I still have palpitations from the cold feeling I had last night.

When I got up early, my father went out, and the watermelon rind at the door had been packed, and I told my mother that I had met my grandfather last night and asked her if she should burn some paper money.

This is a tradition, there is a saying in the township, that it is said that the living people see the dead relatives, if the relatives ignore you, it doesn't matter, if the relatives ask you for something, that is, you have not worshiped him for too long, but if the relatives come to chat with you affectionately, then you will be unlucky, the light is in danger, serious illness and disaster are likely to be encountered, and the most dangerous is the kind, to pick you up, the old generation said, this is to live to the end, the relatives under the ground will come to pick you up in advance.

But not to mention the specific attention of the dead in this dream, only to say the general way to deal with this kind of thing in the countryside, the first degree of the dream is generally to burn incense and paper, the second kind of also to set up chopsticks to pour water and rice, to the third kind of people to ask the goddess to call the soul, that is not only to burn incense, burn paper and set off artillery, but also to set up chopsticks to pour water and rice is also one of the parts, but also to kill chickens and set up wine and food to entertain the invited goddess.

What about the fourth? It's the same as the third one, as for the consequences, leave it to fate, the king of Hades wants you to die in the third watch, how dare you stay until the fifth watch.

But in our family, my mother is the most unbelieving, I didn't go into details, and I'm not too afraid, compared to my father in my family can also do these things to conjure spirits and see the feng shui calculation schedule.

Since I was two or three years old, my family began to sell things like incense, candles, paper money, etc., and in the early days, people made these things by hand, all by hand, and all by the family themselves. For example, rune paper or something, it is more particular, the real rune paper should be drawn with cinnabar with rooster blood to be useful, and dad will not draw a lot of runes every time, at most five or six, such as my grandfather even only use the first three drops of each rooster blood, each time you need rune paper to be drawn, one or two at a time, there are few rune paper saved.

The paper money sold at home is folded by my mother with yellow paper, and my father uses a station to type it out one by one, because the paper money sold outside is missing a few pages, and most people don't care much about these details, but in fact, after these paper money is burned, what the ghost gets is also incomplete. The sacrificial candle is poured with high-temperature melted paraffin wax onto the fine bamboo, and then until it solidifies, and then continues to be poured until the candle becomes the required thickness.

Ning Yu didn't get up in the morning, my mother put a cauldron on the candles, and a large pot of dissolved paraffin wax was burned on the fire, my mother asked me to look at the house outside, and as soon as I came out, I saw the master and Mr. Meng's village party secretary and others walking towards him, among which Yi Ye was the oldest, but he walked like a fly, leaving several people behind, seeing them, I suddenly remembered what day it was.

To be honest, the first seven soul nights are such things in every place, but there are not many people who really believe in and do it according to tradition, not to mention in big cities, let's just say that Goya, a small place, treats the first seven soul days differently, first of all, the simplest I have ever seen, it is a coincidence, and it is also the first seven of the little granddaughter of the Wu family.

This first seven days was originally the last day when the new ghost went home, for fear that he would not leave because he was reluctant to leave his family, so he had to go out early in the morning of the first seven days to avoid people from the underworld, and he could not go back until night, and the township called it "hiding and avoiding". Of course, it's not enough to just dodge, but you have to put out all the stoves, and put grass with heels or yellow thorns in the stove, this is to tell the ghost that there is no one in the house where you used to live, and even grass grows in the stove. At the same time, doors and windows should be locked, and yellow thorns should be placed at each entrance.

This is also to tell the ghost that you should stop being nostalgic for the world, your home, and your relatives have long been in the world.

For those who are not exquisite, it is okay to go through a basic procedure like the Wu family, but when it comes to the people who are exquisite, in addition to the preparations mentioned earlier, they also have to grind the burned coal ash into fine powder, and sprinkle the fine ash on the table, stool, and floor at home with a sieve.

When I went back at dusk, I had to invite two gentlemen who were in charge of white things, and after opening the door, one gentleman immediately rushed into the door with a lit cannon, and the other gentleman followed closely behind, first taking a kitchen knife at the door to smash a bowl, and then the two of them slashed their brains at home with a fierce and vicious slash, expelling the evil spirits left in the house.

Today is the first seven of the two little boys of the Tan family, and Dad was invited away by the Tan family early this morning. It was the time to hide and avoid, and after they came over, the master called out his mother and left after saying the truth.

It turned out that he came to the door to call someone to go to the village committee for a meeting, because he was going to the village committee for a meeting, my mother didn't worry about leaving Ning Yu alone at home, and called him to get up. When we arrived, there were already a lot of people sitting under the office, and we found a bench to sit down, surrounded by acquaintances and relatives.

The village chief held up a loudspeaker and said, "Good afternoon, everyone! ”

"Because the matter is more urgent, I won't talk nonsense with everyone, everyone knows about the death of people in Mawohu in the past few days, and the impact of this kind of thing on everyone is still not good, because of some coincidences, everyone is also worried about whether things will continue to happen, here. The first thing we want to talk about is that we still have to believe in science, but we can't ignore everyone's safety issues, everyone is also in a relationship with relatives, and nothing is good, so for everyone's safety, we still have to think about the way we should think about it, everyone looks at what I said is reasonable, right? ”

"The village chief, you just say that what we need to do, donate money when we should donate, and contribute when we should contribute, it must be human life that is important." Leaning on the podium and entering the front group of young people, he took the village chief's words.

Mom led Ning Yu, I was standing next to me, my father and grandfather, Teacher Meng, the village party secretary, and a few powerful people on the street were not at the meeting, and I didn't know where they were.

"Ahem...... Ahem. The village chief coughed twice, then let out another breath and said, "My next words may be a little difficult for everyone to accept, if there is any problem, you can wait for me to finish talking before discussing." ”

It's really hard to say, the village chief paused again before continuing to speak: "The older ones should still remember the incident of the Huo family thirty years ago." ”

Everyone was silent for two seconds, and the atmosphere around them began to become a little tense, and some people over forty had solemn or panicked expressions.

Suddenly, a young man stood up and said with a smile: "If you have something to say, what's the matter with stumbling?" Chief. ”

"Hahaha......" There was a burst of laughter, but most of the laughers were young people in their twenties and thirties, and there were only a few.

The village chief did not speak, and when the young men laughed to the point that they found it boring, they quickly died down.

The village chief then continued to say to the loudspeaker: "I don't care what you think, but like thirty years ago, this is not an ordinary matter, and it is not something that everyone can solve by pooling money. ”

It was quiet below, and I could hear someone around me asking some elderly gentlemen and ladies in a low voice, "What the hell is going on, I am anxious to hear it." ”

Soon, several old men stood up, and one of the oldest women, the oldest, asked tremblingly, "Village chief, you speak first." ”

The village chief continued: "In fact, this situation happened a long time ago, when more than 20 people died in a row, and the tree on Yangjiapo was white for several months, and now it is the same as the situation at that time, the day before yesterday, Uncle Ning and Teacher Meng went to Yangjiapo and found that the tree was really completely white. ”

……

"Let's see if everyone in the family is there, and the children are not at home?" There was a sudden commotion below, calling, looking for someone.

The village chief continued: "We can see from the remaining village records that this solution is somewhat difficult and inhumane, so we decided to make some improvements after discussion, of course, we still plan to wait, if no one has an accident today, then this matter will end here, we have people to guard the lake at any time, in case someone still has an accident, then we hope that everyone will cooperate with our work, of course, we will ensure the safety of everyone, and will not let everyone take risks." ”

"Cooperate with us, we will definitely cooperate." The people below replied loudly.

The village chief continued to explain to everyone how to cooperate when the time comes: "According to the records of the township, we need to make a big sacrifice and ask the mountain god to bless us, and then we need the daughters of each family between the ages of ten and eighteen to participate in the sacrifice and worship the mountain god, and then choose a girl to marry the mountain god as a bride according to the divination......

"How is this possible, branch secretary, are you joking, let's not talk about whether there is this mountain god or not, if you are selected as the bride of the mountain god, then what will this girl do in the future?"

"That's it, although it's a girl's baby, it's also your own doll, who is willing to use it like this."

…… Several adults, both men and women, all of whom were not very good, stood up and agreed.

"Okay, don't worry, so I said it, we made changes, you listen to me first, now is a society under the rule of law, and the girls who choose to sacrifice will not be harmed, we only go through one process, every child is possible, and we have no way, even if I choose my girl, I will send her to her." This is everyone's business, not me alone or our village committee's business, although these things are not very good for children, but there is no actual harm, and after this matter passes, everyone will give me this rotten in their hearts, and now what we have to do is to work together to get through the current difficulties, in the future, these girls are the life-saving benefactors of our whole village, I promise, in the sacrifice, the selected girl, as long as she is willing to study, can be examined, and the tuition fees until the university will be borne by the village in the future, how about it? ”

"After we sent her into the White Python Cave, we prepared all the daily necessities for her in the cave, and let her live in it for a few days, all with the same meaning, and we ensured her safety on the mountain during these days. After three days, we will take her back, and for these three days, we will also count 300 yuan a day as a reward, so do you still have any difficulties? ”

Seeing that most of the people below were a little moved, although they whispered and exchanged heads, no one rose up to refute or sneer contemptuously.