The address Qingyi gave me was a street behind Yingze in Taiyuan. I had some knowledge of that street. It was actually a slum. It was basically where people who came to Taiyuan to work and do manual labor lived. There were all kinds of people. There were a few hotels, but they were very small. Most of the people living there were ruffians. There were few good people!
My sister-in-law lived here. It seemed that she was really in dire straits and had to stay in this place. Thinking of this, I felt a little guilty.
According to the address Qingyi gave me, I quickly found where she lived. After saying hello to the sleepy proprietress at the front desk, I went upstairs and went straight to her room.
The door was ajar.
The corridor was quiet. I stood in front of the door and could vaguely hear a rather strange sound of "chi liu chi liu" coming from inside.
Out of curiosity, I pushed the door open without knocking. At that moment, a cold light burst out in the dark room without any warning and shot directly towards me.
At this moment, I was enveloped by a huge sense of crisis.
It felt like... being stared at by a beast! ! !
Clang! ! !
A crisp sound aroused in my ears, and finally pulled my soul back. I turned my head and saw a one-inch-long dagger inserted in the door frame next to me. The blade was leaping with a blue arc of light, less than ten centimeters away from my face. Until now, I still seem to be able to feel a trace of cold air lingering around my face for a long time.
Just now, if this dagger was ten centimeters away from me, it would have been inserted into my head! !
In a moment, I was a little angry, kicked the door open and yelled: "Are you fucking crazy?"
The words just came out of my mouth, and stopped abruptly...
Because, I saw a very weird scene...
A tall woman was squatting on a chair eating a bowl of old-style pickled cabbage noodles. She was very noisy while eating, "slurping" and slurping happily. While eating, she said incoherently: "It's what you deserve. Don't you know to be polite when facing a graceful lady? If it weren't for your last name Ge, I would have castrated you with that knife just now..."
This is... my sister-in-law?
A graceful lady?
Damn, which graceful lady squatted on a chair to eat old-style pickled cabbage noodles?
I curled my lips helplessly and asked her, "How do you know I'm from the Ge family?"
"I smelled it."
Lin Qing said lightly, "People from the Ge family all have a very special smell on them. I can smell it with my eyes closed."
After that, Lin Qing picked up the bowl of noodles and gulped down all the soup. She jumped to the ground, put on her shoes, and walked towards me with a black schoolbag in her hand: "We can go now. We're not full yet. Let's find a place to eat..."
Very cool!
I was stunned. I realized that she was really too tall. She was wearing a pair of flat military boots on her feet, but she was almost as tall as me when she stood up. This was already very amazing among women. When she stood there, her height alone was quite scary. She had straight long hair, the standard "long black straight hair", bangs, and a very pretty face.
Anyway, my sister is a very beautiful woman. If she were in any school, she would definitely be a school beauty. However, this one has thorns.
After walking to my side, Lin Qing finally stopped, stopped to look at me carefully for a while, and finally nodded: "Not bad, she looks like your godfather. She didn't say a word after being injured so badly, and she still looks like a man."
I smiled bitterly...
I could only follow her downstairs step by step. After helping her pay the house price, I sent her and Zhou Jing home first.
I could clearly feel that when she stepped into the house, a hazy light appeared in Lin Qing's eyes, but it disappeared without a trace in a flash. Then she put on her signature smile on her face again, and began to walk around the house with interest. Finally, she said inexplicably: "It's still the same as 23 years ago."
Perhaps, she is also a nostalgic person?
I sighed in my heart, and my opinion of my sister changed a little. However, my body was really a bit exhausted at the moment, so I left Lin Qing at home, called Liu Wen and rushed to the hospital.
The fact was just as I expected. I had tetanus, wound infection, and tissue necrosis. As soon as I entered the hospital for a check-up, the doctor pushed me into the operating room without saying a word, and asked Liu Wen and others to help me with the hospitalization procedures.
In this way, I took root in Taiyuan Armed Police Hospital, and Su Su was still accompanying me.
During the days of recuperation, I really experienced the most depressed time in my life. Every time I closed my eyes, the scene of Zhang Bowen's death in the battle appeared in front of my eyes, and the deafening shouts of killing at Luoma Mountain echoed faintly in my ears.
However, from the initial heartache, it has gradually evolved into a kind of numbness, and in the end only a trace of sad regret was left.
I know that this is probably what they call maturity.
During this period, I also asked Zhou Jing to ask Qi Nan, and learned that Zhang Bowen had a pair of parents in the countryside in Shuozhou. After thinking about it, I asked Zhou Jing to take one million and Li Qing to find Zhang Bowen's parents, leaving one million to the old couple. Although I know that the spiritual trauma can never be healed, but at the moment... I can only do so much - to support Zhang Bowen's parents!
In this self-blame and regret, I spent more than 20 days in the hospital, and my physical injuries finally healed a little. At this time, it was less than a week away from the one-month deadline agreed by Qingyi and the Tiandao League, and I began to prepare for discharge. The time I stayed in the hospital made my skeleton almost rusty. I felt that it was necessary for me to do some physical recovery training. After all, this time I was going to the deserted desert next door, and I had to follow the old site of the Peacock River to trace the remains of the former 36 countries in the Western Regions, and then find the fat man. This kind of outdoor challenge is much greater than the last time I went to the Qinling Mountains. I must restore my body to its peak state.
In fact, Qingyi once told me so!
During this period, I have been in contact with Qingyi, and I have always been aware of the movements of the Tiandao League. While I was in the hospital, I reviewed all the documents about the 36 countries in the Western Regions. The general situation of the 36 countries is basically in my mind!
The day I was discharged from the hospital was in early November. Just when I had just completed the discharge procedures and was about to leave the hospital, Su Su, who had been accompanying me, unexpectedly came to me for the first time. However, her face was very ugly, a little too pale. She stood beside me for a long time and finally said to me timidly: "Brother Tian, can you do me a favor?"
I was stunned. In my impression, Su Su has always been a very independent girl. If there is nothing important, she will definitely not ask others for help. Now that she has come to me, I am afraid that she has really encountered some unsolvable problems, so I said: "Just tell me what you have to say. After all, we have been through hardships together. What is there to be afraid of?"
Su Su bit her lip and nodded, and then she gently said to me: "It's like this, I recently rented a new house, and then encountered some very strange things. I was a little scared, but I couldn't find anyone to help me, so..."
Strange things?
I am afraid that I have encountered something dirty! !
I carefully observed Su Su's complexion. Her steps were weak and her face was pale. It was obvious that she had lost some of her Yang Qi. In this case, it was basically nine out of ten that her Yang Qi was sucked away by dirty things. Over time, her life would be in danger! ! ! !
I gradually put away the smile on my face, and then sat by the bed and said in a deep voice: "Come on, tell me everything you encountered carefully, don't hide anything!"