Urban Youth Cultivating Immortals

Chapter 15 Son, what are you burning?

I came to the underworld store on Hedi Street that specializes in selling incense and candles. Lin Lin chose two incense sticks and a dozen pairs of candles. He accidentally saw paper money, paper clothes and houses burned for the dead. something, he hesitated.

"Xiao Xie, do you need these things?" Lin Lin asked attentively.

Xiao Xie said, "Master, I want a new set of clothes."

It was only at this time that Lin Lin noticed that Xiao Xie was wearing a long white dress, but it was dirty, old, and somewhat tattered.

"Boss, how much do these cost?" Lin Lin asked after taking a pack of paper-cut clothes.

"Five yuan a bag." The boss said, "This spirit house is also five yuan a bag."

Lin Lin didn't have much pocket money. After buying two handfuls of good incense and a dozen pairs of candles, he had already spent 50 yuan, and now he only had 20 yuan left.

After hesitating for a while, Lin Lin still took two packs of brightly colored paper-cut clothes and a spirit house that looked like a villa and said to the boss, "I need these two."

"The spirit houses in this villa cost ten yuan each." The boss said immediately when he saw what Lin Lin was carrying.

Lin Lin still wanted to keep five yuan on his body for self-defense. If he sold all of them now, he must have spent all the money.He said helplessly at the moment: "It's so expensive! Can it be cheaper?"

"It's not expensive anymore. If it's a festival, this spirit house will cost 20 yuan each!" said the boss.

Lin Lin hesitated for a moment, then took out the money and handed it to the boss, saying, "Then take these two!"

The boss took the money, put the things into bags, saw Lin Lin's pained face, and said with a smile: "Young man, seeing you like this, I will give you another dozen paper money and let you burn it for your ancestors." !” As he spoke, he took a dozen paper money from the stall, stuffed it into a bag, and handed it to Lin Lin.

Lin Lin said thank you, and went back with these things.

Back home, Lin Lin opened the door and was about to speak to Xiao Xie when he heard his mother's voice.

"Son, are you hungry! Come in, come in..." The mother said to Lin Lin cheerfully, and she welcomed her son into the house.

"Son, what's in your black bag?" Seeing her son holding two bulging black bags, the mother couldn't help asking.

If I let my mother know that I am with a female ghost, wouldn't my mother faint from fright?These things must never be known to my mother.

"Mom, these are some colored papers, I use them to make things." Lin Lin said quickly, "Mom, don't worry about it." He said, and hurried back to the room, stuffed the things under the bed , Put your schoolbag away before you come out.

"Mom, why are you free today?" Lin Lin came out and came to the table. When he saw the hot food on the table, he looked at his mother strangely and asked.

You must know that although Mom and Dad are both from the unit, since ten years ago, because of the poor efficiency of the unit, many employees have been laid off. The two of them opened a stall in the market to buy some pickles and the like. s things.The days are passable.

Because the market is far away from home, under normal circumstances, they will not go home at noon.

"Aren't you preparing for the college entrance examination? I have discussed it with your father. I will come back every day at noon and make lunch for you. This way, you will have enough time to take a nap." Mom looked at Lin with a smile. Lin said.

"Mom, you don't need to come back. I'm already old enough to take care of myself. Besides, when I go to college, do I have to take care of myself at night?" Lin Lin couldn't help but said with a warm current in his heart. .

And Xiao Xie, who was inseparable from Lin Lin's side, her eyes turned scarlet when she heard Lin Lin's mother's words, and she said tearfully, "Master, your mother is so kind, just like my mother... "

At this moment, she really wants to go home, and really wants to go home to visit her parents.

"Hehe, I know my son has grown up. However, you are in the third year of high school, and you are nervous about reviewing. These trivial things are not in the way. It's okay for my mother to run twice more. Son, eat quickly, take a rest early after eating, and have classes in the afternoon !” Mom said.

Lin Lin nodded, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and ate.

After he ate two bowls of rice, he said, "Mom, I'm full." He was about to pack up the dishes and wash them, but his mother stopped him, and she said, "Put these things down, I'll take care of them." Just wash it, go to bed and rest!"

Lin Lin nodded, and then said: "Okay. Mom, you should sleep too!"

After Lin Lin returned to the room and closed the door, because of the poor sound insulation in the room, Lin Lin could only talk to Xiao Xie attentively: "Xiao Xie, it seems that my mother is at home, so it is difficult for me to burn incense for you gone."

Xiao Xie shook his head and said, "It's okay. Master, you don't have to worry. Xiao Xie knows."

"Well, I'm going to bed first, you help me see, when my mother will leave, I'll get up again to burn incense and clothes for you." Lin Lin said to Xiao Xie.

Xiao Xie nodded.

Lin Lin went to bed, lay down, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

"Master, master..." Xiao Xie shook Lin Lin's hand and said.

Lin Lin opened his eyes, looked at Xiao Xie and said, "En? Is my mother gone?"

Xiao Xie nodded and said, "Let's go."

Lin Lin looked at the bedside clock, it was already 01:30 in the afternoon.He got up, found the lighter, and then wanted to burn incense, but found that there was no suitable incense burner. Looking around, he saw the empty flowerpot on the windowsill, so he took the flowerpot down, lit the incense, He inserted it into the flower pot, and then took an empty biscuit box, which was made of iron, and set fire to the paper-cut clothes and the building of the villa in the biscuit box, saying: "I will burn it together for you, Xiao Xie, come and get these things!"

Xiao Xie was very happy when she smelled the incense. She found that after inhaling the incense, her whole body became more stable, and she seemed to have some excitement and an indescribable joy.

The clothes were also burned, and the villa made of paper was also burned. Lin Lin put the paper money into the fire and burned it to Xiao Xie.

Just when Lin Lin was about to burn everything up, he suddenly heard the sound of the door opening. He immediately stood up and quickly closed the door of his room, but it was too late.

Mom has come in from the outside.

"Lin Lin, what are you burning?" Mom asked outside.

Lin Lin closed the door early, and his mother couldn't get into his room, but the smell of burning paper in the room still made his mother smell it.

"Oh, it's nothing, burn some unnecessary things." Lin Lin said quickly.

Although the mother thought it was strange for her son to burn things at home, she didn't ask any more questions. She thought to herself: "Could it be that the girl wrote a love letter to her son, and the son didn't like that girl, so he burned the love letter?"

If this is the case, I can't go in and see it. After all, this is the child's privacy.Besides, preparing for the college entrance examination, and my son has grown up again, a mother shouldn't bother with these things.

"Lin Lin, be careful, don't burn anything else." My mother reminded me uneasy.

Lin Lin quickly said: "I see. Mom, didn't you go to the market? Why are you back?"

"Oh, I found out that I left some things at home, so I came back to get them!" Lin Lin's mother said, "It's almost two o'clock, be careful when you burn things, and remember to go to class later."

"I see." Lin Lin said.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Lin Lin knew that his mother had left, so he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, then patted his chest and said, "Xiao Xie, when I cook something for you next time, I can see it at night, in the dead of night I was able to do it when I was young, and if my mother found out, she would definitely... It's okay, it's okay..."

Xiao Xie looked at Lin Lin apologetically and said, "Master, I'm sorry, I caused you trouble."

"It's okay, you hurry up and eat joss sticks. After eating, change your clothes. I'll burn a bag of clothes for you, as well as a villa and money. You should have enough!" Lin Lin shook his hand and said.

Xiao Xie looked at Lin Lin gratefully and said, "Master, for me, you have spent so much money, is it your pocket money for a week?"

"It's nothing." Lin Lin shook his hand and said.As he said that, he opened the door and went out, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and was ready to go to school.

After Lin Lin finished brushing his teeth and washing his face, before it was time for school, he turned on the TV and watched it for a while.But there was nothing interesting on the TV. Lin Lin turned off the TV after he didn't watch it for 10 minutes. He stretched his waist, raised his head inadvertently, and saw Xiao Xie.

He froze for a moment.

Because of Xiao Xie at this moment, because of the new clothes, the whole person seems to have changed.Xiao Xie was actually wearing an exaggeratedly gorgeous lady's attire. It was a lady's attire from the Tang Dynasty. It was very beautiful. Her hair was also combed into a lady's bun. She was as beautiful as a fairy walking out of a painting.

Lin Lin was completely stunned, it took him a long time to recover, rubbed his eyes and said: "Xiao Xie, your clothes are really beautiful, the clothes you are wearing are really beautiful... I I almost didn't recognize it was you, I thought it was that fairy who descended to earth!"

Xiao Xie blushed and said with a little embarrassment: "Master, the clothes you burned for me are all like this. I... I... I'm not used to it."

Although she had been a ghost for more than ten years, she was about the same age as Lin Lin when she died, and she had been trapped in one place all the time. The age in her heart at this moment was almost the same as Lin Lin's.When she saw Lin Lin staring straight at her own appearance, she felt a little shy in her heart, but she found that it was really a good deal for her to wear this outfit.

Lin Lin nodded and said repeatedly: "It looks good, it looks good... Strange, how could this dress be an ancient costume?"

(End of this chapter)