I Just Came to Borrow a Light

"This is an industrial area, surrounded by various factories and warehouses and a large piece of wasteland. At this time and in such weather, there is no one on the road, not even a vehicle passing by..."

The lights of the overtime factory area in the distance seem extraordinarily distant at this moment, like a hope that can never be reached...

The subtle, sharp voice sounded like reciting again behind him...

His scalp was numb for a while, and he didn't dare to turn his head, so he quickened his pace and walked towards the bus stop...

The voice rang close to my ears, and I could almost hear the sound of the airflow between the lips and teeth: "If the noodles want to be delicious, they must be stewed separately...""

Yuan Wu typed hard on the keyboard a few times, and deleted the last sentence he typed.

"Whether it's soup noodles or stewed noodles, stewed noodles made separately will not be mixed with the noodle soup, and it will be more refreshing and delicious," Lin Chengbu said while sitting on a small stool at the stern while cutting red sausage, "noodle soup is quite good to drink alone. Delicious, but..."

"How can you reincarnate?" Yuan Wu interrupted him.

"I'm not in a hurry, what are you in a hurry for?" Lin Chengbu looked at him, "I'll tell you when I finish cooking the noodles."

"Then can you shut up and cook?" Yuan Wu said, "You never stop talking about cooking noodles. My place is almost becoming dictation. Please think about ordinary human beings, okay?"

Lin Chengbu put a piece of red sausage into his mouth: "Okay."

Although Lin Chengbu stopped talking and cut the red sausage silently, he took two tomatoes and started cutting, but Yuan Wu's train of thought had been interrupted, and he couldn't sew it for a while, so he could only lean on the Drowsy on the mat.

Lin Chengbu didn't speak and just immersed himself in his work, which was much more pleasing to the eye. Yuan Wu lit a cigarette and stared at him for a long time.

In fact, the first impression of a clean-looking young man like Lin Chengbu should be good, but it's a pity that he appeared in front of Yuan Wu for the first time as a mental hospital whose walls have collapsed.

But... Whether this Lin Chengbu is crazy or a ghost who broke the rules, why he came here and wants to do something, he doesn't want to know now, he just wants to get rid of this person as soon as possible.

Live the life you're used to and can't stand any interruptions, good or bad.

Lin Chengbu is very proficient at chopping vegetables. The level of proficiency is beyond Yuan Wu's lifetime of cooking instant noodles. He has a strong sense of rhythm, and the sound intervals of the knife falling on the chopping board are very accurate, just like a robot.

After cutting the vegetables, he even took the knife and turned it around, and then dropped it on the chopping board, and the knife was firmly inserted there at an angle.

"You are a cook." Yuan Wu took a can of Coke from the small refrigerator, opened it and took a sip.

"Well," Lin Chengbu turned his head and glanced at him, "Before I died, when I wasn't dead..."

"The water is boiling." Yuan Wu put down the Coke can, got up and stood at the bow of the boat as if fleeing.

Lin Chengbu said a few more words at the stern of the boat, roughly saying that the kitchen utensils here were not convenient for him to use, but he didn't listen carefully.

A mental patient who hates tools even after cooking noodles.

Who gave him the courage!

But a few minutes later, Yuan Wu smelled a very strong fragrance, and he couldn't distinguish the fragrance of the side dishes, so he decided to let go of his irritability and settle down with Lin Chengbu for the time being.

Lin Chengbu put a bowl of noodles in front of him, red sausage, egg and tomato noodles, with a spoonful of sauce on top.

"What is this?" Yuan Wu asked, he probably didn't have this kind of sauce here.

"Red Sausage Sauce," Lin Chengbu crossed his arms, "You have nothing here, so you can just make do with it, no meat, no cooking wine, I can only use some beer, luckily there is ginger..."

"Thank you." Yuan Wu interrupted him, bowed his head, mixed the noodles and began to eat.

The noodles were delicious, Yuan Wu squatted at the stern of the boat and ate a few mouthfuls, then raised his eyes to look at Lin Chengbu who was standing next to him.

It seems that he only cooked this bowl of noodles, and now he has been leaning against the cabin, without lighting a cigarette, just staring blankly.

"You're going to reincarnate soon," Yuan Wu said, "Didn't you get yourself something to eat, or something like a dead ghost."

"I drank a lot of water when I died, and now I'm so exhausted that I can take care of it for a year," Lin Chengbu said, "Are the noodles I cooked delicious?"

Yuan Wu didn't speak, he didn't pay attention to Lin Chengbu's problem, what surprised him was the previous sentence, which can be managed for a year.

a year?

Yuan Wu suddenly realized that he had an important detail that had not been implemented, so he agreed to Lin Chengbu.

How to reincarnate?

How long will it take?

If it takes a year... He feels that he can just row a boat to the East Bay to further his studies.

"How do you want to reincarnate?" Yuan Wu asked.

"We ghosts who refuse to leave immediately after death," Lin Chengbu squatted down next to him, "Eating while squatting is not good for digestion."

"You don't eat, what do you care about me?" Yuan Wu said.

"Ghosts like us who don't want to leave immediately after death, either the King of Hades won't accept him after he dies, or he's stuck with something and can't get through." Lin Chengbu lit a cigarette.

"This theory is in the same system as ghosts without shadows, ghosts without entities, ghosts without legs, ghosts without chest," Yuan Wu glanced at him, "Why, don't you new-style ghosts who can breathe have their own matching theory?"

Lin Chengbu opened his mouth and said nothing.

"Tell me, what are you stuck on?" Yuan Wu was too lazy to entangle with him, "Do you want a lighter? Or the big adventure is not finished yet."

"I want to know how I died." Lin Chengbu stood up, walked to the side, supported the side of the boat with his hands, and said with a deep expression.

"Drown, entangled in water and weeds..." Yuan Wu said while eating, but was interrupted by Lin Chengbu.

"No," Lin Chengbu turned around abruptly, squatted across from him, and lowered his voice, "I didn't get entangled in water plants and drown."

Yuan Wu took a mouthful of noodles and hung them on his mouth without swallowing.

The way Lin Chengbu said this is not scary. If this kind of person wants to act, he can only develop into an idol school. What makes Yuan Wu unable to swallow is the content of his words.

After the two of them squatted face to face in silence for a while, Yuan Wu lowered his head and continued to eat noodles: "Do I still have to solve the case? I can at most call the police for you."

"If you know how I died, I will be able to reincarnate." Lin Chengbu said, turned and leaned against the side of the boat, and continued to look at him deeply.

"You look like this," Yuan Wu pointed at him with chopsticks, "The show is over, it's very fake, you know that?"

"Help me?" Lin Chengbu asked, "If you don't help me, I have to come every day. Anyway, I use the old system, and the ghosts in the old system will follow you if they see you."

After Yuan Wu finished eating noodles, he washed the dishes slowly, and then tidied up the kitchen utensils at the stern.

After returning to the cabin and making a pot of coffee for myself, he sighed and patted his notebook: "You can wander around for a few more days, and wander somewhere else. After I finish writing this, I will think about how to help you."

"Okay." Lin Chengbu nodded understandingly.

Yuan Wu looked at him, and he also looked at Yuan Wu.

It took him a long time to ask, "What?"

"You go," Yuan Wu said helplessly, "Wander around, innocent soul."

"Oh," Lin Chengbu just left the bow, walked around from the deck to the stern, and with his feet on the boards, he turned around and poked his head in through the door, "By the way, there is something I haven't told you yet. Say, I think I need to explain first."

Yuan Wu looked back at him.

"That's right, we're queuing," Lin Chengbu said, "If you don't send those ghosts in front of me away, I won't be able to leave. The King of Hades said that all the ghosts in the front are cast into pig wombs."

Yuan Wu stared at him, opened his mouth but was unable to speak.

"It's just that you have to put..." Lin Chengbu probably thought he didn't understand, and wanted to continue explaining.

The coffee cup in Yuan Wu's hand and a whole cup of mocha flew over and smashed on the door next to his face.

"Get out!" Yuan Wu roared.

Lin Chengbu retracted his head, turned around, jumped on the plank and ran away.

Yuan Wu leaned on the cushion and used all kinds of mental and internal strength to suppress the urge to chase out with a knife and chop Lin Chengbu into small packages.

He closed his eyes for a long time before he said in a hoarse voice: "Fuck you uncle, go to his mother's womb, you..."

Holding a knife and waiting for an update: My dear, time waits for no one [Bleeding Kitchen Knife.jpg]

Laughing out a glass of wine: ... Got it

Yuan Wu sighed, went to clean up the coffee on the board, lay down on the spot with his eyes closed for 10 minutes, and then slowly propped up his body and crawled back to the computer.

"He quickened his pace and ran a few steps, stopped after turning the corner, and leaned back against the wall fiercely, perhaps because he was too nervous, he even felt a faint pain in his back from being hit by the wall...

There was a street light at the corner, not very bright, but it made him feel a little more at ease. If someone followed, he would be able to see the shadow first...

And when the voice sounded again, he felt despair...

The chill brought by this voice seemed to come out from the wall, pouring into his body from the back little by little...

There was no shadow, nothing came over, nothing appeared, the corner was completely silent, only the biting cold gradually enveloping him...

The pain and fear of being strangled made him bend down, open his mouth wide, and silently breathe hard..."

"Ah!" Yuan Wu heard his own short cry when he bounced up from the mat and fell back to the mat.

He didn't know when he fell asleep, or he wasn't sure if he fell asleep or not, but he just felt his head was heavy, and he didn't know whether it was from fright or heat.

"Damn..." He let out a long breath.

It was too hot, and the hot wind stirred up by the small electric fan at the feet had no effect other than making people feel stuffy. The only thing we could look forward to was the occasional wind blowing in from the water.

Yuan Wu went to the stern to wash his face, and sighed again when he touched his hair.

It is indeed quite long.

But they don't want to cut it. They have natural curly hair and they can't trust the skills of the barber in the small town. They used to spend more than 100 yuan in the city to get a rapper cut.

He returned to the cabin and fumbled for a long time, found a rubber band, scratched his hair randomly, and tied a small braid behind his head.

"Ah——" the big head cried from the distant pier, "My ass is broken--Dad--Dad--Mom broke my ass--I was wrong, I didn't run away from home... "

"Who said you ran away from home! You went to the village when you ran away from home!" Datou's mother's voice was louder than his, "What do you think you went to the village for!"

"I won't be chasing chickens anymore—" Datou shouted.

Yuan Wu smiled, the career that Datou loves is to go to the village to play chickens when he has nothing to do, the chickens in the village make him chase them so much that he is almost written into his genes, even the chickens turn their heads and run away when they see him .

Datou's mother beat him for a while and went to rest, and Datou quickly regained his vitality. Yuan Wu heard his singing that was getting closer and closer.

"Hey." Yuan Wu stood up, thinking of what tricks to use to stop him on the road, when he turned his head and saw a man and a cow walking on the bank.

He hurried back to the cabin to take the notebook, and walked quickly to the pier.

"Where are you going!" Da Tou shouted as soon as he saw him.

"Do your homework." Yuan Wu said.

"I'll accompany you to do your homework." The big head came over anxiously and grabbed the corner of his clothes.

"Children can't go where I go." Yuan Wu flipped back and flicked his arm.

The big head retracted his hand: "Which place can children not go?"

"What do you think?" Yuan Wu looked back at him.

"Ah," Datou's eyes widened, and he said in a low voice, "Is it Dongwan?"

"Yes." Yuan Wu also whispered.

The big head didn't speak anymore, but followed him to the pier in a somewhat depressed manner. After walking for a while, he said again: "Why are you braiding your hair?"

"Hot." Yuan Wu said.

"Girls only wear braids," Datou seemed a little upset because he couldn't go to Dongwan, "Are you a girl? You're not. Why are you braiding..."

"Because I'm handsome," Yuan Wu bent over and leaned in front of him, "I'm handsome."

"I'm handsome too." The big head said.

"Then you tie it." Yuan Wu jumped onto the pier.

"...I don't...my hair is not long enough," the big head pulled the short hair on his head, and sat down on a boat with some sadness, resting his chin in his hand, "When are you coming back?"

"I'll be right back when Uncle Fool comes back." Yuan Wu pointed to the person on the shore leading the cow.

"Oh," the big head nodded, and shouted at the man again, "Hi, uncle fool!"

The fool lives in the village and is a mute. His family's field is on the dry land on the other side of the East Bay.

Every time Yuan Wu went to Dongwan, he went there with the idiot, and brought him back when the idiot came back.

"Take me to the tree in the south." Yuan Wu followed the fool and his cow into the boat.

The fool nodded.

This person is not stupid, but because he can't speak, sometimes he seems a little dull.

But Yuan Wu thought it was pretty good, and the idiot was not as curious about him as the people in the village. Usually he would just nod or shake his head when he said anything.

This kind of cow, which takes a boat every day, will lie down in the middle of the boat as soon as it gets on the boat, watching the owner slowly propping the boat and leading it through the reeds leisurely.

Yuan Wu finds it very interesting every time.

"Smoking?" He took the cigarette case and shook it at the fool.

The fool nodded.

He handed over a cigarette, and the fool took it and pinned it to his ear.

"You take them all," Yuan Wu took out two cigarettes and put the cigarette case in his pocket, "I won't smoke for a while, I'm going to sleep."

The fool smiled and pointed to his notebook.

"Well, I wanted to write something, but I would definitely fall asleep after writing for a while," Yuan Wu said.

In the south of Dongwan Bay, there is a small piece of dry land that cannot be planted due to its small size. There is a lone locust tree standing on it. During the flood season, the tree can sometimes be submerged until only the canopy remains.

On days when the water is not heavy, Yuan Wu is quite willing to come here, and often stays under the tree for a whole day.

Daze, or sleep.

Sometimes I feel very busy, but in fact, maybe I just slept here for a day.

After watching the fool and his cow slowly disappear in the reeds, Yuan Wu yawned, opened the notebook and put it on his lap.

"Why are you so late today? I haven't made the tofu for tonight. Are you feeling uncomfortable?" As soon as Lin Chengbu entered the back kitchen, before changing his clothes, the proprietress came over with a frown and looked at him with concern s face.

"Overslept," he said.

"Have you stayed up late again? You don't want your body anymore!" The proprietress said again, and handed him a bottle of ice water, "Did you run away, sweating all over your head?"

"He came by bicycle." Lin Chengbu took the water and took two gulps.

"Let's take a break and do it again. There is no rush for a few minutes," the proprietress patted him on the shoulder, "Boss Yang said that the fish yesterday was a bit salty. You should pay more attention today."

"En." Lin Chengbu responded.

This is a private restaurant, not the handicraft handed down from Lin Chengbu's family, but from the master Lin Chengbu's family. The signature dish is a tofu dish.

This tofu dish cannot be made directly from bought tofu, it has to start from grinding tofu, and every step is kept confidential.

Lin Chengbu makes tofu every three days. On this day, he has to go to the store early in the morning to start preparations, otherwise it will be too late for customers to order.

He didn't sleep well these two days, he could stare until midnight when he lay down, and as soon as he closed his eyes, the sun came out.

He stayed in the lounge for a while, changed his clothes and went to the back kitchen.

Because making tofu requires master's cheats, just like the secret code book of martial arts masters, pass the male but not the female handsome but not ugly... The chief chef has cleared the scene at this moment, and everyone has gone out, waiting for him to finish. Only then will people come in.

But today his performance was a bit unstable, after a long time of work, he failed.

"Ah... so annoying." He bent over the table and stared at the ground.

After calming down for a while, he started to do the second time again.

After finishing it with great difficulty, I was sweating again.

From the time the tofu is ready until the guests come, Lin Chengbu has nothing to do. Usually he goes home and stays, watching TV and playing games.

After returning home and taking a shower, the phone rang just as he turned on the TV. Lin Chengbu sprinted to the sofa and took the phone. When he saw the name on it, he threw the phone aside in disappointment.

It wasn't until the phone finally shut up after crying for a long time that he sighed and took a thick A4 printing paper from the coffee table.

The paper was full of words, and many places had been turned over. He opened the first page.

It is indeed too exaggerated to say that Gasser will turn into a pig in reincarnation, but there are some things that should not be rushed. If you are in a hurry, you will be beaten and scare people away.

So let's be flamboyant, he tapped on it with his fingers: "Where is the first one...?"