Chapter 8

This world is very strange, always having some people who can see or hear things that ordinary people cannot.

Like spirits!

Like ghosts!

Like evil spirits!

Like... resentment.

Over a decade ago, Liu Shoucai was just a little king in the courtyard of a state-owned enterprise's family area, leading a group of rascals to poke bird nests, steal eggs, fight, block chimneys, and throw snowballs with stones inside to break windows. He did all sorts of mischief, and if described in detail, he could be considered a thoroughly bad kid during his childhood.

Liu Shoucai's mother, who had him in her late thirties, couldn't bear to hit her son and had to apologize and make amends countless times for his misdeeds.

These were still minor issues. At least the elders in the family area knew he was the son of the accountant in the finance department, so they didn't take it too seriously. After all, it was very hard for a single mother to raise a child back then.

Liu Shoucai's father, the accountant's husband, was originally the head of the company's fleet, a leader with some authority. During an earthquake relief effort, the company donated a batch of supplies, and the fleet leader led the fleet to the disaster area.

However, due to the slippery road from rain, the mountain road collapsed as they entered the disaster area, and the entire fleet rolled down the mountain. When the local PLA found the fleet, only three out of more than twenty vehicles had survivors, and the rest were dead.

At that time, Liu Shoucai was only about 5 or 6 years old. A woman had to bear the heavy burden of raising a child and taking care of the elderly. The state-owned enterprise still had a strong sense of camaraderie back then. The accountant, who was originally just a cost accountant in the workshop, was sent for training for several months after her husband's death. Upon returning to the factory, she was reassigned to the accounting office.

This transformed her from a grassroots cost accountant to a member of the company's leadership. Perhaps it was from this point that the accountant learned to be frugal and thrifty, or perhaps she developed a habit of being overly meticulous, which we will leave for later discussion.

Now, let's talk about Liu Shoucai. Apart from other things, the most impressive thing about Liu Shoucai was that from elementary school to high school, he never wrote a single word of homework. No one knew why, but this kid was stubborn. He always went against his teachers!

At the same time, Liu Shoucai set a record for the number of times his parents were called to the school. In a five-and-a-half-day school week, the teachers called his parents up to six times a week, and he signed countless pledges, but he never changed. He continued to do as he pleased, refusing to do homework when he should.

For this, the accountant had to give many gifts and invite teachers to dinner. Later, Liu Shoucai somehow became more obedient. Although he still didn't turn in homework, his grades improved dramatically. In the end, the teachers stopped caring whether he did homework. Instead, they used him as an example, saying, "If you can perform as well as Liu Shoucai and rank in the top ten, you can skip homework too."

These two skills were passed down in the company's school until it closed.

Liu Shoucai lived in a family area of a state-owned rolling mill, which had a large population.

Suddenly, lying in the car, Liu Shoucai started to dream, recalling that warm winter day in February when it was raining coldly...

"Shoucai, Shoucai, come out quickly! Uncle Two said we're going fishing!" Outside the window, Liu Shoucai's cousin, Shao Erdou, was knocking on the window, leaning against the head of Liu Shoucai's bed.

Liu Shoucai, who had just graduated from junior high school at 15, rubbed his eyes and got out of bed.

"Second Brother, why are you here?" Lying in bed, Liu Shoucai saw Shao Erdou wearing a khaki military raincoat.

"Come on, my Uncle Two, your Uncle Two, said we're going fishing. Get up and think of a way!" Shao Erdou's face was full of excitement, and he didn't look like a 17- or 18-year-old at all.

"No!" Liu Shoucai pulled the blanket over his head and shouted. What a joke, with this gloomy weather, everything around looked eerie. When he was young, he didn't do homework not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't. There were always all kinds of people floating around, and it was lucky he didn't go crazy. So, back then, Liu Shoucai would go to bed early and never look out the window.

Shao Erdou knew about this but didn't believe Liu Shoucai. Later, he was scared and believed that Liu Shoucai could see ghosts. However, both kids were young and afraid of getting beaten if they told anyone, so they kept it to themselves.

Over time, Shao Erdou couldn't see the ghosts anymore, but Liu Shoucai still could. Shao Erdou took the initiative to tell Liu Shoucai not to tell anyone, as it would be considered superstition and could get them in trouble.

So, Liu Shoucai kept the fact that he could see green ghosts to himself.

On such a day, without the sound of spring thunder, it was a good day for the green ghosts to float around. Liu Shoucai didn't want to go out and see them, as they were just a nuisance. He naturally refused.

Shao Erdou pressed his face against the window, pounding on it and sticking out his tongue, shouting, "Liu Shoucai, are you hallucinating? It's your Uncle Two! Didn't you say there are ghosts in the reservoir? And that every year, a ghost looks for a substitute? Do you want your mother to be sad?"

"Phew, phew, phew!" Liu Shoucai sat up, cursing, "Three people were already substituted this year, what does it have to do with me? It's not a new year until spring! I've been observing for years, nothing will happen."

"You pig!! After the New Year, it's a new year!" Shao Erdou pounded on the window, making the frame rattle.

Thump!

Liu Shoucai jumped up, rushed to the calendar hanging by the door, and shouted, "Oh my God!" He ran out in his slippers!

It was early February, and the cold rain was penetrating. But Liu Shoucai, not thinking, yanked open the door, grabbed Shao Erdou in his raincoat, and said, "Hurry up, how long has my Uncle Two been gone?"

Shao Erdou was also anxious, shouting, "More than half an hour! Hurry, we can still make it!"

Hearing this, Liu Shoucai ran to the shed in the yard and kicked the Jiangling motorcycle left by his father to life!

It was thanks to Shao Erdou, who had always liked playing with motorcycles. After Liu Shoucai's father died, the motorcycle was left in the shed. When Shao Erdou grew up, he spent a lot of time tinkering with the motorcycle and, not long ago, managed to fix it using a few old books.

The two boys had secretly played with the motorcycle a lot, not daring to show off their skills, but at least they could ride it smoothly on the road. However, they never told their families about it.

Liu Shoucai's Uncle Two liked fishing and enjoyed the refined activity of boating on the lake. On a nice, drizzly day, the fish in the reservoir were most likely to bite. Saying he was going fishing was actually a cover for going to the reservoir. Back then, if you said you were going fishing, people would look down on you. Only by saying you were going to "hang fish" did it fit the social norms.

Liu Shoucai's Uncle Two rode a 28-inch bicycle to the reservoir, which usually took about half an hour. On a drizzly day, it took longer.

But it had already been half an hour. When the two boys got on the motorcycle and sped up to 125 km/h, they still felt they couldn't catch up.

Liu Shoucai was in a hurry. If something really happened... Shao Erdou was riding, and Liu Shoucai was under Shao Erdou's raincoat, wishing he could slap himself.

If he had known this, he should have dealt with the ghosts in the reservoir earlier. Although it would have caused him a lot of trouble, at least he wouldn't be worried about losing a family member today!

As the motorcycle passed a stationery store, Liu Shoucai shouted, "Stop, stop!"

"What for!" Shao Erdou, braving the wind and rain, opened his mouth and got a mouthful of cold air.

"I need to get something! Stop quickly!!" Liu Shoucai shouted.

Shao Erdou slammed on the brakes. On the muddy, slippery road, the inexperienced Shao Erdou didn't control the brakes well. The front of the motorcycle swerved, and the back skidded. The motorcycle immediately tipped over, and the two boys were thrown off.

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