Chapter 33 Sixty-seventh Night Baby Tooth

What is discarded is garbage.It sounds like a very simple and easy-to-understand reason. Although every piece of rubbish was once a useful thing, it must of course be thrown into the trash when it is no longer useful. Next to me is a trash can, to be precise, it should be a fruit bin, it is very worn out, the green paint is almost peeling off, and only the last three words of "care for hygiene" can be seen. Polished. There is still a piece of banana peel stuck to the entrance of the garbage bin, and there are some dry and yellow phlegm traces. If you get closer, you can almost smell the strong and pungent smell of sour plum and rotten fruit.I don’t know how this city Chuangwei got it. It’s no wonder that passers-by like to perform shooting skills when throwing this kind of trash can. After all, if you touch your hand when throwing things, you will feel sick for a long time.

As for making a newspaper and accidentally working until late at night, it is already commonplace. Looking at my watch, it is already almost eight o'clock, and I am already tired of going home to eat instant noodles. I decided to buy a few cakes to pass myself.The city began to move away from the hustle and bustle of the day, like a girl who changed her dusty coat and put on a black silk pajamas, and fell asleep peacefully. There is a small shop called Golden Delicious Cake on the side of the road. The salesperson inside is yawning and watching TV in boredom. The news seems to be reporting more and more incidents of abandoned babies recently.I walked over and asked her how many cakes she wanted.

Biting the cake, I walked on the way home, not knowing whether it was too bad or not used to eating this, I threw the remaining half of the cake into a trash can on the side of the road.Who knew that he forgot all his shooting skills in high school, and his hand was so bad that the cake fell out of the trash can.There are many small shops on the side of the road that are not closed yet.The adults were all concerned with business, and a little girl was standing outside the store with big round eyes, probably the boss's daughter or her parents were shopping inside, the little girl was holding a lollipop in her hand, curious looking at me.I thought to myself that I was an older person, and I should always set an example for the next generation. I smiled at her awkwardly, then walked over to pick up the cake and threw it in. The movements were extremely exaggerated, like performing a situational pantomime Same.

Next to the street lamp next to it, the trash can glowed green, and the black hole was like a big mouth. Just as I was about to turn around and leave, I found that my clothes seemed to be pulled by someone. Looking back, there was no one there.I looked at the little girl on the side of the road, her eyes were also full of puzzlement, she tilted her head and looked at me. "Probably an illusion, maybe the clothes caught something." I muttered to myself, and touched the corner of my clothes, but there was no such thing as a thread.I was about to turn around, but this time I really felt it, a tug on my clothes.

I didn't turn my head. Because I saw the little girl next to me pointing at me in horror, her mouth began to slowly become an O shape, and then she burst into tears. "Mom! The trash can has grown hands!" The little girl had already thrown away the lollipop, rubbing her eyes with two chubby little hands, and walked towards the store. When I looked back, there was no such thing as a hand at all.Squatting down, enduring the smell of the trash can, I glanced inside. It was so dark, I couldn't see anything. But I heard a chewing sound, very fast.I raised silkworms when I was young.I heard from the adults that in the dead of night, put the silkworms and mulberry leaves into a small paper box, which is the kind of small box used to hold medicines for injections, and put your ears on the box, you can hear the silkworms biting. The sound of mulberry leaves is a bit like a saw being pulled back and forth on wood, and a bit like biting broad beans, very crisp and urgent.

That's the sound I'm hearing now.My intuition tells me that there is something in the trash can.I took out my mobile phone, turned on the light, and slowly opened the lid of the trash can. When the light of the mobile phone was about to shine in, a thing that looked a little bigger than a dog sprang out of it with a sound, which scared me. one jump.It ran quickly on the ground with its limbs, quickly crossed the road, and disappeared into the night. I wanted to chase after her, but I was stopped by the little girl's mother, who insisted that I snatched her daughter's lollipop.But the little girl repeatedly emphasized that a hand was stretched out of the trash can.It was a mess all of a sudden, and I helped her buy a new lollipop before the little girl burst into tears and left with her mother.

During lunch break the next day, when I told Ji Yan about this, he was also very strange. "A hand protruding from the trash can?" He repeated what I said in great surprise. It seems that even he has never heard of this incident, and it is indeed a very strange thing. "But I didn't see it with my own eyes, it's just that the little girl yelled like this." I told the truth. "Children's eyes are often sharper and more real than adults'." Ji Yan said confidently. It is undeniable that the older a person is, the more fake he sees.Although the words are good, this matter cannot be solved. There are at least a thousand fruit bins and trash cans in the city like yesterday, and it is impossible to check them one by one.I thought the matter would not be resolved, but soon, people reported that they were scared by the hand stretched out of the trash can at night.

Ji Yan marked all the accident locations on the city map with great interest, and then happily showed it to me. I looked at the red crosses all over the map, not knowing what he was trying to tell me. "Didn't you notice, this guy only appears near food streets or restaurants. Because there are a lot of discarded food there." Sure enough, after what he said, it was true.Could it be that it is just an abandoned and hungry animal?But the problem is that the girl clearly saw that what was stretched out was a hand. But even if we know the purpose of this guy, we can't always squat there and wait, not to mention we don't have this obligation, after all, not everyone like Ji Yan always has free time to study this.

Of course, I never said that to him. The clouds pressed down from the sky are like black rags that have just been wiped on a dirty table, broken and not wrung out.The water stains mixed with gasoline refracted brilliant, distorted and greasy colored light under the icy sunlight.Pedestrians on the street gripped the black leather bags in their hands, lowered their heads, and hurried silently on the floor tiles that hadn't fully dried, like ants busy preparing food for the winter.If it weren’t for the merchants on both sides of the pedestrian street filled with fake and hypocritical smiles to greet parents with children to go in and spend, I really didn’t realize that today is Children’s Day.

Is it a children's holiday?Maybe it’s too far away from me, it’s almost something deep in my memory. All that’s left of my six one day childhood is the narrow, humid and stuffy low earth house, and frequent moving and changing houses, or holding cheap My old and white toys sat in front of a pile of musty furniture and watched boredly as my parents and mean landlord argued over the rent difference of a few bucks. I always think that it is better to have more such festivals. Chinese people like to use festivals to restrain themselves. For example, if you learn from Lei Feng Day, you should do good deeds. On Arbor Day, you should plant more trees. On Mother’s Day, you should go home and have dinner. Of course, on weekdays The money that Li should have received as a reward for eating with his parents is gone, and the children will readily use it as a filial piety. I don’t know if there is a meal day, or whether they just eat on that day and eat porridge on the rest of the day. How much can the money saved in this way be able to do? The gross national product must double, but it’s hard for the farmer uncle who grows food, but it’s nothing. Vigorously promote the planting of durians and cactus, regardless of whether the land is suitable or not. Planted, you can not plant?

In order to write part of the report on Children's Day, Ji Yan and I walked aimlessly.He said that by the way, he might meet the guy who likes to hide in the trash can. I saw many young parents, hugging and holding those happy children. The whole street is full of childishness. I seem to have come to the country of children in the fairy tale world, but these children will grow up in a few years. That person doesn't need to grow up, the question is whether they still have a little innocence in their hearts when they grow up. When it was close to dusk, there was a sudden heavy rain. Having lived in this city for decades, I was already used to it, so I quickly dragged Ji Yan into the plastic shed of a nearby business to shelter from the rain. "Do you need to buy anything?" The boss asked me with a smile while holding an umbrella in his hand. "No, take advantage of the precious treasure to hide from the rain." I just waved my hand, the boss immediately turned around, went into the store, and put the umbrella in the corner inside. There were a lot fewer pedestrians outside, but I saw a thin woman in a blue coat and a long skirt walking in the rain with a swaddle in her arms, her hair and clothes tightly attached to her body, From a distance it looks like a dead match.Every time she passed the fruit bin, she looked into it with great care.She walked down the street step by step in a dull manner, not caring about the strange eyes of passers-by, crying as she walked, and she was very worried in the sound of rain hitting the ground resounding in the open space. "Where is there such a mother? Isn't it her child that she is holding in her arms?" Ji Yan frowned and said something, and rushed into the shop while talking. "Boss, lend me the umbrella." After speaking, he grabbed the umbrella in the corner and rushed out. "Why are you doing this? This is a new umbrella. It hasn't passed the water. If it breaks, you will have to pay for it!" The boss rushed out of the umbrella angrily, and I stopped him with a smile. "Borrow it. If you really feel that you are losing money, you can buy it as if we bought it. You will use it when you go back anyway. I don't know when the rain will end." As soon as he heard that it was bought, he stopped talking and snorted, then took the money from me, and walked in muttering. Looking at Ji Yan, he has already pulled the woman over. Looking closer, she looks about thirty years old. Although her face is yellow and thin, and the flesh on her cheeks seems to have been removed by a knife, her facial features are still pretty, but there is not much light in her eyes, and there is almost not much black. Is it a person who has lost hope? There are only two kinds of people with dull eyes, the blind and the hopeless. She didn't seem to respond to us, she just hugged the swaddle tightly. "Let go, it's your child inside? Doesn't it spoil the child?" I walked over, wanting to get the result.But as if she had been greatly stimulated, she hugged her even tighter.Ji Yan and I have no choice, otherwise people will think that the two of us think that we can snatch a baby from a good family without showing it in broad daylight.But the woman suddenly rolled her eyes and passed out. Her body is very weak, probably unable to withstand such a torrential rain.Ji Yan quickly hugged her, pinching someone for her.I picked up the swaddling baby she was always holding. Is it a baby?But I didn't hear a cry. Curiously, I opened the swaddle and saw that it was just a plastic doll inside. No wonder, no normal mother would walk in the rain with her baby in her arms. Ji Yan was also slightly surprised, but the woman changed her face after waking up. "It seems that I'm sick again. I'm really sorry." She looked a little cold, but she was very polite, and her demeanor was different from before. It seemed that she should have received a good education. Since the rain had wet her whole body, Ji Yan suggested to send her home as soon as possible in order to avoid the wind and cold. "Where is your home?" I asked her. "Home? Let's call that place home." She hugged her body in disappointment and said with her head bowed. It was getting late, so I decided to send her home with Ji Yan first. To our surprise, this woman's home is so luxurious. It should cost a lot of money to have such a big house in a prime location in the city center. "Every time I get sick, I will walk around with this doll in my arms. I am sorry to cause you trouble." Entering the house, the decoration inside is even more gorgeous, all marble paving, but almost all the furniture is made of iron. Including chairs, tables, and teacups, it seems that this woman doesn't like wood?With the help of a servant, the woman went in to take a shower and change clothes, while Ji Yan and I were left to wait in the living room. After a quarter of an hour, she came out and changed into a set of gray satin pajamas inlaid with golden silk patterns. Her hair was also combed neatly behind her head, and after being rinsed with hot water, her face also regained some rosiness, and she was completely different from that in the rain. "Since you're fine, I think we should go too." I was about to get up, but Ji Yan didn't move, he looked straight at the woman. "Can you tell us why you are holding that plastic doll? If it's convenient." Ji Yan said slowly, the woman showed no expression, her thin and pale paper-like lips moved. "Because I miss my child." I sat down, thinking that maybe her child was lost. Seeing other people bring their children to enjoy family happiness in this kind of festival is indeed prone to heart disease. "No, rather than saying that I lost my child, it would be more appropriate to say that I abandoned him." The woman did not have much emotional fluctuations, as cold as an ice sculpture, on her elegant and noble face I can't see the tenderness that should have been there.After hearing her words, Ji Yan and I were a little surprised. "You should have seen it, this house, this affluent life, and my current social status, in fact, there is a price for getting these. Ten years ago, I was just a college student who had just graduated and started working. I thought I was outstanding and outstanding. I didn’t know what luck was, because I myself was synonymous with good luck. Since childhood, I have been with me What grew up was praise and envy.But when I really integrated into this reality, I found that my original thinking was so naive and ridiculous. There are many people who are better than me and more capable than me. The huge gap made me feel a strong sense of inferiority. At that time, I met my current husband, a Taiwanese man sixteen years older than me.Maybe you will look down on me, that's okay, I won't deceive myself and say that he and I are married because of mutual love, not for money at all.The education of my parents since I was a child made me very straightforward. Indeed, I married him because he was rich. Is this wrong?People should have a purpose in the world. I just want to live comfortably, because I am too used to living in the envious or jealous eyes of others, and I can't bear to be underestimated. Of course, I don't value his property completely. Generally speaking, he still loves me very much. Marriage is like this. Either find someone you love, or find someone who loves you.As a result, I found that there is no one I love in this world, so I have no choice but to find someone who loves me wholeheartedly. But I was wrong, my husband's mother was a very taboo-minded person.And my child has committed the so-called taboo of their family. The woman narrated very calmly, as if she was telling someone else's story, but at this point, the speed of her speech became faster, and her nostrils dilated due to the faster breathing. "Taboo?" Ji Yan said something strange. "Yes, and it is very strict and cannot be compromised. When the child was born, his mouth was full of teeth." The woman closed her mouth tightly in pain, bit her lower lip tightly, and did not speak for a long time , but it was Ji Yan who spoke up. "If a baby is born with teeth, will it spoil its parents?" Ji Yan said.The woman nodded. "It's just a slander, how could anyone take it seriously?" Ji Yan said helplessly. "But, the child's teeth are like sawtooth, covering the whole mouth. Have you ever seen a normal person with such teeth?" The woman opened her eyes and asked us back. "My husband's ancestral home is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Although my father-in-law went to Taiwan, the customs at home have not changed. Newborns are not allowed to drink their mother's milk before Sunday. Instead, they have to 'beg for milk' from others or neighbors, also called 'kai'. Throat milk', the baby is a boy, just like someone who gave birth to a girl asks for milk, and vice versa, it means to ask for a good marriage for the child. But this child was born full of teeth, who would dare to nurse him?The child was crying with hunger, I endured the pain to breastfeed him, but my mother-in-law found out, she shouted that the child was a monster, and warned me that if I didn’t get rid of the child, my husband would divorce me, of course, then They don't care about the children either.And I don't even want to leave a penny. And this decision, my husband also acquiesced. So I was faced with a choice, either I would raise this child alone, or I would abandon him and continue my prosperous life as before. "The storm outside became more intense, and the woman stopped again, staring at the rainstorm outside the window in a daze. "It was also June 1st, and there was such a heavy rainstorm. I made a decision that I still regret. I threw the child into the trash can on the side of the road. To my surprise, he didn't cry or howl. Instead, he stared at me and clenched his fists tightly. I felt a trace of fear, and walked backwards away from there. Since then, I have fallen into the root of the disease. Every time there is a heavy rain, I will fall into a state of madness. My husband is getting tired of me, and bought a house here for me, so he doesn’t care about me anymore.” Her expression was indifferent, and I couldn’t comment or criticize her choice, let alone say she was selfish, Because I haven't experienced this, I don't know if I am the same as him, so I am not qualified to speak of her in the spoken language of a moralist. "You are very selfish." Ji Yan said four words.The woman laughed at herself after hearing this. "Indeed, what you said is correct, but I have also received the punishment I deserve. In the end, I lost my husband and my son, and stayed alone in this big house." "However, I often have a premonition that the child is still alive, so I often go to him recently, hoping to make up for my wrongs to him." The woman finally couldn't help it when she said this, the coldness and nobility were in front of the child. Weak and vulnerable in front of her missing, she covered her face and cried in pain. "Madam, please don't be sad, we will definitely find him back." Ji Yan said suddenly. I looked at Ji Yan in surprise, where can I find it in such a big city.But Ji Yan's appearance is not a joke, and he never jokes. "Well, thank you so much. If you help me find him, I will pay no matter how much you pay." The woman put down her hand and looked at us with joy. "No need, you should save more to live with your child." Ji Yan declined, and left there with me. The rain had stopped on the way, and I couldn't help asking him if he could really find it. "Do you also think that a baby can really survive in a garbage dump?" Ji Yan asked me. "Are you just trying to comfort that woman?" I asked. "No, I think it's time to find that monster in the trash can. Also, go and check that woman's background." I thought he agreed on a whim. Ji Yan and I separated, he went to prepare a trap to catch the monster who likes to stay in the trash can, and I went to check the background of the lady. The result is similar to what she told us. Her husband is indeed a wealthy Taiwanese businessman, but it is said that he is seriously ill recently, and the situation is not optimistic. Probably because he is afraid that he will die alone after his husband leaves, so he wants to get his child back. And Ji Yan has already prepared everything, just waiting for the monster to be caught. The waiting time always felt long. Ji Yan said that he put food stained with his blood in the trash cans where various monsters had appeared. "As long as he eats it, I can find him. The food he doesn't touch will have no effect after twelve hours, and if he swallows it, the blood's strength can be maintained longer." Ji Yan said confidently, The next step is to wait patiently for twelve hours. Sure enough, Ji Yan felt it. I followed Ji Yan to the back door of a small restaurant, where there were a lot of unwashed dishes and chopsticks. I bet anyone who saw it would lose confidence in the food here.And soon, we found a trash can nearby. It is a rectangular iron trash can with a curved top cover that can be lifted. "It's inside." Ji Yan said with certainty, "But I heard you said that he runs very fast. I brought a silk net, which is used in the countryside to catch wolves. It should be useful." I followed his words, The two covered the top of the trash can with silk screen, and then opened the trash can. A black figure jumped out very quickly, but this time he hit the silk screen. caught. Ji Yan quickly tightened the net and brought the monster back home. We managed to drag him back—he was struggling all the way, and it was only when I turned on the light that I could see him in full view. There is nothing special about him like an ordinary little boy, except that his body is dirty and his arms are thin, but his thighs are very developed. This is probably the reason why he uses his limbs to run at high speed. His eyes are beautiful, but with puzzled fear and anger, like a child whose dreams have been disturbed.I couldn't help reaching out and touching his head. If it weren't for the silk screen, I'm afraid my hands would be gone. Almost instantly, I saw his mouth open violently and bite towards my hand. I avoided it subconsciously, my teeth bit the silk screen, and several ropes were broken. "The net that even wolves can't bite through was pulled open easily." Ji Yan sighed, and had to find an iron cage to lock him up temporarily. He was very quiet in the cage, just staring at us. "How did he survive?" I asked puzzled. "No, most babies will probably die shortly after being discarded—if there are no good-hearted people, but he is different. People born with baby teeth, their vitality and adaptability are completely beyond ordinary people, how to say Well, maybe it takes many years for a species to evolve to adapt to certain harsh environments, but he only needs a few years, or even a few months. His vitality like a cockroach actually depends on eating food from the trash can Down, and develop the instinct of the animal. This kind of thing is called a dragon. In the old days, some tribes had many rules about the birth of babies. For example, babies with six fingers, even twins or multiple births are considered unlucky and unlucky. Families who give birth to these children will be regarded as untouchables. Children They will be put to death. If they are twins, the parents will choose one to stay, and the other will be thrown into the wilderness to feed the wolves, and the whole tribe will have to 'dragon' for many days. It may be a kind of sacrifice, and later generally refers to an unknown baby. It's called a dragon. "Ji Yan looked at the child and spoke slowly. "I used to be a dragon too." I thought I heard it wrong, but when I turned around, I found that the child in the cage was lying on the ground and looking at Ji Yan. "What did you say?" I asked Ji Yan, but he shook his head and stopped talking. I know Ji Yan's personality well, and if I can't find something in the first time, it would be unnecessary to ask further. "Go to bed early, we will hand him over to that woman tomorrow, and he should be fine." Ji Yan yawned and walked into the bedroom. I saw that it was getting late outside, so I decided to stay here for the night. It's just that I can't sleep at night. Because I heard the sound of grinding teeth all night, and the sound of metal clashing, I thought it was funny, no matter how hard your teeth are, the cage is made of iron. Sure enough, when he woke up in the morning, the guy was lying there very tired, with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth. When we arrived at the mansion, we were greeted by the servant who had seen us before. I handed the cage to her. She looked at it, carefully avoided the child's mouth, and lifted the cage to the living room for us, and we Saw the woman again. Unlike a few days ago, she seemed to look better. She was very happy to hear that we had found her son, but when she saw the cage, she was startled again. "This is my son?" she said, stepping back, pointing to the cage. "Of course, do you think that a person who can live in a trash can for more than ten years will still be a well-dressed person who understands etiquette." I said a little dissatisfied. "No, I mean, I want to see his mouth," said the woman.Ji Yan squatted down, found a piece of bread, and threw it into the cage. The child opened his mouth and began to swallow. His teeth are no different from ordinary people, only a little dirty. "This is not my son." The woman said disappointedly, "His teeth are the kind of connected teeth like sharks, not the teeth of this kind of person. But thank you very much, although he is not my son, I still I will take good care of him so that he can become a human again." After speaking, he bowed to us. Ji Yan and I bid her farewell and walked out of the house. "I always feel that something is wrong." Ji Yan said in a low voice.I asked him what was wrong. "If this child has lived in the garbage dump for ten years, why did we only discover him now? It is impossible that he has never been discovered in ten years. You have lived here for so long, have you heard of it?" Of course I shook my head. "Also, the servant didn't show any surprise when he took the cage from you. Those iron furniture in the other room are too weird." What Ji Yan said is indeed very reasonable, but I really don't like it. understand why. "By the way, does that wealthy Taiwanese businessman have any other children?" Ji Yan asked suddenly. "No, he only has an old mother who is over eighty years old, and it seems that if he dies, all the money will go back to his mother. If the old lady dies again, the inheritance will go to the government and charity organizations." I truthfully Say. Ji Yan frowned. "I think we may have been used." Ji Yan sighed, and he looked at the luxurious house. "Forget it, we are not in charge of these housework anymore. Let's go." Ji Yan patted me on the shoulder. A month later, I received a message because I had always paid attention to that woman and her husband who was seriously ill. Now, her husband has passed away, and most of the inheritance has fallen into the hands of the old lady. The woman took a child to Taiwan and told her that it was her husband's only surviving son. The old lady was naturally very happy. After an examination, it proved that it was indeed her son's flesh and blood, so she left the child in Taiwan. She walked away from her side, and once again admitted the identity of this daughter-in-law. It turned out that the previous conflicts came from this woman's gambling nature and the loss of her own child, not because of an ominous child with baby teeth. But not long after, the old man was found dead at home, his throat was bitten off, as if it was done by some wild beast, and the only grandson disappeared.All the money became the woman's property. I told Ji Yan about this, and he hummed. "Actually, I think that woman may have found her lost child long ago. After raising him for a while, she found that she couldn't turn him into a normal person, so she abandoned him again, and the child gradually developed into a normal person. The habit of looking for food in the trash can, probably recently she discovered that her abandoned son was of value again, so she acted on that day and wanted us to get him back again. The wild child killed the old man as she wished, so naturally all the money belonged to her.As for how to make the child kill her grandma, perhaps it has long been one of the woman's training courses. Even beasts like lions and leopards are easily conditioned by humans to bury their hints. " I see. But I feel very uncomfortable, being used by others is not something to be proud of, I decided to go to her house again, and have a good talk with that woman, Ji Yan didn't stop me. It was evening when I came to her house, I suddenly saw a shadow jumping into the open window of the living room, I called the servant, she recognized me, and opened the door, saying that my wife was in the living room. I wandered in, but before reaching the living room, I smelled a strong smell of blood. When he opened the door, he saw the child lying on the ground, biting the woman's throat tightly. It seemed that he was hopeless, his eyes had turned white, and his hands and feet were drooping limply. That child, no, let's call him a dragon, seems to know that I'm coming, and opened his blood-stained mouth wide open to me, and let out a whimper. At that moment, with the last ray of light coming through from the outside, I clearly saw that there was a layer of teeth growing behind his ordinary teeth. Densely packed, like sawtooth baby teeth, shining with silver light. When it was almost dark outside, he jumped out nimbly and disappeared into the night immediately. Maybe one day, I can still meet him by the trash can.