I saw the woman's face and I stared in amazement.
This woman turned out to be my deskmate in high school, my deskmate in the first year of high school. She was a very inconspicuous girl, but her academic performance was very good. She was not talkative and even after class, she liked to sit there and read.
She sat at the same table with me for half a year and only spoke to me twice. I remember this girl. She didn't come to school in the second half of the year. The teacher said that she transferred to a provincial key school. But the truth was, two months later, I found out that she jumped off the building. She jumped from the 18th floor of her home. The 18th floor itself is an unlucky floor, and people usually jump over it, from the 17th floor to the 19th floor directly.
When I heard the news, I was shocked. A high school student was afraid of death. Moreover, I sat at the same table with her. On her last day of school, she actually gave me a diary that she bought at the school supermarket. It was a very beautiful one. Then she never came to school.
I didn't expect that it was her. She looked at me blankly.
"Is she dead? Why is she here?"
I was completely dejected.
"Are you Xiaoying?"
She didn't say anything, but nodded, obviously she heard me. So, she was not dead. She didn't die in the Bone Village. It was really evil.
"I am Xiao Zuo?"
"It's Xiao Zuo."
She spoke slowly, completely different from the way she was in school.
"Why am I here?"
She actually started crying.
"Don't cry, come with me over there."
I want to know what happened.
Xiaoying followed me and went to that room. When Mu Qing saw Xiaoying, he was a little scared. Xiaoying's hair was almost dragging on the ground.
I took out something for Xiaoying to eat. She ate slowly at first, but then she ate quickly and ate voraciously. It was obvious that she had been here for too long and had not eaten anything. She could eat, which meant she was not dead. I could also feel her body temperature.
Xiaoying finished eating and sat aside looking at me.
"Tell me what happened?"
Xiaoying cried for a while before speaking.
"I left school that year because I saw something. My mother killed my father. There was blood all over the room. My mother was cutting the flesh of my father. I saw it all. I left home that day and went to the Bone Village. I couldn't accept this reality. I knew I was crazy. I didn't know why my mother killed my father. I really didn't know. I still don't know. I stole my father's body to the Bone Village, as well as my mother's. My mother was sentenced to death, so I stole my mother's body as well. In the crematorium, in that room were the bones of my mother and father. I liked to move them around every day. There were also other people's bones. I don't know. I don't know why I did this. I couldn't control myself. I couldn't leave the Bone Village..."
I know that Xiaoying has mental problems. But how come Xiaoying didn't die? I don't know, and she can't explain it clearly.
"Can I take you home?"
Xiaoying shook her head.
"I won't go home, this is my home, there is my father, there is my mother..."
My tears were about to come out, and Mu Qing was wiping them away.
Xiaoying ran away in the middle of the night. After dawn, I went to the house to look for her, but she was no longer there. I think she hid herself. She would not leave the Bone Village. She wanted to stay with those bones. Being hurt might be the most painful thing, more painful than losing an arm.
Mu Qing and I were wandering around the Bone Village. I was looking for a way to crack the hook technique, but I was at a loss. I didn't know when I would find it, and I didn't know how to find it. Anyway, I just wandered around the Bone Village.
In the middle of the night, I heard footsteps and thought it was Mu Qing, but it wasn’t. Mu Qing was standing at the window watching.
"Did you see anything?"
"No, there were footsteps, like someone walking around in this room. I couldn't see anything, it was really weird."
I know that this kind of sound is nothing in the Bone Village. If there are footsteps, it is the ghosts walking around. They are uneasy at night.
It has been the sixth day since I came to the Bone Village, and I still have gained nothing. I am getting a little angry. If this continues, I will not be able to crack the hook technique.
I never saw Xiaoying again, so I decided to leave Bone Village. It was already the tenth day when I returned.
He Dana didn't ask me, he could tell from my expression.
"Xiao Zuo, calm down and stop worrying about things like that. There's no point."
I really want to let it go, but I can’t, I don’t know why, it’s the strangest thing.
Mu Qing comes to my house whenever he has nothing to do, brings food and daily necessities, and cleans my room.
"Mu Qing, don't do this. It's meaningless. You have your own things to do. Your things are to study and teach students."
"Besides these, I should also have love and other things to do."
I didn't say anything else.
When I met Yunbai, she was shopping with Xiaozhe in the store. I saw them when Xiaozhe called me.
"Xiaozhe, do you miss your dad?"
Xiaozhe nodded, a very quiet child.
That day Yunbai took Xiaozhe away, and I watched from afar until they disappeared. In fact, I wondered what it would be like if Yunbai brought Xiaozhe back. I thought, that would be happiness.
Perhaps I will never get this kind of happiness, and even if I get it now, it will not be this kind of happiness.
I was sitting at home watching TV when Mu Qing called me to go to Dali.
I went to the Dalai Restaurant and Mu Qing was in a private room. I went in and sat down.
"I'm treating you to dinner today because I'm in love with you."
I didn't say anything. Mu Qing fell in love with me, and I liked her too. This was the truth, because she looked like Hao Fei, and was becoming more and more like Hao Fei.
"You look a lot like someone, Hao Fei."
Mu Qing was stunned for a moment and just smiled.
I told her about Hao Fei that day and she listened.
"I'd like to be Hao Fei."
"No, you are you, Hao Fei is Hao Fei, and no one can be anyone else."
That night, when we went home, the manager was waiting for me at the door.
"Xiao Zuo, there is a job to be done tonight."
"It's late at night and you won't let me rest."
"You'll be able to rest tomorrow, but you have to do this job."
I glanced at Mu Qing.
"You go ahead!"
I got into the director's car and entered the crematorium.
In a hall of the morgue, there was a man.
"This man has been delivered. He must be burned today because it is a ghost period."
"How come it's been thirteen days and you just remembered to have a fever?"
"You tell the family members about these things. They are in my office."
It will be difficult to be reborn if you don't burn during the ghost period, but it usually won't exceed thirteen days. If it exceeds that, you have to find a Taoist priest to perform the ritual, which is a very troublesome thing.
I entered the office and the family members were inside.
"Why did you just remember to burn it?"
"His wife hid the body and didn't allow it to be burned. We just found it now. I'm so sorry."
I understood as soon as I heard it. It seems that they have a good relationship as a couple.
"How did he die?"
"It fell from a great height."
"If a corpse like this is burned, something will happen. I might take some other measures at that time. You should be mentally prepared for that."
"Master, we believe in you. No matter what happens, I won't blame you."
The thirteenth day is the day when ghosts and humans are replaced, and strange things often happen to such corpses.
The makeup artist came and did the makeup for me, then I turned on the furnace and put the body aside. When the fire started, I pushed the body in and stared at it.
Just as the skin was burning and falling off piece by piece, suddenly something flew out, a black ball. I couldn't catch it at once, and I was a little flustered. Sure enough, something went wrong.
The black ball flew away, but I couldn't leave. Two hours later, the body was burned. I picked out the ashes, put them in an urn, and took them to the office.
"It's done."
The family members gave me a black bag and left. After they left, I lit a cigarette and said.
"Captain, something happened."
"What happened?"
"If not, a black mass rushed out and I missed it."
"What is that? A black spirit is another kind of substance. It exists just like us humans, but it's black. It's an evil spirit. People like this are the most evil. It's the combination of four spirits. That is, they have reincarnated four times, and the four souls have not separated, but are together. That's why there are evil spirits."
"What should we do then?"
"It won't leave, but it's very difficult to catch and control it. Something is bound to happen at the crematorium during this period. If it's not caught, something could happen at any time."
Actually, I was wrong about one thing. The black spirit did not stay in the crematorium, but ran away. I asked He Dana to come, and he did not feel the presence of the black spirit. If there was, he would be able to feel it. Such evil spirits have an evil and strong aura.
He Dana looked at me and said.
"Next time you burn someone, don't just burn them and leave it at that. How the family members deal with it is their business. You let the evil spirit out, and there will be retribution for that."
"In that situation, I had to burn it. I had no choice but to burn it."
I really don't know what to do.
I'll go back with He Dana, he said.
"We have to find it no matter what."
I don't know how to find it.
After dark the next day, He Dana took me to a place. It was an old temple in Dongshan, an abandoned temple where children would play from time to time.
"Such an evil spirit would occupy a place, perhaps here, but I am not sure."
Let’s go in, said He Dana.
"Right here. Remember, don't let it jump on you."
I saw the black mass, clinging to the beam of the house.
I glanced at He Dana.
"Such a dark evil spirit."
He shook his head.
He Da took it out and I followed.
"There is only one way. Go to the Taoist Association and find Taoist Ma."
I know that there is a Taoist temple on West 1st Road, where incense is lit all day long. I have no contact with them, but He Dana has contact with them. He has friends and relatives from all over the world. (To be continued)