The Taste of Ghosts in the World

"Come down with me... Come down with me..." The ear-piercing screams suddenly pierced the tranquility of the morning, and continued to circulate endlessly. Qi Mu was agitated, turned over and sat up suddenly, and cut off the pillow by the way. phone ringtones.

Looking at the time, it was a little later than usual, Qi Mu quickly jumped out of bed, hurriedly put on his clothes and pants, finished washing as quickly as possible, brushed a mess of hair, and habitually glanced at the full-length mirror when he rushed out of the room , Suddenly, he froze.

If there is anything that upsets Qi Mu more than getting up late in the morning, it must be only when he is busy going out that he finds out that he has received a letter from a ghost.

Although I really wanted to pretend I didn't see it, but the thing was exaggerated and conspicuous like a murder scene, and it was clearly saying: "Look at me...Look at me..."

Reluctantly stopping, Qi Mu stared at the big blood-red characters on the mirror——

"Come back at ten o'clock tonight", followed by a thick and thick exclamation point.

"Damn, I met an illiterate!" Qi Mu complained, dipped a little color on the words with his finger, rubbed it open and smelled it, it was lipstick...

Could it be a woman?

Without time to think about it, Qi Mu kicked the mirror angrily, and then ran out without looking back. Dahei, who was sleeping in the living room, saw him, drooling over him, and Qi Mu rubbed his butt indiscriminately. With his head, he poured some dog food into the food bowl, and said before leaving the house: "Take care of the house and don't let other things in."

Dahei let out a cry as a promise, and buried his head in the food bowl.

Qi Mu slept almost a whole day in school, he didn't have to study at night, he went home after school in the afternoon, Dahei was wandering around the room, it seemed that he was very hungry.

After cooking the dog food, I made some food for myself. One person and one dog finished dinner while watching TV.

"About [-]:[-] this morning, an old man who was exercising in the morning found a headless female corpse in the green belt of Longhu Square. The cause of death cannot be determined for the time being. The deceased did not have any identification on him, and the police are still investigating..."

The female news announcer finished reading the news with a cold expression, and then reported the news that "the leader of XX cordially condolences to the rural people".

Qi Mu looked at the sky outside the window, it was almost dark, so he stood up and turned off the TV, put on his big black chain and went for a walk.

When he reached the intersection, he hesitated for a moment. He usually took the left to go to Longhu Square, where he could watch old men and women dancing ballroom dances, but remembering the news just now, he had to change his route and walk along the shore of Longhu.

There are relatively few people here, and those who go out for a walk after dinner like to go to the square to have a lively time, and the lakeside becomes more and more deserted. Several street lights are broken, and some sections are bright and some are dark.

Strolling around casually, considering that it was not safe these days, Qi Mu pulled Dahei to go back. After walking a few steps, Dahei suddenly stopped, bared his teeth and glared ahead, and let out a low roar from his throat.

"What's the matter?" Qi Mu followed its eyes puzzledly, and saw a pair of human feet protruding from the dense branches of the street tree in front, shaking a few times when the night wind blew.

Qi Mu's heart tightened, and he was hesitating whether to call the police. At this time, a middle-aged couple walking by walked by him. Seeing him staring at a tree, he also looked at it strangely, and then his face was full of bewilderment. walk away.

Just when he was about to remind him, they saw them walking past those feet, the toes even brushed the husband's shoulders, they didn't realize it, Qi Mu suddenly understood, stretched out his hand to pat Dahei's head, and led him around Open that tree and keep going.

After walking a few more steps, another street tree appeared in front of him, and a pair of feet were exposed from the leafy canopy, even the old-fashioned black cloth shoes worn on the feet were exactly the same.

Dahei still wanted to scream, but Qi Mu tugged on the chain and said, "Dahei, don't pay attention to that kind of thing, you will be possessed."

So Dahei bowed his head obediently.

Seeing the next tree again, Dahei didn't even look at it this time, Qi Mu pulled it and passed by without looking sideways.

Go to the next tree, the next tree...

Qi Mu was very impatient with those feet, so he quickened his pace and rushed home.

Suddenly someone said: "Did you see it?"

Qi Mu was taken aback for a moment, only to realize that the tree in front of him had no legs, instead a man with a rope tied around his neck was standing under the tree waving to him.

As soon as Qi Mu gritted his teeth, he lowered his head and pulled Dahei away. The man got anxious and raised his voice and shouted: "Hey! Don't pretend you can't see!"

Qi Mu ran faster, and he heard the man chasing after him and said grimly: "You can't run away, I will always follow you..."

"Impossible, you were hanged on the tree, you can't leave there at all!" Qi Mu said while running.

There was no sound behind him, and Qi Mu took two quick steps before stopping. Suddenly, a sigh sounded in his ears, and all his hairs stood on end in an instant.

"I won't harm you. It's rare to meet someone who can see me. It's okay to talk..."

Qi Mu looked at his watch, thought for a while and said, "Just talk for a while, I want to go back early."

"Okay!" The Hanged Ghost's voice sounded very happy, and his figure slowly appeared.

Qi Mu climbed up the fence by the lake and sat down, Dahei lay at his feet, "What do you want to say?"

The hanged ghost also walked to the guardrail, looked at the surface of Longhu Lake, and said, "30 years ago, this lake was just a small pool, but now it has become so big."

"30 years ago?" Qi Mu counted the time silently, then glanced at the gray cloth clothes with a strong atmosphere of the times on his body, and said clearly: "It was the Cultural Revolution at that time, and of course it has been expanded now."

"That's right, during the Cultural Revolution, everyone was busy destroying the four olds, so there was no time for urban construction..."

Seeing his expression lost in memory, Qi Mu said: "I heard that during the Cultural Revolution, because of being criticized, many people went crazy, and some died, but now most of them have been rehabilitated."

"Is this consolation?"

Qi Mu who was seen through felt very embarrassed and didn't speak for a while.

The hanged ghost said again: "Do you think I committed suicide because of criticism?"

"..."

"It's true to be criticized, but it's not enough for me to die."

Qi Mu didn't continue to ask, but just jumped off the railing and said, "It's getting late, I have to go back."

The hanged ghost didn't keep anyone anymore, so he asked him, "Will you come again in the future?"

"Maybe...I said, can you put your tongue back?"

"I can't help it. It was like this when I died, and it has always been like this." The hanged ghost said, grabbing his own neck and making a comparison.

"Forget it then." Qi Mu pulled Dahei up, said "goodbye" to the hanged ghost, and then walked home slowly.

I have been able to see those things since I was a child, and I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune.At the beginning, I didn't know that the "people" walking around me didn't exist in the eyes of other people, and I often played with "them" when I was young.

In the first class of kindergarten, the children gathered together to tell ghost stories, and the atmosphere was very scary. At that time, he also felt scared, but he saw a woman with a pale face floating next to the table, covering her mouth and snickering.

Is that a ghost?

What an unbearable childhood.

As I grew up, I realized that ghosts rarely harm people, because living people can't see them, and they can't touch the living people's bodies. Most ghosts do some tricks to scare people.

Many of the people who were rumored to have been killed by ghosts were killed by humans. Sometimes, humans are much scarier than ghosts.

When he got home, Qi Mu went back to his room to use the computer as usual, and before he knew it, it was past ten o'clock when he looked at his watch.

Suddenly remembered the message on the mirror, don't you come?

He got up and poured himself a glass of water. Just as he was about to drink it, the light in the living room flickered.

Is it time to change the light bulb again?

Qi Mu put down the cup impatiently, and was about to find a spare light bulb. At this moment, the light flickered again. He didn't pay attention to it, but suddenly flickered violently in the next second, and the filament made a flickering sound of "Zizi——" With an uneasy voice, Dahei rushed to Qi Mu's side and barked furiously, and he couldn't see anything clearly in the flickering light.

"Come out quickly, if you dodge again, you will really have to change." Qi Mu said with a sigh.

As soon as the words were finished, the lights suddenly turned on, and a ferocious face suddenly appeared in front of Qi Mu's eyes. He took a breath of cool air, and subconsciously took a few steps back.

"You are sick! Appear as soon as you appear, is it fun to be scary?"

"I want you to know that I'm a ghost..." The ghost smiled with a bloody face, and his expression was very simple and honest.

"Nonsense, how do you look like a human?" Qi Mu knelt down to appease the angry Dahei, and then asked, "You wrote the words on the mirror?"

"It's me, it's me... the ghost who introduced me said that it's more polite."

"The word 'visit' for visiting is wrong, that is 'reverse' for opposing."

The ghost touched his head and said embarrassedly: "I'm not well-educated, so I just remember the 'reverse', with relatively few strokes. Why don't I change it now?"

"Don't! It's a mess to clean up. What's with that lipstick? Are you a transvestite?"

"It's my daughter-in-law's lipstick. My daughter burned it to me after I died. What is transvestism?"

"...I was wrong just now, you are a fetishist."

Qi Mu picked up his drinking cup again, and asked casually, "What can you do with me?"

The ghost rubbed his hands and said, "It's like this. My daughter-in-law ran away with someone three years ago, leaving behind a pair of lipstick and a daughter. I helped people transport goods. I did a good job at first, but I was caught by someone a year ago." Killed..." As he spoke, he pointed to his bloody head, "The only thing left in our family is my daughter, no one takes care of her, I often go to see her."

"Do you want me to help you take care of your daughter? Or do you want to find the person who killed you?"

"Not at all. My daughter is doing well. She has found a good job and her life is good... I was relieved at first, but when I went to see her a week ago, my daughter has disappeared!"

"Maybe she went out to play, isn't your daughter an adult? Don't look so closely. Right, Dahei?"

Dahei let out a cooperative cry.

The ghost said anxiously: "No... I thought so too. After waiting for two or three days, my daughter still hasn't come back. I think something must have happened to her!"

"Then what are you going to do? Let me go find her?" Qi Mu put down the water glass.

"Help me, it's inconvenient to do this kind of thing..."

"I'm just an ordinary person, I don't have that much ability. If there is still no news in a few days, I will call the police for you." Qi Mu stood up and walked to the bedroom.

The ghost hurriedly followed, "Oh, it's too late! Can't you see me? There must be a way."

"Aside from being able to see ghosts, I don't have any other special abilities. This kind of thing should be left to professionals. If you don't want to call the police, you can go to a celestial master or something..." Qi Mu didn't bother to entangle him, and went on his own. in pajamas.

"Those celestial masters will kill when they see ghosts, I believe you more!"

"It's useless to believe me." Qi Mu climbed into bed, ready to read a book before going to bed.

The ghost followed suit, and before it touched the edge of the bed, a sudden force struck, as if hitting an invisible barrier, and before he could react, he was ejected.

"Don't come here, there is a talisman attached here, and you will be gone if you are blocked a few times." Qi Mu reminded, pointing to the yellow cinnabar talisman on the bedside.

The ghost got up and asked aggrievedly: "Waiting to call the police for a few days, can I stay here? I have nowhere to go..."

"Whatever you want." Qi Mu thought for a while, and then said: "Don't wander around in my room at night, if you have nightmares, I will kick you out."

……

The ghost slowly floated out from the door.

Qi Mu suddenly remembered something, raised his voice and shouted to the outside: "Don't get too close to Dahei! It will eat ghosts!"

"Ah!" There was an exclamation in the living room, Dahei snorted obediently when he heard his name.

Qi Mu ignored it and silently turned a page of the book.