Back at his father's grave, he saw a bright and beautiful mushroom growing out of the dirt next to the tombstone. Look at the bright red color of the mushroom, it is exactly the same as the umbrella of the woman who went up the mountain together.

That night, my grandfather woke up in a deep sleep in the middle of the night, and suddenly saw a person sitting by the window, and the back of that person was very familiar.

"Are you ......," Daddy hurriedly sat up.

The man turned around and turned out to be Grandpa's father.

Even if there is a difference between life and death between relatives, they will not be frightened by the sudden encounter. Grandpa had tears in his eyes and wanted to grab his father's hand.

But his father waved his hand and motioned for him not to lean over.

"You just sit there, I'm dead after all, stay away from me. I'll finish a few words and leave. Daddy's father said.

Grandpa nodded, and couldn't help asking, "I thought you would come home on the seventh day after you died, but I didn't sleep all night, but I didn't see you coming." ”

"I know you'll be waiting for me. There was a bit of a delay that night. Because I did a lot of good deeds during my lifetime, and I was considered an upright official, but when your brother had such a thing, I didn't live long, so in order to show sympathy for me, they arranged for me to go to a place in Zhejiang to be a city god. Daddy's father said.

"Where is Zhejiang? I'll go see you later. Daddy asked hurriedly.

Daddy's father shook his head and said, "I can't tell you the specific place." It's a heavenly opportunity. Heavenly secrets must not be revealed. ”

"Are you here to say goodbye to me tonight?"

Daddy's father smiled slightly and said, "Child, everyone will say goodbye to their relatives before leaving the yang world after they pass away. This is called stiffness. ”

"Stiff feet?"

"Yes. Although the elders miss the juniors, they can't bear to scare the juniors, so the vast majority of people will not be found when they come back after death. Some people wake up in the middle of the night and see the deceased sitting on the edge of the bed or standing in the house, thinking that they miss the deceased too much, but sometimes this is not the case. That's the dead who really came. I knew that you would not be afraid, so I deliberately sat on the edge of your bed and waited for you to wake up and finish talking before leaving. ”

Grandpa said guiltily: "There have been many people who have asked me before, saying that they saw their relatives appear in familiar places and talk to him. Not sure if it was a dream or a reality, the people asked me what it meant to sign. I replied that I was thinking too much about the deceased, which led to hallucinations. It seems that I have misled quite a few people. ”

Grandpa's father was relieved: "Even if you start to know that this is a stiff foot today, you must not tell them that those hallucinations are actually real in the future." ”

"Why?" Daddy asked.

"If they know that it is true, the living relatives will cry to death, and even try to make the deceased stay longer. Although the deceased has been enlightened by the Sutra of Persuasion at the funeral, understands the way of life and death, and is ready to set foot on the Huangquan Road, but after the crying and kneeling of relatives again, the deceased may be moved again and reluctant to leave the world. Daddy's father said.

Grandpa was silent. He originally wanted to ask Luo Buzhai to find a way to keep his father's soul together, but when he heard his father say this, he had to dispel his idea.

Grandpa's father added: "I only learned after I died that the wild cat that led the scarecrow to scare you that night was saved by me. I used to save a cat that had fallen into the water when I was collecting food in Lijiaao. I heard you talk that night, and knew you were in trouble but didn't want the seriously ill me to know, and deliberately spoke to the wild cat in the tone of an inquiring friend. The cat came and found out that you were my son, so he only made a cat meow and did not make a human sound. I'm its savior, and it doesn't want to bother me. When I died, it came to my grave to pay respects and told me about the time I saved it. He repented at my grave and swore that he would not do any more harm to anyone. So, if you encounter it in the future, you should not see it. ”

Grandpa suddenly realized. He had heard from Li Xiaocheng that the wild cat had transformed into a beautiful woman to tempt people, and when he heard it at the door that night, it did not say whether it wanted to enter the door, but only made a cat meow, and thought that it could only speak when it was attached to a scarecrow. I didn't expect it to be a lifesaver who avoided it.

It also said that if there is a place where it is needed in the future, Li Jiaao can go to find it. I don't think it's good for you to offend ghosts and spirits like this, and if you meet someone who is more powerful than you and more ruthless than you, you will suffer. I thought it would be nice for you to have a helper like a wild cat, and maybe when I could help you save the day, so I promised it to tell you. ”

Daddy immediately thought of asking the scarecrow of the wildcat to help deal with the weak king. Living people and living creatures deal with weak people, and the king is always afraid of being touched. If it was a scarecrow, it would be much better. However, my father didn't want to mention the weak king in front of my father, so as not to worry about him after he went to Zhejiang.

He has been hiding it for so long before he died, and he shouldn't have known it after he died.

Grandpa remembered the woman with an umbrella who went up the mountain to worship during the day, and wanted to ask my father if he had seen this woman as if he had seen a wild cat worshipping. But when the words came to my lips, I felt that it was inappropriate to ask such a question.

If my father wanted to say it, he would say it without asking. If the father didn't want to say it, he must have his own considerations. Daddy thought to himself.

Seeing Grandpa's eyes flickering, Grandpa's father asked, "Is there anything else you want to ask?" ”

Daddy shook his head.

Daddy's father smiled: "Since you didn't want to ask me, then let me ask you, what is the matter between you and Miss Xie?" When you replied to me in Sichuan, you seemed to be very interested in her, and then you went to her house to give a bride price but suddenly canceled the marriage contract, but after canceling the marriage contract, she often came to you, and there was no hatred. You don't mean to hate her, either. I don't understand. ”

Grandpa told Xie Xiaomi's life experience.

Grandpa's father thought for a moment and said, "Then have you thought about asking her to leave someone else's body as soon as possible to be reincarnated?" ”

"Yes."

"Does she agree?"

"She didn't show her attitude."

Grandpa's father sighed lightly and said, "If she is reincarnated as soon as possible and obtains her own mortal fetus, you can still ......"

At this moment, footsteps were heard outside.

Daddy's father hurriedly got up, stretched out his hand to touch Daddy, just raised and lowered his hand, and said sadly: "I am still not used to the life of death, and I often forget that I am a soul." ”

Daddy's tears suddenly gushed out.

Footsteps outside were getting closer, apparently towards Grandpa's room. Daddy's father patted his clothes, flicked his sleeves, and walked towards the wall.

Grandpa couldn't help but walk barefoot on the ground, trying to grab his father.

But my father slammed down on the wall like a shadow reflected in the light of someone else's standing. Daddy didn't catch anything, only the walls that were as hard as iron. The shadow shrank smaller and smaller, as if the wall was a screen for shadow puppetry, and the father was a shadow puppet taken by the artist behind the screen.

Grandpa threw himself against the wall, but he couldn't get through it like his father.

Knock knock knock......

At that moment, there was a knock on the door.

Knocking on the door late at night, there must be something important. Grandpa hurriedly wiped away his tears and opened the door.

When he opened the door, Grandpa saw a headless man standing outside. The man was dressed in a blue robe, like a well-mannered private school gentleman.

Grandpa thought to himself that as soon as his father finished speaking, the ghosts and spirits might come to the door, but he didn't expect that as soon as his father left on the front foot, the ghosts and spirits followed on the back foot.

"Who are you looking for?" Daddy said steadily. Daddy felt a little cold because of his bare feet.

The headless man heard his grandfather speak, and squatted down slightly.

At this time, my father realized that this person was not headless, but too tall. But its head was really terrifying, and its face seemed to be sunburned and was about to run down, and it was as thin as a horse's face.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for the horse food officer." The horse-faced man said, although he apologized, but his tone was cold, and he didn't feel guilty for the interruption.

Grandpa said, "It turned out to be my father." But he died not long ago. ”

The horse-faced man still said coldly, "I know he's dead." ”

"Why did you come to him, sir, when you know he is dead?" Daddy asked. Although this person has no good intentions, he also does not seem to have any malicious intentions. Daddy didn't know whether to chase it away or open the door to let it in.

The horse-faced man said, "I'm going to take him to a farther place, and if he doesn't leave now, he won't be there before dawn." ”

"Zhejiang?" Daddy was surprised.

The horse-faced man was also slightly surprised, and asked, "The horse grain officer told you?" ”

Daddy nodded and said, "Yes." But he didn't tell me the specifics, saying that the secret of heaven should not be revealed. ”

The horse-faced man's expression softened and said, "Fortunately, I didn't tell you the specific place, otherwise I would have taken you with me." ”

Daddy gasped. At this time, Grandpa saw that the blue robe of the horse-faced man had auspicious clouds and dark lines.

When the horse-faced man saw his grandfather barefoot, he said in a rare soft voice, "Boy, go back to the house and sleep." Don't catch a cold. Your father was a great good man when he was alive, and I will take good care of him on the way. ”

Grandpa hurriedly bowed his hand: "Then it's annoying." If you have the opportunity in the future, you will definitely be rewarded! ”

When Daddy raised his head after finishing his work, the horse-faced man was gone.

My grandfather said that before he was born, my grandfather went to Zhejiang many times, and worshiped the land temple in the hope of finding where his father was. But until his death, he could not find the land temple.

My grandfather said that maybe my grandfather had found it, but he didn't know that his father was there, so he missed it.

Grandpa didn't get nothing in Zhejiang. He met a man named Lin Sanzhi in Hangzhou. Daddy and this person have similar personalities and appreciate each other. After Grandpa left Zhejiang, he also left. But since then, the two have often exchanged letters. The so-called gentleman's friendship is as light as water, and the correspondence between the next 20 years and more than 20 years is just a conversation about life and poetry. But later Lin Sanzhi's letter surprised his grandfather.