Chapter 2: Sleep

Facing the cold rain, the customs guest slowly walked home. I hadn't slept for many days, and my head was groggy like a hangover, staggering down the street. A car approached at a rapid pace, splashing a flurry of water. Unaware, the customs officer continued to cross the asphalt road, and his slow pace was like an old man walking leisurely.

The rider honked his horn frantically, and a long, long "beep" echoed through the lonely rainy night, trying to scare away the pedestrians ahead.

A shrill and piercing horn entered the left ear of the passer, and then pierced through the right ear. He was like a walking corpse, dragging his heavy body forward.

The car was getting closer and closer to the people, and the horn was getting sharper and sharper, but the people in front of them didn't seem to want to stop. The driver slammed on the brake gate in a frenzy, and the four wheels of the red sedan stopped turning instantly, leaving a long trail on the asphalt on a rainy night. The sound of the tire rubbing against the ground was sharper than the horn just now, and the sound seemed to pierce a person's eardrum.

The red sedan crashed into the passenger, and he staggered, then stood still and continued on his way.

The performance of the sedan is very good, the brakes are sensitive and effective, so the speed when it hits the passenger is almost reduced to 0.

The driver was a greasy middle-aged man, who rolled up the window at the moment and yelled at the passenger: "Are you deaf or dumb? Don't you see the car coming? Don't you know how to dodge? If you want to die, find another place, don't get in the way of others." There are so many crazy people these days. ”

If I had been hit by a car just now, maybe it wouldn't be so painful now. Guan Ke thought silently. His eyes were half-closed and half-closed due to sleepiness, and his consciousness was also semi-awake.

The more negative and painful people are, the more they like to recall the past, and Guan Ke is no exception. The dripping cold rain beat on his head, and on his clothes, and also on his heart.

Many years ago, it was also a lonely rainy night, and the sky was still dark at four o'clock in the morning. Mom and Dad were out talking to someone about business, saying they were coming back tonight. Guan Ke was still an eight or nine-year-old child, holding his uncle's rough and warm hand, sitting under the eaves and listening to the rain, waiting for his parents to return.

"Uncle, it's almost early in the morning, why hasn't it dawned yet?"

Uncle was holding a bottle of low-quality liquor and looking out somewhere in the air. Hearing Guan Ke's question, he twisted the cap of the liquor bottle, put the bottle to his mouth, raised his head and took a sip of liquor, and then said slowly: "Maybe there are too many clouds and too thick." ”

"Can the clouds even hide the sun?"

"Don't look at the clouds fluttering, there are more places that can block the sun. ”

"Uncle, what are you drinking? Can I drink it?" Xiao Guan Ke's hands were about to go to get the liquor from Uncle's hand.

Uncle raised the wine high to make sure the customer couldn't reach the bottle, and then said, "No, you're too young." Drinking alcohol in small children is not good for health. ”

"Is it good for the body for adults to drink alcohol?" In the eyes of children, it is either black or white, their ideas are very simple, their thinking is very simple, and most of the adults who like children are because of this.

Uncle smiled: "You'll know when you grow up." ”

Guan Ke pouted, thinking, why would every adult say such a thing?

A glimmer of light shone through the distant sky, and two images of people approached in the dim space.

"Daddy, Mommy!" the passer recognized them from a distance.

Ber took his little hand and stood under the eaves ready to meet him.

At the moment when the hand touched each other, time seemed to stand still, and such an image appeared in the mind of the passer.

In the center of the hall was a wet straw mat, on which the uncle lay with his eyes closed, his cheeks thin, his cheekbones sunken in, and his face wrinkled like the bark of an old locust tree. The gray head of the uncle was placed on a table, and guests came in one after another to pay their respects.

The little passer knelt in front of his uncle's head, not crying or laughing, he stared blankly at his uncle's old face, not knowing what he was thinking.

Aunts, aunts, fathers, and other relatives who didn't know what to shout seemed to be covered with a gloomy light, adding a bit of poignancy to the dimly lit room.

Dad laid a straw mat in front of the uncle's head, and the first one knelt on it and kowtowed. Dad took the lead, and the people behind him also came over to kowtow to Uncle.

One woman suddenly began to cry, followed by the sound of other women sobbing. At this time, I felt much better, and the hall that had just been silent, gloomy, and flickering by candles was overwhelming.

After a long time, the picture was gradually obscured by a white light, and the customs guest heard the clear sound of rain again, and saw his parents in the distance and the heavy clouds in the sky.

He turned his face to look at his uncle's old face and asked, "Uncle, will you die?"

Uncle's hand holding the bottle paused and said, "Yes." ”

Guan Ke's eyes dimmed instantly.

Uncle touched the head of the passer and said, "Whoever doesn't die, it's just a matter of time or time." ”

Ten days later, the uncle lay quietly on the straw mat of the hall, and a large table was placed in front of the hall, on which was the portrait of the uncle, and around it were neatly arranged with pale candles.

Dad saw Guan Ke kneeling for too long, so he pulled him up and asked in a low voice, "What do you want?"

Guan Ke's eyes were still dumbfounded: "I saw my uncle lying on the straw mat a few days ago, and the scene in the house is exactly the same as what I saw." ”

Dad thought that he had a good relationship with his uncle, but the sudden death of his uncle hit him, so he would have such nonsense, so he comforted and said: "Uncle has gone to a distant place, where there is everything, more comfortable than us!"

The guest was silent, still staring blankly at his uncle's face.

After this, he can often see things that others can't. Once, playing in the yard, he touched the ant that was struggling to carry a grain of rice with his hand, and saw its fate being trampled to death by a big foot. The foot was wearing pink shoes, and there was a cute cartoon character on the head, which was the shoes of the little girl next door.

The pink shoes ran over the ant's body, and the ant was in pain, struggling, and seemed to cry out. Guan Ke was also in pain, as if there were thousands of pounds of stones weighing on his body. Finally, the ant ceased to struggle, separated from its head and body, and lay on the black ground with no distinct view.

When the customer came to his senses, he was sweating profusely. He went to the next door neighbor's house and persuaded the little girl not to step on the ants.

The little girl pursed her mouth, raised her head and said, "I don't." She stepped on the little pink shoe, and according to what the customs guest told her, she quickly found the ant, and in front of him, left and right, slowly crushed the ant to death.

Guan Ke's face became more and more pale, his mind was dizzy for a while, his whole body was unable to exert his strength, and he was about to sit down on the ground when he staggered, and the little girl stepped forward to support him: "What's wrong with you, I'm just joking." ”

Guan Ke touched the little girl's fat and cute little hand, and another image appeared in his mind. Several men surrounded her as she grew up, and all of them had a look of resentment on their faces. They are dressed in a variety of ways, some are wearing the most fashionable fashion brands, some are wearing crisp suits, and some are casually dressed in casual clothes, obviously from all walks of life. But they have one thing in common, and that is that they are all outstanding figures in all walks of life.

The little girl had become a pretty, tall woman, leaning against the wall, looking weakly at the men around him, begging to be spared.

When the men heard her pleading, they were either disdainful, disdainful, or disgusted. The man in a straight suit made a move, and everyone punched and kicked the woman in the corner......

Guan Ke was lying on the bed, his eyes slowly moved to the side of the bed, staring at the little girl's face: "Yoyo, let's be a celibate when I grow up in the future, men don't have a good thing." ”

Yoyo snorted: "Aren't you also a man when you grow up?"

Guan Ke didn't joke with her, just looked at her fixedly.

Yoyo said: "Okay, okay, don't look at me like that, I will listen to you when I grow up." However, this sentence was just to comfort him, in the third year of Guan Ke, Yoyo still provoked many men, and on a dark, rainy night, many men who had been deceived by her feelings swarmed up and beat her to death.

Guan Ke was invited to her funeral, but he didn't go, because he would blame himself when he went, why didn't he persuade her? He just looked at her tombstone from afar and muttered, "Why don't you listen to me?"

Growing up, Guan Ke saw many things that no one else had seen, and over time, they all happened. When he told his partners about his abilities, the partners looked at him with strange eyes, as if he were a monster. Gradually, he learned to be silent, counting the moving ants in the corner while others were playing in the playground, and doing his homework alone when other children copied each other......

Another incident he remembers was when he said to a little boy, "Your bathroom is overflowing, go home and turn it off." The little boy was skeptical, and when he came home from school, he took a special look into the bathroom, and the water under the ground was flowing everywhere, and it was almost past the threshold and overflowing into the hall. The little boy's parents went out these days, and when they left, their father habitually turned on the switch of the water heater, which led to the scene of "water flooding the golden mountain" in the bathroom. The little boy wouldn't turn off the water heater, so he hired a neighbor to keep the water heater's pipes from running.

From that day on, the male and female classmates in the school, as well as some young teachers, looked at him with a strange look. There is fear in this look.

He then changed schools and started his studies again in a strange place. But it didn't last long, and he found that the people in the school would look at him with that kind of fearful eyes, and he had to change schools again.

In the nine years of study, he has changed schools and how many strange tablemates he has had. In the process of changing schools repeatedly, he learned a truth, if you don't want to see the future of others, don't touch them easily.