Well of Mystery

Sure enough, the staff who led the way said that this was originally a nursery on Rose Fire Island.The children of the managers of the island’s labor reform mines, workers of the sulfur processing factory, and other freelancers on the island are all lodged here, and some of them are in long-term boarding.

When Rose Fire Island was abandoned, a fire ravaged almost the entire island, but this small building and some of the surrounding buildings survived, so they were converted into a hotel.

The owner of the hotel was a middle-aged man in his forties, with dark skin and long, sun-dried hair tied casually behind his head.When the guests came, he was drying squid at the door of the hotel, with a few cats squatting beside him.The cleaned whole squid is white with a hint of blue-purple. It is propped open from the inside with small bamboo pieces, hanging on the clothesline and swaying slightly with the sea breeze. At first glance, it looks a bit like an alien with its teeth and claws.

The staff leading the way called the restaurant owner "Uncle Zong", and introduced to Bai Xiuqi and the others that Uncle Zong was originally an old seaman on this island, and he would come to the island to fish every now and then.Once it happened that Huang Xiangyuan also came to the island to supervise the work. The two hit it off, and Uncle Zong simply took up the business of the inn. Anyway, there were no customers on Rose Fire Island in the off-season. Three meals, other than that this is more like his own villa.

Uncle Zong seemed to be a very easy-going person. He waved his hand to let the guide leave at ease, and turned around to lead the guests into the hotel lobby to pick up the keys.

The hall is actually not that big. In the center is a floor-to-ceiling grooming mirror that can be seen in almost every school's teaching building. There are some small potted flowers piled up on the mirror legs.There are corridors on the left and right of the hall leading to guest rooms, warehouses and restaurants, and behind the mirror are stairs leading to the second floor.

Uncle Zong's room is on the right hand side of the hall, similar to the position of the reception room.There is also a small square window on the wall of the hall, which is convenient for guests to find someone at any time.At this moment, he touched the four keys prepared in advance from the window sill and placed them in the hands of several guests.

"If you want to eat, you can call me in advance. In addition, there are gas stoves and seasonings in the kitchen, so there is no problem if you want to cook by yourself. Call me at any time if you have other things."

The tiredness after drinking and eating was invading everyone, after a brief greeting to Uncle Zong, they split up and went to their own rooms.

The rooms of Jiang Chenglu and his party are all on the second floor.Stepping on the medieval wooden floor, they creaked forward, inserted the key into the old spring lockhole on the wooden door, and with a "click", the sea view room appeared in front of their eyes.

The floor was light red wooden boards, and the walls were simply painted with a layer of white paint.The ceiling light is quite interesting. The light bulb is placed in the belly of a huge spiny fish. The dim yellow light shoots out through the balloon-like skin of the fish, casting sharp shadows on the wall.

Although the house is old, old does have its benefits—the space is spacious and tall.Two wooden beds are placed side by side against the wall.There is actually about two meters of aisle space left.Both the bed and the French windows in the distance are covered with the same white gauze, which is sure to have the effect of isolating mosquitoes, but basically don't think about shading.

But anyway, there are no people on the island, and the sea breeze blowing the gauze curtain is not interesting.

Jiang Chenglu carried Shang Daxiong into the room where it and Huayang lived, and closed the door.But the big bear was still motionless, now even Bai Xiuqi could tell that Shang Douxing had probably got into Hutian.

"I guess he couldn't stand it when we were eating just now." Hua Yang smiled and said, "Leave him alone. I'll prepare something for him later. Go and rest."

Huayin first yawned and went back to the hut where she lived alone, Jiang Chenglu also dragged Bai Xiuqi to open their room.The layout was not much different from the one next to it, and the luggage was placed in the corner of the room in advance.

"Hey, I'm so tired."

Bai Xiuqi kicked off her shoes and lay on her back on the bed, feeling that the mattress here is much softer than the one at Ah Hai's house yesterday.He turned over and saw a small door on the opposite wall, which should be the separate toilet.

I'm a little sleepy, do you want to wash your face and wipe your body first, and then rest...

He was hesitating vaguely, when he suddenly felt that the mattress around him was sunken.Obviously Jiang Chenglu sat over.

"Swollen feet? Come and see."

As he said that, Bai Xiuqi felt his right foot was lifted up, and his trousers were rolled up.The socks were also taken off, and one hand gently rubbed the ankle.He closed his eyes comfortably, and was thinking about just sleeping like this, when Jiang Chenglu's voice suddenly came from his ears.

"I'm still thinking about what I just had for dinner."

"……what?"

As soon as these two words were uttered, Bai Xiuqi regretted it. She had nothing to say, so she might not be able to sleep now.

Sure enough, Jiang Chenglu immediately started talking.

"Why did Jian Tong take the initiative to say that Luo Weilu is a Gu master when eating. Regardless of whether Luo Weilu's Gu is for health or murder, outsiders are always somewhat afraid and incomprehensible when it comes to Gu. Just like That little girl with the same name as you... Why does Jian Tong ask for trouble?"

"Who knows." Bai Xiuqi casually said: "Maybe some people just talk like this, they will come up with a gimmick to scare strangers, and they will feel quite proud."

"But Jian Tong doesn't look like the kind of person with a big mouth."

Jiang Chenglu continued to ponder: "But when you say bluffing strangers, it seems that you really have that kind of meaning. Could it be that Jian Tong's subtext is, "Although Luo Weilu is blind, but blind people are not easy to mess with, so don't come and fight." Our idea was 'Is that so?"

"...You have such a developed brain, why do you ask me?" Bai Xiuqi covered her eyes with one hand to block the light: "Or Jian Tong is testing us. You said that you noticed a smell in the inn that day. If it's really Jian Tong's ability, he's probably doubting you too, so he might as well try it out at the dinner."

"That's not bad, the reactions of the few of us are calmer than the other, isn't it revealing."

"Let's just show your stuffing. If people see that your stuffing is meaty, they might not like it." Bai Xiuqi sneered, and by the way, put the other foot on Jiang Chenglu's lap, enjoying it quickly Arrived with exactly the same service.

"That's right, we have a lot of people, so there's nothing to worry about." Jiang Chenglu smiled, and his hands began to move up restlessly, reaching into Bai Xiuqi's trouser legs.

Bai Xiuqi shuddered, and suddenly took his hands away from his face and looked at Jiang Chenglu: "I thought of something very important."

"what's up?"

"Come here!" Bai Xiuqi pointed his finger at Jiang Chenglu.

Jiang Chenglu let go, climbed onto the bed and wanted to hear what kind of medicine Bai Xiuqi sold in the gourd, but as soon as he approached, Bai Xiuqi hooked his arms around his neck and fell into his arms, losing his balance and fell on the bed .

"I warn you not to act rashly, I really want to sleep now!" Bai Xiuqi growled against Jiang Chenglu's ear, and then bit his earlobe again.

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Going to sleep after lunch is generally very pleasant.Except for the last few minutes when she was about to wake up but didn't wake up, Bai Xiuqi felt hot.

He opened his eyes and felt that the sun seemed to be more dazzling than at noon.It's just that the sunlight has changed from the pure white gold in the afternoon to golden yellow. Looking through the white screen French windows, it seems that there is a fire outside.

Jiang Chenglu was still lying on the side like a dead pig, sleeping peacefully.Gently pushing away his arm that was holding her arm, Bai Xiuqi found a disposable slipper from the drawer of the bedside table, put it on and walked towards the window.

The outside of the floor-to-ceiling windows turned out to be a terrace, facing the large sandy beach in the southwest of the island.Looking down from here, the colorful and row upon row of cottages are dotted all over the place. At first glance, it seems to have broken into a weird fairy tale world.

No, it should be said that I have been immersed in the weird world for the past few months and never left.

Bai Xiuqi lay on the railing, blowing the sea breeze, thinking about it intermittently.From the bouquet of yellow daffodils that appeared in the hotel, to the hidden dragon cave in the dark forest, to the corpses quietly floating in the blood pool on the bank of the canal, and the hidden gem pavilions in the pier market... … There are all kinds of encounters in the apartment, the nightmarish death and pain, and of course more surprises, joys and loves.

He almost forgot that he still had an ambition, the ambition to draw all of this.But the painting of jealousy seems to be just a draft...

Bai Xiuqi looked down at his right hand.

Although it wasn't obvious, he had to admit that the flexibility of his fingers hadn't fully recovered yet.Uncontrollable jitter and deviation when drawing lines is the best evidence.Thinking of this, he was a little irritable, and reached out his hand to take out the cigarette case from his pocket.

This cigarette case was a birthday present he bought for himself when he was in college, but at that time it was filled with erasers, carbon sticks and chalk.Recently, due to physical reasons, he has not smoked, but he carries this cigarette case with him as a talisman, which seems to be a temporary relief.

He took out the cigarette from the cigarette case, rubbed the pre-installed universal match on the railing, and lit the cigarette.The smell of burning dry tobacco leaves soon diffused in the salty sea breeze, with an unhealthy romance.

Bai Xiuqi looked at his hand holding the cigarette, it was still slender and beautiful, even the thin callus on the third knuckle of his middle finger was gone.But this pair of good-looking hands can't do what they used to do with ease.

Thinking of this, he smiled wryly, raised the cigarette and took a deep breath.The gray-blue smoke rushed in from the mouth and into the lungs, triggering a series of severe coughing and convulsions.

...Almost forgot, this body is also not used to the smell of tobacco.