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Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, I stood on the street with dim street lights, looking at everything around me at a loss, and my heart became more and more afraid.

The temperature difference between day and night in the Northeast is very large, especially when the sun has just set, and people will obviously feel the drop in temperature.

At that time, I was still young, and I was very scared when I found myself lost, plus I was hungry and cold, and the feeling of helplessness at that time was still fresh in my memory after so many years.

Walking down the street alone, most of the shops on the street are closed, except for the few small shops (now the micro-supermarket) that are still open, and the dim lights are inside.

With the only two cents in my pocket, I walked into a small store.

For two cents, it's impossible to fill your stomach, and you can barely buy something like bread to cushion the bottom.

I don't know if anyone knows about the copycat version of bread called "bald head", it's almost like processing the steamed bun a little bit to make it a little sweet, and putting it in the oven to bake it.

The store is really a small store, about seven or eight square meters, with a plastic bag of fried peanuts on the dilapidated counter and a dozen cases of beer stacked by the door.

A woman in her forties sits inside the counter, munching on melon seeds and reading a book.

When she saw me come in, she glanced at me with slanted eyes and asked me vaguely:

"Kid, what to buy?"

I handed over the two cents in my hand:

"I want a bald head."

She stood up, took the money and turned around and threw it into a box, reached out and found a bald head in the box under the counter and handed it to me, spitting out a melon seed shell:

"Whose family are you? Why haven't I seen you? You're new here? ”

"I..."

I didn't think about how to explain my situation to her for a long time, but she didn't seem to mind at all, but had an expression of "I understand", and said with a smile:

"Stealing adult money, right? It's okay, I won't tell your family, you tell me where your family moved from. ”

Maybe she was too lonely to guard that small shop alone, and wanted to find someone to chat with her to relieve her boredom, even if the other party was only a child about ten years old.

I told her that my home was not here, that I had come here to find my classmates, and that I would go home after a while.

But she didn't seem to believe it, and rubbed it on my head, and said with a grin:

"Little cub, there are quite a lot of ghost eyes. It's okay, don't say it, don't talk about it, auntie won't ask. ”

As she spoke, the door was pushed open, and a fat woman of her age shouted:

"Second sister! The donkey in the east is dancing a big god, do you want to go and see it? ”

She seemed to come to her senses all of a sudden, and came out of behind the counter in a panic, and said in a continuous voice:

"Go, go, go, I'll lock the door!"

The fat woman turned and left, and before leaving, she threw down a sentence:

"I won't wait for you, I'll go over first, second sister, hurry up!"

She grabbed a padded jacket and put it on her body, and said to me:

"Child, I'm leaving, you eat quickly, go home after eating!"

As she spoke, I had finished eating the bald head, but I was still hungry and didn't know where to go.

When she saw me standing there and not leaving, she leaned over and took one from behind the counter and stuffed it into my hand:

"Come, Auntie will give you another one, eat while walking, Auntie still has something, you hurry home."

As he spoke, he walked out.

I went out the door after her, but I still stood beside her and refused to leave.

He locked the door, and when he saw that I was still there, he was a little anxious, and raised his voice and said:

"Why don't you come home, you kid? Can't find a home? ”

I looked at her, still not speaking.

She looked at the sky around her, stomped her foot and said:

"Okay, you go with me first, and I'll send you home when I get back, and I won't stop your father from beating you when the time comes!"

After saying that, he took my hand and left.

It was quite far away, and we walked for almost half an hour to get there.

A small courtyard that is quite shabby, with two green tiled houses, and two cherry trees in the yard, all of which have lost their leaves.

The courtyard door was open, and the woman led me in.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I heard a jumble of laughter coming from the house on the left, as if something funny had happened, and the big guys had some fun.

She dragged me over and reached open the door.

There were at least twenty people inside, men, women and children, giggling and laughing together, and in the middle was a woman of about fifty years old, half of her hair was already white, and she looked a little haggard and looked like she didn't live long.

Someone saw us go in and immediately greeted her:

"Oh, second sister, whose child is this, why did you bring it here?"

The woman laughed in a loud voice and said:

"I don't know either, I came to the store with a bald head, and I refused to leave after eating, probably because I stole money at home, and I didn't dare to go back for fear of being beaten."

The man laughed, and then said:

"This kid looks a little clever, if you don't give it to me, I'll lead the family."

I was so frightened that I hid behind her, afraid she would say yes.

She raised her hand to the man who spoke, and scolded with a smile:

"Fuck off, if you don't fucking eat people and don't pull shit, you can naturally be a father."

The man who was scolded by her smiled lewdly and did not speak again.

The woman took me around the room again, and finally sat down beside the woman with half gray hair, and said with a smile:

"Inside, eldest sister, I've been very busy lately, when will you have time to open a hexagram for me, okay?"

The white-haired woman nodded absently with her eyes half-closed.

She was bored, and didn't say anything more.

After a while, the door was pushed open again, and a man wearing a dogskin hat walked in, and after entering, he greeted everyone without any exception, and went straight into the back room.

I heard him talking to someone, but I couldn't make out what was going on.

After a while, a man and a woman walked out with the man, bowed first to the white-haired woman, and then sat down honestly on the stool in the middle of the ground.

Later, I learned that the man who came in wearing a dogskin hat was Nigami, and the white-haired woman was Dagami.

Ershen'er took off his coat and put it aside, put incense candles on the table, and the other people all automatically stood up and walked to the side, none of them spoke, their eyes staring at the great god sitting there.

The two gods lit incense and candles, turned around and shouted.

"Please-God'----"

The great god's body shook suddenly, and he sat up straight as he calculated, looking like he was sitting there asleep.

Nigami'er turned around and picked up a circle-shaped thing, which should have a bell on it, and it would make a rattling sound when it flickered

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