Cui Yun turned on the bedside lamp, rubbed his sleepy eyes, hugged Zhao Li and comforted: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. You may be nervous because of the pregnancy, so you have auditory hallucinations. This! It belongs to pregnancy anxiety.

Xiaoli, you should stop going to school recently and rest at home. Let me talk to you at work, okay?"

Hearing this, Zhao Li felt that what her husband said was very reasonable. She leaned into Cui Yun's arms and nodded gently. She didn't think about it any more, thinking that maybe she was hearing hallucinations because of her anxiety.

But as Zhao Li became pregnant longer and longer, she began to have more and more auditory hallucinations. She would hear many people crying at night, or she would hear a woman say in her sleep: "Help me, I..."

I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die.”

A few days later, Zhao Li was lying on the sofa to rest with a depressed expression as usual. In a daze, she suddenly saw a vague figure on the balcony, crawling hard on the edge of the balcony, covered by long black hair.

The whole face.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, please help me."

Zhao Li thought she was dazzled and raised her hand to rub her eyes, but the blurry figure kept crawling around the balcony, and the voice was still ringing in her ears.

Suddenly, the figure turned to look at Zhao Li on the sofa and made a sinister sound.

"You will be next, Jiejie Jiejie..."

Zhao Li woke up suddenly, sitting on the sofa and breathing heavily. She turned her head to look at the balcony again, and there was nothing on the balcony.

Zhao Li rubbed her face. She couldn't tell whether this was a dream or reality.

Zhao Li ran to the bedroom in panic, picked up the landline and called her husband at work, but was told that Cui Yun had gone to the province to participate in academic discussions and would not be back until about a week later.

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Li walked to the living room tremblingly. Looking at the empty balcony, she was too scared to stay in the house and walked out of the house quickly.

Zhao Li walked to the neighbor's door next door, hesitated for a moment and knocked on the door. Two minutes later, the door creaked open, and it was a woman in her early forties who opened the door.

Zhao Li forced out a smile, raised her hand and greeted the woman, "Hello, eldest sister, I am a resident of Building 44 next door. My name is Zhao Li."

When the woman saw Zhao Li's pregnant belly, she quickly stepped forward to support Zhao Li and enthusiastically invited her into her home.

"Oh! Big sister, your belly is so big, why are you still running around? Come on, sit here first, and I will give you a cup of hot water."

The woman spoke with a thick Henan accent and poured a glass of hot water for Zhao Li while talking. The enthusiasm was beyond Zhao Li's expectation, but she soon felt relieved. After all, in this era, people who can live in a big house

Either a businessman, an intellectual, or someone who has contributed to the army.

"Sister, you don't need to be busy. I'm sorry for disturbing you. I should have come to say hello to you when we moved here, but because I was pregnant and in a bad mental state, I never came to say hello to you.

, please don’t mind.”

"Harm!, you see what you said is obvious. You guys are intellectuals at first glance, and I am a rough guy. It's just that my old man has made meritorious service in the army, so he was assigned to this house. In fact, I don't live here at all."

I’m not used to it either. I just want to go back to my hometown and farm my three-quarter acre of land so that I can have something to do.”

The woman's carefree temperament inevitably made Zhao Li more fond of her, and her strong hometown dialect also drew in the relationship between them.

The two chatted for a long time. During the chat, Zhao Li's fear slowly dissipated a lot. Zhao Li suddenly thought of the strange things that happened to her at home, changed the topic and asked: "Hey! Sister, I want to ask

Let me ask you something, do you know if there are any rumors about Building 44?"

"I don't know, because this house has not been lived in for a long time. Since I moved here, you and your wife are the first to live here. But I have heard from others that the first resident of this house was a writer. At that time, to combat superstition, this

Writers were among the first people to be attacked, and their houses were also ransacked."

"Writer? Sister, do you know where this family went after that?"

"That's what I heard from others. How did I know? Hey! Sister, what are you doing?"

Zhao Li shook her head and did not tell the woman what she had experienced. At this moment, Zhao Li suddenly felt uncomfortable in her stomach. She quickly got up, said hello to the woman and returned to her home.

Zhao Li pushed open the door of Building 44, and what came into view was the huge locust tree. Zhao Li looked at the locust tree. She didn't know what was going on, but the uneasy feeling in her heart became more and more intense.

At noon the next day, the woman took some home-made steamed buns and chicken soup and prepared to give Zhao Li some to replenish her health. But the strange thing was that Zhao Li didn't open the door even after she knocked many times.

"That's strange, isn't the eldest sister at home?"

Just as the woman was about to leave, the door suddenly opened a crack. The woman shouted twice and slowly pushed the door open.

"Sister? Are you home? I'm here to see you."

The woman walked into the yard while shouting. Just when she walked under the locust tree, a drop of liquid suddenly fell on her face. The woman touched her face with her hand and took a look in front of her eyes. It turned out to be blood.

The woman looked up at the tree blankly. On the tree was Zhao Li who had been hanged. Moreover, Zhao Li's right eye was empty and without an eyeball, and was dripping blood.

The woman was so frightened that she fell to the ground, and the steamed buns and chicken soup were scattered all over the floor. She was so frightened that she looked at the corpse on the tree, and she just looked at the corpse blankly.
Chapter completed!