"He's going to go with me, he's going to go with me. We've been good all the time. Just let us see each other again, and he'll come with me. The female ghost said excitedly.

Zong Sheng took out a very small brush and a piece of rune paper from the pocket of his cargo pants, and asked, "Do you remember your husband's birthday?" ”

"Remember, remember, every bit of him, I remember. Am I going to see him right away? The female ghost believed Zong Sheng so easily, it should be that he really longed to see her husband in his heart.

"Tell me first, his birthday is a death taboo. I'll help you check the Three Realms. You'll find out if you'll be able to see him. ”

The female ghost said, for two times, Zong Sheng pinched his fingers and counted for a while before writing two eight characters on the rune paper. In fact, it is to replace the time that the female ghost said with the sexagenary branch to express it.

After writing it, Zong Sheng asked, "Do you still have your husband's things?" ”

The female ghost looked at the iron gate over there and said, "There is a bunch of keys hanging on the wall next to the door, and that is my husband's key. When he died, the key was still in his pocket. I put it there, thinking that one day he would come back and open the door with the key to see me. But he never returned, and I did not see him until I died. Did I really see him? Will I really be able to see him? ”

He had waited so long for a glimmer of hope. If Zong Sheng told her at this time that after checking the Three Realms, she would never have had the chance to see her husband again, then this woman might really turn her face and kill the two of us here.

Zong Sheng didn't speak, walked to the door and took the key off the nail. The key was already covered in rust, and even if it did, it would be impossible to open the lock again.

Zong Sheng looked around and took a broken plastic basin from near the railing. There are often some things left on the roof or in the staircase aisle of such old buildings. He looked at the water tower at the top of the building, and some water was in the plastic basin. But the water in the basin is also an obvious sign of leakage, after all, the basin was thrown here by someone else.

Zong Sheng frowned and said, "Let's try it, if your husband appears, tell him as soon as you have anything to say, and after the water is finished, he will disappear." ”

I didn't speak, but looking at the speed at which the basin flowed, it was estimated that it would only run out in five or six minutes.

Zong Sheng threw the rusty string of keys into the water, and did it in his hand, holding the rune paper with strange gestures. I muttered a few words in my mouth, and I didn't understand the words, and my fingers shook, and the charm burned. Zong Sheng threw the burning talisman out, and the floating on the wall slowly swirled and fluttered in the air, and finally slowly fell on the surface of the water and sank to ashes and under the water. Isn't paper ash supposed to float on the water, and why does it sink to the bottom of the water?

The water in the basin began to slowly rotate. It's as if the water is spinning the ash, and it's as if the ash is spinning the water. Gradually, an image appeared in the water, and a vague figure stood in the basin, with its feet in the water. I couldn't make out the man's face, but I could see in the blur that it was supposed to be a man. It should be said that he is a male ghost, the husband of the female ghost.

The voice of the female ghost crying changed, and I confirmed my guess.

"Husband, husband, why don't you come back to me? Why did you leave me here alone? The child is not sensible, and I don't even have a person to talk to. Whining... ”

The vague figure didn't speak, but he slowly held out his hand.

The female ghost slowly approached him, getting closer and closer. She also reached out and took the hand that blurred the face.

The water in the basin suddenly spun very fast, and it leaked significantly faster than before. The figure in the basin began to shake. The female ghost hurriedly shouted: "Husband, husband... ”

She quickly pounced on the vanishing figure, and finally the basin suddenly flipped over, swaying on the ground with a clattering sound. Both of them were gone.

"They... I asked.

"Gone, together." Zong Sheng said, "In fact, there are many such things, and if they give them a little help, they will not do it so absolutely." But the female ghost will not end well, after all, she killed someone, and she will be punished when she gets there.

I nodded, blinking and relaxing. I was really tired, and the nervousness just now made me not realize this tiredness at all. Now once I relaxed, I yawned.

Zong Sheng looked at me, but his eyes became cautious.

"What's wrong?" Even if I yawned, he didn't have to look at me like that.

Zong Sheng walked behind me, stepped on the bamboo pole with one foot, twisted his foot a few times, and said, "This bamboo has been eroded by resentment, and if you leave it alone, something will happen." Take all the bamboo poles over there and burn them. ”

I looked at him with wide eyes: "All burned? "There are definitely more bamboo poles here than everyone expected. There are not many normal residents in Lingling Building, there are many renters, and many people who rent houses live in one room, and the number of people living here is much more than that of normal families. Because there are so many people, there are a lot of clothes to dry. Because of this, many people choose to dry their clothes on the rooftop. It's almost dense, it's bamboos everywhere.

"Yes. The bamboo pole that the female ghost dropped just now had already killed people, and she had been staying by her side, leaving her resentment and stupidity. Even if she's gone, something might happen. Burned more safe. ”

"There are so many bamboos here, if they are all burned, the fire will be very large, in case the police come...

"When the time comes, what can they do to us if we burn bamboo here?"

Zong Sheng had already started to do it, so he directly took the clothes over there, made them as an introduction, and burned them.

Do you know that firecrackers are called firecrackers and firecrackers? A long, long time ago, during the Chinese New Year, to drive away the monster of the New Year, people burned bamboo, so that the bamboo exploded into a loud sound to drive away the New Year. That's how firecrackers come about. The bamboo knots are all intact, and at high temperatures, they burst open and make a loud noise. When many bamboos are burned in the fire at the same time, there is a continuous sound of bamboo bursting. It's the same as setting off firecrackers.

I knew this when I was a child, and when I grew up in the village, I would inevitably encounter people burning bamboo. But whether Zong Sheng knows this or not, I am not sure. When the bamboo burst open for the first time, he was not surprised, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and he added bamboo poles to it. In the fire is very big, the sound of "crackling" is getting louder and louder. He frowned, too, as if the voice had been louder than he had expected. The sound of people shouting began to come downstairs, and it was not too late, many people had not slept yet, and even if they were asleep, it was estimated that they would wake up with such a loud noise. Especially the people who live downstairs on the top floor, I don't know what it looks like to be scared.

The sirens also sounded. I helped throw the bamboo, and said, "The police are coming, the police are coming." ”

The flames were already nearly a meter high, and the hot air waves reflected my face red. I threw the bamboo in my hand and watched as Zong Sheng threw the bloodstained bamboo into the fire. I don't know if it was the bamboo that exploded, or if it was something else, but anyway, there was a particularly loud firecracker sound.

At the same time, the police downstairs also began to shout with their bullhorns: "Upstairs, what's going on on the roof?" What to burn? Stop, you're already a threat to the city's safety. ”

Zong Sheng looked at me in the firelight and asked, "Are you sleepy?" Can you still run? ”

His already very fair skin, under such a firelight, it was also difficult to reflect red. "At this time, there is nothing to be sleepy. What do you want to do? "Even if I was so sleepy that I could fall asleep directly against the wall just now, now that I am so sleepy, the sound of "crackling" firecrackers, coupled with the shouts of the police below, all my sleepiness is scared.

Zong Sheng took my hand: "Then run with me." Walk! ”

Before I could react, he had already led me downstairs.

When we were standing in front of the elevator and looking at the lights on the elevator pointing up, someone should have come up. A thought came to me that the people who came up were the police. Zong Sheng glanced at the prompt on the elevator and pulled me towards the stairs. At the same time, he took out his own small flashlight, and while leading me down, he said: "One two three four five six seven eight ninety , one two three four five six seven eight ninety . Remember, every ten stairs there is a corner. No problem. ”

"Huh?" Why should I keep track of the staircase steps?

He didn't answer me, took my hand, and suddenly ran up. During the run, the light of the flashlight also began to shake, and I couldn't see the environment of the staircase clearly, so I could only hold on to the handrail and run after him. At the same time, I listened to him counting there: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninety, turn, one, two, three, four... ”

Gradually, even if he didn't count, I could keep up with him, and in this shaky, unstable light, trust him completely, run with him, follow him, and not be afraid of bumping into anything, not afraid of stepping on the air.

He held my hand tightly, in the dark, and did not let go. We ran downstairs as fast as we could, and he didn't let go of me until we came out of the stairs. Pulling me along, pretending to be none of his business, he walked towards the street. Downstairs, you can clearly hear the sound of bamboo joints popping upstairs. A single bamboo has many knots and can burst out a lot of sound. Some of the bamboo knots can even burst into several sounds.

There are also many people downstairs taking pictures of the firelight upstairs, and some people shouting into their mobile phones: "Come and see, there is another strange incident in Lingling Building." Someone on the top floor burns things and sets off firecrackers, it should be someone who sends ghosts. ”

A police car was still there with its lights flashing, but the police in the car were no longer there, and they should have gone upstairs. Zong Sheng pulled me, without looking at the crowd, and walked across the street, and then, when he reached the opposite side, pulled me and ran again. In the streets at night, the two of us ran as fast as we could, he pulled me, and I followed him.