"In addition, as compensation, I will accompany you well!"
When I saw the last sentence of the message sent by Mai Xiaorou, I couldn't help but think of the various charms she displayed in front of me.
I actually miss that feeling.
I shook my head vigorously and said in my heart, Mai Xiaorou is no longer a human being, I can no longer have wild thoughts about her, otherwise 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 liked me? Were you all lying to me?"
I looked at the screen of my phone, but I still didn’t reply to the message. I asked myself, after getting along with Mai Xiaorou these days, it was impossible for me not to be tempted. Although I often suspected that she was not a good woman, I kept denying those bad things in my heart.
speculation.
There were also scenes of Mai Xiaorou and I being together in high school, and the space she prepared just for me, so I liked her, from the bottom of my heart.
But now that she is dead, and she borrowed my life for thirty years for no reason, I no longer have the courage to like her.
Thinking of this, I replied directly: "I don't dare to 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 given up. Anyway, I have lost thirty years of my life. I don’t care about the remaining six months. I must 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 didn't harm you. I lent your life for your own good. As for the specific reason,
I can't tell you, it won't be good for you if you know too much."
"Why?"
"Chen Yu, don't ask why, please, please!"
Mai Xiaorou begged me?
Seeing such words, I no longer feel the slightest fear towards Mai Xiaorou. She has the ability to borrow my thirty-year lifespan, so it would be easy to kill me. If she wants to harm me, why bother begging her now?
And me?
Could it be true that it was for my own good as she said?
But I can't figure it out, lending my life is for my own good.
Seeing the words of Mai Xiaorou's begging, I suddenly felt a little soft-hearted. Then I remembered what Zhang Xia told me about Mai Xiaorou lying on the hospital bed waiting to die, and my soft-heartedness turned into sympathy and pity.
I typed a reply: "Okay, I won't ask anymore, but if you lend me your life, will you really give it back to me?"
Mai Xiaorou replied: "Really! But you have to come to me."
"good!"
I finally agreed, maybe this was my destiny.
Mai Xiaorou didn't say much more to me and asked me to go to bed early.
The next day happened to be the weekend. When I got up early, I packed my things and prepared to go to Mai Xiaorou's hometown. Zhang Jianlong saw me packing my things and asked where I was going.
I said go home and take a look. He patted me on the shoulder and said, "Chen Yu, your mental state has been really bad recently. I thought you were suffering from depression. You can just go home for a day. If anything happens, it will be fine."
I think that falling out of love is nothing to worry about. Haven’t you seen that I am single now? I don’t even have a partner.”
Ever since I lost contact with Mai Xiaorou, Zhang Jianlong felt that all my abnormal behaviors were caused by broken love.
I didn’t explain much to Zhang Jianlong and patted him on the shoulder to express my gratitude for his concern.
It only takes half a day's drive from the provincial capital to Mai Xiaorou's hometown, but it took three backups to get to Mai Xiaorou's village.
This village is not considered remote, and there is a provincial road passing by it. However, Mai Xiaorou's home is a bit remote in the village. It is at the west end of the village, which is the old village area, and is relatively far away from the road.
Nowadays, most people have built new houses in the east of the village near the highway. Except for a few elderly families, most of the houses in the old housing area are vacant.
Mai Xiaorou's home is in this area.
I carried my bag and walked towards the west of the village. The weather today was bad and a bit gloomy. When I walked to the old housing area in the west of the village, a steady autumn rain began to fall from the sky.
The rain is very thin, like mist.
I went to find Mai Xiaorou's house based on my memory. After walking a few streets, I finally saw the dilapidated black lacquered wooden door, which was ajar.
"Grandpa Mai..." I thought for a moment and called Grandpa Mai's name. After all, Mai Xiaorou was dead. If I called Mai Xiaorou's name here, it would attract too much attention, even though there was no one in the old housing area.
Already.
The raindrops hit my cheeks, making me feel indescribably cold.
When no one responded, I gently opened the wooden door and shouted into the yard: "Grandpa Mai, are you at home? I am Chen Yu..."
In fact, I wanted to say later that I came to see Mai Xiaorou, but when the words came to my lips, I swallowed them back.
Still no one answered, so I took a few glances into the yard. There were many sycamore leaves piled on the ground. It was already autumn, and the autumn mood was even stronger in this yard.
"Creak..."
The wooden door of an old house opened, and Grandpa Mai walked out with a crispy face. Is this the same Grandpa Mai I saw more than a month ago? He seemed to be much older.
"Here we come!" Grandpa Mai said feebly.
I asked Grandpa Mai if he was sick, and Grandpa Mai said: "No, I just don't have enough energy and blood. I've been doing several rituals recently and I'm tired!"
Grandpa Mai is a well-known yin and yang from all over the country, and he will usually be asked to handle all the affairs in the neighborhood, so I didn’t think much about it and asked directly: "Is Xiaorou here?"
When I asked this question, I kept 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 in the north and said: "Xiaorou cannot see people during the day. If you want to see her, just wait here until night. If you are afraid, just leave on your own."
I looked at the room and said, "Now that I'm here, I'm already mentally prepared. I'll stay here until Xiaorou wakes up."
Grandpa Mai led me into his room. The old furniture and furnishings inside were almost the same as when I was in high school.
After a while, the aroma of tea came. I turned around and saw Grandpa Mai making tea with boiling water.
I asked what kind of tea it was, and Grandpa Mai said while making tea: "This is a herbal tea for replenishing qi. You can't buy it on the market. I was blessed with it. An expert gave it to me. Drinking one cup will make you feel better."
One cup.”
Grandpa Mai made two cups of tea, handed one of them to me and said, "You haven't had a good rest these days, nor have you eaten properly. The Qi and pulse in your body have begun to become chaotic. If you don't adjust in time, you will suffer from a minor illness.
If it is serious, it will hurt the stomach, spleen, and make you sad."
Indeed, I have been living in a state of confusion these days, and my life and study have become a mess.
After taking the tea from Grandpa Mai, I said "thank you" and couldn't wait to drink the cup of tea. I didn't care whether the tea was still hot.
After a cup of tea, you feel refreshed and your body warms up.
I feel like I'm already "addicted" to this tea.
Grandpa Mai is not like me. He picks up the tea cup and sips it one sip at a time. He takes every sip very carefully, for fear of spilling even a drop.
Grandpa Mai didn't speak, and I didn't make a sound while sitting 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 thought deeply for a while and said: "Now that this matter has come to an end, I don't have to hide it from you. She is dead. She was killed by a powerful ancient corpse when we worked on a case together half a year ago.
The corpse took a bite and was poisoned by corpse poison."
A case? I was a little confused. Grandpa Mai explained: "I am the yin and yang of the neighborhood. In addition to helping people with ordinary things, I also take on some work of exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts. These things are collectively called cases here.
."
"Xiao Rou knows magic?" I couldn't help but ask again.
"Yes, she has learned from me since she was a child. She is very smart and learns quickly."
So the way she looked scared when she heard me telling ghost stories in high school was all an act.
I asked Grandpa Mai again, are there really zombies and ghosts in this world?
Grandpa Mai said: "If you believe it, there will be something. If you don't believe it, there will be nothing. I believe it!"
I continued to ask: "Is Xiaorou really dead?"
Grandpa Mai said: "As a human being, Xiaorou is indeed dead. As a 'corpse', she is alive and well. However, the corpse poison in Xiaorou is too powerful. After transforming into a corpse, she cannot control her body at all."
Before she lost control of her body, she used magic to imprison her soul."
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 life. When a person dies, the heaven soul returns to its place, the earth soul goes to the underworld, and the life soul remains in the human world.
, when waiting for reincarnation, the three souls of heaven, earth and destiny will reunite, but if the soul of earth does not go to the underworld, it will stay and combine with the soul of destiny, then it is a ghost."
As he spoke, Grandpa Mai looked at Mai Xiaorou's room, then drank the tea in the cup in one gulp and said: "The soul of life remains in the world, usually at the place where the body is buried, but the soul of life has already left the body, so it cannot
Returning to the original body, the original body will gradually decay. However, if due to some chance, the soul returns to the original body and is nourished by the original body, then the dead person will become a corpse, which is what Xiaorou is like now.
Case."
Mai Xiaorou is really a corpse, not a living person!
Grandpa Mai continued: "Xiaorou sealed her own soul, which is like a person becoming a vegetative state, unable to move, but unable to die."
I asked with some confusion: "Then Xiaorou was fine not long ago, when she was in the provincial capital."
Grandpa Mai suddenly became angry and said: "That's not for your own good. If it wasn't for you, why would she risk her soul being broken to find you and borrow your life?"
At this point, I was confused again. How could it be better for me if you borrowed my life for thirty years?
I asked Grandpa Mai the reason, and Grandpa Mai said: "This is a secret. Neither Xiaorou nor I can tell you. We both swore an oath. Besides, it's also good for you if you don't know about it. If you know
If you do, you will be deeply trapped in the whirlpool of fate, unable to extricate yourself from now on, and may even suffer divine punishment. If Xiaorou doesn't tell you this, then she will fight all the punishments for you."
When he said this, Grandpa Mai suddenly stopped, then took a deep breath and said: "I have said enough. When Xiaorou wakes up at night, be nice to her and don't let her down.
With good intentions, she lent her life to you and will return it to you." (To be continued)