Chapter 20: Truth or Illusion
"Apricot girl, I have one last question." My brother suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurriedly took out the photo of his mother from his pocket, and just wanted to speak, Xing'er waved her hand when she saw the photo and said, "I haven't seen her." ”
"It's not." My brother hurriedly interrupted her and said, "It's not for you to look at people, it's to look at the background of the photo, think about it carefully, did the man who took the picture of you at that time take a picture of the wall behind it?" ”
Xing'er looked at the background on the photo, nodded again and again, and said: "It's taken, this is the ancient wall of our village, it's been many years, and people who come here will definitely take it, what's wrong?" ”
"Nothing." My brother put away the photo and said to her, "Thank you for telling us this, now I'm going to find Master, I'm afraid it'll be too late to forget." ”
After saying that, he said goodbye to the apricot girl and pulled me away.
I stood there and didn't know what was going on, but he dragged me and stumbled out of the village, almost falling on my heels along the way, and the fat boy followed me and laughed at me for not having a status.
"Brother! What's wrong? What are you anxious about, don't drag it so hard! The clothes are almost open! "I was forcibly dragged out of the village, with a blank face, sorting out my clothes and asking him what was going on, what kind of nerves did he suddenly have?
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked up and found that his face was solemn, his eyes were full of anger, and he looked very angry.
I was startled when I saw him like this, and I thought to myself, right? Muttered and complained no more than two sentences in total, and then became angry? Do I still have the right to speak in the future?
was thinking about whether to apologize to him, when suddenly he took out a photo of his mother from his pocket, clutched his hands tightly and trembled, his mood fluctuated abnormally, and his voice trembled: "Photos! Fake! Liu Kuaikou, he didn't find our mother at all! You're lying to us all the way! Damn it! ”
He roared, threw the photo on the ground angrily, and stepped on it with his foot, as if he couldn't control himself, and kept stepping on it, and buried the photo directly on the ground full of dirt, splashing mud everywhere, spraying clothes everywhere.
I didn't know what was going on, and when I saw him like this, I hurriedly stopped him, pulled him away, and said to the fat boy at the same time: "Pick up the photo!" ”
The fat boy looked at me at a loss when he heard this, and looked at me with wide round eyes in disbelief, as if he had heard the funniest thing: "How can I pick up the master and have no hands!" ”
"Will you bite with your mouth?" I tried my best to stop my brother, and when I saw that it was still talking back, I yelled angrily.
The fat boy suddenly looked aggrieved, and was very reluctant to pinch his paws to pull out the soil to find a photo, and muttered and complained constantly: "You brothers quarreled, why is it a cat who bears the consequences?" ”
"Brother! What the hell is going on? How can a photo be fake? Why did Liu Kuaikou lie to us? You can make it clear! "It took me a lot of effort to stabilize my brother, and I've never seen him so angry.
His cheeks were red with anger, his eyes were bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth and said to me, "Do you know why no one has seen my mother in this place?" Because she never came! The background of the photo was taken in advance, and the person used computer technology to repair it later! ”
"I said that how the mother's appearance in the photo looks so familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere, it is because before this, I gave Liu Kuaikou a photo of his mother, he must have repaired the character with the computer later, and then added a background picture to put it on, so that he has the current one!"
"This bastard lied to me at the time, there is no one in the world that he can't find, I'm fucking deaf and blind! Lao Tzu believed his nonsense and gave him his mother's photo! Tu poor, I thought I would find her this time, our family can finally reunite after so many years, and everything will return to normal, as before, but who knew that in the end, he was tricked by this villain! ”
"When I find him, Lao Tzu will definitely skin him alive!" My brother's eyes were blood-red, his muscles burst out, and he knelt on the ground in the dirt, and his body was shaking.
I hugged him tightly and tried to reassure him, but my whole brain was buzzing, and I never thought that this would be a scam.
At first, because I believed in my brother, I believed that my mother was here, but who knew that such a thing would happen, if the photo was edited with a computer, it also means that we don't know if my mother is still alive now?
Aren't all the expectations and hopes before that all the dreams just a pipe dream?
This feeling of ups and downs is really uncomfortable.
"Brother... Could it be that you are thinking too much.. Mother she.." I still have a little fantasy in my heart.
My brother interrupted me and shook his head, "Want more?" Tu poor, don't be stupid, this village is so big, you heard it before, if someone comes, they will definitely know that the man who took the picture must have colluded with Liu Kuaikou to deceive us! These two bastards! Come to a sticky end! ”
"But... Don't you think it's weird? What are they trying to do? What's the use of lying to the two of us? One has no money, two has no power, we have nothing, what can we get from us? And if you lie to us, you can also see Liu Kuaikou's appearance, he has become like that, is it also a performance? ”
I remembered in my mind that Liu Kuaikou floated in the air at night, like a puppet slamming into the room, covered in blood, and the terrifying appearance was not acted!
When my brother heard me say this, he obviously couldn't figure it out, he would be emotionally unstable, and many things could not be sorted out, so I could only find a way to appease him first: "Moreover, you think about it, before coming, and even now, Liu Kuaikou has always been very polite to us, and the hospitality is good, just inviting us to eat and eat has cost a lot of money, and it doesn't seem like he is lying to us, maybe there are other situations here that we don't know, brother, don't worry, wait until we find Liu Kuaikou, we will understand when we ask clearly." ”
After saying this, my brother's mood stabilized a little, got up and said slowly: "Even if there is another hidden reason here, it is a fact that my mother is not here, and you and I are here to find my mother, and other things have nothing to do with us, my mother is not here, for me, he just lied to us." ”
I couldn't say a word when I heard the words, I knew that his mood would be wrong, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to listen to what he said, so I simply didn't persuade him more.
Bending down to take the photo from the fat boy's mouth, wiping the mud off it with his sleeve, looking at the mother in the photo, suddenly, for some reason, it may be an illusion, or it may be influenced by my brother's words, I always feel that this photo looks fake at this time, and there is a sense of blurring around the edges of people and backgrounds.
It's as if this photo was really computer-composited.
I also began to have a bad premonition in my heart, and my brain was full of questions, if this is really fake, then what is Liu Kuaikou doing this for? Why did he become that ghost?
What's in the cabin? And who is the man who took the picture? What does it have to do with Liu Kuaikou?
And most importantly, if the photo is fake, then where the hell is the mother? After so many years, is it life or death?