Daily life of civil servants in the prefectural government

The sound of rustling footsteps sounded again, and after hearing the sound of birds, the things outside the door left automatically.

Tan Lu sat paralyzed on the ground, holding the music box for a while, and suddenly burst into tears.The music box in her hand was ringing on its own, intertwined with her crying, which was disturbingly noisy.

Su Xiyan stepped forward and picked up a piece of yellow talisman paper from the corner of the door.

The cinnabar runes on it are intact, and no power has been consumed at all.He stared at it for a moment, calmly folded the talisman paper, and threw it on the ground again.

Tan Lu cried for a long time until the sound of the music box suddenly stopped. She raised her red and swollen face and numbly moved the table and chairs down, opened the door, and walked outside.

After opening the door facing a green lawn just now, they entered a family's house strangely.

This is a very small house, with a living room directly facing the door, and a small kitchen connected to the living room.

The living room is divided into two parts, a sofa and a TV facing the sofa, and a small square table on the other side.Beside the table, a middle-aged man in blue overalls was reading a newspaper while a young girl was drinking a bowl of porridge.

Seeing Tan exposed, the girl immediately shouted.

"Sister, hurry up, we will be late for school."

The middle-aged man also put down the newspaper, frowned and said:

"Don't dawdle, eat quickly, get up earlier next time, breakfast must be eaten, not in a hurry."

Su Xiyan heard Tan Lu's answer, and then went to the table to pick up breakfast and ate it.

He followed and stood by the dining table watching all this. Everyone beside him, including Tan Lu, seemed to have not seen him.

Su Xiyan reached out to touch the table, fingers across the table.He tried to grab the middle-aged man's wrist, but what he touched was still a cloud of air. Everything that was so realistic was just a real illusion to him.

The newspaper was gently flipped to the last page, Su Xiyan looked up and looked at the year and month marked on the page.

2010, April 4.

He is now looking at a piece of history eight years ago, the life of Tan Lu.

The mother who was busy in the kitchen quickly ran out, holding two prepared bento boxes in her hand, carefully wrapped them in plastic bags, and stuffed them into the schoolbags of her two daughters respectively.

When she walked in front of Tan Lu, she suddenly stretched out her hand and pulled her cheek with an unswerving expression.

"Little girl, it's so ugly to put on a bad face every day. Do you know how to smile more like your sister?"

Seeing Tan Lu's body tremble, Su Xiyan responded softly.

The two sisters quickly packed their things and went out with their schoolbags. Su Xiyan found that she was involuntarily following Tan Lu, so she just took a few more steps and followed them at a distance of two or three meters.

As soon as he reached the stairs, he met a familiar man head-on.

Su Xiyan had seen him in that video just now, he was pulling Tan Lu's hair, scolding loudly with a hideous face.He was Tan Lu's later husband...

"You guys, have you seen my wife?"

He stopped the two sisters and asked, staring at Tan Lu with gloomy eyes, with no intention of leaving.

Tan Lu's body kept shaking, and she grabbed her sister's arm in fear.

Her elder sister noticed that something was wrong with her younger sister, so she stopped in front of her directly, blocking the man's gaze.

"No, we didn't see it."

"Oh," the man replied, but he didn't intend to leave. He took out a photo, which showed the grown-up Tan Lu.

She has medium curly hair, wearing a blue dress, standing in front of the flower bed and smiling very brightly.

"My wife looks beautiful when she smiles, very, very beautiful."

The latter two were drawn out by him, and he read them word by word, stabbing Tan Lu fiercely with a gloomy persistence.

Sister Tan Lu was annoyed, she pulled her sister away from the side.

"You're crazy, it's none of our business whether your wife looks good when she smiles."

In this way, Su Xiyan went to school with Tan Lu, and he found that in the classroom, in the corridor, in the cafeteria, on the playground... no matter where it is, as long as someone tells Tan Lu, why don't you smile more? Ask her to smile.

Then, Tan Lu's husband, that weird man would appear immediately, and he would entangle Tan Lu, asking her over and over again if she saw his wife?

Tan Lu fled into the toilet, locked herself in the cubicle, and stared nervously at the watch in her hand.

Su Xiyan was behind her, watching the numbers on the watch and slowly getting to 05:30.When the minute hand precisely stopped at the position of thirty, he saw that for the first time, Tan Lu's face showed a kind of joyful clarity, although she still had a straight face and did not show a smile at all.

At this moment, a voice came from outside the compartment.

"Hey, do you know that Tan Lu from class 3, she hasn't come to class for almost half a month. I heard that she was hit by a man on the way home. Is this true?"

"Really, you didn't know until it was spread all over our class?"

The girl who spoke raised her voice, and continued in a disdainful and contemptuous voice:

"She deserves it. She pretends to be innocent and pure to seduce those boys every day. When something happens, she just smiles. A group of blind people praise her for her beautiful smile and say what kind of smile she is." Angel, I pooh!"

"No way, did she smile like that on purpose? I always thought she looked pretty when she smiled."

Another girl said in surprise.

Su Xiyan poked her head out and saw two girls in school uniforms facing the toilet with their backs. Their young faces in the mirror showed obvious malice.

The girl who spoke harshly took out a lipstick and carefully applied it on her lips.

"You were deceived by her appearance. Let me tell you, my family lives in the same community as hers. I have known her since I was very young."

"At that time, they just moved from the countryside. They were just a local product with a pot head cut off. They were so ugly that no one in our place liked them. Later, she grew her hair long, and then she laughed when she saw people. My mother also said that she She has a good smile and wants me to learn from her, I'm not happy."

"and after?"

"Later? What is there to be later? Didn't she become what you saw later? She was smiling all day long, and even my brother was seduced by her."

"really?"

"Of course it's true. Those men are all idiots. They brag when they see her smile nicely. If you want me to say, her pretentious coquettishness can't be stopped at all."

"Now she is given to that by an old man who is ten years older than her. Hehe, she can only be worthy of that kind of man."

The sound outside the door gradually faded, and Su Xiyan watched helplessly as the scene of the toilet turned into a small bedroom.The layout is very warm and girly, with light blue sheets, white plaid quilts with bunnies, and little dolls clustered in a row by the window.

Tan Lu sat stiffly on the bed, her eyes were red and swollen, filled with boundless despair.

Outside the door, the sound of her parents arguing kept coming.

"You will never marry Lulu to that kind of person. You are pushing her into the fire pit!"

"Then what if you don't marry her? Can she marry someone else like this?"

"Why not, my daughter is still so young, she should go to school to continue studying!"

"Do you think she can go back to school now? That man goes to school every day to make trouble, and she has been expelled from school!"

"Then you can't marry her to that lunatic. Do you know what he rushed over to me yesterday and said? He said that if we don't marry our daughter to him, he will kill our whole family. Listen to what he said What is it?!"

"He said that to me too, but what can we do?"

Outside the door, Tan Lu's father hammered the table angrily.

"We two old ones can ignore these things, but what about Qianqian? Doesn't she want to go to school? And Lulu, her reputation has become like this now, what else can we do?"

"I know that bastard is not a thing, but he told me that as long as Luluken marries him, he will entrust her with all the money in the family and promise not to let her down."

"I've already dragged someone to ask. That person's family is an official, and the eldest brother in the family still works in the procuratorate. Lulu followed him, at least she won't have a hard life..."

The voice behind gradually faded away, Tan Lu turned her head and asked Su Xiyan:

"You said, if I didn't smile all the time, wouldn't it be like this?"

"No," Su Xiyan looked at her and shook her head firmly.

"You are just a victim and none of this is your fault."

"Thank you."

Tan Lu looked at him with a smile uglier than crying.

The music sounded quietly again, and Tan Lu's voice could not be heard clearly amidst the swaying music.

"When I was very young, I used to hope that there would be a dream wedding in the future. I could marry the person I liked, and I would have an outdoor wedding, wearing a white wedding dress, standing on the grass and listening to the witnesses. I."

"Would you like to marry him and stay by his side forever regardless of illness or aging?"

"Then I woke up from the dream, and I was standing next to a man who was almost the same age as my father, and I was still pregnant with his child..."

"Tell me, how ridiculous is this?"