sunk in yesterday

When that boy stopped his sister last night, Baby Fat did mention such a sentence.

It's just that Xia Zhuo wanted to scare them at that time, so he didn't pay much attention to the content of the conversation. Now that Guan Yuzhou repeated it, he re-wrote the sentence in his heart: "It sounds a bit strange."

Guan Yuzhou smiled and didn't explain much.He stretched out his hand to open the door in front of him, and said good morning to the old lady who was sitting on the ground and mending her clothes.

Seeing the two people walking out of the room intact, the old lady's eyes flashed: "You...did you sleep well last night?"

Guan Yuzhou nodded: "Thank you for the hospitality, we slept well last night."

"That's good, that's good." The old lady looked a little absent-minded, and the movements of her hands became much slower: "Just sleep well..."

Guan Yuzhou didn't seem to find anything wrong with her, and then asked: "Then we are leaving now. If we leave the village, which direction should we go?"

The old lady shook her hand, and the tiny needle fell to the ground, kicking up a small cloud of dust.

Holding the rag in her hand, she pointed east and then west, pointing in all directions in a random way, and finally shook her head while muttering: "Get out of the village...out of the village...you can't get out, No one can get out... They all want to go out, but no one can go out, and no one comes back..."

Xia Zhuo asked: "Who wants to go out?"

The old lady insisted on those two short words: "They, them."

Xia Zhuo bent down and picked up the needle on the ground and put it back in her hand: "What about you, us, I think you are not very old, why can't you even speak?"

Guan Yuzhou glanced at the needle in the rough palm, and was a little worried that the aborigine would be poked in Xia Zhuo's eye on the spot.

Fortunately, she just rubbed her knees with her palms a little awkwardly, and finally said the longest sentence so far.

"There are dozens of people in this village, and now there is not one left... There was a famine ten years ago, and every family had no food to eat. At that time, children who were as old as Lai Lai and younger than Lai Lai died batch after batch. Critic... Everyone has no choice but to take the children out of the village to find wild vegetables and pick wild fruits... But the children always starve to death on the road. The villagers who had no children during that time were crying all day long. The flow, after a long time, the day after tomorrow began to change. This rain, it has been falling for three years, drowning the entire crop field... this time everyone wants to leave, if you don't leave, you will just They would starve to death in the village, and everyone wanted to go out to find something to eat, but they didn’t expect that they would starve to death on the road just like the children at that time..."

Her faded and chapped lips were trembling all the time, and finally she lamented: "... there is nothing to do, nothing to do... this is all retribution!"

After coming out of the main room, Xia Zhuo shook her head and muttered softly: "I always feel that she is not telling the truth."

Guan Yuzhou hummed: "Let's go out first."

Lailai was staring at the door in the yard in a daze.

She seemed to want to leave the house and go outside, but there was a policy of not leaving the house, so the best she could do was breathe the foul-smelling air in the yard.

The two of them didn't want to toss about those complicated accumulations, after all, they were afraid that the old lady in the house would come out desperately if they touched it, so they only moved the ladder they used to get in and planned to climb over the wall.

The little girl was sitting on the black and gray soil, her hands were clasping the ground constantly, making her palms sting.She didn't know how long she had been sitting here, the skin on some of her hands was scratched and she didn't know how to stop, she was looking at them blankly.

Or rather, have been waiting for them to come out.

Guan Yuzhou tested the stability of the ladder, and beckoned Xia Zhuo to get closer: "Go up first."

Xia Zhuo groaned, stepped on the bamboo stick, her calf trembled while climbing, and almost tilted her foot and fell from it.He patted the ashes on his hands and sighed, "I must have been a good student who never climbed walls and skipped classes when I was in school."

Guan Yuzhou smiled: "Yes."

He knew that Xia Zhuo was weak and had no strength, so he stretched out his hand to drag him on the bottom of his feet.When Xia Zhuo struggled to sit on the top of the wall, he supported his arms and turned over the wall, telling Xia Zhuo to wait for him to stand firmly before jumping.

Xia Zhuo looked down at the two-meter-high ground, and heaved a sigh of relief after realizing that he did not have acrophobia.Guan Yuzhou looked up at him laughing wantonly with one leg crossed, and couldn't help frowning and urged: "Don't move around, come down."

"Okay." Xia Zhuo became more honest now.He turned his face and wanted to wave goodbye to the little girl on the ground, but he saw that the little girl stood up at some point, and the muddy and bloody water on both hands was falling down the rain. It looks a little creepy.

Guan Yuzhou called him again from under the wall, but he couldn't move his eyes. Seeing Lailai's lips move, he seemed to say something silently to himself.Xia Zhuo couldn't distinguish the content, so she tilted her head and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Lai Lai still looked expressionless as yesterday, but Xia Zhuo noticed that her reflection reflected in the stagnant water had changed—her dark pupils seemed to be continuously entwined in an instant, and the whites of her eyes It was disappearing little by little strangely, and was smashed into pieces by the pattering rain again and again and then condensed into shape.

Her two white lips kept opening and closing, and her appearance was completely different from the slightly unhappy mouth in the reflection, which was repeating the mouth shape just now - you brought my brother to me have they gone?

Guan Yuzhou saw that Xia Zhuodun was motionless, and guessed what trouble he might have encountered.

When he was considering whether to drag him off the wall, a very calm voice came from above his head: "Little sister, is that brother you lost a small melon or a cookie?... Huh? Neither? Then I What are you doing taking him away? Adding burden to yourself? "

Guan Yuzhou: "..."

Xia Zhuo continued to preach to the little girl in the yard: "Little sister, report to the police uncle for 24 hours if you are missing. It will be fruitless for you to come here and ask someone alone. Also, you are so beautiful. What are you doing with one set, look, it’s ugly now? Change the shadow back... Hey, yes, this is much better. Stand at attention, turn around, and walk in unison. Go back to your grandma to wash your hands, girls’ hands are precious, Stop digging for earthworms."

The sound of the door opening and closing came from the yard, and Guan Yuzhou finally waited until the eloquent young man jumped down from above.

Xia Zhuo's feet were so soft that he almost knelt in the soil, but fortunately, he had already prepared to support the wall, so that the remaining half of his face, which was still clean, was also affected.He took a weak breath, raised his hand to wipe his face, and said in a low voice: "Scared me, I thought I was going to explain the nutrients that turned into soil in her hands. Look, my legs are still shaking now."

Guan Yuzhou couldn't help but chuckled a few times seeing his cowardly appearance before and after the event, and stretched out his hand to hand out a round melon.

Xia Zhuo: "...what the hell."

Guan Yuzhou flicked the cane on the melon twice: "Didn't you just say you wanted to eat it?"

Xia Zhuo didn't remember what nonsense he said just now, he hugged the melon into his arms, thinking that he would not take advantage of it.

"Wait a minute." Seeing that he hugged the melon tightly with his dirty face like a baby, and he looked like a little beggar, Guan Yuzhou pulled out a bottle of mineral water from the light watch warehouse and unscrewed the cap. "Do you want to wash up?"

"Are you Doraemon?" Xia Zhuodian took the bottle briskly, washed off the mud and ashes on his face, and took a shower for the little melon who just joined the team: "I When I got up in the morning, I was still hesitating whether to wash my face with the water in their bucket, but I gave up when I saw the sediment in it.

Guan Yuzhou naturally took the melon and broke it open, then handed it back into Xia Zhuo's hands: "What did she just tell you?"

Xia Zhuo only took half of it, took a bite, repeated Lai Lai's words with a touch of sweetness, and asked as he walked: "There is only one child in that family photo, so it should be Lai Lai? Then where did her younger brother come from?"

Guan Yuzhou shook his head: "There are two children in the family portrait."

"Ah?" Xia Zhuo remembered that when looking at that photo, there was indeed only a man holding a child in it, and although the woman had a baby in her arms, it was empty.But after what Guan Yuzhou said, he had an epiphany: "You mean there should be a child in that baby?"

Guan Yuzhou: "Well, you met last night."

"...Oh, it's that kid who came out for a walk and sang." Xia Zhuo still didn't understand, "That has nothing to do with us, right? Why did she say that we took her brother away?" Waiting for Guan Yuzhou He opened his mouth, and then doubled his voice: "Wait, wait, didn't the siblings carry the jar out? If we said that we took something out of the house, wouldn't it just be the jar?" !"

"Correct."

"What's right, that jar contains the corpse of a kid?" Xia Zhuonao made up the scene in the jar, and couldn't help but sigh: "So the girl woke up this morning and said that the sour smell could be the rotting corpse in the jar." Taste it."

Guan Yuzhou: "..."

Anyway, the jar has been moved out, and since the old lady didn't find out, and the little girl just said a few words and was told back by Xia Zhuo, then this jar is the item that can be moved by default in the dream.

The two threw the leftover melon rind into the quagmire and buried it. Xia Zhuo raised his head and drank a few mouthfuls of mineral water. When there was a little left, he suddenly found Guan Yuzhou glanced at him.He put the cap on the bottle with a smile, handed it out, and said the same thing as when he returned the biscuits for the first time: "Here, I left some for you."

Guan Yuzhou took the almost empty bottle back to the warehouse, "Go and join them."

"to make."

The two walked around a few houses, and without the shelter of the buildings, they could have a panoramic view of the scenery in front of them.

The rain mixed the sky above the field into a hazy mist, but from a distance, more than two people could still be seen standing beside the first field, and the occasional voices sounded like they were making some unpleasant incidents.

When Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou arrived, the younger brother had already been punched to the ground, and the pair of glasses fell aside, with several cracks in the lens.Baby Fat Zheng was kneeling behind her younger brother in fear, still holding the black clay pot in her arms. Seeing that the two of them had arrived late, she yelled with red eyes: "Uncle!"

Guan Yuzhou, 29 years old: "..."

Standing opposite the siblings was indeed the trio they met yesterday, but compared to the clean and tidy appearance when they first came in yesterday, when they met today, both men and women were in a bit of a mess.

The buttocked girl was wearing someone else's coat, and her two bare legs were wrapped in rags she found somewhere. The makeup on her face was completely gone, and the pale color of her lips was clear at a glance. .

She hugged her arm tightly, she didn't know what she had experienced that night, the arrogance of yesterday had disappeared, and now her expression was muddled like she hadn't woken up from a big dream.Although her neck was tucked into the collar, there was a small mark on her chin, like a plum blossom that was about to wither, a shade darker than her fair skin.

It was Bancun who started the beating. He was holding a piece of wet grass in his mouth, and the knife marks on his two arms were grimly exposed after he lost his coat.He spat on the ground, squinted at Guan Yuzhou and Xia Zhuo, "Oh, it's you."

Xia Zhuo glanced at his younger brother with a swollen face on the ground, raised his hand and grinned: "Hi, what a coincidence."