My grandmother thought about it in her heart, walked to the bedside and said carefully to Xue Lao's fourth daughter-in-law, "Is your daughter asleep?" ”

Xue Laosi's daughter-in-law raised her head, looked at my grandmother, and nodded silently.

My grandmother smiled faintly: "Can you give me a hug?" ”

Xue Lao's fourth daughter-in-law nodded again and handed the girl to my grandmother.

My grandmother took it and held it in her arms, and gave the girl a closer look, the girl's yang energy was very weak, and she touched her little hand, which was cold and cold, and touched the girl's cheek with her face, and it was a little hot, but her breath was very weak, and then she held the girl with one hand, and the other hand reached into the bag and felt out three pieces of yellow paper, and spit on two of the yellow papers, and opened the girl's clothes, one was posted in the girl's front heart, and the other was posted in the girl's back heart.

Everyone was puzzled, but no one said anything, and they looked puzzled. My grandmother turned her head and instructed Xinyangzi to quickly vacate the square table in the side room and spread some quilts and mattresses.

When the people in the house heard this, they were even more confused, and they stared at my grandmother with big eyes.

Xin Yangzi didn't hesitate, hurriedly agreed, cleared the square table in a few moments, and went out to hug the quilt and mattress.

At this time, Old Man Xue leaned over to look at the girl, then at my grandmother, and asked, "Bai Xiangu, what are you doing here?" ”

My grandmother blew on the third piece of yellow paper, pressed it on the mud pill palace above the girl's head, turned her head to look at Old Man Xue, and whispered: "Your granddaughter's soul has taken away something, I will protect the rest of her soul first......"

"What?" Old man Xue trembled when he heard this, and there was a sudden chaos in the house, and the fourth daughter-in-law of Xue Lao cried directly, crying and muttering, "What kind of evil has my family created, what kind of evil has my family created......

My grandmother turned her head and glanced at Xue Lao's fourth daughter-in-law, feeling uncomfortable for her, and then glanced at Xue's old man, Xue's face looked a little unnatural, and Xue's fourth daughter-in-law cried at this time, as if she had hit his vital point.

After a while, Xin Yangzi brought the quilt and mattress, and my grandmother no longer bothered about what was going on with Old Man Xue, and beckoned a few people to help lay the quilt and mattress together.

A few people spread the mattress on the table, my grandmother put the girl into the mattress, covered it with a quilt, and turned her head to look at the people in the room, Xin Yangzi, Old Man Xue, Old Man Xue's daughter-in-law, son-in-law, and the crying fourth daughter-in-law of Old Man Xue.

My grandmother said to Old Man Xue's son-in-law, "This eldest brother came over to do a favor and pressed the yellow paper on the child's head. ”

Old man Xue's son-in-law is tall and big, about twenty-four or five years old, and he has the most yang energy in the whole house, and my grandmother's purpose in letting him press the yellow paper is to let him shake the remaining soul in the girl's body, so that no more souls will run out, and lest other lonely souls and wild ghosts take advantage of it. Of course, places like Taoist temples generally don't have lonely ghosts.

Then my grandmother instructed the others to lift the table to the base of the landlord's wall, with the child's head facing the door, and the table next to the east wall.

My grandmother found an oil lamp in the side room, lit the oil lamp and put it on the ground next to the leg at the southeast foot of the table, and told everyone that she would go out now and call the girl's soul back, and the oil lamp could not be extinguished, and the yellow paper above the girl's head could not be removed.

Old man Xue came up to my grandmother at this time and asked, "Bai Xiangu, what should the fourth child do?" ”

My grandmother turned her head to look at the bed, Xue Laosi was still lying on his back on the bed, looking stupid, my grandmother sighed and replied, "Wait until I get the child's soul back first." At the same time, my grandmother muttered in her heart, did this family offend anything in the past, or did something that hurt their conscience, otherwise why would there be so many things in their family, and the old man Xue's face just now was not right......

Thinking of this, my grandmother couldn't help but glance at Old Man Xue a few times, and saw that Old Man Xue looked honest and loyal, not like the kind of person who hurts nature and reason.

Before I had time to think about it, my grandmother pulled my father out of the wing, and Xinyangzi followed her and followed.

When we came to the platform outside, my grandmother squatted down and asked my father, "Did you see where that aunt and sister went?" ”

My father raised his hand and pointed to the mountain beam he had just climbed, but the direction was slightly off, and my grandmother looked in the direction of my father's finger, to the northwest of the mountain beam, the path that my father had climbed before seemed to be able to lead to it, but the path became less obvious the higher it went, as if no one had walked it for many years. My grandmother didn't hesitate, picked up my father and walked down the path.

Xin Yangzi chased after him at this time, "Poor Dao will accompany you over." ”

My grandmother glanced at Xinyangzi and asked, "Where does that path lead?" ”

Xin Yangzi looked up at the path and replied: "As far as the poor road knows, it leads to a mass grave, and there were people who went to the mountain to grave a few years ago, and no one has gone in the past two years, and this path is almost deserted." ”

My grandmother stopped talking and quickly climbed the path and walked along the path towards the ridge.

After a lot of effort, over the mountain beam, there was a deep ditch in front of me, the path bent along the hillside to the bottom of the deep ditch, my grandmother frowned, looked up at the sky, the time at this time was about five o'clock in the afternoon, the winter days are short, and the sky will be dark after stopping for a while.

My grandmother put my father down, took out three chicken blood strips from her baggage, handed one to Xinyangzi, tied one to my father, and tied one herself.

Along the path, I soon went down to the bottom of the ditch, and found that the ravine was very much like a narrow valley, with strange rocks on both sides, and a crooked and naturally formed tunnel in the middle, and I didn't know where it led.

At this time, the sun was completely gone, and the ravine seemed dim and gloomy.

Xinyangzi said that at the end of the ravine is the mass grave, which can look like three or four miles of land.

My grandmother nodded, put my father down, and coaxed my father to say, "Zhenlong, tell Mom, where did that aunt go with her sister?" ”

My father raised his hand and pointed deeper into the valley, and said in a milky voice, "There." ”

My grandmother looked in the direction my father pointed out, it was very deep, smiled, picked up my father and said to Xinyangzi, "Let's go, go to the mass grave and see ......"

Children, in fact, there are a lot of "special functions", seeing ghosts is the most common "special function", and some can predict instantly, and I can't tell you coldly, who is dead, or who has bled on his body, within two days, he will be able to respond to the emblem. There is another way, for example, you see that the sky is not very good, and you ask him, will it rain today? If he says yes, he will definitely go down. My grandmother asked my father at this time, in fact, he was using the "special function" of children. Of course, not all children have it, my son doesn't, and I've done a lot of experiments with him, and they all failed, such as asking him, will it rain today? He doesn't say it, he doesn't say it, he doesn't talk about it, he doesn't care about you at all.

I walked about three or four miles in the valley, at this time, the sky was completely dark, the strange rocks on both sides were craggy, and from time to time there was a strange cry of night birds. Xin Yangzi looked sad, narrowed his eyes again, and estimated that he was almost unable to see things again. My grandmother had no choice but to hold my father in one hand and pull him in the other, and continue walking.

After walking for about half a mile, his eyes suddenly opened up and became brighter, Xin Yangzi squinted his eyes and said, "Here it is." ”

My grandmother took a look at it, it was still a ravine, the place was quite big, surrounded by mountains, the basin was the same, the most peculiar, the ground was not mountainous, the loess was loess, the ditch was uneven, there were dozens of mounds of all sizes on it, it was dim and unclear in all directions, and I felt panicked when I looked at it.

My grandmother asked Xinyangzi to wait at the mouth of the valley, carried my father to the center of the mound, took a deep breath, and then turned to Xinyangzi and said loudly: "The yin qi here is very heavy, and there must be a few people who died in vain." Then he looked up the hill and said, "It's so low here, and if it rains, it will pour into the grave, and who will bury people here?" ”

Xin Yangzi replied: "It was the people from the East Village who buried it here." ”

"Who are the buried people?" My grandmother asked.

"I don't know." Xin Yangzi shook his head and said: "A few years ago, Poor Dao saw that the people in their village wrapped several people in straw mats and carried them here, Poor Dao asked them, and they said that these people were killed by the Japanese, and the death was unlucky, and they were buried in the mountain, and some people burned paper for them in the past few years, and no one has entered the mountain in recent years, and the roads are deserted. ”

After listening to this, my grandmother didn't ask any more questions, put down my father, and asked, "Tell Mom, does that aunt live here?" ”

My father twisted his face and looked around, and raised his hand to point to a small mound in the innermost part of the ravine, and my grandmother immediately felt that her scalp was numb, and it was really here. Then he handed my father to Xinyangzi to look at, took out a few pieces of yellow paper from his baggage, and walked to the small grave.

The small mound seems to have been many years old, and the mound is barely legible because it is only the size of a millstone. My grandmother raised her head and argued the direction, walked to the grave, drew a circle on the ground, threw the yellow paper into the circle, took out the foreign fire and lit it, and said: "Big sister, let the child go, you have no grievances with the child, if you really want a child, I will give you one tomorrow, give me this child." ”

As she spoke, my grandmother took out another piece of yellow paper, tore it into the shape of a villain, gently placed it on the grave, knelt down and kowtowed four times to the grave, and silently recited in her mouth: "The sky is panicked, the paper man returns to the soul, the gods and ghosts do not accept it, the sky is panicked, the paper man is possessed, and the gods and ghosts are unstoppable." ”

After reading, I saw the little paper figure move, as if it was blown by the wind, my grandmother was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out two pieces of yellow paper from the baggage, sandwiched the little paper figure between the yellow paper, and put it back in the baggage.

Standing up from the ground, my grandmother breathed a sigh of relief and turned her head to beckon Xinyangzi to leave, but when she turned her head to look at Xinyangzi, the place was empty, Xinyangzi was gone, and my father was gone.

My grandmother was startled, raised her eyes and looked around, I don't know when the appearance changed, the mass graves were gone, and there were small dilapidated houses around her, and there was a person in tattered clothes sitting at the door of each house, these people had a common characteristic, all of them were pale and wooden.

My grandmother screamed in her heart, not good......