Flame red

Yanhong was not originally called Yanhong.She felt that she should have a better name.

She was an abandoned baby who was picked up by a snake lady when she was lying dying next to the trash can, and spent 16 years living together in a cheap rental house.

The snake woman said that when she saw her that day, the sun was shining in the sky and the surrounding area was terribly hot, so she thought of such a simple and easy-to-remember name "Yanhong" in a blink of an eye.

Thinking about it carefully, maybe Yan Hong should thank Snake Woman, after all, that old man with a not so bright head has at least a bit of literary and artistic feelings, so he wouldn't call her Yan Nuan directly.

Snake Woman is an empty-nester old man who lives alone, earning her living by relying on the humble fruit stalls on the street and the soda cans thrown by the resale food stalls on the side of the road.Probably because of her old age, the landlord of the cheap rental apartment didn't ask the snake woman for rent, so she just muddled through every day, which can be regarded as leisure to some extent.

They are almost the same as the poor orphans and widows in Chicken Soup for the Soul. Probably because they have not yet reached the level of poverty, they have been hidden in the market with countless similar families, and no one has mentioned them for many years.

Yanhong is a girl who is as ordinary as a piece of white paper in every respect.If nothing unexpected happens, maybe it will continue to be so ordinary and disappear in the sea of ​​people.

In the summer vacation of the year when the second year was promoted to the third year, a black shadow suddenly fell from the roof of the cheap rental house that had always been peaceful, splashing dazzling red lotuses on the edge of the road.

At that time, Yan Hong was lying on the window sill doing her homework. In a trance, she felt a swarthy face brush past her. After hearing the screams from the crowd below, she looked up and saw a man in a sky blue shirt twisting strangely. Limbs and limbs lay in pools of blood.

This incident caused a lot of trouble afterwards, people in the apartment were interrogated several times by the investigators, but Yanhong was unexpectedly not disturbed because of her young age and the snake woman's mentally dull appearance.

But such an uproarious incident ended at some point, and there was no news.There are rumors that someone from outside has come forward to cover it up.Yanhong neither knew the deceased nor the adult society.It wasn't until later that she heard the snake woman say that the man was a migrant worker with no background, and then the scene of the man twisted on the road began to appear in her nightmares one after another.

At that time, Yan Hong didn't pay much attention to it, she just regarded it as frightened.

The day before the start of the third year of junior high school, in order to finish her summer homework, Yan Hong continued to write and write all night under the second-hand desk lamp. In the end, without eating or taking a bath, she fell headlong on the bed and fell asleep.When I woke up, I felt a burning pain in the corner of my eye, like after crying.

She turned her head and glanced at the small window of her room. Under the slightly gloomy morning light, she saw a man with an unlovely face looking straight at a small pot of flowers on the window sill. Small potatoes.

Turning over to change clothes, Yan Hong ran over to close the curtains, belatedly remembered that she lived on the sixth floor of a rented house, and there were no balconies or eaves outside the window.When she met the unlovable face again, she realized that the other person looked a bit like the twisted and weird man who appeared in her dream not long ago, but that man was sent to the hospital three months ago. Back home cremated into a handful of ashes.

Yan Hong rubbed her eyes, and after confirming again and again that the figure in the blue shirt in front of her was not a hallucination, she snapped the curtains shut.

What a hell.

That is to say, since then, she has been able to see those shadows staying in her field of vision for unknown reasons one after another, but others seem not to notice it at all.

Yan Hong thought it was because of her insanity caused by staying up all night, and later she told the snake woman that the old man who walked shakyly but picked up the chopsticks to pick up steamed buns very neatly just paused, and then said oh.

She told Yanhong that it was not a hallucination caused by some insanity, but a form of existence that ordinary people could not detect, which was really existing around, and was generally called a ghost.

The snake woman probably could see ghosts, otherwise her expression shouldn't be so calm and indifferent.

The gentleness of the old man seems to have given Yanhong confidence, and in the following years, Yanhong gradually got used to all kinds of unlovable ghosts passing by, wandering around, and occasionally squatting on the spot crying , Like a piece of paper thrown in the air, it can't find its way back and doesn't know where it's going, it can't be grasped, and it doesn't respond to screams.

She thought that after getting used to it, there would be no great changes, and there would be nothing in the world that she had to do.

She is an abandoned baby raised by a snake lady, named Yanhong.

A little special, that is the ability to see ghosts.