Farewell to the Ancient House

Bai Ling and Lu Luo simply had dinner, checked the time, and found it was still early.Lu Luo then proposed to go to the warehouse in the backyard to have a look before returning the key to Dr. Zhao.

The two came to the backyard together.Bai Ling only took a quick run in the backyard when it rained yesterday.With the afterglow of the setting sun, Bai Ling saw a beautiful courtyard.The yard is not big, but many trees are planted.The tallest one is an apricot tree, which has already passed the flowering season, but on the pergola under the apricot tree, the orange-red lily flowers are in full bloom.The courtyard wall is about a person and a half high, painted white, and lined with lush trees.There are several privet trees that have been finely pruned in the corner of the courtyard.Part of the courtyard wall is covered by lush brocade.The path paved with bluestone slabs circles around a small pond. There are some lotus flowers planted in the pond. It is not yet open season, and there are a few white buds standing upright on the gathered lotus leaves.

"Does it look good?" Lu Luo asked.

"It looks good." Bai Ting replied honestly.

"It should look better." Lu Luo said, casually pinching off a protruding branch of the privet. "Gardeners come to take care of this yard every day. No one has taken care of it for the past few days. There has been another heavy rain, and the plants are going crazy."

He pointed to an obvious open space in the yard again: "My uncle used to come to take care of the plants often, and he planted a lot of flowers there. But since Lu Tong came here two years ago, he has no intention of taking care of it."

It is estimated that after Lu Tong came, Lu Mingzhang was afraid and hated, thinking about how to kill him every day, and didn't care about other things, thinking in vain.

The two came to the warehouse.As usual, Lu Luo tried all the keys he thought could open the door one by one, but still none of them worked.Bai Ling frowned.

"Lu Luo," he said, "I think this warehouse, and the so-called plumbing room, seem to be locked up on purpose by your father to prevent others from entering."

Lu Luo gave up trying the key, he turned his head and asked Bai Jing, "Why do you say that?"

Bai Ting shook his head: "I don't know, maybe it's intuition." He added: "It may be too suspicious that the head of the family repairs the water and electricity himself. If it is really repairing the water and electricity, other people don't even have the key. Like now that he has a stroke, if the electricity in the house is short-circuited or tripped, no one else can fix it, so just wait?"

"Even so," Lu Luo said, shaking the tightly locked door. "We can't enter this warehouse."

Bai Jing looked at the door of the warehouse.The warehouse is an ordinary wooden structure room, the door is simply hinged to the wall, and the lock is also an old-fashioned padlock.

"Lu Luo," Bai Jing asked Lu Luo in a low voice, "If we used other methods to open the warehouse door, your father wouldn't blame anything."

Lu Luo was obviously not sure, and said, "I don't know." He paused, and then said, "But if no one told him, he probably wouldn't have found out."

"Then let's go." Bai Ting said.He took a few steps far away, stretched his legs and started warming up.

Lu Luo looked at him and guessed half or so: "You won't open the door violently again, right?"

"There is no other way." Bai Ting spread his hands at the end of the path.

"All right, all right, come on." Lu Luo put on a helpless look, and stood in a safe place away from the small door of the warehouse.

Guiltyly looking around, Bai Ting looked around, and after finding no one around, he quickly ran along the path, and when he was close to the warehouse door, he jumped and kicked hard, and with a "bang", the warehouse door fell to the ground.

"Okay!" Lu Luo held the field and applauded.

Bai Ting lifted the door and looked around again.After making sure that no one was attracted by the movement in the backyard, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Luo came over to help Bai Ting lean the door against the door frame, and said with a smile, "You are amazing. When you kicked the door just now, I wondered if the whole warehouse would be collapsed by you."

Bai Ting clasped his fists together: "Mr. Lu is too famous!"

With a smirk on his face, Lu Luo stretched out his hand to touch Bai Ling's stomach: "How can you say good reputation?" He stroked Bai Ling's abdominal muscles, pretending to be lewd, "I just like you so strong. body of."

The white collar was touched by Lu Luo as if he was scratching in his heart, and he was on fire, but he couldn't do anything, he could only force him to act with Lu Luo.

"Since Mr. Lu likes this body so much," Bai Ting put his arms around Lu Luo and whispered in his ear, "Why don't you try it tonight."

Lu Luo laughed a few times, then pretended to struggle a few times in the white collar's arms, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about, he is a decent person."

Bai Ting smiled, and said in a low voice, "What a coincidence, I just like to tease decent people." He was about to touch Lu Luo's earlobe, but he found that Lu Luo's ears had turned red.

Bai Ting realized that he had overacted, so he quickly let go.To hide his embarrassment, he patted Lu Luo on the back: "That's enough, let's stop making trouble. Let's go in."

Lu Luo nodded, and the two walked into the warehouse.

It was very dark in the warehouse, so I rummaged through the white collar and found a self-powered flashlight on a shelf in the warehouse.With the afterglow of the setting sun and the light of the flashlight, he could barely see a huge domestic machine tool in the warehouse.The machine tool looks like a very old model, covered with dust, it seems that it has not been used for a long time.Next to the machine tool were several storage shelves, on which were placed a large number of parts and tools such as axes and saws, all of which were also full of dust.

However, Bai Jie noticed that there was very little dust on the floor of the warehouse, which was in stark contrast to the machine tools.Obviously someone frequents this warehouse.

There is also a door on the warehouse floor, which seems to imply that there is also a basement.Bai Ling lifted the doorknob vigorously, but couldn't open it.

"White collar," Lu Luo suddenly got out from a row of overalls on the hanger by the warehouse door, holding something in his hand, "Look what it is."

Bai Ting took a closer look and was startled: Lu Luo was holding a set of black clothes and a white mask in his hand.It was exactly the same as what Bailing saw on the first night.

"Mask man's clothes." Bai Ting said. "It's actually here."

"I found it there." Lu Luo pointed to the hanger.

"However," Lu Luo said, "even if we know that the clothes are of little use here, we still have no way of inferring whether the masked man came from outside the house or from inside the house."

Bai Ling nodded, and the two of them studied the clothes before hanging them back to their original places.After searching other places, they found nothing special, so the two left the warehouse.

Before leaving, Bai Ling wanted to put the door as it was when it was not opened.Lu Luo looked amused and stopped it.

"No need," he said. "If someone asks us about the warehouse door tomorrow, we'll have the opportunity to determine who is using the warehouse frequently."

Bai Ting thought it made sense, and prepared to leave the backyard with Lu Luo.

It was completely dark by this time.There were no lights in the yard, and it was pitch black.Just as the two were groping their way along the path, they saw a black figure suddenly rushing in front of them from the mansion.Before Bai Ting could see his face clearly, a white light flashed in front of his eyes.Bai Ting twisted his head and just passed by.

He has a knife!Bai Ling yelled in his heart that it was not good, and wanted to stand up and protect Lu Luo, but he didn't expect Lu Luo to react faster, and pushed him into the pond with one hand.

The pond is not deep, but because it is a lotus pond, the bottom of the pond is full of mud.The soles of Bai Ling's feet slipped and he choked up a lot of saliva.While fumbling with his hands, he came across a long, hard object, and the white collar didn't care. He instinctively grabbed the object, and with a push of both feet, he stood up from the pond.

The black shadow was gone, but fortunately Lu Luo was fine, he stretched out his hand and pulled the white collar up from the pond.

"I see clearly, it's Lu Ai." Lu Luo whispered, "He broke free from the rope. It's too dangerous outside, let's go back to the room quickly."

The two didn't dare to stay, and quickly returned to the house.

Bai Ling was covered in mud, and there was an obvious mark on the floor of the Lu family mansion.The two returned to their room, and after Lu Luo quickly locked the door, his eyes were fixed on Bai Ling's hand.

"What's in your hand?" he asked.

Bai Ling realized that he was still holding something he had fished from the bottom of the pond.He took a closer look and found that it was actually a needle.

The needle tube is very new, and the needle is still with it. It is estimated that it was thrown into the pond after being used by someone in the past two days.

"Does anyone in the family need a needle?" Bai Ting asked Lu Luo.

"I don't remember it." Lu Luo shook his head. "But if it's for normal use, it's just in the trash, not in the pond."

"Think about it tomorrow." Lu Luo took the needle and found a piece of paper to wrap it up. "Go and take a shower." He leaned close to the white collar and sniffed it, frowning. "The mud in the pond stinks."

Bai Ling obediently walked into the bathroom.He wanted to quickly wash off the mud, wash his hair, and go out after soaping up, but he didn't expect that his nails were full of mud, and he had to cut them slowly one by one.In the middle of washing, Lu Luo knocked on the bathroom door and said, "You wash first, I will return the key to Dr. Zhao, and wipe off the mud you left on the floor by the way."

After hearing this, Bai Ting opened the door and looked at Lu Luo with his head exposed: "It's too dangerous for you to be alone. Let's go together after I finish washing."

Lu Luo saw Bai Ting sticking out his head from the crack of the door, probably thought it was amused, and stretched out his hand to stroke Bai Ting's wet hair: "It's okay, I'm a living person, Lu Ai won't ask for trouble to kill me. On the contrary You are more dangerous." Lu Luo put the hand that had been stroking the white collar hair under his nose and smelled it: "It still smells a little. You should wash it for a while."

After finishing speaking, Lu Luo picked up the pass key on the table and left.Bai Ling heard a crisp "click", and Lu Luo locked the door behind him.

After taking a shower, Bai Ling dried his hair and sat on the bed watching TV to wait for Lu Luo.Bai Jie felt that he had watched TV for a long time, but he still didn't hear any sign that Lu Luo was back.His heart began to agitate.If the door hadn't been locked, he should have gone out to find Lu Luo long ago.

At this time, Bai Ling heard the movement in the next room.He opened the door between the rooms and found that Lu Tong was just about to leave his own room.

Lu Tong was also a little surprised when he saw the white collar: "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Ms. Lu," Bai Ting said, "I want to go out, but Lu Luo has locked the door, can I go out from your room?"

"Lu Luo isn't with you?" Lu Tong glanced into Bai Ting's room.

"He went out by himself." Bai Ting kept his eyes open and didn't say what Lu Luo was going to do.

Lu Tong didn't ask any further questions, and said, "Then you come with me. I happen to be going to the study too." After speaking, he asked Bai Ting to enter the corridor from his room, followed by himself, and locked the door.

As dead people, Lu Tong and Lu Ai have completely different attitudes.Lu Ai became more violent and very aggressive.And Lu Tong still looked leisurely and contented, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

Lu Tong turned on the light in the corridor, and Bai Jie realized that the light switch was right next to the door.I am also stupid, I haven't found out for so long.

The two walked silently along the corridor.Walking into the hall, Lu Tong said goodbye to Bai Ting, and when he was about to enter the study, he suddenly saw a flash of cold light, and a black shadow sprang out, stabbing a knife straight into Lu Tong's abdomen.

Bai Ting yelled that it was not good, and pulled Lu Tong to his side.Fortunately, Lu Tong was already dead, and this knife only opened another hole in his stomach.Bai Ling looked at the hunting knife in Heiying's hand again, it was already stained with dark blood.

Lu Tong was also obviously taken aback, panting heavily beside Bai Ling.He collected himself, looked at the black shadow through the light in the corridor, and recognized the black shadow's identity at a glance.

"Lu Ai?" Lu Tong asked suspiciously, "Why did you run out?"

"Don't worry about it!" Lu Ai said fiercely, "You just need to know who you are today." He waved the knife and pointed at the white collar, "and you! You both have to explain to me here!"

Bai Ting looked at the knife in Lu Ai's hand.This hunting knife is the kind commonly seen in survival programs on TV. Although it is not big, it is light and sharp, with barbs, and has strong attack power.

If he had a stick or something, Bai Ting felt that he could fight Lu Ai twice.But now he and Lu Tong are unarmed, and if they are not careful, a few pieces of flesh will be cut off by that knife.

"Lu Ai," Lu Tong seemed to want to persuade him, "We are all brothers, don't be so violent. If you have something to say, speak up."

Bai Ting felt that it was better not to say what Lu Tong had said.Lu Ai didn't listen at all, he sneered, raised his knife and slashed at Lu Tong's front.

Bai Ling hurriedly grabbed Lu Tong by the collar and tried to pull him back.But the actions of two people are not as good as one.Bai Ting watched the knife fall, and while tugging at Lu Tong vigorously, he thought regretfully: It's over.With this knife, Lu Tong's pretty face is probably gone.

All of a sudden, Bai Ling suddenly felt a huge wind pressure hit the pavement, he squinted his eyes, and heard the sound of a blunt instrument beating.Lu Ai's knife fell after all.

with his arm.

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August 30, xx8

Since the second brother came to this house, he has been called to his father's room every week, and the time is very long each time, sometimes several hours. Sometimes I saw him go in in the evening and come out the next morning.

I asked my second brother what he was going to do, but the second brother didn't answer, but said vaguely that he was going to study.I asked the servants at home, but they just laughed and didn't answer me.Only the mother was very angry every time she saw the second brother go in.

I gave my osmanthus cake to my second brother, who happily accepted it and wrapped it carefully, saying that he would give his mother a taste later.

I'm not very happy.I brought him to eat alone.

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I'm going to drive a fake car in the next chapter...won't you let me pass?