Higurashi

At dawn on December 21, 12 in the new calendar, the first gunfire sounded in the central administrative district of the capital of the Northern Alliance.

Of course Qin Yu didn't hear it, he woke up with a slight enthusiasm, Bai Hanming was gone, the messy carpet was cleaned up yesterday, the electric heater was still working, the room was very warm, milk and sandwiches were on the coffee table, Keep a little bit of residual heat after heating.

The house was very quiet, and the layout was exactly the same as before, except for an extra pair of toiletries on the countertop in the bathroom.The passion in Qin Yu's body was still within the tolerance range, he washed his face with cold water, opened the curtains of the living room to let the light in, sat on the sofa and ate breakfast.

Then he started packing.

He has a room full of cardboard boxes filled with a lot of messy things, most of which are related items left over from changing jobs in the past few years, and there is no need to take them away.

Qin Yu's life has always been very flexible. You can buy more clothes, change jobs, and you don't have to be attached to your home. There are new roofs wherever you go.He wrapped the inhibitor and the game console in clean clothes, put them in his backpack, folded up the map on the coffee table, and stuffed them into the inner pocket of the backpack.Then there is the oil painting, which has been painted halfway, and the paint is not dry yet, so it needs to be treated with caution.Qin Yu wrapped the entire picture frame with a waterproof bag, and put it face up into a cardboard box of a suitable size. The paints and brushes were packed separately, which just filled a toolbox.

During this period, the ground trembled slightly, and the sound of an explosion came from a distant place. When it fell into Qin Yu's ears, the sound was already very soft, as if something had collapsed.

At exactly 9 o'clock, Li Huaishan knocked on the door, and the car with the engine still on was waiting downstairs.

Lin Yi was also there, afraid of motion sickness, he sat in the co-pilot.Qin Yu put the luggage into the trunk and fastened the seat belt on the back seat.

The withered and old houses began to recede, forming a long and uninteresting scroll.

The capital was far away behind them, and the sound of explosions sounded from time to time across a farther and farther distance.On the roof of the car, rows of fighter jets streaked across the gloomy sky, and quickly turned into tiny dots, disappearing into the billowing black smoke rising from the high wall.

Li Huaishan said: "What happened with the Ministry of Peace made the preparations there, and the troops on the border were dispatched in advance. We have to go farther to ensure safety."

Qin Yu and Lin Yi didn't speak, Li Huaishan said again: "Mr. Bai is prepared, don't worry too much."

Qin Yu nodded, and Li Huaishan saw it in the rearview mirror.

They are going south.

After driving out of exile, the field of vision widened.As soon as Lin opened the car window, leaning his head on the window sill, he hummed a song with a light melody.

"The tall towers fell, and out of the ruins grew beautiful trees. The trees grew and were cut down, and the wood made great walls—"

There are only these two lines in the lyrics, and Lin Yi repeated them several times, his low voice caught in the cold wind blowing in from the window.

Still later, the smoke disappeared and the sky became clear.They drove through the national highway for transportation, and everything went well along the way.In the evening, Li Huaishan sent them to a manor far away from the city. It is said that it is a collateral property of the Bai family. Few people know about it. Even in such a sensitive time, they can still be safe.

There was no one else in the manor, but a large amount of groundwater was stored in the warehouse, strips of air-dried meat were hung on the corridor outside the kitchen, and some vegetables and fruits that were convenient to eat were grown in the fields behind.Li Huaishan picked some tomatoes and potatoes for them, and with the fried bacon, the three of them had a simple dinner in the restaurant.

Li Huaishan did not rest and left overnight.Qin Yu and Lin Yi chose two adjacent bedrooms on the second floor and unloaded their meager luggage.

The bedroom had its own balcony, Qin Yu pushed the door out and stood there for a while in the night.A few minutes later, Lin Yi also came out.He was smoking, and the sparks from the cigarette flickered on and off.Qin Yu glanced at him and was about to go back to the room.Lin Yi stopped him: "Hello."

Qin Yu stopped, and Lin Yi asked lazily, "Will Bai Hanming come back to look for you?"

Qin Yu: "..."

"You have been left behind." Lin Yi said, "Although this place looks safe, even if they fight hard and the Northern Alliance destroys the country, you can live here for a long time...but you have been left behind Well."

Qin Yu stood on the spot and looked at him, Lin held half a cigarette in his finger, and blew out a puff of smoke ring into the night.The night wind swept across the field, and the white mist dispersed lightly. Qin Yu looked at it for a while, then turned and went back to the bedroom.

They lived here and took turns cooking and cleaning.The life in the manor is quite convenient, and all kinds of facilities are complete.During the day, Qin Yu would take out his easel and sit on the balcony of his bedroom to draw, while Lin Yi was doing nothing, driving the forklift in the manor, digging around, like a young idle boy in the capital.Besides, there was an old radio on the fireplace in the living room, and they sat down and waited on time at 7 o'clock every night, but there was only a blank murmur on the nightly news channel, and they waited for days, nostalgic The prologue didn't sound for a long time, so I gave up and let the tape recorder start to collect dust.

On the first day, the weather was very cloudy.The next day, it snowed a little.On the third day, it started to clear up, and Lin Yi used a forklift to overturn the dead poles in the wheat field into the soil... No. 60 On the second day, Qin Yu deleted the save file left by Bai Hanming in the game console, and started to clear the level again.

No.70 Three days later, Lin Yi couldn't take it anymore, and left the manor with his backpack on his back.

No.70 Five days later, Qin Yu returned to the eighth level of the game, and saw the dragon that took the princess away on the single-plank bridge.He was a little distracted, he didn't jump in time for the dragon to charge.After the plumber died, he turned off the console and never turned it on again.

New Year's Day is over long ago, and the spring of the 22nd year of the new calendar is coming, and the temperature is gradually rising.Qin Yu found some unknown seeds in the warehouse, and tried to sow them in Lin Yi's overturned field.

Every day, he would go to the field to check the situation, water a little, and loosen the soil.

When the weather is good, he still draws, and Bai Hanming's one has been completed long ago, and it is hidden in a sealed box.There were white paper and pens in the study, so Qin Yu went around the manor to collect pictures and draw some sketches with complicated lines.

No.90 Five days ago, a burly stray cat slipped into the manor.

The cat is orange and the fur is a little dirty.Qin Yu gave it a bowl of water, and it refused to leave. It patrolled around the manor every day, catching wandering voles.It doesn't appear often, but every time it catches a prey, it will swagger past Qin Yu, as if to show off, but also as if to inform Qin Yu that he has taken away the things in the manor.Every time Qin Yu saw it, he would think of the green-shelled tortoise guarding the princess on the lava bridge, and felt that they had a certain resemblance, so he named it the evil dragon.

Gradually, a small stack of sketches was accumulated, and the evil dragon became fatter and fatter, occasionally approaching Qin Yu and rubbing against his ankles.Although Qin Yu had chosen a name, he never barked at ordinary times, and the evil dragon didn't seem to care too much about it. When Qin Yu knelt down to touch it, it would make rough purring sounds, like a bellows.

If everything else is put aside, such a life seems to be not bad.Qin Yu will record the date on the sketches he draws every day, in case he misses the injection time of the inhibitor.

He brought a total of ten inhibitors, enough for him to use for half a year.Some plants in the manor had withered from improper care, but there was still plenty of food left.Qin Yu couldn't find a reason to leave here, so he stayed for a long time.

Until 135 days, Lin Yi came back.

He was driving an old-fashioned car with a dark green body and a brown-red interior. When he braked at the gate of the manor, he aroused the vigilance of the evil dragon.He strode into the living room, picked up the radio on the fireplace, and asked Qin Yu sternly, "Have you heard it recently?"

"No." Qin Yu said, "The battery is dead."

Lin became silent for a moment, and stared at him silently.After a while, he scratched his hair and said with the most complicated expression he could make: "Two things, the first one, they succeeded two months ago, but Park Hamming didn't become president. The second one …He said in an interview last week that he is getting married, and the wedding will be next month.”

He kept looking at Qin Yu while speaking, probably because he was afraid of Qin Yu's overreaction.But Qin Yuyuan was calmer than he had imagined. After listening on the spot, his expression hardly changed.

"You..." On the contrary, Lin Yi didn't know what to say, he always took this kind of thing lightly, there are so many accidents in life, today is enough to have a good time.But Qin Yu was obviously not like this. He was stubborn, rigid, yet frighteningly simple. All his courage seemed to be invested in Bai Hanming alone.Lin Yi originally thought that it would be difficult for him to accept such a betrayal.

"Do you want to go back and have a look? To see him?" Lin Yi thought for a while, then said, "I went to see the apartment, and it's okay to live in. The capital is quite safe now. I don't know where you went. You still have to find him for the genetic problem? Just go back together."

Qin Yu looked at him for a while, then nodded.Lin Yi wanted to say something more, but Qin Yu quickly turned around and left.He followed for a while and found that Qin Yu was going to pack his luggage.He still used the bags and boxes he used, packed the things he brought as they were, and put them in Lin Yi's trunk, and like a temporary resident, he cleaned up the garbage in the house with quality.

As soon as Lin started the car, Qin Yu locked the door of the manor. The orange stray cat quickly jumped down from the wall, looking at Qin Yu with green eyes.Qin Yu paused when he opened the car door, and asked it: "Do you want to come with me?"

The stray cat "meowed" and rushed into the car with vigorous steps.