Single spouse

1.

warm light.

He hides behind the flowers, in front of the tip of his nose is a small, white camellia, which blooms gorgeously, and above his head is a brilliant red flower with layers of petals, tightly clustered around the stamens.

The fresh air, mixed with floral and earthy scents, lingered on his nose.

A butterfly flew over unsteadily, just perched on a flower in front of him, and stretched its beautiful and crystal-clear wings softly.

"Mom!" He happily and cautiously called to the woman behind him, "Look, there is a black butterfly here!"

A light fragrance different from the fragrance of flowers came along the breeze.

"Really?" The woman's voice was gentle but ethereal, a strand of long hair fell on the side of his face, stroking his neck affectionately.

Then, the woman's hand took him.

"We have to go."

He was led along the path, slowly passing through the flowers, he looked up, only saw the black skirt on the woman's body and the plain wallet in her hand, with thin tassels hanging on the wallet, shaking gently .

He turned his head and looked back, and the beautiful black butterfly was still there.

The scenery in the line of sight swayed and slowly moved away as he walked.

He turned his head and looked at the hand holding the wallet. The fingers were slender, the skin was fair, and the manicured nails were painted bright red.

"Mom, aren't we waiting for Dad?"

The woman didn't answer him.

He was puzzled and tugged on the woman's sleeve.

The woman walked on.

He was angry and grabbed the woman's sleeve: "Mom!"

blah-

The thin gauze material was torn apart, revealing the arm inside...

His eyes widened.

That is……

Fine wood grain, smooth surface, delicate wooden joints...

That is……

There was a cold and hard touch on his face. It was a woman touching the side of his face with a gentle voice.

"You can't watch it."

2.

When Chen Du woke up, it was still early.

He moved his body, frowned and put aside the puppet that was sleeping comfortably on his chest.

Well…

After sitting and rubbing his chest for a while, Chen Ducai felt better.

Unexpectedly, the puppet beside him woke up, sat up with his thin arms, climbed up against Chen Du's waist, and clapped his arms around Chen Du's neck.

Chen Du: "...Go down."

The little thing didn't move, pretending to be dead.

Impatient, Chen Du tore it off and threw it on the bed, and went into the bathroom by himself.

After a while, the sound of splashing water sounded.

The puppet Xiao Jiu tilted his head and listened for a while, then he got out of bed and slipped to the door of the bathroom.

After finding that the bathroom door was unlocked, he decisively pushed open a little gap and got in.

The bathroom was steamy.

Chen Du was washing his hair with his eyes closed, but when he heard the voice, he opened his eyes and took a look.

Then he smoothed the hair hanging down on the forehead to the back, revealing a smooth and full forehead.

The drops of water slid down the ends of the hair, all the way through the chin, the neck, dripped on the skin of the chest, slid across the firm and tight abdomen, and then down——

goo...

Chen Du turned / turned / his head, and looked at the door / entrance hesitantly.

He just...

It seems... I heard the sound of swallowing saliva.

Do puppets drool too?

Chen Du suddenly remembered the fact that the other party could still sleep after talking.

... Forget it, it's already abnormal anyway, and it's okay to have one more thing.

but.

It's really very human-like.

He watched him from the corner of his eye.

For some reason, the wooden eyes of the other party made him a little uncomfortable.

Chen Du pulled off the bath towel expressionlessly and wrapped himself tightly.

With a long leg, he passed by the puppet and exited the bathroom.

Snapped.

The puppet stood in a daze for a moment, then suddenly raised its hand to cover its nose.

Tsk...the reaction is still slow.

Chen Du outside the door looked away, and gave the puppet a comment with great disgust.

The lips curled up in an arc.

3.

"Boss, this is all the news about the Wen family in the past month." The assistant respectfully handed over the document in his hand.

"Yeah." Chen Du took it, and then glanced at it for a while, "You did a good job."

At the end of the sentence, he consciously or unconsciously paid attention to the assistant's expression.

The assistant smiled when he heard the words, and then seemed to find that Chen Du was looking at him, his face was a little nervous and stiff: "It's my duty to do things for the boss."

Chen Du glanced at the other party up and down, and looked away after he couldn't find any extra emotion.

"Okay, you can go back, and let me know if there is any movement."

The assistant bowed: "Yes."

Seeing the assistant go downstairs, Chen Du turned around and closed the door.

Can't it?

He frowned, and flicked the puppet pendant on his leg, but did not shake it.

Only you can see...

Before he knew it, he sat on the sofa for a long time.

His fingers curled up unconsciously, tapping his leg one after another.

Illusion...

There was a cool and hard touch from the fingertips.

Chen Du woke up with a start, and looked up——

The puppet Xiaojiu climbed up along his legs, sat on his lap, and then stretched out his little hand to hold Chen Du's index finger.

He tilted his head, showing a big smile.

It looks quite scary.

Chen Du: "..."

Xiao Jiu waited for a while, but didn't hear Chen Du's words, and didn't care. She grabbed the clothes on Chen Du's body and climbed up, like climbing a mountain.

Chen Du didn't stop him either, he was quite interested to see what the little thing wanted to do.

Xiao Jiu crawled for a while and landed on Chen Du's shoulder.He took a deep breath, shook his arms, and jumped suddenly.

With a bang, it was hung on Chen Du's neck.

Chen Du was about to laugh angrily at it, as soon as he stretched out his hand, he wanted to tear this little thing off.

At this moment, Xiao Jiu grabbed Chen Du's collar, raised his head and sent it forward——

Chen Du was taken aback by the cool and hard touch on the side of his face, and then he felt the little thing sticking to his neck, and the wooden face gently rubbing against his skin.

"Chen Du." Xiao Jiu yelled, his voice was very small, but Chen Du could hear him, and he called Chen Du's name again, as if these two words had some magical power and would never be bothersome.

Then, Xiao Jiu leaned close to Chen Du's ear.

"Chen Du." The puppet let out a very shallow sigh, "I'll tell you a secret."

- "...I'm not really a puppet."

- "...I have a name."

--"My name is……"

4.

"Yu Jiacheng!"

A loud shout sounded from behind, causing other people to turn their heads to look behind.

Chen Du in the crowd also turned his head to take a look, his eyes were dark and dark, not like a child's eerie and weird look, even adults sometimes can't stand such a look.

The child named Yu Jiacheng saw that everyone turned their heads, his face turned a little red, and he panickedly grabbed the little friend who was running wildly.

His gaze swept over one by one, just in time to meet a pair of dark eyes.

Yu Jiacheng was taken aback.

When he regained his senses and looked again, the back of the boy just now had disappeared.

……

The camellias are in full bloom.

Blossoming red ones hang on the branches, layered on top of each other, like fairy skirts.

"...It's pitiful, such a small child."

Yu Jiacheng sat by the window with a small bench, listening to the gossip of his mother and several women outside the door, while doing homework.

A woman's voice floated in intermittently from outside the door.

"...a woman...a murderer...her husband...a puppet...the only child left...sent to...grandmother's house...today...buried..."

The voice of the woman who spoke suddenly dropped, and she didn't know what she said. The women outside the door all exclaimed in unison.

Then each of them sighed and remained silent for a few seconds.

A woman suddenly lowered her voice: "...Here, that's the one, called...Chen Du... Shhh, he's here."

The woman outside the door fell silent.

Yu Jiacheng was a little curious, he lay down on the table and poked his head out of the window——

Then he saw the man.

Wearing a small black suit with a snow-white camellia pinned to his chest, his beautiful face is expressionless.

Like a wooden doll.

Yu Jiacheng thought so.

Holding a black and white photo in its arms, the wooden doll walked in the front alone, followed by some adults sparsely, crying and howling, but its face was dry, not even a drop of tears could be found.

Only the wooden doll's eye sockets were red and swollen, and the dark eyes seemed to have been soaked in water.

But he didn't cry, didn't shed a tear.

Yu Jiacheng's heart suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if someone had pinched his heart.

Chen... alone.

He cried out in his heart.

Unexpectedly, the wooden doll passing by outside the house turned to look at him as if feeling something.

Yu Jiacheng was taken aback, and smiled at the other party with a guilty conscience.

The other party immediately turned his head back and led the people behind him away.

He reacted, and immediately wanted to slap himself.

Stupid!Fool!

only……

Yu Jiacheng retracted his body and sat down at the table.

Homework books and workbooks were scattered in front of him, but he couldn't muster the energy to do the homework.

He carefully wrote two words in the notebook with a ballpoint pen.

Chen Du.

He read it quietly.

Then he woke up suddenly, tore off the page in a panic, crumpled it into a ball in his hands, and threw it into the trash can with a snap.

After a while, I still felt uneasy. I turned it out of the trash can, unfolded it and folded it a few times, and tore it into pieces the size of a fingernail. Then I felt relieved and threw it back into the trash can.

As if covering up.

A little-known secret.