The Midnight Owl

"I, I want to go to the toilet." Faced with Chi Yingxue's father's "concern" looking back, Kuang Jinxin lied for the first time.

The uneasiness and apprehension in his heart slowly gathered into a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and kept saying to him——run away, little Sijin, run away quickly!

The sweet orange flavor is here again.

"Toilet? Of course." Chi Yingxue's father turned around and walked back, holding Kuang Jinxin's hand. There are kind and fine lines around his eyes, and his eyes are as gentle as water. "There is one in the front room. You sit there and I will help you." It's called Chi Yingxue."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Kuang Jinxin to speak again, he took a step forward and led the person towards the door at the corner not far away.

His hands are big and strong, holding Kuang Jinxin firmly. At first glance, it looks like a family cartoon sung, big hands holding small hands, with a family-like warmth.

But only Kuang Jinxin could feel that involuntary oppressive force, he was almost half-forced to go to that room, and with a little effort in the dark, trying to pull his hand out, the force restraining him was even greater.

"Uncle Chi...Uncle Chi...you don't have to do this, I'll just follow you..." Kuang Jinxin politely reminded the other party to let go, but the man who looked directly in front turned a deaf ear.

The dim moonlight cast a shadow on his face, even if he didn't frown and look up, there was still a lingering gloom.

Kuang Jinxin looked at him and suddenly thought of the teacher in charge of the second grade.

She was a "very easy to blow up" woman. In fact, she was not good at controlling her emotions, and her emotions were very easy to lose control. How could the students at that time understand this? She nicknamed it "Dynamite Keg".

Once the "dynamite barrel" blows up, there will always be bad luck for some classmates. They either grab their ears and go to the corridor to punish them, or take homework books and slap them. Sometimes they are very angry and take a pointer or a ruler. Greetings from the little ones.

Kuang Jinxin is very obedient, never makes mistakes, and has never been beaten, so he is not afraid of this teacher.At that time, they didn't know what corporal punishment was, and what should or should not be. They felt that the teacher was the absolute authority, and they should be punished if they made mistakes.

Until one time, he brought a small bag of tea to school. That was the first time he helped his grandparents fry tea. He said it was a help, but in fact he squatted next to the big pot to help watch the fire, but after the frying, he was also very happy Yes, grandma made some for him.He never leaves his body like a baby. He carries it at home and at school, and secretly opens it to smell it in class.

Just such a distraction, she was caught by the explosive barrel, and she dragged him to the corridor, grabbed his tea and threw it in his face.He cried and knelt down to pick up tea leaves, and she yelled, "Did I make you move?"!He was so frightened that he immediately stood up, and he didn't even dare to cry. She stretched out her hand and slapped him several times in a row, and then pinched him wherever it hurt.

It was the first time that Kuang Jinxin knew what fear was, and it was scarier than all the ghosts and ghosts he imagined in his childhood. He still remembered that she had red nails.

There are so many beautiful reds, flowers, maple leaves, colored pencils, hawthorn cakes in childhood... But it is this touch that really leaves a mark.

The sound of the door being pushed open brought back Kuang Jinxin's thoughts.

Chi Yingxue's father took him into a room somewhat similar to the reception room in the front yard. There was a sofa and coffee table in the center of the room, a few green plants in the corner, and a bookshelf and a cabinet standing by the wall.

The extremely dim light made every piece of furniture look like outlines at first glance, and I didn’t think much of it, but when I took a closer look, Kuang Jinxin realized that the sofa was made of black leather, the coffee table was a modern slate top, bookshelves and cabinets But it is Chinese mahogany.

Completely different styles are placed in the same room, and the painting style is weird and fragmented.

"Sit." Chi Yingxue's father finally let go of his hand and politely asked Kuang Jinxin to sit down.

Kuang Jinxin stood at the place where he had just entered the door, without moving his feet, looked at the other party blankly, and reminded: "The toilet is...?"

Chi Yingxue's father had said that there was a toilet in this room, but Kuang Jinxin looked around and couldn't find the door to the bathroom.

The man didn't seem to hear his question, and repeated again: "Sit down."

This time there was one more word than before, but the tone changed from being polite to a faint command.

Kuang Jinxin's throat tightened, his heart flustered, and the huge pressure coming to his face made him hardly dare to look at the man again.

He couldn't describe the feeling, like a high-voltage power grid above your head, intimidating you, coercing you, making you have to follow the established route.

Swallowing with difficulty, he bravely walked to the sofa and sat down slowly.

"That's right," the man smiled with satisfaction, "Kids, you should listen to adults."

"I'm going to find Chi Yingxue," the man turned and walked outside, before closing the door, he told him again in a slow and low voice, "You just wait here, don't run around."

The door was slowly closed.

There were no footsteps outside the door.

Kuang Jinxin was sitting on the sofa, panting slightly, his palms were sweating, but his back was straight and he didn't dare to move.

After a while, the sound of footsteps finally sounded, gradually drifting away until they disappeared.

Kuang Jinxin went limp, as if he had just run [-] meters, and his physical strength was completely overdrawn from the inside out.

But soon, he regained his energy, listened carefully, and confirmed that there was no movement outside, then quietly got up, and tiptoed to the door.

He has to run.Why?have no idea.He knew that if there were a hundred ways to find Chi Yingxue, going through Chi Yingxue's father was definitely not a good way.

Can't explain the reason, but he would rather believe in the sixth sense!

Looking out through the crack of the door, the veranda is empty.

The dark clouds seemed to have faded, and the moonlight shone on the pillars, getting brighter and brighter.

Kuang Jinxin raised his hand to touch the door panel, and pushed it open very lightly and carefully, so cautiously and slowly that he could hardly hear the sound of the door panel hinge.

He carefully controlled the speed, and finally waited until the door was silently opened to an angle of about 30 degrees, allowing one person to enter and exit, then he held his breath and stepped sideways over the threshold.

He didn't dare to move too much or too fast, just like the slow motion in the movie, he rubbed out a little bit, and finally all the people came out of the door, and he gently closed the door.

He breathed out a silent and long breath towards the door panel, slowly gathered strength, turned around and stretched his legs...

"Where do you want to go?"

During the question that was so gentle that it was almost pampering, Kuang Jinxin froze in place and pulled back his feet abruptly.

Chi Yingxue's father was standing in front of him. He didn't know when he came. He hadn't opened the door yet, but just turned around and closed the door for a moment, and then he came, silently, like a ghost.Against the moonlight, his face was shrouded in shadow, and there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, which was so real and creepy.

"Didn't I tell you to wait here and don't run around." The man lowered his head slightly and stared at Kuang Jinxin. The warmth in his voice didn't reach his cold eyes.

"I'm coming out...to find a toilet." Kuang Jinxin couldn't think of a word to say, he was very upset now, panic and fear, together with the indescribable oppressive force, short-circuited his brain.

"Hush," Chi Yingxue's father shook his head lightly, "Don't make excuses for your mistakes."

"Wait, Uncle Chi... This, this is too strange," Kuang Jinxin pulled out a stiff smile, "I'm here as a guest at your house, how can I punish a guest..."

Chi Yingxue's father's smile gradually subsided, and soon, even a little bit of pretended gentleness disappeared.

"If you make a mistake, you will be punished," he said word by word, as if announcing an irresistible imperial decree, "talking back to the adults, sophistry, the crime will be aggravated."

Kuang Jinxin looked at his face, which became gloomy under the moonlight, and finally understood that it was useless to talk more.

He stretched out his hand and pushed hard at the middle-aged man!

When the opponent was unprepared and staggered back, he turned around and ran to the left!

He didn't know where the corridor on the left led, he only knew that he couldn't see the end at a glance, it must be far away, enough for him to run out of the dangerous zone!

But just as he took two steps, there was a sharp pain in his scalp—someone grabbed his hair tightly, brutal and fierce!

In the next second, he was pulled back by a huge force!

The middle-aged man was still grabbing his hair, forcing him to raise his face, and raised his other big hand, slapping him hard!

Kuang Jinxin only felt his head buzzing, and his eyes lost focus.

This violence came suddenly and without reason, but it seemed that there were already signs.Kuang Jinxin didn't know if all the perpetrators had the same aura, but at this moment, he really seemed to be back in the corridor of the second grade elementary school.

The teacher slapped him, and while he cried and called me wrong, he didn't dare to move and let the other party slap him.

The middle-aged man slapped him a second time.

The strength was not reserved at all, as if he wanted to kill him like this.

However, this slap woke up Kuang Jinxin.

He was suddenly glad that he was no longer a child, he had grown up, he was no longer so weak, and he would never cry and call me wrong again, but he only forgot to resist!

The third slap came over with a sharp wind.

Kuang Jinxin suddenly grabbed his hand with all his strength, and bit it hard on the tiger's mouth!

In this case, there is no time to order stationery, so I can only fight to the death!

"Tsk!" The man gasped in pain, and withdrew his hand forcefully. Following his movements, the other hand that was holding Kuang Jinxin's hair instinctively relaxed.

Kuang Jinxin seized the opportunity, bent down quickly, and hit the opponent's chest hard with the top of his head, aiming at his heart!

The man's face changed in an instant, and his body backed away uncontrollably.

Kuang Jinxin saw the timing right, without turning his head to the left, and ran wildly in the depths of the veranda!

This time he succeeded, he ran for tens of meters without being stopped!

He didn't dare and didn't have the time to look back, he just ran forward desperately, almost running out of oxygen, and there was fishy sweetness in his throat!

But he still didn't slow down, and even ran faster and faster!

A new room appeared ahead, with the door panel ajar, leaving a dark gap of about an inch.

In the blink of an eye, Kuang Jinxin chose the former between "passing by directly" and "entering the room to hide"-he now refuses any static space, and only by running can he feel safe!

The door was already at his side, and Kuang Jinxin didn't slow down at all.

What people didn't expect was that a white thread-like thing suddenly flew out from the crack of the door. The moment Kuang Jinxin passed by, it came out like lightning and wrapped around his neck tightly!

Kuang Jinxin only felt a sudden sharp pain in his neck, as if being strangled with a steel wire, and if he ran forward, his body and head would definitely be separated!

He slammed on the brakes, and the huge inertia made him almost lose his balance. As soon as he stood still, he immediately raised his hand to grab the white line protruding from the crack in the door!

One end of the white thread was tied around his neck, and the other end was still hidden in the darkness inside the door!

As soon as he caught the thread, Kuang Jinxin realized that it didn't feel right. It wasn't steel wire or wire rope, but plastic, the kind of plastic strapping used for packing and binding things in shopping malls or factories!

This kind of strapping is different from the rope, the rope must be knotted, but this kind of strapping, once the pointed end passes through the small square serial port, it is completely stuck, it can be pulled tighter and tighter, but it cannot be loosened open!

Kuang Jinxin gritted his teeth to resist the force of the door pulling him, raised his arm with difficulty, and quickly searched for stationery that could break the binding tape, but before he could find it, the door suddenly pulled hard!

This sudden force was so great that he directly smashed open the door and fell in!

Before he got up to see the dark room clearly, someone grabbed his arm and twisted it behind him!

Kuang Jinxin only felt pain like a dislocated shoulder, and the next moment he heard the sound of the strap tightening——his hands were tied behind his back.

Then came the feet.

The binding straps tightly strangled his ankles, and the plastic straps almost tightened his flesh.

Until he had no more ability to resist, the people behind him finally quieted down.

He struggled to turn around and saw Chi Yingxue's father.

The middle-aged man had long since lost his pretentious kindness, his face was as cold as ice, which was in great contrast to his fierce and violent behavior.

His voice was very calm, so calm that it made people feel cold all over: "I don't criticize you, because criticism is useless." His gaze was suddenly gentle, with a chilling, cruel gentleness, "Mistakes, you can only rely on yourself Come reflect."

After speaking, he grabbed Kuang Jinxin by the hair and dragged Shengsheng to the wall.The other hand rubbed vigorously against the wall, and a small part of the wall was pulled away to the left, revealing a very small space inside, which was said to be a closet, but there was no room for two quilts, it was like a secret compartment.

Kuang Jinxin didn't know what he was going to do, only knew that the danger was approaching: "You can't do this, it's breaking the law!"

The man smiled, this time it was true, and his eyes flashed with a smile, as if he heard the funniest joke in the world.

"What law did I break by educating my son?" His rhetorical question was innocent and natural.

Kuang Jinxin was stunned, and after a while, he realized: "You misidentified me, I'm not your son..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was forced into it with his head held down!

The hidden compartment was too small, and Kuang Jinxin's body curled up into an extremely twisted posture, and the man was still pushing his legs inward, causing his bones to ache!

Finally, he went in completely, like a piglet with no strength to fight back, being stuffed into the cage waiting to be slaughtered.

The man wiped off the dust on the suit, smoothed the wrinkles on the clothes, and tidied up the expensive cufflinks before looking at him again, and calmly announced the rules: "If you have enough reflection, you can come out."

"I know I was wrong!" Kuang Jinxin admitted almost immediately, and when he resisted, he had to resist, but in this situation, it is definitely not a smart choice to go head-to-head, "I know I was wrong, I have already reflected deeply, really !"

The man was unmoved, and his voice carried unquestionable authority: "When is it enough to reflect on it, I have the final say."

"Snapped!"

The dark compartment was mercilessly closed.

Kuang Jinxin caught a small "click" with the tip of his ear. There is no doubt that the built-in lock fell automatically.

The world is completely out of light.

The suffocating darkness swallowed Kuang Jinxin like a flood in this narrow space with almost no gaps left.

He is not afraid of the dark.

But when he has tasted fear, violence, and pain, this closed darkness can easily become the last straw that crushes him.

Of course, he will not be overwhelmed.He has partners, friends, relatives, and classmates. He knows that he is just breaking through, and all the darkness and pain will pass when the time comes.

But what about Chi Yingxue?

What about Chi Yingxue, who was young, helpless, and only her family could rely on?