As soon as the door opens, the chains make a clashing sound, like wind chimes.

Yes, yes! There are also wind chimes.

There are no windows in the basement. But my mother was still in the middle of the room, hanging a wind chime. An antique octagonal wind chime.

This wind chime is weird. No matter how Yingying plays and fiddles, it won't make a sound. Every time she asks her mother why this wind chime is different from the one on TV. Why doesn't it ring? Is it broken? Why hang a broken wind chime.

Mom always touched her head with a wry smile and said, "Yingying, I hope you never have to hear the sound of this wind chime." ”

Yingying didn't understand. But when she was almost six years old, she thoroughly, understood!

That day was the day when the real nightmare began.

Throughout the day, Yingying was excited. Because her mother was tidying up her school uniform for elementary school. And her father has already signed her up for school, and she only needs to wait until tomorrow, and she will be six years old after one more day. She was able to go to school, make new friends, and have fun learning with her friends in the classroom.

Just wait another day. She was able to enter a nearby elementary school as a transfer student.

As for the concept of elementary school, Yingying has only seen it on TV. She is so envious of the elementary school life of other people's children. She kept jumping up and down as she watched her mother mend her school uniform for her. While stroking the school textbook non-stop.

The scent of the book, the smell of the ink, the brand new book. Wow, it's so happy. He was confined for 3 years in dark and damp basements everywhere. I can finally go out properly.

"Don't rejoice too soon. Do you remember what Dad told you? Mom laughed when she saw her so happy. kindly touched her little head.

"Remember, Yingying, all of them." Yingying pointed to her little head and replied loudly.

Mom laughed again: "That Yingying recite it to Mom again." ”

"Watch out for the wind. The balloons in the small schoolbag should never be seen by anyone. Pay attention to the wind, and if you feel that the wind is wrong, take out the balloon. If the balloon doesn't move in the wind, leave it alone. If you move, flee. Flee in the opposite direction of the balloon. Escape to a sealed place and find a way to contact mom and dad. Yingying put her hands behind her back, word by word, and read it sonorously and powerfully.

"Yingying is good, Yingying's memory is the best." The mother clapped her hands and encouraged her daughter.

Yingying immediately became proud, and her little face had a proud expression: "Of course, Yingying's memory is better than that of her mother." ”

"Yes, yes. Yingying's memory is the best, and she remembers to behave well in class. The mother stopped the needle and thread in her hand with tears and laughter, tied a dead knot, and after biting the thread with her teeth, she raised the changed clothes: "You try to fit it or not." ”

"I'll try, I'll try." Yingying jumped up from the ground excitedly, took her clothes and prepared to put them on her body.

Mom was speechless: "Yingying, the button hasn't been unbuttoned yet......"

Before the mother's words could land, they were interrupted by a crisp sound of metal crashing. Suddenly, her face turned pale. Yingying also heard the unusually obvious sound.

What a strange sound, jingle bell, jingle bell. It's not good, but it's like the muffled sound of a boxer's fist hitting the flesh. The people who blocked were panicked in their hearts.

"Mom, what's the sound? It looks like it came out of the house. Yingying turned her head to ask her mother, but she was frightened by her mother's expression. The mother's face was contorted with fright, and cold sweat kept running down her forehead. Countless drops of sweat fell to the ground along the contours of my mother's face, crushing in the ringing.

The sound of the jingling bells came from the top of the head.

Yingying subconsciously looked up, and she actually saw the wind chimes hanging in the middle of the room, which should have been broken, ringing. There was no wind, and You Zi kept ringing in the room.

Jingle bells, jingle bells.

It seems that there is an invisible thing, constantly colliding with the body of the bronze octagonal wind chime.

"Mom, aren't the wind chimes broken? But what is striking the wind chimes? Yingying was scared, and she shook her mother's stiff body vigorously.

Mom was suddenly woken up, she shivered, and slammed into the landline phone to leave a message on her father's pager: "Husband, the wind chimes are ringing." ”

The next mother's behavior made Yingying even more overwhelmed. Mom kept pacing around the room, walking around. The wind chimes rang for a while, and then fell silent again. This made the mother more and more uneasy. Finally, Mom couldn't help it.

She found some salt, sprinkled a small circle directly below the octagonal wind chimes, and told Yingying: "Yingying, my sister is in danger." Mom went out for a trip. In any case, don't leave this circle. Remember, anyway. ”

Yingying was frightened stupid by her mother's anxious tone, she was stupidly hugged into a circle by her mother, gritting her teeth and trying not to cry.

She didn't understand why her sister was in danger as soon as the wind chimes rang that were obviously broken?

The mother came to the door in a hurry, untied all the more than ten chains, and opened the door. She hesitated at the door for a moment, not daring to look back at her little daughter: "Yingying, if mother can't come back." Listen to your father and sister. Be obedient. All right? ”

Yingying's eyes widened, and she nodded ignorantly: "Yingying has always been obedient." ”

"Yes. Yingying is the most well-behaved. Yingying is the most well-behaved. It's all mom's fault, it's all mom's fault. "My mother cried, but she didn't dare to cry, so she could only let the tears flow.

Mother's back disappeared outside the door, and the iron door closed. There was a wet trail on the ground, and it was all my mother's tears.

Six-year-old Yingying is too young and has too many things she doesn't understand. She didn't understand why her mother was crying, why she said she wouldn't come back.

There were so many things she didn't understand, too much. For countless years, Yingying hoped that her mother was wrong. However, my mother's last sentence was right. Mom, never, come back.

An hour later, Dad stumbled back.

No sister, no mother. Only my father opened the iron door in the basement and returned home.

"Let's go!" Dad was tired and began to pack up his things haphazardly.

Yingying couldn't help but ask, "Dad." What about mom and sister? ”

Dad's hand shook and he was silent for a while: "Mom ...... to save my sister"

Dad's throat was blocked, and he finally said those six words: "Already, I can't come back." ”

Yingying didn't understand.

"Yingying, let's go." Dad quickly packed up his belongings, turned his head to look, and took off the octagonal wind chimes above Yingying's head.