At this moment, Bai Susu reappeared and walked straight to the sad Lele. She said earnestly, "Son, do you understand what's going on?" You're dead. Just an hour ago, you were playing in the house and accidentally fell into a fish tank. At that time, your mother was cooking in the kitchen, and the fumes were too loud to detect you drowning in time. By the time your mom brings the food to the table, you're already drowning. ”

Lele followed the direction of Bai Susu's guidance, looked at the fish tank, and then looked at himself in the woman's arms. Where had such a young child ever seen such a scene, and he was so frightened that he lost his voice again.

Bai Susu no longer cares about the child, and waves her hand into the air in a chic manner, that action is familiar to me, she is going to summon the gate to the underworld. I hurried up to stop Bai Susu and said, "Don't worry, the child is still so young, he hasn't seen the world yet." Don't scare the child, you let him slow down first. It's not too late for the child to come to his senses and leave willingly. You see, and this mother-in-law. Overnight, the family left two people in succession, and what a blow the family had to suffer. ”

Bai Susu didn't answer, she looked sideways at the old woman, and the old woman nodded and gave her an affirmative look.

I walked over to Lele and asked, "Lele, so you can see me, were you playing with my uncle just now?" Lele put away her tears and said, "You didn't ask me if I could see you." It's funny that you still take a broken mirror by yourself, and it's funny that you're stupid. Good no good? ”

I said, "Well, my uncle is stupid." But Lele, haven't you noticed? Except for a few of us, no one else can see you. You are no longer part of this world, and you are about to go to another world. This aunt is taking you to another world, which is more fun over there than here. ”

Lele hesitated for a while and said, "No, I want my mother, I don't want to be separated from her." I patiently explained: "But you and your mother already belong to different worlds, and you have seen it, and when you call her, she doesn't agree." How do you still live together? When you go to a new world, you will have your own new life again, including a new father and mother, okay? ”

Lele glanced at Bai Susu and said suspiciously, "Hmm...... But I don't like this sister, she's so fierce, I don't want to go with her, uncle, why don't you take me away? ”

Bai Susu, who is in his twenties, Lele's eyesight is very good, and it is right to call him "sister". It's just that Bai Susu and I are different generations, hey, it doesn't matter.

I gave Bai Susu a look, and she naturally understood what I meant. She was forced to become kind and pleasant, she bent down and said to Lele: "Lele, it's my sister who is not good, Lele is good, my sister will give you a piece of candy to eat, let's go with my sister." ”

Lele took the candy, opened the candy wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth, and the bitterness on his face immediately disappeared. A child is a child after all, and accepting and rejecting a person is in the blink of an eye. Bai Susu's smiling face made Lele suspend his hostility towards her. Lele then said sullenly: "But I still can't bear my mother, I don't want to leave her." I don't want new mom and dad, I just want my mom now. ”

Bai Susu turned his head to look at me helplessly, I squatted down to reassure Lele again and said, "Lele, be obedient." Uncle promised you that you would go with this sister. Go back and get some sleep, and when you wake up, your mother will come back. ”

Lele looked at me suspiciously: "Really? Uncle, don't lie to me. I nodded frequently and said, "Uncle never lies." ”

"Pull the hook, it's a puppy to deceive people."

"......" I obediently cooperated with Lele's outstretched little finger.

Seeing this, Bai Susu drew a beautiful arc in the air with his hand, and the ancient and magnificent red lacquer gate came out of thin air again.

The old woman accompanied Lele and slowly walked into the door, and Bai Susu also followed closely, her eyes flickering, slightly cramped and uneasy. I watched them walk through the door. Lele smiled innocently and waved at me: "Uncle, goodbye." ”

"Goodbye!"

As the gate closed, the three of them disappeared without a trace in an instant. By the time I realized that the old woman had dropped the bronze mirror, it was too late.

I looked at the woman next to me, Lele's mother, who was ignoring us, her expression was extremely paralyzed, and I sighed again and again......

In just over 20 days, I have witnessed many life and death partings, and I can't help but feel melancholy. It turns out that human life is so insignificant and vulnerable in the face of death.

Walking all the way, I turned to wander on the roof of Hailiang Square again. Along the way, I had all kinds of feelings in my heart.

Combined with myself, once a person loses the motivation and purpose of living, or even the meaning of life, he will fall into the abyss of emptiness and confusion and cannot hold himself.

……

Before dawn, I returned to Ding Xiaofei's rental house. I don't know how long it took to be in the house, I just know that it was a very long time, and it felt like a year.

The sun was rising, but I didn't want to go out again. Because I really don't know where else I can go. Rather than seeing my family and not being able to do anything about it, it would be better to do nothing at all.

……

When I saw Bai Susu again, it was already another night. She took the initiative to thank me and said, "Qin Yuan, I can't see that you haven't been a father yet, and you are actually quite patient with your children." I said lightly: "It's nothing, the child is about to leave his relatives, I just feel the same deep feelings." ”

"I asked my superiors about retaining Ding Xiaofei, but there is really nothing I can do."

"Heh, it's too late to find a way."

Under my influence, Bai Susu also looked sad. She stopped going around in circles and asked me straight to the point: "Qin Yuan, are you interested in the soul ferry?" I said lonely, "Soul ferryman? Oh, you are an official in my heart like the Monkey King, with a kung fu that blinks like a somersault cloud, and an unpredictable magic like seventy-two changes. ”

Bai Susu corrected me and said, "I'm not asking you what you think of the soul ferryman, I'm asking if you are interested in being a soul ferryman?" ”

"Be a soul ferryman?" I couldn't help but be surprised, and after thinking for a while, I asked, "Isn't the soul ferryman a ghost?" Am I still human, okay? In this way, I have really lost the possibility of returning to the world. "Although the facts are already in front of me, I still want to get Bai Susu's confirmation with my own mouth.

"I don't know if you have any chance of coming back to the world. I only know that we have been in contact during this time, Qin Yuan, I think you are a kind-hearted and responsible person. You are well suited for the job of the soul ferryman of the underworld. You know, this job is a once-in-a-lifetime job, but you can't find it. It's not just that whoever wants to do it is qualified to do it. It was also after ...... that I reported to my superiors. ”