Chapter 11: Amulets
Since then, he has deliberately kept a distance from this woman, and it should be said that he deliberately avoided this woman. The woman staged her double-faced face as always, and Zhou Rui still occasionally heard strange sounds in the dead of night, but he didn't dare to peek at it anymore.
After a few more years, Zhou Rui began to study in junior high school. One afternoon during the summer vacation, he was sitting in the living room watching TV, and the woman closed the bedroom door and hurried out. Zhou Rui looked up and glanced at the bedroom door boredly, hum, every time she went out, she still locked the door, as if she was worried about who would steal her things, and she didn't want to think about who was an outsider. Zhou Rui thought dissatisfiedly in his heart.
Suddenly, a thought came to me - to find out what secrets she had. He was bored and suddenly became interested, every time a woman went out, it would take a long time to come back, just do it.
He removed the frosted cover from the notebook, which was just right, and shoved the frosted paper along the door to break the lock.
This trick is what most people in the school do, the classroom door is this kind of secret lock, sometimes things are forgotten to take out, only the student on duty has the key, and this technique was invented after coming and going.
Gently opened the bedroom door, and now he is alone in the house, which can be blatant, but affected by the psychological stereotype, he still looks back a few times, like a thief.
Entering this room that had made him feel mysterious and scared for a long time, Zhou Rui's heart beat faster. After looking around, everything was normal, just some father and this woman's things, nothing special.
He opened the drawer of the small table at the head of the bed, looking for some of the woman's notepads or diaries, and found that they were all his father's notepads, and they were all about business. Zhou Rui closed the drawer, walked out disappointed, glanced at the entire room again, and closed the door again and locked it.
When I came to the living room to continue watching TV, I felt a little strange in addition to being disappointed, and I couldn't tell what was strange. My eyes were glued to the TV, and I kept recalling this feeling in my heart.
For a moment, he seemed to have captured something, a strange feeling that came from his last glance at the bedroom. This bedroom was a little different from what he had seen before, the door was open a few times when his father was at home, and Zhou Rui would glance at it a few times when he walked through the hallway. What's the difference...... Oh yes, it's a lot of things.
His father's bedroom seemed to him to be very simple, with a double bed, a bedside table, a wardrobe, a TV, a few pots of flowers, and nothing more, so it seemed to have a sense of emptiness. Now there are a lot of extra things, my father's travel bag, hiking boots, safes, etc.
These things that are not usually used should be placed under the bed, so what is placed under the bed now!
Zhou Rui jumped up, ran over with sandpaper and stabbed the bedroom door open, looking at the double bed, yes, the sheets were placed on the carpet, wrapping the whole bed, at first glance it gave people a solid illusion, he walked over and lifted the sheets, and the bottom of the bed was really hollow. Swallowing, he leaned down and looked down at the bottom of the bed.
"What are you doing?" A low and weak voice came from behind, Zhou Rui straightened up in fright, his heart was pounding, he didn't know what to say, his brain couldn't think anymore. One is because he is now blocked and can't end up. The second is because he has seen the things under the bed, which are pot-sized jars, with yellow paper pasted on them, and the names and hours and months written with a brush, which are the ashes altars he has only seen on TV!
Zhou Rui stood at a loss, and the woman came over and said with a smile: "Rui Rui, how can you casually enter the adult's room?" There was no smile in the charming eyes, it was cold.
Seeing the woman coming, Zhou Rui subconsciously took a few steps back and leaned against the wall. He wanted to say nothing and get out of this place as soon as possible. As soon as his body moved, the woman blocked in front of him, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go out." As he spoke, he stretched out his weak hand and touched the top of Zhou Rui's head.
Zhou Rui suddenly found that her face was a little white today, her lips were very red, and she was a little too red, was that lipstick? The woman's hand was about to touch her head, looking at this posture, Zhou Rui felt that something was wrong no matter how stupid she was, but she was leaning against the wall, and there was no way to retreat.
At the moment when the woman's hand touched the top of Zhou Rui's head, she suddenly screamed and jumped away, her expression full of horror. His eyes widened and stared at Zhou Rui. didn't have time to think about it, since the woman got out of the way, Zhou Rui immediately ran out of the room, and he didn't dare to stay at home, so he escaped directly from the house.
Standing on the side of the road panting, Zhou Rui still looked back from time to time, for fear that the woman would catch up. After wandering on the street for a while, he settled down and went to the company to find his father. He told his father all this, and when he saw that he was flustered, and that he was no longer the child he used to be, he doubted his words, and told him to go somewhere else to play for a while, and when he was done with the business at hand, he would go home with him to see.
He came out of his father's company, and when he left, he repeatedly told his father not to alarm the woman first. After sitting in the Internet café for two hours, my father called and said that he had arrived home and asked him to go back.
Returning home with trepidation, my father sat in the living room with the woman as if nothing had happened. But judging from the look in the woman's eyes, and her sinister smile from time to time, her father had already told her everything.
During the meal, his father said a lot of inexplicable things to him, telling him to go out and play with his classmates more, not to always think about bad things in the room alone, and to be strong boys. Zhou Rui didn't speak while eating, and his heart sank to the bottom.
A few days later, this woman took advantage of the topic and bought a good-looking men's pendant, and encouraged her father to change it for Zhou Rui, so that he would forget the unhappy things, and he would be laughed at by others if he always wore a lady's pendant. 's father even praised her for being considerate, but Zhou Rui refused to live or die, but it is undeniable that judging from the pendant she picked, this woman is still very discerning.
Zhou Rui knew that at the critical juncture that day, there was something to protect himself that could make this woman fearful. Touching the pendant around his neck, he thought of his vague mother.
Zhou Rui is not a fuel-efficient lamp, since then, every time his father comes home, he secretly takes out a belt in his room and whips his arm, making some scars that can be seen just now, and when he eats, his father finds out and asks him what is going on, he looks up at the woman a few times, and then shakes his head and says it's okay, accidentally fell, and continues to eat with his head down.
He also bought a razor machine and an old-fashioned watch, which he put in an inconspicuous place in the bathroom, and when his father saw it and asked, he hurriedly put it away, saying that he had accidentally put it away. His father asked him what he was doing with these things, but he wouldn't say anything.
After going back and forth, this woman also knew that Zhou Rui was not easy to mess with, so she didn't dare to blatantly hit the idea of the pendant. Zhou Rui didn't dare to step into her bedroom for another half step. Since then, the well water has not interfered with the river water, and both of them have remained vigilant and have nothing to do with each other.
But Zhou Rui left a shadow in his heart, he began to be afraid of going back to this home, and would rather go to his classmates to play with his classmates or go to an Internet café to play games after school, rather than go home.
Time passed day by day, Zhou Rui grew up day by day, and when he was eighteen years old, his father wanted to celebrate his birthday, he asked his father for a photo of his mother, looked at it a few times, put it in his desk drawer, and went out to play with his group of fox friends and dogs.
Zhou Rui's academic performance is generally ranked first or second in the class, but it is the bottom. The teacher can't do anything about him. By the time he finished high school, he couldn't even get into a university, and he didn't want to go to a technical school, so he followed a group of dog friends in bars and Internet cafes all day long.
His father originally planned to let him come to the company to study and inherit the family business in the future, but he was also very disappointed when he saw him like a hanger.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Rui followed a few random people who were infected with drugs, and it was found that the Public Security Bureau called and asked the family to go to the drug rehabilitation center to pay the money. After that, he was in and out of this drug rehabilitation center, and his father was disheartened with him, and he didn't give him a penny, so he went outside to steal chickens and dogs. If he couldn't steal it, he took out the valuable things in the house and sold them, and the woman didn't stop him, and he was about to sell all the things in the house.
When his father saw him, he had a headache like a plague god, and discussed having another child with the woman.