4:59 a.m.

The distant city of Dameng.

A woman with double ponytails was lying on a large soft bed, sleeping sweetly.

There was a happy smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was dreaming something unforgettable.

As time passed, the smile on the corner of her mouth gradually disappeared, and even the two curved thin eyebrows couldn't help frowning.

It was as if her dreams were fading, as if they were being replaced by some kind of nightmare.

Dream world.

The woman looked at the colorful and colorful world around her, which was constantly fading and gradually becoming dark, and her heart began to be afraid, and she began to fear.

It's this dream again.

Why is this dream again?

Last time, she dreamed about it.

She saw her first child.

The child walked here alone, walking into the depths of darkness.

She didn't know why she had such nightmares.

Her first child, also named Zhang Fan.

Later, because of something, the couple abandoned him.

This woman with double ponytails is none other than Zhang Fan's biological mother.

"It's so cold in here."

Although it was a dream world, the temperature here was cold and terrifying, and she shivered from the cold.

This kind of coldness is deep in the bone marrow, and even if she is wearing clothes, it can't do much.

The woman's heart was frightened, and she tried to look around, trying to find a way out.

However, no matter what she did, it didn't help, and she still couldn't leave.

Knowing that she was dreaming, the woman pinched her thighs hard, trying to force herself to wake up in this way.

However, this method is completely ineffective, and it is also impossible to wake up from a dark nightmare.

Gradually, the woman began to become agitated, holding on to her fears, and had to continue to walk forward.

Perhaps, in front of the darkness, there may be a way to get out of here.

The woman was anxious and moved slowly.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, she suddenly stopped suddenly, and her whole body froze in place as if she had stiffened, and she no longer dared to move forward.

Just because, directly in front of her, nearly twenty meters away, a young man in tattered clothes appeared.

The young man, step by step, walked into the depths of darkness.

He walked slowly and staggered, as if he had some problems with his legs and feet.

When she saw the young man, she looked complicated and fell into a deep silence.

It's him.

It's him again.

His first child.

The last time she was in that nightmare, she ran into each other.

At first, I thought that the other party was my current son, but when I ran over, I realized that it was not.

He was the first child he abandoned.

Looking at his back, the woman's expression was extremely complicated, and her eyes were a little sour, but this time, she did not run forward.

Yesterday, the other party found out where they live now, and came straight to the door.

This, frightened her.

I am living a happy life now, my husband has a successful career, and I have a very obedient child.

If the first child comes to the door to recognize them, then their happy family will be broken.

Therefore, she finally relented and expelled him loudly, not daring to recognize him.

At this time, the woman was quietly looking at the other party's lonely and emaciated back, her fists clenched tightly, and her body trembled a little.

If those things hadn't happened back then, maybe their family would still be able to live happily together.

But...... None of this is gone.

It's happened, and so many years have passed, and now, to talk about it, it doesn't make sense anymore.

Just when the woman's expression was complicated and fell into a long memory, the young man in front of her suddenly stumbled and fell and fell directly to the ground.

Seeing the other party fall, the woman's heart trembled suddenly, and after hesitating for a few seconds, she slowly released her clenched fist.

Perhaps out of a mother's instinct for her own child, she subconsciously took a step and trotted over.

In her mind, it was a dream after all.

It shouldn't be a big deal to meet each other in a dream.

The woman drew closer and closer to the young man who had fallen to the ground.

But the strange thing is that every time she gets some distance, the young man's body will grow small at a speed that is strangely visible to the naked eye.

It's like growing in reverse, from the state of an adult to a child.

Ten meters, eight meters, six meters, four meters, one meter, getting closer and closer, and soon came to the young man's side, but before she could reach out to help the other party, in the next second, the entire dark dream world suddenly swirled, quickly changed the scene, and changed its appearance in the blink of an eye.

When the woman reacted, she found herself in the hallway of a hospital.

Gazing at the surroundings, the woman quickly recognized where it was.

This was the hospital where she gave birth for the first time.

At that time, because of the suddenness of the incident, she was bleeding heavily at home and was rushed to the hospital for a caesarean section.

Later, she also stayed in this hospital for a while, so she was no stranger to her surroundings.

At this moment, the door of the hospital's delivery room suddenly opened, and a nurse walked out of it with a newborn baby in her arms.

The nurse walked out and began to call out loudly to the child's father.

As she shouted, a handsome man in a black coat ran over.

The woman in the hospital corridor was visibly stunned when she saw this handsome man.

Because she recognized who this man was.

He is his own husband and the father of her children, Zhang Chuzuo.

may be the reason for the dream, Zhang Chuzuo at this time could not see the traces of her existence, and ran straight through her body and went to the nurse.

Zhang Chuzuo looked at his newborn child, his face was excited, and tears of joy filled his eyes.

But the next words of the nurse knocked him from the top of happiness to the bottom of the abyss.

The nurse said that because the child was born prematurely, there may be some congenital defects in the body.

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Chuzuo was immediately dumbfounded and froze in place.

After handing over the baby in her arms to Zhang Chuzuo, the nurse turned to leave.

Looking at the baby in his arms, Zhang Chuzuo was very disappointed, and there was no longer the excitement and joy he had just had.

After a few more moments, his wife was pushed out.

The woman's expression was even more complicated when she saw this, and she had been in a coma since she gave birth to her child, completely unaware of these things.

She sighed, walked to Zhang Chuzuo's side, and looked down at the child in his arms.

The child in Zhang Chuzuo's arms was very cute and small, and he didn't even open his eyes.

Seeing this, the woman couldn't help but want to touch it with her hand.

However, before he really got close, the whole picture of the dream was immediately shattered.

A new picture is revealed.

The woman's eyes were full of flowers, and when she came back to her senses, she found that she had come to her home in Xianghua Village.

This home is both strange and familiar.

She hadn't been back here in a long time.

Looking at the decoration of the home, the woman had some tears in her eyes, and she didn't know why she dreamed of this.

Soon a noisy and harsh sound caught her attention.

Walking in the direction from which the voice came, she came to the courtyard, and saw that Zhang Chuzuo, who was young, was arguing fiercely with her former self.

And in the corner not far from them, their children, huddled in the corner, were so frightened that they wept and wept, trembling all over, and their faces were stained with tears.

Their child was short, pale, emaciated, and looked to be no more than three years old.

When the woman saw this, her heart trembled.

Seeing the child crying so uncomfortably, her face was red, and for a while, her heart was mixed, and there was an indescribable sadness and bitterness.

At that time, her child was in poor health and had some slight disabilities, and in order to treat his illness, the couple ran from place to place, going to the hospital every day to see a doctor for him.

But after running to many hospitals in Dujiang City, they couldn't find a cure, and their family's savings were almost all consumed, and in the end, they couldn't even pay 100 yuan for the journey.

Gradually, the husband and wife began endless quarrels because of the child, and they were about to divorce.

Every time they quarreled, the child would tremble and cry with fright.

At that time, they never considered the child's feelings.

Now it seems that the people who hurt the most about the disharmony in the family are their own children.

Seeing the child crying, the woman stepped forward slowly, eager to take him in her arms and give him a hug.

But before she could get closer, the picture of the dream shattered again.

The fragments of the sky turned into colorful bubbles and dissipated.

Soon, a new dream image emerges.

This time, the woman found herself on the streets of Xianghua Village.

She saw her child, not far away, being punched, kicked, and abused by a group of village children.

They were scolding their child for being a dead cripple, a wild child who had been picked up.

When the woman saw this, her heart trembled again, and her fists clenched unconsciously, as if she rushed forward to teach these hateful dead children a lesson.

Her child, because he was born prematurely, had some congenital lameness.

The doctor said that this situation can be recovered little by little through acquired efforts.

Finally, the woman could no longer suppress the anger in her heart, rolled up her sleeves and rushed forward.

Although she is dreaming at the moment, she can't bear to see her children being abused and bullied by others.

She walked over in a rage, about to pull a group of dead children away, but the moment her hands touched each other, her body penetrated them directly.

It is as if all the pictures and scenes that exist here in front of me are illusory bubbles, and there is no physical body.

Piercing through their bodies, the woman was visibly stunned.

And when she turned her head in a daze, she saw that her child, because she couldn't bear the bullying of these dead children, finally broke out completely, rushed forward regardless of it, and scuffled with a fat child with a fat physique.

Because her body was weak and sickly since she was a child, her child was just a face, and was pushed to the ground by the fat child, and at the same time beckoned the other children, and began to punch and kick him.

The moment I saw this fat child, the memories that were sealed in the depths of my mind were awakened.

"Is it him?!"

This child was very impressed by women.

Because, back then, his child was scolded by this fat child, so when his husband and wife were not paying attention at night, he wanted to secretly take the rat poison in the corner and ran to the fat child's house to poison it.

After a long while, the dead children finally stopped the violence in their hands and turned around and walked in the direction of home.

Her child was small and lay on the ground gasping for a few moments before struggling to get up.

At the moment, he was covered in mud, his face was embarrassed, and he looked dirty, as if he had rolled in a mud pit.

Seeing this scene, the woman's face suddenly dawned, and then a trace of remorse welled up in the depths of her eyes.

Back then, she was busy cooking, and when she saw her child coming home from outside covered in mud, she thought she was playing in the mud, and she had just had a big fight with Zhang Chuzuo, and she was catching up with the anger, so she didn't think too much about it, and directly reprimanded the child, and the more she reprimanded, the more the child cried.

And the more he cried, the more irritable he became, and finally, she couldn't hold back the anger in her heart and slapped the child.

But after this slap, she regretted it, because she used a lot of force in this slap.

This year, her child was just four years old.

The child who received this slap immediately covered his face and limped out.

At this time, the woman watched the child walk in the direction of home, and she did not dare to delay any longer and followed closely.

Sure enough, not long after the child walked into the house, he walked out with red eyes and a lame face full of tears.

He sat on the steps in front of the door and was stunned for a long time, until his name was called, and then he gradually raised his head.

Hearing someone shouting the child's name, the woman looked up slightly, and saw Zhang Chuyou coming over at some point.

Zhang Chuyou likes his child very much, and usually keeps for him to eat if he has any good things.

Zhang Chuyou seemed to see the child's grievances, so he comforted him gently for a while, then took out a box of colorful powdered sugar from his pocket and handed it over.

This colorful powdered sugar is called rainbow jumping candy, and when you put it in your mouth, it will jump around, and it is particularly interesting to be sweet and sour.

After getting the rainbow jumping candy, her child really stopped crying, wiped a handful of tears, and poured out a small pinch and put it in his mouth.

Seeing that the child was happy, Zhang Chuyou simply comforted him again, and finally left with peace of mind.

When the woman saw the rainbow popping candy in the child's hand, her pupils suddenly contracted and she froze.

Isn't this the rat poison that her child used to put into the well of the fat child's house?

Don't......

That year, what he had in his hand was not rat poison, but this so-called popping candy?

If that is the case, isn't it all because they misunderstood?

It seemed to confirm the woman's guess, and the next moment, Zhang Chuzuo's angry roar suddenly came from the house, and he was shouting that the rat poison he had placed in the corner was gone.

It may be that his voice was too loud and full of irritability, and immediately frightened the child who was squatting on the steps outside the door, and thought that his parents had come out to clean him up, so he hurriedly put away the rainbow jumping candy, put it in his pocket, and limped into the distance.

Seeing this, the woman glanced back in the direction of the house, and then looked at the place where the child was far away, and after hesitation, she still chose to follow the child.

At this time, Zhang Chuzuo and his former self at home chased after him in a hurry.

Listening to their conversations, the woman learned something.

That is, they think that the rat poison placed in the corner of the house has been taken by their own children.

So the two of them looked for traces of the child everywhere as if they had gone crazy.

After some time, they found their child in front of a house with an open door.

This family is the home of the fat child.

At this moment, in the hands of his own children, he is still holding a box of colorful powder.

Seeing the things in the child's hands, Zhang Chuzuo was angry, took off his shoes, and slapped the child's face fiercely, knocking him to the ground.

Zhang Chu sat angrily scolding and scolding the child while whipping the child fiercely.

The child who hit him let out hysterical screams.

His screams soon drew out all the surrounding neighbors.

Seeing that Zhang Chuzuo was beating his child, everyone hurriedly stood up and pulled the rack, for fear that he would break the child.

But Zhang Chuzuo didn't care about this, as if he didn't want to be seen as a joke, he angrily took the child home.

And the young self, just watching from the side, did not mean to stop.

In her opinion, if her child makes this kind of mistake, if she doesn't discipline herself, she will still have it when she grows up?

The woman watched as the child was taken away by Zhang Chuzuo, and the head of her fist clenched again.

Looking down at the rainbow popping candy sprinkled on the ground, her heart, for some reason, suddenly cramped violently, as if it was dripping blood.

It turns out that the truth of the year turned out to be like this.

It turned out that all this was a misunderstanding.

In order to learn more information.

The woman quickened her pace and followed closely.

After a while, she came to the door of the house, but when she had just stepped into the courtyard.

The whole dream shattered again.

A new dream scene resurfaced.

And she just walked into it and saw her child.

Her child curled up in the corner of the bedroom, silent and silent, burying her head deeply.

In the living room, Zhang Chuzuo had a fierce quarrel with his former self.

Zhang Chuzuo was complaining about her, why the child she gave birth to would behave like this, it had reached the point of such heinousness.

Hearing the familiar sound of the quarrel, the woman swallowed, leaned close to the closed door, and miraculously passed through the living room.

Zhang Chuzuo angrily held a box and slammed it to the ground.

In an instant, the colorful powder in the box was sprinkled on the ground.

On the ground, two water glasses were shattered, and some powder remained in the cups.

Looking at the scene in front of her, the woman's expression was on a screen.

This is the scene when the child was poisoned in the eyes of the husband and wife.

But......

How can this be explained?

Is this the truth? Or is there something else going on?

The women fell silent.

After another half an hour, Zhang Chuzuo slammed the door and walked out, leaving his former self sitting alone in the chair, wiping his tears in a daze.

After a while, the bedroom door opened, and the child walked out with a limp, and came to his mother, wanting to explain something, but before he could finish speaking, his former self raised his hand and slapped the child again.

She also slapped her hard, and the sound was crisp, reverberating in the not very spacious living room, which was particularly harsh.

Even the child's nostrils were fanned out with blood.

Maybe her mood was too heavy, or her thinking was too chaotic, she didn't even raise her head before, she still lowered her head and wiped her tears.

Her child's eyes were full of tears, covering his beaten cheeks hard, biting his lower lip, stunned to endure it, he silently picked up the broken water glass on the ground carefully, and threw it into the trash can piece by piece, but in the process of throwing, his fingers were cut by the glass ballast, and he didn't know it.

After disposing of the glass shards on the floor, he bent down to pick up the overturned boxes scattered on the floor, and walked into the bedroom with him in his arms.

As soon as he entered the bedroom, he immediately sat down on the ground, could no longer suppress his grievances, and began to cry silently.

He wept silently as he grabbed the colorful powder from the box and put it in his mouth.

One bite, two bites, three bites, chewing numbly.

The woman stood in front of the child and watched for a long, long time.

At this moment, she finally completely believed that this so-called poison was also colorful jumping candy.

It should have been given by her brother-in-law Zhang Chuzuo again.

Seeing this, the picture of the dream was shattered again.

The scene in front of me suddenly collapsed.

At the same time, a new picture came again.

This time, the picture came, Zhang Chuzuo followed her before, carrying a large bag and preparing to leave home.

At four o'clock in the morning, before it was fully light, they quietly left their home where they had lived for many years.

Walking out of the gate, the two of them did not stop at all, nor did they hesitate, and went straight to the outside of Xianghua Village in the distance.

Their departure did not alarm anyone and did not attract anyone's attention.

The woman stood outside the door, watching Zhang Chuzuo gradually move away from her former self, her mood at this time was extremely complicated, and her body was shaking unconsciously.

That year, after discussion, they finally made up their minds to leave home and go outside to work hard.

They were immensely disappointed in their child.

No matter how hard the two of them worked, he was still so uncompetitive.

He is vicious and poisons others, even poisoning them.

What is the difference between such behavior and the devil?

So, they were disappointed, gave up, and got chilled, so they left.

After leaving, they never came back.

They went to Dameng City to develop, started a hard business, and then worked hard until today.

In the fourth year of going to Dameng City, I had a new child.

The name they gave to the child was exactly the same as the name of the first child.

are all called Zhang Fan.

The second child, his personality is very good, he has known filial piety to his parents since he was a child, and he has no congenital disabilities, and he is a healthy and healthy normal person.

After he was born, the couple liked it very much.

Since then, they have completely dispelled the idea of returning to Xianghua Village.

It can be regarded as abandoning the first child in the real sense.

Sometimes, they often think again, why is there such a big gap when the two children are their own flesh and blood?

The woman's eyes gradually moistened, and she looked at the child who was slumped on the ground, and for the first time felt distress and guilt.

It turned out that for so many years, he had misunderstood him.

Perhaps, from beginning to end, he was a good boy.

It's just that I've never really believed in him.

He must have had a hard time all these years.

Without the company of the two of them, how many hardships and setbacks did he encounter.

Thinking of what might have happened over the years, tears slowly flowed from the woman's eyes.

At this moment, she wanted to rush forward, hug the child in her arms, and apologize to him.