Later, Qi's wife's crying gradually became quieter, and the conversation in the other room became much louder, I walked a few steps closer, pricked up my ears and listened carefully, and occasionally I could hear the words of the four people speaking sporadically, such as "birthday", "all four years old", "it must be a hurdle", "the third time", "must rush", "not much", etc. After listening for a few minutes, I noticed that their conversation had become less frequent, so I slipped back to the couch and continued to sit. Looking back at the big portrait on the back of the sofa, the little boy looked so cute, I always felt pity.

At the same time, I was also analyzing the meaning of the words spoken by the four people in the room, all of whom were four years old and the third time...... These two sentences are very suspicious, why do you want to add the word "all"? And it is the third time. When I guessed, the four people came out, and the old couple walked to the door and said that it was so decided, and there was no need to toss anymore, it was meaningless. They didn't look at me when they said that, but I think they were referring to me.

Uncle Qi sent the three of them away, came back and sat down, his face full of exhaustion. I smiled and asked the middle-aged woman how she checked it, and he said: "Get an incense burner and put it on the table, insert three sticks of incense and light them at the same time, and after a few minutes, look at the shape, and say that the three sticks of incense are exactly the same length, and the matter of my family must be related to three." ”

"Are you accurate?" I asked quickly. Uncle Qi looked at me and nodded slightly. Under my questioning, Uncle Qi seemed to have something unspeakable, and then he proposed to find a place to talk outside, I agreed, anyway, I have to go back to Beijing today, the two of them went out of the community, found a restaurant nearby, asked for the smallest private room to sit down, and ordered a few cold spells and a few bottles of beer. While eating and chatting, Uncle Qi spit out more hidden feelings. It turned out that the little boy who died in a car accident a few days ago was actually his third child.

Uncle Qi is forty-six years old this year, and now this wife is his second wife, and his first child is also a boy, which he had with his ex-wife, and he was only twenty-eight at that time. In the blink of an eye, the son was four years old, on his birthday, the couple came back from grandparents' dinner and crossed the road and waited for the signal, the son saw a brand-new toy car in the middle of the road, so he broke away from the hands of the two and ran over to pick it up, before the two came to their senses, the son had been hit by a speeding car, and it was not good at that time.

This made Uncle Qi's family very sad, and the traffic police said that the toy car on the road was brand new, and it was not known who threw it here. The son is gone, but life has to go on, but fortunately, Uncle Qi and his wife are still young, so they cheered up and continued to prepare for pregnancy. More than a year later, she became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. The family was very happy that the daughter had grown up healthy to the age of four, and on her birthday, she probably felt taboo, so she did not eat out, but let both parents come to eat at home. After the meal, the four old people went home, and the youngest daughter was very sensible and had to send them out of the community.

The Qi family didn't think much about it, everyone walked out of the community together, and when they said goodbye at the roadside bus station, a neighbor led a big golden retriever, and the dog suddenly went crazy, broke free from the dog chain and rushed to several people, so scared that the girl ran to the middle of the road crying. Uncle Qi and others hurriedly went over to catch it, but they were one step short, there was a big bus to enter the station, and even the little girl with a golden retriever was knocked down, the dog was not killed, but the little girl went to the hospital, and she still didn't survive after lying for half a month.

This was a fatal blow to the Qi family, Uncle Qi was hospitalized directly with high blood pressure, his father also fainted several times, and the little couple washed their faces with tears all day long. The owner of the golden retriever also blamed himself, saying that the dog had been raised for more than two years, had an extremely docile personality, and had never gone crazy. Later, Uncle Qi's wife couldn't withstand the blow, and insisted that the Qi family had not accumulated virtue, and they must have done something, so this kind of thing happened, and finally divorced Uncle Qi.

The three members of the Qi family began to quarrel in grief, arguing all day long about the accidents of both children on their fourth birthdays, and all of them were car accidents. Of course, this kind of quarrel is meaningless, Uncle Qi is more sad than anyone else, there are photos of two children on the table, and he looks at it in a daze every day. Four years later, under the persuasion of his parents, Uncle Qi finally cheered up and married another wife under the introduction of a friend, and the woman had her husband died two years ago. In order to avoid unnecessary suspicion and gossip, Uncle Qi's family concealed the first son's car accident, only retained the experience of the second, and moved to a new home to start a new life. Not long after, this wife also became pregnant and gave birth to a big fat boy. At this time, Uncle Qi was forty-two years old, he was happier than anyone else, and the whole family gave love to this boy. Because of fear, the Qi family protects the child in every way, and when crossing the road, he must be held in the arms of an adult, and even if something happens, he will hit the adult first. Uncle Qi's stepwife thought that the Qi family had a middle-aged child, so she loved the child more, so she didn't care.

In the blink of an eye, the boy was four years old again, and everything was safe. On his birthday, Uncle Qi and his parents naturally remembered the two tragic events before, although they didn't know if it was a coincidence or another reason, but the whole family also planned to resolutely not let the child go out of the house on this day. The birthday banquet was scheduled for the evening, and during the day, Qi's wife played with the children at home, and Uncle Qi repeatedly told him before going to work that he must watch his son and not let him go out, especially outside the community. Qi's wife agreed again and again, asking why he was so nervous, and Uncle Qi had already thought of an excuse and lied that a fortune teller had recently told him that his son had a catastrophe on his fourth birthday, and as long as he didn't go out, he would be fine.

Qi's wife also laughed at his feudal superstition, Uncle Qi smiled and said that it didn't hurt anyway, when people said this, if they didn't listen to it, it would be awkward, and Qi's wife agreed. The strange thing is that when her son was sleeping in the afternoon, Qi's wife suddenly felt dizzy and couldn't stand, and she felt that it was not so serious, and she wanted to lie on the bed for a while to see the effect, but she didn't expect to fall asleep directly. Then her son woke up, walked out the door by himself, and the electric car hit someone.

"There is such a thing?" I couldn't believe it, Uncle Qi raised his head and drank a glass of beer, slammed the cup on the table, his eyes were red, and said why was this, is it that God can't get along with their Qi family. I calmed down and analyzed, and I felt that I was afraid that it could not be explained by "high coincidence", but there was definitely something wrong with three children in a row, all of whom had strange car accidents on their fourth birthdays.

I said to him, "Uncle Qi, do you believe this is a coincidence?" He looked at me and shook his head vigorously. I counted on my fingers, when his first child was four years old, it should have been thirty-two years old, a full fourteen years from now, originally I wanted to ask him if he remembered if anything strange happened fourteen years ago, or met any strange people, but who else could remember fourteen years ago? But the question still has to be asked, Uncle Qi shook his head again after hearing this, saying that many people have already asked, really no, or don't remember.