I didn't expect to end up going around in a circle and back to my own home.

So I looked back at the place where I came out, and it was my grandmother who told me that I should remember the door that I couldn't open, and my look of horror came to my face, and my grandfather looked at me and said, "I know why you are surprised." ”

I looked at my grandfather and then at me, only to feel very confused about my identity at this time, and I said, "Grandpa, are you real or are you just a ghost talking to me?" ”

Grandpa said, "You saw me in the shadows." Nature is no longer alive. ”

I looked at the door behind me and at everything in front of me, and I asked, "But why did I end up here, and why are you here?" ”

Grandpa didn't rush to answer me, but said to me, "I'm hiding here, waiting for you to come, and hiding from you." ”

Grandpa's words were very contradictory, I didn't know what he wanted to say, I just looked at him, grandpa said: "The three souls in my body have not left the body and two have been eaten by the rats raised by the ghost bodhisattva, and now this will not last long, I hope you can find me so that I can tell you something, but I don't want you to find me." Because you shouldn't know these things. ”

I asked, "What is it?" ”

Grandpa said: "This is a secret that our family has always had, and it has something to do with your background. ”

I asked, "Where do I come from?" ”

Grandpa said, "Come and see." ”

Saying that, my grandfather took me to the black coffin at the end of the room, and my grandmother explained to me that this was made by my grandfather for a person surnamed Xue, and his family would come to ask for it, but I don't know what my grandfather is going to do when he brings me to this coffin.

I found that the lid of the coffin was gone, and my grandfather asked me to look inside the coffin, and I looked in, only to see that there was a dead baby lying motionless inside, and my grandfather said to me, "This is the real Xiao Mu." ”

I couldn't understand what my grandfather was talking about for a while, so I asked, "He is Xiao Mu, the same name as me?" ”

Grandpa said: "You are not from our Xiao family, the real Xiao Mu was born a stillborn, this baby in the coffin, and you are not born to your parents." ”

It was almost like a fantasy, and the grandfather continued: "Before this stillborn baby was born, I heard the sound of a baby crying upstairs, and I came up with your grandmother to see you, and we saw you in the coffin, and we don't know where you came from, and we don't know how you ended up in this coffin, but you were like a newborn baby, and it just so happened that your mother gave birth to another stillborn." So your grandmother and I secretly replaced the two of you, put the stillborn back in the coffin, carried you to your mother, and gave you the name Xiao Mu. But actually, you are not related to us by blood. ”

When I heard my grandfather say this, I didn't know what to say, and he said, "No one knows about this except me and your grandmother." But I don't know why, after we took you out, you also began to die, hanging on one breath, and then we found a gentleman to help you see, and then you know what happened later. ”

It turned out to be like this, I looked at the baby in the coffin who had been dead for so long but was still intact, and for a moment I couldn't describe my thoughts, as if it was a blank space, and it seemed to be as complicated as an impenetrable sea.

I was silent for a long time before I finally asked, "But what does this have to do with your death?" ”

Grandpa heard me ask this question as if he had already eaten it, and then looked at me in horror. He asked me, "You know what?" ”

I said, "I don't know, that's why I went out to find out what happened, and I got here by mistake, and then I met you." ”

Grandpa listened and said: "It seems that this is fate, and I can't hide if I want to, and since you came out of that door, I feel that this matter is no longer under my control." ”

I asked my grandfather, "I remember that day I couldn't get into the house, you opened the courtyard door and let me in, and you told me about the white cat at home, so what happened?" ”

Grandpa said: "I don't know this, because after the separation of the three souls, it is like three completely different people, and their respective things are only known by each other, unless the memories of the three souls can be gathered, I have been hiding in this place since the soul came out that night, and I don't know anything else at all, I just vaguely feel that the other two souls were eaten by the giant rat that night." ”

I see. I was a little disappointed, so my dad turned to the question just now and asked my grandfather, "Then what does your death have to do with this matter?" ”

Grandpa looked at me, and after a long time, he finally pointed to the door I came out of and said, "It's because of this door." ”

I looked at the closed door and said, "Because of it?" ”

Grandpa said, "I can't say for sure, but some time before I died, I dreamed a lot that I was standing in front of this door, and then the door opened, and I saw a white paper figure standing behind the door, and it said to me that it would be too late if I didn't leave." ”

White paper figures?

This is the second time I have heard about this white paper man after his father went to the shade and saw the black and white paper man in front of the black and white door and I saw the white paper man in Linglong's room. I can't help but think of the dream I had, my grandfather turned into a black paper man, and my grandfather dreamed that this white paper man was talking to him behind the door, are the two dreams connected?

I asked, "White paper figures." Do you know who it is? ”

Grandpa shook his head, and he said, "Every time I dream about it, I feel like I've already died once." ”

I thought about my grandfather's abnormality during that time, and finally said, "So that's why you went to find your aunt, right?" ”

Grandpa looked at me and said, "Yes, because I remember that in the early years she used to secretly pierce a white paper figure and secretly burned it at night." ”

I frowned: "Auntie and grandmother also pierced white paper figures?" ”

Grandpa said: "I'm afraid that I am the only one in the family who knows about this matter except her, and everyone in the family thinks that she is curious about yin and yang things to learn these strange things, and then she began to make some strange things, that is, later your grandfather found her black paper figure." In fact, as early as three years ago, she had pierced this white paper figure, and secretly burned it at night, at that time I lived next door to her, and at night I heard the sound of someone talking and got up to look, but I saw the light in her house in the middle of the night, so I went to the window to look, and I saw her talking to this white paper man. I didn't hear what was said, and then I saw her burn the white paper figure with the brazier, but I saw that when the paper figure was put into the brazier, his head suddenly turned to look at me, and smiled strangely at me. ”

I was taken aback by this, and I asked, "Are you sure you're not mistaken?" ”

Grandpa said, "I will always remember that scene, its body did not move, but its head was twisted almost half a circle. Their mouths grinned. ”

I continued to ask, "Then you didn't tell Grandpa about it?" ”

Grandpa looked at me and shook his head slowly, but he didn't say a word, I felt that there was something else hidden in this, so he asked, "Why?" ”

Grandpa said, "Because ......"

Just as my grandfather was saying these two words, I suddenly heard a regular knock on the door behind me—knock, knock, knock, three times. A total of three sets were knocked.

When this knock sounded, my grandfather suddenly looked at the door vigilantly, and he and I didn't dare to look behind the door, and I asked my grandfather, "What is this sound?" ”

Grandpa suddenly stood up and blew out the candles, and then said to me in the voice of a technical school, "You can't see." ”

Then I was in the darkness for a moment, and then I heard a "squeak", as if the door was open, but when the door opened, the whole room fell to deathly silence, I stood with my breath, but there was no movement, and after a while, I suddenly heard my grandfather call out to me, as if from the direction of the door: "Wood, under my bed." ”

Then, Grandpa's voice was gone.