CHAPTER XVI
"It's cold."
As soon as Wen'er's arm stretched out of the bed, he was forced to goosebumps by the chill in the air. She hurriedly pulled up the quilt and lay back down, ready to warm up again.
"Err, were you screaming last night?"
Lin Qianqian, who was on the bed, also woke up, and she asked while putting on her sweater.
"What?"
Wen Er's body stiffened unconsciously in the bed.
"I woke up last night to go to the bathroom, and when I was lying down and about to fall asleep, I heard you let out a few loud 'ahhhh Ye Zi, Du Fei, Da Qianqian, have you heard? ”
Lin Qianqian was unwilling, she firmly believed that her ears would not hear wrong, so she was anxious to ask several other girls in the dormitory for verification.
"I slept so drowsy that I seemed to hear it."
Shao Qianqian was hunched up, standing on the bed on the top bunk and folding the quilt into tofu blocks.
"Where's the leaf?"
Lin Qianqian had already dressed, and she slowly walked down the iron ladder on top.
"I've always slept to death, I shouldn't have heard it."
Ye Zi spends a few minutes in bed every morning, especially in winter, when she is often the last person to go out of the dormitory. After saying this, she raised her head slightly, looked at Wen Er opposite, saw that she didn't say a word, covered her head with the quilt, turned to the inside, and lay quietly in the quilt. Ye Zi was suddenly a little worried, although she felt that Lin Qianqian's question should not be malicious, but this might be an embarrassing thing for Wen Er.
At this time, Du Fei came out of the bathroom after washing. She put the tooth cup back in the second compartment of the bookshelf, turned to Lin Qianqian and said:
"What's so strange if you have nightmares at night. Besides, when you first arrived, you were talking in your sleep one night. ”
"Do you say me?"
Lin Qianqian listened to Du Fei's words and looked shocked.
"Yes, that night, after listening to the English song, I was about to get out of bed and finish the toilet to go to bed, when I heard you shouting 'Mommy, Mommy' in your sleep, and then smashed the bar several times."
"No, what the hell was I doing that night!"
Lin Qianqian looked very embarrassed, because she knew that according to Du Fei's character, she would not lie, and there was no need to lie to her. And Du Fei always listened to songs until midnight, and he was a night owl.
"Xiao Qianqian, you must be missing your mother, maybe you still dreamed that she cooked food for you, so you smashed your mouth in the dream."
Leaf climbed out of bed and sat on a stool combing her hair while teasing her.
"Then why didn't you tell me at that time? I didn't say it until now. ”
"Because I don't think there's anything to say, everyone has nightmares, and it's normal to talk in their dreams."
Du Fei had already taken the book and was about to go out at this time, she said "go" in the direction of Wen'er's bed and stepped out, and the moment she closed the door with her back hand, there was a gust of cold wind.
Wen Er replied softly, "um", and never replied again. Facing the snow-white walls, her eyes widened and tears flowed silently. In fact, there will be occasional loud screams in the middle of sleep, and Wen Er himself has always known it.
It was a hot summer, and it was rare for Wen's father and mother to come back from other places to visit Xiao Wen'er, who was pinned on his grandparents' house. After lunch, Wen's father and mother took a nap in the back room, and Wen'er and the eldest daughter of the little aunt who was also at her grandmother's house played in the open space outside.
At that time, Xiao Wener was only five years old, and her cousin Chen Fei was five years older than Wener and was in the fourth grade of primary school. The two children played in the open space for a while and got tired of it, so Chen Fei folded a paper boat out of discarded old newspapers. They came to the pond next to the clearing and set up their boats.
"Erer, the boat has drifted out, get it back."
The little hand struggled to reach for the boat, leaning little and little towards the pond.
"Sister, you pull me."
Xiao Wen'er handed his other little hand to Chen Fei behind him, and then continued to move forward.
It happened in that instant, Chen Fei didn't grab Wen Er's hand, she fell. The small body fluttered violently in the water, as if trying to convey the most direct distress signal to the people on the shore.
"Err, Err."
"Err, Err."
Chen Fei stood quietly by the pond like this, watching the little hands in the water slowly sink, and calling her name softly in her mouth.
I don't know how long time has passed, the fluttering sound in the pond is getting weaker and weaker, and suddenly, Wen's father and mother rushed out of the house.
"Err!"
Hearing her mother's hiss, she cried out in her lungs.
Wen Dad jumped into the pond with a thunderous "plop".
In the end, Xiao Wener was fished up. When she woke up, it was already more than 7 o'clock in the evening, Wen's mother was sitting on the edge of the bed crying and her eyes were red, and Wen's father, grandparents and a bunch of relatives were sitting in the room watching, with a worried and sad face.
"Wake up, aren't you? Is it uncomfortable, can you say a word to your mother? ”
Wen's mother leaned over and whispered softly and touched Xiao Wen'er's head and said. Before Wen'er could reply, her eyes turned red again and she began to cry on her own.
"Err, let the doctor take a look. Tell Dad, is it still uncomfortable? ”
My grandparents' house was in the countryside, far away from the county hospital, so I had to ask a doctor from a small clinic to come and see me.
Later, Wen's father told Wen'er that he and Wen's mother had fallen asleep in the room, when suddenly they heard some intermittent and looming calls in their ears, and kept shouting, "Er'er, Er'er." At first, they thought it was just a normal name, but for some reason they were upset, so they went to the door to take a look, only to find that Wen'er had fallen into the pond.
Wen's mother added that when Wen's father jumped down, Xiao Wen'er's whole body was already in the water, but the little hands were still struggling and fluttering. Therefore, she believes that God is pitiful to Wen'er, and after so long, he has not taken away his little life, and he will always be safe and healthy until he is old.
No one blamed Chen Fei, adults seemed to have great tolerance for underage children, but they felt that this child was also frightened on the spot, so they didn't run to call adults at the first time. But in Wen's mother's heart, she left a knot forever, she knew how soft Chen Fei's voice was when she called Wen'er's name, even if she rushed outside the house at that time, she could hardly hear it. Therefore, she didn't admit that the voice she and Wen's father heard in the house was made by Chen Fei. She believed that it was God's mercy on Wen'er, so she let herself and Wen's father feel it.
In the years that followed, Wener was in a nightmare. She would suddenly open her eyes in the middle of the night, get up, and walk around the room as if it were daytime, saying all the time:
"Mom turns on the light, mom turns on the light, it's dark, it's dark."
Mother Wen would turn on all the lights and answer over and over again:
"The lights are on."
Wen Shengqin left home too early, so he has no special feelings for this sudden little sister. But once when he came home from vacation, he saw such a child sleepwalking alone in the middle of the night, constantly looking for light, and his heart was greatly shocked. After that, he slowly got into Wen'er's heart and began to really treat her as his own relative.