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Mai Mai worked in the pastry shop for three days, only to realize that the pastries sold in the shop were not made by the shop owner, the master chef was someone else, and it was a young girl named Gui Zier who had just graduated from culinary school at the age of eighteen or nineteen. .

The owner of the shop is quite proud: "Don't look at this girl's young age, she is good at making dim sum! Especially the sweet-scented osmanthus cake and osmanthus glutinous rice balls are our specialty, which is different from other shops. People in the office buildings on these streets near and far I like to come here for a bowl in the morning. I think this girl must have a secret recipe."

Mai Mai hadn't seen this "Master" before, so she couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't I see her?"

The shopkeeper shook his hand: "You can't see it. There is a rule in this girl's family. She must go home before dark, or why should I have to recruit people at night? It's getting dark early, and she leaves at five o'clock. Catch the summer When it gets dark, you can see."

Mai Mai was a little funny: "What time is it, and you have to go home before dark?"

The shopkeeper nodded in agreement: "Well, I guess it's because the family is very strict. But, a little girl, it's better to go home early. The society is very chaotic now, so my parents can rest assured if I go home early."

Mai Mai saw that the shop owner was in a good mood, so she brought up the matter of going back to pick up grandma on the weekend: "I'll just ask for a night off, okay?"

The shop owner was a little unhappy: "Business is just right on Saturday night... Forget it, I can't stop you from being filial, but it's only one day, and I can't stand it if you invite me the next day!"

Mai Mai nodded quickly, and deliberately worked for an extra half an hour at night to get everything ready for the next morning before leaving.After work on Saturday, he went straight to the long-distance station and jumped on the car to Jiaonan.

Grandma Mai’s hometown is in Dazhushan, Jiaonan.When it was dark, he finally arrived at the door of Shi Chunyuan's house, but before he entered, he heard crying in the house. He looked through the light and saw that the doors and windows were covered with white paper. This is the death of the family!

Mai Mai's heart jumped up suddenly—could it be grandma... He knocked on the door anxiously, and it was Shi Lanlan, Shi Chunyuan's eldest daughter who came out to answer the door: "Uncle?"

"What's wrong at home?" Mai Mai saw that she was wearing black gauze on her arms, and her eye circles were also red and swollen.

"My father--" Shi Lanlan turned her mouth and began to cry, "My father is dead!"

"Brother Yuanzi?" Mai Mai almost couldn't believe his ears, "How is it possible? He went to my place last week--"

"My dad was killed by a tiger."

"Tiger?" Mai Mai seemed to be listening to the Arabian Nights, "Zoo, is the tiger cage open?"

"No." Lan Lan wiped her tears and shook her head, "There is a tiger on the mountain. My father went to catch a rabbit and was killed."

Mai Mai felt as if she was listening to a joke: "There are tigers on Dazhu Mountain? How is that possible!" There are tigers in the scenic spot, what the hell?

"Really!" Lan Lan was sobbing, "Some expert came to the zoo and said it was a tiger with footprints. Cousin, come in. My dad said you're coming to pick up my aunt?"

Shi Chunyuan's wife also had red eyes, and with her eight-year-old son in her arms, she reluctantly got up to greet Mai.Mai Mai didn't know what to say, so she murmured, "Sister-in-law, don't cry yourself out, Lan Lanping and Pingping are still pointing at you."

It was fine if he didn't say anything, but when he said this, Shi Chunyuan's wife started crying again: "You said, why are there tigers? You always talk about protecting these beasts, and no one cares about them when they die! Why is my life so miserable? The two children are still young, who cares about me in the future!"

Mai Mai finally calmed her down, touched the wallet in her pocket, took out 1000 yuan and gave it to her, before asking about grandma.Shi Chunyuan's wife wiped away the money and put away the money: "Auntie lives in her own house, I have packed all the things, and I have nothing to take with me. Chunyuan said that you have everything in the city, so tell me to put less It’s also convenient for you on the road. I think you can live in the aunt’s room at night, there is enough room.”

Grandma Wheat's house is a three-story bungalow, just behind Shi Chunyuan's two-story building, with soft light yellow lights.Lan Lan pushed the door open and went in, calling: "Auntie, Brother Chun is here." Then an old voice came from the room: "Who? Brother Chun? Is it Brother Chun?" Stepping in: "Grandma, it's me."

The light shone on the old man sitting cross-legged on the top of the kang, his hair was already snow-white, his thin face was full of wrinkles, his cloudy eyes were narrowed and he looked hard: "Is it Brother Chun?"

Mai Mai ran over and grabbed those hands covered with stains: "Grandma, it's me, I'm Brother Chun!"

The old man's eyes were obviously not working, and he got very close, and groped with his hands on Mai Mai's head and face: "Is it really Brother Chun? Is Brother Chun here?"

Mai Mai's throat seemed to be choked: "It's me, grandma, it's really me."

After groping for a long time, the old man seemed to be finally satisfied, and let out a long breath: "It's really my younger brother! Oh, grandma can see you, and she will close her eyes when she dies."

Tears flowed out of Maimai's eyes: "Grandma, don't say that, I'll pick you up to see a doctor, you're fine."

The old man didn't care about this, but just pulled the wheat: "Come on, tell grandma, how have you been these years? Tell grandma a few more words."

Mai Mai got on the kang and leaned against grandma, and the grandparents and grandchildren chattered in the middle of the night.The old man kept holding Mai Mai's hand, and Mai Mai felt that she was repeatedly rubbing the scar on his palm with her fingers, and couldn't help but ask, "Grandma, what are you touching?"

The old man raised his hand to his eyes and looked closely: "Is this scar still there? Grandma's eyesight is bad, and her hand doesn't feel much. Is it still there?"

"It's still there." Mai Mai really wanted to ask if the scar was really made by grandma, but she couldn't ask.On the contrary, the old man seemed relieved to hear that the scar was still there.Mai Mai endured and endured, and finally couldn't hold back: "Grandma, what's wrong with this scar?"

The old man didn't answer right away, but he held the wheat tightly with his fingers, as if he was afraid that the wheat would disappear, and he said after a long time: "It's nothing, the scar is fine."

Mai Mai was even more surprised: "Why is it good to have a scar? This scar is ugly. A friend advised me to have an operation to remove it."

"No!" The old man sat up in a panic, "It can't be eliminated, it must not be eliminated! Brother Chun, listen to grandma's words, and it must not be eliminated!" After all, it is old, and this excitement is a little out of breath. Come.Mai Mai quickly helped her to lie down: "Grandma, don't worry, I don't need it, I definitely don't need it! I just wonder why there is such a scar? I don't remember where I scratched it."

The old man took a few breaths, and calmed down a little: "This scar... grandma doesn't remember when she fell, anyway, you keep it, it's good for you. Brother Chun, you must listen to grandma, grandma won't Harm you."

No matter how much doubts Maimai had in his heart, he could see that the old man didn't intend to talk about it anymore, and the scar didn't hurt or itch on his palm, so he said oh, and promised again that he would never get rid of the scar , the old man fell asleep peacefully.

Mai Mai was lying on the kang, unable to fall asleep.He was a little reluctant to sleep, and Kang couldn't get used to sleeping even more. He glanced at his phone and it was already twelve o'clock, but he still didn't feel sleepy.Suddenly, he heard a dog barking not far away.Many families here have dogs, including Shi Chunyuan's, and the sound of the dog barking came from his yard.Mai Mai's ears stood up all of a sudden—the dog at home doesn't bark. Could it be that there are thieves?Who is so wicked to steal into the house of someone who just died?As soon as Mai Mai put on her clothes, she picked up a stick placed behind the door, and walked out the door lightly.

The gate of Shi Chunyuan's house was tightly closed, and Mai Mai quietly climbed up from the back wall, stretched out his head to look into the yard, and saw the domestic dog huddled tightly in a corner of the yard, as if he didn't even dare to breathe.Mai Mai was startled: Although this dog is an earthen dog, it is quite fierce. I have never been afraid of anything before. Why is it so scared now?He looked all over the yard, but he didn't see anything unusual.The moonlight is bright today, and the yard is bright and clear at a glance. Not to mention thieves, there is not a single wild cat.Wheat was wondering, stepped on a piece of loose soil under his feet, and the soil clod made a soft sound when it landed, and saw two faint green lights lit up in the only small piece of shadow in the corner of the yard where the moon could not shine.

Wheat's first reaction was: wild cat?But then there was a horror: a feral cat would never scare a dog like this.He squinted his eyes to see what was in the shadows, but he could only see two green lights.Mai Mai's eyes were a little sore, he blinked, and suddenly found that the green light was a little bigger, he thought he had seen it wrong, and blinked again, the green light was a little bigger, and he could vaguely see that there seemed to be a black hole under the green light.A thought suddenly occurred to Xiaomai—these two green lights seemed to be approaching him step by step!

As soon as this idea came out, Xiaomai suddenly felt a chill down his back. He wanted to jump off the wall, turn around and run, but his body couldn't control his body. His eyes stared uncontrollably at the two green lights. The closer he got, he had already reached the bottom of the wall, and then he suddenly went up, and he was in front of his eyes, and a stench came over his face.

Suddenly, Maimai felt a burning sensation on his right leg, as if someone had scalded him with a branding iron. At the same time, a red light flashed in front of his eyes, and the two green lights went out at once. The wall fell off, fortunately the wall is not high, just fell a butt pier.He frantically stretched out his hand to touch his leg, but the burning sensation had disappeared, only his poor thigh was still aching.What the hell?Mai Mai stretched out his hand to touch his leg, and just as he stretched out his hand, he suddenly realized - can he move?Quickly looked up at the wall, where is there any faint green light?Only the moonlight is like water, shining on the bright wall.Immediately, the dog in the yard started barking hoarsely, and soon there was movement in the house: "Dahuang, what's your name? What happened?"

Mai Mai ran away, he didn't want people to think he was climbing the wall in the middle of the night.After running back to grandma's yard in one breath, he was able to think carefully: What was that thing just now?It scared the dog so much that it didn't even dare to bark.He seemed to have seen those two faint green lights somewhere - by the way, wasn't it the thing on the window sill of his own house that night?At that time, he thought it was a wild cat, but thinking about it now, how could a wild cat jump on the window sill on the fourth floor, not to mention that the distance between the two green lights is so large, even if an ordinary cat has two heads, the distance between its eyes cannot be so wide!And those two green lights were facing my eyes, and I couldn't move my hands and feet like a ghost pressing a bed. If it wasn't for the sudden pain in my leg, I don't know what would have happened!

Mai Mai recalled her situation just now, and couldn't help shivering.All the ghost stories grandma had told flooded into my mind, and the hairs on my back stood up all at once, and I quickly closed the door tightly again.However, that thing seemed to be driven away by that flash of red light?What is that red light?Could it have something to do with the burning in his legs?Thinking to herself, Mai Mai took off her trousers and looked at her leg, and it turned out to be a red spot, which still hurts when touched.The burn was right where the trouser pocket was, and Maimai reached into the trouser pocket suspiciously and took out a handful. He spread out his hand and saw a handful of dusty things. There were a few pieces in it, but they shattered when he touched it. up.Mai Mai thought about it for a long time, and felt that this thing looked like paper dust, but where did the paper dust come from in his trouser pocket?He turned the trousers over again, but found no trace of being burned.

Grandma moved on the kang, half asleep and half awake, and asked, "Brother Chun, are you up at night?"

"No--" Xiaomai hesitated for a moment, but still said, "I seem to hear movement outside."

The old man came to his senses all of a sudden, and tried to sit up: "What did you hear?"

Mai Mai went to help her: "Grandma, don't get up, maybe I got it wrong."

The old man reached out and grabbed his hand: "Brother Chun, what did you hear? Did you hear someone calling your name?"

"Uh..." Mai was stunned, "What, what is my name?"

The old man held Mai Mai's hand tightly: "Brother Chun, remember, don't tell others your real name, and if you hear someone calling you in the middle of the night, don't agree, let alone go out! Just remember!"

Mai Mai had to explain: "Grandma, I didn't hear someone calling me."

The old man said stubbornly, "Anyway, you remember."

Mai Mai had no choice but to nod: "I remember grandma, I just heard a dog barking in Brother Hei Niu's yard, so I went to have a look if there were thieves."

The old man thought for a while: "Hei Niu just left, who would steal into his house at this time? There won't be such wicked people in the village."

Wheat hesitated for a while, and said, "I didn't see anyone either, but I saw two green lights in his yard, which looked like the eyes of a wild cat, but they were much bigger than a cat's eyes. And I looked at that thing. At that time, it seemed that my body was not my own anymore, and I couldn’t move even if I wanted to. Later, my leg hurt and I fell off the wall to move, and the green light disappeared. It’s still like a dream when I think about it now. I don’t know if it’s true or not.”

The more the old man listened, the more dignified his face became. He asked Maimai to turn on the light, and took Maimai's hand to look carefully.Mai Mai endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking: "Grandma, what are you looking at? What's wrong with my hand?"

The old man looked at it repeatedly for a long time, and said to himself: "It shouldn't be, the thread is still there, it shouldn't be like this. Brother Chun, how old are you this year?"

"24."

"It's fate. Have you encountered any strange things this year?"

Mai Mai thought for a while, and then told the woman in the red flower dress with a white background that she met on the road.The old man shook his head repeatedly, pointed to the box beside the bed: "Brother Chun, open this."

The box was unpainted wood and looked old from the frayed corners.Mai Mai took a little effort to open the rusty lock, and found a faded red cloth bag according to the old man's instructions. When he opened it, it was a big copper coin, which was strung with a faded red string. Already a little black: "What is this?"

"This is called Hundred Days of Money. It was handed down from my grandma's family ancestors. It is said that I asked a mage to consecrate it. Brother Chun, your life is too light. Wearing this may be able to suppress it. Remember not to go out at night in the future, when it gets dark Just go home. It will be fine if you pass your zodiac year."

Mai Mai promised, but sighed in her heart: go home as soon as it gets dark?What about working overtime at night?What about part-time jobs?How can there be such a good fate to work when you want to work.However, the city and the suburbs are different after all, and there should be no problem in places with many people and bright lights.

"Grandma, what do you mean my life is too light?"

The old man didn't speak for a long time, and after a long time he said vaguely: "You are just like your grandfather and father. You have a light life, and you are easy to encounter some genitals. You have to be careful. You must wear this money, and don't let it go." pick up."

Mai Mai put the red rope around her neck, and smelled a faint scent of sandalwood.The old man wiped the copper coins with his sleeve again, and a little gold appeared, and sighed: "Bodhisattva bless you..."

Seeing that she looked a little tired, Mai Mai regretted that he should not have said anything about the green light, and quickly helped the old man to lie down.Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly remembered something: grandma said that his life was the same as that of grandpa and father, but both grandpa and father died young. Could it be that he would also have a short life?Mai Mai has also heard a similar saying: people are easy to see ghosts when they are about to die, because people who are about to die have a lot of Yin energy, and ghosts are also Yin things, so it is easier to see them.Mai Mai didn't believe in these things at first, but the strange things these past few days made him feel a little guilty, and he couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Grandma, I won't be as short-lived as grandpa and dad, right?"

He thought the old man was asleep, but he didn't expect to get an answer. He didn't expect the old man to be asleep at all, so he said immediately: "No! When you were one year old, a master showed you that you will live a long life in the future. That's why you didn't wear this money. Don't think about it, go to sleep."

Mai Mai didn't speak any more, but the doubts in her heart didn't diminish.If the money was not given to him at the time because the master—who knows where the master came from—told him to live a long life, then why did he wear it now?Could it be that he has become short-lived now?Or is it because of the year of birth?Besides, grandma was hesitant to speak, and she always felt that there was something she didn't say.And she held her hand again to see, what is the mystery of the scar on her hand?

After thinking for a long time, Maimai still decided to sleep.Anyway, I want to take my grandma to my side, and I will say hello slowly when I have a chance.