If this love becomes a memory

【31】

In fact, before leaving the workshop, Houzi met Xiao Yi through his sister. Hou Xiaoman was not sick at that time, and when she was not sick, she was a warm-hearted person.One day, the water heater in Uncle Zhang’s house, a retired worker, broke down. She volunteered to find someone to fix it.Monkey met his sister in the living area, took the water heater in her hand, followed her up the field, and walked to a farm house.

At the door of the house, there was a man sitting, staring at a game of remnants of chess and meditating, Hou Xiaoman greeted loudly: "Brother Xiao, I wrote a new poem, and I will read it to you later."

The man turned around and stood up. Monkey found that although she was taller than him and dressed in work clothes, it was not difficult to see that she was a woman. He complained in his heart that his sister was not called properly.

"Brother Xiao, hurry up and help Uncle Zhang fix the water heater. After it's done, I'll read a poem to you." Hou Xiaoman said again, Xiao Yi glanced at the water heater, and said slowly: "I don't know how to repair water heaters."

Seeing this, the monkey hurriedly said: "Sorry to bother you. My sister is sick and she is a little unclear in what she says and does. I'll take the water heater home right away." Hou Xiaoman stopped him and said stubbornly: "Can you It’s fixed, brother Xiao, I told Uncle Zhang that you can fix anything.”

Xiao Yi smiled and said to the monkey: "Let's put it down, I'll try it." After saying that, he went into the house and took out tools to disassemble the casing of the water heater.

Monkey took the opportunity to look around. This is a very common tile-roofed farm house. He didn't understand why Xiao Yi didn't live in the living area, but rented here. The nearest resident is 100 meters away. It's not easy for her to live here alone. Are you scared?Before the remnant chess game, the monkey looked at it for a while and tried to take two steps. Not many women like chess, and they are more curious about Xiao Yi.

The monkey stayed for a while, seeing Xiao Yi was concentrating on repairing, and his sister was squatting aside to watch carefully, so he turned and went home.

After finishing dinner, it was already dark, and before my sister came back, Monkey went to Xiao Yi's place again.In the main room, seeing Xiao Yi still fiddling with the water heater, he said, "Forget it if it can't be repaired. I'll take it to the city to repair it tomorrow." After saying this a few times, the two women in the room ignored him, feeling that Boring, Xiao Yi slapped his forehead suddenly, and seemed to be talking to himself: "It's really rusty on the head, this is not automatic, I know where the problem is." The parts that had been removed were recovered, carried into the kitchen, connected with water vapor, tried a few times, took them out and installed the shell, handed them to the monkey and said: "Okay, send it back to others." Then he said to Hou Xiaoman: "Who will The gas stove of the water heater at home is broken, you just take me to the door to fix it, there is no need to dismantle it."

Hou Xiaoman said happily: "I knew you could do it, now I can read poems to you." Hou Zi quickly stopped his sister, he felt that he was already disturbing Xiao Yi, he is a normal person, and he can accompany you with a mentally abnormal person After playing for a long time, I was already very patient, so I just dragged my sister back.

That was Houzi's first contact with Xiao Yi. Later, he heard from his brother-in-law that Xiao Yi shared the same position with him and had been transferred to their workshop for more than half a year.From then on, whenever the brother-in-law went to work, Monkey would go to Xiao Yi if he didn't find his sister in the living area. Many times, he saw Xiao Yi sitting on the bamboo chair in front of the house, looking indifferently into the distance, while his sister sat on the side, or Doodle, or read her work aloud.Xiao Yi didn't have much to do with him, at most he nodded his head and greeted him.

Houzi went to the workshop to talk to the master. It was his brother-in-law who found the workshop and he assigned it to Xiao Yi. It happened that Hu Zi was transferred to another position at that time.In fact, Monkey doesn't care much about who is the master. He only knows that he has been transferred from the day shift to the shift. He has already settled down to the bottom. He doesn't want to be knocked out because of his technical problems if there is another change in the company one day. rice bowl.Therefore, monkeys are very attentive in learning technology. In the technical school, he majored in electrical appliances, which has nothing to do with chemical engineering. He started from the theory and worked hard to learn. Xiao Yi likes his eagerness to learn. , took him into the scene when she had time, and unreservedly passed on some of the experiences she had summed up.But apart from teaching skills, Xiao Yi has almost nothing else to say to him. It is far better to get along well with his sister. The close contact between the two is a game of chess.

Just before Monkey was about to leave his teacher, his sister fell ill again.That day, he and Xiao Yi got off work at midnight, had breakfast together in the staff restaurant in the living area, and were about to go home to rest, when a neighbor upstairs from Houzi ran up and hurriedly said to Houzi: "I found you, wait Taking advantage of the butcher's inattention, the eldest sister took a sharp bone-eviscerating knife, closed the door when she got home, and couldn't open it no matter what."

As soon as the two masters and apprentices heard this, they ran to the family building. Every time Hou Xiaoman fell ill, apart from yelling hysterically, the most destructive behavior was self-mutilation, which left him scarred and bruised, so let alone knives Objects, even those who eat and drink cannot be smashed.At the door, the monkey opened the door, Xiao Yi turned around and said to the neighbors who followed: "Don't go in with so many people, it will scare her later, call you if you have anything to do." So he and the monkey went into the house, and closed the door behind them.

Quietly in the living room, pushing away the bedroom of Hou Xiaoman and his wife, the two gasped, Xie Sanli was naked from the top of his body, only wearing a pair of trousers, his hands and feet were bound, sitting on the bed bloody, Hou Xiaoman was dressed neatly, holding a The boning knife was walking in front of the bed, and his body was also covered in blood.Hou Xiaoman glanced at the two of them indifferently, sat down by the bed, muttered something in his mouth, and poked Xie Sanli's back. Xie Sanli screamed and did not dodge. poke.

"Don't hurt yourself, Xiaoman. Stab me, don't hurt yourself!" Xie Sanli struggled and shouted.Hou Xiaoman really gave him two slaps, and said viciously: "Murderer! Murderer! Executioner!"

"I'm a murderer, you stab me, you kill me." Xie Sanli cried uncontrollably, seeing this situation, the monkey wanted to pounce forward, but Xiao Yi grabbed him tightly and couldn't move.Xiao Yi stopped the monkey, moved forward slowly, signaled Xie Sanli to be silent, Hou Xiaoman raised his head, waved the knife and shouted: "Don't come here, you liar."

Xiao Yi stopped and said softly, "What's the matter, Sister Xiaoman? You were fine yesterday, why are you so angry?"

"Go away, you liar, Xiaoqing is dead!"

"Who told you Xiaoqing was dead?" Xiao Yi said innocently. "Did you see it?"

"Xiaoqing's parents, Xie Sanli said, they all said that Xiaoqing is dead."

"You clearly know that they don't allow you to be with Xiaoqing, but you just believe what they say." Xiao Yi said, taking the opportunity to take two steps forward. "You call me a liar, I'm leaving."

"Where are you going? Are you going with Xiaoqing?"

Xiao Yi shook his head and said, "I don't know how to write poetry, Xiaoqing only takes people who can write poetry."

"I can write poems, why doesn't Xiaoqing take me away?"

"Your poetry is not good enough."

"You lied to me, if Xiaoqing is alive, why didn't you come to see me?"

"Actually, Xiaoqing came to see you." Xiao Yi said.

"When did you come here? Where is it?" Hou Xiaoman asked anxiously.

"I can't remember when." Xiao Yi said slowly, "I just remember that there seemed to be a lot of people."

"Are there a lot of people? Could it be that my design won the award, and I gave a speech at the award ceremony?"

"That's right, that's it." Xiao Yi spoke fluently. "It wasn't that time, when you spoke on stage, we applauded vigorously and waved at you. Maybe you were sitting too far away, so you didn't see it."

"Then why didn't you find me?"

"The ones I found all came to you, but Xiaoqing stopped when she saw that your arms were covered with scars."

Hou Xiaoman subconsciously tugged at his sleeves, Nuonuo said: "Xiaoqing likes me wearing skirts the most."

"Isn't it? You hurt yourself so much that you can no longer wear skirts. Xiaoqing was very angry and sad, so she turned her head and left, wandering around."

"I didn't hurt myself." Hou Xiaoman cried, looked up at Xiao Yi and said, "I didn't hurt myself."

"Then give me the knife." Xiao Yi stretched out his hand and said softly, "Be obedient, give me the knife, and I'll tell Xiaoqing that you didn't hurt yourself."

Hou Xiaoman hesitated, and handed over the knife, Xiao Yi took it, and quickly handed it to the monkey behind him.Hou Xiaoman was still crying and saying: "I didn't hurt myself. No." Xiao Yi took off his clothes, put them on her body, and comforted him: "No, no, let's go to the hospital, okay?" Hou Xiaoman fell into Xiao Yi's arms , obediently walked out the door with her arms around her.

The monkey quickly untied the rope for his brother-in-law, and took him to the hospital with his arms. After the doctor's examination, the brother-in-law was not seriously injured, but he had to be hospitalized for observation.He couldn't figure out how his sister's illness would hurt his brother-in-law, and when his brother-in-law got better, he asked, "Third Brother, why are you being restrained by your sister?"

Xie Sanli lay on the bed and said weakly: "Today I was resting and fell asleep. Xiaoman came in with a rope knife. She wanted to tie me up, so I let her do it."

"Why?" Monkey asked puzzled.Xie Sanli said sadly: "I deserve it, it's better to let Xiaoman give me a good time."

"What's going on? Who is Xiaoqing?"

Xie Sanli didn't make a sound, and it took a long time to say everything slowly.After hearing this, the monkey was very shocked, not to mention the five thunderbolts. He never understood why his sister went crazy. Now that he knew the answer, it made him feel weak and hopeless after a long illness. Why did these things happen to his sister?And for the whole incident, he couldn't find anyone he could blame, Xiaoqing who died?Blame my sister herself, or my brother-in-law?It felt like in a public place, someone inexplicably squeezed his private parts, and he couldn't find the culprit, and he couldn't vent his anger by yelling, so he could only suffer from being dumb and endure the heart-wrenching pain by himself.

He had been depressed in those days. He had a middle shift. After work, he didn’t take the factory bus back to the living area. He walked slowly back from the factory area at the bottom of the mountain alone. Out of strangeness, walking halfway up the mountain, the roar of the machine down the mountain gradually died down.He stopped in front of the administrative building of the factory. He hadn't visited here for a long time. He was thinking about whether to go in tonight to have fun, or to do something weird. Just as he stepped up the steps in front of the building, he was patted on the back. After a while, he was startled. There are many foreign objects in this mountain. Could it be that he encountered something? A voice came from behind. "scared you?"

The monkey turned around, Xiao Yi was standing under the moonlight. "I saw that you didn't take the factory car, so I was afraid of something, so I followed you all the way."

The monkey let out a long breath, and secretly marveled that a woman dared to walk up from the foot of the mountain alone in the middle of the night, not to mention the rumors of strange spirits and strange things in the mountain, the nocturnal snakes and insects alone made many male workers dare not walk at night Lu, couldn't help admiring Xiao Yi's boldness, and said, "It's okay, I'm upset, and I want to walk alone."

"I'm also upset, let's sit down." Xiao Yi said, sat down on the steps, pointed to the office building behind him, and said: "After I was transferred to the seventh factory, I was seconded to the factory office twice to help. A lot of fun things happened there.”

"Really?" asked the monkey, and sat down beside him.

"You grew up in No. [-] Factory. You should know that people have been saying that this place is haunted. I heard many people say it when I came here, and the description was vivid. I don't believe this. After I arrived at this building, I believed it."

"Oh, why?" The monkey listened calmly.

"The first time I came up, I didn't stay for a long time. I heard some interesting things when chatting in various departments. Some people's signature pens were obviously black refills, but they turned red the next day. Some people remembered the teacups. It was obviously placed on the table, but it was finally found locked in a drawer. The most outrageous thing was that the female cashier left a banana the day before, and when she peeled off the banana skin in the morning, the inside was broken into three pieces. My heart is worried, I don't know what kind of foreign body has patronized me, so I tend to find a half-immortal to relieve the disaster."

Monkey listened, recalling his spoof in his mind, he didn't know that Xiao Yi had been seconded to work here, he was wondering if he had patronized her, and heard Xiao Yi say: "The second time I come up, my desk is at The director’s office of the factory office. One day, I was the first to arrive at the office. When I opened the drawer, I found that the inside had been moved. I checked the doors, windows, and drawer locks. They were all intact, but the drawer had indeed been moved. So, I believe Yes, there are indeed ghosts."

When Xiao Yi said this, he stopped, turned his face slowly, stared at the monkey and said word by word: "And you——that—ghost."

Under the moonlight, Xiao Yi's face was pale and pale, with no expression on his face, a cold light shot out from his eyes, the monkey's back felt chilly, and the monkey jumped up.