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[September three Yin

Anxiety, sleeplessness. ]

After opening the diary for a long time, Liang Jixuan sighed and finally paused.The heart is in a mess, stirring up thousands of thoughts, and the truth is poured into the pen, but only four words are left.After chatting with his mother, he went back to the bedroom. After three patrols on the street, Liang Jixuan closed his clothes, got up, lit the lamp, and collected his thoughts.

Since he set off from Germany, he has been drifting on the ship for more than half a month.In the past four years, he has been in constant contact with his brother.In the past four years, Liang Jiqing went to Peiping, joined the Minsheng newspaper, and ran from a reporter to the editor-in-chief. He knew everything about it.Before boarding the ship, he wrote a letter to Liang Jiqing, fearing that he might not know the situation and send it to the wrong address.Counting forward and backward, he has not heard from his brother in recent months.

Before leaving, his last correspondence with Liang Jiqing was addressed to Minsheng Newspaper.The address of the last correspondence between my brother and my mother was also at the Minsheng newspaper.When the vision of the osmanthus tree first appeared in the courtyard, Mrs. Liang secretly sent someone to look for Liang Jiqing, and also went to the newspaper office to inquire, but Liang Jiqing had taken a long vacation early, and no one in the agency knew his exact address. Cut off the thread, let it go.

Liang Jiqing was careful in his work, and never revealed his home address to them.With no other clues, Liang Jixuan flicked the envelope, and finally decided that when he arrived in Peiping, he would go to the newspaper office where Liang Jiqing worked first to find out the situation.

"Young master, it's late at night, let's go to bed earlier." Seeing that the light was still on in his room, Uncle Fu brought in the night food. Come back in one day. Do you need to move the boat ticket to Peking for another day?"

"No need," Liang Jixuan paused, but still slowly shook his head, "When I go to Beiping and bring my brother back, let's have a good reunion as a family."

Hearing the news that the old man would not come back, Liang Jixuan secretly heaved a sigh of relief when he was disappointed, and let go of a big stone in his heart.He was really a little afraid of his old man.The Liang family has practiced medicine for generations, and their ancestors had worked in the imperial hospital before retiring and returning to Yonghe Town. Seriously, the memorial archway at the head of the town was awarded to their family by Long Live God.Mr. Liang is proud of this, but he is also troubled by it. He has always looked down on foreigners' knowledge of Western medicine.

The Liang family was originally a big family, but in their generation, the population has become thinner.There are no brothers and sisters above, and no younger brothers and sisters below. Mr. Liang has such a pair of twins at the age of forty.

He naturally hoped that the pair of twins would inherit his mantle in the future.However, Liang Jiqing was not a peaceful person, he was rebellious by nature, he didn't like to handle herbs, he didn't like four books and five classics, he was very naughty.He played truant from school to visit the theater troupe, Master Liang's commandments were broken several times, and the punishment of kneeling in the ancestral hall was almost sealed, and Liang Jiqing's rebellious bone was not broken.

As soon as the elder son was mentioned, Mr. Liang couldn't stop having headaches, no matter what, rotten wood can't be carved, it's better to find another good material, and when the voice changed, he couldn't help but praise the younger son.Indeed, compared to his elder brother who was born only three or two minutes earlier, Liang Jixuan was really well-behaved, and Master Liang had always placed his hope of succeeding the important tasks of the medical center on his youngest son.But he never expected that such a silent and peaceful master would be so stubborn that no one could stop him.

At that time, he sneaked to Peiping and was admitted to study abroad at public expense.He walked away freely, but now that he is back, how to clean up the follow-up mess has become a big problem.Liang Jixuan helped his forehead, couldn't help smiling wryly, and fell asleep with a basketful of worries.

On the second day, Liang Jixuan was awakened by a nightmare.I don’t know if it was because the big black dog left a deep impression on him when he entered the door yesterday. In his dream, he was chased by the dog all the way. barked at him.

He fled in a hurry, but was stopped by Men Kansheng who appeared suddenly in front of him.No matter how hard he tried to lift his legs, he couldn't get over the high gate.Liang Jixuan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, but the black dog who was pressing on every step of the way suddenly fell down with a whimper.There was an inexplicably neat crack on the dog's head, as if it had been cut open in the middle by an invisible knife. Fresh blood spurted from the wound and splashed all over the ground. , melted into a crimson and dark cloth.The black dog was lying in a pool of blood, its chest heaving and contracting violently, so deep that the ribs were faintly exposed. Gradually, the blood became more and more, and the heaving of the black dog became smaller... He let out a whimper suddenly, The hind leg twitched violently, and immediately collapsed to the ground limply, motionless, stiff, and even the glossy black fur lost its luster.

Liang Jixuan woke up suddenly from the dream, holding on to the side of the bed and retching.The dream was too real, he could vaguely hear the desperate wailing, and he seemed to be able to smell the pungent sweet smell of rust and blood at the tip of his nose.He sat up, his back felt cold for a while, beads of sweat trickled down his forehead, soaking half of the pillow, as if he had just been scooped out of the water.

The sky outside the window was still gloomy, and the time could not be seen, so Liang Jixuan got up in a daze and went to touch his coat pocket.The abnormally wet touch under his hands made him feel uneasy.Liang Jixuan collected himself, and took out a brocade box from his pocket.A pocket watch lay securely on the silk velvet, the plastic paper wrapped in it hadn't been torn off, and the metal bracelet reflected an oily luster.I don’t know when water entered the box, the watch was soaked in the water, and the glass cover was covered with a layer of water vapor, which obscured the dial, and the hour and minute hands could be vaguely seen overlapped and fixed at the starting point .

The pocket watch got water and broke, and the hands stopped at twelve o'clock.Liang Jixuan rubbed his forehead with a headache. This was a gift he was going to bring to Liang Jiqing. Everything was really not going well along the way.

Human voices could be faintly heard outside the window, and it intensified, Liang Jixuan couldn't be clean, so he simply gave up sleeping and went back to the cage, and went out to take a closer look.In the courtyard, with the osmanthus tree as the center, the inner three floors and the outer three floors are surrounded by people, all dressed in black coats, black trousers and black cloth shoes, all dressed in black clothes.Fu Bo stood in the middle, his jet-black hair was disheveled by the cold wind, like a ball of reeds, which was particularly eye-catching.

Liang Jixuan felt uneasy, and just wanted to move forward, but was stopped by Mrs. Liang at the side.Mrs. Liang is also dressed in plain color today, and her jade-white skin is getting colder and colder because of the dull black.She grabbed Liang Jixuan, touching the meat with her fingertips, it was as cold as jade.

Uncle Fu picked up a piece of silk cloth from the altar table. The cloth was bright red and decorated with a few unevenly dyed dark spots. From a distance, it looked like a coquettish red plum in bloom.Mrs. Liang's fingertips trembled slightly, and Liang Jixuan felt the smell of iron rust and blood that lingered on the tip of his nose in the dream gather and disperse again.

tbc.