In China, it is basically a house facing south from the north, and the son with the door facing south is called "Tangwu", which is used for guests, similar to the living room in today's commercial housing. In the past, in the countryside, there was usually a piece of furniture set up in the hall called 'Tiaoji', what is this? It was against the innermost wall, facing the door, that was the long table, and the two ends were usually attached to the east and west walls. Because the location of this thing is generally in the core of the whole room, the owner will usually put the spirit tablets or shrines that need to be worshipped here, so it is also called the "offering table".

In front of this "offering table" is placed a table of eight immortals and four long-legged benches, which are essential hardware in rural furniture in the past, and those with a little bit of conditions can be used.

The eight immortals on the table are all tributes and incense paper, and the things are all about the same, four meats of chicken, duck and fish, plus three vegetarian dishes. Anyway, just put the odd number of dishes for the dead to eat, a pair of chopsticks, a wine cup, and inverted rice and eggs are indispensable. The rice must be sandwiched raw, and the eggs should be half-cooked.

Yu Da's mother-in-law lit incense in this place, and after pulling three or four matches without lighting them, the mother-in-law simply took out a small handful and put them together, and then stroked hard. Hey, it's on, and I shuddered and lit the incense.

Anyone who has lit incense knows that if the flame is too big, the incense will burn, like a small torch, or it will be burned out in a short time. However, incense with an open flame cannot be blown out with the mouth, and the ancestors of the underworld will not be happy to smell it if it is touched, so the correct way is to put your hands together and put it on your chest to fan up and down, and use the power of the wind to extinguish the open flame.

The woman had her back to the offering table, so she lit the incense and turned around to insert it into the censer on the offering table. There is a portrait of Lao Yu on the top of the offering table, Lao Yu has not taken a photo in front of him, this is enlarged with the photo on his ID card, black and white. This thing, she didn't want to let go, but Lao Yu died for a hundred days, this thing is here for relatives and friends to see, and after a while, she will definitely be thrown into the toilet, in the words of her scolding her man, when she sees the photo, she feels that Lao Yu's eyes are staring at him, as if he abused him a lot before his death.

turned around and saw that it was Lao Yu in the portrait grinning at himself, you must know that Lao Yu has a hard life all his life, and even when he took this ID card, he had a bitter gourd face. What reason could he find to laugh? He couldn't find it.

"Ahh There was a scream, which startled the two brothers and sisters outside the house, the scream was really loud, and it was really loud, it was fear from the heart. Before I was alive, I was not good to the elderly, and if I wanted to say that I felt guilty, it might not be, but I did something wrong, and I really didn't have enough confidence to face the dead!

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!" Outside the house, two women rushed in, and the eldest mother-in-law also ran out, and the three of them bumped into each other in the yard.

The panicked woman trembled and shouted panickedly to the concubines: "Daddy is here, he is here to ask for his life!" ”

The three women ran almost at flying speed to the man's place, where they felt the only thing they felt safe.

The women rushed to their respective husbands and cried out in trembling language: "Haunted, haunted!" "I went to my sister-in-law's house, my father is here, what should I do?" "I don't dare to go back, I'm going to stay!"

The men either comforted the women, or looked at Cha Wenbin, but they didn't expect Cha Wenbin to just say coldly: "Where did you come from, go back to where now, if you don't want the old man to stay with you for the rest of his life." ”

Yu Da's mother-in-law almost knelt down and kowtowed to Cha Wenbin, that home, even if it was tomorrow, she didn't dare to go back: "There are really ghosts, Zha Daoist, I believe it now, there are really ghosts, I don't dare to go back!" ”

Yu Da also looked at Cha Wenbin pitifully, he really wanted this master in his village to give him some advice, the fear of his father came from death, and the ghosts in people's subconscious were terrifying.

"Go back and stay until dawn." Cha Wenbin took out a talisman from his arms and handed it to the woman: "Take it, put it in your pocket." ”

The three women looked at Cha Wenbin pitifully, seeing that they were not willing to go even if they were killed, Cha Wenbin took back the rune paper and turned to face the men and said, "If they don't go, then you go, men and women will change positions." ”

"Do you have to go?". Everyone's guts are made of meat, I heard that there are ghosts in the family, and the men don't want to, so they almost have some soy sauce on their faces to make pork liver in sauce.

Cha Wenbin put away the things on the ground, put his hands behind his back and said, "If you don't go, don't come to me if there is any more trouble at home tomorrow night." ”

There are still some villagers on the lookers, and this is going to spread that their father is afraid, and there will be no way to gain a foothold in the village in the future. There is always someone who wants to go, Yu Da turned his heart sideways, thinking that he is his own father after all, even if he becomes a ghost, he will not poison his own son.

The brothers and sisters got up, took the flashlight from Cha Wenbin and began to walk back. Walking to the door of his house, looking at the miserable white lantern hanging on the familiar gate, Yu Da's legs were already trembling, and he wanted to run back, but the two younger brothers pushed him in. In this way, Yu Da staggered back to the house, and the light switch in the house was turned on, and everything that could be lit was turned on, and the room was brightly lit.

Yu Da turned around, and the portrait in the hall was still the same as on the ID card, and there was no change; Scattered on the ground were incense that was extinguished halfway through, the paper money was still tied with plastic ropes, and only one bench was on the ground, which should have been knocked over when the mother-in-law ran out.

Isn't that lady dazzled? Yu Da comforted himself like this, and his courage grew a little bit. Cha Wenbin explained that he can't turn on the lights when he enters the house, he can't care about this, who dares to stay here without turning on the lights?

The time has also reached the third watch, Yu Da is usually a good drinker, and he will get drunk every time he drinks, but his wife is strict and does not allow him to eat. It's been a busy day, and I've been kneeling all night, and my stomach is already empty. Looking at the table full of tributes, mainly the wine, that is the best Xinghua Village Fen wine, he still drank it once a few years ago for someone else's family, and his mother-in-law plans to take this bottle of wine to the store tomorrow.

When the drunkard saw that the wine aroused his greed, he turned around in his mind, and he thought of a good way: secretly get a cup to drink, and if his wife asked why there was less wine, it would be said that his father drank it. If you have the ability, go to the old man in the photo to testify, and look at her scared at night, just say that, I guess she doesn't dare to have any questions.

Once a person with good wine opens his mouth, where is it so easy to loosen? A mouthful of Xinghua Village, that is called a beauty, everything is forgotten to Yu Da in the clouds, Mei Zizi took a sip, Yu Da held the wine glass and said to the portrait of his father: "Today is a blessing for your old man, let's go one of the two." "He had a pair of chopsticks and a wine cup beside him, and there was food in the bowl, but the wine cup was filled with water, which was for the dead, and it was just for show, and his daughter-in-law was willing to use real wine.

How can you enjoy it in one cup? After drinking it, just have another glass, Yu Da poured himself another glass, looked at the steamed whole chicken on the table, tore a piece of chicken leg and gnawed it, how will my wife explain when she comes back tomorrow? Whatever, it's all over the old man's body.

Drinking and drinking, Yu Da also hummed a little song, all these years of suffering from the mother-in-law's wretchedness, all vented in this wine tonight. When he took the wine cup again to touch the wine with the glass on the side, he saw that the cup was already empty, and Yu Da, who was a little drunk, picked up the wine bottle and was about to pour the wine, and said in a daze: "Don't worry, drink slowly!" ”

The dripping wine poured into the glass, the sound was particularly empty in the night, Yu Da looked up at the portrait, the old man in the photo was grinning at him, which meant that he was quite satisfied with the taste of the wine. In an instant, Yu Da was stupid, he shook his head vigorously, blinked a few times and looked at it again, and the image returned to normal.

He didn't know that the wine in the wine cup was full, and he began to overflow, until it dripped to his pants before he reacted: The wine in the wine cup was full just now, obviously no one had drunk it, how could it be empty?

"Bang", the wine bottle was knocked over by him in a panic, Yu Da turned around in fear and ran out, and when he crossed the threshold, the electric light suddenly tripped, and the surroundings were suddenly dark. Yu Da lost his direction, stumbled under his feet, and the person fell forward and ate, only to feel a sweetness in his mouth, it turned out that two front teeth were knocked out.

The movement in the old family's house also alarmed the two brothers outside, and they broke into the door one after another, and the old-fashioned flashlight in their hands could only emit a dim yellow light, only a figure rushed out, his face was covered with blood, and he didn't know what he was shouting. After a look, it turned out to be his eldest brother, and the two of them supported him, and the panicked Yu Dalian shouted with a gesture: "Ghost, there is a ghost!" ”

At the same time, Cha Wenbin was guarding the foundation of the old house, and a strong wind suddenly arose outside, blowing those paper money incense ashes everywhere, plopping down on the faces of the group of girls. The daughter-in-law who was fascinated got up in a panic, and just now a spark seemed to have jumped into her eyelids, "bang", her head just hit the offering table, and the spirit card of Lao Yu on the table shook and fell straight back.

Cha Wenbin decisively took out an ink fountain from his arms, quickly wrapped it around the spirit card with a black thread, pulled it on a bamboo pole on the side, and hung the spirit card on the top of the volley.

There were several children present, all of whom were Lao Yu's grandchildren, and Cha Wenbin pulled the eldest boy, and for no reason, he took an embroidery needle and pierced his middle finger. The child who didn't understand what was going on immediately cried, and Cha Wenbin took his finger and pressed it down on the top of the spirit card, which is the soul fixing!