Burning fire

When we arrived at Lei Dongyang's house, it was past noon, the sun shifted slightly, and it was already afternoon.

Lei Dongyang's house is an ordinary small square building with a small yard and a kennel, but there is no dog in the kennel. It must have been raised before, but now it is dead or lost.

Lei Dongyang is an old man. His parents only got such a son when they were in their 40s. Later, Lei Dongyang's father passed away, and only his mother was left to take care of him.Calculated by age, Lei Dongyang's mother is also in her 60s this year.This age is not reconciled to being old, and even more reconciled to being young.

Knowing that Zhou Qizun and the others were coming, Zhao Ting had been waiting in the yard.

"Auntie." Zhou Qizun walked into the courtyard and met Zhao Ting immediately.

Not pretty, but Zhou Zheng is a clean person. Lei Dongyang looks very similar to her, especially the eyebrows and eyes. Zhou Qizun almost froze when he saw it.

Zhang Jueming turned his head to look at Guo Qingxuan, Guo Qingxuan's eye circles were already red, he was worried that Guo Qingxuan would be forced out by Longan if she became emotional, so he called out in a low voice: "Guo Qingxuan."

Guo Qingxuan just came back to her senses, she hugged the backpack tightly in her arms, and quickly lowered her head.

"Here we come." Zhao Ting laughed. The skin on her face was a little rough, and the wrinkles couldn't be stretched. With this smile, her face looked more wrinkled.

"I've been waiting for you for a while. There is food in the room. You haven't eaten yet, right? Come in quickly." Zhao Ting greeted, "My surname is Zhao, you can just call me Aunt Zhao."

"Aunt Zhao." Zhou Qizun stepped forward and held Zhao Ting's hand for a long time. Zhao Ting's hand was very soft and light—it was her finger bones that were also getting old.

Zhou Qizun let go of Zhao Ting's hand, he took a step back, lowered his head, and bowed to Zhao Ting: "Aunt Zhao, I'm sorry."

Zhao Ting didn't move, and it took a long time for tears to slowly wet the eye sockets.She forced the corners of her lips, stubbornly refusing to shrink: "I know, I know, I know it all in my heart."

Zhao Ting's voice was hoarse, and she said softly, "I've known since Dongyang went to the special forces and since he disappeared."

A drop of tears fell, and she choked up and said, "I am only his son, and I am proud of him."

Zhou Qizun couldn't raise his head or stand up straight for a long time.

pride.But Lei Dongyang was killed by evil, he was killed.

"Auntie." Guo Qingxuan was still crying, and tears fell from her pointed chin. She handed the backpack in her arms to Zhao Ting, as if every millimeter of arm moved forward, a piece of internal organs was cut, "He is here. "

Zhao Ting didn't take it immediately, she looked at the backpack, until the tears in her eyes were all shed, and her vision was clear, she took the backpack with trembling hands.

Heavy, this is her only son.

"Let's all come in, come in, come in and eat." Zhao Ting hugged her backpack tightly, turned around and walked back into the house.As she was walking, she suddenly shouted, "Dongyang, Mom took you home!"

The woman's thin and hoarse voice shook the small courtyard, and the lonely and hollow doghouse seemed to be trembling along with it.

Guo Qingxuan covered her mouth with her hand and took a deep breath.She really wanted to kneel down and cry again.

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Home-cooked dishes, but good taste and generous portions.I thought there would be no appetite, but the five of them ate a lot surprisingly.

Zhou Qizun touched his belly, it was swollen and full.

The more delicious the food, the sadder you feel; the more sad you feel, the more you eat; the more you eat, the more delicious you eat.

Zhou Qizun couldn't figure out what kind of weird logic this was, anyway, there were eight dishes on the table, all on CD-ROM.

In order to find the wooden slips, they wanted to stay here for a few more days. They planned to find a hotel or homestay nearby, but when Zhao Ting heard about it, she immediately wanted to stay with them.

"Some strange things have happened in the town in the past six months. Today is No. 17. You should have noticed something wrong along the way, right?" Zhao Ting was washing a plate of fruit in her hand.

"Well, we asked someone and got a general understanding." Zhou Qizun said simply.

Zhao Ting rubbed a pear in her hand three or five times, and it was clean: "I won't say more about the bad luck. The business in the town is not good, and the hotel is not willing to accept outsiders, so you can stay at home." .”

Zhao Ting: "Although my house is not big, there are two rooms. The one where my father and I live is larger and can accommodate two men. There is also a study room and a small warehouse. Come over from other places and help me bury Dongyang, hurry back after staying for two days, thank you, auntie."

"Auntie, you are being too polite." Zhou Qizun felt uncomfortable.Zhao Ting herself is here, isn't she just waiting to die, waiting to be buried?What else could she hope for?

After washing a plate of fruit, Zhao Ting put the plate in the middle of the table and smiled at Zhou Qizun: "Eat. I grow pears at home and a bag of water. Dongyang likes this the most."

"Thank you, auntie." Zhou Qizun took a pear, opened his mouth and took a big bite, it was so juicy that he almost choked on the sweet juice.

Zhao Ting looked at the five people one by one, and finally her eyes stopped on Guo Qingxuan's face for two seconds.Zhao Ting picked up a pear and handed it to Guo Qingxuan: "Dongyang's house has been empty for many years, but I have always cleaned it very clean."

She asked Guo Qingxuan: "Would you like to live with me?"

Guo Qingxuan shook her hand, and Lizi almost fell to the ground and rolled.She met Zhao Ting's eyes.There was something in the eyes of the two women, rolling slightly.

Guo Qingxuan said dryly, "Okay."

As a standard follower, Guo Xiaotong originally wanted to live in the same room with Guo Qingxuan, but seeing Guo Qingxuan's expression, she finally got the hang of it.

Guo Xiaotong pulled the corner of Lin Juan's windbreaker: "Ugly, then I'll live with you."

Lin Juan suddenly jumped up from the stool, his face was red and his ears were red, and he didn't know where to put his hands: "You you! What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Ah? You are not happy? Why are you not happy?" Guo Xiaotong thought to herself, she is only a little bigger than a palm when she becomes the original body, and it doesn't take up space. What's wrong with lying on the corner?

I can't get angry.But due to the atmosphere between Zhao Ting and Guo Qingxuan, Guo Xiaotong is not easy to get angry.No matter how blind you are, you still have eyes, and she still has some eyesight.

So Guo Xiaotong pouted, and went to talk to someone who was easy to talk to. She hoped Zhang Jueming: "My lord, how about I come with you?"

"No." Zhou Qizun and Zhang Jueming said in unison.

Guo Xiaotong: "..."

The little rabbit was wronged: "Do you want to despise me so much?"

Zhang Jueming looked at Zhou Qizun from the corner of his eye, and found that Zhou Qizun was staring at him with his head sideways, which made Zhang Jueming sit upright and his breathing tightened.

"You...you..." Zhang Jueming's body was familiar on the side close to Zhou Qizun, and he was numb with his half-drawn tongue, unable to speak.

Zhou Qizun knew that Zhang Jueming would not be able to get on the stage, so he hooked the corners of his mouth and declared his sovereignty openly: "Jade Ming must live with me."

He thought about it for a while, then pinched Zhang Jueming lightly with his salty pig's hand, and said to Zhang Jueming, "Don't you still want to protect me?"

——Protect me, close to me.Don't talk too much, I'm afraid Zhang Jueming will crack the ground, if he goes back to the bottom of the [-]th floor of hell, his mortal body will have nowhere to fish.

"...Well, yes." Zhang Jueming said with difficulty.With Zhou Qizun's pinch, one of his hands was crippled again.

When they divided the rooms, Zhao Ting had already entered the room to make the beds for them. When Zhao Ting was away, Zhang Jueming found an opportunity to "speak right" to himself: "Zhou Qizun needs my protection. His body is abnormal. I have to keep an eye on him." he."

"Brother Zhou should really stay by your side." Lin Juan nodded in agreement, straight-heartedly.

"Then who do I live with?" Guo Xiaotong whispered.

Zhao Ting came out of the back room at this moment, and just heard Guo Xiaotong's words.She smiled faintly: "I can live in it. There is a folding bed in the warehouse, I just open it."

"But I don't want to live alone." Guo Xiaotong whispered even more.

Guo Qingxuan and Zhao Ting lived in Lei Dongyang's house because of the word "love", while Zhang Jueming and Zhou Qizun lived in the same house and it was "reasonable".

"Good Lin Juan, Lin Xiao is in charge." Guo Xiaotong tugged at Lin Juan's sleeve, "Just accept me."

"You, you, you, you, you, talk well, you!" Lin Juan was about to be driven crazy by this stupid rabbit, and the blush on his face was already burnt.

"How can you speak well? Do you have the heart to let me lie alone in the warehouse?" Guo Xiaotong stared.

This girl's knowledge is too shallow, her intelligence is not complete, she has never seen the world under the protection of Guo Qingxuan, she is not sensible, she is an idiot when she comes up.She is far inferior to the unformed cat spirit of Spade——she works for Zhang Jueming, wanders the streets and alleys all day long, and sees the warmth and coldness of people.

Fortunately, this idiot Bao made a joke, and the atmosphere in the room became much better. Both Guo Qingxuan and Zhao Ting couldn't help laughing.

Zhao Ting joked, "So you two are a couple."

"No! No! Auntie, you... missed it." Lin Juan covered his face and let out a low "ah".

Guo Xiaotong's ears are leaking, and now she only cares about whether she will lie alone in the warehouse at night, and she is still trying her best to fight: "Lin Juan, please do yourself a favor and be a human being! Why don't you have any love at all!"

"You have a rabbit's head!" Lin Juan was so choked up that he finally exploded.He stood up and ran out quickly.

Everyone: "..."

Zhou Qizun burst into laughter, and everyone laughed along with him.

Guo Xiaotong was dumbfounded.She is a pure white and innocent little rabbit, what did she do wrong?

"Ouch." Zhou Qizun picked up another pear and placed it in his hands as a cushion, he said casually, "Why are young males so willing to be ashamed?"

"One is more ashamed than the other. If you are so ashamed, don't be generous." Zhou Qizun tilted his head slightly and asked Zhang Jueming, "What do you mean, Jueming? Is Lin Juan worthless?"

Zhang Jueming moved his lips, but couldn't make a sound.He stood up, bowed his head and walked out: "I'll call Lin Juan back."

Zhou Qizun wiped his face - look, Zhang Jueming didn't accept his offer.

After leaving the house, Lin Juan had long since disappeared, and Zhang Jueming did not look for him.Zhang Jueming leaned his back against the wall and looked up at the sun.

The sun is not as intense as it was when it came, and you can even look up. In another hour or two, the sun will become gentle, red and soft, and slowly fall into the sky.

Zhang Jueming slowly raised his hand and pressed his palm firmly against his heart.

His heartbeat was very painful, like dancing on tiptoe in a sea of ​​swords and fire.

Stamping on the sweet and deadly drum beats, piercing the flesh and blood of the soles of the feet, and burning them to death.