The Haunted

Afterwards, Ye Yingzhi and Song Jin and his wife helped Chi Yan arrange grandpa's funeral.

Grandpa is not a native of City R, but was assigned to City R when he was young because of job assignments, and later he married Grandma Chi Yan before he settled down.Chi Yan was a student again, and he didn't have many social connections, so not many people came to the funeral. There were only a few classmates who had a good relationship with Chi Yan at school, some old colleagues who kept in touch with grandpa, and grandpa's hometown who came to represent him. Two relatives and a few colleagues of Song Jin who came to help.The main thing was still done by Ye Yingzhi's subordinates, everything was in order.

At the funeral, Ye Yingzhi and Chi Yan followed the same grandchildren etiquette, which was much more important than Song Jin.It is said that Ye Yingzhi treats Chi Yan like a real brother, but after getting along for a long time these days, Song Jin and his wife have already seen the relationship between Ye Yingzhi and Chi Yan, and Chi Yan also tacitly understood it. A little embarrassed to admit it to them, so the two of them didn't think there was anything wrong.

Three days after the funeral, Chi Yan's mood gradually stabilized and returned to normal.Ye Yingzhi was still a little worried about him, but said that something happened to the Ye family and he had to go back to deal with it, so Chi Yan let him go back, and by the way, helped to keep an eye on Xu Rui's situation.Ye Yingzhi hurried back after agreeing.

Chi Yan was left alone in the family, the only difference was that the grandfather was gone, and an altar was set up for the old man in the grandfather's room. The custom in R City is that if people are gone, they must be worshiped at home for at least seven days before they can be evacuated.

Chi Yan had nothing to do, at night he just watched TV on the sofa in the living room, and fell asleep in a daze, the TV was still on.

While half asleep and half awake, he heard someone calling his nickname, the voice was very familiar, Chi Yan closed his eyes and listened carefully, it was not a hallucination, it was not the voice from the TV.

He opened his eyes and saw Grandpa standing in front of the sofa looking at him.

Chi Yan woke up suddenly, and looked at the familiar old man in front of him with some hesitation: "...Grandpa, grandpa?"

After confirming that the person in front of him was Grandpa, Chi Yan immediately asked, "Why are you back? What's the matter?" Even though he hated the old man, he still understood some truths.Grandpa shouldn't come back, it's best to leave without any worries.

The old man shook his head, looking a bit at a loss: "Grandpa doesn't know either. Grandpa... Shouldn't he be leaving? Why are you back?"

It seemed that the old man understood his situation, but he didn't dare to speak out directly.

Chi Yan asked Grandpa to sit down on the sofa, stood up and comforted him: "Don't worry, I'll think of a way."

Grandpa nodded again and again: "Grandpa is not in a hurry, not in a hurry. Xiao Yan thinks slowly."

Chi Yan slowly traced the clues in his mind, and it was only after he came back that he learned in detail why grandpa suddenly passed out.Grandpa likes to eat crabs, and he eats them carefully. Song Jin and Tao Juanjuan bought crabs that day, knowing that grandpa would only be taken care of by nurses when Chi Yan was away, so they picked two big ones and steamed them for grandpa.The crabs were still hot when they were delivered. Grandpa was very happy and started to eat them on the dining table. He lowered his head and concentrated on eating for more than half an hour, but he passed out all of a sudden.

So logically speaking, there is no pain or regret for my grandfather to leave.

Chi Yan asked the old man cautiously: "Grandpa, think about it again, is there anything you are worried about?"

The old man looked around at the layout of the house, and finally turned his gaze to Chi Yan: "No, Xiao Yan has grown up, so there is nothing to worry about. You will take good care of yourself in the future, and grandpa will be at ease when you have a home."

Chi Yan couldn't help but blushed again: "...then I'll try to send you away?" Staying in the mortal world for a long time will not be conducive to rebirth, it is not a good thing.

The old man nodded.

Naturally, Chi Yan also knew some simple methods of crossing the dead, so he tried to set up a crossing circle in the living room, and performed a ceremony to send grandpa to his death.The old man sat quietly on the sofa.

Chi Yan only felt that his throat was sore and unbearable.After his grandmother and mother passed away one after another, he and his grandfather depended on each other for life, but he had to bid farewell to his closest relatives twice.He closed his eyes and knelt in front of the magic circle, tears dripped on the floor every time he recited a mantra of salvation, he didn't dare to look at his grandfather, fearing that this kind of reluctance and entanglement would hinder the old man's death.After all the rituals were done, he completely knelt on the ground, almost weeping.

Then he heard the old man's familiar voice with slight doubts: "Xiaoyan, have you finished?"

Chi Yan raised his head, Grandpa was still sitting upright on the sofa, as if he was afraid of disturbing his "casting of spells", he didn't even dare to move.

Chi Yan stood up shyly and helplessly: "...It seems to have failed. Grandpa, don't worry, why don't you rest at home first, I know a very good friend, I can wait for him to come back and see you off." In Yan's heart, the fact that grandpa passed away has been downplayed. Although he knew that grandpa was no longer a human being and had to temporarily stay here in another form for some unknown reason, he had already gotten used to it after this short time together. .In his eyes, grandpa is still grandpa, his relative.

"Hey, Grandpa is not in a hurry. Tell your friends to take their time too, don't rush them." The old man was in a good state of mind. After a while, he went back to his bedroom to rest as usual, still completely retaining his living habits when he was alive.

Chi Yan sent a message to Ye Yingzhi asking for help, Ye Yingzhi simply said that everything is waiting for him, he will be back soon, and grandpa will be fine.Chi Yan was still worried, so he took the time to read the notebook Ye Yingzhi gave him.

The next morning the old man habitually went out again.At 07:30 in the morning, my grandfather used to go out for morning exercises at this time.

But now it is not what it used to be, Chi Yan was worried about him, so he took a few yellow paper talismans and followed the old man.He saw the old man familiarly follow the crowd to wait for the traffic lights, cross the crosswalk, walk through two intersections and arrive at the square in the nearby park.There were already a lot of old people standing there. Grandpa wanted to go up to say hello when he saw a familiar face, but found that the other person couldn't see him, so he seemed to remember something, and silently stepped aside, watching other old men and women saying hello to each other and chatting.

After a while, the old people lined up voluntarily, standing in four rows, and began to do "Paida Gong" while shouting slogans under the leadership of an old man.Grandpa also stood at the last position at the end of the line, and followed everyone's rhythm.

Chi Yan hid behind the gazebo and watched, feeling very sad, but he didn't dare to let his grandfather find him, so he could only hide behind and watch quietly. When the old people finished exercising at almost nine o'clock, he followed his grandfather home. When I was about to get home, I walked a few steps and entered the house first, pretending that nothing happened.

The next day, Grandpa still went out to the park to follow everyone to exercise, and Chi Yan quietly followed all the way until the old man returned home safely.

Grandpa didn't need to eat anything, but he talked a lot these two days, it seemed like he had endless things to tell Chi Yan.Because he knew that there was not much time left, and because he had already lost it once, this kind of relationship between grandparents and grandchildren was very precious. Chi Yan suddenly realized that he hadn't spent time with grandpa like this for a long time. The old man spoke to the sitter.

On the third day, Chi Yan went to the park with his grandfather for morning exercises as usual. He was originally sitting in the gazebo quietly watching the direction of the small square like the previous two days, but this day he realized something was wrong as soon as he sat down.

As soon as my grandfather walked to the small square, several old men and women surrounded him enthusiastically, apparently greeting him warmly.Grandpa stood there, obviously at a loss, just like when he saw Chi Yan when he returned home for the first day.

Chi Yan hurriedly walked out of the gazebo and rushed over. As he got closer, he could hear several old people asking questions such as "Lao Su, why haven't you come lately?" "Are you sick? I heard that you were hospitalized."

Chi Yan hurriedly walked to Grandpa's side and said, "Grandpa, come home with me, don't come out until you are in good health." These morning exercisers are all old people who live near the park, and no one in them has directly participated in Grandpa's exercise. Funeral, but R City is a small place, maybe some people have heard the news that Grandpa has passed away, but now I suddenly see someone again and I can't be sure.In order to prevent extra problems, it is better to leave as soon as possible.

The old men and women next to him saw Chi Yan and said in a hurry, "It's the grandson of Lao Su's family." Perfunctory with the enthusiasm of the old people, he hurriedly took grandpa home when he had time.

After arriving home, Grandpa looked at Chi Yan suspiciously: "Xiao Yan, how come Lao Li and the others can see Grandpa?"

Chi Yan shook his head: "I don't know either. Let's wait for my friend to come back. He will definitely solve it when he comes back. You should not go out these days." At first he thought that only he could see grandpa because he and grandpa are blood relatives , I have practiced spells and seen more ghosts.But suddenly everyone could see Grandpa, which really puzzled him.He looked through the notebook left by Ye Yingzhi, but couldn't find a reasonable explanation.

After Chi Yan had dinner, Song Jin came to visit again.Grandpa hid in his room when he heard the doorbell and closed the door.

Song Jin just got off work, and as soon as she entered the door, she had to go to her grandfather's room to pay homage to her grandfather.How dare Chi Yan let him in, after all, he really can't explain why grandpa suddenly appeared again, and everyone can see it, this kind of thing is not acceptable to everyone.So he made up random reasons and dragged Song Jin to the living room to sit down.

Song Jin had nothing to do, but he knew that Chi Yan was at home alone, and his grandfather had just passed away, so he came here to chat with him after get off work, to see how he was doing, and relieved to see that he was in good spirits. Reminds me of my most recent work.

Song Jin picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Ruler, do you think it's strange? We just received a missing person's wife. She said that her husband had been missing for two days, and she couldn't find him no matter what. As a result, we The victim's body was found in a hotel, and it turned out, judging by the autopsy results, that her husband had been killed for seven days."