Chapter 174 174: [Changing flowers and replacing trees] Darkness is coming

Author: Ao Qingming

Bai Cha returned to the yard with a lantern.

She shook the lantern slightly.

"Come out and give you some candy."

A face appeared on the lantern.

That's the face of a child.

He was looking at Bai Cha with a pair of resentful eyes.

"Liar!" came a sharp voice from the lantern.

Bai Cha threw the lollipop in his hand directly into the lantern.

"Look this time, I won't lie to you."

The lantern shook, and the figure of a little boy gradually appeared next to the lantern.

He was also wearing a red Tang suit, with red blush on his pale face and a cinnabar mole between his eyebrows. He had the same image as the golden boy before.

He took the lollipop and licked it.

After confirming that it was real sugar, I took a satisfied look at the white tea.

Bai Cha handed the lantern to him with a smile.

"There are many children playing with lights outside. Do you want to go play with them?"

The little boy rolled his eyes, picked up the lantern and ran out.

If he doesn't play, he won't play. Being put in the backpack every day makes him feel uncomfortable to death.

Bai Cha watched him leave, turned around and saw Wen Xing looking at her with a strange look.

Bai Cha smiled sweetly at her.

Wenxing: "..."

Bai Cha had no intention of pretending to be cute and innocent in front of Wenxing. After all, if we really became friends in the future, we would never be able to act like this.

Actually, the main thing is that Wenxing is fun to tease, otherwise she wouldn't be so into it.

Wenxing didn't say anything.

She originally thought that Bai Cha was a bit pretentious, but now she was sure that it was indeed a pretense... because no one would be naive enough to maintain such an attitude towards a kid who looked scary, right?

Of course, the most important thing is that the child said she was a liar, and she didn't deny it.

In short, it was definitely an act, and Wenxing relaxed a little.

It’s okay if it’s not a silly Baitian who is really powerless.

Just as I was thinking about the last ray of sunset on the horizon, the night suddenly opened.

Wenxing walked out of the courtyard and stood at the door to take a look.

The villagers all carried lanterns in their hands, and the whole village was decorated with lanterns and lanterns, which was particularly beautiful.

The leader was also playing gongs and drums, and the lively sound suddenly spread throughout the village.

"Sister, are you going out?" Bai Cha came over.

"You don't plan to go out?" Wenxing asked.

"I'm just thinking about one thing. Sister, you see they keep saying that women can't go out, but no one comes to stop us from going out."

Bai Cha glanced at the villagers outside. There were indeed no women among the villagers, only a few pregnant women with bulging bellies.

As for Lao Qin's attitude, other villagers must be the same.

It should even be a little more extreme than Lao Qin.

The looks some of them looked at did have a bit of an uncomfortable quality to them.

No one stopped them from going out. The other three female players had already gone out, and they didn't say they couldn't participate in the Lantern Festival.

Wenxing frowned.

"So what you mean is..."

Bai Cha looked back at the dark little courtyard.

"I had a dream when I was sleeping today. A child said that I was sleeping on him. I couldn't tell whether it was a little boy or a little girl, and the voice was not clear either."

Children's voices are somewhat indistinguishable from male to female, and so are their looks. They are slightly more delicate and cute dolls, regardless of gender. Once their hair and clothes are blurry, they all look the same.

She was so sleepy in her dream that she didn't see clearly what the child was wearing, and her hair was too dark.

But the clothes are probably white.

Wenxing felt that the chill in the air around him seemed to be getting stronger.

"Then go and have a look."

She was no longer in a hurry to see the lanterns.

If there is really a child under the bed, it will be troublesome to go back to sleep if it is not solved.

Wenxing strode to the room. The room was very dark, and the light bulb was old and not very bright.

She squatted down, lifted the sheets directly, and looked under the bed.

A small face with pale grayish white and a pair of big, empty black eyes looked directly at Wenxing.

Wenxing punched him instinctively.

At that muffled sound, Bai Cha couldn't help but touch his face and looked under the bed with some sympathy.

It hurts so much...

The kid disappeared with this punch.

Wenxing breathed a sigh of relief.

She took out her cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and looked down.

The bed was a bit dirty, with a lot of dust and cobwebs.

And in a small corner, there was an old lantern that was also covered with dust.

Bai Cha turned around, took the fire stick, and hooked the lantern out from under the bed.

One side of the lantern was obviously broken, as if someone had hammered it.

Bai Cha immediately glanced at Wen Xing weakly.

Wenxing stared at the lantern expressionlessly, stretched out his hand and poked it.

The lanterns don't look out of the ordinary.

Bai Cha found a rag and wiped the dust off it.

It is a very beautiful little palace lantern.

The two of them looked at it for a while and didn't see anything wrong, so they picked up the palace lantern and put it on the table in the room.

"Do you want to take a look under their beds?" Wenxing asked.

"No, it won't be good if someone misunderstands me later."

Bai Cha said and looked at the lamp for a while.

"Take it out for a walk."

Wenxing looked at her and then picked up the lamp.

The yard is actually quite quiet.

But when I walked out of the door, it was so lively outside, it was like two different worlds.

Everyone is holding a lantern in their hands.

Children chased each other with lanterns.

If you look at the past, they were all boys.

Women and girls are not allowed out.

Bai Cha walked in the village for a while and felt that the sounds around him gradually became unreal.

She turned around to look and found that Wenxing was missing.

The surrounding sounds became increasingly unreal, as if they were sounds coming from a very far away place.

The lights are gradually dimming.

Darkness gradually enveloped.

Soon, the houses on both sides gradually became coated with the traces of time.
To be continued...