Chapter 1 Down?
There is still no shadow of his deceased wife.
Seeing that the time was coming again, I had to hurry back, and if I didn't get back to my lodgings and enter my body before dawn, I was afraid that I would be in trouble.
Unexpectedly, Lao Yuan found that the old ghost was looking around idly on the mottled bench again, with several cigarette butts lying under his feet. It can be seen that the old ghost has been sitting there for a long time.
I want to get around, but I'm worried that I'll get lost again, and I won't be able to do it quickly.
The old ghost is still self-aware and more honest. He said that when he lived in the world, he was a person with low eyes, he couldn't look down on small things, he couldn't do big things, but he had a sweet mouth, could speak well, and developed a problem of rhetoric, and lived to be in his 40s, and he didn't achieve anything big. This problem, coupled with a good skin, helped him deceive a very beautiful daughter-in-law.
However, it was these skills to deceive the daughter-in-law that became the reason why the daughter-in-law left him later. The daughter-in-law is gone, and the old ghost is also discouraged, and he has no interest in going to another woman to cheat, and the days of eating and drinking leisurely are more reasonable. I thought that my life in the world would end peacefully like this, but I didn't think that I was blown off by a wooden box rolled down from a rushing truck while walking on the side of the road in the suburbs, and I died.
I once asked the old ghost why he didn't want to be reincarnated, and he said that it didn't make much difference between being a human being and being a ghost, and there was nothing wrong with staying in the underworld and being a wanderer.
Everyone has their own aspirations, and so do ghosts, so there is nothing to argue about.
After going down a few times, the wandering spirits like the old ghost already knew me, and they would nod and say hello when they met, but the old ghost would pull me idle for a long time every time. Slowly I can figure out his careful thoughts, it seems to be very enthusiastic, in fact, he has no friends over there, inevitably lonely and lonely, thinking about the days of the world, and I almost relieve the boredom, and hope that I will treat him as a friend, and from time to time I can also help him, burn some paper money for him during the New Year's holidays, and send him some food.
Perhaps it was because of the passage of time, coupled with the lazy virtue of his life, that his relatives slowly became numb as the initial compassion faded, and they often couldn't remember his existence in the underworld.
"It's coming down again? I said that you brother, you are affectionate and righteous, how many people are as infatuated as you are with your deceased wife? How many years has your wife been dead, and you still can't forget it, and you come down to find her every once in a while, how much it hurts your body!"
Although the old ghost is a ghost, what he says is still human words.
Because my wife, who cares about her life, and can't hear from her after her death, I often go to the underworld in the middle of the night to look for her lately. came and went, and soon met some friends from the underworld, such as the old ghost, Uncle Niu and Xiaomeng.
"Coming down?" or "Coming down again?" This is the usual phrase used by the old ghost, Uncle Niu and Xiaomeng when they see me, and they say to the acquaintances we have seen in the world, "Are you free?"
But I'm not the same world as them, they've gone down forever, I'm just a temporary visitor with a special pass, and when the time comes to "visit", I'm going to come up again, back to the earthly world, where my body still lies on my bed at home.
Of course, if I'm tired of living, I can not come up and become a member of the Netherworld like them.
But I can't! My daughter is still in college, she is not yet an adult, and she can't hastily follow in her footsteps, so wouldn't she be even more sorry for her and live up to her deathbed request.
However, I didn't have time to chat with the old ghost today, so I quickly took out a cigarette and handed it over to gagged him, saying, "Old ghost, I have to go up quickly, Uncle Niu, who is guarding the door overtime, shouldn't let me go back." ”
The old ghost finally didn't find me a problem, and then I ran into an even more difficult one.
Seeing Xiaomeng walking towards me with a smile, I beat a drum in my heart, thinking: Grandma, you must spare me today, otherwise I can only stay and be a ghost with you.
"Brother Zhao, can you stay with me a little longer today?" Xiaomeng's expectant eyes were still bold and enthusiastic.
To be honest, I really can't bear to refuse Xiaomeng's enthusiasm. It's not that I have any thoughts about her, it's that I think Xiaomeng is actually a very kind but unfortunate girl.
I don't understand, such a good girl, with clear eyebrows, graceful and graceful, polite and polite, and also educated in college, which negative man who doesn't have long eyes, doesn't know how to cherish, the most beautiful 7 years of youth have been spent on him, and when he was looking forward to wearing a wedding dress, the kid empathized and said goodbye, and kicked Xiaomeng mercilessly. Xiaomeng couldn't think about it for a while, and in pain, humiliation and despair, she couldn't cross the psychological hurdle, and ran to the underworld to become a lonely ghost who was not accepted by the king of Hades.
"Xiaomeng, it's really not good today, I got lost when I was looking for your sister-in-law to go back just now, and I was delayed for some time, and it was too late. How about another day?"
After going down a few times, Xiaomeng and I got to know each other better, knowing that I was looking for my wife's soul, and every time I went down, she was very enthusiastic to accompany me, and we got to know each other better, she called my eldest brother and also called my late wife Ziwei my sister-in-law.
"Really, you have an excuse every time. I just want you to walk with me, and I won't eat you, see you push left and right. Xiaomeng pursed her lips and swore "I'm angry."
I know that Xiaomeng's upset is real, but anger is fake, and after all these years of contact, I understand that she is a reasonable girl. It's just that after the first few contacts, after learning about my experience of going down to find my wife's dead soul and my heart for her, every time I go down, Xiaomeng always has to find some excuses, hoping that I will stay down there with her for a while.
"I really didn't lie to you, it's already overtime, if Uncle Niu doesn't let me go, I really can't go back. ”
"Wow, then don't go up, just down there, I'll follow you. As if I really wouldn't go up, Xiaomeng's tone and expression were full of excitement.
"Hey, hey, this is a joke, my daughter is still in school and is not an adult, don't curse me. ”
"Am I such a selfish and ignorant person?"
Xiaomeng is a sensible girl. ”
"Hey, you're not much older than me, I don't like to hear this kind of elder coaxing child. ”
I knew that Xiaomeng did it on purpose, so I didn't pay much attention to her, just smiled at her and turned around and walked in the direction of the ghost gate.
After walking a few steps, Xiao Meng grabbed an arm: "I can't control how you live the days above, but I have to be your girlfriend in the underworld when you come down." ”
Xiaomeng pouted, and there was a posture that I promised her that I would not give up.
"Why is it more outrageous the more you talk about it? I don't have time to delay with you. ”
Maybe it was my demeanor and tone of voice that had already shown enough seriousness and urgency, Xiao Meng took two seconds to dissipate the faint shyness on her face and waved her hand, saying, "Then let's go! Uncle Niu, I'm familiar, I'll send you out." ”