When people are really frightened, they can't scream at all - cold sweat and cold hair explode on the skin, and Bohemia crawls back a few steps while tumbling, and the pink sheet falls down, covering her face.
There are babies big and small living under the bed.
...In the dead silence of the night, she stared at the slightly swaying pink sheet, and the only thing she could hear was her own heavy, rapid breathing.
After a few seconds, her hands and feet gradually stopped shaking. She took a deep breath, forced herself to approach the small bed again, and slowly lifted the sheets.
The babies met her eyes again. Some babies had their chins in the air, some tilted their heads, and some babies were looking straight at her.
A swimming fish suddenly fell down and stopped under the small bed. After seeing it clearly, Bohemia exhaled sharply, and her whole body became relaxed and weak; she wiped her face and wiped away the cold tears.
, cursed secretly, reached out and grabbed the Bao'er who was looking at her, and took it out.
...To say it is a doll is to look down upon it. Although it is the size of a toy, it is just a round head tied with white cloth and cotton, a long pillow-like body, and thin cloth limbs.
It was scrawled and sewn into a human shape. Bao'er's photo was developed, enlarged, and nailed to the cotton man's head; the face that was originally as flat as paper was pushed and bulged, and the position of the eyes on each face
They were all punctured and hollowed out.
At a glance, there were countless small dark holes, all of which seemed to be facing her.
Bohemia threw the cotton doll hard against the wall; it knocked over many things on the children's bookshelf and rolled to the ground with a clang. The sound made everyone jump a few times in the night.
"Are you okay?" From a distance, there was the sound of the darkroom door opening, and Yuan Xiangxi's unclear shouts.
Without making a sound, Bohemia lifted up the pink sheet with one hand, supported the ground with the other, bent down on the ground, and once again faced the faces of Bao'er, big and small, her whole body trembled, and she couldn't even curse.
.
Who did this? Yuan Xiangxi? Or herself? If so, why did she make so many dolls and put pictures of Boa on them? Why were the pupils in each pair of eyes stabbed to pieces with a knife?
?
One round face after another is embedded with one black hole after another. Under the close-up illumination of the light fish, even the texture on Bao'er's face is bright and clear.
Hadn't she taken a closer look at this child before?... This child's face was almost round, and his facial features were stretched out and stretched flat on his face, like something deformed and bulging due to some disease.
When she thought that this kind of thing actually came out of her stomach, Bohemia just wanted to punch her belly one after another.
But even though Baoer had such an uncomfortable appearance, she could only stare at it for a moment and couldn't move. No, rather, it was precisely because of Baoer's round and big face that she was squeezed under the bed at the moment.
He had to stare at her all the time so that she couldn't move.
Each baby's face is facing in a different direction, and the limbs are messily intertwined. It can be seen that she was very rough when she stuffed these toys under the bed. The only thing she paid attention to at the time was that each doll was
Put your feet against the wall and your head toward the outside; this way, when you stuff the doll, it won't crush the photo on your head.
Bohemia observed the dolls under the bed for a while, her mood gradually calmed down, and the panic just now faded a lot. These toys were weird and unexpected, so it was normal for her to be frightened; now that she looked at them more, the weirdness of the photos
It had long since melted into the light, and instead looked a bit crude and ridiculous.
Bao'er's bed was facing the door. When he was lying on the ground and looking under the bed, Bohemian's peripheral vision also happened to cover the corridor floor outside the children's room door - his eyes were fixed on Bao'er's face.
As she stared, she suddenly turned her head, and the light fish under the bed immediately swam out of the door, lighting up the empty corridor.
nobody?
She always felt as if a gust of wind had blown through the door just now.
Maybe it's because she's too worried, or maybe it's the three invisible children in this house... What happened in this house in the past five years?
Bohemia thought and turned her eyes back. Among the dense round faces under the bed, she saw a Bao'er doll in the corner. It quickly looked back from the door and faced her without moving.
This time, the scream really broke the silence.
It wasn't until she stepped on the toy, fell down, and knocked over the bookshelf, that Yuan Xiangxi hurried in, that Bohemia realized that she had screamed; she avoided Yuan Xiangxi's hand that was reaching out to her,
He staggered up and for a long time, all he could let out was a bellows-like breathing.
"What scared you?" Her husband softened his voice, as if he couldn't bear it, and patted her back gently: "It's okay, it will be okay, I'm here."
"Bao... Bao'er..." Her voice was almost broken into words. "Under the bed..."
...The result is almost a given.
After finally understanding what she meant, Yuan Xiangxi opened the bed sheets. He was also surprised when he first saw the dolls under the bed; but after pulling them out one by one and inspecting them, the two of them found that there were no
One is alive and can look back.
"In addition to Bao'er, there are now three children in total." Her husband sighed, not saying that Bohemia was making a fuss. "In this replica of the house, except for the two of us..."
Bohemia pressed her temples desperately, feeling that a certain metal wire was piercing her brain, causing a throbbing pain. This house is called a copy...? No, this is a copy of the house, she is
Entering the house with Yuan Xiangxi... Yes, the most important thing is to quickly find out what happened to this family in the past five years, so that she can complete this play house according to the historical content.
With this thought, she felt that her fear had dissipated a lot. This place was too strange, and she had to find a way out with this guy. After all, he was not in this copy... Bohemia thought of this, raised her head, and
Yuan Xiangxi stared directly at her face.
Under the backlight, his face was immersed in shadow, and only the eyes looking at her were shining with a burning light.
"...I, I understand. I just need to take a rest. You can go develop the photos first." She tightened her hands behind her back, holding a ring tightly, and smiled at him. In the flickering light and shadow,
, those Baoer dolls were piled silently on the floor of the room.
"Are you...really okay?"
"No, it's okay."
Yuan Xiangxi glanced at her doubtfully, and smiled as if he wanted to encourage her, with a row of white teeth exposed in the shadow. "Then I'll go down first. If you need anything, call me. Oh, you also wrote baby care notes?"
"
What?
Bohemia was startled, and then realized that he was talking about something behind her; she did not dare to turn around and show her back to him, she only fumbled a few times with her backhand, grabbed a few children's books from the floor, and lowered her head.
When I took a look, I found her own handwriting: Baby Care Notes - Bao'er.
After Yuan Xiangxi left, she pressed her back tightly against the corner, sat on the ground, and opened the notebook mixed in the children's book.
The time period of the baby care record partially overlaps with the diary. The hostess waited until the baby was six months old before suddenly thinking of making a baby care record; at first, she didn’t seem to know what to record.
, I can only remember some trivial things and a lot of talk about my daughter.
"I never thought that there is such a precious and cute little thing in the world! Her little hands and feet are so pink and tender. Even if I kiss them ten times a day, it's not enough. You grow up quickly, mom.
can not wait anymore."
Bohemia looked at the date, it was still mid-1975.
"She called daddy! She called daddy! This was the first word she would say! Oh my god! My baby! You don't know how happy and complicated mommy is... I will call mommy next time!
"This is the record of Bao'er when he was six and a half months old.
Next, the records for the next two or three weeks were very short, as if they were all done.
"In the past few weeks, I have been trying to get Bao'er to call me mom. Today she finally called me for the first time...I cried for a long time. No matter what, mom will always love you. For you, mom can sacrifice anything.
"
Little things like the baby's ability to walk, the weaning of breast milk, or the giggles were all presented in the notes one by one. However, the length became less and less, and the descriptions became simpler and simpler. In the next few months, they may not be able to describe it.
A record appears. The last one was even added suddenly when Baoer was three years old.
"Bao'er, don't forget, your mother loves you very much!!!!!!!!! You are a good child, you are a good child, mother loves you, mother loves you, mother loves you, mother loves you
The last stroke was long, as if it was about to fly into the air.
Bohemia put the baby care diary in her arms, without looking at the pile of baby dolls, and walked back to the master bedroom in small steps. She found the diary on the dressing table and put it and the diary into the storage room.
In the props; before going out, she nervously looked around up and down and saw nothing strange, then re-entered the corridor.
"Eh?" Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly stopped and raised her head.
...When I swept the ceiling just now, I saw a piece of wood with a different color and a small iron hook hanging on it. She had never lived in an ordinary house, so it took her a lot of thought to figure out the original small iron hook.
What is it for? Bohemian threw his consciousness up, hooked the iron hook, and pulled it down - the wooden board was immediately opened; among the clouds of dust, a path fell from the ceiling leading to the attic.
of ladder.
The darkness in the attic was defeated when the light fish swam closer, and a layer of gray appeared dimly.
Bohemia hesitated for a few seconds, then looked downstairs. She couldn't see the darkroom under the stairs, but it was quiet everywhere, and Yuan Xiangxi didn't seem to have come out yet; three light fish swam beside her, illuminating the surrounding area brightly.
To be cautious, she climbed up the ladder and did not rush into the attic. She stood at half the height of the ladder and looked inside.
Old furniture, last year's Christmas decorations, many dusty cardboard boxes... emerged from the darkness one by one under the light of the swimming fish, and then sank back into the darkness after the light fish swam by. It seemed that this was just
There is nothing surprising about a place where the family accumulates junk and old things; because the attic is small, if the three light fish followed her in, it would be so bright that there wouldn't even be a single dark shadow.
Bohemia glanced at the carton again, was startled, and hurriedly took a few steps up the ladder. She hurriedly walked to a stack of boxes, covered her nose and dusted off the dust, revealing the words "Bohemia" below.
