Farewell to the Ancient House

Bai Ting walked down the stairs, feeling a pair of cold hands grabbing his arms suddenly.He was taken aback, and when he was about to take out a screwdriver to fight back, he heard a familiar female voice whisper, "Bai Ling, it's me."

The young mistress held Bai Ting's hand tightly, with a nervous look on her face, and she whispered anxiously: "Why did you go to Zhao Duzhong like this? Are you dying?" She didn't wait for Bai Ting to say a word, and directly He took his hand and quickly left the hall.

The young lady pushed the white collar into her room, and then carefully locked the door.She turned on the desk lamp and saw that the young mistress was only wearing a simple nightgown. She had no makeup and her face was pale.Bai Ting lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look too much.

The young lady looked at Bai Jing and shook her head helplessly: "I just wanted to remind you to pay attention to Zhao Duzhong when I said that to you and Lu Luo during the day. I didn't expect you to be such a tiger, so I confronted him directly. "

Hearing this, Bai Ting raised his head: "Young Mistress, you...", he saw the Young Mistress staring at him, and asked in a low voice, "How do you know that Dr. Zhao is Master Lu's second brother?"

"Second brother?" The young lady looked blank, "I don't know who the second brother is, and it's impossible for Zhao Duzhong to be the second brother."

"Zhao Duzhong is my ex-boyfriend. We used to work together in a hospital."

"What?" Bai Ling's brain couldn't keep up.He knew that he must have opened his mouth wide now, looking very stupid. "Then how did he know...? Why did he admit...?"

"I don't know." The young lady shook her head. "Zhao Duzhong is very shrewd. He may have collected all kinds of information from other places, and then pretended to be the so-called second brother to deceive Master Lu's trust."

The young lady lowered her voice and said: "Zhao Duzhong probably knew that the master has a good relationship with this second brother, so he tried to play this second brother. He was a person with a completely different personality in the hospital before, frivolous and irresponsible. Come here It completely turned into a gentle and steady look." She frowned in disgust, and said, "His face also became a good cover."

Hearing this, Bai Ting couldn't help thinking of what Lu Tong said, that his father, Lu Jingchun's second brother, was burned to death because of improper use of electric blankets seven or eight years ago.Bai Ting suspects Dr. Zhao, largely because he also has severe burns, which makes Bai Ting think that his second brother may have faked his death, and then changed his name to Dr. Zhao and came to Lu Zhai.

"How did his face get like that?" Bai Ting asked the young lady.

"Four years ago, when he and I were still boyfriend and girlfriend," the young lady recalled, her expression was very disgusted, as if thinking of something disgusting, "Zhao Duzhong harassed other nurses in the duty room, and the nurse's boyfriend got angry. But when he was off duty, he poured a bucket of gasoline from head to toe, lit a fire, and it burned like that. He left the hospital after that, and I broke up with him."

"Then after a few months, or a year," the young lady continued, "Zhao Duzhong contacted me and said that he had found a new job and hoped that I would come to see him. I still had some feelings for him at the time, and I was also worried about his future. Well, I came here, and then I met Lu Ai."

Speaking of Lu Ai, the young lady's face softened a little, but then became gloomy again.

"Zhao Duzhong is too bad." She shook her head and murmured.

"Student Bai, you don't know. Zhao Duzhong has his reasons for letting me come to this house. He has long taken a fancy to Master Lu's family property. Master Lu likes him and trusts him, but Lu Ai is undoubtedly His stumbling block. He asked me to seduce Lu Ai. During the period when Lu Ai and I fell in love and got married, he found me again and again and asked me to secretly kill Lu Ai with him. How could I be willing. I really love Lu Ai Ai's."

The young mistress lowered her eyes, looking like she was about to cry.

"Zhao Duzhong saw that my side couldn't do it, so he called Xiao Yang and asked Xiao Yang and Lu Ai to get together. He thought that killing Lu Ai directly was not the best way, so he secretly encouraged Lu Ai and Xiao Yang to secretly give it to Master Lu. Poisoned. It would be best if poisoned to death, but if Master Lu finds out, Lu Ai will have a hard time."

"As a result, Lu Ai was fascinated for a while, and actually bought a box of chronic drugs from Dr. Zhao with Xiao Yang. Every time I cook, I secretly give him some."

"Wait," Bai Ting said in surprise, "So the hair loss agent in Xiao Yang's cabinet is..."

"Yes." The young lady said, "This kind of hair loss agent is rarely used now because it is too harmful. This drug contains acetic acid ta. After taking it, it will not only cause hair loss, but also cause muscle atrophy. and liver and kidney damage, and those who take it for too long will die. Not many normal people would think that hair loss agents are drugs, and there is no way to obtain these hair loss agents. Zhao Duzhong provided them with drugs, and Xiao Yang and Lu Ai were responsible for poisoning. "

"Not long after they started planning, the master suddenly suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. Lu Ai and Xiao Yang thought it was the effect of drugs, and continued to implement the plan, but they did not expect that they had poisoned Master Lu for a year in a row. Apart from being unable to move, Master Lu could still Lying in bed very healthy."

"Xiao Yang started to get scared. She suspected that the plan had been leaked, and she was very anxious. She was looking for trouble with Lu Ai every day. Lu Ai was also very anxious. On the one hand, he was afraid that Master Lu would know that he wanted to harm him. Interested. He was confused, and he believed Zhao Duzhong's nonsense, and asked him to get medicine, and poisoned Xiao Yang to death. It was the day you came. Before Lu Tong entered the master's bedroom."

"Then Dr. Zhao..." Bai Ting hesitated to speak.

The young lady seemed to see what Bai Jing wanted to ask, and said: "Zhao Duzhong was killed by Lu Ai. He knew too many secrets about Lu Ai, and Lu Ai naturally wanted to kill him the most. It was the night I killed Lu Ai .” A look of sadness flashed in her eyes. "Lu Ai was very reckless. He took a big stick and hit Zhao Duzhong on the back of the head in the corridor. The sound was so loud that I could hear it in the room. Zhao Duzhong died on the spot. Lu Ai quickly returned to the bedroom , drank the soup that I took sleeping pills.

"And then I killed him."

The young lady's expression became very painful, she lowered her head, and tightly grasped the hem of the nightgown with both hands.

The white collar is dumb.He found that the logic of the young lady's words was clear, except for a few doubts, it could reasonably explain most of the incidents.After she said it, everything became clear, much clearer than the speculation that the second brother came back to kill and take revenge, and that Dr. Zhao was the second brother.

"How do you know so much?" Bai Ting asked the young lady in a low voice.

"Me?" The young lady smiled miserably, "I am Lu Ai's wife. Lu Ai knows that I love him, trusts me, and will tell me everything except about Xiao Yang."

"As for Zhao Duzhong, he likes me. He kept telling me that he would marry me and live a happy life with me after he took all the property of the Lu family. He even threatened to kill Lu Ai and forced me to sleep with him. He even Give me the keys to all the rooms just to let me kill Lu Tong."

"But I killed Lu Ai myself." Tears welled up in the eyes of the young mistress.

"Classmate Bai," the young lady wiped her eyes and said to Bai Jing, "I don't trust Zhao Duzhong. He will definitely kill me after the incident is over. That's why I reminded you and Lu Luo vaguely in the morning. But I didn't expect You understood it differently."

She sighed.Bai Ting felt a little embarrassed, he was indeed a stupid person, so it was better not to do reasoning.

The young lady continued: "But Zhao Duzhong is already a dead person. As long as you are resurrected, he will not be able to harm others. I was afraid that he would harm me this morning, so I didn't tell you all. But now I feel that you and Lu Luo... ..."

The young mistress stopped talking suddenly, and she and Bai Ling heard the sound of the door lock of the room at the same time. "Quick," the young lady whispered, opened the closet, and pushed the white collar in.Then he quickly lay down on the sofa, turned on the TV, and turned off the lamp.

The young mistress moved beyond imagination, and it took no more than two seconds to complete this series of actions.She had just laid down on the sofa when the door opened.

Through the gap in the cabinet door, Bai Ting saw Dr. Zhao standing at the door.

"Yuming," Dr. Zhao didn't wear a mask, his burnt face put on a half-smile expression, which looked very scary against the white fluorescent light of the TV.

"Who are you talking to?"

"No." The young lady put on a blank expression, "I'm watching TV."

"Yuming." Doctor Zhao's tone was very gentle, but he approached the sofa step by step.The young mistress sat up in fear and curled up in the corner of the sofa.

Dr. Zhao sat on the sofa, stretched out one hand to pinch the young mistress's chin, and said softly, "Yuming, didn't I tell you that after everything is over, we will go far away and find a place where no one knows us." , have a happy married life?"

"But why do you still want to hurt me?"

"I don't, I don't." The young mistress tried to dodge while denying it.However, Dr. Zhao seemed to be very strong, and the young mistress could not move at all.

"Yuming, you're so naughty." Dr. Zhao sneered, and put his hand into the young lady's nightdress. "It must be punished well."

Seeing that the scene was about to develop into a delicate place, Bai Ting took out the screwdriver, hesitating when to rush out and stab Dr. Zhao.

However, at the same time, Bai Jie suddenly noticed a strange black figure in the room.The black shadow stood silently beside the cabinet, not making a sound.Bai Ting didn't know when and where he entered this room.

Doctor Zhao also noticed the existence of the shadow.He raised his head, and after seeing the true face of the black shadow, his complexion changed drastically, and he jumped up from the sofa in an instant.

"I...I...not..." Dr. Zhao stammered, changing his calm demeanor just now.The young mistress was obviously also petrified, curled up on the sofa, motionless.

The black shadow started to move, walking towards Dr. Zhao step by step.In his hand was a very familiar ax in a white collar, reflecting the fluorescent light from the TV.

"You...I...don't come here..." Dr. Zhao waved his hands in the air, as if he was blocking something.The black shadow didn't listen to him, but still approached him gradually, and slowly raised the ax in his hand.

Dr. Zhao rolled his eyes wildly, apparently in despair. "Don't kill me, don't kill me!!" he yelled, reaching for the axe. "You will regret it! How can you kill me! I am Lu Gong! I am Lu Gong!!!!"

Hei Ying didn't listen at all, he raised the knife and dropped it, Dr. Zhao's head fell to the ground, the shouting stopped abruptly, and the air immediately became quiet.

Hei Ying picked up Dr. Zhao's lifeless head, held his body by the collar, and walked towards the door.Before going out, Sombra glanced back.Bai Jie wasn't sure if he was looking at the shivering young mistress, or at himself hiding in the closet and peeking at everything.

Bai Jie couldn't see the face of the black shadow clearly.Because the shadow is wearing a paper mask.On his pale face, there were only two black and slender slits.

Bai Ling came out of the cabinet and comforted the young mistress softly.He thought for a while, picked up an iron stool in her room, and slammed it towards the door of the plumbing room.

After swiping a few times, the door between the pipes was smashed open.Bai Ling turned to ask the young lady for a flashlight.The young mistress was obviously stunned by Bai Ling's behavior, and she froze for a while before handing him the flashlight.

Bai Ling turned on the flashlight and entered the pipe room.There are indeed water, electricity and heating pipes inside, but more importantly, it is a long corridor.Bai Ting walked a few steps along the corridor and saw a door beside him.He opened the door easily and found himself in another bedroom where no one was there.

Lu Luo and Bai Ling had entered this bedroom the day before yesterday.The door they tried to open but couldn't open was easily opened by the white collar from the inside of the plumbing room.

I see.Bai Jie understood everything.He went back to the young mistress' room along the pipe.He returned the flashlight to the young mistress.The young lady looked worriedly at the broken door between the pipes.

"Do you know where it leads to?" she asked.

Bai Ting nodded and said softly, "Don't worry, you will be safe from now on."

Bai Ting bid farewell to the young mistress and went back to his room.He sat on the edge of the bed, thinking.

Everyone's words and everything gathered together to form a bright ball of light in Bai Ling's heart.The moment he opened the door between the pipes, and the moment he saw Dr. Zhao's head on the ground, he suddenly became enlightened.

And tomorrow night, it will all be over.

Lu Luo fell asleep peacefully beside Bai Ling.Bai Ting looked at his sleeping childlike face, but endless sadness filled his heart.This young man embraced his good friend, his bamboo horse, and the lover he had just confirmed, and kissed his lips tenderly.

The person in the arms was still asleep, unmoved.

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August 85, XX3

It was he who came back.