Chapter 8: The Riverside Girl (Part II)
"Little Star, Little Star, where are you? It's time to go home for dinner! "There were several voices calling me not far away, it was Dad, Mom, Grandma Teng, and Xiaohua's voice.
I shook her body at the same time, I regained consciousness, she seemed to have woken up from some kind of vision, looked at me with a very strange look, and disappeared in an instant, and the old house and the red lantern on the other side were also gone!
I blinked, and it was really business as usual, the river was still flowing, the waves swaying under the stone slabs, and there was nothing above the stone steps. Perhaps only the water droplets on my face that have not dried can remind me that what just happened is not an illusion!
"Little Star, how did you get here? Your parents have been looking for you for a long time! Grandma Teng's voice trembled a little, as if she was very worried.
When she saw me, she grabbed my hand and walked out of the alley. I was walking so fast that I couldn't keep up, so I had to trot all the way. I can't help but be a little strange: even if there is a drowned child floating in the river today, Grandma Teng doesn't have to be so nervous!
I whispered, "Grandma Teng, don't worry. I'm not going down to the river to play in the water! ”
Grandma Teng didn't answer me, just blindly pulled me out of the narrow alley quickly, and when I crossed the road, my parents came up to meet me. They weren't too nervous, they just blamed me for being playful and forgetting the time, and I didn't know to go home for dinner.
I could see that Grandma Teng's face had been very nervous, but she still tried her best to hide it and said, "Children are always naughty, you should take her home for dinner quickly." Then he said to me, "Little Star, after eating, come to my house to play with Xiaohua." ”
My mother said, "Grandma Teng, don't let her make trouble at your house again." ”
"It's okay, it's okay!" Grandma Teng winked at me and said, "I can also help Xiaohua look at her homework!" ”
I would say, "yes, yes!" After eating, I'll come over and do my homework with Xiaohua! ”
As soon as I finished dinner, I went to Grandma Teng's house. Xiaohua was doing her homework, but Grandma Teng was not there.
I asked, "Xiaohua, where is your grandmother?" She called me, why wasn't she there? ”
"Grandma said she would go out first and tell you to wait for her to come back."
I nodded, so I had to sit next to Xiaohua and wait for Grandma Teng, and watch him do his homework by the way. After at least an hour, Grandma Teng hadn't come back yet, so I waited impatiently and walked around Xiaohua.
Xiaohua was disturbed by me, so she said, "Sister Xiaoxing, why don't you go outside and see if my grandma has come back?" I agreed, and walked out of Grandma Teng's house and walked towards the gate of the old house.
It was quiet, the light was dim, and there was a lot of clutter in the hallway, so I slowed down. As I approached the gate, I suddenly saw a little red light flickering through the door. I took a few steps and chased out the door to check. When I got out of the gate, it was dark outside, and there was nothing that would glow, let alone glow red.
I stood on the alley path and looked around, hoping to see Grandma Teng. But after waiting for a while, I still didn't see Grandma Teng's figure, and no one moved.
A gust of wind blew for no apparent reason, and I shivered a few times, thinking: It's not only October, why do you feel so cold? Don't wait, maybe Grandma Teng was called to play mahjong, so she won't come back until tomorrow. I'll go home and sleep first!
I turned around and walked into the old house, and when I entered the door, I felt that it was suddenly cold inside, as if it was even colder than outside. I'm a little strange: I still felt very hot when I went out just now, why did it get cold like this all of a sudden, this house is really too old!
After walking a few steps, I felt that the surroundings were getting colder and darker, and the walkway that I was familiar with became unfamiliar. I walked for a long time, but I never saw the wooden door we entered.
How did that walkway get so long? I muttered to myself as I walked.
Oh, there seems to be a wooden door in front of me, and I approached the door.
Well? Why has this wooden door also become bigger? There is still a ...... hanging on the door Sky! I was shocked that there were two red lanterns hanging on the door!
The lantern glowed a faint red, and its color was dim, like blood that had long since dried up! I shuddered and didn't dare to think about it anymore. Push this door in, or do you turn around and run outside the house first? I hesitated for a moment, then turned around. But there was no walkway behind me, and about 5 meters away from me, there was a wooden door that was exactly the same as before, and two red lanterns were also hung on the door. I stood in the middle of the two doors, looking at the four red lanterns, nervous. There was no wind blowing, but the four lanterns kept fluttering softly on the door, and my heart drifted with it, as if it was about to float out of my throat.
I knew that things were not going well again, so I gritted my teeth and pushed one of the doors at random, and it was the same anyway, none of the two doors were familiar to me. As soon as my hand touched the door, I felt that my palms were wet, and I subconsciously retracted my hand, and then put my hand in front of my eyes to see that my hand was covered with dark red liquid.
It's blood!
I took a step backwards, and my feet went limp.
At that moment, a red lantern on that door floated straight to my face. I instinctively grabbed it with my hand, but it was empty, and it flashed through my hand like a living thing. It was so close to me that I could finally see what it looked like. It wasn't big, it felt like a stuffed bun: the outer layer was not like paper, but leather, and it had a strange smell, the color of which was the dark red of rust that was uncomfortable to look at; There seemed to be a round thing inside, revealing a strange cold light, emitting bursts of biting cold.
I was so close that my body seemed to freeze. I wanted to stay away from it, but as soon as I moved, three other lanterns floated towards me at the same time. I'm going to cry, one will freeze me to death, four will come up, I'm going to be a popsicle! Nothing else, I just sat on the ground all at once, waving my hands and feet, trying to stop the lanterns from approaching me.
In my frustration, I scratched one of the lanterns. A red shadow flew towards me with a cold light, and I desperately retreated, but behind me it seemed to become an infinite void, and the red became bigger and bigger in my eyes, and finally surrounded me all over the world.
It was like I was wrapped in some viscous liquid, my body was getting heavier and heavier, and my eyelids were stuck together and I couldn't open them. I was actually very awake in my heart, but my body seemed to be unconscious, and all I felt was darkness like a whirlpool.
Suddenly, I saw a bright light in front of me, a silver-white light, swaying in front of me, cold, faint, full of strange smell, but also exuding a terrifying bright light. I couldn't help but reach out and touch it, and as soon as my hand was stretched out, the whole person flew towards the bright light.
A thought flashed through my mind: strange, how could I fly?
Then I remembered that morning six years ago, did the girl in the purple and red dress fly over the riverbank like this?
In front of my eyes appeared a girl in purple sitting on the stone steps of the riverbank, she was still looking at me coldly, but the difference was that she carried the silver-white light in her hand.
When I got closer, I could see her face very clearly, and I subconsciously stretched out my hands and shouted, "Sister!" ”
Just like six years ago, I'm still so stupid and call her sister in a tone of great trust!
She shuddered, and the light vanished, and then I felt like I had suddenly fallen out of mid-air, and I had fallen heavily into a whirlpool of darkness. After a whirlwind, I felt my ears "buzzing", I couldn't see anything in front of me, and I felt dizzy like I had turned dozens of times in the washing machine!
"Little Star, why did you sleep on the ground? Wake up! Wake up! "A familiar sound came into my ears through a "buzzing" sound, and then I felt someone shaking me so hard that I was about to fall apart.
I had to use all my strength to say, "I want to sleep!" Then I fell asleep, thinking vaguely: sleep, sleep, tomorrow will be fine!