Meng Changqing and his grandfather didn't return all night, so they should have forgotten to chat with someone, or slept at someone else's house.

I saw that there was vomit on the bed and all over my body, so I got up and called my grandmother, who then asked me to take a shower and then took my clothes and sheets to the gutter next to me and washed them.

Before my grandmother went, I asked me to call my grandfather back, saying that it was not a rule to stay in someone else's house for too long.

I asked my grandmother to go from house to house at the bottom of the village, and finally found them at Uncle Zhang's house, it was six o'clock in the morning, and they were still talking and laughing when I went.

Uncle Zhang's house was in a mess, and a small platform was built on the wall directly above the house, on which was dedicated to the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the Bodhisattva statue was hung with a rectangular red cloth, on which was written vertically 'Heaven and Earth Ancestor Master', and a pair of couplets were written on both sides of the red cloth.

The upper link is 'no need to ask for a thousand years to have a rare child', the lower link is 'secretly pray for a child to be born in one day', and the horizontal criticism is 'respond to requests'.

Not only that, but there are a lot of yellow charms on the doors and windows of Uncle Zhang's house, and when I asked him before, he said that this was for the house.

Uncle Zhang and Meng Changqing are similar to each other, and the language of the two has been figured out, and they chatted very happily, and Meng Changqing has rarely become a chatterbox, chatting with people about this and that.

Uncle Zhang had worked in the coal mine before, and when he saw that Meng Changqing was a Taoist priest, he told him some strange things about the coal mine, such as once, a group of four people in their group was ready to go into the cave to dig coal in the morning, and one of them joked before going in, saying that the four of them would die together. The other two said yes, but Uncle Zhang was uncomfortable at the time, so he didn't say yes.

After entering, Uncle Zhang dug a cart of coal and pushed it out, and when he came out, he was about to go in again, when the coal mine exploded with a bang, and the air wave washed him directly out of dozens of meters. As for the other three, they naturally died in the coal mine. The gas in the coal mine burned for a few days, and the people waited for the temperature inside to cool down a few days before entering.

Uncle Zhang asked Meng Changqing what was going on, Meng Changqing said: "There are many types of words, there are swear words, good words, flattering words, what you say is called 'telling the truth', people's luck is high and low, and if you say inappropriate things at the wrong time, these words are likely to become reality, so the trouble comes from the mouth, and you are still cautious and good in words and deeds outside, sometimes talking nonsense not only harms yourself, but also harms others." ”

I was taken aback when I heard it, remembering the words I had told Na Yehai in the back hill yesterday that I wanted to burn paper for him, plus the dream I had last night? I thought to myself, did I also fall into the truth?

Grandpa and Meng Changqing both noticed that my face had changed, and they asked me what was wrong.

I was afraid that I would be scolded by my grandfather if I said it, so I said, "It's nothing, grandma told you to go back quickly." ”

Meng Changqing glanced at the sky outside, then turned his head and said to his grandfather to return.

Hearing that Meng Changqing and they were leaving, Uncle Zhang got up and left us for breakfast.

Meng Changqing and his grandfather politely refused, and I also refused, I have seen him cook, because he used firewood to cook, he couldn't master the heat well, and every time the food was cooked, it was black. After eating it once, I didn't want to eat it a second time, and I wondered if he could survive such a meal.

Uncle Zhang didn't deliberately keep it, and got up to see us off after a few polite words.

After going out, he invited Meng Changqing to have time to come to him to play cards, Meng Changqing agreed, and then took off the paulownia bracelet in his hand and handed it to Uncle Zhang and said: "I see that your face is a little black, in a few days it will be the Midyear Festival again, my bracelet has been opened, you can wear it on your hand to ward off evil." ”

I was a little surprised to see Meng Changqing give the bracelet to Uncle Zhang, Li Yanke was there, but Meng Changqing must have his plan to do this, and I didn't break it.

Uncle Zhang took the bracelet and gave Meng Changqing dozens of yuan, but Meng Changqing couldn't push it off, so he could only take it.

Because my grandfather was on the way, I couldn't ask Meng Changqing why he gave the bracelet to Uncle Zhang, and I said after I returned to the house: "Why did you give him the bracelet?" ”

"Don't you think he's weird? Obviously alone, but to pay homage to Guanyin, the talisman in his house is not used for the house, but for the evil town ghosts, and his eyes are bloodshot and white, his face is covered with horizontal flesh and green tendons, and the forehead of the head is a house, this is the face of a traitor, in addition, his eyes when he looks at your grandfather are also full of haze, we have to pay attention to him. ”

I usually don't pay attention, but the more I think about what Meng Changqing said, the more I think he is right, and after he said, I remembered that my grandmother told me yesterday that Uncle Zhang was going to go on my birthday.

"Your second grandmother tried every means to leave you in the Taoist temple, and you couldn't remember the way home, they didn't take you with them, they definitely didn't want you to return to this place, your second grandmother should know some insiders, since she doesn't want you to come back, it means that you must be in danger when you come back, you have to be careful, don't be too close to people these days. In addition, your second grandmother hasn't come back yet, most of them are afraid to come back, we will solve the matter here as soon as possible, they should come back after the solution, I have some other things, I can't stay here all the time. ”

"Master, are you leaving?"

Meng Changqing nodded, and then went into the house to fiddle with his money sword, yellow mounted paper, cinnabar and other things, and before entering the house, he gave me the dozens of yuan that Uncle Zhang gave me just now, saying that the bracelet was made by me with wooden boards, and the money should also be given to me.

I thought about things here for a while, and then took the money in my hand and ran to the commissary in the next village.

I bought a few stacks of yin-yang paper with a denomination of one hundred at the commissary, and prepared to burn it for that Ye Hai for a while, so that he wouldn't give me dreams again.

On the way back from the commissary, I passed by a paddy field and met a few villagers who were preparing to work in the fields.

Generally, the villagers chatted with something new, and now the freshest thing is naturally my master's business.

I heard them talking about Meng Changqing from a distance, and several other older people said that Meng Changqing's eyebrows were full of righteousness, and his face was also heroic, and he looked like a powerful person.

Only a woman named Hu Haiyan said: "Ye Jiahai Wazi's second grandmother didn't come back with him, in my opinion, whether that Meng Changqing is a liar master that Ye Jiahai Wazi recognized halfway, I have to remind Ye Bo and them later, so that they don't be deceived." ”

This woman was the youngest woman in our village, probably in her thirties. Her husband's name is Jin Renhai, she was brought back by Jin Renhai from working outside a few years ago, during this time her man went out to work, and she was going to go out to work with her after harvesting the crops.

After listening to her remarks, the villagers all said that there was no basis, and said that Meng Changqing came and didn't take anything from others, which didn't look like a liar at all.

"I didn't take any of them, I didn't take them." Hu Haiyan interrupted them and said, "This morning, he exchanged a chain made of paulownia trees for Zhang Shike for seventy yuan." Besides, he didn't say anything or do anything when the red monkey passed by last night, if it was a real Taoist priest, how could it be so useless. ”

I heard her remarks under the camp, first I was upset about Meng Changqing, and then I was puzzled, less than an hour had passed since Uncle Zhang gave money, how did she know? In addition, it was clear that there were only forty yuan, but she said that it was seventy yuan, which was obviously hating Meng Changqing.

As for the red monkey in her mouth, it is what we call the ghost here, if it is wearing green clothes, it is called a green monkey, and if it is in red clothes, it is naturally a red monkey, and what is in the water is called a water monkey.

This is not over, after she finished speaking, she turned her focus to me again: "And that Ye Jiahai baby, he used to attract ghosts, went out for a while, and when he came back, didn't you notice that his face looked like a ghost, it's not as good as before, in my opinion, it must be that he is a poor ghost, a drunkard, and a bad gambler outside again, and his master is a poor ghost." ”

I listened and secretly scolded her for a long-tongued woman, cursing her for being pulled out of her tongue when she died. I couldn't stand her words, so I swaggered over.

When they saw me over, they immediately smiled, hurriedly stopped the topic just now, and asked with a smile: "Haiwazi, what are you doing so early?" ”

Hu Haiyan also changed her face, and asked me with a smile: "The current doll doesn't sleep until ten o'clock and doesn't get up, you get up so early, you're quite diligent." ”

I didn't look at her face at this moment, so I said hello to the other villagers and left with the yin-yang paper

The rural people had breakfast late, and I saw that there was still some time, and I didn't dare to bring the yin and yang paper to the house, so I simply took advantage of this time to run to the back hill.

I burned these yin and yang papers for that Ye Hai, and I was afraid that he would come to me again at night, so I wanted to burn them for him as soon as possible.

I burned more than half of these yin-yang papers to him, and the more I burned them, the more scared I became, and I didn't dare to stay here in the back, so I ran home with the unburned yin-yang paper.

This time, I took a closer route, and this time I went straight home from the halfway point of the mountain.

I was only halfway there, and when I arrived at Xiaoxiao's father's grave, I stopped, and after stopping, I saw that there was no sandalwood or ashes in front of Xiaoxiao's father's grave, and I thought that no one looked at him these days, and it happened that I had some unburned yin and yang paper in my hand, so I squatted down and burned it to him one by one.

Halfway through the burn, I noticed something was wrong with the grave.