Chapter 270: Hometown
When I am about to approach my house again. I heard a recording. It was Li Xiaoxing who left it on the phone. He was desperate and desperate to cry out for help. But apart from the sound of cries for help, there seems to be no more useful information.
Wushuang looked at me, and then at the phone. "Gone?" ”
I nodded, "No." ”
Wushuang took the phone over, turned it over and turned it upside down: "It shouldn't be." He said almost nothing. ”
I look at Wushuang's appearance, and eighty percent of them don't use this mobile phone.
I looked out the window and said, "Listen to the recording." He must have recorded it in a very urgent situation. I think it's quite possible that the dumb guy is standing next to him. It was not easy for him to leave such a sentence in its entirety. ”
Wushuang muttered, "What a useless one." I don't know why the dumb man chose him, even if he chose the fat man. ”
We were discussing when suddenly, a terrible howl came from inside the taxi: "I'm not going in, I'm not going in." Help......"
Immediately after, a man's vicious voice came: "Go in." Then there was a crackling sound, like a beating.
And Li Xiaoxing was crying vigorously.
This part of the voice is much clearer than the one I just found. It should have been unintentionally pressed by Wushuang.
The taxi driver slammed on the brakes in fright. We leaned back and planted a bit. Wushuang asked, "How do you drive?" ”
The driver's face turned white: "This voice, this voice." ”
Wushuang looked at him helplessly: "This voice is terrible." I know. But it won't scare you like that. ”
The driver shook his head: "No, I didn't mean that." I mean, I've heard this voice before. ”
I was taken aback: "Have you heard?" Li Xiaoxing is in Taiyuan, but you are in Henan. How did you hear that? Have you been to Henan recently? ”
The driver said, "No, I heard this sound when I was a child." ”
I was surprised: "When you were a child? ”
The driver said, "That fierce voice." I heard it when I was a kid. At that time, I was so scared that I couldn't speak for a day and a night. Later, it took a long time to recover. ”
I looked at the driver, who seemed to be about the same age as me. I asked him, "Where did you hear this voice?" Your home? Or is it a school? ”
The driver continued to drive, but this time at a much slower speed than before. He looked ahead and said slowly, "Actually, I am an orphan and grew up in an orphanage. This voice was heard in an orphanage. I was four or five years old. Since then, I've been very timid. I don't dare to turn off the lights when I sleep at night. ”
The sloppy Taoist priest said, "It seems that it doesn't have to be the same person. So many years have passed. ”
I nodded: "And it's so far away." Or maybe it's a coincidence. ”
I took the phone in my handsless hands and flipped through it. There's nothing in it anymore. My hand rested on the unfamiliar number in the call log. I tried to dial it, but after a moment of hesitation, I gave up. I don't know who is on the other end or what I'm going to get when I call it. I had to be quiet for a while and think about it for a while.
Suddenly, the car stopped. It's my house. The driver handed us a business card. He said enthusiastically: "If you want to call a taxi in the future, just look for me." The prices are faster than their authentic offers, and the speeds are also fast. ”
I nodded and accepted the card.
I started up the stairs with a few people.
I don't know how many years old the house was covered with dust, and we walked up with a grunt. I went all the way to the fifth floor.
A rusty iron door. It's covered with small advertisements. Everything is the same as it was a few years ago, hardly anything has changed. It's as if time has stopped in this building.
I hesitated to reach out and knock on the door. But I don't know what to say after knocking on the door. For a moment, I fell into hesitation.
At this moment, the iron door suddenly opened. My adoptive father poked his head out.
He was stunned when he saw me. Then there was a look of fear in his eyes, and I felt that he wanted to go back and close the security door. But he didn't do it.
He hesitated, opened the door, and let me in. Not a word was said during the whole process.
The adoptive father's emotions were contagious to all of us. Everyone was obsessed with walking inside. Even the most lively and active Wushuang and the sloppy Taoist priests stopped talking.
The house was already small, but it was even more crowded after a few more people.
The adoptive mother was watching TV on the couch. When she saw us coming in, she stood up very calmly. Then he said, "Sit down, have you eaten?" ”
The abbot said nervously, "I didn't eat it." ”
The adoptive mother nodded: "I'll go cook for you." Then she went into the kitchen and jingled. ”
The adoptive father looked at us: "I'll go and pour you water." ”
In the blink of an eye, we were the only ones left in the living room.
Wushuang looked at me: "Xu You, something is really wrong with your family." I don't think the two of them want to cook or boil water, but like they're deliberately avoiding us. ”
I nodded and said with a wry smile, "You can see it too?" I've been like this since I was a kid. When I got home, I did my homework after eating, and when it was time to go to bed, I went to bed by myself. Basically nothing to say. ”
Wushuang's mouth snorted: "It's not easy for you to grow up in this kind of environment, and you can finally become a normal person." ”
Before I could speak, the sloppy Taoist priest next to me said, "What is this?" Wushuang, you have been lying in the coffin for twenty years, haven't you also become a normal person? ”
Wushuang was furious: "What did you say? ”
The abbot next to him shook his wit without knowing whether he was alive or dead: "Sloppy Taoist, you are wrong about this." Who said Musou is normal? Do you think she's normal? ”
Wushuang couldn't bear it anymore, pulled out the peachwood sword, and shouted, "You two are looking for death." ”
Then she jumped up from the couch and fought with the sloppy Taoist, the fat man, and the three of them.
The adoptive mother poked her head out of the room, then retracted it again.
The skinny man and I couldn't stand it anymore and pulled the three of them apart.
After a while, the meal was ready. Adoptive parents sat on the couch and watched us gobble up. They didn't speak, and neither did we.
After a while, the two of them yawned in unison. He said to us, "Eat first, we'll go to sleep, it's too late." ”
We nodded vaguely. Then the two of them left.
Wushuang breathed a long sigh of relief: "It can be regarded as leaving." The two of them are suffocating me here. ”
The abbot also nodded repeatedly: "Who said it wasn't." ”
The thin man asked me, "Xu You, Cao Cao asked us to find the baby." How do we find out? Your house is on the fifth floor. Is it possible to look for it under this building? ”
I shook my head: "I don't know about this either. Let's rest for the night, and we'll talk about it tomorrow. ”
The abbot nodded: "Yes, let's rest for a while, I'm tired." ”
Since the adoptive parents don't care about anything, I just help them arrange a room. In fact, our family only had two bedrooms, and our adoptive parents lived in one. I'll give up the rest to Wushuang. A few of us slept in the living room.
After the lights were turned off at night, there was always a sound of non-existent talking in the adoptive parents' room. The sound rang in the middle of the night, and we didn't realize it, and gradually, we fell asleep.
The next morning, in a daze, I heard the two of them get up and stumble to clean up the house. I don't know either.
I slept until dawn and then opened my eyes. I found that the house had been completely renovated, and the leftovers of the day were removed and replaced with a new breakfast.
The two of them presumably went to work. Leaving a group of people without two sides, they are eating around the table.
Wushuang said while gobbling up food: "Xu You, I think your adoptive parents are actually good to you. for you to be fed and clothed, and not to beat you or scold you. It's just that there is a little less emotional communication. ”
I took a pair of chopsticks and sat down: "yes, there is a little less emotional communication." ”
While eating, the thin man said, "Xu You, I don't think Cao Cao's baby is under this building." Do you remember what he said? Underneath your old house. This is not your hometown. ”
When I heard this, I couldn't help but feel a little worried: "I also know that this is not my hometown, if I knew, I would have gone back a long time ago, and I still need to stay here?" ”