The Taste of Ghosts in the World

The next morning, when Qi Mu woke up, he found that Feng Baisui was no longer in bed. When he walked out of the room, he saw him watching the morning news.

Qi Mu was surprised, "You still care about current affairs?"

Feng Baisui said: "Because it's boring."

"...Where is Qi Buyang?"

"do not know."

Qi Mu went to the guest room to take a look. The quilt had already been folded, as if he had never slept in it.

Have you already gone back?

He didn't have time to think about it, everything was taken care of, and he was ready to go to school.

At this moment, Qi Buyang opened the door and came in.

"Where have you been?"

"Morning run."

Qi Mu suddenly remembered that today is Monday, "You don't have to go to school?"

Qi Buyang shook his head, "I didn't go to school after graduating from primary school. I was always taught by a tutor, and I learned the skills from my grandfather at other times." He looked at the schoolbag in Qi Mu's hand, "You want to go out?"

"Yes." Qi Mu threw his schoolbag on his back and said angrily, "I'm going to receive civilian education."

So Qi Buyang waved goodbye to him innocently.

Walking into the classroom, as soon as he sat down, Fang Ji came over to say hello.

"Qi Mu, you seem to be in good spirits."

Seeing the two obvious dark circles on his face, Qi Mu was startled, "What's wrong with you?"

"Don't mention it..." Fang Ji sat down weakly and complained: "I was read by my mother all night! From 09:30 to 01:30 in the morning!"

Qi Mu couldn't help laughing, "What bad thing did you do again?"

"What do you mean 'again'!" Fang Ji glanced at him, and began to pour out bitterness: "I didn't go to make up lessons and she found out... I started from making up lessons, I said I didn't pass the exam last time, and I didn't take the initiative to ask questions. She has to talk about playing computer games, she even has to talk about not eating much!"

Qi Mu smiled sympathetically and said to him, "Keep going."

"It's easy to say." Fang Ji suddenly turned the topic to him, "You'll be fine. If you don't do well in the exam, no one will read it. If you want to ask for leave, you can ask for leave. Sometimes I think you don't take school seriously at all. I am in a hurry to go home, even if I am sitting in the classroom, what I see is not the people here, I don’t know what I am doing every day, it seems that I am not in a world with us..."

Qi Mu was stunned.

Fang Ji patted him on the shoulder, "Actually, I envy you very much! You can be so leisurely every day."

At this time the bell rang, Fang Ji didn't continue talking, and returned to his seat.

Qi Mu stared blankly at the blackboard, still thinking about what Fang Ji said just now.

The sight in front of him was suddenly blocked, and when he came back to his senses, he realized that there was a middle-aged man floating on his desk.

"You are Qi Mu, right?"

"you know me?"

The man said, "I was told by the ghosts in this school. They say you can see dead people."

There are a few reluctant souls lingering in every school. Qi Mu greeted them one by one when he first entered school, but he didn't expect them to gossip like this.

"Qi Mu, you answer this question."

Suddenly being called, Qi Mu hurriedly stood up and looked blankly at the teacher on the podium.

"The question we are talking about, which answer to choose."

Qi Mu had no idea what he was talking about just now.

Fang Ji whispered a reminder from the side, but he couldn't make out whether it was "B" or "D".

The ghost floated over and glanced at the answer in Fang Jishu, and said to Qi Mu, "It's 'B'."

Qi Mu tried his best to pretend to be thinking, and replied, "Choose B'."

The teacher looked at Qi Mu and joked, "For every successful man, there is always an unknown..." His shrewd eyes turned to Fang Ji, "A man."

The whole class roared with laughter, Fang Ji scratched his head with a smile, Qi Mu stood there, a little embarrassed.

"Sit down, and concentrate on class later." The teacher nodded to Qi Mu.

After class, Qi Mu got up, motioned for the ghost to follow him, and stopped when he went to the toilet and asked, "What do you want from me?"

The ghost said embarrassingly: "I'm sorry, I caused you to be named just now."

"It's ok."

"It's like this... I just died a few days ago, and I had an accident. I didn't have time to say my last words to my son, so I wanted to ask you to help me. He is also in your class, so I should know him."

"Who is your son?"

"Bao Weiyuan."

Qi Mu thought for a while, and there seemed to be such a person in the class.

"You want me to bring him a message?"

The man nodded.

"Okay, I'll try my best."

After school, Qi Mu lingered on his seat for a long time, until the ghost urged, "My son is leaving soon."

He just stood up, hesitating how to speak.

This matter is really just a matter of little effort, that's why he agreed to help, but for Qi Mu, it's difficult to initiate a conversation with someone he doesn't know very well.

Seeing that Bao Weiyuan had put away his schoolbag and stood up to leave, Qi Mu hurried over and called his name.

Bao Weiyuan stopped and looked back at him, "Qi Mu? Is there something wrong?"

"Uh..." Qi Mu carefully considered his words, "Your father...isn't it..."

When his father was mentioned, the other party's expression suddenly turned cold, "What's none of your business?"

Qi Mu was at a loss for words, it really had nothing to do with him.

Bao Weiyuan seemed to have eaten small gunpowder, and said unceremoniously: "I'm not familiar with you, am I? Except for Fang Ji, you are not familiar with everyone in the class, right?"

Qi Mu lowered his eyes and did not speak. Bao Weiyuan snorted, picked up his schoolbag and left.

The ghost sighed beside him.

Qi Mu went back to get his schoolbag, and said to him, "Sorry, I'm not very good at this..."

The man hurriedly said: "No, no, it's because my son is not sensible and has not been educated well. He is not like this usually, maybe because of my accident these days, he is not in a good mood... Don't be angry."

Qi Mu smiled faintly, "It's okay." After finishing speaking, he was about to go back, but he bumped into Wen Qinlan at the door.

Ever since she saw her holding hands with Feng Baisui last time, Qi Mu always felt that this girl would secretly look at him from time to time, and when she was noticed, she quickly looked away, pretending to be busy with other things.

Now that they met face to face, both of them felt uncomfortable, so it was Wen Qinlan who said first, "Qi Mu, are you going back?"

"Ah."

"You..." She hesitated to speak, as if she wanted to ask something.

"what?"

"Are you coming to study at night today?"

"I don't study at night."

"I forgot..." Wen Qinlan looked a little embarrassed, and asked again: "Then what do you do when you don't go to study at night?"

Qi Mu was slightly stunned, and the drooling golden retriever, the hanged ghost by the Longhu Lake, the little celestial master Qi Buyang, and Feng Baisui appeared in his mind.

What to do depends on the situation...

"Reading, playing computer." He replied.

"Oh, that…"

What else did she want to say, Qi Mu hurriedly said: "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

"okay, bye."

After Wen Qinlan finished speaking, she lowered her head and entered the classroom.

That night, Feng Baisui floated into the room as before, Qi Mu was sitting on the bed reading a book, when he saw him coming in, he suddenly closed the book, turned his head and asked, "Do you think I'm strange?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Forget it, I shouldn't ask you, you are stranger than me."

Looking at him, Feng Baisui could feel a slight frustration, and said affirmatively: "You are not happy today. What's wrong?"

"It's not that I'm unhappy..." Qi Mu felt a little uncomfortable after seeing his thoughts, "It's just that I suddenly noticed something."

"what's up?"

Qi Mu thought for a while and asked him: "When you were still alive, did you hear any rumors about yourself?"

"That kind of thing..." Feng Baisui said lightly, "I forgot."

"..."

Qi Mu looked at him, and said slowly: "I have always thought that I am an ordinary person, except for the fact that I can see ghosts...but others don't seem to think so." After a pause, he continued: "I try my best to Adapting, wanting to fit in with them, and thinking I made it, only to find out that I didn’t.”

"Why should you care what other people think?"

Qi Mu's eyes suddenly became a little dazed, "...Because... I don't want to be a different kind."

Feng Baisui frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice, "What are you afraid of?"

"Huh?" Qi Mu blinked in a daze, what was he afraid of?In fact, the real answer has already emerged in my heart, "Maybe... I am afraid that I will really become the only one..."

"Did you take my words as wind on your ears?" Feng Baisui held his shoulder displeased, his eyes were deep, "Did I ever say that I would watch you die?"

"..."

After being dazed for a while, Qi Mu suddenly laughed, "Your words are really not very pleasant."

This is not the first time Feng Baisui expressed this meaning, but it seems that only this time, he really listened to his heart, looking at his dark eyes that were exuding dissatisfaction, Qi Mu no longer doubted the determination of those words.

He is serious.

As if he finally found support, Qi Mu suddenly felt less depressed, and his mood became much lighter.

"They told me before that Feng Baisui is a very scary person."

Hearing this, Feng Baisui raised his eyebrows.

"But I think you are fine." Qi Mu said with a smile.

Feng Baisui regained that expressionless face, and floated to the bedside to sit on his own.

Qi Mu lay down and turned off the light, leaving only a stubborn shadow on the bedside in the darkness.

A hand suddenly stretched out from under the quilt and tugged at the shadow, "Don't you want to sleep together?"

The black shadow froze for a while, then slowly lay down.

The room fell into silence again.

The next day when Qi Mu went to school, he saw the ghost from yesterday again.

"I know I can't trouble you anymore, but only you can see me...Can I do you another favor?"

"What do you say first?"

"The day I died, my son asked me to bring him a McDonald's hamburger when I went home, and it turned out..."

Qi Mu was embarrassed, "You want me to give him a hamburger?"

The man nodded.

Coming out of McDonald's, Qi Mu hugged the paper bag and suddenly felt that he had really done something ridiculous.

The man next to him thanked him again and again, "I'm really sorry that I asked you to pay..."

"…fine."

After school in the afternoon, Qi Mu put the paper bag on Bao Weiyuan's desk.

"What are you doing?" Bao Weiyuan was surprised.

Qi Mu said blankly: "Your father bought this for you, saying that he promised you that he would take McDonald's back."

Bao Weiyuan looked at the paper bag and was stunned, "It's really my dad...?"

Qi Mu ignored him, picked up his schoolbag and left.

Halfway out, I remembered that I still didn’t have my textbooks, and turned back, only to see that in the empty classroom, only Bao Weiyuan was still on the seat, holding a cold hamburger in his hand, he took a big bite, and his eyes were circled. red.

The man floated beside him, looking at his son lovingly.

Qi Mu turned around and left lightly.

Let's talk about that textbook tomorrow...