The first seven are folk customs that have always existed, but they may be different from place to place.

In my hometown, if an old man dies, he has to go over the first seven days, which is also called burning the first seven papers. It is the seventh day from the day of burial, and some are counted from the day of death. The son or his immediate family members should go to the grave to cry and burn the fire paper, first, to comfort the soul, and second, to let the soul adapt to the new "home" as soon as possible.

In short, there are really many rules for white funerals in China, and everything has a special meaning during the period from the wake to the burial. Anyway, I don't really understand it, my personal opinion, these Rausch rules are made by the living for the living, and people don't think about it when they die! I'm afraid that no matter how much I do, it won't help, and I'll put it bluntly, this form is now developing more like a way to collect money, and it can also be said that people are exchanging favors.

I was a boarding student in middle school, so I stayed at home on the other 5 days of the week, except for weekends. In order to save money, most of us will bring food to school for two or three days, and then spend money on food. Generally, the rice that can be brought is also very single, pancakes + chili fried pickles, because of the long storage time.

In order to enrich the content of their meals, the classmates in the same dormitory will work together, but there is no shortage of eating and drinking. There is a person in our dormitory who often comes to eat and drink, because it is from the same village as another classmate in the same dormitory, so we can't say anything, and this person is usually okay, so we are happy to eat and drink together.

I can't remember what his name is, but I can vaguely remember the appearance, he is not tall, a little square face, facial features are small in addition to the eyes 👀, and the others are fine, and the hairstyle ~ The standard non-mainstream hedgehog head of the post-90s. Those who have poor academic performance and are hung up every day are the type between gangsters and honest people. I don't have a good relationship with my classmates in my dormitory.、Because we run here every day to eat and drink, so it's more like living with us.,Often talk to us about which class of girls wrote love letters to him.、Which class and who did it again.,Anyway, as soon as the meal arrived.,This guy's mouth hasn't stopped.。 Usually there is a lot of pressure to study, and I like to listen to him talk about these things at dinner, but the world is unpredictable, until that day.

After a weekend, everyone brought food together as usual, but unlike usual, Zhang Ping (here the code name) did not come. I casually asked the classmate from the same village as him:

"Why is Zhang Ping a little abnormal today~ I didn't come to eat, I secretly ate alone."

"I don't know, I didn't go home last weekend, I haven't seen him in the past few days."

The classmate came back while stuffing the steamed bun in his mouth. I didn't care much about it, and continued to eat my own food, to be honest, although Zhang Ping often came to our dormitory, but his sense of existence was really not high in our hearts, after all, it was not a class, and we couldn't meet at other times except for eating, and we wouldn't think too much if we didn't come for a few days. But that night, when I went to the toilet at night, I actually ran into him, when I was squatting in the pit, and the sensor light in the toilet turned on and off, which made people can't help but speed up. Suddenly, when the lights went out, I noticed a person standing in front of the toilet. The squatting pit of our toilet has a few partitions and no door, and I usually look at a group of trumpets on the opposite side in a daze when I go to the tuba. Because I am highly myopic, I have to look hard at night when it is dark and close to things. I squinted and tried to see who it was, the hedgehog head, the Chinese face...

"I'm R... Zhang Ping: What are you doing standing there? ”

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After a pause, Zhang Ping was still standing motionless at the door, and when I saw that he didn't answer me, I wanted to bow my head and take the paper to end the battle and ask him. At the same time as I lowered my head, the sensor light in the toilet turned on, and my pit was not too far from the door, and I saw Zhang Ping barefoot, bare legs, and seemed to be dripping with water. I laughed in my heart, I guess this guy fell...

"You can't have fallen into the water at the door of the toilet, are you?

I said as I lifted my pants, and then the sensor light in the toilet happened to go out again, and before I finished speaking, I saw half a figure at the door.

'Damn... I ran so fast that I didn't finish my words...'

I muttered to myself, left him alone, and went back to the dormitory. The next day, at lunchtime, the classmate from the same village as Zhang Ping was not with us, and it took 15 minutes before the classmate entered the dormitory. As soon as he pushed the door in, we could see that his face was very bad, and he sat down on the bed by the door and let out a long breath.

"Zhang Ping is dead, he was drowned in the Yi River three days ago..."

We blew up and looked at him in disbelief, not knowing what to say for a while, and we all stopped eating, and gathered around him to ask him what was going on. It turned out that three days ago, on Saturday, Zhang Ping and his three cousins went to the Yihe River (a big river we have here) to take a bath to relieve the heat, and strayed into the sand dredging area in the river and fell in. By the time his three cousins came up to rescue him, he was no longer breathing, and it was said that a fierce man had plunged into the sand, and when he came up, his face was blue and his nose and mouth were bleeding. Everyone was silent when they learned what happened, and I secretly regretted it...

"No, I met him when I went to the bathroom last night."

I couldn't control my nervousness and exclaimed, and my classmates were taken aback by my words, and at this time, Zhang Ping, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, also echoed.

"I also ran into it last night, at the door of the water house..."

The two of us looked at each other, thinking back to the situation when we met Zhang Ping yesterday, the more we thought about it, the more we felt that something was wrong, and we also sat on the bed. There is a classmate in our dormitory, surnamed Tian, there is an old man in his family who is doing the business of exorcism and souls, and he often talks to us about this, and everyone calls him Tian Banxian. At this time, he was the calmest, Tian Banxian said unhurriedly when he saw the two of us like this.

"Don't panic, the boys' dormitory is yang, and it's not a big problem. Besides, everyone usually has a good relationship, and he can't do anything, you two have already met, and it is estimated that it will appear in the next few days. ”

Hearing Tian Banxian say this, the other 7 people present immediately panicked, and then a small man surnamed Feng said timidly.

"No, let's report to the head teacher in the afternoon!"

"I don't think it's necessary, even if you say it, it's useless, the school won't pay attention to it... Well... Today is Tuesday, Zhang Ping left last Saturday, as long as we get through the first seven, that is, after this Friday, it should be a problem. ”

The calm Tian Banxian immediately gave a suggestion, and at this time, we all became frightened birds, and there must be no opinion if there is one who can make an idea.

"Be safe, in the afternoon we'll split up to find something to ward off evil spirits, something like peach wood or something to decorate the dormitory."

Seeing that we all agreed, Tian Banxian threw out another reassuring pill. Life is at stake, everyone is not verbose, and they will go separately to prepare. In retrospect, it's funny, but I don't know who found some willow branches to stick in the window, and I didn't know until later that the willows were shaded. At that time, I was really scared, and I was really afraid of ghosts and monsters.

After the evening self-study class, everyone put the evil spirit-warding items they found in the corner of the dormitory. The interior of our dormitory is very simple, with a red lacquered door in the corridor and a large transparent glass window in the upper third of the door for the teachers to observe. At the entrance, there are large cabinets embedded in the wall on both sides, for personal belongings and bedding, and then there are two rows of double beds against the wall, a total of four bunks for eight people. There is another wall, but in the middle is a large double window, and directly below the window is a red-painted table and two stools. When you open the door, you will see a red-lacquered table and window, and then a cabinet and bed on either side of the furnishings. We hung two mahogany sticks on the doors and windows, and plastered some cinnabar on the sides of the cupboards and on the edge of the bed, and sprinkled lime powder on the floor and on the tables, and put willow and peach branches in the windows. Since there is a market next to the school, we have prepared a lot of things, and we breathe a sigh of relief when we look at the "magic weapons" that ward off evil spirits in the dormitory.

That's it, the first night we really spent safely, and then the first thing the next morning was to restore the room, and then at night in the same way, everyone before the lights out to solve their own problems, after the lights out resolutely do not open the door, as long as the first seven to the end, is the victory!

Time soon came to the last day of the first seven, this day is Friday, it was supposed to be able to go home from school for the weekend, but the day is not up to people, the next day to make up the class, so Friday to stay overnight, after the evening self-study, the dormitory 8 people rushed back for the first time, after washing up to arrange the room as quickly as possible, and then lie down on their beds.

"It's the last night tonight, as long as you sleep until dawn, you'll be fine, don't get up at night, don't get up when there's any movement, don't worry about anything until dawn."

Tian Banxian emphasized again, and we all nodded in agreement, and the lights out signal sounded soon. Then, the whole dormitory fell into darkness, and none of the eight of us in the dormitory could fall asleep, so we all hid under the quilt and waited until we couldn't hold it anymore. I live in the upper bunk of the bed on the left side of the door, and I can see the corridor outside the window at a glance, so I sleep on my stomach and look at the window for the past few days, and my eyes 👀 are fixed on the window on the door. Curiosity, or curiosity, at this age, I can't suppress the fear and desire for excitement. It's like sneaking out in the middle of the night to surf the Internet and pack the night, secretly hiding under the covers to watch the young Abin...

The only thing I'm glad about is that I'm not the only one in our dormitory, and the top bunk next door to me is also this kind of person. I turned my head to him and 'shhh', he turned his head tacitly, I raised my hand and pointed at my wrist, he looked down and pressed the watch on his wrist, and a faint green light lit up, and then printed on his face, which was very weird. I involuntarily shrunk my neck and wrapped the quilt around me, and then his face opened to me in the reflection of green fluorescence, and his mouth made a "eleven". I nodded my head and returned to my place, four pairs of eyes 👀 glued to the door and window. In this way, with a high degree of mental concentration, people get tired easily, and I soon fall asleep. In my dream, I seemed to be being chased by something, I ran as hard as I could, and then I hid in a room, and the thing chasing me stopped at the door, and then knocked on the door again and again.

"Boom... Boom... Boom..."

I was distraught by the sound, my head began to sweat, and I began to look around for something to resist, so I woke up when I looked for it, and I really woke up, and when I opened my eyes, I felt that I was not sleepy at all. I took a deep breath, then wiped the sweat from my head and tried to go back to sleep, when I suddenly heard a sound in my ears...

"Boom... Boom... Boom"

'No, I'm still dreaming...'

I muttered to myself and rubbed my eyes with my hands, and when I realized that it was not a dream, I immediately went to find the source of the sound. I pricked up my ears 👂 and listened carefully, and found that it was coming from the direction of the door, and I turned over and looked intently... The faint light outside the window reflected to the window on the door, and a figure faintly appeared, so I quickly looked around for my glasses, and after groping for it, I put it on the pillowcase and wiped it on it, and looked at it again...

"Damn..."

I whispered, and I didn't dare to shout out loud when I encountered this situation, for fear of alarming it. I wrapped the covers tightly and lowered my leaky head, trying to cover it with a pillow. I took a closer look at the familiar and unfamiliar face, the hedgehog head, the Chinese character face, the small eyes were a little hollow, the white part of the eyes 👀 could not be seen in the dim light, the whole face was a little bruised, the corners of the nose 👃 and mouth were slightly oozing blood, and I stood straight at the window on the door. I wrapped myself in the quilt again, and subconsciously turned my head to look at the top bunk next door, only to find that he was also staring at the window, and the fear in my heart suddenly decreased by half, and then I listened to the snoring of other people in the dormitory, and I suddenly became a lot bolder. I steadied myself and gave him a small 'shh', he quickly noticed, and opened his mouth to keep saying "1, 1...", I nodded at his face in the dim light, and put my index finger on his mouth to make a silent gesture, and then slowly pointed to ☞ the door, and he nodded tacitly. After doing this, I adjusted my posture a little and looked at the door and window again, and at this time, I noticed that its movement seemed to change a little, not just facing the door, but its head was slightly raised in my direction, and I was shocked, and I took a closer look...

"Mom-hmm... Hmm"

Before I could scream, a hand covered my mouth, and then I heard it

"Don't talk, when it has enough to stand, it will naturally leave, don't make a noise, alarm it will be more troublesome."

Tian Banxian's voice sounded in my ears, I patronized and stared at the door, I didn't notice that Tian Banxian had touched my bed, I nodded, moved to the side, Tian Banxian also lay down, at this time Zhang Ping was facing the two of us with that blue and purple face, and his empty eyes 👀 didn't know if he was looking at us. My heart was in my throat, and I didn't dare to say anything, so I stared at the doors and windows, quietly staring at each other. About 10 minutes later, I suddenly heard the sound of another bedroom door opening in the corridor outside the door, and then the lights in the corridor turned on, and Zhang Ping, who was standing in front of our doors and windows, disappeared immediately. There were a lot of footsteps and conversations outside the door.

"Slow down, slow down, don't alarm the housekeeper, if you catch it, you'll be ruined"

"It's okay, I smoke in the toilet by the way, I won't say anything if I catch it, and he fell asleep early at this point."

"~ Wait, I forgot to take the lighter..."

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Listening to the conversation outside, we looked at each other and took a deep breath. The horror of this night was broken like this, there was no special situation in the back, the next day the three of us didn't tell anyone else, Zhang Ping's first seven was so thrilling, the people in the dormitory were very happy, sighing that we used the right way, but only we know what the specific situation is, Zhang Ping's first seven last night, really stood at the door of our dormitory for a long time...

First of all, I don't think Zhang Ping has any malicious intentions, maybe it's just a wisp of nostalgia in the three souls and seven spirits. My first and second encounters and staring at him were frightening, but I didn't really feel any malice or hostility, something we agreed on in our private discussions.

The final concluding remarks of Borrowing Tian Banxian are:

Ghost relatives do not hurt relatives, difficult are living beings, anger and resentment are obsessed, and evil follows cause and effect.