Hell App - Chapter 87

In front of the farmhouse.

A relatively strong old lady was sitting on the mat, squinting and basking in the sun.

Her expression was full of happiness, but the wrinkles on her face showed that she was no longer young.

A yellow scarf covered most of her silver hair, and she took a bite of the dried sweet potato in her hand. When she saw two unfamiliar young people coming to talk to her, she was not stingy. She randomly grabbed two sticks and handed them to them, indicating that they could eat as they pleased.

Ye Shangyu took the dried sweet potato and put it directly into his pocket, not intending to eat it at all.

Bai Yan was not as cautious as she was, and felt that they had eaten the food cooked by the ghost, and it was no less than that of an old lady. He took a bite of the dried sweet potato. It was sweet and tasted pretty good.

After he finished eating in two or three bites, the old lady gave him another one. Bai Yan took it shamelessly, without any embarrassment at all. It could be said that he was very shameless.

While Bai Yan was nibbling on dried sweet potatoes, Ye Shangyu said, “Old man, do you know Dongzi?”

“Dongzi? This is a boy from our village. Do you know him?”

“Well, we met a boy in the cemetery yesterday. He sang a strange nursery rhyme, saying that Dongzi’s family had been killed. It sounded scary. Could it be true?”

The old lady smacked her lips and swallowed the sweet potato: “Of course it’s not true. Dongzi’s family is doing well and they all went to the city to enjoy themselves. Dongzi’s father and Dongzi’s mother found jobs in the city, and the family The young and old have all moved into the city, how can it be the same as what he said.”

“Then why does he sing like this?” After thinking about it, Ye Shangyu also took out the dried sweet potatoes and gnawed them bit by bit like a little hamster.

The old lady was very happy to see the girl starting to eat the dried sweet potatoes she dried.

Therefore, she became more talkative and sighed: “It’s quite pitiful to say that the boy you saw on the grave should be Tie Zhu.”

“Tie Zhu’s parents died a long time ago, and he has no relatives. Tiezhu grew up eating food from hundreds of families. He would give food to anyone who had something to eat, and he just lived like this.

Tiezhu has no grandparents, no one cares about him, and he doesn’t go to school. He runs around in the fields all day. He is gradually becoming a little crazy. Recently, he is talking nonsense. Don’t be intimidated by him. “

Seeing that the two of them were silent, the old lady sighed and said: “Tie Zhu is a good boy, don’t blame him. If he had parents to support him, he wouldn’t be like this. Now all the capable people in the village will go I have gone to work in the city, and all that is left are old bones. It is very difficult to take care of my grandson, and I really don’t have the energy to take care of another one.”

The two nodded to express understanding and chatted for a while. Bai Yan suddenly said: “Grandma, do you have a grandson?”

“It’s holiday. The cat is playing on the kang on Saturday and Sunday. I’ll call him out so you can take a look.”

Thinking of her grandson playing with his mobile phone as soon as he got up from the kang in the morning, the old lady frowned and shouted angrily: “Grandson, come out to meet the guests, stop climbing on the kang and play with your mobile phone! You have been playing all day!” “

“Hey, the morning isn’t over yet!” said a boy inside: “I’ve been to school for five days and I’m exhausted. Just let me play for a while!”

“What are you playing for? You don’t even listen to grandma anymore. You bitch! Come out!”

“puff–“

Bai Yan couldn’t help laughing when he heard the name Goudan.

Inside, a tough-looking boy wearing cotton shoes came out with a blushing face and shouted: “Nai, don’t call me Goudan!”

Seeing her grandson coming out, the old lady pursed her lips and gave Bai Yan a piece of dried sweet potato and said, “This is my eldest grandson. He doesn’t study well all day long and stares at his mobile phone all day long.

Usually, his academic performance is at the bottom of the class, but at the end of the semester he is criticized and called out by his teacher. He doesn’t do any work at home, just watches his grandfather go to the fields, and doesn’t know how to help. Even that girl Lanlan next door knows how to help the family, but she doesn’t know how to learn from your sister Lanlan…”

“Brother!” The boy interrupted her angrily: “Xu Lanfang is only two years older than me, and she used to play with mobile phones and was much better than me. Why should I be asked to imitate her?”

The old lady stuffed a piece of dried sweet potato into the boy’s mouth and said, “Hasn’t she started working recently? Can’t you just follow the good people and imitate them? Lanlan, grandma is not well, she can help the family right away.” It’s just you who works. If grandma and grandpa suddenly die, can you take care of your studies and the family together?”

“…” The boy was speechless. It was possible that he was chewing dried sweet potatoes and had no time to speak.

He took over the conversation and said with deep emotion: “Grandma, what you said is so right! Boys should take responsibility! When Goudan and I were the same age, my father died long ago, and my mother was the only one to support the family. I think I My mother worked hard, so she took the initiative to take on all the housework at home. Of course, my academic performance did not fall behind, and I was among the top in the class every time.

Grandma, let me tell you something from my heart. It is better for boys to endure some hardships. Children cannot be pampered. Sometimes if you pamper a child too much, the child will become an ignorant idiot…”

Before Bai Yan could finish his words, Ye Shangyu suddenly stopped biting the sweet potato.

She looked at Bai Yan with indescribable eyes, and her heart was full of disbelief. If I remember correctly, when I checked your family information, your father was still fine!

When did your father die?

I do not know how!

Ye Shangyu secretly thought that a dog can’t change his habit of eating shit, but he didn’t expose it on his face.

On the other side, the boy’s face was also full of shit. He heard Bai Yan say “shit” and his face turned red.

Although he is still in elementary school, he is not stupid. He can see that this person clearly did it on purpose!

Are you embarrassed that you eat my food and make fun of me?

Bai Yan is still brainwashing his grandma, asking her to discipline him severely and confiscate his mobile phone to prevent him from becoming a straw bag.

The boy was so angry that his head was smoking. He reached out to grab the dried sweet potato in Bai Yan’s hand, but when he stretched out his hand… he couldn’t reach it.

Bai Yan quickly threw the dried sweet potato into his mouth, and naturally took another piece from the old lady’s hand.

When the old lady wasn’t paying attention, Bai Yan showed a provocative smile to the boy, which made the boy even angrier.

Seeing that Bai Yan was about to make the boy cry, Ye Shangyu secretly thought it was wrong and kicked him secretly.

Thinking about what the two of them were here for this time, Bai Yan restrained himself a little and shut his mouth obediently, finally remembering that they were going to do something serious.

Bai Yan had already made the boy extremely angry. Ye Shangyu felt that he could not count on him, so he asked Bai Yan to chat with the old lady while he spent a lot of effort to coax the boy.

After establishing a relationship with the boy, Ye Shangyu tentatively said: “You just said that Xu Lanfang also likes to play with mobile phones. What was she like before?”

“Her grandma suddenly became ill a few months ago, so she started working. She used to love playing with mobile phones, and her academic performance was about the same as mine…” The boy muttered: “My grandma is fine. I won’t imitate her!”

“What does she usually like to do when playing on her mobile phone?” Ye Shangyu asked thoughtfully: “Does she like to watch scary things? For example, stories and movies about ghosts.”

“She likes to read novels and watch videos… By the way, she also likes to watch slow-motion movies, and especially likes to watch the short films recorded in them.” The boy recalled: “Haunted things, she likes to watch supernatural short films for slow-motion movies. Anyway, I I don’t like it, it’s scary, and it’s not interesting at all.”

Hearing that Xu Lanfang really had the habit of watching supernatural videos, Ye Shangyu’s eyes lit up and he thought he had discovered something.

So, she quickly asked: “Do you know those supernatural short films she usually watches? Who is her favorite anchor?”

“I don’t know…” The boy looked confused: “I don’t like to see it.”

“Well, her online name is usually called Guess Who I am. I didn’t pay attention to Slow Hand, but she should also be called this.”

After asking a few more questions, and knowing that the boy really couldn’t ask anything else, Ye Shangyu let him go and chatted with him casually.

On the other side, Bai Yan chatted with the old lady for a long time and gained something.

Just as Gina and the others asked, the old lady also insisted that no one had ever gone missing in the village.

However, Bai Yan gained a lot of inspiration from the experience of Dongzi’s family, so he changed the topic and asked not who was missing, but who had left the village recently.

Sure enough, just like the Dongzi family, in the past few months, a large number of villagers and their families have moved out of the village, and all of them went to the city to ‘enjoy happiness’.

Although Bai Yan doesn’t know what the situation in this world is like, living in the city is a blessing. Presumably the conditions in the city must be much better than in the countryside.

According to the ‘left-behind children’ village mentioned by anchor Bai Cui, generally speaking, rents and prices are high in cities, so adults go to work in cities and are provided with food and accommodation at their workplaces, while children and the elderly stay in rural areas. Schooling is cheap and the cost of living is low.

However, when several members of a family move to the city, even the land and the old house are ignored. Unless all the people in the village win the lottery, the couple cannot afford to live together with the whole family. Expenses in town.

Bai Yan thought about it carefully and realized that these people who ‘went to the city’ were the missing people mentioned in the post.

Bai Yan and Ye Shangyu both gained something from talking to this family respectively.

While he was talking, a dirty boy came over holding a ball.

Although the old lady is old, her eyesight is quite good.

When she saw the boy from a distance, the old lady greeted her loudly: “Tie Zhu, come here and eat dried sweet potatoes!”

The boy holding the ball also had very alert ears. When he heard that there was food, he ran over like the wind, not even asking for the ball.

Seeing that he was trying to grab the dried sweet potatoes with his dirty little hands, the old lady pulled out a handkerchief from her trouser pocket, wiped it clean with the boy, and then put the dried sweet potatoes into his hand: “You can only eat it after you wash your hands, because they are all covered with dirt.” Eating mud will make you sick.”

The boy nodded casually, grabbed the dried sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth, not sure if he remembered it.

After swallowing the dried sweet potatoes, the boy picked up the ball and started singing the nursery rhyme he made up while patting it.

The old lady frowned when she heard that the boy had ‘cursed’ Dongzi’s whole family to death.

She opened her mouth to ask the boy to stop singing in the future, but before she could say anything, the boy suddenly shut up and stopped singing.

He looked at an old man walking over and giggled. He looked at the old man, then looked back at the old lady and Goudan, his eyes full of envy.

Soon, he suddenly picked up the ball and ran away, disappearing into the path in the blink of an eye.