Chapter 150: Stairs (2)
My consciousness was in a trance, my vision kept shaking, one moment I was facing Tang Tang's face, the next moment I was floating in the air, and I saw Tang Tang and another little boy with a blurred face.
The distance between them has not widened, you walk one square, I walk one square, there are losses and wins, and the speed of going up the stairs is far less than when going up and down the stairs.
Outside, the rain was heavier, and the sound of rain and thunder was mixed together, and from time to time purple lightning pierced the dark clouds and lit up the sky. It stands to reason that children at this age should be afraid, but they are unaware of it, and they are concentrating on their very childish competition.
There were only the voices of two children in the whole building, and the sound of thunderstorms was enveloped outside.
It was as if it had become a different dimension, and there was no third sound other than these two sounds. The corridors, doors and windows that the children passed through became the backdrops, and there was not a single noise from those homes.
I gradually realized that the environment was very familiar.
The door comes in, there is a long staircase on the right hand, and the row in front of the stairs is a walkway, the walkway is attached to two kitchen windows, and there are two door openings at both ends of the walkway. Each of the two families also has a small entrance, which forms a quarter of the square with the common doorway. This design is not reasonable, but large residential areas of the era adopted this uniform design.
I have never lived in a house like this, but I have been seeing it for most of the last six months.
Six villages of workers and peasants!
Is this the Sixth Village of Workers and Peasants?
Am I encountering a ghost again?
Thinking about it again, I also saw Xuanqing Zhenren today, when I saw a ghost, Xuanqing Zhenren didn't know about me?
In the style of Xuanqing Zhenren, it is really possible to pretend not to know and let me figure it out by myself.
I couldn't help but look at Tang Tang and the vague child. The child must have been the one who turned into a ghost. I died at such a young age, and I still want to play when I die. Maybe he was playing before he died? My heart tightened. Words like domestic violence, abuse, human traffickers, etc., crossed my mind. Compared with people like Zhang Jiaxin, children are more likely to make me feel empathetic and want to help.
As I looked at my two children, I wanted to see the residents of the building. If you can't see anyone, you might be able to recognize something by looking at the doors and entrances. When I looked at it this way, I realized that the house was too new. The walls and kitchen screens and smoke pipes are clean, not like I have seen them, they are black and sticky, and you have to be careful not to touch them when you pass by, otherwise your clothes will be completely ruined.
"One more floor! I'm going up first! Tang Tang jumped up the last step from the fourth floor to the fifth floor and made a gesture of cheer.
The other boy, still in the middle of the stairs, shook his little fist, "I'll catch up." It's me who uses Azare! β
Tang Tang grinned, "Then you come!" β
They were another round of rock-paper-scissors, and the winner was still soup.
"You passed, how rock-paper-scissors?" The boy asked depressedly.
"You can see it from here." Tang Tang pointed to the window on the other side of the stairs.
The walls where the stairs and windows stood were not tightly sealed, and I could barely see something through the gaps.
The boy agreed.
Tang Tang ran down the aisle with a puff of smoke.
I tried to follow, but found myself pinned around the boy and unable to get to the fifth floor.
A little head soon popped up from the gap in the staircase. Tang Tang lay on the stairs and shouted below, "Did you see me?" β
The boy leaned on the window and stretched his neck desperately, "See! β
"Then let's rock-paper-scissors."
I looked at the struggling posture of the two of them, and I felt funny and sad.
They did a few more guesses, and Tang Tang reached the middle of the stairs, and because of the windows embedded in the wall, the gap widened, and the two saw each other more clearly.
"Rock-paper-scissors!"
It's Tang Tang who wins.
The boy hadn't taken a step forward for a long time, and he was getting more and more anxious.
Tang Tang grinned and retracted his head, "I'll take one step further, I'm coming." β
"No, I'll win the next." The boy pouted.
I started to get upset.
This scene made me panic a lot, and I always felt a little familiar.
The boy looked up, "Tang Tang, are you okay?" β
There was no movement from above.
"His little friend used to live there, and I can't remember which of the four families it was. Ye Qing said back then that when they were playing in that building, his children suddenly disappeared and disappeared on the fifth or sixth floor. β
What Yu Xinrong once said came to mind.
β¦β¦ Disappear on the fifth or sixth floor......
I tried my best to go up, but I couldn't get out of the boy's half-meter range.
"Soup!" The boy screamed, stretched his neck suspiciously, and waited for a while, "Tang Tang, did you go back first?" Soup? I'm going to come up and take a look. I'm in the seventh block now. He called several times to remember his location, and then he violated the rules of the game and went up the stairs.
When I got to the fifth floor, I walked through the hallway, and there was no figure on the stairs leading to the sixth floor.
"Soup?" The boy called his friend's name and went up to the sixth floor.
I looked closely at the staircase on the sixth floor, and it was no different from a normal staircase, and there was nothing unusual at all.
The boy went up to the sixth floor, reached the end of the hallway, and tapped on the door of the first house.
The doors, walls, and windows were completely different from what I had seen before, but I seemed to see a sign hanging on the wall, with the words "Aoba Spiritual Office" written on it.
"Soup!" The boy banged on the door and shouted, but no one answered.
He hung his head aggrievedly, kicked his feet, slowly wandered down the aisle, took a few steps, and knocked on the door.
"Tang Tang, AzarΓ© gave it to you, and you will use Azare in the future."
"Tang Tang, you open the door, why don't you open the door?"
"Tang Tang, aren't you playing with me?"
"Soup, soup......"
"Ye Qing!"
A woman's cry pulled me back to my senses.
I looked at the boy with a blurred face.
"Mom!" The boy screamed and ran downstairs.
"It's time to go home for dinner!" The woman, who was over thirty years old, stood on the stairs on the fourth floor and held out her hand to the boy.
The thunderstorm outside the building stopped at some point, the dark clouds dispersed, and the sky was still gray.
"What's wrong? Are you unhappy with Tang Yu? The woman asked softly.
"He suddenly stopped playing with me." The boy complained.
"You bring your car tomorrow and play with him." The woman smiled, not taking the awkwardness between the children seriously.
Mother and son walked out of the building, and the boy looked back.
I looked over too. The staircase leading to the sixth floor was empty. It was as if my body had been pulled away, away from the mother and son, closer to the building, through the wall, and saw the sign.
The door opened, revealing the filing cabinet and the figures standing next to it.
It was a tall young man, and before I could see his face, I heard a cold shout: "Get out!" β
In an instant, I was awake.
When I opened my eyes, I saw the familiar ceiling of my bedroom.
That is Ye Qing, Ye Qing after adulthood and death. He banished me from the dream.
I touched the sweat from my face.
At that moment, I broke out in a cold sweat.
Touching and touching, I reached out in front of my eyes and saw the white hairs on my fingertips.
It's a real person!
I was really hit by the thin man, and I "opened up". Xuan Qing Zhenren let me see Ye Qing's past, but Ye Qing obviously didn't like others to watch his past.
What does Xuanqing really want to do? Ye Qing ...... again
I thought of the little boy, the sound of "soup soup", "soup soup", and clenched his fists.
At that time, Ye Qing was not ostracized as Yu Xinrong said, but after Tang Tang disappeared, what kind of discrimination he would encounter, a fool could guess.
The boy who was wandering in the aisle, waiting for his friend to open the door, disappeared with his friend. When he found his companions again, the men ......
I exhaled so hard that I couldn't sleep that night.