Chapter 31 Chapter Thirty Mother

This winter is too long, so long that I can hardly remember what month the heavy snow fell a month ago, and what month it is now.I only know that this season of spring, summer, autumn and winter has not yet come to an end, and a new cycle of reincarnation has not yet begun.Therefore, the closer to the end of the year, the colder the weather, just like the wind outside the window at this moment, howling and trying to take all the temperature away from my body. I grabbed the window frame with one hand, hooked the other hand to a depression in the wall, and moved my feet towards the kitchen window sill little by little.But in this kind of cold wind, the bare fingers (the injury has recovered within half a month in the police station, no longer wrapped in bandages) began to become stiff due to the cold, and gradually lost consciousness, as if they were hooked on the fingers like prosthetic limbs. in the crevice.

This is the sixth and a half floors. I didn't look down, because that would increase my psychological pressure. I just used my numb fingers to hook every small depression in the wall, and moved a little bit by my feet, and finally reached the distance. A position about 1.5 meters away from the window sill.There is a partition between this position and the window sill, and it takes a big step to get there, but I suddenly found that it is difficult for me to make a leaping movement in my current posture. Can you imagine?When a person sticks his limbs flat on the wall like a gecko, behind him is a partition with a width of 1.5 meters. Below the partition is a vertical drop of more than 20 meters. Behind the partition is the window sill.And the place where the window sill can rest is still only half the width of the sole of your foot, but you have to quickly turn around from where you are, step over the one and a half meter wide partition, and step on the narrow window sill smoothly.

This is a very difficult movement. If Ling Zhijie is here, I think he can do it easily, but it is not so simple for me, because this situation reminds me of the tree in my childhood again. scene above.The difference is that what I cross is no longer a branch; the difference is that once I fail, Ling Zhijie will not appear in time to hold my hand.At this moment, I am alone, and if I fail, I may really die.But I don't regret climbing on the ledge, because I was so desperate to find out, what is the person who is locking the door in my house now, or what is that thing, how did it get in the house, and it was in the house. What the hell are you doing.

I rubbed my palms against the wall a few times to increase the heat in my fingers, lifted my feet left and right a few times, kept my limbs flexible, and prepared them fully. Finally, I took a few more breaths to relieve my nervousness. The mood calmed down a little. Turn around suddenly, leave the wall with one foot, and follow the movement of turning to step over the partition, and at the same time, the center of gravity of the whole person also jumps towards the window sill. boom!My knee hit the wall heavily, but I couldn't understand the pain at all. I just used my almost unconscious fingers to hold on to the window frame desperately to buffer the inertia of my body after a short span.

Fortunately, the whole movement was completed very smoothly. Except for the bump on my left knee and the initial slip of my right foot stepping on the window sill, I finally stepped over, and my whole body was attached to the window and maintained my balance. . The heartbeat can be calmed down before the cross, but it is difficult to calm down after the cross.Thinking of the moment I crossed before, I might fall down at any time due to a small problem, and the tension spread again, so that I could almost hear the sound of my heart beating wildly. I took a few deep breaths, drew out my right hand, put my palm on the window glass, and moved the half window door (the kitchen window is designed as a sliding door).However, at this moment, I suddenly realized that something was wrong, so that I stopped exerting force on my right hand, turned my head straight, and paid attention to the position where my cheek was pressed just now.

Because, out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly caught a glimpse of something sticking to my cheek, that is, behind a layer of glass. You know, at this moment, due to the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor, the inside of the glass window will definitely be covered with fog.But now the fog behind that pane of glass was gone, and instead a small, very pale thing stuck there.I was looking at the pale thing at close range in astonishment. I didn't expect it to move suddenly, and then it slid a few times quickly, completely wiping away the fog behind the glass, and finally let me recognize the pale thing. What is the object - a palm.

Before I could fully understand what was going on, the palm moved away, and then a face came up from behind the glass.And I, after a brief moment of astonishment, was finally frightened so much that my hands trembled, and my body leaned back involuntarily. That is, in this very short period of time, my body realized that there was a height of more than 20 meters behind me before my thinking.So, the whole person subconsciously turned around again, stretched his hands forward, and covered the original foothold before his body fell... Finally, he lay between the window sill and the wall in a very strange posture, temporarily unable to move.

Just when I was still wondering who was the person who scared me in the kitchen, I heard the window behind me being opened, and then there was an extremely familiar voice crying: "Ning'er... you Don't move, mom will find someone now, don't move...my Ning'er...it's all mother's fault, mom scared you...don't move..." I heard the voice of my mother crying and gradually circled down the corridor, and I began to be dumbfounded. Half an hour later, I was sitting on the sofa, drinking hot water, looking at the tidy and bright room again, and the tears on my mother’s face that were not yet dry. The chill and warmth in my heart were constantly intertwined, so that my throat Can't say anything.

"Ning'er...you have been like this since you were a child. You keep everything in your heart and don't tell mom. Mom knows that you don't want us to worry about you, but you said there is no mother in the world who doesn't worry about her children. ?Especially like you, it’s very worrying. Mom doesn’t know what you’re thinking. How’s your life? ... Ning'er, do you think you will forget about Mom?" I smiled and said, "Why? Mom, you're overthinking it. I'm just very busy recently...By the way, is there any coffee? I can't drink this plain water..."

"I know coffee! Drinking coffee is bad for your health, I threw it away, and I can only drink plain water in the future! I have told Xin'er several times that I can't give you coffee, and she will give it to you. Really... ...By the way, Xin'er has been out for so long? Why haven't you come back? Look at your room. When I came in, I thought I entered the wrong room. The whole place looks like it has been abandoned for several years, and the table is covered with white hair No! Xin'er is not here, how are you doing?" Because when I asked Ling Zhijie to call home to test whether Xin Jie returned to her hometown, I didn't tell my family what happened, but lied that she had gone abroad for a trip, so now, when my mother asked Xin Jie, I still need to continue making up this lie, so I replied: "Mom, you also know that I can't clean the house myself, so that's it, but it will be fine if you come, haha..."

"Are you still laughing? Do you have the nerve to laugh? By the way, Ning'er, to be serious with you, Mom has been restless for more than a month. She keeps having nightmares, dreaming that something big happened to you and Xin'er , You are good, but there is no reply, which makes me worry to death. I can't sleep well every day, and I wake up sweating in my dreams! I can't stand it anymore, so your dad told me to come to the city Look at you, otherwise I will continue to be sleepless." "So, you came here by yourself? When did you come? I was not at home a few days ago... I didn't know you were coming, so I didn't pick you up..." "I arrived the day before yesterday... Hey, I am old and my memory is bad. I have been to your house three times before, but this time I forgot which building and which unit it is in. Fortunately, a girl said she knew you. I just happened to ask her when I was asking people, and she led me home. By the way, that girl is quite nice, she said she was your friend... that... Xin'er won't say anything, right? " My mom has the key to my house, so I'm not surprised how she got into the house, I'm just a little surprised by the "friend" she mentioned who showed her the way, so I asked, "What does that girl look like?" "It's very juicy. It's said that it's working in a hospital." It was her...Qin Jia...she led my mother to find the way...how could she be in the community?How did you meet my mother by such a coincidence? A few doubts flashed in my heart, but I quickly said with a relieved expression: "Oh, I know who the girl you are talking about is my friend who works as a nurse. Hehe, by the way, how is Dad's leg? When you come out, you can rest assured that he is alone at home?" "You still worry about your dad. Isn't he like that? He doesn't come and go for a while, but he looks good recently, and his legs don't hurt anymore. I just happened to come to the city to see you. I almost forgot. I also brought a Here comes the little rooster, raised at home, just started to crow, now put it in the kitchen, kill it tomorrow, stew it up, and nourish your body! By the way, you said that Xiner has been abroad for so long, when will she come back? Mom really misses her... Mom brought this chicken here just to make up for you two, why don't you raise it first and kill it when she comes back?" "Mom, Xin'er will go to several countries when she goes abroad this time, and she won't be able to come back for a while." "Hey... This girl is good at everything, but I just let my mother worry about it. You are so old, and you don't have any children, hey..." "Mom, do you want to hug your grandson again?" "Can you not think about it, look at you, you are all in your thirties, hey..." The mother sighed, wiped away her tears, then smiled again: "Mom is not urging you, you have your own ideas , Ha ha... Also, why did you shave your hair? You also got a bald head. It's winter, and I'm not afraid of the cold. Really... You were outside the window at the time, but I was frightened, you said Why are you opening the window when you have nothing to do? You don’t ring the doorbell, you really want to scare your mother to death? Mom’s heart is still beating, if you have something to do, how do you ask me to explain to your father? " "Mom, it's all my fault... I didn't think there was a thief at home. I wanted to catch the thief, so I broke the window. I didn't expect you to be at home..." "Forget it, let's not talk about it. Ning'er, where have you been these past few days? I can't find you everywhere. I wanted to ask that kid Zhijie, but his phone number was too high." No idea, I don’t know where I live... I can only clean up the house and wait for you here. I don’t know when you will come home. It’s always on TV. It’s New Year’s Eve, thieves, robbers, etc. The more unstable you are, the more worried I am that something will happen to you outside, hey..." "It's okay. The clinic is very busy these days, there are many patients, and Xin Jie is not at home, so I will sleep in the office. Don't worry, Zhijie is here, what can happen?" "Zhijie? By the way, Zhijie, just like you, doesn't even have a phone call, which made your aunt anxious to death. Originally, she wanted to come to the city with her, but she was old and sick. I can’t move anymore. Hey, if you meet Zhijie, tell him to tell him to go back and see your aunt.” "Sick?! What's wrong? Is there anyone taking care of me?" "Old illness, cough, asthma, cold when I was young, hey... who else can take care of me? Zhijie's father has been gone for so many years, and the two brothers and sisters are all brought up by her alone. It's not easy. Okay. , brought up two children, one became a policeman, running around with guns and bullets all day long, which made people worry, and the other one... just graduated from college, who would have thought that Yu'er... is great The girl who went there at such a young age, hey..." The mother recalled the past, and tears flowed down uncontrollably. "Mom, don't think about these old things. I'll call Zhijie in a while and ask him to go home and see his aunt. By the way, it's getting dark and I'm hungry. You can cook , It’s been a long time since I ate the meal made by my mother, it’s weird.” When my mother saw me shouting that I was hungry, she finally wiped away her tears, stood up, clapped her hands, and said with a smile, "Okay, mom, let's cook now!" Late at night, I lay in bed, still tossing and turning.My mother was in the nanny's room next door, not sure if she was asleep. I really didn't expect that she would come to me from the countryside alone, but after thinking about it, I was relieved. There was no news for so long, any mother would not be able to sit still.However, how should I continue to make up the previous lie?There are too many things that have happened in the past month or so, and they are too bizarre. Can I tell her that Xin Jie disappeared inexplicably, and no matter how hard I searched, I couldn't find her?Can I tell her that even Ling Zhijie is no longer in the police station, but is fighting black fists in a dangerous place?Can I tell her that Ling Zhijie won't go back to see his sick mother for the time being?Besides, his mother had experienced too many life and death—her husband died young, but her daughter died in an accident when she was young, and even the only remaining son is now uncertain... Can she know all these?Once she finds out, how can she bear it? I really can't tell the old people everything exactly, because they can no longer bear such a huge change. I can only find Xin Jie, rescue Ling Zhijie, and explain everything that happened in the past month. The dangerous things are all over before you can face them. But, what should I do next?Do you still start from the clue of Liu Cheng as you thought in the police station?Will my feeling be right?Can I follow his clue all the way until I find Wang Fei, find Xin Jie, and rescue Ling Zhijie? To be honest, in just over a month, after going through such complicated things, I almost completely lost my confidence after every time I thought I had found the source of the matter, but every time it involved more bizarre and unexplainable phenomena.Even subconsciously, I began to acquiesce that Xin Jie was missing and that I would never find her again.So much so that later, when I saw Ling Zhijie being plotted by Wang Fei to fight a black fist, I almost collapsed completely, feeling that I was completely powerless, I could no longer fight against that expressionless man, he appeared like a monster , disappear like a monster, say like a monster what only a monster can say, like a monster do what only a monster can do... And I, just a mortal, how can I know what this monster is thinking, catch him? Forget it, don't think about these unanswered questions, I plan to reorganize all the clues I can get recently, and then pre-simulate in my mind the scene of going to the mental hospital to meet Luo Xianmei's husband tomorrow, and put my thoughts It is necessary to strengthen the point of getting and possibly getting an accurate answer, make full preparations, and strive to make tomorrow's meeting go smoothly. However, after I finished thinking about these things, I still couldn't fall asleep, tossed and turned, and couldn't fall asleep anyway. Click!The handle of the door turned suddenly, and I became vigilant all of a sudden. I almost sat up on the bed, but I didn't really sit up. Instead, I turned sideways and looked towards the door with half-closed eyes. I saw the door was gently pushed open, and a figure walked in quietly.Because the light was too dim, I couldn't see the figure clearly, I only felt him standing in front of the bed for a while. I finally couldn't help but make a voice and asked, "Mom? Is it you? You still up so late?" But there was no answer, the figure just leaned close to my chest, pulled the quilt over my head, then left, quietly walked out of the room, and closed the door. I don't know when I fell asleep. When I woke up the next day, I found that my mother had already got up, made breakfast, knocked on the door lightly, and called me out for dinner. I drank the hot porridge made by my mother and asked inadvertently, "Mom, did you sleep well last night?" The mother nodded and asked: "What's the matter? I slept soundly yesterday, and I probably felt relieved when I saw you, so I slept until 5 o'clock and got up to make porridge for you. I can make porridge by myself." Thinking of the figure who entered the room late last night, and hearing what my mother said, I felt a little dizzy, but I still wanted to make sure, so I asked, "Mom, you didn't get up last night, did you?" Mother still nodded, and asked solemnly: "Ning'er, what's the matter? Are you hiding something from Mom again?" As soon as I saw her nodding, my cold sweat started to break out, but I couldn't show it, so I forced a smile, took a few mouthfuls of porridge quickly, and said, "Mom, it's okay, I'll just ask, I'm worried that you can't sleep well Woolen cloth." "Hehe, why are you still worried that Mom won't be able to sleep? As soon as you see you are well, Mom will sleep soundly...Hey, eat slowly, don't choke!" After breakfast, I lied to my mother that I was going to the clinic. There are several patients waiting today. the door. We took a taxi to the police station, met Lao Yao, discussed with him some details about meeting Luo Xianmei's husband, and then we set off in a police car.