Midnight.

The night sky, which was originally silent, suddenly thundered with lightning.

The man on the bed kept shaking his head, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat the size of beans.

"Boom" thundered.

The rain seemed to be mixed with the smell of blood, and there were cries and wails everywhere, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

This is the scene in Yuan Shu's dream.

It's a nightmare again.

Yuan Shu kept running in the rain with bare feet, and everywhere he went was bright red blood. Gradually, it began to spread, along her feet, her legs, and gradually all over her body.

"Boom!"

Under the thunder, Yuan Shu woke up and gasped for breath. She looked out the window in horror, lightning and thunder. After those terrifying images just now were confirmed to be nightmares, her tears gushed out uncontrollably.

Yuan Shu desperately grabbed her hair, her heart seemed to have been hit hard, and she was out of breath again. The sound of rain and thunder drowned out her crying, and no matter how much she cried, no one heard her.

"Boom", the room was lit up for a moment.

Gu Chen'an, who was in the next room, was also woken up by this big movement. He lifted the quilt and went to the window, and the trees along the road were staggered and crumbling by the wind, and the deafening thunder sounded in his ears.

Thunder roared, storms raged, and the whole city seemed to be swallowed up. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky, and the house was once again illuminated.

"Buckle, buckle."

The faint knock on the door had been muffled by the sound outside, and the people in the room did not hear it.

"Buckle, buckle."

This time, the knock on the door, in the interval between the thunder, was extremely clear.

Gu Chen'an frowned slightly, this point... He quickly stepped forward to open the door, and Yuan Shu was standing outside the door, unable to cry.

"Gu... Gu Chen'an. ”

"Yuan Shu, how are you..."

...... Yuan Shu kept sobbing, and the way she suddenly stretched out her hand to hug her made Gu Chenan feel distressed. He grabbed her and hugged her into his arms.

The moment the door closed, there was another thunderclap.

Yuan Shu finally couldn't help crying again, and the whole person trembled a little.

Gu Chenan saw that she was scared, so he could only keep comforting her.

It wasn't until the middle of the night that the storm subsided.

Yuan Shu's mood gradually calmed down, and when the sky was slightly bright, she fell asleep next to Gu Chen'an.

......

The next morning, after the storm, the city seemed to be rejuvenated, and even the air smelled a little better.

"It's been a long time since it's rained so heavily in Huai'an." Yuan Shilin came to the restaurant with a thermos cup in his hand.

Li Juan was wearing an apron and was cooking breakfast in the kitchen. She came to the restaurant with the freshly cooked porridge and said, "Dad is in the yard, it's cold outside, let him come in for breakfast." ”

The potted plants in the yard have been baptized last night, and they are broken and broken, which is a pity.

Yuan Shilin pushed open the floor-to-ceiling window in front of the courtyard and saw that Old Man Yuan was cleaning up little by little.

"Dad, you put it there, I'll clean it up later."

"It's a rainstorm, it's a pity for my potted plants."

"When I have time, I will build a shelter for you in the courtyard, so that you can avoid the damage of rainstorms."

Old Man Yuan looked at the broken tiles on the ground, nodded, and said hello.

"Hurry up and go inside, don't catch a cold."

The father and son returned to the dining room one after the other.

Old Man Yuan asked, "Haven't Xiao Shu and Xiao Gu gotten up yet?" ”

Before the end fell, Gu Chenan happened to come down from upstairs.

Li Juan beckoned, "Xiao Gu, come here, it's time for breakfast." ”

Yuan Shilin saw that Gu Chenan was alone, frowned and said, "Hasn't Xiao Shu gotten up yet?" I went up and called out to her. As he spoke, he was about to leave.

Li Juan grabbed him and pushed him back to his seat.

"What are you dragging me for?"

"You can eat it, I just went up and she wasn't in the room." When Li Juan said this, she consciously or unintentionally looked at Chen'an.

"Not in the room? So where did she go early in the morning? Yuan Shilin asked.

Seeing this, Gu Chenan explained: "Last night, the movement was too big, and Yuan Shu was frightened. I didn't fall asleep until dawn, and I didn't wake her up. ”

Yuan Shilin frowned, a little puzzled: "I haven't heard that she is afraid of thunderstorms, how can she be so scared that she can't sleep." ”

"When she was a child, her grandmother took her, and of course you didn't know that she was afraid of thunderstorms." Old Man Yuan reached out and picked up a fried dough stick, tore it into small pieces and stuffed it into the porridge, and said lightly: "Besides, thunderstorms are not very common. ”

Gu Chen'an frowned slightly, "Why is Yuan Shu so afraid of thunderstorms?" ”

Old Man Yuan shook his head, his eyes instantly deepened, and he lamented: "It's you, it's you, and you're afraid of it." ”

...... Gu Chenan was slightly stunned, he could hear what Old Man Yuan had to say.

"Dad, you're here again." Li Juan smiled: "Actually, most girls are afraid of thunder, and Xiao Shu is no exception. ”

......

After breakfast, there was nothing to do. Old Man Yuan came to the yard again, preparing to move a new place for his potted plants.

Helping Li Juan clean up the dining table, Gu Chenan also came to the courtyard. He stayed quietly and watched Old Man Yuan prune the branches.

"Have something to ask me?" Old Man Yuan broke the silence first, but the movements in his hands did not stop.

"At the dinner table just now, what did you say Yuan Shu was afraid of?" Gu Chenan hesitated for a moment before asking.

The action in Old Man Yuan's hand paused, and said lightly: "When you have suffered heavy blows one after another, and they happen to be thunderstorms, do you still like thunderstorms?" ”

Old Man Yuan put down the scissors in his hand and stared ahead. His eyes narrowed slightly, and some distant pictures appeared in front of him in an instant, as if he was in it again-

"Millions of floating corpses, bleeding and drifting. It is said that soldiers should die on the battlefield, but that day, under the city walls, thousands of people died at the hands of the monarch of their own country, and the city was stained with blood. You say, should she be afraid?

On that day, Jiankang was full of corpses, drenched in blood, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

When the news came from the house that you had been killed, she rushed out of the house in the rain, insisting on looking for you. But what she didn't expect was that everywhere she went, there were either heart-rending cries or desperate screams. It stretches for miles, and it goes on and on.

Along the way, there are also officers and soldiers baring their teeth like demons, mutilating innocent people on the streets. They were all red-eyed and stunned.

Raised in the deep boudoir, she is cared for like a flower, where have I ever seen this kind of scene......"

Old Man Yuan couldn't bear to close his eyes, his eyelids trembling slightly. When he opened it again, it was already covered with a layer of mist, and the whole person seemed to be a little older.

Gu Chenan seemed to return to that day and that scene, and fell into endless memories all of a sudden.

Before Gu Chen'an could come to his senses, Old Man Yuan had already gone back to the house-