I had a very uncomfortable meal today, and I was in a trance all morning, so I hurriedly paid the bill, asked the boss for directions, and walked to the paper shop.

The paper shop is deserted, and no customer likes to stay here. When I entered, a dry, middle-aged woman was sitting in a chair watching TV.

I scratched my head and said to the woman, "I buy paper money." "

The woman raised her eyes and glanced at me, then raised her chin and pointed to the pile of paper money at the door: "Pick it yourself." "

I looked down at the rows of paper money, and there were two kinds of paper money, one was well-printed, modeled after the style and face value of the renminbi, either fifty or one hundred. The other is coarsely printed, but the face value is relatively large, and it can cost hundreds of millions at every turn.

I studied economics, and I am particularly sensitive to currency, and after a little thought, I chose a well-printed one, don't look at the small denomination, which is definitely a hard currency, with a high exchange rate, a dollar and millions of others.

I picked out a few bundles of paper money, handed it to the woman, and settled the bill.

The woman found a black plastic bag and filled it with a wad of paper money, counting it as she went.

As she counted the money, I couldn't help but look around the store. This store is not big in the first place, not to mention that it is full of paper money, wreaths, paper people and paper horses, so it looks even more cramped. And in such a small place, I saw a table in the innermost part with an incense table, which was enshrined neither to the God of Wealth nor to the Lord of Yama. It's a paper man, drawing eyebrows and eyes, and being cute. In particular, a pair of eyes are particularly expressive and lifelike, as if they are looking at me.

I was staring at the paper man when the woman put the plastic bag in front of me: "Okay, ten dollars." "

I took ten dollars out of my pocket, hurriedly checked out, and left.

At this time, it was already mid-morning, and the sun was hanging overhead, and the sun was warm, which was very safe. I carried a bag of paper money and slowly found the street where I had hit the ghost last night.

It is forbidden to burn paper money in urban areas, and I have long known this rule. But this road is different, there are no pedestrians at all, so I took out the paper money with confidence and boldness, lit it with a lighter, and burned it in a pile.

I believe that everyone has the experience of playing with fire when they are young, and jumping flames are definitely a fun thing in childhood. But now, these fires that are active in paper money make me feel a little uneasy.

The paper money was charred black, and the figures on them gradually distorted and deformed. The original kind eyebrows and kind eyes have become a little hideous.

Then, very suddenly, the fire went out. The wad of paper money did not burn out, and the heads remained hideous. One by one in front of me.

In broad daylight, a cold sweat broke out on my body: "This can't be a hint of something, right?" "

I didn't dare to slack off, so I took the lighter and lit it again.

The paper money burned for more than ten seconds, and soon it was extinguished again, and I ordered it more than 20 times. The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and scolded the profiteer who sold paper money.

After all the paper money was burned, I looked at the paper ashes on the ground and quickly left here.

I breathed a sigh of relief and hurried towards the school.

When I returned to the dormitory, I saw that after a toss last night, the messy dormitory had been cleaned up neatly.

Li Xiaoxing led a monk and a Taoist priest and was chanting scriptures in the dormitory. I know this Taoist priest, it is the thin Taoist priest who caught ghosts with a compass last night, and the monk is also more familiar, in short, it must be a religious class.

When Li Xiaoxing saw me coming back, he pointed to the two monks and said to me, "I invite the two masters to come and chant mantras for us to exorcise evil spirits." "

I nodded and sat down on the bed.

In a few minutes, the monk completed the work.

The monk instructed the two of us: "In our Buddhist Heart Sutra, there is a sentence 'Prajnaparamita', which is a mantra to ward off evil spirits, and you can recite it more when you have nothing to do. "

The thin Taoist priest next to him stopped doing it and said: "Classmate, the most powerful thing is, of course, our Taoist 'Taishang Laojun, anxious as a law' You listen to me, that's right, don't pay attention to any big pineapple." "

The monk smiled slightly, didn't argue with him, said a few words to us, and left.

The thin Taoist priest asked me, "Has the paper money been burned?" "

I nodded: "It's burned, it shouldn't be okay now, right?" I'm going to take a shower and exorcise evil spirits. "

The thin Taoist priest nodded, turned around and talked to Li Xiaoxing. I was just about to change my clothes, Li Xiaoxing suddenly pointed to my chest and said, "Xu You, what's wrong with you?" "

I looked down for some reason, and I was suddenly frightened: "Corpse, I have corpse wounds." "

This is very familiar, it is clearly seen in the Public Security Bureau before, on the autopsy photo of the robber, the location is about the same, and it is exactly the same point. Suddenly, I felt like the sky was going to fall.

I sat on the bed and thought quietly, "What the hell is going on?" What went wrong? "

The thin Taoist priest next to him muttered in a low voice: "This is so familiar, where have you seen it?" "

I also subconsciously answered: "On the body of the robber." "

The thin Taoist priest suddenly turned around and went out, leaving a sentence: "You wait, I'll go and check." "

My mind is in a mess right now, and when I hear this sentence, I only grasp a fragment in my ears: "Go check, go check." "

I stood up and said to Li Xiaoxing, "You wait, I'll check." "

Then I galloped out of the city.

I'm going to find that Mrs. Chen, since she is the mother of the robber, she must know about her son.

However, when I arrived at the door of the Public Security Bureau, I found that the owner of the tofu brain seller was long gone.

I stood on the side of the road, stopped the pedestrians one by one and asked, "Do you know how Chen Po is?" Her son is out of the funeral today. "

After asking dozens of people like this, one person finally nodded. He pointed in a direction: "The old woman has rented a house near here, you can go and find it, the poorest and most dilapidated is their family." "

I walked in the direction this man said, asked a few more people along the way, and finally found Chen's mother's house.

This family is really poor, if it weren't for the twists and turns to find here, I really don't believe that there is such a broken house in a big city.

There are white couplets on the two doors, and it seems that Chen Po really lives here.

I knocked on the door, and no one answered. I suddenly remembered: "Chen Po's son is out of the funeral, she shouldn't have come back yet." "

I had to find two scraps of bricks, sit on them and wait. It's an afternoon. It wasn't until it was dark that an old woman finally came from outside, trembling.

As soon as she saw me, the sadness on her face instantly turned to anger: "My son is dead, what do you want?" Come on, come on, then arrest me and take me to the Public Security Bureau to interrogate me, and I'll let you arrest me."

As she spoke, Chen Po rushed over, bent over, and hit my head on the stomach.

This old woman, I can't beat and scold, I can't scold and scold, I haven't thought of a countermeasure, her head has hit me in the stomach.

I was so hurt that my eyes were about to come down with tears, and I couldn't help but bend down. The old woman still refused to let go, hugged my waist with both hands, and pressed me against the wall with her head.

I had no choice but to shout again and again: "I'm not from the Public Security Bureau, I'm here to visit your old man." "

After shouting a few times, Chen Po estimated that she was also tired, took a few steps back, and looked at me suspiciously: "Kill hi to come and see me?" "

My mind was spinning quickly, and I immediately changed to a sad expression: "Actually, I'm here to see your son." "

As soon as she talked about her son, the anger on Po Chen's face disappeared, her lips trembled twice, and she said with a crying voice: "Our little second, he died so inexplicably. "

While crying, he opened the door and let me in.

I silently followed the old lady, quickly collecting knowledge about the wanted criminal in my head, and then said tentatively: "Xiao Er is usually honest, how could he suddenly rob him?" Did someone frame him? "

Chen Po shook her head: "No one framed him, he went by himself, I know that he said, hey, this kid." "

Chen Po poured me a bowl of water while letting me sit down, and said slowly: "I am such a son, two years ago, I sent him to a technical school to learn to repair cars, and the teacher of this technical school is good, and he also took him to teach him to drive."

A sentence flashed through my mind: "Learn to drive, learn to drive for free, try for one month"

I shook my head, pulled my thoughts back, and continued to listen to Chen Po crying: "I originally planned to let him run and make some money, but I didn't expect him to get sick later." "

I scratched my head: "Sick? "

Chen Po nodded: "He has sores on his chest, three or five, the size of copper coins." "

As soon as I heard this, my heart was shocked, and I couldn't help but lift my shirt, point to my chest and say, "Is it this sore?" "

Chen Po looked at me, and her face changed greatly: "That's right, that's right, it's this kind of sore." Hey, in order to see this disease, the family's money has been spent, and Xiao Er is afraid of death, so he goes to rob it"

I stopped her: "Why does he have such sores?" What does the hospital say? What did he say about it himself? "

Chen Po shook her head: "No one knows what kind of sores this kind of sore is in the Dao of Lu, which is so decent." Ay? I remembered that the day before he had sores, he suddenly ran home in a panic, saying that he had seen a ghost. "

I was taken aback: "What the hell did you see?" "

Chen Po nodded: "He told me that he ate a bowl of rice at the night market outside." The vendors who set up their stalls are ghosts. Then, in the middle of the night he was sick, feverish, talking nonsense, and the next day, I saw sores on his body. "

Chen Po was still chattering, and I had already collapsed on the chair: "That's right, everything is because of that ghost market." I've also been to Ghost City, and I've got a tattoo on my body. "

Just then, the cell phone in my pocket rang. It was Li Xiaoxing who called.

I took it and asked, "What's wrong?" "

Li Xiaoxing said at the other end: "Xu You, I found out, the scar on your body is called copper money scarf." "

My expression changed, and I subconsciously repeated: "Copper coins? "

Li Xiaoxing snorted: "The thin Taoist priest said that according to legend, some ghosts will deliberately disguise themselves as hawkers and deceive people into eating ghost food, and those who eat ghost food will have copper coins on their bodies and will die in seven days, and those who die cannot be reincarnated, unless they find another ghost with a dead body on their bodies."

The news was a bolt from the blue, and my mind went blank.

Li Xiaoxing hung up the phone, I sighed, turned my head, and found that Chen Po's head was very close to me, as if listening to my call.

I was startled and quickly stepped back.

Chen Po still had tears on her face, but she grinned and said with a smile: "Young man, what did you just say?" "

I looked at her and was a little scared, so I hurriedly waved my hand: "It's nothing, it's nothing, I'll leave first, and I'll come to see you in two days." "

Then, I ran away with a puff of smoke.

It's big night, and Po Chen lives in the middle of nowhere. I ran frantically along the way, for fear of seeing something dirty.

When I finally escaped to the main road and saw the crowded streets, my heart calmed down a little.

I flagged down a taxi and drove all the way to school.

When I returned to the dormitory, I saw Li Xiaoxing and the Taoist priest waiting for me.

I asked the thin Taoist, "What's the matter?" Is it true that I won't live for seven days? "

The thin Taoist priest nodded: "Theoretically, that's the case. "

In fact, I thought everything clearly along the way, and now that I have heard the answer again, I only feel as if the whole person has been hollowed out, I sat on the bed in a daze, and sighed: "If you die, you will die." But before I die, I have to buy myself an insurance policy. "

I lay on the bed with a quilt over my head.

Then, I heard the hesitant voice of the thin Taoist priest outside: "Unless"

I jumped to my feet: "Unless what? "

The thin Taoist priest was not so sure: "I once met a master in Lu, if you can find him, maybe he can save your life." "

As soon as I heard this, I immediately jumped up excitedly: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" Good, good, good. Where is the master? I'll look for it right away. Master, can you take me there? "

The thin Taoist priest scratched his head and said with some embarrassment: "Me? I can't go, I haven't been out for a week. "

I was a little surprised: "Are you sick?" "

The thin Taoist priest nodded: "This matter also has something to do with that master." "

As soon as I heard that it had something to do with the master, I hurriedly asked, "What the hell is going on?" Tell me about it. "

The thin Taoist priest thought about it and told us about the experience.

It turned out that, as the senior brother of the Slender Taoist said, the Slender Taoist has always been extremely obsessed with Taoism. It's just that I can't get the true biography, and I haven't been able to get started. I had to scrape together and grope for hearsay.

One day, the slender Taoist priest occasionally heard about some methods of conjuring spirits, so he sneaked to the river and tried it himself.

That night, it was overcast and the street lights by the river were broken. Although the thin Taoist priest didn't know much about Taoism, he had studied it for a long time after all, so with his instinct, he could feel that the yin qi was very heavy that night.

The yin qi is heavy, the ghosts come out, and the thin Taoist priest is not only not afraid, but a little excited. Because what he wants to do today is to summon ghosts.

The mountain is yang, the water is yin, and with this superficial knowledge, the slender Taoist priest came to the river, sat under a tree, and lit a candle at the place where the river bank meets the river.

The banks of the river are yang, and the water of the river is yin. This candle is at the junction of yin and yang. The flame burned quietly in the air, and there was also a flame burning quietly in the water.

The thin Taoist priest looked down at the river, which was lit by candles, and there was another thin Taoist priest looking at him.

Gradually, the river became brighter and brighter, and the face in the river began to change slowly. The thin Taoist priest felt a burst of joy in his heart, this time he was going to succeed.

At this time, suddenly, the candle went out. However, in a split second, the candle was lit again. It's just that this time the flames have become green.

When the thin Taoist priest looked into the river again, a face in the water also became gloomy.

At this time, the thin Taoist priest was a little scared, although this was his own reflection, but after all, it was too weird.

The thin Taoist priest packed up his things and was about to leave, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed that the face was smiling at the shore.

The thin Taoist priest was suddenly startled and stayed on the shore, not knowing what to do. Immediately afterward, I heard a whirla sound of water, and the face floated up from the water.

Not only the face, but also the body.

There was a fishy, rancid smell in the air.

Within a few seconds, a wet man climbed up in the water, and there was no doubt that he should be a water ghost.