The Haunted

The next day Chi Yan woke up at ten o'clock in the morning, and the tofu nao and fried dough sticks were already set on the dining table. The tofu nao was poured with marinade, covered with fried peppers and leek flowers, and it smelled very fragrant.Grandpa is watering flowers on the balcony with an old-fashioned radio and listening to Peking Opera.

Chi Yan was a little ashamed looking at the breakfast, and slept in the house by himself, the old man had already done his morning exercise and bought breakfast by the way.However, he also felt comforted that his grandfather was in good health and could enjoy himself with other old men and women in the community, so he felt at ease looking at it.

After breakfast, he cleaned up the dishes. Grandpa had already bought the vegetables from his morning exercise. Chi Yan picked up the eggplants and green peppers, took the potatoes, and at lunch time, he fried a ground three delicacies and a tomato. scrambled eggs.His cooking skills are not high, and he can barely eat, so he often buys food directly from the school cafeteria and eats with his grandfather.

After Chi Yan had lunch with his grandfather, he went back to school and stayed for a long time. When it was time to eat, he bought food as usual and went straight home.Now there is only the old man at home, he is not at ease, but also wants to spend more time with his grandfather, so as long as he is not too busy, he will usually go home to live.Before my grandfather retired, he worked in a government office. He received a monthly pension of three to four thousand yuan. During festivals, the unit would give out some rice noodles. After Chi Yan went to university, he started to practice outside. The monthly internship salary is also one or two thousand, which together is enough for their grandpa and grandson to live in this small city, and it will be more affluent when he officially works.

During dinner at night, my grandfather asked: "Xiaoyan, you came back so late yesterday, why did you go?"

Chi Yan knew that his grandfather was an old member of the Communist Party and firmly believed in the materialist theory of Marxism. Because of the Chi family, Hate Wu and Wu hated these strange things and did not support him to learn from the Chi family.He didn't want to make the old man angry when he thought about Chi's family, and he didn't dare to tell the truth to his grandfather, so he could only make up: "I didn't do anything, just went out to eat with Song Jin and the others and played for a while."

Song Jin often came to the house when he was in high school. He can be regarded as an old man who watched him grow up. He knows that he has a good character. After graduation, he has a stable job, a family and a career. Some, nodded and turned to another matter: "Xiao Yan, you see Song Jin has been married for almost a year, when will you bring the date back to show grandpa? Grandpa can feel at ease when he goes away. "

Chi Yan put down his chopsticks and looked at the old man helplessly: "Don't talk nonsense, you are in good health, what are you talking about."

Grandpa smiled, and continued: "It's still up to you to get married and start a business. Isn't Song Jin's wife working in the hospital? If you are of the same age, you can ask her to introduce you. We don't want anything else, as long as the person is nice. "

Chi Yan didn't speak any more.He understands that grandpa doesn't insist on urging marriage like ordinary elders, and he is not too old to urge marriage now.Grandpa is really worried. The mother's failed marriage has always made the old man feel like a thorn in his throat.He still remembers that at his mother's funeral, the grandfather with white hair sent off the black-haired man, crying and muttering, "I just insisted not to let you marry me back then."

Thinking about the past, Chi Yan felt a little sad, but he still comforted the old man and said: "Don't worry, this matter can't be rushed, there is always a most suitable person waiting for me."

"Why are you like a little girl? Boys should take the initiative, or they will be snatched away by others." Grandpa smiled, his cloudy eyes flashed, and then he seemed to think of something, and a touch of nostalgia and sadness flashed in his eyes. "Your mother was like this at the beginning. Your grandma and I always laughed at her."

Chi Yan hurriedly interjected to talk about his internship work and school, and brought this topic to the fore.One reason is not wanting to make grandpa feel sad when he thinks of his mother, and another reason he dare not tell the old man - he already has someone he likes, and he has always liked that person since the age when he first fell in love.

So far, he has not seen that person again for seven years, and he can't even get any news about the other person, but the love is fermenting in the bottom of his heart little by little, and it has never faded at all, but it is getting deeper and deeper.But he also knows not to say whether the other party will respond. After leaving Chi's house, he and the other party have been counted as people in two worlds. Whether they can meet again in this life is still a question.With his current status, even if he went all the way to Ye's house, he might not be able to see that person, and it was more likely that he would be stopped by the formation outside Ye's house, and he would not even be able to get in.

Thinking of this, he held the porcelain bottle in front of his chest, gently raised it to his lips and touched it, showing a bit of sadness in his expression.

Even now, when I go to sleep at night, I can't help but miss that person's embrace and breath, and sometimes I feel that that person is beside him, hugging him in a trance.Sometimes it even feels... that person is hugging him and kissing him.But after waking up, I also understand that those are just my own fantasies or even delusions.

In this way, another week passed step by step, except that I was invited to Song Jin's house for a meal on the weekend, everything was as usual.Song Jin and Tao Juanjuan knew that his grandfather was still at home, and every time they asked him to eat, they would bring him back some processed semi-finished dishes, such as Sixi meatballs, braised pork with preserved vegetables, braised chicken wings, etc., and just steam them for a while. Chi Yan and Grandpa can have another meal once it is hot.

On Wednesday, when Chi Yan finished dinner and was washing the dishes, the doorbell rang. Grandpa went to open the door, and it was Song Jin who came.

Chi Yan was a little surprised, he couldn't guess why Song Jin came to him again, wiped his hands, and beckoned to bring his friend into his room.

There are three bedrooms in the house, one is the room of grandpa and grandma, now grandpa lives alone; one is Chi Yan's room; the other is Chi Yan's mother's room.After his mother passed away, his grandfather once asked Chi Yan to vacate the room as his study, but Chi Yan said that his room is enough now, so he refused.So that bedroom is usually left unused, only Chi Yan would go in when cleaning the house.

Because when their mother and son moved back, Chi Yan was going to be in high school and needed to study, and there was no spare room in the house for him to use as a study, so Chi Yan's mother deliberately chose a smaller room as her bedroom, and kept the larger one as his own. The room was reserved for Chi Yan, with a 1.5-meter single bed inside, a wardrobe against the wall, and his desk and a small bookshelf on the other side.

It wasn't the first time Song Jin came to his bedroom, flipping through the books on Chi Yan's desk, he was dizzy from the complicated array diagrams drawn on the yellowed and brittle pages, and the seal characters next to the diagrams were also hard to read , he could barely recognize a few words.

"...with the bones of the other, with the heart of this...what are these things?" he muttered.

Chi Yan went over to put the book away: "It's the things that should be buried in the old Chi's house."

According to the practice of the Chi family, the eldest son will inherit the family business. When the children and grandchildren divide the family, they can take a copy of a book from the library. The selection of books is completely blind, and no one knows the content of the book.But he was the first eldest son and grandson to be "divided". He was supposed to inherit the Chi family. There was no precedent before, so he was asked to blindly select the original copies of the three books.

At that time Chi Yan picked two big and thick books and one that looked particularly shabby.There are a lot of thick contents, and there might be some rare records in the old book. He thought so at the time, and only after he got it did he find that the two big books recorded some foundations of spells, which are suitable for other purposes and are of great value. But it was not big, and the old book contained many secret techniques that he could not understand.

Chi Yan has no feelings for the Chi family, so naturally he is not greedy or even cares about the things of the Chi family. At that time, he would take the books and leave with the idea that he could cheat the old Chi family a little bit. After leaving the Chi family, he found that due to his physical condition , Although ordinary ghosts dare not get close, they are still easy to cause trouble. In order to protect themselves, they began to fumble and learn from those two big books.He grew up in Chi's family since he was a child. Although no one taught him these things specially, he learned them quickly under the influence of his ears and eyes. It didn't take long for him to master some skills.

In fact, apart from the "Chi" surname, he really has nothing to do with the Chi family.And the reason why he kept his surname Chi and didn't change his grandfather's and mother's surname to Su wasn't because when their mother and son left, the Chi family had said domineeringly that his mother could remarry, but he couldn't change his surname, but because of that person.

He missed the feeling when that person called his name. Growing up in a family of celestial masters like the Chi family, he also believes that a person's name has a special meaning. As long as he is still Chi Yan and called Chi Yan, that person will at least I remember his name, but if he changes his surname, that person won't even know what his name is now, and they really have no contact at all.

Song Jin watched his friend put away the book, remembering Chi Yan's great achievements in saving his wife, suddenly felt awe, and bowed to the book that was put away.

He and Chi Yan met in high school, and they were in the same class all the time in high school, which can be considered a kind of fate. After getting along for a long time and becoming familiar with each other, Song Jin also probably knows something about Chi Yan's family - his family used to be out of town , only his mother is from R City, but later his father cheated on him and remarried, his parents divorced, and his mother took him back to R City to join his grandparents.In today's society, it's not unusual for such a marriage to break up. Song Jin, who is still in high school, just sighed and didn't care.

He discovered that his buddy was unusual in his third year of high school, on the eve of the college entrance examination.

They can choose to study or live in high school. Students who live in the city usually choose to study, and students whose families are far away from surrounding counties will live.Song Jin and Chi Yan had always been day students, but the semester before the college entrance examination was tight, in order not to relax and waste less time, they both applied for accommodation after discussing it.

There was almost a month before the college entrance examination, and one night at 10:30, the two left for evening self-study, going back to the dormitory to take a shower and then sleep.The air conditioner in the classroom was broken, and the weather in those two days was extremely hot. A large group of students crowded together to study for three hours in the classroom at night. It felt like everyone was sweating, and it was even more uncomfortable to leave the classroom to be blown by the wind. .

Coincidentally, the dormitory bathroom had no water that night, so I couldn't wash it.

At that time, Song Jin was under the pressure of studying, and her spirit was very nervous. The things she had planned were suddenly hindered and could not be realized. She felt as uncomfortable as grass growing. Originally, she only wanted to take a bath seven or eight times, but now it has become I want to take a bath very much, but I just feel that if I can't take a bath tonight, I won't be able to make it through today, and I won't be able to sleep well at night.

Later, when he thought about it, he felt as if he was in a daze, which might be a sign of running into evil.