"Can you eat first?"

In the midst of a serious atmosphere, a pitiful voice came from the back seat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The car fell behind and complained, saying, "I haven't eaten anything today, and a cigarette is full until now."

Listening to Ziche crying and hungry, I also realized that I really hadn't eaten anything today, and suddenly I felt a little hungry. Feng Xin glanced at me and pointed to the big M-shaped signboard in front of him.

We bought a sharing set meal at a fast food restaurant and drove the car back to the parking lot near the library, where the four of us sat in the car and ate while wasting time.

I tore open a hamburger bag and thought the whole thing was inexplicable, "That basement isn't small, but it's not very big. Assuming that this fire is really a human factor, it can be found in a few days, so why burn?"

"Oh? You all flipped through it last time?"?? Qian asked, pouring the rest of the fries into his mouth.

"How is that possible?" I took a big bite of the burger, "I only found a small corner, and there was a bunch of boxes that didn't open it, but it took six or seven hours to get back and forth."

She unscrewed a bottle of juice, "Hmm...... This library is dilapidated and unprofitable, and it will take a lot of money to keep it open, right? If the caretaker is a volunteer and does not pay for it, the water, electricity and cleaning costs are not a small amount in a month, although I don't think the caretaker will take a penny."

"You mean, this library was opened to disguise the true function of this building." Feng Xin said with a worried look.

"If it's arson, it's probably not." He glanced at me in the rearview mirror.

I was amazed to hear the real features? I began to recall all the details from the first time I came to this library, this library building is quite springy, the periphery and the inside have been circled before, I don't feel that there are any secret doors or tunnels or anything like that, and the only slightly suspicious basement has been there, and I haven't seen anything strange or any hidden dark room.

"Or maybe those people have already studied all the contents of the book of the crane deer, but they don't want anyone else to know, so they just start the fire." The car has a mouth full of ice cubes, and his cheeks are bulging.

Feng Xin frowned and said, "This is also one." Then he looked out the window, "Wait until you'll see the real thing."

After speaking, he leaned back slightly in his chair and closed his eyes to pretend to sleep.

Ken and I started chatting about cameras and post-production, as well as the mysterious and weird black and white photos, and as for Ziche, he was immersed in his mobile game world.

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The location of the library is some distance from the city, and most of the scattered residents in the vicinity are elderly and children, and there is no nightlife, and most of the lights are turned off before nine o'clock.

"Alright, let's go."

I was waiting in the car in a daze, and I was about to fall asleep, and I heard Feng Xin speak in a half-dream, he was like opening his eyes to perceive changes in the environment, Huo Ran opened his closed eyes and said.

The suburbs at night are already cool and cool, and the scorched black ruins that stand in front of you make people feel even more uncomfortable.

As soon as he crossed the blockade, Feng Xin went straight inside.

I glanced at the construction notice board standing outside the blockade, and sure enough, the date of the announcement indicated that a developer would take over tomorrow and raze the place. I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, was it a coincidence or providence that we were to rush the day before?

The old building did not use any fireproof building materials, the whole building except for a few thick walls built with solid bricks, the rest of the bookshelves, iron sheets or something were all burned down by the flames, the library did not have a lot of paper, a rack is placed with flammable materials, as long as the fire spreads quickly, the fire at the time, the library is equivalent to a large gold furnace, think that night the smoke is terrifying.

The fire was so fierce that the roof was burned to the bone, and only a few beams and pillars seemed to be hanging on it weakly.

The original color made a fire only black and white.

Qian Yu stumbled slightly without stepping on his feet, and shouted, "Hey, this ...... What's the matter with the earth?"

"Be careful." I turned back to her.

The lamp was wired to the floor, and a large amount of paper ash was added to the fire-fighting water, making the floor in the library muddy and sticking to the soles of shoes. Luckily, I'm sure I'm in the library, otherwise I'd have crossed over to some unknown swamp.

"Come and help." I saw that Feng Xin had already walked to the staircase of the basement, pulled up the iron frame that was stuck upside down on the ground with one hand, and turned his head to us.

Everything here is blackened and burned, and you can't tell where the basement staircase is. Qian and I nervously followed, and the staircase was blocked by the collapsed iron bookshelf, and peeked through the criss-crossing iron frames, and the darkness couldn't help but be terrifying.

A few of us struggled to sneakily block the intersection in the dark and clear all the obstacles, Feng Xin asked Qian to stay on top of the wind, and I looked at the wet staircase leading to the basement. My intuition was not very optimistic, and I looked at Qian Yu, but I really didn't plan to think about it.

But the other two went down, and I was embarrassed, so I had to bite the bullet.

Sure enough, we only walked a few steps down, and just turned the corner of the stairs when we stepped on water, and we used a hand lamp to shine inside......

There was a lot of black water in front of me, and the entire basement was soaked in water, and there were some debris floating on it. We thought a lot along the way, but we didn't think about firefighting.

Relentless fire can burn everything in the world, and water can wash away all traces.

"Ugh." Feng Xin tilted his head and sighed deeply, hearing the helplessness from the bottom of his heart.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, the sub-car reached into the water and picked up a sign that floated on the water's edge and was similar to a postcard, which was a small card with plastic film on it.

"Shandong, this is ......," he asked.

I saw the three words Li Yicheng printed on it, and my mind suddenly felt like it had been blown up, and I suddenly remembered that the purpose of my trip was to find Mr. Li.

"This is the old gentleman's staff nameplate."

How did it end up here? Or if it actually fell somewhere else, just washed over by the current, I tilted my head and thought about the possibility, it's hard to say.

It was past midnight, and we couldn't continue to search for anything in the face of a pool of water, so we went home first and agreed to discuss tomorrow. When I got home, I couldn't sleep when I was lying in bed, but I couldn't sleep no matter how anxious I was.

I was thinking about how to find that old Mr. Li all night, and suddenly remembered the middle-aged woman, and said in my heart, didn't she hold a child? If you have children at home, you will always take them to the children's library area. As long as I went to the library, I have some memory of the administrator. I made up my mind to ask again tomorrow.

In this way, listening to the clock ticking on the wall all night, I finally got to the dawn......

The next day, I rang the red doorbell again with a sense of unease.

It's the same middle-aged woman, the door is still only a crack open, but her expression is not as tight as yesterday.

I gave her a big smile, "Morning, big sister, I'm sorry to disturb me so early. I still want to ask you about it...... It's the administrator of that library, huh...... It's an old gentleman Li, who said that he has been a clerk there for more than ten years, and I don't know if my eldest sister has an image of this old gentleman?"

When the middle-aged woman heard me mention Mr. Li, her face suddenly changed, and her eyes kept looking me up and down.

"I'm mainly looking for this gentleman and asking him for advice. Do any of you know anyone here?" I saw that she didn't speak, and her eyes became a little complicated, so I didn't force her, so I took the initiative to retreat and said, "Well, it's okay if the eldest sister doesn't know, I'll go to another house and ask."

When you are turning your head to leave......

"Are you from Shandong?"

When she saw that I was leaving, she suddenly blurted out a question.

"Huh? ...... Ahh I nodded.

"Do language research?" She asked again in a tentative tone.

"Yes, how does the eldest sister know?" I was amazed, wondering how she could have known about this.

The door suddenly closed, and the sound of unchaining was heard inside, and in a few seconds the middle-aged woman opened the door again, motioning for me to enter the living room, "You sit down."

"Thank you." I didn't know what was going on, so I just sat down in the living room as she said.

After a while, the middle-aged woman came out with a black bag, looked heavy, and said, "You know my father-in-law! My father-in-law told me that if a young Shandong man who was doing language research came to him and asked us to give it to him."

"Mr. Li is the father-in-law of the eldest sister." I paused and said, "What about Mr. Li?"

The woman replied, "My father-in-law passed away, also a month ago."

When I heard that his old man had passed away, I was instantly stunned, half-open and hard to believe, my body bones looked very tough, it was only more than a month.

"It's okay, my father-in-law is old, and he is not sick or scum. He died while sitting in the courtyard to enjoy the shade, so it was a good life and very peaceful. When people are old, they always have to encounter this level, my father-in-law can see it, he understands people, and he has been telling everything to be simple in front of him. Don't overthink it." When the woman saw that I was full of shock, she comforted me and said.

I nodded slightly, reaching out to take the bag.

"That's all about my bus agent, my husband and I haven't seen what's in it, if there's anything wrong, we don't know!"

"Oh, it's okay, big sister, I understand, thank you very much." I rolled my throat and glanced at the altar in the hall, "I wonder if it's convenient for me to give him an incense?"

She nodded, took three sticks of incense, lit it, and brought it to me.

After that, I took the bag of things, thanked my eldest sister in the third time, and rushed back to the car with the impulse in my heart. I put the black bag in the passenger seat, not in a hurry to look through what was inside.

I sat in the car for a while, and when I came back to my senses, I realized that my pants had already been wet with my own tears. In my heart, the untouchable memories that belonged to my father were picked up again, and a certain feeling was really fermented in my heart.

Light a cigarette, set it aside and let it burn, smell the nicotine, close your eyes, and exile yourself in the memories.

Suddenly, I patted my face, reached for the contents of the black bag, and with the touch from my fingertips, I didn't even have to take it out, and years of experience told me that it was a stack of handmade paper with straw pulp.

Without much hesitation, I took the secret relics left by Mr. Li, urged the accelerator and went to yesterday's hotel.