Chapter 24: Crying in the Night
At midnight, the door of the dormitory building was tightly locked, and Uncle Zhang in the duty room had already fallen asleep. The first floor of this dormitory building has a laundry room, three overnight study rooms, and several dormitories for school workers, and the rest have been converted into warehouses.
I came to the first floor, followed the sound of crying, and finally came to the door of a warehouse, from which the cry came from. I pushed the door, it was locked, I put my ear to the door, and from inside came the intermittent crying was very faint, but so real, it was like crying in my ear. I pushed the door hard again, the lock was very tight, and the window above was also inserted from the inside, it was difficult to enter without a key, but I had to go back first, and wait until tomorrow to figure out a way, and the crying also stopped with my departure.
The next day, I returned to the dormitory early after class, brought wrapped tea, came to the duty room, and played chess with Uncle Zhang while drinking tea. Since I have been following Uncle Li for a long time, I like to deal with the old man very much. If I don't go home on the weekend, I really like to play chess and chat with Uncle Zhang, the person on duty.
The main purpose of my chess game with him today was to find out about the warehouses on the first floor. As soon as the tea was brewed and the chess pieces were swinged, Uncle Zhang immediately came to the spirit, as the head cannon, jumped the horse, arched the pawn, and flew ...... Both sides are very familiar with each other's routines, and the first few steps are very fast.
"Uncle Zhang, how many years have you been in this school?" I asked in a chatting tone while playing chess.
"Vault!" Uncle Zhang said while playing chess: "Hehe, this place was originally called Yanyuan, I was a gardener here before Yanjing moved over, and then it was converted into a school, and I became a school worker in Yanjing, responsible for the flowers and plants here, now I am old, I can't do it anymore, so I was arranged to look at the dormitory here, but it is also leisurely! Don't just talk, hurry up and play chess!"
I hurriedly took a step of chess, "Oh, so you are a witness to the development history of Yanjing, it's amazing, Yanjing can be said to have grown up under your nose!"
Seeing that the time was almost up, I gradually introduced the conversation to the topic, "Uncle Zhang, when was this dormitory built, it seems to be some years!"
"Well, yes, this dormitory building was built when Yanjing moved here in 52 years, and it has been 40 years now!"
"Ah, it's been forty years, and it's still so strong!" I sighed.
"Of course, in the past five years, people's morale is very high, and everything they do is serious and down-to-earth, especially when building universities, they use real materials, and people like today, who cheat and cut corners, can build a good house. In Uncle Zhang's heart, there are more and more people's eyes now, everything is good before, and it is no wonder that in the heart of every old man, it is the most perfect time when he was young.
"Yes, yes!" I followed Uncle Zhang's words, and then cut straight to the point, "By the way, what are the use of a few rooms on the first floor of our house that are always locked, and it would be nice if they were to be changed to study rooms!"
"Oh, the few rooms you said are all warehouses, and they are all sundries, such as bed boards, bookshelves, tables, etc., all of which have been worn out after so many years, and they have not had time to deal with them, this is not just a few days ago, and I will talk about these shipped away next week, chess, don't be stunned!"
"Zhishi, your chess skills are really getting higher and higher, and you must have lost this game again!" I took a step of chess, then thought for a while and said: "You said that there are bookshelves in the warehouse? The bookshelves at the head of my bed are a little broken, anyway, the things in the warehouse are about to be disposed of, I want to go inside to see if there is a suitable one, and exchange it with mine, do you think it will be successful?"
"Haha, you kid is full of flowers, I know that this bag of tea will not be drunk in vain, for the sake of you often playing chess with me, you can go to the warehouse and rummage around! General! You have no chess!" Uncle Zhang happily gave me a bunch of keys.
I took the key, and my heart was finally reassured, so I quickly found the key to room 108 where I cried last night according to the label on the key.
Open the door, a smell of old air came to my face, the sun shone in through the window, the dust flew freely in the bright light, on the east side of the room, the old wooden tables were stacked high, next to them was a thick stack of bed boards, and the remaining space was almost all occupied by the iron shelves of the bunk beds, everything was clear at a glance, there was nothing hidden, I carefully checked every corner, found nothing, and took out the compass to measure, it was also normal, where did the cry come from? I couldn't figure it out, and finally, I pulled the latch on the top window of the door, and prepared to come in and look for it in the evening when I heard the cry again.
In the end, I pretended to find a bookshelf, thanked Uncle Zhang, and happily returned to the dormitory.
In the middle of the night, all the people in the dormitory were already asleep, gritting their teeth, farting, and all kinds of movements, the most interesting thing was Qin Meng, because he had just played card mahjong with Xu Hu, Wang Qi, and Tan Chao for a while, and the dream words were mahjong terms, "Don't move, I'll ......touch the three cylinders" After a while, he came coldly with a sentence of "Ninety thousand!" "Bar!" Xu Hu actually talked in his dream, he was really a group of natural gamblers.
And I was lying on my bed like an elf hiding in a dark corner, pricking up my ears and waiting carefully for the cry to appear. Time passed little by little, in a blink of an eye, it was already half past two in the morning, the crying had not yet appeared, I really couldn't bear it, thinking that the crying might not appear today, pulled the quilt, and got ready to sleep!
But just as he was about to fall asleep, the woman's cry suddenly appeared again! I hurriedly got up, shook my spirits, took two self-defense talismans, and left the dormitory lightly, and went straight downstairs to the warehouse.
When I got to the door, the cries from inside were still coming intermittently, and I grabbed the upper door frame, opened the top window, and then quickly slipped through it.
It was pitch black in the room.
The reason why people are afraid of the dark is because they always think that there must be something mysterious and terrible hidden in the darkness, so the darkness is the source of people's fear.
At this moment, in the dark warehouse, a low cry came from near the table in the southeast corner. I pulled out a small military flashlight, turned it on, and walked straight to where the sound was coming from.
The old-fashioned wooden tables fell back to back, and next to them were five or six thick wooden slats neatly leaning against the wall, and the cry came from one of them. I gently pulled out the bed board and laid it flat on the ground, shining a flashlight on it, carefully searching for the source of the cry. Suddenly, under the bed, I found a piece of wood that seemed to be glued to it, so I took out the knife I had with me, and buckled the piece of wood off little by little, and with a "pop!", a green plastic diary fell out of the small groove under the wood, and at the same time, the crying also stopped.
It seems that the problem lies in this book, I opened it, under the illumination of the flashlight, I found that the pages in the diary that had been slightly yellowed were stained with blood, and each article was densely filled with Juanxiu's pen words, which must be a girl's diary. Seeing this, I put the notebook in my pocket, then put the bed back in its place, and after I put it away, I climbed out of the top window again.
When I got back to the dormitory, I got under the covers, turned on my flashlight, and began to read the contents of my notes carefully, and I burst into tears.
June 4, 1966 was sunny
Today the school is closed, in the afternoon Bai Yunfei suddenly came to my house, let my father collect the important books at home, someone will come to copy my house in a while, Bai Yunfei is my father's student, usually ask my father some historical questions, know that my family has a lot of very precious historical materials and books. When I heard the news, I panicked and hurriedly helped my father hide the book on the ceiling.
At this time, a group of young red generals broke into the door, shouted loudly to break the four olds, smashed things when they saw them, and finally took their father out to parade with a sign of bourgeois reactionary academic authority hanging around his neck. I'm standing in a messy home by myself, and I don't know what's going on...
June 10, 1966 heavy rain
My father had been taken away by them for a week, and I had not heard from him at all, and I was the only one at home, and I was very afraid. When I went out to inquire about the news in the afternoon, I was drenched in heavy rain, and now my head hurts a little, and I am not in the mood to eat dinner.......
June 12, 1966 cloudy
I had a fever, and I had finished the last cold medicine, and I was so sick that I didn't have the strength to get it. In the afternoon, Bai Yunfei came home and told me that my father had been locked up, but that he had a good friend there to take care of him, and that he would not suffer. When I heard the news, my heart sank. At the same time, Bai Yunfei also bought medicine for me and made egg drop soup for me to eat, I was very moved when I drank such a delicious soup for the first time. He also said that he would come to take care of me tomorrow, and he felt sweet.
June 15, 1966
After Bai Yunfei's careful care, my illness has been completely cured. Today we went to visit my father together, it turned out that after he was arrested, he was locked in prison, and then transferred to a small courtyard house arrest by a good friend, except that there is no freedom, the other conditions are still good, I am relieved to see that my father is safe and sound, and it is so chaotic outside, it is relatively safe to be locked up here.
On the way back, we walked together, his shoulder always touched me intentionally or unintentionally, which made my heart beat very hard, when there were many people, we all bowed our heads and were silent, when there was no one, we talked about life together, talked about career, talked about things that could be talked about, somehow, as long as I was with him, I was very happy.
June 20, 1966 cloudy
I haven't seen Bai Yunfei for four days, my heart feels empty, I don't know why I'm absent-minded about everything, and his shadow always appears in my head, is it......