Chapter 268: Stand and Buckle

As soon as the words of the blind man came out, the brothers naturally thought of the laughing woman who came out to catch the child to eat on July 25, but the one who walked on the street last night was not a laughing woman, it should be a tether who dragged a bag of rice to his home. For the brothers, the bag of 100 pounds of rice went home on their shoulders, and at most they took a few breaths, but for the tethered six who knew how to mess around all day, it was difficult to drag the bag of rice around, and they were just dragging the rice upside down and were seen by the brothers, thinking that it was a rickety old lady, and the frightened old six ran away, and the brothers let him cry out and ran out. After waiting outside the city, he calmed down, felt that something was wrong, and turned his head back, but found that Lao Wu was about to be hit by something falling from the roof, and made such a fuss.

said that Lao Wu bumped into the evil spirit, which means the evil spirit, but the brothers were all at a loss, and said that they were okay after getting up in the morning, could it be that the evil still has stamina? It takes a while for a reaction? Isn't that?

Seeing everyone's expressions of disbelief, Blind Langzhong pointed to the wooden sign on the table behind him that had fallen on the table at some point and said, "Don't believe it! See? It's standing! ”

"Stand? What does it mean? The brothers asked him at the same time.

The blind man shook his hands and said in a hurry: "Oops! I really convince you, but I can't blame you, whoever let you not have enough experience will not be able to see that you are getting into trouble like this now, and it will be difficult to guarantee that there will be no big things in the future! ”

The fourth looked at Lao Wu on the ground, and then frowned and said to the blind man, "What are you talking about here?" Old Wu is so virtuous, are you still talking nonsense to us? ”

The blind man didn't reply, he walked around the room with his head down, and after a while, he squatted down and pulled Lao Wu's eyelids. Lao Wu's facial muscles were stiff and abnormal at this time, and his eyes were still half-open, his eyes were full of ghosts, and there was still breath between his noses. Seeing this, the blind man was about to speak, when he saw Hu Da come in with his head covered.

After Hu Dabao came in, he looked at the people in the house, and immediately found the blind man and hurried over to him and said, "Hey, I said, Jiang Blind, you help me take a look first, I let Lao Wu hit that guy and almost didn't open the scoop for me." He tossed me this morning."

"What's wrong with you? Why are you doing so much this time? "The blind man's head hurt by Hu Da's arms.

The fourth child pulled Hu Da's arm away and asked the blind Langzhong: "Tell me what happened to this old Wu first?" What do you mean by that stand? Why did you stand a card? Does it have anything to do with Lao Wu? ”

As soon as the blind man heard this, he got up from the ground, walked to the table, and carefully put up the wooden sign on the table, which was carved with lotus flowers, which were a little dirty, and looked like they had been left for some years. The blind man pointed to the wooden card and said, "This is now called deducting the card!" ”

Hu Da covered his head and was happy, and said to his brothers: "This old guy is crazy, you still dare to ask him to see Lao Wu, I won't accompany you." I'd better go back to sleep. ”

"Hey, second brother, don't go, I've heard about this standing card!" The sixth child stopped Hu Dajiao.

Hu Dawei said impatiently: "Don't bother me to play your mahjong, you look a little uncomfortable in your stomach, I'll go first, and wait for you to carry it back to Lao Wu when the time comes!" Hu Da was actually afraid that he would run away for a while and let him do coolies, so he slipped away in advance, but he didn't expect that he could finally find a place to play by himself, so he caused trouble.

Jiang Blind waited for Hu Dafang to make a fuss and left. Just tell the rest about the card.

Since ancient times, the dead have all stood cards, as for why do they stand cards? At first, it may just have something to do with a memory. But gradually it is a little out of taste, the tablet is not only the spiritual position of the deceased, but also can be used as a means of some psychic media, known as "standing buckle card!" ”

The appearance of the standing button is actually similar to the tablet of the deceased, but it is smaller than the tablet, and it is usually standing in a conspicuous place. And you can't move it when it's put away. If you accidentally bump into it while walking or get caught up in your clothes, you will be unlucky.

As for why you want to stand a card, what's the use? This is still such a particular thing in the past, which shows that in the late Qing Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, there was such an inn in the capital, and the innkeeper was a middle-aged man with a small beard. Said it was raining one day. As usual, there will be more people staying in the hotel in this weather, because there are many people who are in a hurry to encounter rain and must have a place to hide from the rain, and basically go directly to the inn, so business will be good. I don't know why today is particularly abnormal, I saw that the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and there are fewer and fewer people on the street, but there are no guests to stay, which makes the shopkeeper a little puzzled.

Until two hours after dinner, there were still no guests, and the rooms were cleaned up but there was no one. The guys take the money to work, they don't care if they come or not, they don't live to be leisurely, and they are quite happy to see the heavy rain outside. But the shopkeeper was depressed, he didn't make half a penny this day, and he lost money, and he couldn't hold on, so he let the guys close the door, and he went back to the house to sleep.

Generally, in this kind of inn, someone has to keep vigil at night, sitting on a stool at the door downstairs and counting the stars in the sky. But there is no guest today, so there should be no need to keep a vigil, but those old guys bully the new guys, and let him do any tiring work, this time they all know that there are no guests and deliberately let him keep vigil, not letting him sleep and tossing him.

The new guy is also a sincere person, and he doesn't have much to say about what he does, so he closed the door and went to sleep, leaving the little guy with half a candle and letting him save some money.

In the dead of night, some things dare not show their heads during the day and now they come out to stroll, it is generally said that it is easy to be afraid of walking at night, and it has nothing to do with the small guts, when suddenly a feeling of fear comes up, that is, those things rub a body, but ordinary people's eyes can only see the bright things, and those who come out in the middle of the night are also invisible.

The young man guards the big room by himself, and when he has nothing to do, he plays with the number of the guest room. The brand number is a square wooden plaque hanging on the wall, with the room number written on it, the first floor is the first room from the right, and the first room on the second floor is the first room on the right.

The brand is divided into the front and back, and there is no word on the back of the turnover, that is, there are people living in this room, the young man has learned to carve before, and he has nothing to do with a knife to engrave things on the back of the brand, which is nothing more than some flowers, birds, fish and insects and the like, but the young man's craftsmanship is really good, and it is very good-looking to carve out.

At this moment, he didn't stop, he took off the signs on the wall and carved most of them, and the carved ones stood up and put them on the table, admiring them there. But at this time, someone suddenly banged on the door, and the young man thought that there was a guest who came to stay in the middle of the night, so he hurried over to open the door, but just walked to the door, and before his hand touched the door bolt, he suddenly heard a "click" sound behind him. The young man looked back and saw that one of the cards on the table was fastened on the table.

There was another knock on the door outside, and the young man realized that the guest was still outside, and was about to open the door again, but he was about to touch the deadbolt, and the number was knocked down again. The young man noticed that something was wrong, so he withdrew his hand, and then tentatively reached over, and likewise knocked down a tablet, as if to prevent him from opening the door.

The young man was a little scared, this is too evil, as soon as he touches the deadbolt number, he will knock down one, could it be that there is something bad knocking on the door outside? Because of the brand, the young man did not open the door, but the knocking continued for a long time, and then no one knocked until dawn.

But early the next morning, several inns had their night watchmen dead, stabbed to death with sharp weapons, but the doors were closed tightly, and nothing could be found out what was going on, and then it was gone. But in the future, I don't know who said that the young man escaped the catastrophe because the brand was deducted because of the brand number buckled down and did not open the door, and it spread as soon as the card was said, and there were still people who believed in this saying for many years after liberation. (To be continued......)