Electro-optical Phantom [Entertainment]

Xiaoyuan wiped her eyes, but there was still water mist blocking her vision, as if thrown into the air, and saw that night many years ago:

That night, she called her brother from outside and returned home happily. Her brother gave her pocket money. There is no landline at home. Only mother has a mobile phone. So she went to the canteen downstairs to call and chatted with her brother. Plus the stepfather hadn't come home for several days, and she wished he would never come back again.

But when she opened the door that night, the room was very noisy and the TV was turned on very loudly. The man was sitting on the sofa, cutting watermelon, and there was a mess on the coffee table.

She still remembered her mood at the time. Her blood was going to boil, and it swept across her skin, and she felt numb. Now she has nowhere to go out. She made a decisive decision and rushed to her room. As long as she went to her room, she immediately locked the door and waited until mother I'll be fine when I come back.

She ran in, her heart was about to jump out, her fingers just touched the door, she was pulled from behind, she did not dare to look back, struggling desperately, was forced to the ground by his hand, and her forehead was knocked severely. For one thing, the whole room was spinning, and the bottom of his throat was so sweet that he couldn't call it anymore.

The man was spitting alcohol and pressing on her neck, pulling at her clothes indiscriminately, without saying a word, "Girl, you can't hide this time, it's so much better!"

She was so frightened that she could only scream helplessly, the blood on her forehead flowed down, and her eyes were blurred...

Xiaoyuan closed her eyes, subconsciously wanted to touch her forehead, raised her eyes to see Caimun's red eyes looking at her, and she recovered.

"Later it was my mother who came back..."

"Huh..." Naimun breathed a sigh of relief and stroked her chest.

"They quarreled. Mom looked terrible that night..."

Cai Juan nodded. After all, it was his own mother. It's strange to see this kind of scene not getting angry.

Xiaoyuan twitched her mouth and shook her head, "I told her so many times before, but she didn't believe it, and said that I was talking nonsense, that I was ignorant, and wanted to make adults pay more attention to me..."

"When she saw it with her own eyes that night, she collapsed instantly..." Xiaoyuan shrank on the sofa and buried her face, as if her 12-year-old herself was shivering in a corner.

"The man even made a few defenses at first, but then he just tore his face and said that anyway, I am not his own..."

"What a slut, beasts are not as good!" Cai Juan couldn't help cursing bitterly.

"The man also beat his mother, and then they scuffled..." Xiaoyuan covered his eyes.

At that time, she was afraid that her mother would suffer, and tried to stand up and call people, but before she had time, she heard a scream from her stepfather.

"How can you be worthy of me? How can you be worthy of me! How can you..."

One click, two clicks, three clicks...

The man's wailing, blood spattered.

She felt that her mother had fallen into an indescribable madness, with blood on one cheek and bruise on the other, her facial features becoming deformed and distorted, very strange.

"Mom..." She wanted to yell but didn't dare to yell, and was very scared. She wanted to walk towards her, but her legs kept trembling, and even Zhan couldn’t stand still, so she could only lean against the wall. Mother raised her face and looked at her. Come here.

"Why do you treat me this way?"

She would never forget the look, crazy, cold, resentful, and she was asking her what she said.

"Why, why? Why?" Mother shook her hands, looked at the man on the ground, screamed again and again, and threw on him, "Get up, get up for me, get up and tell me clearly, what did you say at the beginning? Have you forgotten it?"

"Get up..."

Tears slowly penetrated from the eye sockets.

After that, Xiaoyuan felt that he had sunk into the icy lake, watching the silhouettes of people on the shore, some people broke in, some screamed the police coming, some yelled where is the child?

She sank into the lake drop by drop, like a still life.

It took a long time for Naijuan to find her own voice.

"This can actually be regarded as legitimate defense, right?"

"If it's okay with a cut, it's okay if you haven't died..."

She was also hospitalized at the time, and the policewoman helped her contact her elder brother. Only after the elder brother came did she have the backbone.

The lawyer hired by my brother.

The lawsuit was very hard and lasted for a long time.

There were elder brothers and sisters in the stepfather's house. Those two were very difficult to deal with, and the lawyers they hired were very powerful. In the end, they were sentenced to manslaughter and sentenced to four years.

"Then he still...then your situation..." Cai Juan's anger was all blocked in her chest, almost to death.

"There is no evidence," Xiaoyuan lowered his eyes and said bitterly, "and it was an attempt..."

"I was in a bad condition at the time, and my brother didn't let me appear in court."

Also, Xiaoyuan was only 12 years old. She had seen such horrible scenes and experienced so many abuses at a young age, and it was too cruel to have her look back and revisit it in the public.

What's more, the girl's reputation is too important. It is obviously not her fault, and all the consequences after that are borne by her.

If he is Brother Shishi, he might choose to do so too.

"Mom also said that he didn't molest or molest me. She just can't stand domestic violence, so..."

"..." Cai Juan breathed in deeply.

"The most helpless thing is-my mother admitted that she wanted to kill. She didn't want to fight for it at all. If it weren't for the lawyer hired by her brother, she would have to be sentenced to more years..."

"Auntie really..."

Nai Juan was so angry that he didn't know what to say. He probably knew some of it before. Now that the details are clear, it is angry and sore, and can't scold their brother and sister's mother, so he rubbed his forehead violently and smoothed his chest.

No wonder, no wonder Xiaoyuan didn't want to see her.

Poor little garden, poor brother Shi...

Caijuan's eyes are sour, he has always known that Xiang Zhishi is not easy, and it is only at this moment that he fully understands the burden on his body, the pressure he is under and his hardship.

No wonder the body is poor, no wonder you get sick...

He rolled his face and tried to swallow the choking sound in his throat.

Xiaoyuan fell asleep in a daze after three o'clock in the morning, and woke up after seven o'clock in the morning. She got up to wash, and went out without informing the cabbage.

The hotel is only fifteen minutes away from the nursing home.

She will be here soon.

Most of this nursing home accepts elderly people who are mentally abnormal or who are not able to take care of themselves. There are fixed quotas for visiting relatives every month, and the time is generally staggered. Relatives can also come to accompany them according to their personal circumstances.

The hospital is equipped with many surveillance cameras and landlines. Various halls, offices, and corridors inside are shielded from signals. The purpose is to make nurses and carers always pay attention to accompanying the elderly and prevent them from lazy paddling and other unprofessional behaviors.

The environment is very good. In addition to the bathroom, every house has a camera, and there are special personnel on duty at night, and there are two third-class hospitals not far from the nursing home.

At breakfast time, there are not many people in the restaurant. Many elderly people don't like to eat in the restaurant and are sent to the room by the nurse.

However, it is said that my mother prefers to eat in the restaurant. She likes to find a sunny place and have breakfast quietly.

The head nurse talked to her about her mother's situation, saying that she was the most cooperative and the most worry-free, taking care of herself daily and having her own arrangements.

She looked at Xiaoyuan's expression and hurriedly added, "Of course, when she did these things, we were all by her side."

Xiaoyuan wants to see what her mother looks like in the morning.

She was sitting there alone, half of the table was in the sun, she had braids, her white skin was smooth and shimmering, and she looked gentle while eating with her eyes down.

A Sanwei sunflower next to her quietly accompanied her.

This picture looks very comfortable and comfortable.

Xiaoyuan walked over slowly, sat opposite her, and looked at the breakfast on her plate.

Tremella porridge, xiaolongbao, siu mai, mustard and capers, a hard-boiled egg, and a glass of milk,

The nurse brought her a glass of water and asked her if she wanted breakfast.

Xiaoyuan had no appetite, so she shook her head and declined.

In fact, they had a very happy time. Counting from the time when she had the memory, when she was more than three years old when she went to kindergarten, her mother would send her to school and pick her up from school every day. Sometimes they went to buy some food, went home to cook, and ate together. .

Sometimes I just make up a meal with the leftovers from yesterday, and I'm very happy.

Sometimes my mother will buy her a small cake, she can eat it after she finishes her homework, and her mother will smile and remind her to brush her teeth before going to bed.

After she went to elementary school, her mother met the man. The man was tall and well-groomed. When she was a child, Xiaoyuan didn't think he was great, but found that her mother smiled happily when she was with him. Shy, his face is often red, and sometimes he will lie in his arms and cry about his thoughts.

Soon they got married and he had a stepfather.

After two or three years was not bad, she gradually adapted to the existence of her stepfather until he was unemployed and spent more and more time at home.

When his mother asked him, he lost his temper. Those words had been said so many times that he seemed to be lingering in his ears for so many years.

"I look down on Lao Tzu now? How much did you make?"

"Why do I make money to help you raise a girl? It's not mine!"

"Your son doesn't give birth to Lao Tzu, do you still have the ability to take care of me?"

"..."

"Mom, why are you here at this time? I'm so hungry..."

"Didn't you give you money to eat something after school?"

"But..." She wants to eat with her mother.

"Mom hasn't got off work yet, you go to the neighbor or the canteen downstairs, your dad is at home, you let him open the door..."

She dare not.

The man would either watch TV and drink on the sofa, or he would be asleep, and no one would give her a call.

The past was turbulent one by one, but fortunately she was no longer a teenage girl. In those few years, she kept playing these scenes and words in her mind again and again, without a moment of silence.

Are you numb now?

No.

I still feel pain and sadness. I don’t understand. My heart is burning every inch. But maybe she is used to this kind of pain, so at this moment, she can calmly sit opposite her mother and watch her eat.

The winter sun is quiet, the breeze is blowing, and the green shadows sway on the white tabletop.

Xiaoyuan took a sip of water and stared at her mother.

Maybe she didn't want to wake up and face them, and she didn't want to recognize them as brothers and sisters, so immersing in her own world might be a good thing for her.

Xiaoyuan doesn't care whether she recognizes herself or not, but her brother cares very much. When he was 12 years old, he separated from his mother and never saw her again. This is also his obsession.

Thinking of her brother, her eyes were astringent, she took another sip of water to cover up, and sighed softly.

Mother didn't seem to notice her existence at all. She finished the porridge and began to peel the eggs.

Xiaoyuan glanced, then averted his gaze and looked outdoors.

Suddenly, she pushed a small plate in front of her, and there was a snow-white egg that had been peeled off.

Xiaoyuan was taken aback for a moment, and looked at the woman opposite in disbelief.

Mom didn't seem to realize what she had done, so she picked up a piece of siu mai with chopsticks and put it to her lips and took a bite.

"Mom..." She moved her lips without making a sound, and slowly leaned forward to observe her.

"You..." Xiaoyuan looked at the egg in front of him, something slowly fading away in his heart, "Is this for me to eat?"

She didn't answer, just picked up a stainless steel spoon in the plate and put it in front of her.

Xiaoyuan's gaze followed her movements once and again, her chest undulated rapidly, she picked up the spoon and began to eat eggs, tears dripped down, she quickly wiped it down, and finished eating with her head buried.

When I took the tissue and wiped it, I found that my mother was looking at her. Her eyes were no longer loose, but focused, and her eyes were like warm breeze.

Xiaoyuan looked at her with wet eyes, "Mom, do you recognize me?"

I couldn't tell whether she recognized her or didn't recognize her, but her eyes were calm and gentle, and she couldn't see a trace of fluctuations. Only the corner of her mouth was squeezed lightly. She said, "Be good."

Xiaoyuan stunned, and subconsciously responded, "...Hmm."

"you all are."

That night Xiaoyuan called his brother and told him about his mother's situation. He was very happy and asked her to stay here for a few more days. Xiaoyuan didn't immediately agree, but asked him when the medical report would come out.

Xiang Zhishi's tone sounded nothing unusual, telling her that it was still a few days away.

After the phone call, she squinted for a while, not surprisingly dreaming.

In their dreams, when they were still in the mountain city, one night, their mother took her to the amusement park. In the evening, they hitchhiked home. She was sleepy in the back and took her mother's hand, "Mom, are we getting home soon?"

"Almost, Xiaoxiao," her mother's smile was very gentle, and she looked down at her, "Xiaoxiao, mother is going to marry uncle tomorrow, and one more person will come to love you in the future, okay?"

Her smile is bright and sweet, and some are longing and looking forward to the future.

Tears slid down, and a drop fell into the lake, and the picture was silent and turned into darkness.

Xiaoyuan stumbled in the darkness for a long time, and was suddenly awakened by a dream of falling sharply. She sat up in shock, her eyelids and heart beating wildly, and the shout of Naju approaching, the door was pushed open with a "clam," and he was shocked. Urgent, "Yuan'er, something happened to Auntie!"

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