Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

The groaning that broke the shell finally turned into tinnitus without any ups and downs.

A pen fell to the ground, awakening Xu Rui's reverie. He turned his head in the direction of the sound and saw Lin Pai leaning over to pick up the pen from the floor.His fingertips barely reached the pen, and with a hook back, the pen was in his hand.

Xu Rui stared at that hand, wanting to hold it in his hand like never before.

35. Chapter 35

The railroad track is laid on the gravel roadbed, extending infinitely into the distance, endlessly, this green leather train travels from night to dawn.

The morning light hit Lin Pai's face through the car window, he turned over with his eyes closed, and hit his head on the partition next to the narrow bed.

Lin Pai rubbed his head in dissatisfaction, stretched in the cramped space, and found that he was sleeping on the lower bunk. In addition to the thin quilt provided on the train, he was covered with two coats. The tutorial book he read last night Neatly stacked next to the pillow.

There was no air conditioner on the train, so he lifted the three-layer "quilt" covering his body, and immediately felt a chill, as if it had cooled a lot overnight.

Lin Pai climbed up, and on the upper bunk, he saw Xu Rui sleeping like a shrimp. He was only covered with a thin quilt. As soon as Lin Pai touched his leg, he woke up in a daze.

Xu Rui stretched out a hand from under the quilt, and found the phone after groping beside the pillow for a long time. He glanced at the time and threw the phone back, "So sleepy...why did you wake up so early..."

"Why are you sleeping on the top bunk?"

"You fell asleep while reading a book last night, so I didn't call you... I'll sleep for a while..." Xu Rui muttered and closed the quilt, turned over and shrank himself a little away from Lin Pai.

The well-mannered man in the middle shop was still awake, and Lin Pai felt that it was inappropriate to stand on the bed and speak.

He walked back to the lower bunk, took Xu Rui's coat and climbed up again, and threw it on him. The coat was still warm. Xu Rui consciously pulled himself closer. Lin Pai was lucky to see a gradually stretched Base shrimp.

Lin Pai put on his coat, took out toothpaste, toothbrush and other toiletries from his bag, and took their two thermos cups, and walked to the toilet on the carriage.

The aisle of the carriage was very narrow, and the two of them had to turn slightly sideways to walk across face to face.

For convenience, Lin Pai held up his things along the way so as not to bump into others.

The hot water supply is just a few steps away from the toilet, and you can see the long queue here from a distance.

After Lin Pai washed hastily, he consciously lined up at the end of the line with two cups in hand.

"It's snowing!" A child's excited exclamation came from the carriage next to it, and several of the crowd gathered here walked away at once, and gathered around the window to watch the excitement.

As soon as they left like this, the team suddenly advanced a lot. Lin Pai packed the hot water and walked back with his things.

The seat of the child who exclaimed that it was snowing just now was not far away, and he put his hands on the window glass curiously. read.

He unconsciously glanced twice.

Back in the compartment of the bed, Xu Rui had already got up. He stood by the car window, wrapped in his coat and yawned big.

"Didn't you say you were going to sleep?" Lin Pai walked behind him and put the things in his hands on the partition table.

"Lin Pai!" Hearing his voice, Xu Rui turned sideways and moved a little to the side, pulled him to the front of the car window, pointed out excitedly and said, "Look, it's snowing!"

The train is still whimpering. Apart from the caves on both sides of the railroad tracks, most of them are low weeds covered with a thin layer of snow. There are rows of houses in the distance. as one.

"Heshan Town has never had a lot of snow..." Xu Rui propped both palms on the window glass, admiring the snow scene intently, as if talking to himself.

Lin Pai followed him for a while, then suddenly turned his head away and asked, "Do you know how to pronounce the English word for "snow"? "

"What?" Xu Rui turned to look at him in bewilderment, their noses almost collided in this crowded space.

"It's nothing." Lin Pai shook his head, avoiding his sight, and lowered his head to pour water into the large bottle cap of the thermos.

Xu Rui looked at him for a while with question marks all over his head, then hesitantly said, "s, s... snow?"

Lin Pai sat next to the bed with a cup in his hand, took a sip of hot water calmly, looked up and said to him, "By the way, it's awesome."

"Lin Pai? Are you okay in the morning?" Xu Rui walked up to him and reached out to check the temperature on his forehead. Lin Pai kept hiding, Xu Rui didn't care about the severity of his attack, and directly turned into holding his hand. The forehead pushed him back.

"Don't, don't..." His back hit the bed, and Lin Pai had no place to fall back, which made him forcefully break Xu Rui's hands away. He raised his head and asked Xu Rui who was kneeling next to him, " Where are they?"

"The one with glasses on the upper bunk has poured water, and the elder brother on the opposite bed said to buy some food from the dining car, should we also go buy some?"

Xu Rui let go of Lin Pai, stretched his arms and fished out the bag from the corner of the bed, Lin Pai watched him take out instant noodles, snacks, bread...

"When did you put it in?" Lin Pai propped up his hands, sat up and snatched his bag, turned over with his head bent.

"Just yesterday... Oh no, it was sorted out the night before yesterday, and there are still two cartons of milk that can't fit. I secretly put them in the compartment of your bag."

"Xu Rui!" Lin Pai slapped him on the arm, "I just said why my bag has become heavier!"

"Okay, okay, okay, after getting off the car, I will carry both bags..." Xu Rui hid falsely, and pointed to the snacks piled up on the bed, "Then do you want to go to the dining car?"

"Is there any difference between the instant noodles on the train and the instant noodles in our bags?"

Xu Rui stared at Lin Pai in silence, and finally said solemnly, "The ones on the train are more expensive."

Lin Pai opened his mouth, but didn't say a word, he blinked, and a smile gradually climbed to the corner of his eyes. When he reached the limit of his patience, Xu Rui laughed together with him.

The train arrived half an hour later than the expected arrival time. The temperature here is much lower than that in Heshan Town, and it has been snowing lightly since we left the train station.

They changed cars twice on the way, and walked for another 10 minutes in the snow before finding the small hotel they had booked at a certain corner of the street.

The weather function in the mobile phone shows that the highest temperature in Shi'an City today is minus five degrees Celsius.

The snow on the street was mixed with rainwater, and it was wet and dirty. If the neon sign at the entrance of the hotel was not still stubbornly on, they might not know how long they would have to look for it.

"Wow... this place is simply another Heshan Town in the world!"

Xu Rui took a big step, jumped over a puddle in front of the hotel, and the snow on the umbrella fell all over the ground. He stretched out his hand and pulled Lin Pai over.

Lin Pai looked back at the street when he came here. The small shops lined up on both sides were more lively than Heshan Town, but there were almost no pedestrians on the street. He also wondered, Lin Kangrong couldn't make money in Heshan Town, so could he make money in this place? money?

"What are you looking at? Go in first." Xu Rui waved in front of his eyes, and walked into the hotel with his shoulders.

The person in charge of the reception in the hotel was a thin old man. Holding a piece of presbyopic glasses, he checked them in step by step. When handing them the keys, Lin Pai asked him for the address left by Lin Kangrong.

"Are you looking for someone?" The little old man sat behind the counter and looked up at him. The deep forehead lines on his forehead and the dim lights of the hotel added a bit of mystery to him, and he could easily be compared with the characters in the movie who were carrying secrets. get in touch.

Lin Pai's imagination was obviously in a certain movie, he didn't say anything for a while, Xu Rui tightened his grip on him.

The little old man smiled and waved his hands, "Don't be nervous, there are a lot of people looking for relatives and friends here in recent years, it's not like they built some kind of project ten years ago, but it turned out to be nothing..."

"Did something happen to that project? Why did so many people come to find someone?" Lin Pai asked.

"There are also people who come to visit relatives and friends. I heard that the work there is heavy, and they are not allowed to go home during the holidays. The locals are unwilling to do it. They are all foreigners. Alas..."

The little old man sighed for a long time, "Outsiders, if you can't go back by yourself, then the family members will come and accompany you..."

Through the presbyopic glasses, he carefully looked at the picture that Lin Pai handed over, "That street is not far from here, and it takes 10 minutes to get there by taxi, but that place... seems to be demolished in the past two years ..."

"Demolition?" Lin Pai repeated, "Is there still people living there?"

The little old man raised his presbyopic glasses, squinted his eyes and looked at Lin Pai. Seeing that he was still a student, he didn't think he was a social person, so he said comfortingly, "You don't have to worry too much, they are all famous nail households over there. , the money is too little, and although demolition is being carried out, it has not been demolished.”

Lin Pai thanked him and left the counter with Xu Rui.

The room in the hotel is not big, there are two beds and two bedside tables, basically there is no other space, but the environment is still clean, there is a window facing the street, standing in front of the window, what you can see is the same place when they came. street.

The bathroom is surrounded by two pieces of glass and two walls, separating a boxy space. Two pieces of opaque cloth curtains are hung in front of the glass, which can be pulled up to block the transparent glass.

Xu Rui put down the two bags and felt relieved immediately. He ran to the bathroom and pulled the curtain to the side, but a corner of the curtain fell off.

Lin Pai turned his head from the window when he heard the movement, and happened to be looking at Xu Rui across the transparent glass of the bathroom.

"I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't use any force, I