Chapter 26 Section 25

Not to mention what happened a year and a half later, during this year and a half, I encountered several strange things one after another.To avoid confusion, I will describe them one by one in chronological order. Not long after the Jiutuo incident, I suddenly received a call from my good friend Tong Shoucheng. He told me an unbelievable news——his soul had gone out of his body! Although Tong Shoucheng is a very good friend of mine, as the saying goes, "the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water", we rarely communicate by phone.He and I can only meet each other during Chinese New Year every year, and talk about interesting things about our childhood.He is currently studying for a Ph.D. at an ocean university.

"For more than twenty years, I found that I was wrong and you were right." He said this first as soon as I got through to his phone. I was taken aback and asked, "What do you mean?" He said very fast: "My soul is out of my body!" I was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Are you okay?" He said: "Don't worry about me, I'm fine, at least for the time being." "What do you mean you're fine for now? What's the matter with you?" "Let me tell you one thing. When I woke up yesterday morning, I found a herpes on my hand for no reason, and it hurt badly. I said it was herpes, but it didn't look like it. I went to the school's infirmary, and the doctor also Said it wasn't herpes. I asked him what it was, but the doctor said it was a burn."

"Are you burning yourself?" I asked. "No! The problem is that I didn't burn myself!" He was a little anxious again, "I was fine before I went to bed, but the next morning I had a herpes inexplicably. I checked the bed and there was nothing else. It's impossible to burn me. But the doctor told me it was a burn!" "Maybe it was injured elsewhere. There are too many quack doctors now, and maybe the diagnosis is wrong. Didn't you read the recent news that a female student went to the school hospital for toothache treatment, but she was actually put to death. Another woman gave birth My child, I found that the anus was sewn up after the operation." I didn't think so.

"Listen to me. I just returned to the dormitory when I received a call from my mother. She asked me on the phone, son, have you caught a cold these days? I said, no, it's just the back of your hand There was a sore on my face inexplicably, and it hurt a little. My mother didn’t care about me when she heard it, but she kept chanting Amitabha Buddha. Then, my mother told me that an old man in the village passed away last night. My mother went to the mourning hall to mourn and sat in the The mage behind the Eight Immortals table saw my mother coming in, stopped chanting, took out a burning incense stick from the incense burner on the table, lit it out of nowhere behind my mother, then inserted the incense back, and continued chanting."

"What is he doing?" I asked curiously. "My mother was also very surprised, so she asked the mage what he was doing just now. The mage said that not long after the old man died, many lonely and hungry ghosts came to the mourning hall to grab offerings to eat. Just now a child followed behind you. I saw that this child was more kind. Reluctant to act, the child reached out to take the offerings on the table, so I burned the back of his hand with incense. My mother was startled and asked what the child looked like. The mage said it one by one. My mother heard it , Isn’t this about my son? It was very late at that time, and my mother didn’t call because she was afraid of disturbing my sleep. But today I couldn’t get through to my phone. My mother was so anxious that she called me one after another. Called me back to the dormitory. I am still beating my heart. Do you think this is strange?"