It's a dilapidated town with potholed asphalt roads, probably because of its remote location, surrounded by mountains, and no one wants to invest here, so it can only get more and more dilapidated.

Young people don't want to stay here, but most of the young and strong people go to work outside, and only a few old people are left, who are unwilling to leave their roots and stick to this place, and then there are some people who are disabled and have weak social skills. None of the people who went out wanted to come back, but only occasionally visited the elderly at home, usually for funerals.

There is a paper shop in the deepest part of an alley, and there is only one in the whole town, so almost all funerals are purchased from here.

But usually no one wants to come close here, just because of the incident that happened back then, so there is no funeral and I don't want to deal with it, after all, it's unlucky.

The owner is an outsider.

Twenty years ago, a young couple came here, and they opened a paper store, but after all, this is their own business, and everyone doesn't bother to ask.

The man has neat short hair, always clean, and his smile is also very hearty, the woman is very thin, and she looks good when she smiles, both of them are very enthusiastic, and the woman also knows some medical skills, and the people in the town do not hesitate to find them when they are sick or sick, and slowly everyone accepts them, and often gives them some home-grown vegetables or something.

This harmonious life lasted only one year.

It was nineteen years ago in the middle of the year, known in Buddhism as Obon, also known as the Ghost Festival.

It is in what everyone calls the seventh month of the lunar calendar, that is, the ghost month. It is said that the door of the ghost gate is often open and not closed in this month, and the ghosts can travel to the world.

And July 14 is the heaviest day of the ghost month. Legend has it that in the middle of the night on this day, a hundred ghosts came from the Nai Ho Bridge, and Hades lit a red lantern to lead them towards the long-lost Yang Realm.

Hundred ghosts walk at night, and the living avoid it!

After preparing the offerings from house to house, they all closed their doors and did not dare to make any sound.

It's become a custom, and people don't pay much attention to it.

Early the next morning, everyone got up early, today is the Zhongyuan Festival, the traditional ancestor worship festival.

Only then did I find that the family, who usually got up very early, had their doors and windows closed. Everyone didn't care, maybe they slept too late.

However, there was no movement for a whole day, and it was only then that I realized that something seemed to have happened.

Everyone brought things, and it took a lot of effort to break the door open. A smell of blood came to my face, and I saw the man unconscious on the ground with a knife in one hand, the knife was stained with blood, and the other hand was holding a baby, and there were many charms on the wall, but they were all half burned......

Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them, their hairs stood up, and a chill rose in their hearts, and they didn't dare to go in...... It was an old man surnamed Li who was the first to react

"Quick! Fast! See if people are still alive?!! ”

Only then did everyone come to their senses, and hurriedly ran in to help the man up, pinching the man again, and touching the heartbeat,

"Alive! Fast! Sent to the hospital in the county! ”

"And the kids! The child is alive too! Fast! ”

hurriedly moved the father and son into the car, and then he was relieved,

"Huh~No?!!"

"What about women?!!"

Everyone was busy looking for it, and the old man who reacted first was called Zhang Tianxing, who was also a respected person in the town, and at this time he was frowning and staring at a place in the room, and everyone followed his gaze......

The coffins sold in the paper store were unlidded until they were used, but this coffin not only closed the lid, but also had a talisman attached to the big head......

Everyone's legs trembled, not daring to step forward, Zhang Tianxing shouted, "What are you still doing in a daze?!! It's important to save people! ”

Only then did everyone rush up, and the guy who was the first to push open the lid of the coffin glanced into the coffin, and sat back on the ground suddenly, his eyes glaring, pointing to the coffin, and his lips trembling

“…… Ghost...... Ghost...... Hell ......"

Everyone suppressed the fear in their hearts, glanced into the coffin, and gasped......

The woman in the coffin was dressed in white, with a plate-sized blood hole in her abdomen, her face was pale, her eyes were open, her nails were two or three centimeters long, and there were deep scratches on both sides of the coffin......

Zhang Tianxing was stunned and hurriedly shouted,

"Close! Close it! Stick the talismans! Move to the sun! ”

After doing this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and someone next to me came over and whispered in a low voice

"This thing...... It's a panic to think about...... Do you want to call the police......"

Zhang Tianxing thought for a while before sighing,

"Don't call the police yet, wait for him to wake up, something must have happened last night, this kind of thing is not good to alarm the police, if you get in, what can the child do, alas...... Pity this family......"

Later, after the man woke up, he didn't say anything, just silently buried the coffin in the back mountain. Then I went out for more than a month, and when I came back, I seemed to be a different person, I became silent, and my once bright eyes became dull.

The man still runs the paper store, but it is becoming more and more gloomy, more and more silent, and he has nothing to say to his son. Since that incident, no one has dared to set foot there, even his children go to school, and his classmates are pointing fingers behind his back.

Later, the man sent the child outside to study, and the grades were always very top-notch, and the man pasted all the big and small awards on the wall, and often stared at the wall in a daze.

In a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, the man still runs the paper store unchanged, and the once handsome young man has become a middle-aged man who has made a fortune, time has mottled his sideburns, and subtle wrinkles have climbed up the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.

The "ghost baby" that everyone avoided, was also admitted to a famous university, far, far away, and never came back for a long time.

Everything seems to have calmed down with time, and what happened seems to have been rotten in everyone's hearts, and no one mentions it.

On this day, a black sedan suddenly drove into the quiet town, drove straight into the deepest part of the alley, and stopped in front of the paper store.

Immediately after that, a man in a suit and leather shoes and sunglasses got out of the car and walked into the paper store.

The man was facing away from the door, carving a coffin with a pattern, and when he heard someone walk in, he didn't stop his work, and asked in a somewhat hoarse voice

"Do you want to stock up on paper, and what do you need?"

The man at the door didn't speak, staring at the man carving the coffin for a long time before he opened his mouth with some trembling

"Big Brother ......"

The hand carving the coffin suddenly stopped, and the whole person seemed to stiffen, and then slowly turned around and looked at the face that was somewhat similar to himself

"Shen Changfeng? How did you find this?! ”

Shen Changfeng sighed and looked at the big brother in front of him

"I heard some strange things by chance a few years ago, and I guessed that you were here, and I was afraid of causing you trouble at that time, so I came now, don't worry, I didn't say anything."

"Big brother, I'm here to take you home this time, you've been wandering for so many years, many people in the clan think you're gone, and it's not easy for you to come all these years......"

"Home? You think twenty years! Twenty years will make me forget all this! Forget your apathy! Forget Shen Qing's death?!! ”

Shen Changfeng looked at the man in front of him trembling with excitement, and the man with blood-red eyes was a little speechless.

"But at the beginning, Shen Qing secretly passed the ghost king, after all, people and ghosts have different paths! Our family's mission is to subdue demons and exorcise demons to help the righteous path, if we ignore this matter, how can we convince the public! ”

"So, so you can have no affection, and ignore family affection for the position of the head of the family?! Hehe! Helping the right way! In the final analysis, the Shen family is just some ancestral supernatural powers, and they started by digging graves, what is the right way, it is just the rules you have defined! There is no doubt that the ghost king is a ghost, have you ever seen the ghost king kill a person? Have you ever seen Shen Qing being sucked with yang energy? It was enough to suppress the ghost king back then, Shen Qing was already pregnant, and he had to be burned at the stake?! She's your sister too! ”

Shen Changfeng listened to the words of the eldest brother, and he couldn't argue for a while, and he knew that he couldn't convince the eldest brother.

"Big brother, I know you are obsessed with what happened back then, but you are Shen Changtian! You are the eldest son of the Shen family in our lineage, and you are also the most talented person after the grandfather! Clan...... You are still needed! ”

"You don't need to say much today, I left the Shen family twenty years ago, and since then I have nothing to do with the Shen family!"

Shen Changfeng knew that he couldn't say that he couldn't move his eldest brother, so he didn't say anything again, and he also remembered the events of the year vividly, watching his sister being planted with a soul lock seal, and then pushed to the stake, and finally the eldest brother rescued him and escaped all the way out of the Shen family.

In less than a year, Shen Changtian came back, and for the first time he saw the once cheerful and easy-going eldest brother, his eyes were red, and his eyes were full of hatred. And when he came back, he only said one thing, Shen Qing's three souls have been locked, the seven spirits have been dispersed, and they will not enter reincarnation, so that the people in the clan don't have to look for it anymore, and he has also separated from the Shen family, and he has been gone for twenty years without any news......

Shen Changfeng sighed, "Big brother, it's inconvenient to stay for a long time when I come out this time, so I'll go back first."

Seeing that Shen Changtian was still carving the coffin with his head down, he didn't say anything more, and just walked to the door when he suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said: "It depends on your own meaning whether you will return to the clan or not, but your father's limit is approaching, so let's come back and see if you have time."

The carving knife in Shen Changtian's hand paused,

"Well, I'll go back when I'm done here."

The black sedan drove away from the town again, and everything was calm again.

However, whether it is the beginning or the end, no one can say.