"Grandma, why did you burn everything?"

A fire was lit in the shabby, dimly lit street, and around the fire lay a small pile of worn-out clothes, on which an equally shabby deck of cards was neatly arranged.

This type of card is very common in the town, and it is not uncommon to see people getting together to play this kind of thing.

On the ground was the dead money burned for the dead, and the piles were neatly arranged, and when the wind blew, the paper money on it was blown over and made a hula, hula sound.

An old child of about seven or eight years old squatted there, with a pair of big black eyes looking at the fire in front of him, and slowly put the paper money in his hand, which was quickly engulfed by the tongue of fire and turned into ashes.

There was an old man squatting next to the fire, her face was full of wrinkles, she was my grandmother, and my grandmother looked at me, "These are the things used by dead people, people are dead, and the soul will stay in the world for seven more days, and when the thought is gone, they will be reincarnated, if they die horizontally, the resentment will be difficult to dissipate, and the soul will attach to the things used in life to harm people." ”

"Will you be fine if you burn what the dead have used?"

"The soul belongs to yin, avoid fire, of course, there are exceptions to everything, and there are some things that can be burned without wanting to." Grandma's voice was very low, and at the end of the day, her voice was long, and it looked particularly strange on such a night.

"The soul is yin." I nodded, "Grandma, why is that person standing there watching us all the time?" ”

There was a faint shadow at the corner of the street, and it was very dark, and the only light from the fire was in front of me, and it was impossible to see who it was.

"Baby, don't look at it."

After listening to what I said, my grandmother looked back, and suddenly blocked my eyes with her hand, and pressed down, and the moment I lowered my head, the street corner suddenly lit up.

I still couldn't help but glance in that direction, and I will never forget the scene I saw at that moment.

At that time, the person was facing away from me and my grandmother, but at this time, his body was still not moving, and the whole person only turned his head behind his back, looking at me coldly.

I let out a scream of fright and sat on the ground, my body shaking.

It all starts here......

My name is Li Wei, and I am the kid mentioned earlier.

For some special reasons, I have been living with my grandmother in Tianqiao Town since the day I can remember.

It was a relatively closed and backward village and town, and the moss in the corners, the dilapidated tiles, the large and small dark stone caves on the mountain, and the red, red, yellow and yellow paper figures in my grandmother's paper shop, these are my childhood memories.

No one told me who my parents were, and every time I asked, my grandmother just said that they were all dead and that she should never think about them and that I was not allowed to ask.

Every time I asked, my grandmother had a gloomy face, so I could only ask in my heart again and again, who are they? Where did it go? Why did you leave me alone?

Grandma is a capable person, at least in my eyes, if someone's child is sick, as long as she invites her over, a few needles, and burns a little yellow paper, most of them will be cured. When you encounter other people's houses and weddings, funerals, and such things, you have to come and ask.

Some people say that grandma can see things that normal people can't.

What are those? Perhaps no one but my grandmother knew, and my grandmother never mentioned it to me, but what was the most curious thing I saw that night?

I only remember that my grandmother threw the paper money in her hand and the villain made of yellow paper into the fire, and kept reading: "Don't blame those who don't know, the yang life is exhausted, the yin soul is scattered, and you will be reincarnated as soon as possible." ”

The paper man and the paper burner disappeared, and my grandmother asked me to look up, and the strange man standing at the interface was gone.

To this day, I still can't figure out how a person's head can be turned directly behind his back, and how the sudden light came from when the whole village was dark.

Because I was still young at the time, I quickly forgot about it, but I often had the same dream in which the person waved at me and said something to me, but unfortunately I didn't hear it once.

Later, I got used to it, and it was at that time that I began to come into contact with some strange things.

The first one was my high school classmate, who was studying in the county seat, which was not a good place, and it was a great event for people in the town to be able to go to the county seat.

Because the county seat was far away from the town, many people had to live in schools at that time and could only go home once a month.

I was one of them, the dormitory at the school was very dilapidated, the windows were covered with shabby notes, and it was very smelly, especially the toilets, there were yellow-green things hanging on the walls, anyway, every time I went in, I had to cover my nose, and then solve it as quickly as possible.

The high school I studied in the county was not good, my grades were the worst in the class, my grandmother was illiterate, and she had been busy with the business of the paper shop, as long as I could eat and dress warmly, I rarely asked about other things, when I was in school, I liked to go to the bookstore at the door to rent books to read, at that time, the books in it were rented for five cents a piece, regardless of size.

Because there is no money in my pocket, I can only rub it many times, don't look at the small store, there are a lot of books in it, most of them are supernatural and ghostly, the bookshelves are full, and there are a lot of piles on the ground.

If you want to see it, you can only squat there and pick, pick a place that is not in the way and stand and read it in one breath, so that you can save five cents, the boss is a fat man, people are very easy-going, I go almost every day, and gradually become familiar with it.

Although my grades were not good, I still admired my tablemate, not to mention that he was short and thin, he worked very hard, and he was studying almost whenever I saw him, until that happened.

That night, when I came out of the bookstore, it was already ten o'clock, the school gate was closed, and if I wanted to knock on the door and enter, I had to see the face of the doorman, and the best way was to go back over the wall.

It was very dark, so I chose a spot, and as soon as I turned over and jumped on it, the big wall of the school was very broken, and my feet fell on it and fell into the dirt.

As soon as I jumped down, a dark shadow suddenly shook in front of me, I was worried that I would be seen, if I stabbed the director, it would be a big trouble, and I couldn't stand that guy the most, so I hunched down and hid under the tree.

"It's him!" As if hearing a voice, he paused and turned back slowly, and then walked briskly forward.

"Sun Wei."

I shouted, the shadow in front of me is my tablemate, I haven't gone back to sleep so late, this kid pretends to be serious in front of me every day, it's hard to talk to him, is this kid doing something unseemly behind his back.

Sun Wei didn't pay attention to me at all, and walked forward vigorously, I was also curious at the time, so I followed behind with a light foot, he didn't go back to the dormitory, but went directly to the cafeteria.

At this time, the school canteen has long been closed, don't look at our high school, the food in the canteen is okay, so there will be such a set of smooth slips, learning in the first middle school, love in the second middle school, eating in the third middle school, the last one is the school I studied, at that time a meal was less than three yuan, breakfast two big buns and a bowl of porridge, at most a piece of five can be solved.

Does this kid have any special relationship, he can eat small stoves at night.

At that time, I didn't think about anything else, I kept following behind, the door of the cafeteria was open, Sun Wei walked in directly, and I followed in from behind.

At that time, I wanted to see what the hell this kid was doing, so I didn't shout again after shouting once.

"Where?"

When I walked into the cafeteria lightly, Sun Wei, who had been in front of me, suddenly disappeared, and the cafeteria in the school only had such a floor, and the tables and chairs in it were very neatly arranged, and the chairs had to be buckled over and placed on the table.

Click, click, a strange sound came from inside, and there was a door there, and in the middle was a hallway-like place, very dark.

It was the kitchen, it was the place where the vegetables were stir-fried, and that strange sound came from that position, and I pushed the door and walked in, and Sun Wei was standing there with his back to me, bending over and gnawing on something.

"Sun Wei, what do you kid eat?"

"Do you want a piece of meat? It's delicious. ”

At that time, Sun Wei's voice was very strange, and when he heard that it was meat, he suddenly felt a little greedy, and it was rare to eat meat once a month, so I took a few steps forward.

Sun Wei turned around and smiled at me, his mouth was full of blood, and he held a piece of bloody raw meat in his hand, and handed it to me directly, and I was so frightened that I fainted.

People are not born bold, especially when it comes to these things that have happened to me.

When I woke up, it was already the morning of the next day, and the kitchen cook came and found me on the kitchen floor, lying there upright, with most of the raw meat gnawed on the side, because I was worried that something would happen, and after making a phone call, I was sent directly to the infirmary.

Later, the head teacher came and asked me a lot of things, but now I can't remember how I got in, because the door of the cafeteria was locked from the outside, and the windows were also drawn from the inside, and the people in the cafeteria couldn't figure out where I got in.

Of course, I only found out later that the door and window were locked, because the door was open when I followed Sun Wei in.

I said that I saw Sun Wei sneaking in alone, so I followed him in to take a look, it's not that I am not righteous, Sun Wei was indeed a little strange that night.

Hearing me talk about Sun Wei, the head teacher's face changed suddenly, told me not to tell anyone about it, and then went out to make a phone call.

Later, the director of the school year came, and then the vice principal of the school, and brought a lot of fruits, which was the first time I had eaten such a big mango, and bananas, which were delicious.

At that time, I was a little moved, because of my poor grades, I was usually scolded, and it was the first time I was so valued.

The director of the school year said a lot to me, mainly to remind me that the kitchen incident had been dealt with, don't affect my future because of these things, and after I go back, I can't mention it to anyone.

Later, I learned that there was no Sun Wei in our class at all, because I had poor grades and liked to mess around, so I was always alone and didn't have the same table at all.

The name Sun Wei is a student of the previous year, studying very hard, at that time sat next to me in the seat, because the family is poor, not enough to eat, sometimes will go to the cafeteria at night to find leftovers to eat, who wants to take the college entrance examination when the test failed, for a while can not think about it, on the night of the college entrance examination results, jumped from the top of the teaching building and fell to his death.

That was the first time I saw a ghost, to be precise, it should be the second time, because I was worried that the impact would not be good, so the school would pay so much attention, and I went back to ask my grandmother during the holidays.

My grandmother touched my head and said, "Not all ghosts are harmful, sometimes people are more terrible than ghosts, and when you see more, you will be able to understand the truth." ”

After graduating from high school, I was a mess in the exam, and on the last night after leaving school, I always felt that something had not been done, so I secretly climbed up from the ladder on one side, because of Sun Wei's jumping off the building, the upper vent was covered, and that night, the lid was opened, and I went to the top floor of the teaching building.

That night I actually met Sun Wei, the only table mate I had in high school, still skinny, smiling at me with a book in his hand, and I smiled at him, and then waved my hand, "I'm leaving." ”

Sun Wei just smiled at me and didn't say anything, I know that no matter how hard it is, I still cherish this learning experience.

It wasn't until ten years later, when I saw Sun Wei again by chance, that I figured out what happened back then, but unfortunately, everything was irreparable.

After graduating from high school, I returned to Tianqiao Town, my grandmother was old, and the business of the paper shop was not as good as before, but she still stayed there every day, and her wrinkled hands kept folding all day long.

I told my grandmother that I wanted to go out and break through, but my grandmother didn't object, but just told me to be careful, to be honest, to promise others that we must do it, and if I encounter something that can't be solved, I will go back to Tianqiao Town.

On the day I left, my grandmother went all the way to the water's edge, and suddenly she seemed to be much older, her back was bent, and she had some difficulty walking, and she took out a slightly broken scroll from her bosom and handed it to me.

I was stunned for a moment, in my memory, my grandmother was illiterate at all, and many things were remembered by my head, such as what I owed to someone's family, and what was booked by which family, it would definitely not be any worse.

"Take it, take good care of yourself in the future."

In the car, I was idle, so I simply opened the ancient scroll to see, and I remembered that there were some strange things, there were drawn charms, and there were ways to ask for charms, etc.

Going out and filling my stomach was more important than anything else, and what I didn't think of, that ancient scroll completely changed my life.