death

Chapter 5 Autumn in the Old House

"Also, as compensation, I will accompany you well!"

Seeing the last sentence of Mai Xiaorou's message, I couldn't help but think of the various charms she showed in front of me.

I kind of miss that feeling.

I shook my head vigorously, thinking in my heart, Mai Xiaorou is no longer a human being, and I can no longer fantasize about her, or I will die.

Seeing that I didn't reply after a while, Mai Xiaorou sent a crying face and said: "Chen Yu, didn't you say you like me? Are you lying to me?"

I looked at the screen of my phone and still didn’t reply to the message. I asked myself, after getting along with Mai Xiaorou these days, I can’t be unmoved. Although I often suspect that she is not a good woman, I keep denying those bad things from the bottom of my heart. guess.

There are also scenes of me and Mai Xiaorou being together in high school, and the space she prepared for me alone, so I like her, from the bottom of my heart.

But she is dead now, and she has borrowed my life for 30 years for no reason, so I don't have the guts to like her anymore.

Thinking of this, I replied directly: "I dare not like you, it's not that I don't like you!"

"Are you afraid of me?"

"Yes, because you are dead!"

After chatting with Mai Xiaorou for a while, I have already given up my life. Anyway, I have lost my life for 30 years, and I don’t care about the remaining six months. I have to say everything I want to say and ask everything I want to ask today.

It took about a minute for Mai Xiaorou to reply to me: "Yes, I am dead, but I really did not harm you. I borrowed your life for your own good. As for the specific reason, I can't tell you, you know too much, it won't do you any good."

"why?"

"Chen Yu, don't ask why, please, please!"

Mai Xiaorou begging me?
Seeing such words, I no longer feel the slightest fear of Mai Xiaorou. She has the ability to borrow my 30 years of life. Wouldn't it be easy to kill me? If she wants to harm me, why bother to beg me now? Woolen cloth?

Is it true, as she said, it is for my own good?
But I can't figure it out, I borrowed my life for my own good.

Seeing the words of Mai Xiaorou's begging, I suddenly softened my heart, and when I remembered what Zhang Xia told me about Mai Xiaorou lying on the hospital bed waiting to die, my softness turned into sympathy and pity.

I typed and replied: "Okay, I won't ask any more, but you borrowed my life, will you really pay it back?"

Mai Xiaorou replied: "Really! But you have to come to me."

"it is good!"

I finally agreed, this may be my fate.

Mai Xiaorou didn't talk to me too much, and let me go to bed early.

The next day happened to be the weekend, so when I got up early in the morning, I packed up my things and prepared to go to Mai Xiaorou's hometown. Seeing me packing up, Zhang Jianlong asked where I was going.

I said go home and have a look, he patted me on the shoulder and said: "Chen Yu, your mental state is really bad recently, I once thought you were suffering from depression, it's good to go home for a day, what's the matter? If you think about it, it’s not a big deal to be broken in love, haven’t you seen my buddy, I’m single now, I don’t even have a partner.”

Ever since I broke contact with Mai Xiaorou, Zhang Jianlong felt that all my abnormal behaviors were caused by a broken relationship.

I didn't explain much to Zhang Jianlong, but I patted him on the shoulder to express my gratitude for his concern.

It only took half a day's drive from the provincial capital to Mai Xiaorou's hometown, but it took the car to reverse three times before arriving at Mai Xiaorou's village.

This village is not remote, and there is a provincial road passing by here, but Mai Xiaorou's home is a bit remote in the village, at the west end of the village, which is an old village, far away from the road.

Now most people have built their new houses in the east of the village near the road. Except for a few elderly families in the old housing area, most of the houses are vacant.

And Mai Xiaorou's home is in this area.

I walked towards the west of the village with my bag on my back. The weather today was not good and a little gloomy. When I walked to the old housing area in the west of the village, there was a continuous autumn rain in the sky.

The rain was fine, like a mist.

I searched for Mai Xiaorou's house based on my memory, and after walking a few streets, I finally saw the dilapidated black-painted wooden door, which was ajar.

"Grandpa Mai..." I thought about it for a while and called Grandpa Mai's name. After all, Mai Xiaorou is dead. If you call Mai Xiaorou's name here, it will be too noticeable, although there are no people in this old housing area. up.

The raindrops hit my cheeks, making me feel unspeakably cold.

I didn't hear anyone responding, so I gently pushed open the wooden door and called out to the yard again: "Grandpa Mai, are you home? I'm Chen Yu..."

In fact, I wanted to say later that I came to find Mai Xiaorou, but when the words came to my lips, I swallowed them back.

Still no one answered, I took a few glances into the yard, and there were many sycamore leaves piled up on the ground, it was already autumn, and this yard was even more autumnal.

"Squeak..."

The wooden door of an old house opened, and Grandpa Mai came out with a haggard face. Is this still the Grandpa Mai I saw more than a month ago? He seems to have aged a lot.

"Here we come!" Grandpa Mai said weakly.

I asked Grandpa Mai if he was sick, and Grandpa Mai said, "I'm not sick, it's just that I don't have enough energy and blood. I've done several rituals in a row recently, and I'm tired!"

Grandpa Mai is a well-known yin and yang in ten miles and eight towns. He basically handles all the white affairs nearby, so I didn't think too much, and asked directly: "Is Xiaorou there?"

When I asked this sentence, I lowered my voice very low, as if I was the only one who could hear it.

Grandpa Mai pointed to a room with closed doors and windows to the north and said, "Xiaorou can't see anyone during the day, if you want to see her, you can wait here until night, if you are afraid, you can leave on your own."

I looked at the room and said, "Since I'm here, I'm already prepared. I'll stay here until Xiaorou wakes up."

Grandpa Mai led me into his room. The old furniture and furnishings inside were similar to the ones I had when I was in high school.

After a while, there was a burst of tea fragrance, and I turned my head to see that Grandpa Mai was making tea with boiling water.

I asked what kind of tea it was, and Grandpa Mai said while brewing the tea: "This is a herbal tea for invigorating qi, which is not available in the market. A glass."

Grandpa Mai brewed two cups of tea, handed one of them to me, and said, "You haven't had a good rest these days, and you haven't eaten properly. In severe cases, it hurts the stomach, spleen, and heart."

Indeed, these days I have lived in a muddle, and my life and study have become a mess.

After taking the tea from Grandpa Mai, I said "thank you" and impatiently drank that cup of tea, even if it was still hot.

After drinking a cup of tea, I feel refreshed and my body warms up.

I feel like I am already "addicted" to this tea.

Grandpa Mai is not like me. He picks up the teacup and sips one sip. He takes every sip very carefully, for fear of spilling half a drop.

Grandpa Mai didn't speak, and I didn't make a sound when I sat on the wooden chair. After a while, I couldn't help it anymore, and asked, "Grandpa Mai, what's going on with Xiaorou?"

Grandpa Mai took a sip of tea, then squinted his eyes and pondered for a while, and said, "I don't need to hide this matter from you now. She died. She was killed by a powerful old man when we worked on a case with me half a year ago. The corpse took a bite and was poisoned by the corpse."

A case?I was a little puzzled, and Grandpa Mai explained: "I am a yin and yang nearby. In addition to helping people with trivial matters, I also take on some jobs of exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts. These things are collectively called cases here."

"Xiaorou also knows how to perform spells?" I couldn't help asking again.

"Yes, she has learned from me since she was a child. She is very smart and learns quickly."

So the way she was terrified when she heard me tell ghost stories in high school was all fake.

I asked Grandpa Mai again, are there really zombies and ghosts in this world?

Grandpa Mai said: "If you believe it, you will have it. If you don't believe it, you won't have it. I believe it!"

I continued to ask: "Is Xiao Rou really dead?"

Grandpa Mai said: "As a human, Xiaorou is indeed dead. As a 'corpse', she is alive and well, but the corpse poison in Xiaorou is too strong. Body, before she lost control, she imprisoned her natal soul with spells."

I didn't understand what Grandpa Mai was talking about, but he slowly explained to me: "The human soul has three souls: heaven, earth, and fate. , Waiting for reincarnation, the three souls of heaven, earth and life will reunite, but if the earth soul does not go to the underworld, it will stay and combine with the soul of life, then it is a ghost."

Saying this, Grandpa Mai looked at Mai Xiaorou's room, then drank the tea in the cup in one gulp and said: "The soul of fate stays in the world, and usually stays in the place where the body is buried, but the soul of fate has already left the body, so it cannot Returning to the original body, the original body will gradually rot, but if due to some coincidence, the life soul returns to the body and is nourished by the body, then the dead person will become a corpse, Xiaorou is like this now Case."

Mai Xiaorou is really a corpse, not a living person!

Grandpa Mai continued: "Xiao Rou has sealed her natal soul, just like a person has become a vegetative state, her body cannot move, but she cannot die."

I was a little puzzled and asked: "Then Xiaorou was fine not long ago, when she was in the provincial capital."

Grandpa Mai suddenly got a little angry and said: "That's not for your own good. If it wasn't for you, why would she risk her soul to find you and borrow your life!"

Speaking of this, I am confused again, borrowing my life for 30 years, why should it be for me.

I asked Grandpa Mai the reason, and Grandpa Mai said: "This is a secret, neither Xiaorou nor I can tell you, we have sworn to it, and you don't know about it, it's good for you, if you know If you do, you will fall into the vortex of fate, and you will be unable to extricate yourself from now on, and you will even suffer the punishment of heaven, if Xiao Rou doesn't tell you this, then she will resist all the punishments for you."

When talking about this, Grandpa Mai stopped suddenly, then took a deep breath and said: "I've said enough, when Xiaorou wakes up at night, treat her better, don't let her down Kindness, she lent your life and will return it to you."

(End of this chapter)