C40 (1/2)

But when I woke up, I found that it was already the afternoon. The sun was setting in the west, and the red sunlight was pouring through the window into the room. The old locust tree outside was swaying back and forth, and it caused the red sunlight to shatter in the room. I didn't get up for a long time, and only looked at everything in the room with a blank look in my eyes, as if my mind wasn't thinking about anything at all.

It took me a long time to realize, is this the life I want?

In an old house that has been abandoned for a long time, waiting for mildew, wasting time, a day has been wasted by me again.

I lay there for a while longer, feeling more and more uneasy, thinking that I must not do this again tomorrow, that I must go out and look for a job …

It was getting dark again, and I felt an inexplicable sense of panic. I began to fear the night in the old house, I began to fear the darkness, I was afraid that once I closed my eyes, I would hear the baby crying and the sound of footsteps …

At this moment, I remembered that I went out to buy some incense and paper money at noon. I might be able to use it if I burn it now.

I took a broken iron basin from the courtyard and carried it back to the main hall.

He lit three incense sticks and placed them in the incense burner.

Green smoke rose in spirals, and the smell of incense filled the room …

I lit the paper money and threw it into the brazier, while burning it I muttered to myself: ”My friends in the house, I, Shangguan Tian Luo, have no grudges with you all, I have done my duty in this life, and have not done anything bad. For my sake, I am a poor student, please let me go, when we become rich, I will definitely give you all more paper money, please do not scare me, I am too timid and cannot afford to be scared …”

When I was young, I saw my grandma burn paper money and kept muttering, but now I also learned from her. I don't care whether it works or not, it's still better than not doing anything, although I don't really believe in this kind of thing, but it's still necessary to have a sense of respect for these things.

I burned a stack of paper money for half an hour, muttering some incantation. Then, a gust of wind blew into the room, causing the paper money in the brazier to fly in the air. The ashes from the fire flew into the air, covering my entire body, and some of them even entered my nostrils, making me sneeze.

When I was better, I looked at the brazier and found that it had already been extinguished. There was only half of the paper money inside.

Even weirder was that the incense burner had also been completely destroyed from the middle.

The weird scene left me dumbstruck. I had never experienced such a thing and I didn't understand what it meant. However, something abnormal meant that something could happen. I panicked.

Could it be that this old house is really haunted? I don't believe in my atheism anymore …

But even if there was a ghost, what could I do? I couldn't just move out right now, could I? I've only lived here all day, and I haven't even stayed the second night.