Farewell to the Ancient House

After breakfast, Bai Ling and Lu Luo went to visit Lu Jingchun again.Lu Jingchun had obviously heard the whole story from Dr. Zhao.He was very pale and looked very tired.

Lu Jingchun didn't say anything to the two of them, but just told Lu Luo to be careful.Don't go out and walk around at night.Lu Luo agreed, and just about to leave, he thought about it for a while, and asked Dr. Zhao for the keys to all the rooms.

Bai Ting looked at Lu Luo suspiciously, and Lu Luo smiled and said, "There are too many unresolved problems now. We have to find some clues before we can take the initiative."

Dr. Zhao said with some concern: "Lu Luo, I know you are anxious about Bai Tie, but don't be too impulsive."

Lu Luo felt that Dr. Zhao might be worried that he would kill the other two with the key. After thinking for a while, he said, "I asked Lu Tong to follow us. The key will be returned to you at night. Is that okay?"

Dr. Zhao hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

Lu Luo tied a large bunch of keys on his belt, which looked very much like the school gatekeeper, Uncle Zhang.Bai Ting called "Uncle Lu" to make fun of him, while thinking about where to find Lu Tong.

Lu Luo saw Bai Jie's thoughts, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "I just asked Dr. Zhao to accompany Lu Tong. If we meet Lu Tong, let him follow us. It would be better if we don't meet him."

Bai Ling nodded, agreeing.He patted Lu Luo on the back: "Let's go, Mr. Lu."

The two first went to Lu Ai's room to confirm his situation.Lu Luo opened the door with a narrow gap, and he could just see the inside of the house.

Lu Ai was tied to the head of the bed, and his hands and feet were tightly trapped.He looked a little lethargic, but he kept muttering curses in his mouth.

After Lu Luo confirmed that Lu Ai was fine, he closed the door and locked it carefully.

The two stopped by Lu Tong's room next door and walked around.His room was actually empty.Bai Ting noticed that there was an extra thermos beside Lu Tong's bed, he picked it up and shook it, and found that it was almost empty.

After that, Bai Ling and Lu Luo knocked on the door and went into the young mistress' room.The young mistress was in the house, obviously emotionally unstable.Lu Luo asked her if she could check in the room, and got an affirmative answer.He briefly rummaged through the closet, then took out a stick from nowhere and rummaged through the trash can.

"You doubt her?" Bai Ting asked Lu Luo after leaving the young lady's room.

"It's not a doubt." Lu Luo said, "I'm just curious. How did she kill Lu Tong, so that she didn't realize that he was a dead person after killing him twice. And I feel that she also knows something we don't know. know things."

"Also," Lu Luo paused, "Speaking of Lu Tong, this person is too secretive. He hides many things from us. Do you still remember that after the nanny died on the first day, I asked to confirm everyone's heartbeat? The first one I confirmed was Lu Tong, and I clearly remember that he had a heartbeat at that time. According to what he said, he was already dead at that time."

Bai Ting felt cold behind his back: "Then he is neither dead nor alive?"

Lu Luo shook his head: "It's not that complicated. He must have used some method to maintain his heartbeat. I just don't know what the method is and what his purpose is."

The two opened every room in the house and looked at it.Most of the rooms on the east side are bedrooms and suites, and the interior decoration is very similar, with the same door and corridors that cause visual errors, and sometimes even confuse the white collars.He almost went into the same room three times.

After that, the two came to the corridor on the west side. There are also two suites in the west room, one of which is the old man's room. When Bai Ting sent him back to the room last night, he took a few glances. He couldn't see clearly. Had the opportunity to search carefully.Lu Mingzhang seems to have the habit of collecting waste that many old people have. There are several big boxes in his room, all of which are filled with messy gadgets.Because of the part-time cleaning, the room is not very messy.Bai Ting took Lu Luo's stick and rummaged through the big box, but he didn't find anything.

Bai Ling walked to the old man's desk, and there were traces of scraps of paper on the desk.He opened the drawer and saw a thick notepad.Bai Ting opened the notepad and found that it turned out to be a photo album.

It is obviously wrong to say that it is a photo album.All the photos in the book were glued to the pages.Obviously, the old man has no chance to get a real photo album and can only use an ordinary notepad as a photo album.

Glued to the first page was a very large photo that filled the entire page vertically.In the photo, dozens of people stood in three rows, wearing plain clothes, with different expressions, but generally a bit serious.They faced the camera with the gate of the Lu family mansion as the background. Standing in the middle was a middle-aged man in his 50s, with a tall figure and frowning.And the young man standing next to him with an expressionless face, Bai Ting immediately recognized that it was Lu Jingchun.

Lu Jingchun's appearance is the same as now, except that many wrinkles are missing.The young man looks handsome and handsome, but his eyes are looking at the camera blankly, as if his thoughts are not here.

From this photo, it can be seen that it has been rubbed repeatedly many times, and many places have turned white and discolored.And there are obvious water spots.Among them was a couple holding a child, their faces were blurred by grinding, they must be Lu Mingzhang's parents.There is a line of small characters stamped on the photo: "June 37, xx6 at Lu's house".Bai Ling remembered that this was the day before the incident.

Thinking of the old man often sitting here alone, crying while stroking the photos, thinking of his relatives who have no bones left.Bai Ting felt a little sad.

Bai Ling flipped through the album again.The whole photo album is like a clipping book, full of broken and incomplete photos.Burn marks are evident in most of the photos, but some of the damage appears to have been intentional, with someone specifically cut out of the photo.

Bai Ling turned to another photo, which was Lu Jingchun and a man.Lu Jingchun should be in his youth, his face looks very immature, he is standing on the left side of the photo, smiling.And on the chair next to him, sat a fat young man with slightly similar features to Lu Jingchun.Judging from the hand resting on the chair, there should be a third person in this photo, but the right side of the photo has been neatly cut off, and there is no way to know what the third person looks like.

Bai Jing's eyes quickly scanned the pages of photos.The number of photos that have been artificially modified is not very large, but Bai Jie can easily find that these modifications are all aimed at one person.Some photos were deliberately cropped to erase the figure of the person.And in some photos with many people that are difficult to cut, his face was scraped off with a knife or painted into a black pimple with a black pen.

From the location of the erased person, Bai Jie deduces that this person should be Lu Tong's biological father and Lu Jingchun's second brother.Bai Ting remembered reading from his diary that Lu Mingzhang escaped unharmed because he hid in the warehouse.Then he should have heard what Zhou Xuan and the second brother said in the warehouse.What did he hear that made him hate his second brother, or he was afraid that his existence would be wiped out in every photo.

But the more hidden, the more curiosity can be aroused.After flipping through the photo album, Bai Ting wanted to know the second brother's face even more.He turned around and asked Lu Luo: "Do you have a family photo album?"

Lu Luo was checking the old man's wardrobe.He shook his head and replied, "No. My father doesn't like taking pictures. What's the matter?"

Bai Ting held up the old man's photo album, handed it to Lu Luo and said, "I found the photos collected by your uncle, but not your second uncle's. I kind of want to know what he looks like."

Lu Luo took the photo album, flipped through two pages, and said with a sigh: "If it's not in this photo album, then it probably won't be. It is said that after the incident 50 years ago, my father, in order not to fall into grief, moved faster Brace yourself and burn all the photo albums at home. It is even more impossible to have a second uncle."

He stroked the photos lightly with his fingers, and said, "My uncle probably tried his best to find these photos one by one from the ashes and corners of the house, and paste them here."

Looking at the photo album in Lu Luo's hand, Bai Ting felt uncomfortable.Time keeps going, but Lu Mingzhang stays on that day 50 years ago forever in spirit and intelligence.This world is too cruel to him, while making him lose everything in one day, it doesn't even give him a chance to remember.

I don't know what mood he was in to find these fragments of memories and paste them here.

Bai Jing shook his head and fell into silence.

After the two stayed in Lu Mingzhang's room for a while, they checked all the rooms in the west corridor.Bai Jie discovered that there was a so-called plumbing room in both the east and west rooms.Among the large bunch of keys that Lu Luo carried, none of them could open any of the doors.

"Strange." Bai Ling held the doorknob between the pipes and twisted it two or three times, but the doorknob did not move. "Why do you say you have such a door in the room that no one can open?"

"I don't know." Lu Luo shrugged, "I'll have to ask my father later."

The two spent a lot of time on the key between the test tubes, and before they knew it, it was dusk.In the mansion, only the room of the little nanny and Dr. Zhao has not been seen.Dr. Zhao did not give Lu Luo the key to his room.The two decided to take a look at the babysitter's room first, and then go to eat something.

The moment Lu Luo opened the door of the babysitter's room, Bai Jie felt as if he had left the Lu family mansion and returned to the modern civilized society.

It has to be said that compared to other rooms in the mansion with the same decoration and furniture arrangement, the little nanny's room is much more humane.The furniture in her room is different from other rooms, more girlish.Posters of film and television stars are pasted on the wall with stickers, and there are three or four plush dolls on the bed.There is also a large shoe rack near the door, with all kinds of candy-colored high-heeled shoes on it.

Bai Ting thought for a while, he also saw a shoe rack in the young lady's room, but it didn't seem to be as big as the little nanny's.

"Lu Luo," Bai Ting asked, "shouldn't all the furniture in the room be exactly the same? Can you change it at will?"

"Theoretically, it should work." Lu Luo wasn't too sure, "Maybe others think it's too troublesome to change the furniture. There were two sets of furniture in an empty room we went to just now. I guess Xiao Yang thought the furniture was too old-fashioned and put I moved the furniture to the empty house and replaced it with a new set.”

There is also a thin laptop on the little nanny's desk, and it can be seen at a glance that it is a relatively expensive model on the market.He turned on the computer and found that he still needed to enter a password, so he didn't care.

There are 5 or 6 leather bags hanging on the back of the chair next to the desk.Bai Ling opened one casually, and inside it was a delicate wallet and a new popular mobile phone.

Bai Ting picked up the phone suspiciously and looked at Lu Luo: "Your nanny's salary is so high?" The price of this phone is worth a month's bonus for Bai Ting's mother.He joked to Lu Luo: "Tell me earlier! I'll come to your house as a nanny."

Lu Luo looked a little embarrassed, and said, "I don't know how much my nanny's salary is." He looked at the bag hanging on the chair.Lu Luo's biological mother is also a person who likes to buy bags. He knows a little about bags and knows that these bags are expensive. "If these are bought by her salary, it's too outrageous."

"Maybe she has a rich boyfriend." Bai Ting shrugged, "Xiao Yang is quite pretty."

Due to the young men's shame, Bai Ling and Lu Luo didn't search Xiao Yang's wardrobe and bedside table, they kept wandering around the desk and dressing table.When they opened the desk drawers, they found only some jewelry and decorations.

Xiao Yang locked a relatively large drawer at the bottom of the desk.The two looked through the desk, only this drawer was left unsearched.

"Open it and have a look?" Bai Ting asked Lu Luo.

"Open it." Lu Luo said, "But I don't have a tool to unlock it."

"No tools." Bai Jing smiled.When he was looking through things just now, he found that although the furniture in this room was beautiful, it was not very strong, probably all made of plywood.It is still incomparable with the pure solid wood furniture in other rooms. "Leave me alone."

"You come?" Before Lu Luo could react, Bai Jie took a deep breath, clasped a protrusion on the drawer, roared "Hey", and pulled the drawer from the hinge forcefully down.

Lu Luo was obviously shocked, he opened his eyes wide and looked at Bai Jie: "I haven't realized after all these years that you are so strong."

Bai Ting laughed "hehe" twice, pretending to be shy and slapped Lu Luo lightly: "It's disgusting! Big villain! It's really annoying to say that he is strong!"

Lu Luo couldn't help laughing.The two leaned closer to the drawer where the body had been brutally dismembered.I thought I would see some notebooks, passbooks and other ordinary items such as white collars and Lu Luo, but I was surprised to find that there were no such things in it, but a drawer full of internal hair remover.

"What's going on?" Bai Ting picked up a box of hair remover with a blank face, took a look, and found that it was for tinea capitis. "Xiao Yang, does she have tinea capitis?"

"I don't know." Lu Luo was also confused about the situation. "I didn't see that she had tinea capitis. Maybe she was going to send it to a patient at home?"

"If it was sent home, it wouldn't be so tightly locked." Bai Ting shook his head.

"Let's take a box first, and study it later." Lu Luo suggested, and Bai Ting agreed.

The two left Xiao Yang's room.In addition to the hair removal agent, the white collar also took Xiao Yang's cell phone and wallet.He felt that although Xiao Yang's room looked very lifelike and close to ordinary people, there were too many things that could not be explained by common sense.Maybe the phone can bring some answers.White collar thought.

After that, Bai Ling and Lu Luo came to the kitchen, ready to get something to eat for themselves.

After a day of intense search, the atmosphere in the kitchen seemed relaxed.However, this relaxed atmosphere inexplicably brought a sense of oppression to Bai Jie.

There were only Bai Ling and Lu Luo in the kitchen, and the clean kitchen utensils hung on the wall, reflecting their figures.The white collar who was supposed to start washing the vegetables was lost in thought. Everyone in this house has a secret.Lu Jingchun, Lu Tong, Lu Ai, the young mistress, Dr. Zhao, and even the nanny Xiao Yang.The second elder brother, who had passed away long ago, was like a silent screenwriter, silently writing his revenge script.

Bai Ling was in the kitchen, staring at the rushing water pipe in front of him, feeling deeply tired.He felt that the people in this house formed a circle around him hand in hand, and tightened little by little, making him feel suffocated.

Bai Ling turned his head, and Lu Luo concentrated on chopping vegetables behind him.He was still the same as usual, cutting vegetables in the wrong way, and his whole body looked tense, very cute.Looking at his back, Bai Ting felt a little comforted, but suddenly the scene from last night's nightmare appeared in front of his eyes.

"Lu Luo died a long time ago." The bloody masked man said to him with a smile.

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August 85, XX3

I got a new family doctor three months ago.I had planned to ask a doctor for a long time, but unexpectedly the doctor recommended himself to my home.Because of his appearance being ruined, he encountered obstacles everywhere in his work, so he had no choice but to recommend himself everywhere.I saw that he had all the licenses to practice medicine and was gentle and polite, so I asked him to stay for a trial.He is indeed a good doctor, and his behavior always reminds me of the familiar man.Now I am planning to keep him at home long-term.

Yesterday, my second brother's son, Lu Tong, came to join me.He looks exactly like the second brother, but he doesn't have the shadow of the second brother in his speech and demeanor. His words and deeds are extremely vulgar. He lived in the house, and asked someone to find him a job in an ordinary middle school in the city.

Today I asked Lu Tong about the situation of my second brother.Lu Tong looked like he was talking about someone who had nothing to do with him, and said, "He died a long time ago. He was burned to death while sleeping on an electric blanket."

I should have expected this to be the case.Otherwise, Lu Tong would not have come to join me.

The revenge that belongs to me and my family should not come.But my heart hurts like hell.

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