Chapter 17: The Dark Forest
At about seven o'clock in the evening, the man finally saw the door open and his wife took her son's little hand and walked in. The man finally showed a heartfelt smile on his face, but then he saw his wife frown visibly, and even covered his nose with one hand.
The man knew that his wife was also very dissatisfied with the environment here, but he saw everything that happened on Friday night, and his wife could not continue to bear the expensive rent on her own, so she had to move to an urban village with much cheaper rent.
The woman turned on the light, and an old-fashioned light bulb hung on the ceiling, and the dim light shone on the messy daily necessities, showing a sad feeling. The woman looked at the things that had not been packed up yet, and sighed in her heart, not knowing if there was still a place to stay in this small space after taking out all those things.
However, it was lucky to find such a rented place in just two days, the last tenant was a migrant worker who came to the city to work hard, and had to go back temporarily because of something happened at home, and the woman bargained and rented the room for a mere 500 yuan.
There are only two people who live, and it is still an adult and a child, and they don't need so much space, and the woman comforts herself with such words, at least her financial burden can be reduced a lot by living here. The only thing that is not so good is that there is no place to cook, and the woman has discussed with the landlord to allow her to set up an induction cooker in the aisle, so that she can cook some delicious meals for Haohao when she has time.
The landlord is an elderly woman, she has raised a lot of children herself, and she has just hugged her grandson not long ago, so for Haohao's sake, the landlord agreed to the woman's request.
Moving to such a place, the thing that women are most worried about is that they have wronged Haohao, but from her observations, Haohao's adaptability is much stronger than herself. He never complained about the simplicity of the room, and he couldn't throw all the toys on the floor to play with as before, but he was full of all kinds of curiosity about this new environment, cracks in the walls, spiders and cockroaches crawling out of nowhere could arouse Haohao's interest.
The woman took out the working meal she brought back from the supermarket, and now there are still many things that have not been arranged, so she can only use the working meal to deal with the dinner first.
Hao Hao sat at his desk and ate dinner, while the woman began to take out the things that had not been packed up one by one, and all the clothes began to be sorted into the cupboard.
In fact, the woman could have lived in the community for a few more months, because the envelope given to her by her mother contained a full 5,000 yuan, but the woman decided to move out after thinking twice. She can't always rely on her mother's help, she should have been independent at this age, and she can't let her mother worry anymore.
If 5,000 yuan is only enough to live in the community for two months, but in the urban village it is a full ten months, the woman feels that it is nothing to work hard now, and when Haohao grows up, her life will always get better and better.
With most of the clothes being packed, the woman felt that her mood was slowly getting better, she glanced at Haohao who was lying on the table to eat, today her son behaved very obediently, neither yelling to feed himself, nor running to play with toys by himself with the lunch box cold.
The woman gradually felt that the poor accommodation conditions were acceptable, after all, it was good to have their mother and son dependent on each other, but this feeling had just appeared, and the light overhead suddenly went out, and the room became dim and could not see anything clearly.
"Haohao, you sit there, don't move," the woman was worried about Haohao for the first time, for fear that he would bump into something in the dark, and after hearing Haohao's answer, the woman groped to open the door and stood in the aisle.
The urban village in front of me was pitch black, with only a few car lights on the road, while a few hundred meters away on the city avenue, where the lights were bright and the traffic was endless, it was a completely different scene.
"Grass, why is the power out again, it's so hot at night, how can people sleep?" The strange man who lived next to him began to curse, and walked out of the room shirtless.
The woman hurriedly went back to the house and closed the door, and the mood that she thought that no matter how bad the conditions were, would be ruined all of a sudden, and there would be a power outage in this hellish place? The woman almost roared in her heart, once the power went out, she couldn't do anything, she had no way to continue to pack up, and Haohao's dinner had not yet been eaten.
The woman slammed the closet door shut, sat down on the wooden bed very irritably, covered her face with her hands, and her body began to tremble slightly.
Whether there is light or not is not much difference for a man, he can still see his wife clearly, and with the man's understanding of his wife, she is now close to a state of emotional breakdown. She covered her face just because she didn't want others to see her crying, and in the past, it would have been a lot of effort for a man to soothe his wife's feelings.
The man knew that it was useless for him to do anything now, but he still sat silently beside his wife and wrapped his arm around his wife's trembling shoulder. Transparent tears slipped down from between his wife's fingers, and she cried without any sound, as if she was afraid that her son would hear it, but the more she saw it, the more heartbroken the man became.
At this moment, Haohao, who had been sitting at the desk, suddenly said, "Mom, I'm sorry. ”
The woman raised her head suspiciously, swallowed a few times before saying in a slightly normal tone, "Haohao, what's wrong?" The woman's first reaction was that Haohao might have knocked over her lunch box, but she wouldn't blame Haohao for this.
"I just cast a spell to turn this place into a dark forest, but I didn't expect it to work," Hao Hao said in a tone that he had done something wrong.
"You cast a spell?" the woman didn't know how to respond to her son's fantasies, believing that the power outage in the urban village was caused by his magic.
"Yes, it's a dark forest now, Mom, look there, there's a monster coming!" Haohao said, pointing to a shadow on the wall.
The woman's eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, and she could see something clearly even without light, and there was indeed a shadow on the wall moving rapidly at this time, but the woman could tell at a glance that it was a car on the street outside.
Hao Hao jumped off the bench, he ran to the woman's side, took her hand and hurriedly said, "Mom, let's run, when the monster comes, it will eat us." ”
The woman wiped the tears on her face with her other hand, and her son's innocence made her forget the boredom in her heart for a while, "Haohao, where should we run to?"
Hao Hao dragged his mother to the gap between the wooden bed and the wardrobe, "Mom, we are hiding behind the closet, and the monster can't see us." ”
"Really, but my mother is still a little scared," the woman said with a teasing remark.
Haohao blocked his small body in front of the woman, "Mom, don't be afraid, I will use my magic wand to protect you." ”
Hearing Haohao's simple words and seeing his movements like a little adult, the woman suddenly burst into tears and laughed. She found that she didn't need to take care of Haohao's mood because of the power outage, but her son's innocent and romantic fantasy made the power outage interesting. "It's really good, Haohao will protect his mother in the future," the woman said with relief, touching her son's head.
The man who was also in the room witnessed all this in front of him, just a second ago he was still worried about how his wife's emotions should be calmed down, and in the future, without himself, how would his wife go on alone, but just a second passed, and his son's actions easily woke his wife up from sadness, and I have to say that he did much better than he did at the beginning.
Men begin to find that many of their worries are superfluous, whether it is financial problems, his wife's fragile heart, or taking care of Haohao's life, even if he is not around, there will always be a way to solve it. When the man saw the mother and son hiding behind the wardrobe playing games, a trace of relief finally appeared on his face.