The Little Girl on My Back

  After a moment of stunned silence, I nodded subconsciously and shouted: "Yes, I've encountered a ghost, come and save me!"

  Although I don't quite understand what happened, I'm sure I saw a ghost. What just happened wasn't an illusion. The bed is still blocking the bathroom door and my body still hurts from falling down.

  As for the person calling from outside, I'm not sure if it's really Wang Kun or not, so I don't dare open the door. What if I open the door and see another Wang Kun holding a cleaver to chop me up? I really can't take that.

  "Tsk, tsk, didn't listen to sister's words, trouble is right in front of you. One thousand yuan, I'll go help you solve the problem, how about it?" Ren Binghua said calmly.

  Life is at stake, it's extremely urgent, and now she's negotiating the price with me. I'd like to agree, but I only have less than 700 yuan on me right now.

  "Whatever, I'll just swallow my pride and borrow some from a classmate. My life is more important."

  Just as I was about to grit my teeth and agree, Ren Binghua said with a "thoughtful" tone: "Almost forgot, you should also go see a doctor today. How about this, 500 yuan, after all, this matter is also because of me, so I'll give you a discount."

  I was so angry with her in my heart that I didn't have a single grateful thought. Damn it, she still remembers that today's events were all caused by her, if I hadn't met her, would I have encountered such things?

  After telling Ren Binghua the address, she suddenly asked if there was glutinous rice at my home. Glutinous rice is Jiangmi, and I happen to have some here.

  My mom always told me, as long as you have food in your hands, you won't be anxious. When we just moved here, Wang Kun and I stored some rice and noodles, so that if we didn't have money one day, we wouldn't starve. But it turned out that most of these things were stolen by Wang Kun who often wrote scripts until midnight to cook and eat.

  Glutinous rice is called Jiangmi in our northern region, the cooked rice is softer and stickier, and it's used to make New Year's cake and other things. My chubby husband likes eating soft rice, so when we bought rice initially, he specifically told me to buy Jiangmi. I went to the kitchen to take a look, there was a big bag of rice, now less than one handful is left.

  "Just use glutinous rice, apply the glutinous rice to your wound, wait until the glutinous rice turns black, then change another handful, until the glutinous rice no longer changes color. Then you just stay at home honestly, don't open the door, and wait for me to come over." Ren Binghua reminded.

  I glanced at the gauze bandage on my leg and felt a little anxious. The doctor had told me when he was dressing the wound that I mustn't unwrap the bandage, as the wound was already prone to festering, and if it got infected, it would be very troublesome.

  I don't know if the doctor was trying to scare me, but he told me that if the wound wasn't treated properly, I might have to amputate it in the future. Now Ren Binghua actually asked me to open the bandage and apply glutinous rice, is she trying to harm me?

  "What... what is this thing used for? Is it reliable?" I asked somewhat nervously.

  Ren Bing coldly snorted: "The glutinous rice is for you to dispel the yin poison, otherwise your yang energy will leak out and it's easy to be haunted by ghosts. If you don't believe me, later when your yang energy weakens, the vengeful spirits will break in, don't blame me for not warning you."

  As a staunch atheist, I was thoroughly shaken in my views on life and the world after experiencing a series of bizarre events. No way, I'm still young, my mom is old and waiting for me to support her, I can't take risks.

  Adhering to the spirit of "it's better to believe it exists than not", I gritted my teeth and unwrapped the bandage. The wound had completely turned black, and seemed to have expanded a bit, so I quickly applied glutinous rice to the wound as per Ren Binghua's instructions.

  "Hiss......" The glutinous rice was applied to the wound and instantly emitted a burst of black smoke, as if the wound had been burned by fire.

  Scorching pain made me involuntarily inhale a mouthful of cool air, and then those glutinous rice all turned black. I quickly replaced another portion of the glutinous rice.

  The second time, the glutinous rice all turned black again, but the wound's color faded a bit. This little glutinous rice was only enough for three uses, I muttered to myself, Wang Kun this dead fatty, why didn't he burst his belly, an entire bag of rice and I didn't eat any of it, all went into his stomach.

  After three consecutive times, although the blackness at the wound site has not completely disappeared, it has improved a lot compared to before. It seems that Ren Binghua didn't deceive me. The glutinous rice is used up, and I can only wait for her to come over again to think of a solution.

  Ren Binghua told me that I'm a bit special. Before the yuan yang is broken, there won't be any dirty things clinging to me. In other words, as long as I remain a virgin, I won't encounter ghosts.

  However, after being bitten by Xiaobao today, I was poisoned with yin toxin and my yang energy leaked out. Fortunately, the yang energy has not been greatly damaged yet, so the resentful spirit can only harm me indirectly.

  The vengeful spirit must have possessed Wang Kun or taken on his appearance. When it knocked on the door, I shouldn't have opened it at all. By opening the door voluntarily, I was essentially inviting the ghost in. Now, as long as I stay quietly inside and don't open the door, the vengeful spirit won't be able to get close to me.

  To be honest, I don't quite believe in Ren Binghua's explanation. Previously, she had solemnly told me that my eight characters were too weak and that I was destined to be haunted by a hundred ghosts. Now she's telling me these things, which are contradictory to what she said before. Moreover, since she knew I was infected with yin poison, why didn't she let me use glutinous rice to extract the yin poison earlier?

  I reckon she's probably cheating me, and today's misfortune is all because I bumped into her, it's a complete disaster for me. But I don't dare to question her, afraid that Ren Binghua will get angry and ignore me.

  "Wu Tian, are you asleep? Hurry up and open the door for me!" The "Wang Kun" outside the door was still knocking, his voice getting louder and louder.

  "Knock, knock, I'm not opening the door. If you have the guts, break it down! What's wrong with you, who did I provoke? Why are you bothering me?" I cursed out loud.

  The knocking sound was too noisy, I lit a cigarette and slowly calmed down, constantly looking at the watch. When Ren Binghua hung up the phone, she told me that she had set off and would arrive in over half an hour, as long as I held on until she arrived.

  The guy outside heard my voice, and after a moment of silence, he cursed back: "Wu Tian, you beast, why did you lock me out? I was kind enough to go buy paper for you, and you still locked me out. To be honest, are you wearing diapers or something, afraid that I'll see?"

  When I heard this sentence, my whole body shook. Could the person outside really be Wang Kun? The tone of his speech and his word usage habits were all too familiar to me. Except for that dead fat man, no one else dared to call me "beast".

  The nickname "beast" was given by Wang Kun. I previously scolded him for being vigorous and lustful, like a beast. He retorted that I had a dirty mind but not the guts to match, and that I was worse than a beast. Except for the two of us, no one else knows about this.

  "Dead fatty, is it really you?" I asked tentatively.

  "Nonsense, who else could it be besides me? Are you worried someone will break in and take you away by force? Hurry up and open the door, my movie is almost done downloading, I'm waiting to watch it."

  This is also true, when I came back, Wang Kun was downloading a new short film, it's said to be Teacher Cang's.

  To be on the safe side, I casually picked up a stool and walked to the back of the door, opening it slightly to observe the situation outside. It was indeed Wang Kun, who still held toilet paper in his hand, with no apparent abnormality on his face.

  I breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door for him: "You scared me to death, I just ran into a ghost. The ghost turned into your appearance and came at me with a knife!"

  Wang Kun looked at me with a neurotic gaze: "You really believe in ghosts? I think you've been sitting on the toilet for too long, have you gotten dizzy?"

  Suddenly, I saw a little girl clinging to Wang Kun's back, about five or six years old, wearing a red dress, looking very cute. The little girl's face was rosy and doll-like, constantly smiling at me.

  Damn it, what's going on? Where did Wang Kun bring this little girl from? I wanted to stop him and kick him out, but it was too late. Wang Kun just walked in like a meat mountain, once he came in, there was no way to push him back out.

  "Bang!" I didn't move, Wang Kun didn't move either, and the door closed by itself.

  I was so scared that I retreated several steps in a row, pointing at Wang Kun and asking with a trembling voice: "Fatty, how did you bring back a little girl?"

  Wang Kun glared at me: "That's enough, I wasn't raised by fear!"

  He seemed to be completely unaware of his own abnormality, and after throwing the paper away, he frowned and said: "Why did you pull my bed to the toilet door? You're crazy, hurry up and pull it back."

  I backed away step by step to the corner of the wall, and that little girl kept staring at me with a smile. Her complexion looked very pale, but her cheeks and lips were bright red.

  If I had met such a porcelain doll-like little girl in everyday life, I might have found her very cute. But she appeared too eerily, her eyeballs seemed to be completely black, and when she looked at me, it made my whole body feel icy cold.

  "Fatty, didn't you feel that there's a little girl on your back? She's smiling at me!" I felt my scalp go numb and my whole body was trembling.

  Wang Kun's face turned somewhat unsightly, possibly due to his righteous indignation, as he shouted at me. I was terrified to discover that I couldn't hear what he was saying, only seeing the little girl stretch out her hand and scratch his neck.

  "No!" I couldn't help but shout out loud.

  The little girl glared at me, her small hand had already scratched the fat boy's neck and it was bleeding profusely. Wang Kun still hadn't noticed, he turned around and sat in front of his computer, opened up a newly downloaded movie and watched with relish.

  Wang Kun had his back to me, so I couldn't see the expression on his face. But judging from the situation, he should have put all his attention on the little movie, took a roll of toilet paper and placed it in front of him, then started unzipping his pants.

  The little girl on his back turned around and glared at me, as if threatening me not to speak. Then she stuck out her tongue in front of me, licked the bloody hand, with a look of intoxication.

  I feel like I'm going crazy, that little girl is a ghost, she's definitely going to kill Wang Kun! What should I do, how can I save Wang Kun?

  Wang Kun hadn't even had time to react when the little girl gave him a disdainful glance, her face twisting into an eerie grimace as she bared her sharp teeth and suddenly bit down on Wang Kun's neck.