While thinking about it, he suddenly saw Zou Min and his mother-in-law running from a distance in a hurry, shouting Xiaotong's name as they ran, and the look on their faces was very panicked.
Seeing this, Li Yunze hurriedly pulled Xiaotong, limped out of the crowd again, and brought him to the Zou couple.
The two of them saw that Xiaotong was safe, so they relieved their hearts, but Aunt Zou still hugged Xiaotong and cried bitterly, crying so much that her eyes were red.
Li Yunze knew that she was in love with the scene, and remembered the eldest son who died here, so he couldn't help but apologize, but fortunately, Zou Min didn't blame him for this, but only urged them to hurry home and not stay here longer, so as not to cause more accidents.
However, the general atmosphere of the Zou family's ice cave still lasted all day, after dinner, Zou Min came to see Li Yunze and went to sleep, even the always lively Xiaotong was unusual, and went to sleep early.
Seeing that everyone was resting and there was silence outside the courtyard, Li Yunze got up from the bed and walked to the table.
He was very nimble on his legs and feet, and he walked steadily without help, and he still held a bright red paper in his hand, which was very thin, and if he was not careful, the paper blade would cut through his cold fingers.
Li Yunze sat firmly on the stool, and at some point there was an extra pair of scissors wrapped in red thread in his hand, he aimed the tip of the knife at the red paper, and poked it without hesitation.
The scissors fluttered in the dim flames of the oil lamp, and he was so engrossed that he forgot to hide the two faint green fluorescents under his eyes.
Before long, a lively puppy appeared in his palm, his eyes were smart, the hair on his tail stood up, and there were a few plum blossoms on his body, which looked cute and cute.
Li Yunze's lips pursed slightly, and he blew a breath at it, and the puppy stood up as if he was awakened, "tom", he stood upright, lowered his head and shook his ears, crawled forward with his paws, stretched a comfortable waist, and then looked up at Li Yunze without blinking, as if waiting for his instructions.
The slender fingers slid down the paper dog's back to the tip of the tail, Li Yunze's gaze floated through its hollow body to the door, and he whispered, "Go ahead, see what is buried in that tomb?"
” Hearing this, the puppy snorted, jumped from his palm to the ground, and ran towards the door with brisk steps, and when it crossed the threshold, its body turned into a rainbow, melted into the endless darkness, and disappeared after a while.
Li Yunze looked at the quiet dark night like a pool of stagnant water, his eyes were sharp, and he returned to the bed and lay down without saying a word, staring at the dark shadow on the beam for a long time, before slowly closing his dry eyes.
Zou Xiaotong tossed and turned in the quilt for a whole hour, and his thin body pressed the bed board to "creak", which exacerbated his anxiety of not being able to sleep.
The eyeless corpse he saw during the day flashed in his mind repeatedly, although he had forced himself to force the figure that had been folded into a terrible shape out, but it would not be long before it would sneak back again, and when Zou Xiaotong realized it, it had been in his head for a long time, "staring" into his eyes with a pair of eyeballless eye sockets.
When he met those "eyes" again, Zou Xiaotong sat up from the bed suddenly, and slapped his hands desperately on the top of his head a few times, until he was completely awake before he stopped.
After that, he didn't dare to sleep anymore, and sat motionless as he looked at his wrung hands.
"Whoa".
There was an extremely slight sound from the corner of the house, Zou Xiaotong tightened his body, and hurriedly moved his eyes to the cramped corner, where his precious wooden box was placed, and the sound just now seemed to be the sound of the wooden box opening.
But there was no one in the house, so how could the wooden box open on its own?
Zou Xiaotong held his breath and stared at the corner that was obscured by the night, and he felt his heart beating fast, as if it was about to fly out of his throat.
"Boom" Suddenly, there was another movement in the corner, and unlike the sound just now, this time it seemed as if something had jumped out of the wooden box, and little by little it was coming in his direction from the thick darkness.
Zou Xiaotong bit his lip tightly, but in the next moment, he suddenly covered his mouth, and his back was straight.
He saw a flowery thing slowly break through the darkness of the night, and came to the bed like a leisurely stroll, and after glancing at him, suddenly erected its colorful tail feathers, and shook at him as if showing off.
The peacock that Li Yunze gave him is alive.
It paced leisurely around the room, its turquoise feathers occasionally brushing over Zou Xiaotong's bare arms, giving him an unreal tingling sensation.
After a stalemate like this for a while, Zou Xiaotong finally broke free from the suppression of fear, he lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed, and ran towards the door like crazy, seeing that his hand was about to touch the deadbolt, but there was a voice floating behind him, a voice he had never heard.
"It's dark, and the lights open the door.
The warm soup wets my feet, and the paper-cutting beckons my soul. ” Hearing this poem that seemed to be understood, Zou Xiaotong froze at his feet, and then, without hesitation, he grabbed the door of the house and wanted to open it.
But he dragged it for a long time with all his strength, but the wooden door did not move at all, not even a crack was opened, as if it was locked from the outside.
Zou Xiaotong was shocked, trembling and glancing back with the corner of his eye, but when he saw the black shadow standing next to the peacock, his legs and feet weakened, and he fell to the ground with a bang.
The figure was not tall, and although his face was blurred under the cover of the night, he could vaguely see that the outline of his face was very similar to Zou Xiaotong, and when he walked towards Zou Xiaotong, the peacock followed him, rubbing his arm with his tail feathers from time to time, looking very intimate with him.
When he came to Zou Xiaotong, the man stood still, his head lowered slightly, his eyes locked on Zou Xiaotong's eyes, and he didn't speak, just stared at him quietly.
In an instant, a few drops of hot liquid suddenly slipped off his face, dripping on Zou Xiaotong's lips and nose, and the fishy sweet taste made the fear he had suppressed for a long time pour out, and he opened his mouth wide and let out a helpless sob.