According to the folk custom of the night of the soul, it is best for relatives and friends to avoid it at night, so as not to cause the soul to reluctance to see them after returning home, which will affect the heart of reincarnation. Let the souls quietly finish their last meal and go back to their rooms to sleep, and the next day before dawn they will leave on their own, and from then on they will officially go to find the origin of the next life.

After 23 o'clock, fortunately, as usual, because there was no vigil for the first seven nights, several people who had to go to work the next day went back one after another, leaving only me and kraft candy to prepare for the last three sticks of incense, and when the burning was finished, I cleaned up the table and went home.

I saw that the time was almost midnight, so I took three sticks of incense out of the incense box, lit the fire and bowed three times in front of the table and inserted it into the incense burner, the kraft candy had begun to yawn, leaning on the sofa in the outer hall and playing with my mobile phone, I went to the back room again to look at the bed, thinking that tomorrow I would say hello to a few aunts next door, and ask them to help remove the mattress and dry the quilt by the way, so as not to leave his breath.

When he came to the living room again, the kraft candy had already fallen asleep, leaned back on the sofa and began to snore, he had been busy doing a lot of things in the past few days, and his nightclub preparations were probably too tired for him, so I asked him to lie down a little longer, and wake him up when I had cleaned it up.

At this time, it started to rain outside, the wind was a little strong, and the garbage cans in the balcony corridor outside the door may not have been covered, and some waste paper and plastic bags were blown in the walkway. I walked into the mourning hall and quickly closed the window, for fear that the wind through the hall would be too strong and it would be easy to blow out the candles.

When I was closing the window, I heard the door outside being blown slammed shut, so I hurriedly went out again and opened the door.

Kraft Candy wasn't woken up by the sound of the door closing, and was still there sleeping soundly.

I walked to the door and reopened the door, and glanced down the hallway, where the lights had been turned off and sleeping, and only a few old porch lamps gave a dim light, shining on the balcony whose clothes had been dried and forgotten to take back, fluttering in the wind, casting a long shadow.

I found a small bench to cushion the door so that it would not be blown shut by the wind.

Turning around and wanting to see how many of the last three incense sticks were left in the mourning hall, a weak voice suddenly came from behind: "Daguan, you've been waiting for a long time, right?" ”

I was so startled by the sudden sound that I didn't dare look back for a moment. My heart was beating fast to my throat, and my scalp was tingling.

Maybe it took a second, and countless thoughts flashed in front of me, but fortunately, I am also from a yin and yang family, after all, I have heard too much about this bizarre event and made psychological preparations, think about it, this is my old classmate and brother, even if it is a ghost, not to mention that I don't have purebred ancestral blood...... While secretly emboldening "It's okay, it's okay, ghosts don't invade, ghosts don't invade ......", he turned around with a smile and prepared to say hello to him.

When I turned around, I found that there was nothing in front of me, and there was no one!

"What do you see, the wind is so strong, and you don't close the door." There were lazy words coming from the room, probably the sound of me moving a stool that woke up the kraft candy.

I thought I had hallucinated before, so I stood at the door and looked out a few more times, and replied, "Don't you know that you can't close the door until the worship of the night of the soul is over, and the old loach can't enter after the door is closed."

After saying that, he turned around and walked back inside, and the kraft candy changed his position and was still squinting on the sofa. I shook my head and entered the mourning hall, but just as I walked to the door, I saw ...... Seeing that the old loach was sitting at the table eating his meal, he looked up at me, smiled, and continued to eat with his head down.

My head buzzed, and the man froze in the doorway. I just looked at the scene in front of me in a daze, watching the old loach gobble up the food and eat it very hungry, I felt like I was about to collapse at this time, is this real or false, is it an illusion?

I tried to take two deep breaths, silently chanting in my heart, "Ghosts don't invade ghosts, ghosts don't invade", trying to say something, but I didn't know what to say, and I didn't even know whether to stand in the doorway, whether to advance or retreat.

The three sticks of incense had almost burned more than half, and the candlelight was flickering slightly, and he was still eating there with a mouthful of food.

I don't know if I subconsciously need to use scolding to strengthen my courage, or if I want to show him a close relationship, but as soon as I opened my mouth, I first cursed and then said, "Why are you in such a hurry?" Beware of choking you. ”

He looked up at me and laughed twice, "Are you stupid?" I'm all dead, how can I choke to death? ”

I felt a little incoherent, but I wasn't too nervous to be ridiculed by him. He laughed twice, walked in and sat down in the chair opposite him.

At this time, I took a closer look at him, and he was still the same as when he was at the last time in the bar, with dark circles under his eyes and a stubble on his face, so I thought that the body that was made up on the day of the funeral was ruddy and clean, but in fact it was just a shell that did not belong to him.

When he saw me looking at him, he said: "I haven't eaten anything in the past few days, I'm running around, today according to the flag you hung outside, I can be regarded as finding a home, or are the brothers affectionate, this dish tastes good, who made it?" ”

"Huh? Oh...... Qin Youqing bought it at a nearby vegetarian restaurant. ”

"No wonder, it's so delicious." He lowered his head again and ate the last few remaining chopsticks.

"It's not enough, it's not enough, and there are some bread and fruits." I didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Enough is enough, in fact, I don't feel hungry or hungry like I am now, I am just hungry."

He put down the dishes and chopsticks and wiped his mouth, turned his head to look at his portrait on the table and said: "I didn't know what it would be like after death before, but now I understand it, looking at my photo, this feeling...... Hey, that's really different from looking at your own photos when you're alive. ”

I smiled awkwardly, took out Zhongnanhai from my pocket and wanted to adjust my feelings by smoking, took out one and asked him if he wanted it, he shook his head and said that he was not used to smoking this kind of mixed cigarette, and still liked to smoke flue-cured cigarettes, and then picked up the mint-flavored double happiness prepared for him from the table, opened the package and pulled out one, approached the candle light, and took a deep breath.

I lit my own cigarette, and the two of us sat silently opposite each other, speechless for a while. He smoked very fast, and after a few puffs were gone, he threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, then opened the beer and took a big sip with his neck raised.

"Some things are just predestined!" After waiting for a long time, he said something without a head.

"What? What is destined? "I think maybe he was talking about the relationship between his own overwork and sudden death.

"I only heard that if you do bad things, there will be karma, and you only know that this cause and effect is repaid on yourself, but you don't know that some things have to pay a greater price, and a person who does evil will also affect future generations, and even cut off children and grandchildren, hehe."

He didn't answer me directly, but he said things that I didn't quite understand.

I didn't know how to answer, so I continued to listen to him.

"Our family is sorry for your Zang family!" He suddenly looked at me with a resentful look and said this.