The little servants carried the paper horses down from the cart and placed them next to the tombs, for fear of being wet by the rain, they each held two oilcloth umbrellas in their hands to cover the paper horses tightly.
Hua Gu sat in front of the tomb and cried for a long time, until the people behind her were drenched in the rain, and then she stood up slowly and glanced behind her.
Seeing this, the little servants hurriedly moved the paper horse to the tombstone, knelt on the slippery mud ground and kowtowed a few times, and then took out a few fire folds from the carriage and lit the paper horse's long and fluffy tail.
With a bang, more than a dozen paper horses were immediately shrouded in firelight, and with the burning of the night wind, countless black smokes galloped towards the sky with the sound of paper crackling.
Aunt Hua opened her mouth and was about to cry, but the firelight suddenly dimmed.
Almost at the same time, the flame that was still dancing suddenly disappeared, half of the paper horse was burned, some of the body was gone, some of the faces were burned off, and the other half of the face, charred and terrible, flickered in the light of the fire.
Little guys, you look at me, I look at you, I don't even dare to take a breath, and finally, everyone's eyes fell on Aunt Hua's face, waiting for her to give instructions.
"Dot, what are you doing here?
Burn all these paper horses to the ground. ” Hearing her say this, a few of the little men hurriedly stretched out their fire folds to the mutilated papers, but the flames only burned for a moment, and then they were extinguished as they had been last time.
"Auntie, this thing is a bit evil, how can the fire always be extinguished, and the rain is not very big" "Evil you are big," Aunt Hua angrily snatched the fire fold from the little guy's hand, kicked him to the ground again, and walked towards the paper horse without hitting the umbrella, and just wanted to reach forward, the paper horse's only one eye suddenly flashed with a cold light, reflecting a shallow shadow behind her.
Hua Gu turned her head sharply, her eyes rolling back and forth from left to right, but she saw nothing, only a tall spruce behind her, and the leaves made a clattering sound under the rain.
"Auntie, what's wrong?"
Seeing that her face was wrong, Mama Hua hurriedly walked over step by step.
"It's okay, I'm blind."
Hua Gu slowly turned her head, the uneasiness in her heart accumulated little by little, what she said just now was just to stabilize people's hearts, in fact, she saw the figure just now very clearly, he was not tall, probably only up to his chest, he looked like an eleven or twelve-year-old child, and everyone's figure was far from the same.
Hua Gu took a deep breath, calmed down her nervous mind, and once again sent the fire in her hand forward, this time, the fire was not extinguished, it quickly burned several paper horses to ashes, and the ashes were watered by the rain, turning into black circles.
Seeing that the paper horses were burned clean, Aunt Hua breathed a sigh of relief, she walked to the tombstone, picked up the dead branches and leaves on it one by one, and then said, "Shida, you have collected all those paper money and paper horses that have been burned, and if they are not enough, you can tell me in a dream, I will let someone burn it for you, and my mother will leave first, and I will come to see you in a few days." ” After speaking, he glanced at the tomb reluctantly, and then turned around and walked towards the carriage.
Without those paper horses, the car suddenly became a lot more spacious, and a few small guys were crowded under the rain cloth, shaken drowsy by the rugged mountain road, but God wanted to fight against them, the rain became more and more urgent, coupled with the cold mountain wind, several people were so cold that they could no longer sleep, so they could only shiver and huddle into a pile, relying on each other's body temperature to keep warm.
"I only now know that my aunt actually has a son, did she marry another woman when she was young?"
"Who knows, but if you dare to marry your aunt, that person will really eat the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard."
"However, how did her son go, it is said that he was only in his early twenties when he left."
"Hey, fortunately, I went early, otherwise Xin'an City would have another overlord, who can bear it."
"What's going on?
Let's hear about it. ” "Shhh, be quiet, don't let my aunt listen.
It is said that this boy is used to being arrogant, one day, he made a bet with one of his fox friends and dog friends, who can ride a horse to the top of Lingyun Mountain first, who can first occupy the body of the new girl in Qifenglou, but that day and today it rained, the mountain road was slippery, he rode the horse under the foot of an unstable, and threw him down the valley, it is said that the person was not dead at that time, but only injured his leg, but the friend teased him above, saying that he could not compare to himself before deliberately falling.
How could our master stand such a stimulus, and he didn't wait for someone to come to save him, so he climbed up the mountain with a stone, and when he was halfway up, he was hit on the head by a loose big stone falling from above.
Alas, he died a miserable death, his skull was completely shattered, and his brains were sprinkled everywhere, and it is said that his aunt fainted on the spot when she saw it.
Later, when the man came to his senses, he ordered his friend to be stoned to death along with the new girl, and his body was thrown into a barren well. ” Everyone was listening intently, when suddenly, a young man gasped and pointed to the top of the canopy, "What's that?"
” Everyone was startled by him, and looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a person curled up on the canopy, not big, thin and small, and if they didn't look carefully, they thought that the roof of the car was blown up by the wind.
A bolt of lightning struck through the sky, like a sharp blade splitting the night in half, and the white light illuminated the roof of the car, but the figure was gone, as if swept away by a strong wind.
"I didn't look away, there was someone there just now."
A little guy said tremblingly.
"Could it be that paper horses can really bring something back from the underworld?"
"Boom."
Thunder followed by lightning falling overhead, and the little servants wrapped the rain cloth tightly around themselves, and no one dared to say a word more.
Seeing that the rain outside the window was getting more and more urgent, Jiang Xixi hurriedly walked over to close the window, and said, "It is said that the spring rain is as expensive as oil, but now it seems that this oil is too worthless, as if it wants to pour the ground through." ” As he was talking, there was a sound of announcement in the rain and fog, "My lord, Lord Liu Xujiao is here to visit." ” Sure enough, it didn't take long for Jiang Xixi to see a familiar figure walking in through the hall, and when she saw her, she grinned, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth, "Miss Jiang, meet again." ” Jiang Xi made a salute, but his mouth was unforgiving, "I think Master Liu really regards Xin'an Mansion as his mother's home, and if he doesn't come for a few days, he will panic in his heart, am I right." ” Liu Xujiao didn't argue, just looked at her and smiled.
Cheng Muyou greeted him from the door, "It's a pity, it's rude, but what you said is not unreasonable." ”