The evening breeze blew through my shirt and pushed me forward, and the leaves rustled, as if something terrible was hiding in the grass and ready to attack us at any moment, and I hesitated again and again.

"Here you go." Uncle found an umbrella from the trunk and handed it to me, "Take it." ”

I subconsciously took it, and said in my heart, why did I give me an umbrella when it didn't rain? You can't use this to defend yourself: "What is this for?" ”

The uncle closed the trunk: "I'll tell you later, let's go." ”

I froze and looked at the umbrella in my hand, which was really no different from an ordinary umbrella. Uncle stepped forward and grabbed my hand and pulled me into the warehouse. The empty warehouse was surprisingly quiet, only the sound of me and my uncle rubbing the soles of their shoes against the floor, but the moment we stepped into the warehouse, a gust of wind blew, and the leaves were blown louder by the wind, like thousands of monsters wailing.

The warehouse still had those things on display, but the candles were extinguished, and there was still no one to collect the pile of papers. We went up to check the signs of the candle being extinguished, it was supposed to have been blown out by the wind outside, and there was still a small section left unburned. My gaze suddenly fell on the portrait, and a corner of my memory suddenly pulled my mind away.

I pointed to the portrait and said excitedly: "It's him, it's him in my dream, Ina's face has become him, Tai Lei's father." ”

The uncle picked up the posthumous photo and looked at it carefully, and suddenly frowned: "It's not good, today should be his first seven." ”

"The first seven?" I frowned and asked, "How do you know?" ”

"Don't worry about it so much." The uncle pulled me to the door, and said as he walked, "We have to hurry, it's already half past seven in the evening, and after twelve o'clock tonight, you may not be able to save your best friend." ”

I let my uncle pull me away, and just as we were about to reach the door, a gust of wind closed the iron door of the warehouse. Uncle ran forward and couldn't push the door open, he panted and hammered the iron door hard, and I tried my best to push it open, but I didn't even move if I pushed the door open.

"Stop pushing, it's useless." Uncle sat down against the door and took out his mobile phone, "No signal." ”

I sat down with my uncle, wiped my tears without saying a word, and tried not to let myself cry.

Uncle looked at me and reached out to wipe my tears: "If I'm not mistaken, today should be his first seven." After death, if there is no bone to attach, he will become a lonely ghost. ”

I still looked at Uncle with a confused expression, and Uncle continued: "It means that after death, the soul of a person is attached to the bones, but if there are no bones or ashes, they will become lonely ghosts." And if he is not sent back to the underworld on the first seven days, he will completely remain in the world and become a lonely ghost, and in serious cases, he will harm others and find a substitute. ”

"So, on the first seven days, there is a custom to burn something like a ladder to the deceased, called the ladder." Uncle stood up, "In this way, the deceased can be safely sent to the underworld to be reincarnated, but now it is obvious that this old guy doesn't want us to send him away, and he wants to find your best friend as a stand-in." Although his body is not here now, but a large amount of black gas has gathered in the mourning hall, it is obvious that he was also very unwilling to die before his death, and there should be some unfulfilled wishes, otherwise he will die unjustly. ”

I also stood up and stared at the mourning hall carefully, and said in my heart, what kind of black gas, this person is really a god: "Black gas? ”

"Open your umbrella and try it."

"Umbrella?"

"Yes." Uncle looked at the umbrella in my hand, "The old man often says that the umbrella in the house does not grow tall, but in fact it is not, it is just to scare children." The real reason for it is that you can see ghosts with an umbrella in the house. ”

My heart was shocked, and my heart said that I should open it or not, this hell is not a joke. The uncle next to me who hesitated again and again also saw my thoughts: "It's okay, it's just a cloud of black gas." ”

I coughed twice and quickly explained, "I...... I'm not afraid. ”

I cautiously squinted my eyes and slowly opened the umbrella, looking at the mourning hall, there was indeed a cloud of black gas shrouded in the sky, but it was just a cloud of black gas and there were no other ghosts. I looked at the uncle next to me and stammered, "Your eyes can see this...... Is it? ”

Uncle nodded: "But not you can see everything, because only the soul with a large magnetic field can affect people's retina, although ordinary people can't see it, but I can." Judging by the intensity of this black gas, the deceased should have had a lot of grievances before his death. ”

I closed the umbrella and said, "So what should we do next?" ”

"We should now burn a ladder for the deceased, so that he will return to Hades." Uncle looked at the black gas and continued, "But we don't have it now, the door is also sealed by the black gas, and there is no signal, you have to give me time to think of a way." ”

"Ladder." I looked at the pile of paper, and then looked up at my uncle again, "Is it okay to be a paper paste?" ”

Uncle suddenly understood my thoughts, and said with a smile, "Your little head is still a little useful." ”

I hummed softly, walked over to the pile of paper, and said I'd do it. The paper shop that has been working for so long will not fold a ladder, and it will be done by dividing it by two, although it is not very beautiful, but it does not affect its practicality. The uncle took the ladder to the front of the mourning hall and took out a lighter from his pocket, and was just about to light it, when the door of the warehouse was blown open by the wind with a "clang", and the wind blew outside instantly, and the leaves were blown in the air, raising a burst of dust.

I paced over to shield my uncle from the wind, but he calmly whispered "It's okay", and then the papier-mâché ladder burned all at once. The wind also gradually decreased, until the ladder burned down and returned to normal. I sat on the ground panting heavily, as if I had sucked two pounds of dust in my chest.

Uncle pulled me up and pointed to the mourning hall behind me: "The black gas is gone, it's okay, your girlfriend should be safe." ”

I propped up the umbrella beside me and looked at the mourning hall again, and the black qi really disappeared: "It's over?" ”

The uncle nodded, wiped the fine beads of sweat on his forehead tiredly, straightened up and waved his hand to the statue with a smile: "I got a windproof lighter, I wish you all the best." ”

Suddenly, the black humorous uncle made me laugh all at once, and the soreness on my body disappeared in an instant. The phone kept vibrating in my pocket and my legs were numb, and when I picked up the phone, I saw that it was Ina's mother who called and said that Ina had woken up in the hospital, and my tears poured out at once.

Uncle dragged me by the arm and took me to the car, I still couldn't control my teary eyes and trembling, I turned my face away from my uncle, this damn physiological reaction made me really ashamed.

The uncle looked at me and suddenly laughed: "Are you still afraid?" ”

"I, I'm not, I'm not afraid." I quickly explained, but I trembled when I spoke, "I'm just normal, normal physiological reactions." ”

Uncle sneered, "I understand." But in this world, people are much more terrible than the things you just saw,"

I nodded and didn't speak again, looking at this uncle sitting in the driver's seat, I felt that he was quite handsome for a moment, especially when he had just lit the lighter. Although there are still many questions in my mind, I feel that it doesn't matter, as long as Ina Ann wakes up safely, I don't want to pursue anything else.

The street lights outside the car window turned on, I squinted my eyes, the street lights were like meteors passing around me, when I was a child, I often paralyzed myself to make a wish for the street lights as meteors. Now that I'm older, I've learned how to numb myself even more.

5

The early morning sun shines through the curtains on my eyelids and shows a safe warm orange, I woke up next to Ina's bed, last night was probably the most memorable day of my life, it was almost two o'clock when I rushed back to the hospital, I didn't expect to be able to sleep in the hospital bed.

The severe swelling of my eyelids made me a little uncomfortable, and I was a little distracted to look at Ina who was still snoring lightly on the bed, and even wanted to reach out to try her snort, what happened last night was a nightmare that I really couldn't tell the real from the fake. I stretched and came back to my senses, opened the door and walked out of the room.

"Oops, I'll go."

I looked at the uncle sitting on the chair in the corridor and was startled, but immediately returned to his original expression, trying to hide the embarrassment just now: "Didn't you go back?" ”

Uncle looked at me and shook his head.

But then again, on the day I met my uncle, his expression management was really controlled, and I really wanted to ask him for advice, how he kept a smile on his face, and he was also smiling at such an urgent moment yesterday, I wonder if he is really not afraid.

I coughed twice to hide my embarrassment: "Why don't you all go back, you haven't eaten, I'm going to buy breakfast for Ina, let's go together." ”

Uncle nodded, stood up and followed me without speaking, but I could see that he was also tired, so he found a random breakfast shop to eat.

"Uncle." I cautiously asked, "Why didn't you leave last night?" ”

"Don't worry about you two."

"That uncle." I continued, "Can I ask you a question?" ”

The uncle drank the bowl of porridge in front of him without saying a word.

I coughed twice with a smile: "Uncle, I want to know how you know that yesterday was Tai Lei's father's first seventh?" ”

Uncle raised his head and stared at me for dozens of seconds, and I could feel my face turn red instantly: "I can look at the face", and then lowered his head and took another sip of porridge.

"Life and death, disasters and blessings can be seen from people's faces, as well as the life and death of family members." Uncle slowly raised his head and asked with a sneer, "I just helped you see the next photo, do you want me to help you interpret your life and death?" Gratuitous. ”

I had a rejection written all over my face: "Farewell, uncle." Life and death have their own fate, and I still like to go with the flow. ”

The uncle poked the plate with chopsticks: "Then don't talk while eating." ”

"Got it, uncle."

After eating, my uncle told me that he would go back first, and I took the food I packed for Ina and walked to the ward alone. The heart said that this uncle is also interesting enough, and he patted my ass and left after rubbing me for a meal early in the morning. After thinking about it, forget it, after all, people have done us a great favor, and it's time to go back and rest well.

But this is the first time I have heard of it, or that there are so many people studying Chinese metaphysics, this uncle is also powerful enough, and the cultural coverage is quite extensive.

"What? Is it so exciting? ”

As soon as I heard my story about last night, Ina sat up from the bed, and I quickly supported her and frowned and said, "You can slow down." ”

"Oops, I'm fine." Ina smiled at me maliciously and said, "Is your uncle handsome?" How old are you? Got a girlfriend? I haven't heard that you have an uncle. ”

"When you go back to see him, you can ask yourself." I looked at Ina and pursed the corners of my lips like a nymphomaniac, "I didn't know I had an uncle, I was still curious." ”

Ina slowly leaned close to me: "I owe you a hot pot this time, thank you." ”

I snorted softly and leaned my face on her head: "Sister, I'll be fine if you're fine." ”

The two of us went through the discharge procedures before noon, and we were carrying a lot of things in large bags and small bags, and everyone should go to work, go to work, and rest and rest, and everything was back to before. Ina complained all the way about why she had brought so many things to the hospital, and I couldn't help but laugh when I saw her struggling with the hot water kettle.

Ina poured all the bags into her right hand, and finally freed up one hand and pointed at me angrily: "You laugh again, you take it." ”

I looked at her funny appearance and wanted to laugh even more: "There are still a few steps to go, this thing is your old mother's love for you, why don't you just put it in your mother's office?" ”

Ina snorted and reluctantly continued to walk forward: "Whoever wants to go to her office, I'd rather bring it back myself." ”

I looked at the door of the shop, looked back at Ina with a confused expression, and said, "I remember asking my mother to lock the door of the shop when I left." ”

Ina looked at the wide open door in the distance and was stunned for a moment, then ran over with a loud shout: "Recruit a thief." ”

I want to stop Ina, and I said that Ina's temper is still so urgent, who would steal a paper shop, and don't let Tai Lei buy all the goods, there is no cash in the store, and now there are only some tables, chairs and benches in the store.

"Ahh