As soon as we enter May, the air in West Lake City is getting humid and humid, and before the rainy season, the air in the basement is filled with a choking musty smell. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe staircase leading to the basement was plastered with old-fashioned floor tiles, and the glaze was unusually slippery due to the dampness, but she walked down the stairs quickly in three or two steps, and her steps were surprisingly steady. Ah Ping, a waiter at the small hotel, happened to carry a mop bucket from the utility room in the basement, and almost didn't bump into the fierce girl. After passing by, Ah Ping patted her shriveled chest, and muttered secretly in her heart: "A big girl who is quite a sign, how can she live in this kind of basement? The third class, the best double room is two hundred and one nights, the medium standard room is one hundred and five thousand nights, and the most inferior standard room on the first floor is also one hundred and twenty yuan a night, but this girl lives in the basement, Ah Ping remembers that there seems to be a grandmother from other places who once rented this basement that was originally used to pile up sundries, but then after the old man disappeared without saying hello, the proprietress once wanted to restore it to the utility room, but unexpectedly met a girl who was willing to pay fifty yuan a night to live in the basement. Ah Ping looked at the girl's back and shook her head, the ID card showed that this was a girl from Yunnan, she couldn't remember the specific address, she only knew that the girl went out early and returned late, and sometimes she didn't come back overnight. At first, the proprietress was worried about whether there was a thief living in, but then she got used to the girl's work and rest time, and the Yunnan girl didn't talk much, and her personality seemed to be very shy, and she always liked to keep her head down when she saw people, and she only whispered when people talked to her, or simply nodded and shook her head. However, the timid and kind innkeeper saw that the little girl was pitiful, and would secretly send her some food from time to time, but the little girl was not afraid, and did not refuse to come. Ah Ping also knew that the boss of the local people was eaten to death by the fat proprietress and couldn't make any tricks, even if he had a thief's heart, he didn't have the courage to be the flower thief who was close to Fangze.

After brushing shoulders with Ah Ping, the girl returned to the room alone, the musty smell was still very strong, but the room was cleaned up by her in an orderly manner, not cluttered at all, even the sheets on the temporary wooden bed were as smooth as paper, the quilt was folded squarely, the toiletries on the table were neatly arranged, and even the toothpaste and toothbrush were placed in the same direction. There is only one LED light in the room, which is old for some time, and it takes some time for the light to gradually turn on every time it is turned on, and the room is dim and white, and it looks more and more dark and damp. The girl took off her shoes and sat them side by side in the doorway, changed into slippers, and then sat down at the only table in the room, took out a notebook with a cowhide cover from the drawer, drew a ballpoint pen, and began to write something on the paper.

"On the fourth day of April, it was sunny. Today is the 216th day of coming to West Lake, but for me, today is a very happy day, after searching for more than half a year, I finally found the clue. My brother is not dead yet, I am really happy! My brother is my only relative in this world, no matter where he goes or what he does, he is my brother!" She stopped writing, bit the pen for a while, and continued to write, "I don't know why, I can always smell Xiong Kangqin's body recently." Maybe I'm too suspicious, that eunuch should be his cottage master in the village, how could he appear in such a prosperous city?" His father was the assistant and finance minister of the village owner Xiong Langlun, and he was also the only person in the village who could read and write. Although her father was literate, he was still the same as the older generation, and felt that women should not read and write, and her words were taught by her brother, and she learned them from her brother word by word, until her brother left the village to become a soldier. Xiong Langlun, the owner of the village, always felt that his brother went to be a soldier to betray him, betrayed the village, in the thinking of the Xiong family, his brother should only be the right-hand man of his fat son Xiong Kangqin, just like his father and father's father. When her brother left the village, she didn't understand, and after castrating Xiong Kangqin, who was drunk and trying to plot against her, she escaped from the village alone, and went to the capital, and then from the capital to Gusu City. It's just that there are some things that she doesn't quite understand when she just entered the city, such as why her brother must listen to the words of the high-ranking young master of the Jiang family, such as why the fiancée of the young master of the Jiang family would give up the young man of the Jiang family and choose Li Yundao, who is also a mountain man in her opinion. There are many things that she can't figure out, but she doesn't want to figure it out, as long as she stays by her brother's side, she doesn't need to worry about these things.

She felt that maybe it was her betrayal of the cottage that angered the gods of the mountains, so that she lost her brother's protection. To this day, she vividly remembers that her brother told her that night, as usual, that he was going on a mission. During that time, she had long been accustomed to her brother's state of going out on a mission, especially after the young master of the Jiang family gave up his plan to let his brother take Li Yundao's head, and when he returned to the capital from Gusu, his brother became more and more busy. Every time she went out, she had to be very well prepared, and those weapons were something she had never seen before, and every time she came back, she was also exhausted, and went back to her room to sleep without saying a word, until the next morning, when she woke up, her brother would make breakfast and put it on the table. She likes to eat half-cooked eggs, and only her brother can grasp the heat of the omelette in this world, and the brother said that this kind of hot spring egg is called in the city. It's just that after that night, she never ate the greasy and delicious hot spring eggs again.

After her brother's disappearance, she began a frenzied search for his whereabouts. She tried a lot of effort, but she couldn't see the young master of the Jiang family in her brother's mouth, in this world where the rules are completely different from the mountains, she only knows two people, one is her brother, and the other is her brother's former assassination target - Li Yundao. For some reason, she always had a hunch that her brother should not be dead, if her brother was not dead, then one day, he would appear by Li Yundao's side and take the head of the mountain man. Next, wherever Li Yundao goes, she will follow which city she will follow, like a man hunting in the mountains, patiently, motionlessly, waiting for her prey.

"I was almost seen by that guy today, and it is said that he has a good memory and will not forget once he sees him, so I put on a hat. But I was careless, when I came out of the coffee shop, there was an uncle who had been following me, I didn't know what his purpose was, I was scared, so I hid in the mall and got rid of him. This uncle is terrible to me, and his leg strength is better than that of my brother, but fortunately I was witty and hid in the big shopping mall where the store celebration was being held. But there seems to be another thing that makes me very unhappy today, I seem to feel the breath of Heart-devouring Gu, but it is a poisonous Gu that only the Xiong family has, Xiong Langlun has never allowed the clansmen in the village to leave easily, and it is impossible for the people of the Xiong family to have the opportunity to leave the Miao Village with the poisonous Gu. Well, it must be my own delusion. Almighty mountain god, bless me to find my brother as soon as possible, I know, he's in this city, well, I can feel it!"

She gently closed the notebook, inserted the ballpoint pen into the cover, and pulled back the drawer to put the notebook back in its place. The lights in the room were slowly turning on, shining on her goose-egged little face, her elbows propped up on the table, her hands on her chin, and she was bored playing a game of gnashing teeth. Her teeth are very white, her skin is whiter, and after taking off her Miao costume and changing into the clothes of a city girl, she looks even fresher and more refined. Spit out the bubbles of spat again in boredom, and then she lay back on the cot, and after a while, as if remembering something, suddenly took out a paper bag from under the bed that was fixed to the partition.

It was a package wrapped in newspaper, and after she unfolded it layer by layer, there were six or seven stacks of banknotes inside, which looked like ten thousand yuan, and she suddenly sighed: "It's not a way to go on like this, you have to find a job." She actually wanted to find a job when she appeared in the coffee shop today, she observed Li Yundao for several years, and knew that he rarely appeared in this kind of café, which was close to the Public Security Bureau, and there were free computers to access the Internet, and she felt that being a waiter should be more than enough with her own ability, but it was unfortunate that Li Yundao actually appeared in the store. This accident frightened her, she subconsciously wanted to run, she didn't know why, maybe it was because her brother once wanted this man's life, so she unconsciously felt a sense of guilt. When she found out that she was caught by a middle-aged uncle, she was even more frightened, she didn't know who the middle-aged uncle was, whether he had a gun or not, his brother said, many bad guys have guns - the guns here are much more powerful than the * shotguns in the cottage, which she has learned a lot from the TV at her brother's house, and she still has to find her brother, and she may not be able to put her life into it so easily. So like a frightened bunny, she hurriedly fled back to the basement she had so hard to rent.

The basement is very damp, but for her, who is used to living in a bamboo building in the cottage, this is nothing, but the smell is a little choking. She originally wanted to be closer to Li Yundao's guy, but as soon as she inquired about the rental price there, the girl in the mountains was frightened and immediately dispelled this idea - her brother's money left at home had been used up by herself in the past five years, and now all the money in her body was added up to the paper bag wrapped in newspaper. In the past few years of living alone, she has also suffered a lot of losses, but she has grown wise, and she now knows that she can't find it if she taps the package containing money to the back of the bed board and doesn't go under the bed and search carefully.

"Knock knock!" someone knocked on the door.

The knock on the door startled her to jump up from the bed, and she vigilantly pulled a dagger from under her pillow, and held it in her hand, which gave her a sense of security. She didn't speak, just looked quietly, nervously at the wooden door covered with newspapers.

"Knock knock!" the knock sounded again, but no one spoke outside the door.

She held the dagger tighter, her hand sweating made the handle a little slippery to the touch, and she didn't bother to wipe it, but looked nervously at the wooden door, as if it would pounce on a beast that would swallow itself as soon as it opened.

"Knock knock!" there was a third knock on the door, but this time someone was talking outside. "It's strange, I saw that the little girl was back, and the lights were on, why didn't anyone agree?"

She finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it was the kind and timid owner of the inn who knocked on the door. The owner and his wife are both natives of West Lake, and they run this small hotel with dedication and diligence. The proprietress is calculating, stingy and mean, but the boss is kind-hearted, but she is often reprimanded fiercely by the fat proprietress with her ears. However, this does not affect the boss to secretly oppose the proprietress in private, such as occasionally charging a few dollars less for guests, inviting guests to taste watermelons when they cut watermelons, and sharing the cooked soup with Yunnan girls living in the basement from time to time.

When the boss was about to turn around, the quiet wooden door suddenly opened, and the girl who looked as sweet as a flower stood timidly by the door: "Uncle, what's the matter with you?"

The boss held a teacup in his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at the direction of the stairs like a thief, "The soup that was cooked at noon is still hot! Your aunt went out to play mahjong, and she couldn't find it, so quickly take a bowl and pour it out." ”

The girl thanked the boss again and again, but did not drink the soup with oil flowers floating in the bowl. Although they are not Muslims, they have a tradition of not eating pork, but she does not want to refuse the kindness of the boss, especially in this unfamiliar city - my brother said that he should be a person with a warm heart, whether rich or poor, whether in good times or bad. If you have residual warmth in your hand, you will give it to others, and in the face of others' kindness, do not easily refuse, because only in this way can you let the warmth alternate and let the warmth continue.

In an express chain hotel less than two kilometers from the small hotel, a fat man with long pigtails resembling a Qing man wears slippers on one foot and rests on a chair with the other, his fingers constantly flicking between his toes. There was a young man standing near the door, and he frowned slightly when he saw the young man's obscene appearance.

The fat man smiled, put his finger to his nose and sniffed it, his expression seemed to be very enjoyable, but when he saw the young man by the door with a disgusted expression, he shook his body and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the monk can't escape the temple, this time he was lucky, he didn't hit my Heart Devouring Gu, and next time it won't be so cheap." When I came out of the stockade, I also brought a more powerful poisonous Gu with me, you wait and see, he must have died even worse than the one in front of him!"

The young man by the door quickly regained his expressionless state: "This is not important, the important thing is that he must die." In our contract, both of them died, Mr. Xiong, this million is not so easy to earn. ”