Chapter 56: A Family of Three (3)
I ran to the abandoned car before the man, and from a distance I could see a tall figure lying by the window talking to the man in the back seat, but the figure was not the woman's husband. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
I approached slowly, not particularly concerned about the sound of my footsteps, after all, they couldn't alarm the people of ten years ago.
"Are you going to hang out?" I heard Hikari, leaning by the window, asking in a somewhat slurred voice, his tone filled with curiosity and excitement that was different from the tense atmosphere in the village.
"Ah, yes," the woman's tone was not very happy, probably just coaxing him, "we're going to go out for a while, and we'll be back in a while." β
"Oh, oh." Bai Endeavor nodded. I could see through the front window of the car a human figure sitting in the back seat, holding a small child-like light in his arms.
"Where are you going?" he asked, not noticing the other party's reservations, still in that childish curiosity, "Are you going to the city play and toy store?" β
As soon as the child in the woman's arms heard the word toy, he immediately sat up from drowsiness, and writhed from side to side in her arms.
"Mom, are we going to the toy store?" He looked up, the tiny top of his head just against his mother's chin.
"Okay, okay, I'll take you." The mother comforted him and gently patted the child in her arms.
Soon, the baby was quiet again, lying in her arms a little softly, making a small sound of breathing as she fell asleep.
"Endeavour," said the woman, in a low voice, "you... Is there anything else going on? Do you want to go first? Apparently she was aware of the trouble that the older kid might be causing her. I don't have children, but I know how hard it can be to raise children, so moms don't want anyone to get their little monster too excited.
"Oh, oh." The stupid big man answered twice, but he didn't move. "I have something to tell you."
"What's the matter?" The woman's tone was visibly impatient.
"That, that," he paused for a second, trying to remember what he was about to say.
"Oh, that, Cen Xiao said that everyone had better not go out." After a few minutes of thinking, he finally remembered, "Say it's better to stay home because of this flu." β
The woman nodded and said to him in a gentle tone, "I think what she means is that people don't have too much contact with people, so it's easy to infect each other." So it's time for you to go back, right? β
"Hmm." Bai Fenjin nodded hesitantly, "Oh, also, she said that she wanted everyone to pay attention... Electrical appliances. β
"Appliances?" This grabbed the woman's attention, "What's wrong with the electrical appliances?" β
"Sheβshe told her mother to pay attention to whether there was a leak... Electricity in the case. She said it would leak and leak. After Bai Fenjin finished speaking, he scratched the back of his head, "Then, goodbye, goodbye." "I'm ready to go.
"Wait!" The woman in the car called out to him, "Did she say why the electricity leaked?" β
Then I saw a light coming from not far away, it must be the husband of the woman. I saw him speed up his pace, trotted over, glanced in the direction of Bai Endeavour, and then rushed into the car and asked, "What's wrong?" β
The woman hurriedly leaned to the window: "Brother Bai just told me that there might be a leakage, and I was asking." β
"What leakage?" The man turned his head and asked Bai Endeavour.
"Cen and Cen Xiao told my mother that there might be a power leak." Bai Fenjin stood up. He was half a head taller than the man in front of him, but his whole gesture was like that of a child being questioned by a teacher.
"What's leaking?" The man was obviously still feeling irritated by what had happened before, and his tone was a little impulsive.
"She... She didn't say anything. The stupid big man seemed a little overwhelmed, and he didn't understand why this sentence caused such a big reaction from the two of them. If an electrical appliance suddenly breaks down, or if you find that the battery is dead, tell her. β
"Is this related to the observatory?" The man asked, pressing his temples hard.
Bai Fenjin just shook his head vigorously, obviously very disturbed by his anger. "Cen and Cen Xiao just want to remind everyone to pay attention. She, her, and the fawn were healing. β
I guess what he wanted to say was that Cen Xiao and Bai Yuelu were trying to find a way to treat the "flu" in Wangxing Village, but it was obvious that the other party had misunderstood what he meant.
"What, they're sick too?" The man roared lowly.
"No, no." The stupid big man hurriedly waved his hand, "It's not like this, it's..."
"Alright, let's go." The man waved his hand impatiently. Bai Fenjin stopped talking, looked at them with some hesitation, and then left quickly.
"Oh, why are you like this!" His wife couldn't help but reproach, "Big Brother Bai... It's not that you don't know, why are you so fierce to him. β
"Don't speak," the man yelled at her angrily, "I have a headache. Come over and help the handle, I'll open the hood and take a look. β
I watched as the woman's light came out of the car, still holding the baby in her arms, and followed her husband to open the driver's door.
"Here, you take this." I saw him hand the woman a palm-sized object, which was supposed to be for lighting.
I watched as they tinkered in the car for a while, wisps of light coming out of the generator's position - I can't describe how it came out, as if it were peeling back a cocoon, the light like a thin flowing liquid, swirling around his body and drifting towards the sky, as if something was pulling in midair.
I heard a voice coming from next to me: "You're so late... Are you going out? As soon as he turned his head, he saw the village elder Chen's light passing by.
I watched the little couple walk towards him, and the picture gradually pieced together into a familiar scene: Lao Chen stood there, talking to a man and a woman, the woman was still holding a child, and at this moment she was stimulated by the cold wind in the middle of the night and cried.
I was amazed to see what was next. The man would complain that he couldn't stay in the village, and say that he would ask Uncle Jia's son to drive them out of here tomorrow. Then Lao Chen would be very tired and remind them to pay attention to safety.
Although this kind of thing has happened before, seeing the fragments overlapping and merging together still makes me feel like I am in a different world. How they started, how they got here, and how they ended.
I watched as the man tried to start the car again, but the battery didn't miraculously suddenly have a charge. He kicked the tire violently in anger, causing the baby in his wife's arms to burst into a new burst of crying.
"Okay, don't cry, don't cry." He turned his head, still impatient, but his tone was much softer. He took the child from his wife's hands and carefully coaxed him.
"There's no way, I can only go back first, and I'll figure out a way tomorrow."