Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

Rui made the floor, finally tucked in the corner of the quilt that served as the mattress, and sat down cross-legged. He hugged the quilt and smiled while saying, "Should we go to pay our respects after the Chinese New Year? You just listened to you the day before yesterday. Mom’s corner, I heard your dad’s again today, hearing so many exciting gossips all the time, it’s not good for the heart.”

"Are you still joking? You didn't even see that Lin Kangrong was hiding behind my grandma at that time, and he looked like a villain. Is that what a 40-year-old should look like?"

"Okay, okay, don't get excited, give me a hug from Brother Rui." Xu Rui stood up, walked towards him with his arms outstretched, was pushed by Lin Pai, and fell back to the ground.

Lin Pai said something just now, as if he just realized that Xu Rui made a floor berth, and asked him, "Hey... why are you making a berth on the floor?"

"Well, I'll sleep on the bed for you, I'll sleep with you...it's not good for my health..."

"Why..." Lin Pai paused, suddenly realized something, and said hesitantly, "Why don't I let you sleep on the bed."

"Need not."

"okay."

"You promised so simply, you didn't intend to let me sleep in bed at all!"

Xu Rui casually picked up a pillow from the bed, threw it at Lin Pai, and was caught firmly.

Lin Pai smiled and nodded triumphantly. The pillow was just used to cushion his chin. He lay on the back of the chair without saying anything, just staring at Xu Rui motionlessly.

Xu Rui also stared at him at first, and then couldn't hold back any longer, and the two of them laughed together.

Xu Rui moved forward and got closer to Lin Pai. He waved to Lin Pai, and Lin Pai and the chair moved over like Siamese twins.

Xu Rui raised his head and hung his hands around Lin Pai's neck like a gibbon, "Who should we tell in advance? Zhou Ning or Li Cheng? Zhou Ning, he will definitely open his mouth in an exaggerated way... Do you want to tell Dong Wenwen? ?

Can he accept it?Otherwise, I will wait for the morning meeting and go to the national flag to grab the microphone... It seems that you have a better chance of getting the microphone... What are you laughing at? "

"It's nothing, I just feel that you seem to be preparing a wedding banquet list now..."

Xu Rui lowered his head and thought for a while, then said solemnly, "If you want to do it together, you can do it together."

"Don't worry, they will know when they should know." Lin Pai broke off his arm, pulled out the pillow to block him back, stood up and pointed to the basketball in the corner, "Let's go out and play."

"Now?"

Lin Pai nodded expectantly.

"Okay, let's go."

A few blocks away, Zhou Ning was struggling with a big math problem under the desk lamp. He was about to doze off when he suddenly felt his nose itchy. He rubbed it a few times and sneezed twice.

Near the end of the new year, when the Heshan Township Committee was busy, Zhou Ning’s mother returned home after working overtime, and heard her son’s loud sneeze. She ran to her son’s room with concern, but saw an almost blank math test paper.

She immediately gave Zhou Ning a chestnut.

Li Cheng lived not far from Zhou Ning. Under the dim light, his father poured out a handful of crumpled unknown herbs from a ceramic pot with blue flowers on a white background, and was carefully comparing the weight on a small scale.

"This is called a mulberry leaf, which is eaten by silkworms. Generally speaking, it should be harvested after the first frost..."

"Ah!" Li Cheng sneezed uncontrollably, and the dried mulberry leaves flew around.

Li Cheng ran away, and his father shouted from behind, "How many times have I told you! Don't sneeze on the herbs! It's a waste!"

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Early the next morning, Lin Pai opened his eyes and saw the unfamiliar ceiling. He was still a little uncomfortable for a while. He turned over and saw that Xu Rui was still sleeping deeply on the ground, so he got up lightly.

After rinsing, he changed the water for the rose, and saw that Xu Rui had already woken up, and he was tucked into the bed, only stretching out one hand to use the phone, and one foot was exposed outside the quilt.

"Are you going out today?" Lin Pai walked over and kicked his bare feet, and sat down beside him.

"I'm going to practice in the afternoon. Old Bao said last time that I don't have a holiday until the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month."

"Then I'll go home in the afternoon and bring something over."

"Why don't you go back in the morning and go out to have breakfast, and I'll go there with you."

"also."

Lin Pai waited for a while, but before he got up, he simply pulled out Xu Rui's cell phone and threw it on the bed. He also held the hand he reached out to take it, and played with his fingers in it, "Don't play!" The phone is off, get up quickly!"

Xu Rui withdrew his hand and jumped out of the bed like a clockwork. Before going to wash, he pointed at Lin Pai jokingly and warningly, "It's early in the morning, don't seduce me."

The breakfast shop on the street was busy at this time, Lin Pai took the seat and waited for a while, before Xu Rui helped the proprietress bring over steamed buns, soy milk, deep-fried dough sticks, glutinous rice and a few steamed buns, the proprietress also specially ordered it, Make sure there is no underpayment.

"Can you eat so much?" Lin Pai counted with chopsticks.

"I bought it for you!"

"Then I can't finish it..."

"It's okay, you eat more, I'll eat the rest, I said before that you are too thin."

"When did you say that?"

Xu Rui paused while eating fried dough sticks, and shook his head while chewing, "It's not important, if you don't remember it, forget it, I'm saying it again now."

The two chatted while eating, and the food on the last table was almost wiped out. Lin Pai handed Xu Rui a napkin, and just as Xu Rui took it, the phone rang.

The phone call ended quickly, but Xu Rui's face suddenly became serious.

"What's wrong?" Lin Pai stopped wiping his mouth and asked him.

"The phone number from the police station, let me go there."

"Did you say what's the matter? I'll accompany you there."

"I didn't say anything, I'll go there by myself, you go back and get your things first, whoever will send the message first."

Lin Pai hesitated for a moment, thinking that He Hui's disappearance was his family matter after all, so he reluctantly accepted the arrangement.They separated at the intersection, and Lin Pai walked home alone.

The door was still unlocked, and Lin Pai opened it with a push. The house was quiet, and there was a smell of alcohol everywhere, but there were no empty bottles on the first floor.

"Grandma?" Lin Pai yelled, but no one answered. He glanced at his watch. At this time, she should have gone to the street to buy vegetables.

Back in his room, he slowly packed his clothes, books and other things, and locked the room when he left.

When he reached the stairs, the strong smell of alcohol drifted down from the upstairs continuously. He heard an empty glass wine bottle rolling on the floor, hitting the wall with a "bang", and there was no sound.Lin Pai couldn't hold back his curiosity, and walked up the stairs lightly with his bag on his back.

Lin Kangrong's room is quite large, but there is not much furniture in it. It has not been used for ten years and has only been cleaned recently.

He was sitting on the floor at the foot of the bed, his face flushed, and there were empty wine bottles of various brands beside him.

Lin Pai covered his mouth and nose in disgust, and stood at the door of the room and asked, "How much did you drink? Where is my grandma?"

"I went to the street to buy groceries... hiccup... you came just in time, go buy me a pack of cigarettes!" Lin Kangrong followed the sound drunkenly and looked over, his eyes could hardly focus.

"Why are you standing there stupidly? Go buy a bag... hiccup... smoke..."

Lin Pai sighed, took out the few remaining cigarette cases from his bag, threw them at him, thought for a while and threw the lighter too.

Lin Kangrong didn't catch either, he was so drunk that he had double images in front of his eyes, so he stretched out his arms and fumbled on the floor.

When he touched the cigarette case, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and yelled at Lin Pai, "Come here, come here! Why do you have cigarettes? Xiaonian...Ji learned to smoke? Didn't you say you're still studying!"

Lin Pai looked at him speechlessly, stepped forward and bent down to pick up the lighter, intending to snatch the cigarette case back, "Don't pull it down."

Lin Kangrong held the cigarette case and refused to let go, and then stood up. He lifted the glass wine bottle upside down, making a gesture to make a move. He forgot that there was still a small half bottle of wine in the bottle, and poured it all on himself. He reached out and wiped it on his face.

Lin Pai let go of his hand quickly, and jumped back to distance himself from him.

"You have cigarettes, you have cigarettes...then you also have money, quickly take it out! It's only natural for my son to give money to me, at worst, at worst, I will pay you back in the future!"

"I have no money."

"You have no money...you have no money!" Lin Kangrong cried and rushed towards Lin Pai.

"what are you doing?"

"Why don't we have any money...why..." Lin Kangrong roared, the more he cried, the more exaggerated he became.

"Are you sick..." Lin Pai couldn't bear his dirty appearance, so he held his wrist to prevent him from jumping over, but Lin Kangrong held up the bottle and insisted on getting into Lin Pai's arms, no matter what Unable to push it away, he was forced to retreat to the balcony.

After Xu Rui came out of the police station, he never heard from him, so he went directly to his house.

He was still a little absent-minded at first, and ran several times because of He Hui's disappearance, but this time it was a false alarm.

As soon as he arrived on the road of Lin Pai's house, he saw several people gathered in a circle to watch the fun.

Squeezing through the noisy crowd, he saw Lin Pai and Lin Kangrong almost huddled together on the balcony. Lin Kangrong was blushing and yelling indistinctly. What a big sad thing.

"Lin Pai!"

"Xu Rui, stand there and don't move!"

Lin Pai glanced down, thinking that Lin Kangrong asked for it, turned around and kicked him, and Lin Kangrong fell several steps away.

He took off his backpack, threw it to Xu Rui from the second floor, then climbed over the balcony by himself, and jumped to the first floor through the pipes and window sills outside the wall