Sweet memories from Chapter 8
"Xiao Xu, wake up, don't lie in bed!" A generous-looking man smiled and gently urged: "On the second day of the Lunar New Year, we are going to Grandma's house to pay New Year's greetings."
Grandma? Tao Qinian sat up with a spirit, didn't Grandma die a few years ago? Also, the person who spoke just now was her father!!
But, no, aren't they all dead?
Tao Qinian opened her mouth slightly, eager to say something, but the words she spit out were not something she could control, and she heard Tao Xu, who was once herself, say: "Well, good Dad, I'm up" and winked playfully.
can only see, can't say, can't do anything, Tao Qinian is completely isolated from this world, looking at his former self, desperate.
It was a memory she would never forget in her life.
After washing, she picked out a moon-white dress, tied up with a black ribbon around her waist, put on small brown leather shoes, and pinned her hair with a delicate hairpin, simple but gorgeous.
In the restaurant downstairs, my mother had already made breakfast, and when she saw that Tao Xu hadn't come down yet, she shouted, "If the stinky girl doesn't come down again, does she want the old lady to lift the quilt?"
Rhythmic footsteps sounded on the steps, and step by step, Tao Xu pouted, "Didn't I get up?"
"Hmph, that's just the time to try my new spicy fish," the woman said proudly, "it looks delicious!"
A dead fish head is sprinkled with shredded red peppers, the fish body is sliced, stuffed with ginger, poured with pre-mixed seasoning, and steamed in a pot, and the aroma comes to the nose.
Tao Xu swallowed his saliva and said bitterly: "Isn't it oily to eat this in the morning?"
"Then do you want to eat it?" The woman raised her eyebrows, took out a bowl of somen noodles and handed it to her, and said regretfully: "If you don't eat it, this is the only one!"
The bowl of noodles in front of him is really "vegetarian", it is unpleasant to say that it is dry noodles soaked in hot water, without any seasoning, Tao Xu can hardly imagine that he eats this thing without vegetables with that indescribable expression.
She quickly grabbed a piece of fish and put it in the bowl, muttering, "I didn't say I wouldn't eat it."
"How's it going?" the woman asked urgently.
Tao Xu did not hesitate to praise himself, saying: "Yes, it is better than what the hotel chef makes"
"Hmm" the little flower on the woman's face was full of joy, "The little mouth is so sweet"
"That's true!" Tao Xu tossed the fish soup with the noodles and continued, "Daddy, come down and eat the fish!
The "good" man shaved, walked down the stairs and sat down beside the woman.
"Let's eat it all quickly!" the man casually sandwiched a piece of meat to the woman, "Grandma's family lives far away"
The car at the door was black, low-key but luxurious, the trunk was stuffed with luggage, and the man said helplessly: "We'll go for two days, as for bringing so many things?"
"You don't understand, a woman's every day has to be exquisite. β
The car that is drifting away is directly proportional to Tao Qinian's growing uneasiness.
Is this a dream? But it's so real, no, I don't want to look at it anymore, wake up, wake up!
"Smack!" the sound of the balloon popping, as if it was trying to verify something. Blood is cloudy and a yellowish slurry spurts out.
"Dad, I'm tired of driving, I'll play you a song" Tao Xu took out his mobile phone and clicked on "Love Dance of Life and Death" "This is my favorite song......"
The unfinished words came to an abrupt end.
The phone fell on his lap without realizing it.
The location of Grandma's house is very remote, but the old man is reluctant to leave the place where he has lived for most of his life.
The man didn't speak, his fingers fell off the steering wheel, and he didn't move. Tao Xu was in the back seat, and just watched as the bullet pierced through the glass and smashed into her father's forehead, leaving a wide hole and blood dripping down, and in an instant, her voice went out and became mute.
β...... Dad, are you okay?" Tao Xu lost his mind, and his brain couldn't move.
In the face of the sudden turn of events, all the time has become long.
I don't know how long it took, maybe five minutes, maybe ten minutes, maybe just a few seconds, she was suddenly hugged by the half-mad mother, the woman's cheeks were cold, there was liquid in the corners of her eyes, but her arms were hot, very warm.
The hug was very short, and the woman knew that she couldn't protect the child like this, so she went to the front seat and pushed away her cold lover, stopped the car that was still fast, and got out of the car with Tao Xu in her arms.
The woman who has been strong all her life cried, without a husband, she lost her soul, and she was pale and did not speak.
Next to the car was a small dry lake, densely overgrown with vegetation, just enough to hide people, and the woman took out her bank card while babbling: "Xiao Xu...... Yes Someone is trying to harm us, and your father is dead...... I can't lose you anymore."
She is calm and scaryly sensible, and she wants to keep her daughter, who is her last blood relative.
The mother seemed to be suddenly ruthless, pulled off the necklace around her neck, and stuffed it to Tao Xu along with the card, and then looked down at the ring on her fingertips, her eyes were full of reluctance, but she only hesitated for a second, and conveniently took it off and handed it to Tao Xu.
"Mom...... What are you doing!" Tao Xu looked at it in hindsight, her pretty face was dead gray, and she said, "Am I, I'll never see my father again......"
No matter how precocious a person is, as long as he is still a child, there are few people who are not emotionally affected when he sees the tragic death of a familiar relative, not to mention that Tao Xu is not precocious, she is just a childish little girl, she will fantasize that she is a little princess in the castle, and then marry her beloved Prince Charming and spend her life happily.
But if you haven't experienced frost, how can you win a warm future for yourself?
A fairy tale is a fairy tale after all, and if you believe it, you can't complain about others.
It may take a long time for her to grow up, and she may run into dwarfs, beasts, or witches, but she will eventually grow into a bright queen.
This is a constant for the ages.
"Yes!" the woman shouted loudly, got up and stopped looking at Tao Xu, but said coldly: "The money in the card is enough for you to eat and drink for a lifetime, I will drive away all the people chasing and killing behind, you hide, find a safe time to leave here, don't go home, there is already being targeted, you take the money to buy a house and rent anything...... tears rolled down again, she said in a low voice: "It's just ...... Don't come back."
"Mom......" Tao Xu stretched out his hand to grab the hem of her clothes, but saw that the person didn't look back, and walked farther and farther, she whispered Nan Nan...... Hurt us"
The woman got into the car, quickly calmed down, hugged the body of her dead lover, the corners of her mouth were strange smiles and satisfaction, she kissed the wound on the corpse's forehead, and the curvature was like a manju sawa blooming in hell.
Beautiful and evil.
"I gave a little money to the bank card, hoping that she would live, I don't like this feeling of being forced to run away, it makes me look like a homeless outlaw, but I know that I have a family, my family loves me very much, and I love them too" The woman said to herself.
"When did I first learn the word love?"
"It's probably junior high school, I happened to be in the second year of junior high school when I transferred to your class, that hormonal age, you came up to me curiously, and said, 'Little sister is really beautiful' The boy's smile is very good-looking, like the sun pouring on the petals, simple, very clean, I blushed, and I didn't know how to reply for a while"
"When the class bell rang, I quickly calmed down, listened carefully and hid you silently in my heart. β
The woman hugged the cold body in her arms tightly, as if this was her whole world, and continued in a voice as gentle as water: "Every morning you will bring me breakfast, I will watch you play in the playground, and then I will think! How can there be such a warm big boy in the world?"
"We came home after school, listened to the new album together, and we had a great conversation. β
"Later, you confessed to me, and happy and excited emotions came to my heart, but I didn't agree on the spot, I was afraid that this was your whim, so I said, let's go ΓΓto high school together, I will be in a relationship with you, but I need a bright future. β
There was silence, no one spoke anymore, all that could be heard was the sound of the car at the end, and the woman looked through the reflective glass at the cars following behind her, giving a bleak smile.
"Who doesn't want to live? We helped them so much, and as a result, you died, and your head was pierced, and blood flowed down and your face was splashed."
The surrounding river was raging and rolling, and the woman's orderly car suddenly increased its speed, and her dilated pupils were blurred with tears, and she couldn't see the road clearly, and hit the cliff hard, and then fell into the middle of the angry river, and was swallowed up, without a trace.
Only the bloodstains on the stone wall prove that someone once came here and buried an old story of happiness, sadness, happiness, and pain.
The sky was inky, Tao Qinian smiled bitterly, it's so good! My parents died in front of me again, but I still couldn't do anything.
But so what, they want me to live, I'm so well-behaved, of course I have to listen to my parents.
The branches loomed in the shadows, like claws poking out of hell, and the spirits began to wander, and the crows chirped over the abandoned houses, one after another, and screamed incessantly.
A miserable white hand climbed up the path, and then appeared in front of her, a bloodless face, as if only black and white were left between heaven and earth, and the girl's chapped lips moved, but she still could not speak, only the sound of dull breathing repeatedly reminded her that she was still alive.
Mother said that she would wait until it was safe to go, and it was about midnight, and there was no safer time in the deep mountains and old forests than at this time.
The ground full of sand and gravel was not only cold, but also her feet were very painful, and her shoes did not know where they flew, so barefoot, the girl walked and walked, trying to find something along the road, but at the end of the road, there were cliffs and blood.
The rain fell without warning, and it fell on her body, and for a while her heart was cold, and the girl became more and more like a ghost wandering in the world.
My father is gone from me......
The mother followed the father and left......
No one will stay for me, I am a ghost that no one wants, heh, she smiled softly, so miserable, so fragile.
The pouring raindrops came down, dripping and dripping, to wash away the filth of the world, everything was washed, the heart seemed to be opened, the pain penetrated the heart, and the breathing became more and more difficult.
In the rain, in the bloody night, in the desperate sorrow, the girl fell into a deep sleep, and the girl's body curled up, leaving an endless white.