But this time, before he could open the door and step in, he felt a gust of gloomy wind coming from the surface. His hairs stood up, and the wet and sticky sweat on his body disappeared without a trace in an instant.

It was noon now, and the sun was shining outside, but the windows in the house were covered with newspapers. And they were blocked tightly by black curtains so that no light could penetrate. Only a dim old-fashioned kerosene lamp was lit in the room, and he could only vaguely see the back of a woman, but couldn’t see anything else.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Chengze felt a chill in his heart, he always felt that the back was not his mother, but another person. His lips quivered and his hands were clenched tightly, as if he wanted to call “Mom”, but he couldn’t say that word after trying several times.

The woman’s body slowly turned around, and through the sunlight pouring in through the door, Zhu Chengze found that his mother’s face was so thin that there was no flesh. Her eyes were deeply sunken, and her lips were no longer red, but somewhat blackened.

Zhu Chengze was startled when he saw his mother’s appearance. Since his mother became a yin person, he seldom show her face to him. She always wore a veil every day when she came out.

When his mother first wore a veil, Zhu Chengze thought it a rule for yin persons and didn’t think much about it. After he went to college, he was busy with work-study programs every day to earn tuition and living expenses. He had no time to think about his family. To save more money, he didn’t even come back during summer vacations and holidays. He only went home during the winter vacation of New Year’s Day.

This time, because the students he was tutoring went on a trip during National Day, he had time to go home for a few days. Unexpectedly, he discovered the strangeness of his mother. After seeing what his mother looked like today, Zhu Chengze realized that wearing this veil was not a rule, but to block her changes.

Mother Zhu felt a little dazzling light in the eyes, so she stretched out her arm to block it. After getting used to the light, she slowly lowered her arm and squinted her eyes for a long time. Only then did she realize that it was her son who came in.

Mother Zhu was stunned for a moment, then stood up in a panic. She put the veil and cap on her head, and shouted sharply: “Why did you come here? Didn’t I tell you that you are not allowed to enter this room?”

Zhu Chengze heard the bitterness in his mother’s voice, and couldn’t help feeling even sourer. He didn’t care about anything, he quickly stepped forward and hugged his mother’s skinny body, crying and sobbing: “Mom, I said that you’re not allowed to do this again, I make enough money for the tuition fee and living expenses for the both of us. I will graduate in 2 years, and we will have a better life by then. I don’t want you to exchange your life for that kind of money.”

Hearing these words, Mother Zhu trembled like a sieve, and she suddenly pushed Zhu Chengze out frantically, shouting in a hoarse voice: “I told you that you don’t need to care, you get out of here, and you’re not allowed to enter this room again!”

Zhu Chengze, a young man who was 1.8 meters tall, was pushed out several steps by a woman who was only 1.6 meters tall and less than 100 pounds, and almost fell. Just when Zhu Chengze was a little dazed, his wrist was suddenly clasped by a thin hand. He looked at his mother wearing a veil for unknown reasons and heard the gloomy and terrifying voice coming from the veil again: “Since you are in, don’t leave.”

For a moment, Zhu Chengze got goosebumps all over his body. He felt that his mother sometimes seemed to be a different person before, and he guessed correctly.

This thin hand was much stronger than his mother’s previous push. Zhu Chengze struggled a few times, but he didn’t break free. Instead, his wrist turned a little red.

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