The Haunted

Why did something happen again.

Chi Yan thought of what happened the night before, and suddenly felt a chill. After looking left and right, he lifted the quilt, sat up and got out of bed, ready to turn on the light.I don't know where Ye Yingzhi went or when he left.

He had just climbed out of bed and walked to the table to take a drink of water, and before he had time to turn on the light, he heard a "squeak" sound of the door opening.

He thought it was Ye Yingzhi who came back, so he swallowed water and said, "Yingzhi, are you back?"

But did not hear the other party's response.

Chi Yan felt a little guilty in his heart, turned his head to look, and was facing a pair of bluish white straight eyes.

Something stood in the doorway watching him, pale and without arms.Looking down...and not seeing the feet either.

There was a "thump" in his heart, he forgot to breathe, he didn't dare to close his eyes, he didn't dare to turn his head, and just stared straight at that thing.

He didn't move, but the thing was just there looking at him.

Chi Yan saw it move its mouth and make a vague "hissing and rustling" sound—as if the old radio signal was blocked.

I don't know how long this stalemate lasted, and Chi Yan could feel the cold sweat soaking through his T-shirt layer by layer.When he woke up, he found that his clothes had been changed. He was only wearing a large T-shirt and was stuffed under the quilt. Drunken clothes.

All of a sudden that thing disappeared.

Chi Yan saw Ye Yingzhi standing at the door, and looked at him calmly: "Why are you standing with the door open?"

Chi Yan looked at him with trembling lips, already lost the ability to react.

Ye Yingzhi turned around and closed the door, walking towards him.He had a coat on his left arm, and it was obvious that he had just come back from outside. He was holding a brown paper bag in his right hand. He put the paper bag on the table and shook it in front of Chi Yan's face: "A Yan, what's wrong?"

"Yes, yes..." The word "ghost" was pressed on his tongue, but he was so frightened that he couldn't utter it.

Chi Yan stretched out his hand and grabbed Ye Yingzhi's arm: "...I woke up and saw the news that someone had died again, and then I saw... no arms, no feet..." He looked up at Ye Yingzhi's eyes were full of fear.

Ye Yingzhi pulled him to sit on the chair in front of the table, silently patted his shoulder comfortingly, and waited for Chi Yan to calm down a little before opening the paper bag and taking out the lunch box inside.There are seafood porridge, steamed shrimp dumplings, steamed pork ribs, steamed chicken feet, quicksand buns and walnut buns, all of which are the most popular refreshments, but they are particularly attractive at this moment. He bought them from a popular Cantonese-style restaurant nearby. .

Ye Yingzhi opened the lunch boxes one by one, the aroma and heat immediately overflowed, Chi Yan couldn't help feeling hungry, and turned his gaze to the food on the table.

Food makes people instinctively feel safe.

Ye Yingzhi took out the chopsticks and stuffed them into his hands: "Eat quickly, finish eating first. You didn't eat anything at noon, I guess you'll be hungry when you wake up."

"...Thank you." Chi Yan thanked in a low voice, and began to eat slowly. As the shrimp dumplings entered his stomach, a warmth that belonged to the world gradually flowed to his limbs and bones, warming his stiff and numb limbs from being frightened .

Ye Yingzhi went into the bathroom to take a shower, came out wearing a bathrobe after a while, went to Chi Yan's bed, took off all his pillows and quilts, and put him on his own bed.

Chi Yan was drinking porridge, his eyes widened when he saw this, he tried hard to swallow the porridge in his mouth and shouted, "Ye Yingzhi...?"

Ye Yingzhi's hair was still wet, and he sat next to Chi Yan: "Don't worry, eat slowly. Sleep with me tonight."

His tone was very flat, as if he was talking about something unimportant, and there was no reason or consequence in advance, but Chi Yan knew that it must be because he saw his frightened appearance just now that the other party took the initiative to make such a proposal.

He nodded, and said again: "Thank you." This was the fourth time he had thanked Ye Yingzhi, and he didn't know what to say other than that.Although I don't know what happened to me recently and I always see those things, but it is my luck to meet such a good roommate.

Ye Yingzhi rolled her eyes and smiled: "You're welcome, it's all I should do."

Good people are like this, they say "I should do everything" even though it's none of their business.As Chi Yan thought about this in his heart, he followed Ye Yingzhi to climb onto his bed.

The next day everything was fine, so Chi Yan went to report to his tutor as usual, but was told by his tutor that he would go abroad this weekend to attend several academic conferences one after another, and it would take about a month to come back, so he was asked to work hard on his own, and contact him by email if there was anything to do.

After coming out of the tutor's office, Chi Yan received a call from his father, the content of the call broke his good mood of the day.

Chi Zhongyuan first asked him about his recent study and life at school, and then said on the other end of the phone: "Son, your cousin Du Lin called and said that you didn't go to see them for so long, and asked you to come over for dinner on weekends. You don’t show your face or confront you all the time, if you have time, go there this weekend.”

"..." Chi Yan froze there, hesitated for a while before saying, "Dad, no, it's not that I don't want to go, my supervisor is asking me to follow him to do a project, and it's just started, and the whole team is working overtime. I don’t stop. It takes more than an hour to go to my cousin’s place, and it takes half a day to even have a meal. It’s not appropriate to ask for leave at this time. I’ll give my cousin a call and go see them when I’m free..."

He is lying, his mentor will go abroad for a meeting this weekend, and he will keep his sheep for a month in a row, where there are any projects and overtime.But he can only prevaricate in this way.

The older generation always puts their studies first. Hearing what he said, Chi Zhongyuan really didn't let him go, but said: "Okay, then remember to call your cousin, he still misses you." .When you are done with work and have nothing to do, buy something for your cousins, aunts, grandma, and go see them..."

Chi Yan agreed with a "hmm" for a long time before hanging up the phone.

The Cousin Dühring mentioned by the father was the son of his aunt.

His aunt is his grandmother's biological sister. According to his father, he often played with his cousin when he was young, and they have a good relationship. It wasn't until he was in high school that the family moved to City A because of his aunt's husband's job transfer.Even so, the two families have not lost contact. They often call each other to greet each other during the holidays. My cousin Du Lin will visit his house when he returns to City H. Chi Yan also met this cousin when he was a child.

Later, Chi Yan was admitted to University A, and his parents were very happy. In the summer vacation of his third year of high school, he took him to the neighborhood early to play and visit his cousin's house.At that time, my aunt's husband had passed away, and my cousin was the only child. There were only my aunt, uncle, aunt and their son who had just entered the first year of high school. The family of four lived in a small three-story villa.

Their house is relatively early, and it was bought by the husband of my aunt more than 20 years ago through some connections. The distance between the rooms is very large, unlike the houses in the current villa area where the houses are crowded together, so it also looks very quiet and somewhat isolated.

After seeing them coming, my uncle and aunt were very happy and entertained them warmly.As a result, during dinner at night, Chi Zhongyuan received a call saying that there was something wrong with his work and he had to go back to deal with it immediately.Chi Zhongyuan originally planned to take his son to play nearby with his wife, and just waited until school started before sending him to report, but this plan was completely disrupted.

Cousin Du Lin immediately said that cousin, if you have something to do at work, you can take your sister-in-law back first, and you can let Xiaoyan live with me. Anyway, there are many vacant rooms, and it is also a good time for Xiaoyan to help his cousin make up for his homework.I'll send him there when school starts, Xiao Yan is a big boy now, he can take care of himself, and it will save you another trip.

At that time, Chi Yan wanted to see an aerospace science and technology exhibition in city A, and the exhibition ended the day after tomorrow, so he agreed to stay at his cousin's house without hesitation.

The house is said to have three floors, but in fact the third floor is very small. One of the smallest rooms is used as a storage room, the one with windows is used as a guest room, and the other is decorated as a Buddhist hall by the aunt who believes in Buddhism.There is a Buddhist niche in the center of the Buddhist hall, which enshrines the statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva, and places incense burners, fruits and snacks.On the walls around are hung pictures of Buddhas in the sea of ​​clouds in the Western Paradise, scroll paintings picked up by Han Shanwen, etc.

Uncles, aunts, aunts, and cousins ​​all share a room on the second floor, and Chi Yan lives in the guest room on the third floor.One floor per person, the room size is not small, with a big bed, bathroom and terrace, he is quite happy.

At that time, he had just finished the college entrance examination, and school was still a few days away. It was the time when he was most carefree.His parents left the night before, and he slept well at his cousin’s house alone. The next day, he and his cousin went out to see the exhibition, and walked around for a long time. They didn’t go back until dinner time, and they were also very happy. .At that time, my cousin was on summer vacation and school hadn’t started yet, and the two got along very well. After dinner, Chi Yan played games with his cousin until twelve o’clock. He was tired after a day of crazy play, and fell asleep with his pillow on his head after taking a bath caught.He slept so deeply that he didn't even notice any abnormalities.

After waking up in the morning, I received a call from my father, telling him to be sensible at his cousin's house.He just stayed at home honestly for a day, got up in the morning and went to the Buddhist hall to read Buddhist scriptures for his aunt who had bad eyesight, helped his cousin make dumplings at noon, and made up lessons for his cousin in the afternoon. Badminton, I won't be back until ten o'clock.

He slept alone at night, and woke up in a daze in the middle of the night, feeling that the air conditioner seemed to have stopped working, and the air in the room was hot and dry, as if it had stopped.In this sweltering atmosphere, he could clearly feel that there was something slightly chilling tightly hugging him from behind.