Chapter 4: The Ghost Gate

We are immersed in a happy and beautiful life, always thinking about this life, simple and plain life, but life often does not go as you wish. ’

Time flies like a white horse, the child is five years old in the blink of an eye, as time engraves the child's facial features more and more like Su Huan, and her ears and nose have also inherited part of me, although I look average, but I count my ears and nose are the most confident, and the high nose bridge and big earlobes that can be faintly seen are more three-dimensional on the delicate and cute little head, and I can see that the future is not to lose her mother's beauty embryo.

"Daddy!"

Li Xiaoxi was the first to rush over and hugged my legs, I squatted down and picked her up, this is the tacit understanding between my daughter and me and her mother when she comes home. I was so happy every time her little hands wrapped around my neck.

"Go wash your little hands, let's eat." I put my daughter down.

Although she is only five years old, she is very sensible. She knows how to share, knows how to care about her family, and always shares delicious and fun with her grandparents first.

At the dinner table, Xiaoxi sandwiched dishes for me and her mother from time to time. Su Huan looked at her daughter gently.

"When the May Day holiday is over, Dad will drive us to travel together, okay."

"Okay, okay, where are you going?" Xiaoxi asked happily.

"Take you to climb the mountain, but it's high, and there are little monkeys there, it's fun."

"You're going to be tired, aren't you?"

"If we're tired, we can still take the cable car, it's the kind of car that runs on a rope in the air!"

"Okay, okay, I'm going." Li Xiaoxi danced happily.

"You also have a holiday in the factory, if you don't have enough time, take an extra day off in advance."

"Okay, listen to my daughter-in-law." I winked at Su Huan.

"Eat." She smiled softly and took a large chopstick and stuffed it into my bowl.

There is not much time left until May Day, and on weekdays, in addition to accompanying Su Huan for a walk almost every day in addition to my busy work, I basically pick up and drop off my daughter with her alternately.

The left eyelid jumps to wealth, and the right eyelid jumps to disaster. This is a mantra that I often heard from my elders when I was a child, every time my left eyelid jumped, I hoped that I would really have some wealth, and today my right eye jumped a little hard, I rubbed my eyes, and I felt that I should be more vigilant.

This week, it was a little quiet. In addition to going to work, there is also a small life of a family of three, and our parents live alone, this week we have become more cautious in commuting and at work, after all, Su Huan and I have some bad signs, and we would rather believe it or not.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the afterglow of the setting sun fills the town. I had to get off work early today and drove back from the outskirts of the city for half an hour, which happened to be the time to pick up Li Xiaoxi from school, and after calling Su Huan, I drove to the direction of school.

The car was parked in the safe area not far from the school gate, I walked straight to the school gate, watching the children and parents with happy smiles leaving but never seeing Xiaoxi, I couldn't help but start to wonder, but I didn't see her until the last child left the school gate, I became nervous.

"Brother security, can I go in and have a look, I didn't see my daughter come out."

The security guard opened the door and nodded for me to come in, and I went straight to their class, but it was empty. I hurried to their teacher's office again, and her homeroom teacher, Ye Wenzheng, was nervously adjusting the monitoring in the school.

"Teacher Ye, I didn't see my daughter Li Xiaoxi at school?"

"I'm sorry, Xiaoxi's parents, I originally asked Xiaoxi to stay and wait for you to come, but she said she was going to the bathroom, so I was careless. I just checked the surveillance, she seems to have gone out with her classmates, and the security guard may not have noticed, this is not a child in our class, I asked the homeroom teachers of several other classes...... "Teacher Ye was also anxious, her face flushed, and her brows were furrowed.

I hurriedly called Su Huan again. "The phone you dialed is on the phone, please call again later..."I was a little overwhelmed for a moment, and walked out of the school shouting and searching.

"Li Xiaoxi~, Xiaoxi~"

At this point, the phone rings.

"What's wrong Si Yan, you seem to have been shouting Xiaoxi's name, are you having a nightmare?"

I was woken up by Su Huan from my dream, "I dreamed that I lost our Xiaoxi, it's too real." ”

Su Huan wiped the beads of sweat from my forehead with his hand, "You must have been tired recently, why don't you take a break in the afternoon and go to work tomorrow." ”

"It's okay, it's just a dream." I held Su Huan's hand.

I drove to work, and the gloom in my dream during my lunch break still couldn't dissipate from my mind for a long time, and my head hurt slightly, and I couldn't bear to rub my temples.

Bang, it was dark in front of me, and the next moment I could feel a few warm currents flowing through my body, and I could feel a lot of voices and gradually louder sirens in the noisy sounds, watching the hurried figure sway back and forth, and then return to darkness.

In my consciousness, I felt as if I was in a dream and it was so real, I couldn't grasp anything here.

I don't know when I started to hear some voices again.

"Daddy, Daddy." The voice of the girl with a crying voice was very faint, and the voice was very familiar, as if she had heard it in her previous life.

"Li Siyan, Siyan ......" It seems that the voice of crying is not so clear, but there are all kinds of painful voices in my ears.

At this moment, I only felt that I was in the dark, and my body was imprisoned by iron handcuffs, and I could not move.

With all his might, only the index finger seemed to be able to move.

Suddenly, I could feel that the people around me were a little nervous, and their voices were screaming a little faster, but I couldn't hear what they were saying at all, I just felt that a group of people were going around my body.

I don't know how long it took, I could feel that the things that had imprisoned me were not so strong, I began to have the strength to break free from the darkness, I slowly opened my eyes, the harsh white light suddenly poured into my eyes, I covered most of the light with my hand, and rubbed my eyes again, only to feel a little used to it, I was lying on a hospital bed, this is the hospital.

Several doctors and nurses at the bedside hurried over.

"How's it going, do you feel it physically?" A doctor asked with concern.

I moved some of my joints, but only slightly, and my body was very weak.

"Uncle, don't worry, you've been sick for too long, for several months, it's normal for your body to be stiff, and you'll recover slowly." A female nurse in her early twenties greeted warmly.

'Uncle? Months? What's the situation? A series of question marks echoed in my head, and I only felt a little headache.

"Uncle, what about your family, do you have their contact information? I heard that you seemed to have called Li Xiaoxi when you were unconscious, and ...... Sue... Huan, to Su Huan, are they from your family? The female nurse asked casually.

'Family? I was a little confused, "How did I get to the hospital?" ”

"Our hospital received an emergency call, when you were hit by a car, the person who hit you paid for the medical bills, fortunately the injury is not too serious, and you are in good health, otherwise this time it will really be unbearable for you." The female nurse preached again.

"Can you find me a mirror?" I'm a little low.

"Yes!" She casually took the vanity mirror out of her pocket and handed it to me.

"Thank you." I picked up the mirror, saw my thin cheeks full of years of lines, and inadvertently raised my hand to caress the vicissitudes of life and old lines, at this time I wondered what was the situation before I was hit? What about that dream that was all too real? There are too many doubts. I suddenly had a headache, so I just didn't want to think about it for the time being.

Over the next few months, I was extremely cooperative with the hospital's recovery until I was able to move freely.

I would normally be 72 years old, because of an accident that caused me to have a memory impairment, and I may have temporary amnesia from the past, according to the doctor's advice, if you want to recover your memory quickly, you have to go to the place where you often live to stimulate your memory.

I was almost recovered, and the hospital decided to let me go. As I walked through the town, everything was both familiar and unfamiliar, the familiar welfare home, and the familiar old house not far away......