When I was in high school, I learned about albinism in biology class and wondered if the woman had albinism in the first place. The biology teacher said that people with albinism are afraid of light and have poor eyesight. However, according to my recollection, not only did the woman talk to the crooked Taoist priest in the sun, but her eyesight was also amazingly good, better than my grandfather's.

That time, she stood in front of the ruined temple of the crooked Taoist priest, saw the plaque of our junior high school from a distance of 100 meters, and said to several of our students: "Look, the nail on which the plaque is hanging in your school is about to break, so ask the teacher to change the nail." ”

We can only barely see the words "XX Middle School" written on the plaque, where can we see the nails? When we entered the school gate the next day, we saw that the plaque was crooked, the nail on the left was broken, and the whole weight was hanging on a nail on the right.

Because Chen Shaojin's creditors came from all over the world, as they spread the word by mouth, the fact that his grandfather could catch ghosts soon spread all over the world. For a while, many people encountered strange things and couldn't solve them by themselves, so they brought a piece of meat or a bag of fruit to their grandfather for help. As long as the farmland is free, Grandpa generally does not refuse people, except for cheap things such as fruits and cigarettes. I will still help if I am busy, and I will never want anything valuable.

No, a guy came to Grandpa. This person is none other than Hong Danian, the village chief of Hongxu Village.

Grandpa invited him to sit down and talk well. The village chief didn't sit down, and insisted that his grandfather accept a cloth bag he brought first.

Grandpa had no choice, took the bag, took out a pack of cigarettes and put it on the table, and said, "I can't afford the rest, I'll keep the cigarettes, okay?" ”

The village chief refused.

Grandpa said, "Then I don't want to smoke anymore." He said he was going to put the cigarette back in the bag.

The village chief hurriedly took back the bag.

"What's the matter?" Grandpa opened the cigarette pack, took out one and handed it to the village chief, and lit another one for himself. At this time, my grandfather already had a slight pneumonia and occasionally had a severe cough. His mother, uncle, and grandmother advised him to quit smoking, and he agreed, but only for one day.

"The paper money in our village can't be burned well." Village Chief Hong Danian stroked his palm and said.

The inhabitants of our area burned paper money for the dead from the first day of the seventh month to the seventeenth day of the seventh month. There is a local proverb that says, "Ghosts drive seventeen." "The popular explanation is that on the first day of July, the ghost door is opened, and the ghosts of the dead will come out and wander. At this time, its relatives will burn paper money for them. On July 17, the door will be closed, and the ghosts will all return on the morning of July 16. Therefore, on the morning of July 16, when the sun has not yet come out, people should not get up and go out, because they may meet "people" they knew before.

When I turned 12 years old, I helped with the paper-burning at home. Before the first day of July, the paper money should be ready. In the past, paper money was made of yellow straw paper with holes shaped like copper coins, but now there are people who buy printed money. In addition to paper money, it is also necessary to prepare white paper, which is used to wrap paper money.

Just like sending a letter, wrap the money in white paper and write the name of the deceased on the front. If the deceased is male and his name is Hong XX, write "Therefore, first test Hong XX to be used"; If the deceased is a woman, you can't write your name, you can only write your surname, such as "Therefore, the first concubine is used". These words should be written in a larger way, so that those ghosts can easily get their share of the money.

In the lower right corner of the big characters, "filial piety and so-and-so respect" should be written, and these words should be written smaller. Then write a big "seal" on the back. I don't know what the word "seal" means.

After doing this, you have to wrap another bag of money, and write on the front "Cents are collected at a tolerance". According to the old people, this bag of money is not for the ancestors "people", but for the officials who share the money. The burned paper money was distributed by this ghost official to those who deserved it, and the work was similar to that of today's postman.