The Taste of Ghosts in the World

Chapter 54 After Waking Up

Hearing Hu Yaohui's name, Feng Baisui immediately lowered his face and said nothing, Qi Buyang peeked at him, and then told Qi Mu: "We found you at Hu Yaohui's house, and he wasn't there at that time."

Qi Mu tried his best to recall the events before the illusion, although only three days had passed, it felt like a long time had passed.

At that time, it seemed that Hu Yaohui had knocked him out...

"I'm going to find him." As Qi Mu said, he lifted the quilt and was about to get out of bed, but was held down by Feng Baisui.

"Sleep first."

Qi Mu looked into his eyes, didn't insist anymore, and lay back obediently.

Seeing this situation, several other people also consciously said goodbye to them.

After going out the door, Luo Lang went straight forward, Qi Buyang hesitated, but still followed, old man Zhang came out last, after thinking for a while, he called the person in front to stop.

"Mr. Luo, please stay."

Luo Lang stopped and turned his head.

"Why are you back again?"

"No reason, I just suddenly wanted to see what kind of fruit the cause 16 years ago has produced." He was speaking, intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Qi Buyang beside him, with a faint smile on his mouth.

Old man Zhang also glanced at Qi Buyang subconsciously, then changed the subject and said, "I don't believe you can't see the life experiences of those two people."

"So what if you see it?"

"Feng Baisui's hexagram shows that he came here to find something..." After a pause, the old man asked hesitantly, "Does Mr. Luo know anything?"

"I don't know what he is looking for, but I found something 16 years ago, and now I know it seems to be related to him. I guess, he is about to find it."

After finishing speaking, he added another sentence: "There may be changes in the near future, and there are other things hidden in this city..."

Luo Lang chuckled, "...it's interesting even thinking about it."

Then leave lightly.

Old man Zhang stood there for a while, sighed, then turned and left.

Qi Buyang walked beside Luo Lang, turned his head to stare at his calm side face, opened his mouth, closed it again, opened it again, repeated this several times, Luo Lang became impatient, and asked him sideways, "What are you talking about?" what you want to say?"

"Mr. Luo, why are you doing this?"

Luo Lang thought for a while and said, "The old man is too wordy."

Qi Buyang was stunned for a moment, waved his hands and said: "I don't mean you didn't say goodbye to Master Zhang!" Then he answered in a low voice: "...Although that's not right..."

Luo Lang raised his eyebrows.

He quickly explained: "I mean why did you let Qi Mu fall into an illusion?"

Luo Lang turned to look at him, "Are you complaining about your friend?"

Qi Buyang hesitated for a moment, but still nodded firmly.

"Then why don't you scold it directly?"

"This..." He was a little speechless, rubbing his nose in embarrassment, "I think... there should be some reason for what Mr. Luo did? Maybe we haven't thought of it yet."

Luo Lang laughed, reached out and stroked his hair, jokingly said: "There is no reason."

"..."

Qi Buyang was anxious, but he didn't know how to speak next.

After walking a few meters, Luo Lang said again: "It's just to verify something."

The swaying lake surface shone with golden waves, and the water flow turned at an imperceptible speed, gradually forming a shallow vortex. In the center of the vortex, something was swimming, stirring up small splashes of water.

Wave after wave, rising and falling, those waves seem to be changing with its body.

Occasionally, a small piece of scale will emerge from the water, and the sun will shine on it, which is more dazzling than gold.

……

Qi Mu suddenly opened his eyes, only to see a blur of darkness, rubbed the corners of his eyes, reached out to the head of the bed to press the switch.

The orange light came on, he squinted his eyes, and then saw a new row of scars on the arm that was too late to retract, as if burned with cigarette butts.

He frowned, touched it with his hand, and it was basically healed.

"Dreaming?" Feng Baisui's breath came up behind him, and he naturally pressed his fingers on his temples and rubbed them gently.

Qi Mu showed him the scar on his hand, "This, did you have it before?"

"No, I had it when I found you at Hu Yaohui's house." Feng Baisui's tone was very bad, as long as he thought of this, he would be very angry.

"Hu Yaohui..." Hearing what he said, Qi Mu already understood most of it in his heart, and also knew that Feng Baisui was unhappy, so he leaned back and rubbed against his shoulder, comforting him, "It doesn't hurt anymore."

"When it's hot?"

"no feelings."

"That is not bad."

Feng Baisui stuffed him back under the quilt, leaned over to turn off the light, and ordered: "Go to sleep."

Waking up the next day, Qi Mu remembered yesterday's plan and went to the apartment rented by Hu Yaohui with Feng Baisui.

After knocking on the door for a long time, no one came to answer the door. Feng Baisui went in and looked around, and found that Hu Yaohui was indeed not at home.

Just as she was about to leave, an aunt came up downstairs, saw Qi Mu standing in front of the door, and asked, "Are you looking for that student named Hu?"

Qi Mu nodded.

"Then you are his friend?"

Qi Mu hesitated and didn't answer.

The aunt immediately complained: "Oh, this kid has gone crazy, and I haven't seen him come home for several days. It's time to pay the rent, and he still hasn't come back! Do you know Do you know where he is now?"

Qi Mu shook his head, "I'm looking for him too." Then he hurriedly said goodbye to her and went downstairs.

The aunt's voice was still chasing after her: "When you find him, remember to ask him to pay the rent! Don't just run away like this!"

……

Since he couldn't find it at home and the phone number was empty, Qi Mu had no choice but to go to the hospital to ask Xiaomei and check on her condition.

But when she saw Xiaomei, she was even more anxious than Qi Mu, and immediately asked, "Do you know where Ah Hui has gone?"

Qi Mu was also surprised, "Has he never visited you?"

"No..." Xiaomei shook her head aggrievedly, "He hasn't come for a long time."

"...Then has he contacted you?"

Xiaomei shook her head again, with tears in her eyes, "I don't know his current situation at all, but the police came yesterday..."

"Police?" Qi Mu's heart skipped a beat, "Why did the police come?"

"I don't know. It seems to be related to the death in Longhu a few days ago. I just asked me about Ah Hui's situation, and then left."

Qi Mu frowned and looked at Feng Baisui, the same guess emerged in their hearts.

"Qi Mu, do you think Ah Hui...would...have been victimized too?" Xiaomei raised her face and looked at him with a pitiful look.

Seeing her like this, Qi Mu couldn't bear it, and asked tentatively: "Do you really think that Ah Hui could only be killed, not... hurt others?"

"Will not!"

Xiao Mei, who has been submissive since we met, shook her head firmly on this issue.

"...why not?"

"You may think Ah Hui is bad because I told you about his losing his temper. It's because he was injured and probably has some bad memories, so that's why..."

Xiaomei stared at the quilt with her head down, and whispered: "Actually, he is very good, I know... I used to be neighbors with Ah Hui, and my stepmother always beat and scolded me, made me do many things, had no time to study, and had poor grades , Dad will beat me too..."

A drop of teardrop fell on the quilt, and the color became a little darker. Xiaomei choked up a little, paused and said, "But because of Ah Hui, I feel that I can see hope. He will work with me and accompany me. I chatted, and he taught me what I was not good at in studies. He told me that I would be able to leave this home after I was admitted to university, so I worked hard and came to this city to go to school with him... If there is no him I won’t be where I am today, but Ah Hui has really treated me very well, and I am very grateful to him.”

Xiaomei raised her head and met Qi Mu's gaze without flinching, "How could such a person do bad things..."

The ward became quiet, and after a while, Feng Baisui snorted coldly and said one word: "Stupid."

Qi Mu lowered his eyes to avoid meeting Xiaomei's gaze. For this innocent girl, he couldn't open his mouth to break Hu Yaohui's good impression in her heart, nor could he make her understand the complexity and fickleness of human beings, so he could only choose to remain silent.

"Ah Hui is just too busy with his studies, so nothing will happen..." Xiaomei looked at him eagerly, "Are you right?"

Qi Mu nodded his head lightly, said goodbye and came out without saying a word.

Walking out of the hospital, he found that Feng Baisui had been frowning tightly, thinking that he was still angry about Hu Yaohui's matter, so he advised him: "It's not worth being angry for so long..."

"No." Feng Baisui shook his head, raised his right hand to cover his ears, "it seems to be ringing."

"... Try pinching your nose and blowing air?"

"It's useless."

"...then blow it until it's useful."

Passing by Longhu on the way back, Qi Mu thought of the hanged ghost, so he stopped by to say hello to him.

Seeing him floating down from the treetops and landing in front of me, I felt a strange feeling in my heart. I saw him ten years ago, but I forgot...

Perhaps sensing that he was in a daze, the Hanged Ghost smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qi Mu came back to his senses, and said without thinking: "Ten years ago, I remembered."

The hanged ghost seemed to understand, and nodded slightly.

"Did you recognize me when we met for the second time?"

The hanged ghost nodded again, "Actually, I have seen you occasionally a few times in the past ten years, but they all passed by in a hurry. I think, maybe you forgot, so don't bother you anymore."

"But didn't you show up?"

"That's right, because apart from you, I didn't wait for the second person who can see me. I'm really lonely, and I want to talk to someone, so..."

"I'm sorry, I forgot about it, and I just remembered it now." Qi Mu was very embarrassed.

The hanged ghost smiled, "As long as we meet again later, it will be fine."

During the chat, Qi Mu felt that there seemed to be an additional connection between himself and the hanged ghost, whether it was because he saw an old friend again, or because he had met his mother, he always felt that he suddenly had a feeling of being close to an elder.

While talking, he also mentioned some things about Hu Yaohui.

After listening, the hanged ghost said: "You don't have to blame yourself, it's not your fault."

"But……"

"A lot of things are actually because I can't let go."

As the hanged ghost said, he cast his eyes on the calm lake.

Qi Mu followed him to look over, remembering the question he had when he was a child, "Are there really dragons in Dragon Lake?"

"I don't know, but I've heard such a legend." After a pause, the hanged ghost said again: "If there really is, it must be the water god in this lake."