Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The trash can seems to be swallowing people at any time

Could the pony's eyes still accurately spot Donna? She used to walk so elegantly on the sidewalk of Mortal East Road, her white dress stirred the desire of the wind.The pony sat on the steps of the Sunshine Cinema and spotted her in the crowd at a glance.Now there are more and more people in Chiban City, like locusts, Pony doesn't know where these people came from.Donna walked slowly in the direction of the pony, her haughty face glowing intoxicatingly in the sunlight.The pony seemed to be able to smell the fragrance of apples emanating from her smooth and jade-like face. At that time, there would be a sweetness in the pony's heart, and the sweetness would seep out of the pores of his body like honey, and he imagined himself as a happy man.

The pony didn't know if Donna had ever paid attention to him as a man. She only had to glance at the pony out of the corner of her eye, and his heart would jump out.The scene of Donna walking gracefully in the sun has become a thing of the past, and the pony no longer has that kind of feast, even if he sits on the steps outside the Sunshine Cinema for eternity.There are countless beautiful women in Chiban City, but none of them can attract the pony's attention. Donna, who is pleasing to the eye and infinitely in love with him, is buried in his heart.Donna was murdered a year ago, and the murderer is said to have not been caught yet.

When the pony arrived in the summer of 2003, she was still thinking about Donna.I remember that the day after Donna's death, the police came looking for him. The police's eyes were like knives, as if they wanted to cut his heart open.The police suspect that the pony is the murderer, and the police's questioning makes him upset.But he didn't dare to contradict the police, the pony just said to the police in his heart, I don't know anything, if I know who the murderer is, I can be a policeman too.The policeman couldn't get anything out of the pony's mouth, so he left in a huff.The pony looked at the tall back of the policeman and thought, poor Donna, if you died at my hands, then what a happy man I would be.Thinking about it, the pony's tears flowed out.During the year of Donna's death, Pony was always very sad. He tried every means to find out the cause of Donna's death, but he found nothing.But just one night after this summer, the pony's heart immersed in sadness was replaced by fear.

Mortal East Road is a very ordinary street in Chiban City, it becomes more lively like all streets in this city after summer.There was always an inexplicable hot wind blowing in the street, and there was a looming smell of woman's perfume and carnal smell in the wind, and the pony couldn't figure out where these smells came from.Sometimes he would think, this is the scent of Donna, but it seems that it is not.Mortal East Road has already forgotten about Donna's death, and the increasingly indifferent crowd will not remember a living and dead life deeply.This seems to be an era without love, everything is so impermanent, making people tremble for no reason.

It's a good thing for a pony when it's summer, it's a season in which the pony feels his life is secure.This is for their waste pickers, because people make a lot more trash in the summer.Pony is a scavenger in Chiban City. In layman's terms, he is a scavenger. The pony often sees Xiao Wu when picking up trash on Mortal East Road.Xiao Wu is a waiter at the Friday Sichuan Restaurant opposite the Gumei Vegetable Market on Mortal East Road.If she saw a pony, she would talk to him.For a long time, the pony could still remember a conversation between Xiao Wu and him when he first met him.

Xiao Wu is a fat girl, and she often makes the pony think that she eats all the leftovers from the Sichuan restaurant on Friday, and her stomach is a huge trash can, which is a very cruel thing.In her free time, Xiao Wu stood by the trash can under a telephone pole outside Sichuan Restaurant on Friday, eating melon seeds and talking to the pony. The fat on her face was trembling, but her eyes were bright. .At that time, the pony was carrying a woven bag and was looking for things in the trash can. Xiao Wu asked the pony, hey, Lame, what treasure did you find? The pony was angry, he said, don't call me lame, I was a handsome guy before I was lame.

Xiao Wu laughed and said, handsome guy?Hey, you are such a bear, disheveled, and handsome. The pony said angrily, don't look down on people, dogs look down on people! Xiao Wu smiled, didn't it mean that I look down on you, who on this mortal road looks down on you?Don't piss to see what you are.Hey, I have a question for you. How did you get limped? The pony said it was a war. Xiao Wu was full of doubts, have you ever fought a war? Of course, said the pony, you were not born when I fought. Xiao Wu said disdainfully, bragging!You, a cripple picking up rags, don't even type drafts when you brag.

The pony said, believe it or not, talking to you is boring, don't talk to me anymore! The pony is only tough when talking to people like Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu smiled, hee hee, you are still so careless, okay, I won’t tease you anymore, I don’t care how your leg was broken, but it’s not bad for a local like you to pick up trash See you, you are not ashamed. The pony lacks confidence when he speaks, what a shame!Why is it not a movable type. At this moment, there was a yell from the Sichuan restaurant on Friday, Xiao Wu, where are you going to die—— Xiao Wu hastily agreed and rolled towards the store, like a ball of meat.

Xiao Wu meeting Wang Guangda, the owner of Friday Sichuan Restaurant, is like a mouse meeting a cat. After a while, Wang Guangda came out of the shop, he stood at the shop door and yelled at the pony, pick up the rags, next time I catch you seducing Xiao Wu, see if I don't break your other leg! The pony was so angry that he yelled at him, you have the guts to come and fight! After the pony said this, he felt guilty and thought, if he really wants to come and beat me, there is nothing I can do. I am a cowardly person, and I am afraid that others will beat me. Wang Guangda sneered, try it if you don't believe me, as long as you seduce Xiao Wu again, I will dare to break your other leg!

The pony was trembling all over, when did I seduce that fat girl named Xiao Wu?This is the first time I know her name, and I just heard it from your Boss Wang. At this time, two big men walked out of the Sichuan restaurant, both of them were holding kitchen knives, and they were the cooks in the restaurant.When the pony saw the knife, his heart trembled, so he ran away in a panic. Wang Guangda and the two cooks laughed loudly behind him. Pony felt sad, why did I become such a person! At that time the sun kept shaking above the pony's head. A terrible thought came to the pony's mind: Will the sun suddenly fall from the sky?What would happen to me if the sun went down?

The pony didn't dare to think too much, he thought many terrible thoughts would ruin him. At this time, the pony heard the sound of birds chirping, where did the birds chirp come from?It was difficult for him to hear the birds in this city.The pony turned around and saw Wang Guangda holding a mobile phone in his hand, and got into the Santana sedan parked outside Friday Sichuan Restaurant in a panic. Pony understood that the bird call was coming from Wang Guangda's cell phone. During the day, the pony roams around every corner of Mortal East Road, and he is a dirty mouse in people's eyes.At night, the pony sleeps in an abandoned security booth next to the East Mortal Road subway station.The security booth was locked tightly at first, and he pried the lock open in the middle of the night, and entered this shelter from the wind and rain. Later, he didn't stop doing anything, so he simply changed the lock and occupied the security booth. for oneself.Fortunately, no one cares, the pony has been living here. The pony didn't want to go back home, because everyone in his family looked down on him, and the little self-esteem left in his heart told himself that even if he picked up trash, he was better than going home.His home is far away from Mortal East Road, on the other side of Chiban City.The pony did go to war, and that war destroyed him, or rather, the pony himself destroyed himself.It was a wound in his heart that would never heal, and as long as he touched it with a thought, the wound would bleed gurglingly. One night after the onset of summer, the pony went into a deep terror. That night, as usual, the mouse-like pony got into the security booth. The pony lay down on his back exhausted, feeling a bit heavy in his breathing.He never imagined on which night what would happen and what would not happen.But this night, shortly after he lay down, he felt something unusual.The pony was sticky all over, as if some liquid was leaking from the pores of his body. He believed it was not sweat. It was not yet hot weather, and even in hot weather, he seldom sweated. People, I remember that a comrade named Gao Changxue once said that the pony was an iceman.The pony is having a hard time.Occasionally, there were pedestrians passing by outside the security booth, but not many, and the pony would enter the security booth every day after the subway was out of service.Normally, he wouldn't care about the people passing by outside the security booth, they had nothing to do with ponies.Once a drunk man was too drunk and slammed his head against the wooden plank of the security booth, but the pony didn't move, because he knew that the drunk man couldn't hit it forever. But the pony was very vigilant this night, he didn't know what would happen this night.The slimy fluid oozing from the pores of the pony was forcing him to rush out of the security box, although his body was motionless.The pony lay uncomfortable, and he wanted to find a place to wash the mucus off his body.The pony thought of Chibanhe.The Chiban River runs through the middle of the city, and it is only 20 minutes away from Mortal East Road. In the usual summer, he secretly takes a bath in the Chiban River. He wonders if he should really take a bath. bath!The pony was very contradictory. In fact, he was very tired and he didn't want to move, but he was very uncomfortable, and he couldn't bear the sticky feeling on his body.The pony persisted until late at night amidst the contradictions. There were almost no pedestrians on the road, and there was silence outside the security booth.Even the occasional cars passing by on Mortal East Road could not completely tear the silence. The city fell asleep.The pony couldn't fall asleep, many thoughts were running through his mind, he suddenly thought of Donna, where is she now?Are you standing outside the security booth?What he wanted was to see the elegant Donna walking towards him in the sunlight, the lively Donna.The pony didn't want her trailing a long shadow outside the security box in the sleepy city. Pony can't sleep.When he was thinking about Donna, he suddenly heard a disturbing voice.At first it sounded like a cat meowing softly, with a somewhat forlorn feeling.Listening carefully, the pony recognized the faint cry of a baby. Where do babies cry from? Have babies ever cried very loudly? The pony was very puzzled, maybe it was my hallucination, maybe there was no baby crying at all. He tugged at his ears, the pain was real, and he knew that he was not hallucinating, nor could he be in a dream. The cry of the baby slid coldly through the pony's heart over and over again, like a cold little hand stroking his skin.This state was more unbearable to the pony than the slime, and he finally walked out of the security booth into the silent street. At this time, there was no one on the street, not even a passing vehicle, and the light from the street lamps was somewhat false, in the eyes of the pony, it was so unreal.The baby's voice seemed to come from the subway. The pony followed the baby's voice.It was about 20 meters from the security booth to the subway exit, and he seemed to have walked for a long time during the 20 meters. The pony came to the exit of the subway. The inside of the subway was gloomy. If a person walked out of it at this time, he would be scared to death.There is an aisle going down from here to reach the opposite side of the street. Someone used to pick up abandoned babies in the underground aisle of the subway.Pony discovers that the baby's cries are not coming from the subway underpass, though he's just beginning to suspect that someone is dumping the secretly aborted illegitimate child into the subway underpass again.It is said that in the old residential area on Mortal East Road, there is a place that secretly helps women have abortions, but he doesn't know where it is. There is a big black trash can next to the subway station. The trash can has a black mouth, as if it is about to swallow people in at any time.Although the pony was a garbage collector, he still didn't dare approach the trash can on such a night, because it was in this trash can that Donna's mutilated body was found. The cry of the baby came from this trash can. The pony's back grew cooler, and the baby's cries grew fainter. The pony bravely walked over, and by the light of the street lamp, he saw a baby wrapped in a piece of white cloth lying on the trash in the trash can. The baby seemed to be just born, and there were bloodstains on the white cloth.He couldn't see the baby's eyes clearly, and the baby's weak cry frightened him. The pony suddenly turned around and ran back to the security booth.He entered the security booth and closed the door firmly. The pony opened his eyes wide, and he said over and over again in his heart, pony, you are a murderer, you refuse to save yourself, you are a murderer.The pony struggled tossing and turning in the security booth like this. It was a physical and spiritual struggle, and he endured the unbearable pain.When the pony decided to pick up the baby and save him, the pony could no longer hear the baby's cries, not even the slightest sound like a gossamer. The pony walked to the trash can again.At this time, the air was heavy, but in the heavy air, the leaves on the side of the road rustled.Without a breath of wind, how can the leaves make a sound?Then, he suddenly smelled a fragrance, which he accurately identified, it was the fragrance of apples, and it was the fragrance emanating from Donna.The pony's heart trembled a little.Before he could recover, the baby in the trash can turned into a flowery face, it was Donna's face, she seemed to be smiling at him faintly, her pale lips moved slightly, as if What are you talking to him about. The pony's eyes widened in surprise, and his breathing became short of breath. He tried to escape, but his feet were nailed to the ground. The pony saw a hand stretched out from the trash can, a long hand, and touched his face, as if a sinister wind was blowing towards his face.The pony closed his eyes, and said in his heart, Donna, I have no grievances with you, just let me go! The pony seemed to hear the laughter, which was very ethereal, and disappeared after a while. That creepy laugh made the pony's hair stand on end. The pony opened its eyes, and Donna's flowery face in the trash can was gone.The baby in the trash can was still there, still wrapped in the blood-stained white cloth, revealing a small face with its eyes tightly closed.It was a breathless baby. The pony put its trembling fingers under his nose and found that the baby was no longer breathing.His intuition told the pony that the baby was dead, and he suddenly thought, could the baby's death be related to Donna?His scalp tingled.The baby's body was cold and stiff, and the pony's body was also cold and stiff, and he stood there bewildered. The leaves were still rustling in the dull air.At this moment, the pony heard footsteps. The sound of footsteps seemed to come from the gloomy subway. The footsteps approached the pony. The exit of the subway seemed to be the exit of hell. Who would come out of it? The pony's heart was stuck in his throat, he wanted to shout, but he couldn't, as if a pair of invisible big hands were stuck around his neck.The pony couldn't wait to run back to the security booth, and firmly resisted the door.The rustling of leaves outside grew louder, as did the footsteps.The pony was curled up in the security booth, and only then did he feel that his bladder was about to explode. He was holding back his urine, but he didn't dare to go out. The sound of leaves and footsteps sounded outside. Whose footsteps were those? ? Song Zhengwen looked at the empty home, he felt a little lost.He was walking around the house, not knowing what to do.He walked from his bedroom to the study, and from the study to the living room, he felt an aura that made him restless.Ever since his wife Wang Qin became pregnant, he felt that breath, that breath would suffocate him.If the wife hadn't moved back to live with her parents shortly after her pregnancy, he might have been driven mad by the smell.It was the frankincense exuded from the wife's body after she became pregnant.When Song Zhengwen walked around the room anxiously, he seemed to smell the frankincense.He stood in the living room, the light was shining brightly on his pale face, the corner of his mouth was trembling slightly, and a sharp claw was scratching in his heart.A vague sentence came out of his mouth, and he didn't even know what he was saying.He came to the study and picked up the small picture frame on the desk. In the small picture frame, he and his wife were snuggled together sweetly in the photo.Song Zhengwen suddenly sneered, his wife's smile became ferocious in his eyes, he seemed to see his wife's beautiful face turned into that of a jackal.He heard jackals screaming in the wilderness, he trembled all over, and he murmured, no, no, no... The small mirror frame slipped from his hand and fell on the table with a bang, thanks to the small mirror frame The glass on it is not broken.Song Zhengwen felt that the tide of loneliness was coming from all directions, as if to drown him.There was a cold gleam in his eyes.Song Zhengwen kept saying, no, no, don't abandon me, don't abandon me - he walked out of the study and returned to the bedroom while talking.He stood in front of the big bed where he and his wife used to spend every night together, and two lines of cold tears flowed down.He said, why did you abandon me?Why did you abandon me?Why do you all abandon me one by one? —no one heard what he said.Song Zhengwen felt very helpless, he suddenly stopped talking, and stood there, his whole body twitching.He convulsed for a while, then threw himself on the bed, grabbed a pillow with both hands, as if he was strangling someone's neck, exerted all his strength, pinched hard, and clenched his teeth tightly. , making a creaking sound.He must have thought the pillow was someone he hated.After pinching the pillow, Song Zhengwen let go of his hand, turned his body over, and lay there facing the ceiling. He was already exhausted.He stared blankly at the ceiling like an innocent child.Tears flowed silently from his desperate eyes. He thought that he had always been a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, and it was useless for him to escape. From morning to noon the pony stayed around the trash can. The pony was looking around the trash can for the clues he was looking for.After dawn, he became much more courageous.There are a lot of people entering and exiting the subway, and they may not have noticed the pony, even if they cast an occasional glance, the disdainful eyes seem to say that this is an evil person.Unkempt ponies may really be that evil, polluting the cityscape, but he doesn't care what anyone thinks, since the day he decided to be a scavenger, he's done that.The pony was full of confusion. Occasionally, ponies would sneak a look at people on and off the subway, especially young, pretty women.He thought, maybe one of these beautiful faces belongs to Donna, maybe she is not dead at all, she is still wandering in this world, maybe she is facing him at the gate of the Qingyun Community not far away. He came, with a smile on his face. In fact, the pony came out of the gate of the security booth at dawn. Before dawn in this city, people were walking on the streets, and people were getting on and off the subway.The pony didn't know where these people came from and where they were going. They were all in a hurry, as if they were going to a life-and-death agreement, and they didn't know the danger at all.Danger is everywhere.As soon as the pony came out of the gate of the security booth, he quickly came to the trash can, and he admitted that there was a force that pushed him there.In fact, the pony didn't want to see the dead baby in the trash can at all. As soon as the pony stood next to the trash can, he heard a cat meowing. He clearly saw a white cat jump out of the trash can, jump into the tree wall next to it, and disappeared after a while.When the white cat got into the tree wall, it turned around and barked at the pony, its amber eyes showed a blurred luster.After the white cat disappeared, the pony withdrew his gaze, and his eyes fell on the trash can. He was stunned: the baby wrapped in white cloth was no longer in the trash can. There were some flies flying around in the trash can and the flies made a nasty buzzing noise.There is only one thing at the bottom of the empty trash can, and that is a red child's leather shoe.The pony looked at the red child's leather shoe, bent down in a mysterious way, reached into the trash can, and picked it up.The red children's leather shoes stuck to the pony's hand like glue, and he couldn't shake it off no matter how hard he tried.The red children's leather shoes seemed to be a sign to him, but he didn't know if it was a good sign or something ominous. During the brief moment when the pony bent down and straightened up, there was a pang in his heart, as if a sharp knife had been pierced into his chest. The pony stood there, clutching the baby shoe tightly in his hand, waiting for his inner peace, his eyes changing colors.After the pony calmed down a little, he began to look at the child's shoe.This is a new children's shoe, where is the other one?It was just a flash of thought.After a while, the pony stuffed the children's shoe into his trouser pocket. Only then did the pony murmur to itself, where did the body of the dead baby go?Was it eaten by the white cat?All he saw under the street lights at night was the white cat?Or maybe there was no baby at all?Impossible, absolutely impossible. At this time, the pony saw the garbage collection sanitation truck parked not far away, so he ran towards it. The pony said to the middle-aged woman who was taking out the garbage on the car, did you see a baby, a dead baby? The middle-aged woman knew him, and she said casually, pony, you are crazy, what kind of dead baby did you come from! The pony said solemnly, why not, the dead baby is in the trash can at the subway entrance. The middle-aged woman smiled and said, Pony, I think you really have a nervous problem. I cleaned that trash can just now, and I found nothing!There are no dead babies at all, are you suffering from a demonic disorder? The pony asked her again solemnly, you really didn't find anything, and you still have a little red leather shoe? The middle-aged woman suddenly lowered her face, and she said angrily, the more you talk, the more outrageous you are, there are no little red shoes, you should go, don't affect our work.You see we are so busy, you still have time to joke with us, go away, go away! The pony stood there in a daze, not knowing what to say, until the garbage truck drove away, he returned to the trash can, carefully looking for some clues he needed.But the pony found nothing from early morning to noon.The little red shoe was still bulging in his trouser pocket, and it might suddenly disappear without a trace, making him feel that everything was out of order. At noon, the pony sat under the tree wall, lit a cigarette, and watched Xiao Wu walk over.When the meat ball rolled, it also made a weird sound. To put it nicely, she was humming, but to put it badly, what she made from her throat was a ghost cry. When Xiao Wu passed by the pony, she stopped.Xiao Wu looked down at him, pony, what are you doing sitting here if you don't pick up junk? The pony didn't even raise his head, he said angrily, it's none of your business! Xiao Wu kicked him and said, you bastard, let me ask you kindly, you have such an attitude, have you eaten gunpowder? The pony raised his head, he looked at Xiao Wu, hoping to find the answer he needed from Xiao Wu's face. Xiao Wu looked at the pony's face and screamed, "Pony, why is your face so blue?"Your eyes are blood red, did you eat a dead child? After the pony heard this, he felt a surge in his stomach.He didn't believe that the dead baby that disappeared was eaten by himself, Xiao Wu was talking nonsense!But after he heard Xiao Wu's words, his stomach and his internal organs began to churn.He stood up abruptly, ran to the trash can, and vomited wildly towards the trash can. Seeing this scene, Xiao Wu said something, and quickly rolled towards Friday Sichuan Restaurant.She goes to work at this time almost every day and leaves work very late at night. After vomiting, the pony realized that Xiao Wu had disappeared.The pony walked to the middle of the small green area next to the subway, where there was a faucet. He turned on the faucet, rinsed his mouth, wiped his face, and said, "Fucking evil!" Some people say that when people are unlucky, many inexplicable things will happen.The pony thought, I am unlucky enough, I have never been successful since I was born.He knew in his heart that there were still many unexpected things waiting for him.The pony was frightened and helpless.Many times, he felt that he could not escape the rope of fate. When the pony walked out of the green field, he saw Song Zhengwen, who was walking towards the subway entrance with a big black leather bag.He glanced at the pony, and that look was so sharp that it hurt the pony like a needle. A thought flashed across the pony's mind, he had seen Song Zhengwen's eyes piercing him like this before.That was when Donna was not dead. There was a time when the pony was always watching the gate of the Qingyun Community not far from the Qingyun Community. He seemed to know when Donna would come out.He knew that in addition to going to the cinema to watch movies at noon, Donna would also come out at night.Usually at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, Donna would dress up coquettishly and walk out of the gate of the Qingyun Community, heading towards a certain place.The pony didn't know where she was going, and he didn't even know that the place Donna was heading to was a bar called Su Qianhuang, because Donna would take a taxi and go away after walking a certain distance.During that time, as long as the pony saw Donna coming out, it would sniff Donna's scent like a dog and follow her. It wasn't until Donna got into the taxi that he returned to his kennel in a sense of regret. One day, he was following Donna stealthily, and suddenly a man appeared from a corner, and he said to the pony with a serious expression, what are you doing? The pony looked at him, a little bewildered, and he couldn't speak for a while.They confronted each other for a few minutes before the man began to speak.That person was Song Zhengwen, and his gaze at that time under the street lamp pierced the pony's heart like a needle.The pony was in a daze, he couldn't hear what Song Zhengwen was saying clearly.After Song Zhengwen finished speaking, he left. The pony looked forward, and there was no sign of Donna.At that time, the pony cursed Song Zhengwen viciously in his heart. At that time, he thought Song Zhengwen was a jerk. Today Pony saw that many people who went to work from the East Fanren Road subway station looked strange, and some people who walked together were talking nervously about something.The pony thought, did something really happen on the Mortal East Road?Could this have something to do with the baby I saw last night?