In many places, there is a folk custom of chasing away ghosts.

However, it is usually only carried out on particularly important festivals, and it is unclear when it began to be handed down.

But now it's not a special holiday, so there's only one possibility.

That is, there are dead people in this village, and they are dead ghosts who have just died not long ago, and the first seven have not passed.

In the village, it is considered that those who die under the age of 35 are considered to have died young, and they are not allowed to put up a plaque and enter the ancestral grave.

Even if you want to worship, you have to do it secretly.

In the place of public worship in the crematorium, if you see someone who does not hold chickens, ducks, fish, or jars with ashes, but lights incense to worship a small puppet or a small spirit card, it means that this person is worshipping a person who died young.

And the phenomenon of collective exorcism of ghosts in the village is very likely to be chasing this kind of untimely death of ghosts.

Dead ghosts, that is, literally.

Unnatural death under the age of 35, perhaps suicide, car accident, falling into the water and drowning, being killed, etc., are all unnatural deaths.

This kind of ghost is very fierce.

It is recorded in the "Twelve Brocades of the Destiny of Heaven" that there is an 80% chance that this kind of person who dies will be a ghost in Penang and endanger the entire village.

Especially those who die in other places, it is even more ferocious.

Therefore, once this kind of unnatural death of the ghost appears in the village, there will be a folk custom of men collectively driving out ghosts.

Put a brazier on the side of the road 100 meters away from the entrance of the village, light incense and some food for worship, the meaning is to let the ghost of the dead eat and leave when the first seven come back, so as not to disturb the people in the village.

Of course, if the dead ghost is still unwilling to leave after eating, then there is a hind move.

The people of the village would put white cloth on the telephone pole at the entrance of the village, and put shears that had been turned on, mirrors and willow whips. This is the second line of defense.

Many of the ordinary ghosts don't know that they are dead, and putting the mirror means that as long as they see the mirror, they will find that they are dead, and it is time to report to the underworld.

The scissors and willow whip on the mirror are also warnings, saying that if you don't know what to do, you will be beaten up.

For example, ordinary residents will put scissors and mirrors on the door of their homes, which is what it means.

This mirror is usually placed very high, ordinary people can't see it, and if it does, it will be troublesome, because this is not an ordinary mirror, but a soul mirror.

Speaking of the Soul Mirror, I am reminded of an incident from the past.

I don't know if everyone has noticed that when all the newly built bridges are ready to be completed, a basin of water will be placed under the bridge, and a copper mirror will be placed in the clear water.

This bronze mirror resembles a Soul Mirror, but this one is more ferocious.

As long as one is curious to look at the mirror in the water, perhaps one's soul will be ingested into the mirror, and then the soul will enter the bridge against the bridge.

It is said that no matter what material is used for a bridge, it will not allow the bridge to collapse for a hundred years, and it is necessary to use the soul of a person to carry the bridge.

I don't know if it's true, but I had a friend who died because of it.

I can't remember the name of this friend, it's been almost 20 years.

Chen Jialuo also knew him, he was in our class, and he remembered to call him a monkey.

It is also because he is relatively thin that he has this nickname.

At that time, Chen Jialuo and I were classmates in elementary school.

In school, the three of us belong to the most naughty one, and we also have a special nickname, called the Three King Kongs.

At that time, we were more naughty, and we didn't go home to do our homework when we were out of school, so we played crazy with football, and we basically wouldn't go home if our parents didn't come out to find us.

When I was in elementary school, I was about to build a bridge on the road out of my house.

There is also a basin of water and a bronze mirror on the side of the bridge, but this basin of water is surrounded by a red thread.

Adults know what this basin of water is for, so they won't go over to see it even if they don't have protective measures.

He also warned us not to look at the mirror in the water, saying that there is a ghost in the water, and we will get sick if we look at it.

Back then, I was bold, I had never seen a ghost what it looked like, and I thought it would be good if I would get sick.

If you get sick, you don't have to go to school the next day.

We went home from school that day, but we couldn't see it, because as soon as we got close to the basin of water, we were scolded by the workers and ran away.

But the more this happens, the more itchy we become, to put it bluntly, we are cheap, and we will die.

Later, we went every day, and Chen Jialuo, this kid, deserved to have been a criminal policeman since he was a new child, and he also held a small notebook, which was the kind of checkered book that was spare for Chinese classes.

Use this small book to keep recording the work and rest time and meal time of these workers.

Four days later, Chen Jialuo told us that he had figured it out, saying that the workers would take a 10-minute break for the 10 minutes before we left school, and then they would leave to smoke under the bridge.

Later, we chose to climb over the wall and leave the school during the last physical education class one afternoon, intending to see the ghosts in this basin.

When I went there, the workers were really not there, they were all chatting under the bridge.

At that time, I was so excited, and I didn't feel scared, thinking that I was going to see a ghost, and I felt like I was beaten with chicken blood.

I was like the first to go, but before I could go there, I ran into my mother riding a bicycle to pick me up from school, and I happened to pass by, and saw that I was sneaking to see the basin, and I was so scared that I couldn't do it.

As soon as I saw my mother coming, I was so scared that I ran away, and I didn't look at the basin, and Chen Jialuo also ran fast.

Only the monkey himself ran to the basin to take a look.

Later, I felt that Chen Jialuo also asked the monkey what he saw, and he said nothing, just an ordinary mirror, only seeing himself, no ghosts.

Who knew that by the time it was about eight or nine o'clock that night, we heard that the monkey had been hit by a car, right in front of his house.

His house was being renovated at the time, and he often listened to the car pulling dirt in front of the door, and this guy was just about to step into the door, but who knew that people didn't see him in reverse, so he ran over directly.

Fortunately, I just broke a leg, and then on the way to the hospital, the car overturned inexplicably, and the place of the overturned was on the bridge.

As a result, the monkey's whole family fell into the water, but everyone was rescued, but the monkey was not found, and it was not found until several days later, but the man was already dead.

At that time, our homeroom teacher also specially led us to mourn.

Someone died, the police came to investigate, investigated the driver who was driving, and asked him why he drove the car down the river in a good way.

The driver said that she was driving well, but one hand twisted his steering wheel out of thin air, and the car fell into the river without obeying the call.

But Chen Jialuo's parents and I both knew that 80 percent of the time because the monkey went to see the mirror in the basin of water, and both families privately said that the monkey's soul went to the top bridge.

I don't know what happened to me, after all, it's been almost 20 years. But since then, I didn't dare to cross that bridge, and I took a long detour to get home.

"Slugg...... Slug! Seeing that I was stunned, Chen Jialuo couldn't help but push me twice.

That's when I woke up from my memories.

"What's the matter, we can't enter the village now?" Chen Jialuo glared at me with some dissatisfaction.

I looked ahead and saw that the group of exorcists had finished the ritual and were almost gone, and the streets of the village were full of paper money.

I thought about it for a moment, and said let's go inside, just to see what the hell is going on.

It's all here, you can't help but go in, right?

Seeing an uncle sweeping the floor cleaning the paper money on the floor, I glanced at Chen Jialuo.

The kid was also clever, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and walked towards the uncle.

"Uncle, are you driving out ghosts?" Chen Jialuo handed the uncle a cigarette as he spoke.

The uncle looked at me and Chen Jialuo suspiciously, took the cigarette, and said in very non-standard Mandarin, yes.

As long as you take the cigarette, everything is easy to talk about.

Chen Jialuo and I didn't look like bad people, and politely handed cigarettes to this uncle from time to time, and this grandfather relaxed his vigilance and chatted with us.

After chatting for a while, I asked, "Uncle, ask someone who shouldn't be asked, who died in this village?" How did you come up with such a big formation? ”

"Hey......" As soon as the uncle heard me ask this, his eyes immediately turned red, and he wiped his tears vigorously.

What's going on? Could it be that the person who died is the relative of this uncle?

For a while, Chen Jialuo and I looked at each other and didn't know what to say, this is too coincidental, right?

Just when we were about to comfort the uncle, he trembled and said, "It's the daughter of the Lu family who died, hey, ......."