The car drove to the old city, and slowly, the streets began to cramp, Lu Xiaoqi had to stop the car far away, and the two walked over.

Along the way, there were young girls who secretly went to see Lu Xiaoqi, his face was white, his eyes were starry, his white T-shirt and gray cloth pants, and he walked gracefully in the rolling red dust.

This place is called Huashi Street, which sounds like a sense of age, and the telephone poles and old trees and rivers on the side of the road are even more tacitly acquiesced to this.

The sunset water floated out of the city, and the golden afterglow fell on the waves on the river surface flickering brightly and darkly, just like the looming breath that Lu Xiaoqi felt at this time.

It's close.

When he found this address, Lu Xiaoqi saw a large compound with an open door, judging from the various shoe racks, there were at least six or seven families living here, some people lit a briquette stove at the door of their house, coughed a few times, saw Lu Xiaoqi, and lazily asked who to find.

"Is Deming at home? We are his friends. "When he asked about asking for directions, Su Laishi boasted that he was more suitable, because he looked at him with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he was a student and affinity, and most people did not reject him.

This time, it was slapped in the face.

The man sneered: "Nonsense, he has no relatives and friends in his family!" ”

At the same time, he lifted his chin and pointed him in the right direction, and then, as if he was in bad luck, he turned into the house and closed the door.

Looking in the direction of his chin, Lu Xiaoqi locked a closed door, the outside of this wing room was clean, except for two cabbages and a briquette stove, there was nothing.

Lu Xiaoqi knocked on the door a few times, but no one responded.

He tried to push it, and the door opened.

At this time, it was close to dusk, and the dim twilight pressed into the room with the door, and Su Laishi's eyes did not adjust to the darkness in the room, and he could not see anything clearly.

Lu Xiaoqi could see it clearly, and he was silent.

After two seconds, when Su Laishi saw clearly, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Ah! ”

"It's not promising!" Lu Xiaoqi pushed him behind him and walked in by himself.

There was a coffin parked in the house, the lid of the coffin was ajar, and the bodies of a man and a woman were lying in it. It was the end of August and summer, and the house was already smelling rancid.

Lu Xiaoqi subconsciously pushed Su Laishi out of the door just now, so as not to let him get involved in the corpse poison.

Looking closely at the two corpses, the female corpse had been dead for a longer time, and the male corpse seemed to have just died. The female corpse was lying upright, and the male was hugging her sideways, like an adult coaxing a child to sleep.

Su Laishi had already covered his nose and jumped away, and asked sharply, "Is that Deming?" He's dead? ”

Lu Xiaoqi nodded. It was Deming, and what he was holding was the sister his employer Wan Qianqian was looking for, Wan Sisi.

Although the corpse's face changed a little, and it looked much older than the graceful Wan Qianqian, Lu Xiaoqi recognized it at a glance and was sure that she was Wan Sisi.

"What's going on! Even if there are no relatives and friends, all of them are dead, and no one cares about this courtyard? "Su Lai was young when he came, after all, he had no experience in the rivers and lakes, and he was a little panicked.

"Dead people? Isn't it Wan Ping? Deming is also dead? ”

"It's so unlucky! As soon as he moved in, I knew it was a bad couple! ”

"The wife of a tuberculosis devil is a madman! Deming was still so good to her, now it's okay, she was killed by her! ”

"It's not good to die, is this a grudge against us? How can we live here! ”

"Didn't you say that Wan Ping was funeral today? How! Her man is also dead? ”

"What's the situation, do you want to call the police?!"

When the criticism heard this, Su Laishi reacted: they can't call the police, but if they report to the police, how can they find a safety buckle. After all, Lu Xiaoqi said that they were helping their employer find lost things this time, and if they want to take things when they die now, the police can't get through them.

He hurriedly made amends, and immediately changed to another reproachful face: "My uncle is dead!" You people don't know how to help, just forget it, it's always okay to accumulate some virtue, right? If he hadn't called my dad and called me over before he died, no one would care if it was rotten here?! ”

Let Su Lai fight with the broken mouth mother-in-law outside, Lu Xiaoqi also heard it from the conversation: This couple has no children, the man is usually silent and ignores people, and is only good to his own woman, but the woman is a nasty madman, singing in the middle of the night for a while, crying for a while, talking to himself for a while, and still a smoker, the room is full of smoke and miasma, and it makes others uneasy, and the children are scared to cry when they see her, and no one in this yard treats them.

Lu Xiaoqi looked here, there were no windows on all sides of this room, only an unlocked door, so if they hadn't come today, it would have been unimaginable as Su Lai said.

Looking at the woman in the coffin, her face was clean, her hair was meticulously combed, her clothes were also new, she was padded with a beautiful embroidered bedding under her body, sprinkled with lime, and carefully looked at the small table next to the coffin, where a bag of money was placed, Lu Xiaoqi guessed that it might be so that the people who found them took the money and did the funeral for them with kindness. In this way, as the neighbor said, it may be true that Deming was good to her, but this Deming himself, skinny, old-fashioned, seemed to give everything he could to others.

"Is it martyrdom?" Lu Xiaoqi thought, as Wan Qianqian said, her sister eloped with someone back then, and she was able to leave behind her identity as a rich lady, just to stay with each other for a long time, this feeling must be very deep. Deming was reluctant to give her up, and it was not impossible for her to be martyred.

The people in the miscellaneous courtyard knew that their husband and wife were poor, and they didn't care who would collect the bodies for them, they just told them to solve it quickly, so as not to affect the feng shui here.

Lu Xiaoqi gently closed the door.

He could see more clearly in the darkness.

The breath of Ping An Buckle is not on Wan Ping, but in Deming's belly.

"Huh?" Lu Xiaoqi was surprised at the same time, and at the same time, he used his fingers as a charm, and in the dark room that made it difficult for people to breathe, he took out a shining object out of nothing. That object was the jade spirit of the Ping An buckle, it floated in the air, flickering bright and dark, and suddenly flashed in front of Lu Xiaoqi's eyes, and it stopped moving.

Lu Xiaoqi understood, took out the brocade box from his satchel, and opened it.

The broken bracelet couldn't move, only a trace of light jumped out, looped into an arc, and trapped the safety buckle tightly.

The Ping'an Buckle Jade Spirit seemed to be stimulated, and suddenly exploded silently, and the bright light was dazzling, straight into Lu Xiaoqi's eyes.

When Lu Xiaoqi closed his eyes and opened them again, he saw Wan Ping in front of him, not saying anything, smoking a cigarette with blank eyes.

In the smoke, Lu Xiaoqi saw her life.

When a pair of sisters fell to the ground, the father and mother were very happy, and took out the heirloom, the bracelet and the heart, divided into two, one for each person. The sleeping jade spirit suddenly met the infant with a pure soul, and each woke up and confessed its own lord.

Sister Wan Qianqian, got a peace buckle; Sister Wan Sisi, is a bracelet. Because they were all children, they couldn't wear them, so they turned on their own lights and stored them in a brocade box embroidered with their names in front of the Buddha.

The two look exactly the same, sweet and delicate, snow-white since childhood, much loved, the sisters just grew up, they received an excellent education, learned piano, learn painting; Wan Qianqian prefers the piano, and whenever a guest comes, she will recommend herself to play and sing a song, which everyone likes; Younger sister Sisi prefers to sketch and paint quietly alone.

The two have different personalities, but their relationship is very good, there is something delicious, and the two eat together; If a beautiful jewelry gift is not one for each person, the two of them will take turns to wear it; Wan Qianqian played the piano, and Wan Sisi drew her playing the piano; Wan Sisi painted, and Wan Qianqian left her the good quality materials she obtained, and she made a fool of things by painting at will.

Such an enviable day, carefree to the eighteen-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, on the birthday day, thousands of guests at the banquet, for a time full of gold and jade, clothes and temples, staggered.

The two Wan Qianqian sisters are naturally well-dressed, like princesses in the castle, and they are in the limelight. In the praise of everyone, Wan Qianqian sat in front of the piano and played a waltz, and the dancing guests also danced.

Wan Sisi slowly withdrew from the crowd with champagne in his hand, and walked to a corner of his garden to watch the fireflies, but he didn't want to meet a panicked young man who was hiding in this no-man's land to change his socks. When he saw Wan Sisi, he blushed and smiled, and said that he had walked too much today, and his socks were torn, and they were exposed outside his leather shoes, and when he wore them in reverse, the holes were exposed on the surface of his feet, which really damaged the face of the lord's family, and he couldn't go to the hall to congratulate, so he just listened to this song here.

The young man's temperament is very elegant, although the clothes are not as luxurious as those guests in the hall, the posture and conversation are as handsome and poetic as landscape paintings, Wan Sisi was very happy to see him at a glance, asked his identity, it turned out to be the son of his parents' best friends, because of the family down, went to the home of relatives abroad, recently came back, just met Wanfu happy events, read the old love for his parents to vote for the name post, Wan Sisi's parents called the housekeeper to let him in, just told him to eat and drink, do not run around.

He also knew that he had no long-term things now, he had not succeeded in his studies, he had no fame and fortune, and he didn't have any intention of climbing the dragon and the phoenix, so he just planned to go back to the scene. Unexpectedly, the socks were suddenly trampled on, and there was such a trouble.

Wan Sisi thought this man was very interesting, and wanted to help him, so he put the wine glass in his hand and told him to wait, and he took the gold and silver jewelry and loose money in the makeup box, and then went to his father's room to steal a few pairs of new socks, trotted all the way back, and handed them all into his hands, saying, "Why is the husband inferior?" A gentleman's self-reliant heart, even if it is as glimmering as this firefly, is better than ten thousand taels of gold! ”

The young man's expression was greatly moved when he heard this, and in an instant, he took the clear girl in front of him as a confidant. Under all kinds of excuses, Wan Sisi tightly pressed his hands and said: "I am borrowing you at this time, and you will repay me a hundred times in the future." The bell is ringing, today is my birthday, you changed your socks and came to see me. ”

She left behind the young man with fiery eyes under the wisteria trellis, and hurried back into the hall.

In the palatial main hall, Wan Qianqian just stopped the song, Mrs. Wan signaled the music to play, the chefs pushed out the cakes, and the girls also came up with gift boxes.

It turned out that in the gift box, it was the family heirloom of the two, Wan Qianqian and Wan Sisi were blessed and applauded by everyone, and their parents wore their respective adult gifts, Wan Qianqian's peace buckle hung on her chest, as bright as her fragrance; Wan Sisi's bracelet is gentle and delicate, which sets off her unique manners.

Wan Sisi liked this birthday gift very much, she looked at it again and again, and when she looked up, she found that the bracelet was also reflected in the eyes of the elegant young man opposite.

The young man looked at her deeply, nodded and smiled at her, and then turned and withdrew.

Wan Sisi is everyone's best girl, so naturally she didn't chase him out in public, but she secretly wrote down his appearance, and secretly drew it, took it out when she had nothing to do, and appreciated it silently.