Burning fire

Lao Peng didn't persuade Zhou Qizun to eat anymore.He turned around and sat down on the kang mat laid out by his sister-in-law, and patted his thick calloused palms on his side again: "Come and sit for a while, the little kang is warm."

Zhou Qizun took two puffs of the cigarette vigorously, the rich nicotine rushed into the airway, part of it sank to the bottom of his lungs, and part of it penetrated to the top of his head.

Zhou Qizun stubbed out the cigarette, leaving the cigarette butt in the ashtray on the table, got up and sat beside Lao Peng.

Seeing him sit down, Lao Peng said: "If you can't eat, you can eat later. People can always eat."

Zhou Qizun nodded, but remained silent.

Lao Peng looked out of the window. The hotel was very close to Xiaotai Mountain. From Lao Peng's position, he could still see the dark outline of Xiaotai Mountain in the distance.

When the night is deepest, the wind on the mountain is the coldest. I don't know if the lonely ghosts from other places can withstand the cold and find their way to the underworld.

The surroundings are too quiet, the lights are too dim, and when a certain bitterness comes to mind, people are often in a very strange state, unconsciously wanting to open their mouths and say something irrelevant.

Like Lao Peng, he looked out of the window, suddenly lost his mind when he looked at it, and whispered about the past, for no reason: "My village in my hometown is very similar to this place."

"Size, air, temperature, environment, and there are many mountains." Lao Peng leaned his back against the wall and pressed the back of his head against the wall, "It's really similar."

Zhou Qizun also leaned against the wall: "If you look so similar, why do you still come here?"

"Because of fear." Lao Peng spat out the words in one breath, and the four words almost disappeared in the air.

Lao Peng: "Yan'er died in his hometown."

Zhou Qizun had never heard the name "Yan'er" before, but at the moment, he immediately realized who it was, Lao Peng's wife.

"When we got married, she was alone." Lao Peng frowned, "I don't know why, maybe I didn't treat her well enough, and she fell ill."

"It's sick here." Lao Peng glanced at Zhou Qizun, pointed to his head, and then pointed to his heart.

Zhou Qizun pursed the corners of his mouth, but remained silent.

"Suicide, I died by drinking medicine." Lao Peng said, "I was afraid after that. I dare not stay in my hometown anymore."

"I've traveled a lot, and I'm finally willing to settle down here." The wrinkles at the corners of Lao Peng's eyes are deeply curled up, and the winding potholes and twists and turns, every place satirizes the years he has lived.

"I was afraid of being at home and afraid of leaving home, so I found such a place that is not home but looks like home, so that I can live on." Lao Peng closed his eyes, and his voice was softer, "People, it's life. Wasted Some hurdles can be passed, and some hurdles can't be passed. Fate doesn't care whether people like it or not."

"The little girl on the mountain..." Lao Peng lowered his breath, "She just didn't pass by, no one cares about her."

Lao Peng dug out his heart, said a scar at the beginning, and two bloody mouths at the end. Zhou Qizun's heart gradually calmed down after hearing this.

The sparks that exploded in the bones before were extinguished, and the resentment subsided from the blood, Zhou Qizun closed his eyes slightly, and gasped for the slightly warm air in the room.

Neither Zhou Qizun nor Lao Peng spoke again.Gradually, when the night came to the deepest point, Lao Peng got up from the kang and turned off the lamp above his head again.

Zhou Qizun leaned against the wall without moving, Lao Peng took the quilt beside him and covered Zhou Qizun.Then he rolled up his own quilt, curled up in a corner, and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

The lobby was dark and obscure, and there was no sound.

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Upstairs in the narrow hallway, someone dragged a box and scraped the ground carefully with their wheels.

Chen Ming held the handle of the suitcase tightly, stood in front of Xu Chunping's door, and gasped for three breaths.

The light could still be seen through the crack of the door, and Xu Chunping's room was still lit.

Chen Ming looked down at the box for a while, grinned, as if he had suddenly found strength, he raised his hand and gently knocked on Xu Chunping's door.

The door opened immediately, revealing Xu Chunping's pale face through the crack.

Chen Ming swallowed, and asked softly, "Chunping, can I go in?"

Xu Chunping didn't budge, she blocked the door, only lowered her eyes to look at the box in Chen Ming's hand: "Money?"

"Yes." Chen Ming nodded, "I sold that gold medal to Brother Sun. It was all given by Brother Sun."

Chen Ming said anxiously: "Cash, really, you should trust me this time."

Xu Chunping was not as happy as he thought, and didn't even give him a smiling face.Xu Chunping just raised one corner of his mouth: "Open it and let me see."

Her tone was full of sarcasm, and she must have completely disbelieved it.

"You... are here?" Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, "You let me in. What do you think here?"

Xu Chunping didn't speak, her expression became more and more strange, and her face actually started to turn blue.She still stared at Chen Ming's box, staring at it tightly.

Chen Ming sweated a lot, so he had to squat at the door, lay down the box and open it: "Okay, then you see."

Chen Ming opened the box, and sure enough, his eyes were full of red RMB.Chen Ming's face was flushed, and he looked up at Xu Chunping: "Chunping, do you see that? With this money, we can live a good life."

Longing for a new life too much, Chen Ming couldn't stop talking about his plan, in a low voice, which was taller than thousands of ambitious ambitions: "We can open a store, don't you like to eat fans? Let's open fans shop, I am busy in the back kitchen, and you are at the front to welcome customers, Xiao Wei..."

"Chen Ming." Xu Chunping interrupted him suddenly and coldly, her face was still stiff, her expression remained motionless, as if frozen, "Have you seen the following?"

"what?"

"Next." Xu Chunping squatted down, and she looked at Chen Ming face to face. At that moment, there was an inexplicable pity in her eyes.

"Next? It's all money..." Chen Ming paused as he spoke, his whole body trembled, and he quickly picked up the box with his hands.

Except for the top layer of money, there are layers of red paper firmly stuffed underneath.The red paper sheets are thin, thick and tightly stacked together.

Chen Ming was dumbfounded.God is sorry, his useless pumpkin brain finally turned around in the next second.Chen Ming gritted his teeth until his tongue trembled. He couldn't believe it and said to Xu Chunping, "Shuanzi... Shuanzi lied to me?"

Xu Chunping was silent for a while, then suddenly smiled, very heartily.

She touched Chen Ming's face with her cold hand, and her voice seemed to come from the underworld, and she said in a horrified voice, "I knew that you would have no future in this life. Sure enough, no one in our family of three should live and suffer." , shall we reunite in hell?"

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Zhou Qizun only opened his eyes when he heard the sound of bumping upstairs.

He has not fallen asleep, but Lao Peng beside him has fallen asleep.Lao Peng slept soundly and let out a slight low sound.

Zhou Qizun glanced at Lao Peng, turned over from the kang, and stopped by the table.

He picked up the pimple soup that Lao Peng made for him earlier.The pimple soup had become cold, barely warm.

Zhou Qizun raised his head and emptied the bowl in one go.

Although it was not hot, it still tasted good.

After eating, Zhou Qizun felt that his stomach was solid, and his hunger was satisfied.

Sure enough, what Lao Peng said was right, people can always eat.

The noise above the head continued, the movement was not too big or too small, like a rat.I don't know which house the guests are struggling with.

Zhou Qizun raised his head and glanced up the stairs, and suddenly thought of Sun Feiteng and his group.Even if someone was killed, Zhou Qizun didn't think that their shady activities could be broken.

So Zhou Qizun took a step to go upstairs to have a look.

The rustling sound was getting closer and closer, turning around the corner of the stairs, Zhou Qizun saw Xu Chunping's door was open, the light was thrown from the door, and fell on the opposite wall, as if a big hole had been dug in the wall.

The voice came from Xu Chunping's room, Zhou Qizun suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, he walked into Xu Chunping's room quickly, and didn't bother to knock on the door.

Stepping in, Zhou Qizun's muscles tensed up immediately!

Red pieces of paper were scattered all over the ground. Xu Chunping squeezed Chen Ming's neck tightly and pressed him tightly.

Chen Ming's face was blue and purple, his eyeballs were rolled up, his mouth was opened, and there was a small and weak "cluck" sound from his throat.His legs, feet and hands were constantly twitching, and ten fingers were scratching the ground vigorously!

In the dead of night just now, what Zhou Qizun heard was Chen Ming struggling!

"Let him go!" Zhou Qizun rushed up quickly, grabbed Xu Chunping, and pulled him up.

Xu Chunping turned her head and gave Zhou Qizun a hard look.Zhou Qizun's head buzzed, and the back of his head seemed to be swung with a mallet.

——Xu Chunping Where are human eyes?Her eyeballs are red!The dark pupils stood upright, like an abyss opening deep into the sea of ​​blood.

Zhou Qizun suspected that he was crazy, or dreaming.But before he had time to think, Xu Chunping had already rushed towards him.

Xu Chunping's strength is too great, this is not the strength a woman should have at all!Zhou Qizun and Xu Chunping wrestled together, feeling like they were fighting a lioness.

Chen Ming on the other end heaved a sigh of relief, straightened his body, and turned over like a dead fish. He made a sound like a broken bellows, and just crawled two steps towards the door, kicked his legs, and closed his eyes. I don't know if I'm dead or fainted.

Zhou Qizun was still entangled with Xu Chunping. During the beating, Zhou Qizun bumped his forehead against the table leg and knocked blood from his forehead.

The blood hurt his eyes, and with a ruthless force, Zhou Qizun pushed his knee up, and kicked Xu Chunping to the window!

Xu Chunping almost flew out. At that moment, her fingertips scratched the back of Zhou Qizun's neck, and Zhou Qizun immediately felt a heat on his neck.

Zhou Qizun wiped his neck with his hand, his palm was full of blood.The wound was deep.If this position were any further off, his aorta would definitely be severed.

Are these human fingernails?This is obviously a knife!

Xu Chunping was kicked by Zhou Qizun, but she was not injured at all. She quickly got up from the ground, opened the window, and was about to jump out!

"Don't jump!" Zhou Qizun pressed the wound on his neck tightly and shouted at Xu Chunping.

Xu Chunping naturally wouldn't listen to him.She jumped out of the window without hesitation.

With his heart in his throat, Zhou Qizun ran to the window to look down, but he didn't see the bloody man who fell on the ground.

Xu Chunping actually landed steadily with both feet on the ground.

At this time, Zhou Qizun saw a large area of ​​golden light drilled out of the ground, which was like the blood of the earth, breaking through the ground one by one, forming a huge net, which was about to engulf Xu Chunping!

The net got tighter and tighter, Xu Chunping suddenly knelt on the ground, raised her head and yelled.The scream was sharp and shrill, piercing his ears, making Zhou Qizun dizzy for a while.

After the cry, Xu Chunping emitted a thick black air and merged with the night. Zhou Qizun could no longer see her clearly, only saw the golden network cables break one by one and disappear one by one... .

The blood from the forehead flowed into the eyes again, and Zhou Qizun had to wipe it off, but as soon as he closed his eyes, there was nothing left downstairs.The golden network cable, Xu Chunping, was gone.Only the endless night.It seemed that what Zhou Qizun saw just now were all hallucinations.

"It's fucking crazy." Zhou Qizun wished he could slap himself so that his blind pair would wake up.

"What's the matter?...Xiao Zun, what's the matter with you!" Lao Peng was woken up by the sound of the fight, and when he came to see Zhou Qizun, he howled immediately.

The wound on Zhou Qizun's neck had just stopped bleeding, and now his entire collar was blood red, and his face was bloody and bloody.

"Still keeping people from sleeping? Are you crazy?" Everyone was terrified that day, the guest next door was woken up, the last string finally broke, and he opened the door and yelled at the corridor.

Zhou Qizun didn't have time to think about it, he stepped over and closed the door in two steps: "Uncle Peng, I'm fine."

Lao Peng only felt his blood pressure soaring. He leaned his neck back and took a deep breath, then couldn't help but widen his eyes, and backed up.

He took a few steps back, and he didn't stabilize until his whole body leaned against the wall: "Little, little respect..."

That half-dead bastard of Chen Ming was in the way, so Zhou Qizun simply stepped over his lap and quickly helped Old Peng: "Uncle Peng?"

Lao Peng pointed to the roof: "That, that..."

Lao Peng was speechless.Zhou Qizun looked up.

——On the ceiling, there is a five-finger paw print!

Zhou Qizun froze all over.He stared at the paw print, unable to move for a while.After a while, Zhou Qizun held his breath, slowly looked down, and saw the child lying on the bed again.He is the child of Xu Chunping and Chen Ming.

Zhou Qizun rushed forward.His feeling was like being splashed with cold water.

Previously, the situation was urgent, he was only focused on fighting with Xu Chunping, and didn't notice it.With such a big commotion just now, this bear cub has always been good at barking, why is he silent and crying tonight?

Zhou Qizun only took one look at the child, and his heart turned cold.

He still reached out to check the child's breath.

I'm out of breath.