Chapter 23: Longevity and Short-lived
After Gu Cheng went back to the house and put down the bag, he washed his hands, opened the refrigerator and took out a handful of shallots and tofu I bought yesterday, and went to the kitchen to wash it carefully and cut it into pieces.
"What are you trying to do sneakily?" He didn't look back, and Xia Xiaoman piao rubbed his nose with his hands behind him.
"Lilith and the others called you old ghost." She asked the black cat for a long time, but she couldn't figure out what Gu Cheng was like, so she only got this title.
"You want to call that too?"
Gu Cheng cut the tofu slowly.
"No, I'm just curious. If you live forever, you should leave many legends, such as witches, I have heard of them all, but I don't have them about you, why."
Xia Xiaoman looked at Gu Cheng's face carefully and tried to find something, "Also, you are not a ghost, why call you an old ghost?"
"Is there a possibility that you are not a ghost, I am?" Gu Cheng put forward a hypothesis.
“…”
Xia Xiaoman rolled his eyes and said for a long time: "I just saw Uncle Chen helping you sweep the floor. Have you bullied him?"
"You should ask his wife, not me."
"They have wives, but you don't have them. It's so pitiful."
"Yeah, it's so pitiful."
"Do you want it?"
"You are reincarnated, and I will find you when you are reincarnated." Gu Cheng turned around and smiled.
Xia Xiaoman originally shook his hands behind his back, but when he heard him say this, he immediately lowered his eyes, and was silent for a moment before sighing: "You really have no feelings for me, Wang Aimin."
"Yes."
“That’s different.”
"Of course it's different. You don't think that a long-lived person will devote his feelings to short-lived ghosts, do you?"
"You are so hurtful." Xia Xiaoman said.
"I'm just telling the truth."
"I'm not willing."
Xia Xiaoman lowered his head and gently pressed it into his arms, "I'm very unwilling to accept it. Why did you live forever? If you were a normal person, you wouldn't have left at that time. Everything will develop in normal order."
"Probably yes."
Gu Cheng thought about it carefully and nodded, "But I am an immortal, you are alone."
For the immortals, everyone is a passerby. Even if Chen Hua and others are just friends who can get along for a longer time, they will still pass in the end.
Time will take everything away except him.
This is the first time Xia Xiaoman faced this problem. He used to make excuses about what he had been using as a ghost. Gu Cheng was very pleased. She finally...well? Wait.
"Let go, don't take the opportunity to touch me."
"snort!"
Xia Xiaoman left reluctantly, and even pushed him hard with his head, then turned around to the living room.
"I send you reincarnation because I know that one day I will meet again. Although I don't know the people who have been reincarnated, you won't remember me, but I will still be happy. The thing I don't want to see is like Zhang Lulu, and if it's gone, it's really gone."
Gu Cheng's voice came from the kitchen, and Xia Xiaoman sat on the sofa and didn't know if he heard it.
I pretended not to hear it.
"Some people are open-minded and think about being a hero again in 18 years, and even look forward to what they will live in the next life and whether they can make up for this regret. They are all very open-minded. When they close their eyes before they die, they let go of all the things in their lives."
Xia Xiaoman moved her head. She was not that open-minded. In her opinion, there was no difference between reincarnation and disappearance, and that was no longer her.
"Some people are pessimistic. They are too lazy to live when they are alive, and they dare not die. They can only live day by day. When they finally die, they know that they can dissipate and seek it. They would rather endure the lonely cold for a few years or even more than ten years than want to continue in the next life."
Zhang Lulu is an example. Xia Xiaoman has not forgotten the woman in Xishan Cemetery that Gu Cheng took her to visit a few days ago. She curled up in front of the incense and candle and said that she could last for about a month. She didn't know what she was feeling this month.
Wait for the day that cannot be held back with expectation? Or maybe organize your mentality and recall the past before it is completely destroyed.
"There are still people who are too concerned about it and cannot let go of their regrets in this life. They are always reluctant to reincarnate and always think about waiting for it. However, no matter whether they are open-minded or not, they cannot change anything. The final result is two, dissipation or reincarnation."
Gu Cheng brought the prepared shallots and tofu on the table and continued, "Since it cannot be changed, it is better to let it go. There is a day of reincarnation and a new life, new joys, sorrows, and happiness. If you drag it for too long, you will really lose everything."
"You are very suitable to be a person who persuades reincarnation." Xia Xiaoman had to admit that she was a little moved by Gu Cheng's reunion.
"I won't urge you. If you want to play more, just stay for more days. Just be careful and don't be reluctant to leave the more you stay."
Gu Cheng brought out another plate of stir-fried green beans, put them on bowls and chopsticks, lit a stick of incense stick and inserted them into the incense burner, and then treated the dishes on the table as sacrifices, and invited Xia Xiaoman to sit down.
The dishes are very simple, and they are the same when there is only one person. Xia Xiaoman doesn’t eat rice, he just tastes the dishes and doesn’t even have to stir-fry more. He just needs to eat a few bites.
Xia Xiaoman's ghost floated over and smelled the aroma of the food, "Have you lived with ghosts before?"
"I have encountered anything after living for so long. When an old professor died, he insisted on thinking about the topic he had not finished. He came up with a result and then he could be reborn with peace of mind."
Gu Cheng smiled and shook his head. The regrets of short-lived life are diverse, and it is rare to let go of everything in front of him after death.
After one person and one ghost finished the meal, Gu Cheng packed up the dishes, wiped the table clean, took out the book to read it, and Xia Xiaoman sat beside him, curling his hair with his fingers, and his thoughts were erratic.
In the end, you can see the dead souls and hide in the crowd. Xia Xiaoman really suspects that he is a Bodhisattva, at least he is one of the millions of people walking in the world.
He looked compassionate when he was rescuing the dead souls. If Lilith saw it, he would not be so afraid.
"If you are idle, go out and take a look and see where you are lost."
"You are like Black and White Impermanence. Is this your job?" Xia Xiaoman glanced at Cheng. This guy happened to be wearing black clothes, but he didn't wear a hat of "making money at first sight".
Gu Cheng said lightly: "Those who need to be saved are all suffering people, and they can help you one by one."
"Great compassion, Amitabha, can the master save me?" Xia Xiaoman clasped his hands together and bowed his head to worship.
"Yes, I'll save you."
"The body is universal...ah!"
After his head was knocked a little, Xia Xiaoman stood up, stretched and planned to go out to take a look.
He stretched his waist until he stretched out, and his slender waist was still shaking. After a moment, Xia Xiaoman turned his head and looked at her, while Gu Cheng lowered his head and didn't even look at her.
"I suspect you were once a eunuch in the palace in ancient times."
"Well, the famous Zhao Gao is me."
"Really?" Xia Xiaoman turned his head suddenly.
Chapter completed!