Chapter 2: Midnight Terror

Linlang wrote some more words in the room, and her eyelids were like glue, and she couldn't open them. I didn't sleep well last night, and I was very sleepy today. She didn't even have time to put down the brush in her hand, so she fell asleep on the table.

The remnant sun is like blood, and the dusk sun shines all over the earth. When Cai Wei entered the room, she saw Linlang lying on the table, still holding the brush tightly in her hand, half of her cheeks had been deformed when she pressed against the table, her mouth was slightly open, and she could hear a soft cry when she got closer. The sunlight hit Linlang's body, creating a warm circle of light.

Cai Wei picked up the words that had fallen on the ground and put them together with the ones on the table. Cai Wei couldn't help but smile, although this girl was a little naughty today, she didn't lie. As she said, she did write a lot of words. Linlang has always been quite well-behaved and obedient in reading and learning words, but she is just a child, and sometimes she is inevitably playful, but the homework she has never left behind.

Cai Wei glanced at the sun that had set outside, curled her fingers and tapped lightly on the table a few times, and Linlang woke up from her sleep. She slowly raised her head, put down the brush in her hand, and rubbed her eyes. Cai Wei looked at the ink sticking to her face, stretched out her fingers to wipe it for her, and said with a smile: "It's really hard, the words are written on your face." ”

Linlang touched her face, and her voice was soft when she just woke up, "Mother, is it going to be dark?" ”

Cai Wei touched Linlang's face and said with a smile: "Well, it's already evening, it's time to eat, what do you want to eat?" My mother will do it for you. ”

Linlang raised her head, dragged her face with her palms and thought for a long time, and finally said, "Let's eat my mother's best noodle soup." ”

Cai Wei nodded in agreement, turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly turned back and said, "Hurry up and wash your face, like a little dirty cat, not a little girl's house." ”

Linlang playfully stuck out her tongue and said, "I know, I know." ”

Linlang washed her face, changed into a goose yellow shirt, and tied a milky white belt around her waist, which made her waist thin and long legs, which was particularly bright and moving.

She went downstairs, it was the time to eat, and there were many customers sitting in the store. Seeing that Xiao Lianzi was busy alone. She rolled up her sleeves and helped run the hall. Xiao Lianzi saw her and smiled at her, "Sister Linlang, you came in time, I can't even be busy." ”

Linlang patted Xiao Lianzi on the shoulder, "At that time, naturally, after all, I was known as a timely rain." ”

After about an hour, there were finally fewer people in the shop, and Linlang sat at the table sweating profusely and panting. Someone came to stay at the hotel, and she was really too lazy to move, so she instructed Xiao Lianzi to take people upstairs.

Linlang was wandering, and Cai Wei came over with a bowl of noodles. Linlang was so hungry that her eyes straightened, and when she saw such a bowl of clear soup and white noodles, dotted with green green onions, her saliva was about to flow.

She finished eating the noodles happily, and Cai Wei put away the dishes and chopsticks and went to the kitchen to get busy. Linlang sat at the counter with her face in her hands, it was already night, red lanterns were lit in front of all the merchants, and the husband had already begun to work on the shift.

After Youruo cleaned up the kitchen, he took off his apron and said with a frown: "Recently, there have been rats in the kitchen, and I always feel that there is less food." ”

Linlang's eyes rolled and she didn't speak. Xiao Lianzi came down from upstairs and answered: "Aunt Youruo, maybe it's not a mouse." When I was on night duty, I seemed to hear what seemed to be a conversation in the kitchen, but it didn't look like a mouse. In the dead of night, I was so scared that I didn't dare to look at it. ”

Linlang laughed a few times and said to Xiao Lianzi: "Coward, is there still a monster?" ”

Xiao Lianzi was ridiculed by a little girl, her face turned red instantly, and she argued: "I'm not a coward, I hear it really, it does look like a voice talking." Aunt Caiwei, you said that our inn wouldn't be a ghost, right? ”

"You don't have a nightmare, do you? Is it that there is a ghost talking to you in your dream, and you think that the dream has come true? Linlang continued to laugh at him.

"Don't talk nonsense, where are there any ghosts, don't scare yourself. Regularly those rats come out to make trouble, otherwise why would they only eat less? ”

Cai Wei walked to the counter, picked up the fan on the counter, fanned it casually, and said, "Xiao Lianzi, you go buy some rat poison tomorrow and come back, you can't waste food in vain." After speaking, he instructed Xiao Lianzi to clean up the tables, chairs and benches, and prepare to close.

Linlang helped Xiao Lianzi tidy up the tables and chairs, and said to Cai Wei: "Mother, you are tired for a day, go and rest quickly, Xiao Lianzi and I will clean up in a while." ”

Cai Wei beat her waist and sighed: "It's so tired that my back hurts, you guys should also collect it quickly, don't forget to lock the doors and windows." After saying that, he pinched his waist and went upstairs.

Cai Wei had just gone upstairs, and Linlang looked at Xiao Lianzi mysteriously. Xiao Lianzi was inexplicably a little creepy, and he asked cautiously: "Sister Linlang, why do you look at me like this?" ”

"Do you really hear voices in the kitchen?" Linlang asked in a low voice.

"What I said is true, I really didn't lie. In the past few days and nights, I can always hear the rustling in the kitchen, like the sound of talking. Xiao Lianzi was afraid that Linlang would not believe it, and repeatedly emphasized that what he said was true.

Linlang didn't speak, just sat at the table, not knowing what she was thinking. Xiao Lianzi quietly walked up to her and asked, "Do you believe what I said?" ”

Linlang slapped the table and stood up, startling Xiao Lianzi. "My mother has said it, don't talk nonsense, there are no ghosts at all, it's just you who scare yourself."

"Well, I knew you wouldn't believe me." Xiao Lianzi sighed mournfully.

"Okay, since you're so scared, you don't have to be on duty all night today, just go upstairs and rest." Linlang spoke loudly.

"It's not okay, Aunt Cai Wei knows that she is going to scold."

"I'll do it for you." Linlang patted her chest and swore by it. If it weren't for the daughter's costume, I really thought it was the son of a family, so bold.

"No, you have a daughter's family, and you're young, I'm not at ease." Xiao Lianzi refused.

"I'm more daring than you, what do you have to worry about."

While the two were arguing, Cai Wei poked her head out of the stairs and said to them, "You don't have to be on duty today, close early, go upstairs and rest." Remember to close the doors and windows, a little thing, the argument is endless. After saying that, he twisted his soft body and went back to the room.

The two small ones downstairs screamed excitedly after hearing this, and quickly closed the door and turned off the lights and went upstairs.

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden gust of cloudy wind, obviously it was summer, but Xiao Lianzi felt a little cold. He got out of bed and went to close the open window. muttered in his mouth: "Why did the sky suddenly change?" ”

He walked to the window, and the moon was bright and starry outside, quiet as water, and the trees in the distance did not even move a leaf, let alone any wind. He was wondering when there was a slight noise at the door, and he walked to the door with his clothes on, and dared to peek through the crack in the door. It didn't matter what he saw, the things outside almost scared him to death.

A man in a white robe floated gently past the door, with no legs, and he could almost imagine that the face of the thing must have been green and fanged, and he spat out a blood-red tongue, and swallowed it when he saw a living thing.

Xiao Lianzi was so frightened that she covered her mouth with her hands, lest she make a little noise and alarm the thing that I don't know if it was a ghost or a monster. He stumbled to the bed and got under the covers, trembling so much that he forgot to breathe.