Mark sat in the hall downstairs in Shuqing, staring blankly ahead. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Shu Qingzheng and Aunt Xia are talking on the courtyard dam. From time to time, they turned their heads to look at him. Mark pricked up his ears to hear what they were saying, but he couldn't hear anything.

He wondered if he should go over to them and listen carefully, he shifted his feet, but did not stand up.

At this time, Shuqing came over to him, and Mark found that this mother-in-law was really very old, older than his grandmother. He hadn't seen his grandmother in a long time, since his brother died and his mother was locked up in an insane asylum. He didn't see his grandmother again, all he knew was that his grandmother had moved away from the town, and she was far away from him, but Zhaojiagou was still much closer than where she lived now.

"Does your dad know you've seen Dongzi?" Shuqing sat down beside him. She looked at him kindly. It's like looking at your own grandchildren.

Mark turned his head to look at her for a moment, then shook his head.

"I didn't tell anyone. Shuqing continued.

Mark still didn't speak, just nodded. His father asked him to stay at this mother-in-law's house all the time, he didn't know why, but he was an obedient and good child, his father asked him to stay here, and he stayed here, but he didn't trust this mother-in-law very much, because he only told her about Dongzi alone.

"Let me see your hands!" Shuqing raised her chin to look at his hand. The scar had scabbed. It doesn't look like a big deal. "I think you should go get a shot of tetanus, you got a nail in it, right?"

Mark nodded, then shook his head again.

Shuqing looked at him, knowing that he might not be very willing to talk to her. So, instead of asking him questions, she said something that surprised Mark very much.

"Your dad called and asked me to help him with something. Shuqing looked at Mark and said slowly: "He said that Dongzi may never be recovered, and Dude from that garbage dump, do you know him?" "Dongzi may never be recovered. He told me to send you to your grandmother's house. Mark looked up at Shuqing in surprise, and he finally spoke: "He didn't tell me about it." ”

"He told me quietly, and he told us to leave tomorrow morning before dawn, so that no one would find out that you were going to your grandmother's house with me. He said that you know that there is a big road that can climb directly up Longmen Mountain, which is a newly built road, and it is full of trails. You just take me to climb that trail, because I just came back and can't find the way, so we'll turn down the halfway side of the trail to Wanchang and go to your grandmother. You know the road, right?"

Mark nodded, he was very familiar with that road, his mother had walked him twice before the accident, his second aunt lived there, and now his grandmother lived there too. He didn't have any relatives on his father's side. My grandparents have also passed away. If you go to relatives, you can only go to the second aunt's house or grandmother's house, his uncle still lives in Zhaojiagou, but they have not been in contact for a long time, as far as he knows, his uncle blamed his father and made his mother crazy. But his second aunt is very good, and occasionally comes to see him when he goes to the market and tells him that his grandmother asks him how he is.

"Then we'll leave tomorrow morning, and your dad will come over later today. Shuqing patted him on the shoulder and comforted.

Ma Daquan didn't knock on Shuqing's door until late at night, close to midnight, with a large bag of clothes in his hand, which was Mark's. He stood downstairs quietly and gently tapped the iron door of Shuqing's house twice, as if he was afraid that someone would find him, he looked like a thief who was about to steal, and the slight touch on the iron door was to test whether there was anyone in the house. With every two knocks, he turned his head to look around. At this moment, a bird suddenly flew out of the lush branches of the plane tree opposite and let out a piercing scream. He shrunk and clenched his bag tightly with both hands. He knocked on the door again, and someone poked her head out of the second-floor window, and she looked down. And he shrank back again. Then there was the rustling of clothes and the squeeping of slippers sliding on the floor as we went downstairs. Two minutes later, Shuqing opened the iron door. She seemed cautious, trying not to make too loud noises from the iron door, but the iron door still made a clang. Shuqing looked up as if frightened, and a light was lit up in the mental hospital in the distance opposite. "Come on in. She said. Ma Daquan had already entered the house before she could finish speaking. Shuqing quickly closed the door.

"Mark is already asleep. Do you need me to wake him up?" Shuqing looked at Ma Daquan, her gray eyes flashing. She never dared to sleep, even though she couldn't sleep. Who said that the elderly sleep less, she sleeps a lot, she has to sleep before 10 o'clock, she can't hold on all the time, tonight has fallen asleep twice and was pleasantly surprised. Two of them were awakened by the cry of a crow. She didn't know when there were crows in this place. She really didn't know.

"Wait a minute. I'll wake him up when I'm gone. Ma Daquan shook his head, and he followed her steps up the steps, and they turned a corner, and then a corner. Then reach the second floor. Shuqing asked him to sit down in the living room and reached out to take the package in his hand.

"Really, thank you so much. Eldest sister. Ma Daquan smiled slightly when he handed her the package. He's been straining his nerves for the past few days, and he's almost forgotten how to laugh.

Shuqing covers the kerosene lamp with a lampshade. This dims the light in the room. She turned off the lights! The kerosene lamp she had found in the utility room!

"No, no, Daquan you know I'm happy to help. Mr. Ma used to help my father a lot, and he would mention you every time he called. Shuqing shook her head and sat down next to him.

Ma Daquan looked at her, temporarily silent and did not speak, and Shuqing just looked at him and did not speak. She was no longer sleepy. But he knew there must be a reason why he came so late.

"I felt like I was being watched. After a while, Ma Daquan said. "You know Dude is missing!"

"Well, I heard! It was the fat man from the city who reported the crime. Shuqing said. "Do you want to drink some water?" Aunt Xia told her about this in the afternoon!

Ma Daquan shook his head, "Thank you, no need." Mark's stuff is all in the bag. I hope you'll send him away tomorrow. Find his grandmother. ”

"What's going on with Dongzi?"

"There was a kid who said he saw Mark and Dongzi playing in the ghost forest, Mark never went to that place, he had heard a lot of stories his grandmother told him, he was afraid of that place, and I knew that kid must be lying. ”

"Who's that kid?"

"It's Zhao Coal's son. The day before Li Mao came to me, I beat him up. Behind the oil press. ”

Shuqing looked at him in surprise. Ma Daquan, of course, understood what she was thinking, so he explained: "I didn't actually beat him, I just warned him not to bully Mark again in the future." He blushed.

"Zhao Coal is the child who killed Grandma Hu Sheng. Shuqing was thoughtful.

"Yes, everyone in the town knew about this at the time, it was the watermelon skin that Zhao Coal lost, he said he didn't mean it, but who knows. My mom told me he must have lost it, and my mom never lied or showed favoritism. Ma Daquan's face was red, and the green tendons on his neck and forehead were bulging! )