Chapter 18: Friend or Foe
The hand, running down my shoulder, slid across my neck.
It's cold, like ice.
Turning around, I saw the owner of the hand clearly, she was none other than my aunt.
On her body, she was still wearing that red dress.
The quality of the linen fabric is very poor, but the color is still so bright.
The heart-shaped beeswax pendant hung on her chest, revealing a shiny chanterfat yellow, which was a little dazzling.
My aunt's face was the same as on the day of the funeral, as white as paper, and on the left and right cheeks, there was a lump of red appearance, with a clear red and white boundary, which was a bit crazy.
"Tang Xiaofan, are you coming to see me again? …… Did you miss me? ”
Her tone was ethereal.
The bright red mouth was almost on my face.
With a mouth, a strange smell rushed towards me: "Tang Xiaofan, purse, you can help me find the purse back, then my most beloved thing, I can't find it......"
I shoved her away, got up, and ran forward.
At this moment, my surroundings have become a mountain forest, and the sky is full of dark clouds, and the black pressure seems to be about to fall on me.
A woman's deep voice came from behind me: "When I went out of the funeral, I scattered rice, and I had to keep running forward, and I couldn't turn back, otherwise, I would be entangled by lonely ghosts and dragged into another world......
I strode forward, I was scared.
It was as if behind me, an invisible thug was reaching for me.
The road ahead is getting narrower and narrower, and there are cobblestones on the ground, which is hard and painful to step on.
The further I go, the harder it is to walk, I have fallen many times, but I still get up again and again to keep going. A tall man appeared in front of me, standing with his back to me.
Closer, stopped.
For I saw the scarlet cockscomb, red as blood, on its head.
He turned, and a clucking rooster came out of his mouth.
I looked at him steadily.
I saw him stretch out his hand and remove the mask from his head.
At this moment, the person under the mask is not Lao Yu, but has become my cousin, Tang Muzhou.
I was shocked and wanted to leave, but Tang Muzhou was cold to me, and then quickly walked in front of me, and the necks of both hands were pinched.
I screamed and tried to push him away, but he had a lot of strength.
The moment his hands came at me, I finally broke down. The will to survive made me struggle, I closed my eyes, ten fingers, and grabbed him hard in the face.
He let out a whoast howl:
"Tang Xiaofan, are you crazy!?"
As he spoke, Tang Muzhou slapped me in the face.
This slap, crisp and loud, brought me back to reality all of a sudden.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that Tang Tang Muzhou was right in front of me, and he looked at me very nervously. When I was choked by two wrists, my ten fingers were still clutching something forward.
Tang Muzhou's face had several scratches and blood marks, and he looked embarrassed.
When I calmed down, Tang Muzhou let go of his hand.
Touching the scars on his face, Tang Muzhou said, "What happened to you just now, why are you so ruthless?" Am I not the friend or the foe? ”
I didn't say anything, just asked Tang Muzhou what happened just now.
"Why did you go in for so long just now, why did I call you, and you didn't agree?"
Tang Muzhou looked at me inexplicably: "So long? Tang Xiaofan, what's wrong with you, I just went in a few steps, and I haven't walked two or three meters away, and it's only half a minute at most. ”
Half a minute......
I remember very well that those scenes just now, one by one, were at least two or three hours for me.
In Tang Muzhou's mouth, how could it become such a short period of time?
Tang Muzhou continued:
"I just told you to stay here, and I'll go into the cave myself and look for that thing. I held my phone and walked forward through the light, and I didn't take two steps before I heard you talk behind you. ”
I asked him, "What did I say?" ”
"You seem to be calling someone's name, if I heard it right, it should be Meimei......"
In Tang Muzhou's next narrative, I find it even more incredible.
When he heard me calling Meimei, he turned around and walked towards me, but I cried and made a fuss. Sometimes he squatted on the ground and begged for mercy, and then he trotted in place.
The whole time, I closed my eyes tightly, my fists clenched, and I looked like a madman.
Later, Tang Muzhou finally subdued me and gave me a slap before I finally came to my senses.
Touching his still painful face, I complained to him:
"Treat me so hard, are we still cousins? Why is it not as good as an outsider? ”
Tang Muzhou snorted: "You are embarrassed to say, just scratch me a few times, don't leave me a scar, otherwise, I have you good-looking!" ”
"I'm not subjective, am I not confused?"
Hearing this, Tang Muzhou didn't talk to me anymore, he asked me what was going on just now, I took a deep breath, and told him about the series of hallucinations that I had inexplicably after he entered the cave.
Tang Muzhou listened, and held his chin with his hand again.
I found that he especially liked to do this when he was thinking.
I think it's a bit dirty, but I'm embarrassed to say it.
After thinking for a while, Tang Muzhou said: "The ones you just saw in the illusion, speaking of which, are all things that you have experienced recently, some of the more terrifying things, at least, they have given you a big shadow in some aspects. ”
I nodded, yes.
I'm not afraid of substantial fear.
For example, if a big snake or something suddenly appeared in front of me, I would be surprised at best, but I would not panic like everyone else.
What scared me was the chilling feeling that soaked my soul.
For example, the moment when Ou Fang poisoned her husband Hu Dan, the thoughts in her heart, which was enough to suffocate the cruel feeling, this is what makes me feel the most terrible.
As for why my aunt and grandmother appeared, it must be because of An Jiaqi's words.
She once looked at me and said to me with a smile: "Tang Xiaofan, do you know, you are quite similar to my mother?" ”
I questioned her statement at the time, my aunt and grandmother are dignified and magnificent, just looking at the bones, she is a complete beauty, and she is a woman who studied in that era, and her temperament is far from me.
But An Jiaqi smiled:
"The place where you resemble my mother is a look in your eyebrows."
When I heard this, I suddenly chuckled in my heart, and when I looked back at my aunt's portrait, she was still smiling at me......