endless tricks

Yang Yuanyi took a slow walk around the reasoning agency with his stomach full, and finally stopped under the big banyan tree in the courtyard, under which a swing chair was placed.He sat up, closed his eyes, and felt drowsy with the breeze.

In the four seasons of the year, only autumn is the most gentle and comfortable weather, and even the mood becomes dull, and I just want to live a retirement life.After a while, the hanging chair sank, and someone sat beside him.As soon as Yang Yuan opened his eyes, he saw Wei Yanqing's profile.

Wei Yanqing kicked the ground with his long legs, and the hanging chair shook slightly.He asked Yang Yuanyi: "Are you really not angry if I broke your husband's tablet?"

Yang Yuanyi: "It's okay. It's just a tablet." To him, the living are the most important.When a person dies, he is burned to ashes, and the remaining ashes are placed in the Buddhist hall.Tablets are just a sustenance to express feelings, not very important.

Wei Yanqing: "But you never forget to offer incense."

Yang Yuanyi: "Well, it's just a sense of ritual."

Wei Yanqing stood there with his long legs, and the hanging chair stopped.He tilted his head and asked, "Sense of ritual?"

Yang Yuanyi shrugged: "Life is boring, and the sense of ritual can make ordinary days special. Give some days special meaning, and that day will become interesting. If I don't carry the tablet with me, I will only have The next person, who has no one who is absolutely close and trusting, will sooner or later forget that I was married, that I had a dead husband or a relative. Then, marriage becomes meaningless.”

Wei Yanqing: "For you, that marriage similar to 'Chongxi' has meaning in itself?"

Yang Yuanyi asked curiously: "How do you know it's 'Chongxi'?"

Wei Yanqing: "Wang Xiaohong said it." Skillfully pulled out Wang Xiaohong to take over.

When Yang Yuan remembered that he had indeed told Wang Xiaohong that his marriage with his ex-husband was due to joy, he nodded and said, "Since I got married, I have finally lived a life where I can eat enough." Relatively speaking, it is very meaningful.

"..." Wei Yanqing didn't expect that what he meant to Yang Yuanyi was to eat enough, so he felt a little sad.He was about to speak when he heard the doorbell ring.

Jingle Bell--

The harsh sound of the doorbell directly broke the silence at the moment.Yang Yuan walked around the big banyan tree and looked at the gate. There was a beautiful woman in a black dress with a child in her arms.With an anxious and terrified expression, he held the doorbell with the other hand and did not let go.After a while, the iron door bounced open with a bang, the woman was startled, and hurried in.

The iron gate slowly bounced back three or four meters away from her, and finally made a loud noise.The woman looked around in a daze like a frightened bird, and when she saw Yang Yuanyi standing under the big banyan tree, she walked over as if grasping at straws.

Wei Yanqing came out, stood behind Yang Yuanyi and watched her quietly.The woman stopped abruptly, the look of surprise on her face froze, and turned into panic.She looked at the man behind the young man, as if seeing the darkness that was spreading, fear shot straight to her heart for no reason, and she held her heart tightly.

Yang Yuanyi took a step forward: "Who are you looking for?"

The woman backed away in horror, her red lips trembling slightly, unable to speak.

Wei Yanqing lowered his eyes and whispered: "I'll go in first." After speaking, he entered the room without waiting for Yang Yuan to nod his head.

When he disappeared into the courtyard, the woman's tense nerves finally broke, and she breathed a sigh of relief, no longer having the strength to hug the child in her arms.Yang Yuanyi caught the sleeping child when she was about to fall, and the woman thanked him gratefully: "Thank you. Excuse me...here—is this the reasoning agency?"

Yang Yuanyi: "Monster?"

The woman rubbed her hands uneasily, and kept nodding: "Yes, that's right here. I want to entrust you to protect my child."

As soon as Yang Yuan looked at this woman, she was wearing a black dress with a good texture.The make-up couldn't conceal the fatigue, and her expression was quite uneasy. After entering the courtyard, she kept looking around, and her eyes always looked away, as if something was following her, which made her fearful, afraid and always on vigilance.

"come in."

They entered the living room on the first floor, and Wei Yanqing went downstairs after putting on a mask.The strange thing is that the woman glanced at him with the same eyes, calm and calm, as if there was no curiosity or even interest in it.

Wu Wei, Xia Lanlan and Wang Xiaohong all went back to their rooms to rest, and only Old Sun was left downstairs, so he came to receive the woman.As soon as Yang Yuan put the child on the sofa, Wei Yanqing pulled him to sit beside him. As soon as the child touched the soft sofa, he immediately woke up, rubbing his eyes and softly calling: "Mom."

The woman took him into her arms, raised her head and said with sobs: "I, I really can't help it... I didn't believe it at first—it's just that my child was almost dragged away by that thing and almost killed. I really can't do it, My husband didn’t believe my words, and insisted that I was mentally ill and that I was going to kill my son. I asked for connections everywhere, and when they said they came here, I came here.”

Old Sun poured a cup of tea and handed it to her: "Speak slowly."

The woman took a sip of hot tea, calmed down and said, "My name is Luo Jierui, and this is my son Haohao. The thing is, on the weekend of last month, my colleagues and I took our children to the park to play in the water. At that time It was still summer, and the weather was quite hot, but the location of the lake was quite special, and it was surrounded by big trees, so it was very cool. So my colleagues and I decided to take our children to the lake for paddling—”

Wei Yanqing: "Which lake?"

Luo Jierui said: "The lake in Binhe Park on the outskirts of the city is called Xiuli Lake. That lake is connected to the water of the reservoir. The gates are not usually opened, and the water is quite deep. It's just that I haven't heard of anyone being drowned, and there have been no troubles. It's quite Many people went to play. That day, I took Haohao, and my colleague took her own daughter and a relative's son. We rented a self-draining pedal boat for two..."

They didn't go at the right time, the sun was fierce at noon, and the children were clamoring to play.They can only rent a self-draining pedal boat, which is pedaled by two people, and push it into the lake.There are also quite a lot of people in the lake, but they all hide in shady places.They were afraid that their children would suffer from heatstroke, so they also stepped on towards the shade, and happened to see in the distance, the corners of the stone walls and lush forests were very shady.

The pedal boat crossed the water exposed to the sun, and when it reached the shade, the skin was reddened by the sun.Luo Jierui looked at the children, they were all having fun and didn't get sunburned.So she felt relieved and wanted to take out her phone to take a selfie.

Looking up to find the angle, I noticed that there was no one else in this place except their boat.The stone wall is washed white by the lake water, the trees on the stone wall grow obliquely, and the leaves float on the water and flow in the same direction.There was a three-meter-wide hole not far in front. It was very dark inside and no light could be seen.

At that time, Luo Jierui asked her colleague curiously: "What's the matter with that hole? Where does it connect?"

The colleague pointed to the stone wall above the cave and told her: "This is the rock wall. It used to be a hill. Over time, a hole was carved out. Go in through this hole, and I heard that you can reach the reservoir."

The child was curious and asked what the reservoir was.

The colleague laughed and said, "A lake bigger than Xiuli Lake."

The child was excited and shouted to play.The colleague couldn't help it, and asked Luo Jierui what she thought.Luo Jierui hesitated, looking at the dark hole, she felt inexplicably afraid.So he shook his head and refused: "I can't see anything clearly inside, if the boat capsizes accidentally. We can swim, but children can't."

The colleague thought about it and gave up.

Several children were disappointed, but asked to row to the entrance of the cave to have a look.This time Luo Jierui didn't object. She went to the hole and found that the water was covered with fallen leaves, and the golden color was very beautiful.So he took a selfie with his mobile phone, and just as he was posing, he saw a black figure suddenly appearing behind him in the camera.

Luo Jierui was startled, and quickly turned her head to look, but there was nothing behind.She wondered if it was her misreading, and she clicked on her phone to look at the photo she just took. When she saw the photo, it was a hot day, and her whole body was shivering from the cold like being poured with ice water from head to toe.

In the photo, besides her smiling brightly, there is also a dark figure standing motionless in the shadow of the hole.

Luo Jierui looked at her colleague shaking her hands, and found that her colleague didn't look any prettier than her.She said, "I, let's go quickly."

The colleague responded, and the two quickly left the place on a pedal boat.Running under the sun, Luo Jierui was very grateful for the heat that burned her skin. She looked back with fear, and found that the black shadow was still there, even a little clear.

Luo Jierui said excitedly: "It's true! I saw her gray and dirty hair, like slippery water plants at the bottom of the water. I only saw black shadows so close to the hole, but I could see it clearly when I was more than ten meters away. At that time, I should have guessed that that thing was entangled with me and wanted my child's life!"

Yang Yuanyi: "Ms. Luo, calm down. Are you sure you didn't see it wrong? Why do you think that thing wanted your child's life instead of you? You said that something was wrong with your colleague at the time, and she saw it too?"

Luo Jierui's hands trembled, Haohao's arm holding her limply called out in doubt, "Mom?"

Luo Jierui hugged her son back, and said with reddened eyes: "I'm sure I read it right, and I'm sure my colleague should have seen something too. The night after we parted, she called me and didn't say anything at first. It took a long time to speak. But - the signal suddenly became very bad, I only heard a few words, she said 'don't...be careful...water...sound'. On the third day, she came to work and was in a bad mood , often in a daze. Staring at the computer screen for an hour or two without moving."

She swallowed her saliva and continued: "One time, she went to the lounge to pour coffee, and there were still a few people in there. One of them was talking about music, so she played a sad piece of music. That colleague suddenly went crazy. He smashed the hot coffee in his hand against the wall, yelled, tore off his hair, tore his clothes, like a... like a crazy woman. It was very chaotic, very chaotic, and too sudden The male colleague went to stop her from going crazy, but she suddenly became extremely powerful, and ran away after hurting others."

Yang Yuanyi: "What about after that?"

Luo Jierui shook her head, then swallowed her saliva in horror: "She didn't come to work again, and she didn't even come to get the compensation for being dismissed. I heard later that she, she committed suicide in the bathroom at home by burying her face in the bathroom." Before committing suicide, she tied up two neighbor’s children and drowned them together with her own daughter in that kind of inflatable bath. The neighbor noticed something strange and broke into the door to save the three children, but she Dead, can't be saved."

Yang Yuanyi: "The three children are not dead?"

Luo Jierui: "Yes, he didn't die. It was more than ten minutes late at that time, and it was hopeless."

Wei Yanqing concluded: "You saw a black shadow in Xiuli Lake. After you came back, your colleague called you that night. The signal was not good and you didn't hear it. Your colleague later went crazy and committed suicide. Before committing suicide, he wanted to drown three children. But it didn't work. What about you? What happened to you?"

The author has something to say:

Yang Yuanyi: Widowing a spouse is a very ceremonial event, and a tablet needs to be left to commemorate it.