Farewell to the Ancient House

The next morning, as usual, Dr. Zhao's body was divided into several pieces and placed in the center of the hall.

When Bai Ling passed by the hall, he saw Lu Tong.Unlike him who looked relaxed in the past, Lu Tong stood in the hall, looking down at Dr. Zhao's body, with a solemn expression.He didn't even notice Bai Ling approaching.

Dr. Zhao died, and the task of taking care of Lu Jingchun fell on Lu Luo's shoulders.At this moment, Lu Luo just came out of Lu Jingchun's room.He said to Lu Tong: "My father said to throw Dr. Zhao's body outside the door." Then he planned to return to the room.

Bai Ling grabbed Lu Luo and said in a low voice, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

Lu Luo had never taken care of a bedridden patient before, so he might be in a hurry.White collar thought.

Lu Luo smiled slightly, looked around, then hugged Bai Ling's neck and kissed him lightly on the cheek. "Then get me a basin of warm water, and I'll wipe my father's body." Lu Luo said in Bai Jie's ear, "Thank you." He let go of his hand, looking a little tired.

Bai Ling held Lu Luo's hand and kissed the back of his hand.He watched Lu Luo walk into the room, and walked towards the kitchen himself.

Before leaving, he turned and looked at Lu Tong.There was no expression on Lu Tong's face.As if he didn't want to act anymore, he picked up Dr. Zhao's scattered corpses, walked straight across the threshold to the outside of the hospital, and gently placed the corpses on the road.

When Bai Ling brought warm water into Lu Jingchun's room, Lu Luo was sitting beside Lu Jingchun's bed, talking with him.Hearing the white collar coming in, Lu Luo stood up and took the water basin.Bai Jie noticed that there was a small silver pocket watch on Lu Jingchun's bedside table. It seemed to be very disturbed, trembling slightly, and the bedside table made a sound.

Bai Ting said to Lu Luo: "Call me if you need anything." Seeing Lu Luo nod his head, he stroked Lu Luo's hair again.Then turned and left the room.

Entering the study, Bai Ting opened the diary again and read it.

Lu Tong was also in the study, and when he saw Bai Ting reading his diary, he just shook his head slightly, and didn't approach Bai Ting to say hello to Bai Ting.Lu Luo went in and out of the study and Lu Jingchun's room from time to time.The white collar just stayed there until night fell.

Lu Jingchun seemed to have fallen asleep early.Lu Luo came out of the room and returned to his own room, and Bai Ting brought him dinner.Same as last night, Bai Ling crushed three or four sleeping pills and quietly sprinkled them into Lu Luo's meal.

Lu Luo seemed to have no appetite, and wanted to put down the bowl after two mouthfuls.Bai Ting stared at Lu Luo and said, "Are you not satisfied with my cooking?"

Lu Luo shook his head: "I'm not hungry. I don't want to eat."

"You haven't eaten all day, so you have to eat something now if you're not hungry." Bai Ting said, scooped up a spoonful of rice, put it in his mouth and chewed, then kissed Lu Luo: "Otherwise I'll feed you mouth to mouth you."

Lu Luo blushed, and hurriedly blocked the white collar: "I'll eat, I'll eat, don't do this."

Bai Ting swallowed the rice by himself, pretending to be disappointed: "It's only the second day of my confession, and you already despise me."

Lu Luo smiled, wiped his mouth, and kissed Bai Ting on the cheek: "Don't worry, you have to proceed step by step. Here," he handed the bowl and chopsticks to Bai Ting: "I will give you a chance to feed me without your mouth."

Bai Ling took the bowl and chopsticks, picked up a little dish, and stretched it towards Lu Luo. "Ah—" He opened his mouth to signal Lu Luo.

"Ah—" Lu Luo deliberately opened his mouth wide and swallowed the food on the chopsticks.

"Like a mentally handicapped person." Bai Ling couldn't help laughing, and held out another chopstick to Lu Luo.

Lu Luo also smiled and said, "Do you think you don't look like it?" Then he bit the tip of the chopsticks.No matter how much you smoke the white collar, you can't get it back.

The two were laughing and joking, they didn't eat much and spilled a lot, so they had to give up in the end.Lu Luo ate the food honestly.Bai Ling sent the bowls and chopsticks back to the kitchen.

When Bai Ling came back, Lu Luo sat on the sofa bed with his legs crossed, in a drowsy posture.He looked a little tired before eating.The effect of the medicine in the meal intensified the desire for sleep.

Seeing Bai Ting enter the room, Lu Luo patted the mattress and motioned Bai Ting to sit down.After Bai Ting sat down firmly, he leaned on Bai Ting's shoulder and said, "Bai Ting, you can talk to me." He rubbed his eyes sleepily: "I don't know what's wrong, I've always been talking to you these two days." I'm very sleepy. But it's too early to go to bed now. If you chat with me, I can hold on for a while."

"I'm always very disturbed today." He murmured, "I always feel that once I fall asleep, I won't be able to see you."

Bai Ting was startled, and he immediately pinched Lu Luo's face pretending to be calm: "What are you talking about, what are you talking about?"

"Don't make me think about it." Lu Luo muttered. "I feel like my mind is spinning."

After being silent for a while, he said softly again: "Bai Ling, do you remember what happened in primary school?"

Bai Ting thought for a while, and replied: "I remember some things, but most of them can't remember clearly."

Lu Luo moved, and changed into a more comfortable position to rest on the white collar's shoulder: "Then do you remember, when you were in the fourth grade of elementary school, the school organized an autumn outing?"

Lu Luo said: "You have been very popular since you were a child. The children have been around you. At that time, you kept talking to other classmates and ignored me. I was very upset. I ran to the small river by myself and sulked. As a result After a while, you came over alone and showed me what you brought. You were carrying a big bag at that time."

Lu Luo raised his head and looked at the white collar: "Do you still remember what you brought?"

Bai Ting couldn't recall this past, so he could only ask Lu Luo, "What did I bring?"

Lu Luo smiled, with sparkling eyes: "You brought a big bag of pomegranates! I loved pomegranates at that time, but no one at home peeled them for me, and I couldn't peel them myself. You just carried a bag from home. Sit by the river and peel one by one for me to eat."

"In the end, the two of us peeled pomegranates by the river until dark. The teacher searched for us for a long time, and finally saw the two of us by the river with pomegranate peels all over the place, so he was so angry that he gave us a lesson."

Lu Luo put his hands around Bai Ting's waist, hid his eyes behind Bai Ting's arm, and smiled: "At that time, I thought, I must find a wife like you in the future, who can peel pomegranates for me all afternoon. Kind of."

Bai Ting smiled and hugged Lu Luo in front of him, and said to him: "What's so difficult about it, I can peel it off for you all night now."

"I ate pomegranates all afternoon that day, and I ate it long ago." Lu Luo buried his face in the white collar's chest, "Peel the mangosteen and give it to me to eat."

"Okay." Bai Ting patted Lu Luo on the head, "But the mangosteen is so expensive."

The two chatted one after another, and before they knew it, Lu Luo fell asleep in Bai Ling's arms.

Bai Ling moved his body slowly and let Lu Luo lie on the bed.He picked up Lu Ai's knife from the drawer, kissed Lu Luo's hair lightly as if saying goodbye, held the hunting knife in his hand, closed the door, and walked into the hall.

In the hall, Lu Tong stood by the stairs, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"You're here." He smiled and greeted Bai Ting.This smile is very different from Lu Tong's usual idle smile.Rather, Bai Jing thought, this way of smiling is suitable for his face.

The two were silent for a while.Lu Tong asked Bai Jing: "Aren't you going to kill me?"

Bai Ting shook his head: "Let's talk about it when another person comes. I have something to ask him."

Lu Tong smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid to wait for someone to come over later, you can't beat him? Maybe I will help that person too."

"It's not like I can't beat an old man who is nearly seventy years old." Bai Ting looked at Lu Tong and said.

Lu Tong's eyes flickered, he was silent for a while, and said: "I thought that after you saw Jing Chun in the room that night, you would stop doubting him."

Bai Ting shook his head: "The masked man who went after Lu Ai that night was not Mr. Lu, but Lu Luo." He closed his eyes: "After returning to the room, I touched his hand and found that the knife on the handle of the ax was stuck in it. Wooden thorns. But Lu Luo couldn't feel the pain, so he didn't realize that the thorns were pierced."

Lu Tong looked at the white collar, his eyes were very gentle, not at all like Lu Tong in the past: "When did you find out that Lu Luo is dead?"

"Found it on the first night."

Whenever he thought of this incident, Bai Ling felt as if a pair of hands grabbed his heart. "At that time, Lu Luo fell off the bed, and I hugged him, only to find that his heart was no longer beating."

"Young Mistress killed you twice. The second time, she mistakenly killed Lu Ai for you. The first time, Lu Luo slept on your bed, and she killed Lu Luo."

Lu Tong looked at Bai Jing and fell silent.When he was young, he sighed and lowered his eyes: "I'm sorry, Bai Collar."

The white collar didn't answer.He saw the door of the third room in the east corridor - his and Lu Luo's room - slowly opened, and the masked man came out from behind the door.

"He's here." Bai Ting whispered.

The masked man saw Bai Ling and Lu Tong in the hall, and rushed towards them without any hesitation.He raised the ax in his hand and slashed directly at the white collar.Bai Ling dodged sideways, dragged Lu Tong to his side, locked Lu Tong's hands with his left hand, and pressed the hunting knife horizontally against Lu Tong's neck with his right hand.

Bai Ting didn't say a word, and looked at the masked man coldly.

The masked man seemed to be hesitating, and the blade of the ax stopped in mid-air.Bai Ting didn't flinch at all, and moved the tip of the knife closer to Lu Tong's throat.

"If you do this, he won't die." The masked man spoke with an old voice. "But I can chop off your head in an instant."

"You can try." Bai Ting was not to be outdone, "When you strike me, I can cut off his head in an instant."

The two of them didn't give in to each other, and the atmosphere remained stalemate.

"Enough." Lu Tong said suddenly. "Jingchun, put down the axe."

The masked man didn't move, just clutching the ax tightly.

Lu Tong sighed and said, "Jingchun, even if you kill Bai Ling, I won't be resurrected. Besides, there is Lu Luo, do you want to kill him too?"

The masked man still did not put down his weapon, he shook his head and said, "It's okay."

Lu Tong closed his eyes with an expression of being unable to communicate.He tilted his head slightly, and said to Bai Ting: "Cut off my head."

Bai Ting suspected that he had heard wrong.Lu Tong repeated again: "Cut off my head. Didn't you intend to kill me? If you cut off my head, he will understand."

Seeing that the white collar was still not moving, Lu Tong quickly grabbed the knife from his hand and slashed at his neck.

"Stop!" the masked man yelled, smashing the ax hard into the floor.He stepped forward and took Lu Tong's hand, and pulled off his mask.

It was the face of an old man, handsome but wrinkled, angry and sad.He yelled at Lu Tong: "You forced me to this point, are you satisfied?"

Lu Tong didn't speak, but looked at Lu Jingchun coldly.

He slowly let go of Lu Tong's hand and took two steps back. "You don't have to. I know, I know all about it."

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault." He shook his head and covered his face with his hands. "Second brother, I know I was wrong. Don't torture me anymore. Just let me save you again, and then you can live a good life and live the life you want, okay?"

"Save me?" Lu Tong looked at Lu Jingchun with a strange expression. "If you are referring to the zombie incident 50 years ago, and you think that you saved me by killing Zhou Xuan and let me regain my life, then you are very wrong."

"I didn't survive 50 years ago, and I won't survive 50 years from now."

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August 32, XX4

My elder brother's name is Niandi. It is said that my mother hoped to have another son, so she chose this name, thinking of having a younger brother.

And my name, my mother said, made me honor my father.

Both of us brothers have trees in our names.Only the second brother is called Lu Gong, who is out of tune with us.

I told my brother to change his name.I have already thought about it for him, so I will call him Lu Huaitong.This way we are a family.

The second brother listened, just smiled and didn't speak.