Chapter XI
"Hello, open two rooms for us. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Lu Xiaotian said to the aunt who was sitting and dozing off at the front desk as soon as he entered the door.
The aunt raised her eyelids and glanced at Lu Xiaotian and Li Ke: "There are four beds in one room, and thirty bunks in one room." ”
Lu Xiaotian was stunned, his eyebrows twitched uncontrollably, Li Ke didn't care, he went to a relative's house in the county town to attend a wedding before, and the hotel prepared by the people was also this kind of small hotel, there were several people in one room, but at that time, all the people who lived in a room were relatives, and it was nothing.
Lu Xiaotian reluctantly gave his aunt sixty yuan, and the aunt turned around and led them up, without even looking at their ID cards.
When I got to the third floor, I pointed to the two doors at the corner of the stairs and said, "Toilet." Then he pointed to the second room on the right side of the hallway, "That's it." After speaking, he went down without waiting for Lu Xiaotian and Li Ke to react.
Lu Xiaotian looked at the environment of this hotel, his eyebrows twitched and twitched, it was the worst place he had ever lived. On the left side of the corridor is the water room, not to mention the sewage flowing sideways, the sink is full of garbage and leftovers, the air is filled with the smell of rancid garbage, and the black stains on the door are one after another. Lu Xiaotian endured and endured it again and again, and then resisted the urge to go back to the car and sleep all night.
Li Ke pushed away the room that the proprietress pointed out to them, there was already a person living in it, and he was watching the only TV in the room, the TV was the kind of big-headed TV in the last century, and the screen was about twenty inches, Li Ke had seen this kind of TV in his rural hometown ten years ago, and he could receive two or three channels, and there might be a channel with a snowflake picture.
The middle-aged man in the room looked up when he saw someone coming in, and then turned his attention back to the TV.
Lu Xiaotian and Li Ke looked at the bed, the uniform white sheets and pillowcases, it looked quite clean, Li Ke felt that it was still within the tolerance range, but Lu Xiaotian felt that there were not many people who had slept on it and had not changed their washing, and it was so dirty that they couldn't touch it.
When Lu Xiaotian saw someone in the house, he spoke directly to the people: "Big brother, are you a local?" Can I ask you about something? ”
"Huh? I'm from a nearby village, and I'm here to do something in the county, what do you want to ask? The middle-aged man looked at Lu Xiaotian.
"My grandmother said that her hometown is here, people are old, just miss the old, want to come back to see, she married early, she hasn't come back for many years, the reconstruction here is different from before, we said to come and find a place first." Li Ke looked at Lu Xiaotian with a look of surprise, and expressed his admiration in his heart for Lu Xiaotian's nonsense that came out of his mouth.
"Oh, I've been to this county many times, and I know the general place, right?" Rural people have always been realistic, and they did not have the slightest doubt about Lu Xiaotian's words.
"No. 183 Kunshan Road, you know? Their family was originally surnamed Gao. ”
"Kunshan Road is the road below this hotel, I haven't heard of No. 183, I only know that there is an old crematorium on Kunshan Road is No. 169, it's already quite biased, No. 183 has to be almost there."
"Crematorium?" Li Ke couldn't help but read out loud, have you really been entangled in these things recently? It's all this stuff left and right.
"The crematorium has been open for decades. said that it was going to be renovated now, and in the early years, it was said that it was going to move again, but it has not been moved until now, and it is said that feng shui is a good place. The intermediary lowered his voice and said to Li Ke.
"Ah, it's okay, I'm just talking about it, I'm just talking about it." Li Ke started to play haha, he didn't want to mix with these things more.
Lu Xiaotian thought for a while, said thank you to the uncle, picked up the bag and called Li Ke downstairs.
Although Li Ke didn't know why, he still followed, and the uncle looked at the direction they left with a frightened face. It can't be revenge, right?
When I went down, there was no one at the front desk, and my aunt didn't know what to do, so the two of them returned to the car.
"What? Looking for it now? Did you find someone in the middle of the night? Li Ke sat in the co-pilot and looked at Lu Xiaotian.
"It's daytime to look for someone, but we're not looking for people, of course, it's easy to find in the middle of the night." God knows that Lu Xiaotian just doesn't want to live in that broken hotel.
They have been walking along Kunshan Road, the county seat is not big, and they only walked five or six intersections, and then they saw the crematorium, Lu Xiaotian stopped the car, looked at the crematorium from the window, and the lights were still on, and the word "lay" was written in black on a white background at the door. There are wreaths and paper figures around, and it's really fascinating to see them in the middle of the night. Li Ke took a closer look, and the sign next to the door said No. 169 Kunshan Road. Most of the streets don't have house numbers, and probably only such larger buildings have house numbers.
"It should be there soon, let's go." Lu Xiaotian started the car as he spoke.
Li Ke looked at the side of the road and counted: "70, 71, 72...... 81,82,183。 "The car stopped, it was a small bungalow with a yard, most of the surrounding areas were this kind of single yard, the place was already very remote, there should be no one around, the weeds grew very high, there was a certain distance between homes, and there were no lights in the house.
As soon as Li Ke got out of the car, he felt a gust of wind, which made him shiver a little, although the temperature difference between day and night in rural areas is generally large, but in the time of the end of July, the temperature here is estimated to be more than ten degrees, and the low is a little terrible.
Li Ke turned his head and glanced at Lu Xiaotian, and just wanted to say something, he saw that Lu Xiaotian didn't know when he was wearing a black stand-up collar long windbreaker, looking tall, handsome and fashionable. Li Ke greeted Lu Xiaotian again in his heart, when did he prepare! And it's all like this, don't forget to be handsome!
Lu Xiaotian walked over to Li Ke and said, "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”
"Not well, will people think we are thieves and arrested?"
"Do you think there's a person living here?" Li Ke looked at the surrounding environment, how bold and fat do you dare to live in this kind of place, and there is a crematorium not far away.
The courtyard was locked, but fortunately, the courtyard wall was not high, so the two of them simply climbed over the wall and went in.
The brick cracks in the yard are also overgrown with weeds, and it feels like this place has been abandoned for many years. The room inside was unlocked, so Lu Xiaotian and Li Ke went in directly.
There were some discarded furniture, all in the style of the sixties and seventies, with a thick layer of dust and cobwebs in the corners. The two of them walked around and found nothing, except that they had not lived for a long time and seemed a little lonely, and they didn't see any strange signs.
"Let's go, it shouldn't be here." Lu Xiaotian called Li Ke to leave.
"Are you sure? Don't look any further? Li Ke was afraid that they would accidentally miss something, if they went to a farther city, in case it wasn't, it would definitely be too late to rush back to this city at that time.
"Well, don't worry, since it entrusted us, even if it doesn't take the initiative to come to us, it won't deliberately hide it." Li Ke thought about it, and the two of them were about to leave, and as soon as they left the house, they saw the fire outside the courtyard.
Li Ke and Lu Xiaotian looked up, and in that direction was the crematorium, half of the sky was dyed red by firelight, and it was already a sea of fire.
"What's the matter, there was no sign of fire when I first came, why is it so big in such a short time?! Explosion?! Li Ke exclaimed.
"Impossible, we have been dead for only fifteen minutes since we came over there, and we haven't heard a single movement in the middle, how can there be an explosion." Lu Xiaotian frowned and looked at the sea of fire in the distance, "Go over and take a look!" ”
The two of them immediately climbed over the wall and drove back to the crematorium.
After getting out of the car, I saw that the crematorium was almost engulfed in flames, and strangely, there was not a single cry for help around, and no one ran out to escape or put out the fire.
"What's going on? No one around here? Still is...... All of them, dead inside? Li Ke felt furious, and suddenly remembered something, so he quickly took out his mobile phone and said to Lu Xiaotian, "I'll call the police first, it's important to put out the fire." ”
Lu Xiaotian didn't answer, staring at the door of the crematorium, looking at the fire, wanting to see if anyone came out, but saw a red figure passing by and entering the crematorium.
Li Ke called several times, but found that there was no signal here, none of them could be called, and he was in a hurry to dial again, Lu Xiaotian's hand reached out in front of him and pulled down his hand holding the mobile phone.
"Don't fight, didn't you notice that such a big fire, but there is no heat at all?" Li Ke was stunned, because he was too anxious, he didn't notice at all, the temperature here was still more than ten degrees, and there was no change in the slightest.
The two men looked at each other, and when they looked at the crematorium again, there was no trace of any fire, everything was the same as when they first passed by.
"It seems that our client has been found."