I live on the 18th floor of Nether Community

The crowd outside the train station was surging, as if there was a peak travel time.After finally checking the ticket and getting on the bus, Jiang Miao felt that half of his life had been squeezed out.He looked back at Qi Chi behind his eyes, only to see the calm expression on his face.

Qichi was wearing a black windbreaker today, and the shirt inside was not wrinkled at all.He looks like a high-end elite, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like someone who can travel in a hard green leather seat.

Probably because they were afraid of the cold weather, they would freeze the passengers at night.Even the heating in the compartment of the green leather car is still fully turned on.It was time for dinner, and the smell of instant noodles mixed with sweat filled the compartment.Jiang Miao rubbed his nose, only to feel that the addiction to cigarettes made him uncomfortable.He simply peeled a betel nut and chewed it in his mouth, so as to wash away the unpleasant smell around him.

woo-

There was a roar of the whistle, and the train gradually pulled out of the station.Sitting opposite Jiang Miao and Qi Chi was a middle-aged couple who seemed to be migrant workers.There was a little girl of four or five years old squeezed between them.The little girl was quite obedient, and she couldn't stop making trouble, she just bit her finger and kept staring at Qichi.This Jiang Miao can understand, after all, everyone has a love for beauty, and children are no exception.

Sitting behind them looked like a group of college students who came out to play.Men and women gathered together, and the table was filled with snacks, drinks and board games.This group of people was the loudest in the entire carriage.Of course, after seeing Qi Chi and Jiang Miao, the female college students restrained themselves somewhat.It's just that they would whisper to each other from time to time, and then there would be a few thieves laughing.

Across the aisle was an old gentleman who had been sitting there motionless since getting in the car.He held a rectangular object in his arms, wrapped in an opaque black cloth, and he couldn't tell what was inside.Next to him were three men in camouflage uniforms, all wearing the same black cloth shoes with some glue stuck to them.They didn't communicate with each other, just slumped on the seat so lazily.

The horn in the car suddenly rang, and there was an announcement from the conductor.

"Dear passengers, the dining car has prepared a delicious lunch for you. There are fish-flavored shredded pork, scrambled eggs with tomato, and sweet and sour pork ribs. If you want to eat, please go to the dining car. Our dining car is located in the No. [-] car. Later The conductor will also deliver lunch boxes to each carriage..."

Jiang Miao nudged Qi Chichi with his elbow and asked, "Brother Xiao Hua, is the dining car still a box lunch?"

"It's all good." Qi Chi opened the book and replied casually.

"Then let's take a lunch box, too many people are too lazy to run." Jiang Xiao plugged in his earphones, planning to catch up on sleep before the lunch box was delivered.The winter sun makes people soft and soft, and I can't help but feel sleepy.

The surrounding voices began to fade away, and Jiang Miao felt his body keep sinking.It felt weird, and he subconsciously wanted to open his eyes.But no matter how hard I tried, I still couldn't open my eyelids, as if someone was forcibly supporting them with their hands.Immediately afterwards, he couldn't even move his whole body.

The surroundings were plunged into darkness.Suddenly, a pale light lit up in the carriage.Before Jiang Miao figured out why he was able to see these things even though his eyes were closed, a glass marble rolled to his feet.

Jiang Miao suddenly became able to move again.He lowered his head, trying to bend down to pick up the marble.Suddenly, a gray hand stretched out from under the seat, grabbing the marble back.Jiang Xiao leaned forward to look at the bottom of the seat, facing a rotten child's face.

"Woo-woo-"

The child looked at Jiang Xiao and smiled, opened his mouth round and kept imitating the sound of the train.Immediately afterwards, he got out from under the chair, ran along the aisle, and sat down next to a woman in a floral padded jacket, swinging his two turnip-like legs.

Jiang Xiao took a closer look and found that although the carriage looked the same as before, all the passengers had changed.Sitting next to him was no longer Xichi, but a fat man in a dark blue suit.The fat man was holding an apple in his hand and was peeling it with a knife.He suddenly turned his head to look at Jiang Miao, with a smile on his fat face, squeezing his facial features a little out of shape.

The fat man handed the apple to Jiang Miao, seeing that Jiang Miao refused to take it, he moved his hand back in frustration.He looked at the apple and swallowed, then began to chew.

In the entire carriage, for a while, only the fat man's chewing sound mixed with saliva could be heard.

Crunch, crunch, crunch...

"hiss……"

He suddenly frowned in pain, and spat sharply into his hand.Jiang Xiao saw that what the fat man spit out were a few bloody teeth.He threw his teeth on the table as if he didn't care, and continued to eat the apple.Then one after another, like spitting out a nucleus, they violently spit out the teeth in their mouths.

"Sir, is that the lunch box you want?" A pair of hands stretched out in front of Jiang Xiao, holding a white plastic lunch box.

Jiang Miao looked up and saw the conductor's pale face.Her lips were dark purple, with deep bags under her eyes, and her mouth was stylized and quickly reported today's dishes.

"The dining car has prepared ingot candles, gold and silver paper money, and cold dishes for you..." The conductor's voice became faster and faster, and his tone gradually became very sharp, and finally reduced to an inhuman scream, "15 Yuan, 15 Yuan, 15 Yuan, 15 Yuan, 15 Yuan..."

The next scene was even more horrifying. Her head suddenly fell back, the arc became wider and wider, and it fell directly from her neck.The head that rolled to the floor was still rapidly repeating what it said just now.

"The dining car has prepared four assortments of ingot candles, gold and silver paper money, and cold dishes for you, 15 yuan, 15 yuan, 15 yuan, 15 yuan..."

Jiang Miao took a deep breath to stabilize his mind, and his subordinates secretly made a formula.

"God gathers the spirit of the sky, clear and worry-free." Then he quickly tapped on his seal, his eyes froze for a moment and said, "Light up the lamp!"

In an instant, the pale carriage and the passengers on it quickly faded behind Jiang Xiao, and separated as if a layer of color had faded.

Jiang Miao opened his eyes abruptly.

The noisy voices of college students in the back seat came again, and the little girl sitting opposite was still biting her fingers and tilting her head to look at him.

Everything was back to normal, but the sweat on Jiang Xiao's forehead reminded him that it was not just an ordinary dream just now.

"What's the matter?" Qi Chi turned his eyes away from the book and asked Jiang Miao.

Jiang Miao wiped the sweat from his forehead, and laughed bitterly: "I want to say that I just had a crush on the bed, do you believe it?"

A look of surprise appeared on Qichi's face, and he leaned forward and whispered in Jiang Xiao's ear, "Did you see them?"

Jiang Miao nodded and said in a low voice, "You are really courageous, even the Yin soldiers dare to play tricks."

"It's not necessarily just a trick." Qi Chi frowned and said, "They didn't tell you something?"

"No, it's all a trick to scare people on a daily basis." Jiang Xiao spat out the betel nuts in his mouth and said, "It seems that Li Dayong is right, if they are not sent away, the passengers in this train may have a hard time. "

He unscrewed the bottle of mineral water and poured it down, then asked Qichi in a low voice: "Li Dayong is still in your blood lotus seeds, didn't he react at all when I was crushed just now?"

Qi Chi shook his head and said, "Don't say it's him, I didn't even notice."

"Now is the time when the yang energy is at its peak at noon. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be..." Jiang Miao rested his chin and thought for a moment, then looked at Qi Chi and said seriously, "Brother Hua, I'm afraid this train is weird."

Qi Chi slightly hooked the corner of his lower lip, "As expected, let's just wait and see."

……

To be honest, the box lunch on the train is really delicious.Fortunately, Jiang Xiao got used to it when performing tasks on weekdays, so he ate most of the box with mineral water.Qi Chi's portion didn't move much at all, Jiang Miao thought he was wasting it, so he snatched the lunch box and picked out all the meat inside.

Qichi took out an apple from his carry-on bag, peeled it and handed it to Jiang Miao.Jiang Miao looked at Apple, all he could think about was the teeth that the fat man just spit out, and he lost his appetite anyway.

He waved his hand to avoid the apple, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the little girl sitting opposite was swallowing her saliva desperately towards them.Jiang Xiao smiled and handed the apple over.

"Children, do you want to eat?"

The little girl pouted and shook her head timidly.

"Eat, brother is not a bad person." Jiang Miao tried his best to look amiable.

The little girl glanced at the woman next to her with some hesitation.The woman smiled embarrassedly at Jiang Miao and said, "Just take it for you."

The little girl hurriedly took the apple happily, and then said to Jiang Miao in a crisp voice, "Thank you, brother." Then she gave Qi Chi a shy look, "Thank you, brother Xiaohua."

Jiang Miao looked curious: "How do you know his name is Xiaohua?"

"I heard you call that just now." The little girl blinked and added, "My grandma's puppy is also called Xiao Hua."

"Girl!" The woman quickly patted the little girl's head.

Jiang Miao couldn't help laughing out loud, thinking that this child is too cute.

……

The train is still running.

The sun was setting, and the days in winter were short, and soon it was completely dark.After dinner, the people in the carriage fell asleep one after another.The originally noisy carriage became quiet in a blink of an eye, only the heating engine let out a long sigh from time to time.

"Aren't you going to sleep for a while?" Xichi's voice was particularly deep in the darkness.

Jiang Miao shook his head and smiled: "Afternoon's dream was too strong." He stretched his waist and said, "Go to bed first, I'm on duty."

"Jiang Miao..." Qi Chi was silent for a while, then said softly, "You were in Wutong Village that day, you must have remembered something again."

Jiang Miao's heart skipped a beat, and the image of himself standing in the rain of blood and stabbing Qi Chi once again appeared in front of his mind.He couldn't help gripping his pants tightly, hesitatingly thinking about how to answer.

"I……"

"No matter what you think of, everything is not the truth until the memory is completely pieced together." Qi Chi pulled Jiang Miao's nervous hands away from his pants, and smiled at him, "Don't worry too much."

Xichi's hand was very warm, and he didn't let go of Jiang Xiao immediately after holding onto it.

For some reason, following the warmth of his palm, Jiang Miao felt much more at ease.

The night makes people bold, Qi Chi's expression was buried in the night, and he quietly increased the strength in his hands.

……

The author has something to say: Christmas Little Theater:

The door of Qichi's house was left open, Jiang Xiao poked his head in curiously.I saw a giant Christmas tree standing straight in the middle.

Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows and called out, "Brother Xiao Hua?"

From behind the tree came Xichi's deep voice.

"exist."

Jiang Miao pretended to be shocked and said, "Oh, so this is your real body?... Well, I said you were a flower demon before, and it seems that I wrongly blamed you." Pat the tree trunk: "Not bad, quite strong!"

Qi Chi's hand, which was hanging decorations behind the tree, stopped suddenly, his face blushed unconsciously, and he frowned, "What nonsense."

Jiang Miao laughed like he had succeeded, walked around the tree trunk to Qichi, squinted his eyes and looked at him: "Merry Christmas, Brother Xiaohua."

The corners of Qi Chi's mouth twitched slightly, he got up and stood in front of Jiang Miao, and stretched out his hand towards him.

A Christmas hat was suddenly put on Jiang Xiao's head.

"Merry Christmas."

After Xichi finished speaking, he put on his apron, turned around and walked into the kitchen, turned his back to Jiang Miao and said, "I'll make some Christmas wine to drink tonight, let's stay here for a while."

"Okay!" Jiang Miao sank into the sofa and stretched comfortably.

Light snow fell outside the window, and a thin layer had accumulated on the window sill.The lights in the room were warming up, Jiang Xiao looked sideways at the kitchen, and saw Qi Chi's back facing his slender and straight figure.

After a while, the smell of open fruit, cinnamon and red wine filled the room. Jiang Miao took a deep breath and put down the cigarette he just took out.

He touched the Santa hat on his head and suddenly felt like a family man too.

Merry Christmas everyone! !