lure incense

Bai Hui and Luan Bing were like two gusts of wind blowing across the calm water, leaving circles of rippling ripples, coming and going in a hurry, leaving no explanation or reason for the aftermath.

Those two left, but left Du Yan with a lot of trouble.After dinner and seeing off Mr. Xu, Guo Ping called Du Yan into the small black room where Zhong Kui was enshrined, and began to ask a series of questions about Bai Hui and Luan Bing. Du Yan faced the problem alone with a headache. Aunt Guo Ping had a cold face, slandering her father and mother for their disloyalty, but she had to recount some things about those two non-human beings again.

"That's it?" Guo Ping didn't disbelieve Du Yan's words, but she always felt that her nephew still kept a lot of things from her. At least, she was sure of one thing. Two men who still don't know what breed they are won't chase Du Yan so closely, from T city to here, if they have this time, with their abilities, how many things that can fill their stomachs can't be caught ?

"Boy Yan, tell me the truth!"

"I'm not lying..."

"Then I'll cut to the chase and ask you, have you ever been taken advantage of? The kind that went a few steps further than what that surnamed Bai did today."

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Du Yan didn't realize it at first, probably because he never thought that Guo Ping would ask such insincere words in a serious manner.He raised his head and looked at Guo Ping with question marks on his face.It wasn't until he heard a bang outside the door, as if something had hit the door frame, that his mind turned around, and his face was blushing and bleeding.

Outside the door, Bai Lan, who was lying on the door to eavesdrop just now, rubbed her forehead that she accidentally bumped, and whispered to Father Du, "My wife, I didn't see that, although my sister said that Yunying is not married, but this thought is enough." It's open..."

Father Du twitched the corners of his mouth, he didn't say anything, and he couldn't say anything.I can't help but think of the scene when I came to see my mother-in-law for the first time. At that time, the old lady who looked at me kindly, boasted that she couldn't find her way to her face, and treated herself as free labor when she turned around. I feel a chill down my back.The women in this family are better than each other...

"Auntie, don't ask, I've said everything I can, and I can't say anything else. In short, I haven't suffered any big losses, and the thing you worry about hasn't happened! I have to go to worship tomorrow Grandma, go to bed first."

After finishing speaking, Du Yan didn't wait for Guo Ping to speak, and ran back to the room like a gust of wind, pretending not to see his parents who had just posted outside Guo Ping's door and had no time to escape.

Guo Ping still had a cold face, Bai Lan asked Father Du to go to bed first, and she planned to have a good talk with Guo Ping, at least she couldn't make her sister feel that her son was ignorant and didn't know good and bad people, although Guo Ping had some questions to ask. It's a bit inappropriate, but he's also worried about his son.Bai Lan didn't want to make this girl cold-hearted, so she just started talking, but Guo Ping stopped her and dismissed her with a few sentences.

"Sister, don't worry, I'm not so narrow-minded, can I be angry with a child? You go to bed too, and you have to get up early tomorrow. By the way, I won't go tomorrow. I'll wait for you to visit our mother and come back." , and tell Boy Yan to come find me, I have something to give him."

Seeing that Guo Ping didn't want to say more, Bai Lan could only nod and go back.

Before dawn the next day, the three members of the Du family got up, packed up their belongings, and borrowed Guo Ping's bicycle to push to Grandma Du Yan's grave.On the west side of this small town, a cemetery was opened, and all the old people on the island were buried.

Father Du and Bai Lan arranged the things without Du Yan's help. After burning three sticks of incense and offering three plates of melon and fruit cakes, Father Du drew a circle with the branches he had invited, and left it towards the west. He opened an exit, then put aside the yellow paper ingots he folded with Bai Lan yesterday, first lit a few pieces of yellow paper to worship the little ghosts in all directions, and waited until they were all burned before starting to send money to Du Yan's grandmother.

"Son, come, send money to your grandma, and tell your grandma how you have been in these years. When your grandma left, you didn't come back. Kowtow to the old man to apologize. You don't have to let the old man love you for nothing."

After Du Yan heard what Old Man Du said, he was about to kneel when he walked outside the circle, but he was stopped by Bai Lan. The morning humidity was heavy and the ground was cold. After all, he felt sorry for his son and spread several layers of yellow paper on the ground. Du Yan was asked to kneel down, and after the yellow paper and ingots he had brought were sent away, Du Yan respectfully kowtowed three times, silently recited a few words that Father Du had instructed, and the three of them turned to Du Yan again. Grandma's tombstone saluted before turning around and walking back.Du Yan wanted to stay for a while, but Bai Lan shook her head. It is good for a child to be filial, but some things go too far, so Du Yan didn't insist anymore.

On the way back, the three of them were silent and did not look back. Du Yan still remembered what his grandmother told him when he was a child. There are two lights on his shoulders. As long as the lights are on, nothing can damage you. When those wicked things want to harm people, they must call your name behind them to entice you to turn around. Once you turn around, the lamp on your shoulder will be extinguished. When the lamp on your shoulder is extinguished, you will lose your yang energy. These yin things can take advantage of the void and enter.Du Yan always remembered these words deeply, even if he heard the voice calling him behind him now, even if the voice was familiar like the grandmother in his memory, he never looked back and kept walking until the voice was no more When it was heard, he slightly loosened his clenched hands, the palms of which were already sticky and covered with cold sweat.

When the three members of the Du family walked to the gate of Guo Ping's house, they just stopped when Dahei in the yard shouted. Father Du asked Bai Lan and Du Yan to pat their bodies, stomped their feet, and knocked on the door three times. , Said that we are back, and then opened the door and walked in.The door is not locked, but these are the rules.When the three members of the Du family walked into the courtyard, Dahei stopped barking.He walked forward wagging his tail, whimpered at the feet of the three, and ran back to lay down on his stomach with his head resting on his front legs.

Guo Ping had already made breakfast, and when Du Yan and the others came back, he asked them to wash their hands and face before eating.Du Yan's stomach was already growling with hunger. He sat down, picked up a steamed bun, and bit off a big piece. The steamed buns made by home were not as white as the ones made by machines, but they had a bit of chewiness. It tastes more fragrant.Du Yan ate two white flour steamed buns that were a circle bigger than his fist, and drank a big bowl of porridge. His body gradually became warm. He rubbed his stomach comfortably, squinted his eyes, and picked up the A steamed bun, biting down hard, puffed up one cheek, Bai Lan wanted to punch his head like that, how could she be so like the cat she raised when she was a child!

After dinner, Bai Lan and Father Du went back to the room to catch up on sleep. After all, they were old, and after so many days of tossing around, and getting up early, they were still a little tired.Du Yan listened to Bai Lan's words and went to find Guo Ping.Guo Ping didn't ask Du Yan about Bai Hui and Luan Bing again as he was worried about, but opened a cabinet, took out a small box some years ago and took out a small box The keys were handed over to Du Yan together.

"This is?"

"In the box are some keys to your grandma's house, and a letter she left for you. This is the key to lock the box. After so many years, the letter paper may be brittle. When you read it, add more Be careful, there are some things left to you by your grandmother in that house. You'd better go and see them before you go back. When you go, don't remove the seal on the door right away. Burn a few sticks of incense, and then go in."

After Guo Ping finished speaking, he let Du Yan go out.When the door was closed, Guo Ping stood up, walked to the statue of Zhong Kui enshrined on the altar, stood there for a while with an unclear expression, then sighed, and bowed deeply.

Du Yan walked out of Guo Ping's room with the box in his hands. He couldn't help turning his head and looking at the closed door. He always felt a little uneasy in his heart. He wanted to talk to his father about it, but he immediately dismissed the idea.Back in his room, Du Yan sat on the bed in a daze for a while, staring blankly at the box in his hand, holding the if, he was a little afraid to open it, vaguely, began to feel that there was something wrong in this little box. Things, as well as grandma's house, it's better not to touch it yourself, it seems that some things are buried in his deep memory, and he should never think about them...

Shaking his head, Du Yan chuckled, feeling that he was thinking too much, took a deep breath, put the box on the bed, and slowly opened it...

As Guo Ping said, there were only a few keys and an old-fashioned envelope in the box. Apart from these, there was only a round object wrapped in red cloth.Du Yan found it strange that Guo Ping hadn't mentioned this item before, so he took it out out of curiosity, and opened the red cloth to find a pocket watch wrapped inside.Du Yan looked at the scratches on the case and estimated that this pocket watch might be older than his parents.The pocket watch had already stopped, and the hands were fixed on a scale, as if it hadn't been moved for many years.Du Yan looked at it for a while, but he couldn't see anything, so he put the pocket watch aside, opened the key on the envelope, picked up the envelope, squeezed it, it was a little thick, it is estimated that the letter from grandma is not short.

Carefully took out the letter paper from the opening, unfolded it and spread it on the bed. Looking at the familiar handwriting on the letter paper, Du Yan's eyes were a little red. Grandma was educated in the old style, and she still used traditional characters when writing letters, and the letter paper was also in vertical format. Yes, Du Yan didn't seem to be trying too hard. When he was young, his grandmother taught him these things. As he rubbed the yellowed letter paper with his fingertips, scenes from the past seemed to reappear in front of his eyes...

only……

Du Yan pursed the corners of his mouth again after being touched at the beginning. Grandma's words were as expected as he remembered—not pretty...

Click...

When Du Yan was concentrating on the contents of the letter, the pocket watch he put aside suddenly moved, and there was a dry sound from rubbing, almost inaudible, like time being imprisoned, Slowly started to flow again...