ghost or not

Lu Xiaoxian went back to the school history archives to study, in front of him was a paper that had not been moved for a long time, his thoughts drifted to the conversation with Zhang Zhiya.On his way home, he was stopped by this man who suddenly appeared and claimed to be Zhang Zhiping's brother. The man politely asked him to sit in the car.Lu Xiao went there first, and then saw that someone can make threats so businesslike.

Zhang Zhiya didn't know whether he was in a hurry or just had such a personality, so he threw him a photo straight to the point, which showed an old woman with a stooped body.Lu Xiaoxian glanced at it briefly: "You have investigated my identity very clearly."

"The person who took the photo has a Gu technique." Zhang Zhiya said.

Lu Xiaoxian put down the photo: "Grandma has a very temper, you shouldn't mess with her."

"Will you undo it?"

"A little bit." Lu Xiaoxian said, "Roll the whole body with boiled eggs, and drink half a bowl of white fungus soup. If it doesn't work, there's nothing I can do."

Zhang Zhiya stared at him silently for a while: "You are very kind."

Lu Xiaoxian couldn't tell whether he was really praising or sarcastic, and didn't think too much about it, he just said, "I have nothing else to do. You can rest assured that I am not interested in your brother. But if you still If you want to avenge him, I will accompany you."

"I don't have time to do such boring things." Zhang Zhiya locked the car door, and suddenly said something irrelevant, "True tenderness is that no matter what kind of hardships you experience, you still don't think about others with malice."

Lu Xiaoxian frowned: "Chicken soup for the soul?"

"A Ping is different from you and me. He is a gentle person. He will still find you." Zhang Zhiya's voice was like a machine, "You'd better expect him to come to you. If he doesn't care about you, but no People can protect you again."

Lu Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Don't you feel bored?"

Zhang Zhiya ignored him, and only unlocked the door, indicating that he could leave on his own.Lu Xiaoxian glanced at him, opened the door and got out of the car.

At the end of the semester, Zhang Zhiping never appeared alone again, so that Lu Xiaoxian completely forgot about it, and then he accidentally saw him on the train.

That train was the only K-head train leading to Lu Xiaoxian's home near the remote valley, and it passed through several large stations on the way. Tickets were always in short supply, so Lu Xiaoxian had no choice but to buy a station ticket.

What is more painful than standing all the way is that the people standing next to each other are crowded with people, and the whole train is like a canned box, mixed with the smell of cigarettes, alcohol, instant noodles and the stench of human flesh.When he got on the train, he was trapped by the congested crowd at the junction of the carriages. Lu Xiaoxian was quite surprised when he saw Zhang Zhiping come to where he was.Even the omnipotent sales cart has died down, how did this person get here?Really incredible.

Zhang Zhiping squeezed to his side tenaciously.Lu Xiaoxian looked at him silently for a while, then lowered his voice and asked, "Are you finished?"

Hearing his blunt and indifferent tone, Zhang Zhiping couldn't help but feel a little depressed even though he had expected this situation: "I want to go to your house..."

"Not welcome." Lu Xiaoxian said, "The next stop is half an hour away, so you can get off directly."

"Xiaoxian," Zhang Zhiping slowed down his voice, with a negotiable attitude, "Don't drive me away, I'll only pester you this time, so it's good to be a breakup trip, you promised to take me to play... "

Although the voices of the two of them were not loud, they still attracted the attention of the surrounding passengers. Lu Xiaoxian didn't care, and he was silent for a moment. He compromised: "My home is in the mountains, and it takes more than 50 hours by train and car. Can you hold on?" Just do it."

Zhang Zhiping frowned: "Yes."

Having said that, it was actually quite tough.On the train with an abnormal population density, everyone’s spirit is a little anxious and tense, and everyone’s way of relaxing after hard work is different. Some people chat endlessly, and some people keep stuffing things in their mouths all the time. , someone smoked one by one - it happened to be in the smoking area of ​​the car, and it was very convenient to throw cigarette butts.After passing a certain station, people became even more desperate. There were far more people getting on the train than getting off. There were even a few people who tried to take advantage of the parking gap to go down to catch a breath and almost couldn’t come back. The flight attendant shouted loudly on the platform. Shouting to go in and go in.

Taking advantage of the flow of passengers, Zhang Zhiping pushed Lu Xiaoxian to a corner, and took out a paper towel to wipe off the melted ice water on the car window: "If you are tired, lean against the wall and rest for a while." Lu Xiaoxian thought to himself what could be done Tired, it's not like this every year, but he saw Zhang Zhiping struggling to block the crowds, trying to create a relatively comfortable environment for himself, so he didn't say this.

After finally arriving at the destination, Zhang Zhiping let out a long breath. If he stayed any longer, he might go crazy.

Lu Xiaoxian glanced at him: "There are three more bus trips, if you can't bear it, go back as soon as possible."

Zhang Zhiping shook his head: "I won't go back. At least the bus can sit, it shouldn't be very hard."

Yet again he was wrong.The bus liberates the legs and feet, but it is not very friendly to the butt.After getting out of the car completely, Zhang Zhiping felt as if he had just been beaten up, his whole body was stiff and aching, and he dragged along behind Lu Xiaoxian. For the first time, he faced the fact that the other party was stronger than himself.

Right now they are walking on a trail overgrown with weeds and fermented sheep manure in the countryside. As night falls, everything is extremely silent, only the cold wind blows their faces.Zhang Zhiping was thinking about what to say, but before he could think of the right words, Lu Xiaoxian stopped in his tracks: "Here we are." He untied the wire on the wooden fence, and dogs barked immediately in the yard.Zhang Zhiping was a little nervous all of a sudden, how should he behave when he met Lu Xiaoxian's parents?

However, the room was pitch black, without even a single light. Zhang Zhiping followed Lu Xiaoxian, getting more and more confused as he walked. Is there no one here?For some reason, he suddenly felt that the house was eerie.A hoarse voice suddenly appeared: "Who did you bring back?"

Lu Xiaoxian said: "Grandma, she's my classmate." He turned slightly, took Zhang Zhiping's hand, and quickened his pace.Zhang Zhiping was still thinking about the voice that scared him just now, and he was dragged into a certain room in a daze.With a snap, the electric light was turned on, emitting a dim yellow light. He subconsciously squinted his eyes, and after he got used to it, he was stuffed with a few more clothes.Lu Xiaoxian pointed to the door next to him: "There is a bathroom, but there is only cold water, go take a shower, and put these on your hands after washing."

Zhang Zhiping was puzzled: "I have brought a change of clothes."

"My grandma raises Gu." Lu Xiaoxian said with a cold face, "If you want to be sucked dry by insects, wear your own." After speaking, he left without looking back.

Zhang Zhiping was stunned for a moment, then obediently took the clothes and went into the bathroom.In the twelfth lunar month of winter, after taking a cold bath, he came out shivering. He didn't know where to go for a while, so he looked around and observed the room he was in.This house seems to be a combination of a study and a warehouse.Zhang Zhiping bypassed a pile of cardboard boxes that didn't know what they contained, and went straight to a large bookcase, and stretched out his hand to pull out a book that was placed sideways.

But it turned out to be not a book, but a notebook. The pages of the book were yellowed and dirty, and the characters inside were not clean, crooked, Chinese and pinyin were mixed together, and there were traces of ink rubbed off by hands.

a diary.

Zhang Zhiping had no intention of prying into other people's privacy, but the content written on this page he casually opened was really weird, so he couldn't hold back, and started reading with the notebook in his hand.At the beginning, it was very trivial bookkeeping. Later, I would occasionally add a sentence of reflections on the day to end, mostly about "mother". It seems that my mother seems to have some mental problems. It seems to be a man... Zhang Zhiping re-read the sentence he saw at first glance, "The person who should disappear has finally disappeared", and the content after that is no longer logical. They are things with unclear meanings, until the last page, there are only two words on it, "heaven and earth".The book has been used here, only half of it has been used, but there is indeed no other content in the back, only blank space.

Zhang Zhiping stared at the word "heaven and earth" in a daze, a hand suddenly reached out from behind and snatched the notebook away.He was startled and turned around, it was Lu Xiaoxian.

Lu Xiaoxian closed the notebook and threw it in the drawer: "At night, you and I sleep in the small room on the east side, turn right when you go out."

"Oh..." Zhang Zhiping hesitated, "I should ask your grandma first, right?"

Lu Xiaoxian ignored him and went into the bathroom.Zhang Zhiping stood alone for a while, and when he left the small study, it was pitch black outside, he couldn't see anything, and he didn't understand the structure of the Lu family, so he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​seeing the old man.Turning on the mobile phone light, he groped into the east room. He knocked on a one-meter-high boulder. Zhang Zhiping reacted and realized that this thing seemed to be the legendary "Fiery Kang".The kang was very hot, it had been burnt, and there were two quilts on it. Zhang Zhiping picked one, got into it and lay down. He was very tired after running around for a long time. Although the clothes on his body were a bit small, he wanted to wait for Lu Xiaoxian to come back and He talked, but as soon as he touched the pillow, he fell asleep uncontrollably.

At some time, Zhang Zhiping woke up.He felt something crawling on his body, he was confused for a moment, then he suddenly remembered about the Gu worm, he was so frightened that he immediately woke up.In a hurry to get the bugs out of his pants, Zhang Zhiping lost all sleepiness and his heart rate reached his height.After hesitating for a long time, he asked softly, "Xiaoxian, are you asleep?"

I didn't have much hope at first, but I really got a response: "You tossed and turned, you woke me up a long time ago."

Zhang Zhiping said in embarrassment: "I'm sorry." He thought of that diary again: "That diary... is it yours?"

"Well, why don't you have a long memory, and you are really curious, aren't you afraid that I will let you see that thing on purpose?"

Zhang Zhiping said: "You don't need to lie to me again... I insisted on coming back with you."

A nameless anger suddenly burst into Lu Xiaoxian's heart, he sneered, and said darkly: "You don't think I'm so bad because I had a miserable childhood or some unspeakable difficulties, do you? It's not easy, but even if I was born into a wealthy family, I will still be like this in the end. What is in one's bones cannot be changed. Yes, I didn't bother Yang Wanqing again, not because I was soft-hearted, but because The more I do nothing, the more she has to be on guard against me. Isn't that more interesting? I didn't kill people in school, not because I guarded the bottom line of being a human being, but because it was too troublesome. Besides, people die, There will be no more fear, and half of my happiness will be lost. Do you really think that I have never used a knife, the first person I killed was my mother." Lu Xiaoxian sat up, pinching Zhang Zhiping's neck with cold fingers On the road, he said viciously: "You are nothing more than others in my eyes. I regret playing this game. You are too annoying. If you are sensible, just get out and stay with me. Someday the interest comes, I don't mind Make you bleed."

Zhang Zhiping didn't speak, and opened his fingers one by one.

Lu Xiaoxian returned to his bed and fell asleep restlessly.

The second day was a sunny day.Although the house is not well lit, it is still much brighter than at night, but the atmosphere is still permeable.Zhang Zhiping got a glimpse of Grandma Lu's true face, and said hello to her old man very politely, but no matter what he said, the old lady took him as air.Zhang Zhiping laughed more and more embarrassingly, and finally had to give up and ran to the yard to tease the dog.

The dog ate a large pot of worms at noon, and Zhang Zhiping lost his only companion.He snatched the kitchen spoon from Lu Xiaoxian's hand with horror, the latter seemed to have forgotten the threat last night, did not express any objection, and just squatted beside him to add firewood to the stove.

Amidst the smoky flames, Grandma Lu walked in quietly, raised her crutch and threw it on Lu Xiaoxian's back, almost throwing her grandson into the fire.Zhang Zhiping was dumbfounded, he thought the old man was just not close to him, but he didn't expect to be so bad-tempered that he actually hit someone. Seeing that she raised her thick crutch again, Zhang Zhiping didn't have time to think, subconsciously stretched out his hand to stop him. Zixie's strength turned out to be red and swollen from his hand.

Lu Xiaoxian stood up, with no expression on his face, grabbed the crutch and threw it into the stove.

Grandma Lu pointed at him, trembling with anger, her voice was like a broken bellows: "Okay, okay...your mother is a bitch, you are as cheap as her...as cheap!" She cursed and left.

Zhang Zhiping frowned: "Why did she hit you? Does it hurt?"

Lu Xiaoxian didn't answer the question, bent down to look at the vegetables in the pot, and sure enough, there were bugs again, he threw the lid of the big pot on the table: "Go out and eat."

Lu Xiaoxian took Zhang Zhiping into the cellar of someone else's house. There were all kinds of pickled side dishes, mainly spicy cabbage. He packed a lot in a box and took a few potatoes.

Zhang Zhiping followed him in a daze, and only realized something was wrong when he was near home: "Are you stealing something?"

"Would you like to eat it or not." Lu Xiaoxian buried the potatoes in the ashes of the fire, and when they were cooked, divided them into three portions, and took one of them and put it on the grandma's kang.Grandma Lu was lying facing the wall, ignoring him.He didn't bother to speak, so he turned and left after putting it aside.

Evening is still a cold bath.Zhang Zhiping stared at the wound on his hand, and suddenly remembered that he saw the red marks on Lu Xiaoxian's back when school just started, and wondered what he did.

It turned out to be beaten.The relationship between the grandparents and grandchildren is too strange.But even if he asked, Xiaoxian probably wouldn't tell him the reason.Zhang Zhiping sighed, suddenly felt exhausted and desperate.

The bugs tonight are more rampant than yesterday. No matter how tightly the quilt is covered, they can find the cracks. Zhang Zhiping can't sleep at all, and keeps getting up to catch the bugs. He even started to think about the feasibility of bloodletting to get rid of the bugs. However, his blood... should only be used for Ghosts have an effect, and it would be really exciting if they were released to attract more bugs.

When turning over for an unknown number of times, the quilt was lifted, and the air-conditioning poured in. Zhang Zhiping felt a chill on his neck, but was covered by warm breath.

Lu Xiaoxian hugged him from behind, and said impatiently, "Don't move around...it's very noisy."

Zhang Zhiping really didn't move.The smell of real people is much stronger than that of clothes, and the bugs have to avoid the evil spirits in the house.

After about an hour, Zhang Zhiping stretched out his hand cautiously, and clasped Lu Xiaoxian's fingers.

Lu Xiaoxian slurred his speech while half asleep and half awake: "I said don't move."

Zhang Zhiping turned around and hugged him into his arms. He wanted to say a lot, but he was afraid of making mistakes in every sentence, so he didn't speak in the end.Lu Xiaoxian clicked his tongue irritably, and didn't have the energy to get up and quarrel with others, so he had to let him go.