Chapter 24: The Heart-Eater (1)
When she came back from her hometown, Zhong Ling was depressed all day long, and she was very troubled by her grandfather's unnatural death, but she didn't have any clue for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
On this day, when the flowers bloomed on the other side, Zhong Ling was sitting in the store in a daze, and suddenly a middle-aged man came into the store.
Zhang Tianyu hurriedly greeted him, and saw a sad and sad face, with gray hair on his temples, he should not be very old, but he felt like a piece of rotten wood, his eyes did not have any brilliance, and his whole body was curled into a ball.
"Uncle, do you have something to ......do," Zhang Tianyu asked.
"Lad......"
His cloudy eyes turned around, staring at Zhang Tianyu blankly, looking at it for a while, tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, he took out a photo frame from his arms and handed it to Zhang Tianyu and said, "Young man, look at it, is it beautiful?" ”
The frame is quite large, and inside is a black and white photo, just like the photo in the farewell ceremony of the mourning hall, black and white colors are distinct, and the photo is a girl, looking young and full of sunshine, smiling brightly.
Zhang Tianyu nodded and said, "Beautiful." ”
"This is my daughter," he took the photo frame in Zhang Tianyu's hand, and rubbed the photo frame reluctantly, "She should be about the same age as you, she has been a beautiful and obedient child since she was a child......" He suddenly cried uncontrollably, buried his head between his hands, and his pathetic voice was suppressed by him, but it sounded sour.
He whined and cried, and suddenly shouted in a long voice: "My child, since you are gone, don't worry about the world anymore, it's not worth it, it's not worth it!" ”
"Old man, what's wrong with your daughter? What are you looking for us to do? His sad cry caught Zhong Ling's attention, and she asked.
Maybe it was because the pain that had been suppressed for too long had accumulated in his heart and no one confided him, he actually chattered to the two strangers, Zhong Ling and Zhang Tianyu.
He said that his surname was Meng, and that his daughter Meng Wan, who was only 23 years old this year, had left him forever, and the grief of losing his son in old age quickly crossed him in just half a month, making him look like a person in his sixties. But in fact, Uncle Meng is only 55 years old, and in the past six months, for Meng Wan, he has retired in advance, but he still hasn't seen his daughter's young and sunny life.
Meng Wan has always been a simple and kind girl, and simple and kind girls are often sincere, which often means that they are easy to deceive.
Meng Wan studied painting and fell in love with her teacher, a painter with a personable demeanor and elegant appearance. In Meng Wan's eyes, her teacher is a knowledgeable, intelligent and wise man, and at the same time a gentle, considerate, meticulous and warm man, such a man, just look at Meng Wan, Meng Wan will feel that the warm sun is shining, and he is like white snow under the root of the wall, about to melt.
But who would have thought that Meng Wan's teacher was actually a married person, but he pretended to be single 24 hours a day every day, and the simple and kind Meng Wan became a prey for his pursuit, emotional and physical.
The man's wife is a rich and powerful person, and he found a bunch of gossip hooligans to scare Meng Wan, kept smearing her in public, and said that she was a shameless junior on the Internet...... With all this, Meng Wan's spirit finally collapsed a little. But even so, she still couldn't let go of that man, and always unconsciously ran out secretly to find that man.
But her sincerity was exchanged for more excessive humiliation, young girls stripped naked on the street, photos posted on the Internet, and the vicious words of the neighbors resounded sparsely behind her, like lingering flies, always finding a rotten place to burrow into. Uncle Meng couldn't stand the pressure of contempt from all sides, so he locked Meng Wan at home, and he and Meng Wan's mother both retired and watched their children at home.
The family almost didn't dare to go out, and the news of the daughter spread all over the original unit and the entire circle of relatives, and the eyes of those people who seemed to be smiling and disdainful overlapped densely, making people crazy.
Uncle Meng has a nervous breakdown, and it is difficult to fall asleep every night, and Meng Wan is even more nervous under a series of blows, and Uncle Meng always has to devote more energy to take care of Meng Wan.
One night, the night was already very deep, and Uncle Meng still couldn't sleep after tossing and turning. Gradually, there was a sound in his ears, which was very low and weak, but it was full of noise, as if someone was banging on the wall and carving it on the marble surface with his fingernails, and it was very uncomfortable to listen to it.
The sound came from Meng Wan's room, through the door, Uncle Meng quietly put his ear up, and heard the stinging inside as if the radio could not receive the sound of the radio, and occasionally there were a few nail scratches, the sound was burr, as if a saw was reaching into his heart and pulling it again and again.
Suddenly, there was a scream from the room, thin and tall, but very short.
It was Meng Wan's voice.
Uncle Meng slammed open the door, but saw that there was no light in Meng Wan's house, the window was wide open, and the wind outside blew in, rolling up the curtains on both sides, revealing a blue-black canopy and a round bright moon. Meng Wan sat at the window, looking up at the moon, as if she had fallen into a kind of moon worship practice.
"Wan'er, what's wrong with you?" Uncle Meng walked like Meng Wan as he spoke, but before he finished speaking, Meng Wan suddenly turned her head, Meng Wan's face was tense, her expression was indifferent, and she looked like a cold mask in the moonlight, but her eyes were bright and fanatical, as if a madman was hiding behind the mask, only revealing excited and crazy eyes, but how to look at it felt incongruous.
Uncle Meng's footsteps paused, Meng Wan had already spoken, she said, "Dad, don't worry, I already have a solution to the pain completely." Her throat made a sound similar to a maniacal laugh, but her face was still tense, as if someone had ironed out all the laugh lines, but imprisoned her crazy soul under a cold exterior.
She kept letting out a wild laugh of "hehe" with her mouth open, and Uncle Meng seemed to see something black flashing in Meng Wan's mouth, and when he wanted to take a closer look, the thing had disappeared, as if everything was his illusion.
"Wan'er, you, are you okay?" No matter how dull Uncle Meng is, he also noticed that there is something wrong with his daughter, Meng Wan has always been a gentle and beautiful girl, she is always very warm and warm smile, she has never had such a cold look, she treats everyone very gently, but this kind of gentleness and kindness has not been rewarded well.
Uncle Meng wanted to ask something, Meng Wan had already ignored him, only turned her head to look out the window, looked up at the moon, the moonlight was plated on her face exposed to the cold wind, like a layer of mercury, her whole person seemed to be sealed in a translucent but indifferent shell, and from then on she could only be separated from the people in reality forever.
At that moment, Uncle Meng was suddenly very frightened, he felt that he was about to lose her, the loss of this daughter who had loved her like a treasure since childhood, the first "Dad" he had heard her call was crisp and moving, he once took her fleshy little hand and walked on the way to kindergarten, he once watched her tell her the story of her college with satisfaction...... But at this moment, it was as if it were a fast-paced movie lens, and all the images flew through his mind, and finally, it was frozen into a cold face.
"Wan'er, you, are you really okay?" Uncle Meng also wanted to persuade his daughter to say a few words, but Meng Wan turned her head and said coldly, "Go out." Her expression was very calm, but there was a kind of fanatical hideousness in her eyes, which made Uncle Meng tremble, and felt that she was a little afraid of this daughter from the bottom of her heart, so he involuntarily stepped back and pushed out of the room step by step.
There was no wind, but the door of the room slammed shut in front of him, and he stood still for a while, never hearing a single sound from the room.
The next day, Uncle Meng woke up in his bed, his head was a little heavy, and he always felt that what happened last night was a little weird and unreal, wasn't it, he was dreaming.
Walking out of the house, Aunt Meng was cooking, and Meng Wan was sitting motionless on the sofa in the living room. He secretly observed Meng Wan, as if Meng Wan had not changed, and was still so depressed that he didn't want to speak.
But when eating, Meng Wan had a great appetite, ate four bowls of rice, and didn't care whether Uncle Meng and Aunt Meng ate or not, and put all the chicken and stir-fried vegetables on the plate into her stomach, which made Uncle Meng and Aunt Meng stunned.
Meng Wan didn't explain, and went back to the house by herself. Not long after, she came out again and said she was hungry and asked Aunt Meng to cook for her. Uncle Meng looked at her anxiously, and saw that she didn't seem to be anything unusual except for eating more. He discussed it with Aunt Meng behind his back, and he didn't know what happened to Meng Wan.
In the following days, it was like this, Meng Wan's food became larger and larger, and the things at home were quickly eaten by Meng Wan. Aunt Meng told Meng Wan that she was going to the market to buy something, and pulled Uncle Meng out.
The two of them were very worried when they talked about Meng Wan outside, and they didn't know what happened to Meng Wan, she had a big appetite, if she ate as much as ordinary people, but she ate too much, didn't she have to eat so many things?
The two discussed all the way and didn't come up with a reason, so they had to buy a bunch of rice, noodles, vegetables, and meat and go home. When I walked into the community, those who were full of food and had nothing to do were chatting, and when I saw them, the disdain in my eyes was about to smash a pit on the ground, as if Uncle Meng and Aunt Meng should live in an underground pit, one level shorter than them.
The two didn't dare to look up, and hurriedly walked through the community into the unit door. When I got on the elevator, I ran into a middle-aged woman who was cleaning the stairway of the property, and the woman muttered and complained: "Why are there so many insects in this building recently, and it's really annoying that I can't sweep it all." The woman passed by Uncle Meng, and Uncle Meng inadvertently lowered her head, and saw the dustpan in her hand, and the black pressed insect corpses on it were all insects smaller than small fingernails.
Uncle Meng then remembered that there were a lot of insects in his house these days, the insects were very small, jet black, and they crawled through the corners of the wall in groups, connecting into a black line, which looked like a crack in the wall, and in that crack, there was a fear of the unknown.
Uncle Meng entered the house in a trance and moved things into the kitchen with Aunt Meng. Meng Wan was already standing at the door of the room, and when she saw the two of them coming back, she looked straight at her and said one word: "Hungry." ”
Aunt Meng glanced at Uncle Meng helplessly, so she had to wash the vegetables and start cooking, and Uncle Meng started.
When the meal was served, Meng Wan sat at the table alone, and the wind was whirling.
Uncle Meng sighed, took out the last dish fried by Aunt Meng from the kitchen, and was about to put it on the table, when he suddenly saw a straight black line on the leg of the dining table, he took a closer look, wasn't it an insect? These insects actually crawled onto the dining table.
"I'm going to buy some pesticides, why are there so many bugs at home." Uncle Meng subconsciously said something, but he heard a "clang" sound in his ears, and several white porcelain plates fell to the ground and fell apart, and the scraps in the dishes were scorched coldly, staining the light white places. As soon as Uncle Meng looked up, he saw that Meng Wan didn't know when she had stood on the chair, she was crouching, hunched over, her hands were bent and stretched like a pair of sharp claws, she was pressing on the dining table, her eyes were vicious, her lips were half open, and her clenched teeth made a "hissing" sound, not like a person, but a big spider.
"Wan'er, what's wrong with you?" Uncle Meng was so frightened that he took half a step back and almost fell to the ground. "You...... Don't be angry, whatever you say, Dad will do it, okay? Uncle Meng bent down in a low voice, and almost bowed to his daughter.
Meng Wan stared at him viciously for a while, suddenly leaned over, snatched the plate from Uncle Meng's hand, and didn't use chopsticks, just raised the plate and poured it into her mouth, her teeth were wide open, and she chewed fiercely, making a "squeak" sound, as if a person was gritting his teeth. Meng Wan quickly ate a plate of vegetables, and the juice of the stir-fry ran down the corners of her mouth, and she didn't know how to wipe it.
"Wan'er, you ......" Uncle Meng's whole body trembled a little, he wondered if Meng Wan was crazy, if she had a mental problem, she was like those mental patients on TV, she behaved grotesquely, living in her own illusory world, and being in a hostile state with normal people and things and things, his baby daughter Meng Wan may really be crazy.
As soon as Meng Wan's hand was released, the plate that had just been eaten clean fell to the ground with a "snap", she stared at Uncle Meng viciously again, and then turned around and went back to the house. Aunt Meng came out of the kitchen, looking at Meng Wan's back and the mess, sadness surging up like a tide, she held Uncle Meng's hand, choked up and said, "What to do, what to do." ”
Since Meng Wan's marriage went wrong, the family has been shrouded in clouds, Aunt Meng's most common sentence is "what to do", but Uncle Meng doesn't know "what to do", originally they thought, but it's just to fall in love, although it's a bit big, but as long as they leave here, they will have a good life. But that good life is based on their daughter's good life, and now that Meng Wan is like this, they really don't know what to do.
Uncle Meng discussed with Aunt Meng to invite a psychiatrist for Meng Wan to take a look, maybe she was too mentally painful, and she was depressed at home for too long, so she was sick and suffocated, but where to invite, the old couple was worried again.
Uncle Meng has not yet settled on the matter of inquiring about the psychiatrist, but a particularly terrible thing has happened.