Chapter 165: Buying Life Money, Seeing Death and Not Saving
From Yu Erdai's demeanor, I could see that this must be something that was difficult for him to talk about. So I also humanly didn't force him to say it immediately, but let him brew his emotions and pour me a glass of water by the way - I haven't drunk a sip of water since I entered the door, and this great writer is really lacking in hospitality.
After doing this, Yu Erdai also calmed down a lot, and slowly said something outrageous.
"Ten days ago, I had just returned from a book signing, and it was already early in the morning when I arrived at the airport. I drove home in the car that had already stopped at the airport, and I was very tired by that time. I drove to a street near the neighborhood, and several street lights on the side of the street were broken, and the dim lights were intermittent, and I remember very well that the moonlight that night was also very dark, and even gave me a strange feeling. It was as if someone had veiled the moonlight, and now that I think about it, maybe it was a sign of what happened later. ”
Hearing this, I can't help but sigh that Yu Erdai is worthy of being an Internet writer, it's time to tell a story.
He continued: "Because I turned another corner and I was at the gate of the community, I deliberately slowed down. Suddenly, a woman covered in blood climbed onto the front of my car, and the white headlights shone on her face, like a female ghost asking for her life, and I immediately stepped on the brakes. I looked at her face closely, and although it was covered in blood, I could still recognize that she was also a person who lived in the villa area. I've met her a few times, and she once recognized me and claimed to be my reader to strike up a conversation with me. ”
When Yu Erdai spoke, his hands were trembling, and he didn't know if it was an occupational disease caused by his perennial typing, or because of nervousness.
"I opened the door and got out of the car to check, she slipped off the front cover of my car and was lying motionless on the ground, probably unconscious, but I confirmed that she was still breathing. I immediately wanted to call the police, but when I took out my phone, I realized that I couldn't call the police. Although I know very well that I haven't hit anything, it is impossible for me to hit her. But no one would believe it, because there was no monitoring on the side of the road, and I forgot to drive the dashcam that night. Now she's bloodied my car, and I'm at a loss for words. ”
"So you left her alone and ran away on your own?" I asked.
"I didn't leave her alone." Yu Erdai defended, "I drove the car back to the garage, wiped the blood on the car, walked to the scene of the incident, and then called the police." When the police asked me about it, I said that I couldn't sleep and went out for a walk when I stumbled upon her. Pity...... The next day, I got the news that she could not be rescued because she was not taken to the hospital in time, and the murderer who killed her had not been caught. I heard that she had a quarrel with her husband that night, ran away from home in a fit of rage, and was hit by a car just out of the community, and her husband almost went crazy because of it, and on the day of the funeral, I could hear his heart-rending cry at home. ”
According to what he said, he didn't even attend someone's funeral, he must have been too weak-minded.
"Mr. Yu, I don't think you should be short of money, right?" I sneered, "Even if you really can't tell, is it worth losing some money more than a human life?" ”
"It's not because of the money, it's because of ...... Because I smoked marijuana that night! Yu Erdai said bitterly, "I'm too sleepy, I'm afraid of accidents while driving, so I smoked some marijuana to make myself excited." A lot of writers don't
I suck it when I'm inspired, even Haruki Murakami. ”
I said in my heart, don't bury Haruki Murakami, if you write an Internet, you have to smoke marijuana, Haruki Murakami can't eat marijuana directly? But having said that, it's no wonder that he didn't dare to call the police, and he would definitely be criminally responsible for drug driving and causing an accident.
"Rebirth: The Great Age of Waves"
"Although there are extenuating circumstances, this is not a reason for you to die and not be saved." "If you call the police and take the injured to the hospital, even if you are actually sentenced, your readers will feel sorry for you, because you saved at least one life," I said. But now? If they know the truth of the matter, they will only disgust you, spit on you, and regret that they have read every word of you. ”
"I know I'm wrong, but it's already like this, what can I do? It can't really be her ghost who is trying to get revenge on me, is it? ”
"It's hard to say, apart from this incident, do you have anything else to worry about?" I asked again.
"This ...... Is it considered that the update is too slow and the water injection is too severe? Yu Erdai asked rhetorically.
I couldn't help but sneer, "Your readers were boiled to death by you, so they came back to get revenge on you, didn't they?" ”
Although I'm joking, I can't rule out this possibility 100%, what if there is really that kind of person who can't think about it for a while, and is unwilling to die and want to take away the author who has been chasing him for many years?
"It shouldn't be...... Yu Erdai smiled stupidly, "Although there are many readers who are dissatisfied, I haven't seen anything particularly radical." ”
"You should know which building the deceased lived in, right?"
Yu Erdai nodded and replied, "I know, do you also think she did it?" ”
"Not necessarily, but half of her death was caused by you, shouldn't you come to the door to pay respects?" I glared at Yu Erdai, and I knew from his expression that he didn't dare to see the deceased and the deceased's family afterwards.
I'm going to take him with me to visit, and if the ghost of the female ghost is not gone, it's impossible not to go home, and besides, if I bring her enemy to the door, she'll be annoyed and angry. When the time comes, I will wait at her house for her to throw herself into the net.
Yu Erdai said reluctantly: "What did I say, her husband should be the only one left in her house, and I don't know him well." If you want to investigate, just go yourself, right? ”
"As I said, you must be inseparable from me today, unless you are not afraid that as soon as I leave, the ghost who wants to harm you will come to the door."
Yu Erdai was frightened by me, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only take me to the villa where the deceased lived in every possible way. According to Yu Erdai, the deceased's husband was a painter, and the deceased opened an online store before his death, which was the main source of income for their family. But the relationship between the couple was very tense, they quarreled at the end of the three days, and then reconciled again in a few days, and the whole villa area heard about it.
When we went to visit, her husband was really at home, and when he saw Yu Erdai, the surprised expression on his face was immediately captured by me. It stands to reason that there should be no fewer people coming to worship these days, Yu Erdai, as his neighbor, is the one who found out that his wife was hit, and it is understandable to visit him, why is he so surprised?
Yu Erdai lied that he had been out of the house in the past few days, so he didn't come to visit until today. The husband of the deceased said that he did not mind, and he was already very grateful to come, and said that his wife's favorite thing to read what he wrote before her death was an out-and-out "fish scale" (Yu Er
Dai's fan nickname).
The two of us put a stick of incense on each other in the mourning hall at home. I didn't react, I saw too many dead people and ghosts, but Yu Erdai was probably due to a weak heart, and his legs were trembling when he looked at the black and white photo frame of the deceased, if it wasn't for me pulling it, he would have liked to kneel down on the spot.
Before leaving, I secretly took away a piece of paper money that was idle next to the mourning hall, which should have not burned down in her house.
As soon as Yu Erdai went out, he gasped for breath, with a relieved expression on his face. After a while, he calmed down and asked, "Did you find anything?" ”
"I found that there was no yin qi in his house, and it didn't look like a ghost had ever visited." I said, "And the paper money left over from his family, it is not the same style as the one you received, it is printed with the 'Heaven and Earth General Bank', and there are no spell runes in the mezzanine." ”
"So, isn't she trying to get revenge on me?"
I shook my head and pondered, "But it's also very strange, if your family is at a funeral, will you still leave some of the Stygian coins behind?" ”
"Then I'm sure I'll burn it all at once." Yu Erdai said without hesitation.
"But her husband kept some of it, and put it in a very conspicuous place, as if he was afraid that others would not see it." I was puzzled, and I held my chin and began to analyze the suspicions, "But it doesn't make sense, how could she, an online store owner, use the money to buy her life with a spell?" It's impossible for ordinary ghosts to draw those runes......"
When Yu Erdai heard my words, he asked in great trepidation: "If I can't find out who is trying to harm me, am I going to die?" ”
"Don't worry, you can't die." I said in my heart, I definitely can't let you be killed by ghosts, but if you can't crack the spell, you may have to lose a lot of yang life, but I don't want him to be more afraid, so I didn't tell him the truth.
I thought about it and felt that the suspicion was still on the woman and her husband who were killed in the collision, so I had an idea and asked, "Is there a place near me that sells funeral supplies?" ”
"There really is, there is a street next to it that specializes in selling funeral supplies, and we usually call it a ghost street." Yu Erdai nodded slightly.
"Check it out."
Although the ghost street is not very long, there are many large and small stores. Paper people, paper horses, paper burning, and dark coins, each merchant has a full set of services. My grandfather was a paper maker, but unlike these vendors, he relied on traditional craftsmanship and delivered goods himself. Nine times out of ten, these vendors buy wholesale first and then sell at a high price.
I found a shop that looked very regular, and the owner was an old man, and as soon as he saw us enter, he began to shout at his family's funeral goods, saying that his paper figures were the best in the whole street. In fact, I knew at a glance that his paper products were by no means from the hands of authentic paper craftsmen, and maybe the manufacturers who purchased the whole street were the same, otherwise why make it a funeral street.
The old man's shouting turned out to be very trendy: "What do the guests see? Small shop paper people, paper horses, paper cars, paper money are readily available, according to the work before the death of the work we also have different products - I am an official I give you a paper secretary, I am a business I have a paper accountant, no daughter-in-law will burn paper daughter-in-law, no children will burn paper children, married and have children, we still have paper second wife. Anyway, only you can't think of it, and there is nothing we can't do. ”