Chapter 11: The Living Dead

I pushed off the two bundles of money and never took them, and Liu Hanyu didn't insist.

It stands to reason that if you are willing to find someone more than 20 years older than yourself, what is it for in the eyes of others, not for money. I insisted on refusing to ask for it, which was a bit of a joke about the three hundred taels of silver here. But I always feel that I haven't completely fallen into it, my head is still exposed, I am lucky, things are not bad in the end, maybe there is salvation, and I owe a favor to the heavens and slowly pay it back. You don't need others to save yourself to climb out.

I had a hearty meal, and I went to the bathroom halfway through. When they came back, the two of them had finished settling the bill, just waiting for me, and when they saw me coming back, they urged me to leave.

Liu Hanyu couldn't drive after drinking, so he booked a substitute driver early, threw the key to the driver when he went out, got into the passenger cab by himself, opened the window and smoked a cigarette.

On the bus, Gao Qiang and I sat side by side and didn't speak, like strangers sitting on the same bus, occasionally meeting, silent, with a straight face without greetings, living in the present and dying in the future, as if a turn would become a farewell.

Since I rejected the ticket handed over by Liu Hanyu, Gao Qiang has always looked unfathomable. The mouth was squeezed into a slit, and the breath was tightly sealed, and a bean that was about to burst was released.

But I couldn't pay attention to him, my mind was full of a scale shaking, with tickets on one side and debts on the other, swaying, always unable to come up with a reason, which made people panic.

The hairy moon suddenly chased after the car, and the street lamps on both sides of the road formed a tunnel of light, and the car passed through it as if it was plated with gold, and drove away in a smoke, as if it was afraid of being remembered by thieves.

The substitute driver is a strong man of more than 200 pounds, with protruding eyes and fat lips, and after a while, he will spew out of his nose like a meat ball. It always felt like the car was driven by him all the way. The shock of the rocket launch was tightly suppressed with a snort.

I counted the number of times he squirted, and one more time was closer to home. It was only when I counted to the thirty-sixth time that it finally arrived.

I hurriedly jumped out of the car and waved through the window. "Drive slowly on the road. "It's nonsense, it's a bit disgusting, but it has to be said.

Gao Qiang was no longer silent, rolled down the window and said to me. "Come up and get some rest...... early"

Liu Hanyu also shouted. "We're here to watch you......"

I said yes and turned and went through the door. No matter what kind of vision you have behind it, you can go neatly without nostalgia.

When I came to the door, I reached into my backpack to find the key, and suddenly I felt that there was a stack of hard things in the backpack, and the boards were neatly located in the second compartment of the backpack. I pinched the thickness and length with my hands, and knew that the two bundles of tickets were finally stuffed to me.

It wasn't until I inserted the key into the lock that the car downstairs drove away with its lights flashing.

When I heard the sound of the car driving away, my heart suddenly cooled, like the moon in the sky.

"You're back!" The door behind him opened with a clatter, and the neighbor Sister Zhang leaned out from behind the door with a white face, vaguely as if she was trembling.

Sister Zhang is a divorced woman who lives alone with her children and lives by running a small barber shop. Every day, I go out early and return late, which is not quite the same as my routine. If it weren't for the late return today, it wouldn't be easy to meet her.

"Sister Zhang, haven't you slept yet?" I greeted Sister Zhang, while bending down to pick up the key that had just been dropped on the ground, and reinserted it into the keyhole with a click. Why do you want to be waiting for me?

But I was just neighbors with her, and my friendship was not to the point where I couldn't sleep until she waited. What the hell is going on?

"Girl, I want to tell you something, don't be afraid. Originally, I didn't want to talk to you, but if I didn't talk about it, I didn't think it was like that, so I ......" Sister Zhang said and walked out of the door. He was wearing blue floral half-worn pajamas, barefoot and slippers, as if he had just washed his feet, and he was holding a quick rag in his hand and twisting his fingers constantly.

"Sister Zhang, if you have something...... you can say it" In the past, such a scene also appeared a few times, and she begged me to help her coax the child. Today, it was because the child's father was going to make trouble, she first came to discuss and let me take the child back to take care of it, and she hid out by herself and waited for the 'scourge' to go away and then come back. But this also has nothing to do with fear, what is going on?

"Alas, how can I say this well? It's better than this for that dead ghost in my family to make trouble......" Sister Zhang said with a sigh, as if she was shaking with desperate determination. "It's a pity...... Haunted!"

"What?!"

Seeing that I had a funny expression on my face, Sister Zhang was afraid that I wouldn't believe it, so she stared at me and lowered her voice and hurriedly filled in the sentence. "It's true. ”

Those who can be seen are not ghosts. I haven't seen you for more than half a year, where can I let you see it? Seeing that Sister Zhang was serious, I couldn't say anything, so I planned to open the door and enter the house.

"It's a pity, don't believe it, otherwise how boring would I be to come to you in the middle of the night?"

After all, my perfunctory hurt Sister Zhang's concern and made her a little resentful.

"That ghost is related to you, or I wouldn't have to wait for you. Oh, first lend me the photo of Wu Tan on your mobile phone, if I read it wrong, you will be nervous and say nothing......"

Unexpectedly, no one would mention Wu Tan, and he cut it like a sharp blade, and his heart trembled in pain.

At that moment, the phone in my pocket rang, and the bell instantly spread through the thin layer of cashmere, and the piercing sound echoed through the stairwell. It seems to be a withered devil's claw stretched out under the night, climbing frantically up the stairs, suddenly rising and grabbing people's hearts. Sister Zhang and I were so shocked that we trembled at the same time.

I hurriedly picked up the phone, it was Gao Qiang calling, it was a good night call. I scrambled a few words and slammed the phone. flipped out the screensaver and handed it to Sister Zhang.

Wu Tan on the screensaver smiled brightly, with snow-white teeth, snow-white shirts, and a pair of bright peach blossom eyes standing under the green plum tree, which was what the two of us looked like when we first met.

Sister Zhang took the phone and exclaimed after just looking at it.

"It's him, it's ......"

"Our friend Xiao Nezha ......" I gave myself a big ear scraper in my heart. It's really not long-hearted, phew!

"When I came back just now, I was about to take the key to open the door, when I suddenly felt someone behind me, and when I turned around, I saw him standing on the steps of the fourth and a half floors like a hanged ghost, looking at me with a blue face. Fortunately, I caught up with the scourge of my family, and he protected me before I dared to enter the house. Although I have only seen his photos, I also have an impression, so scared that I listened to the sound and lay on the cat's eye for a long time, and I didn't see him come down, and then my family couldn't help but open the door to see, and guess what, there was not even a shadow, scared me to death!" Sister Zhang said while patting her thick chest with her hand, looking scared.

I was a little stunned by this strange statement. took the mobile phone handed back by Sister Zhang, and touched her cold fingers, and her fear instantly came. Thinking of the daytime scene today, I couldn't help but start wondering if he had really come looking for me? Surprised, frightened, overwhelming, I was stunned by the thought.

"It's a pity, are you sure he's really dead?......" It seems that the ghosts and gods have not completely made Sister Zhang completely lose her knowledge of life and death, and it is inevitable that there will be doubts.

I don't know how long I've been standing still. Maybe a few seconds, a few minutes, or a few hours? Sister Zhang had already been pulled back into the house by the scourge of her family, and my scourge had come back to me.

The world is terrifyingly quiet......

I mustered up the courage to open the door, and the dark room was like a quiet sea, and the dark tide was turbulent but lifeless. I lifted my limp leg and stepped over the threshold.

"Wu Tan, is that you? Are you back?" I gently closed the door, my nerves on the verge of collapse.

There is no echo in the small room......

I stood at the door and hesitated, scared and afraid, eager to drink Meng Po soup and forget all the ghost stories I had heard and seen, so that I could welcome Wu Tan's return with peace of mind.

I swallowed hard, turned on the light suddenly, changed my shoes and went into the house to look back and forth.

Wu Tan is back, is there anything more important than this? Do you still need to be afraid? I kept asking myself, my tense nerves began to relax, and my cold hands and feet began to warm up.

After relaxing, I began to organize my thoughts, and suddenly Sister Zhang's question, 'Sorry, are you sure he is really dead?' echoed in my mind.

Fear and anger are the source of all ignorance, at least that's what I think. When I calmed down a bit, I changed out of my clothes and put on my cotton pajamas, went to the kitchen to wash up, turned on my computer and started surfing the Internet. When I have something I don't understand, I get used to doing things that make me relax and give myself time to take things down.

Sometimes people's hearts are really cold. From the time Sister Zhang told me that she had met Wu Tan, to now I can sit calmly in front of the computer and browse the web, it is only half an hour. I even began to wonder if I really loved Wu Tan at all, just like now I am beginning to wonder if Wu Tan really died. What's even more hateful is that the two bundles of tickets in the backpack also came to make trouble. I had to concentrate my mind, or my mind would switch from a matter of life and death to a question of money. Sometimes, money does involve life and death, and that's a chilling question.

'Stop!' a little man held up a sign, and I decided to obey.

Tianya, Tieba, Lotus Peng Ghost Talk, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, I made a mess of my world in front of the computer. Then, out of the chaos, a Pangu wielded a big axe, reopened the world, and finally a new clue appeared, so I closed the computer and went to bed like a living dead.