Chapter 013: White Lantern
Something seemed to be burning in the distance.
The sky is getting redder.
The slight cold of spring was swept away, and even the air became hot and dry.
The people around the fire were boiling, carrying water, and fighting fires, all of which were busy. The people from the government rushed over and wanted to save people, but looking at the fire, no one dared to go in.
Fortunately, the Tang family's house is built on the mountain, and the surroundings are empty, and there are no people.
No matter how big the fire burns, it will not affect others.
It's just that I didn't expect that it had just rained ahead, and as soon as the sparks flickered, the buildings and buildings immediately burned up. When the water vapor is dry, the wind blows, and the tongue of fire dances like a dragon.
Those who tried to extinguish the fire couldn't help but throw their buckets and retreat again and again.
Black smoke rises, and the eyes of people are red.
The crowd coughed and retreated.
The hot wind over the Tang family blew black smoke desperately.
In an instant, the smoke melted into the morning mist.
It was still dark, but dawn seemed to be not far away.
Black smoke was blown onto the river by the wind.
In the painting boat, Tang Ning was sitting at the entrance. Not far behind her, Jia Lan and Tang Xin were lying side by side. The two teenagers slept there, looking carefree and enviable.
She breathed silently and closed her eyes.
There was a continuous sound of water in my ears, and I was ...... Rushing...... Like a gentle minor......
Tang Ning closed his eyes and listened, and had a dream in this tenderness.
In the dream, she was still a little girl, and she was tightly held in her mother's arms. She smelled the faint incense on her mother's clothes, which smelled sweet peach.
"Where's Daddy?"
She looked like a child, and asked her mother with her head up.
The mother laughed when she heard this, but she didn't smile very well.
She thought it was strange.
Mother is born beautiful, smiles more beautifully, and is always good-looking.
Why did my mother have such an expression when it came to my father?
Is it a quarrel?
She asked again.
The mother shook her head, her voice was very soft, and she looked at her with lowered eyes and said, "Daddy has a headache, I don't want to see anyone, don't bother him." ”
Suddenly, the picture changed, and the weather seemed to be much warmer.
She was wearing a thin spring shirt, but she still looked small.
The palms of the hands are spread out, and the flesh is white raw.
She sat on the swing and kicked off her shoes, and her feet looked chubby.
It's just a little doll.
She grabbed the rope with both hands and dangled it with joy. The swing swing was getting higher and higher, but there was no trace of fear in her heart. Until, she saw a white lantern.
Such a miserable white color, such a miserable white light.
The rope "snorted" and broke.
She fell off the swing and cried.
The nurse hurriedly ran over, and when she saw her crying, her eyes were red.
She opened her mouth to ask for her mother.
The nurse hugged her, and tears flowed out: "My good young lady...... My wife is gone......"
But she turned a deaf ear and only cried and shouted to see her mother.
White lanterns are hung all over the house.
The mother never showed up.
She heard whispers from people that her mother had died suddenly and in a horrible manner, so her father did not let her go to see her mother for the last time.
But my mother has always been strong and healthy, and she hasn't even had a cold, so how could she suddenly die?
She didn't believe it, and walked to her father on two fat little short legs.
Along the way, she refused to stop whoever called her.
When she got to the study, she saw her father standing motionless facing the wall, not knowing what he was thinking.
She walked over softly and called out to him, "Daddy? ”
He turned around and saw her, frowning.
has always doted on her father, but at this moment, his eyes seem to be looking at someone else's daughter.
Downing woke up suddenly.
The heart is beating wildly.
She pressed her chest, her mind racing.
She hadn't had such a dream for a long time.
Those scenes and dialogues are dusty memories. Missing father, mother who died young...... No matter which one it is, thinking about it now, it still makes her heart feel bored.
Taking a breath, Downing got up from the ground and walked lightly to the bow of the boat, letting the cool breeze blow on his face.
My mind cleared up.
The suffocation in his chest seems to have dissipated a little.
She lowered her head slowly.
Suddenly, there was a hair on the back of the neck.
Downing jerked away.
But there was no one behind him, nothing.
Standing in the wind, Tang Ning raised his hand and pressed the back of his neck, and a layer of fine goosebumps appeared on his head. Just now, she did feel it, as if it ...... Someone was secretly watching her.
Touching his neck, he remembered unpleasant memories.
Tang Ning hurriedly went to the stern: "Ah Yan." ”
Ah Yan came out and looked at her.
This guy's eyes are always frank and disgusting.
It's not it.
Tang Ning walked into the painting boat, but the two people inside did not wake up. Although she had just been outside, she noticed that the two of them had not woken up, but now that she was sure, she was even more uneasy.
The goosebumps on the skin, subsided, came out again.
Downing knew very well in his heart that it was not because of the wind, nor because of the cold. The strange, staring sensation of being watched by her didn't disappear as she moved.
But they are on the water right now.
There wasn't a single ship around, and naturally there was no one.
On the painting boat, in addition to Ah Yan, there were only three of them.
Among them, Garan was asleep, as if he had stopped breathing. If she hadn't leaned in to listen and could hear his heartbeat, she would have thought that the person lying here was a dummy.
Next to him, Tang Xin was in a coma for a long time, and he had no intention of waking up at all.
With such a calculation, can't it be that she is peeking at herself?
Downing sat next to Garan, looking down at his face.
Handsome teenager.
Handsome youkai.
When she saw the well, her world had been turned upside down.
In this world, there are monsters.
Although it seemed to be only a few of them on the ship, there might be a number of youkai hiding in a place she couldn't see. After all, when he bumped into his husband on the street before, he never found Ah Yan.
Thinking of this, seeing that the two in front of him still didn't seem to be waking up, Tang Ning got up again and went to the stern.
"Ah Yan, good Ah Yan."
Ah Yan frowned.
Tang Ning grinned and approached it: "Let's see, there are any other monsters on this ship besides you and the fox." She kept her voice low.
Ah Yan didn't seem to hear clearly, muttered, and flew up from the stern.
Downing spoke again.
It flew up and down, left and right, and flew around her for half a day.
Tang Ning made it dizzy, and it almost couldn't stand steadily: "Let you find a monster, see ......what I do" Before he finished speaking, Tang Ning was stunned, and his face slowly became difficult to see.
Grunt.
A cheerful sound came from the blue flames.
It stopped in front of her, obviously without eyebrows, and had to squeeze its eyebrows and make a disgusted appearance. As if to say, you, youkai? Hmph, impossible!
In the blink of an eye, Ah Yan flew past Tang Ning and flew back.
Tang Ning let out a long sigh of relief, and was about to turn around, when he suddenly felt a strange force coming from his back. With a stumble under her feet, she "plopped" into the water.