Night Sobbing
At 12 midnight, the cold air wandered freely on Ding Lidong’s face, and he couldn’t help but shiver.
Lidong works in a 24-hour supermarket, almost every day at midnight after get off work. He will pass a bridge on his way home, which is over the moat. At night, the moat was as dark as a disc of ink. Every time he walked here, Ding Lidong would speed up his pace, trying to pass as quickly as possible.
Today, as always, he hastened his pace, however, he vaguely saw a vague figure standing on the bridge.
Ding Lidong said to himself: “Don’t look, just go forward.” However, another curious thought in his heart prompted him to look at the fuzzy figure.
A deep and desolate sob came along with the cold wind, and Ding Lidong’s hairs stood up. But when he listened carefully, it turned out that it was a woman who was talking on the phone, crying.
Ding Lidong saw her thin figure move towards Qiaotou. After that, he seemed to hear the cruel sound of the woman’s phone hanging up, because he saw her hand holding the phone, slowly hanging from her ear to her leg.
Next, before Ding Lidong had time to react, he saw the thin figure jumping from the bridge and falling into the river.
Ding Lidong rushed to the surface of the river where the woman jumped and jumped down. He looked for the woman in the dark bottom, and then dragged her to the surface with all his strength. After carrying the woman ashore, Ding Lidong let her lie flat on the ground. The woman’s whole body was soaked, and her long hair was dripping with water covering most of her face.
“You are so young, why bother?” Ding Lidong said to her half pity and blame. This woman reminded him vaguely of the past. Only he knew why he was so angry.
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“Everyone walks the same.” The woman said.
“What’everyone walks the same’?” Ding Lidong’s memory somewhere in his mind at this moment seemed to be hit by an electric current.
“The two of us walk the same, you stay!” The woman who was lying there suddenly sat up, her voice piercing. Drops of water dripped from her damp hair, and her lips were as white as a piece of paper. Ding Lidong immediately yelled out of control in horror.
“Liu Yiyi, it’s you! You…”
Why are you here? You know, Liu Yiyi passed away two years ago. Ding Lidong looked at the water-drenched woman, his heart beating suddenly. He gradually moved backwards with trembling footsteps, one accidentally nearly fell, and then twisted and ran in the direction of home without looking back.
As he ran, he gradually felt that he couldn’t hear anything. The buzzing tinnitus covered the entire world. In Ding Lidong’s ears, there was a murmur just like his heart. The lake behind him was silent, and the woman covered in water disappeared.
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Shui Yan
This night, Ding Lidong is on duty at the supermarket again. The supermarket door was opened, and a clear sound was heard in the silent late night.
“Hello.” Ding Lidong didn’t turn around and said, continuing to organize the shelves, but when he heard that there was no answer behind him, he looked back curiously.
Liu Yiyi’s face suddenly appeared in front of him, so close to him, it almost touched his face. Her long dark hair was wet, and water dripped down her pale cheeks, making a “click” sound on the floor. It was cold, but she was standing there barefoot without shoes, wearing her favorite summer white dress during her lifetime. Ding Lidong felt goose bumps all over his body.
Liu Yiyi showed a sullen smile, her pale face glowing under the supermarket lights, her mouth cracking like a smile, terribly red. Tick, tick… The sound of water drops falling on the ground became clearer, and Ding Lidong’s clothes were soaked with sweat.
At this time, the lights in the supermarket went out for some reason, and the surrounding area instantly turned into a cloud of darkness. Ding Lidong groped for the light switch with the shelf, and he felt surrounded by a cold damp behind him.
He stood in the dark, feeling helpless. At this time, a ding-ding-ding sound came from a shelf behind the supermarket. Ding Lidong followed the sound to judge the direction and walked towards the shelf. He wanted to know what happened there. After walking a few steps, he felt like he was stepping on water, so he squatted down and reached out to touch the ground.
It’s really water! There seems to be a shallow stream quietly flowing in the supermarket. In the darkness, although Ding Lidong could not see anything, he could feel that his two hands had been completely soaked by the water.
At this moment, everything in the supermarket is back under the bright incandescent lamp. Ding Lidong looked around, the ghost of Liu Yiyi was gone in the supermarket. He exhaled in relief, and was about to pick up the sweater that had just been taken off on the ground and put it on again. At this moment, he was stunned. He saw that all the mineral water bottles on the last row of shelves were scattered and rolled to the ground. The caps were opened, and the water was constantly flowing out of them, converging into a clear and shallow stream. The water was shiny and bright. Weird.