There is a ghost by the river

The first drop of dew

一

Bai Lu is three years old this year.For the first three years of his life, he was soaked in honey, loved and pampered by his family, and he never suffered a single grievance.Until his mother was found out to be pregnant not long ago.In order to welcome the new life that will come ten months later, and to provide a good environment for the unborn baby in the womb, the Bai family couple discussed changing to a bigger house.So, last week, Bai Lu moved with her parents to Bihai Garden by the Lanjiang River.Then...he found that opposite him, in a small pavilion by the Lanjiang River, there was a man standing every night.

The man showed up on time at midnight every night, every night.

Bai Lu was young, Youdao said that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, he didn't feel afraid of this weird man at all, on the contrary he became curious.

Before the twilight of this night, the white and fat moon was already hanging in the sky.

Someone opened the window of an apartment building in Bihai Garden, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the little figure lying in front of the window.Isn't this Bai Lu who is so curious that she could kill nine cats?

Today, Bai Lu was taken by her mother to visit the neighbors. A group of housewives talked excitedly when they knew that their mother had a child in their womb.

"Eh, how many months has it been?"

"Almost four months."

"I don't know if it's a boy or a girl... I like boys better, they are easy to support, not like my little princess who is so delicate!"

"Hey, what's so good about a boy? If he's like that stinky boy in my family, he doesn't like to go to school, and he knows how to be mischievous all day long. It's better to have a piece of barbecued pork!"

"Yes, yes, if it's a girl, dress her up in a beautiful dress, like a little princess, even if she's too delicate... Then, it's super cute!"

"..."

Mother stroked her stomach tenderly: "Well, I, like her father, hope to be a daughter."

"You already have a son, and you have a daughter. It just happens to be a good couple."

They chattered up to this point, as if they had just noticed Bai Lu.The fat aunt who said she wanted a piece of barbecued pork bent down and pinched Bai Lu's soft face, and asked, "Does Bai Lu want a younger brother or a younger sister?"

Bai Lu rubbed her little face which was pinched red by the fat aunt, and replied, "Brother!"

Now, the women around were a little disappointed.

"But mom wants a younger sister! Doesn't Bai Lu like younger sister?"

"How nice my sister is. As an older brother, Bai Lu has to protect my sister!"

Bai Lu asked puzzledly, "Does brother want to protect sister?"

"Of course, as an older brother, you have to be nice to your younger sister."

"Okay. Then I don't want a younger brother." Bai Lu pursed her lips in her heart, and looked at her mother, "Mom, give me a brother! I want to be a younger sister!"

"puff."

All the women around laughed wantonly.

Bai Lu didn't know what they were laughing at, but she also vaguely knew that they were laughing at herself.Bai Lu blushed and lowered her head, but she was thinking about what the nurse sister said when her father and he accompanied her mother to the hospital for a physical examination, "Mom won't want you if she has a younger sister!" It's getting more and more annoying!

During dinner, my father and mother kept talking about the little sister.

Bai Lu only felt that life was miserable, and that he was about to turn into a poor little cabbage.

Out of sight, out of mind, Bai Lu returned to his new room angrily.His stomach was not full yet, so he looked at the toy box for a long time, and saw that the door was still motionless, but no one came in to ask him if he was full!Bai Lu was even more sad.

His new room has a beautiful window sill, the window is facing the Lanjiang River, and when the window is opened, you can see the surging river.Ever since there was a little villain in his mother's womb, he was kicked out and could no longer sleep with his parents.He was not used to sleeping alone, and he couldn't fall asleep anyway, but he didn't dare to go to his mother.

That's how he found the man who appeared in the small pavilion by the river every night at twelve o'clock.

The moonlight is like practice, sprinkled with sparkling light and drifting away with the water.

A tall and straight man stood in the pavilion, dressed in jet-black clothes, making him seem to have melted into the night.

A pair of eyes raised slightly, and the quiet gaze seemed to penetrate the melting night, looking straight at a half-open window upstairs.

two

A clock on the wall ticks the time.

Tick, tick, tick—

Bai Lu woke up vaguely again in the night.The moonlight came in through the window, and he glanced at the wall clock on the wall.

It was exactly twelve o'clock.

It's twelve o'clock again!

Bai Lu was depressed. These days, he always woke up at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night.And when I woke up, I didn't want to sleep at all.Before today, Bai Lu was still a good baby.Even if I can't fall asleep, I dare not get up to play, so I can only lie on the bed straight, or sleep with my eyes open until dawn, or count from one sheep to a hundred with my eyes closed Sheep counted from a hundred sheep to one sheep (he hadn't learned numbers other than one hundred when he was young).

But today, Bai Lu thought of the grievance she had suffered during dinner, so she pouted, hum, don't be a good baby again!

Bai Lu stepped on the small stool under the window, trying her best to let her gaze look over the window sill.

The night is like an ink block mixed with water, rendering the ink color of the sky.A long and endless Lanjiang River lies quietly in the rich black color, the moonlight is like a practice, and countless shining broken flowers are outlined on it.

The man in black stood quietly in the pavilion.

He remained motionless, as if standing like a boulder without knowing the sun and the moon.

three

The man didn't know how long he stood there.

In the dead of night, occasionally "people" passing by.However, no one knows where this man came from, no one knows when he will leave, and no one knows who he is waiting for there.

The man was still standing there tirelessly, not even changing his posture, not even his hair was blown by the howling night wind.

Suddenly, someone grabbed the corner of his clothes.

The man lowered his head, with a small white hand resting on the hem of the black one-corner coat, the child raised his head, his almond eyes curved like the bright crescent in the sky, and he smiled innocently.

The soft and waxy child's voice asked childishly: "Big brother, who are you waiting for?"

The man knew that the person he was waiting for had finally come.