The black paint on the wooden door has fallen off a lot, and the potholes are mottled.

Zhang Siyang waited for a long time in wonder, and said: "This old thing has a strange temper, when he is in a bad mood, he likes to hide in the house, no one answers, and he hits the door directly!" ”

Reviver: "I'm afraid this isn't good......"

Zhang Siyang glared at the beads in his eyes: "What's the matter?" Waiting? ”

"Is there a phone number for him?" Xu Ran asked.

"Do you think Lao Tzu looks like a person who can use a mobile phone?" Zhang Siyang asked rhetorically.

Xu Ran was speechless.

Everyone waited anxiously for nearly an hour, saying that every day should not be called the earth and the earth is not spiritual, occasionally villagers pass by, Qi Lei went up to ask, and said that they had never seen Wang Shanghuai go out.

In desperation, Xu Ran's patience was gone, and moral issues were temporarily put aside.

He patted the back of Li Wuyuan's head and said, "Go over the wall and open the deadbolt." ”

Zhang Siyang and Qi Lei looked at her, but they didn't open their mouths, so they took it as a tacit agreement.

Li Wuyuan was silent, walked to the wall, and in the blink of an eye, he saw her squatting on the wall, and then jumped in, and her figure disappeared.

Soon, the deadbolt was removed, the door creaked open, and Li Wuyuan stood in the center of the door, looking depressed and strange.

Xu Ran found out that something was wrong with her from the morning, Zhang Siyang and Qi Lei walked to the back room, Xu Ran stayed where he was, and Li Wuyuan naturally didn't move.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Ran leaned over slightly and looked at her eyes.

Li Wuyuan looked at him when he heard the sound, and saw that his small self was reflected in his calm and lazy eyes, and he felt a suffocating tension in his heart.

"Hug."

Xu Ran was stunned.

He almost didn't think he had heard it, turned his head sideways to avoid Li Wuyuan's scorching gaze, and pretended to laugh lightly: "No, you're ......"

If she said this when she turned into a cat, he would have accepted it, but such a big living person stood in front of him and wanted to hug him, it was a matter of ethics.

"Hug."

Li Wuyuan did not give up, and said it again.

The smile on Xu Ran's face faded, because he vaguely heard the cry in Li Wuyuan's words.

In those seemingly heartless eyes, there seems to reveal a kind of sadness that has been buried for a long time, not fatal, but it seems to have been deeply rooted and lingering.

“…… Hey," Xu Ran's tone was a little obscure, "what's wrong with you?" ”

Li Wuyuan looked at him silently.

The person in front of him is no longer the person he used to be, she appeared inexplicably, and pulled him here inexplicably, how much patience does he have left for her in his heart?

For a long time, Li Wuyuan seemed to be sure in his heart that he would not do what he wanted, so he lowered his eyes gloomily and walked towards the house.

However, the moment he saw the frustration in her eyes, a nameless fire burned under Xu Ran's eyes.

He frowned, reached out and dragged her back and rubbed her into his arms.

The attitude is a bit abnormal, and the actions are arrogant and unreasonable.

Li Wuyuan was stunned, half of his little face was buried in Xu Ran's shoulder socket, his body seemed to have found a safe haven, and he involuntarily became weak.

"Why the are you always like this, and you won't say anything!"

Xu Ran scolded hatefully in her ear.

Li Wuwu did not squeak.

Now that his emotions and emotions are so clear, if she says it, maybe he will never want to hold her like this again.

"Xu Ran!"

At this time, Qi Lei hurriedly ran out of the room, his tone anxious.

Xu Ran paused, quickly cleaned up his mood, and then let go of Li Wuyuan.

"What's wrong?"

Qi Lei licked his dry lips for a long time before he slowly lowered his head and said:

"Mr. Wang...... He's dead. ”

Xu Ran's face was blank for a moment, expressionless, and then, a slightly elite look darkened, and was invaded by the earth-shaking heaviness.

When Wang Shanghuai was young, like Zhang Siyang, he traveled all over the world, and when he returned to the old house, he was left alone, so he died in his bedroom, and no one found out.

The time of death was probably between eleven o'clock last night and one o'clock in the morning, and the cause of death is unknown.

When Xu Ran and Li Wuyuan were brought in by Qi Lei, Zhang Siyang was standing by Wang Shanghuai's stiff corpse in a daze.

The three of them looked at each other and walked over silently, Xu Ran patted Zhang Siyang on the shoulder, trying to comfort him, but Zhang Siyang raised his hand and refused.

He took out a dry cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and smoked it one after another, and after a long time, he spit out a heavy puff of cigarette.

White smoke swirled and rose, blurring Zhang Siyang's eyebrows and face.

"Girl, you were the first to come in, and when you entered the yard, didn't you find anything wrong?"

Xu Ran's body paused for a moment, and his tone was detached: "Lao Zhang, I understand your feelings, but please don't speculate." ”

Li Wuyuan heard what he said, but he didn't bother to explain it at all, and buttoned his sweatshirt and hat to his head, covering half of his cold face.

Zhang Siyang held a cigarette holder in his mouth, his face expressionless: "How do you know that I am guessing?" ”

"Mr. Wang's time of death was last night."

Xu Ran saw that he had just lost an old friend, and his tone was quite relaxed.

Zhang Siyang sneered, and his shoulders shook.

He raised his head, and his old and cloudy eyes were slightly red:

"Monsters kill people, what kind of illusion can't be done?"

"You ......" Xu Ran felt that the other party was unreasonable to the extreme for a while.

"Yes."

Li Wuyuan at the door suddenly spoke lightly, not a rhetorical question, but a casual statement.

She put her hands in her pockets, walked casually, and walked to Zhang Siyang.

"Then tell me, what was my purpose in killing him?"

Zhang Siyang looked at her viciously and didn't answer.

"How did I kill him, and where is the fatal point?"

Li Wuyuan stared at him condescendingly, and the unruliness in the cat's bones was fully revealed.

"You can't say a word, why should you doubt me?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Siyang stood up suddenly, Xu Ran thought he was going to make a move, and subconsciously dragged Li Wuyuan behind him and blocked between the two.

Zhang Siyang saw his reaction and sneered: "Boy, you protect her so much, I just want to ask you, what is her origin, what is her purpose, and what does it have to do with you?" Did she tell you all of that? ”

Xu Ran hesitated, although he couldn't escape Zhang Siyang's eyes this time, he finally said lightly: "It doesn't matter, anyway, now she is my person." ”

Li Wuyuan's stiff face finally had a hint of emotion, she raised her gaze behind Xu Ran, and quietly looked at the tall and thin back in front of her.

Qi Lei looked at this, looked at that, and felt that the relationship that had finally eased up in a few days had stiffened again, and he had a headache for a while.

"Lao Zhang, let's not talk nonsense until we have evidence, and then say something unpleasant, if it weren't for the unwillingness to come in and open the door, we might not be able to see Mr. Wang's complete corpse...... Let's calm down and send Mr. Wang off for the last time. ”

After he finished speaking, no one spoke, but the expressions of both sides were temporarily frozen, and the momentum of the previous saber-rattling finally eased.

The deceased is bigger than the sky, Wang Shanghuai has no one to send him to the end, Zhang Siyang must hope that he will be buried as soon as possible, after Qi Lei's reminder, the old man's face seems to be covered with a layer of dust, as if hiding unspeakable grief.

The news of Wang Shanghuai's death came in Banpo Village, but there were very few villagers who came to the door to offer condolences.

The earthy color on Zhang Siyang's face was also even worse.

The village chief led a few people to condole a few words, and learned that Wang Shanghuai was such an acquaintance as Zhang Siyang, so they looked at each other with ulterior motives.

"Wang Shanghuai was also a decent person when he was alive, isn't cremation in big cities now? Let's do the same for him. ”

Zhang Siyang listened to the words of the village chief, and his haggard eyes suppressed anger:

"There's no empty space in the village or what? Why cremation? ”

For most people in rural areas, the deceased must be buried and buried in the ground, and they must be born and go to the land completely, and no one will choose cremation unless there are special circumstances.

The village chief's attitude was a little tough: "How can you bury it and not bury it?" He has no children or daughters, so he has to occupy the whole grave and a piece of land? Isn't that a scourge? ”

Zhang Siyang jumped up and knocked him back several steps, pointed at the other party's nose and scolded: "You say it again?!" ”

Qi Lei hurriedly grabbed him, and at this time, a young man saw his arrogant attitude, stood up and shouted directly:

"You know what a fart from a foreign country! The village chief is right, if the dead are buried again, it will be all of us who will die! ”

"I'll fuck you!"

Zhang Siyang took advantage of Qi Lei's inattention, rushed up and kicked the young man, kicking the young man to the ground and turning over.

Several other people rushed up, Zhang Siyang had some ability and fought hard, but there were many people on the other side, and a group of people scuffled by the coffin.

Qi Lei and Xu Ran hurriedly rushed over and pulled Zhang Siyang out of it, and Qi Lei shouted while stopping the villagers who were chasing after him:

"Mr. Wang is still lying here, is it appropriate for you to make such a fuss!"

Several people stopped, and the village chief came up from the rear, stretched out his hand to stop them.

Zhang Siyang was held by Xu Ran with his hands, raised his legs and kicked in the air several times, scolding non-stop.

Village Chief: "Lao Tzu is not targeting him, there is a drought in our village, you must have seen it when you came, the river is dry, and it doesn't rain, what should I do with the crops?" What do we eat? Yes! ”

He spread his hands angrily, the muscles in his face tense.

"I didn't understand, village chief."

Xu Ran said as pleasantly as possible.

"What does the drought have to do with Mr. Wang?"

Without waiting for the village chief to speak, the young man who had just been kicked to the ground rushed to say, "What else do you not understand!" It's all drought! ”

When Xu Ran heard this unfamiliar term, he was still full of questions, but Zhang Siyang in the back stopped making a fuss and calmed down in an instant.

The village chief said with a solemn face: "I'm not afraid of the jokes of a few of you city people, since more than half a month ago, there is no grass growing on the graves of the dead, every day in the middle of the night, the chickens and ducks raised by each family are always stolen, the dogs bark all night long, and then there is a drought, the river is dry in such a short time, to say that there is no strange thing, hum, no one believes it." ”