Chu Yue walked out of the house in the dark without even turning on the flashlight. The faint moonlight was enough for her to see the surroundings clearly.
The compound was pitch black. People in the 1970s went to bed early, had no nightlife, and saved electricity. No lights were turned on in every household. The only sounds were the whistling cold wind and the calls of animals coming from deep in the mountains and forests.
If it were someone else in this kind of environment, they would probably be trembling with fear and feel a chill down their spine.
Not only was Chu Yue not afraid, but she was also very excited.
She quickly reached the corner of an alley and could see Wang Chunling's house, where she had been during the day, from afar.
Chu Yue casually took out a chicken from the spiritual treasure space. It had a bright red comb and looked like a majestic and proud rooster, very impressive.
She patted the big cock's ass and said, "Go ahead."
As soon as the big rooster landed on the ground, it immediately walked into the alley, clucking "cluck" and "cluck" sounds as it walked.
At night, the crowing of the rooster is particularly noticeable.
It is not easy to wake up a sleeping person, but it is easy to wake up other small animals, such as the big hen in Li Jinhua's house.
“Kaka-ka—”
“Kaka-ka—”
The yard soon echoed with the cries of the old hen.
Chu Yue found out everything during the day. Li Jinhua didn't build a proper chicken coop, didn't close the gate to the yard, and even didn't care about the old hens shitting everywhere.
So after a while, the old hens came out from the yard, staggering back and forth, one in front and one behind, exactly two of them.
The two old hens circled around the big rooster. When the big rooster crowed heroically, the two old hens immediately followed and walked towards Chu Yue with a clattering sound.
Chu Yue had no interest in these two old hens and was too lazy to take advantage of them and put them into the space.
Her space was filled with all kinds of black-bone chickens and three-yellow chickens. These two old and frail hens were completely worthless.
She put her finger to her mouth and whistled. The big rooster hurriedly walked to the front, followed by the old hen. As the big rooster flapped its wings, the three chickens walked out of the yard.
The sudden noise startled the sentry on night duty.
"What's that noise?! Who is it?! Give the command, and come out now!"
"…It turned out to be a chicken. I was shocked."
But there was no human figure anywhere. There were only three chickens flapping their wings. Two old hens, led by a big rooster, swaggered out of the "security line".
The sentry cannot leave his post without permission, so naturally he would not care about the three chickens.
The compound was located halfway up the mountain, with a forest behind it. Led by the big rooster, the three chickens entered the forest and soon disappeared.
At this time, Chu Yue had already returned home.
She closed the yard door and bolted it, with a smile on her lips. She was afraid that when Li Jinhua woke up tomorrow and found that her two most precious old hens were missing, she would cry again.
Chu Yue returned to the house, took off her clothes and went to bed.
As soon as I lay down, I found something was wrong.
She turned on the light immediately. Lu Yuanbao had curled up into a small ball at some point, his body trembling, his eyes wet with traces of tears.
Is this crying?
Feeling uncomfortable again?
"Yuanbao, Yuanbao, wake up, wake up."
Chu Yue hurriedly patted Lu Yuanbao on the back to wake him up.
Lu Yuanbao woke up in a daze. Seeing Chu Yue's anxious expression, he was still a little dazed. "Hmm? Is it... dawn?"
Chu Yue touched his forehead and found his temperature was normal. She touched his stomach and found it chubby and loose. Then she touched his face.
"Why are you crying when you were sleeping soundly? Did you have a nightmare?"
Lu Yuanbao was startled, staring blankly with his dark eyes wide open, then he nodded gently as if he had thought of something, "Yeah, I had a nightmare."
Chu Yue asked again uncertainly, "Is it really just a nightmare? Are you feeling any discomfort?"
"Um."
Lu Yuanbao nodded, his face serious, not like he was lying.
Chu Yue breathed a sigh of relief.
It is normal for children to have nightmares, and they will be fine after a good night's sleep.
Chu Yue took a towel and wiped the cold sweat from Lu Yuanbao's forehead, then wiped the sweat from his body. After making him feel refreshed, she turned off the lights, went to bed and hugged him.
"It's just a nightmare, don't be afraid, even if there is a ghost I can help you fight it back."
Lu Yuanbao didn't say anything else, but lowered his head and burrowed into Chu Yue's arms, snuggling a little tighter.
In the dark night, with Chu Yue's presence, Lu Yuanbao remained very calm, without any of the panic that comes from waking up from a nightmare.
But Chu Yue knew that Lu Yuanbao had not fallen asleep for a long time, he just leaned quietly in her arms.
The little child has a very deep secret in his heart.
Chu Yue did not force Lu Yuanbao to speak out, but just stayed with her quietly.
After a long, long time.
Lu Yuanbao grabbed Chu Yue's clothes and suddenly spoke very softly.
"Mom...Mom said...I had a sister...I once...had a sister...she...she's gone."
Lu Yuanbao's biological mother, living in the rural environment, had no one to rely on and was sometimes lucid and sometimes crazy.
She couldn't have been pregnant only once.
There was once a girl who failed to be born in her mother's belly. Her mother took Lu Yuanbao's hand and placed it on the bulging belly, saying that was his sister.
After having a younger sister, Lu Yuanbao became a brother and had to take care of his younger sister.
Lu Yuanbao remembered everything his biological mother said. One day, his mother's bulging belly disappeared, and his sister also disappeared...
Since then, the biological mother never mentioned her sister again, nor did she allow Lu Yuanbao to mention her.
Today, Lu Yuanbao met Wang Chunling's child, a tiny baby, a girl, which reminded him of things that happened in his childhood.
He can no longer remember clearly, he only remembers that he once had a younger sister, but she later disappeared.
It became a nightmare in his vague memory.
As soon as Lu Yuanbao finished speaking, he lowered his head and hid deeper, closing his eyes tightly.
When Chu Yue heard this, she had already pieced together the general situation in her mind, and also felt Lu Yuanbao's resistance and panic.
She touched Lu Yuanbao's back and said softly, "Yuanbao, all that is in the past. It was just a dream."
…
The second day.
At dawn, Li Jinhua's wails echoed throughout the courtyard.
"My chicken! My chicken! It's gone! Damn it, which bastard stole my chicken! That was the old hen I kept for laying eggs! Was it you - was it you - was it you who stole it? If I find out who stole my chicken, I will pull out all your hair! I will make you a hairless chicken!"
Li Jinhua shouted loudly and unpleasantly, with all kinds of dirty words flying around, and pointed at the people around her, trying to put the blame for the calf's injury on them.
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