Chapter XVIII
Chen Qiuju looked at her son who was lying on the bed and was slumped, her eyes were full of worry.
Yesterday afternoon, my son and his friends went out fishing, and it was six o'clock in the evening. At first, Chen Qiuju and her husband Zhang Rongze didn't care, after all, Zhang Hua was stubborn by nature, and when he went back to the countryside to get together with his friends, he would definitely have to play in the dark.
But the two waited until eight o'clock, and they still didn't see their children. Usually, no matter how much the child is skinned, he will still go home honestly when it is time for dinner. Feeling that the situation was not right, the two called the other children's homes again.
As a result, they found that the children had gone home two or three hours earlier, but the only son and Wang Hu had not returned.
The other children thought about it, and they didn't know who mentioned it: "When I left, Brother Hu Zi said that he hadn't touched enough fish today, could it be that he dragged Brother Hua Zi back to play again?" ”
"These two unconscious babies!!" Zhang Rongze thought of the stream outside the village, of course it didn't seem to be dangerous during the day, but it was dark at night, and the two children didn't have any lighting tools......
The more adults thought about it, the more frightened they became, estimating that something might have happened to the child, and in total, the men of the two families took flashlights and other tools and went to the east of the village along the road, constantly looking for the two children along the way.
They searched for several hours, but still found no trace of the child.
"No, it's dark in the mountains now, and it's not practical to go up the mountain to find it." Zhang Rongze wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his heart became more and more worried.
But at this moment, his mobile phone rang. He took it and saw that it was a call from his wife.
"Rong Ze, don't look for it...... Hanako went home. Hearing his wife say this, Zhang Rongze suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and in the next second, anger rushed to his heart: "Dog's baby, I didn't know that I came back from death so late, and when Lao Tzu went back, I had to kill him!" ”
"Huazi is coming home?" Wang Hu's father, Wang Daqing, heard the news, and his eyes lit up. He leaned over to Zhang Rongze, pulled his throat at his broken mobile phone, and asked excitedly, "What about my tiger?" Are you going back together? ”
On the other end of the phone, Chen Qiuju's voice suddenly became hesitant: "Brother Wang...... Just, Huazi came back alone, he ...... He said that on the way home, Huzi suddenly remembered that he had lost something by the river, Huazi looked for him for a long time, and he didn't listen to him when he persuaded him to go home, so Huazi came back first. ”
Hearing the other party say this, Wang Daqing's face suddenly turned pale.
Zhang Rongze knew that he was worried about his son's safety, and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, don't worry, Qiu Ju also said, Huzi ran back to the river." He is so good at water, there shouldn't be anything serious, at most, he can't move if he falls somewhere...... Let's go, let's find out again! ”
Wang Daqing nodded, and the two men shouted Huzi's name and continued to search by the river.
At home, Chen Qiuju hung up the phone and hurriedly ran back to the house.
Just ten minutes ago, she had just returned from Wang Hu's house next door worriedly. The two families have been neighbors for decades, and their children are of the same age, so they can play together, so the relationship is naturally very close.
Now that the children in the family have been lost, parents are naturally anxious. Wang Hu's mother, Shen Ping, always felt very flustered, so Chen Qiuju also went to her house to sit for a while, and the two women chattered and comforted each other before she said goodbye to each other and wanted to go home and call her husband to ask about the situation.
However, as soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw a small figure curled up in front of her house.
"Hanako?! Where did you die, and now you're back! Chen Qiuju was surprised when she saw her son, but she also stepped forward angrily and raised her hand to beat him.
And at this moment, Zhang Hua raised his head, his small face was pale, and his eyes that were usually full of vitality became extremely dull at this moment.
Chen Qiuju was startled by the child's appearance, she bent down and touched the child's forehead, and found that Zhang Hua's forehead was cold and scary at this moment, he was trembling all over, and his face and back were also full of sweat.
"Huazi, Huazi?" Chen Qiuju shook the child's body and panicked suddenly: "What's wrong?" Look at Mom! ”
Zhang Hua was shaken twice by her, and then raised his head blankly and looked at Chen Qiuju.
One second, two seconds, three seconds......
His gaze stayed on Chen Qiuju's long black hair, and then Zhang Hua shook violently, and big tears rolled down his panicked eyes. He pushed his mother away like crazy, and let out a hoarse "ahh
Chen Qiuju froze for a moment, and then found that her son seemed to be very afraid of her hairstyle, and didn't seem to let her get close. She immediately picked up the straw hat hanging by the wall and put it on her head, stuffed her hair into the hat, and then stepped forward and hugged her son: "Huazi, don't be afraid, it's ...... mother."
Zhang Hua felt his mother's body temperature, and then slowly calmed down. He cried with snot and tears on his face, and his speech stumbled: "Mom, Huzi...... Huzi he ......"
"What's wrong with Huzi, didn't you two come back together?" Chen Qiuju immediately asked, "Huazi, what happened?" ”
She noticed that Zhang Hua was emotionally unstable now, and seemed to be frightened by something. So, she hugged her son, returned to the house, turned on all the lights, poured a cup of hot water and put it in the child's hand, and saw that Zhang Hua was better, so she continued to ask: "What are you two doing?" Your dad and your uncle Daqing have gone out to find someone, where did Huzi go? ”
Zhang Hua drank hot water and said with a crying voice: "The two of us went to the west of the village......"
Subsequently, he stumbled and told what he saw in the Li family, and when he mentioned the woman in the blue robe and the hair was scattered, Chen Qiuju's palms couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
"I told Huzi to leave, he didn't listen, he wanted to watch...... As a result, when I called him again, he ...... He put down the binoculars ......" Zhang Hua threw himself into his mother's arms and cried: "Huzi's face is gone!" It turned into the back of a head, and the hair was so long that it was about to drag to the ground! He, his neck rattled, as if he was about to turn around......"
Zhang Hua said that he was half frightened to death by this scene, and immediately pulled up his legs and ran along the path.
He ran out a few hundred meters in one go, and when he turned back again, he found that under the moonlight, Wang Hu in the distance was also standing quietly on the dirt road. At this moment, he saw a back figure with long hair.
But Zhang Hua knew that it was not a back at all. And the head on Wang Hu's neck is not his own!
Then, Wang Hu suddenly writhed strangely, his hands danced, his limbs were like writhing kelp, and he kept twisting in an extremely terrifying and treacherous posture in the moonlight, twisting and letting out a strange cry of "babbling" in his mouth, and at the same time striding into the sorghum field.
The cry was extremely sharp, it was not Wang Hu at all, but a woman's voice...... Zhang Hua could no longer restrain the panic in his heart, and ran back home crying all the way.
"Huazi...... Listen to Mom, don't tell anyone else about what happened tonight......" Chen Qiuju's face turned pale, and she took her son back to the bedroom in a trembling manner and told him to rest first. Subsequently, she called her husband and lied that Wang Hu did not go home with Zhang Hua.