Chapter Twenty-Three: Bamboo Horses Wrap Around Green Plums
"Answer incorrectly, the game continues."
Qiu Xuan heard the voice say this. She didn't take off her blindfold, she didn't move, she didn't hear the singing that continued.
It seemed that it had been a long, long time, so long that Qiu Xuan's legs were numb, and she thought about why no one had come to urge her to continue to finish the game. Just then, she heard the singing voice resounding.
Only this time, the nursery rhyme is no longer sung by a group of bad adults in a jumbled tone, the song is neat and immature, and it really belongs to a group of children.
She took off her blindfold and looked at the source of the sound, and not far away, in an open space that looked exactly like the scene of the game, a group of children were playing a game of caged birds in a circle. The youngest of the children was still in kindergarten, and the oldest was already like a teenager.
The little one who was a ghost crouched on the ground like a little frog, and his blindfolded little hands secretly opened a slit, and the children who were in a circle stopped. A child asked, "Who is the person standing behind you?" ”
"Shen Luyan! It's Shen Luyan! The little ghost shouted.
"That's right!" "Hahaha, Shen Luyan is a substitute for a dead ghost, a substitute for a dead ghost!" "Get over here, ghost!"
"No, it's not! He cheated! The little girl named "Shen Luyan" shouted, "He peeked just now!" This game can't be counted! ”
"Hurry up, you!" The little child standing in the middle came over and pushed the little girl, directly pushing the person down in the center of the circle, "It's not fun to play tricks." ”
"That's it." The surrounding children chimed in.
"No...... It's clear that he's cheating. The girl named Shen Luyan had red eyes aggrievedly, and the children around her were still smiling, "Shen Luyan is a Lai Pi ghost!" "If you can't afford it, don't play!" "Hee-hee-hee-he
The little girl crouched alone in the middle of the circle and cried, pitiful and unspeakable.
What is this? Although it wasn't very much like joining this childish children's game, Qiu Xuan could see clearly from the side just now that the little boy who was originally a [ghost] was indeed cheating. And their behavior is already "bullying" in a sense.
Sighing, she walked over anyway and picked up the collar of the cheating little boy. "Hey, you just peeked, I saw it, now go and apologize to that little girl and be a ghost again."
The little boy who was frightened by the collar stiffened and did not dare to move, and the children looked at each other. Finally the tallest boy among them, who looked like the leader, spoke: "Who are you, you, can you take care of our affairs?" ”
"I'm your father." Qiu Xuan rolled her eyes directly at the boy with pimples on his face, "I really don't care about your business, but you bullied that little girl and bullied people to cry." I don't know her, but I'm just going to stand up for her. ”
"We just don't apologize, what can you do to us?" The boy looked at her arrogantly.
Qiu Xuan herself came from this kind of secondary two years, but she didn't do this kind of bullying when she was in the second middle school. Therefore, she didn't talk too much nonsense, and directly took the little boy in her hand and threw it into the middle of the circle, and sneered, "Then I will beat you until you apologize." ”
The leading boy looked at her contemptuously and smiled, "Just you? ”
"You can try."
"Sister...... Sister. The little girl named Shen Luyan got up from the ground by herself, wiped her tears and patted the ashes on her skirt, "Thank you, but, forget it, let's go." ”
"Aren't you angry," Qiu Xuan raised an eyebrow at her, "aren't you angry that he's treating you like this?" I can help you if you want. ”
Shen Luyan looked at the little boy who was sitting on the ground and didn't dare to get up, and shook her head, "I'm not angry, let's just go home, it's okay." ”
Since she said so, Qiu Xuan was not reluctant, "Okay, let's go." ”
Regarding the shout of "Are you scared" from the boy behind him, Qiu Xuantou didn't bother to reply.
But the hero was cool for a while, and when she looked back, she really didn't know how to get along with the child, and after thinking for a while, she held back a sentence, "Then do you want to go home now?" I'll send you? ”
Shen Luyan shook her head at her, "I don't want to go back now, can my sister accompany me to sit there for a while?" She pointed to the park's near-abandoned swing rack.
Qiu Xuan didn't really want to sit on the swing that looked dirty, but when she thought that the little girl had been bullied by a small group just now, she must still be sad, and she relented.
The little girl didn't really care that her little dress was dusty, and she happily ran over and sat down, "Can my sister push me?" ”
So Qiu Xuan resigned herself to her fate and walked over to be a tool man, she didn't dare to push too hard, for fear that the swing frame that had been squeaking would suddenly break and the little girl would die on the spot.
She didn't know what it was, or what was going on with the people at the villa, it was a bit like she suddenly appeared on the bus.
So I'm now in another "different world"? She thought.
By the way, do you want to talk to that little girl? She struggled for a while, and finally decided to ask the little girl if she knew more about the game of "Caged Bird".
She was about to speak, but pushing and pushing, she felt as if something was wrong with the weight. When I looked down, Shen Luyan was gone, and the swing that was still shaking itself seemed to be grinning and laughing at her.
She looked around a little dazedly, and heard the damned "caged bird" song in the air again.
This time, a group of people played the game, but Shen Luyan was also among them, she seemed to have grown up a little and became a slim girl. And standing behind her was a somewhat familiar teenager.
Qiu Xuan stared at the boy for a while, and recognized him as the little boy who had cheated in the game before. The teenagers who were spinning in circles stopped, and Shen Luyan hesitated for a moment.
"Jiang Han." She said.
The boy was a little surprised, "How do you know?" He asked, "Did you peek?" ”
"I'm not you." Shen Luyan walked to his place with a smile, "If you are willing to gamble and lose, you should be a [ghost]." ”
"Okay, okay." The boy muttered as he walked over, and the game resumed.
Qiu Xuan stood by and watched them play a few rounds, and the young man named "Jiang Han" was surprisingly dull, and he didn't guess correctly after several rounds. Qiu Xuanguang was tired of watching him from the side.
Finally, in the next round, Shen Luyan was behind him. "Uh...... It's Zhao ......"
"Ahem." The girl coughed.
"Ah, it's Shen Luyan!" Jiang Han shouted.
"What, Shen Luyan, there is still a reminder." "It's ......"
"I ...... I didn't. The girl blushed, "I'm just a little uncomfortable in my throat." ”
"You're stupid when we're stupid, you're just doing it on purpose." Another girl shouted, "Since you want to be a ghost so much, you should keep being a ghost." ”
"I agree!" "Just let Shen Luyan be a ghost all the time!"
Shen Luyan looked at Jiang Han next to her, and the young man was only stunned and then lowered his head to avoid her gaze.
The girl's expression darkened for a moment, and then she quickly adjusted her attitude and walked back to the center of the circle.
Qiu Xuan can see it, this is a pair of childhood sweethearts, but a scumbag old-fashioned love story who is bent on love. But what does this have to do with the game "Caged Bird"?
Thinking like this, she wanted to step forward and ask Shen Luyan if she remembered her, but as soon as she stretched out her hand to pat her on the shoulder, she watched her hand pass through the girl's shoulder.
She tried several times and found that she was like a transparent person here, no one could see her, and she couldn't touch anything.
Shrugging helplessly, Qiu Xuan no longer continued his futile attempt.
In the next moment, the scene in front of me began to change again. The boys and girls were gone, replaced by a small bungalow.
In the midst of the flowers, the man who couldn't see his face clearly in the sunlight took out a necklace from his pocket, which was carved into a delicate birdcage shape, and the man handed the necklace to the woman who was also standing in the sun.
"Would you like to be my girlfriend?"
"Of course! I do! After being stunned for a moment, Shen Luyan smiled happily and bent her eyes. She lowered her slender neck and let the man wear the necklace around her neck.
"My little bird is completely mine now." The man hugged Shen Luyan and said affectionately.
Qiu Xuan stood on the side, watching them express their hearts to each other, watching them live together as a couple, watching the man's possessiveness become stronger day by day, and watching them start to quarrel over what Shen Luyan said to others today.
"Can't you just stay at home? My job is enough to feed the two of us. The man said.
"However, I also want to contribute to this family. You can't keep locking me in the house, restricting my socializing, my work, or even my right to go out. ”
"If that's what you think, then, break up."
“……”
Eventually, she watched them chill over the endless bickering, and then the man walked into the kitchen, took the knife they had picked together in the supermarket, and stabbed the woman in the chest.
Shen Luyan didn't struggle, she didn't blame, she just looked at him quietly with a look that she had expected a long time ago.
The man held her in his arms in tears as he wept, the blood gushing from her chest soaking the birdcage necklace red.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The man shook his lips to kiss her face and said, "I love you." ”
She smiled with the last bit of strength and said softly, "Me too." ”
"I know, I've always known." The man kissed the corpse in his arms, which began to stiffen, and he closed his eyes and made a wish.
Then, he smiled.
"My little bird is mine forever."
He said.