As a Taoist priest who can see ghosts, I found that there is no difference between daytime and nightlight in Yangcheng.

During the day, there are silent pedestrians. At nightlight, there are silent imps. They all kept the promise. There was no loud noise.

I looked at the little ghosts that passed by us from time to time, and couldn't help but sigh: "If it is brighter than a rainy and cloudy day, the light in Yangcheng is darker, and it is impossible to distinguish between day and night." I can't tell whether the street is lit up by people or ghosts. ”

Xue Qian smiled: "You don't have to wait until it's cloudy and rainy. Every day at dusk, the living have not yet slept, but the dead have already woken up. At that time, I was afraid that there would be a lot of people. ”

I thought about the scene, and I felt a little hairy in my heart. I said, "Fortunately, the people here can't see the little ghosts, otherwise, they wouldn't be scared to death?" ”

A few minutes later. We walked to the driver's door.

The moonlight was like cold water, and the copper knocker was also cold, and Mr. walked brightly, holding the knocker and patting it. The wooden door made a bang, bang, bang hollow sound. An unknown bird was stunned by the sound. From the tree next to him, he jumped out. An unpleasant cry in mid-air.

We waited outside the door for a few seconds, and strangely, no one opened the door for us.

Mr. We scratched his head and said, "No one in there?" It shouldn't be. I remember that there was an old man in it. ”

I said, "yes." I also saw the old man eating with the driver. ”

Mr. We knocked twice with more force. At this time. There was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard.

My face lit up with a smile: "I guess this old man is old and has some ears." Now the voice is finally heard. ”

But we waited a few seconds, but the old man didn't come to open the door.

I exclaimed, "Old man, you heard me right. We're knocking on the door, you open it. ”

The old man in the courtyard coughed, and then said, "Have you forgotten the agreement?" No one is allowed to pluck out a ghost, and a ghost is not allowed to pluck a man. You've already been here once, what do you want to do? I have done good deeds all my life. Nothing bad has been done. As the saying goes, I don't do anything bad in my life, and I'm not afraid of ghosts calling the door in the middle of the night. You'd better go and have a look elsewhere. ”

Then, the footsteps faded away, and he seemed to be going back to the house.

Xue Qian put her head on the door and shouted at the crack in the door: "Old man, we are human beings and Taoist priests." ”

The old man laughed twice: "Why do you lie to me? I'm old, and I don't have many days left, why do you always embarrass me? You hurt me today, and when I die, are you embarrassed to see me? ”

Mr. We said helplessly: "Let's go over the wall." ”

The three of us dragged me, and we all jumped from the wall to the sedan chair.

The old man had just been in the sedan room, when he heard a plop, and three figures fell from the wall. I was taken aback. He shouted, "You three have broken the rules, be careful of the revenge of the living during the day." ”

Mr. We quickened his pace, jumped in front of the old man, and said under the lamp: "Old man, you can see clearly, we are really alive. ”

Mr. We pointed to his shadow. Winter Fengli carried.

The old man looked at it for a while, nodded, and said, "It's really a living person." Well...... This robe also looks like it's real. But you're not locals, are you? ”

Mr. We laughed, "We are not locals. We came to Yangcheng because of your son. ”

The old man was pretending to be polite and invited us to sit down. When I heard this, I was stunned.

He stood there, trying to hide his panic: "What's wrong with my sons? ”

Mr. We sat on the chair and smiled at the old man: "Old man, you don't have to hide it from us. He pointed at me and said, "This is my apprentice, and he has a wisp of soul that has floated to Yang City." I found that your son was a little unfilial. So let's follow the vine and take a look. It can be regarded as a bumpy road, so draw a knife to help. ”

The old man sighed and said, "My son is bitter, and the people of our whole city are very bitter. ”

I feel that the old man seems to treat us as filial piety to confide, just to vent some of the dissatisfaction these days.

Mr. We smiled: "Don't worry. Tell us more about what happened. We can only help you if we know what happened. ”

The old man sat down and said, "Let me introduce myself first." My surname is Wang, and my name is Wang Li. Because my father's surname is Wang, and my mother's surname is Li, so that's how they got their names. My son's name is Wang Jiang. Because my wife's surname is Jiang. Hey, don't laugh at our shabby names, living in this kind of place, we can't care about the name of Shun Huang Tengda, we are loyal to the country, and it is useless to rule the country. So everyone doesn't have that in mind, just make do with the code name. ”

Xue Qian smiled: "What if your son marries a wife surnamed Ba?" ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Then I definitely don't agree to this marriage." ”

The old man originally looked desolate, but Xue Qian made such a joke, and his face finally showed a smile.

Our husband also introduced us, and we got to know the old man.

The old man praised us a few times for our youthful achievements, and then continued: "We don't know when our city has had a custom since then. This custom is called soul sending. ”

"When the old man in the family dies, he has to do the first seven days in front of the family. After the first seven passes, a sedan chair should be pasted with bright white paper. Put a paper figure in the sedan chair, and ask the best painter to shine it according to the appearance of the deceased. ”

"If the old man dies late in the morning, then according to the time of the kiss. If he dies in the daytime, he shall shine until the hour of evening. When the child is filial piety, when he is ugly, when he is filial, and so on, you understand, right? ”

We all nodded: "Understood, understood." ”

The old man snorted and said, "When the night falls, the hour will come." It's about putting on the spiritualist music. The paper sedan chair must be carried by the closest people before and after. As he walked out of the city, he shouted the old man's name. The neighbors all had to participate, as if they had another funeral. ”

"When they come to the gate of the city, all of them must kneel down and bow to the gate. Then the sedan chair can be carried out. When you get outside the city, burn the sedan chair and the paper figurine, and everyone can come back. ”

At this point, the old man looked at each other. I whispered, "It's the same as tonight's send-off." ”

Mr. We also nodded: "Listen to the old man's meaning, the previous soul sending has been successful." ”

The old man said, "When I was young, I saw a soul sent. So remember it very well. But more than ten years later, something suddenly happened. When the sedan chair was carried to the gate of the city, it had not yet left the city, and the paper figure and the sedan chair were burned. Sometimes it will burn the filial son who carries the sedan chair. ”

So everyone strictly forbade fireworks, but it didn't work, and every time they were carried over there, the sedan chair would catch fire for no reason. After this happened a few times. Everybody doesn't give away souls anymore. But since then, strange things have happened in the city. ”

Speaking of this, the old man paused and said, "When you came here, did you find that we are very strange here?" Very few people drive. ”

We all nodded and said, "Found it." ”

The old man sighed: "It's actually bright, there were still a lot of cars in the past few years." These cars are out of the car, and it can be regarded as lively. But gradually, some car owners said that when driving at night, the co-pilot's bright face will be inexplicably more than a paper person. And every time I walked to the city gate, the paper figure would burn for no reason. Some car owners escaped, some were burned, and some were very unlucky and burned to death. Later, even during the day, this kind of thing happened from time to time. ”

"After a few months, there were fewer and fewer people driving. Everyone says that the old man is dead now, and there is no one to paste the sedan chair to send the soul anymore. The old man's soul can't get out, so he looks around for a car, and whoever has a car will find whose door is bright. ”

"There were fewer and fewer cars in the city, as soon as the rumors came out. No one wants to drive, and even if they do, they don't dare to go out of town. My son is young, he doesn't believe in evil, and he says that everyone doesn't drive anymore, this is a business opportunity, as long as he buys a truck and runs transportation, he will definitely make a fortune, because this is the only one. ”

As a result, he had an accident at dawn on the night he bought the car. I don't know how many little ghosts knocked on the door, and I couldn't stop it at all. Later, my son said, "There is a wrongdoer, and there is a debtor, what do you want to do, come at me, don't harm my family." Then the imps dragged him out. Wait until dawn to put it back. When he came back, he was covered in bruises, obviously beaten by those little ghosts. ”R832