Chapter 14: Messenger for the Ghost

Thanks to the guidance of the old lady, Tian Jiu easily found her family. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At this moment, their family was standing in front of the door of the crematorium, and the faces of each of their relatives were full of sadness and helplessness, and the old man leaned weakly on his son's body, which looked like it was caused by excessive sadness.

The atmosphere of the funeral home was unusually dull, with all filial piety clothes and white wreaths, which made people breathless. Tian Jiu stood far away and waited quietly, not daring to disturb their sad state of mind in silent remembrance of their relatives. The soul of the old lady stood beside her relatives, looking at her family members with grief and grief, and she was close to them but could not talk about yin and yang.

Looking at the door of the crematorium, Tian Jiu suddenly had a thought in his mind, wondering if his body had also been incinerated here, and whether Ou Jianping would be as heartbroken and crying as they were. Thinking of this, Tian Jiu's nose was so sour that he wanted to cry, but fortunately, this is a place for people to cry, and no one will care about his emotional changes.

After about twenty minutes, an employee walked out of the crematorium, holding a black wooden box in his hand, and handed it to the old lady's son. The old lady's son took it carefully and called softly, "Mom." Then tears welled up in his eyes, and he couldn't cry.

The old father took the wooden box and called softly: "Wife..." "The words are not exhausted, and the old tears are already horizontal. Decades of getting along with each other, day and night, this sudden hurried farewell, yin and yang are forever separated, how can this twilight old man bear it, and how to spend the lonely days in the future.

The funeral home deliberately vacated a piece of land in the open space to the west and built an incinerator in the shape of an incense burner, leaving a few holes in the middle for burning the relics of the deceased. Wisps of white smoke rose in front of the incinerator, as if telling the deceased's parting feelings and all the things before his death.

The old lady's family was guided by the funeral home staff to the incinerator, took out the old lady's relics from a large cardboard box, held them in their arms and wept silently, one by one looked and looked, touched and touched, the movements were so slow and reluctant, they hoped to feel the existence of the old lady from this clothing for the last time. Tian Jiu stood aside, looking at them quietly, his heart suddenly sank, as if he had been pressed against a boulder, a little out of breath.

Because there were other family members waiting to use the incinerator, the old lady's son and daughter-in-law could only start to send them to the furnace one by one. Most of the clothes they burned were the clothes worn by the old lady during her lifetime, including the padded jacket that the old lady said.

Seeing that this padded jacket was about to be burned, Tian Jiu had no choice but to bite the bullet and hurriedly stepped forward to stop it: "Wait a minute, don't burn that one yet." ”

The old lady's family was immersed in pain and slowly burned the relics, remembering their relatives, so that when they were shouted like this, they all stopped what they were doing and stared at Tian Jiu in surprise.

Tian Jiu looked embarrassed, but he had to say: "There is a deposit slip in that dress, which was put by your old lady." The old lady's son, out of instinct, quickly grabbed his clothes and rummaged through them, but found nothing.

Tian Jiu hurriedly added: "It's where the inner lining of the clothes is sewn with thread." The old lady's son turned the garment over again, and now he quickly found the thread, and with a vigorous tear, a note was revealed. He spread out the note, and it was a $30,000 deposit slip with his mother's name on it. The son was full of surprise and handed the deposit slip to his father in a daze.

Seeing that the deposit slip had been handed over to her family, the ghost of the old lady standing on the side smiled with relief, turned around and bowed deeply to Tian Jiu. Tian Jiu nodded and smiled faintly, accepting her thanks.

Since the deposit receipt has been handed over to the old lady's family, there is nothing to do with Tian Jiu here, and Tian Jiu is about to turn around and leave. I didn't want to, but I was told by the old lady's son: "Please wait a minute." "Stopped.

Tian Jiu had no choice but to stop and look at them with a smile.

The old lady's son was full of doubts, and asked Tian Jiu bluntly: "How do you know that there is a deposit certificate in the clothes?" The tone and attitude of the old lady's son were obviously questioning.

Tian Jiu wanted to say directly that it was your mother's ghost who entrusted it to him, but he was worried that they wouldn't believe it, and it would even frighten their family if it was serious, so he had to lie and say, "Your mother entrusted me with a dream." ”

The old lady's son really didn't believe what Tian Jiu said, and this time he seriously asked: "If you want to entrust your dream, you should also entrust it to us, how can you entrust it to such a stranger? Who are you? How can you know about my family?"

Tian Jiu didn't know how to explain it, and fell into an embarrassing situation for a while, this person is sometimes so unreasonable, you obviously helped him, but he wanted to question your motives for helping him. The more Tian Jiu couldn't explain clearly, the more suspicious the old lady's family became. In desperation, Tian Jiu had no choice but to point to the old lady's ghost and say, "It was the soul of the old lady of your family who entrusted it to me." Everyone looked in the direction of Tian Jiu's finger, but with their naked eyes, how could mortals see ghosts, and how could they believe that there were ghosts in the world.

The old lady's son and daughter-in-law's face changed suddenly, I don't know if it was out of fear or suspicion, anyway, the eyes they revealed made Tian Jiu very uncomfortable, and he wanted to leave.

If Tian Jiu could make up a better lie, maybe he could dispel their doubts, how could this ghost theory be convincing in an instant in modern society. On the contrary, the old man grabbed Tian Jiu's arm and asked hurriedly, "What you said is true? ”

Tian Jiu nodded and said, "Yes, it's right next to you." When the old man heard this, he immediately lost control of his emotions and cried: "You ask her for me, why did you leave me alone and go first? Didn't you say that you want to live and die together? Now, how will you live the days after leaving me alone・・・・・?"

Tian Jiu wanted to comfort him a few words, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know how to speak, at this moment, no amount of consolation was useless.

The ghost of the old lady on the side tugged at his sleeve, Tian Jiu understood that she had something to say, nodded and agreed to help her pass the word. The next passage is a retelling of the old lady's last words.

Tian Jiu said: "Your old lady said that life and death are life and wealth, and I hope you will not be too sad." She can become a family with you in this life, and it is her blessing to have a husband who knows the cold and the heat, a filial and sensible son, a kind and virtuous daughter-in-law and a smart and well-behaved grandson. She said that she has lived a very happy life in this life, no regrets, and if there is a next life, she is still willing to become a family with you... Tian Jiu choked up and said these words, his heart was not more comfortable and relaxed than that of this family.

Tian Jiu choked up and spoke for the old lady, he felt that these words were not only conveyed for the old lady, but also a large part of his heart, these words were also what he wanted to confide in Ou Jianping and his son and had time to confide in the future, now, Tian Jiu no longer has this opportunity.

When the old lady's family heard this, they were already grief-stricken and couldn't cry, at this time, they had no time to care about the truth of what Tian Jiu said, and they were completely immersed in grief and couldn't extricate themselves.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tian Jiu quickly escaped from the old lady's family and walked out of the funeral home.

Standing on the road outside, Tian Jiu exhaled deeply, and his mood suddenly felt much lighter. The atmosphere in the funeral home is so oppressive that staying for an extra minute can make people feel suffocated and uncomfortable.

Opposite the funeral home is a cemetery, solemn and silent, and the funeral home is separated by a big road, some family members will go to buy the cemetery inside, take out the ashes of their relatives from the funeral home and send them directly to the cemetery for burial.

Tian Jiu stood on this side of the road, looking at the rows of tombstones in the cemetery in the distance, and wondered on a whim, whether his cemetery was also inside, he just wanted to cross the road and go inside to see, a bus happened to enter the platform at this time, Tian Jiu ran a few steps without any ideological consciousness and jumped directly on the bus.

After getting in the car, looking back at the cemetery that was gradually moving away, Tian Jiu regretted it a little. He scolded himself, didn't he want to go to the cemetery to see, why was he in such a hurry to get on the bus, he was just a homeless man with no friends to talk to, no work to do, and nowhere to go, even this bus has its stop, but he didn't know where the next stop was? Looking at the busy city outside the car window, Tian Jiu only felt that his whole heart was empty and unsettled.