The courtyard of the Sun family is almost the same as most other houses in the village. The difference is limited to the location of the partitions in each house. Most of the houses in the village face north and south, which is a very regular direction. At the beginning, most of the homesteads were planned in a unified manner.
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Because two and three generations of his family live together, two rows of side rooms were added to the main house, forming a dustpan shape surrounding the door.
Lin Hui held a flashlight in her hand and opened the door for us. The strong light shone on Lin Hui's pale and bloodless face, which made me feel scared when I looked at it. I unconsciously shrugged my shoulders and relaxed my body suddenly.
A cold feeling came over me.
"Sister-in-law Sun, where are the children, my uncle and the others?"
When we entered the courtyard, there was no sound of people inside, and it seemed very quiet. Only the light was on in the room to the west.
"My father-in-law is with the children in the house. Come in quickly. It's dark in the middle of the night. I feel uncomfortable when I open the door. The village has been really quiet recently."
It's just past eight o'clock now. Young people may think it's still early, but most of the old people in the village have already gone to bed at this time. They adhere to the habit of sleeping at sunrise and resting at sunset, so they can go to bed early.
It's not about saving money on electricity bills.
When we walked into this room, there was nothing special except seeing a lot of children's toys around. The children were still sleeping on the kang. When Sun Youmao saw us arriving, he hurriedly got down from the kang and greeted us, "Three
Man, you’re here, I’m going to put you through a lot of trouble today!”
It seems that after returning from Uncle Wu's place, the family of four were so worried that they did not dare to separate. I looked at the child who was sleeping peacefully and said to Sun Youmao and his wife, "Uncle, you and your aunt should go back and rest first. Normally
Anyway, so what happened today, it’s okay for us to stay here, don’t let too many people gather together.”
When we went out, Lang Hongyi and I both put sun-shielding charms on our bodies. Those were the two pictures I finally succeeded in drawing after wasting half a piece of yellow paper, in order to hide the living aura on our bodies in front of dirty things.
Otherwise, if I stand this small sun-fire bulb with its own light effect towards the room, nothing will come in at all.
Sun Youmao was quite obedient and took his wife, who was worried about his grandson, toward the easternmost hut where they lived. There were only four people left here, the child sleeping on the kang, Lin Hui, and me and Lang Hongyi.
Lang Hongyi moved a small bench in the outer room and sat against the wall, while I crossed one leg and sat on the edge of the Kang, with my back against the wall, talking to Lin Hui who was sitting by the window.
"Sister-in-law, has Maomao been sleeping since you came back?"
Lin Hui stroked Maomao's hair and said lovingly, "I came back to play for a while. I ate something and just went to bed not long ago. Normally, this child would go to bed around this time. He is very good and sleeps all night.
, I have stopped wetting the bed a long time ago.”
When every mother talks about the cuteness of her child, her love is naturally revealed. It can be seen that Maomao is the only emotional sustenance for Lin Hui, and she attaches great importance to this child.
We had a casual conversation, mainly to learn more about Maomao's daily habits and to ease Lin Hui's nervousness.
"It's still early now, and my friends and I are here to guard you. You should get some sleep first. You seem to be in poor spirits. You haven't had any rest in the past two days."
There were only women in the room. I persuaded Lin Hui like this because there was really nothing to talk about. The two of them stared at each other and felt weird. After saying this, I took the lead and leaned against the wall and closed my eyes.
Lin Hui was relieved that there was someone in the room, and she leaned on the quilt and stared in confusion.
After a while, I felt that I had fallen asleep. I don’t know how long it took, but I was woken up by a continuous and regular creaking sound, and I suddenly opened my eyes.
Lin Hui still maintained the previous posture with her eyes closed, but the child on the kang was gone. The quilt was opened, and the creaking sound that woke me up was on the ground at my feet, only three steps away from me.
Location.
When I turned my head to look over, cold sweat suddenly flowed out of my body.
There was still a light on in the room, and right at my feet, a fat boy less than three years old was sitting on a small bench, spinning a spinning wheel with nimble hands and feet!
In the old society, many farmers would use the cotton they grew at home to spin cotton thread.
Nowadays, some people still have such a machine, which is a hand-operated standing turntable with a spindle on the other side. People use this machine to wrap castor rope around it to tie grain.
What scared me was that this child was actually sitting there by himself, with a smile on his face that seemed to have been baptized by the vicissitudes of time, and his hands and feet were wrapping hemp rope in an orderly manner.
The creaking sound is the movement of the spinning wheel by hand. In a quiet room, it makes people feel scalp numb!
Just when I didn't know what to do, Maomao spoke, "Shake, shake, shake, shake to Grandma Bridge..." The voice came out in an old tone.
Slow and erratic, this voice could never come from a child. It was the dry voice of a hundred-year-old woman.
During the intermission, there was actually the kind of clear, childlike laughter that a child should have...
What struck me directly was that this child who was less than three years old was performing ventriloquism, playing an oboe by himself, tinkering with a spinning wheel that I didn’t even know how to use, and twisting a straw rope!
Perhaps the mother was naturally sensitive to the sound of her child. When Maomao's voice was laughing, Lin Hui woke up on the kang, and then screamed hysterically.
"Maomao...who, who are you! Why are you looking for my Maomao..." Lin Hui rushed off the kang on both hands and feet, not even bothering to put on her shoes, but rushed over to pick up the weird and terrifying child in front of the spinning wheel!
I grabbed her and didn't say anything. I just shook my head slightly and told her not to get close and not to be anxious. I'm here.
Lang Hongyi rushed in when he heard the sound.
As long as we don't speak, the sun-shielding charms on our bodies will not be ineffective. Now besides the four of us, something else has definitely entered the room unknowingly.
I didn't notice it on the kang, and not even Lang Hongyi, who was guarding the outer room, saw it.
That thing can't see me and Lang Hongyi now, so I decided to let me speak and keep Lang Hongyi hidden as a reserve force to use strange tactics!
I held the inner world in my hand, opened the lid of the makeup box and took out a small bundle of red rope inside. When I was ready, I spoke.
"Who's here? It's you who is torturing this stupid kid in the middle of the night. Do you want to come out obediently on your own, or do you want me to beat him out for you?"
At this time, there was nothing different about Maomao sitting on the small bench, except that his eyes were slightly cloudy and not as bright as a child should be.
"Let me go home and see what happened to my only Miaomiao? You little girl has such a strong yang energy. It makes my eyes uncomfortable when I take care of my wife and grandma. You are so rude when you speak. Are you so unruly?"
Maomao stopped spinning the spinning wheel with her little hands, covered her eyes, tilted her head to avoid me, and acted like a twilight old man saying old-fashioned words.