Chapter 104 Ji Taixun
Chapter 104 Ji Taixun
"Let's not get married, let's not get married, okay... Please don't leave us..."
Listening to the crying sound of a woman coming from the opposite camera, Ji Taiyu's eyebrows twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Be born."
What the hell, you can always run into a scumbag when you surf the Internet. Ji Taiyu took his hand off the mouse, pretended to get a drink, walked behind the machine where the sound came from, and secretly glanced at the guy sitting on the chair.
"He doesn't look handsome..." Ji Taiyu frowned, took out a bottle of toilet cleaner from the freezer, opened the pull ring with a sound of "chi", and drank a sip with a heavy heart. I thought, do girls nowadays like the hobo style?
Ji Taiyu was puzzled when he saw the bearded guy hanging up the phone and sitting in front of the computer to play games. Then his cell phone rang.
I looked at the caller ID and it was my mom calling.
Ji Taixuan sighed, walked to the door of the Internet cafe, leaned against the door frame and answered the phone: "Hello, Mom? What's the matter? No... I'm not secretly surfing the Internet, really not, I'm doing homework with my classmate at his house, really, if you don't believe me, I'll go back and you can check..."
"Just say I'm not in the internet cafe...what did you say?"
Ji Taixuan was about to argue, but he heard a woman's sobbing and crying from the other end of the phone. His heart was in turmoil, and he said hurriedly, "Mom, what's wrong? I... I'll be in the Internet cafe, okay, don't cry, it's not good for a pregnant woman to be overjoyed or sad, I'll go home right away, I'll go home right away."
“No, don’t go home!” The woman on the other end of the phone cried even louder, and said neurotically, “Don’t go home, absolutely don’t go home, understand? Don’t come to see mom… Woo woo, Taiyu, you have to hide, hide far away, go to grandma’s house in the suburbs after dark, and protect your sister…”
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Ji Taixuan was confused and asked hurriedly, "What happened at home? Why didn't you let me go home? Where's Dad? Mom, say something, what happened?"
"Don't ask. Don't go home. Don't go home..." The woman's voice on the loudspeaker gradually suppressed her crying and became more rational. "Go to the train station in the west of Yundu City first. Mom left something for you in the third mailbox from north to south. Take the things in it and go out of the city to find your sister. Don't come back."
"Don't come back! Otherwise, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost!"
The phone hangs up.
Ji Taiyu tried to call his mother back several times but failed to get through. He was so anxious that he wanted to go back home immediately to confirm his mother's condition with his own eyes, but reason told him not to do that. Ji Taiyu's mother was a very strong-willed woman. Judging from the tone she used on the phone, he didn't know what stupid things she would do if he didn't obey.
"Oh shit!"
Ji Taixuan stuffed his cell phone into his pocket, drank the can of Coke, and walked to the front desk of the Internet cafe to pay the bill. The guy was still playing games in front of the computer. The sound of gunfire and explosions from airplane bombings came from the speakers under the monitor. He looked very serious and focused on shooting.
The joys and sorrows of human beings are not shared, and now he only feels that it is noisy.
Ji Taiyu took back the unused Internet fee from the network administrator, put on his coat and hurried out, and used the taxi app to call a taxi to Yundu West Suburb Station.
A few minutes later, the car arrived. Ji Taiyu sat in the passenger seat and said simply, "Master, West Suburb Station." The car drove out of the street and left the alley where the small Internet cafe was hidden.
The network administrator at the front desk leaned out curiously to watch the car go away, and said to himself, "Why is he so anxious? Did something happen to his family?"
The network administrator watched the vehicle turn a corner and disappear from sight, then sat back at the front desk.
But what neither he nor Ji Taiyu noticed was that the man who had been sitting in front of the screen and shooting silently had disappeared at some point.
"Master, hurry up, please try to be faster." In the car, Ji Taiyu urged anxiously.
The driver was not very old, he looked to be in his thirties, and he was wearing a dark blue security uniform. He looked like a security guard from some community who was working part-time after get off work. Ji Taiyu couldn't help but worry about his driving skills. But it turned out that his worries were unnecessary. The driver's driving skills were superb. He stepped on the accelerator all the way, and the steering wheel was superb. He repeatedly passed the intersection in the last few seconds of the green light. The whole car was like a feather flying close to the ground, lightly passing through the busy streets of Yundu.
Before it got dark, Ji Taixuan was sent to the entrance of Xijiao Station.
"Thank you so much! Big brother, you are just like Fujiwara Takumi's father!" Ji Taiyu thanked him profusely, paid the taxi fare, got off the car in a hurry and ran towards the station.
The sky was about to darken, and a golden sun gradually sank into the water surface of Yunmengze, painting the sky of Yundu City with a layer of rouge called sunset glow. The heavily made-up clouds floated gracefully above his head, confusing Ji Taiyu's mind.
He couldn't help but wonder what his mother meant by what she said on the phone, what happened at home, and why no one answered his father's phone when he called him several times in the car.
No one could answer his question, so Ji Taiyu ran into the Xijiao Station panting and carefully found the third mailbox from north to south.
The mailboxes are empty. In modern society, almost no one communicates by letters. The symbolic significance of these mailboxes in the old city station is far greater than their practical significance. Only written documents such as the annual appointment and dismissal of civil servants and university admission letters will go through the postal system, as well as soldiers' death notices.
Ji Taixuan opened the mailbox and found a pure white envelope lying quietly in the empty iron box. The envelope was sealed with wax and in the lower right corner it was written: [To my dear son].
He tore open the envelope, revealing a delicate piece of letter paper dotted with light pink cherry blossom patterns. He knew that his mother's favorite color was cherry blossoms.
The letter begins with a line of neat handwriting:
"When you read this letter, Mom may be dead."
"Don't grieve over my death. You must live on. 'They' have found us. They are the most horrible things in the world, crueler than wild beasts, more vicious than evil spirits, and more sinister than any conspirators that can be imagined."
"Don't go home, don't try to find your mother, when you pick up this letter, 'they' may already be looking at you."
"You have to go to the suburbs and take the last bus to your grandmother's house at 10 o'clock at night. Only when you get there will you have a chance to survive."
"After getting off the train at the suburban station, you will have to walk through the path outside the village to your grandmother's house. Remember to read the precautions on the back of this letter. It's best to memorize them all. They can protect you."
"Mom loves you."
An inexplicable feeling of sadness surged into Ji Taiyu's nose. He turned the letter to the back, where there were also a few lines of neat handwriting. However, unlike the handwriting left by his mother on the front of the letter, the words on the back were in standard printed Song font.
[1. Once you walk onto that path, you can only move forward and never look back]
[2. When you walk on the path, you should be able to hear two footsteps at the same time, one is your own and the other is its. Don't be afraid, it will protect you.]
[3. If you hear only one footstep on the road, stand still and don't move until the footsteps come back behind you before you can continue to move forward]
[4. On the way into the village, you will come across a land temple. Remember to burn three incense sticks to the land. The incense can be found in the red plastic bag under the bricks next to the small temple. Remember it is a red plastic bag. If you see any other color plastic bag, give up burning incense and leave immediately.]
[5. If you hear someone calling your name after entering the village, you can answer with your father's name, never use your own]
[6. Keep this piece of letter with you and read it again when you get to your grandmother’s house…]
(End of this chapter)