Chapter 243 Gathering and scattering

I pulled the corners of my mouth, shallow up a bit, the heart completely calm down, finally feel, I can sleep a solid sleep .

Every day after that, all seem extraordinarily normal, Lin Tian and Ding Ding still come every day, Xia Ruxuan because of the yin streamer's sake, basically do not go out, come to be a little better, but every time over, there will be Qin Ming and Tan Lan together.

The little ghost and I gradually recovered, but also able to speak, do some simple things, even the hospital nurse often chat with me to joke, said that as soon as I see the medical file written on the word Tan Xi, I know that I'm here again. Just this injury, really more serious than once, this time the wound are in the heart near the heart, a poorly handled, life will be gone. Said the last, they are also curious about my work to, said I do not know what I usually do, always get so hurt.

I just smiled and said and do what has nothing to do with, just life back. They laughed and chatted with me for a few moments, saw Xia Ruxuan they came in, and only then flashed out.

Xia Ruxuan is still the same as before, looks thin and weak, always unconsciously go to look at some remote corners, as if afraid of what will emerge there. Only when he was with us did he feel more at ease. On the contrary, it was Qin Ming, always looking unattainable, always making people feel that he had given me face even if he could come to see me. He took a look at my current condition and said Tan Xi, I helped you with this favor, how should you thank me.

I laughed back and said this was originally what you felt you owed me, now you still have the nerve to ask for a thank you gift?

Qin Ming laughed and said I thought about it later, what you helped me with was only a small favor, but what I saved was your life, and it was a bit scratchy. So I think that you should send me something.

I was slightly puzzled and looked towards him, asking, what do you want?

He suddenly reached out and pointed towards Xia Ruxuan, saying, I want this person.

I was even more stunned, busy looking towards Xia Ruxuan, saw him also looking at me, as if he did not know how to open his mouth to be good, but to the things that Qin Ming said, the heart is obviously already clear. Just I am a person who is a little puzzled, said to Qin Ming, what do you want him to do?

Qin Ming back up his hand, walked behind Xia Ruxuan, thought for a while, before saying to me, this world has changed so much, beyond my imagination, I want to explore it all over again. This cousin of yours, the ability is Yin Hata, which you also know, you can not do anything, and it is impossible to protect him for a lifetime, it would be better to let him follow me to travel around, I have all the skills, and originally did not have a passerby, with me, will I know all the things I know will be passed on to him, so that he can protect himself. Wouldn't it be a hundred times better than being by your side?

I thought carefully about Qin Ming's words, perhaps he was more or less selfish. Qin Ming was originally a person who preferred ghosts and gods, Xia Ruxuan's kind of physique, to be able to live to such a large age, perhaps for him, is also very rare, so Qin Ming's interest in him is not unexpected. Moreover, Qin Ming's words are not wrong, I really don't have the ability to protect Xia Ruxuan, he followed Qin Ming, if he can really learn something, even if he attracts a ghost in the future, then he has the ability to deal with it. Therefore, I weighed the importance of this towards Xia Ruxuan looked, said you have made up your mind?

Xia Ruxuan hesitated for a while, slowly nodded, said cousin, I do not want to be a burden …….

I took a deep breath, heart also understand his idea, just in the end, they still have a few points can not give up. So sigh, said you never tired of, in the future, it is not possible, will also have to rely on you to save your life one day it.

Xia Ruxuan smiled, but his eyes are still slightly red. Only I also rushed Qin Ming said, my cousin followed you, you can not let him do something strange things, he wants to have an accident, I also come and you fight.

Qin Ming disdainfully looked at me, said your life, really not worth a few dollars.

When his words fell, he glanced toward Tan Lan, Tan Lan every time he came to see me, almost never say anything, just quietly listen to us chatting on the side, I do not know what is wrong today, it seems that each one is prepared. I looked at him suspiciously, I saw scratching his head, demonic smile for a moment, said Tan Xi, I came today, but also to say goodbye to you.

I froze, and subconsciously asked him that you are also leaving?

He nodded, said not only me, eight generations of ancestors have also gone, he said, the world does not have a feast, there are together, there will be a day of separation. He didn't want to get too sentimental with you, so he asked me to tell him that he went back to the Tan family's old house, where his people are still waiting for him, and if you want to see them, you can go back too. As for me, thanks to you guys, things are over, you remember what I said before. I also fantasized that one day I would be able to live the life I wanted, Although it feels like it's still far, far away from me right now, I'm going to take that first step.

I fell silent, the slightly happy thoughts I had earlier completely disappeared. I looked at the three of them and felt that I should have expected that there would be a day of parting, and that my eight generations of ancestors were right. Each of us, have our own desired life, my house, is just a harbor to avoid the wind, we gathered together, the wind and waves passed, or will be dispersed, each looking for their own way out. Just this day for me, came too fast, I heart, not ready.

Therefore, I was silent for a long time, and finally held back that faint bit of sadness in my heart, laughed out, said I understand, just you go, don't cut off contact on the line in the future.

This is such a simple goodbye, the next day, Ding Ding told me, they have left, nothing to take away. Day, also become more and more clean up. Lin Tian should be detached from his father, is not the previous reach out to the state of the money, with me and the brat's body gradually improved, he is also more and more busy, began to look for a job, sometimes he came to see us, casually chat for a while, collapsed in a chair began to doze off, it seems to be for him, this kind of life still need to get used to it slowly. As if he said, and his father cut off relations, even some of his former friends, basically do not and he came and went, casually open the mouth to say two sentences what, others have a kind of he wants to borrow money feeling, gradually, also do not contact. Occasionally he also joked with me a few words, said Tan Xi, you see you this person is so ah, I have money when you are a poor loser, I'm poor, you are still a poor loser, when you can be rich a, also change over to take care of me once.

I hemmed and hawed and said in my next life I'll be a rich second generation, to give you a loser's addiction.

Just later, I read the news, but also suddenly saw Lin Tian his father, seems to be doing business with what problems, but also quite serious, was arrested, it is estimated that have to eat a few years in jail, just Lin Tian never mentioned in front of me about it, although sometimes he will be sitting alone froze, do not know what to think about, but I feel that perhaps in the depths of his heart, that he used to be called father, he still has a small place for him, just in front of people, hidden by him.

As for Lin Jing, I have never mentioned anything about her to Lin Tian, I don't know why, I know in my heart that Lin Tian cares about her so much, and I know her whereabouts, but I am just willing to talk about it in front of Lin Tian. I just thought back to Lin Tian's previous sadness and thought that if Lin Jing cared about their feelings as much as Lin Tian and his mother and son did, then no matter what her father did, she should also have the ability to contact Lin Tian, but she didn't. Thinking on the bright side, perhaps one day, she would return to find out where they were. If she doesn't come back, and really thinks of herself as dead, then what reason do I have to care about someone like that.

Compared to Lin Tian's dire situation, Ding Ding is a lot richer. Although Mrs. Nine died, a simple funeral, but the news went out, to participate in a surprisingly large number of people, and basically are some rich and powerful, only to hear that Ding Ding also has a body of skills, in the eyes of those people, as if to fill the vacancy of Mrs. Nine, a lot of people come and he pulled the relationship, just Ding Ding will not deal with the usual sentence on the people don't know what to say good, but also have to Mrs. Nine's ghost! The ghost of Mrs. Nine followed him day after day, and when Mrs. Nine said a sentence, he seemed to parrot back a sentence. And although Mrs. Nine's house burned down, but also got a large insurance subsidy, Mrs. Nine in front of a lot of savings, and now all become Ding Ding's things. Finally he bought a house in the city on a whim, than I and Lin Tian do not know how much more moist.

But even so, Ding Ding still can not help but complain to me, said you see ah Tan Xi, those people come to you every day in front of the playful, and is fortune-telling and is to look at the house, there is nothing, have to say that the family is not clean to affect the future, I really was they as a magician, what all looking for me, if it is not my mother is always next to the nagging, I do not bother to pay attention to them it. It's really good when my mom is alive, I don't have to care about these things. I can do whatever I want.

I listen to his words some funny, to be honest, if not I no longer want to touch these things, then I really can't wait to work for him, maybe than I now go out to find a job, are much more promising.

Just compared to the two of them, the little kid's change is the biggest, this kind of change, not to say material, but his whole person to me on the feeling. After returning from Jiu Ye, although his body gradually recovered, I didn't know what things were going on in his head. His words have become few and far between, and although he used to talk, not a lot, now he's really just silent. Often we are chatting, he is silently listening to the side, you do not ask him, he is not will take the initiative to interject.

This is the situation, let me heart some worry. I have been comforting myself because of the injury mood bad reason, but when we were discharged from the hospital, back home, he is still the same. The house has become cold and I am busy looking for a job, and sometimes I am afraid that he will suffer from depression by himself.

So even I don't go out anymore, I just stay home and watch him. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and realize that the TV is still on, but he's already asleep on the couch. Just in my hand, I still hold the picture taken at our party the night Mrs. Nine died. I tried to take it out, but he held it so tightly and tightly that when I pushed, he would wake up, rub his eyes, and look at me with an apologetic face.

I didn't think this was the way to go, so I sat down and decided to talk to him, but before I could say anything, he suddenly said, "Tan Xi, let's take a picture of the two of us.

I think it was the middle of the night, why suddenly have this mood, he did not explain, just pulled me, with a cell phone to take a picture, the lighting environment, the photo is not very clear, but the kid looked at the blurred photo for a long time, suddenly said to me, if I die, there will be a tomb, the monument engraved with my name, called Tan Hei, and then there can be a picture of me on it.

I listened to the tone of this very wrong, the heart and shocked and suspicious, busy said what dead or not dead, you blindly think about what things, you forget that when Dad left, but also explained to live well.

The little ghost looked at the photo again, nodded silently, silent for a while, before saying, I don't mean anything, just that if, to really have that day, I will certainly be like others, have a tomb. You'd buy me a grave, wouldn't you?

I don't know why, this word from other people's mouth, I definitely think that person is nervous, but from the mouth of the little ghost, I suddenly have some heartache, but in order not to show it, I inhaled a breath sharply, to ease a bit, and said sure, you are my brother, not to mention you die, even if I died, you have to buy for me, no money to go to Ding Ding to ask for, he owes me a lot of money for meals.

The little ghost heard my words, inexplicably smiled, but immediately after, his tears fell out, the whole person suddenly choked up, but still strong said, that to that day, I let the ghost car to send my corpse back ……

My body was stunned, and I was busy pulling him, saying What do you …… mean by this …… You won t want to go too!

His tears were like broken beads, falling drop by drop, and he didn t bother to wipe them, and the knot in his throat turned up and down a bit, which said, I have to go sooner or later, and there are still a lot of things that are waiting for me to do.

My heart is getting more and more anxious, noisy, said you don't talk about these silly things, things are not all over! You don't have to care about anything, just stay at home.

But the brat suddenly put his hand in his pants pocket, pulled out an object and put it in front of my eyes. I gazed at it and realized that it was actually a soul invoking bell, and when we left the one-wood coffin at that time, no one was even picking up this thing. But the little ghost said, from the time he woke up in the hospital, this invocation bell, has been in his body. This life, exchanged and exchanged, in the end, still can not escape ……

I was feeling as if I had been poured a pot of cold water, from head to foot cold. The brain does not want anything, a hand will snatch the soul invoking bell in his hand, toward the window outside a direct smash. But the little ghost kept shaking his head, saying it was useless …… useless ……

I squatted on the ground, the heart as if against a knife like, sad through the air, I thought everything is over, as if I have seen everyone has found their own place to return to the general, but finally realized that this has been by my side of the people, but it is still the same as before, there is no little change.

I hold my head, silent for a long time, which slowly stood up, looking at the little ghost that has been covered with tears face, slowed down a bit, said first go to sleep, these things, tomorrow in the solution, really can not, I go to find Qin Ming, see if he has any way.

The little ghost nodded, wiped a handful of tears on his face, which turned back to the house to rest. That night I tossed and turned in bed, never fell asleep, and waited for the alarm clock to go off, so I got dressed and got up.

Just I did not expect, I knocked on the door of the little ghost, there is no response inside, pushed open to see, only to find that he has disappeared, the bed left a note, there are only five words on it:

I'm outta here – Tan Hei.

And next to the note, put last night's photo cell phone, open a look, or that photo interface, I looked in his room for a while, and found that the only thing the brat took away, only that group photo of our party. At that time I also understand that I may, never see him again.

I wanted to live that kind of ordinary life, but the path of the little kid, never intersected with me.

After the kid left, it took me about a week to get over it, in the middle of which, the hanged ghost has been with me, from time to time to make some ghost face want to make me laugh, but I really can't laugh out. Lin Tian and Ding Ding also came once or twice, in my place to stay for a day or two, this empty house, just barely a little popularity.

Just Ding Ding and I said, Tan Xi, you really suitable to find a smaller place, this house is too big, you live alone, and there are still hanged ghosts here, the yin qi is already heavy, in the past when there are more people is better, now may also attract some passing souls to come in and settle down.

I think he's right, I don't need such a big house, I just don't have the heart to think about these things lately. But then, Ding Ding added, there is also, you now have no bloodper, it is not likely that in a short time, your ability to see ghosts, will also disappear, Lin Tian will be the same, then what are you going to do?

I smiled and said, what else can I do, continue to find a job, live a life, how to live before, how to live after.

But after saying this, I suddenly remembered the hanged man, I can not see him in the future, what should he do. The hanged man was still watching the TV with great interest, completely unaware of the conversation between Ding Ding and me. I was silent for a while, really no way, can only discuss with Ding Ding, said let the hanged ghost, in the future, go to him, follow him, we all know each other, hand him over to Ding Ding, I also rest assured.

Ding Ding at first was not happy, think the hanging ghost is always quarrel with him, and later together, plus his mom, not annoyed to death. But in the end I could not resist, Ding Ding reluctantly agreed, just hanged ghost looked back at us, Ding Ding immediately made a face at him, so hanged ghost over there froze, completely puzzled.

I asked Tintin how much time I had left to get out of this state of seeing ghosts, Tintin said he was not sure, anyway, it is very soon. That's when I realized that I had to get these things done as soon as possible. In addition to the hanging ghosts, there is another thing that I have been hanging on my heart, that is, Wang, last time he appeared with Tan Lan, and then was collected in the ghost mound, the ghost mound is still in the kitchen inside the set, this is, perhaps, also is my last chance to help him.

I chose a day, and told him about my decision to send the hanged ghost to Ding Ding, the hanged ghost looked very dejected, and didn't come to me for at least one day, just stayed quietly by himself in the ghost mound, I looked at that tiny jar, and I felt a little helpless in my heart. But I didn't expect to get up early the next morning, only to open the door of my room, this thing was hanging in my doorway, sticking out a bar of tongue, scaring the old man almost jumped up. Although I was scared, but for a moment, I don't know why, my heart is still quite happy. In the end, I couldn't help but help him straighten his clothes, as if I were watching my son who was going to go out of town, and gave him a few bitter explanations, saying that when you get to Ding Ding's place, don't fight with him all the time, and that you can't beat him either. Sometime I will go to his place to see you or something.

Hanged ghost rare quiet down, eyes motionless look at me, face not at all expression, just silently listening to me finish these words. Only after everything was explained did I take Wang's ghost mound and go out with him.

I thought, Ding Ding said before, Wang this matter, say simple is also very simple, as long as said broken so that he understands on the line, but I'm afraid that he can not think for a moment, the heart of the resentment came up, the ghost of the hanged first accompanied me to go, there is what is wrong, but also to help me a favor.

I followed their own address to find Wang's home, a woman opened the door to me, see me, she froze for a moment, recalled half a day, only to remember who I am. Then gave a faint smile and said Xiao Tan ah, you have something to do?

I looked at her face, and found that a few months have not seen, this woman has lost a lot of weight, it seems that Wang is not there, the burden of the family at once fell on her body, the whole person looks particularly haggard. I entered the house, solemnly hugged the ghost mound, said sister-in-law, I sent Wang back ……

She froze for a moment at first and asked me doubtfully, saying What did you just say?

I opened the jar and shouted toward the inside, and in a short time, Wang appeared in front of my eyes. He looked a little confused, and looked toward me suspiciously, and then looked at his wife. Only then did I calmly say, Sister-in-law, I'll send Brother Wang's soul back.

Her body trembled, her face was very ugly, and said Xiao Tan, you can t be kidding ……

I shook my head and told the original story, only hiding the part of the corpse puppet, only saying that Wang did not know he was dead, he could not get relief, and he was still haunted all the time.

She listened to a blank stare, I also understand that this is very difficult to believe, but the strange thing is that, Wang brother this time actually a calm face, listening to me finish everything. At the end, he suddenly sighed, looked at the ghost mound in my hand, and said Xiao Tan, I have been wondering all this time, what kind of place am I in, surrounded by darkness, nothing, as if I am the only one left in this world, but now, I suddenly understand.

I was slightly surprised, things went really well beyond my expectations. When Tan was trapped in the Ghost Mound, he vaguely understood something, he was just more or less unsure. Through the things I said just now, this is how he determined what he thought. Just now, his wife look at me like a psychopath, Tan low in my ear said a few words, let me convey, I slightly hesitant, but still according to his meaning, said Tan asked me to tell you, he dropped the ring, has been found, just that he died too suddenly, the ring fell in the place where he died, just on the corner of the wall.

Who knows that as soon as I finished saying this, his wife suddenly covered her mouth, tears came out at once, saying how do you know these things?

I glanced toward Wang, signaling her that Wang was standing at this place. She looked toward the void, tears in the eyes still not there, only hurriedly ran to turn over the cabinet. Find a pair of rings to, Wang brother took a look at what she was holding, the whole person also froze, the eyes are also the same there are tears in the fighting.

I see them sobbing, slowly backed out of the house, and then I realized that the day Wang died, the night out, in fact, because his wedding ring is missing, anxious to find, but did not expect, this go and did not come back. Later, his wife went to the place where he died to mourn, just found the ring in the corner.

After dealing with this matter, I feel relieved, feel a lot of ease, and hangman slowly towards Ding Ding's home, halfway also stopped to rest for a while, I looked at him or a look of unhappiness, smiled and said or not in the future, Ding Ding bullied you I'll bully him for you. As expected, this sentence is still effective, the hanging ghost immediately smiled. Nodded at me with a hefty nod. It was only at this time that I felt that it actually didn't matter where he was, and that perhaps it was a kind of fate that he ended up with Ding Ding.

But at this time, I suddenly heard a woman's voice, coming from a building on the side of the road, as if she was calling out a person's name. Immediately after that, I saw an old man, looking up and around on the street, as if trying to find out the source of that voice, but the next second, suddenly there was a steel pipe, falling from the sky, in front of everyone on the street, and brushed into the old man's head.

I froze for a moment, busy looking up towards the upstairs, suddenly saw a window behind, there is a green costume-like clothes wearing a female ghost standing there, found that I looked at her, brush a back to look at me, but the next second, suddenly disappeared. I was busy shouting at the hanged ghost, but when I looked back, I realized that his body had also become very faint and faded, and within a moment's time, it had disappeared.

My ability to see ghosts was completely gone from that minute. Also from that time on, I changed back to the old me, living the kind of ordinary days I once had.