Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 1 Homecoming
  Have you ever seen a paper man?

The kind at a funeral ceremony.

Weird, exquisite, more human than human.

Have you ever thought that these pieces of paper are really alive?

I'm not going to lie to you, because I have seen moving paper.

It was a late night when I was coming home late, and a stiff old man riding a paper donkey backwards blocked my way——

Let me marry his precious grandson who is in his seventh birthday today.
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  My name is Liubai, and I am a girl born on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month with a three-yin destiny.

As soon as I was born, my parents were killed and my relatives treated me like a hot potato. In the end, it was my second uncle who couldn't stand it and adopted me.

My second uncle has never been married and has no children. He treats me as if he were his own son.

He was a paper maker and used this craft to raise me up. Although he was not that wealthy, he still tried his best to give me a complete and happy childhood.

The so-called paper maker is exactly one of the three hundred and sixty professions in the underworld, making a living by making paper figures and horses for the dead.

As the saying goes, other businesses rely on craftsmanship, shouting, and even God's will.

This is the only business that relies on dead people to make money from dead people.

Because of this, there are more taboos here than usual.

My second uncle often said that in our industry, if we are not careful, disaster will happen, so we must abide by the rules of this industry.

But when I asked in detail, my second uncle just shook his head and kept secret about the rules. He never talked about it in detail and refused to teach me the paper-tying technique.

This stalemate lasted for a long time. Until I grew up and was admitted to a university in another province, my second uncle never let go.

So when I received a text message from my second uncle this time, asking me to take leave from school and return to the village, and to pass on my paper-tying skills, my first reaction was that something had happened to my second uncle.

After all, only those who feel that their lives are about to end will rush to teach them this skill.

So I immediately asked the guide for leave and went home, booked the earliest bus ticket home, and as soon as I arrived in town, I couldn't wait to grab my suitcase and rush to the village.

But until the full moon climbed into the slanting sky and the hour hand on the watch turned to past ten o'clock, I still didn't get home.

strangeness.

I often walked this road when I was in school, so it was logically very familiar to me. I should be home in an hour and a half.

But now we have been gone for almost four hours!
  Thinking of my second uncle at home, I ignored the pain in my feet and walked harder for a while. The moonlight reflected the road under my feet getting longer and longer, and I finally realized what was wrong.

I hurriedly took out my phone to check the date. When the screen lit up, my heart sank.

Today is July 15th!

Only then did I remember in a daze that my second uncle never celebrated holidays. After he adopted me, the only holiday he celebrated was——

It’s this Hungry Ghost Festival!
  According to my second uncle, in our business, we deal with funerals and funerals during the day.

At night, you can do business with dead people!

As the saying goes, tying paper to pay homage to the dead souls in the underworld, there is no reason why the ghost gates will be opened during the Hungry Ghost Festival!
  In the past, my second uncle said this casually, and I listened to it casually, but now that I haven't walked out for a long time, I became scared later.

I haven't forgotten that from this town to our village, we still have to pass by a mass grave!

As for this mass grave, it has been rumored to be extremely evil since I can remember.

There are nearly a dozen villages in the surrounding area. If there is any innocent incident, wherever a person dies, his or her grave will be relocated. No matter how old you are, whether you are male or female, old or young, you will end up in this mass grave. So things like ghost fires, ghost screams, and ghosts beating on walls have really happened in recent years, and the news has long spread in the surrounding villages.

But now, I can't get out for a long time.

Isn't it true that what I met was just a ghost breaking a wall? !
  At that moment, I almost felt that my vest was soaked with cold sweat that suddenly oozed out. Being blown by the cold wind in the middle of the night, I felt that it went straight to the bottom of my heart, and it was so cold.

Almost immediately, I thought of the method I had seen in the TV series to break the wall of ghosts - boy's urine.

But I am a girl!

I couldn't help but have a headache. I was thinking about other countermeasures when I glanced out of the corner of my eye and suddenly saw a black shadow slowly turning out of the mass grave.

I suddenly broke out in cold sweat and could barely suppress the scream in my mouth.

When I took a closer look, I saw that the black shadow was nothing but a donkey cart, with an old man smoking a cigarette sitting on the donkey cart.

In normal times, this scene of being trapped in the wilderness would be a bit scary.

But when I took a closer look, I couldn't help but feel happy. Isn't this the Grandpa Wu San from our next door family?

So I opened my mouth and shouted:

"Three grandpas!"

The donkey cart stopped suddenly. Grandpa Wu San in the cart didn't seem to expect that someone was calling him at such a late hour, and he didn't react for a while.

When I slowly got closer, I saw the smile on Grandpa Wu San’s wrinkled face and his familiar big yellow teeth. He coughed a few times before saying:

"Bai Wawa, aren't you studying in college elsewhere? Why are you back?"

I was so frightened by the deep and quiet surroundings that I broke out in cold sweats, my heartbeat was not calming down, and there was always a lingering weird feeling in my heart.

When I heard the greeting from an acquaintance, I couldn't fake the feeling of surprise in my heart, so I climbed onto Grandpa Third's donkey cart and told me about the encounter with a ghost today, and then asked again:

"Why are you still here so late, Third Grandpa?"

Third Grandpa coughed again, but today he did not cough as loudly as usual. Half of the village could hear it. He just coughed a few times and whispered something. I could only vaguely hear him say The ones are:
  ".Today I will burn incense on the seventh day and get some tributes by the way."

Only then did I remember that Grandpa Wu San’s wife had been gone for many years, his only son was working hard outside, and his grandchildren were not around, so he would often hitch a donkey cart by himself and come to the mass graves to burn incense for his wife.

The old man's figure was already quite stooped. I regretted asking him this question and whispered a few words of relief.

Grandpa Wu San lowered his head while driving the donkey cart and took a few more puffs on the hookah in his hand. Then the conversation changed and he actually said something I didn't expect:
  "Bai Wa is 19 today, right? You haven't had a boyfriend, right? Do you want to get married? Grandpa will help you find a match."

This series of questions made me confused, but I still replied in a low voice:
  "No, I'm still half a year old before I'm nineteen. If I don't get married, I won't get married. I will just serve my second uncle at home and provide for him in his old age."

This is the oath I made when I was adopted by my second uncle when I was six years old.

Grandpa Wu San seemed not to hear my answer at all. After laughing hoarsely for a few times, he became excited:
  "Yes, yes! I have watched you grow up, if you marry my precious grandson."

"Bai Wawa, listen to what grandpa said, if you marry into my family, I will let the younger members of our family support Tu Laoer in old age!"

"I can't find anyone better than you from all over the country. You can do the work of a whole family by yourself, and you can also work in the fields! With you in the door, the lazy people in my family will definitely become better, and I will feel at ease when the time comes. "

".Ahem, don't worry! If you come into our house, we'll take good care of you!"

"Just-"

Grandpa Wu San’s complexion was gray, showing a bit of ferocity:
  "Stop resisting!"

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