Guangming Village.
Shu Guoyi walked alone in the village. From time to time, he looked behind him. Although he knew there was no one behind him, he still felt inexplicably scared.
Quickening his pace, Shu Guoyi ran to the home of Xiaowei, a fellow villager.
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang...
As long as he couldn't get in, Shu Guoyi always felt uneasy because he was afraid of the dark, so he kept knocking on Xiaowei's door.
"Xiaowei, are you home? Please open the door for me quickly, Xiaowei... Xiaowei..."
He knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no movement in Xiaowei's house. Shu Guoyi became anxious and shouted outside the door again.
"Xiaowei, I'm Guoyi. Please open the door for me quickly. Didn't we agree yesterday that I would come to see you today? Xiaowei... Xiaowei..."
Bang bang...
Bang, bang, bang...
Shu Guoyi almost cried when he couldn't hear Xiaowei's answer. He glanced at the house next to Xiaowei. The owner of this house was called He Chun.
There was no other way, so Shu Guoyi knocked on He Chun's door again.
"Uncle He, I'm Guoyi. Can you open the door for me, Uncle He, please!"
Bang, bang, bang...
"Who is it?"
This time, Shu Guoyi didn't have to wait long before someone came to open the door for him.
He Chun, an old man from the same village, wrapped himself tightly in a cotton coat and poked his head out from the half-open door.
"What's going on? Everyone's asleep."
"Uncle He, do you know where Xiaowei went? I knocked on his door for a long time, but it seemed like no one was home."
"I knew it was you who kept knocking on the door next door. You were really noisy all night."
"I'm sorry, Uncle He. Actually, I didn't mean to bother you. It's just that I had an appointment with Xiaowei, but no matter how many times I knocked on his door, no one came to open it. I was just a little curious, so I wanted to ask you."
"You little brat... I don't know what you're doing coming to someone else's house so late? Xiaowei's family has something going on. I heard his grandfather passed away suddenly, so they rushed back to their hometown this afternoon. I guess Xiaowei didn't notify you, right?"
Shu Guoyi shook his head.
"He didn't tell me that."
"Now that you know about this, you can go back. Xiaowei's family won't be able to return to Guangming Village for at least a week after something like this happened."
"but……"
Bang!
Old man He Chun didn't listen to Shu Guoyi at all. He closed the door of his house with an expressionless face.
"Uncle He..."
Outside the door, Shu Guoyi was shivering in the cold wind. In fact, he really wanted to stay at He Chun's house tonight, but He Chun didn't give him any chance at all.
He felt extremely sad. Although Shu Guoyi didn't really want to go home, he still walked towards home.
"Ouch……"
Shu Guoyi was not paying attention to the road under his feet and was tripped by a stone and almost fell into the ditch. Fortunately, he was quick-eyed and quick-handed and grabbed a small tree, but his hand was pricked by the thorns of the small tree and he burst into tears.
Shu Guoyi felt extremely aggrieved. He struggled to get up from the ground and ran back home.
After arriving home, Shu Guoyi lit a candle and checked his injuries. When he saw his hand swollen to the size of a steamed bun, he subconsciously called out, "Mom...where are you? My hand is injured. Come quickly and bandage it for me. It hurts so much..."
But no one in the cold house answered Shu Guoyi's voice. Then he remembered that his mother and father had gone to the capital.
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