"Mom, when are you coming back? It's eight o'clock! ”

"Mom, haven't you come back yet? Grandpa said it was ten past eight. ”

"I'm done with my homework! Mom, do you know when my brother will be back? ”

"Mom, why didn't you reply to my message? I've sent you many, many ...... There are so many expressions! ”

"Mom, I just took a shower, I washed myself myself! The teacher said that he would do his own thing, huh...... So when are you coming back? ”

"Mom, grandpa is going to wash my hair, wait a minute! I...... Can I talk to you after I've washed my hair? ”

……

Today is the last day of the Anke Exhibition, although it is Sunday, there are not many people in the end, and those who come to participate in the exhibition are all depressed and dissatisfied. The original rule of dismantling the exhibition in the afternoon was broken by many companies, and the exhibition was dismantled as soon as it came in the morning, but the atmosphere in the exhibition was simply a naked slap in the face to the organizers. Sister Li also pretended to be calm and calm today, and sent away several big customers with a smile. Lao Qian is always well-informed, shuttling between exhibitions as usual, and many account managers are a little confused when they see Lao Qian. Coincidentally, Joden actually came to the exhibition hall today and stayed for most of the day, taking a look at the coldness of the Anke exhibition by the way to see the boss. Long Shisheng said that when Joden was walking around the exhibition, he saw the people on Sister Li's side, but he didn't bother to look at it, and he tried to describe how the exhibition failed in front of Mr. Qian.

After a busy day, Ma Guiying was so tired that her feet were numb and her mouth was dry. Finally, at eight o'clock in the evening, after leaving the empty and messy convention and exhibition center, Manager Ma sat in his car, calmed down for a moment, and prepared to go home. Along the way, the mobile phone kept ringing, and it turned out that Yangyang was using his grandfather's mobile phone to send voice messages. While driving while listening to her daughter's immature children's tone in a loop, Gui Ying was so sweet that her heart melted early, and she unconsciously accelerated her driving speed all the way.

"Bao'er, come here! The lord cut your bangs, they are long and hinder your eyes. After washing Yangyang's hair and drying her hair, the old horse saw that her bangs were long, so he found big scissors and prepared to cut them short.

"What are bangs?" Yangyang walked over and stood up straight and asked.

"It's the handful of hair on your forehead, don't move! You're going to move, and you've even cut off your eyeballs. The old horse tugged at the rippling bangs.

"Why do you call your hair bangs?"

"Why? Hum! I happen to know, so I'll tell you about it. As he spoke, the old horse measured how much he needed to cut, but it was too short and ugly, and it would be long after two days.

"Tell me about it." Yang Yang and other words.

"Uh...... Originally, there was a little fairy named Liu Zi, who had neat black hair on his head, and the common people were used to seeing the tiger thief good-looking, like Bao'er, he was also a clever insect and a clever ghost. Therefore, the adults learned to leave a row of hair on the heads of the dolls, and called it Liu Child. Later, it spread, and people felt that Liu Zi's child didn't like it, and replaced it with the sea of seawater, which is Bangs, do you know now? ”

"Uh...... Know! So what does it mean to 'know'? ”

"You know...... Hmph, I just know. To know is to know, and to know is to know. Do you know what 'knows' now? ”

"Grandpa, what are you talking about? Haha......" The child chuckled, and the old man laughed too.

"Don't move, I'll cut you again." The old horse looked left and right, calculated, and cut a little.

"Grandpa, didn't you say that after I washed my hair, my mother would come back?"

"On the way! On the way! On the way! Don't ask again, you ask the master again to shave you into a little bald. Your mom is driving, don't bother her, be good. The old horse finished tidying up the bathroom and went back to sleep.

The child couldn't wait for his mother, he was aggrieved and scared, and went to bed with his mouth pouted to listen to his grandfather's story.

Counting the time to get out of the garage and take the elevator, there is another half an hour to get home, and Gui Ying is anxious all the way. When she was about to turn a corner, a bus in front of her was driving too slowly, and Ma Guiying was about to overtake it from the left. As soon as I got into the left lane, the tail of the two cars was flush, and suddenly the bus flashed, came to a sudden stop with a sudden brake, and stopped in the middle of the road. Gui Ying was startled and hurriedly braked, I don't know why the bus stopped suddenly, if she didn't change lanes just now, wouldn't she have crashed? The woman patted her chest and made a false alarm.

But why did the bus suddenly stop on the main road? There must have been an accident. Gui Ying looked around, but didn't see the crash, and guessed that the bus might be broken. Seeing that there was no car behind her, she slowly walked to the front, then changed lanes and returned to the rightmost lane. Then the woman stopped the bus, pressed the window, and stuck her head out to look at the bus.

I don't know if I don't see it, I don't know it, I see the soul out of the body.

Under the front right wheel of the bus was lying a man - a crimson shirt, long, black hair, twisted limbs, and a face facing Gui Ying. Through the headlights and street lights, Gui Ying could clearly see that the man was divided into two sections, one on the left side of the tire and one on the right side of the tire. Ma Guiying was so frightened that she opened her mouth wide, her eyes widened, and she shouted loudly.

The bus driver judged the seriousness of the situation from Ma Guiying's expression and shouting by the light, and the passengers on the bus began to get off one after another. Many people walked straight forward without daring to look at it, and some of them had the courage to look back a few more times, and when the bus driver got down, he saw the scene and hurriedly called.

It turned out that when he was just turning the corner, the driver's water cup fell to the ground, and when he bent down and lowered his head to reach out to pick up the water cup, he ran the person in front of him under the car. However, who would have thought that on this secluded viaduct there would be people walking on the white lines of the road inside the railing. In just a few seconds, a fresh life, flesh and blood, blurred and scattered.

Ma Guiying was the first to see the woman's corpse, and after looking at it for less than five seconds, the whole person was suddenly stunned. If you hadn't changed lanes, you might have been the one who killed that person. Gui Ying turned her head and closed the window, feeling a breath from her lungs stuck in her throat, and the woman who had experienced a car accident for the first time suddenly collapsed and cried in the car, shaking her hands on the steering wheel. Her car stopped seven or eight meters in front of the bus at the moment, and the woman couldn't wait for a somersault cloud to run quickly, but her hands were flustered and weak, her body trembled violently, her whole body hair was cold, and her heart was pounding and throbbing - Ma Guiying was paralyzed and couldn't drive the car at all.

Gui Ying trembled and picked up her mobile phone, clenching the phone hard to ask for help. The first one didn't get through and she continued to dial, the second time she didn't dial, the woman was so anxious that she screamed, and after the third one got through, she couldn't speak, and there was a pool of blood in the rearview mirror that she didn't dare to look at. He Zhiyuan's face turned pale when he heard the words such as car accident, corpse, and being crushed into two paragraphs, and he asked several times again and again, making sure that the car accident was not caused by Gui Ying, but that Gui Ying was frightened when he saw it, so he ran out of the door to take a taxi to pick her up. According to the location sent by Gui Ying, it would take him at least more than twenty minutes to arrive at the scene. Zhiyuan was so anxious that he kept comforting his wife on the phone.

After chatting for about ten minutes on the way, He Zhiyuan needed to determine the location, so he had no choice but to hang up the phone. Gui Ying stayed alone in the car for less than a minute, and her mind was full of pictures of long hair in red, twisted limbs, and two parts of the body, and she could even see the woman's face. The more scared she is, the more she covers her eyes, the more she doesn't let herself look, the more she can't help but peek in the rearview mirror, the more she looks, the more she is afraid, the more she is afraid, the more frightened she is, the woman turns her head in fright and buries her face in the seat, holding the seat tightly with both hands. She just wanted to get out of here right away—right away.

In the huge helplessness, Ma Guiying shook her right leg sharply, and luckily dialed Wang Fuyi's phone, not knowing if he was nearby at this time. Wang Fuyi answered the phone, listening to Gui Ying crying like a child, the man who was playing with his mobile phone on the sofa at home suddenly was full of energy, and without saying a word, he drove out and went to Gui Ying's place in a hurry. Wang Fuyi's house was in the city, and he had a car, so he quickly rushed to the address sent by Gui Ying.

Taxis will not stop indiscriminately, especially on the viaduct to let people get off, if He Zhiyuan gets off in advance or by one more stop, he will not have to walk to Gui Ying, so dangerous Of course he will not repeat the mistake of the past. After explaining the situation to the taxi driver, He Zhiyuan begged the driver to take him to the elevated highway, and the night driver disagreed when he heard that it was unlucky, and urged the passengers to get out of the car quickly, and Zhiyuan had no choice but to get off in advance. After getting out of the car, he sent a voice message to Gui Ying, saying that he was calling another car, saying that he might take a police car to go over if he called the police, Gui Ying waited in the car alone, goosebumps fell all over his body, cold sweat and tears kept flowing, and even the hairs on his face and forehead were standing up.

Fortunately, Wang Fuyi and the traffic police rushed to the scene of the crime at the same time. Fu Yi parked his car safely in front of Gui Ying's car, and then knocked on the window to let Gui Ying go to his car and sit first. Gui Ying's body was paralyzed when she got off the bus, and when she couldn't help but look back, she was stopped by Wang Fuyi, and the scene under the bus was even worse at this time. Sitting in Wang Fuyi's car, the woman was still trembling and sweating, and her heart was beating wildly.

So, what about Gui Ying's car? Wang Fuyi dialed the phone number of the substitute driving company, and a substitute driver was on the road three kilometers away. Gui Ying explained the general situation to Zhiyuan, saying that she took a colleague's car home. Zhiyuan also prepared to take a taxi to catch up, and he didn't even bother to pay attention to the police call that he had just pretended to be a bus passenger. In the car, Gui Ying's child generally told her husband about the whole process aggrievedly, and Wang Fuyi was worried and jealous when she heard it. After the substitute driver arrived, Fu Yi drove Gui Ying home. When the two cars arrived at the gate of the community in Jinhua Fudi, Tsai was already waiting at the door.

It turned out that the boy who was having dinner outside after returning from the make-up class, heard that his mother was frightened in a car accident, so he hurriedly rode back and waited at the gate of the community according to his father's instructions. Zhiyuan also got out of the taxi first, and after the father and son met, they waited for a few minutes, and saw that there was a black Mercedes-Benz passing by the only way to the garage of the community and slowly walking towards the gate, which was expected to be Gui Ying. Fu Yi stopped the car, saw Gui Ying's son and waved in the car, and then opened the door of the co-pilot from inside. Zhiyuan walked to the car and picked up Gui Ying with his son. Gui Ying cried beyond recognition, and Tsai was comforting on the side. Zhiyuan had already recognized from his back that it was the person who sent Gui Ying back that night, and this time, he saw the man's face clearly. He Zhiyuan took the initiative to come over and talk to Wang Fuyi.

"What do you call it?"

"My surname is Wang, and I am a colleague of hers. I was chatting in the group...... Listen to her...... Something happened, and I thought I was on the road, so I stopped by. ”

He Zhiyuan pretended to be calm and thanked: "Thank you!" Would you like to go and sit at home? ”

"No, no, no, no! What's the matter, that ...... See you later. ”

"Okay, okay. You go from counseling to the front, and there's a junction over there to make a U-turn. He Zhiyuan showed Wang Fuyi the way.

"Okay, let's go."

"Thank you!" The two gentlemen parted gracefully and awkwardly.

Zhiyuan saw Fu Yi leave, and when he turned around, Tsai had already helped Gui Ying into the elevator, and he strode back after parking the car. As soon as Gui Ying got home, she went straight to the room with an embarrassed face, went to bed and wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, and even wrapped her head in the quilt. Even so, the shadow of the long hair in red, the body and the two, the twisted limbs, and the hideous face still lingered in front of her eyes, and the woman's heart was pounding, as if it was about to pop out.

Seeing that this scene was extraordinary, Lao Ma listened to Zhiyuan speak again after listening to Zaizai, and made sure that Gui Ying was really frightened, he went straight to Gui Ying's room, scolded the cow when he ploughed, and opened the quilt and scolded.

"Don't you grow your brain day by day? Forty-year-old man is still when you are a doll! What is the difference between the death of a person and the death of a pig, a cow or a sheep? When you were a child, you never saw killing pigs and chickens, or you never saw cutting beef and hanging sheep's heads! you! Let the dolls see it, what do you think! ”

Before the old horse could finish speaking, Gui Ying pulled a pillow and covered her head in it, covering it tightly.

"Use your elm brain, now is a materialist society, if there are gods and ghosts in the world, the living people have already been eaten by gods and ghosts, and you can still be left! If you want to have a ghost, how many years has your mother been dead, and I haven't seen her show you God! I don't know how many people have passed through my hands and closed their eyes - your grandfather, your mother-in-law (grandmother's dialect name), your grandfather (grandfather), your mother, your three majors, your second eldest (two great, that is, the second uncle, the name of the countryside) and the stubble of people in Majiatun, and I haven't seen anyone who killed me after I died! Thinking crankily every day, shouting and crying when you see something, you are not ashamed! ”

The old horse's loud voice and anger frightened the three people next to him. Zhiyuan sat beside Gui Ying and lowered his head and patted Gui Ying's shoulder and hair, although he couldn't quite understand what his father-in-law was scolding, but he believed that the old man must have his reason; Yang Yang clutched the door frame at the door and didn't know what was going on, tears were falling down her eyes, and her little mouth was grinning; Tsai Tsai stood beside the bed and frowned at the old man, not knowing why.

"The serial murderer is living a chic life in prison, and I haven't seen the people he killed come to settle accounts with him! You are a flat-headed ordinary person, you have not broken the law, you are not immoral, what are you afraid of standing upright? What are you afraid of? Who in this world has not died? How many people are good-looking when they die? How many people died in the earthquake in '08! How many people were buried in the accident of Wenzhou bullet train! Now, the place is not well developed. According to your cowardice, those who have seen the earthquake at the scene will not live when they come back! Die and live every day! When I see a corpse, I am scared like this, will I have to avoid you when I die in the future! Do I have to die in a proper manner when I die? ”

The old man swallowed his spit and continued to curse: "I don't know if the Chinese die in traffic accidents every day, I don't know if there are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, how many people are complete and good-looking when they die?" Could it be that people who have been in a car accident have survived after that? You're as timid as a sparrow! How old are you still a doll who can't see this, can't see that......"

"Grandpa, don't say it!" Tsai felt that the words were too ugly, and he was so angry that he clenched his fists and glared at him.

"You know the! Go! Move the folding bed over, you sleep with your mother tonight, you kid is yang, calm your mother. The old horse pursed his lips, closed his throat, and stretched out his hand to command the boy.

Tsai Tsai glanced at his father in confusion, Zhiyuan nodded and squeezed his eyes, and motioned Tsai Tsai to do the same. The boy then began to move and make the bed. Gui Ying was still covering her face and kept panting. Yangyang cried early in the morning, and the child was too frightened to make a loud noise, and the appearance of holding back a small cry was particularly pitiful. The old horse squeezed his eyes with Zhiyuan and motioned for him to come out.

The old man took Yangyang into the boy's room first, and after Zhiyuan came in, the old horse leaned into Zhiyuan's ear and whispered, "Are there sleeping pills in the house?" ”

Zhiyuan glanced at the old man, a little distracted.

"If not, you can go out and buy some quickly, and the medicine for stabilization and calming will be completed." The old horse squeezed his eyes hard.

"Yes, I bought it to calm my nerves."

"Give one or two more tablets according to the dosage written on the bottle and let her get a good night's sleep. When you get up and feel refreshed, you'll be fine. ”

"Hmm." Zhiyuan nodded in understanding, and immediately went out to find medicine and feed medicine.

When the boy came to hug the quilt pillow, the old horse waved his hand and called the boy over.

"What's wrong?" Tsai asked, pouting.

"You hurry up and buy a Buddha statue online."

"What?" Tsai Tsai frowned puzzled, looking incredulous.

"Buy a Buddha statue! Bodhisattvas and Guan Gong are also OK. ”

"This ...... Did it work? ”

"It's definitely useless for your mother not to believe in God, but now she is afraid because there are ghosts in her heart, and if she believes in ghosts, she can only use God to suppress them and play a psychological role. Hurry up and buy it, buy it today and arrive tomorrow, your mother will see you early and have good morning. The old horse patted the boy's elbow and urged.

Tsai then took out his mobile phone and began to look for it, and the old horse tried his best to comfort Yangyang with great tenderness on the side.

"Which one to buy? Bodhisattva or Guan Gong? Tsai Tsai asked with his mobile phone.

"Shakyamuni. He is the biggest official and has a lot of control. The old horse nodded.

"Which? Stone, resin, cement, copper-plated, pure copper...... Which one? ”

"Which one is cheaper to buy which, it's better to bring a rosette. Your mom and dad don't believe in God, and they won't be a decoration after that. Don't cry - ah! The old horse said as he stroked Yangyang's hair. The little man gradually became a little confused, and his eyelids kept fighting.

"What's the size?"

"It's about that tall — about ten inches, twenty or thirty centimeters." The old horse gestured with both hands, and did not forget to convert it into a length unit that the boy could understand.

"To be consecrated or not to be consecrated?"

"If you do not believe, you will not be enlightened. It's not good to buy the consecration. ”

"Then I'll place an order!"

"How much?"

"This kind of copper-plated one, more than three hundred."

"Hey, it's time to buy tranquilizers for your mother." Lao Ma is distressed about money.

"But...... You buy it when you need it, and you buy it back and don't believe it, it's not ...... Wouldn't that be bad? "The boy was a little scared.

"It's fine. If you believe, you will be confident, and if you don't believe, you will not believe. If there is a God, then God is also forgiving and understanding. ”

"Okay." The teenager bowed his head and paid.

The old man sighed and said, "You don't know when you're young, and being frightened can be big or small. Two or three days have passed for the small ones, and serious people will go crazy! There was a person in Tunli, who was frightened and talked nonsense for the rest of his life, and he never had a normal life. If you don't deal with the heart disease well, it won't be easy to treat in the future! Fortunately, your mother didn't talk nonsense when she just came back, and it was normal to cry in fright. ”

"Grandpa, why were you so fierce just now?" The young man listened carefully and asked puzzledly.

"You don't know this—sorrow is better than anger, anger is better than thought, thinking is better than fear, fear is better than joy. What do you mean? That is to say, people can restrain each other in this emotion. Analytical thinking can solve the symptoms of being frightened, in fact, anger or joy can also buffer being frightened! Oh yes, in the past two days, you have told your mother more jokes, people will smile, your heart will be opened, and you will not be so afraid! ”

"Oh! I know. The young man was thoughtful, and then said mischievously: "Grandpa, you scolded just now, and you are not as strong as you usually quarrel with my mother!" ”

"That's a curse! Of course, the scolding has to be released, and whoever loses will be angry. Scolding with one head, you can't scold! The old man laughed boredly.

"Alright, I'm over. May I ask Village Chief Ma, what else do you have to explain? The boy asked, getting up.

"Hey...... Make her laugh more, and use the materialism you learned in your political textbook to analyze and analyze your mother. The old horse waved his hand and let him go.

"Got it." Tsai Tsai went to his mother's room with his things in his arms.

A son on the left and a husband on the right, the two kept comforting, and Gui Ying gradually stopped crying. She listened to what the old man had just said, and her sanity was regaining, but her heartbeat was still uncontrollable. Fortunately, the overdose of sleeping pills did not take long to get her energy up, and in less than forty minutes, the woman fell asleep deeply. Zhiyuan was by his wife's side, thinking of the recent events, and his mood was a little complicated.

On the way home, Wang Fuyi thought about it and seemed to be stunned. Gui Ying rarely mentions her husband, guessing that it is because her husband is at home with children and does not have a decent job. In view of the fact that it is rarely mentioned, Wang Fuyi has always imagined that there should be conflicts between their husband and wife and that their marriage is not very harmonious, but today he heard Gui Ying holding up the phone to her husband coquettishly crying, telling in a dependent manner, and asking for help in a childlike voice, he felt that he had misjudged it. However, he was very, very proud that Gui Ying called him in this situation today - did this mean anything, or did he think too much unilaterally, or did Gui Ying feel what he meant, or did Gui Ying simply regard him as a friend who had been moving around a lot lately.

(End of chapter)