Dreams, of course, are counted, but depending on the situation. One is within 49 days of the mourning period of the loved one, that is, the time between the first seven days and the last seven days, and the other is during pregnancy. Obviously, Granny Yang does not meet these two situations.

In addition, there are several kinds of dreams, which are relatively informative, but their value is not high. One is the dream of a deceased relative, just like this kind of Granny Yang encountered, of course, it also contains most of the spontaneous dreams caused by longing or other reasons. For example, if I fantasize about getting rich all my life, then I may dream at night that I am lying in the midst of mountains of gold and silver. The dream of the deceased usually gives some hint, such as asking for something. Hungry? Go burn incense. Poor? Go burn paper money. Cold? Go burn clothes, etc. This is also one of the most common elements of dreams, and it changes according to local customs, such as when Chinese die, they think they are going to the underworld before they die. And when foreigners die, they feel like they are going to heaven before they die.

In addition to this, there is also a type of dream called "lucid dream". The occurrence of lucid dreams is not limited to the time of lucidity, but there is no specific time.

Strictly speaking, lucid dreams are not actually dreams, but rather a manifestation of the separation of spirit and body. As I said before, the body is only the container, and the soul is the root. Assuming that the body is a machine, then the soul is the power source. When the body sleeps, it is as if the power is cut off, and the soul can move freely, because the soul does not need to sleep. There are two types of lucid dreaming, one is subconscious and the other is unconscious. Subconsciously, it is easier to understand, as if it is self-training, training oneself to leave the body while sleeping, and also training oneself to know how to go back. The unconscious, on the other hand, mostly occurs in children and the elderly, as well as all kinds of physically weak people.

People who are weak often get sick. In metaphysical terms, illness is also seen as one of the manifestations of the inability of the soul and the body to be in perfect harmony with each other, and because of this dissonance, it may cause the soul to "accidentally" slip out while sleeping. Children and the elderly, on the other hand, are not fully minded, one is already old, one has just come from another world, and the other is about to go to another world. Such people are more likely to resonate and intersect with the substances of another world, including ghosts and other spirits.

So to sum up the classification of the above situation, Granny Yang can only be entrusted with a dream, or she had a lucid dream when she was not paying attention. Either her wife asked her to burn incense and money, or she accidentally went out of her body.

So I asked Granny Yang, what did he tell you when you dreamed of your dead wife? Granny Yang said, he was standing at the door of the house, waving at me. I didn't seem to realize in my dream that he had been dead for many years, so I asked him what he wanted to do, and he said let me play with him. Granny Yang said that it wasn't until he said this sentence that he remembered that his wife had died many years ago, and according to folk customs, if you dream that the dead let you follow him, or take you to play, whenever you want to move your steps with him, you have to start scolding, regardless of how close you are.

Granny Yang said, so she scolded at the time, you dead son of a turtle son, you get out of the way, don't come to me, climb away! Climb away!

Granny Yang said as she showed that disgusted expression according to the context, and she also gestured with her own movements at that time. I think it's a little funny, the woman who has walked through the old society, although ignorant and feudal, is still quite strong. So I asked Granny Yang, what about later, did he climb away? After I said this, Master couldn't help but burst out laughing, and it could be seen that he had been patient just now. Granny Yang said, of course I left, I originally thought that if he refused to leave, I would go up and smack a few mouths.

Granny Yang laughed herself, a little different from the smile she had when she first saw me, and she probably thought it was funny herself. Master asked Granny Yang and said, "What you did was right, so why did this dream make you think it had something to do with it?" Granny Yang said, you don't know about this, my second child was born less than half a year, my wife left, from now, it has been more than 40 years, although I said that I dreamed of him, but I just feel that it is him, and I can't be sure.

This time it was my turn to be a little puzzled, so I asked, what is this not certain, shouldn't you know when you see him? Granny Yang said, because I have long forgotten what he looks like, the person I saw in the dream just felt very similar, and I also thought it was him at the time, and when I woke up and thought about it, I found that I couldn't remember the appearance of my wife.

Master and I looked at each other, and I thought our guesses were about the same. So Master said, if this is the case, then the deceased who appeared in your dream is probably not your wife, otherwise even if you meet again in your dream, you will not wake up and remember what he looks like. Granny Yang, it's very likely that you have a lucid dream, and your soul has seen the ghost beckoning to you! Master paused and said, "If that's the case, all the strange things you have encountered these days, including last night, are most likely to be the work of this ghost."

After hearing this, Granny Yang suddenly stopped talking and her expression was depressed. Master said to her, don't worry, these are all speculations that we have speculated based on the current clues, and we are not sure yet. I'll take a look around with my apprentice later, and I'm sure there will be results soon.

So after talking for a while, Master said to me, "Let's go, let's go and see the three tombs." Then he said to Granny Yang, you don't have to come with the old man, this place is only so big, we can find it. So I left Granny Yang to rest at home, and Master took me out the door.

As soon as I walked out of the door, Master lowered his voice and said to me, "Shan'er, we may be ready to spend the night here tonight."

What? Staying up late again? Master, do you know that I didn't sleep all night last night, and I just took a nap in the carriage that came back today, you can't just toss me like this when I'm a young man! With Master, it's easy for me to talk big or small. If in the past, I said these words to the master mostly to laugh at me, but at this moment he did not, but said with a serious expression, this Granny Yang encountered something, I am afraid that it is not as simple as a clear dream, the strange things she just said, it sounds like many of them may indeed be done by the old cat, if the ghost she saw in the dream later was ill-intentioned, then it shows that since the first time she encountered these situations in her family half a year ago, that ghost has been haunting her.

Master said that on the way here, he asked Granny Yang if she was in good health, and Granny Yang did mention that her body has been much worse than before since this year, and it is easier to doze off, and she often loses everything. This seems to be a common condition for the elderly, commonly known as geriatric disease, but it is also very likely that the essence has been borrowed by ghosts.

Master told me that what he was most worried about was such a situation, because the strange things he encountered were becoming more frequent and bizarre, which meant that the ghost's abilities were becoming more and more powerful. If a ghost haunts a living person for a long time, it will absorb the essence of the borrowed living person. When the essence of the living person is sucked away, it will also replace a part of the yin and evil qi into the body of the living person, and this situation of Granny Yang is actually very possible.

I asked Master, but wasn't the cause of this incident because Granny Yang heard the cat barking at the grave? It's not just her, I think it's hard for anyone who encounters the same thing not to be frightened, and if they are in a bad mood, it's easy to be exploited. That's why she picked up the things she had forgotten about after that.

The master stopped talking, frowning and pondering as he walked. After a while, you told me that you were right, no matter what, the missing old cat, or the meow of the cat, it was the most critical part of this matter, so what do you think we should do?

I was silent, but I had to hear the cat's meow at night to make up my mind.

Master took me to find three graves side by side, two of which had tombstones, and there was also a relief five-pointed star on the tombstone, on which were written the words "Tomb of Anti-Japanese Martyr Yang Moumou" and "Tomb of Revolutionary Soldier Yang Moumou". These two should be Granny Yang's two sons, and the other mound, which looks a lot shabby, should be Granny Yang's wife.

We looked around the tomb and found nothing unusual, the grave was well sealed, and the master lit the incense in front of the grave, but we could not find any trace of the existence of ghosts at this moment. It's just that I found a few pieces of white paper in the weeds behind the grave of Granny Yang's wife.

I picked it up and looked at it, and then handed it to Master. Judging from the faded handwriting, it was nothing else, it was the calendar paper that was torn off but disappeared from Granny Yang's mouth.

Master looked at the calendar paper in his hand, then at the grave, then at the distance from Granny Yang's house to the grave, and then at me. Master shook his head and said only two words: Evil Sect.