Chapter 5 4. The first day (evening)

After dinner, Ji Ning's mother gave Doudou a set of beautiful and complete painting utensils. Doudou seemed to like painting very much, and she was so happy that she wanted to create immediately.But his aunt urged him to take a shower, and then put Doudou into a new designer T-shirt, shorts and sneakers.After a new look, Doudou seems to be a different person, fashionable and handsome, not at all like a child from the country. Everyone gathered in the living room, evaluating Doudou's new image.The grandma sat in the wheelchair and couldn't stop laughing: "My little grandson looks more foreign than those children in the city!"

Doudou herself was very happy, jumping and jumping in new clothes, and holding a comb in front of the mirror to comb a new hairstyle, which made everyone laugh. Doudou ran to Ji Ning's side. "Cousin, do you have a camera? Take a picture for me!" Ji Ning teased him: "What are you doing? You still want to post it online to participate in the draft?" Doudou scratched his head unconsciously. "I want to...show it to my mother when I get back." As soon as the words came out, everyone was stunned. Ji Ning's father said: "Doudo, after you go back, does your mother still need to look at the photos? Can she just look at you?"

Doudou stood there blankly.In a trance. "Well... yes." "This child, isn't he too happy? He's confused." Ji Ning's mother laughed. At this time, Ji Ning suddenly heard a faint voice, like someone singing.He thought it was the voice on the TV at first, but found that the program broadcast on the TV had nothing to do with the singing, so he couldn't help asking: "Did you hear any sound?" "I heard it too, it seemed like someone was singing something." Dad said.He picked up the remote and pressed the TV to mute. The living room suddenly fell silent, and at this moment, everyone clearly heard this soft singing voice:

"Pull the big saw, pull the big saw, grandma's house, sing a big show. Pick up the daughter, invite the son-in-law, and the little grandson is going too... The cheapskate, drink cold water, break the tank, can't drink water, ask his wife to hang him, Give birth to a child with one leg..." Everyone could hear clearly that it was a woman singing a nursery rhyme, her voice was as soft as snow, it sounded a bit bitter, and... there was a sense of familiarity. Ji Ning's mother suddenly called out: "Oh, isn't this the voice of Huiyun (Doudo's mother)?" Everyone heard this reminder, and it felt strange and inexplicable.

A few seconds later, Doudou suddenly remembered something, and shouted: "It's mom, mom called me!" Before everyone could react, they saw Doudou rushing towards the bathroom. Ji Ning and his mother followed and found that Doudou took out a mobile phone from the bag of the shorts that had been changed, and the singing came from here. After Doudou pressed the answer button, the singing stopped. He held the phone and shouted happily: "Mom, mom!" Dad also came over and saw Doudou answering the phone, he was relieved: "It turns out that Huiyun recorded the nursery rhyme she sang and set it as a ringtone."

Doudou walked out while answering the phone: "Well, I know... I will listen to my uncle and aunt...Mom, my aunt bought new clothes for me, and my cousin took me to the playground in the afternoon..." I don't know what I said to Doudou on the phone. After several minutes, Doudou suddenly said: "Mom, I will be good, don't cry." All eyes are on the past. Doudou listened intently for a few more minutes, not knowing what she was agreeing to. "Okay, mom, I promise you... Well, goodbye, you will call me every night from now on." Hearing that Doudou seemed to be about to end the call, grandma suddenly called out: "Doudo, give me the phone, I want to talk to your mother."

"Oh, okay, mom, grandma said she..." Doudou stopped and put down the phone slowly. "Mom, she hung up the phone." Grandma looked annoyed. "Is she deliberately not wanting to talk to me?" Ji Ning's mother said: "Mom, how could it be? Huiyun must have hung up the phone when you said it." "Then you call her now and say I'm looking for her." "Mom, have you forgotten? Huiyun doesn't have a phone at home. She may have called from the public phone at the entrance of the village. I'm calling now, but she is no longer the one who answers the phone."

Grandma turned her head away and stopped talking. Ji Ning's mother suddenly remembered something. "Doudou, whose phone is yours?" "Mine." Doudou said. "Your? Did your mother buy it from you?" Doudou nodded. "Well, my mother went to the county town to buy it for me last week." Ji Ning's mother looked back at her husband in disbelief. "It's really weird. Huiyun doesn't have a phone at home, but she bought a mobile phone from Doudou—is it necessary? What does such a young child use a mobile phone for?" Doudou said: "Mom said, if I have a mobile phone, she can call me when she misses me in the future."

Grandma's face gradually turned around, looking at Doudou. Mother and father looked at each other and asked, "Doudo, haven't you been by your mother's side all the time? Why does she want to call you?" "I'm not by her side now." Doudou said. "But you are at our house. If your mother misses you, can't you just call our house? Why do you have to buy a mobile phone and call you? " Doudou stopped talking. After a moment of silence, Ji Ning's mother couldn't help asking: "Doudo, have you told us the truth? Why did your mother give you so much money and buy you a mobile phone?"

"I don't know..." Doudou said in a low voice. At this time, the grandma who was on the side suddenly asked, "Doudou, what did your mother tell you on the phone just now?" "She didn't say anything, she just told me to be obedient and not to be naughty, and she also said..." "What else?" Everyone looked at him. Doudou laughed. "My mother also said that she loves me very much." "Did your mother cry just now?" Ji Ning's mother asked. Doudou nodded. "Why is she crying?" "I don't know." Doudou lowered her head.There was silence.

Ji Ning's father said: "Maybe it's because Huiyun has never been separated from the child, and she can't get used to it for a while, and she misses the child. It's no big deal." "Maybe." Mom nodded slowly. "It's okay, let's watch TV." Dad picked up the remote control and was about to turn on the sound. "Wait a minute." Grandma yelled, and she came to Doudou in a wheelchair and stared at him: "Doudo, grandma will ask you something again—the song on your phone just now was sung by your mother, right?" ?” "En." Doudou nodded. "My mother used to sing it to me in my sleep." "Why did she record it on her phone?" "My mother said, in this way, even if she is not by my side in the future, I can still hear her voice. Grandma didn't speak anymore, her face slowly turned away, thoughtful. Ji Ning's mother walked to her side and asked softly, "Mom, what's wrong with you?" Grandma's lips opened and closed, and she didn't speak for a long time. After a while, she made a sound: "Huiqing (Jining's mother's name), please take me to the room, I want to spit." "Oh, good." Mom turned around and said to Ji Ning's father, "Help me, Mom wants to go back to the room to rest." Dad hurried over, carried grandma off the wheelchair with mother, and carried her upstairs carefully . After a while, my mother came downstairs to make arrangements: "Ji Ning, you can spit with Doudou at night." "En." Ji Ning responded, and glanced at Doudou next to him, and found that his eyes were staring at the ground blankly, not sure if he was in a daze or thinking about something. Ever since Doudou answered the phone call from Auntie, there was a weird atmosphere in the house.But—Ji Ning thought again—the whole day has been a little weird, what's going on? At this time, he didn't know that what happened that day was just a precursor, and terrible things followed one after another.