Chapter Twenty-Three: A Man and a Ghost on a Rainy Night
The rain has been falling, and the inexplicably suppressed melancholy has overflowed my heart. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The night inadvertently enveloped the whole world again, and all the bustle and hustle and bustle slowly calmed down in the dim light.
After Guo Mingyang and Du Lixuan said good night, they returned to the bedroom, leaned on the head of the bed, flipped through the blurry and yellowed photo in their pockets, looked at it seriously, and thought about the strange singing in the middle of the night, and fell asleep at some point.
The black cat snuggled up to him, always with pale eyes and a daze look, and he didn't know what was going on in the cat's head.
Suddenly, the black cat barked strangely, waking up Guo Mingyang in a trance, he rubbed his tired eyes, and glanced at the alarm clock at the bedside, it was already early in the night.
In the sound of dripping raindrops on the windowsill, a woman's mournful singing voice faintly sounded.
Guo Mingyang simply pushed open the glass window, letting a trace of cool air and the singing sound drift into the room.
He listened attentively to the ethereal voice, and finally got a rough idea of what song it was.
"Love hurts! I cried in pain! I'm tired of crying, and ambivalence is always forced! Persuade yourself to let go, close your eyes and let you go, burn the diary and start over......
It turned out to be a sad old song, why does this song always keep looping? Is there a hidden story behind this song?
Guo Mingyang held the black cat in his arms, opened the bedroom door lightly, picked up the umbrella in the living room, and prepared to go to the broadcast studio of the old campus at this time to see what kind of strange force was playing this song?
In fact, Du Lixuan didn't fall asleep, when the song sounded in the drizzle, she guessed that Guo Mingyang would definitely go to the old campus to investigate at night, but thinking that she couldn't help him much, and it would become a burden to him, she had to stay in the bedroom, praying that Guo Mingyang could come back safely as soon as possible.
Not long after, Guo Mingyang held an umbrella and appeared on the empty street with the black cat alone, under the dim street lamp, there was only a drizzle of rain and the occasional cold night breeze drifting by, and there was not even a car on the road.
Guo Mingyang walked calmly in the direction from which the song came, and slowly could see that the pale light was still shining in the guard room next to the campus gate during the day, and the campus was completely dim and he couldn't see anything clearly.
When he got closer, there was an old man lying on the single bed in the guard's room, who made a sound of sleep, and seemed to be sleeping very sweetly, and was not affected by the strange singing at all.
At this time, he was even more sure that the song was coming from the campus, because he could already hear every lyric, and the song was playing all the time on the single cycle.
The small door of the school was locked, and Guo Mingyang had to climb up the iron gate lightly, and then entered the school.
Occasionally, a few fallen sycamore leaves would fly and fall to the ground, making some noise, and Guo Mingyang kept stroking the black cat's fur to keep it from making a noise.
If ordinary people enter the old campus at this time, I am afraid that they will be scared to pee their pants, and the surrounding darkness is full of shadows and shadows, and in an environment without a trace of popularity, it makes people feel as if they have walked into the apocalyptic world.
Guo Mingyang followed the road he had walked during the day, and kept walking towards the old broadcast studio that made sounds.
As he passed by the classrooms that looked like huge dark beasts, for some reason he always imagined the classroom full of students reading, and he turned his face to look at the completely dark classroom, which was completely dark and could not see anything.
Finally came to the front of the building where the broadcast studio was located, and the strange thing was that Guo Mingyang had just stepped on the stairs leading to the upstairs with one foot, and the singing that sounded loud just now stopped abruptly, as if someone had suddenly pressed the pause button.
Guo Mingyang hesitated, and walked upstairs with a calm face holding the black cat.
On the empty rooftop, there was nothing, and the dilapidated wooden door of the broadcast studio made a slight creaking sound under the agitation of the cold wind, which always made people feel as if there was something hidden behind the door.
For some reason, this kind of sound sounds creepy and scary in the middle of the night, if you don't believe it, imagine how you would feel when you heard this sound in the middle of the night?
Guo Mingyang listened to the sound of the door being blown by the cold wind, and walked over without fear at all, the song just now was clearly issued from here, but now it is calm as if nothing has happened.
He reached out and pushed open the rickety wooden door, and the room was pitch black, and there was not a single thing in sight.
Guo Mingyang shook his head and withdrew, and suddenly felt a white shadow on the side of the rooftop from the corner of his eye.
The black cat in his arms suddenly struggled to make a sound, and Guo Mingyang had to hold the black cat's mouth with one hand, so that it did not alarm the white figure.
Guo Mingyang held the black cat in his arms, staring at the white shadow on the rooftop in front of him, and only a white figure like a person could be seen in the dimness.
Guo Mingyang slowly raised his steps and approached the white shadow, and just as he was about to see the white shadow clearly, the white figure suddenly jumped down from the rooftop.
The sudden scene made Guo Mingyang very surprised, and he couldn't figure out why the white figure did this?
He walked briskly to where the white figure had stood, then leaned down to look down, unable to see anything in the utterly dim rainy night.
Guo Mingyang sat in the place where the white figure jumped down just now with the black cat in his arms, and he knew that the figure would definitely appear.
It didn't take long. The black cat in Guo Mingyang's arms struggled violently, and Guo Mingyang had to press it hard to calm it down.
There was an inexplicable chill behind him, which made Guo Mingyang slowly turn his head.
There was a girl's face that looked very similar to the one in the photo, which appeared outside the rooftop behind Guo Mingyang, Guo Mingyang stood up and turned around without care, only to see that it was the girl in white floating outside the rooftop very close to him.
It was a pale, good-looking, young face, wearing a pure white dress from top to bottom, although it had become a female ghost, but the pure and immaculate youthful atmosphere was still intoxicating.
Guo Mingyang looked at the face that was also staring at him curiously, and said with a slight smile: Can you sit down and talk?
His tone sounded as kind as greeting him when they first met, and it was hard to refuse for anyone or a ghost.
The black cat in his arms closed his eyes quietly under his strong restraint, and the white figure hesitated for a moment and sat down not far from him.
Countless drizzles fell silently from the distant night sky, wetting everything in the world!
Guo Mingyang still looked harmless to people and ghosts, and asked: Why do you like to play that sad song on a rainy night?
Because it was my favorite song, I sang it here many times, but then no one listened to me again. The white figure said lightly sadly.
Do you know you're dead? Now you are just a ghost in the world. Guo Mingyang continued to look at the white figure and said.
The white figure was not surprised after hearing this, and continued to say calmly: When I recalled that night, when I was pushed off the roof by the person I loved the most, I knew that I was dead and no longer belonged to this world, but I was still nostalgic, and I didn't want to believe that he pushed me down.
In the end, the white figure remembered the most sad thing in his life, and he spoke in a tone with deep sadness.
After Guo Mingyang heard what she said, he felt a little uncomfortable, and he didn't know what kind of pain it would be like to be pushed downstairs by the person he loved the most.
I don't know if I can hear your story? There must be something touching behind this. Guo Mingyang said to the white figure in a sad tone.
In the rain, the white figure raised his head to look at the distant night sky, and stayed for a while, as if he could sort out the past.
I fell in love with someone I shouldn't love, he was the head of the school's teaching office, he was in his forties, and he had a wife and children at home for a long time.
Speaking of this, there was still some deep helplessness in her tone.
Maybe fate has long been destined to meet him here and fall in love with him!
She couldn't help but sigh and continued: When I first came to school, a few bad girls in the dormitory always bullied me, they called me around like subordinates, not only asked me to run errands for them, buy things, wash clothes, etc., but when they were in a bad mood, they also beat me hard, burned me with cigarette butts, and made me kneel in the dormitory all night several times, not allowed to get up.
When Guo Mingyang heard this, he frowned, as if it was hard to imagine the feeling of being tortured.
But I didn't dare to tell the teacher about it, and I didn't dare to tell my mother, because I was afraid that if I told the teacher, they would beat me to death.
I hadn't seen my father since I was born, and my mother said that the brute-like man abandoned us when she was pregnant, and I didn't want to tell my mother about the school, so that she wouldn't be afraid of me.
When he heard this, Guo Mingyang couldn't help but want to shed tears, he clenched his fists hard, so that the tears remained in his eyes!
The white figure continued to say flatly: I have been enduring their torture like this, when others ask me about the scars on my face, I say that I accidentally knocked it, I dare not be friends with others, I am afraid that I will let myself be injured, I lived like a walking dead in those days.
Later, the girls in the dormitory robbed me of my living expenses, and I had no money to eat, and although I didn't eat for three days, I wanted to survive the week.
Who knew that day on the way out of school, suddenly fainted on the road, it was very late at that time, there was no one on the road, I thought I was about to die, maybe it was also a relief!
It was at this moment that he appeared, appearing like a ray of light in my world, slowly bringing light to my desperate youth that was about to be swallowed up by darkness.
The white figure recalled the words with indescribable excitement, like a person who was about to drown and was suddenly pulled out of the water by a strong arm.
Hearing this, Guo Mingyang was very curious about the man who saved her, why did he destroy her in the end?
The night rain fell silently, and in the barren campus, a person and a ghost sat on the dim rooftop, slowly opening up the past hidden in time.