Thank you, Mr. Qi, hung up the phone, and I came to the desk with the note. At this time, Brother Guo drew two more talismans that I couldn't understand.

"Smack!" I slapped the note in front of him.

"Yo, found it?"

"Well, Uncle Qi and his nephew are very reliable. Just checked it for me as soon as I got to work. When are we leaving? "I can't wait.

"What's the hurry, the conjuring is going to take place at night. Forgot about Liu Xin I recruited at two or three o'clock in the morning? Brother Guo didn't raise his head and continued to paint. He had already drawn seven or eight ghost suppression talismans, placed them neatly on the table one by one, and slowly dried the marks of dog blood.

"I counted the time, today is the third day of the tunnel crash. In four days, it will be the first seven dead passengers. The news said that 90 percent of the dead were locals. Their bodies may be cremated within two or three days. But on the first seven days, it was the day when the family members concentrated on burning the offerings. ”

"The families are not together, and the burning sites are scattered. But that night, a dozen or so ghosts would come home and take away what their families had burned. Such a good opportunity, the sackhouse will never let it go. ”

"Look!" Brother Guo knocked on the table and pointed to the drawn talismans: "This is the cannonball for it to eat!" ”

"Brother Guo, you are so sure that it will come, what if it doesn't come that day!" I think Brother Guo thought about the sack ghost simply, and rushed here from thousands of miles away in order to order sacrifices?

"Don't worry, I've been tracking it for more than half a year and figuring out its habits. Wherever there is a major accident, after seven days, a large number of offerings will be burned in that place. ”

"Two months ago, a wealthy family in a village was building a villa, and the scaffolding fell down, and four workers fell from a two-story height and died. On the night of the first seven, the sack ghost hurried in and snatched the good food and clothing from the ghost worker. The family members were entrusted with a dream, and when they called me the next day, the sack ghost had already run into the mountains and forests with the loot on his back. ”

"This brute, damn it. I'm going to catch him this time. Brother Guo said indignantly.

"Hey, what kind of mad are you. Don't talk about ghosts, even the living people also like to take advantage, and some never pay for a dinner with friends. It's a fetish, a mental disease. I think the sackghost must have liked the feeling of rummaging through the cabinets, suddenly picking up an unexpected thing, and he liked the sudden sense of surprise. ”

I was happy when I said that, and the sack ghost that Brother Guo caught again and again, and ran away again and again, suddenly aroused my interest.

Brother Guo said that it was full of stench, and the skin of its body was a layer of black and scorched things, and it was burned alive before it was alive. It's funny that such a guy doesn't go to the underworld to be reincarnated, and loves to travel long distances to rob weak ghosts.

The address of the old ghost's house is in hand, and the time to summon the spirit must also be at night. I suddenly beat a drum in my heart, the old ghost Liu Guifen has passed away for four years, has its family kept its relics during his lifetime, and will it cooperate with us to summon spirits?

I must hurry up and go to the old ghost's house to find out what is going on.

"Knock knock", I knocked on the table.

"Are you going or not? I'm leaving. I said as I packed my satchel and changed into my shoes.

"Go! Wait for me to get something. Brother Guo took his bag and folded a few yellow paper talismans that had been drawn to dry.

We went downstairs and drove our rented car to our happy home.

The Happy Home Community is in the southwest, twenty minutes away from my home. It was an old neighborhood that was some years old, with more than 40 buildings distributed in four districts: southeast, northwest, and north.

We quickly drove to the gate of the third district and followed the signs of the building complex to the front of Building 9.

"Brother Guo, look!"

In front of Building No. 9, a miserable white scene greeted my eyes.

"That's a lot of wreaths! Who's dead this is. Brother Guo also saw the row of more than a dozen white wreaths.

We looked for a parking space to park the car. Look at the note in your hand, the old ghost lives in Building 9 and the third door of 201. I went, and this row of dazzling wreaths was lined up on the left and right sides of the door of the third unit.

"Brother Guo, you remember the old ghost calling your daughter. The first time it attached to Liu Xin's body was to shout, daughter, what about your head, why did you die. Is the old ghost's daughter also living here, and she is going to be funeral today? ”

"I don't know. As the saying goes, there are many nonsense, it calls its daughter, and it has a daughter? Isn't it only a son and a daughter-in-law, but no daughter? But you can't jump to conclusions, it's best to ask someone. Brother Guo said.

If you want to know whose daughter-in-law can't have children, which man has an illegitimate child outside the mistress, and which woman cuckolds her father, the best way is to chat with the old lady in the community. Chat with them for a while, and you'll be the gossip know-it-all for the community.

Yes, find an old lady and ask!

I looked around and saw that in the distance in Building No. 10, there were two old ladies smoking cigarettes sitting under the gazebo and watching the excitement here. I gave Brother Guo a look and walked towards them.

"Auntie, what about sitting? We are residents of District 1, and we are here for a walk. Whose funeral is this? ”

The old lady who smoked was almost sixty years old, and at first glance she looked like an old smoker, and her teeth were blackened with cigarette stains. I took out a box of fifty-one cigarettes from my bosom and respectfully handed one to me.

"Thank you!"

She put on my cigarette and took two puffs, her eyes suddenly lit up: "Yo, this cigarette is good, it's not strong enough!" ”

My aunt didn't smoke a good cigarette at first glance, so I stuffed the whole box that I had just opened in her hand.

"Auntie, whose family is going to have a funeral. So many wreaths, scare me! ”

"Hey...... Gao Lin family. ”

The eldest lady sighed and said, "Xiao Linzi is really a good boy, warm-hearted, and he can help anyone in the neighborhood." However, this child's life is really miserable, and his mother and child died unexpectedly a few years ago. Who provoked this trick, the day before yesterday, her daughter-in-law took the car back to her parents' house, just in the tunnel, and a big crane rushed out from the opposite side, a good big living person, and his head was wiped out in the blink of an eye......"

Under the wonderful cigarette, the eldest lady opened the conversation.

She said that the man who came out of the funeral was Gao Lin, who was 32 years old in Chinese New Year's Eve. His father didn't come early, and he came over with his mother Liu Guifen. A few years ago, he married his daughter-in-law and became a family, and in a blink of an eye, there was a little princess in the family, and he had children.

I don't know that the child is born with eye problems, can't see things clearly, and can't see his parents clearly. He and his daughter-in-law, Wang Fang, took their daughter to major hospitals and came to the conclusion that it was congenital retinal detachment plus other eye diseases. Treatment must be done after the age of five.

With the conclusion, Gao Lin and his daughter-in-law worked hard to make money and waited for the child to go to the hospital for treatment after he was five years old.

Who knows, death suddenly befell the family.

Four years ago, in the summer, the blind boy Gao Xiaoxin was two years old. Grandma Liu Guifen put her in a stroller and pushed her to buy groceries. On the way home, they walked to the landscape riverside where they usually go to play. Liu Guifen propped up the stroller on the grass on the slope, and a gust of wind blew Xiaoxin's hat away.

She ran to chase after her, but the stroller was driven by another gust of wind and slid towards the river below the grassy slope. Xiaoxin and the stroller fell into the water together, the child struggled and shouted in the two-meter-deep water, and Liu Guifen jumped down to save the child.

Coincidentally, there was no passer-by around, and the grandfather and grandson sank to the bottom of the river in a painful struggle.

The eldest lady couldn't stop sighing when she said this, and I asked the eldest aunt, how is Liu Guifen. She said that Liu Guifen is just an ordinary housewife, so she has a strong temper, speaks straight, and everything else is very good. God is blind and took the good people away early.

And today's funeral is Liu Guifen's daughter-in-law, Wang Fang. This girl married into the Gao family, she was good to her husband and mother-in-law, and took care of her mother-in-law as her own mother. Liu Guifen also likes her, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are like mother and daughter.

Liu Guifen is not called a daughter-in-law like other mothers-in-law, but a daughter, and a daughter is called Wang Fang.

And Wang Fang, a good girl, sat on the bus the day before yesterday, and her head was wiped out by the crane arm. A family of four, three of whom died tragically, and now only Gao Lin himself is left, how can he live alone?

When I heard this, I understood. The old ghost Liu Guifen only has her son Gao Lin and daughter-in-law Wang Fang, she attached herself to Liu Xin that day and stood at the entrance of the tunnel and shouted her daughter sadly, but she was actually calling Wang Fang.

"Look, it's out. That's Gao Lin! The eldest lady suddenly raised her hand and pointed to the three units.

Brother Guo and I looked over there, and a man with a black veil on his right arm and a sad face walked out of the door of the building with the help of two people and got into a black car in front of the building.

At the same time, a light small truck came from that side and stopped at the door of the third unit. Two people jumped out from behind the car, quickly put the dozen or so wreaths with elegiac couplets on the back of the small card, and followed Gao Lin's car out of the community.

They went to the crematorium!

There is only one crematorium in our city, and the memorial hall is also part of the crematorium. After the family members held a memorial service in the hall, the uniformed staff played the mourning song, carried the coffin to the cremation hall, and pressed the button, no matter how rich you were during your lifetime, after half an hour, you would be turned into a box of ashes and taken away by the red-eyed family members.

The reason why I was clear about the process of the crematorium was because I handled Li Feng's funeral last month.

"Brother Guo, shall we wait here, or go to the crematorium?" I asked him.

"Wait here until the Year of the Monkey, let's go, keep up!"

"Okay!"

Saying goodbye to the two aunts, we hurriedly ran to drive. Step on the gas pedal and follow behind Gao Lin's black sedan. Another half-hour journey to the crematorium where I saw off Li Feng last month. As soon as the car entered the parking lot, the sound of crying and shouting came from the cremation hall in the distance.

"Mom, my mom, dad is gone, and you are gone. I'm going to be a person without a father and mother from now on......"

"Son, why are you jumping off the building. Your life has just begun, how do you let your grandparents and parents live......"

The cries of chirping and wahing came and went.

We caught a close eye on Gao Lin's back and followed closely behind the group. On the way to the memorial hall, Brother Guo bought two white flowers. He said that he would enter Wang Fang's hall in a while, and let's look at our appearance, bow and offer flowers, and find an opportunity to talk to Gao Lin.

I nodded, it was as easy as a familiar thing to me.

As I walked, I thought that Wang Fang's head was gone, and when the memorial service was held for a while, the family members would bow and offer flowers and circle around the coffin to pay respects to the remains. But she has no head, is it possible to carve a fake head out of wood and put it around her neck?

Think about it, it's unlikely, how scary it is. It is estimated that no one will be able to see Wang Fang who is headless after the car accident for a while, and I bet that Wang Fang's coffin placed among the flowers is definitely not a crystal coffin, but a solid wood coffin with a lid.

Wang Fang had no head, so he lay quietly inside......

Walking and walking, we came to the memorial building of thousands of square meters. Wang Fang's memorial hall is in the fourth hall, and the electronic screen at the entrance of the hall is scrolling in a loop: Ms. Wang Fang's memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. sharp. Please turn off the ringtone of your mobile phone and enter the hall in an orderly manner.

Next to Hall 4, the cries in Halls 1 to 10 came and went, and I felt chills and uncomfortable listening to them. It's just ten o'clock, and there is still more than an hour before Wang Fang's memorial service begins.

I dragged Brother Guo outside to breathe, and I could see that not only me, but even him was annoyed by the continuous crying and screaming.

The waiting time was boring, and I hadn't relaxed for a few days, so I easily got this little free time to play with my phone. Brother Guo opened the bag and took out a few pieces of yellow paper ghost charms that he had just drawn, and compared them left and right to compare which one was more standard.

As we stood in the shade of the trees and waited, we heard a cry from the left. A team of uniformed staff holding suona in their hands, pushing a small coffin, slowly walked towards us amid the cries of family members behind them......