Chapter 3 Primer

unusual!It really is extremely abnormal, my own home is so strange!Strange to the extent of a monstrosity! Since when did things go wrong?Wu Chutong couldn't remember it all the time. Since when did the parents become abnormal?Always laughing, but not long ago, the two quarreled endlessly like hunting dogs in dire straits. Now, I am not angry with myself where I should be angry, and I am not angry where I should not be angry. It is a beautiful family that is incomprehensible. But, the original home should not be like this. Chu Tong's eyes were patrolling the living room. She picked up her mother's most cherished plate from the display shelf, hesitated for a moment, and threw it on the ground.A crisp sound spread in the air, and the mother in the kitchen ran over.

"Ah, the plate!" Mom covered her mouth with her hand, a little dazed. "My hand slipped, I'm so sorry." Chu Tong stared blankly at his mother's expression. Mom froze for a moment, stretched out her hand and rubbed her head, then took a broom to clean up the debris on the ground. That's all?Didn't blame her, didn't beat and scold her?This is totally not the character her mother should have. Wu Chutong was shaking all over. She didn't understand why. She should be happy for the harmony of the family, but she couldn't be happy at all. I always feel that the things around me are going farther and farther on a weird road.

Dad came back, he took off his shoes and walked into the house, first gave her a big hug, and then ran into the kitchen to help his wife. Abnormal, simply abnormal!For so many years, starting from the director of Chutong, the father who came home from the company every day would droop his face, throw away the briefcase in Shou ohli casually with a tired look, and then lie down on the sofa. "Go back to your room and do your homework." This sentence is the first sentence my father yells every time he sees her when she comes home. She has a vicious voice. She often thinks, is she really the daughter of this couple?

The relationship between my parents has always been very bad. I heard from the neighbors that my father showed signs of cheating.My mother seems to have invited a credit agency to investigate and collect evidence. As long as there is evidence, she will apply to the court for divorce. What a messed up family, but it was this kind of bad family that suddenly became unrecognizable overnight. Three mornings ago, the sun shone into the living room, covering the old furniture in the room with a layer of golden yellow.The old mother who always quarreled with her father hummed a song and fried eggs for breakfast. Chu Tong felt uneasy for a while. She guessed that her mother was finally going to take action, and she was probably planning to drag her father to divorce that day.

But when her father came out of the room, she almost fell head over heels. She saw her father stepping up to hug her fat mother, calling out "baby" in a nasty way, and then kissing him like no one else. The disgusted Chu Tong hurriedly looked away. . It was from then on that she suddenly realized that everything had become a little strange. How strange it is, it cannot be described in words.She brushed her teeth vigorously with a toothbrush, looked at herself in the mirror with a haggard face, and became more and more in a trance.No, if you keep guessing like this, you will definitely collapse.Coming out of the toilet, the parents who looked like a loving couple teased and laughed at each other early in the morning, like a newlywed couple.

Chu Tong had always fantasized about how good this situation would be at home, but after it really became a reality, she felt that it was very weird, so weird that she couldn't bear it. "Come on, have a love sandwich this morning." Seeing Chutong walk into the dining room, my mother used a high-pitched voice like a little girl's, shaking her awkward waist thick and thick with a bucket, and put a sandwich with bacon and eggs on her plate. Chu Tong sat down, looked at the parents who were laughing and happy for some reason, and then looked at the thick sandwich on the plate, and finally couldn't help it, she swept the plate to the ground, the sound of shattering Resounded all around.

The sandwich juice stained the floor and silenced the parents' raucous conversation. "You child, has the rebellious period come yet? Such a waste!" Mom said dissatisfied, but there was no dissatisfaction in her tone. "What's the matter with you?" Chu Tong pointed at her mother, if she had done this kind of thing normally, her mother would have slapped her. The mother did indeed walk towards her, she raised her right hand, Chu Tong subconsciously made a defensive posture, and the consciousness of being beaten was born in her heart, and her eyes closed involuntarily.

But the slap she was waiting for did not fall, and her mother just rubbed her head lovingly, "Don't do this next time, waste more food." "You didn't hit me?" Chu Tong's eyes widened in disbelief: "Aren't you angry?" "Why should I be angry?" My mother blinked her eyelids incomprehensibly, with a bewildered expression on her face. unusual!It really is extremely abnormal, my own home is so strange!Strange to the extent of a monstrosity!It was the first time that Chutong felt that a beautiful family could be so depressing. She couldn't wait to leave home with her schoolbag on her back, and took a deep breath of air when she came to the street.The weird feeling at home made her even breathless, and she almost became a fish out of water.

Chu Tong was walking on the road, thinking hard about the recent things, but unfortunately, she didn't have the slightest clue at all. So today, she was too distracted even in class, and she was continuously picked up by the English teacher to ask questions, but she couldn't answer a single question correctly. Chu Tong is a sophomore in Yueming City High School. She has just turned seventeen. Due to her trance for several days, her friends feel that she is not normal, thinking that a puberty girl has stepped out of a firm part. "You confessed to Ning Rui?" During the break, my friend pushed her with his arm with an ambiguous expression and whispered.

"how is this possible!" Ning Rui is a well-known handsome guy in school. Her friends knew that she had been secretly in love with this boy for a long time, and encouraged her to confess, but how could Chu Tong have the courage.In the same class for almost a year, he has never looked at her directly.Even, maybe even her existence is not clear. Chu Tong understands very well that the end result of this secret love is nothing more than nothing, so as long as she can see that boy up close every day, she is already very satisfied.Confession?Don't be kidding, how could Ning Rui fall in love with himself?

"Tch, I thought you were really going to confess." The friend looked disappointed. Chu Tong felt sad and smiled wryly.But what her friend said next made her feel as if she had been struck by lightning. "Speaking of which, in the last two or three days, Ning Rui seems to have been watching you secretly, and even secretly asked me about you." The friend propped his head on his hands, confused, "That's why I thought you confessed and caught his attention. It's strange, since you didn't confess, why did he ask about you?" "He, ask me? Did he notice me?" Chu Tong was also very confused, but more secretly happy.Everyone would be ecstatic when the object of his crush suddenly noticed him. "Oh, I always feel that there is a mysterious atmosphere about you recently..." After the friend finished the first half, he suddenly became surprised: "Xiaotong, Xiaotong, look, Ning Rui seems to be walking towards us." She vigorously shook Chu Tong who was in a nympho state to wake up.But when this guy heard that Ning Rui was walking this way, he became even more nympho. But the crush was walking towards this corner of the classroom, Chu Tong's heart was beating so violently that it almost jumped out of his chest. "Your name is Wu Chutong, right?" I don't know if it was a dream, but the handsome boy really walked up to me and talked to me.Chu Tong's mouth was very parched, his head was completely blank, and only the basic nodding movements remained. Ning Rui laughed, revealing white, neat and perfect lips, "Can I call you Chutong?" "Ok." She nodded subconsciously again, blissfully confused. "Then Chutong, do you want to go home together this afternoon? Our homes seem to be going in the same direction!" Ning Rui's words were very jumpy, just now she was still confirming the girl's name, but the next moment she invited others to go home with her, but Chu Tong didn't care about this kind of jumping at all, she nodded desperately. "Then, see you after school." Ning Rui smiled happily again, making Chu Tong's heart flutter. After he left, for a long time, the girl was still sitting on the seat stupidly. To tell the truth, even her best friend was petrified together because of this totally unexpected direction of development. Ning Rui's invitation caused bursts of amazement in the class and hostile gazes from many jealous girls. Chu Tong spent the whole day in embarrassment. Things developed so ideally that she felt as if she was in a dream.She was not sure when this fragile dream would suddenly wake up. Alas, if it was really a dream, she would rather never wake up for the rest of her life. Throughout the day, she became even more dazed until school was over in the afternoon.Surprised by the whole class, Ning Rui came to Chutong and invited her to go home together. Chu Tong blushed, lowered her head under the ambiguous gaze of her friend, and left with the handsome boy in front of her.The two of them walked out of the school gate in silence, crowded among the crowd returning home from school, and finally came to a tree-lined path that they must pass through after ten minutes. The surroundings are quiet, and few people walk on the trail.The small river next to it is also very kind and quiet at this moment.Today's sky is extremely blue, perhaps because of his state of mind, the cicadas that were noisy a few days ago fell silent at some point, and did not come to disturb their silence. "Well, you, why do you want to invite me?" Chu Tong's footsteps were as chaotic as her mood. She felt that her question was ridiculous and was a serious waste of saliva. "Why, hee hee, I don't know either." Ning Rui smiled happily on his handsome face. He looked at her with a pervasive smile and shrugged his shoulders, "I suddenly noticed you early this morning, and then I tried to invite you." "That's it." Chu Tong really didn't know what to say, this guy didn't seem to approach her because he liked her, which made her a little disappointed. "However, you are very interesting." The boy giggled. Chu Tong's face turned even redder.Was that a compliment, she wondered?And the boy's smile in front of him seemed familiar, so familiar that it made him feel uneasy. "Hey, let me ask you, have you ever kissed?" Just halfway through the boulevard, Ning Rui suddenly asked with a smile. "Ah, why are you asking this?" Chutong's face has evolved into a fiery red Fuji apple, and her tone is even stammering, "Damn, of course I haven't." Damn it, why did I have to answer such a shameful question! "Then, do you want to try?" The handsome boy giggled and stopped walking. Chu Tong also stopped her pace, she was at war with heaven and man, want?don't want?The entangled mentality was vividly reflected in my mind. The boy in front of me had been secretly in love for many years. This situation should have been dreamed for a long time, but why there is always a feeling that something is wrong, that feeling is very uncomfortable. "Do you want to, do you want to, try?" As Ning Rui said, he moved his face closer to her lips.She could almost feel the boy's hot breath on her cheek. "Ok." Chu Tong lowered his head firmly and closed his eyes.The nerve reflex in the body has compromised one step ahead of the doubts in the mind. The lips of the two were getting closer and closer, just before Ning Rui kissed her, Chu Tong suddenly opened her eyes, her body was stiff, and the doubts in her heart were inexplicably opened. Thinking about it, why does Ning Rui's smile make her feel familiar... That smile is obviously the smile that appeared on the parents' faces for more than three days!It is exactly the same, the only difference is that the person has changed, the face has changed, but the rest seems to have remained the same. Even Chu Tong feels that it should be "one person" who can reveal this nature. Father, mother, Ning in front of him Rui, they are all the same person. Such an obviously wrong feeling unknowingly occupied the sensory nerves of Chu Tong's whole body. She even felt that Ning Rui who wanted to kiss her was disgusting. Of course, it was not Ning Rui himself who was disgusting, but the Ning Rui in front of her. He and him may not be the same person. Chu Tong pushed Ning Rui away abruptly, Ning Rui was still smiling, without any displeasure, and no doubts on his face, but the words that came out of his mouth made her shudder, "What's wrong with you, don't you want to kiss? " It's obviously a question sentence, but he said it in a tone without any anger, leaving only a happy smile. It's really weird. Chu Tong took a few steps back, then ran away.She just wants to stay away from Ning Rui in front of her now, the farther the better, he is completely a monster in her senses, a terrible monster! Ning Rui didn't chase after her, he was still smiling and stood quietly where he was.He kept his smile no more, no less, and kept it all the time, looking like a wax figure or clay sculpture in an exhibition hall. Chu Tong left the tree-lined path, recalling the recent events carefully, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, even the sky above his head and the ground on which he was stepping on seemed eerie.The sun shone on her body during the day, but it couldn't bring her the slightest warmth. It's just that she didn't know that the weird things had just begun. It is indeed just beginning.Chu Tong hangs around on the street, she calls a friend, hoping to spend the night at her friend's house, but the friend says it is inconvenient.Chu Tong didn't want to go home, she was afraid of seeing her parents' smiling faces. Sometimes girls feel that they are being mean. They used to watch their parents quarrel, and they always looked forward to a harmonious family.But now that the family is harmonious, she is inexplicably afraid. Chu Tong walked on the street and went to a fast food restaurant to eat a set meal. When he walked out of the restaurant, the sky was already dark and night was coming. At 7:30 in the afternoon, there was no sound from the phone. No matter how noisy the house was, her parents still called her to urge her to go home for dinner. She took out her phone and rubbed her smooth forehead. To go back or not to go back?This is a question, no, it's not even a question, where can I go if I don't go back?Live on a park bench? When the night was getting darker, Wu Chutong finally returned to the door of the house. The lights in the house were not lit, and the other side of the window was pitch black. Parents not at home?The girl felt a little relieved. She unlocked the door and walked into the living room. When she changed her shoes in the dark and pressed the light button, the scene in the living room scared her almost to the point of heart paralysis. In the meantime, her parents sat on the sofa silently, staring at her with four eyes in unison, with a damned smile of conversion still on their faces. "Dad! Mom! You are clearly at home, why don't you turn on the lights?" The girl's figure trembled a little. "have you eaten?" Mother didn't answer the question. "have eaten." Chu Tong nodded and wanted to go back to the room. "Today I made your favorite fried steak." The mother didn't seem to hear her answer, but went straight to the kitchen and put a plate full of fried steak on the table, "Eat it quickly." The kind voice made Chu Tong's heart feel colder and colder. "I said I ate." Chu Tong repeated loudly. "Eat quickly." The mother still smiled kindly and looked at her kindly, as if there was a human skin mask on that face. In the end, Chu Tong still sat down at the dining table, ate the plate of fried steak full of fear, ate a few mouthfuls, and fled back to the room, locked the door forcefully, and pushed the small sofa behind the door to block it firmly. Stay, this is a little more at ease. Everything recently is as unreal as a dream, the girl feels the people and scenery in front of her.Everything is like a mirror, which can be seen clearly, but all that can be seen are ghost images. If you stretch out your hand, you can only touch the cold glass. When did it start?Since when did it start that my surroundings became illusory like a mirror, becoming incomprehensible to me, and more and more frightening? Chu Tong lay on her little bed, thinking desperately, suddenly, she finally remembered. I don’t know when it was, but I seem to have heard an urban legend, but it’s completely unclear who it came from and how it got into her ears. At 1:14, turn the heads of the shoes in the room toward your bed, toward your sleeping position, and your wishes will come true. Out of curiosity, Chu Tong really did that. She turned all ten pairs of shoes towards her bed according to the rumored time, and then fell asleep in a daze, but the strange thing is, why ten pairs of shoes?There are only five pairs of shoes in my shoe cabinet, where did I get ten pairs?She couldn't figure it out. By the way, it seems that from then on, things started to go wrong, his memory was confused, the cold and stiff sneer on the faces of his parents, Ning Rui's strike-up... Everything seems to be changing in the direction I want. But, why am I so afraid?There seems to be a strong premonition that something bad is going to happen! What exactly will happen? Chu Tong felt that her head was not enough, she took out the shoes that were placed by the bed that night, and checked them one by one, but after looking at them, her hands and feet felt cold. Sure enough, there were ten pairs of shoes in the shoe cabinet, and each pair had its own characteristics. Except for one pair that Wu Chutong could tell was his own, the other nine pairs were either big in size or small in size, and the style was very strange. There was even a pair of red shoes , red like blood, looks very strange. Sure enough, since that day, everything has been abnormal, and even my own shoes have somehow become unfamiliar.To return to normal, he wanted to go back to the world in his memory, so the girl secretly made a decision in her heart. At 1:14 in the middle of the night the next day, he placed the ten pairs of shoes with different styles on the head of the bed again according to the legend, turned the toes of the shoes towards himself, and then lay down on the bed. He said silently in his heart: "Go back to the previous state, I don't want any changes!" Will things really change back so easily? God only knows, I thought. Because of Chutong, I never had the chance to see the sun again. She opened her eyes, only to see bloody water mixed with red, as wide as sea water. She was lying on a small red paper bed, which was floating on the bloody water strangely, and a pair of red paper shoes with shoes The tip is facing the bed. At the same time, facing her...