Flame red

Yanhong suddenly asked Mu Yu why a set of special codes is so expensive.

Mu Yu was taken aback for a moment, and asked back, do you want to buy it?

"..." There was silence on the other end of the phone, and then the child muttered. "I just heard it from my classmates."

"You're talking about the special edition of "Rainy Day", right?"

"Ah."

"That seems to be a planned event. If you want, I will give you a set."

"I do not want."

Rejection is really merciless.Mu Yu smiled helplessly, and then Yan Hong said something, then hung up the phone.

Since the child lived in the school dormitory, Hu Li moved here in a fair manner.Mu Yu stared at the neon lights of the city under the balcony, shining like a river of stars, making people feel distant and lonely.

She didn't really resist Hu Li's return to her side, after all, that guy gave Mu Yu most of his trust in ghosts during that dazed period when he could see inhuman things.

But after Yan Hong left, she really felt that something was missing.

Mu Yu found that the part of his heart that was used to Yan Hong's side was gradually beginning to turn into a kind of emotion that he was not so familiar with before.The child's shoulders were thin, so thin that it seemed that he could easily hold him in his arms.

She began to think of that night when Yan Hong was holding her hand, her face was expressionless and her voice was low.The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes, and finally it occupies a large part of Mu Yu's thoughts.

If it is said that Mu Yu likes Yan Hong, she will not deny it.

After all, ever since he got used to waiting for Yanhong to talk on the phone every night, when Mu Yu read various scripts, he began to assume the appearance of that child inexplicably.

It is both superficial and flat, and the figure looking straight ahead without perfunctory.

Yanhong is a puppet that needs to be drawn, and Mu Yu is probably attracted by her delicate and weak appearance and the empty heart when she stops in place.

To be honest, she doesn't like Yanhong living like this.But before that, she found that she actually liked her very much.

Mu Yu stood on the balcony for a long time, then frowned and returned to the living room, Hu Li just opened a bag of potato chips.

"Hu Li." She asked the man. "Do you remember why I couldn't see you back then?"

"..." Hu Li paused for a few seconds, then nodded slowly. "You want to know?"

"Ah."

"Then do you still remember why you forgot Silent Hill?" Hu Li asked back.

Mu Yu was taken aback, and looked at the other party blankly.Her memory started from the attic of her hometown. That day she heard her grandmother whispering and followed the sound, and saw a pregnant woman sitting there in the small room from a distance, with a half-faced look when she turned her head.This is the first time Mu Yu saw a ghost, and realized that what he saw was not a living person.

She was young and didn't remember anything, but the years since then have passed by like pale old movies. She now remembers that she met Hu Li in those few years. The bullpen was crushed.

Hu Li agreed to grow up with her, and then took her to play in the palace where he used to live.

——How did you forget Silent Hill?

Mu Yu stared blankly at Hu Li, while the other party was slowly nibbling on potato chips, and then reminded her: "You can't ignore your grandma, if you want to remember, you can't avoid the memories about her."

"I do not have."

"You have." Hu Li looked at Mu Yu as a matter of course. "You have to recall first, what I told you - Granny was horrible."

"..."

Hu Li said, give me your hand.

Mu Yu stretched out his hand, and the man held her five fingers. As the body temperature different from his own flowed through the fingertips like water, the past events flashed out one after another.She is unfamiliar, or familiar.

Grandma would always chat with different people in the attic, and those people always looked scary, and when Mu Yu looked at it later, he felt that grandma had also become scary.

But among the people I know, except for my grandmother, no one else can see what she sees, and when I talk to others, I always get a look of disgust or fear.

If he is followed on the road, Mu Yu can only turn to his grandmother for help.Although Hu Li is the demon fox behind the dragon chair in the palace, after all, she can't stay by her side day and night, and occasionally leaves for a while, and Mu Yu doesn't know how to avoid evil spirits, so she is often entangled.

At that time, grandma would let Mu Yu stay alone in the attic all night, with a plate of salt in the corner.And asked herself to knock on the door three times at twelve o'clock, three o'clock and six o'clock in the morning, and she had to be awake at that time.

"If you hear a knock on the door at any other time, don't answer."

Grandma told her so.

Even so, in fact, Mu Yu often hears knocking on the door all night long.In the mind, in the ear, outside the window, by the door.

She felt that someone was lying on her back all the time, whispering something, what seemed to be a dialect, Mu Yu didn't understand it at the time, so she could only keep covering her ears, to no avail.

One night, she saw the salt in the corner of the wall burnt into black coals.Then the door was pushed open suddenly, and grandma rushed in.

"I remember you said back then that grandma turned into a ghost." Hu Li said.

"...Ghosts?" Mu Yu was taken aback for a moment, then frowned, and nodded stiffly after a long time. "It seems... there is such an impression..."

——The grandma broke in that night, but she suddenly turned into a hideous ghost, and the light bulb in the attic blew up with a bang.

Mu Yu was so frightened that he forgot to scream, and saw that there seemed to be something coming towards him in the darkness, but he fell hard to the ground again.

Then her parents ran up and carried her out.

The next day, Mu Yu started to have a fever and fell asleep.

"—You started to have a fever." Hu Li said. "The evil spirit is very strong. I was not there at the time, and many of the exorcists who were invited were powerless."

"and then?"

"And then I came back."

After being helpless for many days, when Hu Li finally came back, she ate the evil spirit without mercy.

But Mu Yu was terribly weak due to being entangled for many days. He tried many methods but could not wake up, and his breath became weaker and weaker. It was not until he finally invited the Lu family members that he used the inner alchemy of the snake demon to save his life.

"But." Mu Yu frowned and asked. "But why can't I see you?"

"Because your grandma thinks that the reason why you keep attracting evil spirits is because you are looking at too many things without realizing it. In order to prevent future disasters from happening again, she asked the Lu family to seal your heavenly eyes."

From that day on, Mu Yu became an ordinary person who couldn't see ghosts, and it was because of this change that her grandmother became more and more strange in her impression. breath.

Mu Yu thinks the old man is scary.What's even more frightening is that her parents and relatives kept talking about all kinds of scary things about grandma, what brought ghosts home, slept in the tomb for three days and three nights, turned into ghosts to cure other people's diseases, and so on. .

She thinks grandma is terrible, but in her heart, she has the same sympathy as the old man before, so when others keep saying these things, Mu Yu will be very irritable, afraid and constantly denying.

"When they said they would give you the inner alchemy, I told your grandma that it would kill you for the rest of your life." Hu Li said casually. "But she said it's okay..."

She paused for a moment, and finally smiled sarcastically, without continuing.

Mu Yu didn't ask any further questions, she intermittently recalled her past events, her loneliness and dependence on Hu Li when she could see ghosts.But in today's situation, the Lu family, Jian family, and grandma are all related to each other.

She can't blame anyone, after all, she did it for her own good.

At the end of this memory, Mu Yu remembered the sound of chanting scriptures in his ears at that time, and his grandmother said indifferently: "Turn off the lamp."

Later, the parents did not support the elderly, probably because of a fear of inhuman things.But grandma met Yan Hong, and spent the rest of her life relying on each other, so she is probably considered lucky.

Mu Yu didn't know if it was a kind of fate for those two, but at least she wanted to think so.

——In the end, is it lucky?

Hu Li let go of her hand, handed her the potato chips, and asked quietly, "Do you remember?"

"...Well, thank you." Mu Yu came back to his senses, took the potato chips and sat beside her, but didn't eat them, and looked ahead and began to meditate again.

She suddenly felt a little headache, for some unknown reason.

Memories are absurd and terrible bottomless pits.Mu Yu remembered who said this to her.

After that, Hu Li lived in her house for a long time.

At the end of December to prepare for the New Year, Mu Yu rejected his parents' suggestion to go home. After all, Yan Hong was here alone, leaving her behind would be too heartless, but the bigger part was that Mu Yu didn't want to face those two people very much.

She remembered the photo her mother gave Shihan before, and from Shihan's actions later, it can be seen that her parents were definitely not friendly to Yanhong.

Hu Li accompanied her to shop for new year's goods. Recently, because the two often went out together, eating and shopping, a joke about Shi Han's rumored boyfriend's position being snatched by Hu Li spread out on the Internet.

In the interviews, Hu Li often said that being friends with Mu Yu is a tiring and happy thing.

"For example, at night she would suddenly send a message saying that she is hungry and order me a takeaway or something."

At that time, Mu Yu had just joined the crew of "Rainy Day", and he rolled his eyes when he heard this.After thinking about it, I was wrong. It seems that I really said this to Yan Hong. When I was tired from the show at night, I took out my phone and sent a text message to the child. Later, I was scolded. It was nothing more than twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. Sending more messages saying that you are hungry is simply taking revenge on society.

Not to mention that Yanhong was struggling with the final exam at that time.

However, when work was over that night, Mu Yu still received a takeaway from KFC.She thought it was Yan Hong who kindly ordered it for herself, but combined with Hu Li's complaint, she suddenly understood what happened in a place she couldn't see.

"Yan Cui Sheng Chun" is going to be broadcast in the new year, and now it is the period when the pilot film and trailer are flying all over the sky, and it occupies the top three hot searches every day, and many people have watched the trailer for several minutes. A hundred times, and thanks to this, the small town of Silent Hill seems to be really popular again, and it is overcrowded every day.

While Mu Yu was rushing to work on the set of "Rainy Day", on the other hand, she and Shi Han frequently promoted the new drama everywhere, and she was so busy that her parents called several times to ask how the New Year was going to be, but she said that she had no time to do anything.

But even if there is no time, the contact with Yanhong has never been broken every day. Although one of them is preparing for the exam at school, and the other is working hard in the film crew, they will still send text messages to complain about what they saw today.Occasional phone calls.

Then one day Mu Yu suddenly said to Yan Hong on a whim: "Shi Han gave me a necklace today, it is said that he made it himself."

"Uh oh, it's pretty good."

The answer on the other end was perfunctory, as if absent-minded.

Mu Yu was a little depressed, and asked her: "What are you doing?"

"Clean the floor-to-ceiling windows with Hu Li."

"You went home?"

"It's New Year's Day holiday today."

Mu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then calculated the time. Today is indeed December 12st. If you are a middle school student, it is indeed time for a holiday.Only Hu Li was at home, so Yan Hong should indeed be with her.

She looked at the sky and thought for a while, then suddenly turned her head and shouted: "Director, can I take two days off to go back to celebrate the New Year?"

"what?"

That night, it was reported on the Internet that the production crew of "Rainy Day" had rushed several scenes like a bloodbath, and all of them had a two-day vacation, and Mu Yu just returned home with his luggage.

She took out the key to open the door, and heard Yan Hong inside telling Hu Li that she forgot to pack her clothes today, and she was drenched again in a thunderstorm just now.

Hu Li reassured her that it's okay, you don't have to wear any clothes, I won't do anything to underage children.

Mu Yu unscrewed the door lock with a click, and pushed the door open. The lights inside were brightly lit, as if soup was being cooked, and a faint fragrance could be smelled.

"Hey, Mu Yu, just now I saw that Shi Han's Moments said it was a holiday." Hu Li happened to be standing in front of the living room, pulling one side of the carpet with his hands.

"Well, I'm exhausted." Mu Yu nodded, walked quickly to the living room, and saw Yan Hong squatting beside the sofa pulling the carpet on the other side, the two of them seemed to have just cleaned the floor and were about to lay the carpet.

When she stood up, she looked at Mu Yu with some doubts, and asked, "I thought I would spend the Chinese New Year in the film crew."

"It depends on how the director is feeling." Mu Yu said while putting the suitcase aside.

Hu Li sized her up and murmured: "Shi Han just posted such a Moments half an hour ago, you are so quick, you came back right away."

Mu Yu raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, then suddenly waved to Yan Hong. "come over."

The child walked over barefoot, thinking that she was about to say something, but Mu Yu immediately reached out and hugged Yan Hong.

"……Um?"

Yanhong obviously stiffened a bit, Mu Yu's hair was slightly damp from the cold rain outside, and it happened to fall into her collar.

Hu Li and her looked at each other inexplicably, not knowing what Mu Yu meant.We could only stand there silently together, not knowing what to do.

Mu Yu hugged her for about five seconds, then pushed Yan Hong away again, dragged his suitcase to the room, and reminded them without looking back: "The carpet is upside down."

"..."

"..."

"Yanhong, why don't you think she hugged me?"

"...how do I know... damn it! Her clothes are wet! I just took a shower!"

That night Hu Li just made chicken soup, and it was said that he was going to have a small meal with Yan Hong, and when Mu Yu came back, it was regarded as welcoming her home.

Mu Yu took a shower, sat at the dining table with wet hair, looked at the chicken soup, chicken and a few slices of Chinese cabbage in front of him, and silently complained that the box lunch of the crew seemed to be a little richer than these.

Hu Li said with a matter of course: "There is no soup in the lunch box."

"It seems so."

Yan Hong didn't bother to care about the complaints between them, she quickly finished a bowl of soup by herself, when she put down the bowl, she suddenly turned her head and found Mu Yu was looking at her all the time.

"...Is there something on my face?" she asked carefully.

Mu Yu shook his head, looked away and said calmly, "You've lost weight."

Hu Li came over. "What about me? What about me?"

"no change."

"..."

"..."

"Yanhong, why do you think Mu Yu is so biased?"

"how could I know……"

——Is it really alright if I'm still sitting here and complaining so openly?

Mu Yu casually muttered in his heart while holding his own bowl.

She found that Yan Hong lost weight because she bought the sweater that the child was wearing.At that time, it was the first time to buy clothes for Yanhong. Mu Yu compared different sizes for a long time before finding one that fit well. It was not too big or too small.

But when I look at it now, I find that it looks loose and loose, as if it has been put on a men's style.

Yan Hong didn't serve the meal right away, but played with the phone a few times, not knowing who to chat with, her brows frowned.

Mu Yu casually observed her expression, although it was still as calm as before, but there was obviously a slight hesitation.Afterwards, Yan Hong turned her head to look at Hu Li beside her.

Hu Li noticed her gaze and raised his eyebrows. "What's wrong?"

Yan Hong shook her head, then hesitated for a moment, but asked again: "...do you know Gu He?"

——Who is Gu He?

Mu Yu looked at Hu Li, but found that the expression on the face of the person who had always been able to handle things with ease was frozen there, and even the trace of a smile seemed to be covered by clouds, blurred and dim.