"That person is in our village, Dad, do you already have a suspicion?" My dad asked my grandpa.

Grandpa nodded, but he didn't answer, he only said: "When Zhu Heiwa wakes up, she will naturally be able to see the difference, okay, let's hurry up and prepare things, and we won't be able to summon spirits when the rooster crows!" ”

After Grandpa finished speaking, he quickened his pace, and the things he prepared when he went back were not complicated, that is, some yellow table paper, incense candles and some red powder, Grandpa said that it was called cinnabar.

After getting ready, he went to Zhu Danian's house again.

When we arrived, Zhu Danian had already prepared those three things.

Grandpa looked at the moon in the sky, this point is less than four o'clock, the rooster crows until more than five o'clock, there is still an hour, enough time.

According to my grandfather's instructions, I sprinkled a circle of glutinous rice on the ground, but left a hole towards the door. Zhu Heiwa's body was placed in the glutinous rice ring, with the top of his head facing the exit of the glutinous rice ring, and an incense burner was placed above his head, and incense was inserted into the incense burner.

These things don't need to be done by grandpa himself, and dad and Zhu Danian will do it quickly. Grandpa himself fiddled with the straw there, and his technique was very skillful, that is, it didn't take much time for him to tie up into a scarecrow.

Grandpa took out a palm-sized piece of yellow table paper, asked Zhu Danian for Zhu Heiwa's birthday, wrote it on the yellow table paper, folded it into a paper bag and stuffed it into the scarecrow.

Immediately afterwards, the grandfather also plucked a hair from Zhu Heiwa's head, glued something, glued the hair to the scarecrow's head, and pasted a piece of white paper on his face, drawing his nose and eyes, etc.

The scarecrow looks vivid, I didn't expect my grandfather to have this craft, it's the first time I've seen it.

After doing this, Grandpa said: "Go, Danian put this scarecrow at the gate of your house, don't close the door!" ”

Zhu Danian naturally did so, the door was open, and it was pitch black outside.

Next, Grandpa asked Na Zhu Danian to slaughter the big red rooster, took a bowl full of chicken blood, and put it aside. He took out a dozen yin and yang money from his bag, gave Zhu Danian some of it, and gave the rest to my father.

Zhu Danian has no one else in the family, only his wife, grandpa said that women are yin, and it is easy to provoke dirty things when they go out to scatter paper money, and finally grandpa lowered his head, touched my head and asked: "Fanwazi, go outside to scatter paper money, do you dare?" ”

At night, it was dark outside, and my heart was naturally a little worried, but my grandfather asked, I didn't expect that I could help with this as a child, and I was a little excited in my heart, so I took the yin and yang money in my grandfather's hand and said: "Grandpa, I dare!" ”

"Are you afraid?" Grandpa asked with a smile.

"Don't be afraid!" I replied categorically.

"Well done!" Grandpa laughed, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and Dad seemed to be about to stop him, and was too frightened by one of my grandfather's eyes to say anything.

When I received the yin and yang money, I was full of enthusiasm, but when I really wanted to go out to scatter paper money, my heart really sank.

Zhu Danian's house sits in the west and faces east, so there must be a person in the other three directions of the southeast and north to walk out for 900 steps, scatter some paper money every ten steps, and shout to let Zhu Heiwa go home before each time.

Grandpa said it was called a shouting soul.

Each of them was given a candle, which my grandfather had taken out of his own satchel embroidered with the Yin and Yang Bagua diagrams, a dull yellow wax that I had never seen before. When he left, he lit it, and his grandfather explained: "If the candle goes out, throw away all the yin and yang money, don't look back, just run back to the courtyard!" Remember, never look back! ”

Grandpa repeatedly emphasized these words, and he was not so afraid, but he was muttered in his heart by what his grandfather said, and Dad said: "Dad, why did you tell a ghost story before the war, how scary, don't scare our mortal baby!" ”

Grandpa raised his foot and kicked my dad in the ass, scolding, "Fuck off, when is it your turn to interject?" You think it's so simple to summon spirits, keep everything I said in mind, otherwise not only will you not be able to summon souls, but you will also get into a commotion! ”

Grandpa's expression was very serious, there was no pretentious meaning at all, he explained some things, which let us go out, and when we got to the door, grandpa thought of something, called us, and gave us a yellow charm, saying that we can save lives in case of emergency.

Holding the yellow candle given by my grandfather, there was already wind outside, and as soon as the wind blew, the flame immediately staggered, but fortunately, the wind was not strong, and I raised my hand to block it.

I walked towards the north, my father towards the east, and Zhu Danian towards the south.

As I walked, I used my peripheral vision to look at the candlelight that was getting farther and farther away in the other two directions, farther and farther away, and finally disappeared from my sight.

I've never had such an experience, and I'm really scared, especially after I can't see the candlelight of my dad and Zhu Danian. It was very dark at night in the countryside, and I couldn't see my fingers, and the candlelight in my hand could only illuminate a small area. Beyond the area, there is no boundless darkness.

I'm really scared that a face will suddenly appear in the candlelight, and that face will be miserable and white......

I didn't dare to think about it, but when I thought about it, I felt a gust of cold wind behind me, like a pair of cold hands rubbing against my neck, and the feeling was simply suffocating.

At the one hundred and forty steps, I took out a few yin and yang coins and shouted, "Uncle Heiwa, go home!" Uncle Heiwa, go home! ”

Ahem......

In the silence, there was a sudden coughing sound, I was startled, my mind buzzed, cold sweat came down, and then the candle flame in my hand began to stagger.

Grandpa explained that after a hundred steps, he could only go forward no matter what, and he could never go backwards, nor could he look backwards, unless he had enough nine hundred steps, he could turn back. But after turning back, he could only go in the direction of Zhu Danian's house, and he must not look back.

Grandpa's words echoed in my head, and even though I could clearly hear the cough coming from behind me, I could never look back, absolutely not!

Holding his breath, guarding the candle, he continued to walk forward, feeling the weight of his steps.

The roads in the countryside are all tortuous, but after walking more than 900 steps in one direction, you will basically leave the village and reach a wasteland. The place further ahead is a bamboo forest, the forest is deep and dense, there are many deserted graves in it, I don't know what age it is, and no one goes to the grave every year during Qingming.

I heard from other partners in the village that the bamboo forest was haunted, and Wang Maodan said that he had also seen ghost fires in the bamboo forest. Zhang Xiaoguang said that once he went to the old cousin's house in the next village to look at the dishes, and when he passed by the bamboo forest in the middle of the night, he saw a dark shadow in the forest, and his soul was almost frightened, so he kept running, kept running, kept running, and ran until he ran to his house and slept under the quilt.

However, he had a dream in which he saw a woman, very pretty, and had to do something like that with him. When he said this, a few of our friends were quite envious of Zhang Xiaoguang, and when he said that he was behind, it was not like that.

Sweating profusely all night, when he woke up, he found that he was lying naked and sleeping on a deserted grave in the bamboo forest for the night, and the dried bamboo leaves under him were wet.

Zhang Xiaoguang said that there is indeed a problem, because of this matter, his high fever did not go away for several days, and his father took him to the city to get fever-reducing injections to no avail, and the doctor could not detect the problem, and finally issued a critical illness notice.

Later, it was his grandmother who forced Zhang Xiaoguang and his father to carry Zhang Xiaoguang to my house, I saw it at the time, Zhang Xiaoguang was red all over his body, and the cold water soaked the towel and smoked on it.

Grandpa checked his pulse, and finally prescribed some herbs, drank the talisman water burned by his grandfather, and was in a coma for seven days before he woke up.

At this time, I couldn't help but think of this in my mind, and I said to myself, why did I have to choose this direction just now, I can choose the south to go to the river, or change with my father, and choose the cornfield in the east!

But now it's useless to think about this, I can only walk hard, and I have to shout that sentence every ten steps, in fact, I call the name of a dead person in my own mouth, this thing makes me feel creepy, Zhu Heiwa's soul will follow me when he hears me, and will the cough just now be him?

I don't dare to think about it, and the more I think about it, the more scared I become!

Getting closer and closer to the bamboo forest, the road is in the middle of the bamboo forest, there are deserted graves on both sides, and when I see this kind of thing in the middle of the night, my cold sweat can't help but come down.

However, when I crossed the path in the middle of the bamboo grove to a low-lying area in front of me, nothing had happened, and by this time it was enough for nine hundred steps, so I took a deep breath, held my breath, kept the candle on my chest, and turned around and walked back again.

Of course, I still have to pass through the bamboo forest when I go back the same way, but I didn't have anything to do just now, and I am much bolder, and even when I pass through the bamboo forest, I can't help but take a few glances in the bamboo forest, anyway, I don't look back behind me.

In the bamboo forest, except for the dirt bags raised from the desolate grave, there is nothing special, maybe grandpa knows that the dirty thing here will be afraid, so he came over privately to solve that thing?

Just as I was thinking about this, the candle flame in my hand suddenly flickered, and if I hadn't blocked it with my hand, the candle flame would have been extinguished.

The slightest yin wind blew from the back of my neck, and in an instant, I had goosebumps all over my body.

What is behind him, is it the female ghost that Zhang Xiaoguang encountered, or the soul of Zhu Heiwa?

"Xiaofan, are you here......"

The woman's voice came from behind me, and the voice was faintly slippery and breathy, almost right in my ears.

Grandpa said that he couldn't turn back, and he couldn't respond when he heard someone shouting his name, and if he responded, it would be tantamount to acquiescing to the request of the dirty thing, and it would be troublesome to get rid of it again.

I thought I would just go by myself, and I didn't hear the sound just now.

But when I was about to lift my feet and walk forward, my legs and feet were like lead, and my legs were so heavy that I couldn't lift them up at all.