Chapter 13 Zhuang Zhou Mengdie (12) Sticker Dolls
Mo Chen looked at the clock on the wall, and the pointer was approaching the property at twelve o'clock. Mo Chen muttered to himself, "What's going to do when it's so late?" What's more, since Mo Chen was discharged from the hospital, his parents have never left him at home alone. Even if they have to go out to buy vegetables and pay some water and electricity fees, their parents will take turns going out, and they will definitely leave someone behind to stay at home to guard Mo Chen.
Thinking of this, Mo Chen quickly changed into his clothes, grabbed the spare key beside the door, and hurried out. When Mo Chen came downstairs, his parents had already walked a long way, but Mo Chen could hide from them from afar to avoid being discovered by them.
Parents walked side by side, mothers were holding a black bag in their hands, and fathers looked back from time to time. Every time, Mo Chen quickly hid behind a tree next to the road or behind a trash can.
Judging from his father's guarded look, it seemed that he was afraid that Mo Chen would secretly follow them. Mo Chen thought to himself, what was going on? Parents should do it in such a secret way.
Not long after my parents walked out of the park, they stopped by a small intersection. My father broke a branch from the small tree beside the road and drew a circle on the ground.
Then, my mother opened the black bag and took out the things inside. It turned out to be a thick stack of paper money.
Mo Chen couldn't help but feel a little slack in his heart. In the middle of the night, on the roadside, burning paper... This scene, the atmosphere made Mo Chen get goosebumps.
Those ghost movies that he had watched before he lost his memory and some similar scenes broke into his mind one by one, making Mo Chen frightened.
Parents squatted on the side of the road, dad took out a lighter and lit a piece of paper money. The two of them muttered something in a low voice, as if they were mourning the deceased.
Seeing the burning paper burning vigorously, my mother took out a doll from the black bag, and she held the doll in her hands and muttered to the surging flames.
The distance was a bit far, and Mo Chen couldn't hear what his parents were muttering. He stared at his mother's lips and struggled to identify what she was talking about.
I don’t know if it’s the terrifying atmosphere that makes me think unreasonable, or if it’s the truth, Mo Chen felt that his mother’s lips were opened lightly, and it seemed that she was talking about his name.
A gust of cold wind blew, bringing up some burning paper money ashes, and Mo Chen couldn't help but wrap his clothes on his body.
The raised ashes swirled rapidly in the air and floated towards Mo Chen, as if the paper money was burned for him.
It took about half an hour before my parents finished burning the paper money and tidied up the used branches and plastic bags. Then the two shook their clothes and whispered to each other and left.
Mo Chen looked at the circle on the ground from afar. The flames in the circle had not completely gone out. Mo Chen hid behind the tree until the corner of the path where parents disappeared. Mo Chen then set off and walked to the edge of the circle on the ground.
It doesn't matter when Mo Chen's heart seemed to be grabbed by something, and it twitched violently, and his heartbeat accelerated.
In the ashes in the middle of the circle, the human-shaped puppet with hands sewn was clearly attached to its head with a photo of Mo Chen's avatar.
Mo Chen's mind was blank. What was the reason? His personal parents wanted to burn a doll that represented him? Mo Chen suddenly recalled that his parents were "careful" these days, and they were actually afraid that they would run away. This idea suddenly appeared in Mo Chen's mind.
Mo Chen squatted down and stretched out his hand, and his right hand kept pushing towards the ashes. The human-shaped puppet whose legs had been burned out.
Mo Chen grabbed the puppet, and there was still some flame-like warmth on the puppet's body, but it was completely opposite to Mo Chen's mood at this moment. Mo Chen's heart was so cold that it was bone-cold.
Mo Chen didn't remember how he walked home. His mind was in chaos along the way. He thought of countless reasons why his parents wanted to harm him, but none of them could make him believe.
Whose parents will harm their children?
There is no misunderstanding here? Mo Chen thought so.
However, Mo Chen also couldn't find any reason to convince himself to explain that his parents did such a creepy act.
Mo Chen returned from the downstairs of his home in a daze, but saw two figures running out of the unit door in panic. Mo Chen weakly pulled down his eyelids. The person coming was his parents.
Mom ran over to Mo Chen first and hugged Mo Chen. Mo Chen anxiously said, "Baby, where have you been? I scared my mother to death."
Then, my father followed and scolded Mo Chen for not sleeping well at home at night. He ran out of the house quietly, which made the two elders worried, and so on.
Mo Chen looked at his mother with a plain face, then looked at his father.
Mo Chen slowly raised his hand, and the incomplete doll grabbed it in his hand at this moment. Mo Chen said coldly, "I want to know first, what is it for?"
My parents' eyes gathered in Mo Chen's hands. When they saw the doll, a look of panic suddenly appeared on my mother's face.
Mom looked at her father like she asked for help, and for a moment she didn't know how to explain to Mo Chen. Dad glanced at the doll and looked at Mo Chen again, and he sighed.
Dad said, "Let's go! Go home first, come home, I will tell you what you want to know."
"His dad!" Mom shouted in a stop. Dad waved his hand and gestured to Mom with his eyes, without saying anything.
Mo Chen stood there without moving, staring at his father stubbornly, as if he was protesting silently. If his father was not here to explain clearly, he would not go home with them.
Dad's voice became a little louder, and he said, "Even if you have doubts in your heart, you have to give me a chance to explain it! I am Dad! Will it hurt you if it is so difficult? Let's go home!! I will tell you everything I know!...Ancestors."
It seems that my father was a little angry at Mo Chen's stubbornness. The sentence "I am you, it's so difficult that it will hurt you?" successfully captured the last trace of defense in Mo Chen's heart. Yes! The two people in front of him were their parents who loved them the most. Mo Chen suddenly felt guilty, why did he subconsciously doubt them?
Mom pulled Mo Chen's arm, and Mo Chen followed the situation and walked into the unit door with his parents.
When they returned home, the family of three sat opposite each other around the coffee table.
Mo Chen placed the doll that was sticking to his photo flat on the coffee table. At this moment, under the bright light, it seemed not as gloomy and terrifying as it just looked.
Mo Chen spoke first, and he said, "Now, can you tell me what's going on?"
The mother's flashing eyes fell on her father, and it was not difficult to see that at this moment, she still didn't want her father to tell Mo Chen the truth.
Dad patted his mother's shoulder gently, and he said softly, "When the child is grown, we can't always be by his side and pave the way for him in everything. Besides... we can hide this for a while, but we can't hide it for a lifetime. Sooner or later, we will tell him."
Chapter completed!