Chapter 1 The Strange Car
"Who is knocking on my window..."
"Who is pulling the strings..."
The melodious singing sounded low in the vehicle's radio, and the online car-hailing car was heading towards the university town of Shanghai SIPG.
The driver was in a good mood at the moment because the young customer behind his car was generous and snatched his car from another customer at three times the market price, and even gave the customer one hundred yuan so that the other party would not complain about him.
After this single run, you can go home early to spend time with your wife and children.
When the driver thought of his wife and children, he felt excited. He slowed down and turned his head to look at the passenger sitting in the back row wearing headphones and playing with his mobile phone. The other party was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans on the lower body, short hair, and a clean and delicate person.
The driver handed over a cigarette, "Are you a college student? Where are you studying? Do you smoke?"
"I won't smoke, my brother will do whatever he wants."
Lin Xu tidied the earphones on both sides of his ears and added: "I am a freshman at Shanghai SIPG University."
After the driver skillfully placed the smoke with a lighter, he rolled open the window and vomited a sip of smoke outside, and said with emotion: "Ten years ago, when I was about the same age as you, I only knew how to play and hang out in society, and I didn't study hard. As a result, now, even a slightly decent job requires an education."
"Fortunately, I can still run DiDi now. I can't say how much I earn, but my child's milk powder is still barely enough."
Seeing that the driver was very good at talking, Lin Xu simply took off his headphones and continued with a smile: "Is it very hard to make money?"
"It's hard work, but it's like raising a family! Now I run thirteen hours a day, and when my child grows older, I have to work harder."
"When I was in the society, my relatives looked down on me, but my wife didn't dislike me. She was my neighbor. She grew up together and borrowed money everywhere to help me get a car and run around DiDi, otherwise we would not even be able to raise our children..."
The driver talked all the way, but the content he talked about was mostly about family matters, and it was obvious that his wife and children were his greatest pride.
Lin Xu suddenly interrupted: "Did your sister-in-law give birth to a boy or a girl?"
"boy!"
The driver couldn't help but lit another cigarette, obviously in a good mood: "It's a pity that both of us have low educational standards and we haven't thought about our name."
"Is that right? I happened to learn how to name people. Do you still remember the birthday of my eldest brother's child?"
"Oh, little brother, you can also tell fortunes! My baby was born at 2:00 p.m. on the 25th of last month. My surname is Wang."
"Okay!"
Lin Xu immediately pinched his fingers and muttered something: "Year Yiyou, month of Guiwei, day of Gengxu, hour of Wei, lack of fire, weak wood, and controls earth and metal."
"Or it's called Wang Yangliu, the three dots of water used by the word "huo" replace soup, the willow tree, and the water and wood are in harmony. This name is blessed by the ancestor and willow, which will be of great help to the safety of the child."
The driver said excitedly: "Do you know this little brother? Not bad. I will discuss it with the child's mother and call it this name!"
Just as the two of them were chatting, the vehicle drove into Xuecheng Avenue, and the entire avenue was empty at this moment.
The driver said in surprise: "Hey, strange, I remember that this point is usually blocked to death. Why is it empty this time? There is no one in a car. I remember the last time..."
As he spoke, the driver's brows became tighter and tighter. He couldn't remember when he had last driven here.
Lin Xu sighed, finally turned on his phone, turned on the volume of the news broadcast I had heard before and released it:
"Latest news, this evening, a car accident occurred on Xuecheng Avenue near the University Town of Shanghai SIPG. The deceased was a driver of online car-hailing, named Wang *bing, and the license plate number was Hongmw1v48. According to surveillance, in order to urgently avoid pedestrians crossing the road, the online car-hailing unfortunately hit a telephone pole on the side of the road..."
The driver's eyes gradually became dull: "Jieda from Hong Kong mw1v48? What kind of soldier Wang... Isn't this my car and me?"
Lin Xu's eyes fell on the driver with pity, then turned off the radio and snapped his fingers.
With that crisp sound, the vehicle disappeared instantly. Driver Wang Zhebing found that his surroundings were suddenly filled with thick white fog. He looked around in horror. He could not see anything except the fog in his field of vision. Only Lin Xu stood behind him and stared at him silently.
"Little...Little brother, what's going on?"
"Brother Wang, you are actually dead." Lin Xu sighed.
"What, why?" Wang Zhebing took a step back in horror, then rushed to the side, trying to escape from the white mist.
But the night was gray and the white mist was vast. In this small world where the thick fog circle came out, Wang Zhebing found himself like a ghost hitting a wall. No matter how he walked, he would eventually return to Lin Xu.
It seemed as if this young and delicate mysterious passenger was a ghost.
Finally, Wang Zhebing slowly recalled in his mind. He shivered and took out the 300 yuan bills given by the young passenger before. It turned out to be just three ghost coins.
"So I'm dead..."
Wang Zhebing sat on the ground with his weak eyes, his eyes were dull, and it was obvious that it was difficult to accept this fact. He murmured to himself: "Wife, wife, I'm sorry for you..."
Three years ago, his wife married him despite everyone's opposition, and even bought a car for him, calling him a dowry. From then on, he had to drive thirteen hours of online car-hailing every day, trying his best to make money and pay off his wife's debts.
After the child was born, he worked hard and did not dare to stop for a moment.
Life is on the right track, and the days are gradually improving, but why do I die?
At this moment, Wang Zhebing only cried and trembled all over, with all kinds of unwillingness, fear, regret and attachment on his face.
Lin Xu didn't urge him, and stood patiently and waited quietly.
After a while, Wang Zhebing finally stopped crying and asked, "Did you take me to the underworld?"
"No, I'm just a freshman from Shanghai SIPG University this year, and I happened to pass by here tonight."
"Then, can I survive?"
"No, Brother Wang, you can't be resurrected... In order to avoid the old man who was walking around the road, you hit a telephone pole. Netizens sympathized with you. Most people left messages saying that you were sacrificing yourself. Even Didi Company immediately stated on the Weishi Social Account that when the cause of the accident is found out, in addition to normal insurance, you will also reward your family with an additional 200,000 yuan. The sum of this money is enough for their mother and son to live for a long time."
"It's 200,000, too, it's great... My little brother is not an ordinary person. I want to ask you to help me pass on my child's name to my wife Liu Guifang. Also, tell her, if it really doesn't work, just find someone else to marry. I have dragged her down for the first half of her life, and I can't drag her down for the second half of her life..."
"Okay, I promise you."
Immediately, Lin Xu reminded again: "Brother Wang, it's time for you to reincarnate."
Wang Zhebing looked around nostalgically, and saw that there was still nothing in the vast white mist.
In desperation, Wang Zhebing wiped his tears and stood up from the ground: "Please trouble little brother!"
Lin Xu nodded slightly, took out a piece of white paper from his body, skillfully folded a paper boat the size of a palm, and said in a deep thought:
"The world is full of all directions, and always uses its power to save all sentient beings, and they will be separated from the lost path.
All beings are unaware of it, like blindly seeing the sun and the moon, I am too insignificant, and I am boundless…”
As the sound of murmuring spells was muttering, a white light was captured from the paper ship and Wang Zhebing was taken into the ship.
Then the paper boat was wrapped in white mist, held it, shaking, and slowly rose to the night sky...
Chapter completed!