Chapter 10 Chapter 9 Guardian of the Night

"Don't be afraid, it's okay. This is a supermarket. You are here to do some shopping, right? You must be preparing for dinner, right?" Saori squatted beside the already abnormal Hirota, stroking her back to comfort her. Soon, Hirota's expression became normal: "Yes, I want to buy something to take home." A smile that Xiaojian was very familiar with appeared on her wrinkled face again, "My son will soon After school, I have to cook for him. Every day after school, he always yells: "Mom, are we eating curry rice today?" My child loves curry rice the most."

"The child is waiting for you at home, go home quickly." Saori coaxed her patiently, helped her stand up, turned and said to the shop assistant, "Let's take her home." "Really? Thank you so much! I just don't know what to do." The female shop assistant finally breathed a sigh of relief. Saori put the beef in Hirota's basket back to its original place, and walked out of the supermarket holding Hirota's hand. It was raining heavily outside, and it was like beating a big drum on the umbrella, which made Xiaojian feel uncomfortable.Saori supported Hirota and walked ahead, the two of them walked cautiously, Hirota was barefoot and wearing slippers, stepping on the rain-soaked road with a squeaky noise.Every time Hirota tried to leave the umbrella and walk in the opposite direction, Saori quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her back under the umbrella.

Seeing the street lights of the apartment, Hirota quickened her pace as if thinking of something, and as soon as she approached Building 4, she left Saori behind and ran forward in the rain. When Xiaojian and Zuozhi caught up with her, she was already drenched, leaning against the door of Room 102 in a daze. "I can't find the key," she whispered listlessly. Xiaojian opened the bag she was carrying and found the key. Open the door, it's pitch black inside.After Hirota entered the room and turned on the light, the room was still dark and empty. Where is the elementary school student who likes to eat curry rice?The room was empty, it didn't look like there was another person at all, Xiao Jian felt very strange.

First of all, if it is an elementary school student living in Maple Leaf Apartment, it is impossible for Xiao Jian not to know him.Every day when everyone went to school collectively, Yingzi, who was in charge of gathering, never called "Mr. Guangtian". Hirota skillfully opened the sliding door of the bedroom, and saw that the room was surrounded by Japanese-style cabinets, with a quilt spread out in the middle, and the drawers of the cabinet were opened casually, and a mess of underwear and skirts were placed around the quilt some type of. Hirota's skirt was still dripping water, and she sat under the quilt without turning on the light or taking off her skirt.

"You can't do this, you'll catch a cold." Saori hurriedly approached her, but Hirota didn't move, the water on the skirt slowly soaked the quilt and bed sheets. Saori sighed, left Hirota behind and walked out.Walking to the telephone in the dining room, he picked up the phone book next to him and flipped through the pages.At this time, she seemed to have just realized Xiaojian's existence, and said blankly: "Xiaojian, you go back first." Xiaojian came home alone in the heavy rain and sat on a chair waiting for his mother to come back.An hour later, Saori finally returned, looking very tired.The wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are more obvious than usual, and she really looks like a middle-aged woman.

"How is Hirota?" Jian asked cautiously. "Her son is here and will take care of her. We don't have to worry about it." Saori replied with her head down. "Is it the son who is in elementary school?" Xiaojian asked again. Zuozhi raised her head and looked at Xiaojian's face seriously: "Xiaojian... When I am too old to walk, what will you do?" "What did you say?" "I mean when you get married in the future, if your wife dislikes me, will you still take care of me?" Suddenly being asked such a far-fetched question, Xiaojian was stunned.This problem is much more difficult than before.What does Saori, who is too old to walk, look like?What will your future wife be like?Xiaojian couldn't imagine it at all.

Saori's eyes looked so serious, this time he couldn't joke with her anymore.So Xiaojian said honestly: "I don't know!" However, Saori quickly pretended to be relaxed and said with a smile: "Son, you can lie to your mother and say: 'I will take care of you for the rest of my life, don't worry!'" "But, I really don't know what will happen in the future." Xiaojian was very embarrassed, and Saori suddenly called himself a mother, which made him very confused. "What an honest boy... Well, I want to find a rich man to marry while I'm still young..." Saori looked up at the wall clock, "Oops, the supermarket is closed. I have to go to the convenience store to buy some thing……"

On the second day, Hirota did not appear in the fixed window of Building 4, but was replaced by a middle-aged man and woman.The middle-aged man was wearing a gray suit and looked fat.The woman was wearing a bright red dress and her hair was stylishly permed.The two sat facing each other in Hirota's bedroom, with serious expressions, talking fiercely.The man seemed a little anxious. He was about to say something loudly when he suddenly realized that there was someone outside the window and hurriedly drew the curtains. The shadow cast by the curtain made Xiaojian suddenly realize that this man who looked older than Saori was Hirota's son.

It is this middle-aged man who has gained weight. When he was a child, he liked to eat curry rice very much. Every morning, he would pester Hirota: "Mom, can I still make curry rice today?" At this time, Xiaojian suddenly remembered Saori's old question: Xiaojian, what do you want to do when you grow up in the future? He seems to have seen the answer - in an apartment house, he is face to face with a middle-aged woman.This woman was wearing an old-fashioned suit, her hair was permed high, she wore a gold necklace around her neck, she was wearing heavy makeup, she was skinny, and she was arguing with Xiaojian viciously—she was Xiaojian's wife!

God!No, I don't want to get married, I don't want to grow up!I want to be a kid forever! Playing with Haiyan and Guanghao at school every day, and sitting at Yuno’s house for a while when returning home, listening to him tell interesting stories while eating snacks; on Sundays, I went to the park to play football with my good friends, and rode mountain bikes to my heart’s content on the landslides ; Saturday with horror watching the fierce battle between the amazing warrior Pajil and the enemy...   ——What a happy life this is, I never want to grow up! However, at this time, I seemed to hear Yoshino's voice again: "Child with a beard, do you think it's scary?"

Then there was Hirota's crying and shouting face again... "That guy will definitely come, I can't escape, I can't escape..." King of kids! The evil witch in the east was severely beaten by him; the good witch in the west left an ominous prophecy and went to a world that no one knew; the map redrawn by the wise boy could not be seen... Have I lost the power to defend Maple Leaf Apartments?Is my strength not enough to protect Yoshino? From tonight, Xiaojian will start his night guard. After dinner and a shower, Xiaojian stayed in his room, picked up the homemade binoculars and looked out the window.After 9 o'clock, Saori urged him to go to bed quickly and turned off the lights.Xiaojian still sticks to his post in the light of the street lamp outside. The apartment was extremely dark at night, and the lights in the windows went out one by one.In response to the call for saving electricity, the director of the management committee requested that the lights in the corridors must be turned off after 9 pm, and the buildings stood like dark square boxes.The only light left is the faint street lights.There were no pedestrians on the road, only some plastic bags were blown by the wind and ran around on the ground, and a few wild cats were crying like children... However, the outside of the apartment is like another world, brightly lit.The lights of rows of vending machines, the headlights of cars, the colorful neon lights in the distance, the dazzling headlights on the construction site...all these make the street look like daytime. Looking at it, Xiaojian suddenly felt that this apartment should be empty compared to the street. The street was still bustling with people late at night, but the apartment at night was dark and silent.Surrounded by the darkness, everyone held their breath, as if waiting for someone to come over. Yoshino's mother always didn't come back until midnight, and her high-heeled shoes made a screeching sound on the concrete floor.Following the sound, Xiaojian shifted the direction of the binoculars, saw Yuye's mother wearing a gorgeous coat, and saw her turn to Building 17, Xiaojian ended today's guard in peace. "Xiaojian, get up!" The next morning, Xiaojian who was sleeping was violently pulled up by his mother, and the quilt was lifted. "Let me sleep for a while..." "Don't dawdle any longer, get up quickly! I have to go to work quickly!" "Please, let me sleep for a while longer." Xiaojian sat up helplessly from the bed, rubbed his sleepy eyes, dazed for a while, got up and ran to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water, and immediately became sober. The clock on the wall told Xiaojian that it was past 7 o'clock. He ate some bread in a hurry, changed his clothes and rushed out the door. He bumped into the tassel who was calling him at home: "What are you doing, you're late again!" "Did you treat today as Sunday?" Back in the team, Hai Yan also laughed at him. When he arrived at school, Xiaojian was still so sleepy that his eyelids twitched, and he fell asleep in class, and was severely reprimanded by the teacher. The day's class was finally over, and after school, Xiaojian went home without looking for Yoshino.As soon as he entered the room, he fell asleep on the dining table in the dining room, and Xiaojian was still sleeping soundly when Saori came back. "Hey? What's wrong with you?" Zuo Zhi lightly shook Xiao Jian to wake him up, so worried that he even forgot to be angry. Even so, at night, Xiaojian insisted on standing guard again, holding a telescope, and saw that Mother Youye had returned safely, so Xiaojian went back to sleep with confidence. Three days later, Kid Wang finally appeared.