They gradually approached me and my grandfather who were lying on the ground. The eyes of the two ghosts beating gongs and drums in front of them were all black, and there was no white "color". The eight ghost eyes of the sedan chair are all white, and there is no black "color". The palanquins, the lanterns, the horses they rode on, and the knives they held were all made of pieces of paper, not real materials.

They came to a halt in the middle of a fork in the road. The sound of gongs and drums also stopped. A hoarse voice came from the sedan chair: "What's unusual outside?" ”

A ghost on a paper horse looked around and replied, "Nothing unusual." ”

The voice in the sedan chair said, "Okay, let's go faster." Leper Hazi is waiting for me to play chess. ”

I know Leprosy, not only me, but many people here know it. He lost his parents at a young age, and when he was a few years old, he grew a leprosy, and then he somehow recovered, and his scalp is still as bright as a light bulb. It may be that this disease hurt his head, and he has been crazy all the time, and he doesn't even know his uncle and sister-in-law. People called him "Leper Hazi". "Hazi" in this area means stupid fool.

He lived in a thatched hut two hundred meters past the Longwan Bridge. He doesn't know how to do any work, and he relies on the people around him for food and drink.

Later, I asked my grandfather why the ghost official wanted to play chess with Leper Hazi. Grandpa said that generally sober people will be scared when they see ghosts, but fools will not. So the devil was willing to be with him.

The sound of gongs and drums sounded again, and the sedan chair started. They are drifting away from us. My grandfather and I got up.

Grandpa stood still. I urged, "Let's go." ”

A match was struck, and Grandpa lit a cigarette and said, "Liang Zai, let's go back to Hong's house." Let's go over there in the next few days and figure things out. ”

"Didn't you say you wouldn't be involved?" When I say this, I'm actually curious.

Grandpa said: "The ghost official who just passed is called Broken Ni Ghost." It is a ghost official who is in charge of ghosts in the world, and it usually does not appear easily. But there must be a more important reason why it came here. I guess it has something to do with the female ghost of the Hong family duan. The monk of the Xiangyan Temple may not be able to subdue the female ghost, otherwise the ghost of Broken Ni would not appear in person. ”

"Is it that serious? This Broken Ni Ghost may have just come to play chess with Leprosy. Are we overthinking? "I say this because I want to comfort myself. According to ancient books, the Broken Ni Ghost is an official of the Punishment Department of the Netherworld, which is equivalent to the police chief of the Netherworld. If it is an ordinary imp trouble, it has its own imp of the Punishment Department to deal with it, and if it is a ghost at the level of "police chief" to deal with it personally, it is definitely not an ordinary imp.

I said to my grandfather, "Let's not get involved in this." Our magic is not particularly powerful, so let's leave it to the monks and the Broken Ni Ghost to deal with. Besides, I still have to take classes. ”

Grandpa looked at me blankly for a while, and said slowly, "Okay, okay." Let's go back first. ”

My grandfather promised me not to participate, but when I was listening to the lecture in the school class, he went to Hongjiaduan alone. Later, when I grew up, I realized that it was the female ghost who had not fought with him that made him particularly concerned about this matter. People grow up with the passage of time, and their height and appearance change with them. But ghosts don't grow old over time.

For example, when we miss a deceased relative or friend, we only think of his appearance when he died, not of his appearance after years of change like ourselves. Although we ourselves are no longer what we used to be.

"It's a ghost 'prostitute', formerly known as a Qinglou woman, and she is good at seduction." The first thing the monk said after coming to Hongjiaduan was this.