Huang Ye and I carried white paper lanterns and followed behind these villagers.

All the villagers walked forward mechanically, without making a sound, and no one looking back.

Originally, I wanted to discuss a few words with Huang Ye, but he signaled him not to speak.

Now this situation is how weird and weird it is.

Before Huang Ye also said that it was the paper people who became those villagers.

If those in the day were real villagers, then the ones in front of us now should be the paper figures in his mouth.

But no matter how I looked, I couldn't see any signs of paper figures.

Even if they are really paper figures, why are they so vivid, and who is manipulating them behind it?

Thinking of this, I unconsciously began to look around.

The atmosphere in the whole village was depressed, and there was no sound, as if it was frozen.

Huang Ye expected it well, the target of these villagers was Lao Wang's grave.

When I was about to reach Lao Wang's grave, Huang Ye motioned for me to throw away the lantern in my hand, and then hid in the grass with him.

"What are they doing?" My voice was almost lower than that of a mosquito, but it was rather piercing in the silence of the night.

"It's supposed to be some kind of ritual, or sacrificial activity." Huang Ye looked at the villagers who were circling around Lao Wang's grave over there, and responded in a low voice.

"Are these really paper figures?"

"Some are, some are not. The manipulators behind it should be among them, not the paper people. ”

I was even more curious and continued to ask, "So how do you tell the difference?" ”

Huang Ye smiled, his expression was a little cruel: "If the dagger is pierced into it, what doesn't bleed is a paper man, and what bleeds is a person." Later, if you are really discovered, don't keep your hands, you don't want to be burned. ”

His words made me suddenly feel excited, and the feeling of being burned was too sour.

"You stay here, I'll give you a life." Huang Ye patted me on the shoulder, lit three incense sticks and handed them to me, "People are taboo with three long and two short, and incense is taboo with two short." If I haven't come back after ten minutes, the incense in your hand is short and long, don't worry about running and running outside the village, with the umbrella in your bag. ”

"I'll go with you." I said to him.

Huang Ye, who was about to turn around and leave, turned his head to look at me for a while before finally making a decision: "Okay, then let's go together." ”

Then he put the three incense sticks that were lit and inserted them directly into the ground.

Huang Ye had arranged it on the side of Lao Wang's grave before, and now the two of us are walking towards the place he arranged in the dark.

In the distance, at the grave of Lao Wang, those villagers were still circling around.

At first everyone was very quiet, but now they began to say words they didn't understand, and they didn't know what they were saying. The lanterns in his hand were all thrown in front of the old king's grave, and a very high flame was ignited.

"Don't look at these villagers, they are not ghosts, as long as they are in this village, Yangshou will still grow."

"The old guy at the front who guarded the soaphorn tree all day long, but whenever he took half a step out of the village, he immediately died on the spot. The yin qi on his body is much heavier than that on you. ”

"I guess he picked up his clothes and was rotten to the bones."

Maybe it's because of nervousness, Huang Ye has more words at this time.

But the movement of his hands was not slow at all.

Right where he had laid it out, there were a few talismans under the grass, and I don't know what they were for. I saw him light a candle and put it on the talisman, and the flame that burst out of the candle was even brighter than an incandescent bulb.

A total of seven places were arranged, and the tomb of Lao Wang was enclosed in the middle.

When all seven candles were lit, it was as if a cable had been connected, and the whole cemetery was as bright as day.

Then something even more amazing happened, the two paper figures we had placed there stood up and were walking in circles behind all the villagers.

Seeing this scene, Huang Ye's face was full of anticipation.

After ten long minutes, all the villagers stopped.

"It's done! Your life has been renewed. Huang Ye almost shouted excitedly.

"Then let's go back quickly."

"Not yet, there is one last step, to take the paper figure back and burn it." Huang Ye suppressed the excitement in his heart, turned to me and said.