Hit the yin and yang road

On July [-]th, during the Hungry Ghost Festival, it is rumored that the gates of ghosts are wide open, and lonely ghosts in the underworld wander in the yang world.You can see ghosts everywhere on this day, where ghosts are not usually seen, or squatting at the corner of the bridge to smoke fireworks, or several ghosts around the sacrificial supplies grab leftovers and gobble up leftovers. There are also ghosts who choose to look for scapegoats on this day.

But today's young people do not believe in ghosts and gods the least, and the Ghost Festival has become a festival where you can have a holiday and play around.Family reunion, ancestor worship, flowers and fruits, chicken, duck and fish, and a big show sung to ghosts.At this time, it has become a festival for young people to have fun. Many young people who go out to work will go home on this day.

Chen Yang doesn't like the Ghost Festival, it's okay during the day, but at night, countless ghosts will appear and try to take his life away.He grasped the basket in his hand tightly, and in the basket were the vegetables and tributes he went to buy.There were countless lonely ghosts staring at him along the way, at the intersection of the road, at the bridgehead, and in the middle of the bridge, suddenly a pale ghost hand stretched out from the bottom of the bridge and grabbed his ankle.

Chen Yang was startled, and quickly whipped the ghost hand with the copper coin that Grandpa Wu gave him, and shouted: "Imperial order!" The ghost hand left quickly after being burned with ashes.When I looked around, I was even more startled. I saw dozens of corpses under the bridge that were swollen by the river water.Those corpses looked at Chen Yang in unison, with black eyes and mouths, wriggling and trying to climb up from the bottom of the bridge, coveting the shell of this special physique crazily.

"Why are you so surprised? Don't take up space!"

Chen Yang turned his head, his pale and terrifying face frightened the yelling young man.Chen Yang glanced at him, and said in a low voice: "This location is not good, you better not stand here." Then he turned and left.

The young man was puzzled, and muttered: "I'm so nervous, I don't know what to talk about." After Chen Yang left, he directly occupied this position and put the goods on it.This is a bridge that the town and the village must pass through. It is a very old bridge. People have come to occupy the space on both sides of the bridge, selling vegetables, meat, ingot candles and paper figurines, etc., in a mess.

The old vegetable seller next to the young man reminded him: "I advise you not to talk to him, that child from the Chen family is very evil. He has attracted many ghosts since he was a child, and killed his parents and old man Chen. He just stood here as if there was a ghost under the bridge. What kind of dirty thing, I advise you to change the place." He lowered his voice and said: "Every year, people die on this bridge, those who are swept away by the water, those who accidentally fall, and those who commit suicide are all in your position."

Immediately, the young man felt a penetrating feeling in his heart, but seeing that there was no place on the whole bridge, he didn't want to give up this place.So he insisted and said: "You want to lie to me? People die every year, are you always on the scene? Still in the same position, the whole bridge is so big, what is the probability that all the dead people will fall under the bridge at the same position ?funny."

The young man squatted down, and the naked eye could not see that a ghost with a body that was so swollen that the original skin and facial features could not be seen had climbed up from under the bridge, slowly climbed up along his heels, and finally climbed on his shoulders, sucking obsessively. he's angry.The young man suddenly felt very cold, rubbed his arms twice, and looked up at the sky.

The sky was gloomy, and it looked like it was going to rain heavily.It hasn't rained in the past month, so it's no wonder it's going to rain heavily.The weather has become cloudy, no wonder it is so cold.

The young man himself felt cool, but he didn't know how many people present felt that the air was unbearably stuffy.

Chen Yang passed by the ancestral hall in the village, and saw the busy scene in the ancestral hall and the old stage. Some actors on the stage were hanging their voices before they put on their costumes.The ancestral hall is very old. It is said that it has been built since the Republic of China and has not been repaired until now.It can't be repaired, it's too dilapidated, a large piece of the wall skin has fallen off, and the paint on it is almost all peeled off.

The original ink-heavy statues of Shentu and Yulei on the wooden door have now faded, forming a thick layer of dirt at the bottom of the wooden door.There is a three to four meter wide stage in the ancestral hall. From the outline, you can see the magnificence when it was first built, but now it has faded a lot due to the wind and rain.Under the stage, someone moved the stools and arranged them neatly.

In the village, there is a custom of singing operas for ghosts on the Ghost Festival, and the gong is played on the third watch and the fourth watch ends.No one can be present when singing to ghosts, except actors.All opera actors must be men, and there must be no women. They must be complete in life, cleanliness, and ugliness, and there must be a procedural step.At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, someone came over with tributes and spiritual seats, and each family paid for a seat, which was used as the ticket money to buy a seat for their ancestors to watch the theater.

Chen Yang was also moved. His grandfather liked to go to the theater, and he could hang his voice when he had nothing to do.But he can't go out at night, as soon as he goes out, there will be groups of lonely and wild ghosts following him, and maybe he will attract a few ghosts.

He could only ask the neighbor next door to buy a seat for him, and invite grandpa's spirit seat to watch the play.

Chen Yang took a step forward, and suddenly there seemed to be loud shouts in his ear, like beating a brass gong, which gave him a headache.When he looked up again, he saw that the statues of Shentu and Yulei were suddenly much taller in front of him, glaring at him, and scolded him to get out of here and not to make trouble here.

Chen Yang's complexion suddenly became weird. Because of his special constitution and destiny, many gods regarded him as a lonely ghost and never allowed him to intrude on the world of heaven, and never gave him protection.As a result, there was no statue of the door god posted in his house, otherwise he would not even be able to enter the door of his own house.

When he got home and saw that the door was locked, Chen Yang took out the key to open the door and entered the house, but he did not see Grandpa Wu.Later, on the top of the old green refrigerator, I saw a piece of white paper that was pressed up. On the white paper, it was written: I have something to do, I will come back late.

Putting the white paper back in place, Chen Yang went to the kitchen to prepare dinner, and placed the five offerings of flowers and fruits on the altar.Then put the prepared meat such as chicken, duck and fish on another small table, and put ingot candles, paper figurines and paper carts on both sides.On the altar are the spiritual tablets of the patriarch and Chen Yang's parents and grandfather. He first finished offering the patriarch and his relatives, and then sat beside him and stared at the candle flames.

After a long while, he picked up the ingots and paper money and burned them in the furnace. While burning them, Chen Yang said, "Grandpa, Dad, Mom, I'm fine. I've lived to be 16 years old. Grandpa Wu said that 16 years old is the best in my life." A heavy year, this year has my big opportunity. If I catch the opportunity, I will be able to live. Another big opportunity, if I can catch both opportunities, I will not be affected by my physique in the future. Grandpa Wu also said that the fate of the 16-year-old and the youth are tied to one person, and I really want to find this person. But I don’t want to harm him, and I don’t know if it will hurt the other party.”

After a pause, Chen Yang picked up paper figurines, paper refrigerators, paper color TVs, etc. and burned them slowly, sighing while burning: "I miss you very much, but I can't contact you until later. I can summon souls now, but I can't Dare to recruit." Because of his physique, as long as he invokes the soul, he will definitely recruit the most ferocious ghost in hell, so he dare not try to contact his parents and grandpa.

"By the way, I passed all subjects in the final exam this time." Chen Yang was quite proud, and happily shared this gratifying news with his relatives.The town's high school was built on a former mass grave, where there are many wandering ghosts.Although there is no way to hurt Chen Yang, but he loves to tease him.Although he knew all the questions on the test paper, the ghosts either covered his eyes or snatched his pen, preventing him from taking the test.

This time the final exam was related to the situation of the sophomore class. Chen Yang paid more attention to it, and made sufficient preparations to fight against the lonely ghosts in the school, and finally passed the exam.It's not that you will be assigned to poor classes when you are divided into classes. You can't think about key classes, but at least you can go to ordinary classes.If you are lucky, the teachers of the ordinary class are the same as the teachers of the key class.

Chen Yang knew why those ghosts were causing trouble, because they didn't want him to leave the town and village after being admitted to a foreign university.In the past, the ghosts in the village used the same method when they were in primary school, junior high school or high school.It's not that they are reluctant to part with him, but they don't want to be able to snatch his body after he leaves.Missing this body with a special fate, I don't know when I will be able to return to the world.

At this time, the aunt next door shouted: "Yangyang, your sister-in-law is going to the ancestral hall now, you take out your grandpa's spiritual tablet and tribute."

"Okay." Chen Yang responded quickly, put the tribute, grandpa's spiritual tablet, etc. in the basket, opened the door and walked to the door of the aunt's house next door.The aunt next door is five meters away from his house, but the surrounding area is still relatively quiet, and several households are already unoccupied.The aunt next door is not related to him, but just a neighbor, but she is very kind, knowing his situation, not only does not dislike him, but she often helps him.

Knocking on the door, the daughter-in-law of the aunt next door came out, and when she saw Chen Yang, she smiled heartily and said, "Yangyang is quite fast." Looking at the things in his basket, she said, "The tribute is quite rich, your grandfather must be very happy .”

Chen Yang smiled embarrassedly: "Please." After speaking, he took out some money from his pocket and handed it to her as the entrance fee to the theater, but was rejected.

The woman said: "Don't give it to me, you can keep it for yourself. You are about to go to high school, and the college entrance examination is two years away, so study hard and try to get into college. Keep this money for yourself and use it to replenish your body. You are too thin. "

Chen Yang: "This is the entrance fee, take it."

The woman glanced at him, seeing that he persisted, she had to say: "Yangyang, you don't know how popular your tribute is?"

Chen Yang was puzzled: "Huh?"

At the age of 16, Chen Yang's face was as white and tender as a piece of tofu. He was not deeply involved in the world and because of his special experience, he was completely different from the rebellious middle school teenagers of this period.Cute and quiet like a quiet lake, it is very lovable.Suddenly showing a puzzled look, it completely hit the woman's heart and aroused her mother's love.I couldn't help but pinched Chen Yang's cheek and said, "Yangyang's cooking skills are so good, the smell wafts to our place and we are hungry. You tribute, you were killed by the people in the ancestral hall after you made the offering. Divide cleanly. Many people are rushing to ask for your tribute, and your tribute is more popular than the entrance fee you gave."

"Really?" Chen Yang didn't quite believe it, his tribute was the same as most people's, it was fruit and a piece of stewed pork.Nothing special, maybe not as good as other people's chickens and ducks.

The woman nodded affirmatively, and suddenly said, "Why don't you sell me this stewed pork?"

"If you want, I will send it to you."

"That's just right. Take the money back and pay back the original cost of the pork." The woman yelled before Chen Yang could speak: "That's the deal, and if you talk too much, sister-in-law won't help you."

Chen Yang couldn't help it: "Thank you."

The woman pinched Chen Yang's face with a smile: "Go back quickly. It's getting dark, if you go back later, I don't know what to get into."

"En." Chen Yang nodded, and after handing the basket to her, he was stuffed with some fruit and candies.He refused to take the fruit, but he was not too strong when he refused the candy, and some of them wanted to refuse, so he was stuffed with a bag full of candy.Chen Yang went home blushing with a bag of candies in hand, feeling both excited and guilty, and finally the excitement overwhelmed the guilt and he couldn't help peeling off a candy to eat.

The sister-in-law said that the candy was bought from the city, it was very expensive and delicious, and Chen Yang, who had the candy in his mouth, could prove that it was indeed delicious.His footsteps were much lighter, and he didn't realize that the sky had completely darkened, and the sound of beating gongs and drums drifted over with the wind in the distance.The street lights were in disrepair and dim all the year round. The owners of the houses on both sides had moved away, so the lights were not turned on.

Therefore, the alley is very dark, and the dark corners are the easiest to hide those dirty things.Chen Yang heard footsteps behind him, the sound was very rhythmic, but after listening to it for a long time, he found it very strange.After thinking for a while, he realized that the rhythm was the same as his walking rhythm, both fast and slow.Chen Yang stopped, and the footsteps behind him also stopped. He looked back and found that there was only his own shadow behind him.

The dirty things hiding in the darkness seemed to be about to move, Chen Yang hurried back home, so he didn't notice that there was a particularly clear shadow in the dark.And the shadow slowly revealed a ferocious appearance, trying to pounce on Chen Yang.

The door of the house was in front of him, and Chen Yang changed from walking to running.But the shadow behind him was afraid of the door god, so he didn't hide anymore, opened his mouth suddenly and let out a terrifying scream, and rushed towards Chen Yang's back.And Chen Yang turned around abruptly and put the red rope wrapped in a special knot between his hands and ten fingers in front of this ghost. The ancient copper coins on the red rope vibrated and made a soft 'buzzing' sound.

The ghost was afraid of the copper coins, and would be burned if it touched the yang energy, so it retreated quickly.Chen Yang took the opportunity to run into the house and pulled down the rope. The door god statue hanging on the door and put away immediately fell down, and the golden light frightened away the ghost in an instant.

Chen Yang heaved a sigh of relief, and then he heard shouts in his ears, and when he looked up, he saw the portrait of the door god glaring at him.He twitched his mouth, and the door gods mistook him for a ghost again.He closed the door without putting away the statue of the door god.

Because of physical fitness, the door god statues will block the door, so I usually put away the door god statues, and put them down when I get home. At least the door gods are there, and there will be less ghost harassment at night.Before Grandpa Wu came back, Chen Yang put the food back in the refrigerator.Then obediently took out the Taoism book to preview, and saw that it was time to take a bath at nine o'clock.

When entering the bathroom, you have to be careful to see if there are any dirty things hidden in it. After checking it, you pull down the cinnabar yellow talisman and block it in front of the window, and start taking a bath.I heard a sound in the middle of washing, but the small sound was mixed with the sound of spraying water, so I couldn't hear it clearly.

Chen Yang thought it was Grandpa Wu coming back, so he turned off the shower and listened carefully for a while, only to find that it was coming from the window.He walked over and lifted the cinnabar yellow talisman and looked out the window, it was pitch black and there was nothing.Just when he was about to put the yellow talisman back, a terrifying and swollen face suddenly appeared in front of him, slamming against the window violently, staring at Chen Yang with the disgusting sound of snoring water.

This is the water ghost who followed from under the bridge, taking advantage of the Yin Qi of the Ghost Festival, he followed all the way.A crack was knocked out of the window, Chen Yang immediately pasted the yellow talisman on the window and said: "The filth dissipates, Dao Qi remains forever, hurry like a law!"

The magic talisman plus the Divine Mantra of Purifying Heaven and Earth, one of the eight Taoist exorcism spells, drives away the water ghost outside the window. Chen Yang thinks that the water ghost will be driven away, but he doesn't know that the water ghost is not willing to leave, but walks along the window. Climb down and then possess the body of the young man with a sluggish face.This young man refused to listen to advice during the day and insisted on squatting in the place where countless people died, and was caught by a ghost in the end.

The water ghost enslaves the young man to walk towards the door, but seeing the statue of the door god see through his disguise, seeing the water ghost dare to take advantage of the ghosts and ghosts to take advantage of the ghosts and ghosts during the ghost festival to take advantage of the ghost to possess the body of the door god who wants to harm others and has a violent temper Directly beat the water ghost to death.

The young man passed out on the ground, and after waking up for a while, he was in a trance. After a while, he saw himself in a strange place.He was startled at first, and found that he was wet and had an unpleasant damp smell, his face changed drastically, he got up and left quickly.

Chen Yang's house has two floors, and the layout makes the house quite compact.The windows on the upper and lower floors were all closed with yellow symbols, and the skylights were closed. After the inspection, he went back to his room to sleep.When he slept soundly until midnight, he was woken up suddenly by a loud noise downstairs.Chen Yang got up quickly, put on his slippers and ran downstairs quickly. He was startled when he saw the broken door on the stairs, and ran towards the Patriarch's Shrine without thinking.

Passing by the window and glanced out, my scalp felt numb and my goosebumps exploded.I saw that the yellow talisman that originally covered the window to suppress evil spirits was half burned, revealing dense black handprints on the window.Those black handprints are small, like those of a baby.Chen Yang didn't stop, and ran to the shrine of the patriarch, hugged the statue of the patriarch to his chest and said silently: "Bless the patriarch!"

When he lowered his head, he found black footprints on the floor. Chen Yang turned on the light and found that the black footprints on the floor belonged to children. The footprints were facing inward, from the door to the shrine to the sofa in the living room.

Chen Yang heard from Grandpa Wu that ghosts have no footprints unless lime is sprinkled on the door.When ghosts come out with lime, black footprints will appear, and among all ghosts, ghosts and evil ghosts are the most difficult to deal with.Most of the evil spirits are heinous criminals, and most of the evil spirits are women and children.The former is caused by a lot of karma, and they become evil ghosts even if they are fierce in nature.The latter had too much resentment and turned into a ghost after death to continue to harm people.

The string of black footprints in front of me indicated that there was a grudge-heavy ghost intruding in the house. If the kid died unjustly before he had lived enough, he would have a lot of resentment.If you don't offend it, it generally won't harm people, but the little ghost has an obsession to return the yang.Now even if Chen Yang didn't offend it, he would be killed because of his physique.

Chen Yang walked towards the living room, and saw scattered snack packaging bags on the sofa and table, as well as toys thrown in a mess.The footprints ended just under the sofa floor in the living room, but the sofa didn't sag, and he didn't see a ghost.

Where is that kid hiding?Chen Yang frowned, and carefully searched for the place where the little ghost was hiding. He heard a rustling sound next to his ear, but he couldn't find it following the sound.And that voice seemed to be following behind him all the time——Chen Yang was stiff all over, could it be that the brat was lying on his back?

Chen Yang quickly ran to the mirror, drew a spell on the mirror and looked behind him.The back is empty and there are no imps.He breathed a sigh of relief, and felt that his back was not heavy or sore, and there should be no kid.Then he raised his vigilance again, the kid didn't hide behind him, and the voice followed like a shadow...

Chen Yang put the statue of the patriarch on the table, and opened the drawer to reveal the bronze mirror inside.The bronze mirror is facing upwards, just in time to find the ceiling above the head.He fiddled with the copper mirror, and suddenly saw a black long-tailed imp crouching on the ceiling.The little ghost had a terrifying appearance, with a mouth like a zipper pulled to the ear, and it was full of jagged teeth.The eyes are full of whites, staring straight at Chen Yang.

Little ghosts are very playful, they like to play tricks on adults.This little ghost didn't know that Chen Yang had discovered him, so he just crawled around in his spare time, leaving black marks on the ceiling, like the marks left by a snail crawling across the ground.

Chen Yang hid the bronze mirror under his palm, held the statue of the patriarch, pretended to be looking for the little ghost, but actually walked towards the small door next to the shrine.Inside the small door are the celestial master's Taoist robes, magic tools, and magic talismans. Now he can't use the red string and copper coins freely, so he can only use the magic talismans temporarily.

When he was approaching the small door, the little ghost suddenly opened his mouth and screamed, and then rushed towards him. Chen Yang quickly dodged and opened the door, but when he was about to rush in, he was frightened by several black figures that suddenly appeared above his head.He turned on the light in the dark, the light was bright, and the scene in front of him was so terrifying that he was speechless.

I saw countless air-dried corpses hanging upside down in the hut in front of me. They were entwined with thin threads, like dried pork bacon hanging upside down in a bacon shop.The facial expressions of countless corpses are like a painting in the art album issued in junior high school, Munch's "The Scream".The expression in that painting has been spoofed constantly, but the face that actually appeared on the corpse looked extremely terrifying.

There are three hollow black mouths, two black eye sockets and a screaming mouth on their dry faces.Their distorted bodies seem to be imprisoned in hell, struggling crazily under torture.They all turned their faces to look at Chen Yang who was standing at the door. The two sides stood still for a moment, and then the group of dried corpses surged wildly.

The kid screamed to threaten the corpses, warning them not to rob Chen Yang.It rushed in and dismembered the corpse near the door, but it was quickly overwhelmed by other corpses, and it was unknown whether it had been dismembered.

Chen Yang turned around and ran away. The talismans and magical instruments in the hut were all destroyed, making it impossible to use them at all.And the patriarch didn't appear at all, he probably thought he was with the group of corpses.

Grandpa Wu said that he was not yet suitable for learning Wu clan Taoism, so he could only temporarily learn the simplest incantations for suppressing ghosts and exorcising evil spirits.He couldn't even summon the patriarch or other heavenly generals and ghost messengers, because maybe the other party would treat Chen Yang as a ghost as soon as they arrived.

The home is no longer safe, and the outside is even less safe. Chen Yang can only hope that Grandpa Wu will come back soon.