1

In the dream, Sucher and Melinda are walking down a path.

Poplar trees grow on both sides of the road.

There are pedestrians, and there are vehicles.

There were announcements from certain shops, pop songs, and the chirping of small birds hiding in the trees nearby.

Melinda told Su Che about what Mrs. Zou had told her.

The story behind that home made Su Che feel more pity for the little girl Zhou Qian.

"Zhou Qian is not Zhou Tianzhen's biological daughter, how many people know?"

"Of course, not many people know, if not, maybe we have heard about it from others before we even forced Mrs. Zou."

"It seems that they also deliberately concealed this ugly thing."

"Who wants to make their family ugly public?"

"The people around you know a little bit, right?"

"The neighbors only know that their relationship is getting worse day by day, but they don't know why, so they still don't know anything."

"It's not my father's biological daughter, Zhou Qian should know, right?"

"Maybe I don't know, but I can feel it somewhat,—— that's my guess."

"Why do you think that?"

"If she really knew, then, in her notebook, she would have written it down, or left words related to it, but there was no one in that notebook."

"Then why do you think she can feel it?"

This is easier to understand. Parents only care about their own feelings, but do not care about their daughters, as their children, will you consider yourself to be their own? ”

"I see......"

"Actually, it's not all."

"Oh?"

"Although the couple quarreled and didn't mention the events of the year at all, Zhou Qian could still feel more or less what kind of status she had in this family?"

"What would she think?"

"How could she not feel resentment from her father? How could she not feel disgust from her mother? ”

"In her heart, there is actually a feeling of abandonment, isn't it?"

"yes. But how dare she convince herself that she is an abandoned child? ”

"Her world is so small, and there are only a few people close to her, and of course she doesn't want to let herself lose what she can grasp......

"Isn't Mrs. Zou very good to her?

"yes. As a woman who has gone through a lot of things, Mrs. Zou seems to have seen it a long time ago. She doesn't care if her granddaughter is biological, as long as it is her own relative, she loves her very much. ”

"She's a person who doesn't have a lot of mental constraints."

"If not, Zhou Qian can't find comfort in her grandmother, and her life will become even darker."

Turned a corner and moved on.

Suche didn't know where Melinda was taking him too.

Everything that passes by is unfamiliar.

Since it's in a dream, why take this route if you just go straight to where you want to go?

He asked, but Melinda didn't tell him.

Melinda doesn't do meaningless things in her dreams, he knows it.

If she doesn't want to say it now, just let her go.

Anyway, the result of wanting to know will become closer and closer as you move forward step by step.

They continued to talk—

"Hey, it's really pitiful for children to bear the consequences of their parents' mistakes."

"Children who grow up in such an environment must also be psychologically distorted."

"The paper boats that you and Brother Luo Feng picked up under the Minghuang Bridge have such words, and now it seems that it is not a strange thing."

"There's just one thing I still don't understand."

"Which point?"

"When did Zhou Qian's mother, Song Xiaowen, start showing this attitude towards her daughter."

“……”

"In Mrs. Zou's narration, Song Xiaowen also took care of her daughter, afraid that she would be affected by the bad influence of the family and grow up in a bad environment, but at this time, Song Xiaowen didn't care much about her daughter's feelings at all, and quarreled with her husband all day long, making this family that was almost unsupportable even more full of gunsmoke and miasma."

"yes, when did she change?"

"Mrs. Zou also said that her husband was not a person who talked much, but now he is not, he quarrels with his wife all day long, and he has changed, and he has changed a lot."

"How did such a strong contrast between the two people come about?"

"There's something else hidden in between, too."

“…… You mean, Mrs. Zou didn't tell you everything, she had reservations about you, didn't you? ”

"It's possible, but I'm more convinced of another one."

"What is it?"

"That hidden secret, even Mrs. Zou doesn't know."

"Oh, that's a mystery within a mystery."

"Now, the reason why I brought you here is to ask you to solve this mystery."

Melinda stopped in front of an old building.

Su Che also stopped, "What is this place?" ”

"Mrs. Zou's home, where the little girl Zhou Qian often goes."

"Is this our destination?"

"Yes, the reason why I walked you here is to let you feel the psychology of a little girl walking on this part of the road from home to here."

"Are we walking the same road that Zhou Qian often walked at that time?"

"Well, it's just that we started from Minghuang Bridge, not from that home."

"Walking here, it turns out that you have this purpose, but ...... I didn't feel anything, because I didn't really think much about it on the road. ”

"I've learned a little bit."

"What did you experience?"

Melinda didn't say.

2

Mrs. Zou's home is also in a building in a certain community.

However, it was an old building.

When Melinda brought Suche here, Suche felt like he had entered a world that was a little old.

Of course, although the building is old, it is only more than 20 years old.

Such a building is probably the best place at that time, right?

Being able to live in this kind of place, it is obvious that Mrs. Zou's family was very rich back then.

That's not Suche's concern, though.

It's all something that appears in a dream like a real thing, and how does Melinda do it?

She moved this building into a dream, and it was possible to understand it, but ......

There are also some people here, who sit in the sun, each having fun and gossiping.

Mostly elderly.

There are also children.

There are no young people in sight.

Everyone has their own activities, and everyone is doing their own thing.

There aren't many that can be seen, but there are one or twenty.

- With so many people appearing in the dream, how did Melinda construct it?

Melinda is a dream builder with extraordinary abilities.

And she told Sucher that she could only construct some simple dreams now.

But it doesn't seem simple......

Su Che was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask.

I'll ask her again when I have a chance to do so.

What I have to do now is to look for something useful in this building.

Su Che's eyes couldn't help but observe everything here.

As in other dreams, they can see others, and others cannot see them.

Although I saw a lot of people, and they were busy with their own business, there was no change because of their appearance.

Melinda led him up the stairs to Mrs. Zou's house.

This building has four floors, and Mrs. Zou lives on the third floor.

The staircase is old, and the dust on the walls is badly peeling.

The advertisements on the walls were also pasted layer after layer, each layer being a long time ago.

It's such a place to be in a different world.

I don't know how the little girl Zhou Qian will feel every time she walks in such a corridor.

Perhaps, she didn't think of anything different at all, only worried about her grandmother who loved her.

Even though it's old, it's homely for her.

And the warm feeling will not change because of the environment.

However, it will change because she is going upstairs or downstairs.

If she goes upstairs, she is going to enter her grandmother's house, and the warmth is inflated.

If she goes downstairs, it is very likely that her grandmother wants her to go back to her home, and that kind of warmth is with loss.

The same staircase, different state of mind.

Just like walking on the road just now, the state of mind on the road when you come and the state of mind on the road when you leave is completely different.

That kind of state of mind should have a bigger gap than in a stairwell like this.

I don't know if Mrs. Zou has let Zhou Qian stay overnight.

Maybe she stayed, the little girl couldn't rush home every time, and it was impossible for Mrs. Zou not to want her granddaughter to live here and spend the night with her.

stayed, Zhou Qian must be happy.

Perhaps, one night of staying here was her happiest day.

If Zhou Qian slept in Mrs. Zou's house, she should be able to find a bed prepared for Zhou Qian from her home.

There should be something left by Zhou Qian next to the bed.

Perhaps, everything that belongs to her granddaughter has been cleaned up by Mrs. Zou, and now it is gone.

And since Zhou Qian often goes, she should be able to find traces related to her.

Thinking like this, Su Che had great expectations for entering Mrs. Zou's room to see what was going on.

3

What Su Che didn't understand, there was one more point.

They want to find out why the couple is here because of the changes in their relationship over the years.

Is there the answer they are looking for?

There is Mrs. Zou living here, and the most likely one who appears here is the little girl Zhou Qian.

According to the attitude of the couple towards Mrs. Zou in reality, it is not difficult to understand that they rarely come to this place to visit her, an old man.

In that case, how is it possible to find the desired answer from this place?

Suche was convinced that Melinda had brought him here for some other purpose.

When they were downstairs just now, the people who lived here saw them, but they were still talking, and they didn't care.

From this point of view, it is not that those people do not care, but they do not see them at all.

In other words, although they are in this dream realm, they are invisible and existent, like people outside this world.

Su Che didn't care much anymore, because it wasn't the first time.

When he arrived at the door of Mrs. Zou's house, Su Che asked, "Do you want to knock on the door and go in?" ”

Melinda said, "It's useless to knock on the door because she can't see us at all. ”

"Or is it that way?"

Melinda nodded.

The so-called "that way" is that two people hold each other's hands, close their eyes, and change the scene of their existence with their minds.

And they did.

When they opened their eyes, they appeared in a cleanly cleaned living room.

The furniture here is also very old.

Even the freestanding cabinets are painted more than a decade ago and have the modest style that was popular at the time.

Only a few small things are new.

The TV in the living room also seems to be new, but it also looks old.

On the sofa in the living room, a little girl sits.

It's Zhou Qian.

She sat on the sofa with her school bag on the sofa, put her books and exercise books on the table in front of the sofa, and wrote her homework seriously.

Mrs. Zou was busy in the kitchen, cooking.

Very ordinary picture.

And after seeing Zhou Qian, Su Che was surprised.

"Is this Mrs. Zou's dream?"

"Yes."

Melinda didn't deny it and nodded.

"She dreamed of her granddaughter again?"

"Now that she is in prison, she doesn't dream of her granddaughter many times, and I have some credit for the appearance of this scene."

"What do you mean?"

"It's simple, I did something in her dreams."

"What did you do?"

"In her dream, stuffed 'Zhou Qian' out."

"As a dream builder, can you do the same?"

"Absolutely. Although I didn't expect this scene in advance, Zhou Qian, a little girl, was prepared by me in advance to let her appear in this scene. ”

"I don't understand."

"Let's give you an example. You must have a lot of friends in your QQ, right? The status of QQ friends is displayed, some are online, and some are not, right? ”

"Yes."

"The icons that are online are colored, and those that aren't online are gray, aren't they?"

"Yes."

"And what I want to do is to make the gray icon become colorful, that is, to change the status of your friends who are not online to be online."

“……”

"Not only that, but I also sent a jiggle to make myself appear in your chat window."

"That way, you can feel that I'm online, aren't you?"

“……”

"It's the same thing. In Mrs. Zou's ideology, there is a little girl named Zhou Qian, she had a dream, and her granddaughter could not appear in the dream, but I used my own way to frame a granddaughter for her, so Zhou Qian appeared in her dream, so Zhou Qian, the little girl, existed in this dream. ”

"I'm still a little confused, but I understand it somewhat."

Melinda smiled and said, "The Zhou Qian who appears here now was imposed by me in this dream, so, in a sense, some of the words she said were set by me. ”

"Huh? She's under your control? ”

"Nor can it be said to be controlling. The scene of this dream is naturally generated, but because of the addition of Zhou Qian, the content has changed more or less. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Let Zhou Qian ask Mrs. Zou in an unintentional way, and put some words out of Mrs. Zou's mouth that we want to know."

Su Che somewhat understood, "You want Zhou Qian to become a 'detector'." ”

"Yes, the probe is what Mrs. Zou is deep in, and she doesn't want to tell me, those secrets that are hidden deeply."

"However, you also said that the secret that the couple hid is likely to be unknown to Mrs. Zou."

“…… Well. ”

"In that case, what kind of secret do you want to get from Mrs. Zou?"

"We'll see."

Su Che pursed his lips and reluctantly stopped asking.

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