Chapter 30

  It's another deep night.

  It has to be said that night is always the same. Gloomy, silent and dark, a vast emptiness stretches across the city.

  She was sleeping soundly in the quiet room. Her eyes were lightly closed. The deeper darkness pulled her breathing into a muddy swamp-like dream. In a daze, she heard someone push open the door and walk in. The sound of a child's footsteps echoed through the empty room.

  It walked to her bedside, and she felt her body being shaken by a pair of small hands.

  She heard someone say: "Sister, I'm hungry."

  She thought it was Le Zi running in again. She didn't care, but Le Zi's hand on her neck was icy cold. She shuddered and pulled the quilt tightly. The heavy sleepiness made her consciousness still blurry.

  Those little hands shook her body again.

  "Sister, I'm hungry, I want to eat zongzi."

  "If you want to eat, go eat yourself! Stop bothering me!"

  The little kid by the bed seemed to have let out a sigh, probably thinking about something. Then, one small foot climbed onto her bed, followed by another. The kid's icy body burrowed into her blankets, and then stretched out both hands to hug her waist tightly. She felt the kid's entire body emitting a chilly aura, cold enough to make her skin slightly shrink.

  She just thought Leizi had a cold. It's reasonable for someone with a cold to want to eat zongzi.

  She didn't care at all and fell asleep again. She slept very soundly, the sun, moon, stars, and even the entire universe seemed to have disappeared in her dreams.

  Then, when she got up in the morning to brush her teeth, she found that the corners of her mouth were greasy. She let out a big sigh and the aroma of zongzi spread with her breath. She felt strange, when did she eat zongzi?

  Lezi didn't catch a cold, nor did he run to her room in the middle of the night. Dad testified that he and Lezi slept together last night. However, this does not rule out the possibility that Lezi ran to her bed for a while and then ran back.

  But why does Lezi's body make people feel so cold?

  She paid extra attention and decided to catch him when Le Zai ran into her room.

  The first night, she didn't hear the child's cry of hunger.

  The next night, she felt someone climbing onto her bed. She suddenly sat up and turned on the bedside lamp, but couldn't see anyone else in the room.

  On the third night, she had a strange dream. In the dream, she came to the deserted street downstairs. In the bleak night wind, she bought a zongzi from Fu Bo, who sold zongzi...