"Mom, why are your arms purple again?"

The little boy picked up the rice in the small bowl and looked at the woman who looked at him with some concern.

"Mom, it's okay, you eat quickly, you can grow tall and strong when you are full."

"Isn't it Dad..."

The little boy hesitated to speak, but before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a woman.

"Don't think about it, eat it, don't you have to go fishing with your friends for a while? You have to hurry, don't keep them waiting. ”

Hearing this, the little boy lowered his head and concentrated on dinner.

"Mom, you eat too."

"Mom is not hungry, let's eat."

The little boy was only seven or eight years old, and he couldn't figure out a lot of things.

He couldn't understand why his father always came home late, why there was always a strange smell on his father, and why his father who came home with this smell always spoke slurred, and he would beat his mother if he didn't agree.

I couldn't figure it out, I never understood it, so I simply stopped thinking about it.

Before the meal was finished, the door of the house was pushed open.

The little boy looked towards the door, then withdrew his gaze, and it was his father who came.

The mother and son did not speak, and the man did not react, and walked to the edge of the dining table with the smell of wine.

"Nothing, come home with nothing."

A plate of pickles and a small half bowl of multigrain rice is the little boy's dinner.

"Home... There is no food left at home..."

The woman bowed her head and spoke with some trembling.

"Heh, spending so much money to buy you back, I can't do anything, except for that face, it's not a fart, it's just a money-loser."

The man drank and said such things in front of the little boy without hesitation that the child should not have heard, but fortunately, the little boy did not understand very well.

But despite this, the woman still panicked and picked up the little boy and walked out of the house.

"Mom and Dad have something to say, you go play first, remember to come back early."

The little boy nodded ignorantly, watched his mother walk into the house, and then turned around and slowly left.

Suddenly, there was the sound of falling objects and cries in the house.

The little boy knew that it was starting again, so he turned and quickened his pace, trotting all the way out of the house, and at last he ran to the lake outside the village with all his might.

By the lake, the panting little boy finally saw three familiar faces.

It's a little friend of the same age who he often plays with.

The mother of two of them died at an early age, and the mother of another did not go out all the year round, and when the friends asked, he was also secretive and did not want to say more, only saying that his mother was not in good health and had been lying at home.

So relatively speaking, the little boy is the most harmonious family among them.

"Xiaopeng, you're late again." It was a tall man who spoke.

"My mom told me to come out after eating, I'm sorry." The little boy was a little embarrassed.

A skinny boy comforted: "It's okay, it's not dark yet, there is still a chance." ”

It's just that the last little fat man was a little unhappy: "We've been waiting for you for a long time, how old are you, and your mother still cares so much." ”

"I'm sorry." The little boy apologized again.

"Forget it, let's go, we must touch a few more fish today."

This is one of their few entertainments.

I heard that after a while, they should go to school in the next village, although they didn't know what school was, but they heard from the older children that it was many children of the same age sitting together and listening to stories.

So they were looking forward to the day of school, but until then, they were still the same as before, and they didn't have too much entertainment.

Climbing trees, touching fish, and stealing melons in the fields are considered to be entertainment, and they are now preparing to touch fish.

The days of spring are the easiest time to touch some fish that have not woken up, and after a winter, many of them have grown a circle of fat, and they can take it home to worship the five internal organs temple while playing, so even parents are not opposed to them being so naughty.

But there was always a haze in the little boy's heart, and he always felt that something was wrong today.

But I can't tell when this feeling started, at home? Or going out? Or just now? Or is it just getting stronger?

As before, if you don't understand, then you don't want to.

They didn't notice that the water level in the lake today is much higher than before.

Until...

"Little Friends !!"

The last scene in the little boy's eyes was that three friends not far away rushed towards him.

Then he saw another world, a world that was completely blood-red.

He seemed to be flying in the sky, and when he looked down, he could see a lot of aquatic plants and kelp, and it was a little dark, and he couldn't see it very clearly.

He remembered that the place where they were was on the edge of the lake, and the water was only up to his waist at its deepest, but now he could not see the bottom of the lake at all.

It seemed to be far, far away, and subconsciously, he wanted to swim to the bottom of the lake to take a look.

But no matter how much he swam, he didn't seem to be able to touch the bottom of the lake, and when he looked back, he couldn't see the surface of the lake anymore.

He didn't feel the slightest pain of suffocation, he felt very strange, usually he held his breath for a minute at most, but now, he felt that it had been down for a long time, but the gas was still enough.

Qi was still enough, and these four words appeared in his heart, so he decided to continue downstream.

Finally, after swimming for an unknown amount of time, he finally caught the aquatic weed.

This strange aquatic plant feels very slippery and greasy to the touch, and it makes people feel a little sick just by touching it.

He tugged lightly, but he didn't expect to bring out the things connected to the aquatic plants all at once.

The boy first looked at what it was, and then suddenly, his eyes widened with disbelief and fear.

He finally discovered that it was not a water weed, but long hair like his mother, and the hair was connected, and it was naturally human.

And while he was concentrating on this thing, I don't know when, he was already surrounded by these hairs...

In the eyes of the three of them, Xiao Peng, who usually swims the best, seemed to be pulled into the water by something, and he struggled for a moment before disappearing into the lake.

So the three little children ran over with a loud voice calling out the boy's name.

Fortunately, although the water was rising, the height of the water at this time was only submerged to the chest of the shortest person.

"Found it."

The tall man was the first to find the little boy, and then worked with the little fat man to get him out of the water.

They frantically slapped the little boy in the face and dragged him to the shore.

"Xiaopeng, it's okay, wake up, Xiaopeng!"

The little boy finally opened his eyes and choked on the water in his mouth.

"I... How long have I been drowning? ”

The little boy had already realized that he was drowning, but what he had just seen was so real and so terrifying...

"Probably, ten seconds." The short man counted on his fingers.

This is the method of timekeeping taught to them by the little boy, and it is said that the little boy learned from his mother, the hours, minutes, seconds, etc., which also made them very envious of the little boy.

"It's only been ten seconds..."

"Of course, if you drown for a little longer, you won't wake up so quickly, and maybe call an adult to save you."

The little boy nodded blankly, but it felt like it had been so long.

"Alas, Xiaopeng, what did you have for dinner?"

The three of them were attracted by the voice of the little fat man, and saw him using a small wooden stick to stir a ball on the ground that they didn't know what they didn't know.

"How do you spit out a mess... Hair? ”

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