A Tooth For a Tooth

(1)

"Why?" When Yang Ren asked this, his ears were still buzzing, and he couldn't hear his own voice at all.

"Have you not contacted his family recently?" Grandma Xiaomao knew that Yang Ren was the godson of old Xu Tou, and the two families were close, so she was a little surprised to see that Yang Ren didn't know anything, "Old Xu's head is confused Every morning, even when I send Xiao Ai to school, I get lost. Sometimes when I send Xiao Mao, I send Xiao Ai along. Originally, Dr. Xu can take care of him at home, but he often runs out by himself. Xiao Xu has bad eyesight , I can’t take care of the old and the young at all. I sent the old one to a nursing home and the young one to her mother.”

Although the old lady loves to gossip, seeing Yang Ren's livid face, she also realized the seriousness of the problem, so she didn't dare to be verbose, and told Yang Ren about the situation this week in a few words.

Yang Ren was completely in a dazed state, and even forgot to close his slightly open mouth.Grandma Xiao Mao didn't know the specific situation between them. Seeing that Yang Ren was completely broken by such a blow, she poked his arm and kindly reminded: "If you are so worried, report to the police and let JC unlock the lock."

The mind that stopped just now is finally active again, Yang Ren thought, JC didn't break the door just casually, even if JC came, he had to show the relevant proof, right?Account book?Marriage certificate?deed?What can prove that he has a relationship with Xu Yao?

(2)

A sneer appeared on Yang Ren's sweaty face, and Grandma Xiaomao also felt a little scared, so she continued to make up her mind: "If you don't want to call the police, you can only climb in through the window. Waiting like this is definitely useless. He is alone. I won’t go out once in a few days, so if I wait like this, I can only depend on fate.”

As soon as the word "Fate" landed, the anti-theft door of Xu Yao's house suddenly clicked, and Yang Ren and Grandma Xiaomao turned their heads at the same time.I saw Xu Yao, who seldom came out, opened the door slowly, and walked out step by step.

He held a black garbage bag in one hand, touched the wall with the other, and went downstairs with his hands on the wall as if there was no one else present, his movements were very slow.It seemed that he had already counted the number of stairs in his mind, so when he got to the flat ground, he didn't use his feet to explore, but turned outside directly, but there were always a lot of debris piled up in the corridor, which still affected Xu Yao's route, his leg accidentally bumped into something, and then hurriedly stabilized his body, expressionless from beginning to end.

Yang Ren and the old lady were always by the side, even if Xu Yao passed by them just now, he couldn't see anyone at all.Yang Ren's brain seemed to be short-circuited, and he followed Xu Yao instinctively. The footsteps echoed loudly in the empty corridor, but Xu Yao didn't notice it at all.Only then did Yang Ren realize that he was not wearing a hearing aid on his ears.

After walking up two flights of stairs, Xu Yao cautiously walked out of the building door. He touched the door frame of the building door for the last time. When he walked outside, there was no object to be groped for. Xu Yao couldn't relocate, and walked forward almost step by step. , He subconsciously raised the hand that wasn't holding anything and stretched it out to his chest, and instinctively leaned back a little bit, wondering if his body was so alert because he had bumped into something before.

(3)

Fortunately, the trash can is not far away, facing the door of the building, Xu Yao has a good sense of direction, at least he can walk in a straight line, so he gets closer and closer to the trash can.When he was about to walk, his outstretched hand touched the trash can. He didn't think it was dirty, so he reached out and groped on the top of the trash can, and found the exact location before throwing the trash bag in.

Yang Ren was stunned throughout the whole process. He didn't expect Xu Yao to open the door suddenly, let alone his current eyesight, which was almost useless and he had to rely on groping.He gasped for breath, but felt that his throat was torn. He wanted to call Xu Yao to stop, but he couldn't make a sound.At this time, his mind was very dull, seeing Xu Yao turn around and walk back, he followed behind Xu Yao in a daze.

The return journey is the same as the time of departure. Xu Yao can go up and down from the sixth floor in the time it takes for a normal person to go up and down the second floor.When he first entered the door of the building, Xu Yao couldn't count the position of the first staircase accurately, so he started to take small steps, and tried his right foot forward again and again until he touched the stairs, and then he stretched out his hand to support the wall to go upstairs .

Going upstairs is less dangerous than going downstairs, Xu Yao seems to be a little faster than before.Yang Ren didn't have any more time to react. The moment Xu Yao entered the house and was about to close the security door, he finally regained his sanity and reached out to block the security door with a gap left.

(4)

Feeling strange, Xu Yao stopped his movements, as before, in this situation, Xu Yao would carefully observe the movement in front of him, and even opened his eyes to see clearly, but at this time, he just kept the posture just now, without turning his head at all look.

Yang Ren didn't know why he gave up his residual vision, but he thought, it's night, after all, Xu Yao's vision is not good in places with light, so it's understandable not to use eyes.

Regarding unknown people or things, Xu Yao didn't show a trace of panic, struggled or shouted, and just let people into the house, if it was considered a home.

Standing at the porch, Yang Ren was already a little dumbfounded. Is this still the clean Xu family?The coffee table and the sofa are full of messy things, not to mention the carpet, Xiao Ai's toys are thrown in bits and pieces, and when he turns his head, Yang Ren sees black water stains all over the kitchen floor next to him. The white floor tiles are particularly dazzling.

Yang Ren forgot to change his shoes, and went straight into the kitchen. In the corner of the floor, there were a few fragments of porcelain bowls stuck behind the gas pipe, and a boiled noodle stuck to the ground, which had shriveled and solidified.Clean garbage bags were scattered all over the floor, the mouth of the pool seemed to be blocked, and there was some dirty and smelly sewage in it.

Unable to watch it any longer, Yang Ren turned around and went out, seeing Xu Yao still standing there, as if waiting for some reaction from others, Yang Ren couldn't bear it, hugged Xu Yao, and burst into tears at that moment.