A group of six people, divided into two rental cars rushed to the old loach's company, I was in the same car with the valve core and kraft candy, I sat in the back row and leaned against the window, looking at the rows of neon lights passing in front of me on Huaihai Road, and my head was blank.

The kraft candy in the front row turned around at this time and woke me up from my stupor: "Daguanren, you said that you really met the old loach in the bar before?" ”

I nodded, I still remember very clearly the moment he grabbed the corner of my clothes, until he disappeared into the crowd's back, all the details that happened in between were only half an hour ago, the stubble on his face and the dark circles under his eyes were so vivid, and the apology on his face was also the habitual expression of the old loach, and it was not so easy for ordinary people to imitate it. But it was after a quarter past eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, how could it be said that he died suddenly at a quarter past ten o'clock?

The valve core said: "Probably the big official is proficient in those fortune-telling skills, so he has the potential of a prophet in his brain, and he unknowingly exerts a premonition, so that some hallucinations appear in front of his eyes, right?" When I was studying psychology in France, I had heard about many cases where hunches came true. ”

Kraft Candy thought about it and didn't agree: "If it's a premonition that he will die, then it should also be a plot hallucination like death that appears directly, how can it be that he ran over to apologize, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense, I think it's ...... Forget it, my hairs stand on end. ”

The old loach's company is not far from the bar, and the taxi drives all the way along Huaihai Road, and the price of less than a starting fee has arrived. After the six of us got out of the car, TJ took the lead and led us upstairs because he was familiar with the place.

After getting out of the elevator, the entire floor was occupied by their company. At this time, there were only a few colleagues left in the company who were working overtime, and they were talking about something, and after asking us about our intentions, they said that they had already been taken to the hospital by several other colleagues, and the hospital was across the road.

So the kraft candy rushed straight to the hospital, and I suddenly wanted to see where the old loach finally worked, so I asked them to go first, and I went later.

They didn't think much of it and walked straight to the hospital, so I asked one of my colleagues to take me to see the old loach's desk.

The colleague introduced herself as Merry, an assistant designer in the creative department of the old loach, and she took me to his small office, which is actually a small cubicle against the wall in the office lobby area, with floor-to-ceiling glass as a partition, and a simple desk, chair, and bookshelves inside. His award-winning works are densely plastered on the walls, and miscellaneous items such as teacups and ashtrays are piled up on the desk.

There were also a lot of sticky notes on the monitor, with memos such as the progress time of various work, and I even saw a red sticky note in the center with the words "Tonight at 21:00, Fuxing Park gathering!! The last three exclamation marks are marked in bold, which shows that he actually wants to come on time today.

I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, tried not to blur my vision, sat in his chair, looked around, and there was a picture of him and his grandfather on the table, he was wearing a college graduation gown, he was still alive at that time, and I remember that on the day of the graduation ceremony, my grandfather gave me a cigarette.

Seeing that I wasn't leaving, Merry poured me a glass of water, then sighed and said, "Director Ni works very hard, and although it is very stressful to work under him, he can learn a lot. Recently, the company has a major customer to compare drafts, and he has been working overtime for more than a week, including two all-nighters. ”

I nodded, and he had told me that not long ago.

Merry continued: "You are his friends, when he finally lay on the table, we thought he was asleep and did not alarm him, until the vice president called and told us to let him go home early to rest, and one of our colleagues came in and called him, only to find that he was no longer moving. So he immediately carried him to the opposite hospital, and soon called to say that he had passed away. ”

"So, who called us and told us to come over?"

I remembered that when Kraft Candy answered the phone before, it was the caller ID of the old loach, and Merry said that she didn't know, maybe it was a colleague at the hospital who wanted to notify the family, so the latest call record was dialed.

I asked if I could help the old loach pack up her relics and take them away, and Merry said that the leader had not spoken yet, and she couldn't be good at advocating, so she should leave a mobile phone number and notify me to help him clean up when things were in order.

I thought about it and it was reasonable, so I left her my mobile phone number.

By the time we arrived at the hospital, the body of the old loach had already been taken to the morgue, and I didn't have time to catch a last look at him, but I heard from the kraft candy that they lifted the cover before pushing in and saw him with a full face of stubble and deep dark circles under his eyes.

At this time, in addition to us in the corridor of the hospital, there were three male colleagues of the old loach, who sent him to the hospital, one of them gave us the old loach's mobile phone, saying that he wanted to contact relatives before, but the entire address book did not have an obvious number with the title of relatives, so I had no choice but to dial the latest call from kraft candy.

I said that he was an orphan, and I guess no one would know where his family lived except for me, three old classmates who often played with Kraft Candy and TJ.

At this time, the leaders of the old loach company also received a notice to rush to the hospital one after another, kraft candy they discussed with these colleagues and leaders in the aftermath of the treatment, I suddenly felt so tired, sitting alone on the bench in the hospital corridor, staring blankly at the blue and white hospital lights, recalling the last time I talked to the old loach in the toilet, is this a reality or an illusion or ...... Ghost?

It was almost dawn when I returned to the apartment that day, everyone said that they would go home and rest first, and then meet again in the evening to discuss the funeral and other aftermaths, I sent a text message to Bingbing to roughly say the overview, maybe she hadn't woken up yet, and slowly fell asleep in the process of waiting for her reply.

I woke up at one o'clock in the afternoon, it was still hot today, the afternoon sun was white, I walked along the green belt of the apartment complex, thinking about what had happened in the last two days, I had a feeling of being caught off guard, things came one after another, but I had never met before, I decided to call my dad to see what he would say about last night's events.

When the phone called, my father immediately asked, "What's the matter, are you ready to leave?" Or have you already found someone? ”

I said that there was something I wanted to inquire about, so I recounted the incident of meeting the old loach in the bar yesterday.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, and then I heard my father say: "Your birthday is coming in a few days, after this birthday, you are really 30 years old, our descendants of the ancestors of Yin and Yang Yishu, as long as the age is over half a Jiazi, that is, 30 years, some special potentials in the body will gradually be stimulated, and many things that you don't know and understand before will slowly experience it yourself." ”

I don't quite understand what he meant, so please be specific.

He continued: "The old loach you met yesterday, he is indeed dead, but not dead, in the 49 days after death, his soul will continue to wander in the world, even he may not know that he is dead, only after the first seven, he will understand his death, the next is to find the direction of reincarnation in the six realms, according to their creation before death, they will go to different worlds, if they still do not find a way out after 49 days, it is often either to go to hell or become a lonely ghost and difficult to be reborn. ”

"I already knew these principles of reincarnation, but yesterday I saw a living old loach in front of me, but why?" I still don't understand the reasoning.

Dad said, "This is the bardo body. After death, people have not yet understood that they are dead, during this time, their soul and body have gradually separated, the body has become a wreckage, and the soul has not yet gotten rid of the idea of this world, in the process they have to gradually face their own death, but also to deal with some unfulfilled long-cherished wishes in life.

In just a few days between life and death, their state is called the bardo body. They can't be considered human beings, nor can they be considered ghosts, but are just a temporary state of human and ghost presence. And the descendants of our Yin-Yang Ancestors, after 30 years of birth, have the ability to see these bardo bodies, and you can see them before your birthday, which means that you are very talented, and as your mind becomes more and more mature, you can see more things in the future, and slowly adapt to it, child. ”

Then my father explained a few words about preparing for "big things" to hurry up, so as not to be taken first by the evil spirits.

After putting down the phone, a text message from Kraft Candy came, saying that a private room had been booked at a Japanese restaurant in the Hongqiao area at 18:00 in the evening, and everyone was asked to attend on time to discuss the future of the old loach.

Seeing that it was still early, I went back to the store, two girls were entertaining customers in the store, Bingbing was in the back studio and a few beaded craftsmen were studying the new style, and when they saw me enter the store, they pulled me upstairs.

She took out a few plastic bottles from her bag and stuffed them for me, and I saw that there were some labels on them, which said "Soul Scattering Soup", "Gugu Dan", "Blood Loss" and "Heart Preservation Pill...... I looked at her suspiciously, and she said that these were the life-saving medicines she had made for me overnight, and that they would be convenient for me when I went out to run errands next week, and that there were still some medicines that had not yet been prepared, and that they would be given to me in a few days.

I said that I could use so many medicines, and those who didn't know thought I was a charlatan peddling fake medicines.

She glared and said, "Fart, you forgot about Sister Ming the day before yesterday, if I hadn't calmed that thing with a cup of soul-dispersing soup, you wouldn't know if you were dead or alive now!" ”

I thought she was making a bit of a fuss, but after all, for my good sake, I thanked her and put it in the drawer. She said that all the instructions were already stuffed in the bottle, and when using it, read the instructions and pay attention to the dosage. I said yes again and again.

After speaking, she stuffed me with a white paper bag, saying that this was a white gift for the old loach, although the money was not much, but it was also a heart.

The old loach and Bingbing also met a few times in the store, and the old loach also praised Bingbing for growing into the water hibiscus fairy wind bone, but he didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, it was separated from yin and yang, which was embarrassing.

Bingbing said again: "This is my own gift money, if you want to run a funeral or something like lack of money, and then ask me to take it, then even if you ask the store to borrow it, you have to deduct it from your pocket money." ”

Well, I was secretly praising her for being a good girl with affection and intentions, but in a blink of an eye, I was like this stepmother again, what a veritable "grandmother"!

I took some private money from the safe and put it in my wallet, thinking that I might have to scrape together money for the funeral at night, and then put incense on the Buddhist platform, and after reciting the Heart Sutra, I recited the mantra for the old loach a few times for him.

At this time, it was almost dinner time, and I was about to go out, when suddenly my mobile phone called, and when I saw that it was Qin Youqing, I heard his nervous voice when I picked it up:

"Great official, hurry, hurry up, I'm going to show you a strange thing!"