Chapter 129: Listening to the Story in the Birch Forest (2)
1. Child corpses
Several huge black ants crawled out of the child's mouth, like punctuation marks that had lost words, scattered alone on the pale cheeks, looking confused. The child's eyes were half-open, covered with a light gray film, like stale purple grapes. The child was lying on his back on the lawn, his skin dry and wrinkled, as if he were a flammable and fragile paper figure. All indications are that the child is dead, a lifeless body.
The rock pigeon stood next to the dead child, licking the fast-melting cup-shaped ice cream, his hands taking turns clutching the soft and collapsed egg rolls, so glued that he could barely open his fingers. She was tired of standing, so she crouched on the right side of his face and looked closely at the ants. A few drops of cream juice fell on the child's forehead, and she remembered the words of the kindergarten aunt and said to him: "I'm sorry. "The child was very quiet and didn't make a single sound. Rock Pigeon had no choice but to say to himself in his place: "It's okay. "A green-headed fly buzzed and hovered over the child's head, and the child's face had a moving pale gray spot.
It was a hot afternoon, and in the suburbs, the grass grew tall. The parents of the rock pigeon were enjoying the shade in the distance, and there were other adults leading the children around, but no one came to the rock pigeon. She had eaten all the ice cream and began to play with the dead child wholeheartedly. He plucked a number of small, slender blue flowers and threw them in the child's face. The child is so nice and doesn't get angry. The rock pigeon muttered to the child and told him the fairy tale he had just heard yesterday. She lay next to the child and noticed that the child was a little older than her. "You should be a brother." She said. A few puffy clouds drifted in the sky, obscuring the harsh sunlight. The rock pigeon felt much more comfortable, so he narrowed his eyes and fell asleep in a dazeγγγγγγ
"Ahh The vendor of cold drinks screamed in a terrible, detonated voice, and the adults ran to the corner in all directions in panic. At this time, the mother of the rock pigeon remembered that she had not seen her daughter for a long time. With a sense of foreboding, she dragged her husband straight over and called her daughter's name loudly.
In front of me, there was a horrific scene: a grayly dressed and unfresh-looking corpse of a child, covered in a mass of scattered wilted wildflowers. To his left, less than a foot away, lay a sleeping little girl. The girl's face was ruddy, her white skin was covered with fine beads of sweat, she was wearing a dress embroidered with lace, white socks and small red leather shoes on her feet, she looked unusually gorgeous. One life and one death, but it is the same quiet lying on the grass. The two children, like dolls thrown on the ground at random, are too contrasting to give the viewer an abrupt sense of fear.
People formed a circle, some were discussing how the child had died, some were speculating about where the girl had run away and how long she had been with him, and they were muttering quietly, but none of them had gone to wake up the rock pigeon, until her parents arrived, and everyone consciously got out of the way.
When the rock pigeon woke up, she saw that there were people all around, and her mother hugged her tightly, her face covered with sweat and tears. The father froze to the side, his expression strange, like a wilted tree. Many people are whispering, pointing fingers at their family, and condemning Rock Pigeon's parents for being too irresponsible. Yan Ge also saw that the other children were covered by their parents, and some were pushed behind them. "It's horrible to let your children lie down with the dead." "That kid was stunned, wasn't he?" "It's a nightmare." γγγγγγ there were voices everywhere, and the mouths of the adults kept squirming, and a few drops of spit were sprayed on the face of the rock pigeon, which annoyed her.
Someone called the police, and 110 arrived in time. The dead child was about eight years old, without any external injuries on his body, in ragged clothes, and suspected to be a wandering little beggar. The time of death is presumed to have been two days ago, probably due to an illness that left no one to take care of him. In short, there was no sign of murder, and everyone lost interest. The dead child was clearly not a member of the onlookers' class. Therefore, even lying at their feet, it is tantamount to a virtual person, not so real. In their eyes, the ignorant rock pigeon is even more worrying. After all, she probably went to the same kindergarten as their kids, had pizza at the same Pizza Hut, or even came here in the same car. She is a child in their sights and deserves care.
A five-year-old child encountered such a thing! Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the parents of the rock pigeon explained to the onlookers with trepidation: I really don't know! How can this be the case in this kind of place? γγγγγγWe just read a book for a while, and she ran away by herselfγγγγγγThis kid likes to run aroundγγγγγγ" said and said, feeling unreasonable. They don't understand why they want to say something self-exculpating to these irrelevant people, as if it would make them feel better. Some told Yan Ge's father earnestly: "After you go back, you should pay attention to the child's psychological condition, and don't scare her out of trouble." The crowd dispersed, and the dead child was removed, leaving the family of three standing in place, with a buzzing fly.
The mother of the rock pigeon hugged her, sobbed in a low voice, and said in a loud voice: "It's all the blame for the mother's badness, it's all the blame for the mother's badγγγγγγ" The father stared at the rock pigeon's face nervously, wanting to wipe a handful of sweat for her, and hesitated to retract his hand. He felt that his daughter was no longer clean, and that there were terrible bacteria in every pore, so he tried to avoid touching it. However, this was only a thought, and soon, he was ashamed of what he had just thought. He broke his wife's hand, picked up the rock pigeon, and walked back silently. The wife took her husband's arm and followed closely. The three of them were quiet, and the two adults were in a complicated mood and couldn't speak. The drowsiness of the rock pigeon had dissipated, and she was bored for most of the day, and then came up with a sentence: "I still want to eat ice cream." β
Over the next few days, the parents of the rock pigeon were a little overly nervous. With the TV on, as soon as I saw the scene of death, I hurriedly switched the channel. Even the mantra of the rock pigeon's mother, "looking for death", did not dare to mention it again. They watched their daughter for unusual behavior, and even moved the rock pigeon's bed into their bedroom, and listened with their ears pricked up in the middle of the night, for fear that she would wake up crying and crying from nightmares. However, Yan Ge's reaction was beyond their expectations, she was no different from usual, she could eat and sleep, happily watch cartoons, and take the villain book with her when she went to the toilet. Anyway, she kept all her old habits, as if she didn't remember the encounter at all.
A year ago, Rock Pigeon, who had a small bedroom, seemed to be not very happy with returning to her parents' bedroom, and she wanted to move back to her own room several times, but her parents refused. The rock pigeon has a problem grinding teeth at night, and the adults have long noticed it, but now that they sleep together, the sound of grinding their teeth is particularly clear, and it sounds a little creepy. Actually, it's two adults who don't sleep well these days. Although the rock pigeon muttered when he slept, as soon as he fell asleep, he slept until dawn. She even broke the habit of going to the toilet in the middle of the night and knew how to urinate before going to sleep. Next year she will be in kindergarten and she feels like a big child.
Half a month has passed, and the rock pigeon has not shown any abnormal performance, and the parents are basically relieved. But one day, they watched a documentary about a man who experienced horrors in his childhood and grew up to be psychopathic. They wondered again: Could the child have been stimulated too much and developed a strong inhibition force? Ordinary fright can easily cause on-the-spot reactions, such as screaming, making noise, and crying. However, in the face of extreme terrorist events, people appear calm on the outside, and it will take some time before they erupt. People often adopt an attitude of avoidance and even conscious forgetfulness of unbearable realities. However, if psychological problems are not channeled, the longer they accumulate, the more serious they become. Finally, it can lead to mental disordersγγγγγγ
The excessively normal rock pigeon is an abnormal performance! The husband and wife came to a conclusion.
What to do? The two of them began to panic again, and looked at the rock pigeon with unusual eyes. Gradually, they finally noticed that something was wrong: their daughter played at home, always letting the doll lie down, and covering her face with a white handkerchief; The daughter dug a small pit in the yard and buried the broken toys and the carcasses of birds; The daughter saw the dead chicken with the fur and showed a frightened lookγγγγγγ all this shows that the daughter's heart has been branded with the shadow of death. They were relieved by their discovery, and in the end they did not carelessly "close the case". Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable. The two discussed how to guide the rock pigeon so that she could face death correctly.
Obviously, the previous way will not work, and blindly avoiding it will not help. First of all, the rock pigeon should be made to understand death, and then let her come out of the fear of death. Rock Pigeon's parents were full of mission and made a series of plans. So, the atmosphere of the home changed. The adults prepared a lot of materials to explain the death for the rock pigeon. On TV, in pictures, and in the mediaγγγγγγ all kinds of death scenes were placed in front of the rock pigeon. The death of people, the death of animals, and even the felling of plants, her parents explained to the rock pigeon, and she seemed to understand it. Finally, the chair was knocked to the ground, and the rock pigeon cried out, "The chair is dead!" The cups and glassware shattered, and she smiled and announced their deaths. She used to hate celery very much, but now she stuffed it in her mouth, chewed viciously, and muttered inarticulately: "Kill the spinach!" "Rock Pigeon thinks that death is a fun thing, and that what you don't like can make it "die". She is pleased with her new knowledge and uses the term frequently.
The two adults looked at each other, they felt that the excitement of the rock pigeon was already a precursor to perversion, and they wanted to reverse her concept as soon as possible and think like a normal person. So, they instilled in their daughter that "death means never seeing mom and dad again, never eating ice cream again; When it dies, lifeless objects decay and produce terrible germs; Death, which makes something otherwise lovely unapproachable and abominable. In order to make the rock pigeon feel the real scene, the couple beat the pet cat to death, bloodily let the rock pigeon see, and deliberately took the rock pigeon to the countryside to watch the butchers kill the pigs and ducks, those pigs and ducks screamed, and gradually lost their breath. Each time, the couple said, "Look, this is death." We need to understand death. β
The rock pigeon was scared and no longer wanted to go to that kind of killing occasion. She was so frightened that she caught a cold and wanted to get an injection, and she cried and asked the nurse, "Am I going to die?" β
For a while, when she couldn't see someone familiar, she suspected that he was dead, and even in her dreams, she would wake up crying and go to her parents, fearing that they would stop breathing. Looking at the changes in the rock pigeon, the parents felt that she was developing in a normal direction, and the child was finally able to realize the horror of death. Next, the couple induced her to tell what happened at that time, thinking that this would completely open the knot in her heart. Thinking of the horrific scene that day, both adults had palpitations.
"Rock pigeon, what did you do on your last outing?" Mother asked her.
"Play with mom and dad." Rock Pigeon replied casually, staring at the cartoon playing on the TV - "Peppa Pig".
"What else?" Father asked.
"And?" She frowned, thought for a moment, and cried out cheerfully, "And flowers, ice cream." β
"What else?" The mother's expression was very strange, and her voice was different from usual.
"Anything else? --Can't remember. Yan Ge frowned in thought, she was a little nervous under the staring eyes of her parents.
The two adults looked at each other, and thought of each other: it seemed that the daughter was deliberately avoiding it.
"Where did you sleep γγγγγγ?" The mother's voice rose as she mentioned the key issue.
It was only when she did something wrong that her mother spoke to her in this tone. The rock pigeon's heart "chuckled", and his attention shifted from the cartoon. She timidly and seriously recalled: It seems that there is also a little brother. The little brother is sleeping, and so is the rock pigeon. She felt that she hadn't done anything wrong. Did she drop ice cream cream on him and he got angry and complained to his parents? But he didn't seem to be angry, and she picked a lot of flowers for him. As soon as he thought of those little blue flowers, the rock pigeon was very happy, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he smiled happily.
"I slept with my little brother, in the grass with flowers." Rock Pigeon said proudly.
"What brother! That's a dead man! "My father was a little angry, and his voice was higher than that of my mother. Daughter's expression. It made him feel sick to his stomach, little brother, such an affectionate name, it seemed that the gray child corpse had been included in their family and become a part of the family, such an idea was really unacceptable, the little brother was called Hanako, the bacteria on his body.
"My brother died γγγγγγ?" The rock pigeon's eyes widened, and a look of horror was revealed. By this time, the fear of death had shaken her young heart. Dead things, from another world, stretched out their claws, and teased her dreams again and again.
Yan Ge remembered those tragic chickens, ducks, geese and pigs, as well as her own little flower cat, she suddenly realized that the little brother was not kind at all, she recalled the appearance of the little brother, the more she thought about it, the more terrifying, that face, without a trace of blood, like a dark cloud in the sky, those eyes that could not be closed, staring at her, not sleeping at allγγγγγγ she thought about it, "wow" and cried, she was trembling in fear, and her pants were wetγγγγγγ
It's finally time for this day! The couple looked at each other and smiled, they were victorious! I saw my daughter's real fears. This is the reaction of a normal person! Rock pigeon, rock pigeon, lovely daughter, finally came out of the shadow in her heart. The two adults burst into tears and shook hands to congratulate, while the daughter on the side was almost out of breath crying.
The rock pigeon could no longer return to her lively her, she began to fear the night, her mind was filled with dark imaginations, and at night, she covered her head under the quilt, and closed her eyes, as if she saw that sunny afternoon, the flowers, the melting ice creamγγγγγγ but all the good things were stained with the stench of corpses, like buzzing flies, circling in her heart. Her dream was even more terrifying, and the little brother got up from the grass and called softly to the rock pigeon: "Rock pigeon, come and playγγγγγγ let's play at home." At this time, the sunlight disappeared and the surroundings became darkγγγγγγ
"No, no, no, I don't play with you~" Rock Pigeon woke up crying. Next door, she heard the snoring of her parents, who had put her back in their hut since she knew that her little brother was dead. She held the stuffed animal, curled her toes, and curled up at the head of the bed. At this time, there was something in her peripheral vision, and when she turned her head to look, there was a window, and the little brother was coming! Little brother is really here! The little brother is standing outside the window! Smiled and waved at herγγγγγγ
Rock pigeon is stupid, she is really stupid, she has become demented, she is scared by her little brother.
However, there was no little brother outside the window, it was the mop head hanging outside against the windowγγγγγγ rock pigeon was just frightened by fearγγγγγγ
2. Wall
After becoming a college student, I didn't expect the accommodation to be as bad as when I was in middle school, so I moved out in a huff and rented a house on my own. Although it was just a very ordinary apartment, it felt much more spacious for one person. After living there for a while, there was a strange thing that had been bothering me since the first day I moved in. The property manager here told me that there was someone living next door and that he had only come yesterday. But for such a long time, I have never seen that person, which makes me feel strange, and what is even stranger is that every night in the middle of the night, there is always some somewhat suppressed women's laughter next door, and it comes at midnight on time, could there be some strange woman living next door? I feel a little unlucky, I have a habit of reading novels every night, and the sound is really disturbing. This night, the same thing happened again, the suppressed woman's laughter always interrupted my train of thought, I suddenly became angry, so I stood up and went to the woman next door to theorize and ask her to pay attention. I was so angry that I opened the door at once, and a man fell in, and I was so frightened that I stepped back. It's a man, sloppy, and looks like a blue-collar worker who does hard work. You? I stared at him and didn't know how to speak. The man stood up awkwardly, his face flushed. I'm sorry, he said. I looked at him and waited for him to continue. He said, I'm your neighbor, please tell your girlfriend not to laugh in the middle of the night, I have to go to work tomorrow and need to rest. I was surprised.
After talking and getting to know each other, we are both bachelors, but we heard the laughter of a woman coming from each other's room. The worker was curious, so he leaned down on my door and listened, and I was annoyed and wanted to go to him to reason.
With that, we all stared at the wall in horrorγγγγγγ
3. Candles
If you are boating on the lake, you may be able to meet an unexpected relationship. The girl was rafting, and when she reached the center of the lake, the boat suddenly capsized, and the girl fell into the water, fluttering in panic, and choking on several mouthfuls of water, and one arm suddenly stopped her and rescued her to the shore, and it was a handsome boy who saved her. The girl was very grateful to the boy, and it happened that it was her birthday, so the girl invited the boy to celebrate his birthday with her. The girl faces the candles on the cake and, in gratitude to the boy, asks the boy to blow out the candles. The boy blew out the candle in one breath and said, "You know what, I made a wish." "What?" "We're in this together." The girl shook her head and said, "No, you are brave, but I like smart people." The boy smiled and said, "Do you know why the boat capsized?" The girl's eyes widened, "It turned out to be you." The boy smirked, "Am I not smart enough?" The girl shook her head again: "Yes, you're still not smart enough. β
4. Tommy and Santa Claus
Tommy is looking forward to the gift from Santa Claus. When Tommy wakes up in the morning, he sees three gift boxes under the Christmas tree. Tommy also notices that Santa Claus is peeking at him outside the window, and although Santa Claus is smiling at him with his teeth bared, his smile seems strange to Tommy, and seems to be a bit mocking. Tommy felt awkward, but he was a polite child, and smiled back at Santa Claus as he walked over to the gift box, where Santa smiled even more. Tommy pulls out a pair of trousers from the first gift box, and disappointment creeps up on Tommy's face. He proceeds to open the second box and takes out a soccer ball from it, and gradually, Tommy becomes unhappy and even has a feeling of being enraged, and then Santa Claus outside the window is laughing and covering his stomach. Tommy opened the third gift box with a lot of anger, and a brand-new bicycle appeared in front of him, and Santa Claus outside the window finally couldn't help but roll on the snow, and the laughter was even more cheerful. And Tommy finally couldn't hold back and cried in front of the gift.