Volume II, Chapter 3, The Little Boy

The man was obviously stunned for a moment, and he opened his mouth slightly, with a choked expression.

"Of course, I'll send you." The man quickly returned to his deserved, calm, and relaxed state.

When the girl heard this, she immediately turned her back on him and walked around the right side of the glass coffee table towards the door.

The man didn't care, and after he saw the girl walk away, he let her keep a certain distance from him, and then he began to move to follow the girl from the left side of the coffee table.

The girl also went to the door, and she opened the door. Outside the house was a long corridor, facing the girl were two rows of orange benches that were not close to each other, a meter apart, and the benches were empty at this time, and in addition to that, there was a white porcelain wall.

On the white wall, there are a few lines of words glued with bright green calligraphy, which are staggered from top to bottom, which are "No one's soul is always spotless", "Overcome self, embrace health", and "Healthy life, start from the heart (new)". Each font is very large, and it is very conspicuous, as if it is deliberately used to attract attention, so that every time the girl walks out of the room, she is attracted to it and looks at it for a few seconds.

Including this time, it was no exception, the girl just opened the door, saw these words, and involuntarily stopped, but just a glance, the girl quickly looked away, turned her face away, walked out of the door, and came to the corridor. She turned to the right, and was about to turn when she heard a sound from behind her

"Nannan, wait a minute."

The man saw that the girl was finally willing to face him, and finally had a chance to make eye contact, but a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes, the man pursed his lips, and asked softly and cautiously,

"Nannan, you, can you come back next week?"

A minute-long silence ensued.

The girl, that is, Nan Nan, did not immediately answer the man's question, but suddenly her eyes were dilated, but she immediately focused on one point, she seemed to be thinking about something.

Then, although Nan Nan still raised her head and looked at the man, she lowered her eyes again and no longer looked directly at the man.

The man can no longer see Nan Nan's eye changes, as well as any emotional information revealed from her eyes, from his point of view, he can only see Nan Nan's long eyelashes hanging down, and after a while, I saw the two pairs of eyelashes flutter a few times quickly, and then, Nan Nan raised her eyelids up again, and looked at the man again, at the same time, the man also noticed that the corners of her eyes were a little red.

"I promised my mom that I would come every week." Nan Nan's voice was still so small that it was almost inaudible, but this time, her choking could be clearly heard, and a tired and weak tone revealed from it.

After hearing what Nan Nan said, the worry in the man's eyes was a little less, and he relaxed the corners of his mouth that he was pursing, and spoke again,

"Okay, you're not going to be gone for more than two months, aren't you?" The man's tone became softer and gentler, but it could also be heard that in his inquiry, affirmative meaning was more than half.

"Doctor Tan Yu, no, a patient suddenly fell ill and swallowed a pen cap."

Before Nan Nan could speak, there was a rush of footsteps and a shout with an unsteady pant from the right turn of the hallway.

"Where? Don't run to me, lead the way! Before Nan Nan could react, Tan Yu had already quickly bypassed her and ran in the direction where the shout came from.

After waiting for Nan Nan to finally understand what was going on, she looked in the direction that Tan Yu had run, and all she could see was a vague figure flashing around the bend at the end of the corridor.

Nan Nan was at a loss for a moment, so she also took a few steps forward, but quickly stopped.

Nan Nan stood still, looking at the emptiness in front of her, she suddenly became frightened, and she even began to feel that although the corridor under her feet had an end, a place where she could finally stop, but at the same time it was also very long and wide, as if it would never be finished.

Nan Nan herself didn't know why, she was in a trance, confused and had an illusion, she felt that she was not in this corridor, she was standing in a room that was white on all sides, and all around her were a vast piece of white, including the floor and ceiling were exactly the same white.

And this room is very strange, there is nothing in it, not even doors and windows, and there are only Nan Nan standing alone in the center of the room.

But Nan Nan in this room felt that she was getting smaller and smaller, more and more weightless, as if she would disappear into nothingness at once, and then melt into this piece of white.

"Nannan, Nannan, Nannan......"

At this moment, Nan Nan heard a voice shouting her name, the voice seemed to come from a long distance, some of it was not clear, and she could only hear that it was a call from a boy.

It was precisely because of this boy's voice that Nan Nan struggled out of her fantasy in an instant, and as soon as she came back to her senses, she immediately turned around, shook her head, and looked left and right.

But still, there is no figure.

Nan Nan's eyes were full of doubts, and she stopped moving, but after a while, her eyes returned to coldness, and she convinced herself that the voice she had just heard was just a fantasy of her own.

She couldn't help but sigh deeply after Nan Nan accepted this reality, and then, she shrugged her shoulders again and walked towards the side of the hallway.

Just as she was about to reach the end of the corridor, Nan Nan unconsciously tensed her body, she slowed down, and began to hesitate again, she began to wonder if this corridor would never be finished.

But Nan Nan finally made it to the end of the corridor and stood at the end of the staircase around the corner.

She grinned slightly, and gradually relaxed her body, and walked down the stairs.

Just as Nan Nan was about to walk to the flat ground, only a few steps away, she suddenly heard the voice of someone talking.

"My hands and my face hurt so much right now."

"I don't know why my dad hit me, he's been hitting me lately."

"I can't run, if I run, he'll hit mom."

"When I grow up, I'll buy a big house, and only you, me, and my mother will live in it."

"Because you're my only, best friend."

……

It was a childish voice that only a child could make, but in the whole conversation, there was only one voice from beginning to end, but it sounded like there was another person who was talking to him.

Nan Nan followed the voice of the voice, only to find that it was only a little boy standing in the shadow by the stairs.

And Nan Nan was standing on the stairs at this time looking down on the little boy, and she had everything in her eyes.

The boy was thin and not tall, he wore a navy green sweater that had been washed many times and could be clearly seen to be faded, and a pair of pants that barely fitted, the pants were obviously much larger, even if they were pulled up several times, they could still only drag up to the heels, and the toes of the white sneakers that the little boy was wearing were already worn to the point that they were about to break a hole.

"Haohao, Haohao." Suddenly a woman appeared at the top of the staircase, she was very tall and at the same time very thin, like a bamboo pole. She wore a red turtleneck, which was also balled, and a pair of loose black trousers, but the trousers were shorter, exposing her ankles.

I saw her shouting anxiously, and rushed towards the little boy with her unkempt hair.

"Mom." When the boy heard the woman's voice, he immediately answered her with joy, and trotted towards the woman.

I saw the woman squatting down and hugging the little boy, she buried her head in the middle of the little boy's shoulders and neck, and kept muttering: "Haohao, Haohao......"

At this time, Nan Nan suddenly saw that the woman's arms were open, so that her sleeves and her skin were exposed, and on the bare skin, there were several purple traces of being whipped.

The little boy also hugged the woman in his arms and patted the woman's back with his right hand constantly, gently and rhythmically.

After a few minutes, the woman let go of the little boy, she looked at the little boy level, held the little boy's shoulder with one hand, stroked his face with the other and said, "Why did you come here, my mother can't find you, and she is about to die." ”

"I'm sorry, Mom, for worrying about me." The little boy stretched out his hands and swept up the woman's hair that was scattered beside her face, pinning them all behind the woman's ears, revealing the woman's haggard, yellowish face.

"What are you doing here?" The woman also took the little boy's hands with both hands to fix her face, put them together, put them to her mouth and kissed them.

"Am I talking to my best friend?" The little boy smiled and looked proud.

"Friend, what friend?" The woman looked left and right, but didn't notice anyone.

"Right here, next to me." The boy pulled out his hands in the woman's hands, and he turned to the right, pointing his left hand directly in front of him.

But there was no one in front of him.