In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Tan Xiao had a New Year's dinner with Tan Chunying at home, and then drove outside the city.

According to the old customs of Southern Chu, there is a saying of "sending lamps" in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, also called sending lights, that is, to sacrifice to the ancestors, in addition to "people looking for ghosts in the Qingming season, and ghosts looking for people in the middle and Yuan seasons", Nanchu in the Chinese New Year's Eve also wants "people looking for ghosts". Of course, there are also some places that send lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and so on.

Over the years, everyone has almost formed a habit, after dinner is the peak period of sending lights, burning paper to send lights, so that the ancestors are also lively, go back just to see the Spring Festival Gala, the traffic police will be on duty near the various cemeteries.

When it was about to get dark, we arrived at the cemetery outside the city, and at this time, families had already come and gone to deliver lanterns, gathering on the mountain road like a river of lights.

When sending lamps, they usually burn some paper money and set off firecrackers, and fireworks are not allowed in the city, but it is different outside the city, and the sound of firecrackers can be faintly heard everywhere on the mountain at the foot of the mountain.

This is also the cemetery in the suburbs, the serious cemetery is now generally forbidden to burn, and there are special services for sending lights, such as a lantern that only lights a hundred yuan a night on the Chinese New Year's Eve, and there are three nights and five nights are different prices, and customization is also possible.

Tan Xiao's family brought candles, and when Tan Chunying was still young, the family sent oil lamps, and waited for the lanterns to be pasted with leather paper, so as not to be blown out. Later, everyone began to send electronic lanterns, but Tan Chunying's house has a lot of incense candles, and he still uses candles.

When he arrived at the tomb of the Tan family, Tan Chunying first cleaned up the weeds around with his son, pressed three stacks of paper money on the grave, and then lit the tomb lamp and burned four incense sticks.

This is the grave of Tan Chunying's parents, that is, Tan Xiao's maternal grandparents. Tan Chunying is the oldest daughter in the family, Tan Xiao spent a few years with her grandparents when she was a child, and they died one after another before junior high school.

Tan Chunying usually doesn't mention her parents, but at this time, she only talks a little more, and said with a smile: "In the past, in addition to lighting the tomb lamp, I also had to light the land god and the water god...... Later, it was not possible to do it, for fear of causing a fire, so at that time, the neighborhood committee told my parents several times and asked them to take the lead as superstitious leaders. ”

Tan Xiao nodded, the status of wizards is to change and change.

Tan Chunying folded the paper money twice and burned it, and said while burning, "Your father went around blowing people's lamps at that time, and then he didn't dare to fight back, and he was chased away." ”

Tan Xiao laughed out loud, he probably knew that his father had an accident when he was very young, what the specific accident was Tan Chunying didn't say in detail, and he was afraid of revealing his mother's old injuries, so he didn't ask.

Tan Chunying occasionally talks about old things, and Tan Xiao thinks it's funny, he thinks that his parents used to be childhood sweethearts.

When the candle burned out, Tan Chunying ended wordlessly, turning over the ashes to make sure it didn't come back to life.

Tan Xiao stood next to him after burning the paper, listening to Tan Chunying, he also looked around. If the deceased is newly mourned, family members often light a white lamp (white shade), which is colored from the second year onwards. In some graves with white lights, and a few colored lanterns, Tan Xiao can also see some people with different expressions.

Since he began to deal with unnatural things, Tan Xiao's observation of people has added another aspect, he thinks that some of these "people" may be the owners of the grave. Ordinary ghosts are usually the most energetic when they are newly mourned, and after a long time, they are either reincarnated or gradually dissipated. He didn't see the figure of his suspected maternal grandparents at the grave of his house, so long time has passed, he has been reincarnated.

"Let's go, go back to watching TV." Tan Chunying clapped his hands and stood up, and suddenly said, "Sometimes I think, maybe there are really ghosts and gods in the world. ”

Tan Xiao came back to her senses from her thoughts and looked up, "What?" ”

"I don't know, I just remembered that I ran errands with your grandparents when I was a child, and at that time, our family had not yet transformed, and they were like they could really help people go down to the yin, and they carried out rituals religiously." It's been too long, and even Tan Chunying herself has blurred her memory, she scratched her head, "Maybe there are really ghosts in this world, but I can't see it." ”

Tan Xiao didn't know what to say for a while, Tan Chunying didn't mention a word, but he knew that she was missing her deceased relatives.

"Let's go." Tan Chunying picked up the bamboo pole used to beat the paper ashes, and some villagers in the vicinity still use candles to light the lamps like his family, although there are also people on duty on the mountain and down the mountain every year to prevent fire, but when Tan Chunying leaves, he will still look around to make sure that there is no fire, and he is used to it.

……

Yu Zhenzhen hung a camera around her neck and got out of the car with her parents, who told her: "You can take pictures at the bottom of the mountain, don't shoot when you get to the mountain, it's not good." ”

"Oh, got it." Yu Zhenzhen's father is from other provinces, and most of the time in previous years they were at their grandparents' house before Chinese New Year's Eve, and they came here again on the first day of junior high school, so she only sent lights twice when she was a child.

This year, because she was over 30 years old in Nanchu, Yu Zhenzhen also came, and she heard from her relatives that there would be a view of the mountain lantern river, so she also brought the camera she rented.

However, when she arrived at the scene, Yu Zhenzhen found that the river of lights was not as spectacular as she imagined, there were dots and stars, but it could not be called a river.

"This is that there are not so many people who come here to deliver lamps now, and we did have a lot of bright ones when we were young." Yu Zhenzhen's mother said.

"That's it......" Yu Zhenzhen thought too, now there are more cemeteries and other cemeteries, but since the camera has been brought, let's take a few photos.

Because she wanted to shoot a big scene, Yu Zhenzhen borrowed the camera with a short and medium focal length zoom lens, she flipped the screen over, and she could easily take a selfie with her hand, and took a large area of the surrounding environment into it, and took a photo with her family first.

Everyone rushed to the camera together.

Although I came to send lamps to the grave, the focus of going to the grave on the Chinese New Year's Eve was actually to be lively with the ancestors, and everyone was in a very festive mood during the New Year.

"Click." Yu Zhenzhen pressed the shutter, the last time she went to ride Yunling, she picked up the camera, and found that the existing camera focus was not very good, and there were many borrowed cameras for the New Year, but she didn't have to pick this time when she took a few photos, and she felt that there was nothing wrong with this camera.

The money to rent a camera during the Chinese New Year is still supported by Yu Zhenzhen's mother, originally the family said that she would buy a camera after graduation, but now she can only rent it by herself if she wants to play, and she can't stand the few photos that Yu Zhenzhen took to Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan before, the effect is excellent, take it home to relatives and take a look, and praise Yu Zhenzhen is a photography genius.

No, her mother was overjoyed, and she helped Yu Zhenzhen borrow the camera before the New Year's money arrived. And the long-term rent for a month is enough for her to fiddle with the whole winter vacation. Yu Zhenzhen was reluctant to delete the photos of Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan taken in the memory card, although they had been backed up, but using the camera to show others what they took and using the mobile phone to show others, she always felt a slight difference, it seemed to be fresher in the memory card, and it was more like the feeling she took it, and it was more realistic to show off to her family.

Yu Zhenzhen flipped the screen over and began to shoot on the mountain, it stands to reason that if you shoot a still life, you can shoot it if you have a good focus, I don't want the focus point to keep beating, and the mountain and the lamp behind it are blurred.

Yu Zhenzhen clicked wildly on the screen, but she couldn't focus, she scolded in her heart, what kind of wind did she smoke, she was fine just now.

The sound of firecrackers could be heard faintly in the distance, and the smell of paper ash seemed to be in the air. Looking higher, the vegetation is also significantly more abundant, the ancient trees are tangled, and the dim street lamps cannot fully illuminate the front and back.

Yu Zhenzhen remembered the autofocus she set, facial recognition priority, and the focus frame in the screen would automatically lock the face, she thought to herself, could it be that she focused on the pedestrian in front of her.

Yu Zhenzhen's opening was in manual mode, and she raised her hand to adjust the parameters, just now her shooting focus was on the light, and the picture was relatively dark.

As the screen gradually brightens, the picture is clearly visible again, and there are indeed pedestrians in front, but in the back.

Yu Zhenzhen saw the focus of the face recognition system beating on the screen, beating on the pedestrian's head for a while, and selecting the box next to it for a while, and after a while, the face recognition system firmly locked a place on the screen that was empty!

“…… Mother. Yu Zhenzhen shouted in a trembling voice.

At that moment just now, she thought of all kinds of supernatural photos and stories she had seen on the Internet, and she didn't even dare to press the shutter, for fear of looking back and seeing what more people appeared in the photos.

Yu's mother turned around and scolded with a smile, "What are you doing, you won't be able to walk just up the mountain." ”

She scolded like this, Yu Zhenzhen felt less nervous, and comforted herself, it was just a problem with the focus, afraid of something, I had seen the camera in their store have a problem chasing the focus before, and the boss said that it was not repaired.

Mmmm, it's just a little affected by the atmosphere here, and people don't have the courage to do so much at night.

Yu Zhenzhen

A few steps forward to hold my mother's hand, and I didn't dare to pick up the camera to take pictures anymore.

She followed her family to burn paper honestly, and it was only about half an hour before she could return.

Although she didn't see the river of lights, when Yu Zhenzhen changed her angle and went down the mountain, she bypassed the trees in front of her and had a wide line of sight, and she found that she could overlook the lights of thousands of homes around her.

At this moment, Yu Zhenzhen was attracted, completely forgetting that there seemed to be a problem with the focusing system, and raised the camera in her hand again.

This time, the focusing system did not find fault with her, but successfully captured the night scene in front of her.

However, because of the effort to stay and take pictures, the others had already moved forward, Yu Zhenzhen put down the camera and rushed forward, only to see the street lights turn off a few times, and there was a faint murmur in her ears.

In an instant, Yu Zhenzhen's cold sweat came down!

The camera almost slipped off her hand, her throat tightened, she grabbed the camera strap and wanted to shout at her parents, but there was a sense of fear, what if she shouted now, what if she disturbed something else before shouting to her parents?

The murmur still lingered around her body, her feet were as heavy as lead, Yu Zhenzhen closed her eyes, plucked up her courage and wanted to rush forward, and stepped on the air under her feet-

A hand stretched out from the side and grabbed Yu Zhenzhen's arm, "Are you okay?" ”

"Ahh Yu Zhenzhen was startled by the hand that suddenly stretched out, and turned her head to look, it was actually Tan Xiao, the familiar person made her feel much more relaxed all of a sudden, and said with a sad face, "I'm scared to death, Tan Xiao." ”

"Huh?" Tan Xiao looked at the camera on the girl's back, "Class leader? ”

"You're here to deliver the lamp too." Yu Zhenzhen only felt that after seeing Tan Xiao, the atmosphere was not so gloomy, especially when there were firecrackers on the mountain, which dispelled the uneasiness in the night, "You, did you hear that voice?" ”

"Do you speak of the sound of chanting?" Tan Xiao used a stick to pat paper ash to remove the grass next to her, revealing an electronic lantern, still playing the Sutra of the Past Life, "This is a lonely lamp put by others......"

Yu Zhenzhen's heart jumped suddenly, and she saw the electronic lamp with an auspicious pattern printed on it: "............"

Speechless died. The sound quality is pretty good.

"What is the lone lamp, and why is it placed here? Passers-by were really scared. Yu Zhenzhen wondered, she actually used electronic lights at home, but they were not so fancy, and they were only at the grave.

"In the past, in addition to lighting the grave and lighting the lamp for the god of the road and the god of water, people who were particular about it would also light a lamp on the side of the road for the lonely souls and wild ghosts who had no one to sacrifice, which was the lonely lamp." Tan Xiao explained smoothly that Tan Chunying was still checking the lights a little behind, he always felt that something was wrong, and when he stepped forward, he actually met Yu Zhenzhen.

"That's right." Yu Zhenzhen still felt hairy, but fortunately Tan Xiao was beside her, so she hurriedly walked down and escaped from the range of chanting, "I only know the durability of the birthday light, but I don't know that it has also developed into the style of the everlasting lamp." ”

"Hmm...... Squad leader, are you scared? Tan Xiao secretly looked at Yu Zhenzhen, Chang Minglan must be no problem, but he has been handling cases for a long time, and he also understands his sixth sense, so there must be some other things.

But when he arrived at the scene, he didn't see any ghosts, and he didn't feel a little strange.

"I must be afraid, after all, it's a grave mountain." Yu Zhenzhen sneered, "And when I took pictures before, there was a problem with the camera focusing, and I was shocked by the fact that I had been recognizing faces in the air." ”

Plus just now, it scared her twice in a row, and she wanted to have a psychological quality.

She put her mind at ease at this moment, and remembered something very important: "Tan Xiao, why didn't you tell me when you went to Yunmengze!" My mom asked me if I wanted to travel over there, and I said I don't hunt birds. I knew you were filming, why did I have to go! ”

Hitting birds lies in Zhenzhen's heart, that is the uncle's hobby, Yu Zhenzhen complained, and saw Tan Xiao staring at her camera.

"I'm also going over there to play and pick it up temporarily." Tan Xiao brought out this set of rhetoric again, "Squad leader, lend me the camera, I have become a little interested in photography recently." ”

As soon as Tan Xiao said, Yu Zhenzhen immediately took off the camera strap, "Come on, come on, enter the pit quickly." ”

Tan Xiao smiled and held up the camera.

I didn't see any ghosts here, remembering that Yu Zhenzhen said that the camera was misrecognized, what he sensed couldn't be this thing, right?

From the viewfinder, Tan Xiao looked at the calm surroundings, turned to look at the distant sky, and said to herself: "I'll see if I can photograph Kong Xuanjia's ......"

Yu Zhenzhen was stunned for a moment and laughed: "Which direction does Kong Xuan live, I can't see so far from this lens." ”

She said in her heart that Tan Xiao and Kong Xuan have a good relationship now.

In the viewfinder, the focus points and parameters are jumping wildly, the lens is constantly expanding and contracting, and the motor is very loud. I'm so anxious to die, I really want to try to help Tan Xiao shoot the scene in the sky, but, but I'm sorry, its focal length can't be that long!!

"Huh?" Yu Zhenzhen said that this camera is crazy.

"Don't be nervous." There is something authentic in the conversation, and I touched it on the camera.

"How can you not be nervous, don't stay for a while and deduct my deposit." The more Yu Zhenzhen looked at it, the more annoyed she became, why did she borrow such a camera.

Tan Xiao put down the camera, and under his caressing, the camera also regained its calm, "Okay, okay." ”

At this time, Yu Zhenzhen's parents also found that she was lagging behind, and it was not good to shout her name on the mountain, so they called her and asked her to hurry down, don't go wrong later.

"I know, I met my classmate, come down immediately." Yu Zhenzhen hung up the phone and took the camera from Tan Xiao's hand, "I slipped away." ”

"Well, squad leader, I'll give you a New Year's gift." Tan Xiao called Yu Zhenzhen.

Judging from his half-year work experience as a part-time clerk, this camera is obviously spiritual, scaring people, most likely unintentional, and it is normal to be able to shoot unnatural objects after generating spirituality, but when Tan Xiao took it and used it, there was no ghost next to it, and it didn't deliberately make movement, or Tan Xiao said that he wanted to see in the distance, so he became impatient, as if he could not meet the user's wishes.

Well, I've confirmed the behavior, it's an honest camera.

"And gifts?" Yu Zhenzhen said in amazement, just watched Tan Xiao take out a talisman from the pile of ding-ding-clapping peripherals on her body, and when she opened it, she would find that it said "Peacock is here".

"Squad leader, there are still a few hours, I wish you a happy new year in advance, all evils are not close." Tan Xiao decided to send a message to the 404 Office later, asking them to pay attention to the movement of the camera, now, just give Yu Zhenzhen a talisman to set the scene.

"Thank you!" Yu Zhenzhen put away the surroundings and said guiltily, "It's too sudden, and I have nothing to reciprocate...... Wait a minute, I'll go back and send you some information on the net disk.,My sister got me the real questions.。 ”

Tan Xiao Daxi: "Thank you! ”

……

After saying goodbye to Yu Zhenzhen, Tan Xiao and Tan Chunying went home together, and they also reported to the 404 office on the way, although it was a big New Year, but the 404 office was always 7X24 manned.

Observe the New Year until twelve o'clock, and the countdown on TV: "Three, two, one - Happy New Year!" ”

Tan Chunying and Tan Xiao also said Happy New Year to each other, and then the mother and son were busy with their own work.

Tan Chunying brought out three animals to make offerings.

Serious three animals are cattle, sheep and pigs, ordinary people use small three animals at home, that is, pigs, chickens and fish, and the pig is still a simplified version, only the pig's head and pig's tail, Tan Chunying easily stuffed the pig's tail into the pig's mouth, and pretended to be a whole pig with a head and a tail.

Tan Xiao has set up his own altar, of course, he also has his own sacrifices, and he also put a small three animals on his desk, in front of the mask, but it is a more simplified version, which can be called a mini three animals.

The fish is spicy fish tail, the chicken is replaced by boiled eggs, and the pig is braised pig ears.

Then light three incense sticks, and the cigarettes curl like sending.

Today should be Kong Xuan's birthday, Tan Xiao doesn't know if he has time to listen to his incense, and if he leaves a message like this, it seems weird, and for some reason, facing the mask makes Tan Xiao feel more awkward than being the deity.

"Happy birthday." Tan Xiao sat at the desk and held her face, "...... There's good news, I'll tell you when you get back. ”

The information sent by Yu Zhenzhen is really good, he copied a copy and sent it to Kong Xuan, so that he would be happy when he came back. ：，n..，.