[Folk Horror] Ten Days of Mourning

The sun on the second day shone on my face, which naturally dispelled yesterday's dream, and even blurred those surreal experiences yesterday.While you're brushing your teeth, you can't help but look at your bleary-eyed friend next to you and wonder if last night's conversation really happened.

Think about it this way... If you change it to today, look at it the next morning. What is the ten-day continuous mourning, what is the yin god raising a daughter, and what will start to die on the fifth day... Isn't it too outrageous?Just think about it and you can analyze a lot of plausible possibilities. Maybe Goddess Zhao designed a huge scam. She is a witch after all. She is involved in weddings and funerals. She doesn't know anything about the past when you were born. Strange; that signature, that caged heart, if it were Goddess Zhao, she would be able to do it easily.Perhaps to defraud money...?

Rationally, he thought so, but another voice refuted it.Why were you so upset yesterday?Why were you unable to resist telling your friends to leave last night?Why do you still strongly hope to find Goddess Zhao?

Even if you want to think about it rationally, divide this issue into the pros and cons of "Yin Shen's rumors" and "witches' deception".Now Yinshen's family is claiming that there are two evidences, the signed document and the sparrow's heart-breaking sparrow, but the sorceress lied that there is no evidence, only your reasoning and guessing, and there are even huge loopholes-your family is not rich enough at all. It's worth the trouble that Goddess Zhao has spent!

……how so?The more I think about it, the more I realize that the theory of ghosts and gods is more credible.

Before I knew it, I was thinking wildly. I changed my clothes, finished washing, and finally made up my mind when I sat at the table and had breakfast.You think, no matter what, you must go to see Goddess Zhao today, even if you want to find out the evidence for the witches' fraud theory, you must go there.

"nice girl?"

Mom and Dad called you, and you came back to your senses, only to find that your friend was staring at you worriedly.Mom sighed: "You didn't come back before Qingming, right now, you should go to offer incense sticks to your ancestors."

"It's not that I don't want to come back. The school has not been closed for Qingming for a few days. If you delay on the road, you won't be able to stay home for long." You defended, and asked your friend for help, "If you don't believe me, just ask her!"

"Don't get involved with me, I can't remember this kind of thing for a long time." The friend smiled and waved his chopsticks, looking like he was watching the excitement.Your parents are also happy, and the atmosphere at the breakfast table has finally become harmonious again.

After breakfast, you thought about it and saw that your parents were about to go out to work, so you turned to your friends; "Do you want to go and see together? There is an ancestral hall in my yard, which is dedicated to the ancestors. Let's go to burn incense together." ?”

"Ah? Is it okay? These are your ancestors..." The friend was a little sudden and embarrassed, which made you want to blush too, so you had to cough desperately, make a nonchalant expression, and pulled the friend away again Put: "Why are you shy, it's not that formal, let's go!"

In the yard of your house, to the east is the main house where everyone lives and eats, to the west is the door, to the north is the kitchen where the fire is fired, and to the south is a hut with the memorial tablets of several ancestors inside.Except for going to the tomb during the Qingming Festival, and going to Hetou to burn paper during the Winter Solstice and Zhongyuan, your family usually offers incense to the ancestors here.

The room was a bit stuffy, as if no one had been in for a long time, and dust was raised as soon as the door was opened.Your friend coughed a few times, fanned the wind with one hand, walked in side by side with you, and looked at the several spiritual tablets on the table in front of you.Test first, concubine first, and so on, and some names that you are already unfamiliar with.

You burn the incense and bow with your friends.There is an indescribable feeling in my heart.You didn't believe this at first, but maybe because of yesterday's experience, now you want to stare at Grandpa's tablet for a while, and pray in your heart: If those things are true, I don't know how to evaluate, But grandpa is here to save me. I haven't been with you for a long time, but you should love me very much, right?So... can you give me a little bit of luck, I don't need her by my side to like me, I just need to be able to maintain a happy life with her...

At this moment, your friend let out a snort, which startled you, almost thinking that you accidentally muttered to yourself.But the friend pointed to a certain place on the sacrificial table and asked in a low voice, "Where is that?"

You followed the reputation and suddenly found a pure black tablet among the densely placed tablets.It's not very conspicuous, but once you notice it, it will make people feel a kind of creepy unnaturalness.

The spiritual tablet is placed in reverse, the writing side is not facing you, but facing other spiritual tablets... It seems that what it needs is not your kneeling, but the kowtow of the dead souls of your ancestors.

"what……"

You take a few steps towards the table, bracing yourself.Your friend watched curiously as you stretched out your hand, slowly reached the spiritual seat, and picked it up—in the blink of an eye, you suddenly felt pain in your wrist, and you couldn't help but yelled "Ah", feeling as if you were bitten by something a mouthful.You immediately throw your hand away, wanting to shake the thing away, when you heard your friend exclaim: "Snake?!"

Only then did you see clearly that a small snake no more than one finger wide had been entrenched under that spiritual seat for some time, and the moment you stretched out your hand, it quickly bit your wrist like a green lightning. It twists and turns, as if trying to wrap around your arms and crawl into your clothes.The cold and slippery touch of the scales can be felt through thin clothing, it is climbing up!You frantically waved your hands, overturning several spiritual positions in a sudden, the snake was finally thrown to the ground, and quickly slipped away without a trace in the blink of an eye.

"Are you all right?? Will it be poisonous? I'll tell my uncle and aunt to take you to the hospital!" My friend grew up in the city and had never seen a snake hurt anyone, so he was in a hurry.

"It's okay, there are a lot of snakes in my hometown, and I used to crawl on people's beds. It's much better in recent years. I just didn't expect that there would be snakes in the ancestral hall, and they even climbed up on the sacrificial table..." You said and took the napkin given to you by your friend , Wiping the wound indiscriminately, looking at the spiritual positions that you overthrew on the table, I don’t know why I was a little flustered, “I know this kind of snake, it’s not poisonous. Just wash the wound and apply some purple lotion later. It really needs to be cleaned here.” Cleaning, and occasionally deworming a few times..."

As you spoke, you looked down at the spirit tablet in your hand.

This pure black spirit seat looks old, but it is not damaged, and the dust does not seem to be too much, and it will reveal a black luster after a little rubbing.It is engraved from top to bottom: "The ancestor of the tallow, Kaotian Gong, tabooed the position of the emperor of Yu Qu's mansion".

On the right side is Liweiren - that's your grandfather's name.

"...something is wrong," your voice was very soft, and your blood seemed to be turning cold, "...there is something wrong with the writing of this spiritual position."