sunk in yesterday

When the four of them entered the room, the siblings retreated to the opposite corner of the bed.

Jian Ran stepped on the paper shell that was still in place, and wrinkled her nose.

Guan Yuzhou turned on the optical watch, and took out the rattle that he picked up yesterday from the prop warehouse.At that time, Xia Zhuo's condition was not good, so I didn't have time to take a closer look. Now that the drum was taken out, Lai Lai straightened his eyes, which reflected that he obviously recognized this thing.

The snare drum is very common and the material is very cheap.Compared with the usual bamboo wood or mudstone, the drum body is only made of extremely low-cost cardboard.One of the two drum heads made of paper was broken, and a large sunken hole was surrounded by the flooded corners. No matter how the bullets hit, they could no longer make the original crisp sound.

He shook the drum in front of Lai Lai: "You know this?"

"This is a toy for me and my brother." Lailai seemed a little puzzled why the small drum appeared in Guan Yuzhou's hands, looked at him and then looked at the drum: "My brother took this small drum when he went out to play in the village...but ,But……"

Guan Yuzhou put the drum into her bruised palm, and said persuasively, "Let's return it to its original owner now, and tell us about you and your brother, okay?"

Lailai held the drum body, poked the big hole with his fingers, and felt aggrieved like a child who made a mistake: "But I really want to go, but if the adults don't take me, I will sneak out of this room go out……"

Guan Yuzhou and Xia Zhuo looked at each other, and the latter asked, "Who did your brother go to play with? Where did he go?"

"With mom... No, not mom... I can't remember." Lailai whispered while shrinking his neck: "My brother went out of the village. I am not disobedient, I just want to play with him... "

"Well, I don't blame you." Xia Zhuo forced himself to temporarily forget her terrifying appearance before, and put on some amiable smiles, "Then what did you play when you went out?"

Lailai thought for a while: "My brother played on the swing and dangled around. I hid aside and watched. Later, my brother got tired of swinging and couldn't move, so my mother..." When she said this, there was an obvious pause, as if I was thinking about something, but I couldn't think of a reason, so I continued to complete the sentence: "Mom just sat on the ground in a daze... The snare drum fell in front of the bushes, but I didn't dare to pick it up."

Xia Zhuo was shocked when he heard it.

What sitting on a swing, isn't it the scene where they accidentally saw the little ghost hanging from the wire outside the window last night and letting the wind and rain blow?

The wind outside the window blew on his face through the hole, Xia Zhuo shivered.He thought of Lai Lai who he had seen on the wires when he entered the village, and looked at her neck now, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Guan Yuzhou then asked: "Then how did you come back? Did your mother bring you back?"

Lai Lai shook his head: "I came back with my younger brother. When my younger brother was tired, my mother took him down and put him on the ground, and then I met the aunt next door... It seems that my aunt also brought her little sister out to play. The little sister rested with her younger brother, and then sat on the floor with her mother and chatted for a while... But when she was leaving, her aunt hugged her wrongly, and she took her younger brother away. My mother didn't know if she found out. But Lailai ran out secretly Yes, I can’t remind my mother. Later, when Lai Lai wanted to go back, he saw my younger brother watching me.”

How can a mother hug her child wrongly?Hearing the end of the sentence, Xia Zhuo pondered the amount of information in it, and couldn't help but "hiss" in his mouth.

Lai Lai fell into the memories of that time, and after a while, a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "My brother must have woken up halfway, and ran back when he realized that the person holding him was not his mother... That day was Lai Lai's first day. Once I left the village, my younger brother was beside me, so Lai Lai thought, can I go home later this time."

The smile on Lailai's face remained undiminished, as if thinking of something very happy, his hands kept shaking.The projectile did not hit the drum, but knocked the hard paper at the corner making muffled noises, "My brother said he was very happy just now, the swing was very fun, and he didn't feel cold or hungry after playing. Then—— "

Guan Yuzhou picked up the words: "Then you just learn how he swings, and climb up the telegraph pole along the ladder."

"My brother was standing next to the wires and pushing me. Later, when it was dark, Lai Lai went home with his brother... That night, Lai Lai and his brother fell asleep in the room. When he woke up, his brother was gone, and his mother It yelled loudly in the room, but grandma forbade Lailai to see it, and grandma fell asleep again with Lailai."

Guan Yuzhou asked the last question: "Did your family eat meat that night?"

Lailai thought hard: "Mom picked up a dead bird and cooked a pot of soup with the bird, but Lailai didn't eat it."

After squatting for so long, Xia Zhuo's knees started to ache.

Guan Yuzhou let out a breath, said to him in a low voice, let's go, and walked towards the siblings who had been watching the situation here.

After hearing the words just now, Xia Zhuo felt a little weird in his heart. He endured it and glanced at the closed door: "Is your grandma not at home?"

Lailai said: "She sleeps in the room, and my grandma and I sleep almost every day. Grandma said that as long as you fall asleep, you won't be hungry."

"Then why don't you go to bed?"

"I can't sleep today. My brother said he would come to see me today. I have to wait for him in this room, otherwise he can't find me."

"He said he was going to take you out? Why?"

Lailai lowered her eyes: "Because grandma doesn't allow me to go out...Grandma said that only at home is the safest. But I want to go out, and I haven't gone out for several days."

The little girl in front of her didn't seem to understand what death was, nor did she know the fact that she was already dead.

Guan Yuzhou called him again softly, Xia Zhuo stood up from the ground, and saw that Jian Ran, who had been starving for a long time, had an extra ham sausage in her hand at some point. The room is full of joy.

Guan Yuzhou had already laid out some snacks on the bed, including a small bag of spicy dried fish, and the aroma rushed to his face as soon as he opened the bag.

Jian Ran sighed: "Brother Guan, do you know what your behavior is called outside?"

Guan Yu Zhou unpacked the rice cake packaging bag without looking up: "Huh?"

Jian Ran showed a shallow double chin with a smile, put her hands together and bowed respectfully: "Live Bodhisattva!"

"..."

After Xia Zhuo left, Lailai didn't take the initiative to speak to them again.She still stood stubbornly in that damp corner, staring at the high wires without blinking through the holes in the window.

In her eyes, her younger brother would come here to play on the swing every day, looking at her with a smile while swinging, telling her where he had been and who he had seen that day, and promised to pick her up from the house when the time came. They can go anywhere without the supervision of adults.

Whenever the wind blows, the wire will shake, and the water droplets hanging on it will fall to the ground along with the wind direction.At this time, Lailai's neck would be stretched a little, and he would look eagerly at the same place, for fear that he might miss his brother's whereabouts in the blink of an eye.But she just looked and looked, and there was still no one she wanted to see on the wire.

Seeing Xia Zhuo approaching, Guan Yuzhou raised his hand and handed the rice cake up.

Xia Zhuo avoided the touch of her fingertips, sat down on the bed, and whispered while gnawing the rice cakes: "I just saw that there is a bruise on her neck."

"Well, it was indeed strangled by wires."

Xia Zhuo crossed his legs and raised his hand to stroke all the hair sticking to his forehead to his forehead. Compared with the filth all over his face, his clean face was a little out of place.While nibbling, he stretched out his hand towards the bag of dried fish, "Did the dead bird she just mentioned refer to people?"

Guan Yuzhou didn't answer right away, he just took the dried fish out of his reach, "You have a bad stomach, you can't eat spicy food."

Xia Zhuo felt empty, dissatisfied: "I didn't say that I have a bad stomach, how do you know that I can't eat spicy food."

Guan Yuzhou glanced at his stomach: "You have vomited four times, eat something else."

Xia Zhuo threw the pot on his back: "That's all your fault, I just vomited when I met me."

Guan Yuzhou didn't care about his nonsense, and took the blame very smoothly: "Well, it's my fault. But you vomited four times, and your stomach is very fragile now, stop eating irritating things."

Xia Zhuo looked up at him, and Guan Yuzhou looked back without giving in.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, Xia Zhuo finally couldn't bear to turn his head away, and confessed.

"It should be the neighbor's child brought back by her mother." Guan Yuzhou pushed the water beside his hand over, looked at Lai Lai's stubborn back, and then recalled Xia Zhuo's question just now: "When do you think the kid Will you come back to find her?"

Jian Ran's mouth was full of food, and she answered indistinctly: "I think it's night!"

"Maybe." Xia Zhuo was a little absent-minded.

Deserted villages with food shortages, young children who keep dying, children who go out of the village to pick up the wrong children, and adults who bring back meat meals after going out...

When these scattered pieces of the puzzle are put together, it seems that a truth can be seen clearly.

"Tired?"

While he was in a daze, Guan Yuzhou straightened half of the bed.They didn't return the quilt before they left in the morning, and the old lady didn't seem to want to enter this room to take it back, and it was still coiled up on the bedside.

Sleepy is not sleepy, but the body is a little tired.Xia Zhuo crumpled the plastic bag in his hand and nodded, "A little bit."

"Go to sleep." Guan Yuzhou moved the quilt for him, "I still have something to do tonight."

Xia Zhuo was taken care of properly and did not feel embarrassed at all.He got into the quilt with half of his body in the mud, and made a suspicious voice with crooked hair, "For example?"

Guan Yuzhou sat in front of him, tucked the corner of the quilt for him through the quilt, and slowly sorted out the possible problems so far: "First, I don't know what will happen to the three dreamers. The second point is that the little ghost promised to come back to Lai Lai today. The third point is that tonight is Lai Lai's first seven. The one in the house may not be her mother."

Xia Zhuo asked inertially, "Who could that be?"

Guan Yuzhou didn't say anything.

Xia Zhuo understood, rolled his eyes, and stretched out his hand to rub the other party's valgus cuff: "Sleep together?"

Guan Yuzhou's eyelids twitched: "What?"

"Together?" Xia Zhuo repeated, and said with a smile: "Since there are so many things to do at night, of course I will give you today's employment money~"

Before Guan Yuzhou could say anything, Jian Ran let out a sigh first.

Unable to get the expected reaction, Xia Zhuo taught the two minors not far away: "Children, don't listen to adults' conversations."

"I'll forget it, my brother is only fifteen." Jian Ran raised her hand to wipe her mouth, and after eating and drinking, she looked at Lai Lai who was still facing away from them: "Besides, there is a smaller one over there." , can you check the time and place for flirting?"

"I still care about the time and place when I am deeply in love. There are firewood and fire in the wild." Xia Zhuo is used to thick skin, and when he said this, his face did not blush and his heart skipped a beat. He just took his hand back pretending to be regretful: "In this case I can only wrong you, we will sleep together next time when there are no children."

Guan Yuzhou: "..."

How come there is a feeling of being cheated out of nothing.

He had nothing to do with the other party's mouth. Seeing that Xia Zhuo had closed his eyes and everything was empty, he had no choice but to get out of bed, walked to Jian Ran's side and patted her on the shoulder: "You and your brother go to sleep on the bed, but don't touch To your Brother Xia."

Jian Ran was dumbfounded: "No need, my brother and I are used to sitting on the floor, and we spent the night in a cave in the last dream."

There are so many dream scenes, none of them know where they will appear in reality after closing their eyes and waking up.

Some people have been to ancient battlefields full of bloody killings, some have been to the end of the world full of flies and carrion corpses, and some have been to ancient tombs where organs gather and snakes crawl everywhere.

In order to seek short-term comfort, the participants who survived the dead tried various hiding places, got through the trash cans, and lay down over the piles of corpses. Can take a nap with eyes closed without squinting in various unexpected environments.

"Stop talking nonsense, you come here when brother Guan asks you to come." Xia Zhuo didn't lift his eyelids, and he looked like a grandpa, "Children grow up, sleep more and eat less snacks, don't if they can grow upright." Long sideways, do you know?"

Jian Ran retorted: "...you grow sideways, I am born with baby fat!"

"Don't be angry, I'm just kidding." Xia Zhuo squinted and moved aside: "You are so cute when you are so fleshy, and people want to hug and pinch when they see it."

Jian Ran was choked, and her face turned red again.

She was out of breath after a while, and looked at Guan Yuzhou for help: "Brother Guan, you should lock him up at home, because releasing him will harm the masses."

Guan Yuzhou looked at Xia Zhuo upon hearing the words, and seeing the innocent look of the young man "I didn't say anything just now", he couldn't help laughing softly, "Yes."