Chapter 20 Do You Believe in Gods and Demons?
According to Shi Yan, it is purely normal that he will save Lu Weibo, after all, Lu Weibo is the virus that helped Xu Jie crack. It's just that this IT genius didn't expect that Xu Jie would be able to invite goblins! For an otaku, all animals that can talk are goblins.
Shi Shen raised his head and glanced at the sun above his head, only to remember that there was no light in this alley, and even if the sun was scorching outside at this moment, it was still a dark scene inside. Shi Ember wouldn't be afraid of this strange difference in luminosity, but in this case, he would not be able to judge the time by the weather.
"Don't you have a mobile phone with you?" Mu Yu looked at him with disdain, his tone full of contempt.
Shi Shen laughed dryly, and then remembered that he had just bought a mobile phone, and quickly took it out to see that they had been gone for more than half an hour.
"It's eleven o'clock, do you think we can get back to the apartment in an hour?" Shi Shen looked at it a little embarrassed, and spoke in a very careful and sincere tone, afraid that the slightest wrong tone would anger the arrogant big fox.
Mu Yu glanced at him, and asked very complainingly, "What do you say?"
He touched the bridge of his nose embarrassedly and smiled apologetically at it. Out of nowhere, he took out a brown-black pill, walked to the corner of the wall and handed it to Lu Weibo, who was sitting there paralyzed, and after the latter reached out with difficulty to take it, he slowly spoke: "This is a swelling medicine for Jin Chuang's bruises, you take it and take it, and the injuries on your body will heal faster." With that, he turned around again, his voice was slightly cold, and continued: "Seeing that you don't want to go to the Yun family, I heard that bald head said that you have a sick mother in bed at home, I think you should be cautious about abusing your own expertise to earn a little medicine fee, and the Xu Group is very suitable for your development." I'm not digging into the corners, I'm just kind enough to advise. ”
After speaking, he took Mu Yu and continued to hurry back to the apartment. The big fox, who is usually like a chatterbox, is like a stuffy bag at the moment, he doesn't say a word along the way, and he doesn't urge him to hurry up or anything like that, and it seems that he has lost interest in the upcoming luxury lunch, which makes Shi Ember a little overwhelmed.
"What's wrong with my daughter-in-law?, why did she suddenly stop talking?" Shi Shen asked with a wry smile, usually a girl made such a look, probably because he did something to make her angry.
In the past, it would make a "hehe" sound and then turn its head to ignore him. Today, he was surprisingly unangry, just shook his head, smiled and said "It's okay".
Shi Ember felt a little confused, many of the things that happened today were a little out of line with the previous settings......
In fact, it was nothing, Mu Yu just couldn't understand why he would casually give the magic medicine he brought down from the mountain to a stranger. Although that person has done things for Xu Jie, it doesn't seem to have much to do with Shi Yan.
But it didn't ask, Shi Shen naturally had his own reasons for doing this, and it believed in his reasoning.
After that, they didn't encounter anything again, and they walked for more than an hour, and when the time displayed on the mobile phone was just over half past twelve, one person and one fox returned to the Wutong community. Standing on the concrete floor of the old city full of fallen leaves again, breathing in the not very fresh air in the community, Mu Yu's heart was desperate. But when they returned to the apartment, they would have a hearty lunch prepared by the big kitchen owner for them, and it suddenly brightened.
"Ash. ”
"Huh?"
"I feel like I'm smelling a big meal. ”
It gestured and sniffed with its nose pointed, as if there was really something delicious in front of it.
Shi Shen knew that this little gluttonous fox was a gluttonous criminal, so he patted its head lightly and smiled: "Where is there anything delicious? ”
It shook its head vigorously and argued, "I really smell the feast." As he spoke, he swore an oath: "Look, we will see a feast at the table when we get to the apartment." Really, trust me. ”
Seeing that it was so stubborn, Shi Ember thought that it was a greedy hallucination, and no longer argued on this topic, but shook his head with a smile, and silently walked into the unit building as dark as yesterday.
And when they actually reached the eighteenth floor, the scene in the dormitory was different from what the two of them thought.
There was no one in the living room, and the moment the door was opened, there was unexpectedly no smell of meat wafting out, at most there was only a strong aroma of raw boiled corn overflowing into the tip of Mu Yu's nose. The whole dormitory was very quiet, only occasionally one or two conversations came from the bedroom area, and the tone of the speech was different, judging from the timbre discrimination, there should be two men standing in the corridor of the bedroom area, one of the voices was Su Baiyan's, but the other ...... It doesn't seem to be Black Feather's. It sounds more like a middle-aged uncle who is not confused.
guessed that it was a guest, Shi Shen didn't pay much attention to it, and after entering the house to change his slippers, he carried the big fox into the kitchen.
Mu Yu, who didn't ask about the braised pork, walked to the kitchen with a small face and dissatisfaction, and walked like a foot in a short distance, almost stomping through the floor.
A snicker pressed the corner of Shi Yan's mouth, and he sneered at the unhappy look on his face when he pouted his small mouth. He knew that it was not satisfied with the food at noon today, but he just didn't speak, and deliberately got angry with it.
"Won't you eat this at noon today?" Mu Yu looked at the fragrant corn cob in the pot with disgust, his expression was very disdainful.
Shi Ember lifted the lid of the pot, and the fragrance of corn came to his face, and several large and fat corn cobs flipped in the boiling water, "gurgling" bubbling. He took a chopstick and pierced it precisely into the corn end, carefully picked it up from the pot, put it in a small porcelain bowl and brought it to Mu Yu, and then turned around again to take the chopsticks to insert the corn cob.
The corn is boiled crystal clear, and the plump golden kernels are soaked in water beads and shimmer in the light. With the rising heat, Mu Yu, who swore not to eat vegetarian, wiped the saliva that was about to flow out, and spinelessly stretched out his mouth and took it away.
I didn't forget to mutter: "It's just Ash, it's so bad that I can only eat this thing now." ”
“……”
Shi Yan couldn't help but look at the corn cob he had just inserted, and felt that he was about to be deeply impressed by its tsundere style.
In the corridor of the bedroom area stood Su Baiyan and another middle-aged man whom Shi Shen did not know. If they just chatted, Shi Ember wouldn't have felt anything, but where they were standing......
In front of the door of the "dead man's room" where no one lived.
The middle-aged man spoke with a crying tone, with a sense of the vicissitudes of current affairs for a long time, and he spoke as if he was tired. When he talked to Su Baiyan, he didn't have the tone of reunion that he hadn't seen for many years, but it seemed that he had encountered a big event and asked Su Baiyan for help, and looking at the latter's blank expression, it was obvious that he didn't know this uncle.
Shi Shen came over munching corn, and heard the uncle reach out to open the doorknob of the dead man's room, but was stopped by Su Baiyan the moment he pressed it.
"Uncle, what is your relationship with the woman in the black-and-white photo inside?" Su Baiyan tried his best to make his voice sound softer and not let him feel scared. Looking at the uncle's trembling hands, he probably saw something terrible, so he came to this unit building to ask them for help.
Half an hour ago, when Su Baiyan returned to the apartment after finishing his business, he met the uncle in front of him when he was parking. It wasn't until the uncle begged to take him upstairs with a crying tone that Su Baiyan knew that the uncle was coming for the portrait in the bedroom.
At this time, the uncle pleaded in an almost humble tone: "Let me in, I'll go see my daughter......"
"Are you her father?" the "she" in Su Baiyan's mouth referred to the deceased in the bedroom.
The uncle nodded, and saw that Su Baiyan let go of the hand that stopped him, quickly pressed the doorknob, and rushed in like crazy.
The black-and-white photograph was still on the head of the bed, and the frame was already stained with dust. The moment he saw the portrait of the girl, the uncle's heart felt like he was being strangled with a knife. In despair, he stretched out his calloused hands, carefully and gently wiped the dust off them, and muttered, "Wan'er, I'm back......"
He kept repeating this sentence, his tone became heavier and heavier, the picture frame was wiped off the dust, and the girl on it was fully displayed, looking a lot more delicate. He held the frame tightly in his arms, his voice became more and more hoarse, and gradually with a crying tone, he choked up, and the arm holding the frame kept twitching. Shi Yan, who was watching quietly from the side, could see that he should have cried, but he didn't cry.
Merely......
"Are you sure he's the girl's father? hasn't she been gone for years?" Shi Shen seemed to see a clue, I don't know if it was instinctively suspicious or he always felt that there was something wrong with this uncle.
Su Baiyan also shook his head when he heard this, he also felt that everything in front of him was a bit illogical, and as for what was not in line, he couldn't say it himself.
It stands to reason that this house was sold to Bai Luomei by the father of the girl who left the photo, and according to Bai Luomei, the man cried dry at that time, but still did not take the photo.
It is said that time is the best medicine, and after so many years in a blink of an eye, will this father still have such a fierce expression?
Su Baiyan coughed twice, he didn't want to disturb the gloomy atmosphere, but he had to know what was going on now. And according to the plot of this uncle, he is afraid that in the next second, he will rush to the window with the photo frame and jump through the window, this dilapidated house is not equipped with any protective fences, and if he falls down from the height of the eighteenth floor, he may fall into flesh.
"Uncle, are you the father of this girl in the photo?" Su Baiyan tried his best to find a topic to divert his attention, he didn't want someone to die in this house, and it would be very troublesome to explain to the police when the time came.
In fact, he is not afraid of his big brain, grief will make people become numb, despair will make people think of suicide in an instant, if the two negative emotions overlap and reach a certain level, then the emotional person may really not think about suicide.
The uncle's hand holding the frame tightened, but he never spoke. He sat on the edge of the bed, his expression desperate so that it was impossible to tell whether he didn't want to answer or didn't hear.
Probably hearing the movement outside was too weird, Bai Luomei stayed in the boudoir for a while and came out. Su Baiyan made a boo gesture to her, and pointed to the grief-stricken uncle in the house, signaling that there was an uninvited guest in her house.
She only came out when she heard that there was movement in the dead man's room, and when she bought this house before, the original owner had said that someone would come here in a few years to take the photo, so she never touched anything in this bedroom. There was a sudden movement today, and she knew that she must have come to get her posthumous photos.
The atmosphere in this bedroom is too gloomy, not to mention that she is a flower fairy who is not high, and even a character like Hei Yu, who has a head and face in the ghost world, is unwilling to go here, so you can imagine how terrifying this bedroom is. If someone came and took everything from this bedroom, she would be happy to cooperate, but ......
"You're not her father!"
Bai Luomei recognized at a glance that the middle-aged man was not the same person as the original owner who sold her the house a few years ago. He is much thinner than the original owner, and she must not believe it when he says that he has lost weight for a few years, and the difference can be seen from the contours of his face.
When Su Baiyan heard this, his face instantly turned cold, he and Shi Yan were already a little suspicious of the identity of this uncle, but if it wasn't the girl's father, then what was he here for?
Shi Shen frowned, no longer caring whether this uncle was a human or not, and directly opened the blood pupil of his left eye to check his combat strength. But what was a little unexpected was that he didn't see a little murderous aura from the man in front of him.
The other side is not hostile?
Shi Shen hurriedly collected the blood pupil, and the other party didn't make any moves, so he couldn't make a move.
The middle-aged man whose identity was revealed didn't care, he still sat there holding the photo frame, and asked without looking back: "Do you believe in the theory of gods and demons?"