From the moment he walked into the old building, Lu Xin felt a different kind of depression.
The entire corridor was quiet, without any sound. Only some light from outside the building came through the gaps in the cement pavilion, allowing him to distinguish the vague layout inside the building. Rows of empty rooms stood neatly on both sides of the corridor, like silent guards or prisons. The closed doors and the corridors covered with cobwebs made this old building lifeless.
Occasionally, you can see some wild cats or mice, rushing out of the holes in the stairs or under the door, or chasing and fighting, or turning their heads to look at Lu Xin quietly, and then quickly rushing into an unknown corner.
My sister followed Lu Xin, hanging upside down and crawling forward on the corridor.
He sang in a low voice, babbling, and seemed to be in a good mood:
"Little Kid, wow, look for Mom with bare feet,"
"Mom is hiding under the bed,"
"Let's not tell him!"
"..."
"Little Kid, I'm hungry. I'm lying on the bed and not talking."
"Dad is going to cook some food,"
"Looking at Kid, he smiled..."
"..."
Lu Xin couldn't help but stop when he heard it and said, "Sister, please stop singing."
The younger sister straightened up while hanging upside down, her black hair hanging down, and said with a smile, "Brother, don't you like it?"
"Yes."
Lu Xin nodded and said, "You are too out of tune..."
My sister was hanging upside down and shaking, not knowing how to answer.
Slowly, they reached the fourth floor. Looking forward, they saw a sliver of light squeezed out from the crack in the door.
In this cold and empty old building, only the home has warm lights.
My sister stopped singing at this time and jumped down from the corridor gently, lying on Lu Xin's back.
"Don't be afraid."
Lu Xin knew that her sister did not want to enter the house at this time, which also meant that her father must be very angry.
He comforted his sister gently, walked to the door silently, and then slowly opened the door.
More lights shone on the face, but it was not as warm as before, a little depressing and dazzling.
Lu Xin squinted his eyes before adapting to the light in the room, and then he saw that the room looked shabby, as if it had gone through a war. The furniture and even the floor had cracks and cracks everywhere. Even the ceiling had an eye-catching and huge scratch. There was almost no complete piece of furniture in the whole house, and there were signs of abuse everywhere.
In the middle of the room, his father was wearing an apron and was sitting silently next to the dining table, the only chair that still seemed somewhat intact. At this time, he was silent. When he saw Lu Xin coming in, the bloodshot eyes became more obvious.
Mom was leaning against the wall at this time, talking on the phone and smiling, "Miss Chen, what are you worried about? It's okay. It's just a few robbers who came into the city. They have been solved. My son works in the relevant department..."
"... Just trust me, don't worry, have a good rest."
"..."
"Crack!"
Father suddenly raised his hand and slammed it on the table. The half-broken dining table suddenly collapsed.
The huge sound stimulated the nerves of everyone in the room.
"Trash, they are all a bunch of rubbish, a bunch of rubbish that deserve to be used and killed..."
My father stood up angrily, his eyes were scarlet red, and veins appeared on his forehead, as if there were several snakes swimming under his skin.
As he yelled angrily, the knives hanging in a row in the kitchen trembled slightly.
The light bulb hanging in the living room also trembled slightly.
The room began to shake.
At the end, Lu Xin felt that this old building seemed to be shaking slightly.
"Hiss..."
The younger sister who was lying behind Lu Xin poked her little face out from behind his head and growled at her father.
"Tell me, are you a waste?"
The father shouted as he walked over to Lu Xin, almost poking his finger in Lu Xin's face.
He seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with Lu Xin, and shouted loudly, "You ran outside all night, but what on earth did you do?"
"You let all those people run away!"
"You were deceived and ran away and broke your leg, but you didn't get any good..."
"..."
Lu Xin looked at his father silently and stood still.
Even if his fingers almost reached his face, he didn't move or even blink.
"Okay, okay, I've been angry for a day and it won't stop. Isn't the child back already?"
Behind him, Mom hung up the phone, then walked over lightly, smiling, "Now the family is all here."
"Should we have a family meeting too?"
"..."
There were four people in the room. The anger on his father's face was still there, and he turned his head to look at Mom.
Mom just looked at him with a smile, "Have you not fought enough?"
My father's breathing suddenly became much heavier, his teeth were clenched, and his forehead seemed to have earthworms crawling around.
"Mom is right."
At this time, Lu Xin slowly opened his mouth, looked at them quietly and said, "It's really time to have a good talk."
His father heard what he said and immediately turned to look at him.
"That's right, what can't we sit down and talk about as a family..."
Mom smiled and gracefully came to the sofa and sat down gently. Lu Xin, after looking at his father, hugged his sister and sat on the other end of the sofa. They were all quiet, waiting for their father to sit down.
My father seemed a little irritated by their attitude of belittling him, and became even more angry.
"Wow..."
He pulled the chair next to the dining table over with force, sat down heavily, and looked down at the people on the sofa.
The atmosphere in the room became stiff and dull.
There is an invisible force that seems to be accumulating all the time, and I don't know when it will reach the point of explosion.
"I think I did the right thing."
After Lu Xin sat down, he was silent for a while and then said, "Since I receive this salary, I should help others solve some problems. Just like what Old Director said before, only when everyone does their job well can this society function normally... In addition, she helped me protect the people in the orphanage, so of course I have to protect the Satellite City people for her first."
After hearing these words, my father's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The ferocious gaze almost burst out of his eyes. "Now, you still say these words? You have protected others, who will protect us? What job, what position, that is, they are using you, it is all their excuses!"
"Do you think they will be grateful to you? They want you to die!"
"You have done so many things for them, but their first reaction is to be wary of you and follow you..."
"So, you should let them die..."
"Otherwise, everyone in this family will be killed by you..."
"..."
His words were like steel needles, piercing into his mind, stirring violently, giving Lu Xin a headache.