Ten years in early autumn, the dog days have passed, even if it is evening, the temperature in Libei Town is still unbearable!

Outside the dilapidated gate of the town, an old house with blue bricks and black tiles built in an unknown age.

"Bad old man, you're still drunk in the middle of July, aren't you afraid that your ancestors and ancestors will pull you down? Every year, I even have to write a paper bag."

At the door of the open hut, a young man of about twenty years old, scolding, sometimes looking back into the house, sometimes bowing his head to write.

I saw a strong and powerful brush on the white paper that read:

During the period of the Zhongyuan Shenghui, the pious preparation of the dark paper was completed, and the capital was eighteen

The ancestors of the East Gate

Hou Xiaozi: East Gate Blue Sky

Hou Xiaosun: The east gate is missing

And the young man who writes is exactly what is missing from the east gate.

The east gate was missing, and after writing the last eighteenth letter, I couldn't help but complain for a while

"Let me write eighteen letters every year, and I can't even remember your own Lao Tzu's name, and I don't know which lonely souls and wild ghosts have taken it away."

Looking at the father lying on the cool bed in the house, Dongmen Que Yi shook his head, carried the written paper bag, and walked towards the river in the east of the town.

After walking for about ten minutes, many townspeople on the riverside had begun to burn paper to worship their ancestors.

Everyone whispered, and occasionally they could hear one or two sentences, the words of worshipping the ancestors. It's nothing more than the words of the ancestors, bless the safety of the family, and bless the success of so-and-so's studies.

The East Gate is about to bypass the crowded area and go a little upstream to melt paper.

"One is missing from the East Gate"

With a crisp shout, the east gate turned around, but saw the beauty of the same town, and He Shuxian, a classmate who had been in the same class from elementary school to university, was calling herself.

So he nodded and smiled in response.

"You girl, what did you shout in the middle of July. Hurry up! He Shuxian's mother taught.

He Shuxian shook her hand helplessly, so she had to turn around and walk towards her mother.

At this moment, it is close to half past seven, when the sun goes down for a long time, the sky has begun to darken, and half past seven is homophonic to July and a half, so at this time, people began to put river lights one after another, and there are some lights floating on the river, pinning on the people's memory of their ancestors and looking forward to the expectation of a better day, which is also a rare beauty of the town once a year.

A gust of river wind blew, which made the east gate suddenly feel cool, and the undulating river lamps on the water surface also fell one or two from time to time, and the river was also filled with fog.

"Strange thing, I've lived for twenty years, and it's the first time I've encountered a foggy situation at night!" The east gate sat down without a moment, but he didn't notice that there were fewer and fewer people on the riverbank, and after a while, everyone muttered and left one after another, but he seemed to be unknown, still staring at the river lamp that was gradually blurred in the fog on the river.

The river lanterns became fainter and fainter, and when they were about to be unable to see clearly, suddenly all the river lanterns floated in the air, one left and one right gathered together in two directions, like a pair of huge eyes, staring straight at the east gate.

Suddenly a cold and faint cold wind came to his face, the east gate was suddenly changed, frightened to the sweat hairs exploded, wanted to stand up and pull his legs to run, but found that his legs were like filled with iron and lead, he didn't listen to the call at all, he wanted to scream loudly, but found that no matter how he shouted, he couldn't shout, the two eyes composed of river lamps were getting closer and closer, the east gate was missing a cold sweat, with the pair of floating eyes getting closer and closer, his pupils were opening wider and wider.

Suddenly, the picture in front of me changed, a little girl dressed in white, sitting on a stone in the river with her head down, the river lamp formed a circle, floating around the stone where the little girl was sitting, the little girl's long hair covered her cheeks on both sides, humming a nursery rhyme and folding a paper boat into the river.

The cold and faint nursery rhyme came:

"Little paper boat, floating, floating! Run with the wind."

"Little paper boat, floating, floating! Waiting for mom to hug."

"Little paper boat, floating, floating! The baby fell asleep."

The little girl looked up as she sang, and smiled strangely at the east gate.

Dongmen's heart beat violently, as if it might jump out of its chest at any moment, and suddenly the fog rose again, and the little girl flickered in the fog, but her strange smile remained unchanged.

Dongmen lacked a pair of eyes to the limit, and his vision gradually blurred, and a sharp pain hit his eyes, accompanied by two streams of heat flowing down his cheeks.

The pain lasted for an unknown amount of time, but by the time he could see it again, the river had returned to darkness, and the figure of the little girl disappeared with the fog.

At this time, the east gate found that he could finally move, and the dim lights of the town in the distance came, and the road was faintly visible, and he staggered in the direction of the town.

When he ran to the town and looked back behind him again, he made sure that the little girl had not followed, and sat down on the ground, and couldn't help but feel palpitations! Whole-body detachment.

"One is missing from the East Gate"

"Ah~ ghost!"

"Hell, you're big, people have been waiting for you on the road for a long time, and I finally persuaded my mother to come out and play for a while, but after waiting for you for half an hour, I haven't seen you come home, so I have to come to you along the road. What the hell are you yelling about! ”

He Shuxian came from the front, looked at the east gate sitting on the ground, and counted as she walked.

"Ah~ Shuxian! There are really ghosts, I saw them all just now. Dongmen was gasping for breath, putting his hands on the ground behind his back to support his body, and looked up at He Shuxian.

"Yo! The top students of Lingnan University still believe that there are ghosts, and your book has been read in vain. ”

He Shuxian looked incredulous, but looking at Dongmen Missing was covered in sweat, and there were two lines of yellow stains in the corners of her eyes extending from the corners of her eyes to her sideburns, she said suspiciously: "Really? ”

Dongmen looked around, beckoned to He Shuxian, motioned for her to squat down, and lowered her voice.

"It's true, before the incident of the little girl just happened, I didn't believe it, it was really thrilling just now! It's horrible......"

He Shuxian looked at him with great interest, and waited for the detailed process of the little girl from appearance to disappearance at the east gate to finish speaking, and then pulled her hair and said:

"I heard my mother say that during the Republic of China, there was a big family in our town, and their lord married a three-room aunt's wife, and the two rooms were all sons, and the two rooms added up to five. Until the old man was fifty years old, the young and favored third aunt finally gave birth to a daughter, and the third aunt, who was already favored, was even more spoiled and spoiled, and at this time, the maids in the house began to circulate in private, about the news that the lord was going to straighten the third aunt, and the main room was childless all his life, and he was old and decrepit. As the year passed, this rumor intensified, this old man spoiled the little daughter and the third aunt too much, all the good things, the delicious ones were picked by the three rooms to get her turn, and now the main room could no longer sit still, so he ordered his nephew to take advantage of the evening to trick the little daughter out of the mansion and take it to the river to drown. ”

Speaking of this, He Shuxian tightened her throat and continued:

"When the little girl's body was found, it was already swollen and rotten, her skin was white, her eyes were wide open, and it was terrifying! When the family returned to the door of the mansion with the stretcher, as soon as he went up a step, the stretcher fell apart, and the body rolled off the stretcher, and after rolling on the ground a few times, facing the sky, the corpse's eyes were blood-red, and then two lines of blood and tears were shed, which frightened the men that no one dared to step forward. The old people said that the little girl was unwilling to enter the house because of her resentment, so she had to find out the murderer, and she had to make the murderer kneel in front of the corpse for seven days and seven nights, and she had to ask the monk to recite the mantra of the dead to overtake the dead, so that the resentment of the deceased could dissipate. ”

"Could it be that this is the little girl I just met? How do you break it? Won't it get stuck with me, will it? Dongmen felt a chill hit him again, and goosebumps appeared on his arms.

"How do I know? You still can't listen to the story? ”

"Listen~ I'll listen! You go on."

"That old woman, the white-haired man who sent the black-haired man, how could he listen to other people's opinions when he was angry and grief-stricken? He personally stepped forward to wrap his daughter's body in a quilt, carried it back to the house, and sent for his brother to come and administer justice and investigate the murderer. But six days later, there was still no clue, and on the same night, a big incident occurred that shocked the whole township. More than 100 people in the old man's house have all disappeared, and the body of the little girl has disappeared, and none of the money and belongings in the family have been lost, and the people in the town have talked about it, and everyone thinks that the ghost of the little girl has come back to ask for her life, and she must have been killed by her own family, so she was so angry that she didn't even let go of her father. “

After the story was finished, He Shuxian deliberately stared at Dongmen Missing One with a grimace, until she scared Dongmen Missing One and jumped up before laughing.

"It's a shame that you're still a man, so cowardly. I won't tell you the stories of these adults deliberately scaring children. School is about to start, and I want to go to school a few days early tomorrow, when are you going? “

"What? Where am I being timid? I'm just ......" Speaking of which, the lack of one in the east gate is already powerless to refute, who would believe the strange incident just encountered? If you refute it again, you will really be empty-hearted.

"Timid still doesn't admit it?"

"Alright! I'm timid, cowardly, right? I'll have to go back and ask my old man, I don't know if he's going to wake up. I went a few days in advance, and the school cafeteria was not open, so how much did it cost to eat out! "The lack of one in the east gate can't help but secretly calculate, the family is so poor, and there is no money to go out and play with female classmates. I can't afford to work a few summer jobs, and the money I earn is only enough for one semester's tuition, and I can pay for my meals and work-study! I just wanted to refuse.

"So that's it! I've been eating, drinking, and having fun all the time these days! He Shuxian seemed to know his constraints, and said tentatively.

All right! Having said that, Dongmen couldn't bear to refuse her kindness.

"That's okay, but I'm a big man who eats and drinks all of you, how embarrassing is a girl! Then everyone AA, all the expenses are evenly shared. "Although the east gate lacks a bit of a man's idea, but you have to do things according to your ability, AA has nothing to be ashamed of, doesn't it mean that men and women are equal? Of course, there must be equality in earning money and spending money.

"No problem, that's it! See you tomorrow morning. He Shuxian readily agreed, after the specific departure time was agreed, she went home in a hurry, and the east gate was missing a person who wanted to send her, but she said I am bolder than you, and waved her hand to send away.