Hush!secret

People come and go.

The streets were filled with turbulent crowds, the sky was gloomy, foggy, and gray-blue shrouded the city.

It is rush hour now, and the subway is extremely crowded.Chu Rui tilted her head in a drowsy state, trying to get rid of the fatigue of the day, but the constant noise on the subway made people bored.

……

"Hello, dear passengers, welcome to take Metro Line 1, the station ahead is Xingtang Street Station."

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Chu Rui was squeezed out of the car by the crowd and exited the subway station. Passers-by were in a hurry. Chu Rui crossed the road, turned the street, entered the alley, and walked into a residential building.

The key opens the door, and the first thing that comes into view is the bright light, followed by the smell of vegetables.

Chu Rui sniffed.

It is his favorite mapo tofu.

"I'm home!"

A joyful female voice sounded, Chu Rui squinted her eyes, the muscles in the corners of her eyes relaxed, and responded naturally.

"Mom, I'm back!"

"I'm back!" The woman brought the steaming food to the table, and wiped her hands twice on the apron.

Chu Rui pursed her lips and nodded, her eyes moved to the alarm clock hanging on the wall.

It is 07:30 in the evening.

"Did you come back so late? Did you work overtime again today?" The woman beckoned Chu Rui to sit down.

"Well, I left half an hour to deal with the backlog."

The woman frowned: "It's hard work, Mom made some soup, you can drink two more bowls." She straightened up and turned to the man who was reading the newspaper on the sofa, "Old Chu, you're still watching the news after dinner, go and wash your hands." Have a meal!"

The man's legs and feet were not very agile, and he got up awkwardly and walked to the bathroom.

Looking away, the man's back is bent.The evening news was playing on the television.

[The Central Meteorological Observatory reported that it will turn cloudy to showers from tonight to tomorrow, with short-term thunderstorms and strong winds in some areas...]

After the man sat down, the woman came up with the last bowl of soup and took a seat too.

"I just said it's going to rain tonight, old Chu, are you able to walk? I'll give you a massage at night so you can sleep well!"

The woman served Chu Rui a bowl as she spoke. The steaming chicken soup dispelled the fatigue of the whole day.

The light is warm yellow, lazy and cozy.

Chu Rui blinked, took the chicken soup half a beat later, and put it in his mouth, he hesitated before drinking it.

Very fresh.

The heart was instantly filled with the heating, and Chu Rui's eyes were dry, and her eyes felt wet, and she was caught off guard and two tears fell.

The soup surface rippled.

"What's the matter, child, why are you crying? Did you feel wronged at work?"

"what happened?"

The woman and the man asked with concern, Chu Rui shook her head: "No, it's nothing..."

It's strange that every day is spent like this.

Every day is so boring, but just now, he suddenly felt a hot flow from his heart, and the hot flow rushed up to the tip of his nose, making him sore.

After dinner, Chu Rui and the man sat on the sofa and watched TV, while the woman washed the dishes in the kitchen.

There was rushing water in the kitchen, and the woman raised her head towards the living room: "By the way, son, Xiaohua said he would come over later, I will cut some fruit and put it in your room, remember to eat it with Xiaohua later .”

Chu Rui leaned on the sofa, her eyes slightly confused for a moment.

Confused for only a second.He quickly responded: "He should have come to ask me for earphones. I'm going to take a shower first, and he came to call me."

Standing up and going to the bathroom, Chu Rui was stunned for a moment when her white hand held the doorknob.He turned back to look at the man watching TV and the busy woman in the living room... After a while, Chu Rui laughed at himself for being weird, and closed the bathroom door.

Twenty eight.

Chu Rui lay on the bed after taking a shower, the window was gray.

"It's going to rain..." He rolled over and got out of bed, rummaging around, "Where did I put the earphones..."

"Boom boom boom!"

Someone knocked on the door.

Chu Rui was startled, and walked to the door.There was a constant knocking sound outside the locked room door.

Chu Rui reached for the doorknob.

His hands were shaking.

Not understanding why her hands trembled suddenly, Chu Rui frowned suspiciously.He opened the door.

The person outside the door showed a big smile: "Sister Chu, why are you so slow to open the door!" The person walked straight into his room, as familiar as his own, "Sister Chu, where are my earphones?"

"I'm looking for it, I don't know where I put it." Chu Rui glanced at the back of the visitor, then at the doorknob, and closed the door in a daze.

"My mother cut the fruit, you eat."

The visitor sat down on the bed unceremoniously, and began to eat the fruit: "Find it for me quickly, it will rain later, and I have to go home!"

Chu Rui hurriedly walked to the cabinet: "Okay, just wait for me."

The movement of raising her eyes was fleeting, and the hesitation in Chu Rui's eyes completely dissipated when she saw the photos on the top of the cabinet.

The photo is a group photo of him and someone here. It was taken when he was five years old. They grew up together. They have been very good friends for more than 20 years.

Chu Rui took the earphones and walked towards the visitor: "Lao Hua, the earphones."

When the other party took the earphones, he was shocked by the look in Chu Rui's eyes.

He clearly looked at himself, but his pupils were not focused.

"Sister Chu, what's wrong with you? Are you in a bad mood?"

Chu Rui received the concern, sighed deeply, and sat on the bed side by side with the other party.

A bolt of lightning flashed outside the window.

"Old Hua, I've been having nightmares lately."

"Damn, it turned out to be a nightmare. It frightened me. I thought what happened to you... What nightmare did you have?"

Chu Rui: "I dreamed that my parents died...you died too..."

The visitor, who was relieved a second ago, was infected by Chu Rui's distraught appearance, and put his hand on Chu Rui's shoulder: "Dreams are always the opposite. Don't you think we are living well?"

"But those dreams are so real!" Chu Rui's voice was trembling, "There are ghosts in the dreams, monsters have been haunting me, and there is a lot of blood... I always think about it when I go to work these days. Thinking of me makes me tremble all over, do you think I should go to the hospital to have a look?"

"It's just a nightmare, it shouldn't be..."

Chu Rui shook her head: "Now these dreams have seriously troubled my life. The pictures in the dreams are so real that I can't even tell which one is a dream. Sometimes when I open my eyes, my eyes are full of blood. And I've been sleeping poorly lately!"

"Do your parents know?"

Chu Rui pursed her lips: "I didn't want them to worry, so I didn't say anything."

"...That's fine. I'll accompany you to the hospital for a visit tomorrow. Don't think too much about it. I have to go back. There's lightning outside. If I don't go back, I can't go back..."

The other party stood up, and Chu Rui escorted him to the door.

"Don't think too much, I'll call you tomorrow." He stood at the door and said goodbye to Chu Rui.

The woman came out of the bathroom and stared blankly at the door: "Xiaohua is gone, don't you want to sit down for a while?"

"No, auntie, it's raining later and I won't be able to leave. I'll visit you again some other day!" He is sweet-talking, and in just two or three sentences, the woman's heart is full of joy.

"Okay, then be careful on the road!"

"Got it!"

The other party waved and disappeared into the elevator.

Chu Rui glanced at the empty aisle, the light on the top of the aisle was shaken by the wind, and the shadows on the wall flickered, flickering, flickering.

The wind blew in through the window, but Chu Rui was still standing at the door stupidly.

A woman's voice came from behind: "Rui Rui, be careful of catching a cold, come back quickly!"

Chu Rui reacted when she heard the voice, and closed the door.The iron-white door with decaying embroidery was closed.