In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "Ghost Festival", according to legend, every year on the first day of July, the king of Hades will order the gate of the underworld to be opened, so that those unjust souls who have suffered all year round can come out of the underworld and get a short-term wandering trip to enjoy the food of the world.

And the story I'm going to tell today happened on Halloween.

My name is Li Changan, I am 20 years old this year, I have no father and no mother, I have followed my second uncle since I was a child, and I went north and south, and then my second uncle owed a lot of money, and I was given to the creditor as a mortgage, you say this is outrageous, he is really outrageous, who would take an eight-year-old doll as a mortgage.

Since that time, I haven't seen my second uncle again, I thought that I would fall into the tiger's mouth like this, and I would never be able to escape from the cage of bondage, but who would have thought that I was actually saved by an old Taoist priest.

This old Taoist priest has a lot of kung fu, and he knocked a group of big men to the ground in a few rounds, and his contemptuous eyes made people crazy.

"In the future, this kid is my apprentice, whoever dares to trouble him will kill him, Lao Tzu's name is Song Tianshan!"

That was the first time I had heard such domineering words, and from that day on, I became his apprentice, and followed him all year round.

Not only did I learn to observe the mountains and measure the fortune, but even some methods of exorcism and spirituality, the master taught me, and the most important thing is that I have a home of my own, until today, I am quite lucky to recall.

At this moment, the wind chimes I hung in the doorway and the old-fashioned pendulum next to me rang at the same time, the crisp wind chimes combined with the dull chimes.

I got up and looked at the door, and strangely enough, there was no one at the door.

"It's raining outside, so the wind must be blowing."

I muttered something strange, and was about to receive a glass of water, but I heard the door be pushed open, and when I looked back, there stood at the door a weak, pale girl, with rain all over her hair.

I frowned slightly, thinking to myself that today was Halloween, why did someone come out to hang out at night, and it looked like the young lady in front of me was quite weak.

Out of curiosity, I immediately asked, "Hello Miss, is there something wrong?" This is not a place where ordinary people can come at night, and today is Halloween, so it is not appropriate to go out. ”

As soon as I finished speaking, a bolt of lightning lit up outside the door, followed by a boom and thunder.

A few seconds after the thunder, the light above my head suddenly went out, and I picked up a flashlight from the counter, turned on it, and was surprised to find that the girl standing at the door had fainted on the ground.

I tried to wake her up, but to no avail, and after feeling her faint breath, I picked her up and put her on the bed chair behind the counter.

After careful examination, there was a wound of about five centimeters on her waist, although it was not long, but the wound was very deep, and what shocked me the most was that the yang fire on her shoulder was extinguished, which was also the reason why she fell to the ground weakly.

Generally speaking, there are three fires in a person's body, and the Lord is lucky in life and death, and when you are walking at night, no matter what sound you hear behind you, you must never turn back.

Because it is very likely that something you can't see is playing tricks on you, as long as you turn around, the yang fire will be extinguished, and when you see the ghost of Li, the body is small, and the serious will also lead the yin into the body, and there are good brothers everywhere around.

Thinking of this, I guessed that the girl in front of me should have encountered something unclean, but at the moment, I didn't think about it so much, after all, the serious one was still in her wound.

I wanted to reach out to lift her clothes, but stopped halfway through, "I'll go, what if it's falsely accused, it's unpredictable in this society now." ”

I was thinking in my heart, so I gritted my teeth and crossed my heart, and dragged the medical kit, bandages, alcohol, and needles and threads from the side with a flashlight, all in one go.

When the power was restored, I turned on the heating in the house and was relieved to see that her complexion was slowly recovering.

"Alas, it's true, the old man ran away without saying a word, leaving me alone to guard the shop, and there are a lot of."

I leaned against the counter and complained, and just then, the girl next to me suddenly moved and slowly woke up.

"Wake up, what's the matter, girl, fainted at my door at night, and was injured."

I looked at her and said lazily.

The girl realized it and hurriedly covered her waist, and the next second, I heard her snort in pain.

I was amused by her movements, and said with a grin: "Don't worry, I'm a decent man, the wound on your waist is not long, but it is very deep, if you don't bandage it, it is very likely to infect the wound, and then the whole flesh will rot." ”

The girl's expression slowly recovered, and she asked weakly, "You... Are you Song Tianshan? ”

Her voice was very soft and intermittent, and I was stunned for a moment, thinking that I had heard it wrong, and subconsciously said, "No." ”

The girl's eyes dimmed for a moment, and when she just woke up, she estimated that her ability to bear it was limited, so she lowered her head nervously and muttered: "He.... They said that Song Tianshan is here, why not, then who are you. ”

The girl raised her head suddenly, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes, which made me inexplicable.

"Song Tianshan is my master, I am his apprentice, you haven't answered me yet, what are you doing with his old man."

I looked at her strangely, desperate for an answer.

When the girl heard what she had just said, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at me excitedly, even if she was slightly injured, she could not stop her wonderful face.

"Are you really Song Tianshan's apprentice, really?"

I didn't answer her immediately, but habitually captured the three emotions of panic, fear and worry from her face.

"The master recently traveled to visit friends, you can tell me anything, don't worry, I will also do his ability, I will help if I can."

As if grasping at the last straw, the girl thanked me for her kindness before she slowly said the matter.

The girl's name is Yang Mengzhu, one year younger than me, is the daughter of the Yang family in Jiangjin City, the family conditions are very good, living in the most expensive villa area in the inner ring, I heard that even the house with decoration is nearly 10 million or more.

Here's the thing, Yang Mengzhu has a girlfriend who has played since she was a child, and the two have nothing to talk about, but the sky is going to die, her best friend committed suicide by jumping off the building because of emotional problems, half a month ago, she went to the cemetery to visit her best friend as usual.

It seems normal to mourn relatives and friends, but who knows that as soon as she comes back, she often has some strange dreams, in which there are rotten old people, immature but weird children, and some women in red and white wedding dresses jumping off the building hand in hand, which seems to imply something, and Yang Mengzhu feels that someone is lying on her body every day, suffocating her.

Generally, rich people like to have a few fortune tellers around who claim to be half-immortals and great immortals, although Yang Mengzhu doesn't believe in this, but she dreams of the same dream for several nights in a row, and she also begins to be afraid.

She feared that every day when she closed her eyes would be full of gruesome images, the fortune teller told her that she was most likely being stalked by some mysterious creature of the night, and that there might be a bloody glow recently.

Yang Mengzhu was frightened, this calculation, sure enough, something happened, after going back, her bedroom was like a thief, a mess, and what was even more weird was that she saw a group photo of her girlfriends on the table, and suddenly smiled weirdly, and her eyes were closed and gone.

This frightened Yang Mengzhu, and learned from her mouth that her family didn't know about such a scene in the bedroom, and she said that she felt very tired in the past few days, and sometimes she was lying down for a day, listless.

I didn't show much confusion as she described this, and it was clear that she was haunted by a ghost.

"Let me ask you, have you been walking at night a lot in the last two days?"

I looked at Yang Mengzhu seriously, she just nodded and didn't speak.

"Did you hear someone call your name and you turned around, or did you see something when you were sleeping, such as a person?"

As soon as these words came out, Yang Mengzhu was shocked, his head nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and said to me quickly, "After I fell asleep last night, I felt someone lying on top of me, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a man, his face was full of rotten sores, and there were insects crawling out, I was really scared, can you help me, I will give you money, I will give you as much as you want." ”

I didn't answer her for a long time, lit a cigarette and smoked.

Yang Mengzhu was eager to stand up, but he fell down with exhaustion, I sighed and said, "I can't help you, you go, your fate is self-determined, no one can disobey it." ”

Who would have thought that as soon as I said this, Yang Mengzhu started crying, crying and saying, "I beg you to help me, they all said that only Song Tianshan can help me solve this matter, you are his apprentice, there must be a way, as long as you help me, no matter what you do, I will promise you." ”

Looking at her big watery eyes and pitiful eyes, I really couldn't bear it.

But the master once told me that no matter what happens, as long as you encounter these three situations, you can't care, one is to meet someone who is about to die, the second is to meet someone with a yin fetus, and the third is to meet a person with improper mental skills.

Yang Mengzhu in front of me obviously had the first situation, just when I hesitated, a black shadow suddenly flashed at the door, rushing towards me, to be precise, Yang Mengzhu.

I was taken aback, and without thinking about it, I got up and flicked the cigarette butt, raised my foot and kicked the shadow away.

"Where did the wild ghosts come from, dare to come here to be presumptuous!"

A man's gloomy laughter rang out in the air, and then the black shadow disappeared in front of me as if it had never been there.