Chapter 0071 Heaven is in the Well
The midday sunlight was a bit harsh, the woman and the boy stood in front of the haunted house, even after being explicitly rejected by Chen Ge, they still didn’t leave.
”He’s always wanted to visit the haunted house, this is what I agreed with him, can you help.” The woman rummaged through her backpack and pulled out a hundred whole bills, “Nothing will happen.”
Chen Ge didn’t bother to take the woman’s money and asked with slight doubt, “Why do you guys have to go into the haunted house? This child is only eight or nine years old, and the environment of the haunted house is complicated and special, which is easy to cause psychological stimulation to small children.”
The woman wore a bitter smile on her face, she didn’t answer Chen Ge’s question and turned around to rub the boy’s fluffy hair, “Fan Yu, why don’t we go and play other programs, okay ……”
Before she could finish her sentence, the boy smacked her hand aside, the boy didn’t like to be touched by others, even if it was completely well-intentioned.
Regardless of what the woman said, the boy just stood in front of the haunted house and wouldn’t leave, he looked up from time to time with inferiority, cowardice, and a hint of indifference in his eyes.
”Fan Yu?” Chen Ge’s focus of attention had been placed on this child, and it was the first time he had seen such an eccentric boy.
Squatting down, Chen Ge leveled his eyes at the little boy, “Can you tell uncle why you want to play in the haunted house? It’s dark inside and there are scary things.”
The boy’s gaze was evasive, he looked at Chen Ge’s shadow from time to time and did not say a word.
The woman, probably afraid of Chen Ge’s embarrassment, hurriedly stood in the middle and rounded off the situation, “Little Yu is different from other children and rarely communicates with people, I hope you don’t mind.”
”It’s fine.” Chen Ge realized that these two people stood at the entrance of the haunted house and just wouldn’t leave, the sun was not a solution, he softened his attitude, “How about this, I won’t charge you for the tickets either, I will accompany you in later, but I can only look around the periphery of the venue.”
”Many thanks boss!”
”Sign the disclaimer agreement first, adults and children should write it, don’t touch the props at will when you go in, don’t run, follow me.” Lifting the opaque curtains, Chen Ge placed two agreement sheets in front of the woman and the child, normally as long as the guardian signed it would be fine, but in order to get as much information as possible about the boy, that’s why Chen Ge asked the child to sign as well.
The two signed the waiver, and Chen Ge led them into the middle of the underworld marriage scene.
”Not a couple when they were born, the dead buried in the same cave, this is the Underworld Marriage.”
Chen Ge recounted the backstory roughly, and the three of them stood at the entrance of the courtyard lit with white lanterns, the woman was a little nervous, gripping the straps of her backpack, and the boy hung his head low, not knowing if it was because he was afraid or because of some other reason.
The dead trees shook, the ground was full of paper money, stepping on it rustled, Chen Ge led the way and pushed open the door of the courtyard, “The internal scene is like this, you guys just stand outside and take a look, we have strict regulations, children under the age of fourteen can’t visit.”
He had only just finished speaking when the little boy behind him, who had been very quiet, suddenly rushed into the courtyard, and neither of the two adults reacted.
”Fan Yu!” The woman and Chen Ge ran into the courtyard together and found the little boy stopped next to the dry well in the middle of the courtyard, his upper body poking into the well as if he was looking for something.
”I’m sorry, I’m really sorry.” The woman was busy apologizing to Chen Ge as she went to tug on the boy’s arm, but the boy, who had been quiet and shy, suddenly looked like a different person, not only did he forcefully break away from the woman’s hand, he also dug his fingernails into her skin, and he looked like a frightened wildcat.
”This kid’s mood swings are too big too.” The dry well in the middle of the courtyard was just a prop, it wasn’t much deeper, Chen Ge wasn’t worried that something would happen, he was just curious as to why the boy was so concerned about the well.
After staying by the well for two to three minutes, probably because he didn’t see what he wanted to find in the well, the boy loosened his hand fondly, he was different from normal children, to be precise he was different from normal people, the more he was in the eerie and weird environment, the more excited the boy became.
”Since we’re in, let’s lead you guys on a casual tour.” Chen Ge’s entire attention was focused on the kid, he was also of the shorter type among his peers, very good-looking, with large eyes that seemed like pure black gems.
”The Underworld Wedding Scene is modeled after an ancient courtyard, and the east and west compartments are usually for the children and nephews’ descendants.” He smoothly pushed open the door of the east compartment, and without warning, a female ghost in a wedding dress drilled out from behind the door.
The black and thin woman screamed in fear and backed away.
”No need to be nervous, it’s an actor.” Chen Ge pressed the stern ghost’s head with one hand and whispered, “Xu Wan, you go out first.”
”This reaction of yours is also too cold ……”
Xu Wan lifted the skirt of her wedding dress and stepped out of the threshold of the compartment, and no one noticed that the boy standing behind Chen Ge suddenly came up in front of Xu Wan and tilted his head to stare at Xu Wan in death.
”Huh? Boss, how did you let such a small child in?”
Xu Wan merely felt surprised, and of the few people present, only Chen Ge found something wrong.
With her dowry as bright as blood and Xu Wan’s special effects makeup, she looked more like a dead person at this point.
In this situation, not only did the boy not feel scared, he also took the initiative to approach Xu Wan and tilted his head to gaze at her face.
”This boy seems to like me a lot?” Xu Wan smiled at Chen Ge and did not feel anything wrong.
It was not until Xu Wan left the meditation scene that the boy withdrew his gaze.
”I won’t take you to visit the other several rooms one by one, probably the layout is similar, can we go out now?” Chen Ge and the black thin woman headed out, but the little boy stopped in the courtyard, looking left and right as if he was looking for something.
”Fan Yu, let’s go!” The boy turned a deaf ear to the woman’s shouts and stood next to the dry well, not knowing what he was looking at.
”Doesn’t this boy feel scared at all?” Chen Ge didn’t rush, but chatted with the woman, “Are you the child’s mother?”
”I’m his aunt.” The woman said with apologies, “I’ve filled you with trouble, Xiao Yu isn’t quite the same as his peers, ever since his parents had an accident a few years ago, he’s become like this, and he’s seen many doctors to no avail.”
”Mental illness? Can I ask about the child’s parents?” Chen Ge carefully hedged his words.
”Xiao Yu’s parents were both teachers at Mureyang Middle School, and both of them disappeared one after another and have not been found until now. At that time, Little Yu was only five years old, I didn’t even know how to explain to the child, I could only lie to him and say that his parents had gone to a very far away place called heaven.”
”Twilight Sun Middle School!” Chen Ge instantly tensed his nerves because of these four words.
”You’ve heard of it as well? There are a lot of rumors about that school, and I’ve long advised Xiao Yu’s parents, but they both just wouldn’t listen.” Mentioning the heartbreak, the dark thin woman’s eyes were a little red and swollen, she stopped talking to Chen Ge and walked over to Xiao Yu, “Let’s go home.”
The boy was still stubbornly standing by the well, which made Chen Ge, who was already feeling perverse, even more puzzled, he quietly walked over to the boy and tried to inquire, “Why do you keep looking into the well, are there any monsters living in the well?”
Fan Yu shook his head, he seemed to have let down his guard in the environment where the gloomy sunlight couldn’t reach him.
”Then can you tell uncle why you keep standing by the well?”
The boy glanced behind Chen Ge and thought for a while before saying, “I’m looking for something.”
”Looking for what?” Chen Ge was a little curious.
The little boy looked at the dark, withered well for half a day and finally uttered two words, “Heaven.”