[Folk Horror] Ten Days of Mourning

You leave home after breakfast with friends.

"What's the matter in the morning, you suddenly yelled and scared me..." My friend still couldn't help it, and asked about you waking up in the morning.

To be honest, although you have basically calmed down, you still have some undecided feelings: "I dreamed about my grandpa's funeral, and..."

You take a deep breath and drive away all the strange scenes in your dream: "I don't know. Today is already the fourth day. According to Goddess Zhao, people will start dying on the fifth day, but now I still I don't know how to communicate with Yinshen at all... What were the first three days? Sparrows, mice, fish, all of them lost their hearts. We have very limited information, and now we only know that the first generation of adopted sons of Yinshen was probably my grandfather. He served the Yin God in 1940, and this is the first bundle of hair wrapped in sackcloth..."

According to your mother, your grandfather passed away in 90, and he was 1940 at the time of his death, which is the exact age.In this way, he was only ten years old in [-]...?How did he come into contact with the Yin God?

Your friend followed your words and continued: "Then in 1950, your grandfather was born, and your grandpa invited the Yin God as soon as he was born. Your grandfather is the second generation descendant of the Yin God. Then your father was born, and Goddess Zhao followed her. I saw it in the account book of the master, your grandfather asked someone to count his life for him, and what conclusion did he draw after that..."

"My grandpa wrote on the cigarette box that I thought these things could end with my dad," you said, curling your hair with your fingers. "If worshiping the Yin God is to borrow longevity, then my dad's Yangshou should be counted It’s enough to come out, so my grandfather decided to stop serving the Yin God, so after the death of the grandpa, my grandfather burned many of his relics. He decided to stop, burned all these things, and cleaned them up.”

"Then came the millennium, 2000," the friend sorted it out, "you were born."

"I am in poor health and almost died in my infancy," you said.

"So, your grandfather thought of it in desperation, and once again asked the Yin God to borrow your life. But it seems that because the Yin God believes that he is capricious, he knew from the beginning that you can only..."

The friend didn't finish the sentence, and you calmly stated, "...I only have 20 years to live."

You put your hand on your left chest, where your heart is still beating well.This year is 2020, your 20th year.

"...I won't give up." You gritted your teeth and almost tasted the blood in your mouth, "Anyway, let's go to Goddess Zhao, I think she will always have a solution."

My friend also agrees, but the reason for her approval is different, and she can even be said to be very creative: "Didn't those two people in the Earth Temple yesterday say that Goddess Zhao can summon spirits?"

You froze.

"We really don't seem to know how your grandfather and your great-grandfather entrusted the Yin God. You see, there is no information or record," the friend said seriously, "but we can also ask these two old people personally, right? ?”

At first, I thought this proposal was extremely absurd. Can summoning spirits be used as a solution to the problem?However, if you want to believe in the existence and mischief of the Yin God (you have already believed it, after all, pouring a pile of sparrow carcasses that do not meet the volume limit from your thermos cup is enough to destroy your world view), why can't you believe in the words of Goddess Zhao? What about that set?

"What you said makes sense!" Your emotions were high and your tone was agitated. "This is indeed a solution! Why didn't I think of it——Great, it's great to have you!"

Your friend is also very happy, holding your hand and proudly saying: "Of course, I'm smart!"

"Smart and smart, you are the smartest!" You praised her mercilessly, and then without delay, you hurried to Goddess Zhao's residence with your friends.You are all a little excited, and you start running as you walk, running faster and faster, the road becomes soft under your feet, you think you can become two little birds with her, no matter where you fly, you will be happy one day.

Goddess Zhao is at home, she has been looking for sparrows to domesticate recently, she is very busy.Seeing you coming, she was still a little surprised. You suspect that she has long secretly believed that you have to wait for death: "Why are you two little girls here again?"

You cut straight to the point: "Goddess Zhao, I would like to ask you to help me recruit a spirit."

Goddess Zhao was shocked, and quickly waved her hands: "My little aunt, where did you hear about this? How can I summon spirits?"

"Don't worry about where I heard about it, I'll give you the money, just help me out!" You clasped your hands together, making a begging gesture, and your heart beat very fast.Goddess Zhao's reaction was that she didn't ask herself: she really knows how to summon spirits!

Goddess Zhao still firmly refused: "No, no, I've stopped doing it a long time ago, recruiting spirits hurts morals, living people want to find ghost friends, what a good thing..."

"Goddess Zhao, old man, please help me," the friend begged, "Did you hear that the statue of the Earth Temple was damaged yesterday? There were two dead mice inside, with no heart. The first day was Sparrows, fish on the second day, rats on the third day, I don’t know what it is today, and if people start dying, I don’t know what will happen, so just do it!”

"Whether it's sparrows or other small animals, it doesn't matter to me. That ghost spirit doesn't make any sense at all," you chimed in. "It's really dead. How do you know who was buried with me? You need to know about my grandfather back then." How did you worship the Yin God, but now there is no way or clues, if there is no other way, I would not want to recruit spirits. Goddess Zhao, please help me! Thank you for saving my life!"

Goddess Zhao finally hesitated, and after a long time, when you waited until she felt agitated, she finally let out a sigh, but it wasn't all because of you and your friend's begging: "Oh... that's right, the Yin God didn't know why this time... If you really want to make trouble, you won’t start with my sparrow. If you really want to kill it, maybe you will kill me... Let’s settle the matter—I’ll help you this time. "

Your friend hurriedly pulled you to thank Goddess Zhao, Goddess Zhao waved her hand, turned around and entered the room, motioning for you to follow.

After entering the room, she poured a cup of tea, sat down at the table, took a sip, and then said: "There are three types of summoning spirits: upper body, paper questioning, and inviting spirits. The upper body is to invite ghosts to possess you. I’ll ask him questions; Paper Questions means writing down questions and asking ghosts to answer them; Inviting Spirits means inviting ghosts to show you memories from ghosts’ lives, as if in a dream. It’s also dangerous to recruit spirits to injure Yanghuo , I’m okay, it’s mainly you, it’s best for one person to try only once in a short period of time.”

"How should I choose between these three methods?"

"I haven't finished yet, little girl, don't interrupt. If you want to talk about it, the upper body is the most dangerous, paper questions are the safest, and the spirit is in between. But if you want to ask questions, the accuracy of the answers is reversed. That's all I can say, I don't know how you want to recruit spirits..."

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Currently: Day [-]

Props already mastered: pitch-black spiritual tablet, three locks of hair in the sachet, grandfather’s cigarette pack paper, snake head amulet, red letter snake slough

Mastered timeline:

In 1940, when the grandpa was ten years old, he asked the Yin God for the first time

In 1950, the grandfather was born, and the Taigong presided over the second invitation to the Yin God

In 1975, my father was born, and my grandfather asked Goddess Zhao's master to count his birthday

In 1980, Taigong fifty, mentally disturbed

In 1990, the grandpa passed away at the age of [-]. Grandpa organized the funeral and burned his relics

In 2000, the heroine was born, with jaundice and high fever, grandpa invited the Yin God for the third time

In 2010, my grandfather passed away at the age of sixty

In 2020, now in the text

ten day mourning process

Goddess Zhao's sparrow (the heart is stuffed with a signature, and the body appears in the hostess's thermos cup), dead fish (appears in the hostess's pillow, the internal organs are hollowed out, including the heart), dead mice (appears in the statue of the land) inside the head, no heart)