Chapter 21: The Forgotten Ghost
"Old Cui, who did you see?!" I asked with Feng Qingyang.
"Yes...... Be...... It's me......" Lao Cui began to stumble when he spoke, "It's me...... It's my junior high school classmate ......."
Feng Qingyang and I were both mentally prepared to be scared, and when we heard Lao Cui's answer, the two of us almost fell together.
"Lao Cui, junior high school classmate, are you so nervous?!" I asked hurriedly.
"Like, I thought you saw Iron Man?" Feng Qingyang pouted and said.
"I'm not kidding," Lao Cui said solemnly, "My junior high school classmate's name is Erbao, and he is my best friend when I was a child......
"So what?" Feng Qingyang couldn't help but refute again.
"Master, listen to me say it all, you will know that this matter is not simple," Lao Cui was a little anxious, and took a big breath before continuing, "When I was a child, I always played with Erbao, in the second year of junior high school, in the summer, our class had physical education class, the teacher went to the physical education room to get sandbags, and I played horizontal bar with Erbao, at that time we were both short, we bet, saying that whoever can climb the horizontal bar will invite whoever eats ice cream...... I was stupid and didn't climb up, but Erbao really climbed up and sat on the horizontal bar and laughed at me...... But suddenly, somehow, the horizontal bar broke, Erbao was planted with his head down, the horizontal bar was quite high, almost two meters high, Erbao would not move after falling to the ground, the teacher was stupid, so he found a doctor in the infirmary, and carried Erbao on a stretcher, I saw Erbao's neck crooked to the side, tightly attached to his shoulders, and his body and face were covered with dirt ......"
I heard it in a fog, so I had to ask Lao Cui: "No, what do you mean by saying so much!?" ”
Lao Cui continued: "That's ...... That was the last time I saw Erbao, in the summer of the second year of junior high school, in physical education class, after Erbao was carried away on a stretcher, he suspended school, I ...... I haven't seen Erbao again......"
I asked again, "Then listen to what you mean, the person you see at the bottom of the mountain road is Erbao?!! ”
Lao Cui nodded heavily, and then began to shake his head again: "I don't know, I don't know, the person I saw is still not Erbao......"
I nodded in agreement, "Ah, yes, it's been almost forty years, right?" How much has changed, do you still recognize it?! ”
I didn't expect to be asked by me like this, Lao Cui actually nodded.
"What, you recognize ?!!" I asked Lao Cui again.
Lao Cui lowered his voice and looked at me and Feng Qingyang, and then said his experience at that time:
"At that time, I was in a hurry to urinate, and after getting out of the car, I jumped off the road, trying to find a clean place to relieve my hands, and after I got it, I lifted my pants and prepared to go back, but I saw the grass in the distance move, I thought it was a hare or something, so I followed two steps, but as a result, I saw Erbao...... The Erbao I saw was still the Erbao of forty years ago, so small, his face was full of dirt, and his body was also dirt, and the most terrifying thing was that his head was still crooked to the side, stuck to his shoulder, and his mouth was still grinning, as if he was smiling at me...... That smile is all too familiar to me...... That's when it was ...... The way he smiled at me when he sat on the horizontal bar......"
I felt a chill down my spine, and it took me a long time before I asked: "Old Cui, if what you see is not an illusion, then maybe that child is not the second treasure of the year, even if the second treasure is not dead, he can't help but grow taller now?!" ”
Lao Cui nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I think so too, but the child is wearing a school uniform from the seventies, do you think there are still junior high school students wearing school uniforms from the seventies?!" ”
"yes!" I was dumbfounded.
"Could it be that this is the case, forty years ago, after Erbao dropped out of school, he was already ...... It's already dead......" Feng Qingyang thought about it and said.
"I know what you think," I looked at Feng Qingyang, "You want to say, Erbao died back then, and what Lao Cui saw was Erbao's ghost, do you mean that?!" ”
Feng Qingyang nodded and remained silent.
Lao Cui hurriedly said: "I really don't know if Erbao is dead or not, but I feel very guilty about Erbao falling, forty years have passed, I have always felt that I was too reckless at the time, why should I make this bet with Erbao, hurt Erbao, hurt Erbao for a lifetime...... I felt guilty, really guilty, I thought that after all these years, I would really forget about it, but ...... Alas...... Don't talk about it......"
I comforted Lao Cui and said: "Forget it, so many years have passed, Erbao's injury is not the reason for you alone, how can children think so much when they play together, in fact, Erbao himself is also at fault...... He's too capable...... Old Cui, don't think nonsense......"
At this time, Lao Cui's wife ran in from outside with a bag of food, smiled at me and Feng Qingyang and said, "I bought a lot of food, let's eat some together!" ”
Feng Qingyang and I are not in the mood to eat here, not to mention listening to Lao Cui's terrible story, I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart.
Now that Lao Cui has woken up, I comforted Lao Cui and asked him to rest more, and call me again if he has any questions, so he pulled Feng Qingyang to leave.
Lao Cui's wife sent the two of us out, and quietly stuffed me with an envelope, saying that there were 3,000 yuan in it, and asked me to buy a better mobile phone for Feng Qingyang.
The 3,000 yuan was not for me, but for Feng Qingyang's hard work, so I naturally couldn't refuse, so I quietly put it in my pocket.
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Leaving the hospital and sitting in the taxi, my head was a little messy, listening to Lao Cui's tone, the Erbao he saw that day was definitely not a living person.
If the junior high school student in the school uniform of the 70s was a ghost, how could Lao Cui see the ghost?!
Could it be that Lao Cui also opened his yin and yang eyes like me, could it be that these are all related to the time I went to buy black goods? !
It's a pity that the driver who sold black goods is dead now, and he will definitely not be contacted, if there is a clue, I must ask clearly.
Because I was thinking about something in my heart, I was upset, and I didn't pay attention to the scenery outside the window, it was Feng Qingyang sitting in the passenger seat to guide the driver.
When the car stopped, I realized that the place was wrong, this was not an ancient culture street, but a square of a high-end shopping mall.
Feng Qingyang got out of the car and pulled me out of the car again, and I asked puzzledly: "Hey, let's go back to Qilin Pavilion, what are you letting the driver drive here for?" ”
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and pay the car for the driver." Feng Qingyang pushed me and said.
I gave the taxi driver the fare in a daze, and then Feng Qingyang pulled me to the entrance of the big mall.
I resisted and asked, "What are you doing, I'm so annoyed, where do I have time to go to the mall with you, besides, where are there two big men going to the mall together?" ”