eighth story

Wu Qinyang didn't know when his father came.

He didn't tell his parents about Xuan Jue's disappearance from the subway, he thought it would be useless to talk about it, and there were two more people who would worry about it.Wu Qinyang has not been home for the past two days, nor has he gone to class. Just in time for the weekend, he spent two days at the police station, hitting sandbags every day to vent his anger. When he is free, he is worried about his brother, and he runs away when he is worried. Go to Qiao Yuan to ask for news, and if there is no new progress, continue to punch sandbags, repeating and repeating, two points and one line are like clear water and steamed buns. It can be called the most monotonous and boring three days for Wu Xiaoxiao since he was born.Worrying, sleeping and eating, not being able to turn white overnight is like an ant on a hot pot, restless, like a balloon that will burst when poked.

Wu Qinyang didn't expect his father to come. He was startled when he heard Wu Chunxing's voice. He turned around and saw his father first, then his mother.Wu Chunxing pressed the file in his hand, and said to Qiao Yuan, "Xiao Jue is also lost? How long has it been?"

Qiao Yuan said, "Three days." Then he explained, "Old Wu, I can't help it."

Wu Chunxing said: "Needless to say." He also knew that the truth of this matter would not have been in the original file, otherwise Qiao Yuan would not have called him.He has been thinking about this for the past few days, and Qin Yao has been trying to prevent him from thinking about it. It is not an untouchable memory. In fact, Qin Yao is worried about the impact of this incident on him. No one else knows what happened on that bus anymore.

Wu Qinyang stared blankly at his father, then at his mother.Qin Yao wore a white knitted sweater and a black coat today, her plain face was facing the sky without makeup, she looked very plain, she was unusually silent, she stood at the door with her arms folded, she kept looking at Wu Chunxing, and blinked after a while eyes, looked away, without saying a word, turned and walked away.

Wu Chunxing said, "Yangyang, go see your mother."

Wu Qinyang said: "Dad..." He looked down at the file on the table again.

Wu Chunxing said, "Be obedient."

Wu Qinyang wanted to say something more, his mouth moved, but he turned around and went out.

Qin Yao was sitting on a chair outside, with her head slightly lowered, her right index finger gently stroking the wedding ring on her left ring finger, and she didn't know what she was thinking.Wu Qinyang called his mother, Qin Yao raised his head, brushed his hair behind his ears, and asked Wu Qinyang, "What's the matter with your brother?"

"My brother..." Wu Qinyang was shocked by the compromise and helplessness in Qin Yao's eyes. He always thought that his mother was an idle, heartless, menopausal housewife. He didn't want to see this on her face one day The expression on his face may be said to be unwilling. "My brother is gone..." Wu Qinyang laughed forcefully, "Mom, you think my brother was captured by a cat dealer, right?"

Wu Qinyang couldn't go on talking anymore, he wanted to make a joke, at least not let the atmosphere be so bad, but the skill is not enough, the opposite effect is obvious.Wu Qinyang would rather that Xuan Jue was captured by a cat dealer. After all, his brother is not an ordinary cat, and it would be interesting to crush a cat dealer unilaterally. Unfortunately, not now, his brother was captured by the subway up.

Wu Qinyang looked like he was about to cry at this moment, but Qin Yao's complexion was not good, and the two of them didn't speak for a while.

After a while, Qin Yao said: "Yang Yang, go find your father."

Wu Qinyang originally thought that Qin Yao didn't want to let him know the secret about the "Xuejun Station", so he looked at his mother in surprise.

"Go." Qin Yao repeated again, "Listen to it if you want to, and forget it if you don't want to. I don't like your father bringing this up. There's nothing I can do now, but it probably won't be useful."

Wu Qinyang still didn't quite understand what his mother wanted to express, so he asked in confusion, "...Mom?"

Qin Yao stopped talking, pursed her lips slightly, and seemed to be staring at a tree sprouting out of the window, but there was a hint of girlish stubbornness in her expression.

"Hey, your name is Wu Chunxing, right?" She still remembered the first time Wu Chunxing appeared in front of her that summer.

Wu Qinyang looked at Qin Yao's expression, and instantly felt that his mother seemed to be ten years younger.

Wu Qinyang felt that he seemed to understand something, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't explain clearly, so he turned to look for his father.

As soon as Wu Qinyang returned to the team leader's office, he heard his father say to Qiao Yuan: "I don't know if it's useful to say this, just listen to it."

Xiang Dan didn't know when he left, probably at Qiao Yuan's instruction.Wu Chunxing didn't seem to be surprised that Wu Qinyang would come back, without saying anything, Qiao Yuan signaled him to close the door, Wu Qinyang felt his heart beating wildly, he couldn't tell whether he was excited, excited or restless, he seemed very cramped , fidgeting, but Wu Chunxing's first sentence was to him: "Yangyang, 'Xuejun' is your grandfather's name."

"Ah? My grandpa..." Wu Qinyang was about to say, "Isn't my grandpa's surname Shen...", suddenly realized that his father was not talking about Shen Heng, and was stunned for a moment, "That's..." Since childhood, Wu Chunxing and Qin Yao never talked to him about grandparents and grandparents, and Wu Qinyang always regarded Shen Heng as his own grandfather. The grandparents and grandchildren got along very well, so he didn't think it was a problem to have only one old man in the family. Something very different from others.It was only at this moment that Wu Qinyang realized that he had never known anything about these things. He had never understood his grandparents in the true blood sense. If Wu Chunxing hadn't mentioned it, he would never have felt this matter. Something is wrong.

"Actually, there is no 'Xuejun Station' at all. The Xuejun Station I understand should be Zenghai Road Station." Wu Chunxing did not explain the "grandpa" question that shocked Wu Qinyang for the time being. "You have all read the relevant reports. Well, Zenghai Road Station was the only interchange station for those buses at the time, and later the police also focused on investigating this station, which is equivalent to the Tanghetai Station of the subway today."

Wu Qinyang hadn't seen the section about the bus station in the dossier, but Qiao Yuan took it over after reading it. Naturally, he knew that the Zenghai Road station Wu Chunxing was talking about was the station where the bus spontaneous combustion incident occurred.But because a series of incidents brought many bad influences, Zenghai Road Station was demolished not long after, and the lines passing by were adjusted one after another. Now K City no longer has this station.However, because K City is not a big place, this incident was very sensational at the time, so basically the older people knew about the so-called "Zenghai Road Disappearance Incident". It has gradually become a relatively well-known urban legend, and even derived a nickname called "Huangquan Station", which is used to refer to this incident in daily life.

"This matter... let's start with the Wu family." Wu Chunxing said, "You probably don't know that the Wu family is directly related, that is, me, my father, my grandfather... and counting back up. All pulses have a common feature, that is, the horoscope is too light, it is easy to see ghosts, and it is easy to be possessed by ghosts. It is commonly known as a psychic, or a psychic, a medium that can talk to the dead. Of course, with this This trait did not start from my grandfather's generation, it can be traced back to a long time ago, but I am more aware of my father, my grandfather and my great-grandfather."

"The Wu family has been working as a psychic medium for a long time. It can be regarded as an ancestral skill. It was considered a little famous back then. Everyone in the Wu family knew that the Wu family was a psychic medium. Some people miss their dead relatives. Or someone died for unknown reasons, and there is no evidence to prove who the real murderer is. Usually, someone will invite a psychic to the scene, and then a special person will open the altar and perform the ritual of summoning the soul, and finally let the summoned soul Attached to the body of the psychic, if successful, the dialogue between the living and the dead can begin. But being possessed by a ghost is a very dangerous thing. Young people have negative physiques, so this kind of possession can be said to be harmful to psychics. After one possession, they have to rest for a long time before starting the next one. But because psychics Generally, the asking price is very high, and it can be regarded as a typical example of not opening for half a year and opening for half a year, and life is not a problem.”

"Our family was still working as a psychic teacher for a living until my great-grandfather's generation. It was around the beginning of the [-]th century. At that time, new trends of thought were introduced and the social situation was relatively turbulent, so my great-grandfather's family gradually retired. Retired. To be precise, the surname of the Wu family at that time was not Wu, but Wu. Although "Wu" was generally pronounced as mo when used as a surname, but because the traditional Chinese saying is to refer to psychics as "Wu"觋', so I have always called myself surname Wu."

"Although my great-grandfather's family retired and no longer worked as psychics, the characteristics of the Wu family have not changed. My grandfather was born in the war years, and the external environment affected him. Hell is already a common thing for him. The first time my grandfather saw a ghost, he ran home and cried to his great-grandfather. Only then did he know about the Wu family psychic. The psychic is only a "bridge" between the dead and the living because of his physical condition. , itself does not have great ability, and it is impossible to change his fate, so my great-grandfather did not hide this matter from my grandfather, in order to let him be mentally prepared, and told him to deal with it as normal, not to affect to life."

"My grandfather's generation caught up with the Cultural Revolution and broke the Four Olds. My great-grandfather was reported, Wu's house was ransacked, and my great-grandfather was dragged out to protest in the streets. Various records of Wu's ancestors about psychics have also become negative. The typical textbook was burnt clean in front of many people. Later, my great-grandfather couldn’t bear the humiliation and committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake with his great-grandmother. Some people said that “witch” means witchcraft, and it is also a category of the four olds. To draw a clear line between my grandfather and great-grandfather, my grandfather had no choice but to change his surname from Wu to Wu. After the end of the Cultural Revolution and the reform and opening up, my grandfather took my grandmother and my father away from the sad place and went to Q City. settle down."

Wu Chunxing recounted these past events, during which Qiao Yuan and Wu Qinyang did not speak.Wu Qinyang never thought that his family still had such past events. He had only roughly learned the history mentioned by Wu Chunxing in textbooks, and he didn't know much about it. He never thought that he would deepen his impression of that era in this way. Feeling emotional for a moment, I was full of thoughts, and then I heard Wu Chunxing say: "Wu Xuejun is my father's name."

"My dad also inherited this special physique from the Wu family. Because my grandfather has experienced it personally, he knows the trouble it may cause, and he didn't hide it from my dad. I should have said it just now. The reason why a matchmaker can become a psychic is only because of his own physical fitness, and he does not have much ability. Even if he is possessed, he must have a celestial master or a Taoist priest to summon the soul first. There is no soul of a dead person. To put it bluntly, it’s just a container. But my dad is different, he has the ability to call back souls, and he doesn’t feel any discomfort when he is caught by a ghost. I was very surprised. Some people found out about the previous affairs of the Wu family, and came to my father for help, begging in every possible way, saying that they wanted to see their wife who died unexpectedly. My grandfather did not approve of my father becoming a psychic teacher. Fortunately, my father I didn't have this idea myself, I just helped out and didn't treat it as a serious job, and the rest of the time I worked down-to-earth, and then I met my mother, married a wife and had children, and then I was born."

Wu Chunxing said: "Actually, the 'Zenghai Road Disappearance Incident' is not the first such consecutive disappearance incident. The earliest one I know of is in Q City." When he said this, his expression darkened slightly, as if he had thought of something that he couldn't bear to look back on. After a moment of silence, he continued, "As I said just now, my dad is different from ordinary psychics. He is more likely to see ghosts and communicate with ghosts than ordinary psychics... When I was eight years old , One day my dad came home from night shift and met a homeless man on the street. After getting closer, he realized that the homeless man was not a 'human', but just a ghost. My dad was a nice guy...thought he had a wish I wanted to help him, but the homeless man left without a word, and my dad never saw him again."

"My dad didn't pay much attention to it at the beginning, but after a period of time he encountered four or five such ghosts one after another, and he began to feel that something was wrong. Although my dad is more likely to see ghosts than ordinary people, he doesn't come to them frequently. At this level, he can see the appearance of ghosts, and he has the clue of appearance, so he used the time of the weekend to conduct some investigations intermittently, and later found that these people were all missing."

"...Those missing people are mostly single, or people with relatively withdrawn personalities. In short, they are the kind of people who will not be noticed immediately even if they disappear. My dad originally wanted to report the case, but there is no conclusive evidence It proves that these people were murdered, and if they want to file a case, they can only disappear, and it will be over for a long time. But my dad is still very concerned about this matter, and my mother suggested that our family go to the suburbs for a walk..."

"As a result, our family had a car accident on the highway and hit a freight truck that was going backwards. My parents and my grandfather died." Wu Chunxing said lightly, "The Wu family has inherited this kind of psychic ability. Physique, I am no exception. Later I found out that someone got on me and used me to kill my parents and grandpa."

Wu Qinyang was stunned for a moment: "How could it be..."

"After that car accident, I became an orphan. I didn't want to go to the orphanage, so the police contacted my mother's relatives in K City and sent me there." Wu Chunxing continued, "During the Cultural Revolution, because my great-grandfather was a four-old A typical example, many relatives were eager to disregard the relationship with our family in order to protect themselves. Later, my grandfather moved again, so I could not contact anyone in the Wu family at that time. Full responsibility, I received a large amount of compensation and moved into Aunt Lan's house with this compensation. Aunt Lan is my mother's distant cousin, and this compensation is my living expenses for living in his house in exchange , she will take care of me until I reach adulthood." Selectively ignoring the cold reception caused by rumors about her psychic physique.

"Then you know the 'Zenghai Road Disappearance Incident'. Two years have passed since the car accident happened. On the afternoon of the 13th, I went to my classmate's home to do group homework. After finishing the homework, I was going to go back. I took the 625 bus at that time. I remember that there were not many people on the bus at the time. When No. 625 stopped at Zenghai Road Station, a passenger who made me feel very strange got on. He kept looking at me. At that time, there was only At the next stop, I got up from my seat and changed to the door position, but the car never stopped after that, the strange person disappeared, and everyone in the car fell asleep.”

"Finally, the car stopped at a station. The station had no name, but it was very similar to Zenghai Road. It was already dark at that time, and there was a bell ringing not far away. I wanted to know if there was anyone around, so I turned to the bell Then I saw that strange passenger with a bell in his hand, and a faceless man standing beside him..." Wu Chunxing said, "It was only later that I realized that the bell was called Yinhun. Bell...their purpose is to 'seize the house', but because their own yin energy is too heavy, they must find a suitable 'container' to accommodate them, otherwise even if they forcibly occupy other people's bodies, they will quickly If it dies from exhaustion, then the 'Seize the House' will be regarded as a failure."

"The consecutive disappearances in Q City and K City are because they were looking for a suitable 'container'. The former made them know of my dad's existence by mistake, but my dad is a psychic...not quite like ordinary people. Same, they used me to cause that car accident, but they didn't expect my dad's body to be unrecognizable in that car accident, and they couldn't use it at all, and they finally targeted me. They said this to me... I never knew that the car accident happened because of me... Although the truck was going the wrong way, it might not collide with a two-lane..." Wu Chunxing murmured, "Then the master appeared, and those two people Gone... When I realized it, I was already on the bus that was on fire. The people who disappeared before were all dead because of their failure to "seize the house"... Those bodies were found on the bus , After being taken away by the police, I realized that I had been missing for more than ten days, but my feeling was only one night, that is, two or three hours."

"No one would believe what happened in the car. Later, the master recognized me as an apprentice, and I left Aunt Lan's house and started living with the master...but the master didn't teach me anything. provoke these things." Wu Chunxing said, "I always thought that those two people had already been dealt with by the master... and now, 'Xuejun' is my dad's name, and they used the same method, they probably wanted to remind me , They're back again."