Chapter 3 Unsatisfactory Dreams and Reality
Xia Yanbo took out a book from his backpack, sat in front of a small stool and read through it. Occasionally he said a few words to the unknown grave, and Qin Peiyu meowed and returned to the house.
The living room is small, with wooden floors on the floor, a wooden bed in each corner, a large LCD TV in the middle, and a fabric sofa in front of the TV.
Xia Yanyue lay idle on the fabric sofa, staring blankly at an unknown place.
"Meow?"
Are you okay?
Xia Yanyue is thirty-six years old, but she looks like a high school student. Her half-long hair spread on the sofa makes her face look childish and childish.
"It's okay." Xia Yanyue came back to her senses, picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table and looked through it, but there was no news.
She put down her phone, looked at Qin Peiyu and said, "If you are worried, it is still too late to rush to the city. The child will only turn eighteen tonight. I don't know what his life will be like in the future."
"Meow?"
What about you?
Xia Yanyue sat up and looked out through the window: "Don't talk about people here, not even a living insect can get in. What's there to worry about?"
Qin Peiyu climbed onto the sofa and looked at Xia Yanyue with wide cat eyes.
Xia Yanyue suddenly grabbed the cat hair on the back of her neck and pulled it up to her eyes, saying: "They have an agreement and will not harm ordinary people at will. My father and my brother should be fine. Zhou Xianpo and Zhou Shisan are still alive."
It's on the mountainside, over Yan Qi's side, and I'm really worried that they might cause trouble."
She chuckled softly: "Those old guys probably can't hold themselves back anymore. With you by Yan Qi's side, I can feel more at ease. Please stop by to see your parents. Don't waste this trip."
Qin Peiyu was still a little hesitant.
Xia Yanyue stopped trying to persuade her, pulled a thin quilt from the end of the sofa to cover her, and was really ready to sleep.
The mountain col is warm in winter and cool in summer. The outside world requires air conditioning to feel better, but here you still need to cover yourself with a quilt.
Qin Peiyu meowed twice, and seeing that she really didn't want to pay attention to her, he patted Xia Yanyue's legs twice with his cat's paw, and then retreated to the shade to rest.
Xia Yanyue had a very uncomfortable nap one afternoon, and her dreams were all red. One moment it was the way Geng Xuefei died in front of her covered in blood, and the next moment it was the way Xia Shiyuan looked like a baby, with his face all blue and he didn't know whether to live or die...
In the end, everything turned into the look Geng Xu gave her when he pushed her out of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
Xia Yanyue woke up with tears on her face. She groped for her collarbone near her heart through her clothes. After a while, she regained her composure and found that Qin Peiyu had gone somewhere.
She took out a tissue and wiped her tears. She calmed down before opening the door and going out. Xia Yanbo was still sitting there reading.
Xia Yanyue leaned against the door and watched him for a while, then found a skipping rope and walked to the middle of the yard to skip rope.
After dancing a few hundred times, her inner depression was relieved a little, and then she stopped and said to Xia Yanbo: "Go back first, don't stay so late tonight."
Xia Yanbo ignored her and waited until he finished reading a paragraph before closing the book. He looked at Xia Yanyue who was sitting on the recliner again and said, "Is something going to happen to Yan Qi?"
"It's just a birthday, not a tribulation. There are so many people in the big city, okay!" Xia Yanyue waved her hand casually and consoled her nonchalantly.
"Should I call Shiyuan and ask her to pick up Yanqi at night?"
"Let's fight, and let the boy from the Lu family go with us."
Xia Yanbo called Xia Shiyuan, and after hanging up, he asked Xia Yanyue: "Where are you?"
Xia Yanyue was a little impatient: "You're so verbose, the game is updated today, I want to play all night, why don't you come online to accompany me?"
Xia Yanbo said: "Okay!"
Xia Yanyue rolled her eyes at him.
Xia Yanbo gave some more instructions before packing his things into his backpack and leaving the col.
It gets dark late in the summer, and the blackness completely hides Shan'ao Village. In an ordinary self-built bungalow on the mountainside, Zhou Shisan is kneeling on a futon, constantly turning the Rubik's Cube in his hand, faster and faster.
There is an afterimage on the finger.
An old woman sat kneeling in front of him. Her white hair and deep grooves on her face told the story of her past years.
She was putting incense into the incense burner with her hunched back. A lot of incense ashes had accumulated in the small incense burner.
Behind the incense burner is enshrined a statue of a half-human Taoist sitting tall, with a fairy-like Taoist appearance, holding a fly whisk in hand and looking straight ahead. The stone-carved eyes seem to be able to see into people's hearts.
Zhou Xianpo stood up after kneeling and looked at the few scarlet spots in front of her. After a while, she walked out of the house, and Zhou Shisan hurriedly followed.
Outside the house, the situation of the four groups in Shan'ao Village was basically noticed. Zhou Xianpo looked in the direction of the Xia family and asked Zhou Shisan: "Where is the child today?"
Zhou Shisan pointed in the direction of the town.
Zhou Xianpo said: "In his condition, he shouldn't have come to Shan'ao Village. The person who guided them behind the scenes is really not a thing. I'm afraid it won't be very peaceful tonight." After saying that, she sighed repeatedly.
The Rubik's Cube in Zhou Shisan's hand was constantly being restored, disrupted, and restored.
There is a small town more than ten miles away from Shan'ao Village. There are only a few streets in the town and the population is not large. After many young and middle-aged people left the city, there were even fewer people.
There is only one hotel in the town. The two-story house seems to be from the last century. The room is small and shabby. There is nothing except the bed and quilt. You have to go to the public toilet outside to get water.
The floral skirt spent two yuan to get a pot of hot water, and the mother and daughter simply scrubbed their bodies. After seeing that it was already dark, they opened the curtain on the stroller.
As soon as the curtain opened a corner, an indescribable stench came out. Floral Skirt resisted her nausea and opened the curtain completely, and a baby-like dumpling appeared in front of her.
The baby's facial features can be seen clearly, but the whole body is covered with large or small pustules, most of which have been broken, and yellow blood is constantly leaking out. The gasket under the baby's body is all yellow.
water.
The old woman took out a thin bath towel from the suitcase and put it on the bed, then carefully took the child out and put it on it to scrub him. The child didn't cry, but just looked at her, sucking his little thumb.
Floral Skirt pulled out the gasket from the stroller, laid a new one on top, stood up, and went to mix milk powder for the baby.
After cleaning up, she hugged the much cleaner child and said to the old woman: "Mom, I see from their behavior today that they don't seem to be able to treat Xuanxuan?"
The old woman was tired after a day of hard work. She was about to take off her shoes and lie down on the bed. When she heard this, she said, "It doesn't matter. We will go back tomorrow and grind slowly. There is no other way."
The child was so hungry that he drank all the milk from the bottle in a few times, but the pustule that had been treated with medicine began to ooze yellow water again.
The girl in the floral skirt was about to collapse while holding her child: "When will this end!"
Just as the old woman wanted to comfort her, something happened, and the child in the floral skirt twisted his body at will, and actually slipped out of her arms and ran directly towards the door.
Xuanxuan had just turned one year old, and because of illness, she had been lying on the bed or in the stroller. Suddenly, she would run away, frightening the two of them.
Before they could react, Xuanxuan jumped open the door and ran out.
There was a short scream outside the door.
The floral skirt and the old woman hurriedly chased after her. As soon as they arrived at the hotel door, they saw a man covered in pitch black standing in front of Xuanxuan.
The waiter at the front desk of the hotel was lying face down and asleep on the table.
The Rubik's Cube in Zhou Shisan's hand was spinning very fast. Xuan Xuan seemed a little afraid of the Rubik's Cube, so he wanted to sneak past.
Zhou Shisan looked towards the direction of City A, calculating the time in his mind and not paying attention to Xuanxuan's movements.
Floral Skirt rushed up to catch Xuan Xuan, but she didn't expect that he was particularly flexible and rushed forward with a twist.
Without looking back, Zhou Shisan hit a Rubik's Cube in the middle of his forehead, knocking him unconscious.
The old woman's steps were slow, and she caught up with him at this moment. When she saw this, she threw herself in front of Xuanxuan and wanted to pick him up.
Zhou Shisan then moved his steps and picked up the Rubik's Cube that fell next to the child.
Just as he was about to leave, the old woman grabbed him. She was so angry that she couldn't speak, and she just kept shaking.
Zhou Shisan glanced at her, and seemed to be aware of his conscience. He dragged the old woman to Xuan Xuan. Xuan Xuan was held in his mother's arms and seemed to be sleeping soundly.
Zhou Shisan put the Rubik's Cube in his hand on Xuan Xuan's face, raised his index fingers, and bent his other fingers to point on Xuan Xuan's forehead.
In just a few seconds, Zhou Shisan seemed to have exhausted all his energy. His face was covered with sweat, and his already white face became frighteningly white.
Zhou Shisan took back the Rubik's Cube, turned around and staggered into the night.
Xuanxuanba squeaked, her face flushed with a long-lost blush, and she turned her head and crawled into the arms of the floral skirt.
Chapter completed!