kingnovel Chapter 669 World 24
Chapter 669 World 24
"Yinyin's back?"
Shen's mother poked her head out from the kitchen: "The food will be ready soon. Go put down your schoolbag, wash your hands and get the bowl."
“Okay,” Shen Ruyin agreed, put down her schoolbag, walked to the kitchen, rested her chin on her mother’s shoulder, and asked in a sticky voice, “Mom, what are we having for dinner tonight?”
"Didn't you say yesterday you wanted to eat shredded potatoes and pork, along with a tomato and pork soup and scrambled eggs with chives?" Mrs. Shen gestured with her chin toward the already cooked dishes. "Bring them over first."
"It smells so good," Shen Ruyin said as she served the dishes. "Mom's cooking is really good."
"You're just trying to sweet-talk me," Shen's mother said irritably, but with a smile on her face. She noticed that her daughter had taken three bowls and quickly said, "Your dad is working overtime today and won't be back until after eight o'clock. You don't need to take his."
Shen Ruyin then put one back: "Mom, I saw someone burning paper money at the intersection when I got home from school today."
"You don't know how creepy that person was. He left a pair of red shoes at the intersection, and he kept staring at me as I crossed the street."
"What?" Shen's mother stopped shoveling the vegetables out and quickly looked her daughter up and down, cursing, "What kind of person is she? Her own daughter is gone, so she wants to harm someone else's daughter."
"No, I'll take you out to pray tomorrow. In the future, if you encounter something like this, remember to stay away. People like that are not thinking straight, and they might hurt you."
Shen Ruyin nodded in agreement, then asked, "Mom, what do you mean his own daughter is gone? Did something happen on that road before? I've never heard you mention that."
“Just last week, it was a kid from our neighborhood kindergarten,” Shen’s mother scooped out the vegetables. “You were at school, how could I tell you? It wasn’t anything good.”
"Oh," Shen Ruyin helped her mother serve the dishes and sat down at the table with her. "Mom, did you see it?"
“I saw it when I came back from grocery shopping,” Shen’s mother said, sighing. “They said that the little girl won first place in the kindergarten’s dance competition during the Children’s Day activities, and her family rewarded her by having her father buy her a new pair of shoes when he picked her up from school.”
"While waiting at the traffic light, her dad was also playing on his phone while the little one was jumping and skipping onto the main road."
"They were just unlucky. There aren't many big trucks passing through this area, but that day a dump truck carrying goods happened to be passing by."
"The little girl was startled when she saw the truck and ran towards the police station. Just then, her father looked up and called to her from the other side, so she ran back and got caught under the wheels."
As Shen's mother spoke, she suddenly became angry: "That child is unlucky to have such a father."
“You said the child was about to run to the side of the road, why didn’t you tell her to stay put and wait for the car to pass before crossing the road to find her? Why did you have to call the child to his place?”
"The driver thought the little girl was almost at the side of the road and that everything was fine, but how could he have prevented her from suddenly darting out again?"
"The driver wasn't driving fast, and when he noticed something was wrong, he immediately stopped and called 120. But the dump truck was so heavy, let alone a child, even an adult couldn't bear it. Before he even got to the hospital, he was gone."
"I heard that the place where the child suddenly ran out happened to be a blind spot for the big trucks."
In summary, it was an irresponsible father, a child who was terrified by not following traffic rules, and a dump truck driver who caused the accident.
Shen's mother held her chopsticks in her hand, not picking up a single bite of food: "They said that the child's mother received a call and went to the hospital. She fainted several times from crying. After watching the surveillance footage, she started a divorce."
“Of course,” Shen Ruyin said. “Children may be ignorant, but how can parents be ignorant?”
“Even if there aren’t many large vehicles on that road, there are still quite a few small cars. Otherwise, why would they bother to build a traffic light there?”
"Moreover, children can play on their phones freely on the side of the road without their parents' hands, which shows that the parents are not taking responsibility."
Mrs. Shen nodded in deep agreement: "Fortunately, when you were little, your father and I kept a close eye on you when you went out. But you've always been smart and knew to avoid cars."
“That’s how you taught me since I was little,” Shen Ruyin said. “That’s why I’ve been able to live this long safely, thanks to my parents.”
Shen's mother was still thinking about the car accident, but her words brought her back to reality.
"Alright, alright, let's eat. Eat more vegetables."
After finishing her meal, Shen Ruyin spent some time with her mother and waited for her father to get off work before going back to her room to lie down and play on her phone. Not long after, she received a call from Zhao Manrou.
"Hello, Xiaoman?"
"Yinyin," Zhao Manrou said nervously on the other end of the phone, "I... I think I bumped into something unclean today."
"What?" Shen Ruyin sat up abruptly. "What happened?"
“I just finished eating and went for a walk with my parents. We saw someone burning paper money at the intersection,” Zhao Manrou paused.
“I was scared when I saw it, so I told my parents that we should go around it. My mom said there was nothing to be afraid of and led me right past it.”
"The most important thing is that when we went there, my parents were fine, but I was the only one who saw a little girl in red shoes dancing in the middle of the road."
"She even asked me to go jumping with her. You have no idea, I was terrified."
"Then I noticed a pair of red shoes at the intersection, which I hadn't seen when I walked over before."
Shen Ruyin's gaze turned cold: "Xiaoman, did you also see a truck drive by and hit that child later?"
"Yinyin, how did you know!"
Shen Ruyin continued, "Didn't that child suddenly run up to you later and question you about why you didn't dance with her? When you passed those red shoes at the traffic light, didn't you really want to wear them?"
Zhao Manrou on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time. After several minutes, she asked in a trembling voice, with a sob in her voice, "Yinyin, how come you were right about everything?"
"My parents say it's because I've read too many ghost stories, but I'm afraid of ghosts and I never read ghost stories!"
"Xiaoman, don't be afraid," Shen Ruyin said with a wry smile. "The reason I know is because I met her today too, even earlier than you. I met her on my way home from school."
"I called Uncle Hat when I crossed the street, and the person burning paper money was taken back and given a lecture."
"But hearing you say that..."
"Yinyin, wait a minute," Zhao Manrou suddenly said, followed by the sound of her footsteps as she opened the door. "Mom and Dad, Yinyin said she also encountered what I told you about today!"
Zhao Manrou's parents still didn't believe it: "Our house is two streets away from Yinyin's house, how could you possibly meet her?"
“But we did run into him,” Zhao Manrou continued, recounting what Yinyin had said before, adding, “Yinyin said she even reported Uncle Hat.”
When Zhao Manrou's parents heard that she had reported "Uncle Hat," they realized something was wrong and took the phone: "Yinyin, did you really encounter the same thing as Xiaoman?"
“Yes,” Shen Ruyin recounted what had happened to her today.
After listening, Zhao Manrou added, "Mom and Dad, isn't that right? Except for the location, everything else is exactly the same as what I told you before!"
"I just said that something felt off when I passed by there, but you guys didn't believe me!"