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A wooden chair was placed next to the floor mat in front of the security door, and Li Bai sat on it, wearing Yang Jian's high school uniform jacket that Yang Jian left behind in the apartment, the blue and black cuffs were worn white, and it was too baggy to wrap. to ass.

Wearing this way is not for courage, but for practical value. His T-shirt can't cover the things hidden in the long cuffs. A knife, with a short handle and a pointed end, is what he keeps at the bottom of his satchel for self-defense. that one.

Behind him, there was a corridor across the dining table, and Yang Yuqiu's crying could be heard from the master bedroom with the door closed, but it was not clear.This kind of old house is made of solid bricks, the sound insulation effect is indeed better, but it is still not enough, Li Bai thought so, turned around and yelled loudly: "Don't cry!"

"Xiaobai..." Yang Yuqiu seemed to be choking, coughing violently, and said something vaguely between coughs, "Xiaobai, don't be like this, what are you doing..." She seemed to be asking.

What am I going to do?Li Bai almost sneered, turned his head, and continued to stare at the anti-theft door that he held against the shoe cabinet, writing desk, water dispenser, and several solid wooden chairs, without saying a word.You forced me to do whatever I want, he wanted to tell Yang Yuqiu this way, but he didn't bother to explain—it was unreasonable to talk to that woman, so he simply kept silent.

At that time, Yang Yuqiu refused to say what happened in the text message. Li Bai came in a hurry. It was about a quarter past nine. When he entered the room, he saw soda cans all over the floor. After finishing the door, he went back to sit on the sofa, but continued to drink.

Li Bai boiled water for her to drink, handed her a towel when she ran to the toilet to vomit, and listened to her tell a lot of things in the past, such as how her beauty salon was stolen by customers, how she failed to find a job, how she How to drive Yang Jian to go to high school to study well... The more I talked about it, the more I talked about how scared she was on the train leaving her hometown at first. She sat in the gap between the sofa and the coffee table and started crying, saying that she was really scared at the time She was 14 years old and didn't know how to make money. She hid in the pickup truck slot and fled the village. She was afraid that they would starve to death on the road.

Then she talked about Gao Jie, how the middle-aged man comforted her on the train, promised that she would be fine, and how he lied to her, never treating her as a person.What Li Bai didn't expect was that Gao Jie started as a railway thief. He had a gang who only picked sleeper cars to steal things, and got off the trains when he succeeded. After a few years, he made a lot of money before trying other businesses. The line has never stopped.Yang Yuqiu mentioned this because she was also forced to be a thief for several years at Gao Jie's request.Yes, she is a thief, she said this crying herself, but she is still a saint, after Gao Jie became a believer, he regarded stealing as a practice of robbing the rich and giving to the poor, this is what she said crying.

In their scriptures, the saint is missing the moon. Under the watchful eyes of the sun and moon gods and the congregation, she needs to drip incense candles all over her body, and the priest who is possessed by the sun "bleeds the body" to achieve the "moon" final realm.The current dean is Gao Jie.Yang Yuqiu showed Li Bai her scars, saying that she obeyed her advice and was often "purified", but she was still not perfect. She finally said that she was going crazy.

After saying this, she became silent, and the night was also quiet. The gap in the door of the mysterious room was the same as before, the red light was as dark as dark fire, and there was a faint fragrance.

However, Li Bai became more and more impatient. He didn't want to understand what teaching, what stealing, how absurd and miserable. In simple terms, Yang Yuqiu drank too much alcohol and needed to find a living person to talk to, and he was the one who was unfortunately killed. The guy who vomited bitter water, and it is not clear how much of this bitter water is true or false, but Yang Yuqiu is indeed in extreme pain at the moment.

This is a disease, this is a disease, Li Bai thought, he knew the psychotropic drugs that Yang Yuqiu often took, and searched through the clutter on the tea table, but couldn't find it, and heard Yang Yuqiu muttering: "I've had an abortion." Gao Jie knew about it, this is disrespect to the Great God, he wants to kill me."

Holding an empty potato chip tube in his hand, Li Bai paused.

"He's coming to find me..." Yang Yuqiu was still in a daze, "So I want to find you, and I want to go hide with you."

me there.Li Bai restrained his irritability.You still don't know that my house was demolished, and I moved out to live with your brother.Li Bai pressed these words under his tongue and asked, "Did you say when will I see you?"

"Just tonight, just tonight, right away, he called me before you came, he changed the lock on the door, I can't stop him, and he will smash the door... If he can't find me, he will directly destroy the house Damn it, he has something to do with it, no one cares about him, I will have no place to go from now on..." Yang Yuqiu burst into tears again, she grabbed Li Bai's shoulder and pulled, more like a kind of begging, "I I'm afraid, Xiaobai, I'm so scared... We're looking for your brother, we won't hide it from him, we're looking for Yang Jian."

Li Bai was irritated by this sentence.Those passive disgusts suddenly broke through the defenses he had set up for himself in his heart, and turned into active annoyance. "You said 'we'? Who would call you 'us'!" He grabbed Yang Yuqiu's wrist and lifted him from the ground. Yang Yuqiu struggled desperately, as if waking up from a dream. Pulling Yang Yuqiu's hair with one hand, "I took the initiative to hide it for you? Are we accomplices? You have to hold back all the useful nonsense with me at the end, right? People are coming to your door and you beg me to save you? You Know what Yang Jian is doing? He finally—” He dragged Yang Yuqiu into the master bedroom and pushed him to the corner, snatching the phone from her hand, “Don’t bother him, you still treat yourself as a person, his sister, so don’t bother he!"

Then he closed the door, twisted the lock, let Yang Yuqiu slam the door inside and cry, and blocked the anti-theft door outside before he sat down quietly.The key to the bedroom and Yang Yuqiu's cell phone are in his hands.He found Gao Jie's number. The strange thing is that Gao Jie never texted Yang Yuqiu. He only made phone calls. No matter it was midnight or early morning, Yang Yuqiu always answered immediately. His name was never in the missed calls, as if he was afraid Slightly neglected.

Is Gao Jie really that scary?

Li Bai lit a newly bought red Nanjing, and pushed open the door of the room where the incense was burned. Without a lamp, he walked around by the candlelight, and then stared intently at the two statues in the shrine for a while. Harmonious, like a white and fat costume drama character, with a blush, but the body is pure black.The two little ghosts guarding the side of the shrine were more majestic, one with a green face and the other with a red face, the same ferocious fangs and narrow eyes, which made Li Bai uncomfortable to see.

This is the "evil religion" that people are warned to stay away from in the window of the community.

The red face looked familiar, Li Bai brushed off the cigarette ash, and suddenly remembered that mask. One day long ago, it protruded from behind Gao Jie, with its tongue open, its empty eyes swept across Li Bai's face.After that, Li Bai never forgot it.

What about incense candles, saintesses, full moons, sacrifices... Gao Jie seems really scary.

But no matter how scary a person is, he will die if he is stabbed with a knife, right?Li Bai didn't decide to kill, but if he really stabbed and sprayed blood, he would feel nothing.If he was subdued and killed instead, it would be reasonable and acceptable.He just wanted to end the current situation, hurry up, be quiet, and don't let Yang Jian know about it before coming to clean up the mess.As for fear or something, it doesn't seem to matter.

This is not normal is it?Now the most frightening fact turned out to be—he couldn't judge whether something should be feared, as if he had lost the ability to tremble, and was in a strange calm.Li Bai sat back in his chair and extinguished his cigarette, put his keys and cell phone by his feet, tucked his right hand into his sleeve and clenched the handle of the knife, he didn't want to sleep or stop Yang Yuqiu from crying, all he was willing to do now was to wait .

Tuk tuk.When it was nearly eleven o'clock, Li Bai waited until the door rang.

Gao Jie is quite polite?Li Bai stood up, walked forward slowly, and pushed the desk tighter, but what he heard next shocked his whole body.

"Xiaobai, it's me." Yang Jian's voice was incompatible with the long-lasting buzzing in Li Bai's ears, just like the snow-white marking in the middle of the highway at night, "let me in."

Li Bai's hands had become cold. He remembered the shadow puppet show he watched in his hometown. When he was very young, the theater troupe wandered from village to village. If Yang Toufeng was in a good mood and didn't drink, he would be carried in the On the shoulder, let him watch Havoc in Heaven, Shiro visits his mother.He feels that he is a shadow puppet now, and the manipulator is outside the door. He doesn't want Yang Jian to participate, and doesn't expect him to appear, but now he has to remove the furniture blocking the door one by one, and the knife is in the sleeve. Dangling in the air, sometimes icyly brushing against the skin, but not cutting him, like a bamboo stick attached to his body.After the road was cleared, Li Bai stepped forward and took off the wire wrapped around the doorknob, turned the locked knob, and with a click, Yang Jian appeared in front of him.

"I know everything, don't worry." Yang Jian also smelled heavily of alcohol, and the front of his shirt was stained red, as if the red wine had been spilled.But his tie was still tied meticulously, his eyes were bright and clear, he was not drunk, he took a step forward, and did not close the door, "I know how to deal with it, you go home and wait for me first, don't run around."

"Over there at the dinner party—"

"It's not a problem, they're coming soon." Yang Jian held Li Bai's arm, didn't ask him about the school uniform, but pulled him out of the door, "You can't stay here."

"I can't, and I'm not afraid," Li Bai pointed to the mobile phone on the ground, "I won't let her tell you, how do you know?"

"There is a landline in the bedroom." Yang Jian took a deep breath.

"Let's go," he was rarely so embarrassed, even flustered, "I know you're not afraid, but I'm afraid, is it okay if I'm afraid, you can do me the greatest favor by going home now!"

Li Bai had already been pushed out of the room by Yang Jian, Yang Jian blocked the door, picked up Li Bai's shoes and put them in front of him, there was a crisp sound when they landed together, the boning knife slipped from the cuff.Li Bai was a little dazed, picked it up and handed it to Yang Jian, who took it, took another deep look at him, and closed the door without hesitation.

Subconsciously, Li Bai bent down to put on his shoes in obedient inertia, and when he was tying his shoes, he suddenly came back to his soul. He realized that he was out of the game. Yang Jian seemed to protect him, but he didn't intend to protect himself, tears burst into tears. He rushed out, wet his knees, Li Bai jumped up and knocked on the door, calling out his brother and Yang Jian's name, but Yang Jian only replied "Go quickly", which sounded far away, and didn't seem like he was still on the other side of the door.

Yang Jian should have picked up the key and entered the messy bedroom.

What's wrong?what is happeningYang Jian wasn't surprised, nor was he panicked. Since he avoided the wine table and hid in the luxurious bathroom and heard Yang Yuqiu's confession, his anger and annoyance only lasted for a few seconds, and then he restrained himself and turned to Fast thinking.He wanted to find a reason to explain to those bosses that he wanted to rush back at the risk of being arrested for drunk driving, and he succeeded.And soon after Li Bai left, Gao Jie really came, wearing the red mask, and a group of attendants who were tall, short, fat, and thin, looking aggressive and trying to settle accounts.

This was within Yang Jian's expectation, in other words, what he saw was inevitable, and it was not surprising that Gao Jie called out a few younger brothers to beat him to death.Because Gao Jie was reluctant to beat Yang Yuqiu like that, Yang Yuqiu was pressed on the sofa and sat next to him, like a beautiful but dusty decoration.And the door of the always mysterious room was opened at this moment, several people were busy inside, the candles were suddenly burning brightly, Yang Jian looked sideways, and was suddenly held up by several people around him, half pushed and half shoved in. that house.

Standing in front of the pair of god statues, the light from behind the door was blocked by a few figures, Yang Jian heard Gao Jie whisper, "It's been so many years, I've been kind to you two."

Yang Yuqiu trembled, and could only utter some syllables with unknown meanings.

Yang Jian didn't reply either.

"Am I in charge of your food, clothing, and housing?" Gao Jie asked again.

"Yes." Yang Jian said.

"Okay, Xiao Yang, I have always regarded you as my younger brother," Gao Jie said coldly, "I will register for you and entrust you to a key junior high school. Did I do it?"

"Yes." Yang Jian was colder than him.

"It's a bit of a conscience," Gao Jie laughed, "And your delicate anemia, your examination, treatment, maintenance, is it my money?"

"It used to be." Yang Jian turned his head, wanting to see him.

Gao Jie laughed louder, and there were many footsteps. He dragged Yang Yuqiu into the room where Yang Jian was, followed by the red mask, and the others made way for them.Yang Jian saw a distorted face. Yang Yuqiu's home clothes were wrapped with a layer of red gauze scarf. The ink was smeared with spells, and his forearm was pinched in his hand, and its shape was also distorted.

"I said that you think you are noble. If you want you to work for me, you refuse to do it! Now you have a studio and become a small boss? Do you think you have any use other than working hard for me? It's useless. What do I spend for you? Money? No matter how many times I want to kill you and throw you into the river, your sister stopped me, I have no choice but your dear sister who told me to use it," Gao Jie grabbed Yang Yuqiu's waist and let her Can't move, "beautiful, young, brainless, such a clean little doll, who knew she was also a loser? She was pregnant with my seed, but she was aborted, and she was aborted without a word? I thought there was a hospital that could hide it Me? My seeds dirty your belly, you can't stand it, eh baby?"

Yang Yuqiu frowned in pain as his lower abdomen was stabbed hard by an elbow.

"The combination of the patriarch and the saint is a holy fetus, and the sun and moon gods can't even give one in a thousand years." Everyone was silent, but the red mask suddenly uttered a voice, reciting, "Kill the holy fetus, He deserves death!"

"Kneel down!" Gao Jie shouted sharply.

Everyone knelt down, only Gao Jie, Red Mask, and Yang Yuqiu were left standing.This didn't seem to be Yang Yuqiu's original intention, it was Gao Jie who was holding her down so that she wouldn't bend her knees.And the loudest sound came from Yang Jian. He was pushed down. No matter how straight he stood, he couldn't support seven or eight hands. His knees hit the floor like stones. Then his back was also held down. That The fat man in the black vest was about to press him down like a chair, and there were two helpers on the left and right. Yang Jian had his hands twisted behind his waist and was pinned together by invisible handcuffs. He wanted to raise his head. The bones stood up tightly, and the strength stored in them trembled faintly, like a wild leopard trapped by an iron net.

The next second, another pair of hands came, they pinched the back of Yang Jian's neck, they slammed, and with a bang, Yang Jian's forehead hit the ground.

He kowtowed to the shrine.