Farewell to the Ancient House

Bai Collar's sleep did not last long.When he woke up, Lu Luo told him it was only 06:30 in the morning.

"Have you been up all this time?" Bai Ting asked.

"I slept for a while, but I was still not too sleepy, so I didn't sleep much." Lu Luo replied.

After Bai Ling and Lu Luo washed up briefly, they walked out of the room.Lu Tong seemed to be still sleeping.

The two met the young lady in the corridor.The young mistress seemed to live across from Lu Tong's bedroom.Although her makeup is exquisite, she still looks a little haggard.

"Morning sister-in-law." Lu Luo greeted politely.The young lady nodded in response.

"You got up really early." Bai Ting said.

"I always get up so early," the young lady smiled. "Lu Ai likes to drink freshly ground coffee in the morning. I will help him make it."

"I really envy the young master for having such a good wife." Bai Ting complimented him politely, but Lu Luo pinched him to signal him to stop talking.Bai Ting noticed that the young lady who heard this sentence stopped talking, and her eyes dimmed.

It was still raining heavily outside.The rain washed against the skylight, and water ripples spread on the glass one after another.

The three walked into the dining room in silence, and found Dr. Zhao sitting there drinking tea.

This was the first time Bai Ling saw Dr. Zhao who took off his mask.He did have extensive burns on his face, and they were severe.The flesh on the nose was almost gone, the lips disappeared without a trace, and the corners of the mouth were also pulled due to muscle damage, and the original appearance and even the age could not be seen at all.His face looks very scary at first glance, and it is estimated that it can scare a child to tears.

Dr. Zhao seemed to be used to people being afraid of his face. He smiled and said to Bai Jing, "I'm sorry, I'll put on the mask immediately after I finish my tea."

Bai Ting realized that his expression might have been too frightened and impolite just now, so he quickly waved his hands: "No, no, please drink slowly."

Lu Luo said to Dr. Zhao, "Doctor, I want to talk to my father at 8:[-] today."

Dr. Zhao nodded: "Okay, then I will avoid it for a while."

Lu Luo nodded, then pulled up the white collar and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the others.

In fact, Dr. Zhao seems to have a good temperament, is very polite, and speaks softly.If not for his face, he should be a very beloved person.While thinking about it, Bai Ting asked Lu Luo: "What business do you need with Mr. Lu today?"

"I want to ask the little door in the room and tell him about the attack on you last night." Lu Luo said, "You also have to go with me."

"I'll let it go." Bai Ting felt guilty.He felt that this rich and powerful boss was a little scary.

"You said you were meeting your father-in-law before, why are you being cowardly now?" Lu Luo smiled. "Not promising."

Bai Ting shook his head, picked up the sandwich plate and put it on the transmission table, ready to pass it into the dining room: "If I knew that I really wanted to see my father-in-law, I would definitely have come with presents. Now I have nothing in my hands, lest he think I'm marrying a wife." Not sincere."

"What are you talking about? Who will marry a wife?" Lu Tong yawned and entered the kitchen.

The two of them immediately shut up.

At this time, Lu Tong saw the young lady who was preparing coffee, walked over with a smile, reached out and hugged her: "Oh, my sister-in-law is still so virtuous."

Unexpectedly, the young mistress' face changed drastically, she broke free from Lu Tong and fled into the dining room.

Lu Tong looked at the back of the young mistress, smiled and shook his head.

After eating, the two took a nap in the living room, and then went to find Lu Jingchun.

Pass through the study and enter Lu Jingchun's room.Lu Jingchun's bedroom has a lot of space, but not much furniture, it looks very empty.There is a huge bed at one end of the wall, on which lies an old man with slightly closed eyes, this is Lu Jingchun.

"Father," Lu Luo stepped forward respectfully, "Are you still resting?"

Lu Jingchun slowly opened his eyes, and smiled at Lu Luo: "It's early in the morning, what are you resting for?"

Bai Ting observed Xia Lu Jingchun carefully. Although he was old and paralyzed in bed due to stroke, he looked good and had bright eyes.He also has a high nose and deep eyes, very majestic.If you can stand or sit normally, you must be a person with a full and intimidating aura.

"Father, I want to take a moment of your time. I want to ask you some questions." Lu Luo said, and then turned to the white collar: "This is the white collar I have been telling you about."

"Hello, Uncle. I'm Lu Luo's friend." Bai Ting said politely.

"You are the white collar?" Lu Jingchun looked into the white collar's eyes and said.Bai Ting felt that he had been stripped clean by two sharp eyes, and he couldn't help beating his heart.

"What a handsome young man." Lu Jingchun smiled slightly. "Go get a chair and sit on it."

The two sat beside Lu Jingchun's bed.Lu Luo told Lu Jingchun what happened last night in detail, and checked the details with Bai Ling from time to time.

Watching the conversation between the father and son, Bai Jie felt that Lu Jingchun was different from the image he knew in local newspapers and magazines.Lu Jingchun is famous for his iron fist.At the beginning, the Lu family made their fortune in the watch industry. Unexpectedly, a huge change happened 50 years ago, and most of the family members disappeared.At that time, only Lu Jingchun carried the family business with one hand.Before the watch industry became increasingly depressed, it successfully switched to instrument processing and made the market bigger and bigger.It is said that he has extremely high personal requirements, strict management, and no mistakes are allowed.

But today, Bai Jie felt that Lu Jingchun, who looked at Lu Luo lovingly in his eyes, was just an ordinary father.

But this father is a bit old.Bai Ting couldn't help thinking.

After listening to what happened, Lu Jingchun pondered for a while and said, "The door of the living room is indeed a plumbing room. You can ask Dr. Zhao for the key. I have several suspects in my mind about the identity of the person who attacked the white collar. But you didn't You need to know." He patted Lu Luo's hand and said to him gently: "You are still children, don't get involved in this kind of thing. Protecting yourself is the most important thing."

"But he..." Lu Luo wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a loud noise.

Lu Tong slammed the door open and came in, then quickly turned around and locked the door behind her.The crazy old man shouted outside the door: "Second brother! Let me in! I will get rid of this evil today!" He slammed the door with a shovel, making a loud noise.

"Master, you have to save me." Lu Tong said with a sad face, "Or else I will have to be unloaded by this lunatic."

Seeing Lu Jingchun's brows furrowed visibly, Bai Jie frowned.

"Lu Luo," Lu Jingchun said coldly, "Go and open the door and let him in."

"Don't!" Lu Tong became anxious, "I don't want my life anymore?"

"You, Lu Luo and Bai Ling go out, I will talk to him alone." Lu Jingchun said.

Lu Tong just kept silent.

Lu Luo got up and was about to open the door when he suddenly remembered something and turned around: "Father, can I ask you another question?"

"What?" Lu Jingchun was obviously anxious by the sound of the shovel scraping the door, and his voice was a little impatient.

"Do you know where your elder brother is now?" Lu Luo asked.

Lu Jingchun's face darkened. "He's long dead. Run over by a train 50 years ago. The body has been cremated."

He looked at Lu Tong with cold eyes: "What nonsense are you talking to them again?"

Lu Tong's face was pale, and he quickly waved his hands: "I think they are all children, they are just kidding around!" He said anxiously to Lu Luo, "Go and open the door!"

Lu Luo opened the door, and the old man rushed in, about to chop Lu Tong down.

"Stop!" Lu Jingchun said angrily in a low voice, "What are you doing?"

"Second...Second Brother..." The old man froze, and stammered, "I...I have to kill him..."

"Stop messing around, come here!" Lu Jingchun whispered to him, then shook his head to the others: "You guys go out."

"Why is your uncle so persistent in wanting to kill you?"

The three of them entered the study and asked in white collar.He knew that Lu Tong's character was very annoying, but he wouldn't be so annoying that he would cut him off when they met.

"Who knows?" Lu Tong said nonchalantly. "It must be that he vented the grievances of the previous generation on me. Looking at him like that, I wonder if my own father raped his wife."

Bai Ting shook his head, it seemed that he underestimated the shamelessness of this man again.But even so, Bai Jie still sensed that Lu Tong was deliberately hiding something.

At this time, Dr. Zhao entered the study from the hall.Lu Luo took the opportunity to go up to him and asked him for the key to the pipe room.The two left the study and returned to their own room.

Bai Ling tried the key.The door didn't budge.

"Is this the key to the pipeline?" Bai Ting asked Lu Luo.

Lu Luo was also a little puzzled: "Doctor Zhao should not be mistaken."

Bai Jing scratched his head: "Then do you have a spare key?"

"I don't know," Lu Luo replied, "but all the keys should be with Dr. Zhao. I, Lu Tong, Lu Ai, have no other keys except my room key and the door key."

Bai Ling pushed the door hard again, but it was still in vain.

The two sneaked around Lu Tong's bedroom again, but still found nothing.Just as he was about to leave, he faintly heard the roar of a man and the cry of a woman from the next door. "Inheritance", "useless", and "Lu Tong" vaguely drilled into Bai Ling's ears.

"The next door seems to be Lu Ai's room." Lu Luo whispered.

"Does he live with his wife?" Bai Ting remembered seeing the young mistress come out of the next room opposite in the morning.

"It seems that the two of you slept separately a long time ago." Lu Luo said.

Both of them felt that it was not good to listen to others quarreling, so they left the room together.

The mobile phone was confiscated, and the network router was also shut down by Dr. Zhao on the grounds of Lu Jingchun's order.A life without a net is more important to modern people than a life without food and water.Lu Luo and Bai Ting had nothing to do, so they were in a panic, so they could only go to the study to see if there were any interesting books to pass the time.

Before sitting down to read a book, Lu Luo went into Lu Jingchun's room once to tell him and Dr. Zhao that the key didn't work.The white collar was left in the study.

He looked up at the two-story bookshelves on the wall, and found that most of them were books on mechanical maintenance, hand-made and so on.There are also some popular literature such as novels and essay collections.Bai Jie knew that Lu Jingchun was in the field of instrument processing, and it was normal that there were many mechanical books.Instead, it was the large number of medical and surgical books on the bookshelf that puzzled Bai Ling.

After thinking about it, no one in this family is a medical student.Lu Ai and Lu Tong are obviously not, and the major of Lu Luo University is telecommunications.If it was Dr. Zhao, the amount of books in his collection made one wonder if he was Lu Jingchun's hidden wife.Could it be the crazy old man?Bai Jing shook his head.

He casually pulled out a book with a plain cover from the bookshelf, and took a closer look at the title: "Brain Injury".

Alas, Bai Ling sighed sadly.It was fate.God probably knows that I fell and suffered a head injury yesterday.He was not smart in the first place, so he wondered if he would become a fool directly after being resurrected.

He flipped through it, and found that the whole article was basically full of professional terms except for a few exquisitely drawn anatomical diagrams.Bai Ting couldn't understand it at all.

At this moment, Lu Luo came out of the room. He saw the book in Bai Ting's hand at a glance, and he couldn't hold back his smile.

"You might as well read this book," Lu Luo said, "I thought you had a serious brain injury a long time ago."

Hearing this, Bai Ting put on an aggrieved look, blinked at Lu Luo: "Luo Luo, it's easy to lose my baby if you say such things."

Lu Luo covered his face, made a look of "blind my eyes", smiled and stepped forward to push the white collar.

Bai Ling took him to his side and asked, "How is the situation in the house?"

Lu Luo said: "Doctor Zhao said he didn't know the situation. The key has not been used for a long time." He blinked: "What I didn't expect was that before my dad got sick, every time there was something wrong with the water, electricity and heating, he would fix it himself. Yes. So no one enters the plumbing room except him."

Bai Ting asked suspiciously: "Mr. Lu is a big boss, and he also repairs the plumbing, electricity and heating himself?"

"Well," Lu Luo replied, "I heard from my dad that not only him, but every previous head of the family did these things himself. It's a hobby."

Bai Jing expressed that he didn't quite understand.

After Lu Luo and Bai Ting finished talking, they began to look for books on the bookshelf.When Bai Ting was about to put "Craniocerebral Injury" back on the bookshelf, he discovered that there was a book hidden behind the original book on the shelf.

This book has no title, and the khaki-colored hard cover is very thick, and it looks old.Bai Ting pulled out the book and found that it was a notepad with an exquisite four-digit combination lock.

Bai Ting took a look, and probably didn't know whose diary it was, so he wanted to put it back.But the lock on this book was so delicate and beautiful that he couldn't help playing with it.Unexpectedly, this lock is not durable, it crackled and fell apart with a flick of the white collar's hand.

Bai Ting glanced at Lu Luo guilty, and found that Lu Luo was still concentrating on finding books.

He thought to himself: God gave me a chance to take a peek. This diary looks very old. Maybe I can learn about what happened 50 years ago.So I simply opened the diary.

The diary is old, and the pages are yellow and brittle.Bai Ting searched for the date and found that it was recorded from xx28.

There was a surge of excitement in him.Quickly turned to June XX37, looking for the words "death" and "zombie".

The diary on June 37, XX6 is extremely long, so it must have recorded important events.

Bai Ting stopped at this page and started to read.

August 37, XX6

I thought I didn't need to remember today, because I will never forget what happened today.But I was so uncomfortable, but I couldn't get rid of it, so I could only write it down.

Because of that legend, our whole family died today.Only one little cousin survived hiding in the warehouse when I left.The second brother also survived, but he had already been killed once.

Big Brother went to the funeral this morning.The body was cremated and buried in a cemetery in the south of the city.At noon, my father held a banquet at home.I was worried about my second brother, so I secretly went to see him with food.

The second brother was locked in a small warehouse in the backyard.Don't give up a single step.I don't know if I have given him food in the past three days.I was ordered to keep watch and receive guests. I was stared at every day, and I couldn't find time to find him.

The warehouse door is locked and I don't have a key.But that's not a problem for me.

The second brother doesn't look at me, doesn't talk to me, and doesn't eat.I know it's my fault.I apologized to him thousands of times.I don't want to ask him to forgive, I just hope he stops torturing himself.

His girlfriend doesn't love him at all.I told him repeatedly.Zhou Xuan is sitting in the hall right now, eating the funeral banquet as the eldest brother's widow.

I don't know how long I talked, but the second brother just didn't move.But gradually I heard screams and cries from outside the door.I opened the door a crack, and saw people running with bloodless faces one by one, holding weapons and cutting off each other's hands and feet, and fell to the ground to die one after another.Some people smashed open the gate of the yard and fled outside, and immediately turned into powder and disappeared.

I told my second brother to let him stay in the warehouse, and then I picked up an ax and walked out.The yard was in a mess, with severed limbs and heads everywhere.I was terrified, but still had to walk down the hall because I was worried about my parents' safety.Suddenly, I felt someone was behind me, so I turned the axe, and I chopped off the man, but something in his hand hit me on the head, and I fainted at that time.

I don't know how long I was dizzy.When I woke up, I could no longer hear human voices.I walked down the hall and saw the mutilated bodies of my father and mother.

At this time, I suddenly thought of my second brother.It is not known if he is safe in the warehouse.Yet at the same time I suddenly felt a chill as I remembered that I left without locking the warehouse door.

As I approached the warehouse, I heard a woman's voice.It's Zhou Xuan.Why is she still alive.

What Zhou Xuan said, I only heard a few words clearly.What "I want his descendants to be extinct, and his family to be ruined" what "revenge for me" what "deception".

I couldn't bear to listen, so I pushed open the door and entered the warehouse. Zhou Xuan was talking to my second brother, saw me coming in, and suddenly smiled.Before I could react, I saw her insert the knife in her hand straight into the second brother's chest.

I was crazy at the time, and I chopped off Zhou Xuan's head with an axe.Zhou Xuan's body did not shed a drop of blood, and she was still laughing loudly when her head flew out.

The second brother stood up and pulled the knife out of his chest.He looks at me.I know he must hate me right now.I dare not look at him, I can only avoid his gaze.

"You go out." The second brother said, "I want to talk to Zhou Xuan."

He said and hugged Zhou Xuan's head.Zhou Xuan can still speak at this moment.She giggled and licked the second brother's chin with her tongue.

I walked out of the warehouse.

With my back to the two, I heard Zhou Xuan whisper to the second elder brother clearly:

"Play a good show for me."