Chapter 202 Fleeing the Road
When I turned around, I saw a man standing behind Yamahide. This man may have just come out of the courtyard and stood there, looking at me quietly.
At this time, the surprise in my heart was overflowing. I can mistake someone, but I will never mistake him.
Blind San'er, the man who just came out of the courtyard, turned out to be Blind San'er.
Blind San'er is helping Lu Fangding do things, and suddenly I thought about it, it is not completely impossible for Blind San'er to appear here. However, in the flash of light in my mind, the blind San'er was dead, even the body was burned to ashes, and he would not appear again.
However, the impossible happened right before my eyes, and my nerves were overwhelmed and on the verge of collapse.
"Tired or not." Blind San'er was still wearing that pair of highly myopic glasses, and as in the past, he said in a tone that I was already very familiar with: "Let's rest for a while." ”
"Third brother...... "I just feel numb and numb from head to toe, and my brain won't turn all of a sudden."
The moonlight fell on the bodies of Blind San'er and Shan Xiu, and the two of them stood side by side in the moonlight, looking at the two of them as if looking at a black and white photo.
I can't describe how I feel right now, the fear, the surprise, the cringe, the restlessness...... It was as if all the worst emotions were concentrated on me.
Mumu's head seemed to have lost even the function of thinking, however, my subconscious suddenly told myself that everything in front of me was impossible.
I began to keep retreating, and Blind San'er and Shanxiu stood in place, like two puppets that only turned their necks, staring at me fixedly. I withdrew more than a dozen steps away, and there was no one in the huts on either side, and Shan Xiu and Blind San'er did not follow, so I was about to run out of the two rows of huts.
At this moment, the sound of dogs barking sounded in the village, and when I heard this sound, I felt panicked, and I saw that I was about to run out between the two rows of houses, and I involuntarily quickened my pace.
As I ran near the exit, something like a swimming ring rolled at my feet. I didn't know exactly where this thing came from, and it startled me.
At this moment, I am like a frightened bird, and any wind and grass will make me tremble. I stopped, looked at what rolled to my feet, and saw that it was the inner tube of a car tire.
The tires were worn out and the patches on them were stacked one on top of the other. I looked down for a moment and couldn't see anything strange about the worn-out tire.
However, the moment I looked up, I saw a teenager running towards me not far ahead.
"Grab the tires and let's go." The boy ran up to me, winked his eyes at me, and beckoned: "I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”
"Take the tires...... What are you doing...... "I subconsciously began to retreat again, and I found that in this small village, my reflex arc was particularly long, and it was not until this time that I felt that the village seemed to be very strange.
"Let's go, didn't you say okay?" This child is estimated to be eleven or twelve years old, and he knows that he is very skinny when he looks at it.
I looked at the child, and the memories that had been sealed in my mind rolled over again. I know him because the memory is so clear that whenever an opportunity arises, I immediately recall it.
It can be said that this memory, or this child, is the earliest shadow in my life, and it is also the earliest regret I have experienced in my life.
This child's name is Zhang Kuan, and he was my classmate when I was in elementary school. We were both very speculative at the time, because we were both more mischievous.
That summer, Zhang Kuan told me about a place that was a small reservoir in the north mountains of Huayang. It's a lot of fun, not only can you swim, you can touch small fish from the ditch near the reservoir, but you can also pick wild fruits that are not ripe. Zhang Kuan and I have been there twice, and I feel like it's really a paradise.
During the summer vacation, I made an appointment with Zhang Kuan to go to the reservoir together the next day. But the next morning, it started to rain, and I braved the rain to run to meet Zhang Kuan, and both of us were very playful, and despite the rain, it didn't stop us. At that time, the living conditions were not very good, and many people went to the reservoir to swim, using the kind of scrapped tire inner tube, repairing it, and then using it as a swimming ring. Zhang Kuan and I picked up an inner tube discarded by others on the other side of the reservoir, and replenished it several times, and ran to the reservoir in a hurry.
On the way to the reservoir, we met two people who were returning halfway. They also went to the reservoir to swim, but when it rained heavily, they came back. They told us that when it rains, no one goes swimming in the reservoir, and children run to play, and it is easy to get out of danger, and no one saves them.
After receiving the other party's admonition, I hesitated, because I was not as bold as Zhang Kuan, and I would consider it after encountering something. When Zhang Kuan saw that I was hesitant, he laughed at me and said that I was cowardly. The more they talked, the more annoyed they became, and I turned around angrily and left.
I went back to the city alone, and when I sat on the bus, I regretted it a little, and felt that I should persuade Zhang Kuan to come back, but when I remembered the face he had when he laughed at me, I didn't feel angry in my heart. I gave up the idea of going back to Zhang Kuan and took the bus home.
In the next few days, I was angry and didn't find Zhang Kuan, this is my best playmate, and if the two don't contact, I feel that the summer vacation is very boring.
A few days later, I dreamed of Zhang Kuan, and it was like this for several days. In the dream, Zhang Kuan held the worn-out tire and stood in the corner of the room looking at me. I called out to him to come over, but he kept shaking his head at me.
At that time, I was still young, and I didn't know what such a dream meant, and I didn't take it to heart. It's just that I've been idle for a long time, and in the end I can't hold back and want to go to Zhang Kuan to play.
I went to Zhang Kuan's house and got the news that Zhang Kuan was dead. On the day of the rain, a man was playing in the reservoir and died in the water.
I was only eleven or twelve years old, and I was not very sensible, but I understood what it meant to die, which meant never to see him again.
I remember that after I came out of Zhang Kuan's house, I squatted on the corner of the street and cried alone for a long time. I regret it to death, and I feel uncomfortable to die. I have never forgotten this incident, many years have passed, and sometimes in retrospect, I feel that if I had pulled Zhang Kuan back with my iron heart at that time, he might not have died.
At this moment, I can see the child in front of me, it is Zhang Kuan back then. He didn't change, he still had the same round blackened fat face, and he still had the same skinny appearance.
My vision was a little blurry, my eyes were wide, and my hair was still wet, as if I had just come out of the water.
"Go to the reservoir and play." Zhang Kuan picked up the broken tires on the ground, with a contemptuous look, pouted and said: "You are too bold, look at me, I floated alone in the reservoir for a day and a night, and the next day the rain stopped, and no one saw me on the water......"
I couldn't take it anymore, what I saw and heard, was completely beyond my mental capacity. In fact, in those previous expeditions, I had seen so many scary things, terrible things, that I had never been so afraid of at that time. But the current situation is different from the situation at that time, and my fear now is a kind of psychological fear, which comes from the deepest fear in my heart.
I desperately ran away, rushed out of Zhang Kuan's side, and ran out of the path between the houses in one go. I didn't dare to stay and ask the villagers for water anymore, so I kept running to the vicinity of the lake.
I ran very fast, and kept looking back as I ran, but no one chased after me, and the dead village fell into calm again.
The water of the lake was still gently rippling in the night breeze, and when I ran to the lake, I saw a small boat on the lake. I couldn't stand the thirst, but I was afraid that something terrible would happen again, so I walked around the boat and walked another twenty meters before stopping to drink.
The lake is so dirty that you can't talk about it no matter how you look at it. I had nothing else on me, only a lighter and half a pack of cigarettes in my pocket. I took off the plastic layer on the outside of the cigarette box, scooped a little water in the lake, and waited for the impurities in the water to settle.
The boat on the lake seemed to be empty, just fluttering back and forth in the water. I waited for the lake to clear up, and at the same time kept watching the boat, and as soon as there was any wind or grass, I immediately left.
I crouched on the ground, holding a plastic box containing water in my hand, staring intently at the boat. My attention was so focused on the boat that I felt like my pockets were moving lightly all the time.
I subconsciously turned my head and threw the water out of my hand at once. I don't know when, a little over a year old child stood next to me.
The child's face was mottled with mercury spots, this was the child in Shanxiu's arms, my brain was numb, and I didn't know why this child suddenly followed me.
The child's eyes were no longer visible, only two shrunken and deformed eye sockets, and he raised his head slightly, as if to look at me, and reached into my coat pocket with one hand, as if to pick something out.
If you change to someone else and suddenly encounter such a situation, you will probably be scared to death. It's not that I'm not afraid, it's just that in my panic, a question suddenly came to my mind.
This village is full of people I know, and all of them are dead people. For example, Shanxiu, I am not very familiar with her herself, but I still have a rare impression in my mind.
It was as if I understood what was going on at once, and from the moment I discovered the village, what I saw was my own imagination.