Hearing what my grandmother said, I hurriedly asked, "Could this female paper figure that can't be found in the cemetery be the one under Mingqun's bed?" ”

Grandma nodded and said, "It should be, I think it was Shuangxi who carried the female paper figure under Ming Qun's mother's bed." ”

I scratched my head and said, "No, grandma, isn't it true that ghosts can't touch objects in the yang world, and besides, Jun's father hasn't been dead for long, what can he do with new ghosts." ”

Grandma said: "Paper people, paper money these objects are different, these objects can be through the yin after they are done, even new ghosts can move them, if you don't understand, you go and ask your grandma, they also have rules in the craft of the paper people, especially the paper people, after the paper people are tied, the face must be covered with a black cloth, or the ghosts passing by will be seen, it will be attached to it, and the family remembers that something happened." ”

I said, "Then what do you mean, Mingqun's father attached himself to the female paper man and put the female paper man under Ming Qun's mother's bed?" ”

Grandma nodded again, "That's the only possibility." ”

I scratched my head again and said, "That's not right, when I was in the big pit, I saw Ming Jun and his father pulling the female paper man, who was attached to the female paper man at that time?" ”

My grandmother laughed and asked me, "Who do you think it could be?" ”

I blinked my eyes twice, and I thought, what my grandmother said just now, Mingqun's father wants to take Mingqun's mother away, could it be that Mingqun's mother is attached to the female paper man? I tried to ask, "Grandma, it can't be Mingqun's mother, right?" But Mingqun is alive. ”

Grandma said: "Can't a living person be out of his body, in my opinion, Ming Qun's mother is out of body and attached to the female paper man, she is now a person during the day and a ghost at night, if it continues like this, she will die in a short time." ”

"What then?" I said, "Otherwise, let's go to Mingqun's house and get the female paper figure out and burn it." ”

Grandma hurriedly waved her hand, "The female paper figure can't be burned now, otherwise there will be no place to attach Ming Qun's mother's soul after it comes out at night, if she gives her soul to run elsewhere, it will be difficult to find it back then." ”

"So what should I do?"

Grandma thought for a while and said: "In these crafts in our family, there is nothing that can prevent other people's souls from going out of the body, but after the soul is out of the body, you can trap it first, and after the things on Ming Qun's father's side are done, Ming Qun's mother will think of other ways here." Grandma said, her face was straight, and she continued to say to me: "You go to Mingqun's house again tonight, and when they fall asleep, sprinkle a grass ash at the door of Mingqun's mother's house, her house seems to have no windows, right?" ”

I shook my head, "No." ”

"If not, you don't need to sprinkle it on the windowsill, after the door of the inner room is sprinkled, sprinkle it around the bedside of Ming Qun's mother again, and after sprinkling the grass ash, in the threshold of their door, the nose rushes in and the tip rushes out, and six big needles with the soles of the shoes are placed."

I nodded, "Fire Sea Arrow Array, I know, do you still have to mix jujube sawdust in the grass ash?" ”

Grandma smiled, nodded and said, "It seems that I will be able to pass incense to you in two years, and grandma will be able to rest at that time." ”

Grandma's words are very vicissitudes, and the tone is very similar to when Chen Blind accepted my younger brother as an apprentice, I suddenly felt uncomfortable in my heart for some reason.

After Grandma finished speaking, she raised her feet and was about to leave the hall, and I knew that she was going to go outside again, so I hurriedly asked, "Grandma, what should I do after I finish this?" ”

Grandma walked out the door without looking back, "I'll talk about it until I'm done tonight." ”

Survive this evening? I felt a little awkward when I heard my grandmother's words, and hurriedly asked, "Why do you have to survive tonight?" ”

Grandma didn't answer, but asked me, "What time is the beginning of the lunar calendar today?" ”

I thought about it for a moment, then replied, "Fifteen." ”

Grandma ignored me and walked straight out of the room.

Every fifteenth full moon night, there will be a lot of stories, the full moon night, whether it is a beast or a ghost, will be particularly excited, there are Taoist beasts will kowtow to the full moon, that is, the Taoist said to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, those lonely souls and wild ghosts will walk back and forth under the moonlight, we call them this behavior "shadow", that is, ghosts will stand in the moonlight in front of and behind themselves to look around, wondering why they have no shadow. Legend has it that if passers-by pass by at this time, some of them will ask passers-by, "Hey, why don't I have a shadow?" If a passer-by hears it and gives them an answer, then the passer-by will be out of luck. It can be said that the full moon night is equivalent to the time when these things are very active, and if Mingqun's father wants to take Mingqun's mother away, he will probably choose this day.

The book is brief, and in a blink of an eye, it is night again, there is a little wind, there are no clouds in the sky, and the moon hangs in the middle of the sky and is shining.

At this time, my grandmother had already prepared grass ash and big needles for me in advance. After dinner, when I was about to go out with the grass ash needle, my grandmother told me that I could go home and sleep tonight, and I could come back after setting up the grass ash needle, I nodded.

However, just left our house and walked a few steps, a person came to me, I looked, it was Qiang Shun, because tomorrow is Sunday and I don't have to go to school, it seems that Qiang Shun is coming to play with me at home.

I immediately greeted him, and as soon as the two of them met, Qiang Shunshen mysteriously pulled me to the side of the road and whispered to me, "I'm going to your house to look for you, go, find Xinjian and ask Xinjian to invite us to drink." ”

I was confused and asked, "Why do you want to invite us to drink?" ”

Qiang Shun said: "I heard that today is his birthday. ”

Qiang Shun's words made me cry and laugh, and I couldn't find excuses for drinking, so I said, "Go by yourself, I still have something to do today." ”

Qiang Shun was not happy when he heard this, and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

I shook the bag of grass ash at him and said, "Grandma told me to scatter these things at Ming Jun's house." ”

Qiang Shun narrowed his eyes and looked at the bag. Qiang Shun's family and our family don't have to say, Qiang Shun also knows a lot about our family, he understood at a glance, and asked me: "What's going on with the Ming army's family?" ”

I glanced at him and said, "It's better that you still don't know, it can scare you to death if you say it." ”

When Qiang Shun heard this, he was unconvinced and said: "Liu Huanghe, don't underestimate me, my courage has been practiced in the past two years, and nothing can scare me." ”

I immediately scoffed and said, "If you really practice your guts, you have the ability to wipe the blood off your chest." ”

Qiang Shun choked for a moment, but he quickly changed the subject and asked me, "Did you get it done in a while?" ”

I nodded.

"Then I'll go to Ming Jun's house with you, and you will go with me to find Xinjian in a while, will you be in the middle or not?"

I didn't speak, I nodded again.

When I came to Mingqun's house, I put the bag outside their door, at this time, their family had just had dinner, a family of three was watching TV in the house, I entered the house with Qiang Shun, Mingqun's mother hurriedly found a stool to beckon us to sit down, and then she turned around and walked into her own house.

After Qiang Shun and I sat down, we said hello to Ming Qun and Ming Jun, we all played from childhood to adulthood, and we were no strangers to each other. But at this time, Mingqun and his brothers are not compared with the two of us, I and Qiang Shun At this time, we are as energetic as those lonely ghosts outside, and their brothers have begun to run for their livelihood, driving mule carts up dozens of miles every day, and after returning home at night, they are tired and sleepy, and they don't even have the spirit to watch TV.

After a while, Ming Jun began to yawn, said hello to us, lay down on his bed and fell asleep, Ming Qun moved the stool, sat next to me and asked me in a low voice, how was the discussion with my grandmother.

I glanced at Ming Jun's bed, Ming Jun seemed to be asleep, got up and took the bag that had been placed outside the door in advance into the house, and then told Ming Qun what my grandmother told me.

Ming Qun listened to the explanation before us, turned off the TV and the light when he left, and after speaking, he turned around and went back to the north room to sleep.

In the room, there were only me and Qiang Shun left, Qiang Shun gave me a look, that means, tell me to do it now, I shook my head, and whispered, wait until they are all asleep before sprinkling.

By the time we finished watching an episode of the TV series, it was almost nine o'clock, I had watched it almost, got up and walked to the north room where Ming Jun slept with Ming Qun and took a look, Ming Qun and Ming Jun were all asleep, and it was estimated that their mother should have fallen asleep at this time.

Qiang Shun was impatient to wait at this time, and gave me another look.

I nodded, walked to Mingqun's mother's door with a bag of ashes, grabbed a handful of grass ash from the bag and sprinkled it at the door, after sprinkling, I originally planned to open the curtain and walk directly into Mingqun's mother's room, but at this time I always felt that Mingqun's mother didn't seem to be asleep, in case I really didn't fall asleep, I just recklessly got in...... Not so good.

I quietly opened the door curtain a crack, closed one eye and looked inside, and suddenly gasped, at this time I didn't have the slightest preparation, and saw Mingqun's mother standing straight in the door, with her hair scattered, her back to the door, fortunately, her back to the door, otherwise she would have found me, but she was standing upright in the house in the dark light at this time, what did she mean?

Qiang Shun came over stupidly at this time, looked at the door curtain, a mouth, as if to say something, I hurriedly turned around, did not wait for him to say it, backhanded his mouth to cover him, without waiting for him to react, I put a finger on my mouth, gently shh

I let go of him slowly, waved at him again, and the two of us walked out of the door and into the courtyard.

Qiang Shun is not happy at this time, it is more than nine o'clock, maybe Xinjian has already slept, and it is not appropriate to go to him again at this time.

I said to Qiang Shun, "You do me a favor tonight, and I will invite you to drink this wine." With that, I pulled a cigarette out of my body and handed him one.

Qiang Shun took the cigarette and his face was much better.

Qiang Shun asked me, "What do you want me to do for you?" ”

I said, "Use your yin and yang eyes to see what Ming Jun has in his house." ”

Qiang Shun's face changed suddenly when he heard this, and I hurriedly said: "Didn't you just say that you have already practiced your courage now, I don't dare to believe your words anymore in the future." ”

When Qiang Shun heard this, he immediately became anxious and said, "I'm afraid that I can't believe your words, you buy me the wine first, and you have to buy me a box of cigarettes." ”

"Okay." I nodded.

At that time, the wine seemed to be just over two yuan a bottle, what kind of wine did we often drink at that time, Yangshao? Luyi? I don't remember very clearly, but I remember that we often smoked a box of "Caidie" cigarettes and a box of "Ximei" cigarettes, which later rose to eight a piece.

I was fifteen or sixteen years old at the time, and I had some private money, so I went home and got the money, and went to the village store to buy a bottle of wine, a box of colored butterfly cigarettes, and a bag of fried peanuts.

As soon as Qiang Shun saw the cigarettes and alcohol, his face was happy, and he was a very unpopular vice. Later, I didn't talk much about him, if you have milk, you are your mother, and if you have wine, you can drink it.

After buying cigarettes and alcohol, I opened the curtain of Mingqun's mother's door and looked inside, at this time, Mingqun's mother was no longer standing in the door, and a human figure bulged on the bed, and after waiting for a while, seeing that there was no movement, I sprinkled the grass ash around her bed, and I couldn't help but open the sheets and look under the bed, the female paper man was lying sideways under the bed, and the black eyes were beaded, looking so panicked.

When I got out of the back room, I placed the six big needles at the door of their house. After getting all this, Qiang Shun couldn't wait.

On the southeast side of Mingqun's house and the west side of the big dirt road, there is a dirt slope, and sitting on the dirt slope is condescending, and you can see the whole house and yard of Mingqun's house clearly. We took out a bowl from Mingqun's house, carried wine and cigarettes, and climbed up the dirt slope.

The wine was poured into the bowl, and the peanuts were knocked and looked at the Ming Qun's house, and we drank it.

Despite this terrifying atmosphere, many years later, it became my fondest memory.

The breeze and the moon, singing about wine, the geometry of life......