Night, 22:30

The town's compound in disrepair.

There are two old locust trees planted in the yard, which make a rustling sound in the night breeze.

The old lamps in the hall have not been replaced for more than ten years, and below is a wooden table covered with red cloth, and a black-and-white posthumous photo is placed.

After Taozi returned to his ancestral home, every time he saw this posthumous photo, he was a little uncomfortable.

The old man in the posthumous photo is his maternal great-grandmother, with silver hair, a loose face, and a pair of eyes that look a little hollow.

Because the angle of the shooting, no matter which direction you look at, you will look at the old man in the posthumous image.

"Broken tube, I'll definitely get a new one tomorrow."

Taozi's gaze pulled away from the portrait and looked at the long light tube on the ceiling.

Turn off the lights in the living room and turn around and walk into the bedroom.

Taozi sat on a wooden chair and watched a small movie on the computer.

In front of the computer desk was a glass window, which he opened to let cool breezes into the room.

Taozi yawned, turned and climbed onto the large wooden bed with a mosquito net.

There was no air conditioning in the ancestral house, only an old-fashioned electric fan older than him.

Buzz

The electric fan is turned on.

Lying on the bed, he sent a text message to himself Xiaosun Beinian:

"Grandson, I was in the ancestral house recently, and I came to look for me when I had time."

……

Morning

Taozi had a strange itch on his body.

He grabbed his ass and ankles hard.

Mosquitoes were in the net, and he could even hear the sounds of mosquitoes in his ears.

Taozi opened his eyes in a daze and scolded.

I looked at the phone time, 01:30.

There was no movement in the courtyard, and it was pitch black.

When Taozi looked at the window, he was stunned.

Faintly, there seemed to be a figure slowly flashing by.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes.

When I woke up, I only saw the tall outlines of two locust trees in the yard.

Taozi didn't care, there was still an enthusiastic Grandma Li living in this compound.

This specific manifestation of enthusiasm made Taozi a little difficult to accept.

For example, knocking on his door in the early hours of the morning and kindly reminding him that the lights were not turned off.

The elderly, who sleep lightly, like to meddle in their own affairs, and don't look down on the extravagance and waste of young people.

The electric fan stopped running at some point.

Only the damn mosquito was still "buzzing" in his ears.

Rustling......

Rustling......

The sound of footsteps from the friction of cloth shoes against the floor came slowly from the direction of the hall.

Rustling......

Rustling......

Taozi frowned, picked up his phone and glanced at it.

After he fell asleep, Sun Beinian sent him a text message back:

"Don't call it grandson, it's a little rusty, let's call grandpa."

looked at the text message and scolded the last sentence, Taozi lying in the mosquito net, and chased the mosquitoes away.

Creak......

Creak......

The eerie sound rang out again.

This voice is not unfamiliar to Taozi.

The floor in front of the bedroom door was warped because it had fallen into disrepair.

Every time he entered the bedroom, his feet stepped on it, there was a sound like this.

Knock Knock......

The dead silence of the night was broken again.

There was a soft knock on the door.

Taozi couldn't hold back and complained loudly.

There was no movement outside the door.

He knew it was Mrs. Li, and this was not the first time.

A few minutes later, Taozi opened the door.

There was no one outside the door.

Stepping out of the house, there was a hint of corruption in the air, like old, moldy wall skin.

Taozi rubbed her nose, feeling a little thirsty, and turned around and walked towards the courtyard.

The kitchen is at the front, and there is a large water tank next to it.

In such places, most of the food is well water.

There's a scoop floating on it in the tank.

What is exquisite, he scooped a sip of water and took a few sips with a water spoon.

Sweet, cool.

Taozi lit a cigarette, but at the moment when the lighter was lit, he glanced at it and saw a dark figure standing in the open old-fashioned kitchen.

Taozi turned on the screen of her phone and looked at the kitchen with a faint glow.

From the back, it is clear that an old man is facing the kitchen wall

The old man wore a pair of clean cloth shoes on his feet, and he was wearing an old-fashioned black cloth coat with a very old sense of age.

Rao is Taozi was bold, and he was taken aback when he was defenseless.

"Grandma Li, if you don't sleep in the middle of the night, you can't hide from this to scare me."

Taozi's face was a little ugly.

In the yard, two locust trees swayed in the breeze.

A breeze swept across his face.

The old man didn't know what he was muttering in his mouth, as if he was chatting with someone else.

But there was no one, she was facing a wall blackened by oil smoke.

The sound was not even as good as the mosquitoes that bothered him every night.

At this moment, Taozi felt that something was wrong, the old man's back was very unfamiliar, not like Mrs. Li.

Soon, Taozi's face changed.

He remembered something.

Every Friday night, Mrs. Li would accompany her granddaughter on vacation and would not return home until early Monday morning.

And today......

Taozi subconsciously looked at the date displayed on the phone.

Saturday.

Mrs. Li was not in the compound at all.

So who is she!

The shocked Taozi found that the old man, who was originally stationary, suddenly moved.

Her body was stiff.

It rotates its body slowly like a machine.

……

After a long time, the phone fell to the ground with a thud.

It all came to an abrupt end.

The time is frozen at 02:00 in the morning