The sun was getting lower and lower, and by the time Zhang Hu and Sister-in-law Li returned home, it was already completely dark. As soon as Zhang Hu walked into his house, he casually found a stool and sat down. He took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit one quickly, and sat there and smoked it, "Do you still have food, I'm hungry?" Zhang Hu asked Sister-in-law Li while smoking a cigarette.

When Sister-in-law Li, who was also sitting on the side, heard this, she immediately stood up and walked towards the kitchen, "You wait, I'll serve it!" ”

Zhang Hu sat there motionless, Sister-in-law Li came in with food for a while and was busy moving the low table in the yard into the house, and when this was done, Zhang Hu had already begun to smoke the second cigarette, "You also come to help, don't sit there and smoke all the time!" ”

"Hehe, can't you be busy. What else do you want me to help with? Zhang Hu said happily as he picked up the rice.

"Humph! You've got a mouth! Sister-in-law Li glared at Zhang Hu, wiped her hands, and walked to the inner room, "Xiaocheng, Jiajia." Have you eaten it? ”

Sister-in-law Li pushed open the door of the children's room, although there was no light inside, she could still see the bulging hillside on the bed, shook her head, and turned to go out.

"Have Xiaocheng and Jiajia already eaten it?" Zhang Hu took a bowl and took a sip of porridge and asked.

"Probably. They were already asleep when I went in. I didn't wake them up. Sister-in-law Li also filled a bowl of porridge, brought a stool over, sat down and began to eat. The two couples chatted with each other, and when they had a good meal, the two of them who had eased up felt very tired, and Sister-in-law Li cleaned up the table haphazardly, quickly washed up and prepared to go to bed. As usual, before going to bed, Sister-in-law Li went to see if her son and daughter had kicked the quilt, and it would be bad if she caught a cold in this winter. Zhang Hu went back to his room first, took off his coat and was about to go to bed, when he heard a scream coming from his son's daughter's room. Zhang Hu panicked, and didn't bother to put on a coat, so he ran directly towards his children's room.

Before he could run in, he bumped into the oncoming sister-in-law Li, "What's wrong?" Seeing Sister-in-law Li's panicked appearance, Zhang Hu asked nervously.

"Jiajia...... Jiajia is gone!! Sister-in-law Li's body trembled almost uncontrollably, her little daughter was gone, she was still fine in the evening, why was she gone?

"When did you not see you?" Li Hu looked calmer than Sister-in-law Li, if you ignore his slightly trembling hands. As a father, when his daughter is gone, he can be really calm, and he is just pretending to be calm. "Don't worry, speak slowly!"

"It's still in the evening. When I sent Fang Yu to the hospital with everyone, I also told her to play with Xiaocheng at home! How...... Why is it gone!! Sister-in-law Li pulled Zhang Hu in a panic and said, "I asked Xiao Cheng, and Xiao Cheng said that they had eaten together and then went to bed." He didn't know what happened after that. What to do? What can I do? ”

After Zhang Hu heard this, he turned around and walked to his room, "I'll go and put on my clothes first, and we'll go out together to find it in a while!" Sister-in-law Li nodded again and again when she heard this.

Zhang Hu took his coat and put it on haphazardly, and walked out without having time to button it, "Let's go, let's go out and have a look!"

Zhang Hu and Sister-in-law Li were just about to go out, when their son Xiaocheng came out of his house and looked at his parents barefoot and uneasily, "Dad, Mom, Jiajia is gone, is it?" Xiao Cheng asked his parents cautiously and softly. Zhang Hu stopped, walked over, patted his son's head, and said, "Jiajia will find it!" Xiaocheng, don't worry, let's go to sleep first. ”

Xiao Cheng looked up at his father, and it wasn't until Zhang Hu nodded affirmatively to him that he showed a shallow smile, "Hmm! ”

Zhang Hu and Sister-in-law Li coaxed their son to sleep, and then anxiously rushed out the door. It's already pitch black outside, in this remote mountain village, there is no hustle and bustle of the city, and there is no red and willow green, only a bright moon hanging leisurely in the sky, setting off the small mountain village more quiet and lonely. Zhang Hu and Sister-in-law Li kept sweeping the inconspicuous corners of the village with flashlights, and shouted anxiously, "Jiajia!! Allison!! ”

Except for the occasional echo of their own, the silence made Zhang Hu and his wife panic.

"Is something wrong? Jiajia is gone? The shouts of Zhang Hu and his wife did not find their daughter, but woke up the villagers who had already gone to bed, and they came out to ask.

"Jia Jia was still there in the evening. I and everyone sent Dazhu's wife to the hospital and came back, and I didn't see Jiajia!! Sister-in-law Li's anxious tears flowed down, wiping her tears vigorously.

"Did she find a place to play?" The old village chief ran out with only a cotton coat, and asked with concern when he walked out from behind everyone.

"Looked. None of them. Zhang Hu said dejectedly, he held Sister-in-law Li's hand tightly, and supported each other all the way to the present.

"That's right! And one more place!! Sister-in-law Li suddenly remembered what happened to Jiajia at the entrance of the village during the day today, and almost screamed, "The haystack at the entrance of the village!" ”

"Zhang Hu, you and your wife will go to the haystack at the entrance of the village to have a look, and I and the other villagers will go to other places to look for it." The old village chief put on the cotton clothes on his body and said to Zhang Hu and his wife. Whoever loses a child will die in a hurry, and everyone understands and agrees with the old village chief's words. So, everyone left their own women at home to look after the house, and everyone else went around looking for Jiajia.

Everyone found it at eleven o'clock in the evening, but there was still no news of Jiajia, and Zhang Hu and his wife were sent home by the villagers as if they had lost their souls. The old village chief patted Zhang Hu on the shoulder and comforted, "It's too late today, and you can't see anything outside in the dark and black." When it dawns tomorrow, we'll look for you. Don't worry too much, take care of your spirits and find Jiajia tomorrow, right? ”

"yes, yes. Zhang Hu, sister-in-law Li, don't worry too much, maybe she just fell asleep playing somewhere. Everyone echoed the words of the village chief, although they persuaded them so much, but everyone knew very well in their hearts that they had searched for all the places they could, but they still didn't find Jiajia, Jiajia may no longer be in the village, and there is another possibility, that is, Jiajia has an accident and can't come back. But no one dared to say this,

The villagers left Zhang Hu's house one after another, and it was not until the old village chief who had been comforting them also left that Sister-in-law Li looked up at Zhang Hu and cried out with a 'wow'. Zhang Hu took out the cigarette case from his pocket, took out a cigarette, lit it with a lighter several times but failed to light it, his heart was on fire, and he threw the lighter in his hand to the ground, and the lighter was immediately torn apart.

Zhang Hu's movements were so frightened that Xiao Cheng shuddered when he heard the sound of people coming out of his room, he looked at his crying mother and his father who was suffocating on the side, and then quickly ran back to his room, huddled in the quilt and silently shed tears.

In the hospital in the middle of the night

Fang Yu slept in a daze, and from time to time there was an intermittent cry in his ears. The sound was like the crying that had been heard every night lately, only it was clearer than before. Fang Yu opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling of the hospital, the voice became clearer and clearer, as if a person was crying close to his ear, hearing a burst of fear in Fang Yu's heart, the hairs on his body stood on end. Fang Yu reached out and pushed her husband Zhang Dazhu, who was sleeping on the bed. Zhang Dazhu turned over in a daze and didn't wake up. Fang Yu listened to the crying outside and became more and more frightened, ruthlessly, picked up a teacup on the table and smashed Zhang Dazhu hard, Zhang Dazhu was clever, got up from the bed suddenly, held Fang Yu's hand and asked, "What's wrong?" Where is it uncomfortable? Do you want me to call a doctor? ”

Fang Yu moved his body on the bed with difficulty, and said, "No. Dazhu, have you heard anyone crying outside? ”

Zhang Dazhu was stunned for a moment, shook his head helplessly and said, "Fang Yu, you say this again, it's so cold outside, who will stay outside!" ”

"But I really hear people crying outside! Don't believe it, you listen!! If it was before, maybe Fang Yu would have agreed with Zhang Dazhu's words, but recently, she clearly felt that the voice was getting clearer and clearer, as if she had come to her from a long distance, and this feeling made Fang Yu more and more afraid.

Zhang Dazhu saw that Fang Yu insisted that someone was crying outside, and remembered the doctor's advice during the day, he lowered his head and thought about it seriously before saying, "This is the hospital, maybe someone's family outside died, so he started crying outside." ”

"It's different! If someone dies in the house, there must be a whole bunch of people crying, but now there is only one person's voice. Fang Yu insisted on his cognition and said resolutely, "No, Dazhu, I'm afraid, you go and take a look!" ”

Zhang Dazhu looked at Fang Yu's resolute face, he couldn't, so he had to pick up the cotton clothes next to the bed and put them on, "Then I'll take a look, you stay here alone, what is there to find a nurse, do you know?" Zhang Dazhu opened the door and finally told Fang Yu.

"I see, be careful yourself!" Fang Yu saw that Zhang Dazhu was finally willing to go out to see what was going on, and the fear in his heart was alleviated a lot. However, as soon as Zhang Dazhu went out, Fang Yu regretted it again, she was now the only one left in the dark ward, and the headlights in the ward were not turned on at night, so Fang Yu could only lean sideways with difficulty and reach for the switch of the wall lamp.

Fang Yu tried to turn his body sideways, and stretched out his arm with all his strength, and when he was about to reach the switch of the wall lamp, he suddenly saw a figure at the door. Frightened, Fang Yu immediately retracted his hand, trembled slightly, and asked, "Who!" ”

The figure at the door moved slightly, Fang Yu swallowed his saliva and watched the figure at the door gradually walk into his ward, his hands clutching the quilt tightly, his eyes full of fear. The figure gradually appeared, it was a girl of six or seven years old, with a simple double ponytail tied with a red rope, and her big round eyes looked curiously at Fang Yu's bulging belly on the bed.

"It's Jiajia!" Fang Yu finally saw the figure clearly, the fear in his heart was swept away, and he exhaled heavily, he was really scared just now! "Why are you here? Coming with your mother? ”

Jiajia tilted her head and thought about it, shook her head and said, "No." I came alone. No, I'm here with my little brother. ”

"Little brother?" Fang Yu was a little puzzled at first, and soon remembered what happened at the entrance of the village during the day, and couldn't help frowning, "Didn't Jiajia's mother sue sù Jiajia, can't you just go with someone you don't know." Did Jiajia forget about jì? ”

"I'm sorry." Jiajia's big eyes were full of seriousness, "I said I wanted to see Aunt Fang, but everyone was so busy, only he said he could bring me, so we came here with a 'whoosh'." Jiajia gestured exaggeratedly with her hands, as if she was very happy when she came here.

"Jiajia wants to come to see Aunt Fang, and Aunt Fang is very happy! But Jiajia can't follow people she doesn't know. Otherwise, Jiajia will never see Aunt Fang again in the future. Fang Yu beckoned to Jiajia to come in, "When Jiajia came, did you tell your parents?" Jiajia shook her head. Fang Yu glanced at Jiajia helplessly, thinking that he would wait for Dazhu to come back in a while, and ask him to call Zhang Hu and his wife, saying that Jiajia was here. Jiajia disappeared suddenly, Zhang Hu and Sister-in-law Li must be in a hurry!

Jiajia walked around the side of the bed and walked to Fang Yu's left hand near the window and stopped. Fang Yu got up slightly, picked up an apple that Dazhu had bought during the day from the table, and handed it to Jiajia, "Give it." Jiajia eats an apple first, and when your uncle comes back in a while, ask him to call the village chief's house, and ask the village chief to tell your parents, you have come to Aunt Fang's place, and you have slept here at night! ”

Jiajia was silent and didn't eat the apple, holding the apple in her hand, a pair of big eyes with weird colors staring at Fang Yu's bulging belly, "Aunt Fang, the aunt outside said that she likes boys!" ”

Although Fang Yu couldn't hear it clearly, when she saw Jiajia's strange expression, she suddenly became scared in her heart, and her hands unconsciously covered her stomach tightly, it was a mother's intuition, her child needed protection now.

Jiajia looked at Fang Yu's movements, a big smile opened at the corner of her mouth, it should have been a cute smile, but at this time, I don't know if it was because of the moonlight on her back or what, Fang Yu felt particularly terrifying when she looked at it, her heart beat violently uncontrollably, and her breathing became rapid.

"The little brother said that he liked this brother very much." Jiajia reached out to touch Fang Yu's belly, but Fang Yu knocked her hand off with a 'snap' without thinking. Jiajia didn't seem to be angry, and her smiling face made Fang Yu more and more afraid. Just when Fang Yu wanted to ask Jiajia what was going on. Zhang Dazhu's voice came from outside the door.

"I'll just say, who would cry outside in the winter, how cold it is, you still don't believe it!" Zhang Dazhu walked into the ward quickly, as if he was holding something in his arms, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Fang Yu holding his stomach with one hand. Three steps and two steps, he quickly walked in front of Fang Yu and asked, "Are you uncomfortable?" Didn't I tell you to call a nurse when you were uncomfortable! With that, Zhang Dazhu was about to reach out and press the ambulance bell at the head of the bed.

Seeing this, Fang Yu hurriedly grabbed his hand, "No, I'm fine, I was just scared by Jiajia." ”

"Jiajia? Brother Tiger's Jiajia? Zhang Dazhu asked suspiciously.

"yes, isn't that next to me!" Fang Yu motioned for Zhang Dazhu to look to his left, but when he turned his head, where was Jiajia's shadow, empty without a trace of extraordinary.

"Don't talk nonsense. How could Jiajia be here, you don't want to think about what time it is. She, a six-year-old girl, how did she come to Fengxian City from such a far place in Yuxi Village. Zhang Dazhu looked at his wife helplessly, saying some impossible things these days. I couldn't help but think of the fact that I got up in the middle of the night to catch the cat because of her blind thoughts, "Look, that guy who barks like a cry in the middle of the night!" I told you that it was a cat meow, but you still don't believe it, so I want me to get up in the middle of the night to help you catch the cat. As he spoke, he stuffed the black cat in his hand into Fang Yu's hand.

Fang Yu looked down, only to see the black cat in Zhang Dazhu's hand looking directly at him, the more he looked at it, the more he felt like the eyes that Jiajia had seen just now, and he was scared, so he pushed it out, "Take it away!" Take! ”

Seeing that she seemed to be very afraid of cats, Zhang Dazhu hurriedly opened the window, put the cat in his hand on the outer edge of the window, and let it leave by itself. The black cat stood on the window and turned around, then turned its head to look at Fang Yu on the hospital bed, and jumped off the windowsill with a 'meow'.

"Alright. The cat is gone, don't be afraid! Zhang Dazhu patted Fang Yu on the back and comforted, "I haven't seen you afraid of cats before." What's going on lately? ”

Fang Yu leaned on the head of the bed, clutching the quilt on his body, but he didn't say a word.

On the road of Fengxian City, the little girl with a double ponytail walked up and down and asked the air on the left, "Little brother, do you really like Aunt Fang's younger brother?" ”

When he had finished speaking, he heard 'click; With a bang, a small piece of apple was missing in his hand, and then he smiled and said to himself, "In this way, can I go to your house to play?" ”

After a while, she jumped up happily again, "Great! Then he walked farther and farther on the road of Fengxian City.

In this dark night, no one saw that under the illumination of the street lamps in Fengxian City, there was an extra figure at the feet of the little girl who did not belong to her.