I quickly arrived at the town with the morning star. From a distance, I saw the lights very dense, but when I came to the town, I felt very sparse. The town was quite large, and the road passed through the middle of the town and stretched into the darkness far outside the town. Because it was late at night and the weather was cold, many townsmen had already fallen asleep, and most of the shops in the town were closed.

Morning star curled up softly in the seat, looking a little tired, yawning from time to time.

"Are you sleepy?" I asked.

Morning star smiled at me and shook his head gently.

I braked the car, took off my coat, and covered her, "If you are sleepy, just sleep for a while, be good."

I turned around and found a small restaurant that was still open. When I stopped the car again, I found Chenxing was asleep. Only one head was exposed outside my wide coat, her eyelashes drooped down and trembled slightly with her calm breathing. I smiled, leaned down, kissed her cheek gently, and pushed open the car door and walked down...

The restaurant was deserted, with only two diners with blurred eyes and blushing faces and thick necks sitting opposite each other drinking. I ordered two portions of fried pork cakes and ordered the boss to pack them. After arranging the guy to make them, the boss poured me a cup of hot water. The boss was very kind-hearted. Seeing that I was trembling coldly, he lifted the kettle on the stove inside the counter and ordered me to go in and bake my hands to keep warm.

"Where did you come from? Why do you wear such a little clothes on such a cold day?"

The boss asked with concern, staring at me up and down while asking, probably because he was curious that I was black and white, like a crawling out of a chimney... In fact, I had just crawled out of a chimney...

"Oh, I came from there..." I smiled.

"Then?" The boss looked up and scratched his head.

I thought to myself, the brick kiln factory is only a few miles away from this town, and I don’t know if the boss knows the situation.

"Uncle, ask you something."

"What?"

I waved my finger and pointed, "Why did the brick kiln factory in Zhennan stop production? Is something wrong?"

"Zhennan Brick Kiln Factory..." the boss muttered, then patted his legs, "Oh, I heard that people are dead there!"

"Diet?" I frowned.

"Well, what happened a few days ago..."

"How many days?"

"Probably..." The boss scratched his head and thought, "It's been about a week."

For more than a week... I thought to myself, the time when I was dead is quite close to that time when Boss Huang was "infamous"...

"How many people died in the brick kiln factory in total?" I asked.

"One is like...one..."

I thought to myself, could it be that the one who attached himself to Boss Huang and ran to the park to see Xiaoqing's father was the ghost of the man who died in the brick kiln factory?

"Uncle, do you know who died in the brick kiln factory?"

"How can I know this?" The boss spread his hands, "I'm not familiar with the people inside. I went there once when I was doing rituals in the brick factory last year, and I have never been there again..."

"Practice rituals?"

"Yeah." said the boss, "That brick factory died last year, six people died at once, five workers and bosses. After the boss died, he changed a new boss. When the new boss just took over the brick factory, he hired a group of Taoist priests to do rituals for three days, saying that it was to exorcise evil spirits. At that time, many people in our town ran over to see..."

When I returned to the car with two boxes of fried cakes, I saw that Morning Star had woken up.

"You guy, don't even wear clothes when you go out, are you cold?"

I shook my head.

"It's not cold yet, my mouth is frozen and blue. Put on my clothes quickly..."

"It's nothing to be colder, I just want to feel wronged. There is nothing good in the town, so I can only eat this..."

I opened a box of fried cakes, Chenxing smelled them and said with a smile, it was very fragrant. Then I picked up a chopsticks and put them in my mouth, chewing them and praised, "It's delicious, you can eat it too...

In the warm car, Chenxing and I were facing each other, and you ate fried cakes in one bite. The scene I had before on the chimney seemed like a different life when I recalled it. Only those who have experienced the disaster of life and death will know how happy and beautiful every minute and every second of the ordinary time is...

"Look at how sloppy you eat..." After eating, Chenxing pouted at me while helping me wipe off a piece of meat from his mouth.

I smiled 'hehe'.

"What did you ask?"

"Hmm?" I was stunned.

"This town is not too far from the brick kiln factory. People in this restaurant may know about the situation of the brick kiln factory. Didn't you ask?" Chen Xing said.

I repeated the boss's words to Chenxing.

Chen Xing lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "Can you say that Boss Huang went to the brick kiln factory... and brought the ghost of the dead man back?"

I pondered and refused to answer.

"A Leng."

"Um?"

"No matter what, we must find out the reason why Sister Qing's father lost his life, and then find a way to save him. Okay, I think he is so pitiful..."

"Yeah." I nodded and looked at the time. "But, what I have to do now is to find a bathhouse. Because my star beauty looks even more pitiful..."

It was almost twelve o'clock at night, and cold raindrops were floating in the sky. This place is not far from the city. If I can't find a bath hall in this town, I plan to take Chenxing to the city. Unexpectedly, after driving around, I found a one and it is still open. This bath hall is very small, and the bathhouse will only be open in the morning. As for the bathroom, there are only two, one of which is being renovated, that is, only one is available. There are two bathtubs in the bathroom and two small beds for rest after bathing. I added some money to the boss and said we would rest until dawn before leaving. The boss was drunk and helped us put water, so he swayed out and brought the door with a "bang".

The rain hit the window glass, making a gentle and ambiguous sound. The water hookah in the bathroom was steaming and the heat filled the air. Under this kind of hot air, I felt every blood vessel in my body swelling, the muscles on my calf bulge, the pores on my body opened and closed for a while, as they opened and closed, it seemed that there was a buzzing current on my body, gathering in my lower abdomen from time to time, like a pile of fire, burning my internal organs...

I pressed my violent heartbeat and looked at Chenxing. I saw her blushing face, as if the flowers bloomed in warm spring. My whole body was surrounded by hazy water, and there was a feeling of being real and illusory. In a trance, I didn't know whether I was in a dream or in reality... It was not until Chenxing looked at me that I woke me up... Somehow, I felt that there seemed to be an inexplicable and indescribable thing in Chenxing's originally clear eyes, as if I was conveying some message to me...

After touching my eyes, Chenxing quickly turned his gaze away, without saying a word, and his chest was slightly undulating. Finally, I calmed down and endured the discomfort of my lips as dry and cracked, and said hoarsely, I... I'll go outside first, and I'll come in to wash after you finish washing...

Chenxing didn't look at me or make a sound, and stood silently. I bit my lip, turned around, and walked towards the door. I felt my legs were extremely heavy, swelling as if I was about to explode, and it seemed to be pulled by some inexplicable force. I walked slowly and struggled more and more. Finally I couldn't walk anymore... Inspired by some force, I suddenly turned around and saw Chenxing turn around at some time, standing face to face, looking at each other with my chests undulating for a while. I opened my arms, met, and hugged Chenxing tightly in my arms...

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"A Leng..." Chen Xing's voice seemed to be coming from the horizon, "Turn off the lights..."

It was raining outside, and it was rapid and slow……

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Early the next morning, I walked to the front hall of the bath hall with Chenxing's hand in hand. Chenxing leaned against me in a soft and very natural position, with a flushed face, and the fragrance mixed with water. It floated out of her gap and drilled straight into my nose...

I decided to ask the boss of the bath hall to see if he knew the details about the death of the brick kiln factory. The boss looked like a hangover and was curled up on the sofa like a pile of soft meat. While yawning, he was adjusting the TV program. When I mentioned the brick kiln factory, the boss sat up straight as if he was so electric that he was so hot that he was sitting upright and his eyes widened.

Judging from this situation, he might know some inside story.

"Tell me, who was the dead man?" I took a deep breath and asked straight to the point.

"Accountant Wang of the brick kiln factory." said the boss.

"Accountant Wang, how did he die?" I asked.

"I don't know much about the specifics..."

"Are you not familiar with him?" I frowned.

"He is familiar with it, but he is not familiar with it. He has been an accountant in the brick kiln factory for several years and has always come to my bathhouse to take a shower..."

"When I mentioned that people died in the brick kiln factory just now, why did you react so strongly?"

"Because..." The boss was shaking all over and sweated down his forehead, "Because I had seen him the next morning after Accountant Wang died!"

"What did you say?!"

Chenxing and I looked at each other and said to the boss, "What's going on? Tell me slowly, don't worry."

"I was sleeping on the sofa, and in a daze, I saw Accountant Wang walking in, his body was dirty, as if he had crawled out of the mound. I got up and asked him, "Lao Wang, where are you going, it's like this." He just stared at me, spoke slowly, saying that he had gone to ×× County (Xiaoqing's County). I asked him, what were you doing there? He said he had gone to meet someone. I wanted to ask again, and he interrupted me and asked me to let him go.

A tank of water said he was going to go out for a long time and took a shower... After putting the water for him, I went back to the sofa and fell asleep again. When I woke up from the back, I felt something was wrong. I ran to the bathroom and saw that there was no sign of Accountant Wang. There was a full tank of clear water and I didn't even move. At noon, news came to our town, saying that someone was dead in the brick kiln factory, and that Accountant Wang was the one who died... Only then did I realize that I had hit a ghost, and then I understood what Accountant Wang meant that he wanted to go out for a long time..."

"So, to avoid bad luck, you redecorate that bathroom, right?" I asked.

"Uh-huh…"

The words of the boss of the Yutang made me sweat on my back, and Chenxing's hands were cold and he grabbed my hand tightly. Suddenly, I seemed to think of something.

"You mean, Accountant Wang has been working in the brick kiln factory for several years?"
Chapter completed!