Chapter 0001: Missing Footprints
Click...... Click...... Click...... Click...... Click......
The whole world fell silent, as if only this drop of water was left, three seconds at a time, and the rhythm was even.
Click...... Click...... Click...... Click......
The sound of water droplets is significantly accelerated, as if a person in a dream suddenly encounters a nightmare, and his breathing instantly accelerates.
Click...... Click...... Click......
The sound of water droplets became more and more rapid, like shooting, from point to strafing.
Click, click......
Suddenly, the sound of countless water droplets became extremely dense, like throwing beans in the sky.
There is no high altitude, and there is no sprinkling of beans.
The space was dark and claustrophobic, and the suffocating sound of water droplets came from nowhere.
The cold wind whirled across the air, blowing the water curtain out of direction, and the living broke their liver and intestines.
Suddenly, in the mud, a pale hand poked out.
A hand full of desire to survive.
Pulling muddy clods with difficulty, like a drowning man, trying to pull out a glimmer of life.
Call!
A muddy woman straightened up from where her hand had been pulled.
Long hair covers the face, and you can't see the appearance clearly.
It looked like the hair had been untrimmed in years, knotted, hanging down below his chest, and still dripping with mud.
The situation is indescribably weird.
Whew!
Pulling the bellows, the woman panted loudly.
The right hand that was pulled before has always maintained the posture of pulling, constantly approaching, getting closer......
This hand was directly on Jiang Yue's face.
"Yue'er, it's so cold......"
Jiang Yue suddenly realized that the whole person bounced up like a spring. Due to the too big movement, the rattan chair under his buttocks was brought to the ground by him, and it hit the coffee table next to him, ping and ping-pong, and it was a mess.
There are a few bright windows inside the house, and the blue bricks and blue tiles outside the house.
Where is the rain and mud? Where is there a woman covered in mud?
Jiang Yue rubbed his temples with both hands, shaking his brain at a fast pace, trying his best to get rid of the nightmarish scene just now.
It's this dream again......
It's only been four days in April, and this dream has appeared for the seventh time.
Or take a nap, or sleep deeply, this dream always comes and goes.
Come without a trace, go without a trace.
Is it just a dream?
Jiang Yue rubbed his cheeks fiercely. The pale hand touched the cold touch on the face, damp, sticky, as if it had actually happened.
Especially......
The moment the touch occurred, the woman's unkempt, cold and helpless appearance, like taking a photo, was deeply frozen in Jiang Yue's mind and clearly preserved.
Syllable!
When Jiang Yue was in a trance, something suddenly landed behind him.
Looking back, it turned out that an old photo frame on the big red sour stick in the middle of the hall fell to the ground inexplicably without any external force intervening.
Old-fashioned ancestral house, old-fashioned incense case, old-fashioned photo frame.
The glass in front of the frame shattered, but fortunately the photo inside was unharmed.
This is a 20-inch family photo, slightly yellowed, and looks a little old.
In the photo, the family of four is full of happiness. Jiang Yue is also in the photo, holding an apple in his little hand, and he is only a seven or eight-year-old little Zhengtai.
Jiang Yue carefully observed the scene, full of doubts.
The incense case is about 40 centimeters wide, and it is placed in the center against the main wall of the hall, and the picture frame is always placed on the right side of the incense table against the wall.
On the first day, the first thing Jiang Yue did when he returned to the old house in Panshiling from the city was to clean it inside and out. Wipe and wipe and clean up the inside and outside of the old house.
Naturally, the photo frame was also carefully wiped, and he put it back with his own hands. How to place it, where to place it, Jiang Yue remembers it clearly, and he can completely restore any detail at that time.
Even if the photo frame slips, it should slide on the incense case, rather than jumping over the 40 cm wide incense case and landing directly.
If you want to achieve the effect of this fall on the spot, unless this picture frame will somersault.
"Sure enough, as soon as the Qingming Festival arrives, there will be one after another strange things in Guli?"
Carefully picked up the family photo from the glass slag, and was about to turn around to find a broom dustpan to deal with, Jiang Yue's eyes suddenly stared at the photo.
Without the slightest warning, goosebumps appeared all over Jiang Yue's body, beads of sweat the size of beans rose on his forehead, and even his breathing became rapid.
The image of the woman in the nightmare picture earlier in Jiang Yue's mind slowly coincided with the woman in the photo.
"Mom?" Jiang Yue lost his voice.
His teeth clenched his lower lip, and his body trembled.
Jiang Yue never expected that the desperate and helpless woman in the dream had been bothering him for the past few days, and it turned out to be his biological mother who had been missing for ten years!
No!
A careful comparison shows that there are still significant differences.
In the photo, the mother is intellectually capable, serious and loving, and she is in her early thirties, which is the best years in a woman's life.
The woman in the dream, unkempt, looked like she was forty or fifty, her eyes were frightened and helpless, and her eyes were full of heartbreaking despair.
But—
Jiang Yue, who has always paid attention to details and never forgot at the same time, repeatedly compared: Xiao's facial features, the height of his cheekbones, and the proportion of three courts and five eyes......
But it's completely certain that it's really the same person!
It's weird.
Ten years ago, his mother, who disappeared ten years ago and was in her early thirties, repeatedly entered his dreams, cried to him, and begged him for help!
Jiang Yueping likes to ponder some weird and mysterious things, and naturally has some understanding of dream interpretation.
Most of the people who appear in dreams will only be stuck in the past.
In particular, when the deceased appears in the dream, most of them are the same as when they were still alive.
Ten years ago, when his mother and her archaeological team mysteriously disappeared, Jiang Yue was only eight years old. The appearance of his mother in this family portrait is basically Jiang Yue's final memory of his mother.
Jiang Yue's forty or fifty-year-old mother had never seen him, so naturally it was impossible for him to form an impression, let alone have no reason to appear in his dreams.
Jiang Yue held the photo, stunned, and forgot about the broken glass on the ground.
"Second brother, second brother......"
There was a cheerful shout from outside the courtyard, and a tiger-headed boy trotted through the courtyard and poked his head out of the door.
Seeing Jiang Yue in the house, he was suddenly surprised, and a bear arched in front of Jiang Yue, his face full of joy at seeing his long-lost relatives.
The boy was about eleven or twelve years old, with healthy bronzed skin, a pair of dark eyes that seemed to be able to speak, and a high nose bridge unique to their old Jiang family, revealing the unique wildness of a country child.
The child is the only son of Jiang Yue's third uncle's family, his big name is Jiang Tong, and his nickname is Sangou.
The third uncle and his wife have been working in developed cities all these years, and the grandmother is no longer alive, and the child of Sangou has been left in his hometown and no one takes care of him, so he has been fostered in the town's sister-in-law's house.
It's rare that Qingming has a small long holiday, and the little guy heard early that his cousin Jiang Yue was going back to Panshiling's hometown to worship and sweep, and he took his sister-in-law back to Panshiling in the first few days.
Helplessly, my sister-in-law opened a small shop in the town, and she was the busiest business during the holidays, so she really didn't have time to take him back to Panshiling, which was dozens of miles away.
This naturally does not bother the three dogs.
On the day of Qingming, he got up early in the morning and went back to Panshiling by himself on dozens of miles of mountain roads. As soon as he returned to the village, he didn't go back to take a look, and plunged into Jiang Yue's old house.
"Sangou, didn't my sister-in-law say that the store was busy and didn't have time to bring you back?"
Maybe it's because of their blood relatives, although the age difference between the two brothers is five or six years old, and they hardly see each other, but they have a good relationship.
Every time he returned to his hometown, Sangou stuck to Jiang Yue like gummy, and he couldn't wait to tie it to his second brother's waist.
Jiang Yue is also very doting on this little cousin, saying that he is a cousin, and he is no different from his own brother emotionally.
Faced with his cousin's question, Sangou scratched his head, not wanting to confess that he had secretly come back from his sister-in-law, but changed the topic.
"Second brother, which woman went out just now?"
"It's just nonsense when we first meet! It's always been me, how can anyone go out?" Jiang Yue slapped Sangou on the back of the head, just as he was playing tricks and avoiding the topic.
Sangou was suddenly unhappy: "Why is there no one?" wearing a floral plaid skirt with long hair. He looked dirty, as if he had just returned from the field. I'm still surprised! Who is this stupid woman, how can she go to the field in a flower skirt?"
Before Jiang Yue's second slap fell, his arm was raised in the air and he paused.
Flower skirt, long hair, dirty face.
The image inexplicably coincides with the dream again.
These characteristics were described by Sangou like this, which made Jiang Yue goosebumps again.
Dragged the three dogs out of the yard.
"Sangou, where did you see that woman going?"
Sangou pointed to the left: "Just this road, when I came, she had just come out of the yard and met in this place." And she went along the way. I also glanced back. ”
Sangou said it carefully, but there was no figure until the end of the road.
Jiang Yue looked along this road to check the past, because it had been dripping and raining in the past two days, the footprints on the road were easy to identify. Fresh footprints are only left when the three dogs came, and there are no fresh footprints in the opposite direction.
"Three dogs!" Jiang Yue's face sank.
"Second brother, I didn't lie to you! I bet on you, if I lie to you, I will call a car and kill you. "Sangou is obviously an upright boy, and he stalks his neck and curses.
Although the baby of the three dogs is skinny, it is measured. Once it rises to the level of gambling curses, it is definitely not a joke, it is 100% true.
Jiang Yue sighed, looked in the direction that Sangou said, and was stunned.
This bizarre thing is really one after another.