Kong Weifeng followed the middle-aged man into the house. Just now, Kong Weifeng only had a taste of the appearance of the dilapidated community in the old city. Now he walked in and really felt inside. This room was in an old, old, dilapidated community, and it was really nothing like it.
Not unjust.
When I stepped through the door, I saw that on the damp wall, black mold almost occupied the entire wall next to the door.
After walking through the corridor and continuing inside, there was a wooden door tightly closed next to the corridor leading to the bedroom. Kong Weifeng guessed that this was the bathroom.
Opposite the wooden door is one of the only two windows in the room. The window frame is still the same iron frame painted with green paint from the last century. There are also cracks on the glass, and there is a round mark on the end of the crack.
Small hole.
Then there is the bedroom, the whole room is just this big. The walls that were supposed to be white have turned yellow, there are dirty clothes piled on the bed, and there is a quilt with the residual warmth of a middle-aged man's body.
Kong Weifeng looked around and found no place to sit, so the middle-aged man sat directly on the bed.
He yawned greatly, and then said, "My dad specially told me something before he left."
Kong Weifeng said nothing. He knew that the middle-aged man was talking about the fire ten years ago.
It would be awkward to stand like this all the time, so he found a place at the foot of the bed and sat down.
The middle-aged man sat there and stared straight ahead, and the scene of his last conversation with his father before his death emerged in front of him.
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"Son, come here..." The fat master was lying on the bed where Kong Weifeng was sitting now. The couple were the only poor people in the family, so how could they have any extra money to go to the hospital for treatment?
"I have never dared to go to the police station and tell you. I am running out of time..." The fat master's body is already very weak. His formerly fat body has now become skin and bones.
Once the words get longer, the fat master will take a breather and take a rest.
"If no police came to me, it means that the original fire was an accident, and then I have no responsibility..."
"If the police come to me again and ask about what happened back then, just tell the police what I said today again..."
"On the day of the fire, a man passed by the factory gate and dropped some wine and food. I drank for a small gain. When Director Zhao came back, I didn't know at all..."
"The police said the fire was an accident, but I always felt unsure. If it hadn't been for me falling asleep and if I had checked in time, the fire wouldn't have happened..."
"I was really scared at the beginning and didn't dare to say these things. I always thought that doing more would be better than doing less. Besides, I still can't figure out whether I am responsible or not..."
"If I don't say this today, I'm afraid I won't be able to close my eyes until I die..."
"Son, please remember, if the police come looking for you, remember to tell me when you visit my grave..."
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After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he yawned loudly again, and tears formed in the corners of his eyes.
"A man appeared at the factory gate?"
"Yes."
"Did you tell me what he looked like?"
"No, the old man just said that the man is tall."
The conversation with the middle-aged man only confirmed Kong Weifeng's conjecture, but apart from learning about a mysterious man who passed by ten years ago, he still had no clue.
"Oh, that's right." Just when Kong Weifeng was at a loss what to do, the middle-aged man suddenly remembered something important.
………
Lu Sheng finished his noodles in the noodle shop and walked outside for a while. He did not return to the Beautiful Home Hotel until there were no more people on the street.
Seeing the woman at the front desk playing with her phone, Lu Sheng asked knowingly, "You haven't slept yet."
The woman looked at Lu Sheng and smiled and said, "You're not sleepy yet, just play with your phone and watch videos."
"You haven't been here long, haven't you?"
"Well, it hasn't been long since I first came here, but it's about to change again. I don't earn much, and it's hard work."
Lu Sheng smiled and walked towards the stairwell. As soon as he entered the stairwell, he immediately turned around and walked back.
Following the way Xiao Wu spoke in his dream, he also addressed the woman:
"Beauty, can you do me a favor?"
These two words will always be used by most women. Although most of them are out of compliment, and it is just a title, for women, the magic of these two words is irresistible.
"Help? How can I help?"
"Help me delete the check-in records from three years ago?" Lu Sheng said as he put his hand into his pocket.
"Ah?" The woman immediately realized that something was wrong here.
"It's just a matter of moving the mouse. It's very simple. Besides, it's no big deal." He took out five hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to the woman.
"But...but, why?" When the woman saw the money, her inner defenses loosened a little.
"Three years ago, it was the same room that two people lived in." Lu Sheng said with some embarrassment. These were lies that he had already prepared. Perhaps, he would betray Xiaoqing only in lies.
The woman immediately understood the meaning of Lu Sheng's words, and then gave Lu Sheng a very complicated look, which seemed to reveal a little disdain.
She looked at Lu Sheng again, as if she was saying, with your kind of character, would you still mess around outside? But when she looked at the five glittering one-hundred-yuan cards again, she found that they were particularly attractive.
People noticed that the woman accepted the five hundred yuan with the mentality that she would rather tear down a temple than break up a marriage. She had to change her job anyway, and she was doing good deeds anyway, not to mention making money. Besides, he
The check-in record will be updated soon.
While holding the money, the woman did not forget to warn Lu Sheng, "I'm telling you, you have to be more careful in the future."
She started to operate the hotel's check-in system again, but it was still very clumsy and unskilled.
After finding the record, the data was quickly deleted. The woman clicked lightly and the data was no longer found.
As soon as the woman finished deleting, she immediately remembered something and said angrily to Lu Sheng, "Then you still live in 404?"
"Last time, that person was not as strict as you in management. Look, this time, I am the only one."
"Have you ever done anything illegal?"
The woman's hindsight made Lu Sheng inexplicably happy.
"Haha, you don't have to worry about this anymore. You have seen my check-in record, and I asked you to delete it. Even if the police come to your door, you can testify."
"Police? Will the police really come to your door? Wouldn't you..." The woman quickly took out the money and threw it on the front desk, "I don't want this money anymore, I don't want it anymore."
This innocent woman is really not suitable to stay at the cashier front desk. Lu Sheng smiled helplessly. The woman in front of him was really stupid and naive. He ignored the woman and did not take the money, but went straight to