seven relics

At this time, he stopped playing with the mobile phone in his hand, and passed it to the side, saying: "Put the mobile phone in your bag, and turn around and say that you forgot that it was with you."

The little girl's voice sounded: "Okay, I'm so sleepy, I'll wash my face and go to sleep."

The eldest brother asked, "What's for breakfast tomorrow? There are still some baked goods at home."

Hearing this, the second brother stretched out his foot and kicked Xiao Ye. The kick didn't seem to be very hard, but Xiao Ye let out a high-pitched "Ouch". The elder brother immediately lifted him up from the ground and slapped him twice. Hit it.The second brother stopped drinking in a low voice, Xiao Ye covered her face, lowered her head, looked sideways at Li Shuai's room with one eye, and said with a sob: "I sprained my ankle in the morning, and the second brother kicked my wound."

The eldest brother pushed him away from the door of Li Shuai's house: "You bastard, how did you walk so well just now? Wei your mother! What's your plan?"

The second elder brother stretched out his hand, made a blocking motion, and said: "Okay, stop arguing, Xiao Ye, bring some meat, and the roasted meat will be served with stewed meat tomorrow morning."

Xiaoye glanced at Li Shuai's room again, his eyes were bright and sharp, as if he could see Li Shuai peeping, as if he was probing for something.Li Shuai stood motionless, not daring to breathe.Yuxi team organizes, please pay attention.

After all, Xiao Ye walked away. As soon as he stepped aside, Li Shuai and his second brother met their eyes.The second brother seemed to be able to see him too.

The smile on the second brother's face deepened.

Li Shuai shuddered, quickly moved away from behind the door, hurriedly climbed onto the bed, closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.After a while, someone came in, and after a while, someone got into his bed.It's a woman, probably a younger sister.The little girl was touching his hand.

Li Shuai closed his eyes even tighter and let out a vague sound.

"it's me."

It really is a little girl.

Li Shuai smacked his lips, tilted his head, and continued to pretend to be asleep.The little girl lay beside him, her hands rested, and after a while, she breathed evenly, as if she had fallen asleep.Li Shuai didn't dare to open his eyes easily. He could vaguely hear people talking outside. Later, the voices gradually became quieter, the wind stopped blowing the windows, and the night in the village became completely quiet.He also gradually became a little drowsy. When he was dimly conscious, he heard the sound of going in and out outside again, and he didn't have the energy to pursue it anymore, so he just fell asleep.

It was Xiao Ye who entered the room, holding a piece of leg meat in his hand, tender red and fresh.The second brother took the meat and grabbed some salt and spice cured meat from some bottles and jars on the stove.

The eldest brother said, "I'll take out the cup to save trouble."

The second brother agreed, lit a cigarette, and said, "Take a pack of cigarettes in and put it by his bedside."

The eldest brother nodded, and entered the room with the red curtains.Xiaoye scooped up some water to wash his hands, the second brother glanced at him, squinted his eyes: "What are you still dawdling about?"

Xiaoye nodded submissively and walked out.

The eldest brother came out of the room with a glass, and looked left and right: "Sent away?"

The second brother looked out from the open window of the kitchen, and saw Xiao Ye entered a small room next to the south house, and said: "When my little sister and I are not here tomorrow, please watch carefully."

The elder brother pulled up a bench and sat in front of the stove, lit a cigarette on the stove, frowned, and cursed: "This kid has more and more things. I think he probably fed Xiao Heng too much on purpose."

He raised his eyes, looked at his second brother, and gesticulated on his neck, revealing his fierce look.The second brother was massaging his leg, smoking a cigarette, and said gently, "Don't worry, save it for the one inside."

"You have an idea?"

"There are so many ideas." The second brother smiled and shook the soot.

The eldest brother asked him again: "Can it be done tomorrow?"

The second elder brother slapped his thigh and said with a smile, "Will you bet or not?"

The eldest brother took out a crumpled fifty-pattern and put it on the table, and raised his chin at the second brother.The second brother took out a dagger inlaid with turquoise from his waist and slapped it on the chopping board.The eldest brother's eyes were straightened, he licked his mouth, but stuffed the fifty back into his pocket, and said, "I won't gamble."

The second brother was still smiling, and the eldest brother asked him, "When will you use that thing?"

The second elder brother said: "Don't be in a hurry, let's look at it later, it depends on whether it is worth using it on him or selling it."

He kneaded and massaged the leg meat for a long while before he found a cast-iron saucepan and picked out a few firewood from the stove, which was a little less intense.He put the meat into the iron pot, covered it, and stuffed it into the stove.The second brother also sat in front of the fire.

The eldest brother sniffed his nose and swallowed his saliva.The second brother took a puff of cigarette and said, "Don't steal it again in the middle of the night."

The eldest brother wiped his mouth and said repeatedly: "I see, I see, wait until dawn."

The second brother took out two more thin sticks of firewood, stamped them out by his feet, and threw them into the pile of firewood.The stove was burning weakly, and the two brothers had nothing to say, and sat quietly in front of the stove, with a warm red light on their faces.The smell of stew gradually permeated the room.

The next day, Li Shuai woke up early, and the younger sister was still sleeping, but when he made a slight movement, the younger sister rubbed his eyes, pestered him and wouldn't let him get out of bed.

"Lie down a little longer, and stay with me again." She said, holding Li Shuai's hand and pressing it against her chest.

Li Shuai withdrew his hand and said, "I need to go to the toilet, and I need to urinate urgently." He asked the younger sister, "Where is the toilet?"

The little girl straightened up a little, she seemed to be more awake, and said: "Outside, next to your parents' room, your second brother said it yesterday."

Li Shuai got out of bed, put on his shoes, patted the quilt on her body, and said softly, "Go on to sleep." He wrapped himself in his military overcoat and left the room.

The living room was quiet, warmer than his room, the smell of spices was strong, mixed with the smell of meat, and there was no one in sight.Li Shuai took advantage of this and tiptoed to another roll of cloth curtain, opened the curtain and looked inside.The door behind the curtain was closed, and there was a lock on this door.He put down the curtain and went outside.

Outside the house, the second brother has also got up, wearing a sports suit, and is boxing.The second brother is not as tall and tall as the eldest brother, but he is still a burly and strong man. He punches with strength, arms stretched freely, and he has a heavy air, and he has some skills.What he punched was a simple set of long fists, and he retained all the ultimate moves of clasping his wrists, locking his throat, pulling out his heart, and pulling mountains and rivers.

Li Shuai looked at it for a while, and the second brother swayed his tail, turned around, saw him, smiled at him, waved his hand, and said: "Come, practice with the second brother."

Just as Li Shuai was about to answer, he took a breath of cold air and coughed continuously.He hurriedly wrapped his coat tighter to warm himself.The second elder brother came over and patted him on the back, calmly, and said, "Are you all right?"

Li Shuai calmed down and said, "I want to go to the toilet."

The second brother led him into the smallest of the three bungalows in the Li family.When it entered, there was a suffocating smell, like ammonia mixed with the smell of blood, and Li Shuai almost couldn't hold back his breath.The second brother was also suffocated by the smell, pinching his nose and opening the windows of the house, a few gusts of wind blew through, and the two of them felt better.The second brother smiled and said, "This is what the toilet smells like."

He pointed to a flush toilet in the house, and said: "There may be some problems with the sewer pipes. The smell has come up, and I will ask someone to take a look."

There is a shower next to the toilet. There are a few tiles on the floor and a drain, but these tiles are limited to the boundary between the shower and the toilet. Outside this small area where the toilet is cleaned, it is all dirt. .Li Shuai stepped on his feet a little. The soil was soft, and a wooden door with a lock was still visible on the ground. There were some iron buckets and some agricultural tools such as shovels and hoes piled up in the corner.A disemboweled torso hangs upside down from the beam, with no head and only one leg remaining.I can't see the body of any animal, like a deer, or maybe a lamb.

Next to the toilet was a straw mat with a rolled up sweater pressed against it.

After Li Shuai finished his convenience, the second brother gave him a shovel and motioned him to dig a hole under the hanging torso.Li Shuai pointed to the ground and asked him, "Here? Digging indoors?"

The second elder brother pointed to the torso and said, "The meat is smelly and can't be eaten. It has to be buried indoors. It's fine. It won't dig the water pipe. The water pipe goes in another direction."

He shoveled the soil first.Li Shuai thought for a while, then shoveled the soil.He only had one hand, and he had to shovel together with his feet, and he was sweating profusely and panting after a few strokes.He couldn't help asking his second brother, "Why don't you buy a refrigerator?"

"It's a lot of trouble, and it costs electricity. We are extremely poor." The second brother shoveled the soil hard. He went down with a shovel and dug very deep. He shoveled up a lot of soil with another shovel.Li Shuai's speed was not as fast as his. He asked again: "Our family is extremely poor? Is this a little lamb?"

The second elder brother had already shoveled out a small earth pit. He stood in the pit and said, "That's right, don't forget that there are people coming from the village later."

Li Shuai asked again: "Second brother, you still know how to punch? What do you do?"

"Hit whatever you want."

Li Shuai saw a lot of soil accumulated at his feet, and said, "Is this where the soil is piled up?"

The second brother said, "Go get a bucket and put it in." He smiled, "Seeing how tired you are, you haven't recovered from being hit yesterday, have you?"

Li Shuai smiled and dragged a tin bucket over to fill the soil.He looked at his right hand, and asked his second brother: "Then what am I doing? You said my right hand was broken in the auto repair shop, so I can't still work in the auto repair shop, right? The auto repair shop is Is it in Manzhouli? Manzhouli is in the northeast, right? Did we drive all the way back?"

The second brother smiled: "You are saving lives."

"Rescue?"

"Isn't our family a very poor family? Once your hand is broken, it will be even more difficult. We don't earn much from working outside, so the village has arranged a job for you. I will also work part-time on weekends to make extra money. This job is an outsourced customer service for a mental health assistance center. No, our mobile phones are all issued by the village. Our job is to help those who send messages on WeChat or call to overcome psychological difficulties. Most of them are women, you have to follow their wishes, don’t forget, many people have suicidal tendencies, and many of them have committed suicide.”

The second brother said, "Let's go to Alxa to meet someone in the afternoon."

"Is it related to my work?"

"It's too relevant, it can be said to be a capable customer." The second brother said, "Okay, let this person be put down."

"Human?" Li Shuai looked up at the beam.The second brother nodded, stood in the pit with a shovel in his hand and looked at him, smiling.

Li Shuai looked at the torso again, and he really felt like a person hanging upside down. His head was gone, his hands were gone, and his leg was gone.Like a woman.

He untied the rope hanging from the man's leg, and put the stinking man on the ground.The second elder brother kicked the remnant body into the pit. He climbed up the pit, found a plank, and covered the pit.

At this time, Xiao Ye came in, holding a wooden bucket in his hand.Seeing him, the second elder brother pointed to the iron bucket containing the excavated soil and said, "Go to the field."

He nudged Li Shuai with his elbow, looked at Xiao Ye, and said, "You won't forget this man too, right? You have been playing together since childhood, Xiao Ye, night night."

Li Shuai looked at Xiao Ye and wanted to shake hands with him.Xiaoye glanced at the second brother, who nodded, Xiaoye put down the barrel, shook hands with Li Shuai, blinked and said with a smile: "Third brother, why haven't you seen such a good person for a while? Are you still shaking hands?"

Li Shuai didn't answer, and glanced at the wooden barrel, which was full of plant bulbs.

The second brother patted Li Shuai: "Let's go, you're hungry, go have breakfast."

The two left the hut, but within a few steps, the second elder brother sighed suddenly, and said to Li Shuai: "Xiao Ye is also a poor child, their family used to be such a big family, but they were nobles with yellow flags, and they ended up with a Broomstar, the whole family is gone. In Xiaoye's generation, he can't even eat hot food. Our parents thought he was pitiful and adopted him. You and him have been very close since childhood. If Xiaoye is a girl Son, she must have been your daughter-in-law long ago."

Li Shuai listened without saying a word.Back in the big house, the little sister and the big brother got up too, washing their face and brushing their teeth, the second brother asked Li Shuai to wash up too.After the four of them cleaned up, the second brother took out the cast iron pot from the stove.The eldest brother arranged baked goods, milk tea, bowls and chopsticks on the low table.

The second brother put a mat on the table, and the meat that had been simmered for a night was served on the table.He opened the lid of the pot, and the elder brother stuck his chopsticks in.The little girl also quickly stretched out her chopsticks, and the two of them shared meat and drank tea, enjoying themselves.

The second elder brother picked some meat for Li Shuai and said, "Eat, you must be full for breakfast."

"Parents won't eat with us?" Li Shuai asked looking at the hot, crispy stewed meat in the bowl.

The elder brother chewed the oily baked buns and said: "The old man gets up late, let's eat, don't you have to go out after eating?"

The little girl was also greasy, she said: "After eating, take a shower and change into clean clothes before going out. Today you are going to Alxa with your second brother to meet clients, right?"

Li Shuai took a baker, opened it to make hot milk tea, and said in a low voice, "It seems so."

The second elder brother patted him, removed the bowl in front of him, and said, "Aren't you feeling well? It's better not to eat meat in the morning, and eat lightly."

The eldest brother took the bowl, wrapped the meat with the baked seeds, and ate it in a big mouthful, the gravy oozing from the corner of his mouth.Li Shuai took a sip of milk tea silently.

After the meal, the eldest brother gave Li Shuai a cigarette.He took a sip, choked so much that he didn't take it down, and put it aside.The little girl came over, hugged a pile of clothes and said, "Xiaoshuai, go take a shower."

She went to the hut with Li Shuai.Xiaoye was not in the room, so the little girl locked the door, turned on the shower, tested the water temperature, and quickly took off her clothes.

Li Shuai looked at her, turned to go out, and said, "You wash first."

"Why are you ashamed? It's not like I haven't seen it before. Let's wash together to save some water!" The little girl grabbed him and wanted to help him take off his clothes. "I usually take care of you in the bath, you forgot? hands are inconvenient."

Li Shuai saw the wooden barrel full of plant bulbs again, and asked, "What's in this wooden barrel?"

"Why don't you care about it," said the little girl.

Li Shuai pointed to the wooden door and padlock on the ground again, and asked, "What's down here? A wine cellar?"

The little girl laughed out loud, pushed him away, and said, "This is your home, how would I know?"

She took off her clothes, stood under the shower to rinse, rubbed her body up and down several times, and put her hands in the back room, sticking out her buttocks and soaping.

Li Shuai didn't look around any more, just looked at her, didn't speak, just stared at her, he was a little embarrassed to see the little girl, hurriedly washed off the soap scum on his body, put on clean clothes, and said: "You wash it." .”

She said again: "Wait a minute, I'll find someone to come over to help you. I usually serve you, but I haven't been through the door after all. This is the first time I've come to your house, so don't let people look down on you. Don't talk to me." Your eldest brother and second brother said that I came in with you, and said that I was waiting for you outside, and you were waiting for me outside."

Li Shuai nodded, and the little girl went out.

As soon as she left, Li Shuai checked the four open windows in the room. There was no one outside the windows, and there were no curtains on these windows. The windows were small, and the smell in the room was a bit heavy.After confirming that there was no one outside the window, he walked to the barrel and picked up a bulb inside.The bulb was sticky, like the fruit of a poppy. He was about to smell it when the door opened. He hurriedly went to wash his hands under the shower.

"You just take a shower with your clothes on?"

It was Xiao Ye who spoke, with a soft voice.Li Shuai looked back at him, smiled and said, "Try the water temperature."

"Is it suitable?" Xiao Ye walked up to Li Shuai.Li Shuai nodded and began to take off his shirt.

Xiao Ye said, "Let me help you."

He knelt down on the ground and helped him take off his shoes.Li Shuai asked him, "What's your full name?"

Xiao Ye didn't answer, but patted his left leg, Li Shuai raised his left foot, Xiao Ye hugged his foot, took off his shoe, and wrote on the ground with one hand.He wrote hastily and scribbled.

Blue Night Cream.

After finishing writing, he covered the three words with Li Shuai's shoes.

Li Shuai wanted to ask something more, but Qing Yeshuang suddenly called out, and Li Shuai asked him: "What's wrong?"

Qing Yeshuang looked around in a large circle, raised her head and asked loudly, "Why don't you have a shadow?"

Confused and surprised at the same time, he walked away from Li Shuai, looked at the window, looked at his own shadow, and checked again and again under the sunlight coming in from the window, it was not a problem of light or angle.Li Shuai did not have a shadow.At this time, Qing Yeshuang was not only surprised, but also a little scared, muttering: "How can a person have no shadow?"

Li Shuai didn't take it seriously, and smiled: "I don't have a shadow, what's the big deal if I don't have a shadow?"

Qing Yeshuang couldn't help but also smiled: "Yeah, it seems like it's no big deal."

Li Shuai also said: "If you have a shadow, you will be dragged down by the shadow."

"Drag?" Qing Yeshuang couldn't understand, "Shadow has no weight, and it's not a burden. Where there is light, there is shadow. This is beyond human control."

He had just finished speaking when there were two knocks on the door, followed by the second brother's voice: "Xiao Ye, Dad is looking for you."

Qing Yeshuang glanced at the northeast corner of the room and went out.Li Shuai took a shower alone in the room, and while washing his hair, he also glanced at the northeast corner of the room, and saw something in that corner glowing with a faint red light, which was extremely inconspicuous.

He didn't move anything in the house anymore, he took a shower, changed his clothes and went out.