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    Loop6 (3)

    Bai Tong sat on top of the drawer and recalled it.

    There were many people in the villa, but the atmosphere was always so cold. After what happened, people became even more indifferent to each other.Bai Jing has requested before that no one is allowed to get too close to Bai Tong. The position of “mother” should just be empty. She will never allow anyone to covet it.

    Now that there are so many surveillance cameras installed, who dares to say a word to Bai Tong?

    Therefore, Bai Tong once felt that everyone hated him.

    After growing up, Bai Tong realizes that she is no longer the center of the world and that she is not that important, so “everyone hates her”. She now feels that perhaps the relationship between people is essentially indifferent.

    The sound of an out-of-tune piano came from the basement. It was my mother playing the piano.

    For people who don’t know how to play the piano, the titles of the songs marked with a string of English and numbers all look similar, so Bai Tong doesn’t know what his mother is playing.He only heard several sets of grand, distorted bass being struck repeatedly. Judging from the strength of the keys, Bai Tong even suspected that his mother was angry.

    I rarely heard Bai Jingru play the piano. I only heard her play a very cute piece of music by chance when she was a child. At that time, she asked Bai Tong if she wanted to learn it. Children may regard their mother as a fairy in the sky. Bai Tong felt that only her mother was worthy of playing such a piece of music, so she said she did not want to learn it.

    In this way, Bai Tong grew up to be a music-blind person, and even thinking about it today still feels a little regretful.

    The music stopped.

    Bai Jingru started looking for her and shouted, “Bai Tong.”

    This house is so big, even if you don’t search the basement, it would take five or six minutes to find it from room to room on the first floor.

    Bai Tong didn’t say a word, and sure enough, every one or two minutes you could hear a questioning “Bai Tong?”

    Bai Jingru came up the stairs. At the door of the storage room, she saw Bai Tong sitting on the drawer of the cabinet and asked, “Why don’t you respond when I call you?”

    Bai Tong said, “I didn’t hear it.”

    “Well, let’s come down for dinner.” Bai Jingru stood there waiting for Bai Tong to come over.

    Bai Tong said, “Mom, you shouldn’t install so many surveillance cameras, you should install broadcasting.”

    Bai Jingru seemed to think about it and said, “It can be installed. I’ll call someone to install it tomorrow.”

    “…I’m just kidding, I beg you,” Bai Tong said.

    Bai Jingru smiled and said, “I was joking too.”

    When mother and daughter went downstairs together, Bai Jingru said, “I have been busy lately and I don’t have much chance to eat with you. If I’m not at home, just come down and eat on time, or have someone bring it to you.”

    “What are you going to do?” Bai Tong asked.

    “I want to give Yunshan an answer about some work matters, hotel investment,” Bai Jingru said.

    “Then when will you come back?” Bai Tong didn’t know why he asked.

    “Quickly.” Bai Jingru asked, “What were you doing sitting in the closet just now?”

    Bai Tong didn’t know what to say, so he said, “Wait for you to find me.”

    Bai Jingru smiled and said nothing.

    At the dining table, the two began to talk about Xiao Jin and Xiao Bao. Bai Jingru said that they were not allowed to come over for the time being because they were afraid that they would be stressed by the new environment. Bai Tong asked Na Yilan if they were going to be renovated, so couldn’t the kittens stay there? Bai Jingru said there was no rush and she would pick up Xiao Jin and Xiao Bao after the decoration started.

    Bai Tong felt that his mother was fooling him again, and that he would live alone in this place again, just like when he was very young.

    When going to bed at night, Bai Tong found that the moving company was very considerate. They even moved Yilan’s mattress for her. Although sleeping was no different from before, Bai Tong always felt that in addition to the fragrance of textiles, there was also a “water” smell in the air.

    When she finally fell asleep, she dreamed of water.

    She floated in the water first, then gradually fell.

    She thought, how could she still breathe freely in the water?

    As soon as she thought of this, she immediately choked.

    My limbs were flailing here and there, trying to grab anything I could, but there was nothing but water around me.

    Just when the involuntary twitching was about to stop, someone grabbed Bai Tong’s hand from above.

    Is this figure my mother?

    Not quite.

    A lifeguard in the sea?

    Not quite.

    Is it the nurse aunt?

    Wait a minute, who is the nurse aunt?

    Hospital, beach…

    His thoughts were confused, and then Bai Tong woke up. The feeling of drowning in the dream was extremely real, and the feeling of suffocation continued until he woke up.

    Bai Tong calmed down for a while, closed his eyes forcibly, and fell asleep again, but he didn’t sleep well all night.

    When I went to school the next day, my mother was no longer at home. Jingyuan was farther away from school than Yilan, so it took about half an hour for the driver to drive me there.

    She could only sleep a little less in the morning, and had to come out on time after school in the afternoon. She didn’t want the driver to wait on the side of the road.

    While riding in the car, she would recall her recent dreams when she had nothing to do. She didn’t know why she kept dreaming, and most of them weren’t good dreams.

    For example, last night, she dreamed that she was following a person, and that person suddenly turned around and asked her what she was following.

    Bai Tong wanted to say not to follow, but his voice was stuck in his throat.

    The man came over, got close, and inserted a knife from nowhere into Bai Tong’s chest.

    Sometimes it’s not the chest, but other places, or it’s not because of following, but because of other things.

    But in any case, Bai Tong will be frightened and wake up in the end.

    She wondered if Jingyuan’s feng shui had deteriorated, as she hadn’t had a good night’s sleep since she moved here.

    When school was about to end, I saw the head teacher leading someone through the window.

    After school, they walked in and packed their things in the back row of the classroom.

    Many classmates gathered around. Bai Tong also took a look from a distance and heard them say, “Isn’t Sun Daining coming?”

    The teacher said, “Din Ning is off school due to health reasons. Don’t hang around here. There’s nothing to see. Go home quickly.”

    Maybe it’s Sun Daining’s friend, still asking, “Huh? Doesn’t it matter, auntie, can we go see Daining?”

    Bai Tong was no longer interested in listening. She put on her schoolbag and walked outside the classroom.The back door was closer to the stairs. As she walked back, her voice became clearer again:

    “When Dai Ning comes back next year, she will be your school girl. I’d like you to take more care of her then.”

    The voice seemed to be choked, and Bai Tong couldn’t help but turn his head to look. He was shocked when he saw the face coming from the voice, which was similar to the one in his dream.

    The person in her dream was originally very vague and had no exact appearance, but now that she saw this person, she felt that it was her.

    Bai Tong stood there staring at her, but she also looked out the window and looked at Bai Tong.

    Cen Yu looked away first.

    Bai Tong looked around and was sure it was her!

    So Bai Tong walked from the back door to the front door, returned to his seat and sat down.

    After the teacher and Cen Yu settled the matter, Bai Tong followed them out of the classroom. When the teacher left, Bai Tong actually wanted to catch up and talk to Cen Yu, but the distance was too short, and she had no idea what to say.

    Soon Cen Yu got in the car. Bai Tong returned to his car and asked the driver, “Can you follow that car?”

    The driver glanced in Cen Yu’s direction and said, “I need to ask Mr. Bai for instructions first.”

    “When you finish asking for instructions, can you still keep up?” Bai Tong’s tone was not sarcastic or threatening, she asked sincerely.

    The driver couldn’t answer, so Bai Tong said, “Just follow me first, I’ll tell mom.”

    So the driver followed Cen Yu, sometimes close and sometimes far away. He passed several traffic lights without losing track, as if he had practiced it.

    But after following him, he followed him to Yilan Garden, which Bai Tong didn’t expect.

    Cen Yu’s car was not parked in the basement, but in the surface parking lot.

    Bai Tong’s car was a bit conspicuous on the roadside, so the driver had to find an empty space, turn around, and park the car in it.

    Bai Tong actually had no clear purpose. He planned to return to Jingyuan after Cen Yu left, but he saw Cen Yu coming towards their car.

    Cen Yu knocked on Baitong’s car window and lowered it.

    Cen Yu said, “Classmate, do you live here or come to see Sun Daining?”

    “I’m… looking for Sun Daining.” Bai Tong answered by mistake.

    “That’s it, then come down.” Cen Yu said.

    Bai Tong went upstairs with Cen Yu alone without the driver accompanying him.

    When we were walking together, Cen Yu asked her, “Little classmate, have you followed me in school?”

    Bai Tong really didn’t know how to answer. She racked her brains and thought about it. She was silent all the way. Fortunately, Cen Yu didn’t say anything else.

    Cen Yu opened the door to his home, and what he saw was a wide open space and warm wooden floors.

    “You sit down for a moment, I’ll call Dai Ning over.” After Cen Yu finished speaking, he walked towards the bedroom area, and Bai Tong heard the voice.

    First there were two knocks on the door, but no one answered. Cen Yu called again, “Dining?”

    There was a vague response inside.

    Cen Yu said, “Din Ning, a classmate is here to see you.”

    “Yin Yi?”

    “No.” Cen Yu didn’t know Bai Tong’s name and was about to come out and ask.

    Sun Daining then added, “I don’t see anyone.”

    Cen Yu stood there for a while, then walked out and said to Bai Tong, “Din Ning is not feeling well. If you have anything, just tell me.”

    How to put this, Bai Tong thought, could it be said, “Auntie, I often dream about you.”

    No matter what you think.

    Maybe he could ask about Sun Daining’s physical condition, but Bai Tong felt that this was someone else’s privacy, so he really didn’t know what to say.

    Finally, I had to say, “Auntie, there’s nothing wrong with me. I just think you look similar to someone I know.”

    “Really?” Cen Yu sat down on the sofa on the side and asked casually, “Who is it?”

    “That’s it, a…” Bai Tong thought for a moment, “a person.”

    Cen Yu felt like he wanted to laugh but couldn’t, so he didn’t ask further questions.

    The windows on the balconies on both sides of their living room were opened, and at this time there was only the sound of the breeze blowing through the indoor green plants.

    Bai Tong was about to say goodbye and leave, but he felt comfortable sitting here.

    When she was in her duplex, she rarely opened the windows and relied on the fresh air system. When she was in the villa, she opened the windows but she didn’t like the smell in the air.

    So she remained silent for several minutes, feeling the moving breeze.

    The strange thing is that Cen Yu didn’t say anything either, they just sat here in silence.

    Not long after, Sun Daining came from the corridor, and she saw Bai Tong at a glance.

    Of course Bai Tong saw her too, and was even more shocked than when he was at school.

    She looked at Sun Daining first and then at Cen Yu.

    I think the person in the dream should be Sun Daining, right?Unless Sun Daining has any twin sisters.

    Sun Daining was wearing pajamas. She was very angry and said to Cen Yu, “I asked you to leave, why don’t you leave!”

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