After all, they didn't think it was possible for anyone to spit out again what they had eaten into their stomachs. A bunch of prepared tricks suddenly had no place to use. They were like deflated leather balls.
Xaviera looked at my eyes with a bit of disbelief. She had inquired. Then she knew that the villagers had all paid a deposit, which was not a small amount of money.
“You're as good as your word, Auntie Carmen. The elderly at home have difficulty walking and are too lazy to make a trip. In this case, you'll just return the money directly to us now.”
I looked at her softly. I then returned the paper money without saying a word.
“Let me say this first, Xaviera. I will return this money fully refunded to you. All paper money orders for this year will be cancelled.”
There were many parties and workers involved in making this paper money. The workers not only had to use stone grinders to grind the paper into pulp, but they also had to bring the paper money to be offered to the gods as well as offering incense and reciting scriptures.
Sometimes I still deliver goods to each household. If there happened to be a funeral in the village, I would help with the funeral process.
No one wanted to do something that was seen as bad luck for others. But for me, what I did was based on humanity as a fellow villager.
I would help people who need help as much as I could. Many people in the village did not understand the taboos and customs surrounding funerals. That was the reason I sometimes had to lead funeral ceremonies.
I didn't realize that in the eyes of this group of young people, it became the lips of the trickery. In the end, my family and I went on a desperate path. Hearing what I said, all the young people could not help but stand there in a daze.
Tomorrow was the Halloween Festival. It was simply too late to buy paper money elsewhere. If the elders of the family knew about it, they wouldn't slaughter them.
The village secretary smiled at me. He then tried to smooth things over.
“Carmen, we'd better use your family's paper money first. Tomorrow is the Halloween Festival. Let's not hurt the harmony among the villagers. In this case, just now Xaviera also said that the cost is only a few cents, you can sell it to everyone for two dollars.”
I looked at him with a hint of sarcasm in my eyes. The cheapest toilet paper in such a large package was more than two dollars.