Chapter 4 Walking on tiptoe
The horrors continue, and perhaps, this is just the beginning.
One night, Xiaowen and I had dinner and were sitting on the sofa watching TV, when we suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, "Bang Bang", "Bang Bang", quite urgent.
Who is it on this big night? No one has ever knocked on the door before, is it the landlord? I looked down the cat's eye, and I was so frightened that I took two steps back, and it turned out to be the uncle holding the urn of ashes!
My mind spun into the air, "What is he doing here?" How did he find me? Did he stalk me? ”
The heavy knock on the door sounded again, and Xiaowen said to me, "Mu Feng, who is it, why don't you open the door?" ”
Whether it's a blessing or a curse I can't avoid it, today I want to see what medicine is sold in his gourd, I took a few deep breaths, and slammed the door open.
When the old man saw that it was me, his eyes lit up, and he let out a long breath, "Young man, I have finally found you!" ”
"Uncle, do you have anything to do with me?"
"Something, that's it, my son said to me wow, I don't want you to die, let me come to you."
"Your son? Isn't your son dead? ”
"My son told me in a dream."
I almost sprayed him with a mouthful of old blood, and there was a black line on my forehead, "Uncle, it's not early, go back quickly, your wife is not worried if you go back late." ”
Unexpectedly, he was quite stubborn, and said solemnly: "My son said that you are about to come into a catastrophe, and he wants to save you!" ”
I really didn't know what to say, so I reluctantly responded, "Uncle, how did your son say to save me?" ”
"My son said he was going to tell you personally!"
"Your sons have died, how can you tell me?"
He handed the urn forward, "You sleep with the altar in your arms, and my son will give you a dream!" ”
The old man's words made me angry and laughing, feeling that he was not talking about cross talk, I remember that there was a sketch on the TV of the Spring Festival Gala before, that is, Tuo Meng, he didn't imitate it from there, and I replied: "Uncle, this is really not necessary, please convey your gratitude to your son to me in your dream." ”
I saw him glaring angrily, the corners of his mouth trembled, he shrugged, and he kicked his nose and face, "You hairy boy who doesn't know what to do, if it weren't for my son saying to save you, I wouldn't have come, and you don't care if you live or die!" It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin who doesn't know the hearts of good people! ”
This is so annoying that if it weren't for his age, I would have to slap my mouth, "What should you do all the time!" I don't need to! ”
When the old man saw that I was tough and uncompromising, he cried to the altar with tears in his eyes: "Wow, you heard it too, it's not that I didn't come to help him, it was that he himself had to find death!" ”
I suppressed the anger in my heart, and secretly said that I was really unlucky, how could I meet such a strange guy.
The old man was crying and crying at the altar, and at the same time he was swearing at me, and he didn't leave, I couldn't help it, I was too lazy to entangle with him, and it was futile to quarrel, so I simply "slammed" the security door shut shut, out of sight and out of mind, turned around and returned to the house, Xiaowen asked: "Mu Feng, who was it just now?" What are you arguing about? Still alive and dead. ”
"A nervous old man, he's half-crazy, it's useless to talk about something, I don't know him, don't worry about him."
In the middle of the night, I always feel unsteady, tossing and turning, difficult to sleep, in the dead of night, with my eyes closed, faintly heard outside the door, as if there is a slight footsteps, it seems to be real and illusory, like the kind of person walking on tiptoe, has the old man not left?
After I got up, I came to the security door, followed the cat's eyes, but there was nothing, and when I lay down on the bed, the slight sound of walking on tiptoe came again.
I took the wooden stick, opened the door suddenly, and found that there was the small ash jar in the old man's arms next to the door, and a note was pressed underneath, "I'll pick it up at five o'clock tomorrow morning, you don't need to look at it." ”
"Use your yarn!" I whispered to myself and closed the security door.
Back in the living room, I paced back and forth, in fact, this ash jar, in a way, was more terrible than the old man, because that day, I saw a pair of vicious eyes in it, and now, I was also curious, and could not help but want to open it to see what was going on.
So I opened the security door again and squatted next to the ash altar, but I stretched out my hand several times, but I was stunned and didn't dare to act.
Although I didn't open the lid of the altar, I touched the altar, and I was very surprised that the altar was very cold, it seemed to contain a piece of ice, it was really weird, what was it in?
I closed the security door and went back to the living room, but I couldn't sleep in a distraught mood, because when I closed my eyes, it was as if I heard that kind of slight footsteps, but I didn't listen carefully.
In the end, it was two o'clock in the middle of the night, and I was really sleepy, and my eyelids were fighting, so I half-lay on the sofa in a daze and squinted all night, and I didn't fall asleep, because I always felt that there was a person walking on tiptoe outside the door.
I set the alarm clock, and at five o'clock the next day, I went to the cat's eye on time to watch, and sure enough, I saw the old man staggering, picked up the ash jar and left expressionlessly.
I slept again, and when I was having breakfast, Xiaowen looked at me while eating fried dough sticks, as if she wanted to say something, but she wanted to stop talking.
I felt a little strange, "Xiaowen, is there something wrong with you?" ”
Xiaowen said: "Mu Feng, last night, didn't you sleep well, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw you wandering around the living room." ”
"Yes, I have a cold recently, I had a headache last night, I couldn't sleep, I got up and walked around for a while."
"Mu Feng, do you have corns on your heels? It hurts. ”
"No, my feet are fine, I don't have corns, I'm healthy, and it doesn't hurt at all."
Xiaowen was full of doubts and said, "Oh, that's strange, why are you still tiptoeing when you walked around the living room last night?" I thought you had corns and sore feet. ”
After listening to Xiaowen's words, my body trembled suddenly, like an electric shock, I almost fainted from fright, the chopsticks for eating fell off, and I only felt that every pore on my body was cold!
"Xiaowen, are you in a daze, did you read it wrong?" I said cautiously.
"That's right, I thought it was strange at the time, so I took a special look, thinking that you had corns on your feet, and I couldn't sleep because of the pain, and I was also sleepy, so I didn't call you."
Although the weather was warm, I still felt an inexplicable fear coming from all directions, entangled like water and weeds, and it was actually me who had been walking on tiptoe last night.
I held my head in my hands, my head aching, and I couldn't figure out how to explain it all, or even a reasonable inference.
I have always been accustomed to explaining everything in a scientific way, since I was a child, and when I was in school, my teachers taught me that everything has a reasonable scientific explanation.
The bloody handprints on the security door in the past can be reluctantly attributed to Xiaowen's sleepwalking paintings, and the sound of a baby calling for her father in the middle of the night may also be sent out of Xiaowen's dream, but this time I walked on tiptoe, how to explain it? I didn't even notice it myself.
"Mu Feng, what's wrong with you, are you uncomfortable?" Xiaowen looked at me with a strange look on my face and asked with concern.
I pretended to be calm, lest she be worried and afraid, and reluctantly squeezed out a smile, "Xiaowen, I'm fine, in fact, it's the crazy old man last night, who made me angry, so angry that I couldn't sleep, the reason why I walked on tiptoe was because I was afraid of the big night, and the sound of pacing would affect your rest." ”
Xiaowen's face was full of apologies, "Mu Feng, I'm pregnant these days, it's really hard for you, I'm busy before and after, I let you do everything, isn't it too tiring." ”
I put my arm around her shoulders and whispered softly, "It's okay, I'm willing to do anything for you." ”
Xiaowen snuggled softly in my arms, stroked my face, and said softly: "Mu Feng, tonight, let's go out for a big meal together, and then go sing and sing to relieve fatigue, you save money for me and the baby who will be born, go out to work part-time every day, and you are tired and thin." ”
I stroked Xiaowen's long hair, my heart was infinitely warm, looking at the rising sun outside the window, all the haze in my heart seemed to have disappeared, there was such an understanding and good wife, what more could the husband ask for, I felt that she could overcome everything, "Okay, let's go out and relax." ”