After Huo Zeyu finished cleaning the first floor, he went to the second floor with a lantern.

Late at night, the moon and stars are scarce.

There was a dead silence in the villa, with the occasional "squeak" from the wooden door and the jingle of brass bells outside the window.

Huo Zeyu wiped the sweat from his forehead, carefully dragged the corridor on the second floor with a mop, and walked from one end to the other, but when Huo Zeyu just straightened up and didn't have time to catch his breath, there was a sudden "clang" sound of the door closing downstairs.

Immediately afterwards, the light at the top of the staircase also flickered, and the light suddenly dimmed a lot.

Huo Zeyu swallowed his saliva, looked towards the staircase, and shouted casually: "Who?" ”

There was no response from the villa.

Huo Zeyu smiled and shook his head, "Look at my nervousness, isn't it just that the wind is a little stronger, and the door is blown shut, why are you so nervous?" Hey..."

Huo Zeyu straightened his waist, beat his back, and twisted his waist, people are old, they are prone to backache and leg cramps, and Huo Zeyu is no exception.

His stomach, in particular, has plagued him for more than 20 years.

Huo Zeyu's stomach problems were not developed in a day or two, and it was also related to his early experience.

In the early years, when Huo Zeyu was born, it was just in time for the five or eight years of steelmaking, and at that time, the country put forward the slogan of catching up with and surpassing British steel production, so the country began a large-scale steel production campaign.

In order to achieve this task, which was almost impossible to accomplish at that time, the common people of the whole country began to actively make steel, and many places did not care about planting, and people in the cities made steels in the cities, and people in the countryside made steels in the countryside.

There are people, but how can there be so many materials to make steel?

At that time, the iron ore production of the Celestial Empire was still very low. There simply isn't that much iron to make steel.

As a result, the spatulas of the common people's homes were smashed and used as raw materials for steelmaking.

This is a big problem, the pot is smashed, what do you use to cook rice?

After a year of tossing, the land was also barren. The people's stoves are gone, and the direct consequence is that there is no food to eat.

From 59 to 61, those three years almost entered the era of unprecedented famine.

At that time, not to mention steamed bread and pickles, even if you could see a leaf, it would be immediately stuffed into your mouth and swallowed.

Many people were hungry to gnaw on the bark, eat the leaves, and dig up the roots of the grass to eat. There are also some people who can't even dig up vegetable roots, so they go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables to eat, and some people are very little back, eat poisonous weeds, and end up hanging up in a daze.

Although Huo Zeyu was not so miserable back then, he could still eat half a nest every day, [Wowo is Wowotou, but it is not the kind of wotou sold in supermarkets now. The wotou sold now is a kind of dim sum, and the vegetable wowo at that time. But not as delicious as the current nest, at that time the nest was made of shelled coarse grains and vegetable leaves, in winter, the vegetable nest is harder than the stone, to put it mildly, with the vegetable nest can be stoned to death]

It's this kind of vegetable nest. At that time, it was already a very rare food, although it was difficult to bite, but you could bite a piece and put it in your mouth to slowly melt. Although the taste is really not good, but, at that time, it was as sweet as eating white rabbit toffee, this is not false at all, do not believe it and ask your grandparents, they must know.

Huo Zeyu was often hungry when he was a child, and after graduating from junior high school, in order to reduce the burden on his family, he went to be a soldier.

At that time, the Celestial Empire was always on alert for war, and all kinds of materials needed to be deployed over long distances.

Although he is with the car every day, Huo Zeyu doesn't even know what is in the car.

In each car, in addition to the car soldiers, there will also be a car escort, these car guards are basically cadres at or above the platoon level, each with a loaded pistol pinned to their waists, responsible for the whole escort.

Sometimes the car has to travel thousands of kilometers from one place to another, and many times, the car cannot be stopped, even when it is time to eat.

Unless there is an emergency section, the car is not allowed to stop and rest, at least during the day.

This kind of long-distance and long-term driving makes the driver very tired, really tired, the instructor will take out a cigarette and give it to Huo Zeyu, the kind of cigarette is very fragrant, after smoking, it will come to the spirit, but as soon as the smoke is over, he will be tired, sometimes Huo Zeyu has to smoke a box a night, which is still the result of strict control by the instructor.

When you're hungry, eat compressed biscuits.

Later, after leaving the army, soon after, Huo Zeyu underwent two major gastric resection surgeries because of stomach pain, leaving two lines of eye-catching scars on his body.

When he was young, his body was fine, and when he was in pain, he endured it and passed, but after he got older, this condition became more and more obvious, although Huo Xiaotian had personally taken him to the big hospitals in the imperial capital and the demon capital to see him a few times, but for this disease, the doctors had no choice but to let him slowly recuperate.

Huo Zeyu stood up and felt a tingling pain in his stomach, the feeling of pain was as painful as if there were countless needles piercing from the inside, and Huo Zeyu's face changed suddenly and he was sweating profusely.

Huo Zeyu gasped, gritted his teeth and persevered for a while, pressing the end of the mop against his stomach hard, which made him feel better.

However, at this moment, there was a strange "squeak" sound downstairs, like the sound of the door being pushed open.

Huo Zeyu was cold, and his eyes unconsciously looked downstairs.

The night was so unquiet that there were often some weird noises in the villa.

At the beginning, Huo Zeyu thought that the room was big, and it was windy at night, so it was not uncommon for there to be a little noise.

However, now that I think about it carefully, I suddenly find that these sounds are not simple, sometimes there is no wind, and there will be strange sounds.

Thinking of the weird rag doll that Huo Xiaotian talked about, Huo Zeyu suddenly felt that things were a little weird.

Such a good villa, but no one comes to live in it, is there something unclean in the villa?

As soon as the thought flashed, Huo Zeyu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and the pain in his stomach was instantly replaced by the horror in his heart.

He took a deep breath, picked up the iron rod, and boldly walked downstairs.

Huo Zeyu came to the first floor, lifted the wooden plank leading to the basement, carried the lantern, held the iron rod, and walked towards the basement step by step. (To be continued......)