At the age of 20, you can see the end of your life at a glance, although you want to live such a comfortable life, but who can you talk to about the helplessness in your heart?

Niu Baiye stretched his waist and sucked the last bit of cigarette butt left in his fingers clean. Then he climbed down from the stainless steel operating table, casually touched the gourd scoop he had just used as a pillow, and walked towards the two large oil drums next to the incense case.

The first time I entered the back kitchen during the day, I was attracted by these two huge oil drums. In particular, the oily black and greasy unknown liquid in this barrel is a bit like asphalt, but not so thick. It's a little like ink, and it's stickier than that.

"Brother Niu, what is this! It looks disgusting. ”

"Of course we look disgusting, but these are the ghosts' favorite foods, fragrant ash oil and wax soup, very nutritious. ”

"Incense ash and oil wax, why is that such a color?"

I still feel a little disgusted, these two buckets of ghost favorite treasures have caused me a very uncomfortable physiological reaction.

"You don't understand that. ”

Niu Baiye asked for half a scoop of fragrant ash oil wax soup and poured it into the dumpling plate, and then turned around and took out a big cardboard box from under the incense table.

The cardboard box contained some white, red-red ooze clay.

Niu Baiye pointed to the soft mud and told me. "Wax clay, white candles and red candles are mixed with beeswax. Don't look at the fragrant ash oil wax soup disgusting. It was all blended by Mr. Su himself with dozens of traditional Chinese medicines. The ancestral recipe of the Su family, which ghost eats it, will say that it is good. ”

A speechless expression tugged at the corner of my mouth.

"Maybe! I guess when I die, I'll be able to think that this black bucket is the ultimate delicacy. I want to come to Old Man Su, his family is really a cow, everything is ancestral!"

Suddenly, I had a bad taste.

"Could it be that the big wave hanging Kaizi is also ancestral?"

Niu Baiye glanced at me at the time, and then the two of us looked at each other and laughed.

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Brother Niu began to show me how to wrap wax dumplings, first pressing the white wax clay into the size of the dumpling skin and making it thick. The inside is covered with a layer of red wax to imitate the tender red meat filling. The innermost part is to scoop a spoonful of fragrant ash oil and wax soup to mimic the fat and enhance the flavor of dumplings.

"Hey, little Wang'er, don't just stand and watch. Help pack a few and feed your little friend. ”

I had to reluctantly follow along, the feel of the wax clay is like the plasticine I played with when I was a child, soft and smooth, with a faint smell of rubber.

A ingots dumplings are wrapped, the appearance is crystal clear, the transparent white wax skin is faintly filled with flesh-red filling, if you don't look carefully, it is really exactly the same as the dumplings we eat.

In an instant, a plate of dumplings was wrapped, and Niu Baiye put a small piece of blue, cylindrical, tasteless incense in the sandwich of the dumpling plate. Disguised as a steaming appearance, I didn't expect this food for ghosts to be so delicately manipulated.

I brought the dumplings to the front room, and Xiao Baozi was watching "Cat and Mouse" on my phone, I remember it was still a movie I watched when I was a child, and Tom could never defeat Jerry, just like people are destined to die. Xiao Bao Zile's eyebrows were crooked, and his eyes were hooked into two crescents.

"Don't look at your phone and eat dumplings. ”

I put the wax dumplings in front of Xiao Baozi. Xiao Baozi stared at this plate of wax mud dumplings with thin skin and big belly, and swallowed saliva in her throat.

"Brother Zehan, these dumplings are so fragrant. ”

"Yes, my brother made it himself! You need to eat more. ”

It seems that this person is really different, I obviously can't smell the slightest smell, but all the ghosts who come here are salivating over this plate of wax dumplings.

I took a pair of disposable wooden chopsticks from the dining table and handed them to Xiao Baozi, "Do you want garlic sauce?" ”

Xiao Baozi shook his head, and couldn't wait to grab the dumplings with his hands and send them to his mouth.

"It's delicious, it's more fragrant than my mother's bag. ”

The dirty black oil soup overflowed from Xiao Baozi's mouth, and my heart was slightly cold.

After about ten minutes, a whole large plate of wax dumplings was eaten by Xiaobao.

"Brother Zehan, I'm full!"

Xiao Baozi showed me his empty dumpling plate, the incense in the middle layer of the plate had not been extinguished, and white smoke was still billowing up.

"Hmm. ”

I nodded silently, and then found a pair of worn-out cotton slippers from the back kitchen and replaced them with Xiao Baozi's thin-soled slippers from the hospital.

I heard that the road to Huangquan is very cold, this child has borne too much illness and physical torture when he is alive, and I still hope that he can walk through the last journey with a full heart.

Niu Baiye told me that when I left the Huangquan Dumpling Restaurant and turned right, I could see a faint yellow light at the intersection of traffic lights. That's the Huangquan Road where the ghosts are going, and I let Xiao Baozi put on my clothes, tighten the zipper, and button his Nike cap.

"Little Baozi, my brother will take you to find your mother. ”

Xiao Baozi smiled silly and handed me his pair of little Xiaoice cold hands.

I took Xiaobaozi and walked out of the Huangquan dumpling restaurant. I came to the traffic light at the fork in the road.

Sure enough, not far to the right, a light yellow light could be faintly seen.

I squatted down on my knees and touched the little white face of the little treasure. Holding back the sourness in his heart, he lied to him and said, "My brother still has to go to work, so I can only send you here." Do you see this yellow light? Keep moving forward, and your mother is waiting for you in front. ”

Xiao Baozi blinked her star-like eyes, full of longing for the light.

"Brother Zehan, I feel that my body is very relaxed. Am I already cured? Will I not have to be hospitalized in the future? I can go home with my mother, and I can go to the aquarium with Xiaohua to watch the dolphin show, Xiaohua said, the dolphins in the aquarium are too big, and they will coo!"

I don't know how to explain it, but this kid is so hopeful about the future. But he didn't know that he was relaxed at the moment because he had already gone through this painful life.

Before I knew it, it was raining in my eyes.

"Yes, you're cured! Go ahead, don't look back, mom is waiting for you in front, aquarium, dolphins, kids are waiting for you in front. ”

"Hmm. ”

Xiao Baozi nodded firmly, waved at me, and finally showed a mouthful of brilliant and neat milk teeth.

I watched him depart step by step, and at the very end of the light, a black mist enveloped him. It should be the other side of the Yellow Spring. My heart twitched slowly, and I couldn't do anything in the face of life and death.

I paused for a moment as the sky began to drizzle.

A biting chill hit, and the sadness in my heart was gradually washed away by this sudden cold.

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Turning to walk back, I suddenly noticed that my surroundings seemed to have changed.

The Huangquan Dumpling Restaurant is obviously diagonally opposite the Central Hospital, because of the special nature of the hospital, the street lights on the street next to it are generally brightly lit.

When I sent Xiaobaozi out just now, the street lights on the side of the street were obviously on, why suddenly, at this moment, my surroundings fell into darkness.

I relied on my memory to grope and walked forward for more than ten meters, and it stands to reason that it should be a dumpling restaurant when I turn a corner. However, when I turned from the side of the street, it was still pitch black, as if I had fallen into a labyrinth without light.

My heart suddenly panicked, it was now more than 3:00 in the morning, and it was the time for ghosts to haunt. Could it be that I met the legendary ghost hitting the wall?

I've seen in horror movies that ghosts hit the wall is when people are controlled by ghosts, and when they can't find their way in the middle of the night or in the suburbs, they are stuck in a rut, no matter how far they go, they are actually spinning in place.

This is naturally the first time I've encountered this situation, but fortunately, I've experienced enough things in the past two days, and I don't make a fuss about so many things that science can't explain.

I quickly took a deep breath to control my emotions and keep myself from being afraid. The only thing I can do now should be to shout for help, see if Niu Baiye can hear it, and rush over to save me.

I adjusted my breathing and sank into the dantian. He took a sharp breath and tore his throat open, wailing like a pig.