Chapter 58: Talking about Ghosts
Jiang Yingyue has seen a ghost? Tan Xuan was stunned for a moment, then he laughed again.
"Are you talking about what happened on the way back to Tongyu County last time? Didn't I tell you that you were dazzled, there was no ghost at all."
The past is the past. Tan Xuan did not expect that the girl in front of him was so persistent and firmly believed in everything she had seen. However, since Tan Xuan had denied it, he would not admit that there really was a ghost at that time, and it was a relatively dangerous ghost.
"No." Jiang Yingyue shook her head vigorously, "I'm not talking about that time."
"Oh, where did you see it?" Tan Xuan put down his bowl and chopsticks, staring at Jiang Yingyue and asked. He didn't expect that she had encountered other ghosts besides the one when she went home. There is a difference between yin and yang, which is not normal. After carefully looking at Jiang Yingyue, he found no problem with her aura, no signs of being struck by evil spirits, and no signs that she was prone to psychic contact. Tan Xuan was very confused.
Jiang Yingyue did not directly answer Tan Xuan's question, but asked: "Do you know why I was so anxious to go back to Tongyu County last time?"
Tan Xuan nodded, and did not deal with Jiang Yingyue casually. After all, he reminded her to go in quickly so that she could see the "warm" one. He answered truthfully: "From your mood and behavior at that time, I can see that someone in your family is not feeling well."
"That's right. I was doing my graduation internship in another city when I received a call from home saying that my grandfather was critically ill, so I rushed back to my hometown overnight just to see him for the last time. My grandfather has always been in good health, but I didn't expect him to leave so suddenly. I wasn't ready yet..."
Speaking of her deceased grandfather, Jiang Yingyue gradually began to sob.
Tan Xuan saw Jiang Yingyue's true feelings and knew that she and her grandfather must have a good relationship. He consoled her, "In fact, you shouldn't be sad, and you should be happy for your grandfather. Old people are old, and birth, aging, sickness and death are inevitable. At least you can see him for the last time. According to what you said, your grandfather died in a hurry and should not have suffered any hardship. His descendants can say goodbye to him. He should be relieved and can be considered a blessed man."
As he spoke, Tan Xuan took out two tissues and handed them to Jiang Yingyue.
"Well...thank you." Jiang Yingyue took the tissue and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, sobbing and saying, "I'm not sad. Among all my cousins, my grandfather was the closest to me. He passed away so suddenly that I couldn't accept it for a while."
"Yes, it's hard for anyone to accept this." Tan Xuan said empathetically, "You can see your grandfather for the last time, but I can't even see the person closest to me if I want to."
Emotions are contagious. Although Tan Xuan didn't want to show his vulnerable side to others, when he saw Jiang Yingyue sad, he couldn't help but think of his master whose life and death were unknown.
Jiang Yingyue looked at Tan Xuan and asked, "Did your grandfather die too?"
Tan Xuan shook his head. "I don't know if my grandfather is alive. I don't even know if my parents are still alive. I was adopted by my master, but now my master is gone too."
Jiang Yingyue was stunned. When she heard that Tan Xuan was abandoned and the person who depended on him was no longer there, she stopped crying and just looked at Tan Xuan silently. Her expression gradually changed from sadness to sympathy.
"I'm sorry, I didn't expect your life story to be like this."
"It's okay." Tan Xuan shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I'm used to it. My master is just missing now. Maybe he is still alive and well, but he just can't come back for a while."
"Of course, don't worry, good people will be blessed by God." Jiang Yingyue said to Tan Xuan solemnly.
"Haha, I hope so."
Jiang Yingyue probably had never comforted anyone before, and she didn't know what to say if she wanted to. Tan Xuan just smiled and accepted her kindness.
"By the way, let's not talk about this for now. You said you saw a ghost. Where did you see it? What kind of ghost was it? Was it particularly scary?" Realizing that he had lost his composure, Tan Xuan quickly brought the topic back to the original topic and pretended to be eager to know.
Jiang Yingyue shook her head. "The ghosts I saw were not scary at all. In fact, they looked very friendly to me."
"Why?" Tan Xuan asked in confusion. This time he was not pretending, but he really didn't understand. She felt friendly when she saw a ghost. Could it be that the other party was a handsome ghost who fascinated her? But Jiang Yingyue didn't look like she had been sucked of her yang energy by a ghost. Moreover, in Tan Xuan's cognition, this kind of thing usually happened to female ghosts who were bold enough to use lust, and male ghosts usually used force to deal with women.
Jiang Yingyue didn't know how many thoughts Tan Xuan had in his mind in an instant, and she still answered in a slow and soft voice: "Because I saw the ghost of my grandfather."
"Your grandfather's ghost? How did you see your grandfather's ghost?" Tan Xuan frowned slightly, and was even more puzzled. If Jiang Yingyue's grandfather died of natural causes, he should have died immediately and not turned into a ghost. But Jiang Yingyue's grandfather turned into a ghost after his death, which means that he had something he couldn't let go of before he died.
"Do you also believe that there are ghosts in the world?" When Jiang Yingyue heard Tan Xuan's question, she did not answer immediately, but felt very surprised.
"I told my family that I saw my grandfather's ghost, but they didn't believe me. They said I was too sad about my grandfather's death and had gone insane."
Tan Xuan chuckled, "I can't say I believe it, but I don't deny that there are ghosts in the world. Maybe they are around us, but we can't see them. Just like what they say on the Internet, we live in three-dimensional space, and they may live in four-dimensional or five-dimensional space. We can't deny something we don't know."
"Yeah." Jiang Yingyue agreed with Tan Xuan's words.
"In fact, I know I'm not possessed by demons. I really saw my grandfather, and he even talked to me."
"Oh, really? Then can you tell me how you met and what you talked about?" Tan Xuan asked, pretending to be very interested.
"It was after my grandfather was buried and I returned to Jiangzhou to start work. I remember it very clearly, it was the first day I moved into the dormitory arranged for me by the company. I came back from the company in the middle of the night and when I opened the door, I found my grandfather sitting in the living room of the dormitory."
"Dormitory and living room? Your dormitory conditions are pretty good." Tan Xuan casually interrupted.
"Well, it's okay. Our company has dormitories divided by department. Each dormitory is a three-bedroom apartment with two people living in each bedroom. Since there are not many people in our department, married people don't live in the dormitory. Only Sister Wang and I live in a bedroom each."
After explaining the dormitory problem, Jiang Yingyue continued to talk about her experience that day.
"My grandfather was sitting in the living room watching an opera show. When he saw me coming back, he smiled at me, just like he used to do when I came home on holidays. I didn't feel scared when I saw my grandfather, and I forgot that he had passed away. It felt like he had gone on a trip and now came back. I wanted to hug him, but he shook his head at me and deliberately avoided me. He looked at me for a while and then left. When I turned around and chased him to ask where he was going, he was gone."
Jiang Yingyue's grandfather simply came back to see Jiang Yingyue, which made Tan Xuan a little puzzled. After all, in his understanding, ghosts are not humans. Ghosts' existence is very simple, and they do not have the complete emotions that humans have when they are alive. If he couldn't bear to part with his beloved granddaughter, he shouldn't just come to see her, but also deliberately avoid Jiang Yingyue. That is not something an ordinary ghost can do.
"Maybe you are hallucinating because you miss your grandfather too much. You don't have to think about that all the time. The living people have their own lives." Tan Xuan said calmly.
"You don't believe I saw my grandfather?" Jiang Yingyue saw what Tan Xuan wanted to convey in his expression and added anxiously, "I really wasn't hallucinating at the time. When I returned to the room, the TV was still playing opera programs. That's what my grandfather likes to listen to. Sister Wang and I don't know where the opera channel is."
"Oh!" Seeing Jiang Yingyue's eagerness for others to accept her personal opinions, Tan Xuan didn't want to refute or correct her. Since she believed that her grandfather's ghost existed, then let it exist.
"Have you seen your grandfather's ghost again later?" Tan Xuan asked.
"No more." Jiang Yingyue shook her head, her expression full of desolation. "Since then, I have never seen my grandfather again. When I miss him, I just look at his photos on my phone."
Jiang Yingyue picked up her phone, opened the photo album and looked at it, then continued to talk to me, Tan Xuan: "I tell you all this just to tell you that ghosts do exist. You'd better not always take orders at night. Haven't you heard that if you walk too much at night, you will inevitably encounter ghosts. Just like the last time you sent me back to Tongyu, I remember that I really didn't fall asleep along the way. At that time, I really saw that woman waving at me. Until now, I still remember what that woman looked like."
As Jiang Yingyue was speaking, Tan Xuan, who was standing opposite her, suddenly stood up and pointed at the person in the photo on his phone and asked, "Is the person in the photo your grandfather?"
Jiang Yingyue's words did not arouse much interest in Tan Xuan, but he was surprised when he accidentally saw the person in the phone.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Jiang Yingyue looked at Tan Xuan in confusion, not knowing why he reacted so strongly.
"So he is your grandfather."
Tan Xuan smiled bitterly and sat back down. Now he completely believed that the person Jiang Yingyue saw was indeed her grandfather.
"What's wrong? Do you know my grandfather?" Jiang Yingyue asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"I know him, of course I know him. Your grandfather has ridden in my car." Tan Xuan smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that this world is really too small.
"Really?" Jiang Yingyue's eyes suddenly widened.
Tan Xuan smiled, "Of course it's true. If I knew he was your grandfather, I shouldn't have asked him for taxi fare."
Tan Xuan did not lie, because the old man in the photo really took his car, but he deliberately said the wrong order of their ride. Jiang Yingyue took the car from Jiangzhou to Tongyu, and her grandfather returned to Jiangzhou from Tongyu accompanied by Gou Ge and Quan Erjie. Although they took the same car, the passengers in the car were separated by life and death. I also understand why Quan Erjie said that the old man didn't have to pay, because Jiang Yingyue had already paid for his fare.
