I gave Xue Qian a call. Xue Qian said sleepily, "Lao Zhao, what's the matter with you?" Why do you always look for me in the middle of the night? ”

I said, "I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for Mr. Lu." ”

Xue Qian yawned. Complained: "Isn't that the same? Mr. Lu didn't have a phone number, so he still had to call me. He asked, "What are you looking for Mr. Lu?" ”

I looked at the girl, who was staring intently at the candle on the table. This time she became shrewd, and instead of reaching out directly to touch the candlelight, she used a small stick to stir the candle back and forth.

Xue Qian shouted on the other end of the phone: "Lao Zhao, what's the matter with you?" If you don't speak, I'll hang up the phone. In the middle of the night, do you fool me? ”

I came back to my senses and said, "Here comes the drunk." ”

Xue Qian said: "Don't make trouble, isn't the drunk dead?" ”

I said, "It is precisely because he died and reappeared that I looked for Mr. Lu." ”

Xue Qian on the other end of the phone immediately came to her senses. Xi said: "Have a lively look? ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "This time it's not a small excitement. ”

Xue Qian threw down a sentence: "You wait, we'll be there soon." Then the phone hung up. ”

The drunk looked at me and asked, "Who are you talking to on the phone?" ”

I said, "And my friend." They want to wait with you for the day. ”

The drunken nodded, did not object, and began to drink one sip at a time.

I looked at her, and suddenly I had a feeling that she was very different from the drunken person she was a few days ago.

When I first met the drunk a few days ago, he seemed to be well-bred and well-bred him. A bookish atmosphere, and some loneliness and sorrow in it. This temperament is very similar to his villa and his experience. At that time, although he was quiet, he did not have the slightest womanly posture.

The current girl is undoubtedly the drunkard herself, because there are some words that only the two of us know, and her identity is no longer in doubt. But her personality is very different from a few days ago. That melancholy is gone, on the contrary. Very lively. And all over her body, there is no trace of a man's masculinity, which is completely in line with her current girlhood.

The only thing that hasn't changed is that she still loves to drink.

The girl suddenly stretched out her hand and shook it in front of my eyes. "What are you thinking?" ”

I came back to my senses and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

The girl was stunned and said, "I've walked through so many places, where do you remember where you came from?" ”

I nodded. I began to think hard in my heart. I tried to figure it out, but failed.

After a while, Mr. Lu and Xue Qian arrived, and the two of them asked, "Where is the drunk?" ”

I pointed to the girl and said, "Aren't you sitting here?" ”

Xue Qian walked over, gave me a strange look, and asked, "Old Zhao, are you crazy?" Is this a drunk? ”

I haven't spoken yet. But the girl shook the wine in her hand and said, "I've been drinking with wine, isn't it a drunkard, but a hanged ghost?" ”

Xue Qian took a step back and looked at Mr. Lu: "Old Dao, do you think he is human?" ”

Mr. Lu nodded and said, "It's human, that's right." ”

The girl said a little unhappily, "You guys, are you here to see the monkeys?" ”

I laughed and said, "She's a drunk." You can't go wrong with that. It's just that she has a special function, which is to sleep every day, and after waking up, she has changed her identity. Sometimes it's a man, sometimes it's a woman. Sometimes it's Zhang San, sometimes it's Li Si. ”

Xue Qian and Mr. Lu both sat down, and the four of us gathered around the candles, and no one spoke.

After everyone was silent for a while, Mr. Lu took the lead in breaking the silence and asked, "Do you remember what happened a few days ago?" ”

The girl nodded: "Of course I remember." I was drunk on the street, and it was Brother Zhao who helped me into the house. ”

Mr. Lu asked again: "Do you remember what happened later?" ”

The girl said, "When I got home, I slept and woke up again, and I was thousands of miles away. ”

Mr. Lu interrogated for a long time, and the girl was already a little impatient.

The girl asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

Mr. Lu said: "You didn't fall asleep that day, but died. ”

The girl was stunned for a moment, and asked with some panic, "What day?" ”

Mr. Lu said, "If I expected it to be good, it is every day. ”

The girl stood up, shook her head, and said, "Impossible, impossible. I am a living man, I am not a dead man. ”

Mr. Lu said lightly: "The body from a few days ago has not been cremated yet, you can go and take a look." He paused and said, "Moreover, it is not your body, you have no body, including your current identity, it is all stolen." ”

The girl's face was pale, and suddenly she cried out.

I looked at the two of them dumbfounded, not knowing what to say for a moment.

And Xue Qian next to her looked satisfied, it seemed that this excitement was very exciting.

Mr. Lu asked again, "Do you want to know why you have never seen daylight?" ”

The girl touched her tears and asked with tears, "Why?" ”

Mr. Lu said: "Because you are born and die, you only have one night's life. Naturally, you can't see daylight anymore. ”

The girl whimpered, "But I am obviously a living person. ”

Mr. Lu smiled: "You are not a living person, don't lie to yourself anymore." Do you think that people's identities can really change in a thousand ways? You're using someone else's identity. ”

The girl had to speak again. Mr. Lu suddenly said urgently: "Zhao Mang, tell her your phone number quickly." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then I reported a string of numbers.

Mr. Lu shouted to the girl, "Quickly carry it down." ”

The girl was frightened by Mr. Lu, with tears hanging on her cheeks, and began to recite it over and over again with a crying voice.

At this time, a rooster crow was heard in the distance. The girl's voice grew weaker and weaker, and then she fell limply on top of my broken bed.

It looked like she was asleep, but I knew she was dead.

Mr. Lu sighed and said, "Call the police." Let her parents claim the body. ”

Officer Shi soon came, followed the procedure, made a record for us, and then took the body away.

He was very embarrassed and said, "Brother Zhao." If you continue like this, you're about to become a serial murderer. ”

I smiled wryly, "I didn't do it. ”

Officer Shi said, "Of course I know you didn't do it. But you hurry up and think of a way, it's too miserable for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, you help them, and help yourself. If one of your crazy relatives makes a fuss, you won't be at peace. ”

I nodded and said, "I'll do my best." ”

Officer Shi sighed and carried the body away. When he left, he was still sighing: "I am young, I look good, and I am gone." What did her parents have to cry for? ”

After the police left, Xue Qian and I asked Mr. Lu, "What's going on?" ”

Mr. Lu said: "Zhao Mang, you have already entered my door, have you read the Nanhua Sutra that I told you to read?" ”

I smiled a little ashamedly and said, "It's all classical Chinese, so I don't understand it." ”

Mr. Lu said: "There is a leisurely tour in one of them, which mentions that the morning fungus does not know the obscurity, and the cockroach does not know the spring and autumn. ”

I said, "I understand that." The life of the fungus is very short, and it dies at the end of the day, so it does not understand what a day is. The life of the cockroach cricket is longer, it is born in spring and dies in autumn, so I don't know what a year ......"

When I said this, I suddenly thought of something, and then said suspiciously: "You mean, the girl we just saw and the drunkard we saw before are Chao bacteria?" "The Empty House: Wonderful

Mr. Lu smiled and said, "Chao fungus is just a plant. I'm just making an analogy. The girl we saw just now is like this fungus. The fungus is dying at the end of life, and it is dying at the twilight. ”

Xue Qian asked, "Is it a ghost that we saw?" ”

Mr. Lu shook his head: "I don't know. ”

Xue Qian asked again, "How did it come about?" ”

Mr. Lu added, "I don't know. ”

Xue Qian asked anxiously, "What do you know?" ”

Mr. Lu said: "When Zhuangzi first mentioned Chao Fungi, he was not talking about ghosts, but about some truths in life. All the classics throughout the ages, when quoting the fungus, are also extensions, and no one has ever said that he really saw a person, or a kind of soul, dying in the twilight of life. Therefore, we can only guess about the conclusion of this girl. ”