while." ”

After turning off the TV, I braved the rain to go home, only halfway through, the light rain suddenly became heavier, and I had to pass through several households to go home, and every household in the countryside had a land temple, which was to dig a small hole in the slope and build a stone slab, which was the so-called land temple.

The countryside believes in these, thinking that the wind, frost, rain and snow are all managed by the land, and if you want to have a good harvest, you have to serve the land. However, there is a land temple in the whole village, but my family does not have it, in the words of my grandfather, no matter how big the land is, can it be bigger than the king of heaven? The land can't control that.

When I passed a land temple in the rain, a man with a black umbrella walked up, about thirty years old, I always felt a little impression, I seemed to have seen it before, but I couldn't remember who it was, so I ignored him, when he walked past me, I missed a section, and suddenly turned around and stopped me, "Eh, are you from Chen Huaiying's family?" ”

I turned around and nodded, "Chen Huaiying is my grandfather." ”

He smiled, walked over and put the umbrella on my head and said, "You saw it when you were a milk doll, you have grown so big, why is it raining." ”

I stared at him, thinking back to where I had seen this person before, and said, "I forgot the time." ”

After thinking about it for a long time, I always felt that I had seen this person, but I still couldn't remember where I had seen it, he sighed, and it happened that a big black dog ran by not far away, he looked at the black dog, and then asked me, "Do you know who dogs like to bite?" ”

"I don't know." I shook my head and said.

He smiled and said, "People who like to bite and fear them, as long as people are afraid of ghosts, there will be a smell on their bodies, as long as they are smelled by dogs, then dogs will definitely chase and bite people, and the more they run away, the more obvious this smell will be, and the more fierce the dog will chase." Just this morning, a female doll passed by you with an umbrella, and someone added this smell to that umbrella, and the female doll was bitten very badly. ”

I was shocked, and said to myself that he was not talking about the female ghost who came to my house, because when she was leaving, I heard the sound of a dog barking. Without waiting for me to speak, the man took out an umbrella from his back, and I didn't even see where he was hiding.

He asked me, "Do you recognize it?" ”

"This is my family." I hurriedly said that this umbrella belongs to my grandfather, and I usually put it away, and I saw this umbrella on the desk in the morning, so I gave this umbrella to the girl.

He narrowed his eyes and smiled, "It's your family's easy to do." Let me ask you another question, have you ever seen someone who died in the struts? ”

"Nope." I was amazed at how he kept asking such strange questions.

He said, "People die less, because people know whether they are hungry or not." But rabbits and ghosts don't have this concept, they don't have the concept of hunger, as long as there is something in front of them, they can eat and eat until they die, just now, I saw a female doll who was almost strutted to death, all swollen, I thought she was greedy to eat too much at first, but when I asked, someone lit a room of incense and propped her up like that, but fortunately I rescued her. ”

I felt so much like he was talking about himself, and although he had a smile on his face all the time, I gradually felt a chill, reached out and snatched the umbrella from his hand, and said, "I'm going home." ”

He smiled and watched me run in the direction of the house, and only after I ran for a while, he shouted at me, "Someone came to me to complain, saying that there is a little baby in your village who blasphemes the ghost, deliberately uses incense and candles to tease the ghost, and then uses an umbrella to tease the dog to bite the ghost, you take the umbrella, it means that you admit this matter, blasphemy is a big mistake, I will come to you later." ”

I shuddered when I heard it, and looked back, where was there a figure behind me, I looked left and right several times, but I didn't find the person, it is impossible for a person to disappear out of thin air, and then look at the footprints in front of the land temple, someone has just stepped on it, and when I saw this, I was so shocked that I ran away.

Before I got to the house, I suddenly remembered who that person was, I hadn't seen him, but I had seen his photo, I had gone to the neighboring village with my grandfather to do things before, and I saw a black and white photo next to the shrine, and the man I saw just now was the person in the photo.

But when he died, I had just been born, so it's no wonder I couldn't remember who he really was.

I've heard my grandfather talk about him before, but I can't remember this person's name, I only know that his surname is Zhang. But I have heard a lot of things about him, some of them are still very mysterious, many people in the village are talking about him, saying that this person used to be a complete lazy man, during the day when others went to work in the field, he slept a lot, did nothing, was criticized by many people, rural people do not work in the field have no food, but his family does not lack anything.

Until one day, another person came to the village, saying that he had come to look for him, and after listening to the evaluation of him by the villagers, the person expressed dissatisfaction on the spot, and the person who came to find him was also a well-known lazy man. The lazy man said something in order to explain.

He said that he was a poor man in the yang world, helping the land lord below, sleeping on weekdays, and going down to assist the land lord in judging the case, and the land lord in his mouth was the person I saw just now.

At that time, no one believed him, and asked him why he could be this yang yin cha, he said that the exam, there were not enough people below, so he paid attention to the living people, and arranged exams for the living, as long as he passed the exam, he could be a direct post, and he went down directly to serve after he died.

Someone asked him where he took the exam, and he said that it was the City God Temple, and he could explain the layout of the City God Temple clearly, such as the stone statue about Zhuang Miao inside, and a couplet, which still reads: Have a heart for goodness, although good is not rewarded; If you do evil without intention, you will not be punished for evil.