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When I was a child, I had summer vacations, and Mary spent almost all of her time in her grandmother, as long as her brother came back from vacation, Mary would not pester her grandmother, but pestered her brother every day, "Brother: Uncle Mary's son" still remembers, when he was a child, his brother was a naughty guy, as long as he was on vacation, he would mix with the brother next door every day, "The brother next door, it's inconvenient to say the name here, let's replace it with a holiday for the time being,"
At that time, Mary was probably six or seven years old at most, and her brother was two years older than Mary, the most naughty age, and every day after breakfast, Mary and her brother, as well as Brother Hugh next door, would meet to go out and play crazy together, and every time they came home, they couldn't see anyone dirty.
I don't know what I'm playing with every day, but I know, I was very happy at that time, so happy that I don't need a reason, this is the happiness of children, one day, at dusk, Mary followed her brother and went to Brother Yixiu's house to play with him, but met a large group of children in the yard of Brother Yixiu's house,
At that time, Brother Yixiu was the king of children, and the children around him were willing to play with him, and someone proposed to go on an expedition at night, and this proposal was responded to by everyone, and the location was set on the water tower on the side of the back road, at that time, the water tower was an infirmary, and the water tower became a morgue at zero hour.
However, at that time, the children may not know what the concept of the morgue is, Mary clearly remembers that the light at the door of the water tower is on day and night, and has never been lazy to extinguish it.
When I was a child, I didn't seem to know what it meant to be afraid, and it was about to enter midnight, Mary and my brother quietly slipped out of my grandmother's house.
Quickly run to the water tower to gather, wow, there are really a lot of children here, although there are not so many people when they sign up, but there are seven or eight of them at home, and the children are not allowed to go out, I don't know if you are like this.
Anyway, Mary's family yes, Brother Hugh, looked at the time, counted the people, made up his mind, start exploring now, as soon as the words fell, people immediately felt a shock to their spirits, after twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the back road with a small flow of people, there were no pedestrians at this time,
Even the street lights have been automatically turned off, only the ever-bright lights in front of the water tower are still sticking to their posts, the ever-bright lights exude the light of Bai Sensen, the lights shine on the children's faces, a little weird, under the leadership of Brother Yixiu, everyone began to approach the water tower one after another,
The water tower door is not related, only a white curtain hangs there, with the night breeze blowing, and fluttering, everyone stopped in front of the curtain, a few timid children have begun to be timid, have said that they want to quit, looking at the face of Brother Hugh, although he endured the anxiety and laughed at the children who quit,
But Mary can see that Brother Yixiu is also a little scared, it's stupid, Mary didn't know to be afraid at that time, but then she began to be afraid, and it is estimated that she was frightened this time, and in the end only my brother and I decided to enter the water tower, and Brother Yixiu, and a child,
Well,,, this child seems to be a little raw, I don't know whose child it is, and this child never spoke, just stood in front of him, silently watching all the actions of everyone, the child's face was very white, white and a little blue, Mary thought, this child must drink milk every day,
Mom said that children who drink milk every day will have very good skin and be very white, but unfortunately Anu doesn't like to drink milk, but Anu is already very white by nature, but compared with the child in front of him, it seems to be really a little overshadowed, Mary secretly thought in her heart: From tomorrow onwards, she will insist on drinking milk every day,
"What's your name, why haven't I seen you?" Brother Yixiu saw that this child did not leave, and was still willing to be with him, so he stepped forward and put on a close, very white face The child did not answer, just stood there, looking at the three people in front of him, "Well, well, if you are willing to stay with us, from today onwards, you will be my brother Yixiu's subordinate,
I'll give you a name, and I'll call you little mute. Brother Yixiu saw that the child did not answer, so he began to chatter endlessly, the little mute still did not respond, but he did not leave, and made up his mind, led by Brother Yixiu, four people, well, of course, including the little mute,
This time I was really going to enter the water tower, Brother Yixiu took a deep breath, trembled little hands, and slowly opened the door curtain, uh,,, there shouldn't be anything scary, Brother Yixiu was not scared away, Mary and his brother also stepped forward to take a look, "Ah,." "It's obviously scary, why didn't Brother Yixiu scare away?
Mary looked back at Brother Yixiu's face, it turned out that the reason why Brother Yixiu didn't scare away was because he hadn't opened his eyes, the originally small eyes, squeezed together, the whole facial features instantly became uglier, the water tower was lined up, there were several beds, and the people lying on the beds were covered with white cloths, and they couldn't distinguish between men and women.
It's just that there is a bed, which seems to have been lying down, but now it is empty, because the white cloth is still hanging on the side of the bed, and it is dangling from time to time, Mary and her brother are a little scared, and are about to leave, but at this time, Brother Yixiu seems to be suddenly stunned, and walks straight in, lying on the bed on the side,
Covering the white cloth on his body, his brother saw this, and hurriedly ran over, wanting to pull up Brother Yixiu, but when the white cloth was lifted, Brother Yixiu stared at his small eyes, and there was strangeness and resentment in his eyes, Mary and his brother were startled, their legs were weak, and they fell to the ground.
The little mute didn't know when he came in, but fortunately, many people had more guts, Mary really couldn't stand the weird atmosphere here, pursed her lips, and cried with a wow: "Brother Yixiu, you get up quickly, it's not fun for you to be like this." ”
The elder brother saw Mary crying, his eyes were red, and he also began to cry, after all, he was a child, and he was not ashamed to shed tears because he was afraid, but the cry was not loud, but it echoed in the empty water tower, and Mary found that the little mute did not cry,
What a brave boy, Mary walked up to the little mute and pulled his little hand, wow,,, little mute's hand is so cold, the ice is the same as the ice cream that has just been taken out of the freezer, "Little mute, you are so brave, you didn't cry." Mary took the little mute's hand and smirked at him kindly, and for a moment, the little mute's eyes were no longer as indifferent as before, and his mouth opened again, but he still didn't speak, it seemed that he might really be a little mute,
But it doesn't matter, this can't hide the fact that he is a brave child, Mary and her brother's cry, through the water tower, in the silent night is particularly harsh, the first to come is Brother Yixiu's grandmother, this is a very fierce old woman, Mary and her brother are very afraid of her, remember the last time I went to the yard of Brother Yixiu's house, secretly climbed the apple tree, picked a few small apples,
was viciously reprimanded by her, and told her parents that Mary and her brother deserved to be beaten, but it was her brother who was beaten, and Brother Yixiu's grandmother rushed in, and when she saw Brother Yixiu lying on the corpse bed, she was very frightened, stumbled, and almost fell.
Subsequently, many adults came one after another, among the people, of course, there was also Mary's grandmother, Mary saw that her grandmother was coming, and quickly rushed up and threw herself into her grandmother's arms, whimpering and crying: "I told Brother Yixiu, this is not fun, but he just ignores me and can't come up." ”
The adults present, all their faces were as if they had been wiped with flour, and they were unusually white, and a bold adult picked up Brother Yixiu from the bed and forcibly pulled him away, but Brother Yixiu's expression was very dull, so dull that Mary had never seen it.
Grandma slapped her brother twice on the buttocks, then took Mary's hand and walked out, Mary wanted to break free of Grandma's hand, because the little mute was still behind, looking back, I don't know when, the little mute was lying on the bed where Brother Hugh was lying just now, "What's wrong with the little mute,
Why didn't he see his parents come and pick him up? Mary raised her immature face and asked her grandmother in confusion, but her face was very flustered, and she didn't say anything, she took Mary's arm and walked out, and before going out, Mary looked back at the little mute,
At this time, the little mute also sat up, waved his hand at Anu, opened and closed his mouth a few times, although he didn't make a sound, but Mary knew that the little mute was actually saying to herself: Bye-bye, later, my brother was beaten up by the uncle,
Later, Mary learned that that night, the reason why the adults arrived so quickly was actually because Grandma got up and didn't see Mary, so she ran out to look for it, and ran into a child who was rushing home from the water tower.
So······ Later, Mary and her brother, as well as Brother Hugh, were inexplicably sick, and had chickenpox, although it was very itchy, but you could be lazy and not have to do your homework, it was still very good, in the future, the door of the water tower was locked day and night,
I heard that there would never be a few more beds there, and no one would sleep in them, and as for the little mute, Mary had never seen him before, but, until now, Mary still remembered that the little boy who must have drunk milk every day and had very white skin,
I don't know what's going on, why hasn't Lin Kai, this stinky boy, come to see himself for a long time, Mary's mind is thinking about these messy things every day, and she has some doubts about whether she has neurophaginia, Brother Li Bing went to find medicine for Sister Zhao Jie, and I don't know what the situation is, it's really too much that has happened recently,