Burning paper money also requires some skills. First use dry grass to pad the ground, then place packets of paper money on it, and then light the hay to ignite the paper money.

When burning paper money, you can't fiddle with it, so that the paper money is still a pile after it is burned to ashes. In this way, the money received by the deceased is complete. If the paper dust is broken by messing around, the money received by the deceased person is incomplete. And the paper money must be burned through, some paper money is difficult to burn through in the middle when stacked together, so you must wait for it to burn through before leaving.

Grandpa asked the red year carefully about every place to pay attention to when burning money.

Hong Danian said: "We have all done it." Besides, it's not that the paper money of one or two families has not been burned, but that the paper money of the whole village has a problem! ”

"A village?" Grandpa may have not heard what Hong Danian said when he lit a cigarette.

"yes. If you say that the paper money of the two families is not burned well, then there is nothing to say. Strange, you say, isn't it strange? Hong Danian said nervously, because if this matter is not done well before July 16, it will offend the ancestors.

"This has happened in one village before." Grandpa said.

"Really?" Hong Danian didn't believe it.

"I didn't know how to do these tricks at the time, but I just passed by there and heard about it." Grandpa recalled. "What happened then?" I couldn't wait to ask.

"Then everyone in their village had the same dream." Grandpa said.

"What dream?" Hong Danian asked timidly. The cigarette in his hand shook slightly, and the ash on the cigarette butt fell on his pants.

"I dreamed that a deceased deceased person came to beg for money, saying that life was not good over there. Their ancestors all said the same thing. "Grandpa has a withered yellow index and middle finger shaking a cigarette. Grandpa smoked too much, and the joints of his middle and index fingers were smoked the same color as the filter. When there was really no cigarette to smoke, my grandfather put his finger on his nose that smelled stronger than smoke and inhaled it twice.

"What?" The young man asked in a loud voice, learning from his grandfather to shake the cigarette without ash.

"Don't look forward to the festival, don't look at the year. I only hope that my children and grandchildren will hang the money. Grandpa said.

"Don't look forward to the festival, don't look forward to the year? Just hope that the children and grandchildren will hang the money? Hong Danian asked superfluously.

Grandpa nodded: "The men, women and children of the whole village have had this dream, and they have all heard the ancestors say the same thing. The next morning, when I talked about the strange dream I had last night, I realized that everyone had this nightmare. ”

Hong Danian took a hard puff of cigarette. The red dots of the cigarette butts suddenly turned red.

Grandpa continued: "Later, the chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs in the village all died of plague one after another. By the end of the Chinese New Year, no family in the village could eat the meat of their own animals. My father, who knew how to do magic at the time, told me that all the living animals in the village had been taken away by the dead because they had nothing to eat there. ”

Hong Danian dropped the cigarette and extinguished it with his foot, grabbed his grandfather's hand tightly and begged, "Master Ma, you have to help us." ”

Grandpa looked embarrassed.

"What? You can't help but help! Hong Danian grabbed his grandfather's hand and shook it desperately.

"It's really hard to deal with that. Not to bluff you. Grandpa said.

Hong Danian looked at his grandfather blankly, waiting for his grandfather to tell the reason.

"I guess the problems in your village are all caused by a ghost."

"What the hell?"

"Poor thirsty ghost."

"Poor thirsty?"