I Just Came to Borrow a Light

Yuan Wu felt that maybe he had been in contact with too few people these years. He really didn't expect to have this kind of mental illness that insisted on claiming that he was a ghost. Looking at the expression on his face, he still believed in himself. If you don't believe it, you will die inhumanely. It was as if a knife had been stabbed in his heart.

"Do you have a specific understanding of ghosts?" Yuan Wu still pressed him and did not let go.

"Do you have it?" Lin Chengbu asked back, frowning and twisting his neck again, "Relax a little, I can't breathe anymore."

"The ghost still needs to breathe?" Yuan Wu didn't cooperate.

"How do you know ghosts don't need to breathe?" Lin Chengbu looked at him, "Have you ever seen a ghost? Ask someone who has specific knowledge about ghosts. Has he ever seen a ghost? Who can be sure that ghosts don't breathe?" ?”

Yuan Wu looked at him and was speechless for a while.

"If our ghost is out of breath, we can still blow your face with goosebumps. The back of the neck feels cold, have you ever felt it?" Lin Chengbu pulled his arm and loosened the hand on his neck. Son, "You people say that ghosts have no shadow, ghosts have no body, ghosts have no legs, ghosts have no chest..."

"That's really not the case," Yuan Wu interrupted him, "It doesn't matter if you have a flat chest or a D cup."

"That's how you define ghosts," Lin Chengbu looked at him, "Have you ever thought about how we ghosts feel?"

"No." Yuan Wu said.

"Then..." Lin Chengbu wanted to continue, but Yuan Wu was no longer interested in listening.

He let go of Lin Chengbu, took two steps back and pointed at him: "I don't care if you want to be a breathing ghost, just don't follow me."

The breathing ghost stood still, and Yuan Wu tied the bought things with a rope to the wooden shelf behind the car. This shelf was installed by the boat owner, and it is usually used when pulling fish to sell.

Yuan Wu felt that this thing was so ugly that it could blow up the universe, but in terms of quality and practicality alone, it was still good.

He stepped into the car, lowered his head and stomped a few times to start the car, then looked in the direction of Lin Chengbu, and there was no one there.

He frowned and looked around again, in just a short while, Lin Chengbu had disappeared like a real ghost.

The rearview mirror was a little crooked, Yuan Wu stretched out his hand to break it off, took off his hat by the way, pulled his hair in front of the mirror, and quickly looked away when he saw his face.

It must be because it is so handsome that I am too embarrassed to take a closer look.

It's too hot, and as soon as you take off your hat, you can feel the sun burning above your head like a fire, and you can make popcorn with some beans on it.

When Yuan Wu was about to put his hat on again, he saw in the mirror a small white object falling from the sky and landing on top of his head.

His hand holding the hat froze, and it took him a long time to hold back his nausea and touch his head: "...Fuck."

Yuan Wu has never been in the barber shop in the town, and he usually cuts blindly with scissors.

"Shampoo or cut your hair?" There was no business in this barber shop, only a woman in her thirties sat inside and played with her mobile phone.

"Wash." Yuan Wu said.

"Sit down." The woman pointed to a chair in front of the mirror.

"Wash directly," Yuan Wu didn't sit down, "I have shit on my head."

"...Oh." The woman was taken aback.

After washing his hair, Yuan Wu sat on a chair, and the woman took a towel and wiped his head: "Sir, don't you want to cut your hair? It's quite long, and you need to take care of your natural curly hair."

"No." Yuan Wu replied.

"If you don't take care of yourself, you don't look energetic," the woman continued without giving up, "You look so handsome, your hair looks like you haven't woken up..."

Yuan Wu stood up, took the money and put it on the table and walked out of the barber shop.

"Aren't you blowing dry?" the woman shouted behind him.

"What a fart." Yuan Wu said in a low voice.

It's really not necessary to dry his hair in this kind of day, the motorcycle whizzed away, and when he returned to Shenqiao, he was almost done, but the smoke and dust billowing all the way made him feel that his hair was washed for nothing.

Putting the car back in the firewood house in the village, Yuan Wu returned to the old wharf with a bunch of things.

In front of the old wharf is a small dirt road, a shortcut leading to the next small village. Usually, motorcycles, tractors and agricultural vehicles go a lot. Even vans don’t go this way, and they are easy to get stuck. This is also the old wharf. The reason why tourists basically don't come here.

But today Yuan Wu saw a white car in the messy forest far away.

"Brother Xiaowu." Da Touzheng was squatting on the edge of the pier playing in the water with a big gourd on his back, and ran over immediately when he saw him.

"Who is that?" Yuan Wu raised his chin over there.

"I don't know," the big head shook his head, and glanced over there, "I don't know this car."

Yuan Wu took a box of seaweed from a plastic bag and handed it to him: "Do you want to eat it?"

"Eat!" Datou took it, and quickly took a piece out and stuffed it into his mouth, "My mother said this is a dried water plant, and if you eat it, you will turn into a water ghost."

"Give it back to me." Yuan Wu stretched out his hand.

"No," Datou quickly hugged the seaweed tightly, "I am willing to become a water ghost."

Yuan Wu flicked it on his mouth: "Bah."

"Bah, bah, bah." Datou was very obedient.

Yuan Wu jumped onto the boat from the pier: "Don't follow me."

"Why?" The big head was about to jump down after him.

"We have no common language." Yuan Wu walked forward.

"You can find it, let's find a common language," Datou stood on the pier reluctantly, "Do you like Pigman?"

Yuan Wu ignored him, and quickly jumped a few boats and left.

I used to think that people living on the water were wonderful, but I only realized after living in the water that not everything is beautiful.

The current at the old wharf is very slow. In the midsummer and dry seasons, the water in the bay can smell the fishy smell of aquatic plants, as well as the smell of rotten fish and rotten shrimp washed down from the upstream. There are cages for raising fish...Before Yuanwu, I was still wondering if I could smell the breath of those who died in the fat lotus flowers in Dongwan.

Relatively speaking, the location of his boat is not bad, close to the outer side of these layers of boats, it’s okay to get up in the morning and enjoy the breeze to see the water, and occasionally he will fish at the stern when he is in a good mood.

So the big head is always willing to come to him, even... mentally ill and breathing ghosts are willing to come.

Two boats away, Yuan Wu saw Lin Chengbu sitting on the bow of his boat with his feet soaked in the water, looking very leisurely and complacent.

The irritability made him want to make a move to throw the boat off for a moment.

"You are so slow, mortal." Lin Chengbu waved his hand at him and said with a smile.

Yuan Wu didn't make a sound, and put the boards back up again, entered the cabin and closed the door.

"Do you believe I'm a ghost now?" Lin Chengbu moved closer to the door, "I walk faster than you drive a motorcycle."

"Do you ghosts acquiesce that we humans are blind?" Yuan Wu opened the door, almost touching the tip of his nose, and said word by word, "Your car is parked in the woods over there."

"That's not my car." Lin Chengbu said.

"Go away." Yuan Wu pointed at the tip of his nose and said.

"Is this your territory?" Lin Chengbu stepped back an inch.

"This boat is." Yuan Wu pointed down.

"Okay." Lin Chengbu nodded, turned around and left his boat, sat on the bow of the boat next to him, and continued to soak his feet in the water.

Yuan Wu didn't have time to worry about him anymore, the editor's avatar was jumping on the computer.

Hold a knife and wait for an update: I forgot to remind you, tomorrow is the last day of this week~

Yuan Wu was stunned, it had been a long time, he would lose his life if he was not careful, he didn't know the day of the week, the date of the month, there were only two days in a month that he could remember the date, it was the big head he On the days when parents go to the town to go to the market, Datou will have lunch with him in these two days.

He checked the calendar and saw that it was Friday.

Laughing out a glass of wine: Friday, tomorrow Saturday, there are two more days to finish this week.

Updates such as holding a knife: every week starts on Sunday, dear [friend cheers.jpg]

Laughing out a glass of wine: ...

Yuan Wu sighed, opened the notebook, and sighed again after looking at the thin document for a long time.

Come on, let's eat and drink first.

It's almost noon, he has to eat first... or coffee first?Let's eat first, drink coffee on an empty stomach, stomach hurts...

Generally speaking, his lunch is instant noodles or rice bowl. If he is in the mood, he will cook a pot of rice with scrambled eggs with tomatoes. The rice bowl will be delicious, and the rest of the meal can be fried rice for the next meal.

But usually he's not in the mood.

He can skip instant noodles today, he bought wet noodles.

Boiled noodles with red sausage should be pretty good, so treat yourself two days a month.

He took the noodles to the stern, and when he tried to pour water from the bucket, he found that the bucket was almost empty, so he had to go to the bow.

Lin Chengbu was still sitting on the boat next to him, staring at the water in a daze, as if he didn't notice him coming.

"Big head—" Yuan Wu shouted in the direction of the pier.

"Ouch." Lin Chengbu flicked on the spot.

"Big head—" Yuan Wu ignored him and continued to shout.

"Who is it? What's the matter?" Lin Chengbu was still in a familiar state.

"Call my cell phone." Yuan Wu glanced at him.

Ever since he couldn't receive anything on his mobile phone, he had to find Datou if he wanted someone to deliver water, and asked Datou to make a call for him with his fucking mobile phone.

"I'll change it to you," Lin Chengbu said, "Our ghost clan..."

"Ghosts and ghost clan don't seem to be the same species." Yuan Wu said.

"Here you are." Lin Chengbu stood up, took out a mobile phone from his pocket and handed it over.

Yuan Wu didn't answer and looked at him silently.

"Your cell phone," Lin Chengbu said, "really, if you don't believe me, take a look."

Yuan Wu turned around and went back to the cabin, took out his mobile phone that had been turned off for a month, and shook Lin Chengbu: "If you are sick, you need to be treated, don't hide your illness from the doctor."

"That cell phone is not yours," Lin Chengbu walked over, "This is yours."

Before Yuan Wu could get angry, he grabbed Yuan Wu's hand and forced the phone into his hand: "If you don't believe me, take a look, the address book or something."

Yuan Wu stared at him for a long time.

"Bring me a bucket of water, um, the old wharf, my card number is..." Yuan Wu called the water station, "Thank you."

After hanging up the phone, he didn't return the phone to Lin Chengbu immediately, but looked at the phone's desktop.

The background picture of the desktop is a white background with two lines of words on it.

Laughing out a glass of wine, killing people in the city.

"What on earth do you want to do?" Yuan Wu took the phone and turned it up and down.

"Make friends." Lin Chengbu said.

"Do you know that people and ghosts have different paths?" Yuan Wu said sincerely, "I'm still alive and well, and I don't want to make friends with ghosts."

"Really?" Lin Chengbu frowned.

"Really," Yuan Wu nodded, "You can reincarnate, okay?"

Lin Chengbu frowned, as if hesitating. Yuan Wu had seen him like this last night, and he tried his best to make excuses.

"I have two lighters in total, I will be useless if I give you another one," Yuan Wu suppressed the irritability in his heart, "Let's go, ah, ashes to ashes, dust to dust..."

Lin Chengbu looked up at him with determination: "Then can I ask you something before I reincarnate?"

"No." Yuan Wu answered almost without waiting for him to finish his sentence.

No.

No.

Why not, he did not know.

He didn't know why he said that.

"You know Yuan..." Lin Chengbu ignored his refusal and insisted on speaking.

But before he could finish speaking, Yuan Wu raised his leg and kicked him in the stomach, and he fell into the water almost without struggling.

The water here is deeper than that of the pier. After Lin Chengbu fell down, he jumped twice, adjusted himself from facing up to the big head, stood up, and the water reached his neck.

"You," Yuan Wu knelt half-kneeling and supported the plank of the boat, pointing at Lin Chengbu's nose, "Get out of here."

Lin Chengbu didn't speak, but looked at him with a teary face.

"I don't know who you are and what you want to do," Yuan Wu almost poked his finger on the bridge of his nose, "If you bother me again, I'll kill you."

"How to kill him?" Lin Chengbu asked.

Yuan Wu paused for a few seconds, then suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his hair, and suddenly pushed his head into the water.

Lin Chengbu didn't struggle, and let him hold on.

Yuan Wu stared at the water.

His hands were a little white due to the force, and they looked completely bloodless when they were immersed in the water.

Lin Chengbu's hair was floating beside his hand, swaying gently with the current, when it touched his hand, he could feel softness and some kind of indescribable... fear.

He stared at Lin Chengbu's hair.

After an unknown amount of time, blisters floated up from below.

One, two, from small to large, became a string.

He didn't know whether it was because the sun was too strong at noon or because he was excited. He began to sweat, but he didn't feel hot. Instead, he felt cold. He felt waves of chill coming up from under the water.

When the blisters changed from a series of large bubbles to small bubbles and then disappeared, the chill matched the fear in his heart, and he could even hear his own terrified breathing.

Rough and urgent, I don't know if his nose was runny from fright, and he heard the sound of blowing snot bubbles.

He let go, jumped up and took a few steps back, as if he was afraid that something would come out of the water and those aquatic plants.

It took a while for Lin Chengbu to raise his head from the water. When he climbed onto the boat, Yuan Wu was already leaning against the cabin door and lighting a cigarette, which looked a little discouraged.

"Aren't you afraid you'll really suffocate me?" Lin Chengbu sat on the bow and coughed twice.

"Aren't you a ghost?" Yuan Wu said.

"That's right," Lin Chengbu shook his hair, "I almost forgot."

After that, the two of them didn't speak any more. Lin Chengbu lay on the bow of the boat and spread himself out in the sun. With his eyes closed, he didn't know if he was asleep or his soul was out of his body.

Yuan Wu didn't smoke a cigarette, and the cigarette burned a long strand of ash, hanging by his mouth dejectedly.

"Water delivery!" Someone shouted from the bank.

The soot fell on Yuan Wu's hand.

"Put it on the dock." Yuan Wu also shouted.

Lin Chengbu opened his eyes and turned his head to look at him: "Did you get scared just now?"

"Well," Yuan Wu replied, "After all, I haven't killed a ghost before."

Lin Chengbu laughed: "You don't believe I'm a ghost, do you?"

Yuan Wu sighed: "Aren't you ghosts divided into normal ghosts and familiar ghosts and don't you know that you are annoying ghosts?"

"I just feel very lonely." Lin Chengbu said.

"Fresh ghost?" Yuan Wu lit a cigarette again and took a sip. He felt that he didn't want to carry on with this mental patient anymore, whatever.

"It's quite fresh," Lin Chengbu sat up, "Can you give me a cigarette?"

Yuan Wu threw the cigarette case to his hand.

Lin Chengbu took one out and lit it: "Are you going to be lonely?"

"No," Yuan Wu looked at him, "I just find it annoying to have one more person."

"Maybe, you won't feel lonely," Lin Chengbu blew out a smoke ring, and then blew out a second one in the middle of the smoke ring, "You should know, those who wrote the story."

Yuan Wu looked at him.

"Every time a ghost is written," Lin Chengbu half-closed his eyes in the sunlight, "this ghost will come out of the story and follow behind him."

Yuan Wu didn't answer.

This sentence is quite familiar, and he no longer remembers whether someone told him, or where he read it.

"You wrote so many ghosts," Lin Chengbu spit out another smoke ring, and looked at him from the middle of the smoke ring, "I can't stand behind me."

"So you were squeezed out?" Yuan Wu said.

Lin Chengbu laughed.

"Go to reincarnation, I beg you," Yuan Wu pinched his cigarette and stood up, "Give me a ghost to make room for me, I can't stand anymore, can I?"

"No need," Lin Chengbu said, "I'm the next ghost, and I'm the one dangling in the water plants."

Yuan Wu looked at him: "That's a female ghost."

"Oh, female ghost," Lin Chengbu seemed a little embarrassed, but after he lowered his head and thought for a while, he said, "Then I was the one who was taken away by the female ghost later."

Yuan Wu turned around and entered the cabin.

"Don't you ask me how I know?" Lin Chengbu raised his voice.

"Routine." Yuan Wu kicked the hatch shut with his foot.

He came out again two seconds later, the water still standing on the pier.

"Are you going to get water?" Lin Chengbu immediately asked, "I'll get it for you."

Before Yuan Wu could open his mouth, he had already turned around and ran to the pier, quickly carrying the water over.

"Do you want to cook noodles?" Lin Chengbu asked.

"Yeah." Yuan Wu poured some water into the pot.

"Just boil the water and put the noodles and then put the vegetables? Then eat out of the pot, right?" Lin Chengbu asked again.

"En." Yuan Wu responded numbly.

"So it's quite unpalatable, right?" Lin Chengbu continued to ask.

Yuan Wu didn't even want to um.

But the noodles he cooks are really unpalatable, that's why he is willing to cook instant noodles.

"Let's exchange it." Lin Chengbu said after a minute of silence.

"Huh?" Yuan Wu continued to answer mechanically, feeling that he was not so depressed when the big head came.

"I'll help you cook delicious noodles, and you help me reincarnate," Lin Chengbu said, "otherwise I have nowhere to go and may wander here every day."

Yuan Wu felt helpless, he sat down on the board of the boat, holding his head in his hands: "My God."

"Think about it?" Lin Chengbu sat down beside him.

"Will you disappear after reincarnation?" Yuan Wu turned his head to look at him.

"Yes." Lin Chengbu nodded.

"Okay." Yuan Wu said.