Chapter 20: But we don't remember
"Zhang Wentao, where are you going?" Wen Xin hurriedly shouted against the car window.
"City Hospital. With that, he stepped on the accelerator and rushed out.
"Let's go," Qiao Ming's heart finally let go, and patted Wen Xin's shoulder, "Let's go and have a look." โ
Gou Rixin doesn't like hospitals. The pungent smell of disinfectant around him made his empty stomach even more uncomfortable. He remembered the pancake fruit that had been abandoned at the entrance of the campus, and meowed hungrily.
At the door of the emergency room, a little brother who kept sneezing moved his ears and looked at Qiao Ming's schoolbag.
"There's a cat in there?" he stared into Qiao Ming's eyes.
"Huh?" Qiao Ming was stunned by the question.
"I'm allergic to cats, a-" The little brother said as he rubbed his red nose.
"That... I'm sorry. Qiao Ming stood up embarrassedly and moved to another seat.
The little brother sneezed again, looked at Qiao Ming with gloomy eyes and a flushed face, and added in a low tone, "Within a radius of five hundred meters, I will be allergic." โ
"Is that an exaggeration?" Qiao Ming pouted.
Wen Xin took Qiao Ming's hand embarrassedly when he saw it, "Thank you Qiao Ming, I'm here alone, and Xiaowei's colleagues." Why don't you go back first, and when Auntie wakes up, I'll call you. โ
"It's okay, then I'll go out and buy you something to eat, you shouldn't have had dinner." Call me if there's something to do. Qiao Ming said goodbye to a few people and walked out with his schoolbag on his back.
Out of the hospital building, Qiao Ming breathed a long sigh of relief. Today is a whole day, like a roller coaster.
"Can I come out?" Gou Rixin poked his head out of the zipper and asked silently, "I've been in my schoolbag all afternoon." โ
"This is the hospital, you'd better be patient, what if the security guards of the hospital see you and expel you?" Qiao Ming looked around, trying to find a small supermarket nearby.
Gou Rixin was silent for a while, and finally couldn't help but say, "If you don't mind, I'll be in it for convenience." โ
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When Gou Rixin came out of the bushes refreshed, he found Qiao Ming standing on the road, his body stiff and motionless.
"What's wrong, frozen stupid?" asked Gou Rixin suspiciously.
", what the hell I'm going to again. Qiao Ming scolded with a trembling voice. A ghost child dressed in white with a bloody face suddenly jumped down from a tree and grimaced at her.
"Hospital, what the hell is strange. Gou Rixin pouted his buttocks, arched his back and shrunk his abdomen, and stretched a cat-like lazy waist.
"People are humane, ghosts have ghosts, and I don't want to take the fork in the road. Why can I see ghosts, Lao Tzu really doesn't want to have this kind of ability. Qiao Ming shuddered, and trotted over to a crowded place with his arms crossed, the yin qi under the tree was too heavy.
In the small square of the city hospital, there are patients and their families coming and going. In the center of the square, there was a large group of people in a circle next to each other, not knowing what they were doing. Qiao Ming approached curiously.
Through the cracks in the crowd, I could see some candlelight leaking out. It turned out that someone was here to commemorate and pray for blessings.
"What day is today?Heroes Day?" Qiao Ming frowned suspiciously.
"I heard that it was an explosion and was burned alive. Two little girls passing by muttered.
Qiao Ming's heart moved, couldn't she be praying for Li Xiaowei's blessing? She hurriedly squeezed into the crowd. If so, does Li Xiaowei's mother have more courage to live?
Hundreds of candles on the ground were arranged in the shape of hearts, and the faint light of the candles swayed in the wind. Qiao Ming, who squeezed to the front, narrowed his eyes slightly, and finally saw the photos on the shelf. Men, women and children, five different faces in black and white, smiling indifferently in the warm yellow candlelight. Looks like a family.
Gou Rixin squeezed in from the crowd and stood at Qiao Ming's feet, "They said that it was a family of five people who had a car accident, and the car exploded after overturning, and none of the family was spared." The man seems to be quite famous. โ
"Hmm," Qiao Ming looked at the face of a middle-aged man in the five photos, he was a famous local host, and Qiao Qishan especially liked to watch the show he hosted when he was alive.
Looking at the burning candle flame in front of him, Qiao Ming recalled the pictures of the suburban warehouse fire in the news report, and somehow a mist slowly gathered in his eyes. The flickering candlelight instantly joined together and smeared before her eyes.
Although he felt that it was wrong, Qiao Ming's heart was still slightly disappointed. She even suddenly thought that Li Xiaowei's mother went with her, and the family reunion might not be a bad thing.
Anyway, no one remembered who she was, what he did, and why they died.
"What's wrong with you?" Gou Rixin asked in surprise, "Know?"
"No," Qiao Ming sniffed and wiped away his tears, "just remembering my dad, it was also a car accident." โ
"Condolences change. Gou Rixin comforted.
"You wait here, I'll go to the supermarket and buy something. Qiao Ming turned around.
"Don't!" Gou Rixin swooped over and hugged Qiao Ming's leg, "I'm a hungry and weak kitten now, what if I'm expelled by the hospital staff." โ
This small action disturbed the quiet and prayer crowd, and immediately received several dissatisfied glances. Qiao Ming shrunk his neck in fright and squeezed out.
By the time Qiao Ming returned to the emergency room, Li Xiaowei's mother had been pushed out and was ready to be arranged into the inpatient department. The doctor walked out with the medical record sheet, "The patient is no longer in serious trouble, and the escort at night should do a good job of the patient's ideological work to avoid such a thing from happening again." โ
When everything was arranged, several people argued over the question of deciding who would stay as a chaperone. There are also two young men who came with Zhang Wentao, and Wen Xin felt that as a woman and with a certain foundation in nursing, it would be better to stay and accompany him.
In the end, Zhang Wentao said, "Little Viagra is gone, I am half of my aunt's son, as long as I, Zhang Wentao, am still there, I will be responsible for giving my aunt a pension." โ
The few people standing on the side choked in their hearts, and they all stopped talking uncomfortably.
"Did you go to the Thorn Fox Temple to find Li Xiaowei?"
"Well," Wen Xin lowered his head, "I want to see him again, but I don't know where to look for him." I remembered what you said about the Thorn Fox Temple, and you can see ghosts. โ
"Fool," Qiao Ming sighed.
"Let's go, I'll take you somewhere. Qiao Ming pulled Wen Xin to the place where everyone had just prayed.
The crowd in the square gradually decreased, leaving only a pile of burning candles, flickering in the cold wind. Qiao Ming took out the things he had just bought from his bag and placed them on the ground one by one.
Photos, stories, flowers, candles, lanterns, and signature pads.
"I'm in a hurry, so I can only buy these. I told the security guard in charge that I would save the lights until tomorrow night. โ
"The person who just prayed said that Heaven has another host, but they don't know that Heaven has another handsome firefighter. Perhaps, Li Xiaowei's mother will feel better when she sees it. โ
Wen Xin finally smiled, but did not speak, squatted down and silently began to help Qiao Ming decorate.
Zhang Wentao's words just now made Wen Xin suddenly realize his timidity.
When he said that he wanted to be half of Li Xiaowei's mother's son, Wen Xin's heart instantly shrank. She realized that she didn't have the courage to say something similar. This makes her sad all the time, if Li Xiaowei knows, will he resent himself.
She's an irresponsible coward, and she hates that for herself.
"Meow-" Gou Rixin, who was squatting on the side, suddenly arched up, and a circle of hair exploded on his neck.
"What's wrong?" Wen Xin was startled.
"Shhhh The two of them squatted on the ground, holding their breath and concentrating.
That ghost kid came running.
Wearing a fat white hospital gown on his body, he looked like a bean sprout, and I saw his bare feet stained with dirty blood, giggling and shuttling between those candles, as if he was not afraid of being burned at all.
"Come and get me, come and get me, Uncle Blame, haha..." The little boy laughed softly, his bloody face could not be seen clearly, and in the flickering lights, he looked hideous and terrifying.
Qiao Ming pulled Wen Xin to his side, and the cells in his whole body were twelve points vigilant. Bursts of cries grew closer, mixed with the sound of chains clattering and dragging the ground. Gou Rixin meowed, and the two of them huddled together.
"How-woo-"
Qiao Ming hurriedly covered Wen Xin's mouth and told her not to make a sound.
The cold atmosphere around him became thicker, and the little boy ran for a while, suddenly screaming, and muttered to himself on his photograph.
In a corner of the hospital building, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared, and I saw Black Impermanence floating towards the center of the square with a miserable white face. Four chained ghosts, dressed in white hospital gowns, wept and cried after him. Floating at the end is a gloomy white impermanence.
"Mom and Dad, come and see, here are our pictures, and my sister is lighting candles for us. The little boy suddenly shouted.
Qiao Ming's hand, who heard the shout, shook violently, and the unlit candle fell to the ground. This candle can no longer be used.
Hei Wuchang pulled a string of ghosts and floated to the little boy's side, and glanced at Qiao Ming and Gou Rixin coldly. He said, "Have you had enough, let's go." โ
"No, I'm going to play with candles with my sister. โ
Qiao Ming's heart stopped instantly. The nurse has a leg!
"Your mom and dad are leaving. Black Impermanence said impatiently.
"Let's go, I know home anyway. โ
After listening to the conversation between Hei Wuchang and the child, Qiao Ming was surprised in his heart, why didn't the cold-blooded and ruthless impermanence not use iron chains to tie the child, and let him run around like this to be scary? Could it be that ghost children are different from adults?
"Uncle is going to be angry. "Black impermanence elongates the face, and it is even more eerie and terrifying.
"Slightly-" The little boy grimaced at the black impermanence, "You're a weird uncle, I don't like you, you look scary, ugly!"
The yin qi around him instantly intensified, and Qiao Ming couldn't help but shiver, and the hairs on his body stood up one by one. Gou Rixin beside him has also been blown up into a hedgehog. Only Wen Xin was at a loss, pinching his breath, carefully observing the surroundings, what the hell was going on?
"Sister!"
"Ahh
The little boy who suddenly floated over scared Qiao Ming into a scream and fell to the ground.
"Hahaha," the little boy laughed, "sister, can you play with me?"
Qiao Ming pursed his lips and looked at the child's face with dull eyes, but he couldn't take his eyes off it as if he was frozen.
"Sister, I also want to light candles, let's play together, or Uncle Blame will take me away." "The ghost kid is lost.
The black and white impermanence of the dog's day, take him away quickly! Qiao Ming didn't dare to move, he didn't dare to speak, and he even pinched his breathing.
The little ghost in front of him had a face full of blood, and when he opened his mouth, his white teeth were full. He was now smiling at her, looking at the candle in her hand from time to time. Seeing Qiao Ming sitting motionless on the ground, he stretched out his bloody little hand in confusion.
"Meow-" Gou Rixin suddenly screamed and jumped in front of Qiao Ming.
"Ah, little kitten, I didn't even notice it when it was dark. The little boy called excitedly, "Mom and Dad, come and see, black kitten." โ
The four ghosts, chained by black and white impermanence, were still crying and whimpering, deaf to the little boy's words.
"Find your mom and dad!" said Gou Rixin.
"Ahh That cat can speak human language!"
"Doudou is good. The woman who was holding the boy subconsciously comforted her, patted the little boy on the head, and continued to cry.
The black and white ghosts were all together, and they turned around expressionlessly. The little boy poked his head out from behind his mother and waved his hand to Qiao Ming, "Goodbye, sister." โ
The five souls were chained together and slowly followed behind Black Impermanence. A huge shadow stepped on those burning candles, floating by unconsciously. It's just that when the five ghosts were in a candle flame, Gou Rixin's pupils shrank suddenly.
The flickering candle flame in front of him instantly rose and burned into a sky-high flame. Those bound ghosts cried and grabbed the ground, and suddenly knelt on the ground and screamed and kowtowed and begged for mercy, as if they had been greatly wronged. An old man who was over the age was in the most miserable shape, his hair was scattered, covered in blood, and his old face was full of sorrow when he looked at the children and grandchildren who were also tied up and kneeling on the ground beside him.
"Evil, evil~"
The executioner behind him was expressionless, holding a machete in his hand and ready to be called at any time.
"Execution!" a majestic voice suddenly sounded.
As soon as the words fell, the executioner opened his eyes angrily and raised his knife with both hands, took the death card on the prisoner's back, raised his hand, and the knife fell.
"Don't!" Qiao Ming covered his eyes sharply.
Ya, live broadcast beheading, it's so fucking infiltrating.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Wen Xin beside him hurriedly comforted Qiao Ming, but his face was tangled and helpless.
She can't see, she can't hear, she can't feel, she doesn't know anything. I only saw Qiao Ming trembling, startled, and Gou Rixin who was fried next to him. I don't know what exciting little movies one person and one cat watch.
"Is it over?" Qiao Ming grabbed Wen Xin's arm and asked in a low voice.
"It's over. Gou Rixin meowed.
Qiao Ming opened his eyes, and several headless corpses fell on the execution table covered in blood, and those heads that were cut off rolled and fell off the execution platform, and rolled straight towards Qiao Ming and them.
"Damn!" Qiao Ming exclaimed, and fled with a roll.
"Qiao Ming!" Wen Xin hurriedly chased after him and shouted behind him, "Come back!"
Gou Rixin held his breath and stared at the flames that were still burning. In the raging fire, in addition to the corpses, rolling heads, dripping blood, and burned books. One by one, all thrown into the fire.
The cry in his ears was still there, mixed with an old and desperate voice.
"Iniquity, iniquity~ It's all my iniquity~"
Is this life still so miserable?
Gou Rixin wrinkled a cat face, and there was a monstrous anger in his heart.