Chapter 12 Eleventh, fourth day (late night)

When going to bed at night, Ji Ning finally couldn't bear it anymore. "Doudou, when did your mother call you yesterday?" Doudou, wearing a vest and underpants, lay on the bed and said, "It's night. I told my mother and told her to call me every day." Ji Ning pretended to be calm. "She also called you two nights ago?" "yes." "Then why didn't she call tonight?" Doudou said, "It's not time yet." Ji Ning was taken aback: "It's not time yet?" He glanced at the electronic clock on the desk, it was 11 o'clock now.

Doudou also seemed a little puzzled. "I don't know why, my mother calls me a little late these days, and she calls after I go to bed." "About what time?" Doudou thought about it. "It seems to be twelve o'clock." Ji Ning pondered for a few seconds, and an idea popped into his mind - maybe Doudou dreamed that his mother was calling him?But is it possible?Have the same dream every night? At this time, Doudou began to ask his cousin about a certain computer game, Ji Ning explained to him absent-mindedly, then turned off the lights and went to sleep. After a while, both of them fell asleep.

At some point, in a daze, a soft and familiar ballad appeared in Ji Ning's ear—— "Pull the big saw, pull the big saw, grandma's house, sing a big show. Pick up the daughter, invite the son-in-law, and the little grandson is going too... The cheapskate, drink cold water, break the tank, can't drink water, ask his wife to hang him, Give birth to a child with one leg..." The ballad sang these lines repeatedly, and Ji Ning remembered that this was a nursery rhyme sung by my aunt, and it was the ringtone of Doudou's cell phone... Suddenly, his nerves tightened—Doudou's phone rang?

"Hello." In the dark, Doudou answered the phone, "Mom." Ji Ning, who was sleeping on the other side of the bed, held his breath nervously, feeling creepy. "Mom, why are you calling me so late...well, I'm asleep." Doudou said in a daze, "well, I'm very good today...Mom, my aunt and cousin Ji Ning came back today It's..." For the next few minutes, Doudou didn't speak much, and seemed to be quietly listening to the person on the phone. After a while, Doudou said in a low voice: "Okay, Mom, I see... Well, good night." After Doudou hung up the phone.Ji Ning glanced at the electronic clock on the table - 12:09, it seems that the call really came on time at 12 o'clock!

Ji Ning was full of fear and consternation. He couldn't comprehend such unrealistic things, but he couldn't suppress his strong curiosity.He tried his best to swallow his fear, and asked tentatively, "Doudo, is it your mother calling you?" "Yes." Doudou replied from the other side of the bed. "What did she tell you?" After a pause for a few seconds, Doudou said, "Cousin Ji Ning, I can't tell." "why?" "My mother said that what she called me at night and told me is a secret between me and her, and I can't tell anyone."

Ji Ning opened his mouth, speechless, only feeling chills in his body. After a while, Doudou snored lightly from the other side of the bed.But Ji Ning couldn't fall asleep anyway. After thinking about it in his heart for a while, he couldn't hold back any longer, and decided to discuss it with his parents right away—he couldn't face this horrible situation alone. Ji Ning quietly rolled over and got out of bed without disturbing Doudou.He tiptoed out of the room, went upstairs in the dark, and came to his parents' bedroom. Originally, he thought his parents were already asleep, and planned to wake them up softly, but when he was about to knock on the door, he heard the voices of his parents from inside, and the content immediately attracted him.

"...Tell me, if what that woman said is true, what should we do?" Mom's voice. Ji Ning's heart suddenly lifted - they were talking about that incident this morning. "How do I know? I have never encountered such a thing." Dad said helplessly.paused. "I don't think you should pay too much attention to it. The woman just reminded us that nothing will really happen." "I thought so too, but you heard it at dinner today. Doudou said that his mother has been calling him for the past few nights! When I heard him say that, I immediately thought of it. Terrible!"

There was a moment of silence in the room. "Maybe Doudou is lying. He missed his mother, so he said that he received a call from her. Children are like this sometimes." wrong!He really got the call!Ji Ning almost shouted at the door.He wanted to open the door and go in right away, and wanted to eavesdrop on his parents' conversation and find out what his mother didn't want to tell him.But after listening for a few more minutes, he found that his parents' voices were getting weaker and weaker. He couldn't hear any clues from the intermittent conversations, so he had to give up eavesdropping and choose to talk directly.

Ji Ning gently knocked on the door of the room. "Who?" Dad asked from inside. "Me." Ji Ning replied. "Come in," Dad said. Ji Ning pushed the door open and saw his parents leaning against the head of the bed in their pajamas.Mom asked, "Jining, it's so late, what's the matter?" Ji Ning sat down on a chair. "It's so late, you haven't slept yet." Mom and Dad looked at each other. "Jining, didn't you hear us talking just now?" Mom asked. "I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I just wanted to come up and talk to you guys, and I happened to hear you guys talking. But I didn't hear a few words either."

"What do you want to tell us?" Mom asked. Ji Ning thought about it. "During dinner today, Doudou said that he has received calls from his aunt for the past few days. But the fact is that my aunt died three days ago. I want to ask, what do you think of this matter?" "Your father thinks that Doudou may not be telling the truth. Maybe he is because..." Ji Ning made a gesture to interrupt his mother's speech.He stood up and walked to his parents' bedside. "No, he didn't lie." "How do you know?" Dad asked. Ji Ning took a breath, and said word by word: "Because just now, at 12 o'clock, Doudou's cell phone rang - he really received a call, and it was his mother!"

Mom covered her mouth and her eyes widened in horror.Dad also opened his mouth involuntarily. After a long time, he asked in disbelief: "Is this true?" "Do I still have the heart to joke around at a time like this?" "Did you really hear the voice? I mean, did you hear the voice of the person on the phone?" Dad asked. "What do you mean by asking?" Mom looked at Dad. "Do you think Doudou is pretending to call? How is this possible? He has no reason to do so." Ji Ning said: "First of all, I heard the ringtone of the phone call, that is to say - the call was not made by Doudou, but he received the call: Second, although I slept on the other side of the bed, I couldn't hear it. The voice of the person on the phone, but I can feel that Doudou is really calling someone, not acting. Because his reaction and language are very natural, children over seven years old can't act in this kind of drama of." Dad asked with some reluctance: "So, did you hear what Doudou was saying to the person on the phone?" Ji Ning shook his head. "The phone call lasted about 6 or 7 minutes. Doudou only said a few words. The rest of the time, the other party was talking. And there was a period of time in between. Doudou hardly said a word, as if she was concentrating on listening to something. .” Mom tucks in the blanket. "Did you ask Doudou... what did his mother say to him?" "That's the problem." Ji Ning said, "I asked, but Doudou said that his mother wouldn't let him tell anyone about the phone call, saying it was a secret between them." Mom and Dad looked at each other, both of them looking terrified. "What the hell is going on here? Why is Doudou unwilling to tell us the content of the call? There must be something wrong here." Mom said. "This is not the only mystery. Doudou also told me that his mother called at a fixed time every night—it was 12 o'clock in the morning—I thought it might be meaningful." Ji Ning said. "Ah..." Mom whispered in fear. "Doudou really..." As soon as she said this, she suddenly realized that Ji Ning was by her side and stopped suddenly. Ji Ning looked at his mother. "Mom, what do you want to say? How is Doudou?" Mom pursed her lips tightly and buried her head in silence. "I don't know why you keep some things from me, do you still think I'm a child?" Ji Ning sighed, "I thought I was grown up and could share some troubles with you. Maybe I was wrong gone." After a while, Dad said: "Ji Ning is right, we should let him know about this." The mother looked up at her son. "Ji Ning, I don't want to hide anything from you, but I'm afraid that after you know these things, you will have a strange feeling for Doudou... You know, Doudou is pitiful enough, I don't want you to treat him again Create a sense of distance or exclusion." "You don't tell me anything, so I feel distance from Doudou." Ji Ning said, "Actually, isn't what happened to him strange enough? He was able to receive a call from his dead mother! I'm afraid I can't be with him until I find explanations and answers to these things -- and that's what we're going to do now." Mom was silent for more than ten seconds. "Okay, I'll tell you what the woman told me—according to her, Doudou's mother told her about it herself." Ji Ning is concentrating. "This happened more than two years ago. At that time, in your aunt's village, an old father of a family suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage. He didn't say a word before he died. His children were concerned about the distribution of property and land. I went to invite a psychic, hoping to use him to communicate with the ghost of my old father. Psychic, do you know what it means, Ji Ning?" "I know." Ji Ning pretended to answer calmly, but his heart shook violently.He remembered what the girl named Xiaodeng had said to him, and he didn't expect his mother to mention it at this moment. "The psychic agreed to help the family with a psychic, but he made a request. He said that he only knew some psychic methods, but he couldn't let the soul of the dead attach to himself. He had to find someone with a psychic physique. He said that this kind of person is born with the ability to communicate with the dead. Only with the help of him can the psychic succeed." When my mother said this, she stopped, as if she didn't want to say any more.But Ji Ning vaguely guessed it, he opened his mouth wide. "Could it be that the person with psychic physique that the psychic medium is looking for..." "Yes, it's Doudou." Mom said reluctantly. "And then? Did Doudou really help that family with a psychic?" Ji Ning asked eagerly. Mom shook her head. "No. Although the family took a lot of money to find your aunt and wanted to 'borrow' Doudou to help. But your aunt didn't want Doudou to do such a thing, so she sternly refused. In the end, the family had no choice but to Returning with regret, the channeling failed in the end.” Ji Ning pinched his chin with his hands, thinking. "Why did the psychic seek Doudou? Why does he think Doudou has a psychic physique?" "I don't know about that. She (the short-haired woman) didn't tell me this. She just said that your aunt told her about it because she couldn't hold it back, and told her repeatedly. Tell her not to You can't tell others—because your aunt doesn't want everyone to know that Doudou has this special 'ability'." Ji Ning was a little anxious. "How can my aunt trust the psychic's words so easily? Maybe he is just talking nonsense. He said that Doudou has a psychic physique, so must Doudou have it? My aunt still doesn't know about her son..." Having said that, he stopped abruptly, recalling what had happened so far, and suddenly understood a little. "Could it be... Auntie herself knows that Doudou has this kind of 'ability'?" Ji Ning said with a look of astonishment. "Originally, when the woman told me about this incident, I just felt a little surprised and surprised, and didn't really believe it. But when I got home, I heard Doudou say that he received a call from his mother yesterday, and Based on what you told us just now... I began to think that maybe Doudou really...has this special ability." Mom covered her mouth in fear. A cold silence lasted for a moment. "If Doudou really has this special physique, why haven't we known it for so many years?" Ji Ning said. "There has never been such a thing as someone dying before. Besides, even if your aunt knew it, but she didn't tell us, how would we know about it?" Mom analyzed. Ji Ning's jaw tightened.Suddenly, some words that the girl named Xiaodeng had said to him came to mind at this moment.He raised his head suddenly and asked, "I have a question...have you thought about it?" Parents are looking at him. "what is the problem?" "Supposing we have now verified that Doudou really has that special constitution, or ability—then, how did the psychic know about it?" Mom and Dad looked at each other with astonished expressions, obviously they hadn't thought about this question before. After a moment of silence, Ji Ning asked abruptly, "Has there ever been a psychic in our family?" Mom seemed taken aback. "How can you ask such a question? Of course not! If there is, how can I not know?" "How can you be sure?" Ji Ning said to his mother. "Maybe there was a psychic in our family several generations ago, but you didn't know it?" Mom shook her head. "I've never heard your grandma, grandpa or grandma mention it. It's impossible." Dad asked, "Ji Ning, why do you think so?" Ji Ning pursed his lips. "When I was staying at the village chief's house, his youngest daughter told me that sometimes the physique of a psychic can be inherited. If a family once produced a real psychic, then his descendants may inherit it. To this psychic ability." Dad shook his head and said, "How can a little girl's words be trusted? Besides, there is no scientific basis for such things as psychics." "How to explain what happened to Doudou?" Ji Ning said. "This... Let's observe for a few more days and don't jump to conclusions." At this time, my mother's body trembled and her face turned pale. "Doudou...talks to a dead person on the phone every night...so, does he know that his mother is dead?" These words sent a chill down Ji Ning's back.Mom seemed to be petrified by her own words. Dad asked, "What do you want to say?" Mom shivered. "I mean...if Huiyun's undead was really talking to her son, what would she say to Doudou?" Dad still couldn't seem to believe this was happening, and he frowned. "It's just ridiculous that we're here to talk about what a dead person would say." Mom was obsessed and had to pursue this issue. "Even if it is... Let's assume, what do you think she will say to Doudou?" Dad shrugged. "Some greetings, words of concern, what else could it be?" My mother said in panic: "If it's just these ordinary conversations, why did Doudou say——his mother wouldn't let him tell us the content of the call, and said it was a secret?" "So what do you think they'll say?" Dad asked. Ji Ning interrupted: "I'm afraid it's not what 'they' will say, but what 'it' will say to Doudou. I just told you that the 6 or 7 minutes between Doudou's phone calls are almost always in the Listen to his mother." "Yeah, what will Huiyun say to Doudou..." Mom became more and more afraid. "And if Doudou knew that her mother was dead through these conversations, what would she do?" Ji Ning heard that her mother's worry seemed to have some kind of source. "Mom, after all, what are you afraid of?" The air conditioner in the room was turned off, but the mother trembled even more. She tucked her body tightly in the quilt, hesitated for a long time, and finally expressed the deepest fear hidden in her heart: "The woman in the village told me that a person with a psychic physique can not only communicate with the undead...even, he can summon the undead to his side and make 'it' stay where he lives for a long time. The woman reminded me , if we really plan to let Doudou live with us all the time, we must have this kind of mental preparation... When Doudou learns that his mother is dead, he may do something unexpected by instinct come out……" After hearing these words, Ji Ning and his father felt their backs go numb and their hairs stand on end. "So, what can we do? We can't let Doudou leave our house, can we?" Dad said with an uncomfortable expression. "Of course it's impossible! The child is too poor for us to even contemplate such a thought." "I know." Dad said, "but what that woman reminded you is really scary, and it can easily create a psychological shadow on us." "I hope I get through these few days...it will be better." Mom said. "What do you mean?" Ji Ning asked. "The woman said that in the seven days before the deceased died, it was easiest to contact the psychic... So she reminded me to pay special attention to these few days..." Dad couldn't bear it when he heard this. "What is the intention of this woman? Did she tell you so many terrible things to make our family panic?" "She just reminded me kindly. She also hesitated for a long time before deciding to tell me. In fact, hasn't the situation she reminded me happened now?" Dad fell silent.After a while, he said slowly: "This incident is really too bizarre. If I hadn't experienced it myself, I would never believe that there are people in this world who can communicate with the undead." Mom turned her face away. "I knew it a long time ago. I just didn't expect that after all these years, I still can't get rid of these things." Ji Ning and her father looked at her in surprise. "You knew all this before?" Mom looked at them. "Have you forgotten? When I was a child, I also lived in the village of my hometown. At that time, I knew that there was a custom of psychic communication in the village. I was very afraid of such things since I was a child, so I tried every means to get out of there. ..." "At that time, our family was poor, and only one of our two sisters was allowed to go to the town to study. I cried and clamored that I had to go, so your grandpa and grandma had no choice but to accept me. Since then, I went to primary school in the town, and I went to the county town to study middle school, and later went to other places to study university, and rarely went back to my hometown. It is because I have been avoiding that place..." It was the first time for Ji Ning to hear his mother talk about these past events. "What about my aunt? Didn't she study?" Mom nodded sadly. "She gave me the opportunity to study. But I know that she really wants to go to school, because every time I collect old textbooks, she collects them and studies by herself at home. However, your aunt has never You never complained about me..." "Later, I graduated from university and found a job in the city. And your grandpa passed away, so my grandma came to live with us in the city, leaving my aunt alone in the countryside of my hometown. When I grew up, I remembered Stubborn and selfish, I always felt that I owed your aunt too much in this life, and I wanted to find a chance to make up for her, but I didn't expect...she actually..." Having said that, my mother couldn't control her emotions and sobbed softly. Dad persuaded: "Don't cry. If your eyes are swollen tomorrow, be careful and see." Mom wiped her tears with the tissue that Ji Ning handed over. "The only thing I can do now is to raise Doudou as my own son. However, if he really has this special physique, I will be very scared and dare not contact him..." She became anxious. "I really don't know what to do." Dad comforted: "You don't have to care too much about this, maybe the strange things that happened to Doudou won't last long. Let's not worry too much or be afraid, things won't be as bad as we imagined." "I hope so." Mom let out a slow breath.She looks at her son. "Ji Ning, I told you everything. As you said, you are an adult and you should know how to deal with these things properly. No matter how special Doudou is, you have to remember that he is your favorite Dear brother." Mom didn't say "cousin", but "brother", and Ji Ning heard the meaning.He nodded and said, "Mom, I understand." Mom nodded slightly. Dad looked at the clock and said to Ji Ning: "It's almost one o'clock in the morning, go back to sleep, don't think about these things anymore." Ji Ning responded and left the parents' room.