Chapter 007: Coming Home
After She Laosan left, I was bored by myself, but I didn't dare to go out of this place.
Just as I was pondering what to do, my phone upstairs rang.
When I picked it up, it was my mother calling.
"Hello?"
"Tianxuan, why don't you come back? Isn't it a discharge? ”
My mom's voice came from my phone.
Listening to this familiar voice, my nose unconsciously soured, I have been a soldier for six years, and I have not been home once.
With a sniffle, I said, "yes, on the way, I'll be back in the next few days." ”
My mom gave me some more instructions and hung up.
After a simple tidying up, I took out two thousand yuan from She Laosan's room and hit the road.
My family lives in a small village in Xiangyang City, north of Xuzhou, and it doesn't take long to get from Jingzhou City.
One day, I was back in the village.
Standing at the entrance of the village, I took a few breaths of the air of my hometown, and I felt much refreshed.
The door is locked, and it seems that he has gone out to work.
When I had nothing to do, I carried my bag to the chess and card room at the west end of the village and looked at the cards.
"Erba, are you fucking out of a thousand."
A big man with a meaty face yelled at an emaciated child.
This big man is my classmate Wang Meng in elementary school, and he is a tyrant in the village.
Although it was unpleasant, I didn't mean to intervene.
After two hours of watching the cards, I went home.
Pushing open the door, my parents were sitting on the sofa watching TV, and when they saw me come back, the eyes of the old couple instantly turned red.
Pulling me to sit down, my mom asked me how I had been in the army for the past six years and something.
I haven't seen each other for six years, so how can I finish talking about it in one night?
After a casual dinner, I sat in the courtyard and smoked.
Thinking of what She Laosan told me when he left, if he knew that I had left his house, he would probably scold me.
Suddenly, I saw Wang Meng, who was still playing cards in the card club just now, walking over from the door with Xiuhua on his back.
"Why are you outside without going in? Isn't it cold? ”
My dad opened the door and said to me.
"Here we are."
I stood up, patted my butt, and walked into the house.
"By the way, Dad, how is Xiuhua doing?"
"Xiuhua? What are you doing with her? It's not too early, so go to sleep. ”
After being reprimanded by my father, I nodded stupidly and went to sleep.
The next morning, I heard shouting as if someone was arguing.
Putting on my clothes, I went downstairs.
"What's the situation?"
When I came to the courtyard, my dad was already standing at the gate and watching.
"Let's go check it out."
Glancing at me, my father took me to Wang Meng's house in the west of the village.
Wang Meng's eyes were bulging at this time, bleeding from seven holes, his body was full of scratches, and his death was very miserable.
"How can this be, I obviously saw him carrying Xiuhua home last night."
Hearing my words, everyone looked at me.
"Bastard, what nonsense? Xiuhua has been gone for several years. ”
My dad gave me a hard slap on the back of the head.
"What is this?" The village chief came to me: "Are you Tianxuan?" ”
"It's me, Grandpa Liu." I nodded hurriedly.
After the village chief confirmed, he waved his hand to let Wang Meng's body be carried into his family's house, and then beckoned everyone to the village committee for a public meal, saying that it was for me to pick up the wind.
I didn't want to go, but the village chief had spoken, and my dad couldn't refuse.
Lunch and dinner are eaten at the village committee.
When I got home in the evening, my dad went up and kicked me in the ass.
"What are you talking nonsense during the day?"
"I didn't say nonsense, I really saw it last night, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you Xiuhua."
"You ......"
My dad glared at me, and then said to my mom, "You go to the East House and invite that Bodhisattva over, I'm afraid this kid has hit an evil spirit." ”
A short time later, my mother walked in with a stone statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva in her hand and placed it on the table in our living room, facing the courtyard gate.
"Go to sleep."
My dad scolded me.
With my head down, I went upstairs and went back to my room.
Lying in bed, I tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep anyway.
Sitting up from the bed, I played with my phone.
After playing for more than an hour or so, I rubbed my neck and put my phone on the windowsill to get ready to charge.
Suddenly, I saw Wang Meng passing by in front of my house with Xiuhua on his back again.
When passing by my door, Xiuhua turned her head and smiled at me, her face pale and bright blood.
Plop –
My heart throbbed, and I took several steps backwards.
Closing the curtains, I got into the quilt, shivering, and didn't even turn off the lights.
The next morning, I heard even more terrifying news:
Wang Meng's body actually hanged himself, and the body hanged himself.
Putting on my clothes, I hurriedly came to Wang Meng's house.
Wang Meng's parents died early, so he was the only one in the family, and in the living room of his house, Wang Meng hung on the ceiling fan on the roof with a hemp rope, and hung himself on the hemp rope around his neck.
"Are you haunted, you say? Wang Meng died yesterday, how could he hang himself? ”
"That is, how can a dead man hang himself? Could it be that someone in the village is deliberately playing tricks? ”
"No way, who has that guts?"
Listening to the people next to me talking about this matter, the cold sweat on my back became more and more, and the hairs on my back stood up one by one.
Smack-
A large hand was placed on my shoulder.
Turning his head, my dad stood behind me with a gloomy face: "Who asked you to come?" ”
There was no doubt that I was called home and never let out again.
On the evening of this day, Wang Meng passed in front of my house again with Xiuhua on his back.
This time, the two of them actually knelt in front of my house and bowed three times, and then Wang Meng carried Xiuhua on his back and walked in the direction of his house.
Curiosity kills cats, that's true.
Scared, I gently opened the window and climbed out of the wall.
followed Wang Meng and came to the courtyard of his house.
After also climbing over the wall, I found that the lights of Wang Meng's house were still on.
"Could it be that Wang Meng is pretending to be dead?"
Intrigued, I tiptoed under the window and looked inside.
In the living room, Wang Meng's body was still hanging from the roof, and the direction of the protruding eyes was mine.
"Huh."
A miserable laugh came and gave me goosebumps all over my body.
At this time, Xiuhua suddenly appeared beside me, grabbed my hand and ran out.
"Let's go."
Although Xiuhua is no longer human, her voice is not so gloomy.
Boom –
There was a bang behind me, and Wang Meng's body had rolled out of the house.
This 'roll' is not horizontal, but counting, head-to-head, and feet landing.
"Xiuhua, didn't you say that if you kill me, you can keep me together?"
Wang Meng stood two meters in front of me: "Are you going to leave me today?" ”
"I killed you because you shouldn't bully the second bastard."
Blood stains appeared on Xiuhua's face, and the cold air emanating from her body made me shiver.