My first instinct was to run. But as soon as I turned around, I changed my mind again. I stood on the edge of the bed and held back my fear and felt for the big knife.

Then I held up my broadsword, slashed horizontally into the air, and shouted, "Who is it?" Come out. ”

No one answered. The room was still quiet.

I looked at the candle on the table, and the flame was yellow and shining.

I began to murmur in my heart, "Aren't there ghosts?" Someone playing a prank? ”

I stood under the lamp and thought for a while, and gradually became a little relieved. There is a door in this room that can't be closed, and eighty percent of them are bored and playing with me here.

When I think of this, I wonder where all this elm money comes from.

I grabbed a handful from my bed and looked under the lamp. I only understood this when I saw it. This is not really elm money, but it is cut out of white paper. I didn't notice it under the dim street lamp just now.

I threw the paper elm money on the ground, and the more I thought about it, the more unlucky it became, so I simply wrapped a bed of elm money in a sheet and threw it all out the door.

This night, I was in a daze, holding a big knife and clothes, and when there was a stir, I first reflexively brandished the big knife and slashed twice, and then I could wake up from my sleep.

I tossed and turned until dawn, and then I came out in a daze. I saw the traffic outside, and I felt a little lucky.

I patted myself on the head, "If I continue like this, I'm going to have to be driven crazy." After the Chung Yeung Festival, whether you are dead or alive, you can't stay in this place. ”

My stomach was empty, and I looked down the road and walked to a breakfast stall. Sleepy-eyed asked for some steamed buns and porridge.

The boss brought the porridge and put it on my table very slowly. I gave him a strange look and saw that he was staring at me with a strange smile on his face.

I was about to ask him what was going on. He suddenly said, "Yu money." ”

I was startled, jumped up from the stool, pointed at the boss and shouted, "What did you say?" ”

The boss's face became very innocent, and he said, "I didn't say anything, did I speak?" ”

I hesitated for a moment, then waved my hand and said, "It's nothing, you didn't say anything." ”

I sat at the stall and drank porridge, but this porridge was no longer a taste. I heard it right, and I couldn't have been dazzled. The boss did say to me in a strange way: "Yu Qian." "Blood.

Later, he firmly denied it, not necessarily lying, but probably because even he himself did not understand what he had just said. In this case, there is a ghost?

I looked at the sun, it was sunny and dayless, it shouldn't be.

After breakfast, I said to the boss, "Give money." Then he reached out and touched his pocket.

There was a soft lump in my pocket, and I didn't know what it was, so I pulled them all out.

It's elm money, paper elm money with white flowers, stuffed into my pocket.

When I saw the money, I was immediately stunned. The boss looked at me in amazement and didn't speak for a long time.

I suppressed the fear in my heart, and after a while I said, "I'm sorry, I have something in my pocket, and you asked me to find another money." ”

The boss looked at me dumbfounded, seeing that I was going to put the elm money on the table, he quickly stopped me and said, "Don't, don't give money." Let's go, it's okay. ”

Then he half-shoved and half-shoved and started to hit me.

Although everyone wants to take a small advantage, especially if they don't pay for it after eating, they are especially proud when they are done. But I'm not the shameless kind of person.

What's more, my boss and I are not related, how can I be so decent, he doesn't want money? I've got to figure this out. So I insisted on paying for it, but the boss even cried and told me to leave immediately.

I looked at him helplessly, and at this time, the boss actually pounced and knelt on the ground. He didn't care about the customers around him, he cried and said to me, "It's a small business, and you can't make a few dollars a day." Thanks to the support of the neighbors, he barely supported his family. When you meet a shameless person, you eat a white strip, and you don't admit it when you look back, and you can only admit compensation. I've had a hard time. ”

I looked at him dumbfounded and reached out to help him: "In that case, I will give you money, why don't you want it?" ”

The boss shook his head like a buleng drum: "I don't dare to ask for it." I want my life, I don't want money. If life is gone, the whole family will starve. ”

I looked at him a little confused: "What do you mean?" Why did you die? ”

The boss looked at me twice, and then asked tentatively, "This elm money, not yours?" ”

I said, "No." I don't want to know what's going on, and suddenly my pocket is full of this. ”

The boss slowly got up from the ground and wiped a handful of tears and snot, and I saw a hint of luck in his eyes.

He nodded and said, "I see. Little brother, go back quickly, I want to eat steamed buns in the past two days, you can come here, I won't take your money, don't worry. ”

I saw the boss's face change incessantly, and I became more and more curious. Then he dragged him to the side of the road and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

The boss looked at him left and right: "Little brother, don't be like this, I still have to sell steamed buns." ”

I pretended to be a ruffian: "If you don't make it clear today, I can let your buns eat the dead, do you believe it or not?" ”

The boss smiled bitterly, then nodded and said, "I believe it." ”

I pointed to the elm money in my pocket and said, "What's the matter with this elm money?" You were going to die or live just now, why? ”

The boss sighed and said, "Little brother, your elm money is made of paper, right?" ”

I nodded and said, "yes, what's wrong with that?" ”

The boss said, "There is a legend in our place, you are still young, you may not have heard of it, but I know it. Because my grandfather was a cultural person, a talent in the former Qing Dynasty. I like to record anecdotes. ”

I looked at him thoughtfully and asked, "What's weird?" ”

The boss said: "It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, it was here that we had a great famine, and nine out of ten households died. In the beginning, thin coffins were used to bury people, and later, they were rolled up in broken mats. Then, there was no mat left, so I just dug a pit and buried it. The living can't eat, and who cares about the dead. ”

I asked impatiently, "What does this have to do with paper elm money?" ”

The boss waved his hand and said, "Listen to me." Doesn't the dead have to burn paper money? But isn't paper money also bought with money? At that time, everyone was starving, and a copper coin was eager to be broken in half to spend, who was willing to buy paper money? A clever man discovered that the elm money on the elm tree looked very similar to paper money. So they picked it up, dried it, and burned it. Although the smoke is a little bigger, the heart is finally fulfilled. We can't let the dead walk the Yellow Springs Road empty-handed. ”

I heard it a little funny: "I didn't expect you to even fool the dead." ”

The boss said: "Later, the people spread and burned elm money. Later, I heard someone say that there were too many people who burned elm money in the yang world, and there was no way in the underworld, so they simply used elm money. Later, everyone survived the famine. But just then, something strange happened. ”

I scratched my head: "What's weird?" Something to do with paper elm money? ”

The boss nodded: "At that time, some people lived well. Suddenly, he touched his pocket and took out a handful of paper elm money. It's like the elm money in your pocket. It's very finely done, and if you don't look closely, you really think it's elm money. At first, everyone didn't take it seriously, but then I slowly found out that anyone who had paper elm money would always die inexplicably. ”

I gasped: "You mean, I don't have much to live?" ”

The boss gave me a sympathetic look, and then nodded: "Later, people who have a heart began to pay attention." finally found out that these paper elm money were given out by two young people. Whoever they give the money to, in a few days, that person will surely die. And they secretly called them ghosts. It is suspected that they are the legendary bull head and horse face. ”

I nodded, "So, you just took me for a ghost." ”

The boss nodded awkwardly: "I see that you are exactly the same as described in the book, young man, and you still have paper elm money, so you were a little dizzy for a while." ”