"Xiaochen's father is an alcoholic. The most he does every day is drinking and beating people. His mother is an asshole." The old man spoke very slowly, and would stop to catch his breath after a while.
"Xiaochen's mother will bring a different man home every night, and his father will go to his room at this time."
"What kind of room is there in their house? It's just a few pieces of cloth enclosing an independent space."
"His dad would drink behind a few pieces of cloth, and then beat him, watching other men fuck his women." The old man let out a vague laugh, and Ling Yan wanted to run away.
"When spending money, beat him and beat his mother." The old man took a puff of cigarette and slowly exhaled the smoke ring.
I glanced at Ling Yan's expression, "This kind of family is everywhere in this kind of alley."
Then he smiled, "Fortunately, Xiaochen is not a woman, otherwise he might buy everything."
Ling Yan felt awkward for a moment, the old man's tone made Ling Yan feel that Ling Yan was making a fuss too much. In the next moment, a shiver ran up his spine, Ling Yan wanted to end this conversation, but Ling Yan still said.
"You continue"
The old man looked Ling Yan up and down, and smiled inexplicably, "Xiaochen is afraid of being beaten, and often hides secretly at the stairs." Then he pointed to the stairs behind Ling Yan, "That's it."
The stairway is very dark, only the first two steps can be seen, and then it leads to darkness.
Ling Yan felt a throbbing for some unknown reason.
After the old man coughed for a while, "I'll give him something to eat when I have time. Xiaochen and I are also familiar, and come to my place from time to time."
The old man's cloudy eyes fell into some kind of thought, "That day, Xiaochen's mother brought a man back, and Xiaochen hid here with me."
He took another breath of his cigarette and pondered for a while, "Xiaochen was pedaling here that day, and the sun was shining on him at that time."
The old man took a breath, "Shortly after Xiaochen saw the man leaving, he went back, but after a while, I saw Xiaochen kicking at the door again."
"He said he didn't have a key, and he called the door but no one opened it. I asked Xiaochen to come in and wait, and he went back after a while. I also called his mother, but no one answered, looking at Xiaochen's eyes , I still continue to hit, hit the fifth or sixth, somewhere suddenly caught fire." The old man looked through Ling Yan at the stairway, as if he was looking at the past through the darkness.
Ling Yan couldn't help shivering, the old man's eyes turned out to be nostalgic!
"A fire that is out of control, it's beautiful." The old man stopped and didn't say anything.
"Why did the fire happen?" Ling Yan asked inertially.
"Young man, help me move back, there is no sun."
It was only five o'clock, but the sun was out of reach.
The old man's hands trembled invisibly, excitedly, "The door was closed tightly, his father fell to the ground after drinking, his mother was so tired that he fell asleep while boiling the water, and the water extinguished the fire."
The old man licked his dry lips, his eyes brightened a little, "The fucking cell phone was placed next to the natural gas, the gas leaked, the cell phone was too hot, and then the spark went to the wine, that's it."
The old man's eyes became cloudy again, "Xiaochen kept shouting. After the fire was extinguished, no one could stop him, so he rushed in directly. We only went in the next day to give Xiaochen a buffer time."
The old man talked too much at once, and some were panting badly.
At this time, the chair had been moved back to the door of the grocery store, the old man closed his eyes and waved to Ling Yan.
Ling Yan said "excuse me" to the old man.
Compassion for Chen Chen was born with fear.
For those who grew up in this place, the fear that was previously hidden in their hearts slowly rose.
Alternating with an inexplicable interest in Chen Chen, and finally fear took over, temporarily.
If it's not because of Chen Ning's meeting again, then... .
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Ling Yan's vision is over, and the next chapter will be changed.