"Big news."

"In the early morning of this morning, there was a flood disaster in the city of X, which has not been seen in a hundred years, and dozens of people were killed."

Until the air defense siren sounded overhead, accompanied by a sound of lightning and thunder, there seemed to be a charm of the end of the world in a science fiction movie.

The rain outside the window flowed like a river, and I had never heard of such a strange thing happening in X City for hundreds of years.

I looked up at the gloomy sky with my limp unhealed leg, and I couldn't tell whether it was early morning or late afternoon.

The streets of all the houses were irrigated with rainwater, and everything became a mess after washing, and the ground was covered with broken glass, and many people's faces were full of confusion and doubt.

It's far from the rivers and lakes, where did the flood come from?

Until he connected the phone call from the fat man suddenly, the tone on the other side was even more urgent and his hair was frightened.

"Is it convenient for you to talk there?"

I felt a shock in my heart, and then limped into the room and locked myself in the bathroom in response.

"You speak!"

"Do you remember the ancient characters I saw on the stone mirror, I discovered a shocking secret."

The fat man's tone was a little impatient, and the sound of many shouts behind him was filled with the sound of many people, which sounded more like the wailing after the disaster.

I hesitated for a moment, then interrupted him and asked.

"Did you have an accident there?"

The fat man was stunned on the phone for a moment, and then his voice was extremely low and said: "I have never seen an earthquake in the plains, and today I was actually met by the fat man." ”

"If it hadn't been for the neighbor's dog barking incessantly last night, I would have become a dead body under the ruins today."

"The whole neighborhood collapsed, and hundreds of people died."

Speaking of which, I could even feel the fat man's voice trembling.

This guy has never been afraid of heaven and earth, but today on the phone I can feel the cry after the disaster, and the deep depression revealed in the fat man's words.

"Brother, I won't tell you, since I came back from Panshan, I always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at me, like a big stone pressing on my heart, and I panicked."

"Fat man, I've never felt this way, even eating and sleeping alone in the house seems to be being watched..."

"Don't... Stop it. ”

I hung up the phone tremblingly, unexpectedly after returning from Panshan, retribution finally followed.

I sat on the train to the fat city overnight, and when I arrived, it was already late at night, and there was no one in the empty subway station.

The fat man was wearing a black cloak, as if he was afraid that others would recognize him.

His eyes were deep-set, his complexion was extremely dull, and it looked like he hadn't slept in days.

"I have something to tell you!"

"I have something to tell you, too."

Found a café nearby, the lonely storefront was empty, and the sky outside was dark, as if some terrible storm was brewing at any moment.

"Ever since I left the mountains, I always felt that something was not right, even the weather was rainy and rainy."

"I feel..., it's all about that bell."

The fat man's words suddenly pierced the deep uneasiness in my heart for a few days, and we gradually began to understand why the Yan Mansion was crazy back then to sacrifice and close the mountain.

"If it's a curse, it makes sense, but is the curse really that evil... Hundreds of people have died violently in three years in South County...".

"I think it's necessary to go back and explore."

The gloomy weather outside the window finally broke out, with bursts of thunder flickering and raging storms, and there was no sound on the road, and there was no one on the road.

But before I could finish speaking, the fat man immediately stood up and said excitedly: "You are crazy." ”

"Do you know what kind of place it is, you can't get rid of this strange thing this time for the rest of your life."

"But we have to face it, don't we, and I have also translated the ancient text on the stone mirror, which is a form that predicts the disasters of all dynasties!"

I said what was in my heart, and the fat man's face instantly became embarrassed.

Until a muffled thunder exploded outside the window, half of his face was faintly flashing with thunder, which was extremely terrifying.

"Say no more!"

The fat man closed the window of the adjacent seat like crazy, and when he turned his head, his face was already bloodless with fright.

"If you insist on going back to Panshan, I won't stop you, fat man."

"But you also remember the process of sealing the mountain on the bamboo slips, without hundreds of human sacrifices, it is impossible to completely seal the mountain and the ancient bell, which was the case thousands of years ago."

"It's definitely going to be even worse now!"

Outside the window, the clouds were thick, and thunder rolled in the clouds, as if a mysterious supernatural force was silently controlling it all.

It wasn't until the phone rang that I looked down at the unknown number on my phone and made an excuse to go to the bathroom.

I just didn't expect that the voice on the other end of the phone instantly made me incoherent.

"Are you Xiaoyue's uncle?"

"Is Xiaoyue next to you, is she doing well in Japan... Why is there no news all of a sudden? ”

The familiar voice on the phone in front of me stimulated my eardrums, and I thought that Xiaoyue must have encountered something difficult in Japan, but now it confirms my guess.

"You... Don't get excited, maybe you should have guessed it a long time ago. ”

"Ryoko she..."

I burst into tears of excitement in an instant, and the small and delicate back still echoed in my mind.

"You... When you tell her..., you say that Ganzi really misses her. ”

"My cancer miraculously recovered, and it's a miracle that even medicine can't explain!"

I never thought that one day the dignity I had defended for a long time would be shattered in front of a piece of news, as long as she lived well in Japan until she was okay, as if everything was worth it.

"Mr. Gan..., please don't get excited."

"You've probably guessed it... I don't hide it anymore, Ryoko she... Remarried in Japan. ”

"What...?"

"It was her own idea, and she was not forced to make this decision..., Ryoko married the son of a wealthy businessman."

"In fact, she only learned that she was pregnant and gave birth to a premature baby girl when she left."

I froze in place, my mind instantly overwhelmed, as if something was slashing through my heart.

"The doctor said that because of premature birth, this born girl may be mentally disabled in the future, of course, if you don't want this child, I, as Ryoko's uncle, will raise it on my behalf, and I will definitely give her a good education..."

"Where is she!"

This loud shout seemed to vent all the anger in my heart, but after the voice, there was only an indescribable sadness in my heart.

The fat man ran over when he heard the sound, but he only saw himself leaning on the corner of the wall with a dead heart, and he guessed it in an instant.

Six months later.

The fat man came to visit my rental house despite the long distance with fruit in his hand, and the baby girl in his arms was looking at the chubby stranger with wide eyes.

Outside the window, he sat on the roof, cigarette in his mouth, and the expression on his face was surprised or sorry for me.

"What are you going to do with this girl, although the child is yours, but you are mentally deficient, do you plan to raise her for the rest of your life."

The fat man took two puffs of his cigarette, and then with a little hesitation, he took out a thick grease envelope from his bosom.

I don't have to guess what it is.

"This is the money from the sale of the bronze ring, a full 200,000, do you still plan to go to Japan to find her?"

I pulled a crumpled cigarette out of his pocket and lit it in my mouth, the doctor's advice long since I had forgotten it.

"No, no, no."

"She deserves a better life, not to mention that Lao Tzu has forgotten about her a long time ago."

The two men looked at each other without saying anything, and the fat man was a rare confidant, just like the character "Lao Yan" who was fantasized about hysteria at the beginning.

The two of them are like the kind of person who makes eye contact, and instantly understands what the other party is thinking, these 200,000 fat people can completely hide it from me.

It seems that the ring is worth so much money, which he didn't expect, and he has repeatedly weighed this decision for a long time.

"Let's go, it's rare for my brother to come to see me."

"Let's go eat shabu mutton, I know there is one of the most authentic!"

At the wine table, I took the 200,000 yuan handed by the fat man, but I also told him that this was owed to him, and as long as he needed it, even if he sent me to death.

"Did you really forget her?"

The fat man suddenly looked up at me after handing over the money, and this cold sentence caught me off guard.

"What is a woman, it's Lao Tzu who is blind, I just want to raise Xiaoya now, Zhang Bingya."

"That's a nice name."

I proudly picked up the wine glass and drank it all with the fat man, the wine splashed all over my face, and I couldn't tell where the wine was and where the tears were.