Chapter 23: Mother-Child Instinct
"What's the hell with all the bells and whistles on your face, who did you fight with last night?" After Li Yating's heart knot was opened, she was obviously a lot more cheerful, and she talked more. She held Bao'er in one hand at this time and asked me with a smile.
When I heard her ask, I immediately reacted, and the hot pain mixed with the numbness on my face hit again. Last night in the hospital, my face first came into close contact with the ground, and then hit the big iron door of the morgue, and even I didn't know what I was looking like now.
I didn't have the heart to talk nonsense with her, I hurriedly ran into the bathroom, looked in the mirror, good guy, I looked like I had just come down from the battlefield, my whole face was dry blood scabs, mixed with dirt, the word bells and whistles is really appropriate.
I quickly turned on the faucet and washed my face, the cold water made my cheeks hot and painful. Looking in the mirror again, the state of terror just now is gone. Although there is still a big bag on his forehead and a slight scratch on his face, it is much stronger than before.
I was carefully wiping my face with a towel from the hotel, when suddenly my phone rang, and I looked down at the number on it, which said the queen mother. I suddenly felt a twitch in my heart, it must be a good thing to call so early, I guess I didn't come home last night and let my mother know. I picked up the phone and fed it carefully.
My gentle voice didn't get the same treatment, and my mother's roar came from the other side of the phone, which scared my little heart twitching twice: "What are you doing?" I called your grandmother last night and said that you didn't come home all night, and I called you and you haven't been in the service area, do you want to kill me in a hurry? ”
In the face of my mother's questioning, my heart tightened for a while, and I couldn't speak. My mother was obviously really anxious, and scolded with a white face: "You are in the third year of high school, and your father and I don't blame you for failing to do well in the exam, but if you dare not study well, don't say that your father will give you a discount on your leg when the time comes!" Who am your dad and I out all year long? Tell me, what the hell was going on last night? ”
In the face of my mother's hard questioning, I could only come up with the usual routine and make up nonsense: "Isn't this our class president's birthday yesterday, not only me, but most of our classmates are here." Her villa is in the suburbs, and the signal here is not very good, and besides, I'm not afraid to tell you that you don't agree. ”
After all, my mother has been fighting with me for so many years, and she obviously didn't believe much of what I said, and said to me: "You don't have to talk to me, you can turn on your phone hands-free now, and let your classmates say a few words to me and I'll listen." ”
I complained for a while, my mother and I have been in the ideological struggle for many years, and our reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance systems are constantly upgrading, so I helplessly said to her: "No problem, I'm in the toilet now, you wait a while." ”
"It's okay, I'll wait, you are not allowed to hang up the phone." My mother was determined to spend time with me today, and she didn't let me hang up the phone, probably because she was afraid that I would find some extras to prevaricate her.
I smiled wryly and opened the bathroom door, then walked back into the house with my phone. Bao'er and Li Yating probably heard the conversation just now, and they were looking at me with a wicked smile. I pointed to the phone and then mouth-tossed my mother, signaling that it was my mother calling and asking them to cooperate, and then said to the phone: "Mom, listen, my classmates are all here." ”
My mother on the other end of the phone was skeptical, and then she heard Bao'er reply obediently: "Hello Auntie, I am Gao Tianci's classmate, my name is Ren Bao'er." ”
When my mother heard Bao'er's voice, her tone softened a little and replied, "Hello." Then he asked me a little uneasy, "Is there anyone else?" ”
I heard my mother ask, and hurriedly looked at Li Yating with a look of help, only to see Li Yating looking at me with a wicked smile, and after I squeezed my eyebrows and prayed, she said into the phone: "Hello Auntie, my name is Li Yating." ”
After a long silence on the other side of the phone, my mother's voice came again, and she asked me with obvious vigilance in her tone, "Are they all female classmates?" Are there any men? ”
I almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood when she asked this, and everyone present could hear the distrust in her tone, what does this mean? Isn't it overestimating my heterosexual charm?
I reluctantly turned my eyes to Xiao Hei on the side, and Xiao Hei saw me looking at him, and he dodged my gaze unnaturally. When I saw him squirming and pinching, I got angry and went up and stabbed him. Xiao Hei reluctantly said: "Ah... Hello Auntie. ”
When my mother heard Xiao Hei's voice, she was obviously relieved, but she still asked reluctantly, "Hello, you are also a classmate of God, right?" What's your name? ”
Xiao Hei looked at me with a stunned expression, not knowing how to answer. I couldn't help it, and shouted into the phone: "Mom, you're almost done, my classmates are all here, you heard it, you don't want to be embarrassed like this·····"
"If you're honest, can I do that?" Although my mother said this, she still took care of my feelings more or less, and after a few words of blame, she said to me: "Stop going home for a while, don't run around anymore, do you hear?" Don't do that broken part-time job you're looking for from tomorrow. ”
I was upset when I mentioned this part-time job, so I simply told my mom that I had quit a long time ago, and my mom didn't say much about it, just said something to me. You can imagine how much she thinks about me going out to find a job.
After my mother hung up the phone, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, but I didn't expect Bao'er to look at me with a smile on her face, and she suddenly said to me meaningfully: "It seems that you are usually not well-behaved~"
Sister, what are you referring to?
Suddenly, Boa's phone rang as well, and Boa looked down at her phone, then picked it up with a frown. A man's voice came from the other end of the phone, and I couldn't really hear what the man was saying.
“······”
After murmuring on the other end of the phone for a long time, Bao'er replied: "I'm with Tingting and God, the mobile phone signal was not good yesterday, and I'll go back in a while." ”
“·········”
The phone was on the other end of the phone again, and then Bao'er handed me the phone. From the moment Boa mentioned me, I could already guess who was calling. Except for Li Yating, the only person we know together is her domineering father.
"Hey, hello uncle." I was still very impressed with Bao'er and her father, and my tone was respectful when I picked up the phone.
After a pause on the other side of the phone, Bao'er's father's deep voice came: "Well, I'm relieved that Bao'er is with you, remember to call the adults when you play outside in the future, don't worry about us old people." I'll send Bao'er back early, I have a good impression of you kid, don't let me down. ”
Bao'er's father's tone was tepid but unusually intimidating, and the last sentence was even more slow, but meaningful. I can probably understand what he's worried about, he's misunderstanding my relationship with Boa, and he's warning me not to go out of line.
I can fully understand the heart of a father, and at the same time there is some secret joy that the old man says that he has a good impression of me. Does this also reflect from the side that Bao'er usually mentioned me to him? Otherwise, how could I remember who I was after only one meeting? And said that you have a good impression of me?
After a thousand reassurances, Bao'er and her dad finally hung up the phone.
"Mom······ Mom······ Mom ·····" When I was stinky and beautiful, the ghost baby who had been in Hu Botao's arms suddenly stretched out two white and chubby little hands, and the sound of the baby babbling and learning to speak came out of his mouth, looking like Li Yating, who wanted to sit on the edge of the bed, and hug him.
Seeing this scene, my heart suddenly felt a little sour, Hu Botao told me before that ghosts like resentful babies originally had no consciousness of their own, and the roots and seedlings that controlled their evil were actually resentments that could not be reincarnated. All ghosts have to cross the Nai He Bridge before they can be reincarnated, and then they can enter the six realms of reincarnation. And they all have to drink Meng Po soup before entering reincarnation, in order to wash away all the past memories and reincarnate with peace of mind. In other words, the intelligence and memory of a ghost baby are the same as those of an ordinary baby.
Hu Botao had already refined the resentment on the ghost baby before, which means that although the ghost baby was still a ghost at this time, it was no different from an ordinary baby. But the blood connection in the past has caused today's ghost babies to instinctively get close to Li Yating.
In fact, everything in the world is like this, for example, when a little monkey is born, it knows to hold its mother's neck firmly. Pigs, horses, cows and sheep are born to follow their mother's footsteps, even if they are oviparous chickens, ducks and geese, they also know to follow their mothers as soon as they break their shells. Some of them rely on sight, some on smell, but more on nature.
Li Yating seemed to be moved by the cute appearance of the ghost baby, and stretched out her hand with a smile. This scene seems to be so harmonious and warm, but it makes people's hearts full of emotion. was supposed to be the happiest scene, but after a mistake, it became a different path between mother and son.
Hu Botao didn't let go, but turned his head to look at me, as if asking for my opinion. I didn't know what to say for a moment, but nodded slightly. The ghost baby now has no resentment, and therefore no ability to attack. Although it is no longer human, I still want to satisfy its little extravagant hope for its mother.
Hu Botao nodded when he saw me, and handed the white and chubby ghost baby to Li Yating. Li Yating naturally held the ghost baby in her arms and teased, although she had never been a mother, but her posture of holding the ghost baby did not seem to be disobedient at all, this is probably the mother's instinct.
In fact, I don't need Hu Botao to say that I also know what the ghost baby needs to face next. After all, it is a ghost, and staying in the yang world for a long time is against the heavens and not to mention, and it is also a lot of harm to itself. Without the resentment to protect the body, sooner or later it will be burned by the yang energy of the yang world. The best thing to do is to send him to the city of the dead and wait for another chance to be reincarnated.
Looking at the white and chubby ghost baby, it was hard to imagine how he should face the endless coldness below. Without his mother's company, what awaits him will be all kinds of vain ghosts. The city is full of people who died unjustly, and those who died right did not enter the city of death. What kind of despair will the ghost baby have in the city of vain death? I don't know, and I don't dare to think about it.