Chapter 370 (below) people in dreams

  Chapter 370 (Part 2) People in Dreams

“…dad?”

  Standing at the door, the little girl with braided horns looked curiously inside the basement.

   “Lin Xingjie, you are finally here.”

   The man at the table turned around and said with a smile.

   His tone was a little weird, as if he was waiting for her. But in fact, today was the first time she entered this place.

  Before, Lin Xingjie only knew that his father would come to this place almost every day, but he didn’t know what he was there for. He felt that he was always mysterious.

   Her father’s job is not the same as other people’s. Basically, he doesn’t go out to work, so he can spend time at home every day to be with his family.

   On the other hand, he sometimes locks himself in the basement for a whole day. The lunch is usually cooked by my mother and delivered. If it is not at dinner time, my mother will often send her to call.

   is like today.

   As dusk approached, the sky gradually dimmed. Half of this single-family building located on the outskirts of the city was shrouded in a dark sky that was slowly closing in, and the other half was bathed in the splendid sunset.

  This is far from the city center and closer to the villages and towns. However, there are still several similar houses built of cement nearby, all of them are people from the village. Usually, the neighbors will bring some bacon, dumplings or vegetables to their house, and they will visit each other during the New Year. What makes the environment out of place is that there is actually a small flowerbed in front of the door, but the housewife who lives here obviously doesn’t take care of it. .

After hearing her mother’s cry in the kitchen, Lin Xingjie put down the toy sword in her hand and ran out of the living room. Instead of walking the right way, she kicked open the crooked fence gate and walked through the flowerbed – her mother never let her The daughter does this because the girl’s shoes are often soiled and difficult to wash – but she never changes it, even though walking from the flowerbed doesn’t really save much distance compared to walking the right way.

   The little girl waving her chubby hands, ran like the wind all the way, and soon came to the basement on the other side of the house.

   Lin Xingjie, who has just entered the first grade of elementary school, is known as a “top tyrant” in school. Although the appearance of both parents is not bad, but at this age, the confidence of the beauty embryo is completely blocked by her baby fat face, plus she loves to eat and play, she is taller than the boys in the class, and has a kind of The lively and active wild boy has a temper, everyone is a little afraid of this “little fat girl”.

   Unlike many girls of the same age, Lin Xingjie likes toy guns or racing cars more than Barbie dolls since she was a child; she also likes to have fun in the wild freely, like a puppy who has taken off the rope.

  There is a huge bamboo forest on the back hill near the village, but unfortunately her parents would not let the little girl go out alone. Lin Xingjie had this opportunity only when the whole family went out for spring together.

  So, she usually wanders around around her home, and this basement often becomes her destination. Every time she runs here, her line of sight can always catch a glimpse of the wooden door under the stairs, sealed with iron bolts.

   She would stand on it and stare for a while, then turn and run away.

  This time, Xiao Xingjie ran directly to the door of the basement, and then backed back.

   In normal times, she just needs to go down and knock on the door. Dad will come out by himself in a while, then lock the door and leave with her.

  Lin Xingjie has never been inside, and often has a glimpse of what is displayed in the basement.

   Of course it would seem strange at first, but after all, she was young and didn’t remember anything; and when she grew up, she became accustomed to the existence of this basement, which seemed to be built before they lived here.

   But the strange thing is that today, for some unknown reason, the door of the basement that should have been locked was slightly open, and the inside was dimly lit.

   As long as she walks down the stairs and pushes the door open, she will be able to enter inside, solve her long-standing doubts, and satisfy her deep inner curiosity.

   But when the little girl happily took a step down the concrete steps below, she subconsciously stopped at the top step.

  Lin Xingjie swallowed, thinking about it in her mind.

   The child’s exuberant and boundless imagination reminded her of the beginning of several horror stories:

  ”Curiosity killed the cat”, to illustrate this truth, storybooks and TV often have such a mischievous child who breaks into an inaccessible place and becomes a victim of evil forces.

   But now, her father is in the basement, and this is not a room that is closed off and no one comes all the year round.

  So, Dad, what is he doing in there?

  Lin Xingjie asked out of curiosity, but according to his father, he was doing research.

   She always knew that her father was a scientist.

the scientist! It sounds amazing, this is probably the future career that children yearn for most in their hearts, so she will naturally be proud of it.

There are several group photos in the house, often of a group of people in white coats, standing in a laboratory full of measuring cups and instruments, and my father is one of them. It was a good fit; she also met a lot of foreigners.

   I heard that my mother and he met in the city. The two of them have moved here since they got married.

   Dad was far from retirement, but he left the laboratory where he had spent a lot of energy early.

   Even if you want to live in another place out of consideration for your family, you don’t need to abandon your original career, right? According to my mother’s idea, with his qualifications, it is very easy to find a random college in China to teach, but her husband did not do this, he would rather lock himself in the basement of his house and mess around.

   Mom doesn’t understand this. However, she never intervenes in this aspect, and just wants to sit on the sofa at home all day watching TV shows and knitting sweaters, and be a not-so-competent housewife.

   Of course, Lin Xingjie couldn’t hold such a complicated thing in her little head for the time being.

   She felt that since her father said he was doing research, then it was right.

   But what exactly is research?

  So, at this time, she began to think of the big villains that appeared in some comic booklets. Many of them were mad scientists who made terrible weapons and wanted to destroy the world. There were all kinds of strange monsters in glass jars in the laboratory…

   The little girl hugged her slender arm. It was getting late, the temperature dropped suddenly, and there was a cold wind blowing behind her, and she shivered from the cold as she stood on the hillside.

  No no no, how could Dad be a mad scientist? He looks completely different from those hideous villains, he is very kind to everyone, and he has never gotten angry.

  After calming down, Lin Xingjie calmed down, ran and jumped down, and pushed open the door of the basement in one go.

  …

   I don’t know whether to be happy or disappointed, there really isn’t any scary scene in the basement, it’s normal everywhere. Except because there is only one light bulb in the room, so the environment is a little dark.

  Lin Xingjie’s heart dropped.

   She looked around, and in the corner, there were books and archives piled up in a mess, and a few scraps of paper were scattered on the ground, no one cleaned up.

  There are a bunch of instruments on the shelf, which Dad brought from the former laboratory.

Lin Xingjie recognized one of them. Dad brought it to the house to play with her before. It seemed to be called a “Newton’s pendulum” – as long as the ball on the far right was moved, and the other four **** that were closely arranged in the swing collided, The leftmost ball will pop.

   It was interesting to see at first, but she soon got tired of it. As for the principle explained by her father, she didn’t remember the slightest bit.

   Except for the name “Newton’s pendulum”. She knew Newton, who was in the common sense textbook in the first grade of elementary school. He heard that he was smashed by an apple when he was a child.

  Lin Xingjie called out “Dad”, reminding him that it was time to eat.

  But, when the girl’s eyes crossed the long table and fell to a farther corner, she found something she didn’t notice just now:

  It turned out that there was another big iron gate inlaid on the wall on the right. It was locked tightly, with dull rust on the surface, and seemed to blend in with the walls in a dimly lit room.

   Just as the little girl’s attention was drawn to the unobtrusive door, her big eyes staring at it without blinking, her father had come to him.

  Rough big hands placed on the girl’s head and rubbed, she heard her father say with a smile.

   “Let’s go. Let’s go back to dinner.”

   He didn’t seem to blame his daughter for trespassing. This made Lin Xingjie quietly relieved.

   But if you think about it carefully, Dad never said that he would not let her come here, but every time he would let her out first, then turn around and lock the basement door.

   This time too.

   “What did your mother cook?”

   Dad asked without looking back while locking the lock.

   “Mm…Sweet and sour fish, braised pork, and…” Lin Xingjie counted with her fingers, “And the meat buns bought on the street!”

   “She went to the market today. That’s fine, no need to buy anything else.”

  The man walked up the stairs, the little girl followed behind with her braids swaying, and listened to him continue:

   “A friend will come to visit me tomorrow. I will talk to your mother. You can have a big meal these two days.”

“Um!”

  Lin Xingjie nodded hurriedly with joy, she asked again:

   “Who is coming?”

   “An uncle.”

   Dad thought for a moment and slowly replied:

   “He studied with my teacher for a period of time, and then went to another country. I can be regarded as his senior brother.”

   The little girl seemed to understand but went home with her father. Mother was standing at the door to greet them, and the three returned to the living room together, moved out of the table and had a warm dinner.

  …

  Lin Xingjie quickly met the guest his father said.

   Early the next morning, Lin Xingjie, who had just changed clothes and washed and had not had time to eat breakfast, heard her father calling her from below.

  The girl “dong dong dong” ran downstairs and saw a young man in his early twenties who was wearing a black trench coat and carrying a suitcase, standing at the door, chatting and laughing with his father happily.

   When he saw the round-faced little girl with braids, he asked with a smile.

   “Is this your daughter?”

“Yes.”

   “It’s been raised in vain and fat. Just started elementary school this year?”

   “Yes, first grade.”

   “Hehe, Senior Brother has had a really enviable life these days. I’m beginning to understand why you have to retire early.”

   “Hey, let’s not talk about it now.”

   Dad shook his head. He turned around, beckoned to his daughter, and motioned for her to come over.

   “Come, come here and meet Uncle Meng.”

   The little girl ran to her father, hid behind him, and looked curiously at the stranger in front of her. .

   “Hello, Lin Xingjie.”

   The young man crouched down and greeted her with a big smile.

   “My surname is Meng, and my name is Meng Zheng.”

   (end of this chapter)