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Chapter 50 Chapter 15 Breakout

The Oriole 苏童 5078Words 2018-03-19
The biggest storm in her life came, and it came so fast. Waited for a bad news first.In the afternoon Mrs. Ma knocked on the door and told her that Liu Sheng could not be rescued and left.She was in a daze for a moment, unable to understand the meaning of leaving, and asked back, leaving?Where did he go?Mrs. Ma saw that she didn't look like a show, so she rolled her eyes towards the sky, look, look, the girl who is not afraid of anything, is also scared stupid this time. Her ears filled with the sharp whistling of the storm, and besides that there was a faint crackling that seemed to come from a suffocated chest.The storm picked her up like a broken branch from a dead tree, and thrust her into a swift eddy.She stood still desperately, blocked the door with her arms outstretched, and stared straight at Mrs. Ma, don't mention them to me, it's none of my business.Mrs. Ma said, why are you acting like a hedgehog?Do you think I'd enjoy being your correspondent?Isn't it because of your pregnant woman's face?It's good for you to have information from them.She was noncommittal to Mrs. Ma's confession.Mrs. Ma asked her again, do you know that Liu Sheng was married with a son?Poor Xiaoli, she is also a pregnant woman, she has only been a bride for a day, and she is about to become a widow.She was stunned, and suddenly turned her face. What do you mean?Whether she is pregnant or not, whether she is a widow or not, is none of my business?Her movement of closing the door was very sudden and rough. Mrs. Ma was caught off guard, her hand was pinched, and she yelled outside the door in pain, Miss Bai, you really can't hand it over!Mrs. Ma kicked the door, and unceremoniously issued a statement of breaking up the relationship. A girl like you is unlucky for anyone who cares about you. No wonder people say you are a broom star!

Turning around behind the door, she felt that the storm was coming from the sky of Toon Street, and it was going to uproot the whole house in place and sweep it into a dark abyss.All the decisions she had made after she became pregnant were now proven to be wrong, and this street, this house, was not her place of refuge after all.She made up her mind and ordered herself to stay away from this place.As soon as she left, she hurried to the attic to pack her things, opened the suitcase, and a big gray moth flew out of it. She was startled, and suddenly thought that Liu Sheng had bought that suitcase for her, maybe the big moth It's the ghost of Liu Sheng, and you must never take it on a trip.She was holding a pile of red, green and green baby products, and didn't know where to put them. In a hurry, she found a newly purchased folding stroller leaning against the corner. She had an idea and decisively unpacked it.Replacing a suitcase with a stroller was a smart and affordable solution, and while she was throwing things in the stroller, she called Miss Indigo to get her ready to receive her.This time, Miss Shenlan's call was answered by a strange man with a Shandong accent. She thought it was Miss Shenlan's new boyfriend, but it turned out to be Miss Shenlan's father. He hesitated and refused to reveal Miss Shenlan's whereabouts.She reported her family name and said that I am Miss Bai. Last time you were in Shenzhen, I accompanied you to the Window of the World and ate seafood barbecue. Do you remember?The old man was silent for a while, and suddenly shouted angrily, go to the drug rehabilitation center to find her!What kind of friend are you to her?She takes drugs, don't you persuade her?You don't even know that she is quitting drugs. Is there a good friend like you in the world?She said in horror, sorry, I don't know, we haven't contacted for a long time, I really don't know anything.

She dropped the phone and screamed, what's going on?Maybe she and Ms. Deep Blue are really not good friends. When did the other party take drugs?Why?She really doesn't know anything.How could such a good girl end up on such a dead end?In her heart, she compared the encounters between herself and Miss Shenlan, but after all, she couldn't compare whose misfortune was more tragic.Isn't it just to suck some fans, isn't it just to degenerate?She came to a conclusion in her indignation, both negative and resentful, anyway, she is depraved, no matter how degenerate she is! After calming down a bit, she ran to the patio to collect the clothes to dry.The emerald Buddha statue used to exorcise ghosts was still hanging on the wall, so she took it off and put it around her neck, patted the wall, and said to the hidden ghosts, can't you afford to hide?I'm leaving, this house will be returned to you, and you can make trouble as you please.The old wall was silent, and the ghosts generally showed a tolerant attitude. They wanted to leave or stay, and they listened to them.She ran to the kitchen and took a look. There was nothing worth taking away in the kitchen, only the lotus flower given by Baorun was still blooming in the soup bowl. The lotus flower seemed to be able to drink water, and the water in the bowl was left Halfway, the red lotus sank down, and half sank, she filled the bowl with water, and said to the lotus, you drive, I'm leaving.

However, she couldn't go away. First a few stones were thrown at the attic window, then a broken brick, and finally a beer bottle came crashing in, shattered the window, and rolled across the attic, down the stairs, and under her feet.She picked up the wine bottle and went back to the attic window, and saw a bunch of heads, big and small, floating below. Shao Lanying was sitting at the gate with disheveled hair and a pale complexion.Someone brought her a small bench. Shao Lanying's buttocks barely touched the bench, and her body kept collapsing downwards, as if she was on the verge of fainting or about to kneel. Her daughter Liu Juan supported her. In the hair, a white flower has been pinned.

Shao Lanying was surrounded by a group of people, including Mrs. Ma. Seeing her appearing at the window, Mrs. Ma and the others all left. The remaining half-grown children were still looking up at her, and came out. The lady is out!She saw Shao Lanying clasped his hands together, with a solemn expression, muttering words.That's not a prayer, it's a curse for sure.Shao Lanying's voice may have been broken from crying, her voice was hoarse, and she couldn't understand the content of the curse. A boy was very excited and volunteered to act as a loudspeaker, jumping up and down, and loudly interpreting it to the attic.

Listen, Miss Bai, Grandma Shao said that you have been a broken shoe since you were a child, corrupt and depraved, seducing men! Listen, Miss Bai, Grandma Shao said that you are a witch who harms people, bringing disaster to the country and the people, and the Bodhisattva is going to eliminate harm for the people!Grandma Shao said that your conscience has been swallowed by dogs, and you are not worthy of being a human being! Miss Bai, listen, Grandma Shao asked you something, you are a vixen, why didn't you go to the deep mountains and old forests, why did you go to Xiangchun Street to harm her son, she only has one son!

Miss Bai, did you listen carefully? Grandma Shao said that you are not worthy of having a child. Even if your child is born, it must have no asshole! There was a burst of short and suppressed laughter from the crowd, she threw the beer bottle at the boy, and the crowd exclaimed, look, she is still so arrogant, she has the guts to throw a beer bottle?Later, more cane heads and broken glass flew in through the window, and she fled from the attic with her head in her arms and into the patio. The courtyard was far away from the street, and the noisy noise suddenly became weaker. However, the circulating air carried the anger of the neighbors. The ghosts in the courtyard were provoked and instigated by living people, and they were making a commotion. On the port and in the crevices of the wall, they quickly gathered and united together. Starting from the interests of their own families, they uttered a familiar cry to her with their hereditary urn and urgency, "Get it!"Fish up fish up!Fish up, fish up, fish up!

She waved the broom in vain, and saw a strange light blue mist filling the courtyard. Under the cover of the mist, the ancestors of the Baorun family arranged a ghost team in the ancient way to demand and pressure her.That was a liquidation team.She has killed people and hurt ghosts, and now both ghosts and people have come to settle accounts with her.She finally distinguished that the sound of the storm that had tormented her ears for the past two days was actually the sound of liquidation mixed by humans and ghosts. She pushed the baby carriage full of luggage and ran to the gate, ready to break out from the crowd. In order to deal with unexpected events, she picked up Baorun's tongs as a necessary weapon.However, she couldn't get away, and someone put a chain lock on the outside of the door, so she couldn't open the door no matter what.Through the crack of the door, she saw Shao Lanying's sad head with a white flower on her messy white hair.Liu Juan is outside the door, her red and swollen eyes are facing her, shooting out hatred, where do you want to go?Let you run away, my brother will die in vain!You are the murderer behind the scenes, you are not allowed to go anywhere, just stay at home and wait for the police to catch you!

A pale, gnarled hand crept through the chain lock and slowly slipped through the crack of the door, and she noticed that it was trembling, rising with effort, as if to grab her hair.She couldn't tell whose hand it was for a moment, and pinched it fiercely with the tongs. The pinched hand didn't flinch, and she immediately recognized that it was Shao Lanying's hand.That hand fearlessly greeted her poker, and then a gray, white and swollen face fell slumped under the poker. The tears on Shao Lanying's face were superimposed, and a layer of white light like salt frost shone. Fairy, I regret it. If I had known today, I would have let Liu Sheng go to jail to pay off your debts!Fairy, fairy, I can't beat you, and I can't scold you, so I just ask you, now that Liu Sheng is dead, are you satisfied now?

She dropped the poker, stamped her foot, and answered shrilly, Satisfied! It's decided to go.She made up her mind that if she couldn't go by land, she would go by water.She threw the stroller by the door and ran into the kitchen. She moved a table and two chairs to the patio and built them against the wall. She began to climb and break out.She climbed up the wall carefully to observe the route of breaking out, looked at the stone port and the river outside, and looked at the graceful figures in the lotus alley across the river, feeling a little scared in her heart.All feasible routes are submerged in the river, and she does not know the depth of the river.Dipping was dangerous, she might drown, and if she drowned, the fetus would drown.Her mind was blank, and she faintly heard someone shouting in Lotus Alley, look at that pregnant woman, she has such a big belly, and she is climbing the wall!The shout made her flustered. If she hesitated any longer, she would end up in another end for people to watch. She gritted her teeth and jumped off the wall.She fell down on the moss-covered stone port, and was picked up by the denser moss on the steps, leading her down and leading her into the embrace of the river.Everything was unexpected, everything went smoothly, she heard her body bumping along the way like a derailed car, and there was a sharp scream from deep inside her body, she didn't know if it was her child screaming, or her own The soul is screaming.

The river water is a bit dirty, and there is a layer of industrial oil floating on the water surface. They draw circles of colorful patterns in the sun.There is no way on the water, so she slowly probed towards the middle of the river, and after a few steps, the water had already reached her chest, so she gave up the route of crossing the river to Lotus Lane, and retreated, sticking to the stone port and houses by the river. base go.The sandals fell off at some point, and the silt and garbage at the bottom of the river bit her feet, a little sticky, a little cold, and more painful.She suspected that she was having a nightmare, twisted her arm, it hurt, it hurt, this was not a nightmare, it was real, this was a real day in her life, she had to find the last way from the river. She walked past the window of Teacher Pei's house facing the river. The window was open. Teacher Pei's granddaughter was doing her homework by the window. When she saw her head moving under the window, the little girl screamed in fright. There's a water ghost in the river!She pressed her finger to her lips, signaling the little girl to keep it a secret.She walked in the river with difficulty, and no one stopped her, but the pieces of garbage curled up on the base of the revetment wall.One condom disgusted her, as if it had just been used, with a trail of slime trailing from the cuff, and it trailed her narrowly, reminding her of a mistake she had made on her trip to Europe: I am very important in human life , if you don't treat me kindly, you will pay a heavy price.She pushed the water to drive away the condom, gritted her teeth and walked past more than a dozen houses by the river, and finally saw the stone pier that had been abandoned for many years.Two stationary cranes produced in the 1970s still stretch out their long steel arms, watching over the unnecessary barges.Disembarking from the stone pier was one of the escape routes she had imagined.She found the stone steps under the water. The stone steps were covered with moss, and she couldn't walk up. She had to climb up slowly. Halfway through the climb, she felt that the pier was turbulent. When she looked up, a group of people had already occupied the pier in advance.Here we come, Miss Bai is here!She heard the boys shouting, and Liu Juan rushed over from the crowd, holding a long clothes pole.Liu Juan slapped the water around her with her pole, go back, go back, go back to the river!Liu Juan's angelic and pure eyes now only have an angry light, dead fairy, smelly fairy!Others do not understand you, I do not understand you?Liu Juan said, what kind of fairy are you?You don't know how dirty you are, go back to the river and have a good wash! She tried to grab Liu Juan's bamboo pole, but the bamboo pole was pulled away without being caught.Liu Juan was holding the clothes-drying pole, like holding a gun, ready to fight.The concrete floor of the pier was full of early autumn sunshine. Several boys hid behind Liu Juan and looked at her. They found that her body was covered with mud and moss, and her lips were covered with beard-like dirt. Some people snickered, others Suddenly moved the heart of compassion.A boy rushed to the shore and shouted to her, Miss Bai, you are so stupid, why do you have to go ashore from here?You can go ashore from Mr. Pei's house, and you can also go ashore from Xiaolingdang's house. Go back to the river quickly and find another route to break through.She smiled at the boy, wanted to say something, but couldn't.She felt that the toon tree street on the shore was rejecting her, the whole world was rejecting her, only the water was holding her back, the river wanted to keep her, her stiff arms drooped down, her knees loosened, and the moss under the water sent her back into the water. She didn't struggle. She has no strength against the river. Strangely, she was floating on her back on the river, and she was going down the river at the speed of a pile of garbage, or in the posture of a fish.She carried her fetus down the river.She didn't know that drowning was such a beautiful feeling, the sky was blue with a few cottony white clouds.She saw her purple souls, strands of scattered souls, strands of purple souls, they rose slowly and merged with the white clouds in the sky.The river water is actually very beautiful. There is a loose and soft crawler on the water surface. The power of the wind is pushing this crawler and pushing her down the river.The houses on both sides of the river flashed rhythmically, one window after another, one figure after another.On the dilapidated stone port of the grocery store, a pot of abandoned hydrangeas blooms in full bloom, half red and half green.An old woman put a towel blanket on the window sill facing the river to dry. When she saw her floating in the river, she thought she was a swimmer. go ashore. On this road on the water, she walked very smoothly, and the hand of the god of death held her up in the shape of water. For some reason, she refused to let go.She went down the river, thinking in her heart that this was her last time in the world, and she would soon sink, and she should hurry up and say something to this world, but she didn't know what to say first which sentence.Her ears are always filled with the ravings of water, and the ravings of water repeat Liu Juan's voice, wash it off.Wash it.She doesn't accept Liu Juan's malice, but she accepts the admonition of the river water and washes it off.Let's wash it.She comforted herself, then dipped her hands in water, pressed her abdomen, and comforted the fetus with river water, child, take a good wash, let's wash before we die.She felt the fetal riot in her fingers, very rude, very angry.Every inch of the tight skin on her abdomen transmits the scorching heat of the fetus.She had a desperate presentiment that the child, her child, would not want to be with a humiliated mother in her womb.The crawler of the river gradually slowed down, and in front of the Bridge of Good People, a rounded shadow suddenly appeared on the surface of the river. This broad road of freedom on the river was finally blocked.Construction is underway under the Shanren Bridge. Several migrant workers are standing naked in the river, driving pilings, pumping water, and laying sandbags. They are reinforcing the decaying body of the ancient stone bridge. She vaguely remembered that she was carried ashore by some migrant workers, and she saw the broken stone plaque on the wall of Shanren Bridge for the first time: Shanren Bridge.She remembered that her body went up and down the bridge, and there was a wisp of purple mist following her up and down the bridge.The mist is so light, but her body is so heavy, her body is like a broken wet sandbag, and her child is about to get out of the sandbag.She still remembers that she kept a rare sobriety before she fell into a coma. I am willing to die, but the child does not want to die.She told the migrant workers, my child does not want to die, I will be born prematurely, please send me to the maternity hospital.
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