254. The Man in Black
"Where did you go just now, waiting for you to eat, I'm starving......" Chi Ling couldn't help but pout as he watched Zhang Jingyang and Li Zimu walk in from behind.
She and Wang Xueling put their things into the room and packed them up, and when they came out, they didn't see these two people, and asked the housekeeper, who said with a strange expression that he didn't know, and there was no way, so they had to wait in this hall.
"Let's talk about something" Li Zimu said lightly, before Zhang Jingyang could speak, Zhang Tianlin may not know that there are two people, Chi Ling and Wang Xueling, anyway, people are still in a coma and can't wake up for a while.
Zhang Jingyang looked at Li Zimu's appearance that he didn't rest assured about the previous things at all, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of warmth in his heart. Li Zimu didn't blame him for this.
"Then let's eat, I'm so hungry......" Chi Ling said as he sat on his chair, it had been six or seven hours since he had eaten at noon, and her stomach was already rumbling, if it weren't for Li Zimu and Zhang Jingyang, she would have moved her chopsticks a long time ago......
Although it was said that it was more hurried to come back temporarily, there was no preparation, but the old housekeeper still arranged the dinner to the full, looking at this table of dishes full of color and aroma, several people couldn't help but move their fingers, pure Northeast cuisine, authentic taste.
"I'll arrange for you to go out to live early tomorrow morning" Zhang Jingyang thought about it and said, there were no outsiders on the four of them at this table, the door of the lobby was closed tightly, and the old housekeeper was called by him to take care of his grandfather, but he was not afraid of others hearing it.
Although Li Zimu didn't take it seriously, he couldn't think so, it really happened, and the person was still lying there.
"What's the matter? We're so unwelcome?" said the Spirit, jokingly as she ate her food, didn't they just arrive, why did they stay for one night and leave......
"It's not what you think" Zhang Jingyang said with a wry smile, he also originally planned to let Li Zimu and them stay at home for a few more days, but something like this happened, his father and second uncle will come back tomorrow, if he knows that grandpa has an accident, he will inevitably blame, it is better to let them go before they come back, and then he will be able to withstand it alone.
"Okay" Li Zimu nodded and said softly, Zhang Jingyang's consideration he naturally understood, he didn't care, but there are still two girls here, if the conversation collapses, these two people will be in danger.
To put it mildly, Li Zimu doesn't believe that Zhang Jingyang's father and his second uncle are reasonable people, maybe they have the same virtue as Zhang Tianlin, and now Li Zimu has beaten the pillar of his Zhang family's ancestor by mistake, even if Zhang Tianlin wakes up, he is just a waste.
"Okay" Wang Xueling nodded and said, although he said that he didn't know what was going on, but something must have happened, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed for one night and left, even Li Zimu spoke, indicating that this matter is a bit serious.
"Thank you for your understanding" Zhang Jingyang nodded and said, and a few people turned to talk about other things, a meal can be regarded as delicious, at least Chi Ling is very satisfied and lies on the chair to rest.
"Young master, it's cold, I ordered them to go down and bring hot water to the guests' rooms" The old butler was already waiting outside, and as soon as they finished eating, they sent someone in to pack their things.
Wang Xueling understood that the Zhang family is an ancient family, and it still maintains the tradition of a large family, with housekeepers and servants, and everyone has equal human rights here, and it has nothing to do with them.
"Mmmm" Zhang Jingyang nodded and said, there is no water heater or anything in the old house, it is all in the most primitive state, and it is cooked with firewood. Winters are cold in the north, and bathing is not as frequent as in the south. It is relatively common to soak your feet in hot water in winter.
"Let's rest early" Zhang Jingyang turned around and said to Chi Ling and a few people, at this moment, he is a little different from usual in school, and it is not clear what is different, it is roughly the temperament of being a family.
The four of them got up and walked out of the main hall to the side room outside, the snow outside was even bigger, the courtyard was all white, the wind was not strong but it didn't feel so cold.
Li Zimu didn't send Chi Ling and them back to his room, and when he passed by his room, he directly pushed open the door and walked in, leaving Zhang Jingyang to send them back, and his own room was not here, but in the lobby and further inside.
Li Zimu closed the door, and there were two hot water kettles and two basins and a towel on the ground next to the table, which should be the hot water that the old butler had ordered to prepare, and he was not polite, so he took off his boots and soaked his feet.
Seeing that the time was exactly eleven o'clock in the evening, Li Zimu wiped his feet with a towel, put his boots back on, took out a book and flipped through it in the candlelight, only the lobby and the verandah and other places had electric lights, and all the candles were used in the bedroom.
I don't know when the wind started to blow outside, I could faintly hear the whining sound of the wind blowing through the friction of the building, Li Zimu walked to the window and opened the window to see that the snow had stopped.
Looking at the white expanse outside, Li Zimu smiled lightly, it was already early in the morning, and if it was normal time, he should have already fallen asleep, but today was different, he hadn't even taken off his shoes......
After a heavy snowfall, a thick layer of snow piled up on the roof, turning the entire roof into a piece of white, and at this time, on the roof of the side house, I don't know when there were four people standing, and the black clothes on their bodies were a little out of place with the white snow.
A man in black gestured his fingers at the other three people, and only after the others nodded did he slowly walk to the middle along the thick wood on the roof tripod.
The roofs of the courtyard houses are all in the form of slopes, and tripods made of thick wood of the same size are placed in rows as the support of the roof, and then the sides are nailed horizontally with wooden strips to place the green tiles.
The order of placement is that the upper tiles are pressed against the lower tiles and arranged down, and some roofs are sealed with mud at the interface between the tiles for fixing and waterproofing.
But in this kind of tile-roofed house, for the purpose of indoor lighting, two glass tiles will be placed in the middle of the position, so that the light can enter.
At this time, the man in black slowly walked along the edge of the house to the middle position, and then slowly walked down, gently pushing away the snow in front of him, these two tiles were transparent tiles.
What about people?
The man in black leaned on the roof and looked through the transparent tiles into the room below, this room was the room where Li Zimu slept, and the candles were still on below, but no one was inside, the bed curtain was not lowered, and there was no one on the bed.
"Are you looking for me......"
A faint voice came from behind him, and the man in black hurriedly raised his head, only to see a person standing on the eaves, and the other three men in black who came up with him didn't know when they had all fallen......
Tomorrow the two chapters will be updated in the evening, and I'm sorry to be busy these days......