liter coffin see joy

Chapter 5

Li Xiu was stunned for a moment before realizing what was going on.

Looking at the rice everywhere on the ground, he only felt tired.

Rats again.

He thought.

This is not the first time Li Xiu has seen a mouse in his room - in a place like an urban village, a bowl of rice is placed under the bed every day, and no rats are invited to come to the ghost.

There had been several times before, when Li Xiu was delivering food, when he looked down, he could see something passing by in the shadows under the bed. At first, Li Xiu wanted to fight, but after trying several times, he gave up. If you don't clean up the clutter in this house, don't say that he Li Xiu is a person, even if it's a cat, I'm afraid he has no power against mice.

Speaking of which, in the position of Li Xiu's family, it is already rare to see a mouse during this time. The sanitary conditions in the urban village are already poor, and the district where Li Xiu and her grandmother live happens to be the dirtiest and messiest location in the urban village. Even Li Xiu, an autistic teenager who rarely communicates with others, has heard his neighbor's aunt and uncle complain about rats and cockroaches in the house over the years.

However, in the early years, when the neighbor's house was in a mess due to the rat plague, Li Xiu's house has always been clean.

Don't talk about rats, there are not even a few mosquitoes in the summer.

Now that I think about it, it is the previous situation where mosquitoes do not enter the house is abnormal.

Let's go buy some rat poison another day.

In the daze, Li Xiu dimly sensed that something was not quite right, but now his body was extremely bad, and even if he squeezed it, he couldn't squeeze out any energy to think about what he had and didn't have.

Li Xiu went out of the door, and after perfunctory grandma, he secretly took a broom back to the room, cleaned everything up, and tiptoed out of the room.

Putting the rice mixed with fragrant ash in the dustpan in a red plastic bag, Li Xiu was about to dispose of the things, when the old and hoarse voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Ah Xiu, why did you come back so late."

Li Xiu's hand shook, and he subconsciously hid the plastic bag in the schoolbag in his hand.

When he turned around, he met his grandmother's wrinkled face.

When people get old, their eyes will become cloudy, and in the dark light, grandma's eyes will look very hollow, like two polished glass beads.

She stood there, not knowing how long she had been watching Li Xiu.

Li Xiu's fingertips curled up and tightened the strap of his schoolbag.

"Grandma'......"

Just as he was about to start talking nonsense, his grandmother's voice became high-pitched and urgent.

"You're too late, he's going to be hungry...... Deliver food, Ah Xiu, you have to hurry up and deliver food to your brother. ”

Li Xiu's voice suddenly stuck in his throat.

"Well, don't worry, I've already delivered food to my brother."

After a brief pause, he took a deep breath and then said pretending to be calm.

When grandma heard Li Xiu's answer, a trace of confusion flashed in her eyes, and after a while, the old man seemed to understand this sentence, and trembled and squeezed out a smile.

"That's good, that's good. You have to remember to deliver your meals in a timely manner in the future. ”

The old man repeated repeated, and after a long sigh of relief, she slumped down on her shoulders, shrunk her whole body, and staggered out of the kitchen.

Li Xiu looked at her grandmother's back, her lips pursed together, and she didn't say anything more.

Grandma's confusion has become more and more serious.

This is also why Li Xiu hid the overturned rice.

According to the rules from childhood to adulthood, Li Xiu would honestly deliver food to his brother every night, and before going to school the next day, he would take the bowl back from under the bed.

My brother "eats" the leftover raw rice and collects it in a red cloth bag, and then regularly takes it to the park and scatters it for the fish to eat. Of course, in my grandmother's words, it was best to burn the raw rice to ashes with a red bag.

"It's not easy to recruit unclean things."

Li Xiu remembered that her grandmother used to talk to herself like this.

But after burning it a few times, the neighbor's aunt thought that the burning was smoke and bad luck, so in order to avoid causing trouble again, Li Xiu later used a compromise method and threw it directly to the koi in the park.

The first time the rat knocked over the rice, Li Xiu was a little overwhelmed and didn't know what to do with the rice.

He didn't think too much about it, and directly told his grandmother and asked what to do. It was just such a simple question, but when my grandmother heard it, she became very strange.

It's just that the rice was kicked over by the rats, but the old man cried and made a fuss for a long time as if he was crazy, and what he said didn't match the preamble, saying that she was sorry for Li Xiu, it was she who was greedy and raised the evil ghost to go home, and now she wants to kill Li Xiu......

At that time, the old man's excitement did not scare Li Xiu.

He didn't have time to ask why his grandmother was so scared, and the old man fell asleep, and when she woke up again, she had completely forgotten her previous madness.

"Send food, Ah Xiu, don't forget to bring food to your brother."

She just kept reminding Li Xiu.

"You must not starve your brother."

　……

Out of some intuition, Li Xiu did not continue to ask.

And since that day, Li Xiu no longer dared to let her grandmother know that the "meal" that belonged to her brother under the bed would occasionally be knocked over by mice.

He thought it was very likely that his grandmother already had Alzheimer's disease.

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Every time Li Xiu thought about it, it was like a stone had been pressed in his body, and he was about to lose his breath.

In fact, he heard a lot of discussions about his grandmother and him in the neighborhood. In the eyes of outsiders, grandma is actually not very good to Ah Xiu.

The reason why her grandmother adopted Li Xiu was purely because her grandmother's own daughter had cut off relations with her.

In order for someone to provide for her old age, her grandmother adopted the lame Li Xiu.

She doesn't have a good temper and rarely takes care of Li Xiu.

But......

Even if it is a stern and indifferent grandmother, it is Li Xiu's only relative in this world.

Li Xiu also didn't know what he would do when one day, his grandmother completely forgot about him because of Alzheimer's disease.

*

In the evening, Li Xiu's low-grade fever became severe.

My head hurts. My eyes also darkened for a while.

Li Xiu realized that his physical condition was a little wrong, so he quickly grabbed a little pill from the drawer and swallowed it into his throat. After returning to the bed and lying down for a while, Li Xiu broke out in a lot of cold sweat, and even his pajamas were soaked.

A biting chill spread from the bone marrow, and the swelling on the flesh continued to exude heat like a soldering iron. Li Xiu tossed and turned on the bed, only to feel that the quilt was cold and damp, once he was unconscious, a stale stench mixed with dust and rust would rise from the depths of the quilt, and it would climb out in wisps and wrap around Li Xiu's body.

…… It was the peculiar smell of the old room of the Xiao family's villa.

Li Xiu was so uncomfortable that she couldn't sleep properly at all.

In the end, Li Xiu couldn't bear it anymore, even if she was so uncomfortable that she was about to faint, she still gritted her teeth and went into the bathroom to take a bath.

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The bathroom, like the rest of the house, was cramped, dark, and damp.

"Click".

When the switch was turned on, a small dim lamp lit up, gradually staining the moist moisture rising from the bathroom.

Li Xiu's breathing was heavy, he was weak, and his body could barely stand up straight by leaning completely against the wall. The hot water had been turned on to the maximum, the water temperature had been adjusted to the highest, but he still felt cold in the hot bathroom.

Especially the right leg that he had washed back and forth many times, even if he washed it back and forth with soap for a long time, Li Xiu still felt that it seemed to be attached to the sticky sweat that the group of boys in the afternoon wiped on his calves and knees in the excitement.

"Vomit ......"

The muffled retching of teenagers echoed in the bathroom.

After a long time, Li Xiucai turned off the water.

He hung his head and stood under the shower for a long time.

The vision was still his disgusting, misshapen legs.

So weak that I don't even have the strength to kick someone.

Unable to run or jump.

It's a leg of waste.

　*

"Tick ......"

The water vapor condensed on the ceiling and then fell down again.

Slightly cool droplets of water slowly descended along Li Xiu's bony back.

Li Xiu suddenly fought a cold war.

　*

Just now...... It was as if cold fingertips were running through his skin.

　*

Li Xiu turned his head to look at the tiled wall behind him, which was already full of cracks, and his shadow was reflected on the yellowed tiles.

He couldn't say why, he was a little flustered.

Or because of the low-grade fever, as soon as the hot water is turned off, the coldness that pierces the bone marrow swept in again.

Li Xiu's body trembled, and he scribbled his body with a dry towel. His gaze casually swept over the bathroom mirror, and at the same time, through the towel, he only felt as if he had wiped something.

He seemed to ...... I touched a pair of hands.

Li Xiu's pupils suddenly constricted.

At a glance, he saw that behind him, a slender and tall figure was standing.

And the arms of the shadow were pressing on his shoulders.

His own hand was just over the hand of the shadow.

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"Shhhh

Li Xiu threw the towel and staggered back.

With a thud, he slammed into the wall. A huge pain erupted in the place where he had been beaten in the afternoon, and Li Xiu almost lost his breath.

My heart was beating so fast that it was bursting out of my chest.

After standing in place for a while, Li Xiucai held the towel and looked around.

Of course, Li Xiu didn't see anything, everything in front of him was the old bathroom that he had been looking at for countless years and couldn't be more familiar with.

After settling down, Li Xiu turned white and wiped off the fog on the mirror, only to realize that he had just seen the markings on the old tiles caused by water stains as a human figure.

As for what he touched through the towel just now, cough, it was himself.

The place where he was beaten was a horrible black blue, and his skin was completely numb, and it almost felt like another person's skin to the touch.

Li Xiu thought hard, and the low-grade fever made his thinking a little chaotic, but it didn't prevent him from making judgments.

"Really."

In a trance, Li Xiu felt a little ashamed of this little oolong.

But it must be admitted that at that moment just now, he did feel an unspeakable creepy.

It must be because of the fever.

The young man tried his best to comfort himself, obviously he had come back to his senses, but Li Xiu's heart was still beating disobediently.

He was getting dizzy.

Without thinking too much, Li Xiu hurriedly got dressed and left the bathroom. He knew that he should rest as soon as possible, otherwise, he would have no energy to deal with the bright school bullying tomorrow at school.

It was this kind of panic that Li Xiu didn't notice at all, and after he left the bathroom, the originally closed bathroom door slowly opened again, revealing a c***k.

Above the door, something flickered through the c***k in the door.

…… It's like a pair of eyes, looking deeply at Li Xiu's back through the c***k in the door.