Tang Ning's chest was filled with a sore and swollen feeling. He recalled that when he was a child in kindergarten, a little boy told him that he looked like a girl. After school, Tang Ning complained to his mother. The petite mother went to the boy's tall family to argue with him, and successfully persuaded the boy to raise his head.
After the discussion was over, little Tang Ning couldn't help but ask his mother, "Mom, mom, that uncle is so tall, are you afraid of him?"
Mom said, we are in the right, why should we be afraid.
Mom said, if she was afraid of him, then who would protect my Ningning
The mother downstairs was so thin when she stood up, but she walked with such a majestic aura. Tang Ning stared at his mother's departing figure until he could no longer see her. Only then did he reluctantly look away and look at Su Anyun who was standing beside him.
"Brother, Mom"
Su Anyun rubbed Tangning's head and said gently, "Auntie, you are going to reason with someone."
Is there any truth that needs to be explained while holding a kitchen knife
In most cases, my mother needs to use violence, and she is very talented, with clear and organized logic. When arguing with a group of elderly aunts, my mother single-handedly challenged the whole group and was defeated, showing the style of a debate with a group of scholars.
Tang Ning knew that her mother had suffered domestic violence when she was a child, and that her mother had always hated violence.
He had never been like this with his mother.
"Will mom fight with that guy?" Tangning asked the question that concerned her most.
As Tangning anxiously stared at him, Su Anyun patted Tangning's head and whispered, "If everyone is willing to reason, then there will be a fight."
"If someone is willing to talk reason, only force can make the other party willing to listen to auntie's reason."
Mom is a monster, and Jiang Mianmian’s stepfather is also a monster.
In terms of body shape, my mother is not as tall as Jiang Mianmian's stepfather. When he went to visit Zhou Kang's house before, Zhou Kang's mother did not give her face at first. In addition, every family has its own rules.
"If we start a fight, will mom have the upper hand?!" Tangning grabbed Su Anyun's arm tightly.
"I know." Su Anyun said gently.
Facing Su Anyun's calm gaze, Tang Ning suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, or rather, he had been deliberately avoiding something.
He is emotionally willing to admit that in this family, his mother and brother are in conflict.
When the brother and mother are hostile, if the mother is injured or even something more serious happens, it is actually beneficial to the brother.
So when her brother first suggested that she could tell her mother about this, he did not tell Tang Ning about the possible consequences.
"Brother." Tangning bit his lip. The bitter feeling in his chest grew even stronger, causing his eyes to turn red for no reason. He grabbed Su Anyun's hand tightly and said, "Let's go find Mom!"
Tang Ning dragged Su Anyun downstairs. Su Anyun did not delay on purpose. He and Tang Ning ran downstairs quickly.
The corridor is so crowded that only two people can walk side by side.
If a family of three walks here, one person must be excluded.
Tang Ning's mind suddenly flashed back to the dream he had last night. Both his mother and brother reached out to him, and he could only choose one.
Tang Ning shook his head vigorously. He pulled Su Anyun downstairs. The midday sun was particularly glaring, so bright that Tang Ning almost had to open his eyes. Su Anyun got on his bike and Tang Ning sat on the bike seat. He opened his phone and sent a message to Jiang Mianmian: "Where are you?!"
Jiang Mianmian replied: "Bai Wuliang and I are having dinner outside, what's the matter?"
Tangning called directly. When the person on the other end answered, Tangning quickly said, "My mom is going to your house to settle accounts with your stepfather! Are you far from home?! I know I can beat your stepfather!!!"
Jiang Mianmian was shocked when she heard Tangning's words, but she quickly said, "We're going over there!"
After Tangning hung up the phone, he called all members in the group chat and told everyone about the incident.
After finishing this, he grabbed the seat of his car and urged Su Anyun: "Brother, hurry up!"
He knew when his mother would arrive, so he could only go faster and faster.
If Lin Yun drove over, it would take about ten minutes, but there were relatively few online taxis here, so it was difficult to get one. Tang Ning was so angry that she got in the car and set off.
Su Anyun heard Tang Ning's urging and sped up his bike, leaving behind the hustle and bustle of the street.
The wind blew up Tang Ning's hair, the summer cicadas chirped like a torrential rain, and the heart in her chest was beating violently -
Bang bang.
Bang bang bang.
Bang.
Her feet in slippers made a series of noises on the ground, and finally she stopped in front of a closed door. Her white nightgown swayed slightly, and the pink and brown apron covering it was still dripping with water.
The homely woman hid the kitchen knife behind her back with one hand and rang the doorbell with the other.
"Ding Dong~" the crisp doorbell rang.
The surveillance camera on the door lit up.
The woman raised her face. She had a very beautiful face. Even though she had been worn out by the years and had never put on any makeup, she still had that beautiful aura that could not be diminished.
"Hello." The voice was hoarse, but under the influence of this face, the slightly hoarse voice was full of unique flavor: "Excuse me, is this the Jiang family?"
A man's voice came from the surveillance camera: "Yes, who are you looking for?"
"I have something I want to talk to this family about."
"What is it?"
"Of course it's a matter between people." A charming smile slowly appeared on the woman's face.
And the " " who came today is very similar, that is, more mature, knows how to show her charm, the temperament precipitated by the years is like aged wine, intoxicating.
The door opened with a click.
A well-mannered middle-aged man walked out of the door. His hair seemed to have just been sprayed with hairspray, his tie was neatly tied, and the red-dyed area on his left chest was covered by a decorative red rose.
"This beautiful lady." The man looked at the woman in front of him affectionately, his sticky and greedy eyes constantly scanning her, "What brings you here today?"
The smile on the woman's face disappeared little by little.
Raised hand with knife.
A ring rang out and Tangning saw the caller ID was Jiang Mianmian. He picked up the phone immediately and heard Jiang Mianmian's voice, "Tangning! I didn't see them! But there's blood all over the floor!!!"
Blood? Whose blood was shed? ! Was it Jiang Mianmian’s stepfather or mother? !
Tangning's heart suddenly tightened, "Go find them!"
"Okay!" Jiang Mianmian hung up the phone. Tangning was so anxious that he couldn't keep calm. He urged Su Anyun, "Brother! Ride faster!"
The scenery on both sides kept changing. Su Anyun stopped and said, "We're here."
They had already arrived at the gate of the community. Tang Ning went outside to where Lin Yun and the others had parked their car. It turned out that Lin Yun and the others had already arrived. Tang Ning got out of the car in a hurry, and Su Anyun followed closely beside him.
There were a few residents standing in the elevator. Seeing that the elevator door was about to close, Tang Ning rushed forward. He stretched out his hand to stop the elevator door, and Su Anyun squeezed in with him.
After pressing the floor number, whispers rang out in the small elevator room: "Hey, did the property management just say in the group that there is a crazy woman in the community?" "I heard that she stabbed people with a knife. It's scary."
"What are you talking about?!" Tangning turned to look at the two people who were discussing.
His eyes widened, and the two people who were whispering to each other were startled.
Su Anyun explained gently: "Excuse me, ordinary people like us would be surprised and curious when we hear about this situation. Could you please tell me in detail? What happened to the woman with the knife?"
"Oh, I know it too well. It seems that a man was hacked, but the surveillance camera didn't capture it clearly. We both knew where the man went. The property management asked us to be careful."
The elevator door opened.
Tang Ning rushed out immediately. He arrived at Jiang Mianmian's house and saw a man in a security uniform standing in front of the door. There were pieces of dazzling red on the ground.
Tang Ning's head buzzed and he felt extremely nervous. Lin Yun was sitting in the living room. He came to see Tang Ning and waved to him.
Tang Ning walked into the room and the security guard reached out to stop her. Jiang Mianmian immediately stepped forward to explain. While Jiang Mianmian was talking to the security guard, Tang Ning had already entered the room.
He went to the living room and saw blood everywhere.
Floor, coffee table, TV, sofa
If this was a monster's blood, Tang Ning would feel happy. But when he thought that there might be his mother's blood in it, Tang Ning felt his heart bleeding.
"What's going on here?!" Tangning asked Lin Yun.
"Yes, it was almost like this when I arrived. There was blood on the stairs, but it disappeared halfway. We just searched the room upstairs, but there was nothing there." Lin Yun asked, "Tangning, did you feel any sense of being spied on?"
Tang Ning's eyes kept rolling and he shook his head, trying desperately to find his mother.
"This is a good opportunity to be a guest." Lu Yuhua said: "After ten minutes, we can go into Jiang Mianmian's stepfather's bedroom"
Tang Ning was in no mood to listen to other players analyzing their guest plans. He left Lu Yuhua and followed the bloodstains on the ground. The bloodstains were the thickest when he arrived in the living room. The bloodstains continued to spread to the bedroom, as if a fierce battle had taken place in the living room. Jiang Mianmian's stepfather ran to the bedroom.
Tang Ning did not ask for other people's opinions. At this time, Su Anyun was standing next to him. He had Su Anyun's protection. In addition, Tang Ning was already waiting. He just wanted to find his mother as soon as possible.
The door to Jiang Mianmian's stepfather's bedroom was suddenly opened. Tangning found the room to be in a mess. On the floor was a reddish-brown suit jacket that had been chopped to pieces. Blood had stained the jacket even darker red.
The closet door was open, with half of the clothes neatly hung on hangers, and the rest scattered on the floor in a mess.
Tangning saw a lot of blood in the closet.
He thought about going to Jiang Mianmian's house to explore this morning, and Jiang Mianmian's stepfather would be injured by bullets if he put on his clothes.
At least for Jiang Mianmian's stepfather, that piece of clothing was a special prop that could block an attack, and there were knife marks on the reddish-brown coat on the ground, which meant that her mother's kitchen knife was also a special prop that could break through the attack of the clothing.
Jiang Mianmian's stepfather was injured and ran desperately to the closet in the bedroom. Does it mean that there are more powerful clothes in the closet that can withstand the attack of his mother
"Brother, do you know where Mom is?!" Tangning's voice was shaking.
Su Anyun shook his head.
"Tang Ning." At this time, Bai Wuliang's voice sounded from the door.
Tangning turned his head and saw that Bai Wuliang's left eye was red with blood dripping from it. He raised his monocle and said, "I saw your mother."
"I'm going home."
Tangning was stunned for a moment after hearing this answer, then she quickly asked, "Are you injured? What's wrong?!"
A helpless bitter smile appeared on Bai Wuliang's face: "Sorry, I'm in too much trouble. I can only stay at home."
"Thank you!" Tangning hurried out. As he passed by Bai Wuliang, he seemed to suddenly remember something and reached out to Bai Wuliang, saying, "Can you lend me your car keys, please?"
After getting the car keys from Bai Wuliang, Tang Ning ran out of the house quickly without saying goodbye to the other players.
The other players did not follow, after all, the monster was suspected to be injured at home, which was equivalent to a free opportunity to be a guest.
Tang Ning got into Bai Wuliang's car. Su Anyun sat quietly in the passenger seat. He was very quiet when Tang Ning was desperately looking for her mother, as if he was thinking about something alone.
Tang Ning didn't have the energy to think about anything else. He didn't want to care what Su Anyun was thinking. He just wanted to know how his mother was doing.
The car was driving very fast. If the road was crowded, Tang Ning could easily get into an accident at this speed. Fortunately, there were no people around in the afternoon.
After parking the car downstairs, Tang Ning didn't even wait for Su Anyun to get out of the car. He quickly opened the car door and rushed to the corridor.
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
His footsteps echoed in the cold and narrow corridor. Tang Ning took four or five steps at a time. Sweat broke out on his forehead. His frail body sent him a warning. He began to wheeze like a broken bellows.
Before his eyes went dark, Tang Ning finally climbed to the fourth floor. He took out the key with trembling hands and opened the door.
At first glance, there was no one in the living room. The TV was still playing an exciting clip. Tang Ning walked around the house in a daze, holding the keys.
Bai Wuliang said that his mother had returned home. Where is she
The sliding door to the kitchen was open and no one was inside.
Tang Ning walked to the bathroom, and saw someone in the cold and gloomy bathroom.
As Tangning walked towards his mother's bedroom, he heard a slight noise.
It was so quiet that it was almost drowned out by the noise of the TV. The sound of the TV also covered up Tangning's footsteps and breathing, so that the person in the bedroom did not notice Tangning's appearance at the first sight.
Tang Ning held his breath, lightened his steps, and slowly approached the bedroom.
When Tang Ning's ear was almost touching the door, he finally heard what the sound was.
He had heard this sound before.
Once he had an argument with his mother and he was alone in the room, feeling sad and holding his breath for a long time. He went out to go to the bathroom and then he heard such noises from his mother's room.
A low sob.
Even if a strong-willed mother cries, she will hide away and cry quietly by herself.
What happened? Why is mom crying
Tang Ning's mind went blank. He gently placed his hand on the door handle and slowly opened the door a crack without making any sound.
The sobbing became clearer.
Tang Ning first found a sewing box on the ground. Her mother's sewing box was made from a biscuit box. There were a lot of threads in it, including sweater threads and colorful threads that were used to mend clothes.
Tang Ning's eyes moved upwards and he saw the white nightgown stained with blood. The sleeves of the nightgown were empty and a severed hand fell to the ground.
Tang Ning was completely stunned.
He saw his mother using her good hand to put the severed limb back in place. In her mouth was a needle that was gleaming with cold light, with a thin thread stained red with blood already threaded through it.
The mother used her right leg to prop the severed hand against the side of the bed, barely keeping it in place, and then used her left hand to remove the needle from her mouth.
Like sewing torn clothes, my mother pierced the needle into my flesh.
Tears fell from her red eyes, as if she was in great pain.
That too skilled left hand stopped trembling. Every time she sewed, my mother gasped. The crooked stitches climbed up the pale skin, and patches of corpse spots faintly appeared on the skin that was bleeding.
Tears fell on the corpse spots. The mother, with red nose and eyes, looked like a little girl who was pricked when learning needlework for the first time. Her face was distorted in pain, and her originally smooth skin also became distorted.
There were deep and shallow wounds on his face, which were caused by dense shards of car window glass. Sticky blood mixed with bright yellow liquid flowed down his face.
, or it was it, with cloudy blue eyes oozing strange colored liquid.
The smell of decay and decay filled the room.
Tang Ning held the door handle tightly. He stood there as if frozen. The mist blurred his vision and turned into tears that flowed out silently. When he regained his vision, he could see his mother's horrifying appearance.
His mother tried very hard to sew his wound. Although the stitches looked ugly, she was very fast. It even seemed that she made the wound look ugly just to finish it quickly. She was in such a hurry as if she was afraid that someone would see it if she was a step late.
The needle was clearly inserted into his mother's body, but it was as if an invisible needle had pierced Tang Ning's heart, leaving it full of holes. Exhausted pain and emptiness spread throughout his chest. With trembling hands, Tang Ning slowly closed the door.
He had a normal human body, but he was moving slowly like a zombie, and his expression was dull. The images flashing in his mind were like a stuck machine, floating frame by frame.
Tang Ning thought of a time when he was a child and his mother accidentally pricked her hand while sewing his torn pants. Blood oozed from her fingertips. He asked her with tears in his eyes if it hurt.
Mom said, "It's not painful, I'll tell you." When I gave birth to you, I didn't shed a single tear, and there was no anesthesia at that time. So, am I awesome, your mom
Little Tang Ning didn't understand how painful childbirth was. He looked up at his mother blankly.
So the mother lifted up her clothes, revealing a centipede-like scar, which scared little Tang Ning.
My mother said that when you give birth to a baby, you need to make an incision here and then sew it up.
Little Tang Ning felt so upset that he covered his mother's scar with his little hands. He cried and said sorry to his mother.
Mom laughed and said that it was nothing to be sorry about. It would be worth it to exchange a few more centipedes for her Ningning...
Tang Ning sat on the sofa, facing the TV. The images and sounds on the TV kept changing, but they entered Tang Ning's chaotic mind.
The horrific scene of the mother sewing the wound with a needle alternates with the heartwarming scene of the mother mending clothes under the warm yellow light. Blood drips onto the clothes, forming small red flowers.
"Ningning, when did you come back?" Her mother's voice suddenly rang out beside Tangning, interrupting her confused thoughts.
Tang Ning's whole body shuddered. He wanted to speak, but his nose was a little blocked. He quickly sniffed and wiped away the tears on his face with his hands. There were too many tears, so he wiped them with his palms. Tang Ning wiped his face with his sleeves. He wiped his face randomly before turning his head to look at the person behind him.
The mother, wearing a set of clean clothes, stood in the aisle. Apart from a little redness in her eyes and nose, there was nothing unusual.
"I just got back." Tangning's voice was a little hoarse.
"Did I tell you to wait for your mother at home? Why did you run out without permission?" Mom said.
Tangning's lips twitched, "I'm sorry."
"What's there to be sorry about?" Tangning's mother smiled and said proudly, "By the way, I just gave that pervert you were talking about today a good scolding. He promises he will never bully you again."
Tangning tried her best to clench her teeth tightly to avoid revealing any obvious flaws in her expression.
"If you encounter this kind of thing again, tell mom." As he spoke, a terrible corpse spot appeared on his face, and his skin turned pale blue, which only dead people have. But he continued as if he was aware of it; "With mom here, no one can bully you."
Even the sound became strange and a little unclear, as if the throat was blocked by blood and internal organ fragments.
"Did you understand?"
Tangning uttered a cry-like "hmm".
Blood flowed down from his forehead. He yawned, and more blood flowed out of his throat. "I'm sleepy. Let me talk to you first. I'm going to sleep."
As he said this, he turned around and staggered towards the bedroom, his repaired right hand swaying slightly in the air. When he reached the door, he was stiff for a few seconds before he raised his too often used left hand to open the door.
Under Tang Ning's gaze, the door closed again.
The terrifying figure disappeared.
Tang Ning blinked at the figure and then collapsed on the sofa. Tears flowed from her eyes. She covered her trembling lips with her trembling hands, afraid that her crying would disturb her mother who was resting in the room.
Yes, that's his mom.
His mother needed a break.
Tangning warned himself as he curled up on the sofa, his shoulders twitching slightly. His heart ached as well. The heavy emotions that were difficult to resolve piled up in his heart, making it difficult for him to breathe.
I'm knocked out, he thought.