It was already past six o'clock in the evening when we returned to Tianshi Pavilion. The drive that was supposed to take two hours took us three and a half hours to get there due to a traffic jam due to a major traffic accident on the road.
Fortunately, there were not many people on the bus. Although it was the hot summer season in June, there was no need to crowd people. Otherwise, I would have been extremely hot in this old-fashioned intercity bus without air conditioning.
After seeing Li Huhu write Er Mao's birthday and birth date on a small spiritual tablet, and burn the paper ingots, shrouds and other sacrificial objects to him, he finally felt relieved. If he didn't do what I told him to do, the devil Ermao can't tell where he will go to harm people!
After taking a shower, I hastily soaked a bowl of Master Kong braised beef noodles in boiling water, and ate it with a bag of pickled mustard. I was too lazy to clean up, so I just lay down on the bed. When I saw that the time was not eight o'clock, I opened it. I watched TV and prepared to use boring Hong Kong dramas as hypnotics to induce me to fall asleep.
"Bang bang bang" a rapid knock on the door entered my ear canal.
"Who is it? It's so late and you're still knocking! Do you have a father?" Li Huhu scolded his mother as he walked towards the door and opened it reluctantly.
With a creak, the door was opened.
"Old Bai."
"Tiger."
When I heard that the person coming was an acquaintance of Li Huhu, I became interested.
"Yang Sheng, come out quickly, the matter is urgent."
"Here we come." Despite all my reluctance, I got up from the comfortable bed, put on my slippers and went out.
When I came to them, I saw that the person who came was a middle-aged man with all white hair, no beard, and a smooth and wrinkle-free face. I didn’t recognize this man, but Li Huhu called him Lao Bai, so I called him Lao Bai.
In fact, I'm quite annoyed. After all, it's getting late, and he still comes to disturb my rest.
Lao Bai looked very anxious, especially with his chapped lips. He probably didn't even take a sip of water during the whole trip. I poured him a glass of water, sat him down, and asked him to speak slowly.
He picked up the water glass, drank it all, and said, "My surname is Bai, Bai Fengyu, and I open the Dafeng Cinema in our county."
"Oh, Dafeng Cinema, it's very good!" I complimented. In fact, the locals knew that this small cinema was okay before. Last year, a brand new large cinema was settled in the county, with advanced equipment and technology. The glory of Dafeng Cinema is not there. , now we can only do midnight shows, showing some horror movies and various erotic movies.
"Old Bai, don't say it's useless, tell me quickly, what's going on? The only people who come to our Tianshi Pavilion are to see Feng Shui and exorcise demons and catch ghosts."
"Then I'll get straight to the point. Yesterday, it almost scared me to death!" Lao Bai's face turned pale, and his face was as pale as paper.
"Last night, it was raining lightly, and it was almost 12 o'clock and there was still no one around. I thought no one was here again! I was thinking about closing the door early, but hey, guess what? A woman actually came. He directly handed me the money and said he wanted to watch a movie, but the sound was like that. Oh, so sinister!"
Lao Bai spoke vividly, which even Li Huhu and I found a bit sensational.
"That woman was wearing a poncho and a big sunhat very strangely. I was wondering what kind of face she had, and she was afraid that people would see her. I didn't ask much, just asked what she was looking at, and she said whatever she wanted. I just randomly found an old movie and asked the projectionist to turn it on. The whole show was hers, and it became her special show. It wasn’t a long movie, so I went in when the subtitles were almost over. As a rule, you have to turn on the lights to clean the venue. It doesn't matter if the lights are not on. Once they were on, hey, I was so scared that I almost poked my head in the face."
I interjected and asked, "Is there no one in the screening room?"
Lao Bai shook his head and said, "No, that woman is still there, in the last row. It wouldn't be surprising if she likes to sit in the last row, but she actually has her back to the screen and is still sitting cross-legged , facing the back wall of the theater. He was still wearing a raincoat and was wet. After the movie was over, she turned around and walked past me. She also said that the movie was wonderful and that she would come again tomorrow, and then she left. How dare I let her come again? Why don't you come here quickly and help me see what's going on?"
Without saying anything, Li Huhu slapped the table and said: "That weird moviegoer, she is not a human being, she is definitely a ghost. Let my junior brother tell you what happened specifically."
I thought about it carefully and connected what he said together again, and came to the conclusion, "The location of Dafeng Cinema is actually not good. It is a place of four yins. Even if there are people coming to watch the movie, it is not popular at all." The effect is that the Yin energy is still very strong, especially the back wall of the movie theater, which is where the Yin energy is most concentrated. Because no one leans against the back wall, the Yin energy is naturally the strongest. Ghosts are different, they all react against people. The more concentrated the yang energy is, the farther away they will be. So the woman likes the last row. The reason why it is turned upside down is because for the ghosts, the back wall is the screen. From the back wall, the ghosts can See their past in life.”
After I said this, Lao Bai was frightened and was busy bowing to me, "Please, please Hu Zi, please find a way to save my theater. If this female ghost comes again, my theater will be destroyed." Done!"
Seeing his anxious look, I didn't know what to do for a moment. Seeing that I remained calm, Lao Bai immediately begged Li Huhu.
"Huzi, please advise your junior brother to help me just this time, please. Considering our previous friendship, I beg you." Lao Bai was so anxious that he couldn't describe it, and almost cried. Li Huhu finally spoke. .
"Yang Sheng, Brother Bai, although he hasn't done any great good deeds, he is still an honest and responsible person. If it is not for the food and clothing of the whole family, and he will not play around with the law, you can help him. .”
I stood up and said, "Brother, it's not that I don't want to help, but I don't know how to help? First, do you know the identity of this ghost? If we don't know the identity, we won't know how to start. Second, the persistence of this ghost What is Nian? We don’t know, so we don’t know how to satisfy its requirements. Finally, when will this ghost come again? It’s even less certain.”
Li Huhu thought about it carefully, and could only spread his hands to Lao Bai, expressing his helplessness.
Lao Bai was depressed. He was sitting in front of me. Seeing his worried look, I felt a little sad, so I went back to the house and took out a yellow waistcoat with several talismans drawn on it.
"Old Bai, don't be too anxious. You have to wear this talisman close to your body and don't take it off 24 hours a day no matter what the situation is. With it, the ghost can't hurt you. In addition, I will lend you a mirror. , you hang it on the top of the back wall, with the mirror facing down, so that the ghost's appearance can be reflected. If you come back one day, call me and I'll go right away." I pointed to the yin-yang mirror on the table.
Lao Bai had no choice but to thank us, take his waistcoat and yin-yang mirror and leave.
Some people died, but not completely...
