Chapter 506: Behind Him (9)
The flash of fireworks continued to illuminate the night sky. Susan was lying by the window, her eyes attracted by the fireworks, and she could not look away for a long time.
"Honey, stop looking and come and help me." Old John's voice came from the kitchen, and the sound of chopping meat on the chopping board was extremely loud and dense, filling the room.
But Susan seemed not to hear, still sticking to the window and watching dreamily.
At this time, a young man hurriedly passed by the window and knocked on their door.
Susan looked up and the young man looked at her through the window with a bright smile: "Aunt Susan, it's me, Jerry, coming to see the mayor."
Susan blinked. She blinked and remembered that her husband had warned her not to open the door for anyone casually. Do you think you burned any calories today? Is there?
Old John’s voice sounded: “Who is it?”
“It’s...Jerry.” Susan said uncertainly, “He said he was Jerry, I don’t I know.”
Old John came out of the kitchen with bright red stains on his apron, with a hint of impatience on his face: “Jerry, don’t you remember?”
Susan watched Old John wipe his hands with his apron, leaving bright red marks, his eyes flashed, and he pursed his lips in silence.
Old John glanced through the window, confirmed his identity, and then opened the door to let Jerry in, who was rubbing his hands in the cold.
He looked back at Susan, pulled Jerry aside, and lowered his voice: "What's wrong?"
Susan continued to lie on the window sill, vaguely hearing a few words : "Frank...all his things are lost...crying and making trouble..."
After a while, Old John came over, took off his bloody apron and stuffed it into Susan's hand, and said: "My dear, I'll go out first."
He put on his cotton coat and hat, turned around and warned: "Don't open the door casually, and don't go out. You know it."
As soon as he finished speaking, Old John hurried out and locked the door from the outside.
Susan watched the backs of old John and Jerry outside the door gradually disappearing into the wind and snow, and the apron in her hand became tighter and tighter.
Her mind recalled that just before closing the door, Jerry bowed to her through the crack in the door and made a weird salute. He seemed to have said something like "Teacher" or something like that. of.
Of course, all with Old John on his back.
Susan did not reveal it at the moment, but silently hid these thoughts in her heart.
She walked to the kitchen and her eyes fell on the cutting board.
Amidst the bloody flesh, a shining ring was half-hidden in the broken pieces of flesh.
She stretched out her hand to push away the flesh and blood, staring at the ring, her thoughts drifting away.
After a while, she picked up the knife on the chopping board, wiped the blade with her apron, and threw the apron on the ground.
Then, she calmly broke the door handle, walked into the wind and snow, and walked towards the place where the fireworks were blooming.
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Ling Yuke stood in the crowd, listening to his father talking to the neighbors who were watching. When he came back, the work shed was turned into a mess, and everything was lost. He had accumulated everything in half his life. The tools were gone, and the materials that the explorers had finally hauled back for exchange in the cold night were gone.
I burst into tears, and the neighbors expressed their sympathy.
"I suspect that it was the brat from Bowen who did it. He is always sneaky." Someone said.
"It's possible to say that, and he lives nearby."
"What's more, he hasn't appeared yet, so he can't even hear the loud noise, right?"
Frank just cares. Sad, he said nothing: "Anyway, let's wait until the mayor comes!"
Then, he wiped his tears, looked up, and suddenly woke up.
"Where is my daughter? Why is Claire missing?" He looked around in panic.
Suddenly, Frank looked at the place where the colorful fireworks were blooming, and seemed to think of something.
"Dad, I'm here!" At this time, the daughter's voice suddenly sounded from the side, "What are you looking at?"
"Wow, these are fireworks!"
Frank turned his head and saw his daughter standing next to him, looking up at the fireworks in the sky with a look of surprise on his face.
Suddenly startled, Frank was wondering when his daughter walked to him and why he didn't remember.
He looked at his daughter's face: "You went out?"
"What went out? Wasn't I always here?" The daughter blinked, looking innocent.
Frank looked at her face that was red from the cold, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and the strange feeling in his heart became stronger.
……
Liu Sheng also went home.
According to the location in memory, walk in the direction of "home" in the wind and snow. At this time, the fireworks had dissipated for a long time, and the town returned to deathly silence.
Arrived at the door of her house, she knocked on the door.
Liu Sheng saw someone looking at the window for a long time before finally opening the door.
She glanced at the eyes looking at her from the other window before slowly walking into the door.
The mother stood timidly at the door, with mixed emotions in her eyes. She stepped forward tremblingly and patted the snowflakes off her daughter's body, and stammered: "You...you are back? No, isn't it cold?"
Liu Sheng shook his head and stepped into the back room.
The room was warmed by the stove, and the snow on my body melted immediately when the heat hit me, making my whole body wet.
"What the hell, it's better to die outside!" The father's voice sounded coldly, and the gaze he projected was more piercing than the wind and snow.
My younger brother Andy's cold voice came from the corner: "Mom and Dad, my sister must have failed this time, right? She actually has the nerve to come back!"
Andy's voice was filled with sharp ridicule. He had already heard from his parents about the situation at the scene and knew that Liu Sheng was not selected. At this moment, he seemed to have caught his sister's weakness and ridiculed her unscrupulously.
My father sneered and said nothing, my mother lowered her head and bit her nails, looking extremely uneasy.
If it were Beatrice in the past, she might hide and cry silently in aggrievedness.
But Liu Sheng doesn’t.
She wants to go home just because she needs an identity in this small town.
At this stage, there is no benefit in breaking away from this apparent "Beatrice Anderson" identity.
But that doesn’t mean she wants to indulge this little lunatic.
Returning to the room in silence, there was still the harsh laughter of my brother outside.
Liu Sheng changed out of her soaked dress and silently raised the corners of her lips.
When it was time to eat, no one came to ask Beatrice to eat, and no one was waiting for her to eat.
Beatrice's door was also closed and it was very quiet, as if no one was inside.
Andy was even more proud, thinking that his sister must have suffered a huge blow, and taunted him proudly at the dining table:
"Sister... Han Ye used to be... He is a nerd and has no charm at all, let alone becoming a priest. How is that possible? "
"Eat, Andy." His mother gave him a piece of meat and said in a low voice. Just shut his mouth.
But Andy did not restrain himself: "I thought she would be able to make some progress after the cold night, but she was still a waste."
"So don't imitate her, Andy, be a useful person in the town, and follow the church closely." The father's voice said, "Remember, people with faith will not be abandoned."
"Okay, Dad!"
These voices did not make any sound inside, as if the door was already isolated from the world. Andy was very proud, but felt a little boring.
After eating, it was already time to go to bed according to the schedule in the town.
And in order to save energy, every household turns off the lights and goes to bed very early.
Although Andy really wanted to stay up late and play games like he did when he was a child, but now he could only lie in bed helplessly and fall asleep early.
In the middle of the night, Andy suddenly felt a chill coming. Andy couldn't stand it anymore. He opened his eyes in a daze and found that the window had opened at some point, and the wind and snow were pouring into the house. Fill it with water.
The curtains were wet from the wind and snow, and the bed under the window was also wet from the wind and snow. No wonder his feet were cold.
Andy frowned and crawled over to close the window.
But just after closing it, the window was suddenly blown open again, and the curtains were firmly attached to the window by the strange air pressure, as if they were covered.
Andy felt a little strange and murmured to himself: "It looks like I have to ask dad to repair the window."
However, when he was about to close the window again, he suddenly found that the curtain seemed to be stuck by something.
Why is this happening?
Andy pulled the curtains and found that they couldn't be opened.
The curtains can’t be opened, how can he close the window?
It must have been clamped, so he lowered his head to see where it was clamped, but suddenly found a hand.
She stretched out from under the bed silently, tugging tightly on the curtains.
Andy was frightened and slowly stretched his head to the bottom of the bed.
I saw a familiar face close to the bottom of the bed, smiling strangely at him.