The shadow of Zhongyuan, the full moon attracts the soul. On the Halloween Festival, the door of heaven and earth is wide open, the souls of the dead ancestors will go home to visit their relatives, and the lonely souls and wild ghosts will also wander the streets.

Let's not talk about the soul of the ancestors, just serve the wine and meat on the tablet at home. The point is that lonely ghosts are a bit troublesome, so what people have to do is to light incense in front of the door and burn paper money to send them away, and put river lanterns to guide them and so on.

The taboo on this day is that you must take back the clothes that are drying outside, and you must not allow anything in shape to appear outside the door. Doors and windows must be closed tightly, and no going out after midnight is allowed. If you are pregnant, you can't sleep, and you must be accompanied by a family member until dawn. There are also various superstitions such as not being able to pat others on the shoulder.

At this time of year, Jianye Market is a variety of stalls selling paper money and candles and lanterns, shouting and shouting, and it is lively. Especially those children who happily ran to the waterway to put the lanterns after buying them.

For most people, Halloween is actually just a serious and lively festival, and it is a good opportunity for businesses to make money. But for Wan Sheng, this feeling of being able to see things that ordinary people can't see is really indescribable.

Ordinary people say that ghosts are terrible, what kind of green-faced fangs and tongues, but such a demon Wan Sheng has never seen it once, and it is estimated that he will not live until now if he has seen it once. The ghosts that Wan Sheng has seen are usually faint shadows, and their faces are not clear, and this kind of ghost should be the ghost of the weakest ordinary people. As for Sister Xiao Zhuo's kind of ghost who can see her beautiful face, she should be a very strong ghost.

And when he thought of Sister Xiao Zhuo, Wan Sheng suddenly found that he hadn't seen her for more than two months, after all, he hadn't been troubled by Zhou Tong's scoundrels for more than two consecutive months, and he really didn't get used to it.

At this moment, someone behind him suddenly patted his right shoulder heavily, and the familiar voice of oil and gas came: "Don't get in the way, okay?" ”

Wan Sheng's face changed drastically, and a nameless fire couldn't help but turn his head to the right and shout angrily: "Liu Ergou, why are you patting me on the shoulder?" ”

It is taboo to pat other people's shoulders on the day of the Zhongyuan Halloween Festival, and the reason is said to be that the living person has three fires gathered on the top of the head and two shoulders, also known as yang fire, and it is difficult for people and ghosts with strong yang fire to get close. Patting someone on the shoulder is to extinguish his yang fire, which will cause the other party to be haunted by evil spirits, all kinds of bad luck, and so on. So even though Wan Sheng has always been afraid of avoiding these scoundrels, he finally couldn't help but roar at each other during this special period.

But Wan Sheng turned his head like this, and suddenly found that there was a scoundrel Liu Ergou, only the neighbor Wang Aunt who was stunned and looked at Wan Sheng!

Wan Sheng hurriedly turned his head to the left in astonishment, but still no!

Then Liu Ergou's voice came from the front of the crowd: "Let go of your shit!" Who's calling you uncle? ”

Wan Sheng's heart sank, and he was on his way! This is a little trick that naughty children often play, that is, quietly squatting behind each other to the left, and then raising their hands to pat each other's right shoulder, the other party's first reaction must be to turn around and look to the right, and then take this opportunity to quickly slip away from the left, so that others will not be able to find the north.

Liu Ergou, a scoundrel who has been stealing chickens and touching dogs since childhood, is even more sensitive, and of course he is far beyond ordinary people when he plays this trick. And his play in this period is obviously not so innocent as "teasing you".

At this time, Liu Ergou stepped forward with a few followers and provoked: "Xiao Shengzi, the uncle is a good person who does good deeds every day, don't slander good people like you, be careful of you!" ”

I'm idle?! You scoundrels are qualified to say I'm idle! Wan Sheng was so angry that he wanted to curse, but when he saw the fists they were shaking in front of his eyes, Wan Sheng was still subconsciously cowardly. You can't beat any of them yourself, let alone beat a few of them!

"Don't get in the way of the market, you must have a sense of public morality, understand?" Liu Ergou reprimanded Wan Sheng with righteousness and awe, and then proudly took his followers away.

Wan Shengqi's lungs are going to explode! At this moment, Wan Sheng had only one thought in his heart, that is, when he was successful, he would definitely sew up their mouths with flying needles!

……

At this time, Liu Ergou said triumphantly: "What Brother Zhou said is really right!" Standing on the commanding heights of righteousness, spraying people is so cool, and it is so justifiable! Look at the admiring eyes of others looking at us, the prodigal son, we didn't sweep the floor in vain, everyone said yes? ”

Liu Ergou is actually three years older than Zhou Tong, but in front of Zhou Tong, he still has to obediently recognize him as a big brother, not to mention that Zhou Tong has now joined the famous faction, and it is the existence of Liu Ergou and a group of scoundrels who follow him with all their hearts.

Another scoundrel really disagreed: "If it were changed to meet this sissy before, the old men would directly open the flat to give Brother Zhou his anger, and use so much nonsense with him." ”

Liu Ergou's face sank: "Don't you dare to disobey the eldest brother?" ”

The scoundrel shrank in fright: "Don't dare, I just don't think it's cool at all!" What's the point of a pat on the shoulder? At most, it's just disgusting him, and it may not really make anyone unlucky or something. ”

Another scoundrel suddenly whispered, "Why don't we go to his house in the middle of the night and knock on the door?" He must have been hairy when he was patted on the shoulder by us during the day, and then at night we were so scared that he was absolutely scared of his and pee on his crotch! ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the scoundrels changed.

The scoundrel cut off: "I know you don't dare!" ”

Liu Ergou said angrily: "Let you fart!" Except for Brother Zhou, Lao Tzu has never been afraid of anyone! ”

"Are you going or not?"

Liu Ergou gritted his teeth and said, "Go!" Which grandson would dare not go! ”

……

Wan Sheng was depressed and bought two catties of meat and all kinds of paper money and returned home, and his mother-in-law was surprised: "What happened?" ”

Wan Sheng said in a sullen voice: "I was patted on the shoulder by Liu Ergou." ”

The mother-in-law smiled in surprise: "Fortunately, I wasn't beaten, this is a good thing in a bad thing!" ”

Wan Sheng said angrily: "When I practice the divine skills, see how I clean them up!" ”

The mother-in-law said in a deep voice: "If this little thing makes you angry, you won't be able to practice divine skills!" This is just a small heart barrier, and when the martial arts cultivation reaches the advanced realm, you will encounter more powerful heart demons, and if you can't overcome the heart demons, you will go mad and your martial arts will be wasted, you won't be the only one, right? ”

Be still! Wan Sheng suddenly realized: "I was wrong! ”

The mother-in-law smiled: "Okay, mother-in-law makes braised pork for you to eat!" ”

Wan Sheng was overjoyed: "Yes! ”

……

At night, every household inserts incense at the door, burns paper money, and then closes the window and closes the door to worship the ancestors.

The mother-in-law wrote the names of the ancestors and Wan Sheng's father who died in the war on each bundle of paper money, and then enshrined them in front of the tablet together with the braised meat and fruits.

In the words of the mother-in-law, the ancestors of each family would come back on this day to enjoy the offerings and paper money. But Wan Sheng never saw the ancestors and his parents come back. But the spirits outside scrambling for paper money have seen a lot through the cracks in the door. Wan Sheng has always wondered if the ancestor of his family has also become a wandering ghost? In the long years of war, there were many such cases, as evidenced by the fact that there were so many wandering spirits outside.

It's almost midnight, when the yin qi is at its heaviest. If you don't come back at this time, you really can't come back.

Wan Sheng sighed: "My father and mother are really pitiful, I really can't do something." ”

The mother-in-law sighed: "Only when the high monk Xuanzang retrieves the Jishi Sutra from the Western Heaven of Bliss can he cross these thousands of wandering souls." ”

Thousands of spirits? At this moment, Wan Sheng thought of Sister Xiao Zhuo again, so he had a whim: "Mother-in-law, I am not a monk, I can't save so many wandering spirits and I can't save my father, but at least I can help Sister Xiao Zhuo?" She has saved me many times, so I can't worship her? ”

The mother-in-law was stunned and said, "It's not a parent, there's no such rule?" ”

Wan Sheng was surprised: "Didn't the senior monk come back to change the rules when he went to learn the scriptures?" ”

The mother-in-law was stunned again, and then laughed: "Child, you are really amazing!" Then the old woman will accompany you crazy for a while! ”

So the mother-in-law rewrote all the names on the paper money as "Xiao Zhuo"! But Xiao Zhuo is obviously not her full name, the mother-in-law thought about it and added her address in front of Xiao Zhuo "Building 4 of Shijing Lane, Jianye City", and then thought about it again, and added "benefactor" after Xiao Zhuo's name, and then signed "Wan Po Embroidery Workshop Wan Sheng in Tsing Yi Lane, Jianye City".

"You should be able to receive this, right?" At this moment, the mother-in-law was as excited as a child.

Wan Sheng said excitedly: "Can you burn it?" ”

"Then burn it!"