The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Qi Mu turned around, and a young man ran towards him. He was a boy in sportswear who had met once before, but this time he was wearing a white Tang suit.

"It's you?" The boy recognized Qi Mu and stopped immediately.

Qi Mu smiled, "It's me."

The young man immediately raised his eyebrows, and lectured aggressively: "Why do you keep running to places with ghosts! Do you know how dangerous it is? You can't see it, and you don't know how terrifying those ghosts are. It will be too late if you get possessed." !"

Qi Mu repeatedly nodded in agreement, and after he finished speaking, he asked, "Are you here to buy something?"

The boy immediately jumped up as if he had been insulted, "I'm here to exorcise ghosts!"

"Exorcism?" Qi Mu deliberately looked around, "Is there a ghost here?"

"Of course!" the young man explained: "There was an accident during the construction here before, one person died, and the body was still sealed in the ground, so the resentment is very heavy, and you dare to come here alone at night!"

Qi Mu smiled and said: "Thank you for reminding me, since there are ghosts, I will leave first, you can drive slowly."

"Hey, wait!" The young man grabbed him and took something out of his pocket. "You must be very unlucky to go to those evil places often. This is our family's evil spirit talisman. You won't be afraid if you carry it."

Qi Mu took the thing, looked carefully and found that it was a talisman paper folded into a triangle, sealed in plastic and tied with a red string, so that it could be hung around the neck.

"It's free?"

"Of course!" The boy said displeasedly, "Do you have to pay for what I gave you!"

After all, it belonged to a stranger, Qi Mu wanted to return it to him, but the young man stretched out his hand and pushed it, saying: "Hurry up and take it, this is the responsibility of the heavenly master!"

It's hard for Qi Mu to refuse, and the boy said again: "If you encounter trouble, you can come to me. My name is Qi Buyang. Have you heard of our Qi family? The most famous family of celestial masters!"

Qi Mu nodded without changing his face, "I've heard the name for a long time, and it's like thunder."

Qi Buyang raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, "Hurry up and go back, I'll take care of it here."

Qi Mu put away the evil spirit talisman and said goodbye to him.

After thinking about it on the way back, Qi Mu felt that if he didn't get rid of the ghost, he wouldn't be able to get close to the central square, which meant that he would have to transfer to a supermarket farther away when purchasing at the end of the month. The result was too dark.

Do you want the little celestial master to take him in?But I always feel uncomfortable...

So Qi Mu decided to ask the foreman tomorrow, he should know the situation of his workers.

"Ding Tou! Ding Tou! Someone is looking for him!"

The man hurried out with an orange hard hat in his hand, and the student brother he met a few nights ago stood in front of the construction site.

"Is something wrong?"

Qi Mu smiled and said, "I want to ask you about the accident on the construction site before."

Ding Tou immediately stared at him vigilantly, "What are you asking for?"

"Don't be nervous. I'm a small reporter for the school newspaper. I heard about this and wanted to do an interview. I'll visit the family of the deceased by the way."

Ding Tou thought for a while and said, "I can tell you, but you can't tell others that I said it."

"Okay." Qi Mu nodded.

Ding Tou led Qi Mu to a quiet open space next to him, and squatted down at random. Qi Mu took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them to him along with the lighter.

Ding Tou glanced at him, and Qi Mu explained, "It belongs to my father."

Only then did Ding Tou reach out to take it, skillfully took out one to light, took a deep breath, and then slowly said: "The dead brother is called A Xiang, and there is a daughter-in-law in the family, and there is no one else except her. The building is too high, and we need to bury support columns in the ground. That day we were pouring cement on the columns and turning on the machine. Everyone was very relaxed. There were only two or three people nearby to supervise the work. Axiang was the closest to the column and fell down without paying attention. The machine was filling so fast that the cement had already been poured in when it almost fell down, and when we turned off the machine, a large part of it had already been filled, and people were buried in the cement and could not be dug out.”

After a pause, he said again: "The developer has already reported this matter, but he was afraid of affecting the business, so he didn't let the public know, and we are not allowed to say it. The worst thing is his daughter-in-law, who had no income at first, and now the man is dead. There are no dead bodies..."

Qi Mu looked at his face, but couldn't find any sad expression, Ding Tou seemed to have read his mind, shook the soot and explained: "Don't be surprised, this kind of thing is very common, almost every time you build a house, you will die One or two, we're all used to it."

"Do you know where Ah Xiang's wife lives?"

"I know." Ding Tou turned to look at him, "Are you going?"

Qi Mu nodded, Ding Tou stood up and put the safety helmet on his head casually, and said to him: "Then go now, it just so happens that there are not many things to do today."

Ding Tou greeted the construction site, and Qi Mu bought some canned fruits as condolences, and then Ding Tou led him to find Axiang's wife.

The place where she lives is actually very close to here, in an alley not far from the construction site. Qi Mu knows that the environment there is not good, and many migrant workers live there.

After turning four or five turns in the alley, they stopped in front of a very dilapidated small building. Ding Tou climbed the stairs and knocked on the door on the second floor. After waiting for a while, a woman opened the door and stuck her head out.

"Brother Ding? Why are you here?"

Ding Tou pointed at Qi Mu, "Bring this student brother to see you."

After getting out of Ah Xiang's wife, it was almost evening, so Qi Mu went directly to the parking lot on Zhongyang Avenue, but he didn't know how to find the ghost, so he had to wander around the parking lot aimlessly.

His behavior quickly attracted the attention of the security guards. Qi Mu bit the bullet and pretended to be waiting for someone, and whispered without moving his lips, "Are you there? If you don't come out, I'm going to leave."

Soon his shoulders sank, and the vague and hoarse voice came from his ear: "I don't have much time, a celestial master came yesterday to take me in, so I can only hide."

Qi Mu stopped and asked helplessly, "Why do you always like to appear on my back?"

"Hey..." The ghost came down embarrassingly, and floated in front of Qi Mu, "Are you here to take me out?"

Qi Mu nodded and said: "I found your wife, and Ding Tou helped her find a job, plus compensation, she is doing well now, do you want to go and see her?"

"Go!" The expression on the ghost's face didn't know whether to say surprise or horror, the eyes covered with blood spots widened, and the bright red color was more prominent on the cement-like gray skin.

Qi Mu turned around and said to him, "Follow."

When he came to the small building again, the ghost yelled, "Oh, this is really my house! I have an impression!"

"That's the best." Qi Mu lifted his feet up the stairs, the ghost suddenly stopped him and said: "No need, no need, don't go up!"

Qi Mu stopped and asked him puzzled: "Didn't you come to see your wife? Why didn't you go up when you got to the door?"

The ghost rubbed his head and said: "Anyway, I only remember a little bit of the past, and when I see her, I will think about it again, and maybe I will feel that my death is not worth it, how uncomfortable! I just know that she is doing well. "

Qi Mu was about to turn around and leave when the upstairs door opened. Ah Xiang's daughter-in-law came out and saw Qi Mu and said, "It's you! The student brother just now."

Qi Mu smiled at her, then looked to the side, the ghost was no longer there.

Ah Xiang's daughter-in-law went on to say: "It's not a coincidence for you to come, I'm going to cook for others."

Qi Mu waved his hand, "It's okay, I'm just here for a walk, you go."

A Xiang's daughter-in-law nodded, and hurried past him, Qi Mu couldn't help asking: "How are you doing now?"

The woman was stunned, wiped her hands on her underwear, and said with a smile: "It's okay. You students are good-hearted, go home quickly, this place is too dirty, stain your clothes."

Qi Mu nodded and left, until he turned the corner, the ghost emerged from the wall next to him.

"Did you see it just now?"

The ghost floated to his side with his head down, "I didn't see it, I dare not look."

After walking for a while and coming out of the alley, the ghost said to Qi Mu, "Thank you, I won't follow you in the future."

Qi Mu asked him: "What are you going to do next? There is a celestial master on the Central Avenue, are you afraid of being taken in?"

The ghost said: "Then I won't go back, I want to look elsewhere. I used to go to many places for part-time work, and I was more concerned with work than play."

"Do you know the way?"

"It doesn't matter where you float, I'm a ghost, what are you afraid of!"

Qi Mu said softly to him: "Go slowly." Then he watched the ghost disappear little by little until he could no longer see it again. The street lamp next to him suddenly turned on. When he looked up, he realized that the sky was already dark.

The eyes are colorful and bright lights, so lively that it is not real.

When having dinner with Feng Baisui the next day, Qi Mu mentioned this matter, Feng Baisui asked him: "Where did you put the amulet given to you by the celestial master?"

Qi Mu took out the talisman from his pocket and shook it, "I'm here, I don't know if it's useful, I feel like I haven't encountered a ghost these days."

Feng Baisui raised his eyelids and took a look, "Did you bring that Axiang with you when you went to find him?"

"Uh……"

"That's useless."

Qi Mu shyly put the talisman on the table, Feng Baisui pushed it aside politely, and asked Qi Mu, "Do you really know about that family of celestial masters?"

"How is it possible, I've never heard of it before. I'm just being polite." Qi Mu shrugged, and said again: "Have you ever seen a celestial master take away ghosts?"

"No, I have seen many fortune-telling magic sticks."

Hearing what he said, Qi Mu couldn't help asking curiously: "You're lucky?"

Although Feng Baisui took an old name, but at first glance, this person has nothing to do with feudal superstition, no wonder Qi Mu was curious.

Feng Baisui said lightly: "When I was eight years old, my mother took me there. I heard that he was a famous old man. He said that my horoscope was very strange and that he could not see my future fate, so my mother told me Changed my name to 'Hundred Years'."

"Girl, what will happen if you can't see your fate?" asked the dead ghost beside him.

"How do I know, but it must be a bad omen, maybe he will die soon. Judging from his age, he must be eighteen?" The decapitated female ghost shook her head back and forth while holding her hair, This is a new way of playing that she discovered recently.

Qi Mu sighed secretly that a woman really shouldn't be offended, just stepped on her once, and Feng Baisui has been hated until now, but he didn't intend to tell Feng Baisui these nonsense, he didn't know about killing the ghost father and daughter .