CHAPTER XXV
The second after the sunlight shone into the room through the tulle of the window, Liu Xin woke up from the bed. This habit seems to be unbreakable, and no matter how night you go to bed the day before, you can wake up on time the next day. Zhou Xi squinted her eyes and saw Liu Xin sitting on the edge of the bed arranging her hair, turned over and was frightened by the big face next to her, and sat up with a slap.
"Ahh Zhou Xi shouted: "Why did you sleep in bed!" ”
Liu Xin stood up, and at this time she found that the fat man who was originally laying on the ground was curled up next to Zhou Xi with all the quilts.
"No wonder I woke up cold several times last night, it turned out that you robbed us of the quilt."
The fat man sat up with his face covered, and his aggrieved efforts to sober himself up from the hot slap. Looking at the frantic Zhou Xi on the side, the door of the room was pushed open by Li Fu.
"What's wrong? What happened? Li Fu was holding a kitchen knife in his hand, which seemed to have come from the kitchen, and there were still incomplete vegetables hanging on the back of the knife.
The four of them looked at each other, and none of them really wanted to explain the current situation. The fat man sat on the edge of the bed, touched his face full of fat, and stared at the floor with aggrieved little eyes: "If it wasn't too cold last night, I wouldn't want to come up." ”
Zhou Xi was already sleepy, so he had to fix his hairstyle and go downstairs with Liu Xin for breakfast. Perhaps because of the troubled times, the rich meals on the table are still dazzling. Zhou Xi thought of the food they were looking for in the supermarket yesterday, and felt a little sad.
"Sister, the four-seater car in the garage has a flat tire." Li Peishan ran in from outside the door, and Li Fu's hand scooping soup stayed in mid-air.
"How is this possible? I drove out the day before yesterday and came back to check. ...... on tires
didn't wait for Li Fu to finish speaking, everyone looked at Li Peishan's anxious and panicked expression, and knew that things were not as simple as he said.
"The tires were punctured on purpose."
Liu Xin hurriedly got up and followed Li Peishan's steps to the garage in the backyard of Li's house. I saw that the tires under the jeep were punctured from the outside and inside with sharp objects. Liu Xin looked at the puzzling scene in front of him, who would do everything possible to keep them. When he was taking a closer look, Zhang Pengtao rushed over when he heard the news, followed by his grandson Chu.
Sun Zichu squatted down, looked at the big hole in the tire, and just raised his head to meet Liu Xin's scrutinizing gaze. But Sun Zichu didn't panic at all, his eyes were hollowly frowned, and he shook his head slightly at Liu Xin. Liu Xin suddenly felt something, and she could clearly feel that in the face of the tire, Sun Zichu was one of them who was completely unaware.
Who else?
Liu Xin touched the traces that were neither deep nor shallow, and the monitoring in the garage was not used because of the riot. Hearing the news, Li Gushan, the old man of the Li family, rushed over, holding on to his crutches while still following his grandson Xu Jie, who was still an inch away.
"Have the robbers started destroying things now?" After speaking, he raised his head and looked at the second floor, and the disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth made Liu Xin's back cold.
Li Gushan seemed to know something, and his face was still as calm as water. Li Fu saw all this in her eyes, and thousands of thoughts flashed through her mind. Liu Xin walked out of the garage, but there was no one in the window on the second floor. On the contrary, at this time, Xu Wen poked his head out of the window of the other room, and waved at Liu Xin with his eyes not waking up at all.
"What are you doing down there?"
When I returned to the living room, I saw Li Xiaoman barely sitting down with a stool. Zhang Pengtao and Ouyang Xun walked down from upstairs, probably because the location was not enough, so the son-in-law of the Li family automatically gave up his position and walked to the sofa to eat. Liu Xin looked at the food turning on the table, and everyone, including the Li family, stirred the soup in the bowl with a calm face like water.
There was an indescribable feeling in the air, and with the clanging of dishes and chopsticks, Li Fu first broke this frozen uncomfortable time period.
"I'll ask my cousin to fix the tires for you, and there's a spare one in the trunk."
As soon as the words fell, someone at the table suddenly stopped eating, making Liu Xin's eyes instantly focus on her. I saw Li Xiaoman lowering his head, staring blankly at the steaming hot soup with his eyes, and slowly put down the already stiff movements in his hands. Maybe Xu Yingsong was too taciturn, and everyone didn't notice that there was one less person eating at the table.
"I'm going to help him." Xu Yue put down the empty bowl, ran out of the door with a smile and ran in the direction of the garage. Seeing this, Sun Zi Chu hurriedly put down the half-drunk hot soup in his hand and walked in the direction of the garage with Xu Yue's pace.
Overnight, the subtle changes in the entire Li family made it impossible for Liu Xin to find out. It seems that it all stems from last night's events, but it is not quite so. Zhou Xi noticed Liu Xin's observational eyes, and was just about to say something when a scream came from the garage.
Everyone hurriedly got up and ran in the direction of the garage. Liu Xin was frightened by the scene in front of him and took a few steps back, Zhou Xi stood in place and didn't dare to move, and cold sweat instantly broke out from his forehead in his wide eyes. If Xu Wen hadn't woken up yet, he would be the only one who could blindfold Zhou Xi in time at this time.
I saw Xu Yingsong hanging in front of the garage door, his head tilted to the side, his tongue was completely stretched out, and the hemp rope had already made a mark on his neck. With the breeze, the air swayed and crumbled.
Who is it......
Who the hell is it......
Countless questions began to echo in Liu Xin's mind, looking at the shocked people, the innocent look made her have to suspect that everyone present was suspicious. After Liu Xin looked around, she looked at her grandson Chu and Xu Yue standing next to the jeep, and the eyes of the two of them invariably showed micro-expressions that she had never seen before.
Back in the living room, Xu Yue began to bite his fingers and shake his legs as soon as he sat down.
"He wasn't there at the door at first."
In the face of Liu Xin's inquiry, Xu Yue began to show the panic that he had not felt in the garage at the beginning. Sun Zichu looked at this scene with an indifferent expression and watched the play become more and more enthusiastic. After their arrival, the entire Li family has gradually become frightening in the subtleties from the unity they showed at the beginning to the current disintegration.
At this time, Xu Wen walked downstairs with his fluffy hair. He kept muttering the same sentence: "Why did you get up so early, it was really noisy last night." ”
"Are you sure you're not dreaming?"
The fat man's words made Xu Wen start to stand in place with self-doubt, and shook his head negatively after continuous confirmation.
"Early this morning, at about half past five, I came out of my room and sat in the toilet for a long time because of a stomachache." Xu Wen thought about it carefully, and the clock hanging in the corridor kept appearing in his mind and said, "Then I don't know how long it was, but I heard someone walking back and forth in the corridor outside. In the middle of the night, I didn't have the habit of turning on the toilet light, so I didn't dare to ask who was outside, so I had to wait for the sound to stop before coming out. Then I saw the time, and it was already 6:15. ”
Because it is a self-built house, the space on the second floor extends a lot more than the first floor. There are three rooms on the left and right sides of a corridor, which lead directly to a communal bathroom. Ouyang Xun walked next to Xu Wen, looked at Xu Wen and said, "You were in the toilet last night, and I waited at the door for a long time." ”
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Ouyang Xun, who woke up from the nightmare again, looked at Zhang Pengtao, who was sleeping next to him, and saw that the quilt that had originally covered him was kicked aside again. Ouyang Xun sat up, and after thinking about it, since he couldn't sleep now, he had to go to the toilet to solve his urgent needs. When you walk in front of the mirror, you don't forget to look at yourself through the light of the lamp. With dark brown eyes, moderately thick lips, and a sharp and angular face, it would have been difficult for him to appreciate the appearance he was proud of if he hadn't taken a shower.
Walking out of the room, the dark hallway leads to two dark places. On the right is the staircase and on the left is the shared toilet. Ouyang Xun walked to the door, only to find that the door was closed. Just as he was about to knock on the door, he suddenly felt as if someone was watching him. Ouyang Xun turned his head suddenly, only to see a person standing at the stairs, looking at him and waving his hand extremely stiffly. As a courtesy, even if you're still frightened, respond anyway.
Looking at the clock hanging in the bathroom, it was already 5:50. Ouyang Xun turned his head in surprise, only to see that the person in the corridor had disappeared. Maybe it was because I was thirsty in the middle of my sleep, after all, there were still voices of conversation from time to time on the first floor. This made Ouyang Xun, who was standing in the dark corridor, feel a little steady.
He turned his head again, and saw a sound from inside the closed bathroom door, afraid that someone was inside. Ouyang Xun looked at his surroundings and didn't have the slightest desire to continue waiting, so he had to leave the door and go back to the room to lie back on the bed. Looking at the door that was not closed, he was about to get up and thought twice, so he had to wrap himself in the quilt and ignore it.
At 4:50, after everyone scribbled back to the room. The Li sisters began to clean up the messy cups on the table, and the two who had a habit of cleanliness since childhood really inherited this point. Li Xiaoman held up her three-month-old belly, and finally sorted out the cup and put it in the basket for Li Fu to take into the kitchen to clean.
"Sister, have you done it? I've wiped the table clean here. Li Xiaoman sat on the sofa, looked at the rag that had turned from white to gray-black, and threw it into the trash in disgust.
Li Fu whispered, and saw Xu Yingsong walking down from the second floor. Without saying a word, he opened the door and climbed down the three-meter-high wall.
He ...... Where to go? Li Xiaoman couldn't help but be a little worried, there were countless unknown dangers outside, and it was still early in the morning.
Li Fu shook his head unknowingly, took out the dozens of cups accumulated in a day and put them on the coffee table in the living room, and the two sisters began a long wipe. I don't know how long it took, as the last cup was put down, Xu Yingsong walked in through the door angrily. Still without saying a word, he skipped the Li sisters and walked to the second floor. He was followed by Xu Yue, moving slowly with a helpless face.
"What's wrong with your brother?" Li Fu hurriedly left Xu Yue behind, and the two sisters sat on the sofa and fell asleep as if they had encountered a big gossip.
"He said, I ran out every night to steal other people's subsistence supplies. Although he had no objection to doing so, it was dangerous to act alone at night, and the two of us quarreled. ”
Xu Yue has always been the core figure of the Li family, not that he is a pistachio. It's that this man who has just been divorced and raised Xu Jie really has a lot of thoughts that others can't guess. It's like as every night falls, he can always find the food they find among the survivors in Wenhao City, and secretly extract it and take it back to the Li family. Only Li Gushan didn't know about this matter, and with the acquiescence of the other brothers and sisters, Xu Yue became the core figure of all survival resources.
"That's right." Li Fu patted Xu Yue's shoulder and said helplessly: "You don't have to go out every day, you can go out every few days." ”
"But now there are so many people in the family, how can you ......?"
"What do you think, they're going to Ai Ling City tomorrow."
As soon as Li Fu's words fell, Li Xiaoman, who was on the side, frowned and said, "I don't agree with you giving away the jeep, is it because they gave us a gun?" ”
Li Fu obviously didn't want to pay attention to Li Xiaoman's words, after all, this was about 'knowing kindness'. At this point, there is a difference in the outlook on life between the two.
Xu Wen stood up from the toilet, his calves numb and forced him to rest against the wall. I only heard the sound of movement in the corridor outside, and there was no sound when I entered the room.
"I'm going to die." Xu Wen muttered quietly, his mind full of pictures of himself in a wheelchair next. "I just sat on the toilet for a while, why did it become like this."
I don't know how long it took, Xu Wen opened the door from the toilet and limped to the door of the room. The entire corridor has gone from being dark to being lit up now. Looking at the clock hanging on the bathroom door, it was already 6:15 in the morning. When he lay back on the bed, a muffled explosion suddenly sounded outside. Xu Wen sat up, saw that there was still no sun outside the window, and then didn't pay much attention to it and lay back on the bed.