When I was in primary school, the school was built in a place called Third Street in the middle of the town.

Third Street is equivalent to a relatively large alley. There is a thoroughfare in the middle, and people live on both sides of the road. The gate of our school is at the bottom of the alley.

The cause of the incident is this: a man living in this alley went fishing on a rainy day and threw his fishing line onto the high-voltage line behind him, and was electrocuted to death.

Then the matter was over and things started. Within half a year, people died one after another in the alley less than 100 meters away. As long as it rains, people will die, and when people die, it will definitely rain.

At first, it was an old lady in her 70s. On a rainy night, she hung herself from the beam of her main room with a bath towel in a strange way. Why do I say it is weird, because the architectural style over there is basically a central main room.

Lying on both sides

The basic height of the roof of the house is more than three meters. How on earth did an old lady in her 70s tie her bath towel to the beam? And when his family found out, the old lady didn’t have any stools under her feet.

stepping stone

No one knows how the man was hanged in the west. Some people speculate that the old lady was killed by her family and then hung up. However, forensic identification confirmed that it was suicide. The body did not have any external injuries.

There are no signs of struggle. Besides, the corpses of hanged people are easier to distinguish than the corpses of other methods of death. Those who die first and then hanged will not have their tongues sticking out, only those who were hanged alive.

Only the corpse's tongue sticks out of the mouth.

The second person to die was an old man. I saw someone remove this from the door frame with my own eyes.

It was also a rainy morning, which happened to be the time for our morning self-study. Damn it, Chinese children are so tired. To use Heisa's song, they wake up earlier than chickens and sleep more than dogs.

Late, the food is worse than that of pigs. Let’s talk about earlier than chickens for now.

It was still autumn, and it was just dawning at 6 o'clock in the morning. I went to school. When I walked to the entrance of the alley, I saw the door of a house on the roadside open, with a person hanging on the door frame like hanging bacon.

At that time, I didn’t know what was going on and was very courageous (later, there was a period when I was very timid, but

It’s extra big now, haha) Then I held up an umbrella and stood there curiously, but I couldn’t see clearly anyway. All I could see was an old man wearing black clothes and black trousers, with a piece of cloth hanging from his neck, and his eyes were as bulging as goldfish.

As if, the purple tongue darts from the mouth to the chest.

Just when I was thinking about why this man's tongue was so long, a gust of wind came from nowhere and blew the door of that house violently (closed), and the body hanging on the door was also blown shut by this.

The gust of wind blew back and forth. Then the house

The woman walked out in pajamas with her hair disheveled and her sleepy eyes fluffy. After seeing the old man hanging on the door, she was so frightened that she fell to the ground and cried ahhhhhhh.

I couldn't shout a complete sentence for a long time.

The men in that house rushed out when they heard the woman's cries. Seeing this, they were frightened and kept shouting: "Mom, come on, come on, get stuck."

After shouting for a long time, a little old lady walked out of the house slowly and shakily, holding a cane. The old lady must be the wife of the dead old man. When she saw this, she yelled at the top of her voice.

: "From Mahler Gobi,!@#￥%...& (omitting 5,000 words of local curse), you old fool, you hung that black one on the door so early in the morning, why don't you get out of here right now."

After scolding him, he moved a stool from the house, climbed up, raised it up and faced the old man's body hanging on the door, and slapped him twice in the face.

Then let the man from that family untie the rope.

As for why the old lady first scolded and then beat the corpse, we have a theory. People who hang themselves usually have breath in their throats, so there is a high chance of evil. Whoever releases him will

It's easy to get entangled with someone. So you must calm him down before letting him down. However, ghosts are afraid of evil people, so the people next to you have to curse him first, then slap him hard twice before letting him die.

The human ghost is so frightened that it dares not do anything.

The things that the hanged people tied their ropes to were also cut off and burned together with the ropes, because it is said that the souls of the hanged ghosts are attached to these things.

The next person who died was also an old man. He died after drinking medicine. It is said that in the middle of the night, he fell asleep and fell asleep. He sat up and climbed on the table. Because there was a commotion, the family first got up to help, but they didn’t know where the old man suddenly came.

He was so strong that even the whole room couldn't hold him back. Later, his son thought of a way and took a piece of fiber (thick rope), turned him over, held him down and tied him to the table before giving up. But after that

Within two days, he still drank the medicine and died.

Later, several more people died one after another, but none of them were very strange, so I won’t mention them here for now.

Let’s talk about the last one directly. The one who died last was a middle-aged woman, in her 30s. She was fine that day, but then she died by resting her chin on the rafters of the bed when she fell asleep.

It is said that this woman died as soon as she died. Although everyone thought that this series of deaths was a bit strange, they did not think about it in that way. Although the people in the town were not very knowledgeable about science, except for the older people, the others

Most people don’t believe in superstition.

And because she was hanged to death on the rafters of her bed, her family did not treat her as a hanged person.

Then things happened on the day she returned to evil spirits. According to our local customs, the 7749th day after a person's death is called returning evil spirits. In other words, the soul of the deceased will return home once on this day.

The family members should arrange incense, candles, wine and food, and if there is a Bodhisattva in the house, they should cover the Bodhisattva with a red cloth. Then sprinkle a layer of plant ash on the ground. Nowadays, few people use firewood to cook, so they also use lime instead.

Of course, the family members also followed these instructions. After spreading the lime, the family members stayed away and went to sleep.

Just when everyone was sleeping until about one o'clock in the middle of the night, all the dogs in the alley suddenly went crazy, running around and barking in groups, waking up the whole family at once.

After the whole family woke up, a child in the family started crying when he opened his eyes. No matter how he coaxed him, he couldn't be coaxed. The adults were so upset that they asked him why he was crying. Then the child said: "Auntie."

At the gate." The family didn't believe it at first, because

Because the door and the front door were closed, and the door and the main door were not in the same direction, then the grandmother who only had the child said without doubt: "You are talking nonsense, go to bed quickly. Where is your aunt?" This is not true.

When I said it was okay, the child cried even harder.

"Auntie is really right outside the door. She is wearing a red dress and jumping there with her tongue hanging out." This sentence scared the whole family. Everyone thinks that children of this age will definitely not tell lies.

. So what exactly did he see? No one dared to get up and look.

I stayed up all night like this, and at dawn the next day, my family couldn't sit still, so they hurriedly sent people up the mountain to invite Taoist priests.

Early the next morning, the family sent a person up the mountain to Qinglong Temple. They invited back 8 or 9 people dressed in different styles. The first one was wearing a zodiac robe and a roof hat, followed by two Kangtu people.

A gunman, a gong player, a guy wearing high boots, two big guys, and a sword guy.

The town is not big to begin with, so if someone has something trivial, it will spread throughout the streets in one morning.

In the afternoon, as soon as everyone heard that something evil happened again in Sanjie, this time they invited all the masters from Qinglong Temple. So they all ran towards the street as if they were surprised.

If there is a lot of fun, of course little guys like us are indispensable. At first, some adults refused to let us go, but later we saw more people coming, so they didn’t care much.

When I arrived, the group of Taoist priests were sitting in the main hall of the host's house, trying to understand the situation with the host. Outside the gate, there were already three floors inside and three floors outside. People were still coming from all directions.

The Taoist priest in yellow clothes seemed to be the most capable among them: "The man was left to death on the bed rafters in the middle of the night, right?"

"Well, it was already dawn when we found him, so he must have died in the middle of the night." The host replied cautiously.

"Oh, what about the things that the person wanted to do in particular but didn't finish before he died?" the Taoist priest in yellow asked again.

"Probably not." The male host hesitated for a while and said.

"If you have it, you have it, if you don't have it, you don't have it. Why do you think it shouldn't exist?" After hearing the male host's answer, the Taoist priest in yellow frowned and lectured dissatisfiedly.

The male host felt a little humiliated by being scolded like a child by a Taoist priest in front of everyone, so he turned his anger to the people watching the fun outside the door and yelled: "What are you looking at? What is there to see?"

The Taoist holding the sword: "Brother, what are you yelling about? The neighbors outside the door are talented and have strong yang energy when there are many people. They yelled people away. It's up to you to suppress them alone."

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Even though he said that, those Taoist priests still have to worry about the host's face when they take other people's money.

So I turned around and closed the door.

After a long time, the Taoist priest in yellow opened it again.

"Neighbors, I am here today, and I would like to ask you all to do me a little favor. What happened to this family is not just his family's problem, but the whole three streets, and even the whole town. These three streets

I think everyone is aware of the strange things that have happened recently. If we don’t deal with them, I’m afraid it will get bigger and bigger. Today, I’m going to borrow your popularity.”

After saying that, he winked and asked the host to hand out a piece of palm-sized electro-optical paper to everyone watching one by one.

"After everyone got the paper, they looked at me and followed me. First fold it in half twice, then tear off the big corner in an arc. Try to tear it as far as possible so that the paper becomes a circle when it is unfolded, and then pull it out.

Drop off the small sharp corners at the bottom. After doing it, pass it to each other and hand it over. (To put it bluntly, it looks like paper money torn into square holes.)" The old Taoist priest in yellow was giving a demonstration in front of him.

At first, everyone didn't know what to do, and they were a little worried, fearing what harm would be done to themselves if their "popularity" was borrowed. However, after the old Taoist priests explained it one by one, they explained that borrowing their popularity is just like asking them to help out, and it is harmful to others.

Only when there is no harm, can I start to help fold it.

After everyone handed over the paper money in a hurry, the Taoist priest with the sword took out a bamboo pole and slashed and whittled it. Don't tell me, this guy really has two hands and one arm.

The thick bamboo pole was cut into pieces of bamboo strips in his hands in a few strokes. Then, the Taoist's hands were seen flying. Before everyone could see clearly, a human frame made of bamboo strips slowly

It took shape in his hands.

At the same time, the Taoist priest in yellow asked someone to move the table (equivalent to an offering table) out from the host's house. He put on the incense burner, lit the candles, and set up the altar with his hands making seals from time to time.

, and then clicked a few times on the paper money folded by everyone.

After finishing this, the two began to carefully paste the paper money on the bamboo strips figure piece by piece.

This job didn't seem tiring, but the two of them were sweating profusely while doing it, and the things gradually turned into paper figures with features in their hands.

It sounds like it didn't take long, but in fact, most of the day passed by.

By around 9 p.m., the real excitement has just begun.

The Taoist priest in yellow didn't know how he guessed the time. I didn't see him looking at his watch or anything. He just glanced at the moon in the sky a few times. Then, at 9 o'clock exactly, he gave the order to play the gong.

The man banged the gong vigorously and ran forward while banging. Then the man with the sword also followed with the sword, and the man wearing high-top shoes carried the paper man on his back and ran after him.

It is strange to say that the paper figures made of several bamboo strips and pieces of paper seem to weigh a thousand pounds on the back of the person wearing high-top shoes.

He was about to stumble. Seeing this, the two big men beside the Taoist priest in yellow also ran forward quickly. One of them put up his high-top shoes and carried him forward together.

Then, immediately after, the two men with guns followed, ran a few steps and fired into the air. The banging gunshots had echoes, which seemed particularly scary and loud in the dark night. Finally, Huang
To be continued...