When I ran to the hospital, the corridor was already filled with relatives.
The second uncle walked up to me, raised his hand high, and then slowly fell on my shoulder: "Where have you been! Your dad... your dad is gone!"
I walked slowly and found the middle of the crowd. My relatives looked at me.
There were many people, but I was alone: “Where is my dad?”
The little nurse wearing glasses stands under the red light of EICU.
I looked at the bed next to her that was covered with white cloth. I felt no sadness in my heart. Am I a cold-blooded person?
I am not sure!
The second uncle walked up to me: "Send it to the funeral parlor! Be more open-minded, Xiaozai, you have to live on your own from now on!"
My mother died young.
It is said that I had an older brother before, but he died before I came to this world.
Now that my father is gone, I am really alone.
I feel like I should be sad, but I really can’t feel sad inside!
"No! Second uncle, we are not going to the funeral parlor! We are not going to be cremated! Just stay in the hospital!"
"Why are you so ignorant? Why are you staying in the hospital? You have to learn to let go!"
"I can't let go! Second uncle! Trust me, stay in the hospital!" I raised my head and stared at my second uncle, my eyes full of determination.
The second uncle shook his head: "If you stay in the hospital, you won't be able to take away the 1,000 yuan cremation fee subsidized by the community! You have to think carefully! Xiao Zai!"
Seven aunts, eight aunts, and some familiar relatives gathered around: "Yes! You will live on your own from now on!"
"It's 1,000! You are still young and don't know that a thousand dollars can do a lot of things!"
"Xiao Zai, listen to what my cousin said, we relatives are here here because of your dad's affairs. If you don't do things or mourn, aren't you wasting everyone's time?"
I looked around, and the random words were hitting me like big rocks.
"Bang!" The iron frame in the backpack hit the ground.
No one dared to speak.
I took out a stack of red tickets that I had just taken out of the ATM machine from my pocket and threw them on the ground.
"My dad is not going anywhere!"
"Just stay in the hospital!"
"I said!"
I picked up the iron shelf and looked at my relatives who took a step back: "Who agrees?"
I stepped on the banknotes on the ground and looked at the little nurse who had been urging the money: "Who objects?"
No one spoke, so I looked at the little nurse: "Sister, please send my dad's body to the morgue. I will pay enough for the cost this time. No one can touch it without my signature!"
The little nurse looked at the different me in front of her and nodded blankly.
I followed my father and walked all the way, paying no attention to the people behind me.
It's cold in the morgue and I like that feeling.
When we came out, the east was slightly bright.
Carrying the 50,000 yuan I took out last night, I got on the car home.
The sun and the building flashed outside the window, and in the shadows there was a wandering soul that did not belong to the earthly world hiding.
I reach out my hand, I will no longer belong to this sunshine.
When I was a child, the fortune teller said that I was a boy who had come to the human world to experience calamities.
That's why I can see ghosts. My grandma is a famous Wenmeipo from all over the country. She has seen too many horrors. In order to prevent me from being taken away by the underworld early, she asked me to worship the city god as my godfather.
Please pray to the temple to give me a talisman to increase my yang energy.
And made me swear not to follow the path of yin and yang in my life.
It's just that this time I can't listen to grandma!
In fact, I was a disobedient child when I was a child. My grandma told me not to let me learn rice or learn the wild mao mountain technique, although I have never practiced it.
But in order to show off in front of my classmates, I secretly wrote down those stories and practice methods.
At eight o'clock in the morning, there were people on the road in a hurry.
The place I am going to is not crowded, and few young people come to the City God Temple to offer incense early in the morning.
Except for some elderly people who have nowhere to move around, there are only temple blessings in the temple.
Lao Miao Zhu is very old, but he doesn't look old at all, as if he looked like this when I was very young.
He was not surprised at all when he saw me: "Your grandma's things are left in the temple. Come in with me to get them!"
"I told you a long time ago that you were born as a child, and you are destined to eat food from the underworld in this life."
He looked back at my neck: "Did you see a ghost last night?"
"No!" The old man came up and sniffed: "Is this smell a ghost?"
"I haven't seen a ghost in years!"
I followed the old Miao Zhu. Unlike my peers, I have liked squatting next to the elderly and listening to their stories about the past since I was a child.
Wherever there are ghosts, wherever there is gossip, and whose daughter-in-law gives birth to a child that is not her man’s, these are all the knowledge I have accumulated since childhood.
"Have you ever seen a ghost?"
Lao Miaozhu was a little shy: "I met him once a few years ago!"
"which year?"
"The year your grandma died!"
"You mean, my grandma is?"
"That's right, when your grandma was alive, she asked Mi Po that she had accumulated too much yin virtue in her life. She went to the underworld and was directly recruited by the yin capital to work as an errand!"
I was a little confused. I always thought that grandma was just an ordinary old lady who knew some wild grass magic. I didn't expect that she could have a connection with the underworld.
Am I the legendary Yin Sandai?
But I'm still breathing!
This background is useless!
"Your Majesty, what kind of person is my grandma?"
The old man was not shy and showed an expression of happy memories in front of me: "She! She is a smart person!"
"Seriously, I've never seen anyone so talented!"
"You all think your grandma studied Ye Maoshan, but you are wrong!"
"She really came down from Maoshan. If it weren't for your grandpa's naughty grandson, your grandma would have become a heavenly master long ago!"
The old man picked up his left foot, slowly crossed the threshold, and mentioned my grandfather.
His face was full of disdain: "Your grandma was sent to Maoshan when her family was poor when she was a child. During the war in those years, your grandpa was a soldier and was injured and landed at the foot of Maoshan."
"Your grandma is kind-hearted and rescues him. Who knows that this kid is ambitious and misses your grandma. I don't know how your grandma was tricked down the mountain by him!"
"After coming down from the mountain, in order to make a living, your grandma took it upon herself to ask for rice for the men and women in the villages ten miles away, to drive away evil spirits and cure diseases!"
I took the rag bag that the old man took out from behind Godfather Chenghuang.
The old man looked out the door in retrospect: "I came down the mountain at that time. You don't know, but your grandma is actually my senior sister!"
"I know!"
"Huh? You know?"
"My grandma said that!"
"Then you kid, you didn't call me grandpa when you were a kid!"
"I didn't always think you were cheating our family out of money!"
"Go away, who defrauded your family of money? The talisman I gave you was enshrined in front of the City God for thousands of days. Without it, you would have been bullied by lonely ghosts!"
"Hey, my lord, don't be angry! That's not true, you are so ignorant!"
"Are you sensible now? After your grandmother passed away, she told you not to follow the path of yin and yang. Now you come to get her magic weapon treasure. What a filial son!"
I lowered my head and turned over the baggage left by grandma: "My dad is gone!"
"People will die!"
"He was taken away by evil spirits, and he is not dead yet!"
"The underworld you met? Do you want to take revenge on the underworld?"
"You are kidding me! How can a living person defeat the Yin and Yang? How can we fight against an official! My father left to save me. I fell into the trap of the evil on the Yin and Yang Road!"
I raised my head and looked at the old man: "Your Majesty, I feel so bad. I have to save my dad!"
