Zhou Nuan carried a schoolbag, held his grandmother's hand, lowered his head, and walked in the familiar community.

When there were residents of the community and grandmothers who greeted each other, they would respond and would not stop to chat with the old people of the same age.

When they took a few steps forward, they could hear the voices of the old people behind them. The voice was not loud, and it was only certain that they were talking, and it was not clear what they were saying.

Zhou Nuan could guess what they were talking about.

They were talking about her family.

Her mother had recently passed away. Because my mother is still very young, she doesn't mention her poor health on weekdays, so everyone who heard the news was very surprised. The surprised faces of each of them, Zhou Nuan remembered, and some people thought she was a child, and said some gossip without scruples, thinking that she didn't understand.

She actually knows it all.

Those people thought that her father had killed her mother, and they thought that her mother had done something wrong, so her father killed her. They used to say that their father could marry their mother, but they used evil methods. The word "evil crooked way" still means that she specially checked the dictionary to know what it means. She was very angry and complained to her parents, but her parents laughed and said that it was not strange that those people had such thoughts.

Because my father was lame, physically disabled, had an average job, and couldn't make any money, while my mother was particularly beautiful when she got married. Those people take it for granted that it is impossible for a mother to marry a father voluntarily. Mom is so beautiful, she can marry whoever she wants.

They didn't know that their mother was so beautiful, but she had several long, terrible scars on her body. Her mother said that she was hit by a car when she was a child, so she had a kidney removed and a section of her intestine cut out, and she stayed in the hospital for a long time before she survived. My grandmother's family owed a lot of money because of this, and my grandmother and grandfather worked very hard to pay off the debt. Because of that accident, my mother was also weak and had to get sick from time to time. She and her dad met in the hospital.

The two of them liked each other and got married.

The mother, who was thin and weak before marriage, only grew some more meat after marrying her father. When my grandmother and grandfather saw such a mother, they always praised my father and talked about my mother's previous things when the wind blew. When Mom and Dad hear it, they look at each other? Smile happily.

Her dad loves mom so much? Mom loves Dad very much.

It's not at all what those people say they are.

Zhou Nuan lowered his head and clenched his small fists.

Grandma took out the key to open the door? Lead her upstairs? He opened the door with the key.

Grandma's warm and rough hand only then let go. The hands of an old man and a young man are hot, but at first glance apart? Both sides felt a hint of coldness.

"Hurry in. Wash your hands and drink some hot water. Wash your face with hot water as well. "Grandma changing shoes? He greeted.

Zhou Nuan's fists clenched? I didn't enter the house for a while.

She forgot about those who chewed the root of her tongue for a while.

She timidly raised her head and looked at her familiar home.

The small couch in the house was empty and there was no one.

That's how it should be.

Dad hasn't come home from work yet. If it weren't for that, she wouldn't have had to pick her up.

Zhou Nuan breathed a sigh of relief? Bending over for fluffy slippers? Entered the house.

Grandma closed the door behind her.

Zhou Nuan temporarily put the schoolbag on the sofa and went into the bathroom.

She turned on the faucet, shrunk her hand irritated by the cold water, and hurriedly adjusted the water temperature.

When the water was hot, she washed her hands? I washed my face and warmed my cold cheeks with a hot towel. Feel comfortable? She put down the towel and exhaled.

She happened to be facing the bathroom mirror. As soon as the towel is put down? You can see the reflection in the mirror.

Did she see herself, and the ajar door to her bedroom at the back? and a white figure in the crack of the door.

Zhou Nuan's body that just warmed up has dropped again? A chill came from the depths of my heart.

She struggled to make out the figure.

The man in white had his back to her? I don't know what I'm doing in her room.

The man had no head, and the upper part of his neck could not be seen, as if he had run out of paint in the middle of his painting, and could only draw some shallow marks.

Zhou Nuan couldn't see the man's face clearly, and felt that the person's appearance was very terrifying, but ......

"Washed? Once you've washed up, go back to your homework. Grandma is going to cook. When your dad comes back, you'll be able to eat. Grandma came over and pulled out the steaming towel from Zhou Nuan's hand.

Zhou Nuan's vision was blocked, and he could only see himself and his grandmother in the mirror.

She nodded, walked out of the bathroom, and picked up her school bag.

She walked to the door of her bedroom, stopped, and pressed her hand on the door.

Through the crack in the door, she saw the room she was familiar with.

The figure was gone.

Zhou Nuan cautiously pushed open the door and looked inside.

There was no one in there.

There should be no one in there.

Zhou Nuan gradually relaxed, sat down at the desk, and took out the homework assigned by the teacher today from his schoolbag.

The sound of pencils and paper rubbing against each other is endless.

Grandma came in halfway and turned on a little sun for Zhou Nuan and put it at her feet.

That kind of warmth made Zhou Nuan a little sleepy.

She smelled the smell of the food, cheered up, and finished her homework.

Dad hadn't come back yet, and the cooking in the kitchen had stopped.

Zhou Nuan put away her homework, pulled out a children's magazine on the desk shelf, and looked at it with relish.

The security door outside was opened.

Zhou Nuan turned around and heard not his father's voice, but his grandfather's voice.

“…… I bought a stewed beef. ”

"What kind of cold dishes do you buy on such a cold day?"

"I bought it when I saw it. Eat more meat. ”

"You're really ......"

"Got it, got it. Buy braised lamb tomorrow, okay? ”

"You buy so much, you can't eat it all today, why don't you buy it tomorrow?"

Grandma and grandfather were noisy.

Before he could finish speaking, the door opened again.

"Oh, it's back."

"Alright, alright, it's time for dinner."

"Nuan Nuan, it's time to eat."

Zhou Nuan ran out of the bedroom, saw the laughter of his father and grandfather, listened to them greet him, and remembered that the little sun in the room had not been turned off yet, and he was going back to the room.

The fluorescent lamp in the room was still on, and the room was bright, but there was no orange light.

Zhou Nuan glanced at the little sun that had been turned off, and was a little puzzled.

She didn't take it to heart and ran back to the living room.

"Don't run around, sit down and eat." Grandma brings the prepared meal to the table.

The rice is crystal clear and exudes steam.

After Zhou Nuan sat down, he picked up his own small chopsticks.

“…… It's cold today, and it's going to cool down tomorrow. ”

"yes. Mom and Dad, you need to wear more. ”

"We know. You take care of the warmth. Let's add a vest to my school uniform tomorrow. ”

“…… How do you eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner? ”

"Is your sister coming?"

"Here. She'll get it. ”

"Her son is also here for the New Year this year?"

"Nope. Kai wants to go back to his father. ”

"That's really...... What's going on with his dad? Remarried? ”

"No, I don't. I don't know what the situation is, I haven't contacted it before, and Xiao Kai doesn't say it. There's nothing my sister can do. So be it. ”

Zhou Nuan listened to the conversation on the table and lowered his head to eat.

"Eat more beef. When you grow up, eat plenty of meat. Your mother didn't eat enough before, and she couldn't eat more, and she was skinny and small. Grandpa sandwiched a few slices of beef and put them in Zhou Nuan's bowl.

"Nuan Nuan is like her father, she must have grown tall. Her brother was quite tall. Grandma said, and then asked, "Are you growing tall over there?" ”

Dad reacted a little before he replied, "Xiao Kai is like a member of our family, not quite like his father." He looks exactly like my dad when he was younger. ”

"Oh, yes." Grandma suddenly said, "My father-in-law is very tall." ”

Grandpa said with a smile: "Nuan Nuan is a girl, what do you want to grow so tall?" ”

"It can't be too short." Grandma said.

Zhou Nuan didn't say anything.

Seeing this, the three elders were silent for a moment.

After a few seconds, the three of them resumed their chat.

After Zhou Nuan finished eating, he stood up and entered the kitchen with dishes and chopsticks.

Grandma shouted from behind to tell her not to be busy, but she just shook her head.

The dishes and chopsticks were put into the sink, and when she came out of the kitchen, Zhou Nuan's plush slippers rubbed against the small height difference at the kitchen door, and her body staggered.

A hand grabbed Zhou Nuan's arm.

Zhou Nuan lowered his head and saw the white skirt suddenly appearing in front of him.

Under the fluttering skirt were bare calves. Bright red nail polish on his bare feet. In the winter, these feet are on the cold wooden floor, but there is not a single goosebump on the skin. The owner of the foot doesn't seem to feel the cold. The skirt was windless and automatic, swaying gently, very weird.

Zhou Nuan's eyes widened.

The hand that was holding her arm quickly loosened.

Zhou Nuan trembled, and wanted to look up sluggishly, but he was empty.

The feet and the skirt were gone with their owner.

Zhou Nuan looked at the air in a daze.

"Nuan Nuan, what's wrong?" Grandma turned her head to look.

Zhou Nuan came back to his senses, quickly shook his head, and ran quickly to the bedroom.

"Alas, still refusing to speak......"

Behind, as soon as my grandmother's sigh got up, my grandfather shouted to stop.

Zhou Nuan entered the room, but he could still hear the elders talking in low voices.

“…… Otherwise, as I said last time, let Nuan Nuan go back with us for a while, right? ”

"This semester is coming to an end. Wait for the winter vacation, and then let her come over. ”

"I think this year's New Year, so I'll let your sister come to our side. There are no more people in either of us, so don't think about it so much. ”

"yes. I thought that your nephew was back, and your sister didn't need to be alone this year. In that case, let's go with us. You told your sister not to think about it. We all know each other, and we are not strangers. ”

Zhou Nuan sat at the desk and listened to the conversation outside.

She had mixed feelings.

She didn't know if she wanted to move to her grandparents' or stay here.

She didn't want to leave the house. This is where she grew up.

She, her father, and her mother, have always lived here.

Why did my mother have to leave here when she died?

But......

She shuddered at the thought of the figure.

What's that, exactly?

Be...... Ghosts?

Why is there a ghost in her house?

What does that ghost want to do?

Zhou Nuan couldn't figure it out.

By the time she came back to her senses, the conversation outside had stopped.

Dad called out to her and asked her to send her grandparents out.

My grandparents are coming home.

Zhou Nuan got up, took two steps, and felt the cold wind.

She turned her head and saw that the light of the little sun was gradually extinguishing, as if someone had turned it on before and now closed it again.

Zhou Nuan was a little dazed.

"Nuan Nuan."

Zhou Nuan retracted his gaze and hurried to the door.

"Don't call her, she's reading."

"Nuan Nuan, grandparents are gone. Don't give it away, go back and read a book. ”

"Give it away, just eat a good meal, digest and digest."

"It's so cold outside, what to say. Don't freeze. ”

"You're still polite to us."

Zhou Nuan didn't leave the house in the end, so he stood at the door and waved to his grandparents.

Daddy's big hand wrapped around her shoulder.

"Alright, let's go back. Have you finished your homework? ”

Zhou Nuan nodded and turned around.

She was in her room, and she could hear the noise outside.

Dad finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, but he didn't watch TV as usual.

Curious, she pretended to go to the toilet and ran outside to take a look.

Dad sat on the bed in the bedroom with his back to the door, as if looking at something. He also has several photo albums by his side.

Zhou Nuan remembered the scene where his father and aunt cleaned up their things that day.

Mom's things were all packed away.

Zhou Nuan knew that his father was not ready to pack up his mother's things so quickly. She didn't speak, making her dad worry about them. After a few discussions among the elders, they decided to put away all their mother's things.

They didn't know what she was worried about.

She couldn't tell them about her worries.

She didn't know what the hell that ghost was.

It seemed that something was blocked in his throat, and he couldn't speak.

She doesn't know what "intuition" is, what a "sixth sense" is, and what a ghost is. It's just that she doesn't want to tell the elders about that figure.

Dad sensed something, turned his head, and smiled when he saw her.

Zhou Nuan walked into the room.

Dad closed the album and hesitated, not putting it away immediately.

Zhou Nuan sat next to his father and leaned on his father's arm with some grievances.

She felt as if her father sighed.

"Warm Warm...... Do you miss your mom? Think...... See Mom? Dad asked.

The hairs on Zhou Nuan's body stood up, and fear and sadness filled her heart at the same time.

Dad didn't know what she was feeling at the moment.

"When my mother died, she went to heaven. She also looked at Nuan Nuan, Nuan Nuan couldn't see her, but she could look at her mother's photos and look at the videos left by her mother. Do you remember the cake your mom bought you for your birthday last year? ”

Dad opened the album, and the photo on it was taken on Zhou Nuan's birthday last year. Zhou Nuan sat behind the table, with a beautiful art cake in front of him.

Zhou Nuan remembered that the cake didn't taste very good, but it was very beautiful.

Zhou Nuan looked at the photo, and his eyes moved from the cake to the person standing beside him.

Mom and Dad stood to her left and right, with her, smiling at the camera.

The album turned the pages.

Every page is about her, about her mother, about their family.

They have been to the parks near the community, and they have also been to the ecological green spaces on the outskirts of the city; Her first time skiing, her first hot spring bath, her first time going abroad, her first trip to the beach...... Her mom and dad were always there for her.

The gentle woman with a round face looked at her with a smile through the photo.

A photo album was quickly finished.

Zhou Nuan didn't wait for his father to stretch out his hand, so he picked up another photo album beside him.

The album wasn't a record of her.

When I opened the album, I saw a photo of my father alone. The dad in the photo is much younger than he is now.

Zhou Nuan's eyes widened.

Dad laughed: "This is when I just graduated, I was still shooting in school. This is my classmate, you met him once, and you called him Uncle with a long beard...... This is when your mom graduates. ”

The photo album turned the page again, and the woman who appeared in Zhou Nuan's field of vision was thin, wearing a white dress, looking weak.

Zhou Nuan remembered that she had watched her parents' wedding videos before. At that time, my mother was like this, skinny......

Zhou Nuan's eyes fell on the white skirt.

Mom was dressed in a white dress, barefoot, and stepped on the golden sand. The sand slightly covered my mother's toes, and I couldn't see if there was nail polish on them.

Zhou Nuan had an idea.

She absentmindedly looked at the other photos.

Dad looked at the time and urged her to wash up and go to bed.

"Good night." Dad tucked the quilt for her, got up and walked outside.

The bedroom lights were turned off.

The light in the living room shone in.

Zhou Nuan couldn't sleep.

After the lights in the living room went out, there was still a glimmer of light in Dad's room.

Zhou Nuan turned over, thinking about what her mother looked like when she was young.

She suddenly heard footsteps.

The voice, as if someone had entered her room barefoot.

Zhou Nuan's heartbeat accelerated.

She didn't look back.

A cold hand landed on her head.

The hand gently stroked her hair.

After a while, she felt her bed sink slightly, as if someone was lying next to her.

The man patted her body gently, and a beautiful singing voice came from behind her.

Zhou Nuan's eyes were red, and he couldn't help but turn over and hugged the person behind him.

She hugged a thin, cold body.

Zhou Nuan eagerly pulled the quilt open and pulled the man into his bed.

She wanted to warm her up.

Tomorrow, she will tell her father and grandmother everything.

Mom is still here.

Mom......

Zhou Nuan was about to whimper and speak, her hand touched the other party's silky skirt.

The skirt was thin and close to the body, so you could feel the skin underneath it through the fabric.

Zhou Nuan didn't touch the other party's bones, but only touched the other party's skin and tight and elastic muscles that were as bright as the cloth.

The tears she was about to burst out stopped.

Her hands trembled, and she subconsciously carefully touched the other party's waist and abdomen.

No......

Mom has a bumpy scar on her skin...... Without?

Zhou Nuan thought back to what her mother had told her.

My mother was injured in a car accident when she was a child. When my mother grew up, the scar grew with it.

When she was holding her mother, there was flesh on her mother's body, which was soft to the touch, not like it is now. But even when my mother was young and thin, the scars on her skin shouldn't go away.

Zhou Nuan raised his head sharply and looked at the man's head.