Yingyang Bookstore, No. 48

The sky was clear, and the sun was still glowing red at 06:30. Tai Yi squinted his eyes and yawned, looking at the paper money flying not far away, sighed, and carefully rode his bicycle over.There are many roads from home to school, but no matter which one will end up passing a tree-lined road in front of the school.

I don't know who came to the intersection to burn money every day, and didn't clean up after burning. When I came by bike in the morning, I saw big white copper coins all over the place.Tai Yi used to always hear the old man say that you can’t step on paper money, the ghost will think you want to grab it and follow you. Every time Tai Yi sees paper money, this sentence pops up in Tai Yi’s mind, and his heart is dead.

When he got to work, he saw his deskmate was upset, so Tai Yi casually asked, "What's the matter?"

Liu Hua rolled his eyes: "As for the paper money that was burned at the intersection, my mother's face was covered in such a big piece when I went out. Who do you think is getting sick from burning like this every day? Well, I'm not going well at the beginning of the day. "

Tai Yi shrugged helplessly.

Liu Hua asked: "Brother Tai, are you interested? Let's come out tonight and have a look?"

Tai Yi thought for a while about the little girl who stood at the intersection with a blank expression and took money out of her pocket, and said, "You have gai in your head."

Eyes through yin and yang can see ghosts.

Tai Yi took out the exercise book to do his homework, and while writing, he remembered what his father had said to him.

Tai Yi was not born at full term, he was born with dystocia, he was the only one who survived the mother and son, Tai's mother closed her eyes a few hours after he was born, and even the son didn't take a good look at it, after this, Tai's father became mother and father again Raise him.When Tai Yi was young, he always cried and always got sick, and he also had inexplicable small wounds on his body. Tai’s father thought it was the nanny who abused him. After all, no one in the family watched the nanny and no one saw the child. Tai’s father resigned the nanny and applied to the boss. bring their children to work.But the situation didn't improve much, until when Tai Yi was two years old, he met an old man who had to put incense ash on Tai Yi's eyes if he disagreed with him. Tai's father beat him up and didn't stop him. Dot on his eyelids.

But Tai Yi got better after that, and the old man in the work unit said after hearing this, "Xiao Tai, if you meet someone in the future, you have to thank him well! I'm afraid Xiao Yi saw something unclean!" Unfortunately, the old man was never seen again.

Later, Tai Yi had a car accident when he was 12 years old, and the incense ash did not work well.Tai Yi could see some vague shadows at first, then the shadows became clearer and clearer, and finally Tai Yi got closer to those things and could even see the wrinkles on their faces, eyelashes and so on.Little Tai Yi also found out that others couldn't see the beautiful sister who made him bury her chest to teach him math problems, so he asked his father directly.

Tai's father told him the story of the kind fairy grandfather, and then asked him: "No one can tell this matter, okay? Dad will find a way for you."

Little Tai Yi nodded, and then watched the beautiful sister play with more and more ghost charms on the bedside with a mocking face...

As he grows older, Tai Yi can also distinguish which ghosts have good intentions and which ghosts should not be messed with, and he can also do nothing to watch and ignore them. Occasionally, he encounters ghosts who are begging for nothing and have to ask him to do something for him. I can only sigh and see if I can help.But the most is to bring something, burn some paper money, and send a message to the living.

In Tai Yi's eyes, there is no difference between the world of ghosts and the world of people, because the young lady always takes out the new poplar tree from Grandma Xiang's bag. When the Star series came out a while ago, Tai Yi went to many paper money shops to buy it for her. Paper lipstick to the stars.

But the little girl at the intersection is rare.

His body was covered in blood, his eyes were fierce, although he was only a child of seven or eight years old in terms of stature.

Tai Yi has always kept a respectful distance from this kind of ghost, his sister told him that this kind of ghost that dies tragically will harm people.

After a day of staying up, it was already afternoon. The weather forecast in the morning said that there would be heavy rain today, and a red warning was issued, but it didn't look like it would rain on this sunny day.Just as Tai Yi was thinking about it, he saw a large black cloud pouring out from the east at some point, as if the mountain rain was about to come, within a few minutes the whole sky was covered by dark clouds.

"Om-"

The phone vibrated, and Tai Yi took it out secretly and found that the school had issued a holiday notice. Since he was in the third year of high school, he could count on heavy rain and snow for a holiday.

While get out of class was over, Tai Yi called Tai's father and asked if he could come to pick him up. Tai's father sighed: "I have a meeting and I can't ask for leave, why don't you hurry up and take a taxi?"

Tai Yi also sighed, he didn't dare to go back by bike this day, if it rained on the way, he would have to take a taxi back, the key is that he didn't bring an umbrella.

Tai Yi asked around who had extra umbrellas, but they all said no. Liu Hua said, "Go to the doorman and ask. I just let him borrow it last time."

Tai Yi nodded, but he was very resistant to the gate guard in his heart, and he couldn't explain why. Uncle Xing came at the gate not long ago, because the students liked him very much because he was handsome and handsome, but there were a few times when Tai Yi passed by him and smelled an indescribable fragrance, very faint but greasy, which could not disappear from the nasal cavity for a long time, Tai Yi felt that it was not as good as the low-quality perfume of the girls in the school.

Tai Yi rushed out as soon as the get out of class bell rang, and heard a "shua" as soon as he stepped out of the teaching building.

"Fuck! This is too fucking upright!" Tai Yi shouted.

I ran all the way to the guard room and opened the door, and a smell of smoke came over me. The old man's dry tobacco was drying at the door every day, and it smelled very fragrant.

"Master, do you still have an umbrella here?"

The uncle pointed to a row of umbrellas by the wall: "Take it yourself, don't forget to return it."

"Thank you, you must not forget!"

Uncle Xing took a puff of cigarette and asked him, "Young man, do you want to go home and cross the bridge?"

The bridge he mentioned is a small stone bridge a few meters east of the school gate. The school’s tree-lined road is a one-way street. If you want to take a taxi, you can either go to the intersection of this road or cross the bridge and take it from the other side, but the intersection is facing the hospital. Normal people are always embarrassed to rob patients.

Tai Yi said: "Well... not necessarily, let's see if I can take a taxi."

Uncle Xing continued to puff, "Take a detour, don't cross the bridge."

Tai Yi: "What happened to the bridge?"

Uncle: "It's not good to cross the bridge today."

Tai Yi didn't understand why he couldn't cross the bridge that day. After thinking about it, he thought that the old man meant that the bridge was difficult to walk due to the heavy rain. He didn't know the proportion of the bridge when he walked it. It was obviously not high but the steps were wide. There are too many, and it is easy to miss if you can't see clearly in rainy and snowy days.If you think about it this way, this old man is pretty good.

Tai Yi wanted to wait for a few minutes for the rain to lighten before coming out, but after waiting for a while, the rain did not light up but instead became heavier, Tai Yi silently sighed and resigned to his fate and walked out.

When he got out of the gate guard, he found that everyone had almost left. There were only a few students walking in front of him. When he saw a buddy in front of him, he turned around and walked back before he reached the intersection. gone?"

The classmate waved to him: "Don't take a detour! There's too much water in the fucking landslide, so I can't see where it collapsed."

Tai Yi rolled his eyes violently in his heart, this land collapsed several times a year, and it was still being repaired every year, what's the point of repairing it if it collapsed during a heavy rain.

The rain came fast and hard, and the steps of the small bridge were like small waterfalls. Tai Yi rolled up his trouser legs and held the umbrella with one hand while holding the bridge with the other. It was really slippery.When I got off the bridge, I saw a little girl squatting under the tree, with her hands raised to block the rain. Tai Yi saw her as if he saw himself when he was a child. Tai's father was busy with work, and sometimes he couldn't pick him up on time, so he squatted like this. The gate of the primary school.

That year too, in the heavy rain at the end of spring, little Tai Yi squatted under a tree without an umbrella and waited for his father. It was also that day that a speeding car hit him who was running towards his father.

"Where are your parents?" Tai Yi asked.

The little girl looked up: "I didn't come to pick me up."

Tai Yi took out his mobile phone and asked her, "Then do you know your parents' phone numbers?"

The little girl said: "The teacher has called, I will wait for them."

Tai Yi couldn't bear it: "Then brother will wait with you for a while."

The little girl nodded and said, "I want to wait for them on the other side of the road, but I dare not go there. Brother, can you send me there?"

Tai Yi said, "Okay, I'm going there too."

The little girl grabbed Tai Yi's hand, and at that moment Tai Yi felt a piercing coolness creep up his arm along the veins.After walking a few steps, she saw a black car approaching from the opposite side. The little girl let go of her hands and ran over there, shouting back as she ran, "Thank you brother! My name is Dodo!"

Tai Yi also shouted: "You run slowly! You wait for your parents to come and pick you up!"

"bump--!"

As soon as the words were finished, a black car suddenly appeared from the left and ran into Dodo. Tai Yi still raised his hand, and stood there with his mouth trembling. He was only a few meters away from Dodo. If... .If he pulls Dodo and sends her to the other side of the road, it won't...it won't...hey, there is no car in front.

No car, no flowers, nothing.

The author has something to say:

The story of paper money was told by an old man in my family. Not only should you not step on it, but you should not look at it when others burn it. It is disrespectful to ghosts. involuntarily think of