Chapter 57: Birth, Old Age, Sickness and Death

When I woke up again, I found myself in my subconscious space, there was a young man with all white hair sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals, the young man was sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals drinking tea, I asked him who he was, and the young man looked at me with a smile and said

"We were still together just now, did you forget it so quickly?"

After the young man finished speaking, I realized that this white-haired young man was Hu Daxian, I called Hu Daxian respectfully, Hu Daxian nodded and pointed to the door and said to me

"When you taste the suffering of the world and feel the reincarnation of cause and effect, you will be able to skillfully use the Heavenly Eye Channel, I am waiting for you here"

After saying that, Hu Daxian stopped talking, bowed his head and drank tea, I made a gesture of thanks to him and opened the door and walked out, the strange thing is that I did not come to the big courtyard with red lanterns after I walked out of the door, but came directly to the door of the shroud shop, I touched my head a little dazed, my mother happened to sit in the store and saw me standing at the door of the store in a daze, and said to me angrily

"What are you doing at the door, come in quickly"

After I walked in, my mother said that Lao Wang had just called and said that the old man with 12 beds in the cardiology department of the hospital was dying, and he had already told the family of the old man that the shroud would be used by my family, and we would also help the bereaved family contact for the funeral.

My mother said while taking out a set of shrouds from the cabinet and putting them in the box, seeing that I was stunned and urging me to hurry up, if the old man swallowed his breath and then sent it over, it would be unlucky, I nodded and took the box of shrouds from my mother's hand and walked out of the shroud shop and went straight to the hospital.

I even suspect that what I'm experiencing now is not a fantasy, but a real thing, because it's so real that even the cars on the street are exactly like the real world.

Not long after walking out of the shroud shop, I found a fool who often looked for me to smoke cigarettes, the fool saw me very happy and pulled me and I didn't let go, I said I had something to do and come back to him for a while, the fool didn't seem to understand, a hand grabbed and said something to my hand, I took out a whole box of cigarettes to him The fool was unmoved, still holding my hand and saying something, it seems that this fool is really something, he saw that I couldn't understand what he meant, and he jumped to his feet in a hurry.

He dragged me to the side of the garbage heap, the fool dragged my wrist with great strength, the fool squatted down to find something from the garbage heap, and after a while he actually found a huge cause and effect clock from the garbage heap, I looked at him in surprise, the fool held the cause and effect clock and shook the jingle laugh.

I asked him if this thing had been here, the fool shook his head violently after listening, pointed to the causal clock and pointed at himself, after saying that, he shook it vigorously with the causal clock, the fool actually shook the causal clock out of the sound, I heard the sound and even a little dizzy, I felt a little lightheaded and unsteady, the fool looked at me and smiled more happily, after a while the fool buried the causal clock in the pile of garbage, came over and took out a cigarette from my pocket, lit a smile and left, leaving me standing in place with a confused face.

I took a wooden stick next to me and pulled it on the ground to find the causal clock that the fool had buried in the garbage heap, but I couldn't find anything, I threw the stick aside, patted the dirt on my hand and walked towards the hospital. When I came to the 12th bed of the cardiology department, Lao Wang was already sitting on the bench in the hospital corridor waiting for me, and when he saw that he came with a shroud and asked me to sit down and wait, the old man was almost out of breath.

As soon as Lao Wang finished speaking, there were bursts of crying in the ward, Lao Wang and I stood up and walked into the ward, the old man's children all knelt beside the old man's bed and cried loudly.

I suddenly found that there was a kind old lady standing next to the bed looking at me with a smile, and the deceased lying on the bed looked exactly the same, I was holding a towel to wipe the deceased's body in my hand and fell to the ground in fright, the old Wang looked at me and whispered to me What was wrong, I looked at the old lady standing on the side of the bed and then looked at the old lady lying on the bed and said nothing, picked up the towel on the ground and said to the old man's family that everyone should avoid it, I want to wipe the deceased, and the family reluctantly watched the deceased lying on the bed out of the ward.

I sighed and took a towel to wipe the deceased's body, the old lady standing on the edge of the bed stroked the body on the bed with her hand with a smile, I looked up at the old lady standing by the bed, the old lady stroked her face and muttered

"When I was young, I was afraid of getting old, and when I was old, I was afraid of death, and I really died but found that there was nothing terrible about death, just like growing old is a natural law"

I nodded while wiping the deceased's side, and the old lady continued to stroke her body's face and said with a smile

"Life is very short, I thought that the time of life was very long, but in the end I found that the time of life is really short, so short that I didn't have time to do many things, as if I had finished my life in the blink of an eye"

The old lady seemed to be talking to herself about her life's feelings when suddenly two ghosts wearing fast trapping clothes came in from outside the door, the old lady still looked at the two ghosts with a smile on her face, and the two ghosts didn't seem to see me pass through my body, and asked the old lady if she had any outstanding wishes, the old lady shook her head and said to the two ghosts

"I have endured hardships and enjoyed blessings in this life, and I have children by my side at the end of my life, and I have no regrets in this life"

The ghost nodded to the old lady and put it on her arm, and the three of them disappeared into dust in the air, and the old lady smiled at me before disappearing.

I have heard people say that after a person dies, there will be a ghost to take away, but I have never seen it with my own eyes, this is really the first time to see, look at the old lady's kind eyes should be a good person before his death, so I helped him wipe his body when he wiped it very carefully, and sent the old man on the last journey, because the old man just left, the shroud is not too difficult to wear, I helped the old man put on the shroud alone, and went out to find the old man to send the old man to the morgue after wearing.

At this time, I saw that Brother Jiu was talking to the old man's children at the door, I said hello to Brother Jiu, Brother Jiu nodded at me and continued to talk with the old man's children about the funeral dragon, although I knew that everything in front of me was not real, but all this was too real, and I took it all as real if I was not careful.

Just when I was about to go back to the store, I saw a little boy sitting on the hospital bench with a sad face, I walked over and asked him if he was lost with his family, the little boy looked up at me and shook his head, saying that his mother was in the emergency room, he was waiting for his mother to take him away, after listening to the little boy after listening to me, I was a little inexplicable, just when I wanted to ask him what was going on, a young woman wearing a hospital gown came from a distance, the little boy saw the young woman and immediately ran over excitedly, The young woman squatted on the ground and touched the child's hair, and the people in the hospital corridor went back and forth through the body of the mother and son, but no one found them, and it seemed that both of them were souls.

The little boy and the young woman talked to the young woman and picked up the little boy and walked in the direction of the emergency room, I was a little curious about the two of them and followed behind them, the young woman carried the little boy to the door of the emergency room, there was a depressed man sitting at the door of the emergency room, I took a closer look at this middle-aged man was actually my cousin, and when he saw me coming over, he looked up at me, but he didn't seem to know me, looked at me and then lowered his head.

The young woman put down the little boy in her arms, the little boy looked at the young woman, the young woman asked him to say goodbye to his father, the little boy walked to his cousin and stretched out his hand to hug his cousin, but he didn't feel it, the young woman also walked over and held the cousin and the little boy in her arms, at this time a nurse came out of the door from the emergency room, the cousin immediately ran over and asked how the situation was, the nurse said that the adults and children could not be saved, let him be mentally prepared.

After listening to the cousin, the whole person was stupid, he grabbed the nurse's person with a crying voice and asked the nurse to think of a way, the nurse perfunctory to the cousin said that they had done their best, and then closed the door of the emergency room, and the cousin walked to the bench and sat down in a decadent manner and cried with his head in his hands.

The young woman and the little boy looked at their cousin in front of the bench, and the young woman reached out and touched his cousin's face, and the little boy also held his cousin, but the cousin could not see all this, and after a while the young woman squatted down and touched the little boy's head and said to him

"Doudou, you stay with Dad"

The little boy named Doudou looked at the young woman, then at his cousin, shook his head at the young woman, and said

"All I need to do is be with my mother"

The young woman touched the little boy's hair and said

"You're gone, mom is gone, dad will be lonely"

The little boy looked at his cousin again and asked the young woman

"What about Mom?"

"Mom is waiting for you in one place, just like you were waiting for Mom just now"

The little boy seemed to be engaged in a psychological struggle, and after a while he nodded with difficulty and stretched out his little finger to the young woman

"Okay, then, mom is not allowed to speak, let's pull the hook"

The young woman stretched out her little thumb and agreed with the little boy, the young woman stood up and touched the little boy's head, she took her cousin who was sitting on the bench in her arms, leaned down and kissed the top of his cousin's head and whispered to him

"Honey, I can't go with you to the end, let Doudou accompany you, I'll wait for you below, I love you forever"

After speaking, a crystal tear flowed from the corner of the young woman's eyes, and it dripped down the young woman's face to the little boy's head, and the little boy's body suddenly flashed with dazzling light, and then the light flashed, and the little boy disappeared, and then a voice suddenly appeared behind me and said

"The tears of the ghost represent love and rebirth"

I looked back and saw Hu Daxian standing behind me, he looked at everything in front of him with a smile, and soon after the little boy disappeared, there was a baby cry from the emergency room, and the young woman looked at all this in front of her and made a goodbye gesture to her cousin and disappeared, and Hu Daxian standing next to me waved his hand and the scene of the hospital disappeared.

I returned to my own subconscious space, I sat with Hu Daxian in front of the table of the Eight Immortals, Hu Daxian was looking at me with a smile, I seemed to understand something after experiencing the scene just now, but if I was asked to elaborate I can't say anything, Hu Daxian took a sip of tea and put down the teacup and said to me

"What you have experienced just now is the birth, old age, sickness and death in the world, whether you can understand it or how much you can realize it depends on yourself."

I was just about to open my mouth to ask Hu Daxian about the doubts in my heart, and Hu Daxian waved his hand at me

"As for what you see and what you realize, you don't have to say anything to me, if you have doubts in your heart, you haven't understood what the true meaning of life is."

After finishing speaking, Hu Daxian took out a piece of tea from the teacup and put it in the palm of his hand, the tea seemed to have vitality in Hu Daxian's hand writhing and blooming, and then lost its vitality little by little, and finally became an ordinary tea leaf, Hu Daxian put the tea into the teacup again, picked up the teacup and drank all the tea leaves in the cup.

"Let's go! In the future, it will depend on your personal creation."

After saying that, I lost consciousness as soon as it was dark in front of my eyes, and when I woke up again, I lay on the warm kang.