An original story every night to accompany you through those sleepless nights...... I'm a ghostly maniac, are you ready? Start another of our stories - "The Old Man Who Burned the Newspaper"!

There is such a saying after the break is called going to the grave and burning newspapers - fooling ghosts!

The price of the paper is not very expensive, and it is all burned as a memory of the deceased relatives, burned to those relatives and friends who unfortunately passed away, naturally they will not be stingy enough to fool around with the newspaper, but if you really encounter such a thing, then you have to be careful!

Today's weather is not very good, the whole day is gloomy, although it is not raining, but this gloomy feeling will make people feel very dull, and the mood is not high.

There is always a humid smell in the air, which makes people feel very uncomfortable, and it is in such a ghost weather that Zhang Xiaokai is still busy on the construction site until more than ten o'clock in the evening.

Originally, I could get off work at six o'clock, but in order to catch up with the schedule, I left a group of people to work overtime, and the overtime treatment is one hour equivalent to two hours in normal times, and the salary is double the usual salary after four hours, although I am a little tired, but it is also worth it.

On the way home, Xiao Kai saw someone burning paper on the side of the road, and thought that it must be the sacrifice day of one of his relatives.

On the day of the death of the deceased in some places, which is the so-called memorial day, relatives who have a good relationship with him will burn paper for him on this day to pay tribute to him, usually going to the grave of the deceased, but if the distance is too far to reach the cemetery, they will choose an intersection and burn paper at the place where the grave is located, so it is said that there will be ghosts who will deliver things to the deceased.

When encountering such a thing, try to take a detour so as not to bump into the ghosts passing by, or those lonely ghosts who want a piece of the pie.

But there was only one way home, so Xiao Kai had to walk past the old man who burned the paper, but kept the farthest distance from him as much as possible.

When passing by the old man, Xiao Kai looked at the old man curiously, and what he couldn't understand was that the old man was actually burning newspapers in a brazier.

Xiao Kai wiped his eyes in disbelief, and once again confirmed that the old man burned newspapers, including a lot, urban evening newspapers, sports newspapers, and so on.

Looking at the old man's age of about sixty, he looks thin, but he is well-dressed, and he is also very full of days, with a sad expression on his face, and he does not look like a beggar or a person with brain problems at all.

met such a bad old man in the middle of the night, and Xiao Kai is now tired to death, although he is very curious about why he burns newspapers, he is not in the mood to ask, and it is estimated that the other party may not tell him if he asks.

Just as Xiao Kai was about to leave, the old man's newspapers were all burned. When the old man was old, his body looked a little weak, and when he got up, he didn't pay attention and fell down all of a sudden.

Seeing this, Xiao Kai stepped forward and helped the old man up, the old man looked at Xiao Kai very grateful, kept saying thank you in his mouth, and muttered that he was useless when he was old, and there were fewer and fewer kind-hearted people like Xiao Kai.

Seeing this, Xiao Kai suddenly felt pity and asked, "Uncle, where is your home? Why don't I send you home?"

The old man naturally couldn't ask for it, so Xiao Kai helped the old man to send him home.

The old man lived in a large courtyard, just in the middle of a large tiled house, there was a wing room on each side, and waste paper shells, beer bottles, cans and other things could be seen everywhere in the yard.

The old man invited Xiao Kai to sit in the house, Xiao Kai did not refuse, after entering the house, Xiao Kai found that the living conditions of the old man's home were not bad, all kinds of household appliances were readily available, and they were the most high-end.

Such a rich old man, when he has nothing to do, still goes to pick up waste, burn paper and burn newspapers, this is too stingy!

The old man took out some snacks and drinks from the cabinet for Xiao Kai to eat, Xiao Kai, who had worked all day and worked overtime, was indeed hungry, and these snacks looked very delicious, at least Xiao Kai had never seen them, and he was not polite at the moment, so he sat down and ate them.

"Old man, why are you alone?

Speaking of this, the old man sighed: "Alas, all of them are dead, and only I, a lonely old man, are left, and one day I will die without even a paper burner!"

Xiao Kai couldn't find any suitable words to comfort the old man for a while, and when he saw the old man's sad appearance, he felt very uncomfortable, so he said: "If you don't dislike the old man, I will be your son, and after you are a hundred years old, I will provide for you to the end!"

What Xiao Kai said was definitely from the bottom of his heart, not that he wanted to covet the old man's belongings, the old man showed a hint of joy on his face when he heard it, and said to Xiao Kai with a smile: "Then you will kowtow to me, from now on we will be the two of you!"

Xiaokai is also a bitter child, abandoned by his biological parents since he was a child, grew up in an orphanage, and has never enjoyed father's love and mother's love.

"Huh!" the old man responded excitedly, and helped Xiao Kai up from the ground with trembling hands, and from then on, the two of them were like father and son, with such a rich father, Xiao Kai moved out of the damp and narrow rental house, and lived in the old man's big tile house, Xiao Kai's arrival also made the lonely compound lively, and the old man's face also showed a smile.

The old man is an idle person, and the money in the family is enough to support him for the elderly, not to mention that there is such a filial son as Xiaokai, but the old man still goes out to pick up waste every day.

And every night the old man would burn the newspaper from the scrap he had picked up, and if he didn't have one, he would buy one to burn.

After a long time, Xiao Kai couldn't help but be curious, so he asked the old man why he had to burn newspapers every night.

The old man told Xiao Kai that he not only burned newspapers, but also used to burn some paper refrigerator color TVs or something, as long as he liked it, he would burn it to himself in advance, because in this way he could enjoy these things after he died, and it didn't matter if he didn't have children to send these things to him, but now that he has Xiao Kai, he doesn't need to burn so many things for himself.

Xiao Kai said that he was sad again, maybe his wish had been fulfilled, and there were no worries, and the old man died not long after.

Xiao Kai dressed the old man in linen and filial piety, buried the old man like his own son, in front of the old man's grave, Xiao Kai lit a newspaper, accidentally saw the date on the newspaper, and was immediately frightened!

"Wake up, young man, are you alright? Why are you asleep in the cemetery?" Xiao Kai was woken up by a kind mother-in-law, and found himself lying next to a grave, the tomb was very magnificently repaired, and the picture on the tombstone was his godfather!