Looking at Xiao Yu, whose face was red, I didn't know where the courage came from, so I grabbed her hand and held it in my hand.
I put the bracelet given to me by Vidyadhara Master on Xiao Yu’s wrist.
"This is a rosary used by the abbot of Qinglong Temple. It can ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters. Please wear it with you."
Xiaoyu didn't refuse, she lowered her head and let me hold her soft and boneless hand.
"It's almost time. It's time for you to enter the station." The light rain sounded like a mosquito, and he said softly.
Seeing Chujiu next to me with a smirk on his face, I suddenly let go of Xiaoyu's hand, my face feeling hot.
I slapped Chujiu on the forehead and said goodbye to Xiaoyu.
After passing the security check, Chujiu looked back and poked me with her elbow.
When I turned around, I realized that Xiaoyu was still standing there, waving to us.
I waved vigorously, signaling Xiaoyu to go back quickly. Xiaoyu smiled and pointed to the rosary on her wrist, and then pointed to the ground.
Once again, I didn’t understand what Xiaoyu was expressing. Chujiu told me angrily that Sister Xiaoyu said she was waiting for you to come back safely. I really don’t understand how Sister Xiaoyu could fall in love with you, an idiot.
"What does it mean to be interested? Doesn't it mean a three-year inspection period?"
As soon as I finished speaking, Chujiu shook his head and said with an expression of resentment that he thought I was smart before, but it turned out to be an illusion.
Following the crowd, we entered the waiting room. After confirming the train number, we lined up quietly behind the long queue.
"Chujiu, are you telling the truth? Xiaoyu really agreed to be my girlfriend?"
Faced with another excited question from me, Chujiu sighed, pretended not to hear it, turned away and looked into the distance.
"Chujiu, don't I understand girls? Why don't I ask you for advice?"
I dragged Chujiu to my side and promised to treat him to something delicious after getting off the train.
"If we were just ordinary friends, would they get up so early and take you to the train station? Will they help you organize their scarves? Would they let you hold their hands with your stinky hands for a long time? Do you need Sister Xiaoyu to tell you directly?
Only then will you understand?"
It seemed to make sense. I analyzed Chujiu's words carefully. I looked up and saw a girl in the team next to her with wavy perm and long chestnut hair.
Suddenly, scenes of cows appeared in my mind.
I seemed to understand something and shook my head with a wry smile. Maybe it was because fate had not arrived, or maybe I was just a piece of wood.
"Speaking of Chujiu, how do you know these things at such a young age?"
I realized something was wrong. The sixteen-year-old Chujiu looked like a veteran in love. But the me who was about to turn twenty could only be a piece of wood.
"Have you read the popular Qiong Yao novels in school?"
I asked Chujiu confusedly, aren’t the popular novels in school the magazines that Zhang Feng reads? Who else is Qiong Yao?
"Guo Guo, you are actually suitable to live in our village."
When I was about to board the train, I realized that Chujiu was saying that I was out of touch with society.
Sure enough, as the ticket seller described, our seat was in the last row of the carriage, with only one row of seats and the train's lockers behind it, which was much more spacious than other seats.
Chujiu put the travel bag on his body next to the seat and rested his head on the travel bag, saying that it would be comfortable to sleep in this way instead of lying on a hard table.
"Guo Guo, I remember that when I came to school, I only had fifty yuan."
Chujiu told me about the process of coming to school at the beginning of the semester.
There was no money to go from the village to the town. Then I took a bus to the county seat and bought a half-price train ticket. After arriving at the school, I only had five yuan left.
When I showed up, the five dollars were still in my pocket.
Speaking of this, I wonder how I spent that time besides working in the school cafeteria and noodle shop when I was so good at eating.
Chujiu told me that when he left the village, he brought a whole bag of dry food.
"Guo Guo, I didn't expect that it had only been three months. When I returned to the village, I had a lot of money. I also bought beautiful clothes and gifts for all my sisters."
Chujiu touched the travel bag that was half a person tall, with a happy face on his face.
I touched Chujiu's head sadly and joked with a smile that he would be the richest man in the village from now on.
Chujiu nodded in agreement and said with a smile that he must be the richest man. No one in the village had ever worn such clothes, and he knew very well that the owner of the village did not have five hundred yuan in all his belongings.
I don't believe the last sentence. After all, my uncle is my grandfather's junior brother, and he works for the department, and his allowance is more than that.
I later understood that the reason why my grandfather lived a carefree life in Lijiacun was because he had some money.
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, I'm a little worried about Xiao Yu. With the two of us together, it shouldn't be a big problem."
I still told Chujiu about what I saw in the face in the morning. My worries were definitely not unnecessary. I was still very confident in my own ability in face recognition.
"Guo Guo, under what circumstances do we usually encounter such unpredictable situations?"
On the ninth day of the lunar month, when he saw me talking about the problem seriously, he started to take it seriously as well.
I told Chujiu that the situation where Yintang turns black is like ours, which is a sign of extremely low luck. Very bad things can easily happen, and it is very easy to attract sneaky people in this situation.
Chujiu's eyes lit up when he heard the word "sneaky" and asked me if such a thing would happen if there were many ghosts around. I thought about it and told him that it was very possible.
When Chujiu heard what I said, he smiled and told me that there was no need to worry, probably for this reason.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, he asked me if I had ever heard of hungry ghosts. I immediately remembered that I was very greedy when I was a child, and I would stand on the stove every day waiting for my mother to cook.
My mother would laugh and scold me for being reincarnated as a starving ghost. Chujiu told me that a starving ghost and an evil ghost are two different things.
We often hear about the six paths of reincarnation, which are divided into three paths of good and three paths of evil.
Among the three evil realms, one is called the hungry ghost realm.
The reason why they are also called hungry ghosts is because most of the beings in the hungry ghost realm have belly as big as a basin and throats as thin as pinholes due to the influence of unwholesome karma. They cannot eat food for many years and will pounce on food when they see it.
Because the mouth is hot and fire is spitting out, the throat is too thin and cannot be swallowed, or the food instantly turns into charcoal and burns through the stomach and intestines, causing such pain, it is called a hungry ghost, which is more vivid.
Hungry ghosts are somewhat different from the ghosts in the underworld. They live alone for a single period. Except for special times, they will go to the human world to look for food. Usually they will not stay in the human world.
Occasionally, some people who cannot control their character stay in the human world. Although they cause great harm to the human world, they will still be punished by heaven.
Four or five o'clock in the morning is exactly the time when hungry ghosts pounce on food. They hide in every corner of the world. Most of them are near restaurants, restaurants, and breakfast stalls.
Take the breakfast bun shop as an example. The moment the hot buns come out of the pot, some people will see the buns shaking faintly and becoming bigger on one side and smaller on the other.
This situation is actually hungry ghosts grabbing food in the human world. Of course, they will not actually eat the buns. The hungry ghosts will eat by absorbing the aroma of the buns.