Thinking of this, I started to sweat again on my back, so I asked Yingying, did you just come back today?
She nodded, and then I asked her how she found me. Did she see an old man in his sixties with a goatee when he came?
At that time, Yingying was almost crying. She was sniffling and told me that she originally wanted to go downstairs to see me, but found that I was not in the guard room and did not see the old man I mentioned. But she heard something in the bathroom.
If there was any movement over there, he came over to look for me. When I was quite far away, I saw a woman knocking on the door. When I got to the door, the woman disappeared.
As soon as I heard she said there was a girl, my hair stood on end. The more I thought about it, the more scared I became. And I always felt that something was not right, sooner or later. Why did Yingying happen to appear at this time?
After thinking about it, I asked her, do you live in dormitory 514? Yingying hummed, and I said, why did the dormitory manager, Sister Wang, tell me that no one lived on the fifth floor? And I went to the fifth floor that day to see it, and there was no room there at all.
There is no dormitory 514. Are you sure you remembered your dormitory correctly?
While I was talking, I kept staring at Yingying, and I could clearly feel her expression stiffening.
Seeing her like this, I understood. Either she was lying. In fact, she was not in this apartment at all and didn't know the situation on the fifth floor. She just followed me because she was afraid that I would find out. Or there was something really wrong with dormitory 514.
I would rather believe it is the former, but I always feel that things are not that simple, so I asked Yingying, tell the truth, how did you find me, and most importantly, who are you?
At that time, Yingying had stopped crying. She raised her eyes with red eyes and asked me, is it important?
Her eyes were particularly resentful at that time, as if she had suffered a great injustice, but I still made up my mind to ask that question because I really wanted to know the truth.
I said it was very important, and I also wanted to ask, there was a girl named Yingying in the class of 2016. I heard that she had a fight with her boyfriend and ran out of school at night and was hit by a car. Is that you?
Yingying just stared at me, not knowing what she was thinking. After a long time, she took a deep breath and said, yes or no.
Her words confused me, and then she said something that made me even more confused: "I am not the real me, and you are not the real you. I am just like you."
I was completely dumbfounded and asked her what she meant, but Yingying just shook her head and asked, okay? You just need to know that I won't harm you, and nothing else matters.
I didn’t even know what to say because she was right. If she was really a ghost and wanted to harm me, she would have done it long ago. Why are you talking nonsense with me?
After holding it in for a long time, I told Yingying, tell me, did you ask me to accompany you to the toilet in the middle of the night a few nights ago? She said yes, and I asked her if I was dreaming that night? She said no.
After she said this, my heart went cold, so I asked her, what on earth did I meet that night?
Then Yingying asked me, do you believe people have souls?
My mind was getting more and more confused, like a mush, and I wanted to ask Yingying something, but then Yingying suddenly saw the Bodhisattva statue hanging on the wall.
At that moment, I saw her face change, and her expression suddenly became particularly ferocious, as if she was about to kill someone. Although I knew she was not here for me, it still made me feel numb.
Yingying pointed to the Bodhisattva statue and asked me, who asked you to hang this thing?
I said it was the principal who asked me to fail. What's wrong? Yingying sneered, did you know he was trying to trick you?
I was stunned and asked her what she meant. Yingying asked me if I knew what it was.
Seeing the confused look on my face, she told me that this was Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of Buddhism. He once made a vow in front of Sakyamuni that hell would not be empty until he became a Buddha. I hung this Bodhisattva statue.
Being on the wall means that I have made a wish to the ghosts here. Only by transcending them all can I be free.
When she said that, I felt embarrassed at the time. I quickly walked over and wanted to take off the portrait, but Yingying told me not to bother. It had been hanging for such a long time, and taking it off now wouldn't change anything.
She also said that it would be useless even if I resign now. These ghosts have recognized me from the moment I hung this painting. If I don't resolve their grievances and send them to reincarnation, they will still come after I leave.
If you pester me, you might get angry and hurt me one day.
These few words made my heart beat loudly and my whole body panicked. Recalling what happened these days, I felt that everything was like a net, and I was the prey in the net, and I was about to be played to death.
I don't even know what's going on.
I was wondering if what Yingying said was right, then why did Principal Wang let me hang this thing? Isn’t this an obvious attempt to trick me? There are so many Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, why did he choose this one? I don’t believe this.
It's a coincidence. I feel like Principal Wang must know that there is something in it.
No matter how she knew it, I asked Yingying what to do now? I can't become a monk, right?
Yingying pondered for a moment, then she turned around and walked out, picked up the pendant I just threw in from the trash can outside, wiped it carefully, and handed it to me.
She looked into my eyes and said, "Gu Yan, you must keep this piece of jade with you. You cannot take it off at any time. Remember, you cannot take it off at any time. Trust me."
When she said this, her eyes were very firm. Looking at her like this, I understood instantly and asked her, did you give me this thing?
She didn't answer my words, and stretched out her hand to touch my face, and then I heard her murmuring, "Stop asking, go to bed early, don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you..."
This sound was exactly the same as what I heard that night.
I still have many, many questions. I want to ask her why she gave me this jade pendant, what she knows, what is her relationship with me, and why she protects me. But at that time, I felt that my eyelids were getting more and more painful.
It got deeper and deeper, listening to Yingying's voice, it didn't take long for me to lose consciousness.
It was already six o'clock in the morning when I was woken up by the alarm clock. I looked around and saw that Yingying was gone. I quickly opened the door, returned to the guard room and sat on a chair. I felt a little dazed for a moment.
At that time, my mind was confused. Thinking about what Yingying said to me last night, and thinking about the old man, I didn’t even know when the old man left. Then I realized that I was really ridiculous. Until now
I don’t even know whether Yingying is a human or a ghost.
I even doubted myself a little. Sometimes I wondered if I was suffering from paranoia. For a moment, I even felt that Yingying did not exist at all. She was just a character in my imagination. As well as the recent weird things,
Is it possible that this is all my imagination?
Just when I was confused, the WeChat notification on my phone suddenly rang.
It was a message from Xu Nuo. The first thing she asked me when she came up was, do you have a girlfriend?