In a blink of an eye, I got off work again, and I didn't let my wife go home that day, and slept in the dormitory in the factory.

After getting off work, I rode a motorcycle with Qiang Shun and Xiao Guo on a bicycle, and the three of them rushed to their village together.

Xiao Guo's village, I didn't say it in detail before, and in order to protect the parties, I didn't write the name of the village, and I won't write it later, in fact, their village is not far from the textile factory, three or four miles. It is said that Xiao Guo does not need to stay in the factory so closely, but because there is no one at home, and the home is not very clean, she has been living in the factory and rarely goes home.

In a short time, the three of us entered their village, and by this time, the sky had gradually darkened, and the sky was still gloomy, as if it was going to rain.

Xiao Guo didn't lead us to their house, but led us to the westernmost part of their village, and then turned south, and came to the southwest corner of the village, specifically the first few houses, I really forgot now, anyway, I came to the door of a family in the southwest corner, Xiao Guo pointed to the family, this is this.

I stopped my motorcycle and looked at this house, a very ordinary family, at this time the courtyard door was closed, the yard was dark, faintly from the yard heard something, but I couldn't hear it clearly.

Xiao Guo put the bicycle at the door of their house, and I asked Qiang Shun to get off the motorcycle and push the motorcycle and put it together with Xiao Guo's bicycle.

At this time, Xiao Guo walked to the door and knocked on the courtyard door, but it didn't matter if he knocked on it, the faint sound inside immediately stopped, and after a while, he heard someone inside ask, "Who?" ”

Xiao Guo hurriedly replied: "Uncle, it's me." ”

The people inside seemed to hear Xiao Guo's voice, but they didn't open the door, and replied, "We have something at home now, you can come back another day." ”

Xiao Guo hurriedly shouted: "Uncle, open the door, I have something urgent to find you." ”

The person inside replied, "It's not okay if there's anything urgent today, let's come back tomorrow." ”

At this time, I smelled the smell of burning paper and incense, and immediately wondered, would they find someone in the family who was showing the child, and at this time I was afraid of going in and disturbing it, so I asked Xiao Guo to come back tomorrow.

I hurriedly walked to the door, stood side by side with Xiao Guo, and shouted into the door: "Uncle, we are really in a hurry today, you better open the door." ”

As soon as my voice fell, the people inside seemed surprised and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" What's your urgency? ”

I replied, "It doesn't matter who I am, you don't know my name, but your child picked up my paper figure, and I have to take it back immediately, otherwise it won't be good for your child." ”

As soon as I said this, the voice inside was no longer heard, and I listened to the silence of the whole courtyard.

After more than ten minutes, a series of footsteps came from the courtyard, and immediately after, the courtyard door opened a crack.

When I looked, it was a woman who opened the door, looking like she was in her thirties and nearly forty years old, and after the woman glanced at Xiao Guo, she turned her eyes to me and looked me up and down a few times, but she didn't knock on the door, it was still a crack, and we could only see a woman's face.

Without waiting for the woman to speak, Xiao Guo smiled at the woman and said, "Auntie, the paper figure that your son picked up is my friend's, my friend said that as long as the paper figure is taken away, your son's illness will be cured." ”

When the woman heard this, she looked at me a few more times, but she still didn't speak, so I hurriedly said to the woman again: "Sister, I won't say anything else, someone in your family is treating the child now, in fact, you don't need to look at it, you let me go in and take the paper figure away, and your son's illness will be cured immediately." ”

The woman hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Wait, I'll go back to the house and ask." ”

After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard again, followed by the courtyard door opened again, still a crack, but this time it was a man who opened the door, about the same age as the woman just now, looking like a couple, the man looked at me a few times and asked, "The paper man in my son's hand is really yours?" ”

I nodded hurriedly, "It's really mine." ”

The man's face changed, and he asked unceremoniously, "Why do you want to use paper people to harm my son?" ”

"What?" I was stunned for a moment, my face was at a loss, what did the man mean by this, I asked: "Big brother, what do you mean by this, when did I hurt your son when I have no grudge or grudge." ”

The man said angrily: "The person who looks after my children says that someone wants to get along with our family and deliberately curses our son, and the paper man is a curse for people!" As he spoke, the man turned his head and glanced at Xiao Guo, his eyes were not friendly, as if he was suspecting Xiao Guo's curse on their family.

I hurriedly explained: "Big brother, you misunderstood, no one wants to get along with your family, I accidentally lost the paper man, I really didn't want to harm your family, you call me in now, just take the paper man away, if we really want to harm your family, will we send it to the door ourselves?" ”

The man looked at me, then at Xiao Guo, and finally said, "You guys are waiting at the door." ”

After speaking, the man closed the courtyard door again with a "bang".

I licked my lips helplessly, and said in my heart, his mother didn't expect to meet such a paper man, and I became a curse, but who is the person they invited to watch things, isn't this blind.

This time, for at least twenty minutes, the sky was completely dark, and the sky seemed to be covered with dark clouds, and it was a little overwhelming. At this time, there was no movement in the courtyard of this family, quietly, probably discussing something in the house, and I felt that the person who was watching the matter was also inside.

After waiting for a while, there was still no movement, and I couldn't help but ask Xiao Guo, "Xiao Guo, didn't you say that you know this family, why don't I look at them and don't seem to treat you?" ”

Xiao Guo's face suddenly darkened, and he whispered to me: "This is an uncle of my own family, I had a little awkward trouble with our family a few years ago, and we are okay on the surface, but in fact, I don't kiss in my heart for a long time." ”

Oh, so that's what happened, I nodded, and at this moment, five or six figures came from the road not far away, I looked at those figures, and immediately felt that something was wrong, a few figures walked very fast, and the momentum was violent, and it seemed that the posture was coming at us.

I hurriedly motioned to Xiao Guo to look at those people, Xiao Guo turned his head to look at them, I found that her face had changed, Xiao Guo turned his head and said to me: "Don't talk when they come, I'll tell them." ”

A few figures soon came to us, I looked at them again, the leader was a little old man in his sixties, the little old man came to us and glanced at the two of us, without saying a word, squeezed between the two of us, raised his hand and patted the door, "San'er, open the door, uncle brought someone here." ”

Xiao Guo shouted at the little old man at this time, "Second grandfather." ”

The little old man glanced at Xiao Guo and snorted coldly.

When I looked at it, this little old man had a big temper, and it seemed that the past contradictions between them were certain.

The old man's shout fell, the courtyard lit up, and the light came out through the crack in the door, and after a while, the courtyard door opened, and the old man turned to a few people behind him and said, "Get all three of them in the courtyard." ”

In the courtyard, what do you mean, when we are thieves or prisoners? Before I could come back to my senses, the other people pushed the three of us into the courtyard, which was extremely unfriendly.

Qiang Shun suddenly shouted: "What do you want to do! ”

None of them spoke, and I hurriedly turned around and signaled to Qiang Shun not to move lightly.

Pushed into the courtyard by a few people, at this time the courtyard was very bright, I saw that in the center of the courtyard, there was an offering table, there was an incense burner burning incense and burning paper on the table, there was a brazier in front of the offering table, the fire in the brazier was burning, and an old woman with white hair was squatting on the side of the brazier and threw paper money into the brazier one by one.

I looked at the old woman carefully, and felt as if she was the one who was watching over the family, and she was with me.

The old woman is dressed in a black cotton jacket, big waist black pants, corset cloth shoes, dressed like an old lady in the Republic of China, looking at the age should be seventy years old, what impresses me the most is the thumb-thick pigtail on the old woman's head, which can be more than ten centimeters long, and there is a toothpick-like black object inserted in the middle of the braid, and I can't see it clearly under the light, I feel that this object may be wood or jade, from this point of view alone, this old woman doesn't seem to be orthodox, and she should go to the side door. Later, I asked my grandmother, and my grandmother said that the top of her head was not wood or jade, it was a black chicken bone, which belonged to a branch of the Wuzhu faction, and it was difficult to say which faction it was. However, I really didn't expect that there would be such a person in this era, and this old woman is probably the last generation.

The three of us were pushed to the old woman by a few people, and the old woman stood up from the brazier and looked at the three of us one by one, then raised her hand and pointed at Qiangshun, and said very sternly, "You jump first." ”

Qiang Shun was stunned for a moment, and asked the old woman: "What are you dancing?" ”

The old woman's face darkened, and I hurriedly whispered to Qiang Shun and Xiao Guo: "She wants to tell us to jump over the brazier." ”

Xiao Guo glanced at me and asked, "What are you doing jumping into the brazier?" ”

I said, "They suspect that we have put a curse on their children, and they are afraid that we will bring something unclean with us, and they can see if we have anything with us by jumping on the brazier." ”

Qiang Shun immediately pursed his mouth when he heard this, and wanted to say something, but then the old woman said sharply: "Don't speak, jump quickly!" ”

I hurriedly pushed Qiang Shun, who reluctantly jumped off the brazier, and then the old woman pointed at me again, "It's your turn." ”

Without hesitation, I walked up to the brazier, jumped over, and the old woman pointed at Xiao Guo for the last time, "You." ”

Xiao Guo looked at the old woman, then at me and Qiang Shun, hesitated, and at this time, the man who opened the door for us before said, "What's wrong eldest niece, don't you dare to jump?" ”

Xiao Guo immediately looked at him and said, "Who said I didn't dare to jump, I didn't do anything bad and wasn't afraid of the ghost calling the door, just jump!" As he spoke, he walked over to the brazier and jumped over to brush it.

I looked down at the brazier, the flames inside were normal, and I secretly breathed a sigh of relief for Xiao Guo.

The old woman looked at the three of us at this time, I don't know where to find a glass of water, poured a mouthful into her mouth, walked to the brazier and sprayed "poof" into the brazier, a strange thing came, the brazier that was originally burning vigorously "bang", the fire inside was all extinguished, and then a stream of white smoke rushed out of the brazier.

At this time, the strangest thing happened, and I saw a black figure in the white smoke......