Chapter 11: Killing
It's rare to get a lazy night's sleep these days, and I got up, my father went back to work, and my mother sat on the bed and wept.
"Mom, what's wrong?" I wondered why my mother kept crying early in the morning.
"It's okay, let's eat." Mother waved.
I tried to comfort her, but I was thrown away.
When I came to the restaurant, there was a bowl of rice on the table, and there was still some heat. There was a note next to it, on which a few words were written crookedly, although I didn't go to school, I still recognized it: Thank you, I'm leaving.
I hurriedly searched everywhere, and Lu Zihan was gone.
I don't know why my parents didn't look for Lu Zihan, I never gave up, hoping to see him again. It took more than a month to completely accept the fact that Lu Zihan had left.
These days, the neighbors have rarely stopped a little, and the child king has no heart to lead the children, and the scattered boy scouts are not at all in the climate.
I don't know how Lu Zihan's comings and goings in my life have affected me, but my parents often say that Lu Zihan has not left, but has become one with me, at least on the surface, I don't bother them so much.
An hour passes slowly, a day flies by, and a year flies by in a flash.
I thought that my destiny was the same as that of other children, going to elementary school next year, junior high school in six years, high school in another three years, and then going to university. As for the peace of mind that my parents said, I don't have to keep an eye on me all the time, mainly because in the long-term struggle, I have learned a very important thing: there are two kinds of bad things, one will be punished, and the other will be unaware, so how to talk about punishment.
For festivals, children have sensitive and rich nerves. Without him, there is a lot to eat. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, my mother took me back to my grandmother's house at noon, despite the drizzle.
How could people who were busy moving bricks have time to stare at me, bored, listening to the sound of hula in my ears, I slowly walked to the door.
"Red in the middle!" "It's mushy!"
Close the door, the rain is much lighter, and it's almost stopping.
There is a pump room next to my grandmother's house, although it has been used but the equipment is aging badly, the water pipes at both ends of the three days are cracked, the pump is broken, in short, the pump room is indeed worthy of the name, surrounded by water.
If you are not familiar with your surroundings, it is a dangerous thing to come here. Because there are large and small puddles all over the place, if you accidentally fall into it, you can get braids.
But these puddles on a rainy day gave me a new lease of discovery. I suspect it's not raining around here, it's frogs, and these guys are just crazy, jumping around, all over the place.
It's usually hard to see each other once, but at this time, it's completely crowded, and they're all very small, the size of an adult's thumb.
It must be rain of frogs around here, I concluded. Although I am obedient now, I am not completely good. I didn't care about the mud and some messy things, I learned to jump around the frog and accidentally slipped and fell a few times covered in mud.
This kind of frog jumping is very tiring, and after a while I am tired and start to learn another animal to stick out its tongue, grab a few frogs and put them on my body to make them jump, an indescribable feeling.
Inadvertently raised his eyes and saw a large man-made pool not far away, and he couldn't take his eyes back.
It's all frogs.
Running over, the pool is very deep, and the water surface is relatively low and out of reach. I didn't dare to go down, because there was flat cement all around, and I couldn't get up if I went down. Sitting on the edge of the pool with resentment, he saw the rubble all over the ground.
If I can't play, then don't live! I gathered the rubble, stood on the edge of the pool, aimed the gravel at the creature inside, and threw it with a poof.
I spent the whole afternoon by the pool. When he left, the water was full of white flowers, the dark clouds in the sky had dispersed, but the sun had already set.
I just thought it was funny, and I didn't have the slightest awareness that I had committed a great sin by killing so many living beings, and I quickly forgot about it.
The bright moon hangs high, and the literati of the ages have left countless verses praising it, and the myths and legends are also tireless on it, but it has never changed, and it is not alarmed and indifferent.
Compared to the moon, my concentration is much worse. The culprit that made me not calm was a table set up in the courtyard, on which there were moon cakes, grapes, watermelons, apples, pomegranates, pears, dates, and walnuts. It seems that there is an incense burner, so much food, how can there be time to see if there is an incense burner.
Everyone stayed in the yard, saying that the sky was beautiful, and they also wanted to enjoy a meal, so they cleared the sky early and let the moon come out.
Grandma burned incense and kowtowed, and the family followed. I took advantage of their inattention to reach out and try to steal food, and the back of my hand was beaten.
"You see too many things, and the table is going to fall over." I want to save face.
Everyone laughed, and I saw a frog jump on the table and was about to catch it.
"Don't catch it, they also live on the moon, so they probably want to go home."
I don't believe it, how can there be frogs on the moon? One or two frogs jumped on me, but I didn't pay attention to it because I saw something jump on the table.
"Don't move, it's for the moon!" How can I let someone else eat something that I can't eat first?
"What's the noise!"
"There's something to eat on the table!" I quit it, you won't let me eat it, and others will pretend not to know if they eat it.
"Don't talk nonsense, kowtow." Everyone covered my mouth and bent my waist, but I swore to die. Even if Chang'e came to eat something on the table, I knew that she was a woman, but now this thing has no human appearance! Much lower than me, he walks and jumps, swaying from side to side, and his face looks a bit like a frog. This is definitely not Chang'e.
It picked up a piece of moon cake, and now everyone was silent, and what they saw should be that the moon cake floated on its own.
The guy who didn't know anything bit off a piece of mooncake and swallowed it in one gulp. My family first saw that one piece of mooncake was missing, and then the whole thing was gone.
This is a miracle, the first time that such a situation has occurred in many years since the moon was sacrificed. Heaven and earth are blessed by the gods, how many people are offering the moon, but they have only taken a fancy to our family, which is the supreme glory!
"It's not, it's a monster, you've been deceived!" I shouted loudly, and then my mouth was covered by my father.
When the mother kowtowed, she said: God is not strange, he is a child, and the ignorant are not guilty.
What else can I do? The evil father pressed me to kowtow, swore to death, and I lay on the ground.
The guy stuck out his long tongue and licked everything on the table, then gave me a defiant look and turned and jumped away.
I was very resentful, I was controlled by three people and kowtowed three times, and a table of delicious food was ruined. I was sure I wouldn't eat what it had licked, but my father was instructed by my mother to press me to the ground, open my mouth to my throat, and throw in a piece of watermelon.
I didn't even have a chance to spit out, so I coughed a few times and swallowed it.
The family members are like babies, each of them has a point and tastes it carefully. Then they slashed at me and attacked them in groups.