The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Qi Zong stared at the porcelain vase in silence for a long time, then suddenly said: "Do you still remember the peach pit I gave you when you were young?"

Qi Mu was taken aback, and thought for a while, "Remember, you lied to me about some kind of gift from a god, and you asked me to keep it well."

"Is it still there?"

He nodded.

"Take it out."

Qi Mu went to his room to search for a long time, and finally found that thing in a small round box.

Qi Zong picked it up, the peach pit was exactly the same as when he saw it for the first time many years ago, it was much larger than other ordinary peach pits, and it was a heavy one.

"I didn't lie to you, I haven't figured out how it came here..." Qi Zong weighed the peach pit in his hand, "At that time you were still young, and one night I had a dream, I dreamed of a person, and he said to me, give me something, maybe my son will need it in the future. Then he gave me a peach, and when I woke up, this peach pit appeared in my palm.”

"..." Qi Mu didn't express any opinion on this story.

"Why, don't believe it?"

"You lie to me a lot, and this incident sounds...a bit of nonsense, like a pillow story."

"Believe it or not." Qi Zong threw the peach pit to him, "You are so old, if I want to lie, I should choose some deep pillow stories."

After speaking, Qi Zong stood up and began to pack his luggage that had been piled on the ground.

"Are you leaving again?"

"I left my job and rushed back. Of course, I have to go back as soon as possible."

Qi Mu asked doubtfully, "Are you really working, not traveling?"

Qi Zong laughed haha, "Aren't photographers like this while working and traveling at the same time?"

"..."

Qi Mu stood by and watched him tidy up, and couldn't help but ask, "Don't you think there's something strange about me?"

"Eat instant noodles? That's okay, I often eat outside."

"...I mean...for example...made a boyfriend...or something." He didn't hide his relationship with Feng Baisui, but his father didn't say anything after hearing it, which made him a little uneasy.

"The last time you asked me the same question, it was because you could see ghosts..." Qi Zong stood up with his backpack in his hands, "What did I say then?"

"..."

"Now my answer will not change. You are my son. Of course, you are different from other people's children. They also have differences from you. What's so strange about that?"

Qi Mu pursed his lips and suddenly felt a little sore in his nose.

Qi Zong stretched out his big hand to mess up his hair, "I will come back when the work of this period is over, and I hope that I can see with my own eyes what kind of person your Feng Baisui is." He picked up his backpack and dragged his suitcase to the door.

Qi Mu suddenly remembered something, stopped him and asked, "Have you ever raised a thrush before?"

"Ah, that guy..." Qi Zong smiled, with a nostalgic expression on his face, "At that time he slipped away without making a sound, I still miss him."

It really is dad!

Qi Mu hesitated for a moment, and said to him: "If you want to find him, just ask any bird in this city."

Qi Zong said "Oh", and asked in surprise, "Have you seen a crow?"

Qi Mu nodded and looked away, "He drank two bottles of your wine."

"Ha, it's still the same!" Qi Zong laughed, waved to him, opened the door and went out.

Qi Mu caught up, "Will you go to him?"

"If I can meet a bird..." He was talking, but he was already far away.

After Qi Zong left, Qi Mu took the peach pit and looked at it over and over for a long time, thinking that no matter how unreliable it was, he should give it a try.

So he took the peach pit to find old man Zhang.

The old man's eyes widened when he saw it, and he took it and put it in his palm.

"Where did you get this thing?"

Qi Mu told the truth.

Old man Zhang's eyes flickered, he stared at the peach pit, and muttered: "If it were you... it would make sense."

"What do you mean? Is this thing useful?"

"I don't know if it will be useful, but this thing is really not a mortal thing, you might as well try it." The old man said, returning the peach pit to him.

"How?" Qi Mu looked at him expectantly.

"Well..." The old man stroked his beard, "Let me think about it again."

Qi Mu was a little disappointed, and asked again: "You said... can I see him in the underworld?"

The old man shook his head, "Feng Baisui is definitely not in the underworld. His current state should be at the junction of the yang world and the underworld."

"What's that place?"

"This is just a theoretical statement, and I have never been in touch with the specific situation."

Back home, Qi Mu looked down at the peach pit in his hand, what exactly is it?really useful?

Or did Qi Zong lie to him?

But when he said this, Qi Zong's expression was very serious, he didn't look like he was joking.

Not necessarily, he often jokes with a serious face...

Even if the peach pit can be used, it should be used by Feng Baisui, but where is he?Just throw it in the bottle, okay?

The boundary between the yang and the underworld...

After thinking about it, he suddenly had a crazy idea - mirror!

Isn't it said that the mirror is the passage between the sun and the underworld?There should be a junction in the middle of the passage, right?

Where is the largest mirror in the house?

His heart started beating impatiently, he picked up the porcelain vase, hurried into the room, and stopped in front of the full-length mirror.

He was reflected in the mirror, holding a porcelain vase in his arms, holding a peach pit in his hand, with a wavering expression on his face.

Standing in a daze for a while, he closed his eyes, and the image of Feng Baisui appeared in his mind, and the strong sense of loss that night rushed to his heart again. Although he knew that his current behavior was more absurd than that stupid bedside story, he controlled himself. I can't help but move my body.

The arm slowly stretched forward, and the fingertips first touched a smooth surface, which was a little cold, and I couldn't help shrinking my hand.The second time he stretched out, he didn't encounter any obstacles. Unbelievable thoughts exploded in his mind. Qi Mu still closed his eyes, leaned forward, paused, lifted his foot and took a step, and walked in.

When he opened his eyes again, all the familiar furniture around him disappeared, leaving only the chaotic grayness, and he could clearly feel that he was stepping on the ground under his feet, but he couldn't see the road, and he shouldn't be able to see anything.

The porcelain vase in his arms disappeared at some point, he was a little panicked, he spread his palms, and the peach pit was still there.

Looking down, it was a bottomless darkness. It seemed that the further down he went, the darker the color was. In contrast, this gray area made him feel more secure.

It seems that staying in the same place can do nothing, there is no direction at all here, Qi Mu picked a direction at random, raised his foot and walked forward, he didn't know where he was going, and he didn't know what was ahead, but there was a faint feeling in his heart. This feeling——Feng Baisui is here.

There was no light, no sound, only the sound of his own footsteps could be heard, it felt like he had walked for a long time, maybe only a while, until he was really tired from walking, he stopped and looked at the gray front, as if there was no end at all.

He tried to shout a few times: "Feng Baisui—Feng Baisui—"

The sound spread out, as if being sucked into the surrounding darkness.

The bamboo tube, which hadn't responded since Feng Baisui's soul flew away, turned on a faint light at this time. Qi Mu was overjoyed, staring at the movement around him carefully, and then called Feng Baisui's name.

A little fluorescent light flickered in the dark, and gradually more and more fluorescent lights lit up all over him, just like the night of the gathering of souls, those light spots surrounded Qi Mu, like a sky full of stars.

"Feng Baisui? Is that you?" He asked uncertainly.

In the silence, someone suddenly said: "Go back! Go back!"

The voice seemed to come from far away, but also seemed to be close to the ear, like many people talking back and forth at the same time, but it was undoubtedly Feng Baisui's voice.

"Feng Baisui! Where are you?" Qi Mu turned around in place, there were fluorescent lights everywhere, he was not sure which direction to say.

Feng Baisui's voice came from all directions: "Go back! Go back!"

"Can you come back?"

The surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Until Qi Mu couldn't help shouting: "Hey! Can you come back?"

Only then did the voice say: "I'll try my best...it's a little bit of trouble..."

"What should I do?"

"Don't worry, you go back!"

Qi Mu looked at those flickering fluorescent lights, hesitant.

Feng Baisui said again: "Leave the bamboo tube, I can hear you talking, go back quickly, you won't be able to go back if it's too late!"

Qi Mu took off the bamboo tube hanging around his neck, and put it in the palm of his hand together with the peach pit, and the fluorescent lights slowly flowed over to support the two things.

Feng Baisui's voice urged: "Go back! Don't come again!"

Qi Mu turned around, looked back at those light spots for the last time, and said softly, "Come back early."

A glaring light suddenly appeared above, and several anxious calls came.

"Qi Mu! Qi Mu—"

Qi Buyang lifted Qi Mu's upper body up and slapped his face, "Qi Mu! Wake up! Wake up!"

There was a burning pain on his cheek, Qi Mu opened his eyes and pushed his hand away, "You want to kill me?"

Qi Buyang frowned and said: "If I don't fight, you will really die!"

"Dead? Why did I die?" Qi Mu stood up on his back. This is his room, but what happened to these people?

Needless to say Qi Buyang, even old man Zhang and Ya were there.

"You broke into my house illegally?"

"Who broke in illegally!" Qi Buyang retorted.

The crow said casually: "Qi Zong asked me to help you, little brat, but I flew over and found this little celestial master knocking on your door, so I brought him in through the window."

"...that's trespassing."

Qi Buyang continued the crow's words and said: "As soon as we came in, we saw you lying on the ground, cold all over, like a corpse! He said that your soul is out of your body, and you don't know where your soul is floating. I'm not good at returning the soul, so I can only go to the Master Zhang's shop asked him to come and help."

"My soul has gone out of my body?" Qi Mu felt baffled, just now he dreamed of talking to Feng Baisui in a strange place, and gave him the bamboo tube and peach pit.

Bamboo tubes and peach pits? !

He stretched out his hand to touch it, and there was only his own bamboo tube around his neck, and the peach pit in his hand disappeared.

Isn't it a dream? !In other words, I really saw Feng Baisui just now!

He subconsciously turned his head to look at the full-length mirror. It was ordinary and no different from before. The porcelain bottle was down under the mirror, and he hurried over to pick it up.

Looking at the bland mirror again, I still can't believe that I really went inside?

Old man Zhang sighed beside him, "Young people are so impulsive when they do things. You are a living person. How dare you try it casually if your soul is separated from your body! Once there is something wrong and you can't come back, you will never come back! If I knew it, I wouldn't tell You are the border between the underworld and the underworld, if you want to die, wouldn't you be a murderer!"

Qi Buyang also taught him a lesson: "Did you hear that? If you come back later, you will really die!"

Qi Mu didn't pay attention to what they said at all, he just held up the porcelain vase to look at it, and said calmly, "I saw Feng Baisui."

"what?!"

Everyone present except the crow was shocked.

"He said that the gathered souls lost one of them."

After being surprised, the old man Zhang regained his composure, nodded and said, "It's quite rare to gather souls after they've been scattered, and it's reasonable to lose one soul and one soul."

"Can I get it back?"

"Impossible..." The old man said: "At that time, it was because of the formation of the old talisman paper, and we acted in time to save some of them. The lost ones really disappeared completely, and there was no way to find them."

Qi Mu bowed his head and remained silent.

Seeing him like this, Qi Buyang felt very guilty. When his grandfather killed the killer, he was locked up at home and didn't know it. He didn't hear about it until the next day. He kept trying to escape, and wanted to apologize to Qi Mu for his grandfather. But when he actually met Qi Mu, he realized that an apology was meaningless, and he could only do his best to make up for the harm caused to them by the Qi family.

Qi Mu didn't have the heart to care about Qi Buyang's thoughts, he thought for a long time, finally raised his head, and said to old man Zhang: "Can you... give him my soul?"