Book House Strange Talk

Tai Yi went out early on Sunday morning, didn't dare to ride a bicycle, and directly took a taxi to Yingyang Street.

Yingyang Street is said to be a street, which is actually a not too long commercial street with antique decoration. Its content is similar to that of Nanluoguxiang in Beijing and the Confucius Temple in Nanjing. It can be regarded as a "scenic spot" in this non-tourist city, but here It is full of pagoda trees, and it is a scene when the pagoda trees are in full bloom.

Tai Yi stood at the entrance of the street and looked at the gate of the archway marked Yingyang Street. After all, the last time he came here was probably in elementary school, but the locals really don't come here very often.

When it came to the end, Tai Yi was a little nervous, mixed with a hint of excitement, as if the matter had already been half resolved as long as he stood here.He looked at the house numbers next to the shop and walked past them one by one until the end.

"No. 47..." Tai Yi murmured.

Tai Yi swallowed and looked at the number he remembered in the phone memo, it should be number 48.This is the end of the street, and there is a dead end in front of him. Tai Yi walked from the beginning to the end twice without admitting evil, this time he looked at each house, and even picked up the house number to see if the two floors were stacked together.

There was still no number 48, and just when Tai Yi began to wonder if he remembered wrongly, a female voice sounded behind him.

"Are you looking for someone?"

Tai Yi turned around and saw that it was the proprietress of shop No. 47.

"Well... hello, I want to ask, is there No. 48 on Yingyang Street?" Tai Yi scratched his nose embarrassedly, the woman in front of him looked like she was in her early 30s, wearing a cotton He wore a linen long dress, and his hair was tied with an ordinary wooden hairpin. There were a few strands of hair scattered from his forehead, and Tai Yi couldn't help but sink into the eyes of the proprietress.

"No. 48? Who are you looking for?" the landlady said.

Tai Yi's thoughts were interrupted by the voice of the proprietress, and only then did he realize that he was staring at him impolitely for a long time, his ears turned red, and he quickly said, "I'm sorry, Uncle Xing asked me to come to No. 48 to find someone, and he said he could help I."

The proprietress waved at him and said, "Come in, who told you that No. 48 can only be outside."

Tai Yi followed her into the store. This is a bookstore, which is very abrupt in a place full of snacks and souvenirs. It sells half-new and half-worn old thread-bound books, and there are huge bookshelves full of them. There are some old books in the glass window.

"Like it? If you want to buy it, I can give you a discount," the proprietress said, seeing that Tai Yi had been looking at these books, "Call me Aunt Ping."

Tai Yi was slightly surprised: "Calling you aunt?"

Aunt Ping asked him, "Otherwise? How old do you think I am?"

Tai Yi said, "In his early thirties at most."

Allegory

Aunt Ping covered her mouth and smiled: "I'm old enough to be your mother!"

Tai Yi was stunned for a while and showed a polite smile, thinking in his heart: women, it's amazing.

The house number 48 is in the innermost part of the bookstore. There is a small door that is only big enough for a single person to pass through.Pushing open the door, Tai Yi discovered that this storefront house was connected to the residential building behind.I went in and took a look. It was probably a house of 48 to [-] square meters. Looking at the decoration style, I felt that the house was very old, but Tai Yi felt that this residential building was definitely not that old.

The floor is that kind of old-fashioned floor, which is rare now. It is long and narrow, and the floor seams are a bit big. It looks like the style that was popular more than ten years ago. It may be because the corners of the floor are always slightly raised when you walk on it. Creak.

"Sit down first, I'll call Xiaoyang for you, he's probably asleep, there's a drink on the coffee table and take whatever you want," Aunt Ping said.

Tai Yi nodded and sat on the sofa, touching the sofa secretly with his hands: My dear...this is a whole set of mahogany furniture...this is too rich.

Tai Yi was also embarrassed to look left and right, but just looked at the decoration where he could see and imagined what kind of person Uncle Xing recommended. There were still a few empty notebooks beside the notebook on the coffee table Sprite and half-eaten potato chips, he looks like a young man, but there is no TV in the living room. There are mahogany bookshelves on the TV wall, and there are spider plants on the bookshelves. The whole room has a bookish atmosphere.

Seeing Aunt Ping like this, Tai Yi imagined that this "superior" was connected with Aunt Ping. It may be because of the temperament of the same way, but it seems that Aunt Ping also lives here, and these books are also in line with Aunt Ping's temperament. Could it be Aunt Ping's husband?

Just thinking about it, Aunt Ping came out from the back room: "Wait a minute, Xiaoyang is getting dressed, aren't you thirsty? Let me open a bottle of orange juice for you."

Tai Yi nodded cautiously, said thank you, and looked in the direction of the bedroom, feeling nervous again.

When Xing Yang came out of the room, the first thing he saw was Tai Yi's expression of disbelief. He scratched his hair and sat next to Tai Yi, and drank the orange juice on the coffee table.

Tai Yi stretched out his hand and waved it helplessly, trying to stop Xing Yang's movement: "I, that's what I drank!"

Xing Yang yawned and waved his hands to show that he didn't mind. He put his feet on the coffee table and put them down again, probably because he thought it was not good for the guests to be here again.

Tai Yi is speechless: But, but I mind...

"Come on, what's the matter?" Xing Yang looked at him and opened his noble mouth, "Don't look, I look younger."

Tai Yi was embarrassed by being seen through, and honestly told Duo Duo's story, watching Xing Yang put his hands on his chest, put his feet on the tea table again, closed his eyes and leaned his head back He looked like he was about to snore, and he wasn't sure if this person heard her, but when he was about to say it again, Xing Yang said: "You mean you can see this child from the beginning, right? ?”

Tai Yi nodded: "But I can guarantee that I never walked this road before entering high school, and I saw her standing at the intersection since the day I entered high school."

"Ever noticed how she used to look at you?"

"No," Tai Yi honestly shook his head, "To be honest, this child died a terrible death, covered in blood, and her lower body was bloody. I have never dared to look at her."

Xing Yang thought for a while and said, "I might know what's going on, but I have to go to see it myself to be sure."

Tai Yi asked expectantly, "Then can I not go?"

Xing Yang looked at him quietly without saying a word, with three large characters clearly written on his face: What do you think?

"...I see," Tai Yi sighed, "Then is there any way to make me invisible to her? Or to keep her from touching me. I have to go to school every day, so I can't help it."

Hearing this, Xing Yang reached out to find a box from under the coffee table, turned it over and said, "Wouldn't it be more frightening not to see it, tsk... I found it."

A thick and flat red bracelet, Xing Yang motioned for him to put his hand on it: "Take it first, at least I don't dare to get close to you, when you can come out around twelve o'clock in the evening, call me , and call this number."

Touching the bracelet, Tai Yi felt a little more relaxed in his heart, and said, "It should be fine in a few days, my dad should be on a business trip recently."

Xing Yang nodded, indicating that he could leave. Before leaving, Xing Yang stopped him: "By the way, my name is Xing Yang. Let me ask you, when is your birthday? It's in the lunar calendar."

Tai Yi said, "March three."

After seeing Tai Yi off, Xing Yang stretched his waist, since he was already awake, he stopped sleeping, carried a stool to the door of the study, and asked Aunt Ping to get him a bottle of iced drink from the refrigerator, just sitting on the small bench Sit on the bed and bask in the sun, take out your mobile phone and open the weather forecast to find it - March [-]rd in the lunar calendar, heavy rain, red warning.

As soon as he got home, Tai Yi received a call from Xing Yang and asked him: "Ask your parents if they have seen this car accident, or if they have personally experienced this car accident. I suspect that the child was not the only one involved in the accident. A victim."

During the meal, Tai Yi pretended to mention it casually: "Dad, we have changed our math teacher, but we haven't seen anyone yet."

Tai's father frowned when he heard this: "The college entrance examination is less than two months away. What kind of teacher should we change now? What does your school think?"

"The math teacher got into a car accident. It was a heavy rain day. You said it was a coincidence, but I heard from my classmates that it was quite serious." Tai Yi bit his chopsticks, "Hey dad, do you believe in hitting a ghost?"

Tai's father gave him a smile, and almost wrote in the old folds: Are you stupid?

"Ask me? Don't you hit me every day? When you mentioned this, I forgot to ask you. Is the talisman I brought back for you useful?"

Tai Yi looked into the room, looked at Miss Xiaohan who was standing at the door of the room and played with her mobile phone with folded arms and smiled slightly: "It's very useful, thank you Dad."

Tai's father breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine if it works. Dad spent a lot of money."

Tai Yi returned to the topic again: "Liu Hua told me that the place where our teacher had a car accident, oh, is the intersection of the road in front of the school. Every year at this time someone has a car accident, saying that it was because many years ago a child had a car accident. Got run over."

Tai's father said casually: "Really, I haven't heard of it."

Tai Yi nodded and stopped talking and continued to eat. When he was about to finish eating, Tai's father suddenly said loudly:

"Hiss—I remembered."

"What?" Tai Yi raised his head.

"Just the car accident. The car that caused the accident that year not only hit you, but later said it also hit a child. After hitting you, he ran away and hit the child again."

This time it was Tai Yi's turn to be surprised: "What a coincidence?"

Once the matter is remembered, it will become clear. Tai's father said to him while thinking: "No, I didn't know it before. Later, when I was in the hospital, I heard a few nurses talking about it. Just a quick question, I didn't see the child, but I heard it was quite miserable, the whole leg was gone, and he died before being sent to the hospital. Tell me, the bones of the child at that age haven't hardened yet. Just run it over."

Tai Yi frowned and thought for a while, then said: "That's not right, I remember it clearly, there was no car accident reported except me, but I suffered a fracture and a concussion."

Father Tai sighed: "At that time, I watched you every day, so I didn't have the time to care about these things. Now that I think about it, there is no report at all. I don't know who hit you until now. The monitoring is so dead. The police are there Also play football with me, I guess the wicked driver has a big background, so he will be suppressed, maybe he is rich if he has a high position and power, how many years ago did this work, and he said that in today's society When is the darkness not dark..."

Like most middle-aged men, Tai Fang would talk non-stop when it came to social news and military news, and he couldn't stop talking. Tai Yi was not interested in his father's favorite topics. Looking for an excuse to slip away, he quickly pulled the remaining mouthfuls of rice in the bowl into his mouth, and as soon as he put the bowl away, he said, "I'm done eating!"

Tai's father looked dissatisfied at his escaped son, cleaned the food on the table by himself, and after a while brought fruit into Tai Yi's room and told him: "I am on a business trip tomorrow, and I will only go for two days. I will give you the money for the meal." The shoe cabinet at the door is locked, remember to bring the key and lock the door when you get home, you know? Don’t go home too late, try to eat in the cafeteria and don’t order takeaway.”

Tai Yi nodded, and immediately called Xing Yang when he heard the sound of his father's room door closing: "Hello? My father is on a business trip tomorrow, and I can come out in the evening, and my father told me about the one who hit me and Dodo It's the same car."

Xing Yang: "I see."

The next day's morning reading was mathematics, and when Tai Yi saw Xing Yang standing on the podium wearing thin-rimmed glasses, the water that had just entered his mouth almost spewed out.

Xing Yang looked at the coughing Tai Yi expressionlessly: "Student, do you want to relax?"

Tai Yi shook his head and coughed.

Oh shit.

I have to say that Xing Yang is good-looking, a bit like Yan Kuan's oriental handsome man, with majestic facial features and tall stature, even wearing the same shirt as the dean, he wears a high-level worker's look look.But when he has no expression, he is very fierce, and at this time he looks like the dean.The girls in the class feel that this class has been sublimated by following Teacher Xing. Teacher Xing is handsome and teaches well. Why is the voice so beautiful!

When the get out of class was over, Tai Yi followed with the exercise book, pretending to be a good student who was eager to learn.

"How old are you, Xing Yang? Are you 30?"

Xing Yang walked forward without taking his eyes off: "You have to call me teacher at school, and also, I am much bigger than you imagined."

Tai Yi said casually: "Really? Bigger than Aunt Ping? No way, Aunt Ping said she could be my mother."

Xing Yang gave him a smile back.

"Really...are you lying to me..." Tai Yi had goose bumps all over his body.

It happened that Xing Yang was watching evening self-study tonight, and when school was over in the evening, Tai Yi dawdled until the class was gone before he dared to go to the office to wait for Xing Yang, and the two went to the doorman to sit for a while.

Uncle Xing was also on duty tonight, and the guard room was still smoky, and Uncle Xing was smoking like he didn't have long lungs.Tai Yi took a deep breath nervously, the second-hand smoke was sucked into his nostrils together with the strange smell, Tai Yi coughed a few times, and when he recovered, he suddenly felt his nervous heart and dizzy head calm down, a feeling of peace of mind , A comfortable feeling fills the whole body.

I don't know if I've heard it too much.

Suddenly Tai Yi felt that this kind of comfort was replaced by cold sweat. The coldness from the tailbone to the top of the head made Tai Yi unconsciously lean towards Xing Yang, as if he had a heart-to-heart connection, and Tai Yi didn't even look at the school gate He knew that Dodo was standing at the school gate.Cold sweat trickled down his temples, Tai Yi clenched his fists and felt that his hands were already cold,

"She's here, she's here, Xing Yang! She's standing at the door..." Tai Yi lowered his head and sat on the stool, his body began to tremble, and the uneven chair, which had not been changed for a long time, followed him trembling together.

Xing Yang stood in front of him and took Tai Yi into his arms, fixed his eyes on Duo Duo at the school gate, and patted him on the back like soothing a child: "It's okay, she doesn't dare to come here when I'm here. There is no time to wait a while before going out."

Tai Yi didn't dare to look up again, took out his phone and played with his head down for a while, he didn't know what to look at, opened Moments and swiped a few times, then switched to Weibo, because he was afraid that his eyes would not even be able to focus. How long did it take to hear Xing Yang say: "Okay, it's time to go out."

Tai Yi looked at the time - only 10 minutes had passed, he thought it was as long as a century.

When they looked up, the school gate was empty, and the two of them walked side by side along the road, Tai Yi kept pushing Xing Yang, and when he was approaching the intersection, Tai Yi saw a yellow light in front of him, and asked in a low voice: "Do you see a light in front? Did someone burn paper?"

Xing Yang walked forward without saying a word.There are only two good street lights on this road. Fortunately, these two good lights are far away from the intersection, so there is no need to worry about the shadows that will expose them.

Tai Yi looked at the direction of the fire with some curiosity, and carefully moved behind the bush closest to the man, but he could only roughly see the small half of the man's profile and the big travel bag beside him.Even so, Tai Yi still felt that this person looked familiar.

"I think this person is very familiar. I think I've seen him somewhere, and I must have seen him recently." Tai Yi said in a low voice.

"The old man who worked shifts with Lao Xing."

Tai Yi took a closer look: It really is!

There are a total of three guards in the school. Except for old man Xing who is too recognizable, the other two Tai Yi are probably familiar, but one guard does not have a little finger on his right hand.This was also discovered one day when Tai Yi was late and was pointed by the doorman. Now the man who burned the paper not far away took out the paper money from the bag with his right hand, and it was obvious that his little finger was very short.

Just as he was about to say something, Xing Yang covered his mouth. Tai Yi looked in the direction Xing Yang pointed, and saw Duo Duo squatting next to the person who burned the paper.

Perhaps sensing Tai Yi's terrified gaze, Dodo raised her head slightly and looked at him.

Tai Yi broke Xing Yang's hand: "When did she come here!"

"Just now."

The person who burned the paper started talking, Tai Yi didn't ask more questions, he held his breath and listened carefully to what he said.

"I'm sorry...don't...let my son go...it's my fault..."

Tai Yi felt that he was just repeating this sentence over and over without any substance, and was complaining in his heart that Duo Duo suddenly appeared in front of him—almost face to face.

Xing Yang covered Tai Yi's mouth in time, supported him with the other hand, bent his knees to support Tai Yi's thigh to prevent Tai Yi from falling, the man who burned the paper hurriedly put away the paper money when he heard the noise, stepped on the fire, grabbed the bag and ran up.

Xing Yang looked at the child in front of him unkindly, and said coldly: "If you ask someone, don't do unnecessary things!"

Dodo shivered and took a few steps back, she was not afraid of Tai Yi, but very afraid of Xing Yang, she hesitated and reached out her hand to grab Tai Yi's hand.It was this icy cold feeling again, Tai Yi's cold sweat broke out again, the sticky and cold blood on the child's hand dripped from the joint between the two, Duo Duo slightly pulled him forward, Tai Yi stretched out his hand Grabbing the hem of Xing Yang's clothes, he raised his head and questioned Xing Yang with his eyes.

"It's okay, just follow her," Xing Yang pulled Dodo's hand and left a mark on the back of her hand, staring at Dodo and said, "You know what will happen if you do unnecessary things."

Tai Yi couldn't believe it: "You won't follow?"

Xing Yang took out a piece of chewing gum from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth, and put another piece into Tai Yi's mouth, saying, "She didn't look for me."

Tai Yi chewed mechanically a few times, and the mint that hit the back of his head gave him a jolt. At this moment, he understood the social darkness his father said, and staggered along with Duo Duo, who was only seven or eight meters away from the intersection. Lu Taiyi saw that the scenery on both sides gradually changed, and the sky also changed from dark to day.

Tai Yi lowered his head to see that Dodo in front of him was no longer the blood-stained one just now, with clean and tidy clothes and a cute and immature face, he was not at all inferior to those cute babies on the Internet, but such a cute face was so lifeless that Tai Yi I couldn't bear it in my heart, and a wave of sympathy rose from my heart.