Chapter 16 Blame the Neighbors
Of course, from beginning to end, my dad had never seen the old lay Buddhist Xiao Zhang said.
That day, when Liu Shangang's father drove into the alley of the post office's family courtyard, he had passed the work point. There was no one in the alley, but just as the car drove by the corner of the alley, I saw a woman behind the car, a woman wearing a big red skirt and long hair. Her back was facing me. I couldn't see her appearance clearly, and I only knew that she was a woman.
When I saw her, I always felt something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong.
There are four buildings in the family courtyard, each with three units. My new home is on the second floor of the second floor of the fourth building. After Liu Shangang’s father helped us move our luggage upstairs, he said that there was something else in the factory and left in a hurry. After my parents sent Liu Shangang’s father away, they started to clean up the house. I had nothing to do, so I started shopping in the new home.
It can be seen that this room has been around for a while, but the heating is newly installed. The green paint on it is incompatible with the old and old house. The furniture in the house is ready-made. My dad put our old TV on the living room cabinet and then began to wipe the old sofa in the living room.
In theory, the money my father raised could not rent a house with furniture, not to mention that at that time, in such a family yard, few people would rent their houses to outsiders to live in. But this house not only had low rent, complete furniture, but also did not require a deposit. This also made my father more convinced that the family yard of the post office was indeed a rare auspicious place.
Before the TV could connect to the antenna, I was bored and went to the south-facing balcony and looked out against the window.
At that time, the buildings were generally not high. Although our house was on the second floor, it still had good lighting. The sun was a little dazzling. I put my hands on my forehead to block the light, and then I saw a heavy color downstairs from the left. I looked downwards to the window, but the scene I saw made me feel uncomfortable.
It was pitch black, and all I saw was pitch black.
The first floor of our house is downstairs. There is a large yard on the first floor of the post office family yard. In other people's yards, some flowers and plants are planted, which looks comfortable. However, the one downstairs has a large black cloth above the yard, covering the entire yard. Moreover, the black cloth is very thick and cannot even shine in the sun.
I was wondering what kind of person would put up such a piece of cloth in the yard, as if he was afraid that the sun would shine into his yard.
At this time, my mother also came to the balcony. There was a large cabinet on the balcony. My mother originally wanted to put some thick clothes that she could not wear for the time being. When she saw me standing in front of the window in a daze, she asked me: "Yangyang, what are you doing here?"
I pointed to the black cloth downstairs: "Mom, look, his yard is covered with cloth."
My mother also looked up at the window and frowned: "Who would hang black cloth in the yard? It's unlucky."
My dad was wiping the sofa when he heard my mom's words and shouted from afar: "The landlord said before, someone in the downstairs of our house has albinism and can't bask in the sun. Don't talk in front of the window, it's bad for people to hear it."
Just as my dad was talking, I saw the woman in a red dress entering the yard on the first floor. Although she didn't see it very clearly, I could be sure that when she walked, she walked backwards with her back to the yard gate.
This is the first time I heard of albinism and thought, can people with this disease not only not only can’t bask in the sun, but also have to walk backwards when walking? And I finally figured out why I thought that woman was strange. The sun was not strong that day, but when I saw her, she was holding a big black umbrella.
However, since albinism cannot be sunbathed, it seems reasonable to hold an umbrella.
At that time, I didn't know that although people with albinism had skin more likely to be burned by the sun than ordinary people, they were not as afraid of light as they were rumored. Their hair color was beautiful white or golden, but that woman had long pure black hair.
My dad and my mom have been packing from noon to evening. After dinner, they went to bed very early. I also had the first separate small bedroom in my life, with a desk with the gadgets that Lao Chai Tou gave me. There was also a small bed near the corner of the wall. The room was very small. Apart from the desk and the small bed, there was almost no free space in the room.
Lao Chaitou's gadgets are all my treasures. I took a little horse carved from wood and placed it on the pillow. It seemed that Lao Chaitou was by my side. To be honest, after experiencing those things, I was really a little scared to let me sleep alone.
I was lying on the bed, thinking about the stories that Lao Chaitou told me, and the soup that Lao Chaitou once made for me, and then fell asleep as I thought about it.
I was sleeping very poorly. I always turned over and over on the bed. I was in a daze and felt very uncomfortable. The sky was obviously very hot, and my neck was covered with sticky sweat. But while sweating on my body, I felt a little cold. When the window was closed, I could always feel a gust of cold wind blowing in. The wind did not make people feel cool, but gave people a very boring feeling.
It’s either stuffy or just stuffy, it’s like a breath that’s stuck in your chest, unable to exhale or swallow.
At this moment, someone suddenly knocked on the window, making a "dong dong dong" sound. I woke up and felt a little scared in my heart.
Our house is on the second floor, but the sound is clearly coming from outside the window!
I didn't dare to open my eyes, for fear of seeing something scary, so I grabbed the little horse that Lao Chaitou gave me with my hands, closed my eyes tightly, and pretended to be asleep.
Lao Chaitou once told me that if you encounter an evil spirit, the best way is to escape before it discovers you. Once it is discovered, you will definitely not be able to escape. Don’t panic at this time. Just pretend that it does not exist. If the evil spirit is not too fierce and you ignore it, usually it will not do anything to you.
But the things outside were still knocking on the windows, my heart was beating constantly, my body was sweating, but my hands and feet were already cold. Only the little Trojan in my hand seemed to be emitting a warm feeling, which made me feel at ease.
It was not until the morning sun was about to shine into the room that the sound of knocking on the window disappeared. I quickly got up from the bed and ran into my parents' house like running away.
Before moving, my mother contacted a job in delivering milk early in the morning. After all, the factory has poor efficiency and is owing a lot of foreign debt, so she still has to find a way to make some money.
My mother got up very early that day. When she saw me entering the bedroom with a anxious look on her face, she asked me: "Yangyang, what's wrong?"
I was still scared and said in a daze: "Someone knocked on my window!"
My dad was also woken up by my noise, sat up from the bed sleepily, looked at me, then looked at my mom, and said in a daze: "What are you doing, it's early in the morning."
My mom ignored my dad and just asked me: "Someone knocked on the window? What's going on? Tell me slowly."
I swallowed, and after a long time, I reluctantly explained to my mother: "Last night, someone knocked on the window of my house outside."
My dad and my mom looked at each other and realized that something was wrong at the same time. My dad quickly got out of bed and ran to my bedroom barefoot, and my mom followed him.
I didn't want to go back to that weird little bedroom, but I didn't dare to stay alone, so I followed my mother and ran over.
After my dad entered my room, the first thing he did was to open the window and look outside. He saw that the wall between the first and second floors was straight. Except for a few wires attached to the wall, there was no place to settle down.
My mother also looked down at the window, and when she looked, her face turned pale.
There is no way to stand outside the window. Since it is no way to stand, what exactly is the one who knocked on my window last night?
My dad closed the window and sat on my little bed with annoyance, lowering his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
My mother's first reaction was that she was afraid. After a while, she complained to my father: "It's all you, why didn't you listen to Uncle Chai? After moving here one night, Yangyang encountered that thing again. How can you live the life in the future!"
My dad sighed heavily, but didn't say anything after all.
And my mother didn't continue to complain. My mother knew that the reason why my father didn't move near the bus station was indeed because he had a knot for Lao Chaitou, but more so because of my studies.
My dad was silent for a while and then urged my mom to go to work. My mom was still a little worried, but my dad asked my mom to work with peace of mind and said he had a way.
In the eyes of my mother and I at that time, my father must have gone to find Lao Chaitou. No matter what happened, as long as Lao Chaitou came, it would definitely be solved. It was precisely because of my trust in Lao Chaitou that my mother gave up some of her concerns, and after cleaning up, she went to work.
It was almost seven o'clock, my dad made a simple breakfast, asked me to put on my clothes, and took me to work with me.
At that time, the factory was not strict, and no one took care of the factory with their children. As long as they didn't go to the workshop, no one took care of it. So I followed my dad to visit the rubber factory several times. However, the place was very boring, and the benefits were not good over the years, so the adults in the factory always had a worried face, and I was particularly unwilling to see them.
But I was particularly happy to see Lao Chaitou soon. What made me even happier was that Liu Shangang also followed his father to the factory that day. I had a playmate, so I naturally left those troubles behind.
There was nothing to play in the factory. Although there were some piles of gravel and sand at the back of the factory yard, we were not allowed to enter that place. Liu Shangang and I were lying on the railings of the corridor and chatting.
Chapter completed!