strange neighbor

This is a very prosperous and lively small village, with beautiful white tiled houses. Villagers, cats and dogs pass by from time to time on the road, and children are squatting in front of their own houses to play happily. Ding Shijin knew that he was in a dream in the happy scene. He didn't know why he had this dream suddenly, thinking that he should have never been to this place.

Ding Shijin walked along the path, and the heat and anxiety of the whole day faded away in the summer evening. Suddenly, a fierce quarrel caught his attention. He followed the sound and saw an ordinary courtyard. It was a couple who were quarreling, and the wife was shaking with anger, and threw the bowl on the table in the yard to the ground.

"Are you trying to kill our whole family?" the wife complained.

The husband was obviously also very angry, and he stiffened his neck: "Do you understand what killed the whole family? The Bodhisattva of Immortality has entrusted me with a dream. Our family will definitely go to heaven with the Bodhisattva!"

The wife gasped heavily, patted her chest with her hands, and said, "Eternal Life Bodhisattva, what Eternal Life Bodhisattva, where did the bluff come from, you believe what he says! Look, I'm going to smash your Buddha statue right now! "

As he said that, he rushed into the house quickly, and the man hurriedly followed to stop her when he heard the words. Ding Shijin also followed after listening to the conversation between the two of them, only to see the wife opened the door of a small cubicle, Taking out a statue from inside, Ding Shijin was stunned for a moment. This statue was obviously the one they saw in the man's house. Thinking of this, he began to look at the surrounding environment seriously. Sure enough, it looked a bit familiar. I think it was three years ago. Perhaps this Dachen Village was not what it was before it became extinct many years ago.

The wife shook off her husband's hand and threw the statue to the ground. The few people who thought the statue would be torn apart saw it lying at their feet intact. Surprised and respectful, he pushed his stunned wife away and said sharply: "Did you see, this is the Bodhisattva of Eternal Life, how dare you disrespect the Bodhisattva of Eternal Life!"

Thinking of this, he quickly picked up the statue from the ground, then wiped off the dust on it with his sleeve, put it back respectfully, knelt on the ground with a plop, and muttered in his mouth: "Amitabha, Eternal Life Bodhisattva, don't blame me, you bitch I was confused for a moment, and I beg the Bodhisattva of Immortality to forgive me and not punish her."

He saw that his wife was still standing in the same place in a daze, and pulled her staggeringly: "Quickly kneel down and repent to the Eternal Life Bodhisattva!"

The wife sat on the ground in a daze, muttering in her mouth: "Crazy...you are all crazy..."

Ding Shijin turned his eyes to the statue of the 'Eternal Life Bodhisattva', and for a moment felt that he saw a mocking and cold expression on a statue.

Suddenly the man turned his head to look at the door, and then he was taken aback: "Why are you still standing there, come here and say goodbye!"

Ding Shijin pointed at himself in surprise.

"Who else but you, I shouldn't let your mother instill useless things in you all day long, that's why you're dumbfounded." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to Latin Shijin.

Ding Shijin dodged his hand, could this person see him?

Listening to what he said meant that he regarded himself as his son?

Thinking of this, Ding Shijin took two steps forward, very close to the statue of the Immortal Bodhisattva, and carefully observed the statue.

"Where did this look come from?" he asked.

The man was stunned for a moment, and then hated that iron could not be made into steel: "Look at how you forgot again, let me say it several times, this is the savior of our village, if it wasn't for the mercy of the Bodhisattva of Immortality, who saved our Dachen Village, I'm afraid we would have been destroyed in that flood long ago..."

Flood... seven years ago...

Ding Shijin silently wrote it down in his heart.

"I forgot," he said.

The man didn't become suspicious either, but just patted him on the shoulder with a look of resentment: "Son, you have to be more sincere. Dad told you that the Bodhisattva of Immortality gave me a dream last night. Next Wednesday..."

He looked around, and mysteriously stretched out three fingers: "Next Wednesday, the Immortal Bodhisattva will come to our village and take us out of here to a peaceful world where there will never be any disease or disaster."

Ding Shijin narrowed his eyes: "Next Wednesday?"

"You don't sleep at night then!"

In a blink of an eye, the room suddenly darkened, and with a click, a very bright light flickered. Ding Shijin couldn't adapt to the strong light for a while, so he blocked his eyes with his hands.

He looked at the sky outside the window in amazement, he was still in the posture he was talking to that man just now, but why did it get dark all of a sudden?

The man was sitting on the sofa, his expression was filled with suppressed excitement, his legs were trembling slightly, seeing Ding Shijin in a daze, he couldn't help waving to him: "Come here."

Ding Shijin walked over, and the man took his hand, and the cold hand was on his wrist. He was sweating a lot because of the excitement, and Ding Shijin felt that there was a snake wrapped around his hand.

"Remember what Dad told you, don't sleep tonight."

"Today?" Ding Shijin remembered that the man had just told him not to sleep next Wednesday, so why not sleep today.

Sure enough, seeing Ding Shijin's bewildered face, the man put away his smile and slapped him on the shoulder: "Stinky boy, I have never kept in mind what I told you once, and the Bodhisattva of Immortality will come to take us tonight." gone."

"Isn't it Wednesday?"

The man laughed loudly, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together: "Are you too confused? Today is Wednesday, silly boy."

Today is Wednesday?Could it be that the time in the dream can be controlled at will?

"Why don't you sleep?" he asked.

The expression on the man's face instantly became very strange. He glanced at Ding Shijin and showed a sinister smile: "Don't sleep if I tell you not to sleep, otherwise something will happen. Hehe, I don't care..."

Ding Shijin's heart shuddered, and he couldn't figure out what this man meant.

At night, Ding Shijin slept alone in the bedroom. The room was very quiet, except for the sound of clocks and clocks. Today's night was very quiet, without any insects chirping.

'Ding——' The time pointed to [-]:[-], and suddenly there was a loud thunder outside the window, Ding Shijin felt the window frame shake for a while, followed by a burst of lively beating of gongs and drums from far to near, Ding Shijin turned over and was about to get out of bed However, as soon as he moved, his arm was tightly grasped. In the not-so-bright bedroom, he saw the outline of a man, who seemed to be the master, and he compared his finger to his mouth: "Shh—— "

Ding Shijin froze and did not move. The man dragged his arm and lay down again. After a while, the sound of gongs and drums came to the door, and a shrill and thin voice shouted loudly: "The Bodhisattva of Eternal Life Come down, and give you eternal life and happiness."

The two people in the bedroom didn't move. The sound was repeated several times, and when no one got up to open the door, it became quiet. Then the door creaked, as if someone had gone out.

It’s bad, it’s the hostess. Ding Shijin broke free from the hostess’ hand, bent down and got down on the ground. When he got to the door, he stared in amazement at the scene in the yard. Eighty-odd households in Dachen Village , old and young, almost all of them are here, each of them has a stiff and peaceful smile on their faces, their eyes are staring blankly ahead, and the mistress is kneeling on the ground, surrounded by a circle of people. The paper piercing man, the paper piercing man pulled out something from his forehead, and then pressed it on the forehead of the hostess, and saw the hostess convulsing all over the body in an instant, and it took a while to stop, and stood up again. After getting up, the expression on her face was exactly the same as that of other villagers. She automatically walked to the back of the line and stood up, looking forward.

Is this the so-called eternal life Bodhisattva?

Ding Shijin hid in the shadows, only seeing seven or eight paper piers and nearly three hundred villagers, but did not see where the so-called Immortal Bodhisattva was.

After finishing all this, they were about to leave. Just as they turned around, suddenly a paper-made man stopped and screamed: "No, no, the number is wrong!"

"One less! One less!"

After finishing speaking, there was a commotion among the Zhizha people. They swung their arms, and Zhizha's body made an unpleasant rubbing sound: "Where? Where?"

Suddenly the yard became chaotic, and a few paper-wrapped figures circled around the stunned villagers: "It's not him!"

"not him!"

"It's not him either!"

The picture looks really weird and scary.

"Then it seems..." They turned their papery, colorful heads towards the house: "It's inside the house."

Ding Shijin felt that they were looking at him through the crack of the door, he turned upside down, looking for a convenient tool, so as to save himself from getting into a bad fight later.

The paper man walked towards the door with his feet clattering. Ding Shijin held the fruit knife on the coffee table in his hand and stared at them closely. He didn't know what kind of group they were, but what was certain was that , all the villagers in Dachen Village disappeared overnight, it must have something to do with the so-called Immortal Bodhisattva, but... I guess it's not a good thing, after all, I didn't see that the boy next to the Bodhisattva was not a cute fat baby but a gloomy Scary paper piercing people.

The paper pierced man was getting closer and closer, Ding Shijin's back was pressed against the wall, and his hands were in an attacking posture. As long as they took another five steps, his position would be exposed, thinking, he was moving around without a trace Twist your wrist and wait for the paper piercer to come in.

Suddenly there was a sound of light but slow footsteps kicking over. When he approached, Ding Shijin found that it was the host. Go to the front of the paper piercer.

"I found it! I found it!" The shrill voice of the paper piercer revealed excitement.

The author says:

The weather has been hot and cold recently, everyone, keep warm and don't catch a cold.

ps I was recruited again, my brain seemed to be taken out and made ten roller coasters, it was a mess.