It's July 15 again, and every night on this day, there will be a lot of people burning paper money at the crossroads, and today is no exception.

We four young people, with nothing to do, pressed the road down the avenue and wandered around, and because of the fifteenth of July, there would be many burnt paper ashes at every intersection. We're like this every year here, and all four of us don't care.

A tall and rough-looking boy called Erfei next to me, looking at the paper ash not far in front of him, I don't know which tendon is wrong, I go up and step on it, and muttered while stepping on it: "The living don't have enough money to spend, and I still have the heart to burn the dead, it's true." ”

I hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Er Fei off the paper ashes, and said with some reproach: "Er Fei, don't step on it again, my grandfather said that ghosts will come out to withdraw money on the fifteenth day of every month, and if you disturb them to withdraw money, there will be trouble at that time." ”

After listening to what I said, Er Fei said to a few people beside me: "Gao Tian, this kid, he is a ghost and a god all day long, I don't believe it, and I will step on it for you today." ”

A thin boy named Dajun next to me didn't listen to what I said, so he said: "Erfei, don't step on it, my mother also told me about this, it's really bad." ”

After listening to Dajun's words, Erfei asked the slightly older boy who didn't speak, "Da Ming, do you believe what Gao Tian and Dajun said?" ”

The boy named Da Ming, whose body is very sturdy about one meter seventy-five, and is very handsome, after hearing Er Fei's words, he took a step back and said: "I don't believe it, but I won't step on them like you!" ”

Erfei's eyes glared, "Gao Tian, if you let go of me, I won't believe in this evil today." ”

Since I was not as strong as Erfei, I was freed from Erfei in a few strokes, and as soon as Erfei broke free, he stomped on the paper ash around him, and at the same time, some of them with sacrifices were also kicked over by him.

I helplessly looked at the paper ashes that were kicked away by Erfei, and said to the two people around me: "Let Erfei play by himself, let's go, ignore him." ”

Dajun and Da Ming listened to me, nodded, and walked with me into the distance.

Seeing that we were lucky, Er Fei shouted: "I said that the three of you are too unsophisticated, wait for me for a while." With that, he gave up kicking the ashes and chased after the three of us. Just when Er Fei left, he didn't notice a gust of wind blowing on a few mounds of paper ash.

I saw that Erfei chased after him, and quipped: "I said that you kicked those bunches of paper ashes apart, and you are not afraid that they will find you at night." ”

Er Fei looked at me with some disdain and said, "I said Gao Tian, don't scare me with those ghosts and gods, tell you, I'm just not afraid of these, or you let them come to me at night." As soon as he finished saying this, Erfei's body shook unconsciously.

I shook my head helplessly and said, "What are we going to do now?" ”

When Da Ming heard my words, he hurriedly said: "Why don't we go to Lao Wang's house to see how it goes, his family is now pushing pai gow, how about we go and get a few stitches." ”

As soon as Er Fei heard Daming's proposal, he said with a happy face: "Then let's go quickly, don't disperse in a while." Seeing his urgency, the three of us shook our heads and walked towards a small dirt road not far away.

After walking along the dirt road for about five or six minutes, a three-room mud house appeared in front of me, and before I could enter the house, I heard a loud commotion.

"Lao Li, what's going on with your village, except for one or two openings, it's seven, six, eight, four."

"Lao Zhang, Lao Li is boiling the pot and hurry up, where did you get so much nonsense."

Before the three of us could do anything, as soon as Er Fei heard that Lao Li was boiling the pot, he ran into the house.

Dajun saw Er Fei running into the house, and said to me and Da Ming: "You don't know, when I went to look for Er Fei, his mother gave him twenty yuan.

I don't know why, today's Erfei's idea is very back, as long as he presses on that door, that door will die, and in the end he really loses, so he simply pulled the three of us out of Lao Wang's house.

Because Erfei lost all the money, he was in a bad mood and went home early, while the three of us slipped aimlessly on the avenue until almost ten o'clock, and the army dragged Daming, who had not walked enough, home.

Because I live in different directions with Daming, so I am left alone, looking up at the bright moon overhead, I shook my head, and walked towards my home, at about ten o'clock in the countryside, most of the people have turned off the lights to sleep, only a few families are still on the lights, so the road is exceptionally dark.

I walked to a crossroads, looked at the paper ash in front of me, and was a little timid to stay away from it, not that I was timid, because some things and some things are still not to be provoked.

My house was four intersections from where we were pressing the highway, and as I walked through the second intersection, I suddenly heard the sound of 'brush, brush,' behind me. But when I stopped and looked back, there was nothing behind me, and the sound of brushing was gone.

All the hairs on my body stood up, and I walked forward quickly, but I hadn't taken a few steps before the sound of brushing behind me sounded again, and I felt that my scalp had stood up, and I didn't look back, but picked up my pace again, and walked forward quickly, but as my steps accelerated, the sound of brushing behind me became more obvious.

At fifteen or sixteen, when the young man was curious, I had the courage to stop again, turned my head and looked behind me again, but it was still empty behind me, I was a little unwilling, and I was silent everywhere, at this moment, I suddenly found that ten steps away from me, there was a broom head (for brushing pots) that had been discarded, I turned around in disappointment and continued to walk forward.

But the sound of brushing sounded again, after the sound of brushing, I was a little hairy, the footsteps did not stop, I looked back, I couldn't help but let out a 'ah' sound, I saw that the broom head that was ten steps away from me just now, actually swung behind me, and the sound of brushing was made when it swung.

I was very scared in my heart, I didn't expect the broom head to be able to follow me, scared me to run in the direction of my house, as I ran, the sound of the brush on the body was more intense, I looked back, and found that the broom head was always about ten steps away from me and had been following me.

My heart was beating wildly, and I ran forward quickly, the road to home was getting closer and closer, and after another turn in front of me, I reached home in a hundred meters, I accelerated again, but the sound of brushing behind me did not disappear, but became more harsh as I accelerated.

When I was about to take it anymore, I saw the last ten-finger intersection, hope was in front of me, my body accelerated again, and when I reached the intersection, I ran fast without slowing down.

"Oh, what are you running to?" An old man in his sixties was caught off guard and knocked to the ground by me.

I was also hit by the old man, I fixed my mind, and looked at the person I hit was none other than my grandfather Gao Xiufeng.

Grandpa saw that I was a little distracted, and asked angrily: "Gao Tian, you can't let the ghost chase me, why do you run so much?" ”

After listening to my grandfather's words, I looked at the broom head ten steps away from me, and said a little nervously: "Grandpa, it's not a ghost, it's it!" ”

Grandpa looked in the direction of my finger, and when he saw the broomstick, he frowned and said to me, "High heaven, you come behind me." ”

I stood up and slowly moved behind my grandfather, for fear of disturbing the broom head on the ground, but as soon as I moved my steps, the broom head slowly moved forward.

My grandfather pulled me behind me, took out a box of matches from his jacket pocket, and said to me, "You stay and don't move, or it will follow you all the time." ”

I listened to my grandfather's words, I was so frightened that I didn't dare to move, where I stood honestly, my grandfather ignored me, and approached the broom head step by step, but the brush head did not react, and it did not move, as if it was the only one who did not walk, as if it would not move.

My grandfather came to the broom head and squatted down, looked back at me and told me again: "No matter what happens for a while, don't move, or you will be in trouble!" I listened to my grandfather's words and nodded nervously.

Seeing me nodding, Grandpa turned around, struck a match, threw it at the head of the broom, and quickly came to me.

After the faint light of the burning match fell on the head of the brush, the head of the brush began to burn rapidly, and at the same time made a violent sound of brushing, which frightened my face at that time, and my body was just about to move, grandpa's rough hands pressed on my shoulders, and said in a deep voice: "Don't move, if you move, it will be a mess." ”

When I heard this, my body didn't dare to move, and after watching the brush head not far away slowly turn into ashes, my whole body softened, and my grandfather helped me up and walked in the direction of my house. Just after my grandfather and I left, the brush head was burned to ashes and scattered in the air by the wind.