There is a custom in China, every New Year's festival has to burn incense and worship God, worship any god has it, the door god, the god of wealth, the god of luck and worship the king of the stove, there are true believers here and have a happy picture to have fun. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Especially in our rural areas, almost every family believes that there are the most worshippers of Huangxian and door gods, especially those who burn incense and kowtow to their ancestors.

There is a Liu family in the east of our village, and it is also an honest family in the village, his strong son and I have been playing with bare butts since childhood, and I am a dead friend according to the current words, and he also has a sister Liu Ying, who has parents and an elderly grandfather who just celebrated his sixth birthday this year.

Qiangzi and I are in junior high school, Qiangzi and his sister were forced to stay at home to do farm work because of the family, in our time, there are very few girls in the village who have completed junior high school, let alone college, I heard the old man say that sooner or later the girl will marry into someone else's family, what is the use of going to school, it is better to help her parents do some work at home.

At that time, there was no money in the village, but there were a lot of chickens and ducks, and they came either to carry a frame of eggs or two ducks, which was also very lively.

Qiangzi's mother and some relatives were busy cooking and entertaining everyone in the back room, and his father welcomed people into the house to make tea and pour water and chat, and I and Qiangzi ran around inside and outside the house, holding uncooked potatoes in our hands and couldn't stuff them into our mouths.

Qiangzi's grandfather sat in front of the family tree and looked at the incense lit in a daze, and he didn't know what he was thinking, although he greeted the visitors with a smile, but the smile was much more bitter.

Qiangzi and I squatted at the gate of the courtyard and nibbled on potatoes and looked at the yard like the New Year, the two of them smirked like two silly boys, and at this time there was a person standing not far from the door, dressed in a gray cloth suit, wearing a tattered straw hat on his head, and a pair of liberated rubber shoes, standing there very conspicuously.

Qiangzi and I looked up and saw him startled, turned around and ran back to the yard to find Qiangzi and his father, "Dad, the fox-faced ghost is coming, the fox-faced ghost is coming."

Qiangzi's father was stunned when he heard this, glared at Qiangzi, turned around and walked out, and many people in the house also went out.

The fox-faced ghost is a more famous name around our village, I heard that there are many people in the county town to know, when I was a child, I often heard my parents say that children must stay away when they see the fox-faced ghost, otherwise they will be confused and take away the heart and eat the heart, we are often afraid to go out at night, even in the daytime, we dare not go alone.

In fact, the fox-faced ghost is a person, but I don't know why the people in the village call him that, and when I grow up, I know that it is a name that scares children, in fact, he has a real name called Ghost Master.

There is also a thing, that is, every household in the village knows that as long as the ghost master comes to the door, there will be ominous things happening, although I can't see it a few times a year, but every time I see the ghost master into the village and walk, there will be a life, the people in the village hate him, several times want to drive him away, but I didn't find it in the nearby villages and villages, the last time I was found in the lonely stone mountain, a few bold people went up and went down crazy, after more than a year, no one dared to offend him, I just hope that he doesn't come to the door to burn high incense, The village said that he was sent by the king of Hades to collect the soul of the ghost king, and he couldn't be offended.

This is also the reason why everyone is afraid of this plague god coming to visit, but fortunately, not all funerals will meet him, it seems to be just an opportunity, and it is usually difficult to see, I have only heard of it since I was a child, and it is the first time I have seen it today.

Qiangzi and I hid behind the crowd, drilling through the cracks to look out, Qiangzi's mother seemed to hear something and was about to come out but was stopped by Qiangzi's father, a few bold followed Qiangzi and his father towards the man in gray, and I could see that he was not walking fast, as if he was avoiding something.

After a while, Qiangzi's father returned with everyone, his face was white, and his walking was a little unsteady, I thought to myself in the back of my mind whether this person would really confuse people's minds, could this person really be a ghost, so frightened that I shrank my head back again.

Back in the courtyard, Qiangzi and his father had not yet entered the house, he sat in the corner of the wall, his face was pale and he couldn't say a word, and a few people who came back sighed and entered the house, and after a while, the people in the house came out and looked at Qiangzi and his father left, but they didn't dare to go through the gate, and walked through the small door.

I originally wanted to stay, but I was kicked by my dad, "I won't pull out your skin if I don't come home to see me", I could only rub my ass and look at Qiangzi and leave, and the originally lively yard only left Qiangzi and his father sitting there, Qiangzi was fucking crying in the house, and his grandfather was still sitting there watching Xiang in a daze.

I wanted to go and see it for the next two days, but my dad watched it die, and it wasn't until the third day that the news of Qiangzi's grandfather's death came, and my dad agreed to let me go with him, and when I saw Qiangzi kneeling on the ground with tears on his face in filial piety clothes, tears flowed uncontrollably.

Although I was still young and ignorant, I knew how sad Qiangzi felt at this time, and I knelt beside Qiangzi while wiping my tears, picked up the yellow paper money and threw it into the brazier.

There are not many people who come to visit, they are some relatives and neighbors who get along well, but they only left after entering the house and comforting a few words, my house and Qiangzi's family are good, and I left when it was dark, during which I have been kneeling there with Qiangzi, and I have not said a word.

Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and I and Qiangzi have barely graduated from middle school, and I haven't been admitted to high school, so I simply don't study, and I started farm work at home.

"Sister Shadow, where's the strong son?" , Liu Ying, who was busy in the farmland, smiled at me when he heard the shout, "I don't know where I went, I haven't seen anyone in the morning."

"Oh", I answered, turned around and was about to leave, when I heard a voice on the other side shouting: "Tianyi, I saw Qiangzi calling him back, there is a lot of work waiting for him to do, nothing to run around", half of this sentence was said to Qiangzi, and the other half was also said to me, I smiled and ran away.

I've been alone since I was a child, and it's strange to say, every family in the village has three or two babies, some even five or six, only my family has a seedling, and I don't know if my parents don't want it or other reasons, I often overhear them muttering to me to ask for a younger brother and sister but there has been no movement, and it will be forgotten for a long time.

Maybe because I was a person since I was a child, I have always regarded Liu Ying as my own sister, and she also regarded me as a younger brother like Qiangzi, and the relationship between my two families is getting closer and closer, and I often hear Uncle Liu tell jokes or I will marry Liu Ying when I am two years older, and I can't speak.

Liu Ying is also regarded as a village flower in our village, especially recently, there are often matchmakers from surrounding villages who go to Uncle Liu's house to be matchmakers, according to Liu Ying's current age, you can consider marriage, and the children in the village are relatively early.

There is a ditch in the east of the village, which can be about ten meters wide, and it is just a ditch that has not seen water all year round and has now dried up.

What is the relationship between me and Qiangzi, seeing this, I don't care about the other party, I broke off a thick branch from the tree on the side and rushed over, and there were three people on the opposite side, who were scattered by me like this.

Qiangzi was helped up by me and glanced at me, turned his head and shouted at the person opposite: "Erneng, there is a kind of let's go head-on."

Erneng is from Yongfu Village, four or five years older than me and Qiangzi, his father is the village party secretary, and the family has two money, relying on this to do evil, always bullying young people younger than him in the same village or surrounding villages, and children will not let go.

Er Neng glanced at me, "Shi Tianyi, it's none of your business here, you get out."

"Qiangzi's business is my business, let me get out of the way to see if you have the ability", I pushed the wooden stick in front of me.

Erneng glanced at me, pointed at me without speaking, turned around and left with someone, Qiangzi still wanted to catch up and was stopped by me, "Don't chase, you still don't think it's too light, go back first, I'll help you clean them up another day."

Qiangzi and I returned to the village, there was not much soil on Qiangzi's body, and he couldn't see it after two slaps, but the wound on his face was difficult to hide for a while, but it was no wonder, it was common to fall and beat in our countryside, especially the active guys, and the family was too lazy to ask.

At this time, it was almost dark, and the people who were busy planting in the fields also returned home one after another to make dinner, I didn't go back to his house with Qiangzi, I went back to my house to eat first, and then went back to feel better when I was about to arrive at my door, that person was dressed in gray cloth, a broken straw hat, and a pair of rubber shoes, and I couldn't help but shiver when I saw him.