wilderness

For several days in a row, Gu Beiqiao hugged the magazine, eating and sleeping without putting it down.

Gu Tianze was curious, so he leaned over to take a look, "Qiaoqiao likes this kind of book? The old man who sells books at a stall will come tomorrow and I'll buy you a few more."

Gu Beiqiao shook his head, not knowing whether he wanted it or not, he pointed to the sea of ​​flowers on the book and asked, "What kind of flower is this?"

Gu Tianze looked at it, but he didn't recognize it. He guessed based on his feeling: "This seems to be a flower on the grassland. It should be found in the western Tibetan area or Xinjiang or Inner Mongolia."

Gu Beiqiao raised his head and retorted, "We also have them here."

"Really? Qiaoqiao met?" Gu Tianze was a little curious.

"When I was young...you were at the construction site...I went to play in the back, and there were many such flowers there." Gu Beiqiao looked at him seriously.

Gu Tianze thought about it, but still couldn't remember it, "Dad has a bad memory, so I can't think of it."

After Xu Hui finished collecting the clothes on the balcony, seeing the father and son chatting harmoniously, she put down the things in her hands and asked with a smile, "What are you talking about?"

Gu Beiqiao immediately turned around when he heard her voice, and continued to stare at the picture.

Gu Tianze said: "Qiaoqiao asked me if I have ever seen a flower, but I can't remember it."

Xu Hui looked at the book in Gu Beiqiao's hand, "Ah, I've seen this flower before."

Gu Beiqiao hurriedly turned his head to look at her, with seven points of hostility and three points of anticipation in his eyes.

"Ah... I've seen it in the park before, but I don't know the name, it should be very common."

The light in Gu Beiqiao's eyes dimmed again, and he stopped looking at her.

Gu Tianze stroked Gu Beiqiao's soft hair, and said solemnly: "Qiaoqiao don't worry, I'll check it for you and you'll know!"

Gu Beiqiao looked at him, "How to check?"

Gu Tianze smiled and took out his mobile phone, "The Internet is so developed now, what can't be found?" He said and typed a few keywords on the search engine: wild flowers on the grassland, eight petals, and colors.

Gu Beiqiao lay on Gu Tianze's lap and looked at the phone together. Xu Hui was left alone, feeling a little redundant, turned around and left with her clothes in her mouth.

"Is it this?" Gu Tianze pointed to a picture and asked.

"No, this petal is too thin."

"what about this?"

"It's not quite like..."

"This is it! It's exactly the same!" Gu Tianze compared the phone and the book together, and said with certainty: "It must be this!"

Gu Beiqiao was also very happy, and hurriedly urged: "Look at what kind of flower this is?"

Gu Tianze followed the link and clicked in, and saw the name of this flower. "Gesang flower? It's also called Gesang Meiduo, and it really comes from Tibetan areas... But now many cities use it for landscaping. Later, Dad will buy some seeds and grow them at home."

Gu Beiqiao didn't seem to be so happy, "The planting at home is different..." There are only three people in the family. It's not like the wild field behind the construction site, with large grass, train tracks, and sky.As he thought about it, his eyes were dripping with moisture, which startled Gu Tianze.

"Qiaoqiao, what's wrong with you?"

"I want to eat popsicles, the kind of salt water my mother bought me when I was a child." Gu Beiqiao was expressionless, as if he didn't realize that he was crying at all.

"Okay, okay, Dad will take you to buy it, don't cry." Gu Tianze hurriedly wiped his tears for him, and held his hand, "Let's go shopping."

Gu Beiqiao immediately stopped his tears. In fact, he didn't want to cry. He just thought that the construction site had become the current unfinished building, and the wild flowers and dogtail grass behind were gone, so his nose felt a little sore.

Gu Tianze took his mobile phone and wallet, stood at the entrance to change his shoes, and shouted to the room: "Qiaoqiao and I went downstairs to buy a popsicle."

Xu Hui's displeased voice came from inside, "I'm going to eat soon and buy popsicles?"

Gu Tianze ignored her, waited for Gu Beiqiao to change his shoes, opened the door and went out.

There is a canteen downstairs in the community, selling some tobacco, alcohol and snacks. In summer, two refrigerators are launched, covered with quilts and selling popsicles.A 70-year-old grandmother sat in a rocking chair at the door and looked at the store all day long. She had gray hair and wrinkled face, but she always wore colorful skirts.It is said that this person has never been married in his life, has no children, and has moved to Chunchun Community for more than ten years. Except for occasionally going out to play cards and eat with friends, he has never seen other people.She is not afraid of being laughed at by people in the community, she only thinks that what others say is not her, as time goes by, people will get used to it.

The father and son of the Gu family walked to the entrance of the canteen, and Gu Tianze asked, "Aunt Ye, do you have any salt water popsicles?"

Grandma Ye got up from the rocking chair and said indifferently: "Yes, I like to eat salt water." She lifted the quilt on a refrigerator, "Look for it yourself."

Gu Beiqiao took three sticks from the refrigerator, covered them again, and waited for Gu Tianze to pay.

Gu Tianze looked at him, and said in surprise, "I even took it for your aunt, how cute!"

Gu Beiqiao frowned: "One for each person, this is for mother."

Gu Tianze gave the hand that paid the money an embarrassing meal, and greeted Grandma Ye as if nothing had happened, before leading Gu Beiqiao away.

"Qiaoqiao, why haven't you accepted Auntie after two years? Auntie is always so kind to you."

Gu Beiqiao looked at him coldly: "Father, you don't believe me."

Gu Tianze was helpless, "You said that Auntie is a ghost, how can I believe you?"

"She stood by my bed in the middle of the night and said she was going to eat me. It was true."

"Qiaoqiao, do you know that sometimes the phenomena you see are not real? You said that the sycamore tree told you that you can become tall and strong by basking in the sun, and you said that Grandma Li is a skeleton in human skin. You said you got so fat because you saw Uncle Li, the security guard stealing human flesh at home every night, and you said that your aunt has no shadow... This is all false. Your aunt has a shadow, and she never said she would eat you."

Gu Beiqiao was dejected, and he didn't know how to explain it to Gu Tianze. When he walked to the side of the security booth, he looked up. His eyes widened, and he saw Uncle Li, who was fat and big-eared, chewing something. There was still bright red blood, "Ah!" He yelled.

Gu Tianze followed his terrified gaze to look over, and was shocked in his heart. For a moment, he even thought that what Qiaoqiao said was true, that Brother Li was eating people.

Attracted by Gu Beiqiao's cry, the security guard stopped chewing, saw the two staring at him dumbfounded, showed some embarrassment, raised the food bag in his hand, "The uncle who sells cooked food at the gate of the community is here again Okay, I bought some crispy bones, do you two want to eat?" Wiping the corner of his mouth and seeing what was in his hands, he cursed in a low voice: "Fuck, why did you get a mouthful of ketchup."

Gu Tianze felt ashamed of his thoughts just now, and hurriedly said: "No, let's eat." Pulling Gu Beiqiao, he hurried away.

When they got downstairs, Gu Beiqiao walked ahead to touch the switch of the sensor light.The switch was set at the corner of the stairs. Gu Beiqiao was groping on the wall. When the light was on, he suddenly smelled a foul smell. He stopped and looked at the shadow under the stairs where the dim light could not reach.

Seeing that he wasn't moving, Gu Tianze came up and asked, "Why aren't you leaving? The popsicle in my hand is about to melt." Then he also smelled the smell, "What's the smell?" He took out his phone, opened his pocket The flashlight shone into the darkness.

At the bottom of the dark stairs, there were piles of messy things, among which a cardboard box was particularly conspicuous. Gu Tianze said, "Didn't your aunt throw this away? How did it get here?"

Gu Beiqiao walked over and shook off the cardboard box with one hand, revealing the contents underneath.

When Gu Tianze saw the grey-yellow corpse in the cage, his pupils shrank suddenly, he held his nose and took a step back, the light from the phone suddenly dimmed a lot.

Even though it was very dark under the stairs, Gu Beiqiao could still see Xiao Huang's tragic situation clearly.It was locked in an abandoned wire cage, baring its teeth and staring at its eyes. This ferocious expression was very different from the meekness and weakness it had in life. The corpse had already rotted in the hot weather, and a large number of flies were swimming around on it. Tiny white maggots were constantly wriggling on the surface, and the yellow hair all over his body fell off into balls.The sour smell stings.

Gu Tianze cursed, grabbed Gu Beiqiao and walked upstairs, "Don't look! How are you going to eat at night?"

Gu Beiqiao didn't say a word, but tightly clenched the hand holding the popsicle.

Gu Tianze inserted the key into the keyhole, turned it around, kicked the door open with his foot, and made a loud bang.

Xu Hui hurriedly came out to look, "What's the matter? I'm so angry, what should I do if the door is broken?"

"Why did you throw the dog under the stairs? And put it in a cage! The dog stinks!" Gu Tianze said angrily.

Xu Hui's face was inexplicable, "I just threw it downstairs, thinking who would like to pick it up and feed it, I didn't lock it."

"Why is it in the cage without locking it? It's already starved to death in summer and has a lot of maggots!"

"It may be that it can't get out by itself, I really didn't turn it off..." Looking at the two of them, he wiped the water on his hands with his apron, and arranged the shoes at the entrance for the two of them, talking nicely Said: "Okay, tomorrow I will ask the cleaning lady to clean up, wash your hands and eat."

Gu Tianze calmed down for a while, and his tone eased, "Forget it, Qiaoqiao bought three popsicles specially, Qiaoqiao," looking back at Gu Beiqiao who was standing by the wall with his head down, "Give the popsicles to Auntie one."

Xu Hui was taken aback for a moment, and then said pleasantly, "Really?" She smiled and walked towards him, making a gesture to take it over, "Thank you, Qiaoqiao."

Gu Beiqiao watched her approaching, raised the corners of his slender eyes, and sneered at the corners of his mouth. Suddenly, he threw the popsicle in his hand to the ground, and the three salt water popsicles hit the floor with a 'pop' sound, and slid out for a distance. , not stopping until it hits a wall.

For a while, the small living room was silent.Xu Hui's forehead twitched, she withdrew her hand that was reaching out to catch the popsicles, and grabbed the apron helplessly, and said in a stiff tone, "Forget it, I'll go and see if the soup in the pot is ready."

Gu Tianze drooped his face and said seriously: "Qiaoqiao!"

Gu Beiqiao was still laughing, making a humming sound, his teeth rattling in his mouth.

Gu Tianze went to pull his hand, and found that he clenched his fist tightly, his nails dug into his palm, and blood seeped out from between his fingers. "Qiaoqiao! Let go!"

Gu Beiqiao seemed unable to hear what he said, staring at the popsicle on the ground and laughing, his face suddenly changed, and he fell to the ground and trembled all over. "Ah!" His face was distorted, his fair and handsome face wrinkled into one piece, big beads of sweat fell, he smashed his head on the ground, and the tile floor made a 'boom boom boom' sound when he hit it.

Gu Tianze was stunned, the current situation reminded him of Gu Beiqiao's first seizure, he quickly helped Gu Beiqiao up on the ground, and shouted: "Huihui! Qiaoqiao has a seizure, come and help me! "

Xu Hui hurriedly put down the spoon and rushed out, "What's the matter again? Why are you scolding him, don't you know that his disease can't be stimulated!"

"Who scolded him?" Gu Tianze blocked the ground with his hand, and Gu Beiqiao's head hit his hand, causing a sharp pain.Together with Xu Hui, they carried Gu Beiqiao to his bedroom, put him on the bed, found tranquilizers from the drawer and fed him.

Gu Tianze hugged his head and said over and over again: "Qiaoqiao, daddy is here, Qiaoqiao..."

Gu Beiqiao finally calmed down, remained motionless, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"Qiaoqiao?" Gu Tianze tried to call him.

Xu Hui poked him with her elbow, signaling to go out and talk.

Gently put down Gu Beiqiao, the two walked outside and closed the door, "Let him be quiet for a while," Xu Hui said.

The couple turned their backs and involuntarily let out a common sigh.

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