I asked Xiaohua to go back to do my homework first, ran up the stairs quickly, and hurriedly knocked on the door of Uncle Chen's house.

As soon as the door opened, I rushed in and said, "Uncle Chen, I'm here to hear you finish that story!" "Uncle Chen, who was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday, seemed to be waiting for me at the door, and as soon as I knocked on the door, he opened the door. When I walked in the door, everything in the room was still in its original place, including the round stool we had sat on yesterday, the open wooden box, and the white jade comb inside!

"Uncle Chen, finish yesterday's story!" As soon as I sat down, I urged him to continue telling the story, didn't he say that he was the same Chen Xiaolian? I really wonder how he could be that Chen Xiaolian of the Han Dynasty.

"Oh, okay. …… I'm really that Chen Xiaolian. I agreed with Miss Wang to meet again in the next life, so after I died, I was reincarnated to find Miss Wang. ”

Reincarnation?

I couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Uncle Chen, do you mean that you are the reincarnation of the dead Chen Xiaolian in the story?" But what do you do with the past...... Do you know so clearly about the events of your last life? "Actually, what I want to say is that according to legend, after death, people have to drink Meng Po soup and forget everything in their previous life before they go to reincarnation. Even if there is really a reincarnation theory, you will not remember the events of your previous life at all!

“…… Oh, I don't know either. …… Anyway, I remember the events of my previous life very clearly, and I will never forget it, and I am absolutely not mistaken! His expression became agitated, his face flushed, and his tone was unquestionable.

I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't say it for a while. However, I was a little unwilling, and found another question: "Even if this is the case, how did you get that white jade comb after you were reincarnated?" ”

The Han Dynasty is nearly 2,000 years away, and the things of that time are still rare cultural relics, either in museums or in ancient tombs. What's more, he didn't say that this white jade comb was Miss Wang's favorite thing, so as soon as Miss Wang died, this comb must have been buried in the grave with Miss Wang. Could it be that he got it later by going to the tomb robbery? That seems unlikely!

“…… This comb has always been with me! I mean, this comb is the only token of my reunion with Miss Wang, and I ...... I took it away before I was reincarnated! His expression became a little unnatural.

I looked at him and finally couldn't help but say, "This can't be!" I've never heard that you can still carry things with you when you are reincarnated! ”

“…… Please trust me. I really am...... I took it away before I was reincarnated, and then I hid it in a place where no one else could find it, and then I took it out after I was reincarnated! He looked at me sadly, and his tone was extremely earnest.

I had to say, "Okay then. You go on, and then what? ”

"Later? …… I started looking. I've been looking for a long, long, long time, so long that I can't forget how many years I've been looking for, but I can't find her! I haven't been able to find it! There was a deep confusion and near-hopeless pain in his eyes, giving the illusion that he had been searching for thousands of years.

I pouted secretly: "That's an exaggeration! Even if you're forty years old, you've been looking for more than 20 years at most! "But then I think about it, if I had been asked to find someone for more than 20 years, I guess I would have quit a long time ago! When I think about it this way, I kind of admire him.

So I also said earnestly, "Well, Uncle Chen, don't be too upset. Isn't your story finished, can you tell me now what you want me to help me with? ”

“…… I want you to help me find her! ”

"What?" My voice was at least an octave higher, and I got up from the stool at once, and my knee hit the leg of the round table, and it hurt terribly! "Let me find it?"

He nodded vigorously: "Didn't you agree to help me?" ”

"But, as I already said, I'm just a child, how can I help you find it? …… What is her last name now? What is your name? Where to stay? How old is it? What does it look like? ”

“…… I don't know. Probably, it's all about the same as the previous life! She should still be living in Suzhou City! He smiled wryly at me.

Almost? Now there are hundreds of thousands of women living in Suzhou! If you want to find a woman who doesn't know her name, age, specific address, or what she looks like, even if you ask the scouts from the Public Security Bureau to look for her, you can't find it, let alone me as a child! "I can't. I can't find it! You can find other adults to help you find it! …… Why don't you ask the uncle from the Public Security Bureau to help you find it? "I'm resolute.

"Others can't! None of them can see...... They won't help! Besides, haven't you promised to help? How can you be untrustworthy and fattened by breaking your word? …… I mean, you can't break your word! He was also in a hurry, his face turned red at one time, and then pale again, and his hands kept shaking, as if he was about to fall!

I was in a dilemma: "Uncle Chen, it's not that I don't want to help, but I really can't help you find it!" ”

"If you are willing to help me find it, I will definitely find it!" He heard that my tone was loose, and immediately perked himself up, and said in a pleading tone.

“…… How do I find out? "I surrendered.

"As long as you take this white jade comb, you will definitely find her!" After he finished speaking in a cheerful tone, he immediately carefully stuffed the white jade comb into my hand.

I took this white jade comb, cough, no, it was an extremely hot potato, and I wanted to cry and go out without tears.

"Little sister, don't tell anyone else about this!"

"I know." If an adult knows about this, he will invite me to "eat life" (dialect, meaning to be beaten); If the other children know, they have to laugh at me.

I went home dejected, wrapped the white jade comb in a handkerchief, and hid it in the middle of my school bag. After school the next day, I found a way to support Xiaohua. Then I walked a long way and came to an unfamiliar road, ready to start looking for someone.

How to find it? I had no choice but to bite the bullet, and when I saw the young aunt, I walked over, took the white jade comb and asked, "Auntie, do you know this comb?" At first, the aunt who was asked just shook her head and walked away.

However, after a long time, it attracted the attention of other passers-by. Someone came up to me and asked, "Little sister, are you selling combs?" I shook my head: "No, no." ”

After a while, someone asked me again, "Little sister, are you lost?" Where do you live? Do you want to take you home? ”

"No, I'm not lost. Thank you! "I had to move to the side again. When I took the white jade comb to ask again, some aunts looked me up and down, curious, puzzled, pity, disgusted, and had all kinds of eyes.

Another aunt asked me rhetorically: "Little sister, are you looking for someone?" Looking for your mom or sister? I only shook my head, and then I answered, "Yes!" I'm looking for a woman who doesn't know her name, age, or appearance, it's not my mother, it's not my sister, and it has nothing to do with me. "I guess they're going to send me to the police station.

It was getting dark, and I had a dry mouth and a sore back, but no one knew this white jade comb at all. I thought: If I don't go home, my mother and Grandma Teng will come outside to find me. So I had to drag my sore and sore legs and go home to eat first.

Sure enough, my mom had already looked for me a few times, but she didn't see anyone, and she was about to get angry. I immediately assured her that I wouldn't run around in the future, and my mom would let me eat. After eating, I was so tired that I quickly lay down on the bed, thinking to myself: If I continue to look like this, I will not be able to bear it! I can't find it anyway, so I won't go tomorrow. Let that Uncle Chen go find someone else to help! Then I went to sleep.

But in my sleep, I saw the beautiful girl in red like a kimono, and she looked at me with a desolate expression, and tears flowed down in strings, and even in my dreams, it made me feel very uncomfortable! And I was still holding the white jade comb in my dream, and my heart moved, and I just wanted to ask the beautiful girl, do you recognize this white jade comb? Is she the Miss Wang I'm looking for? She's suddenly gone! That Uncle Chen appeared, and he looked at me with a sad expression and tears in his eyes for a while; After a while, he gritted his teeth and stared at me with a pale face. At last he turned hideous, and pounced on me with his teeth and claws.

I screamed in fright and woke up from my dream. I sat up and wiped my sweat, only to see the white jade comb next to my pillow! Before I went to bed, I wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in the middle of my school bag, so how could I run to my pillow by myself?

I patted my head and suddenly remembered: I was in a hurry to listen to the story that day, and then I was so busy looking for someone that I forgot to tell Uncle Chen about the girl in red I saw! I dreamed of the two of them today, it can't be a coincidence, right? Could it be that the girl in red is the Miss Wang that Uncle Chen is looking for? Or is it the reincarnation of Miss Wang?

I picked up the white jade comb, jumped out of bed, and saw that it was ten o'clock. I hesitated: It's not right to go to Uncle Chen so late?

"Little sister, are you trying to come to me?" Uncle Chen's voice rang in my ears, and I looked up, huh? How did I already get to Uncle Chen's room? Uncle Chen was still sitting on a round stool next to me, there was no lamp, and there was only a lit candle on the round table. The faint candlelight quietly illuminates Uncle Chen's fair face, making people feel that the atmosphere is very strange.

I was not afraid, and first described carefully the girl in red that I had seen last night, which appeared on the television, and then on the wall of my house, including the way she combed her hair and the words she said halfway; Then I told him all about the dream I had just seen her. After I finished speaking, I saw Uncle Chen sitting stiffly and upright on the stool like a stone statue, not moving!

"Ahem, Uncle Chen, Uncle Chen! What happened to you? I called him a few times. He felt like he was dead, and he still didn't move. My scalp started to tingle, and I was ready to get up and go home first.

"Haha...... No wonder! No wonder! That Uncle Chen suddenly burst into a burst of crazy laughter, and I looked at him in horror, afraid that this laughter would wake everyone up. He laughed so painfully that it was worse than crying.

"It turns out that she doesn't ...... at all Didn't go to reincarnation at all! …… How can I ...... How can you find her! I listened to his intermittent self-talk, and I was also puzzled: Miss Wang didn't go to reincarnation, so where did she go?

Suddenly, Uncle Chen stopped laughing and grabbed the clothes on my shoulders: "You say, where is she?" Where did she go? ”

I was surprised: "Me? How would I know? ”

He stared at me fiercely, but I really didn't know, what was the use of looking at me? After a long time, he let go of his hand dejectedly, and said with a strange expression: "How much work I spent preparing the room for her, and how much effort I spent to save that white jade comb, just to wait for her to reincarnate together!" We made an appointment to be a couple who will never leave us in the next life! I've waited alone for so many years, looking and searching, and I can't find anyone who can't find her, not even her soul! ”

The more I listened, the colder I became, and the more I listened, the more confused I became, is this Uncle Chen in front of me a person? Or are you already crazy?

He looked at me suddenly, "You probably guessed that I wasn't human, right?" ”

I tightened my grip on the white jade comb and took several steps back. Oh, my God! I'm so unlucky! What he said yesterday was really not the truth, what reincarnation, why he hid the white jade comb first, it was all a lie to me.

He approached me coldly: "I didn't lie to you, I said that I was Chen Xiaolian's." I couldn't stop her from committing suicide, so I had to reincarnate with her spirit. But...... After she died, I couldn't find her soul! ”

"Why can't I find it?" My curiosity overpowered my fear for a moment.

"I'd love to know, too. …… I thought she was reincarnated first, but who knew that I had been looking for so many years in this world, and no one knew this white jade comb! ”

"Then why did you find me? I don't have any grudges against you! ”

"Ahem, you can see me, and you can see the furniture I made, it should be related."

"What? You're saying that no one else can see you, and they can't see the furniture? ”

He nodded nonchalantly.

I smiled bitterly: it turns out that I found this unfortunate thing by myself!

"You can't find her, it has nothing to do with me, do you? Can you let me go home? I asked tentatively.

"I can't find her...... Then you don't want to live! After saying that, he turned out to be the same as I had dreamed in my dream, with a hideous face and pounced on me with his teeth and claws.

I quickly flashed to the side, then fled towards the door. The door, which was so close at hand, seemed to be infinitely far away from me, and I couldn't reach the door even if I ran desperately. I thought to myself: Who will save me? Why didn't anyone come to my rescue?

There was a hateful sneer from behind him, and a gust of wind blew, and I panicked and actually fell. The strange wind swept towards me, and I didn't think about it, and slammed the white jade comb that I had been holding tightly in my hand into the wind. With a "snap", the white jade comb was violently blown to the wall by the wind, hit the wall hard, and fell to the ground with a "clatter".

The wind suddenly stopped, and he stood beside the white jade comb in a daze, and I slowly looked at it, and the comb broke into two pieces and lay on the ground silently. He looked at the broken white jade comb, and the expression on his face was really indescribable. Then he bent down to pick it up and turned his head to look at me fixedly.

Worst! I'm dead! This comb is his treasure! I broke out in a cold sweat and didn't know what to do. At this moment, there was a slight noise from the other end of the table, as if someone's clothes were rubbing the floor. I turned my head at the same time as him, "Ah! "I screamed, but I screamed with joy, and finally someone came to save me! Oh no, there's a ghost coming to save me!

The girl in red, dressed like a kimono, was slowly walking towards us, like a blooming rose, beautiful and delicate.

“…… Is that you? "He was a little unconvinced.

"It's me! …… I've been in that white jade comb for so many years, and I can finally come out to see you! There was unconcealed joy in her voice.

"It turns out that you ...... Your soul has always been in the white jade comb. …… No wonder, I've been looking out there for many years and I can't find you! ”

"Let's go together! …… There is still a promise for the afterlife that has not been fulfilled! ”

"Okay. Let's go together! They walked hand in hand to the window. Halfway through, the girl in red turned around and smiled softly at me, as if thanking me! In the blink of an eye, their figures were gone.

My nervousness was finally relieved, and I stood up and patted the dust off my body.

Well? The candle was still lit on the floor, but the house was empty, and the furniture was gone. I pursed my lips, picked up the candle on the ground, and prepared to go home. I kicked something under my feet, and I shone it with a candle, and it was the white jade comb that was broken in two! I thought about it, picked it up too, and went back to keep it as a souvenir!

I walked out of the room, glad that I hadn't been in vain, though I broke out in a cold sweat. Uncle Chen and Miss Wang are "lovers (ghosts) who will eventually become married"! Ahem, it sounds awkward, but they got their wish anyway!