Trafford’s Trading Club

Tick ​​tock. .

This crisp sound suddenly sounded from the room, like something falling on the concrete floor.

It was the sound of glass beads...the sound of rolling.

A small glass bead slowly rolled out bit by bit from the dark room with the door cracked open.

This time, there were more than a plurality of tick-tock sounds in the room. Then, one after another, green, blue, or colorful glass beads, like eyeballs, began to appear from Sneaked out from the crack in the door.

Some of them are even still bouncing, rolling and slithering one by one... right at Luo Qiu's feet.

Luo Qiu took a look, then leaned over and picked up one of the glass beads in his hand, and glanced at the gap in the door.

A face was staring at Luo Qiu at this time.

There is only a very small face, and the sparse hair is randomly intertwined, like the dark green wakame growing on the seaside. The eyes are huge, but not symmetrical. The left eyeball has even peeled off and hangs on the face like it is broken.

The nose of this face could not be found at all, and the cheek had even been broken open. The wound looked like it had been scratched by something. What was squeezed out of the uneven wound was dyed gray. Something soft.

Luo Qiu blinked and stretched out his hand to grab the little face. His palm was big enough, so he could even grasp the head with his face exposed.

The black door and the cracks in the room did not stop Luo Qiu's next move after grabbing the head. Luo Qiu took it out and looked at it under the flashing light.

"So this thing is still there."

What Boss Luo got was just a rag doll that was so worn that it could almost be thrown away as trash.

Looking at the cracks in the room where there was no movement anymore, Luo Qiu said casually: "I came back here once when I was a child, and I don't know where this little guy fell. My grandparents were still there at that time. I think they found it after I left. of."

There was still no movement inside the door, so Boss Luo knelt down, picked up the scattered glass beads one by one, and suddenly said: "Don't you plan to come out?"

A deep and sharp voice suddenly sounded, "Aren't you afraid?"

Luo Qiu said calmly: "This is also my home. What should I be afraid of...or rather, what are you afraid of? It's not good to scare people like this."

There was silence in the room for a while, and then the voice said again: "I...I don't know anyone is coming back. I'm just going to stay for a while. Don't worry, I definitely haven't touched anything in this room. I...I'm leaving now." , but please don’t call the police! Please believe me!”

"Aren't you going to eat?" Luo Qiu suddenly asked.

"What?"

"Well, actually I can't cook at the moment. If you don't mind, just go downstairs and eat." Luo Qiu smiled and said, "The smell is coming out... your instant noodles are probably going to burn."

The door to the room suddenly opened, and then the lights were turned on, and the person who was really hiding appeared naturally in front of Luo Qiu's eyes.

Wei Dazhe, a man in his mid-thirties and about the same height as Luo Qiu.

…

"You...you really don't know how to call the police?"

Wei Dazhe didn't really go downstairs.

At this time, he was sitting in the utility room. He was sitting on a small plastic stool, holding a bowl of Kangfu's Laotan Pickled Cabbage Instant Noodles. The noodles had been rolled up on his fork, but he did not eat them. Instead, he looked at Luo Qiu in surprise and uncertainty.

Luo Qiu looked inside the room. There was a rectangular piece of paper placed on the floor, and some clothes were placed next to it. There was a small bag next to it, and some garbage was placed in the bag.

There is also a small hot water bottle on the opposite side, with something like a car battery attached to it, and several bottles of mineral water next to it.

There is an empty rice-treasure porridge jar on the ground, which is used to hold cigarette butts. The curtains of the only window in the room are opened, and a row of new houses built across the village road can be seen.

Luo Qiu shook his head, "Actually, it's not necessary."

Wei Dazhe was stunned and said in disbelief: "But I didn't ask your family..."

Luo Qiu said calmly: "The house is originally used to live in people. Apart from this, I can't think of any other use for the house. Besides, didn't you say you haven't touched anything here? I didn't touch it before I came back. ...I shouldn’t be moving after I go back, right?”

Wei Dazhe raised his head and said in shock: "You...you really believe me?"

Luo Qiu said calmly: "Otherwise, you wouldn't just stay in this utility room."

Wei Dazhe didn't say anything, he just lowered his head and ate the instant noodles with big mouthfuls. After finishing the meal, Wei Dazhe even drank up the soup before wiping his mouth, "I've heard that there is only one child left in this house. People live in big cities and won’t come back for a long time. I thought there was no one around, so I stayed here temporarily. Don’t worry, I’ll leave soon.”

"It doesn't matter." Luo Qiu shook his head and said, "I will only stay for a few days, and then I have to go back. If you don't move anywhere else, it doesn't matter if you stay here... Besides, the electricity is on, do you want to take a shower?" bath?"

Wei Dazhe looked at the young guy in his early twenties in disbelief. He had no idea what was going on in his mind. How could he be so polite to an unknown stranger or someone who broke into his house?

"Will it be uncomfortable?" Luo Qiu smiled and said, "It's been a day's work, isn't it uncomfortable?"

Wei Dazhe stood up immediately, "How do you know I have been working all day?"

"My body is so dirty. What did I do when I wasn't working?" Luo Qiu shook his head and said, "Don't worry, they know I'm back. It's not weird to turn on the light and take a shower now, so it's not weird to make any noise. "

"What kind of person are you?" Wei Dazhe looked at the other party silently.

It had been a long, long time since he had met anyone who could speak to him so politely.

"What about you?" Luo Qiu asked, "Have you heard about my family, that is to say, are you from this village?"

Wei Dazhe glanced at the small gap in the curtains and then breathed out, "My name is Wei Dazhe... As I said before, I think you should call me brother-in-law."

"Luo Zheng told me about you." Luo Qiu nodded, "He mentioned it when he picked me back today."

"It turns out that the guest he picked up was you..." Wei Dazhe was stunned.

It turned out that he and this young guy had met each other a long time ago, but they didn't face each other... Wei Dazhe moved his lips, and finally said with a wry smile: "Then you know me, Luo Zheng must have told me... About my business."

"Generally speaking," Luo Qiu said, "But no matter what, you should have said that you won't be able to find a place to live, right? You have a job."

Wei Dazhe lowered his head and took out a crumpled soft box of cigarettes. He only took out about half a cigarette and looked at Luo Qiu.

"It's okay." Luo Qiu opened the window directly.

Wei Dazhe thought for a moment and stuffed the cigarette case into his pocket.

"I don't actually come here often." Wei Dazhe looked at the lights of a row of new houses outside the window, "I just come here to see the children. My wife...my ex-wife brings the children back here to stay for a day or two every weekend. I usually Just come here in a day or two."

Because of Grandma Xiaochun's incident, Luo Qiu's cousin took a leave of absence and came back with her child.

The old man's time has come, and his descendants have come back one after another.

"I'm going to see if the water-heating appliance can still be used." Luo Qiu suddenly smiled and said, "Get ready. Since you are a guest, I, the host, will naturally entertain you."

"you do not need……"

But Wei Dazhe seemed unable to stop the young man's actions, so Luo Qiu left the utility room and went downstairs... In other words, he suddenly wanted to be treated like this.

"The visitor is a guest..." Wei Dazhe looked out the window silently.

He suddenly shook his head and muttered to himself: "This guy is more courageous than I was when I was young... Why didn't I scare him?"

Then he took out the cigarette box again, lit one, and then dug out a cheap telescope that could be bought for about ten yuan from the pile of clothes. He leaned it against the window sill without exposing it completely. He came out and just stood sideways, staring blankly at the figures in the house opposite.

After a while, Wei Dazhe's phone suddenly vibrated. He lowered his head and glanced at the caller ID on his phone... which read the word "big head".

Wei Dazhe frowned and quickly threw the phone directly into the pile of clothes.

But he seemed to feel that this was not enough, so he grabbed another handful of clothes and covered the phone, fiercely.

…

This kind of old house still used gas tanks in the past, and the water heater was naturally powered by petrochemical gas.

After so many years, naturally there is no gas available.

But there is a large stove in the kitchen and a large iron pot that can be used to boil water.

Some of the firewood that had been piled here could still be used. After Boss Luo lit the fire, he started to boil water.

The sticks of firewood made a crackling sound as they burned in the fire... At this moment, a shadow floated quietly outside the small window of the kitchen.

A pale and stiff face, staring motionless.

This village is really peaceful. (To be continued...)