As he said this, Wei Ping glanced at the closed door at the top of the staircase.

Then, Wei Ping pointed to the room and said, "Li Qiang and his family rent a small suite on the first floor. ”

I sighed, remembering the little girl I had seen in the hallway before, she looked very cute, but she was too thin, a little like malnutrition.

Wei Ping said again: "This Li Qiang turned out to be my neighbor, and he is the only son in the family. His father died early, and his mother was too busy with a small business to take care of him. This kid didn't graduate from high school and didn't study, and followed a group of people to wander around the society, and then after he owed a lot of debts, he sold the house for 200,000 yuan to pay off the debt. ”

Two hundred thousand?

Hearing this number, I raised my eyes and looked at the house with a compensation of 10 million for demolition, even a person like me who was as light as water felt a little sorry, this Li Qiang was really down.

Home is the foundation of survival, there is no home without a house, and selling a house to pay off debts is simply a ruined behavior.

"After selling the house, Li Qiang's mother felt that she couldn't live her life, so she remarried and left with an old man from another province, and Li Qiang took the little money left and rented a house with me. After that, this kid played mahjong and drank all day long, and also fought with others, and was imprisoned several times. ”

I nodded, and finally understood what Wei Ping meant by "three palaces" just now.

Wei Ping said again: "We all thought that he would never be able to marry a wife in his life, but we didn't expect that someone would really bring a woman back." ”

I think the woman who poked her head out of the house must be Li Qiang's wife.

That woman looks very honest, she should be a rural woman, and she has never seen the world, otherwise how could she marry someone like Li Qiang.

"This woman's name is Yanhong, she is the little sister who works in the teahouse next to her, she is more than ten years younger than Li Qiang, and she is also a person. After getting married, we all thought he had taken his heart, but this kid's nature was difficult to change, he couldn't do every job, and then he didn't go out at all. ”

Wei Ping said as he shook his head in regret.

"He also beats his wife for a while, and when he is sober, he doesn't beat him, so he drinks and beats him at night, and he beats his wife for one reason, asking for money. Yanhong works in a teahouse, and her salary is not high, in addition to being responsible for all the expenses of the family, she also has to give him money to play cards. Alas, what a pitiful. ”

"In the middle of the night, she was beaten like a pig, and even my wife couldn't stand it, so she came up with the idea to let her run, but Yanhong was soft-hearted and couldn't let him go."

As Wei Ping spoke, the door next to the stairs opened, and when the thin woman came out of the room, her hair was unkempt, her hair tied up looked very messy, a few strands floating on her forehead, and tears were still hanging from the corners of her eyes.

Wei Ping and I looked at her at the same time, and the woman walked straight towards us after opening the door.

She stopped in front of us, bowed her head, and said in a very small voice, "Buy a pack of cigarettes......"

Wei Ping immediately stood up, didn't even ask what brand it was, and immediately took out a pack of cigarettes from the cabinet next to him and handed it to her. The woman took it and dragged a ten-dollar ticket on the table in her hand.

At this moment, a man's voice came from the house: "Hurry up, are you ready to buy?" ”

The voice was very unkind, and the woman trembled when she heard this, and turned her head and hurriedly said yes.

Then she walked briskly into the room and closed the door.

Putting away the crumpled money, Wei Ping locked the cabinet door: "This kid, who committed a crime a few years ago, was imprisoned for another three years, and only came out today, Yanhong, a stupid woman, actually accepted him again." ”

Wei Ping looked like he was "sad for his misfortune" and sighed a few times.

I took a sip of the noodle soup: "Women are soft-hearted, most of them are for the sake of children, otherwise guarding such a man, maybe she would have left a long time ago." ”

"Kid?" Wei Ping was stunned for a moment.

He was about to say something, when suddenly it was pitch black all around, and the entire space was instantly out of sight.

I turned on my phone's flashlight, and Wei Ping fumbled for a candle from the cabinet.

"This is an urban village, the circuit is unstable, and there are often power outages at night, and after a long time, you will get used to it."

Under the candlelight, Wei Ping's face looked gloomy, and his voice began to shake like the candlelight.

Wei Ping held the candle and sent me back to my room.

Just as I was about to enter the house, he suddenly stopped me: "I posted that rental notice three years ago, and after such a long time, you can still see the words on it clearly?" ”

I looked back at him, and the smile on Wei Ping's lips was very ugly.

"It's clear."

With those three words, I entered the house and closed the door.

Through the crack in the door, I saw the candle flame slowly receding from outside, and I pressed my ear to the door, and I heard his footsteps go upstairs.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to fall back into bed to rest, when my phone suddenly rang.

Zhang Tomorrow asked me loudly on the other end of the phone, why wasn't he there yet, I said I wouldn't be outside tonight, he paused for a moment, and tentatively asked me if I was soaking my sister on the other end.

I scolded him and hung up, not wanting to talk to him.

The bed was still relatively soft, and the kimono fell on the bed, and I quickly became sleepy.

The balcony door was not closed, and I looked out the window with half-squinted eyes, and the office building of Gao Jian Company stood tall, and the flickering building lamps took in the bustling city at a glance.

Who would have thought that not far from those scenery scenes, where the lights can't shine, is also the heart of the city, and there is such an unbearable place.

In a daze, I fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took for me to be woken up by a scream.

When I opened my eyes, I saw a cloud of smoke coming down from the upper floors, and the fire on the curtains was blazing.

Rushing into the bathroom, I put a water-soaked handkerchief on my face, and ran quickly to the door, the metal handle was hot, I couldn't help but pull the door open, and found that there was already a sea of fire outside.

Unable to do so, I rushed down the hallway to hear a call from the opposite room.

This voice is very familiar, it is Jiang Fang's voice.

The door was locked from the inside, I knocked hard, Jiang Fang was inside, she should have been injured and had no way to open the door for me.

I was in a hurry, and kicked the door violently, on the ceiling of the corridor, the burned wooden planks fell down one by one, the door was still closed, and Jiang Fang's screams were still there.

Taking a deep breath, I leaned back, ran two steps, and then crashed my whole body forward.

The door opened, and I fell to the ground.

When I got up again, I saw that the fire was gone, and there was a mess all around, half of the bed was burned, and it was pitch black in the middle of the room, and the walls and floors were all charred.