"In addition, as compensation, I will accompany you!"

Seeing the last sentence of Mai Xiaorou's message, I couldn't help but think of the charm she showed in front of me again.

I actually missed that feeling a little.

I shook my head hard and said to myself that Mai Xiaorou is no longer a human being, and she can no longer be imaginative of her, otherwise she will die.

Seeing that I didn't reply to the message after a while, Mai Xiaorou sent a crying face and said, "Chen Yu, didn't you say you like me? Are you lying to me?"

I looked at the screen of my phone and still didn't reply to the news. Ask myself, I can't be moved by Mai Xiaorou these days. Although I often suspect that she is not a good woman, I keep denying those bad guesses from the bottom of my heart.

There are also scenes of Mai Xiaorou being together in high school, and the space she prepared for me only, so I like her, from the bottom of my heart.

But she is dead now, and she has borrowed my life for thirty years for no reason. I can no longer show the courage to like her.

Thinking of this, I replied directly: "I dare not like you, it's not that I don't like you!"

"Are you afraid of me?"

"Yes, because you're dead!"

After chatting with Mai Xiaorou for a while, I had already sacrificed my life. Anyway, I had lost thirty years of life. I don’t care about the rest of the past six months. Today I have to say everything I want to say and ask everything I want to ask.

It took about a minute before Mai Xiaorou replied to me: "Yes, I'm dead, but I really didn't harm you. I lent your life for your own good. As for the specific reason, I can't tell you, you know too much, it will not be good for you."

"Why?"

"Chen Yu, don't ask why, please, okay?"

Mai Xiaorou begs me?

Seeing such words, I can no longer feel any fear of Mai Xiaorou. She has the ability to borrow my life of thirty years. Wouldn't it be easy to take my life? If I want to harm me, why should I beg me now?

Could it be that it is true as she said, for my own good?

But I can't figure it out that it's for my own good to borrow my life.

Seeing the words Mai Xiaorou begging me, I suddenly felt a little soft-hearted. When I remembered Zhang Xia telling me about Mai Xiaorou lying on the hospital bed waiting for death, my soft-heartedness turned into sympathy and pitifulness.

I typed and replied, "Okay, I won't ask, but will you really return it to me if you lend me my life?"

Mai Xiaorou replied: "Really! But you are coming to find me."

"good!"

I finally agreed, maybe this is my destiny.

Mai Xiaorou didn't tell me too much, so she asked me to go to bed early.

The next day was exactly the weekend. When I woke up early in the morning, I packed up my things and went to Mai Xiaorou's hometown. When Zhang Jianlong saw that I packed up my things, he asked where to go.

I said to go home and see, he patted my shoulder and said, "Chen Yu, your mental state is really bad recently. I once thought you were depressed and staying at home for a day. If you have anything to do, thinking about the good things, love breaking up is not a problem. Have you seen your buddy, I am alone now, and I don't even have a partner."

Ever since Mai Xiaorou and I broke off contact, Zhang Jianlong felt that all my abnormal behaviors were caused by a broken heart.

I didn't explain much to Zhang Jianlong, but patted him on the shoulder, which was considered to be a thank you for your concern.

It only takes a half-day drive from the provincial capital to Mai Xiaorou's hometown, but it took three buses to arrive at Mai Xiaorou's village.

This village is not remote, and there is a provincial road passing by here. However, Mai Xiaorou's home is a bit off in the village. It is at the west end of the village, which is an old village area and is relatively far away by the road.

Now most people have built new houses to the east of the village near the highway. Except for a few elderly households in the old house area, most of the houses are vacant.

Mai Xiaorou's home is in this area.

I carried my bag and walked towards the west of the village. The weather was not good today and it was a bit gloomy. When I walked to the old house area in the west of the village, the sky was filled with continuous autumn rain.

The rain is very fine, like mist.

I went to find Mai Xiaorou's home based on my memory. After walking a few streets, I finally saw the dilapidated black painted wooden door, which was hidden in a false sense.

"Grandpa Mai..." I thought for a while and called Grandpa Mai's name. After all, Mai Xiaorou is dead. If you call Mai Xiaorou's name here, it will be too noticeable, although there are no people in this old house area.

The raindrops hit my cheeks, making me feel indescribable coldness.

I didn't hear anyone responding, so I gently pushed open the wooden door and shouted to the yard: "Grandpa Mai, are you at home? I'm Chen Yu..."

Actually, I wanted to say later that I was here to find Mai Xiaorou, but when the words were at my mouth, I swallowed them back.

There was still no one responding. I looked into the yard a few times. There were many sycamore leaves piled up on the ground. It was already autumn, and the autumn in this yard was even stronger.

"Crack..."

The wooden door of an old house opened, and Grandpa Mai walked out with a crisp look on his face. Is this still Grandpa Mai I saw more than a month ago? He seemed to be much older again.

"Here you come!" Grandpa Mai said weakly.

I asked Grandpa Mai if he was sick. Grandpa Mai said, "I am not sick, but I lack qi and blood. I have done several rituals in a row recently, so I am tired!"

Grandpa Mai is a famous yin and yang in all corners of the countryside. He will basically deal with the funerals nearby, so I didn’t think much about it and asked directly: “Is Xiaorou here?”

When I asked this, I pressed my voice very low, as if I was the only one who could hear it.

Grandpa Mai pointed to a closed room on the north side with doors and windows and said, "Xiao Rou can't see anyone during the day. If you want to see her, wait here until night. If you are afraid, leave by yourself."

I looked at the room and said, "Since I'm here, I'm ready to stay here and wait for Xiaorou to wake up."

Grandpa Mai led me into his room, which had the old furniture and furnishings similar to what I came from in high school.

After a while, a tea fragrance wafted over. I turned my head and saw that Grandpa Mai was cooking tea with boiled water.

I asked what kind of tea it was. Grandpa Mai said while making tea: "This is a medicinal tea that replenishes qi. It is impossible to buy it on the market. I have luck. A master gave it to me. One cup will be less."

Grandpa Mai brewed two cups of tea, handed one to me and said, "You have not had a good rest these days, and you have no reasonable diet. The qi and meridians in your body have begun to become chaotic. If you do not adjust in time, you will suffer from minor illnesses at a minor affair, and you will suffer from severe illnesses, which will cause damage to your stomach, spleen, and heart."

Indeed, I have been in a daze these days, and my life and study have become a mess.

After taking Grandpa Mai’s tea, I said “thank you” and couldn’t wait to drink the cup of tea. I didn’t care whether the tea was still hot.

After drinking a cup of tea, I felt refreshed and my body became warm.

I feel like I'm already "addicted" to this tea.

Grandpa Mai is not like me. He picks up the teacup and tastes it sips. He drinks every bite with extra caution, for fear of spilling half of it.

Grandpa Mai didn't say anything, I sat on the wooden chair and didn't speak. After a while, I couldn't help it and asked, "Grandpa Mai, what's going on with Xiaorou."

Grandpa Mai took a sip of tea and squinted his eyes and thought for a while, saying, "This matter has come to this point, and I don't need to hide it from you. She died. When she broke a case with me half a year ago, she was bitten by a powerful ancient corpse and was poisoned by a corpse."

I was confused about the case. Grandpa Mai explained: "I am the nearby Yin and Yang. In addition to helping people with funeral affairs, I will also take on some jobs to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts. These things are collectively called cases in my place."

"Xiao Rou can do magic?" I couldn't help asking again.

"Yes, I have learned from me since I was a child. She is very smart and learns very quickly."

That being said, she pretended to be scared when she heard me telling ghost stories in high school.

I asked Grandpa Mai again, are there really zombies and ghosts in this world?

Grandpa Mai said: "If you believe, you will have it; if you don't believe, you will have nothing. I believe it!"

I continued to ask, "Is that Xiaorou really dead?"

Grandpa Mai said: "As human beings, Xiaorou is indeed dead. As for the 'corpse', she lives well, but the corpse poison in Xiaorou is too powerful. After the corpse turns, she can't control her body at all. Before she loses control, she uses magic to imprison her natal soul."

I don’t understand what Grandpa Mai said, but he slowly explained to me: “The human soul has three souls, heaven, earth, and life. When a person dies, the heavenly soul returns to his position, the earthly soul will go to the underworld, and the life soul will remain in the human world. When the reincarnation is waiting for the three souls of heaven and earth, the life soul will reunite. But if the earthly soul does not go to the underworld, it will be left to combine with the life soul, and that is a ghost.”

As he said that, Grandpa Mai looked at Mai Xiaorou's room, then drank the tea in the cup in one gulp and said, "The soul of life is left in the world, and usually stays in the place where the body is buried. However, the soul of life has left the body and cannot return to its original body. The original body will gradually rot. But if the soul of life returns to its original body by chance and is nourished by its original body, the dead person will become a corpse. This is the case with Xiaorou now."

Mai Xiaorou is really a corpse, not a living person!

Grandpa Mai continued: "Xiao Rou sealed his own natal soul, just like a person who became a vegetable, his body cannot move, but he cannot die."

I asked in confusion: "Didn't Xiaorou be fine not long ago? When she was in the provincial capital."

Grandpa Mai suddenly became angry and said, "That's not for your own good. If it weren't for you, why would she risk the disintegration of her soul and lend you your life!"

Speaking of this, I was confused again. Why did I borrow my life for thirty years?

I asked Grandpa Mai the reason, and Grandpa Mai said, "This is the secret of heaven. Xiaorou and I can't tell you. We have made a vow. In addition, if you don't know this, you are also good to you. If you know, you will be deeply trapped in the whirlpool of fate and will not be able to extricate yourself from now on. You may even suffer the punishment of heaven. If Xiaorou doesn't tell you this, she will resist all the punishment for you."

When she said this, Grandpa Mai suddenly stopped, then took a deep breath and said, "I have said enough. When Xiaorou wakes up in the evening, be kind to her. Don't let her down. She lent your life to you and will return it to you." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!