Cartoons are playing on the TV.

The two children were sitting on the sofa opposite the TV, watching the cartoons on the TV without blinking, and their feet were soaked in the footbath with just the right temperature.

The old woman saw her grandchildren watching TV intently, and a kind smile appeared on their tired faces.

She opened her mouth and said to her grandchildren and granddaughters: "Yuyu, Haohao, you will wash your feet in a while and just put the water there."

Wait for grandma to pour it..."

The two little ones nodded repeatedly when they heard this.

The mother-in-law walked to the stairwell of the house, turned on the light in the stairwell, and held on to the railing to go up to the second floor.

In the nave on the second floor,

There is a shrine on the wall facing the sliding glass door of the balcony.

In the shrine is the throne of ‘Lord of Heaven and Earth, Prince and Master’.

And a photo of an old man.

The old lady went to turn on the light in the nave on the second floor first.

The bright lights dispel the darkness here.

The photo of the thin old man that originally looked a little spooky in the dim light now lost all that spookiness. The mother-in-law walked to the shrine, picked up the photo frame, carefully wiped off the dust on the glass plate covering the photo, and put it back.

In situ.

She picked up a stick of incense and a pair of incense candles from the table on one side,

Put the incense candle on the lampstand under the shrine and light it with a lighter.

Then he burned the incense head on the incense candle,

Insert into the incense burner.

Finally, the mother-in-law picked up the plug and plug hanging down from the shrine and inserted the plug into the socket next to it.

The 'Master of Heaven and Earth' statue in the shrine lit up with a golden-red light.

The mother-in-law put the 'talisman' she had brought from the Tianshi Mansion, wrapped carefully in a small box, into the shrine. She clasped her hands together, knelt on the futon on the floor, and murmured to herself: "Bodhisattva

Bless, Buddha bless, Jade Emperor bless, gods bless——

Zhixiang, please protect our son...

I hope his legs will get better soon,

Bless Yuyu, Haohao is free from illness and disaster, and is in good health..."

The old man lowered his head and chanted with great piety,

It was as if my words would really be heard by the gods in the underworld, and the gods would then provide shelter for my family and make my wishes come true.

She repeated the words in her mouth over and over again.

in the shrine,

The golden-red marquee lanterns composed of small lamp beads circulated in circles, and the golden-red lights covered the 'Tianshifu Talisman' offered in the shrine. The light seemed to be stained with bright red paint.

Gradually turns from golden red to full red, scarlet.

The color, as thick as blood, flooded the entire shrine.

Some extremely viscous scarlet liquid slowly dripped from the edge of the shrine.

Falling on the dim yellow tile floor.

It fell to the ground silently.

The bright red liquid spread on the floor, forming a puddle, and gradually surrounded the futon where the old woman was kneeling. The old woman knew nothing about it.

She made many wishes,

The scarlet liquid surrounding the futon also soaked into her body.

The old woman's heart was filled with a strong sense of security. She stood up slowly while holding on to the ground - the shrine emitted a golden-red light, and everything was as usual, as if the changes just now were just an illusion.

My mother-in-law unplugged the plug and turned off the lights in the nave.

Go to the stairs,

Holding on to the railing, I slowly walked downstairs.

Her voice calling to her grandchildren was heard downstairs: "Are they all washed? Okay, grandma will pour the water and watch for half an hour before you go to bed. Grandma will make the bed for you."

"good!"

The two children responded crisply.

this night,

It seems to be another ordinary night.

The night is getting darker.

The mother-in-law tucked her two grandchildren into bed, and after observing the children sleeping soundly for a while, she smiled silently, got up from the bed, and went to her son's bedroom.

The son is holding his mobile phone,

A series of call records appeared on the screen,

He called his ex-wife's phone number, but there was no record of her receiving the call.

He leaned against the bed and looked up at the ceiling.

It wasn't until his mother pushed the door open and walked in that he quickly changed his expression. He looked up and saw that his mother was slightly stooped, and he was immediately filled with heartache. He forced a smile on his face, looked at his mother's old face, and said:

"Mom, I have nothing to do here, you go and have a rest.

Why are you looking so pale? You must be exhausted today.

Go back home and rest quickly."

"Okay, okay." The mother smiled softly, her eyes falling on her son, but she looked a little absent-minded, "I'm just going to check on you. If you're okay, I'll go back and rest."

"Go and rest!"

The son nodded repeatedly.

Watching her mother leave her bedroom.

When the other party closed the bedroom door, he smelled some faint odor.

It's like the stench of a dead rat that has been dead in the corner for several days and has not been cleared away, or the stench of decaying corpses.

The man lifted the quilt and looked at his pale legs.

I didn't smell the rancid smell from the quilt.

He covered himself with the quilt again, and as his mother closed the door, the already weak odor disappeared without a trace.

Maybe he was hallucinating...

With this thought in mind, the man picked up his phone and saw a series of unanswered call records on the screen. His heart felt blocked. He sighed, edited a message and sent it to his ex-wife: "Yuyu, Mr. Haohao."

It's still our child. If you don't want to live with a disabled person like me, you still have to take care of your child, right?

I earned more than 300,000 yuan from my part-time job, and you ran away with it all!

How do you want your child to live in the future?

You are so cruel!"

After sending the text message,

He waited for a long time and received no reply.

After sighing for a while in the room, I finally felt tired and fell asleep leaning against the bed with my eyes squinted.

…

Creak! Creak! Creak!

Some fishy and sweet smell poured into 'Yuyu''s nose, and she gradually woke up due to the urge to urinate.

——I went to Longhu Mountain with my grandma today. Grandma bought a lot of drinks for her and her brother. She drank a big bowl of rice porridge when she got home and went to bed without relieving herself.

So I was woken up by the urge to pee in the middle of the night.

She opened her eyes slightly,

Wrinkling his nose vigorously,

The sweet and fishy smell became stronger and stronger.

Just now, Yuyu had a dream. In the dream, her grandma stewed the oldest duck in the family with pickled radish. She gave all the duck meat to Yuyu and her younger brother.

Grandma gnaws pickled radish by herself.

The sour radish made a "squeaking", "squeaking" sound when she chewed it.

Wasn’t it a dream?
To be continued...