CHAPTER XIV

When I came out of the house of the fifth old man, it was already 5:40 in the afternoon. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"It's not early, this time is not enough to finish asking a few questions, do you still want to go?" Li Ke glanced at the time of the mobile phone and said to Lu Xiaotian.

"Go ahead, that female ghost has given us less time than we thought." Lu Xiaotian took a look at Li Ke's neck, then turned around and got into the car.

Li Ke was puzzled in his heart, and he also got into the car and asked, "What do you mean, didn't that female ghost say that as long as we look for it well?" She didn't give a time limit, huh? ā€

Lu Xiaotian once again adjusted the rearview mirror to Li Ke and motioned for Li Ke to look at the rearview mirror.

Li Ke was puzzled, looked at himself in the rearview mirror, well, no problem, he was still so handsome, and then began to quietly admire his handsome face.

"Look at the neck." Lu Xiaotian saw that Li Ke had no special reaction, and said coldly.

"it!" Li Ke saw that the color of the flower-like mark on his neck was much darker than that of two days ago, the flower shape was clearer, and there was a tendency to bloom. "Why is this flower blooming! Will I be okay when it turns on?! ā€

"Who knows, but it's certainly not pretty."

Standing at the door of the sixth old man's house, Lu Xiaotian knocked on the door, Li Ke looked at the information of the old man in his hand, Song Xuan, in June 1917, is now 97 years old, and is the oldest of these old people. Li Ke secretly prayed in his heart that this old man must know something. This old man is the oldest, the closest to that era, it can almost be said that he is the person of that era, if he knows anything, he must know the most, I hope he is still conscious.

"Who?" An old man with silver hair opened the door with an anti-theft door chain.

"Hello, is this Mr. Song Xuan? We are reporters from a news website in Z City, and we are here to do the interview. We've communicated with your county government to do a report on centenarians. ā€

As soon as the old man heard the county government, he hesitated for a moment, then opened the door for them and invited them in.

As soon as Li Ke saw that this old man could still open the door by himself, he was vigilant, which meant that this old man's mind was still very clear, and hope was immediately ignited in his heart.

"I'm not Song Xuan," just as Li Ke was secretly happy, the old man said as he led them inside. "Song Xuan is my father, he can't stand up now, he can only be in bed every day, and occasionally he can get up and sit for a while when he is in good spirits." Li Ke's heart sank, and he felt that the flame of hope suddenly turned into a flame.

"Come in." Song Xuan's son took them into a bedroom, and then they saw the real Song Xuan, the old man lying on the bed was like skin and bones, and his spirit was also very poor, his eyes were cloudy, his consciousness was blurred, and he felt that he was almost at the end of his life.

Li Ke felt that the fire in his heart had been extinguished.

"My dad is not very conscious, he is very confused, he can only remember some old things, and he always mutters something that others don't understand." Song Xuan's son said, "I'll make you a cup of tea." With that, he turned around and went back to the living room.

Li Ke has almost no hope, just thinking about asking casually and going to the next house, there are also this situation among the previous old people, such old people basically have no ability to express, and Li Ke himself is not willing to face this kind of old man who describes the withered, that is a kind of fear and sadness of life itself.

Li Kegang wanted to urge Lu Xiaotian to hurry up, but found that Lu Xiaotian was looking at a family photo next to the old man's bed.

It is a black and white family photo, like an old photo of the last century, the four people in the photo are still wearing horse coats and cheongsams during the Republic of China, two men and two women, should be parents with a pair of children.

"What's wrong?" Li Ke asked Lu Xiaotian.

"Look at this person," Lu Xiaotian pointed to the young woman in the photo, "Is it familiar?" ā€

Li Ke took a closer look, but the imaging of the old photos was not clear, and the color was black and white, he really couldn't tell the difference, in Li Ke's eyes, all the people in the black and white photos almost all looked the same.

Lu Xiaotian picked up the photo, pointed to the woman in the photo, and asked the old man lying on the bed, "Old man, do you know this person?" ā€

Song Xuan looked up at the photo in confusion for a while, and then as if he recognized it, he nodded excitedly, and made a sound in his mouth.

At this time, Song Xuan's son came back with two cups of tea. Seeing Lu Xiaotian holding the old photo, he said: "It was taken by my father when he was a teenager, and the photo shows his parents and sister." After speaking, he handed the tea to Lu Xiaotian and Li Ke.

Li Ke and Lu Xiaotian took the tea and thanked them, Lu Xiaotian put the photo back on the table at the head of the bed, pointed to the photo and asked, "Then this photo should be decades old, right?" Can you tell me about your father and his family? It's your grandparents' business. ā€

"My grandfather was in the jade business, and his family was good at that time, and my father was still a young master, and later, ****, my grandparents died at that time, and the family fortune plummeted."

"Is this your aunt? It's beautiful. Lu Xiaotian pointed to the young woman in the photo and asked, Li Ke was a little strange why Lu Xiaotian cared so much about that woman, and looked at the woman in the photo carefully, but still couldn't see anything.

"Yes, but I haven't seen it, I died before I was born. I heard my father say that my aunt was good-looking when she was young, and her family background was good, and those who wanted to marry had to break through the threshold. ā€

"Can you tell us a story about your aunt?"

"Huh?" The old man looked at Lu Xiaotian with some doubts, not knowing that Lu Xiaotian wanted to interview his father but kept asking him what this aunt he had never seen was doing.

"That's right, what we want to write is a family story report from that era, the centenarian era, mainly nostalgic. I see that this photo is very contemporary, and I can use this photo to tell the family story of Mr. Song when he was young, but Mr. Song can't tell anything about the state, can you tell us the story you know? Lu Xiaotian casually said a lot of nonsense.

"I don't know much, it's all my father who told me, his sister is young and beautiful, with high vision, and the matchmaker said that many young masters didn't succeed, and later, it seems that he fell in love with the officer, and the officer and his wife married to be his aunt's wife." When Li Ke heard the word "officer", he seemed to understand what Lu Xiaotian meant. The old man seemed to be a little tired from standing, so he went to the wall to move the stool, Li Ke saw that he was busy and stepped forward to help, and the old man asked them to sit again.

After the three of them sat down, the old man continued: "Listen to my father, my grandparents were also rich at that time, and they didn't want their daughter to marry and be a little wife, for fear that their daughter would be wronged when she married, so the dowry prepared ten boxes of gold, silver and jewelry. The dowry, but it shocked the whole city, whose daughters have married so beautifully, and the princes of the Qing Dynasty are not so magnificent. ā€

"If the conditions are so good, why do you have to marry an officer to be your aunt's wife, and why did your aunt die early? Is it an incurable disease? Lu Xiaotian asked.

"It seems that my aunt fell in love with the officer, and there is a meaning that he will not marry, my grandparents love their daughter very much, and there is another thing that is very famous, that is, the officer also mentioned four times in order to marry my aunt, it seems that my grandfather pushed it once, and then mentioned it again every other month, until finally my grandfather agreed, as for how my aunt died, I only know that it was a fire. I don't know how much it is, but every time my father talks about his sister, he is always very excited, and often cries while saying that his sister is in a bad life. ā€

When Li Ke heard this, he felt very excited, they were very close to the truth of the matter, which meant that they were going to find Gao Junshan.

Lu Xiaotian pondered for a moment and asked, "We interviewed some old people before...... I'm asking you a more rude question, saying it's over there at the crematorium...... Haunted? You ......"

"I know, it's been haunted over there for a long time, and people in this county know about it." The old man picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and was silent.

"In that case, is that place related to your aunt?" Lu Xiaotian asked.

"It's all feudal superstition, I don't know." The old man didn't seem to want to say anything anymore, and waved his hand to Lu Xiaotian and Li Ke, indicating that he didn't know anything.

Li Ke wondered, why did the old man's attitude change so quickly, could there be some inside story here? Li Ke was just about to ask something, when he heard the sound of the door opening outside. The old man hurriedly stood up and said, "It's time for my wife to come back from grocery shopping, I'll take a look." With that, he went out.

Li Ke looked at Lu Xiaotian: "I think he doesn't seem to have something he wants to tell us." ā€

Lu Xiaotian also glanced at Li Ke and then at the photo. Just when Li Ke thought that Lu Xiaotian was in a daze, Lu Xiaotian suddenly picked up the photo and asked Song Xuan on the bed, "Your sister, what's your name?" ā€

The old man looked up at the photo and seemed to have a lot of effort before he said intermittently, "...... Surname...... Song, Yan, Song Yan. ā€

"What about your brother-in-law? What is your name? ā€

The old man thought for a while and said, "Gao...... Jun, Gao ...... Jun ......"

"Is it Gao Jun Mountain?"

"Uh-huh, mountain, hmm." The old man nodded.

"Do you know what your brother-in-law was doing when your sister had an accident?"

The old man said with some emotion: "...... Beat...... Fight, fight...... Fight. ā€

Lu Xiaotian hurriedly asked again: "Do you know where you went to fight?" ā€

The old man thought about making some syllables in his mouth, and Li Ke waited for the old man's reply excitedly and nervously.

At this moment, Song Xuan's son came back again, and he looked a little nervous when he saw that Lu Xiaotian seemed to be asking his father something.

"Don't ask my father, he can't speak clearly, you can ask me, let's go out and go to the living room." Li Ke didn't know what the old man was nervous about, but what he was nervous about was his own life, and he was unwilling to go out like this. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Song Xuan say, "...... Small, Wang Zhuang ......"

"Have you met your deceased sister?" Hearing this answer, Lu Xiaotian asked directly.

This question obviously frightened Li Ke and Song Xuan's son, and Li Ke couldn't figure out why Lu Xiaotian directly asked such a straightforward and weird question. But seeing that Lu Xiaotian looked serious and serious, and the current Lu Xiaotian gave Li Ke an amazing feeling, he didn't dare to interrupt Lu Xiaotian at will.

Li Ke didn't dare, it didn't mean that others didn't dare, Song Xuan's son was very angry, ignoring the excited Song Xuan, and shouted loudly: "What are you talking nonsense!" Come on! Walk! While shouting, he grabbed Li Ke and Lu Xiaotian's arms and dragged them outside.

Li Ke and Lu Xiaotian were dragged out of Song Xuan's house like this.