Farewell to the Ancient House

The weather in late June is already very hot.Bai Ling and Lu Luo rode their bicycles along the main road of the city, sweating profusely.It was not very far from the destination, but riding for three hours made both of them a little exhausted.In order not to feel that they were going to die of exhaustion, the two could only talk about some topics to distract some attention.

"Have you heard the legend about that zombie?" Lu Luo asked.

Bai Ting knew that what Lu Luo asked was probably a well-known legend in this city: It is said that every 50 years, people who died at a certain time and place will be resurrected, becoming zombies without heartbeat and pulse, fighting each other, In the end, the zombie with the most complete body will get another chance to be reborn.

This legend really doesn't sound like a legend at all, but rather like the background setting of some survival games, probably made up by modern people to add some excitement to this lifeless city.But also too clumsy.

This is what the 9-year-old Bai Ling and his cousin were thinking when they were lazily lying on the sofa and listening to their grandfather mysteriously tell this so-called legend.

But Bai Ting didn't know why Lu Luo suddenly brought up this topic.

"Of course I have," he replied. "What's wrong?"

Lu Luo smiled: "The place we are going to now is said to be the place where the legend happened, the place where the zombies fight each other."

The destination of the two was the residence of Lu Luo's biological father, a very famous mansion in the local area.

"Where it happened?" Bai Jing asked, "Do you have any explanation?"

Lu Luo pretended to be mysterious and said: "Look, these zombies fighting for the right to live will definitely affect the residents. God has set aside a piece of land for them. If the zombies run out of this land, it will immediately turn into ashes. The Lu family His old house is such a piece of land."

Bai Jing found it interesting: "Why are you telling me this? Are you a descendant of zombies?" He pretended to be thinking: "No, as a green radish, you have to fight zombies to make sense." He shook his head again: " The green radish plant doesn't seem to have high combat effectiveness, so you might as well change the name to Mung Bean, and it will probably be able to shoot beans like a pea shooter."

"Fuck you." Lu Luo smiled and kicked the beam of the white-collared bicycle. "It's just you talking nonsense." Bai Ting pretended to be kicked severely by Lu Luo, deliberately twisted the handle crookedly, fell behind a little, then kicked back and kicked Lu Luo's car's rear frame.

The two of them played and played with hippie smiles, and unknowingly rode to the gate of the mansion.

Although the two of them talked and laughed during the journey, the actual purpose of this journey was not so easy and pleasant.

Bai Ling accompanied Lu Luo to find his father to ask for living expenses.

Lu Luo's father, Lu Jingchun, is the boss of the largest company in the city.His company is mainly engaged in precision instrument processing.And Lu Luo is the illegitimate child of Lu Jingchun who was around 50 years old and had an extramarital affair with a freshly graduated female college student.Lu Jingchun once thought about taking Lu Luo into the mansion, but he didn't want to give Lu Luo's mother the identity she wanted.Lu Luo's mother did everything possible to prevent the two from meeting, but she was reluctant to part with the huge benefits provided by the Lu family.So now the two have reached an agreement that Lu Luo will visit his father once a month, and Lu Jingchun will give Lu Luo mother and son a reasonable amount of living expenses every month.

Therefore, Lu Luo needs to visit his father's mansion every month.His mother didn't have any job, and lived entirely on the support money Lu Luo asked for.

Bai Ling and Lu Luo are neighbors and grew up together.He felt a little distressed that Lu Luo had to suffer every month.Lu Jingchun's original partner's child will definitely not give Lu Luo a good look.However, Lu Luo looked at it indifferently. He said: "One hour of anger a month, earning X million in vain, and the hourly salary is worth it." Then he added: "Recently, the old man had a stroke, so I just It’s nothing more than going to his house to see him humming on the bed, it’s not a big deal.”

However, Bai Ting still felt distressed.When Lu Luo said this, he couldn't help but patted Lu Luo's head comfortingly, but Lu Luo laughed and said that he was like a dead gay.

This time, for some unknown reason, Lu Luo asked Bai Ting to accompany him to the Lu family mansion.Lu Luo didn't explain the reason, and Bai Ting didn't ask any further questions.He and Lu Luo had just finished their college entrance exams, so they had a lot of time to squander anyway.

The two parked their bicycles on the side of the road in front of the mansion's front yard.The Lu family mansion is located on the outskirts of the city, a small road extending from the main road of the city leads directly to the gate of the mansion.The house is located in a small forest, the environment is quiet, some distance from the towns in the city.

When he reached the gate of the front yard, Bai Jie felt a strange feeling in his heart for some reason.Can't tell if I'm nervous or excited.More of a faint unease.

Lu Luo seemed to sense the change in Bai Jie's mood, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Bai Ting blinked his eyes, then put on a timid look, stretched out his arms and put his arms around Lu Luo's shoulders: "After so many years, I finally have to see my father-in-law. I'm so nervous."

"Don't be poor." Lu Luo blushed a little, smiled and pushed Bai Ling's hand away, then pressed the doorbell, and said the visitor and purpose into the intercom.After a while, a young girl opened the door for the two of them.

"This is my friend, Bai Ling. This is the nanny who has been taking care of my father, Xiao Yang." Lu Luo briefly introduced.

The little nanny nodded, said please come with me, and led the two of them into the yard.

Passing through a shallow front yard, the three of them entered the mansion.

Lu Luo followed the babysitter to meet his father.Liu Baijing wandered around in the hall alone.This is a double-height hall, and there is a staircase on the side facing the gate, leading to the second-floor platform.Standing on that platform can probably have a panoramic view of the hall.

The hall is empty, except for the sofa and coffee table, there is a statue of Guan Gong holding a big knife in the center of the hall, and various clocks and pendants hanging all over the wall.There are no windows on the walls of the hall, and the skylights are used for lighting.However, because the hall is relatively high, the lighting effect is not good, and it looks gloomy.The decoration style of the entire hall is neither Chinese nor foreign, neither fish nor fowl.And there is no trace of life.

While Bai Ling was carefully studying the various clocks and clocks hanging on the wall, he saw a middle-aged man and a beautiful young woman walking out of the corridor on the east side of the hall.The middle-aged man froze when he saw the white collar, and then asked vigilantly, "Who are you?"

At this time, the little nanny just came out of the room, and immediately explained to the middle-aged man: "This is the young master's friend." Then she introduced to Bai Ting: "This is the young master and young mistress."

The middle-aged man snorted, and went straight to Lu Jingchun's room without paying any attention to the white collar.And his wife - according to the nanny's name, she should be the young mistress, nodded slightly to the white collar, and walked to the west corridor.

Bai Ting didn't care. At this moment, his heart was full of bullet screens like "I'm so open to being called young master and young mistress in what age."At the same time, he was also preparing to make fun of Lu Luo with "Little Master" for a while.

Bai Ting turned around, wanting to have a few words with the babysitter, but saw her staring at Lu Jingchun's door expressionlessly, with her lips pursed tightly.She was terribly pale, like a patient who has been ill for a long time.

"Are you... all right?" He asked cautiously.

The little nanny seemed to wake up suddenly, and shook her head: "It's okay, you are so worried." After finishing speaking, she also walked towards the corridor to the west.

Bai Ting thought helplessly: "This family is really indifferent." At this moment, he heard footsteps coming from the corridor.In order to prevent the embarrassing meeting just now from happening again, Bai Ting sneaked onto the second floor platform.

There is a door on the platform that seems to lead to a study.Bai Ling leaned on the railing and looked down, as expected, he could see the whole hall.The clocks decorated with the Virgin Mary and angels hanging on the walls are in sharp contrast with the green clay statue of Guan Gong in the center of the hall.

The door behind him suddenly squeaked, and a voice said with a little surprise: "Bai Ling? Why are you here?"

Bai Ting knows who it is without turning around.For two years he listened to the limp voice.Every time in Chinese class, no matter how much Bai Jing wanted to persevere, he would fall asleep with the sound in the end.

"Ms. Lu," he turned back and smiled, "You are here too."

Standing behind the white collar is a young man in his twenties, who is very handsome and beautiful, but it is only superficial.This teacher Lu Tonglu was the Chinese teacher of Lu Luo and Bai Jing during their second and third years of high school. He was weak in class, but he was particularly energetic every time he had fun with male and female students.He is very flattering to the school leaders, but when it comes to giving lectures to students, he likes to ignore them.The classmates hated him very much and complained to the principal many times, but since this teacher Lu seemed to be Lu Jingchun's nephew, the principal could not do anything with him.At any rate, the knowledge points he taught were correct, so he was asked to take Bai Collar and them for two years.

However, Bai Jie didn't dislike Teacher Lu very much.Probably because of blood relationship, he felt that Teacher Lu's eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Lu Luo's.

At this moment, Teacher Lu stood behind Bai Ting, looked at Bai Ting with raised eyebrows, and said, "I've been living here. Are you here with Lu Luo?"

Bai Ting replied: "Yes."

Lu Tong smiled ambiguously: "You two have a really good relationship." Then the topic changed, "How did you do in the college entrance examination? What university do you plan to go to?"

Bai Ting replied honestly: "I passed the exam. I plan to go to University A."

Lu Tong asked again: "What about Lu Luo?"

Bai Ting replied: "B is big."

Lu Tong said, "I thought you would go to the same school."

Bai Ting smiled: "I really want to go, the B score is so high." He added: "No matter how good the relationship is, we can't stay together forever."

The teacher wanted to say something, but heard a noise coming from the first floor.He waved his hand and walked down the stairs alone.Bai Ting stayed on the second floor alone.When he was thinking about whether to go to the study, he heard the noise downstairs becoming more and more intense.

Holding on to the railing with his hands, Bai Ting leaned down a little to see what happened, but only saw an old man.The old man shyly walked towards the west corridor.As if hearing the sound from the second floor, the old man looked up and met Bai Ting's eyes.

The old man shook his head nervously, said a few words, then bowed his head and left.Bai Ting couldn't hear clearly, but his mouth seemed to say "Don't stay here, let's go".

Just as the bewildered Bai Ling wanted to retract his body and prepare to go downstairs to ask carefully, he felt a heavy blow to his back. He lost his balance and fell from the handrail on the second floor.

The word "not good" hadn't come out yet in Bai Ting's mind.I felt my chest being pierced by the cold touch, and there was a sudden sharp pain.His body hit the floor with a "bang", accompanied by a series of broken utensils.

Bai Ting knew that he probably fell from the second floor and happened to hit the statue of Guan Gong with a big knife. The big knife must have pierced his chest, and he felt the wind passing through his chest.

I guess I won't survive.White collar thought.

He turned over and meditated in his heart "Parents, mothers and sons are unfilial and left first, don't be too sad" to prepare for the moment when he lost consciousness.

However, this moment never came.

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August 31, XX3

I saw my mother push Aunt Liu down the stairs.

Aunt Liu is dead.Everyone said that she walked carelessly by herself.

The second brother was very sad.keep crying.

I gave it to him with sweet-scented osmanthus cake, but he refused, saying that he doesn't like sweets.

In the past he was very happy to accept.

I also feel sad.This is obviously the mother who did something wrong, and she was not punished at all.But the second brother was so sad.

I wanted to tell my second brother about my mother, but my mother forbade it.

I can only say sorry to my second brother on behalf of my mother.

The second brother looked at me for a while, then patted my head and said it was all right.

Brother's eyes are so beautiful.

The author has something to say:

The date was made up by me just to show the time difference, it has nothing to do with reality.