strictlysupreme Chapter 169 Campus 12
Chapter 169 Campus 12
When he returned home, he happened to meet the ancestors who came home to visit. These were all the deceased relatives of the original owner, so Lu Changning pretended not to see them. After dinner, he avoided the busy and crowded home and walked alone on the road at night.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and the streets are already decorated with lights. Children are waving and jumping on the streets with all kinds of fairy wands, completely ignoring the cold winter night, adding a lot of festive atmosphere to this year.
Inspired by the children's laughter, Lu Changning wanted to find a friend to play with. However, after being here for half a year, the people he usually interacted with the most were ghosts. The only one he was a little close to was Qu Xiao.
Thinking of this, Lu Changning rode his bicycle towards Qu Xiao's house.
When Qu Xiao was young, his family of three was involved in a car accident. His parents died on the spot, but Qu Xiao, who was held in their arms, survived. But from then on, he had a pair of eyes that could see ghosts.
Now, he and his grandmother rent a small house. Red Spring Festival couplets have been pasted on the door, which looks quite festive.
After knocking on the door, Qu Xiao, wearing a brown sweater, appeared in front of Lu Changning. The weather was still a little cold, and Qu Xiao, who was only wearing a sweater, was freezing. But when he saw Lu Changning, his face was still full of surprise: "Why are you here?"
"I came to play with you!"
When he entered the room, Qu Xiao was still doing his homework, and his grandmother had already fallen asleep.
Lu Changning flipped through the book and said, "It's almost the New Year, don't you even give yourself a break? You really work harder than me."
Qu Xiao handed the hot water to Lu Changning and said, "Hey, there are only my grandma and I at home, and it's always like this whether it's Chinese New Year or not. Why bother with that? Just treat it as an ordinary day and listen to the sound of firecrackers outside as if it's Chinese New Year."
Lu Changning raised his head and looked at the man and woman behind Qu Xiao. They looked similar to Qu Xiao, and their eyes were gentle, loving, and full of longing. They should be his parents.
But, Qu Xiao, who can see ghosts, can’t he see his own parents?
Qu Xiao saw Lu Changning staring at a certain spot in a trance, and followed his gaze. It turned out to be a photo he had taken with his parents before: "The people in that photo are my parents. They look good, right? At that time, I still had my parents, and we were still a family of three. They were smiling so happily!"
The parents standing in front of the photo listened to Qu Xiao's words, and sadness instantly surged on their faces. The woman reached out to touch her child, but her hand went straight through Qu Xiao's body when it touched him. They could only watch their son standing in front of them, but could not hug him.
Lu Changning looked at Qu Xiao who was unaware of anything and understood that he really couldn't see his parents.
That night, Lu Changning did not go home, but chose to spend the night at Qu Xiao's house. Compared to the Lu family, which was crowded with ancestors, the Qu family seemed much more empty. There were only Qu Xiao and his grandmother, as well as Qu's father and mother who had become ghosts.
Qu Xiao got some wine from somewhere and prepared to get drunk with Lu Changning. Lu Changning looked at the words "strong liquor" on the glass bottle and was a little scared: "How about I go find some fruit wine?"
Qu Xiao was stubborn and put the bottle on the table: "Let's drink this. No one has ever drank with me. It just so happens that you are here. Let's finish it."
"Ah, done?" This might be a bit difficult!
Qu Xiao took a big sip of the melon seeds on the table. As expected, after finishing the drink, he started to cover his throat and frowned.
Lu Changning quickly handed over the water glass: "Look, this wine has a high alcohol content, how can you drink it like this."
Because of this big gulp of wine, Qu Xiao's face turned red and his head felt dizzy. He couldn't believe that his alcohol tolerance was so poor that he got drunk after just one sip of wine. He drank the rest of the wine in the glass in a huff, and felt even more dizzy.
Lu Changning quickly supported Qu Xiao who was about to fall down, and took the empty wine glass from his hand: "Hey, with your alcohol tolerance, just have a bottle of beer, why do you insist on drinking white wine?" He stretched out his hand and gently picked up Qu Xiao, and after putting him on the bed, the drunkard did not go crazy.
Turning off the lights and lying down, Qu Xiao's window in the room was bright, and he could clearly see the fireworks blooming in the distant sky.
In the darkness, Qu Xiao suddenly said, "Lu Changning, I'm going to tell you a secret, okay?"
"Well, you said."
"Actually, I can see things that other people can't see, like ghosts."
"Ah."
"Really, I'm not drunk, everything I said is true. I can see ghosts who jumped to death, ghosts who were hit by cars, and ghosts dressed in red. But, I have never seen my parents."
Suddenly, the air was silent.
Qu Xiao continued, "Lu Changning, do you think this is a good thing? I can't see my parents. Does that mean they have been reincarnated? They are not trapped here like other ghosts. They are free."
Lu Changning turned his head and saw Qu's parents standing by the bed, looking at their son.
Qu Xiao's voice suddenly began to choke up: "But, I really miss them, I really want to see them again. My parents have been reincarnated, they will forget me, have a new child, and will completely forget that they have a child in this life who is all alone and missing them. They threw me into this world and forgot about me. For so many years, I have waited for these two people for so many years, and they didn't even come back to see me."
As he spoke, Qu Xiao began to cry softly. The poor child did not dare to make any loud noise even when she was crying out of grievance, for fear of disturbing the grandmother next door.
Lu Changning felt that the ghostly aura around him was even stronger at this moment. He reached out and gently patted Qu Xiao's back, giving her the comfort he could: "You can't think like that. Your parents must love you, so you came into this world. If they could choose, they would definitely want to stay by your side and watch you grow up happily, but they can't. They have already walked the path of this life, and you have to go through the rest of the journey for them."
Qu Xiao no longer knew how to laugh. He couldn't laugh anymore when his parents left him. "But I'm so sad. I miss them so much. I'm afraid... I'm afraid I'll forget what they look like."
Qu Xiao lay on Lu Changning's body, as if he wanted to cry out all the thoughts he had about his parents over the years. Lu Changning's hand gently helped him breathe.
In front of him is Qu Xiao, who misses his parents. Behind him are the parents whom Qu Xiao also misses.
At this moment, they were looking at their son whom they missed day and night with heartache beside the bed. They were clearly in the same room, and there was only one person between them. However, the three of them could not touch, communicate, or wipe away the tears on their son's face.
Lu Changning felt sad. This world was too cruel to Qu Xiao. It gave him the ability to see ghosts but only hid his parents.
He gave his parents the right to grow up with their son, but they couldn't touch him. If Ji You is the darling of the world's will, then Qu Xiao is the one who is completely despised by the world's will! They can both see ghosts, but one has become a well-known and beloved ghost master. The other has been bullied by ghosts since childhood, and was even killed by ghosts in the end.
"Hey, this child who has been forgotten in the corner, let me be the lamp that illuminates him from now on. Until he can become the sun and dispel all the darkness."