For a moment, I thought about the various situations I might encounter when I stepped into the Xuanji Pavilion.

But if I racked my brains, I would never have imagined that I would become a ...... Ghost!

A quarter of an hour ago, I stepped into the Xuanji Pavilion, in the curling fragrance through the carved beams and painted corridor, the gray and white stone steps are very solid, at the end of the corridor is a study, the left and right sides of the lintel of the study are hung with a mahogany card, the right one reads "Floating Light", and the left one reads "Molu Qiongtu"!

I heard Zheng Fuzi nag me about this thing, this is a peach charm, which is the originator of Spring Festival couplets, which was prevalent in the Central Plains before the Han Dynasty.

Glimps?

Ink Qiong Tu?

I couldn't figure out the pair on this peach charm for a while, so I just subconsciously paced a few steps forward.

At this time, with a creak, the door of the study opened automatically, and the lights inside gradually brightened, and I craned my neck to look in, and my jaw was about to fall off!

Everything in front of me is so weird!

In the entrance of this study, there is a round base made of bronze casting, and the pattern of the base is extremely delicate and strange.

There seem to be countless dragons and snakes swimming among them in the smoke and mist, but if you look closely, it is clear that there are seals of different shapes, these seals seem to be made of bronze quenching and then carved by sharp blades, the ups and downs between the lines are endless, such as mountains and rivers, more like wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and are flashing faintly under the background of the flickering candles.

When I came back to my senses and looked closely, I found that the lines of the bronze base seemed chaotic up close, but actually very regular from a distance.

The base is roughly circular, densely stacked from the outside and inside more than a dozen circles, and these dozens of circles of bronze characters hold a round object between them.

This round object is a bronze mirror!

The bronze mirror is a dressing thing, which should be placed in the wing room for living purposes, and it is already weird enough to place it in the entrance of the study!

But that's not the weirdest part!

The strangest thing is that this bronze mirror is actually as tall as a person, which looks extremely abrupt in the cramped study!

I hesitated for a moment before stepping forward and looking up and down a few times, it was okay not to look at it, I almost didn't scare my soul away!

What scares me is how I look in the mirror.

I don't look like I'm blue and fanged, it's not unsightly, it's ...... Not at all!

At this moment, everything in the study is reflected in the mirror, and even the slight shaking of the candlestick fireworks is clearly visible, but there is no me!

I stand in front of the mirror, but I can't see myself!

This kind of situation where there is no shadow in the mirror, three-year-old children have heard of it, of course, there is no shadow in the mirror, only ghosts!

Could it be that I've become a ghost?

As soon as I thought of this, I suddenly became restless, and in a trance, I raised my hand and trembled and touched the bronze mirror.

The moment my fingertips touched the bronze mirror, I felt an instant tingling pain in my fingertips, this stinging pain was a heart-piercing pain, it came very suddenly, making my brows furrow, and I couldn't help but close my eyes!

The inexplicable pain comes and goes quickly.

But when I opened my eyes, the world in front of me was unrecognizable......

I found myself lying on a bed, I slowly sat up and looked around, and found myself in a room, made of loess, very simple, and it was dark outside the window, and it seemed that it was already late at night.

At this moment, only the curtain of the door on the left side of the room was shining with a warm yellow light, flickering and fainting.

I got out of bed and walked over, lifted the curtain to see, only to see that there was a room outside, it turned out that the room I was in was the inner room, the outer room was more spacious, there was a wooden door in the outermost part of the room, and there was a stove against the wall inside, and there was a wooden table next to the stove, and there was an oil lamp on the table, and a woman was sitting there, she had a big belly, and she was obviously pregnant, and she was holding the soles of her shoes with stitches and threads.

When I saw someone, I asked, "Sister, where is this?" ”

But the woman didn't seem to hear it, and was still concentrating on the work at hand.

I thought she hadn't heard, so I walked in and asked loudly, "Sister, why am I here?" Where is this? ”

The woman didn't look back, she didn't mean to pay attention to me at all, I was in a hurry, and grabbed a few steps forward to question her, but I didn't expect this woman to suddenly stand up and pass through my body at once!

I was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and my mind went blank!

What's going on?

Before I could come to my senses, the woman came out of the room again, with an extra basket in her hand, and this time she came to me again, and I dodged it quickly, and she sat down and went on with the needlework in her hand.

I thought about it for a while, and it seemed to come to my senses.

It's not that she ignores me, but she can't see me at all, in fact, it's not right to say this, to be precise, it's not that she can't see me, but I'm not here at all, just as the Qingshuang girl said, since I'm in the Liyuan illusion, then everything I see and hear is all the hallucinations in my dreams.

Although I don't understand why I came here suddenly, but since it's an illusion, and I won't lack arms and legs, there is nothing to be afraid of, the only thing to worry about is time, I'm worried that once the twelve hours are exhausted, the godmother's soul will fall into reincarnation, and I can't do anything anymore.

I became more and more anxious, and walked around the room a few times, and found that I could not seem to leave the range very far, but only within a five-foot radius of the room, and everything around me would not stop me. In this room, at this time, I am like a ghost in the underworld, separated from the yin and yang of the people of this yang world, and there is a wall that can never be crossed.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and I heard someone shouting: "Xiaobao, open the door!" ”

When the young woman named Xiaobao heard this, her face beamed with joy, and she hurried to open the door.

"Mother, you're back!"

As soon as the door opened, the wind entered, and a cold air came to the face, followed by an old woman, who came into the house with a wooden basin, first put the wooden basin on the table, and then took off the headscarf and patted it, and raised a burst of frost, and the room was very warm, and these frosts suddenly turned into a slight white mist.

In the mist, she took out something and handed it to Xiaobao's hand, her eyes full of love.

"My mother gave the children of Master Liu's family some witchcraft to calm the nerves, which is today's hard-earned money. You count quickly. ”

Xiaobao counted them and said to the old woman, "Mother, there are nine copper coins." ”

The old woman smiled bitterly after hearing this.

"The money is a little less, after all, this is a disaster year...... But today's mother has other gains, Xiaobao, come and take a look. ”

The old woman hurriedly showed the wooden basin on the table to Xiaobao, Xiaobao looked at the thing, and said with some surprise: "Mother, so much red mushroom tofu, how much does it cost?" ”

The old woman smiled and said, "Master Liu's family made the leftover tofu dregs, he said that he left this pot and threw it in the outhouse for almost half a month, and said that if you want it, you can take it and feed it to the pigs." I went to pick it up and take a look, but I didn't expect it to be a pot of good things! ”

When I heard them mention "red mushroom tofu", I remembered what my mother had told me that if outsiders saw it, they would be afraid.

If you lift the lid of the pot when you are hungry, you will see a pot of thick red hair, and it is estimated that you can even spit out the overnight meal, but our Hakka people will salivate when they see it.

This thing is actually made by fermenting the tofu residue that is discarded when making tofu and is contaminated with the fungi in the cornmeal. Don't underestimate this thing, according to my mother, red mushroom tofu is extremely delicious, and it can even replace MSG, which is a rare delicacy in poor people's homes.

At this time, I saw Xiaobao overjoyed and said: "Mother, this pot is enough for us to eat for half a month!" ”

The old woman said, "Yes, I went to practice witchcraft and chanting in the middle of the night, and my mother didn't work hard in vain......

Xiaobao said again: "It's just that there is a piece of mold here, but it's a pity that it's very ......."

The old woman looked at it and said, "It doesn't matter, dig it up first, and we'll steam the rest immediately, and you can put it for half a month after steaming." Xiaobao, let's hurry up and make a fire! ”

Xiaobao said: "Mother, I'll come!" You take a break. ”

After that, she scooped a few scoops of water into the pot, added a few handfuls of firewood to make a fire, and said while busy: "Mother, you go to sleep first, I will take care of the pot!" ”

The old woman looked at her daughter, her expression a little gloomy.

"It doesn't matter to my mother, it's you, since Ping'er went up the mountain to pick fairy grass last year, it has been bitter for you and the child in your belly......"

Xiaobao gently touched his stomach and said with a wry smile: "Mother, I don't care." You can rest assured! No matter how hard and tiring the days are, I will give birth to the child and bring him up well. ”

The two were silent for a long time, only to hear the slight crackling sound of firewood crackling in the stove.

Xiaobao seemed to want to break the silence and said, "Mother, I have made all the sachets you want me to make!" ”

The old woman wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said, "Ah...... Okay? Hurry up and show it to your mother. ”

Xiaobao took out the sachet from the basket on the table and handed it to the old woman.

"Mother! You see, there are three layers inside and out, and they are sturdy. ”

The old woman took it with both hands and touched it, and said with tears in her eyes, "It's so well done......

Before she could finish speaking, the old woman got up, turned and went into the back room, and seemed to take something out from under the bed and stuff it into a sachet.

To my surprise, the old woman took the needle and thread herself, and sewed a stick of incense under the lamp, and only when the opening was completely sewn to death did she solemnly hand the sachet to Xiaobao.

"Xiaobao, this is our family's heirloom, and it will always be passed on to you in the future."

Xiaobao took the sachet with both hands, and felt that the weight seemed to be heavier, so he asked, "Mother, what is in this?" ”

The mother-in-law said with a solemn expression: "The things in here are the treasures handed down by your grandfather, which are used to eliminate evil spirits and eliminate demons, and they are called 'Xuanji'." ”

As soon as I heard the word "Xuanji", I was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, only to see the sachet in Xiaobao's hand, and a white and chubby doll embroidered on the blue homespun cloth, which was wearing a red belly pocket and fluttering butterflies.

I was taken aback!

Isn't this the sachet that my godmother carried with me when she helped me exorcise evil spirits for the first time?

I quickly looked at this woman called Xiaobao again, this woman has a beautiful face and a slightly strong body, but the more I look at it, the more familiar it feels, and then I look at the pear vortex on the corner of her mouth when she speaks, isn't this what my godmother looked like when she was young?

Could it be that I am ...... now? In my godmother's old memories?