Chapter 358 Chapter 26 Red Thread Paper Man

Qingming is indeed the season suitable for wild harvesting, and Qingming is even more suitable for planting.He couldn't help sighing like this. The little pagoda tree showed vitality in the new place, and soon it grew luxuriantly. Since he planted the little locust tree there, he went there almost every night, standing beside the little locust tree and waiting.Sure enough, as expected, he could meet the girl picking up money from time to time, and of course there would be a lot of ups and downs. After a long time, the girl asked him: "Why are you here every time I come here? Is it because we have a good heart?"

He replied: "Where! I come every day, and I only meet you once or twice every now and then." When the girl heard this, she was so moved that she shed tears, she grabbed his shoulder and shook lightly, "Why are you so stupid? For this matter, I want you to wait here every night!" Naturally, the two of them couldn't help but say some heartfelt love words, so I won't show them here for the time being.It’s just that the girl told him a secret: “Don’t come here every day to wait, I will come here on the seventh day. I can’t come out at other times. You can count the days and come here, so as not to affect the rest .”

Although he didn't understand why the girl didn't come out until the seventh day, but from then on, he came every month on the seventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth. A tryst with the money-picking girl under this little locust tree.And that girl came every time as promised. Although the villagers found a small pagoda tree beside the road for no reason, no one found out about his relationship with the money picker. Things continued until the man came to find grandpa.Grandpa asked: "Haven't you always been like this? Why do you want to lure wild ghosts into your house now? Humans and ghosts have different paths, and this relationship between you is nothing more than that. How can you really stay for a lifetime? Since she Willing to have a tryst with you under the pagoda tree, naturally has her meaning."

The man wondered, "What does she mean?" Grandpa explained: "The leaves of the pagoda tree are constricted and beaded, and the constriction is very thin. Is it? The pod corners of the pagoda tree are shrunk on the tree. Once it encounters rainfall, the constriction will break and fall when it is soaked by rainwater." , the fruit skin is soaked and rotted to expose the seeds, dyeing the ground under the shade of the tree dark green. At the same time, the locust tree is vulnerable to aphids, and the aphid secretions falling on the ground will also dye the ground black, so it is often It is black. Dark green and black both have the meaning of darkness. Therefore, the name of pagoda tree comes from 'darkness'. Do you understand?"

"Darkness?" the man asked in surprise. "It seems that she is afraid that others will know what happened between you and her, but with the locust tree, she and the locust tree are both dark things, and can use the darkness of the locust tree to hide her tracks so that ordinary people can't find it." Grandma Dad said, "When I passed the road you mentioned before, I also suspected that there was something strange there, but I didn't pay attention to it after all. It seems that she is very scheming, and she hides the traces of her existence with the locust tree."

"I see." Grandpa said again: "The pronunciation of the word Huai is similar to that of the word Hui, and the pagoda tree is a dark tree. However, there is another meaning here. Huai means looking forward to Huai. People stand under the pagoda tree and miss people from afar. It's her way of saying she loves and misses you." The man hated to pat himself on the head, and blamed himself: "So she put so much thought into it, I hate that I thought I read a lot of books, but I didn't understand her intentions like an idiot! If this is the case, then I should invite her to my home and treat her like a normal wife. I can even talk about learning with her."

Grandpa sighed: "Although she can only come out every seven days, and she has to borrow a locust tree to hide her whereabouts, she is a ghost after all, and she has a very dark air. It's okay if you meet her every once in a while. Staying together, I'm afraid it will affect your own body. You should think clearly." The man waved his hand carelessly and said: "What are you afraid of! I already knew she was a ghost. If I was afraid, I would have stopped being with her long ago. You don't have to worry about me anymore! Help me and send her to me." Come home!"

"Then you won't marry a wife in the future?" Grandpa reminded, "If you take her into the house, if you want to marry a wife again in the future, you have to drive her out first. That may cause a ghost Yes. The ghost has a lot of grievances, and it will be very difficult to deal with. You have to think carefully about it." The man thought for a while, and said decisively: "I want to think about it carefully, and let her come into my house!" In this way, grandpa had no choice but to help bring the female ghost into his house. Grandpa invited the spirit house worker from Wentian Village to make a paper doll.Of course, the person who made the spirit house at that time was the father of the old man I knew.Then, according to the man's description, draw the paper doll on the woman's nose, mouth, eyes and so on.The man also specially asked someone to make a little red jacket that was neither thick nor thin for the paper figurine to wear.

On the seventh day of the appointment he made with the female ghost, his grandfather took the paper figurine and he led a red thread from Huamei Village to Laohe.One end of the red thread in his hand was tied to the door bolt, and it was pulled from the door to the little locust tree.On the first day, he greeted the children in the village and told them not to be naughty that night, and not to run around and break the red thread.The children who got a few candies each obediently avoided the red line that night. When the adults in the village passed the red line, they either raised their feet and stepped over, or lowered their bodies to sneak through.A village is divided into two parts by such a red line that cannot withstand external forces.

Grandpa put the paper man down against the little locust tree and told him to tie the red thread to the trunk of the little locust tree.He complied. When the sky darkened, Grandpa checked the paper figurine and the red thread again, and then waited patiently with him for the giggling girl picking up money to appear. On the treetops on the moon, clouds pass across the sky like black veils.Grandpa made some calculations, helped the paper figurine up, and flicked the red thread lightly with his hand. "She's here." The man pushed the careless grandpa, his voice was a little nervous and a little surprised.

With a giggle, the girl appeared vaguely.She gradually walked towards this side, and it became clearer and clearer.She seemed to have stepped out of an ancient painting full of dust, with a bit of fragrance, but also a bit of muddy smell.