Fly away the pain

When I was conscious, I could smell the smell of old sauerkraut in the air.

Unexpectedly, even after death, someone imitated Wang Han's face in the underworld.

When I opened my eyes, a stranger sat on the stool by the bed, saw me awake, and said, "It's empty."

WTF?I didn't expect that I couldn't understand the language of the underworld. This is the rhythm of learning a foreign language.

Ying Zhi stood at the end of the bed and said, "Finally woke up, are you full of sea water?"

I wanted to speak, but as soon as I made a sound, I was startled, hoarse as if I hadn't spoken for hundreds of years, and reluctantly opened my mouth: "Yingzhi, I'm here to see you."

"See you big-headed ghost," Ying Zhi went to the table and poured a glass of water, and handed it to me, "Don't pretend to be dead when you wake up, get up and drink water."

It was only then that I realized that I didn't seem to be dead, my chest was still breathing and my heart was beating, and the only bad thing might be that my stomach felt uncomfortable.The "Hula Hula" person eating instant noodles at the table came over with a bowl and looked me up and down: "It's not bad, it's all about the whole tail."

"You, you're not the one before..." I was surprised, and my hoarse voice seemed to contain a mouthful of centuries-old phlegm.

The young man sitting by the bed said, "It's the first time we met. I'm Qiao Yike. We talked on the phone once before."

He pointed at the kid who was eating instant noodles: "He is Mu Ninja, my emissary. He has a little habit of lying. He offended him a lot before, but he still looks at Haihan."

"You..." There are so many questions I want to ask, I don't know what to say for a while.

Yingzhi: "Drink the water first."

I "gudong" took a big sip of water.

In the last century, Zhou Yingzhi's grandfather was still Mr. Yin Yang.This is the ancestral property handed down from their ancestors. Ten miles and eight towns are famous far and near. It is said that they even told the emperor a fortune-telling when they traced back to who knows which generation.Legend has it that he can call wind and rain and turn stone into gold. He became famous for a while and accumulated a family business for an unknown number of lifetimes.But in the new society, everyone believes in Marx, and yin and yang Fengshui are the four olds, so no one believes it anymore.The family business has been consumed by generations. Zhou Yingzhi's grandfather, Zhou Lanxu, returned to his hometown and became an honest farmer.

Relying on the little capital left over from the previous business, he even married a wife.But for some reason, in the fifth year of marriage, his wife couldn't conceive a child, and she couldn't find a way to seek medical advice.

It was only later that I found out that this was not a problem that started in his generation. It is said that it has been like this for several generations of his ancestors.The ancestors said that it was because they were doing a job against the sky and changing their fate, and prying into the secrets of the heavens naturally had no good results, and would anger the real gods.

Zhou Lanxu, who counted his life for others, couldn't count his own, so he lived most of his life like this.One day he went up to the mountain to cut firewood. According to Yingzhi's grandma, that day was different from usual. He only heard Bailing calling when he went out.Zhou Lanxu saw a white deer passing through the ravine, and followed the deer to a ravine that he had never been to before, and heard the sound of a human baby crying. When he went to see it, it was indeed a crying child. That was Zhou Lanxu. Ying Zhi.

His grandfather took the word "Ying" for him, which means beautiful jade, and the word "Zhi", hoping that he will have great ambitions.

Not long after picking up Zhou Yingzhi, Zhou Lanxu got sick and died.This death was also very strange. It is said that he got up in the morning and ate a bowl of cold rice, then he would vomit and diarrhea in the afternoon, and he would be cold at night.Before she died, she told Grandma Yingzhi that she had found the next generation, and it was time for him to go to accompany the ancestors, and she must raise this child to inherit the family business.

It is said to be a family business, but in fact the once-prominent Zhou's family is now completely destitute, relying on Yingzhi's grandma to plant two acres of land for food, and Zhou Yingzhi's school fees are still subsidized by the government.

More than ten years passed like this, until the news that he died suddenly came from Yingzhi School that year.

Qiao Yike said: "My master is the best friend of the ancestors of the Zhou family. I was ordered by him to go back to China to find the descendants of the Zhou family."

"So..." I cleared my throat and looked at Yingzhi, "Are you still alive?"

Yingzhi rolled his eyes: "If I'm still alive, why would I look like this, you're already a middle-aged uncle."

"To be precise," Mu Nin put down the bowl and picked up an apple from the fruit bowl, "he is like me now, half human and half ghost."

"This is a secret technique of our sect," Qiao Yike explained, "it can keep a person's soul in a certain state, and use it to enslave the creatures in the ghost world for his own use."

I seem to understand it and I don’t seem to understand it very well.

To be honest, I was not a materialist when I was a child. After all, when you are the only one who can see things that others cannot, you will not be materialistic.As I grow up, I can see less and less of this kind of situation. Some time ago, I even believed that those ghosts were all the products of my imagination.At this moment, the person I thought had been dead for many years appeared in front of me, and a half-human, half-ghost who claimed to be a ghost messenger and a Mr. Yin Yang talked about metaphysics in front of me. I really couldn't digest them all at once.

"Why do I think you don't seem to believe it very much." Mu Ren took the last bite of the apple and threw the core into the trash can.

I said, "In that case, why didn't you say this when I first saw you?"

Mu Nin smiled, his pale face suddenly seemed to be alive: "Just kidding."

"Mu Ninja is very naughty, I'm sorry for causing you trouble before." Qiao Yike apologized for him, raised his hand and pulled out a spell, nailed Mu Ninja to the wall with a snap, and slapped the cockroach to death with a slipper As if against the wall, Mu Ninja remained motionless.

But he can still talk, he said with a playful smile, "Hee hee."

"Then, Mr. Qiao Yike, right?" I said, "I called you once to confirm the rescue of me when I was attacked before. Why didn't you tell the truth at that time?"

"I told him not to talk about it," Yingzhi stood at the end of the bed with his arms folded and looked at me, "Tang Cheng, you really have no conscience, you forgot about me so quickly."

Mu Nin said on the wall: "Don't worry, he has turned into Ojisan."

No one cares about him.

I whispered: "You are the one, why didn't you come to me sooner... Even if you become a ghost, half-human, half-ghost..."

"Stop pretending to be affectionate, you still want to get rid of me before I die." Yingzhi still had a cold expression, and there were icicles in his words.

I can't say anything else: "I'm sorry..."

"Hmph," Yingzhi laughed, a little mockingly, "I..."

"If an apology works, why do you need the police!"

Qiao Yike raised his hand and sealed Mu Nin's mouth with another spell, and said calmly, "Stop watching girly manga."

Then he turned to me, looked at his watch and said, "Compared to this, Mr. Tang, the hourly room is about to run out, and extra money will be charged for overtime, why don't we talk about it in another place?"

I just noticed that we were staying in a hotel, so I rolled over and got out of bed immediately.

The stomach is no longer uncomfortable, and it has improved a lot after drinking warm water.Probably the reason for drinking a few mouthfuls of sea water.

"Let's go."

Qiao Yike unsealed Mu Nin's seal, and he immediately said: "Stingy cheapskate! Grandet Grandet! Let me tell you, this man is so stingy that he has to keep an account for every yen. Price commodity he..."

Qiao Yike sealed his mouth again, and said, "The instant noodles you ate just now are sold at the hotel for [-] yuan more than outside. You are not allowed to eat any more this month."

Qiao Yike took out the key to open the door and said to me, "Please come in."

"Do you live here?" There was a smell of dust on the face, and I could imagine how much dust was floating in the air in this house when it was sunny.

"The master said, it's okay to live in a humble room with a noble heart." Qiao Yike naturally found a corner on the dilapidated sofa and sat down, as dignified as sitting on a high-end sofa in a mansion.

Mu Ninja: "Actually, it's because it's cheap."

Indeed.This is an abandoned community in the north of the city. The developer ran out of money after half of the repairs, and the house could not be sold and became an unfinished building. There are such dark houses all around, and it looks weird from the window.

Mu Ren poured me a glass of water, put it in front of me and said, "Please use it."

To be honest, I'm not thirsty now.The more important problem is that I haven't eaten anything since morning, and I'm already so hungry that my chest is sticking to my back.

Yingzhi took out a can of something from the box in the corner and handed it to me: "Only this, eat it."

When I took the tin jar, I realized it was a can of yellow peaches, the kind used for decoration in cake shops, and a can was as big as a small bucket.

"Are you going to eat this?"

"You don't have to choose," Yingzhi walked aside, since I woke up, his attitude towards me was very indifferent, "There are also pineapple, which of the two flavors you want to eat."

Mu Ren lightly landed next to me, unlike during the day when he was like a living person who could eat and walk, now he is more like a ghost: "That guy made a box of this, and lives by eating this, it's amazing."

"Qiao Yike?" I looked at the person on the other side of the sofa with his eyes closed.

"That's right," Mu Nin said in a low voice, "Zhou Yingzhi and I don't need to eat, but he is human, he eats this every day, and he is not afraid of becoming a zombie if he eats too much preservatives."

"Mr. Tang, please go easy, I'll excuse you first." Qiao Yike stood up suddenly, and went to the bathroom after speaking.

"He likes to take a bath," Mu Shino whispered, "Japanese people like to take a bath. Do you know what the bath agent tastes like? Beef soup! The taste is so real that you won't be afraid to take a sip... ...I sometimes always feel that some Japanese people are not brains..."

I didn't listen carefully to what he was saying, because my attention was all on Yingzhi who was alone on the side.

He is still the same as ten years ago, a little smaller than the average boy, with a childish face.Maybe because the eyes are relatively round, when looking at people, they are like small animals, focused and a little vigilant.But it's not like this now, when I look at me, I feel a little more unfamiliar, after all, it's been ten years.

I couldn't help thinking that if he hadn't died, we might have quarreled, but we would have made up.Then grow up together, go to college together, and spend time together like all ordinary people.

Or if he hadn't been turned into what he is now by Qiao Yike, he would have already become a wisp of dead soul, then I would die in the sea right now, and follow in his footsteps.I don't know if he will wait for me by the Naihe Bridge, or just drink a bowl of Mengpo soup and forget me completely, just like I did before.

But if there is no if, he is really in front of me.albeit in an unusual way.

When I came back to my senses, Mu Ren didn't know where to go.

I put down the can and walked to Yingzhi, but my voice was hoarse.Before he could say what he had prepared for a long time, the hoarse voice could instantly turn the air into an embarrassment.

"..." I cleared my throat in a low voice, "How long have you been like this?"

"Do you still remember that the Japanese version of Agatha's "And There Were None" that we watched together before will be filmed recently." He said a completely unrelated thing.

I didn't pay attention to this at all, so I had to say "ah".

"The English version is longer and more terrifying. I watched the Japanese version yesterday, and I don't think it's scary at all. Mu Nin said that because of the broadcast time, it is not broadcast in the middle of the night, so the scale is limited..." He slowly As he spoke, he looked at the darkly lit house across the street.

I didn't know what he was going to say, so I just listened in silence, and he finished all his views on the Japanese version, and finally ended with "Nakama Yukie is still very good-looking".

The next morning, Mu Ren threw my mobile phone to me, saying that he picked it up for me at the beach.

I turned on the phone, only to see a series of incoming call alerts, so I called back a call to Xiao Zhang.

"Tang team, you..." Xiao Zhang tremblingly said on the other end of the phone.

"Alive," I said, "this is not a ghost call."

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Then you sent me that text message yesterday?? I thought you were really going to commit suicide. I called you and you turned off the phone, and I ran to your house. If you don't call me back, I will call you." A case has been filed..."

"Just pretend you haven't seen that text message." I interrupted his chatter, watched Mu Nin put another can of yellow peaches in front of me, and made a gesture of please.

"Then what's wrong with you? Unemployed middle-aged people want to commit suicide? Let me tell you, the clinic where you submitted the disease certificate yesterday was closed down due to illegal operation."

I stopped prying the can: "Wu Dawei's clinic?"

"That's right," Xiao Zhang seemed to be flipping through the documents, "I used to be a rat poison seller, probably from the Putian family."

"Oh." It can also be regarded as eliminating harm for the people.

"So hurry up and find a serious place for an appraisal. I don't believe that you can suffer from any kind of mental illness." Xiao Zhang said seriously, "Our police station needs you, so come back to work."

After hanging up Xiao Zhang's phone, Qiao Yike sat down opposite me in a serious manner.

"Mr. Tang, since you've already had enough rest, we won't keep you any longer."

It was polite to drive me away.I said: "Of course, I will leave now."

I looked at Ying Zhi who was standing beside Qiao Yike with Mu Nin.Qiao Yike seemed to have seen through what I wanted to say, and said: "Although my original intention was not to let Yingzhi become my ghost messenger, but now he is bound by laws and must fulfill the ghost messenger's obligations."

As if what we were talking about had nothing to do with Yingzhi, he neither spoke nor looked at me.

Qiao Yike sent me outside the door and said, "Mr. Tang, please go."

"That..." I hesitated for a moment before I said, "Can I still come here in the future? I just came to see him."

Qiao Yike gave a rare smile, making him look very gentle, and said, "Don't you understand?"

"what?"

"For Zhou Yingzhi, making him what he is now is really saving him? Maybe it's better for him to die naturally and get rid of everything here?" Qiao Yike looked back at the room, " It is actually a very painful thing to become half-human, half-ghost, neither belonging to ghost nor human, becoming a different kind, but he still chooses to do this, you don’t understand why?”