Chapter 55: Black Silence
In fact, after the liberation of the whole country, there was no private trading in our country, but this policy and policy did not have the energy to really implement it until the end of the Korean War in 54 years, so there was no change in Lushi County in 52 years. The brothers of the grave team wanted to come out to do business after they were separated, but when they really came out, they realized that the world was different for a long time, and everyone who did not work alone was state-run, and everyone was the same working class, which was regarded as working for the country.
When Lao Wu first arrived in Jilin, the first thing he thought about was to open a hotel, and how easy was it to collect room fees without any effort? As a result, just after the opening of a hotel, less than two months after it opened, the policy and policy came down, all the private enterprises were all state-owned, there would be no bosses or anything like that in the future, everyone was blue-collar workers. At that time, there was a saying called public-private joint venture, which meant that there were several restaurants on a street, and when the joint venture, all of them were combined, and the former boss became an employee of the state, and the money earned was to be reported, and he received a salary every month. This is a good thing for some businessmen who don't make a living, but for those who have a thriving business, it's a catastrophe, making as much money as his buddies every month, and it makes me cry when I think about it.
After Wu Qi arrived at his eldest brother's hotel that day, the two brothers talked for a long time, and Wu Qi listened with a bowed head, and from time to time he also spoke a tone or two. Wu Qi finally waited until Lao Wu finished speaking, and after he was going to send hot water to his eldest brother, after seeing that there was no one, Wu Qi hurriedly showed his arm to take a look, but he was startled when he saw it, the red and swollen under the forearm were purple, and the bones were a little painful. The back was also bruised, as well as the scratches that were blocked, Wu Qi scolded a few times when he saw this, and lay on the hot kang to rest for a while, but he didn't expect to fall asleep directly.
Covered with pain and walking for most of the night against the cold, Wu Qi slept in the dark. When I woke up, it was dark. Fortunately, the kang has been burning very hot, and the bed is as hot as a steamer, but the face is cold. As soon as he woke up, Wu Qi's urge to urinate came, and he rubbed for a long time, he really couldn't stand it, and if he didn't get up, he would have to pee on the kang, and finally endured the cold and got out of the bed, and hurriedly looked for clothes to put on his body. But suddenly, a chill came from behind him. At that moment, Wu Qi only felt that his scalp was numb, goosebumps appeared all over his body, and he quickly turned his head to find that the door curtain shook a few times, as if it had been lifted just now.
Wu Qi was puzzled, and he greeted softly: "Who?" But he didn't get any response, the air around him was unusually cold, and it was surprisingly quiet, and this atmosphere made him suddenly nervous, thinking that someone was looking for him again?
Only a rough outline could be seen in the darkness. Wu Qi looked around the room with his eyes, this room should be a staff dormitory or a resting place. The last time he came, he stayed for a day, basically sat near the counter, and ran back to his unit at night, he never came into this room, at this time he looked carefully, the place is not big, but very empty, except for the earthen kang, there is no other superfluous things.
Wu Qi was nervous and began to pant roughly. Rubbing his arm, trying to find something that could be used as a weapon, he had no choice but to walk slowly to the door, put his ear to it and listen to the movement outside. After a while, Wu Qi felt that there should be no one. He opened the curtain with his fingers, looked out with his eyes, and shouted outside: "Big brother? Are you not? ”
His voice echoed in the corridor, but no one answered, Wu Qi didn't expect that he could sleep until night this night, he felt that he was too careless, Li Huan didn't know what was going on, but he let himself attract some firepower, Wu Qi really couldn't, he couldn't fight with those fierce and specially trained people, it was too easy to kill him, if he really chased one and no one helped him, he would die!
Empty-handed, Wu Qi had no bottom in his heart, and in the blink of an eye, he swept around the house again, but there was not even a broom, isn't this fatal? It seems that in the future, I will really have to carry the dagger on my body like a stuffy melon, and I can take it out to defend myself at a critical time. He slept for a long time, his mind was foggy, although the person was standing, his body was shaking, his eyes were blurry and he couldn't focus, and he only lowered the curtain after a few glances to make sure that there was no one outside. But as soon as he put down the door curtain, Wu Qi remembered one thing, he was still holding his urine, and he couldn't hold it back when he saw it, he couldn't do it in a hurry, so he arched out directly from the side of the curtain, and quickly ran in the direction of the toilet by touching the wall with his memory.
Wu Qi didn't know what time it was, but looking at the sky, it should have been dark, it should be five or six o'clock in the afternoon, but the problem is how could there not be even half a figure in this time period, he ran through the long corridor in a hurry and passed by the counter, and found that the door was still closed, and there was no popularity in the deserted nearby, at this time Wu Qi felt that something was wrong, he thought that something was wrong, the only possibility was that someone came to kill him again, and he also implicated Lao Wu and them.
Thinking of this, Wu Qi's scalp exploded, and he forgot where the toilet was in a panic, and looked everywhere with his legs between his legs, afraid that something would happen to Lao Wu and them, but he couldn't hold back his urine, and in the end there was really no way, Wu Qi found an empty hot water kettle behind the counter, and opened the flood gate there, but his eyes were looking everywhere, for fear that he would pounce on someone from somewhere when it was convenient for him and wipe his neck.
After this convenience was over, the whole body was much lighter, Wu Qi touched a stool leg on the inside of the counter, it may be that the stool was broken and he didn't have time to repair it, and the wooden leg was still in the counter, at this time, Wu Qi could use it, so he picked it up and held it up to his side, and slowly searched for it along the corridor on the other side.
The corridor on the first floor is flanked by wooden doors painted with yellow paint, and the upper part of the middle is dipped in red lacquer with a brush dipped in red paint, starting from the left-hand side is number sixteen, and then counting backwards. Waiting for Wu Qi to come to the end, the house number reached ten, and a staircase appeared on the right hand, which led to the second floor, this hotel has three floors, the first was a residential building, but it was changed to a hotel a long time ago, and the small rooms were partitioned out later, and the pattern was a little messy, and Wu Qi was confused when he first came.
"Anyone?"
Wu Qi kept himself calm and beckoned to the top of the stairs in a very soft voice. But this quiet and weird atmosphere made him very uncomfortable, and he thought to himself, where the hell have all the people gone? Why did this sleep kill all those people? Even if Lao Wu and Jiang Nan are not there, there will definitely be people to stay? It's impossible to sleep all of them as soon as it's dark, could it be that something really happened?
In his mind, he instantly recalled the scene that happened on the train, the cold blade still made him faintly afraid, thinking about the content of Li Huan's letter, the person who came to kill him should be a member of the Five Elements Group, and it is more likely that Chen Yumiao's subordinates, that girl is so ruthless, but thanks to Li Huan's high skills, the group of people he secretly trained is even more powerful, so it seems that Chen Yumiao can't fight Li Huan, and she definitely doesn't have the heart to send someone to kill her own useless little soldier.
Thinking like this is also to let himself not be afraid to stabilize dìng down, the main thing is not clear what is going on, I have to go to Lao Wu's house to see if he is not there. Touching the black Wu Qi climbed up to the second floor, the ground was paved with a layer of wooden boards, after a long time, both sides of the wooden board were warped, and there was a creaking sound when he stepped on it, Wu Qi was a little panicked when he heard it, and he always felt that there was something behind him, so he looked back three times when he took a step, looked around, and saw that the figure didn't know and thought it was a thief who entered the house.
The structure of this old building is very messy, especially the hotel of Lao Wu, not far from the railway station, the road is relatively spacious, but the previous planning is not too good, the road is often oblique for no reason, so the newly built building is also built along the roadside, just in the middle of the building at the turn of the road There is an angle, from the inside you can clearly feel that the corridor is divided into two sections, the bend in front is not a right angle, but a strange angle, when you are about to go to the bend, You can see the side of the wall over there.
Wu Qi happened to walk to this corner, there was a gust of wind in the corridor, blowing he couldn't stop shivering, when he saw the corner in front of him, he felt a little uneasy, slowly walked over and held the wooden stool leg in his hand, and glanced at the corridor over there, there was nothing unusual in the calm corridor. Retracted his head and leaned against the wall, Wu Qi glanced a few times in the direction where he came, and then walked out calmly, intending to go along the corridor to the end, he remembered that the room where Lao Wu lived was on the second floor, and that should be the one at the head.
But when Wu Qi came out, he was stunned, there was an open door in front of him, and the red house number was written "Two-Four".
Seeing the scene, Wu Qi hurriedly took a step back, thinking that the corridor was very empty, and all the doors were closed, why did he open the door of the first room in a few seconds around the corner? And he didn't make any sound, it was very sudden and unprepared, and he must have been startled.
Wu Qi was a little nervous and stabbed the open door with a wooden stick, but after pushing it, the door made a "creaking" sound. (To be continued......)