Chapter 249, Childhood Addiction
In the midst of children's laughter, I arrived in a strange but somewhat familiar place. Here is a small, dilapidated courtyard with a few wooden benches. There are also a few skipping ropes, and there are many children running and chasing in the yard. But not all the children were playing, and there was one child sitting alone on a small bench in the corner, looking at the sky with his mouth closed.
I recognize this kid, it's me! I also suddenly remembered that this small yard was the kindergarten I went to when I was a child, and I was also nicknamed "liar" in this kindergarten, because I always told children that I could see strange things.
"Doesn't anyone play with you?"
Suddenly a small child's voice came from behind me! I quickly turned my head to look behind me, but there was no one behind me, and when I turned my head back again, I noticed that there was a little boy in red in the corner, and he was standing next to me as a child, and he smiled at me and asked, "Is no one playing with you?" ”
When I was a child, I glanced at the red-clothed child. But instead of speaking, he continued to look up at the sky.
Of course, the red-clothed kid exudes a thick yin aura, and before going to kindergarten, I will yell at my surroundings no matter what I see. But after I went to kindergarten, I began to understand that there are some things that only I can see, and these things cannot be told to other people.
The kid in red is something special, I can see him, but I will never tell anyone about it, and I will not play with him.
My indifference disappointed the red-clad kid, who turned aggrievedly to look at me. Then he pointed to the boy next to him and said, "Your childhood was not happy at all, and I don't want to play with you." ”
After saying that, he turned his head and ran towards the door of the small courtyard, I hurriedly chased after it, and the qiē in front of me also changed again, I had already run to the gate of the bungalow, and my head almost hit the lamppost of the streetlamp. Clusters of garbage.
I braked on the brakes and looked around for the little boy in red, but the boy was gone.
"Intin!" I shouted.
The candle dragon immediately appeared next to me.
"Follow the yin qi and find that child!" I gave the order.
Although the red-clothed child was gone, there was a long trail of yin qi on the ground, which clearly marked the direction of his movements like his footprints.
The candle dragon answered me, and then immediately went into action, crawling on the ground and swallowing the yin qi left behind by the little boy. While tracking, I followed closely behind the candle dragon.
But at this moment, the originally gloomy sky suddenly cleared. The sun came out of the gray curtain. At the same time as the sunlight spread to the ground, the yin energy on the ground also dispersed at once, and the candle dragon hated the sunlight, and quickly ran to my side, disappearing in my shadow like the white tiger.
The clue of the yin qi is broken, and as soon as the sun comes out, the little red man will definitely hide and not show his head again, but the photo I just had with the little red man made me somewhat figure out what was going on.
That little red man can make people go back to their childhood, although it is only an illusion, but the scene of that childhood is the same as in the memory. I wasn't affected by the little red man, maybe because I was possessed by demons, or maybe my childhood was not happy at all, but what if I changed someone? If you can re-experience the simple happiness of childhood, that feeling may be addictive like a drug, and the reason why the crazy middle-aged man will clamoring to find a little red man and use a knife on his family is obviously an addiction, a happy childhood addiction!
Thinking of this, I immediately returned to the bungalow, and in the living room, the middle-aged man was still firmly bound, but now his feelings were much more stable, or rather completely depressed.
His family and relatives were all asking about his condition with concern, but in view of the fact that he had used knives against his family before, these relatives did not dare to get too close, and they all kept a distance of two or three meters from him, and the only one who was willing to stay by his side was his own wife.
After I entered the house, I went straight to the sofa, and regardless of whether the family was welcome or not, I walked directly to the middle-aged man and stretched out my hand and slapped him on the cheek.
This slap was very loud, there was still a lot of commotion in the room, everyone was muttering and talking, after the slap, the room suddenly fell silent, everyone was stunned, including the crazy middle-aged man was also stunned by me.
"Don't pretend to be crazy and stupid, you know better than anyone that you've come back, not in that illusion of your childhood! I know you want to go back, do you think you'll be able to go back by catching up with that kid in red? Is carefree joy so attractive to you? More important than your family? ”
I questioned him repeatedly, and at the same time dragged his wife to him.
"Take a good look, this is your wife, think about what you said to her on the day you got married, did you say that you would take care of her for the rest of your life? You want to be a kid now, and then let your wife go where she came from? Isn't it? If you want to admit that you are still a gentleman, don't pretend to be crazy and answer me! ”
I yelled at him.
The people around me may have wanted to come and pull me away just now, but after hearing what I said, they also turned their eyes to the crazy middle-aged man on the sofa, probably because my tone was so tough that there was no room for questioning, anyway, the people in the room didn't pay attention to me anymore.
The middle-aged man sat there stunned for a while before he finally stammered out a few words: "I...... I don't want to, but ...... But that kind of ...... That feeling, it'...... It ......" he said, tears streaming down his cheeks.
Without the consent of his family, I leaned over and took off the belt tied to the middle-aged man, and the people around me were startled, but the middle-aged man did not go crazy, but covered his face with both hands and continued to cry. After crying for a while, he raised his head and looked at his wife with red eyes and apologized: "I'm sorry, I don't want to be like this now, but that kid brought me back to when I was a child, it felt so happy and carefree, I forgot all my worries." When I came back to my senses, I couldn't breathe at all because of the pressure, and I ...... I'm sorry for you...... I was so selfish. ”
In the face of her husband's confession, the wife also cried, she reached over and hugged the middle-aged man's head, and comforted while stroking: "It's okay, as long as you are still you, if you don't want to work, you can not go, I can support you, as long as you don't go crazy and don't run outside." ”
"I'm not running, I'm not going anywhere." The middle-aged man replied crying.
A crazy runaway turmoil seems to end here, but the little boy in the mouth of the middle-aged man has always been incomprehensible to everyone in the room, and they are reluctant to believe in ghosts from beginning to end, but who can't explain what happened.
But this time I didn't leave like yesterday, whether they believed me or not, I had to stay in the bungalow for a day, and wait until the evening to see if the little red man would come, even if he didn't come, I would wait for the middle-aged man to come to his senses, and then ask him where he met the little red man.
The daytime was basically spent in the cries and apologies of the middle-aged man, and it was only after 9 o'clock in the evening that his feelings finally calmed down. Maybe the addiction has passed, and his demeanor and expression have changed significantly, but the tossing day has made him a little tired.
In the end, only me, Wang Shan, and his two classmates stayed in the living room with me to listen to the middle-aged man tell him how he met Xiaohongren.
He was not in the habit of calling the boy a little red man, in his own words, a pitiful-looking child.
It was a Saturday, and after his last day of work before he went to the supermarket near the company, it started to rain when he got to the supermarket entrance. Just like Daolang's song, the winter rain was sleet with snowflakes, and it was biting cold, he didn't bring rain gear, so he ran towards the door of the supermarket, and when he was running, a short red figure suddenly passed by him, and ran to the door of the supermarket one step ahead of him.
When he ran over later, he found that he had just passed a child in red, who was very beautiful and had big eyes, but the bright red clothes on his body and his pale face looked a little uncomfortable.
The supermarket is actually more like a medium-sized convenience store, because it is more than 9 o'clock in the evening, and the weather is not good, so there are no customers in the store, only a few clerks lazily lying on the counter flipping through magazines, and no one looks at the door. I'm waiting for you in hell
He looked around, trying to find the child's parents, but there was no figure around except for the rain and snow and the street lamps standing alone on the road. He looked down at the child again, who had no intention of entering the store, but was standing in the doorway trembling all over.
Although he felt a little weird, he still crouched down and asked the child, "Why did you come here on your own, where are your parents?" ”
"They don't play with me anymore, will you play with me?" The little boy replied as he held out his right hand.
In the words of the middle-aged man himself, he didn't know what to think in his head at the time, after being stunned for a while, he reached out and grabbed the child's hand, and then his mood suddenly changed dramatically, he felt that all the troubles were gone, only happiness remained, and he only had one thought, which was to play.
So he took the little boy back to the house, and then played together, just like when he was a child, he could have fun for a while by grabbing anything, and he didn't have to think about any work, family, etc., as if that qiē had nothing to do with him.
And this qiē is over now, since I appeared by the pool, his happy feeling is gone, and the huge pressure that followed is too much for him to bear, he even had suicidal thoughts, but now it seems that all is over.
After listening to his story, I think that the kid in red may not come back again, and he may have already started looking for his next playmate. All I have to do is wait for a rainy day and try my luck at the supermarket where the little red boy appeared.
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