Chapter 13: Across the Edge

Open the door and the wind blows in.

It was so cold that I couldn't hold back and sneezed.

Shrinking back, I wrapped my clothes tighter. I looked outside, and the door was smoky and indistinct, and no one could see it.

The temperature in the hallway was colder than the inside of the house.

Walking barefoot on the ground, the ground is cold and hard.

Something seemed to beckon to me in the fog ahead, and I tried to see what it was, but to no avail.

Leaving the West Chamber, I came to the courtyard.

The tall water tower stood straight next to the hall in the middle.

The round moon, like a silver platter, hangs high at the tip of the water tower. The highest place was a dark window, and as I approached it, the light inside suddenly turned on.

A figure, clearly standing in the window frame.

The clouds had cleared, and although I could not see the man's appearance clearly, I felt that it was looking at me through the lattice.

Suddenly, I heard a "bang".

In the moonlight, a winged black dot flew past the window.

This black spot is the huge cave bat.

I stood under the water tower for a while, and only then did I continue walking until the light went out.

In the hall in front of me is the mourning hall of my aunt and grandmother, with white lanterns hanging high and ethereal cloth fluttering in the wind.

My aunt and grandmother are in the picture, looking at me very quietly.

The black mole above the corner of her left mouth happened to be embedded in the dimple, revealing a faint intellectuality.

A beautiful woman always makes people feel distanced, but her aunt is not, she looks easy to get close to, and she can completely remove all defenses in front of her.

The brown-red coffin stood silently in the hall.

Reaching out, I gently stroked the pattern on it, the carving was exquisite, like an expensive work of art.

Walking along the coffin, I saw a woman crouching on the ground at the end.

She was dressed in a white plain dress and her hair was loosely coiled.

At the moment, she was crouching on the ground with her back to me. And in front of her was a brazier, and the woman was putting the paper money in her hand into the brazier little by little.

I wondered a little, didn't I tell An Jiaqi, I came to the vigil with Tang Muzhou tonight, why did she suddenly appear here.

I reached out and gently touched her back:

"Aunt Cousin, why are you ...... here?"

As soon as she said this, the woman who was burning the paper stopped suddenly. After a few seconds, she looked back at me...... When I could see her face clearly, I was sitting on the ground.

The woman who burned paper in a plain dress was actually an aunt!

The paper money in the brazier burned very strongly, the fire shone on her face, and she was smiling weirdly at me: "Xiaofan, are you here?" My daughter said that we are very similar, so I jumped out of the coffin to see you......"

I woke up from my dream and lay on the bed, feeling like my vest was covered in cold sweat.

Looking at the time, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

This night, I slept with a sore back. After getting up and taking a shower and changing my clothes, I went out.

Tang Muzhou slept in the guest room next to me, and when I went to look for him, he was playing with his mobile phone.

Glancing at the screen, there was a zombie game on it.

Looking at the picture, it is very bloody.

I glanced at it, "Playing this here, you're not afraid?" ”

Tang Muzhou continued to play while walking inside: "What's so afraid of this, isn't this thing made by people, and it won't really run out." ”

After staying in his room for a while, the sound of killing on Tang Muzhou's mobile phone sounded noisy.

I leaned back on the sofa, Tang Muzhou leaned on the bed, and we didn't speak, quietly waiting for ten o'clock to come.

That nightmare just now makes me a little scared now.

My aunt's laughter in my dreams was chilling in my vest, scarier than any horror movie I've ever watched. This man

I also took out my mobile phone and contacted Liang Yuan on WeChat.

I still felt a little uneasy when I handed over the chicken noodle shop to him.

Although during the time of contact with him, others were quite reliable. But this person, after all, is a boy who grew up rich, whether he can calm down and do things, whether it will be a three-minute heat, it's really hard to say.

Liang Yuan should be busy over there, and he didn't reply for a long time after sending it on WeChat.

The more this happens, the more uneasy I feel.

The worry was certain, after all, the store had just resumed normal business, so I ran out and handed it over to a layman, and I don't know if it was a little reckless.

The sound of killing on Tang Muzhou's mobile phone continued, and the movement of ghosts crying and wolf howls made people's hearts furious.

Before the time was up, I was bored looking at the phone screen, and at this moment, Liang Yuan sent me a video.

Click on the video, in the Lao Tang chicken noodle shop, there are crowds, and every table is full of customers. It's nearly twice as many people as it was yesterday when I was open.

And the blind man Wang was also busy, he was wearing a long coat and long sleeves, covering up all the wounds, and his actions were quite sharp, and he couldn't tell that he was an injured person at all.

Seeing this scene, I was slightly relieved.

It seems that after I left, Liang Yuan ran the noodle shop well.

This blind man is also trying his best to help me.

Just thinking about it, Liang Yuan sent another video later, and this time I saw Mei Mei in the picture.

She was playing on the curb of the street, and she was very well-behaved even though she was alone.

Two trees, with a small rubber band in the middle, Meimei is jumping in the middle, quite happy.

Seeing this scene, I was relieved.

I was about to click on the small cross in the upper right corner of the screen, but in the last part of the video, I saw a person.

Although the time was short, I was shocked.

It was a man, and he was standing across the street, looking at Mei Mei fixedly. Just as I was startled, the man suddenly looked up at me, smiling coldly at me through the screen.

What creeps me the most is that this man, I know.

He is none other than a trafficker who almost abducted me with a string of red sour branch bracelets when I was a child!

That's the end of the video.

I hurriedly called Liang Yuan, but he didn't answer, and I sent a lot of messages, but he didn't reply to any of them.

Thinking of Mei Mei, I was anxious.

This child has already been sold by her own parents once, and I can't let this fate happen to her again.

So I kept calling, but Liang Yuan never answered.

This situation is actually quite normal, the noodle shop is doing very well in the evening, there are many noisy people, and I often can't hear the phone ringing. What I hope now is that Mei Mei can go up and rest quickly after she gets tired of playing.

Just thinking about it, Tang Muzhou got up.

He stretched and said to me, "Tang Xiaofan, it's almost time, let's go over." ”

I hummed and stood up.

Along the corridor of the West Chamber, Tang Muzhou and I walked all the way forward......