There was a pile of corpses at the door, and there was a female ghost behind me, I was panting, I felt that the axe in my hand weighed a thousand pounds, and I wanted to hold on to it, but it fell off from my hand, I didn't know where to go, and I was cornered. At this moment, the sound of the wooden fish became slow, and then a loud shout was heard: "Withdraw!" ”

The sound landed, and the corpse was suddenly disturbed like the previous black-and-white TV signal, and it disappeared after a few flashes, was it all an illusion? I looked back at the room, and the red-jacketed ghost was gone. It was like a nightmare, I slapped my face hard, and I still didn't wake up.

"Stop fighting, it's not a dream." A guy slipped in through the back door.

I hurriedly picked up the axe on the ground, slowly touched the switch and turned on the light, a young man in his twenties was holding a wooden fish in his hand, he was wearing a black T-shirt and black shorts, but under his feet were white classic Converse sneakers, with a gray cloth bag hanging in front of him, and a broken iron sword on his back, plus he was thin and short, this look was very strange.

"You're human?" I asked.

"Nonsense! Of course, you can also call me Master Zhang. After saying that, he threw the wooden fish and mallet on the table, "My mouth is dry when I chant the scriptures." He picked up half a bottle of beer from the fridge and took a big sip, only to realize that something was wrong when he swallowed it, and he snorted into the sink for a while, I thought this guy was a little retarded.

"When was this?" He asked, frowning.

"It's been a few days, and there's something in the fridge that hasn't been opened." I say.

He opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of beer, then bit the cap open, spit out the window, sat on the sofa, and drank it all in one gulp.

He looked at me after drinking, pointed to the stool next to him and said, "You...... Sit down! ”

"You're calling this home." I say. I took out the cigarette in my pocket, took out one and handed it to him, he waved his hand and said, "Don't smoke, it hurts!" ”

"I saved you, drink your bottle of wine, and you can't bear it?" He asked, then stood up and opened the refrigerator, bringing out a bowl of leftover rice and some braised cabbage with pork belly, "I'm hungry, I've been on the road all day, and I haven't eaten anything." ”

"I'll give you a hot one!" I turned on the fire and poured the leftovers into the pot one by one, monitoring his every move at all times, and he seemed to be relaxed and took another bottle of wine out of the fridge and opened it.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? I asked.

"My name is Zhang Peng, a prodigal in the rivers and lakes, I came to you because the boss said that someone might want to get you, let me protect you."

"Who's your boss?"

"Have you heard of Ouyang Xiong?" He asked, walked over to me, looked at the leftovers in the pot, and swallowed.

"I've heard that you're one of his men?" Ouyang Xiong is in Angelica Village tonight, this guy should come with him.

"That's definitely not, I'm a dignified master, how can I be someone else's subordinate, it's just that he paid for me to come."

"What happened to those ghosts just now?" I put the meal on a plate and brought it to the table.

I waited for him to answer my question, but he looked like he had just come out of the hunger prison, his mouth was full of food, and he didn't have time to take care of me, so I had to wait patiently for him to finish eating.

"It's a little trick called spiritualism, and these ghosts are all in mass graves. However, it has no offensive power, and it is purely used to scare people, because their corpses are still lying honestly in the grave. He said, burping, pulling a piece of paper to wipe his mouth, and he finished a large plate of fried rice in less than five minutes.

"Do you know any of these people?" He asked, looking up.

"There are two?" I'll reply.

"Oh, the kid and the woman?" He asked.

"What woman? My adoptive father and a small child are buried there. "I'm a little puzzled, the woman he's talking about can't be the red cotton jacket.

He looked at me bewilderedly, then nodded, and didn't ask too much. After drinking the wine in the bottle, he picked up the wooden fish and prepared to leave, I thought that in the middle of the night, it would be impossible to leave people to sleep here, so he didn't say anything.

Zhang Peng opened the door, walked to the door, stood there and glanced at the right, then turned back and asked, "Do you raise a little ghost?" ”

"What do you mean? What raise imps? "I asked angrily, I'm scared when I hear it, this guy has a problem with his brain, he was almost scared to pee just now, how do I know what to raise a little ghost, how can I have this guts.

He hooked his finger and told me to go out, I turned on the street lamp outside, and he walked up to the camphor tree and said to me, "What is this?" ”

"O camphor tree!" I say.

"Camphor fart, the barrier tree is almost the same, apart from you, has anyone seen this camphor tree?" He asked.

This made me confused, and no one really saw it, at least no one mentioned it. "It's just a camphor tree, others may not notice, and I don't have many people visiting the door."

"This tree of yours grows in the middle of the ancestral hall of the people, and it has a strange shape, I guess you have never seen it in this big ravine. The location is so obvious that it is impossible for no one to see it. You are the only one who sees it, do you know why? Zhang Peng asked.

I think what he said is quite right, and I don't know the bottom in my heart, Jiang Chumei is so curious and has never mentioned it to me, and that Charles, who has been here several times, has sat at the door and waited for me, he has a strong interest in my life experience, and he didn't ask a word, which is a bit abnormal. I hesitated and asked, "What...... Why? ”

"Because this little ghost just wants you to see, blind and blind, not seeing the truth." He said, in a firm tone, and I had to believe it.

"Didn't you see that then?"

"To tell you the truth, all I saw was a dry camphor branch, with a small snake underneath, and the rest were all inferred by my years of cultivation and internal strength through the appearance."

His words sent chills down my back, did others see just a dry branch? I sit in the doorway every day admiring the strange green camphor trees, and still admiring the wonders of nature.

"This tree saved my life." I said, and then I told me about that night, and of course about the child's body.

"I've heard about the corpses. It seems that this little ghost is really grateful for his kindness, but this kid stays here every day and relies on you to play, and he can't be reincarnated. ”

"What then?" I'm a little panicked, Wang Xiaofeng has been dead for almost two years, so because of me, delayed him to be a new person?

"Go and grab that little snake and hold it in your hand, and I'll do it for him." Zhang Peng pointed to the tree and said.

I'm quite afraid of snakes, but for Wang Xiaofeng's sake, I can't be so selfish, so I went back to the house and got a flashlight, shining under the camphor tree, and I didn't see anything at all! "I didn't ...... I didn't see the snake! ”

Zhang Peng walked up to the camphor tree, took out a talisman from his pocket, lit the fire, held it between his fingers, and recited the words in his mouth: "Taishang Edict...... Broken ......"

Strange to say, the ashes fell on the tree, and the leaves slowly withered and yellowed, and after a while, a green and thick camphor tree shrank into a dead branch, and a small yellow snake lay there motionless under the branch.

"Isn't it okay to just go overboard?" I asked.

"He is here for you, of course he needs your comfort, you can give him a sense of security, he is too young, and the peace of mind can obtain transcendence." Zhang Peng said.

"Will he ...... Bite...... Bite me? "I'm really afraid of snakes, and I get goosebumps on my body.

"Just try it." Zhang Peng said angrily.

I took a deep breath, squatted down slowly, and slowly stretched out my hands, the little yellow snake suddenly stretched out its head, so frightened that I quickly retracted my hand, looked back at Zhang Peng, he sighed and shook his head. I observed, the little snake just looked at me, and did not mean to attack, so I mustered up the courage and stretched out my hands again, the little yellow snake actually obediently crawled into my palm, the feeling of itching in the palm of my hand, this feeling made my whole body numb.

The little yellow snake rolled up in my palm, stretched out his head to look at me, and stretched out the snake letter to gently lick my palm, this touch is really amazing, if I didn't know that he was Xiaofeng, I would definitely throw it away and run.

"Is it okay?" I asked.

"What's the hurry, wait until I'm done reciting the mantra." After Zhang Peng finished speaking, he took out the wooden fish and recited a mantra to me with a grunt, "Save the others, rush to overlive, save the others, rush to overlive......"

He finally finished reading, and the back got faster and faster, and he gurgled as if he was not in Chinese and could not understand it.

"Alright, let him go!"

I put the little yellow snake on the ground, and it swam obediently towards the grave, and when it was about to burrow into the grass, it stopped and looked back at me.

"Xiaofeng, go ahead, brother, there is fate in the next life, let's see you again." I say.

After the little yellow snake disappeared into the grass, I looked at the dead branch and was a little reluctant. I looked in the direction of Xiao Feng's departure, took a cigarette from my pocket and lit it.

"What's wrong, reluctant?" Zhang Peng asked.

"Yes, he's been with me for almost two years in this hellish place." I say.

"It's a good thing for people and ghosts to have affection, but well, it can't prevent other people's children from being reincarnated, this life is not good, I hope he can cast into a good family in the future and grow up safely." Although your fate is bumpy, you are much better than him, but you are an adult, as long as you live, there is hope. ”

I nodded, Zhang Peng put the wooden fish into the cloth bag, and looked up at the sky, "It's not early, go to bed early." ”

"My adoptive father doesn't know if he was reincarnated." I asked.

"Then you have to give money, I can go and see tomorrow."

"How much?"

"Seeing that you are a good person, I will give you wine to drink, so I will charge you 500 yuan."

"Okay, see you tomorrow." I was about to enter the house after speaking, but Zhang Peng dragged me and asked, "It is said that you have something strange on your back, can you let me see it?" ”

"I'm afraid it scares you."

"Just kidding, I, Master Zhang, have traveled to the ends of the earth, and I like strange things all my life, will they scare me?"

I thought he seemed to have some ability, and I wanted him to see if there was a way to crack it, so I went into the house and took off my clothes. He squinted and walked behind me, looked at it for a long time with a flashlight, took out a magnifying glass from a cloth bag and studied it for a long time, reached out and touched it, retracted it as if he had seen a ghost, and quickly wiped his hands with a tissue.

"Damn, what are you doing, I've never seen it in my life, it's a little disgusting."