Chapter 8 How can one not be crazy without money?
You can choose rebirth after death, or death after death.
I just don’t know how Uncle Jin plans to choose.
I mumbled and asked him: "Uncle Jin, do you plan to stay here until..."
I really can't say the word "disappear" out of my mouth.
"Hey, you little girl is worried about me. You should think about yourself. You are going out tomorrow. How will you pay off your debt after you go out?"
One sentence brought me back from the edge of melancholy. Thinking of the loan of more than 100 million yuan that was still growing, my mood fell directly to the bottom.
Uncle Jin smacked his lips: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, look at you, a little girl. When the issue of money is mentioned, all the resentment almost overflows. It's me who talks too much, okay, it's me who talks too much, hey... …”
Uncle Jin stretched out his hand in the air and patted my shoulder.
Thinking that the days he was stuck in the hospital would come to an end, and that Uncle Jin and I would never see each other again, I reached out and wanted to pat his shoulder in the void.
But I didn't expect that this time was different from usual. I actually felt a cold obstruction coming from my hand.
I was taken aback.
Uncle Jin standing next to me was also stunned.
"Oh! You touched me!"
"Oh! I bumped into you!"
Uncle Jin and I said it in unison.
I stretched out my finger and poked Uncle Jin again, but there was still a cold touch on my hand.
Uncle Jin's mouth opened into an O shape, and he was very surprised.
"Were you scared when you filmed me just now?" Uncle Jin asked me.
"No!" I replied confused.
"Then why can you touch me?"
"You ask me, how do I know?"
I continued to try, my head, feet, and legs, but I didn't feel any obstruction.
Just when I was about to stick it with my butt to see if I could touch Uncle Jin, Uncle Jin flashed three meters away and looked at me with squinted eyes.
I realized what I was doing was inappropriate and pulled my butt back in embarrassment.
"How could you, a little girl, think of using your butt? Are you going to use your butt to deal with other people when you deal with ghosts in the future?"
I coughed twice and retorted with a slightly red face: "I just wanted to try which part of my body can touch people, but now I find that only my hands can touch them."
Uncle Jin said: "Compared with this, I think you should think about how your ability to encounter ghosts is triggered."
I thought about it carefully.
The first time I met a ghost, I was frightened by the female ghost's head. The second time, Uncle Jin mentioned 100 million and wanted to comfort me. And because of the upcoming separation, I also wanted to comfort him.
If there was anything the two times had in common, it would be that I was emotionally excited.
The first time was fear, the second time was resentment.
Resentment for lack of money.
How can one not be crazy without money?
With such resentment, I touched Uncle Jin again with my hand. As expected, I was able to touch him again.
Uncle Jin was amazed: "Ah! I really didn't expect that your ability to meet ghosts would be so ingenious. Just mention that you are short of money, right? Hahaha..."
As expected, Uncle Jin started to act mean again.
I threatened him angrily: "You also know that I can meet ghosts when I am short of money, right? Do you want to feel the fist of a poor guy like me?"
I deliberately emphasized the word "lack of money".
Uncle Jin chuckled and said: "Oh, you little girl is just talking about it. You say you want to close the window every time, but when do you close it again? Besides, you are leaving tomorrow, don't be so cruel. The earth is not cute anymore..."
When it comes to separation, I feel like a wilted rubber ball, and I can no longer maintain my dignity. "Good night!" I wrapped myself in the quilt.
No sleep for one night.
The next day, I woke up with two big dark circles under my eyes and looked around, but I didn’t see Uncle Jin.
I tried calling a few times, but Uncle Jin didn't respond.
I started brushing my teeth and washing my face, just like I do every day.
I was even thinking about whether Uncle Jin would give me another farewell surprise, such as a hand suddenly reaching out from the toilet, hair hanging down from the headlight, a head falling from the sky, etc...
But everything is normal.
Nothing came up.
I never saw Uncle Jin again until my parents came to my ward.
"Let's go, girl."
Mom urged me.
Uncle Jin probably avoided me on purpose.
After realizing this, I didn't know why there was an empty space in my heart, and I suddenly felt a little sad.
Those secrets that I couldn't even tell in front of my parents, those weaknesses that I didn't show in front of my parents because I didn't want them to worry, I dumped them all to Uncle Jin like trash.
Uncle Jin also tolerated them all.
Cry with me, laugh with me, train with me.
He told me a lot about the characteristics of ghosts and monsters and helped me overcome my fear.
The uncle who accompanied me from waking up to collapse and then to strongness was absent from my farewell.
I opened the window for the last time, thinking about everything I had done with Uncle Jin in front of the window, and there was already a feeling of congestion in my nasal cavity.
"Goodbye, Uncle Jinwu."
The door lock of the ward clicked shut, leaving only the loneliness of the room and an open window.
……
My parents took me through unfamiliar streets and neighborhoods to the rental house.
This is a village in the city, and vegetable vendors and butchers can be seen everywhere on the narrow roads.
Rotten vegetable leaves can be seen everywhere on the streets, and sewage formed by unknown sources collects in the potholes on the cement floor, leaving people with nowhere to step.
At a stall that smelled of meat and fish, my parents took me into a narrow alley.
It was obviously daytime, but there was no light in the alleyway.
Although I was mentally prepared, when I saw the house my parents rented, I still felt a sense of sadness in my heart.
The small house was less than 40 square meters, and the kitchen faced the toilet. The narrow space was packed to the brim. I saw a small folding bed next to a large bed.
Mom spoke with some embarrassment: "When I rented this house, I didn't know when you would wake up, so I only rented a small one. There were a lot of things in the house, so it was a bit crowded. Your father and I thought about it, because You'll be going to college soon, so I'll settle for now."
I wrapped myself in a cotton coat and said with a smile, "Yeah! After the New Year, I will go to school to get familiar with it."
……
Time seemed to have been pressed on the fast forward button, and it slipped through my fingers unconsciously.
On New Year's Eve, after the Lantern Festival, I dragged my luggage to a strange city.
When I looked at the grand gate of University A, my first reaction was... I feel so sleepy, I really want to take a nap.
I sat on a hard seat on a train for nearly 18 hours. My buttocks were sore from sitting there and I could hardly straighten my waist.
Because of my family's special circumstances, the counselor was very understanding and agreed that I could return to school and live in my original this semester is over, I can end my leave of absence and join the new students as a freshman! A wonderful new life is beckoning to me, but——
I have to earn tuition, accommodation and living expenses in more than half a year.
ah!Damn money! (End of this chapter)
