"Find a way to get him out."
I looked in the direction of the hunchbacked boy and frowned, "There are a lot of children around him, and Sakurako has asked me not to talk to the people in my dreams or have conflicts, which is not easy to do." ”When I walked out of the school building, the sky outside was a little dark, there was no sun, and it was about six or seven o'clock in the evening.In the northwest corner of the playground, the children's game was repeated many times, and slowly some people began to get bored, and finally dispersed, leaving only the hunchbacked boy kneeling in the middle and covering his eyes."
Good chance!"
I walked along the corner, avoiding the scattered children, towards him.The playground is paved with loess, and the ground is uneven, with sharp stones and weeds emerging in some places.The children around him had already walked away, and the hunchbacked boy was still on his knees, covering his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.The children had all dispersed, but he was left behind, and no one wanted to be with him or kindly remind him.His legs were numb on his knees, and as I was about to walk up to him, the boy lowered his hands and I saw his eyes.It's unimaginably beautiful, it's clear, it's clean, and the eyes seem to be able to see the bottom at a glance.These eyes were incompatible with his dirty face and thin body, and there was a strong contrast."
Eyes are the windows to the soul, how can a person with such eyes go to play hide and seek with a stuffed bear at three o'clock in the morning in the middle of the night?"
The experience of the last dream still made my heart palpitate, and I stopped, not daring to approach him, and hid in the shadows of the wall, looking through the mask at the boy on his knees.He stood up with great difficulty with his hands on the ground, patting the dust on his pants, and the expression on his face was not resentful or hateful."
There's something interesting about this kid."
When I first saw him, I thought that he had the same childhood experience as Yuanchen Shensha, but when I saw the expression on his face at this time, I realized that there was a fundamental difference in the personalities of these two people.Yuanchen Shensha has a tendency to self-destructive, he longs to get everything he wants, and if he can't get it, he will choose to die together and destroy everything.The hunchbacked boy is different, although he is also isolated and bullied by a kind of "violence" that belongs to children.
Ling, but maybe because of his young age, I didn't feel the hatred from him, he gave people a strange feeling, it was a kind of out-of-place strength, he seemed to be doing an alternative redemption to himself in his own way.I was a little curious about what the boy would do next, and I didn't show up directly."
Is the apartment building supposed to represent the memories of the hunchbacked boy before he entered the orphanage, what happened to his family?
What caused him to be sent to an orphanage?
Did the adult man who lived with him have an accident?
”Only if the immediate guardian dies and the rest of the relatives refuse to support the child will the child be sent to a social welfare institution or an orphanage.Thinking of this, the shallow dream of the first act and the current middle dream are connected, which represent the two stages of the hunchbacked boy's life."
Compared to being alone in an apartment building playing with stuffed bears, this orphanage at least has a much better atmosphere."
The hunchbacked boy longs for friends the most, and fears loneliness the most, neither of which exist in the orphanage."
It stands to reason that he has entered a completely new environment, and it should be a change."
Looking at his age at this time, he was only six or seven years old, very short, stunted, and although his appearance was much worse than that of his peers, he did not have any friends.I stood in the corner, following the hunchbacked boy around the orphanage, as it slowly darkened, as if he was deliberately detouring to prevent anyone from following me."
Where is this going?"
The orphanage is a converted abandoned campus of an elementary school and occupies a large area, but most of it is undeveloped wasteland.Following the hunchbacked boy around, I found that the whole campus can be roughly divided into four parts, the first part is the playground and the surrounding wasteland, overgrown with weeds, and planted with some crooked trees that are about to die; The second part is the school building, the first and second floors of this three-storey building are the classrooms, and the third floor is the office of the teacher on duty, which is mainly responsible for providing education for able-bodied children.When I first entered the middle level of dreaming, I saw a brochure of the orphanage posted in the corridor, and adopted a policy of unified upbringing, classification and class management for adopted children.Able-bodied children should be brought up and educated, and those below the fifth grade of primary school should start their own classes, and junior high school or older children should be sent to nearby schools for day.The third part of the orphanage is a bit special, it is a semi-enclosed building, twice as large as the teaching building, a total of three floors, the top floor adopted a few abandoned babies, look at the introduction posted in the building, the babies are raised by professionals, because of financial problems and other problems, the orphanage does not take many babies; On the second floor, there are people with physical disabilities but sound mental development, and the orphanage provides rehabilitation treatment on the one hand so that they can take care of themselves, and on the other hand, vocational education and skills training are provided to create conditions for them to enter society in the future.
The lowest level takes in some children with dementia, some of whom are mentally deficient and some of whom are also suffering from mania, so the orphanage places them on the ground floor to prevent accidents.The last part of the campus is the residential building, where orphans and some physically handicapped but mentally sound children live.After a big circle, the hunchbacked boy finally stopped at the main entrance of the orphanage, still standing alone at the gate, tilting his head, taking a deep breath, and slowly straightening up to look at the three words on the door."
Heaven's Mouth."
His reverent expression, as if he were praying, was too far away to see his movements, except that he hesitated, as if he were about to run out the door.After a few seconds, the boy turned and ran back to the orphanage, and by this time it was already dark, and I put away my phone and used my judgment to keep track of him."
Where is he going?"
Walking through the darkness, the boy seemed to be much bolder, and he ran to the school building in one go, climbed the stairs to the third floor, and finally stopped outside one of the rooms."
The Dean's Office?"
I narrowed my eyes and watched carefully: "At that time, the director of the orphanage should be Chen Lao, maybe I can take this opportunity to understand what kind of person he is from the child's dreams." ”It didn't seem like the first time the hunchbacked boy had been here, and he stooped over like a rat stealing food and burrowed into the office.The door was ajar, and I crept in, hiding behind the bookshelf, and the boy didn't notice me, but he was lying on the windowsill with his clothes on his chair.There was a birdcage containing a small bird with a bright red chest and light gray feathers, which looked unsightly, like a gray fluttering elf."
This bird shouldn't be a native bird in Jiangcheng, right?"
I have never seen such a small and agile bird, and the birdcage on the windowsill looks extremely extraordinary, and there are no rare birds in Jiangcheng, so I made such an inference.The bird was very excited when he saw the boy, and jumped in the cage with a crisp call.The hunchbacked boy also smiled for the first time in a long time, his smile was the same as his eyes, very clean and pure.Reaching out to close the window, the boy opened the cage, and the little light gray bird flew out of the cage with a whoosh, flying around him."
This memory is engraved in the middle dream, is this bird important to the hunchbacked boy?"
Soon my question was answered, the door to the dean's office was pushed open, and two boys, one high and one low, walked in, and the moment I saw these two children, my pupils suddenly contracted.I saw them on the playground when they were playing around the hunchbacked boys, and they were just the same size and appearance as normal children.But when I met them again after dark, the two children's bodies had changed dramatically.Their limbs and torsos have shrunk and become smaller, but their heads have grown more than two or three times larger."
Day and night look different?"
Looking at these two terrifying children, I hid behind the bookshelf, and I didn't dare to act rashly.Frightened to know that he had been discovered, the hunchbacked boy jumped out of his chair and picked up his dirty coat."
I've been paying attention to you for a few days, sneaking into the dean's office, and we've caught you."
The short boy was about the same age and height as the hunchbacked boy, and his voice was somewhat shrivelled.The hunchbacked boy did not speak, and the little gray bird landed on his shoulder, not disgusted by his cowardice and clumsiness."
The dean's bird?
You take it and let's see. ”The tall boy was older, his head was pressed against his shoulders, heavy, and his hair was moving when he spoke, which was terrifying from any direction.The hunchbacked boy, apparently reluctant to give the bird to the two deformed children, patted him on the shoulder and let the bird fly around the house.Children's hearts are more "lively", and when they see interesting things, they instinctively want to grasp them in their hands.The two of them found the broom from the door and began to chase the birds in the house, the gray feathers flew off the roof one by one, the birds fled with a scream, the hunchbacked boy clutched his clothes and did not stop the other two children, until the birds flew slower and slower, he suddenly threw away his clothes, pushed down the short one of them, climbed directly into the chair, and reached out to push open the window."
Robin!
Fly out!
”The windows are open, and the world is outside.But at the same time, the broom hit the gray bird, and the tall boy slapped the bird to the ground, and his shrunken and deformed hands grabbed the bird's body, and he pinched the bird's head with his thumb and middle finger, and the tips of his fingers sank into the red fluff on the bird's chest.The little bird must have felt the pain, pecked the tall fingers, and he twisted the bird's neck in pain, and then threw it to the ground.