ghost lights

Li Tang was five years old this year, and the only electrical appliances at home were washing machine, induction cooker, and a white and yellow landline phone.

Litang's mother has to go to work in the factory every day, leaving early and returning late, and rarely going home at noon.Li Hua is still in school and goes home once a week. The eldest sister and her father work in other places and only go home once a year.So there is only Li Tang in the family.

This year, Litang's family lived in a one-story house with two bedrooms and a main room. The main room was in the middle of the two bedrooms, but it also had a bed.

Li Tang didn't go to school yet, so his mother told Li Tang to lock the door inside and not open the door to strangers before going to work, and then rode away on a bicycle.

Li Tang is like a caged bird whose only playmate is the puppy at home.He would put the puppy on the back seat of the bicycle, and then drive it around the yard. The puppy would not dare to get into Litang's car after being dropped a few times.

For the safety of the puppy, Li Tang made a protective box for it, and forced the puppy to sit in the box on the back seat, pushed the bicycle and began to go up the stairs. The upstairs has a large space and the ground is flat, which must be better than potholes. The yard was fun, but the puppy was clever and jumped out of the box. He thought that there was a vast sea and sky outside, but he didn't expect it to be an abyss. Unfortunately, he couldn't stop the car. Just like that, the puppy passed away.

From then on, Li Tang never dared to carry a puppy on a bicycle again. The mother adopted a new puppy for him because she was afraid that her son would be lonely. Apply shampoo and soap again, then use a hair dryer to dry the hair, and then use the second sister's rubber band to braid the dog's hair, it looks amazing.

No one at home cooks at noon, so his mother always cooks a little more in the morning for Li Tang to eat at noon, or buys a box of instant noodles for him to have for lunch. Li Tang is young and can’t soak or soak Boiled, can only be eaten dry. For a while, Li Tang ate a whole box of instant noodles a week. He was only five years old at this time. Maybe his slow growth is related to malnutrition when he was young.

Li Tang couldn’t forget his puppy companion even when eating, he usually ate and fed the puppy, and finally one day, the puppy choked to death, Li Tang only thought that the puppy was full and lay still, Who knew the puppy was dead.

Mother brought back another dog, and Li Tang specially chewed the food into small pieces and fed it.

There is a thick fan tree and a persimmon tree in the yard. The two trees are very close. Li Tang’s mother tied a swing on it for him to play. Li Tang likes this swing very much. Shake and shake, tell stories to the puppy, sing songs, voice the dog, and play role-playing.

Later, when the puppy's body was found in the toilet, Li Tang felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Three dogs died within a year, and Li Tang's mother didn't know what to say, but she bit the bullet and brought another one. She told herself in her heart that this is the last one, if it dies again If so, no more dogs.

Li Tang treasured the last dog very much. He put the dog to sleep in the quilt at night and followed him wherever he went, not letting the puppy out of his sight. It returned to nature, Li Tang's behavior was talked about by his mother several times, but he didn't take it seriously.

It was winter, it was snowing heavily, Li Hua was on winter vacation, the weather was very cold, and the front of the hall was wet from bicycle footprints and footprints, that night, his mother arrived home before dark, Li Tang happily greeted her at the door, Xiao The dog followed him. There was no light in front of the hall, and it was dark. Suddenly, the puppy let out a scream. non-stop.

Li Tang held the puppy in his arms distressedly, and gently rubbed its legs, probably because it was crushed by the bicycle.At dinner at night, because of the puppy's injury, Li Tang took pity on the puppy and took good care of it, but the puppy still couldn't make it through and died that night.

There is no dog anymore in the house, only Li Tang is left alone, alone, and only the wild flowers in the yard are left with him, which are planted by his mother, who likes flowers and anything romantic.

Suddenly one day, Li Tang found the phone in his mother's bedroom, and saw his father's name on the wall, followed by a string of numbers. At that time, Li Tang probably didn't know what it was, but occasionally saw his mother using it. , So he also imitated his mother's appearance, picked up the phone, and pressed a series of numbers on the wall on the keyboard above.

A beep sounded from the phone, and after a while, Li Tang heard a familiar voice, it was his father.

Li Tang was overjoyed, he didn't expect to have such a baby at home.

"dad."

"Hey, what's the matter?"

"Dad, I miss you."

"I'll be back soon, where's your mother?"

"Mom is at work, and I'm the only one at home."

"Oh."

"Dad, I miss you, when are you coming back?"

"Go back at the end of the year."

The man was reluctant to hang up his son's phone, and the son didn't know that the phone could still be hung up.

The two of them didn't speak, Li Tang kept holding the phone, calling Dad from time to time, and the man just yelled.At this moment, the man was thousands of miles away, holding his mobile phone while working, and finally had to hang up the phone.

He couldn't hear his father's voice, Li Tang felt bored again, he stood by the phone, his father said he was busy and couldn't answer the phone now, so he just waited, looking at the big clock in the main room for a while, and then ran away again He went to the bedroom to check the phone, only 5 minutes had passed, but Li Tang felt that it had passed for a long time, so long that he had to call his father again, so Li Tang dialed the phone number on the wall again.

Only a few words are spoken each time.

"Dad, I miss you."

"Dad, when are you coming back?"

"Dad, why haven't you come back yet?"

Li Tang's father is also very patient, picking up the phone every time, and patiently answering his son's questions.

Since then, calling his father has become Litang's new toy and his emotional sustenance.

One month later, Li Tang's new toy disappeared. When the mother paid the phone bill, she found that it was far beyond her expectations, so she knew that Li Tang often called his father. Li Tang told her , but she thought it was just an occasional call, but she didn't expect to call so frequently. The family is not rich, and the money that shouldn't be spent should be saved, so the mother unplugged the phone line, and the only way to make calls in the future is to go to the public phone living room.

But the five-year-old Li Tang didn't know that the phone line was unplugged. He only saw that the phone was still on the table, and he still called his father every day, but his father's voice never came out of the phone.