57. Miscalculation
Li Fengyun has been observed for more than ten days, and she has not found anything suspicious, she is completely open at 9 o'clock in the morning and close at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, this mechanical mode of life, the business in the store is average, so she spends most of her time sitting there playing cards. Then I stopped being wary of her.
Since the beginning of my home life, one of the things I have done most often is to be in a daze, holding the handheld computer, moving someone's favorite recliner to the yard, leaning on it and gazing at the white sky, and I can think of nothing and the day will pass. Li Fengyun occasionally went to the bathroom or something, and looked through the doorway of the front room, and looked slightly surprised, but never came forward to talk to me.
Usually when the front room was closed, I would go down to the dark room, keep the three candles closely, and even remove the bedding and slept there at night. It's not that I'm bold enough to share a room with two people who have stopped breathing and only have a pulse, but that they are already companions and relatives in my mind, and who would be afraid of their own relatives?
On the thirtieth day, I found that Liu Yue's candle had a faint flame, as if it was really about to ignite. can't help but hope, if it is really ignited, does it mean that Liu Yue can come back to life? But she was left in that dark space, even if she could really live, how could she get out? Shall we go to the desert again to rescue her?
Life is monotonous and boring, and I am hovering in my head over and over again with no answers. Seeing that the seventy-seven and forty-nine days were coming to an end, I was pleased to find that Liu Yue's candle was really lit, the flame was very small, only one-third as big as Zhou Tong and Liuzi, and the fire was faintly blue.
Carefully calculating that the two of them would wake up tomorrow, Zhou Tong's recording did not explain what to prepare, I thought that the two of them had not eaten for so many days, and they would be hungry when they woke up, so I went to a nearby deli store to buy some vegetables during the day. The money used was all taken from Zhou Tong's pocket, which was my source of livelihood for more than a month, not much, but enough for me to spend.
When I came back with several packing boxes, I passed by Li Fengyun's shop, and she accosted me for the first time: "Yo, why did the girl buy so many vegetables today, is she going to have a treat?" Because I can see Zhou Tong and Liuzi wake up tomorrow, I am in a very bright mood, so I smiled and said, "No, I just buy more and put it in the refrigerator, so that I can eat it for a few days." ”
Li Fengyun opened his mouth when he heard this, retracted his words, and finally couldn't help but hesitate to ask: "Girl, are you out of love?" "I'm stunned, out of love?" How can you ask that? ”
"You see that you live in this back room, the door does not go out of the door, and you lie in the yard in a daze every day, your eyes are confused and a little sad, my daughter said that this is all a symptom of broken love. Today I tell you this because you are refreshed and happy. ”
My smile became far-fetched, just when someone entered the door, I turned my head and saw that it was for Li Fengyun, her clothing store has to buy goods once a week, usually on Fridays, I saw this delivery in the surveillance computer, a black and thin middle-aged man. Taking advantage of Li Fengyun to meet me, I quickly dodged into the backyard, and it was really a person who didn't speak for a long time, and it became difficult to deal with others.
When Li Fengyun's shop closed in the evening, I brought cooked vegetables and a bottle of white to prepare to go to the dark room. I had already pasted the hole in the door of the basement with a board, and I had put an old-fashioned lock on the side of the door to keep it with me.
But when I got to the door of the dark room, I found that the lock had been pried open, and I was so shocked that I hurriedly pushed the door in, and saw that the three candles were still lit, and my heart was relieved. Suddenly, he felt that something was wrong, and ran over to push open the sliding door under the stone platform, and the whole person seemed to be drenched from head to toe by ice water, and the whole body was cold. Zhou Tong and Liuzi are gone!
If you take a mirror to my face at this time, it must be bloodless. After guarding for 7749 days without any problems, but on this last day, they lost people, who entered this dark room and stole them? Obviously I pressed the quilt at the entrance of the secret door above and never passed, especially with a heart, every day when I went up from the bottom, I sprinkled a small amount of powder on the quilt, and if someone moved it, the powder would be scattered outside. I would carefully observe for anything unusual before going to the ground, and this was a habit that I had developed every day for more than a month.
And today, except for the time when I went out to buy things, I kept an eye on the computer monitoring at all times, and I didn't notice that there were people upstairs and downstairs in the back room. Could it be that I was touched when I went out? Then I'm going to regret all my bowels.
Keep telling yourself to be calm, things have happened, it's useless to regret it, and you have to think about how to get people back. Zhou Tong left a message saying that he couldn't move them before, but now that they have been moved, will it have an impact on the three candles? Now that the candle flame shows no signs of annihilation, will it be harmful to Zhou Tong and Liuzi after moving? What if I don't wake up because of this? But Zhou Tong said that the candle flame is their life-sustaining lamp, as long as the fire is not extinguished and the immortal card is not damaged, their lives will be fine.
Wait, what is the motive of this person who broke into the door and took away Zhou Tong and his six sons? Ordinary hairy thief? It's unlikely, it's impossible to find this secret room, and there's no thief who can't steal something of value and steal someone. If it wasn't a burglary, then the other party had been waiting for the opportunity for a long time, and it was likely that they knew their secrets, but they didn't extinguish their candles, nor did they move the immortal card, but only took people away, what is the purpose of this?
The problem has reached a dead end, and I can't figure it out. I got up and went to the door, staring at the broken lock, and suddenly a spiritual light struck my head, wrong, all wrong, it wasn't someone coming in from the outside, but someone from the inside going out. The lock was picked open from the inside, and Zhou Tong and Liuzi woke up!
I remembered that the seven seven and forty-nine days I counted were counted from the day I heard Zhou Tong's message, and I forgot that when I found this secret room, Zhou Tong and Liuzi had actually been in it for a day, so the time they woke up was today, not tomorrow! The puzzled question turned out to be that there were no thieves and people waiting for the opportunity, and they went out on their own.
I checked it again, and when I was sure I was right, I sat down and waited. During the period, I sorted things out in my mind little by little, put aside those that I couldn't figure out, and put those that could be straightened out first, and then unraveled many knots in the end. This is a pattern of my thinking, transposition combined with logic.
When Zhou Tong and Liuzi walked in the door, I raised my eyes and looked at their familiar eyes, and my heart rate stabilized little by little. Speculation is always speculation, and until you see them alive, you will still be uneasy and afraid. At this moment, I can finally put my heart down.
The first thing Zhou Tong said was: "Little sister, you are really stubborn to the end." With that, he sighed heavily.
I glanced over them, and saw that they had both changed into clean clothes, and their beards were now trimmed, and it seemed that they had gone out to freshen up. Zhou Tong and Liuzi sat down in front of me in silence, and after seeing the cooked dishes I put aside, they asked, "What did you prepare for us?" I nodded, there are more than a dozen packing boxes, and I can't say that I eat them myself.
Zhou Tong was about to untie it without saying a word, but I stopped him, "Don't be reluctant to eat again if you eat outside." "I've been out for so long, I should have eaten and come back. But he said, "It's okay, look at this gluttony, drink two more glasses, and eat with you." Liuzi, open the wine. Over there, Liuzi had already unscrewed the cap of the wine bottle, found the cup inside and put it on the ground, and poured three glasses in a row.
Zhou Tong took a sip of wine and praised: "Cool! It's still the little sister who thinks thoughtfully and is ready to save the elder brother. ”
I smiled and didn't speak, didn't move the cup or the dish, just looked at them quietly. The two of them glanced at each other after taking a sip of wine, and Zhou Tong said, "If you still have any doubts, just ask, I won't hide anything I know from you." ”
That's what he said! I turned my head and pointed to the candle flame on the stone platform and asked, "What's going on with that?" ”
"Didn't I already leave a recording to explain to you, that's it, the three of us should have died more than 20 years ago, but Brother Yao saved us and renewed our lives. In other words, the Life-Sustaining Lamp and the Immortal Card are the lives of a few of us. ”
"Can you tell me what almost killed you in the first place? And also...... How did he save you? ”
Zhou Tong took a sip of the wine in the glass, his eyes showed vicissitudes, and he sighed: "It's been more than 20 years, who still remembers those many old things, as for how Brother Yao saved us, you may not believe it, even we don't know." I just remember that when I closed my eyes, I was in great pain, and when I opened my eyes again, it was in this place that Brother Yao lit the life-sustaining lamp for me and erected the tablet of longevity. ”
I frowned slightly, turned my gaze to Liuzi, he touched his nose a little embarrassed and said, "I'm in a similar situation to Lao Zhou." ”
I know that they deliberately avoid talking about the events of the year, not because they don't remember, but because they may encounter sadness and don't want to remember it anymore. Extrapolating forward, more than 20 years ago, that is, in the 90s, when society had just started reform and opening up. I changed the question and continued: "Then what can you do with him when you are young?" Is it also Feng Shui? "I remember that in the past nine years, the real estate industry has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, if it is dry feng shui, it is also a way out, but a few and a half old children go to show people feng shui, will anyone believe it?
saw that Zhou Tong and Liuzi both looked stunned, and asked suspiciously: "What childhood?" ”
"Didn't you say that you were rescued more than 20 years ago, and now you are at most in your thirties, so if you go back to about ten years old, aren't you just when you were a child?"
After I said this, the eyes of both of them became strange, and finally Zhou Tong couldn't help but laugh and said: "Little sister, I see that you have misunderstood what I mean, I was rescued by Brother Yao more than 20 years ago, and I was 30 years ago." The sixth son was twenty-five when he was rescued, as for Ah Yue's age, I don't know very well, she followed Brother Yao before all of us, when I woke up, there was already her life-sustaining lamp and longevity card on this stone platform. So you see this candle of hers, it's a little bit shorter than the two of us. ”