Lin Chen kicked two steps hard and stepped over the stone steps. He looked up, there was no one around, and the cemetery was quiet enough to hear his heartbeat.

The black gown was tightly tied around his body, revealing a deep despair.

Xu Aqi, really dead!

The fortune teller's words are not wrong, she really did not live for three years!

Today, three full weeks have passed since her death, which is what the folk call "Sanqi".

It is said that every seven days after death, a person is to burn a paper grave, and the seventh day is the "first seven." Thereafter, there is a sacrifice every seven days, and so on, and "Sanqi" is the twenty-first day after death. After the death of a person, the ghost is still there, and the king of Hades will send the ghost pawn to seduce the soul to the underworld at a certain time in the seven-seven-forty-nine days.

Of course, Lin Chen didn't know if this legend was true, he didn't know if her soul had left, he just wanted to see her again.

Her loss had drained his life in an instant, and the pain was too great for him to accept.

At this point, he no longer had any work.

Shi Chunzhu finally dismissed him euphemistically. The reason is very simple, not going to work for a long time, plus drinking and missing things.

Only then did he understand that Shi Chunzhu's unexpected kindness and friendliness to him before was originally purposeful, just to leave a good impression on everyone at the beginning of his new tenure, and he was afraid that he would stumble and cause trouble to himself, and now, he has sat firmly on the top spot of the company, and he is going to do things according to his own wishes. Since he is an old enemy, he must be allowed to leave. And the major shareholder surnamed Sun, who kept saying that he wanted the company to take care of Lin Chen, probably had already forgotten him.

In times of despair, wine may be the only good thing that can comfort people.

He was an alcoholic. He drank heavily because of the despair of her departure, drank heavily because he was unemployed, and became destitute because of his alcoholism, and then became even more desperate. He seemed to be inseparable from this thing, and only under the paralysis of alcohol could Lin Chen face all his misfortunes that had become a reality.

After a few days of hard work, he suddenly got a lot older and haggard, he knew it himself! When he looked in the mirror, he pulled out a few gray hairs for himself, and it hurt raw.

Tired of walking, Lin Chen stopped, raised his eyes, and a few dead branches stretched out in a daze under the white curtain of the cloudy sky, bare, dull, monotonous but very tasteful, like a concise oil painting. After watching it for a long time, it makes people have an instantaneous illusion, as if they see those branches stretched in the air, like a dinner knife! Slice the world into pieces, sparsely hit the ground, and there seemed to be a sound when stepping on it.

When I came back to my senses, the world was still the same, and the patchwork was seamless.

The sun hid behind the heavy clouds, and the occasional ray of light shone obliquely on the rows of cold stone monuments. The desolate wind whispers lonely, singing that old nursery rhyme, mourning for the dead who sleep here.

Some of the tombs are extravagant, with marble tombstones engraved with the names of the deceased and flowers in front of them. But more burial mounds are very plain, even rudimentary, without even a stone monument, and graves surrounded by weeds are not uncommon.

After stepping up two more stone steps, he easily found Xu Aqi's tomb.

He looked affectionately and sadly at the cold stone, which was engraved with the familiar, kind, and heartwarming name: Xu Aqi.

Looking at everything in front of him, Lin Chen suddenly felt so familiar!

Once, in a strange and exotic space, he also looked at a stone tablet like this, along with the name on the stone tablet. It's just that there is one more name on the stone tablet than the one in front of you, Lin Chen! Himself!

His hand gripped the corner of his coat and he took two steps back and stopped.

Calming down his thoughts, Lin Chen's tears swirled in his eyes, and he tried to restrain himself and didn't let it fall.

What he has been thinking about is how Xu Aqi died.

He still couldn't understand the words of the Taoist priest! If it was a car accident, it had actually happened a long time ago, just after they were from Lao Mo

On the way back, Xu Aqi had already died in a car accident, and what happened to Xu Aqi who appeared later? What about the car accident that happened later?

Or is it just a premonition, as the Taoist priest said, that the car accident encountered on the road of Lao Mokou was just a premonition? A premonition unfolding in front of them in an immersive way? That is, the real car accident did not happen at that time?

Still, everything is fate. As the fortune teller said, it has long been destined in the dark, people have a fixed number, and when her fixed number arrives, she leaves.

Also, what about that magical little mirror? The Taoist priest said that it could protect Xu Aqi, and he had repeatedly told her to be sure to bring it with him, but this time, he couldn't find it! Both at home and on her.

He saw her last, blood staining the red dress. It's the same so familiar, just like the way he saw her on the road back from Lao Mokou that night, her slightly open eyes, hollow! Lin Chen thought about the fat man's words, and he said that Xu Aqi's later gaze was also hollow, as if his soul had been sucked out of his soul by something.

He was sure that Xu Aqi was not wrong with him.

Lin Chen put his fingers into his hair, and he scratched his hair irritably.

Thinking that she would never come back, his eyes moistened again. He dragged a long shadow, standing in front of her grave, his heart tumbling through thousands of thoughts, full of pain and despair, tears finally could not bear his broken heart, and fell.

"Why you! Why not me! ”

He looked up to the sky and sighed angrily.

The sky, blank.

In the boulevard and in the garden, the laughter and laughter of their past echoed in his ears again.

He regretted that he was not by her side and did not take good care of her! But at the same time, there was a hint of relief in his heart, and something happened to her in the end!

Touching the tombstone engraved with her name, he let out a long breath.

Whoever has been suffering from fear for a long time and is worried about something that finally happens, whether it is good or bad, may breathe a sigh of relief! It's like a person standing on a cliff, always afraid that he will step into the air, and in the end, he still falls. The feeling of hanging is no easier than destruction.

From the fortune teller of Unfukuji Temple telling them that she would die soon, to now, his prophecy has come true. He was scared for so long!

"Give her back to me! Can you give it back to me? She is innocent! ”

He was still moaning.

Lin Chen stood in place, he didn't know what to do, just like watching a movie film, replaying over and over again what he had seen, heard, and felt during this period of time.

His heart was very messy, like a leaf swirling in the wind, thrown here and there, like a butterfly, swooping down on every shadow that seemed to be her.

He gently brushed the dust off the tombstone with his hand and carefully wiped her name.

As he was putting the flowers away, he heard a rustling sound behind him.

Bai Meimei, dressed in plain clothes, holding flowers in her hand, stood silently behind him at some point, she was still so charming, tall, with black hair, and her eyes always seemed to be thinking about something.

"It's you! When did it arrive? Lin Chen wiped the corners of his eyes embarrassedly and nodded, which was regarded as a greeting.

"Just arrived!"

Lin Chen looked at the tombstone, "Aqi is gone!" ”

Bai Meimei took a few steps forward, bowed down and put the flowers on the side of Lin Chen's bouquet, and stood up, "How can this be?" How could it be! She's still so young! ”

"Yes! The world is impermanent! ”

"I just heard about it, hey! What a pity! ”

"It's a car accident!"

"Hmmm! It's horrible! Woe to you! Bai Meimei sighed.

"Thank you for coming to see her!"

"I'm too late

Finish! Such a good friend! At the funeral, I was out of town to collect money, but I couldn't come over, I didn't give her a ride, and I don't know if she would be angry with me. ”

"Nope! She is a sensible, kind girl! He said lightly.

"It's so unfortunate! We're so good! She always thinks about me! I was hoping to talk to her again, but I didn't expect to.." Bai Meimei choked up.

"Alas! You can't be resurrected from the dead! It's just that she's dying too much.."

"Suddenly!" She took the conversation.

Lin Chen frowned and said, "No, it's too weird!" ”

"Strange?" This statement surprised Bai Meimei, and her eyes widened to show that she couldn't believe it.

"Yes! Do you believe that anyone can predict death? ”

"I didn't believe it before, but I always thought how could that be? Unless it's a god! Right now.. I've heard about Aki! After experiencing it, I believe it. ”

There were no insects, no birds, the sky was getting darker, and the silence of the cemetery was even more eerie.

"Someone predicted her death!"

"How do you know?"

"A fortune teller!"

"There was also a man who prophesied her death!"

"Who?"

"Me!" Bai Meimei lowered her head, her voice was a little slurred.

Lin Chen seemed to have known such an answer for a long time, and he didn't show excessive surprise.

"Actually, I've been worried about Aqi, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon! Aqi once told me about it." Mei Mei wanted to speak and stopped.

"What?"

"Some of her own experiences, and the woman in black." Bai Meimei said, she suddenly lowered her voice, approached Lin Chen, and whispered: "Ah Qi died strangely, could it have something to do with that strange woman?" ”

"That's what I've been thinking about!"

"I once watched a Japanese horror film, which is about a strong resentment generated by the anger in the heart of a person because of the vain death, which will last for a long time in the place where the deceased lives in front of him, forming an evil dark force with a curse, accumulating a sky-high resentment in the deceased's residence, and anyone who touches it will die, and a new curse will be generated, and the terrible death will continue to spread, and curse every visitor, I wonder, will there be such a curse, falling on Aqi's body?"

"Hmmm! Oh, yes! That's why she died so strangely! How did you feel her gone? Lin Chen asked curiously.

"I had a strange dream. I dreamed that Xu Aqi came to me and said..."Mei Mei lowered her head, as if there was something unspeakable, and swallowed back the words that followed.

"Tell me! Tell me! Tell me okay? Lin Chen asked.

The words had been spoken, and it was hard not to continue, Bai Meimei paused and said, "She said that she was leaving." And told me to be careful of a person! If you can't do it, leave him! Speaking of this, Bai Meimei avoided Lin Chen's eyes.

"Gone? The implication is that she is going to die? ”

"I think so!"

"Moreover, she looks extremely terrifying, wearing a red dress, and her face is covered with dirt of blood and mud."

"I've seen it too! Once on the night of the full moon, on the highway, where she was lying, and once it was someone from the traffic police brigade who took me to see her for the last time. ”

The sky became darker and darker, and the rain fell at some point, but fortunately the rain was not heavy.

Lin Chen took out the umbrella from his backpack, stretched it out, and covered the two people, and the cold rain fell obliquely under the umbrella like a curved bow, wetting the trouser legs and shoes of the two people.

"The weather forecast says it's raining today, and it's really starting to fall!" Lin Chen said.

Bai Meimei looked at Aqi's tomb and sighed, "So young, just leave, God can't bear it, cry!" ”

Lin Chen didn't speak, thinking that Ah Qi slept in the cold and dark underground and never saw each other again, his nose was a little sour.