Guoan, Dehai and others live in this ancient mansion - He Yuan, although this He Yuan no longer has the style and scale of the past, but after some repair and care, you can see the luxury of the past. Moving here should be a time for a big feast, inviting the neighbors to live there. At the beginning of the country, the people had just been liberated, advocating frugality, and its dishes were not so rich, and there were only dozens of neighbors who came to participate, toasting to celebrate the housewarming. Although there were dozens of people, it was still very lively, and everyone was talking and laughing about it.

It wasn't until nightfall that the men left, and the place was quiet. Decheng and Xiaocui stepped forward and said, "Dehai, take good care of your father, we are leaving." ”

"Brother, you see it's getting dark, stay and stay for one night, it's not too late to leave tomorrow."

"No, there are still some things going on at home," Decheng said pretending to postpone it.

Xiu Gu stood aside and said, "Big brother, I have to go back today for any urgent matter, and tomorrow we will have my father go back to my hometown to worship our ancestors and visit our late second uncle." ”

"This ——," Decheng hesitated a little after hearing this, Xiaocui stood aside and pulled Ladecheng's sleeve, stood aside, and said, "We don't feel at ease when the child is home alone." ”

"Sister-in-law, this is your fault, we are all a family, why do you leave the children at home, and don't bring them together, this is also your home."

"Another day, call us tomorrow when we go back to our hometown to worship our ancestors."

At this time, Yuchen has been squatting beside him, drawing on the ground with charcoal, and he doesn't know what he is drawing? It's very serious. At this moment, he seemed to hear someone talking behind him, or someone calling his name, "He Yuchen," and then laughed a few times. After Yuchen got up, he turned around and looked behind him, there was no one behind him, he was a little scared, and he ran over and shouted, "Mom, Mom," and took Xiugu's hand.

Xiaocui stepped forward and stroked Yuchen's little head and said, "Yuchen, you have to listen to your mother in the future." ”

"Well, I know, the eldest aunt and the eldest uncle go slowly."

"Well, Yuchen is so good."

After that, Decheng and Xiaocui walked out, and their steps were very urgent, and they quickly left this ancient mansion. The people dispersed, leaving only this huge mansion, empty. When night falls, the evening breeze is slightly cool, and the swaying branches around it add an eerie and terrifying atmosphere to this one. At this time, it was time for them to rest, at this time, Dehai and Yuchen, father and son, were sitting at the head of the bed, and saw Xiu Gu slowly walking into this room and said, "Xiaoyu, go to bed." ”

"No, Mom. I'm afraid. ”

"What are you afraid of? Mom accompanies you, okay? ”

"Okay, Mom, I want you to tell me a story."

"Okay, mom will tell you a story." Xiu Gu picked up Yuchen and walked out into his bedroom, put him on the bed, and said, "Lie down." "Tonight, Yuchen was very well-behaved, lay down, Xiugu covered him with a quilt and sat next to him, and told him about the new clothes of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale emperor. Yuchen began to feel sleepy while lying on the bed, and his upper eyelids hit his lower eyelids. Xiu Gu gently patted his chest with her hand while telling her the story, and Yuchen closed her eyes and fell asleep. Xiu Gu put his outstretched little hand into the quilt, covered the quilt, got up and walked out of the door, looked back at Yuchen who was sleeping, turned off the light, and gently closed the door.

Xiu Gu walked out of this room, and it was very dark in front of her. Walking slowly alone in this deep mansion compound, looking at the trees in the dark night, and the pavilion in front of me, everything seemed so quiet, only the sound of the wind blowing, blowing was creaking. The wind is blowing, and when he walks alone, he always feels as if there is always a person following him, so that he suddenly turns behind him and looks, all around is empty, maybe this is his own psychology is doing tricks. So he continued to walk forward, listening to the sound of his own heartbeat, as if his heart was about to jump out. As she reached her door, there was a terrible cry from the backyard, the cry of a woman. Xiugu turned again, looking for the source of her miserable cry. Walking to the backyard gate, seeing that the backyard gate was locked, the miserable cry suddenly stopped, and suddenly felt a coolness behind him, as if someone was touching her, and suddenly turned around, and there was still a person behind him.

At this time, Dehai sat at the head of the bed, under the faint light, reading the newspaper, and saw Xiu Gu walking into this room, her face was pale and pale. Dehai raised his head, looked at Xiu Gu in front of him, and said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Did you hear a woman's cry just now, it came from the backyard," Xiu Gu touched her chest, her heart beating fast, and she took a deep breath.

"What are you thinking? I didn't hear it, so go wash up and get a good night's sleep, and by dawn the next day you'll be fine. ”

Xiu Gu walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet, took the water and washed her face, sat down and looked at the big mirror in front of her with dull eyes, and suddenly found that she was covered with blood in the mirror, and looked at the faucet What flowed down was not water, but blood, which dyed the entire pool red. It was startled and stood up, maybe it was his own hallucination, maybe it was because he was too tired today. Turn off the faucet, get out of the sleeping next to Dehai, and turn off the light. At this time, Xiu Gu had not yet fallen asleep, and said to Dehai next to her: "You say, why is the backyard locked?" ”

"I don't know about this, let's sleep, don't think about it," After a while, Dehai, who was sleeping next to him, began to snore, and Xiu Gu at this time only closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.

At this time, only the light in Guoan's room was still on, and he sat alone on a chair and took out a few yellowed old photos from the drawer. Looking at these photos, I remembered the past, and the people and things of the past seemed to be a passing cloud and no longer existed. Thinking of the maid Qiuyue, tears inadvertently fell, dripping on the photos in his hand. It took a long time to get up and walk out of this room, there was no full moon tonight, and it was very dark in the compound. Guoan held a bronze lamp in one hand, walked slowly in the dark night, walked to the pavilion and sat down, looked at the stage not far away, and remembered the scene of his grandfather sitting under the stage, as well as his younger brother Guozhi standing next to him. The family sat together, talking and laughing. The evening breeze was cool, the breeze was blowing, Guoan lifted the copper lamp and walked to the backyard, so that he could not leave for a long time, with tears in his eyes, and said: "Xiaolan, my country is sorry for you," and he was also ashamed to say this.

The maid Xiaolan's personality is very stubborn, and she faced her torture in the face of her torture, and she did not say a word until she was beaten to death, nor did she beg them for mercy. Guoan stood in front of the gate in the backyard, looking at the locked gate, crying quietly. Now he is also over the age of six, thinking that his time is running out, he has also gone through several hardships, left his hometown, tasted the ups and downs, and lived a lonely life. Now he doesn't know who to tell the pain in his heart, but it is buried in the depths of his heart.

In the middle of the night, a woman's miserable cry came from He Yuan's backyard, which echoed in the night sky. Xiu Gu slept on the bed, and there was a miserable cry, which made her suddenly sit up at the head of the bed, and looked at Dehai who was sleeping next to her, Dehai was still asleep at this time, turned over, and continued to snore, without the slightest reaction. After getting up, he wore milky white pajamas, dragged slippers and walked in front of the door, opened the bedroom door, walked out slowly, wandering in the dark night, like a wandering spirit, walking in this compound.

Looking for this miserable cry, he unconsciously walked to the backyard gate, but the two gates were locked. Behind her, a gust of wind blew, the lock on the door fell, and with a "squeak", the two doors slowly opened. Xiu Gu walked in slowly. In this backyard is even more desolate, and the ground is overgrown with weeds. The dead tree in the backyard stood tall in the dark night, in stark contrast to the dense woods outside the courtyard. Behind the dead trees were dilapidated tiled houses, the fragments of which fell to the ground and were scattered among the weeds. There was a dry well in front of the broken tiled house. Xiu Gu walked slowly towards the dilapidated house, stood at the door of the tiled house, and looked inside, there was nothing but the dilapidated desk and the straw pile. At this moment, a miserable cry came from the dry well, Xiu Gu was very careful to approach the dry well, stood on the side of the dry well, and looked down at the dry well, which was even darker, and there was nothing in it. At this time, in the darkness, that is, in this dry well, a pair of blood-red eyes appeared, slowly rushing out and approaching her. Xiugu's eyes widened, very frightened, the closer she looked, the longer her hair hung down, and the long greasy hair came to her nose with a thick smell of blood. Then a woman's head appeared at the bottom of the dark well, slowly rising to the mouth of the dry well. His face was not visible due to the obscuration of his long hair, and the white gauze gradually appeared in the darkness. Xiu Gu hurriedly stepped back, tripped over the stones on the ground, sat up and looked at the dry well, her black head was exposed in the dry well, stretched out her pale hands, grabbed the mouth of the well, slowly crawled out of the well, and stood in front of Xiu Gu in a blink of an eye.

"Are you a human being or a ghost, a ghost, a ghost," Xiu Gu lay on the bed and kept muttering, suddenly opened her eyes, Dehai, who was sleeping next to her, sat up, turned on the light, and said, "Xiu Gu, what's wrong with you?" Look at you sweating profusely. ”

Xiu Gu sat up and said, "Think about it day and dream at night." ”

"I'm having nightmares."

Xiu Gu just nodded and said, "What time is it?" ”

Dehai picked up the watch next to him, looked at the time, and said, "It's four o'clock now, and it's almost dawn." ”

Xiugu yawned, fell down and said, "Go to sleep." ”

Dehai turned off the light again, fell down and closed her eyes and continued to sleep, after falling down, Xiugu's eyes were wide open, and it took a long time to close her eyes and fall asleep.

As the sky began to open, the sun in the east broke through the thick clouds and let in through the window. Dehai opened his eyes, sat up and woke up Xiu Gu, who was sleeping next to him, and said, "Wife, it's already dawn, it's time to get up." ”

Xiu Gu opened her hazy sleepy eyes and sat up to look at the sunlight outside the window, and said, "It's finally dawn," Shi felt sleepy, and fell down again: "Husband, get up, let me take a nap for a while." ”

"Okay, I'll get up and cook first, you can sleep a little longer, and then I'll call you."

"Okay." Maybe she didn't sleep well last night, and she was sleepy this morning. Dehai got up and looked at Xiu Gu who was sleeping on the bed, turned around and walked out of the door, and went into the kitchen to prepare food.

Early in the morning, Guoan got up very early, went out with his grandson Yuchen, climbed the ancient city wall, and looked at the rising sun, as well as the flow of people coming and going, or sitting on the threshold, smoking dry cigarettes, or gathering together to drink tea. Looking at the slow flow of the river, the memories of childhood are still there.

Yuchen took Guoan's hand, pointed to the rising sun in the east with the other hand, and said, "Grandpa, look at that sun, it's so beautiful." ”

"Grandson, Chairman Mao once said that you are like the sun at eight or nine o'clock, you must study hard and become useful talents for the country, have you written it down?"

"My grandson wrote it down."