The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Wearing neat and clean casual clothes, light-colored moccasins, and elegant silver-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, he is such a middle-aged man with a standard elite image. He is sitting on the steps of Qi Mu's house at this time, bowing his head and twitching. with a cigarette.

Qi Mu walked to the door of his house, the man heard footsteps, looked up at him, put away the cigarette butt and said, "You have a letter."

Qi Mu was stunned for a moment, and the other party pointed to the gap in the door, where there was an envelope lying there, two thirds of which were stuffed into the door.

"Ah, thank you." Qi Mu bent down to pick it up, held the envelope and looked at the man, waiting for him to speak, but he didn't say anything, put the cigarette butt into his mouth again, and smoked silently.

"Open the door quickly." Feng Baisui urged.

Only then did Qi Mu take out the key and open the door, and looked at the man suspiciously, then was dragged in by Feng Baisui, and then the door closed again with a bang.

"What happened to that man?"

"It's just crazy, don't worry about him."

When Qi Mu opened the letter he found at the door, it turned out to be another invitation letter.

Feng Baisui glanced casually, "What is it this time?"

"The 'fragrant wine party' held once every 50 years in the demon world lasts for one month."

"Who are they asking?"

"us."

At this time, the Uncle Killing Ghost leaned over unwillingly and asked, "Are you gods?"

"Immortal?" Qi Mu was stunned, seeing the gossiping temperament on Uncle Gui's honest face, he couldn't help laughing, and asked him with his hands outstretched, "What do you think we are like immortals?"

Uncle Ghost scratched his head, "Then... didn't that bird give you that piece of paper, saying it was sent from the sky?"

"You received a speeding ticket from the Public Security Bureau. Are you a policeman?"

The uncle was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "That's right."

Qi Mu walked over to pick up the negotiation invitation letter on the table. He hadn't read the content before, but now that he opened it, he realized that the invitation time had already passed.

Looking at the one from the demon world again, he asked Feng Baisui: "Will you go to the Xiangjiuhui?"

"I don't care, do you want to go?"

Qi Mu hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said: "Then go, I planned to walk around, it doesn't matter where you start from."

"Walk around?" Hearing this, the decapitated female ghost rushed over immediately, "Are you leaving again?"

Qi Mu nodded.

"The kind that comes back after going out for a while?"

"you can say it this way."

The female ghost felt relieved, "How long do you plan to play?"

"I don't know, try to come back once a year."

"Once a year?!" The female ghost raised her voice and shook her head vigorously, "That's why I'm leaving!"

Qi Mu said: "Didn't you remind me that Qi Mu and Feng Baisui are already dead, how can they continue to live here?"

"Of course I know this!" The ghost put her head in her arms, "But..."

"Don't worry, this house was bought, and your father and daughter can continue to live here."

"……Humph!"

The female ghost ignored him, turned around and floated into the guest room.

Her father hurriedly apologized to Qi Mu, "I'm sorry, my daughter has such a temper, and she's not really mad at you."

"I know." Qi Mu smiled helplessly.

The dead ghost rubbed his hands and asked him in a low voice: "You guys... really want to leave?"

"Ah."

"Then... not coming back?"

"Of course we have to come back." Qi Mu said seriously, "No matter where we go, this is always home."

"That's good, that's good..."

The dead ghost muttered, and floated to the guest room to comfort his daughter.

Qi Mu stood there without speaking for a while, but when Feng Baisui walked up to him, he suddenly laughed and said, "Girls still like me very much."

Feng Baisui raised his eyebrows, walked straight past him, and only said: "Leave tomorrow."

"..."

Early the next morning, the decapitated female ghost saw Qi Mu and Feng Baisui looking ready to go out.

"Are you leaving so soon?"

Qi Mu smiled and said, "Aren't you going to ignore me?"

The female ghost became angry from embarrassment, threw her head on the ground, turned around and went back to the room.

Shocked by her aura of not even wanting a head, everyone present was stunned.

After a while, she floated back silently, bent down and picked up her head.

Qi Mu couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.

The female ghost stared at him, "Don't laugh!"

"I didn't laugh."

"..."

The female ghost floated to the guest room angrily, and said quietly: "If you don't come back after you leave, I will really ignore you."

The dead ghost also wanted to say something, but he couldn't think of anything, so he could only say: "Then you...you go."

"..."

Qi Mu nodded, and he added: "My daughter and I will take good care of our family!"

"Well, then... goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Feng Baisui opened the door, and Qi Mu was about to go out when he was startled by the lump outside the door.

"Why is he still here?!"

Yesterday that strange man was dozing off while sitting in the corner. He woke up when he heard the voice, and opened his eyes in a daze. When he saw Qi Mu, he leaned on the wall and stood up.Probably because my legs were numb, and I almost couldn't stand still.

Qi Mu was baffled by him, this person obviously seemed to have something to say, but he didn't say anything, so he just spent the night outside the door like this.

"Did you need me for something?"

The man hesitated, then nodded.

"what's up?"

He was silent again.

"you……"

"...demon..."

When Qi Mu wanted to ask again, he finally spoke, "...do you know monsters?"

Qi Mu was stunned, he didn't expect that someone came to him not to talk about ghosts, but demons.

"Why do you think I know monsters?"

"That letter," said the man, "I saw it yesterday. It was sent by a magpie, which turned into a man when it fell to the ground."

Qi Mu looked at Feng Baisui, thinking about how to deal with this matter, but the man said: "No need to explain, I know there are monsters in this world."

"Then you waited for us all night, do you want to...?"

"I want to go to the demon world." He said, "Please take me to the demon world!"

Does he even know about the demon world? !Qi Mu was in doubt.

The man seemed to understand his doubts, and said, "Are you wondering how I know about the demon world?"

Qi Mu nodded, "Are you human?"

"I am a human being, but I have a very good friend who is a demon. I heard all these from him."

"Then what are you doing in the demon world?"

"Go find him."

"Who?"

"The monster who told me these things."

"He went to the demon world?"

The man nodded.

"Since you found out that the magpie delivering the letter was a demon, why didn't you let it take you there?"

"No..." The man slumped his shoulders in frustration, "I have seen other demons in the past few years, it's not that I haven't tried the method you mentioned, but they don't pay much attention to me, let alone take me to the demon world. My friend also said that demons in the human world avoid contact with humans."

"So you sat in front of my house all night?"

"...I think only humans can help me. Are you a human?"

Qi Mu smiled and didn't answer his question, just said: "We are going to the demon world right now, if you really want to go, you can come with us, but I don't know if the demon world will let you in. "

"I'll go! I'll go!" The man's face turned red with excitement, he collected himself, and stretched out his hand to Qi Mu.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Chen Gu."

Feng Baisui took a step faster than Qi Mu, and reached out his hand in front of him and shook it firmly, "Feng Baisui."

Chen Gu understood the situation at a glance, so he withdrew his hand very wisely.

Qi Mu nodded to him, "My name is Qi Mu."

"Thank you, thank you."

The address written on the invitation was a deserted old house outside the city, a little far away.On the way, Qi Mu couldn't help but asked Chen Gu: "You are willing to sit outside the door all night for that friend, and then go to the demon world on purpose, is he very important to you?"

"Well, very important."

"Then why did you separate?"

Chen Gu was silent for a while, then slowly said: "I met him when I was eight years old. At that time, I was still living in my hometown in the country. There was a dense bamboo forest behind the house, which was very beautiful. I always liked to play in it. , Then one day, I found a little boy my age in the bamboo forest. We played together and soon became good friends. He was very thin, not as tall as me, and he was wearing light green clothes, so I just call him 'Little Bamboo'.

At that time we were together almost every day and talked about everything. I even made an appointment with him that we would marry a wife and be neighbors together in the future. His family lived next door to mine.Until I went to middle school, I spent less time playing. I gradually felt that Xiao Zhuzi never went to school, and never met his parents and family.I suddenly discovered that he had lived in the village for several years, but he had nothing to do with anyone here.

I went to ask him, and he told me that the little bamboo was really a goblin transformed from bamboo, and asked me if I was afraid, I was not afraid at all, we are still very good friends.After that, he would often tell me about monsters, and told me that there is a demon world, which is full of monsters, and that is the hometown of all their monsters.I remember at that time I asked him why he didn't go back to his hometown.He said he hated this bamboo forest, and he also hated me.

Later, I was admitted to a high school in the city, and I had to leave my hometown to go to school. Before I left, I told Xiao Zhuzi to wait for me there, and I would go back to see him when the holidays came. "

"Did you go back?"

"No... I didn't know how far it was from my hometown until I went to school. It took a whole day to sit in the car, and the high school curriculum was very tight, and the tasks were very heavy. In order to save money, my parents asked me to concentrate on school. Studying, don't go back in the past few years, they will come to see me.

Three years later, I was admitted to university, and finally I was able to go home, but when I got to the house, I didn't see a single bamboo. The bamboo forest disappeared, and the villagers wanted to use that land to build houses. "

"The little bamboo?"

"He's gone too... I've searched all over the mountain, but there's nothing. Since then, I've never seen Little Bamboo again. I've been looking for it for so many years. Whenever I see a bamboo forest, I must go in and have a look. I have met several monsters, but none of them are my little bamboo.

In recent years, I have come to realize that maybe he is no longer alive, so I wonder... Has he gone back to his hometown?So you must go to the demon world to see it. "

Qi Mu found that when talking about those past events, Chen Gu was no longer the taciturn man sitting outside the door, he spoke in a gentle tone, and even the expression on his face became vivid.But after talking about Xiao Zhuzi's departure, he fell silent again, with a sense of loneliness in his eyes.

He really wanted to ask Chen Gu, what would he do if he couldn't find Xiaozhu in the demon world?But looking at the bewildered eyes of this man behind the lens, I feel that I really can't ask.

After listening to this long story, their destination has arrived.