Lookout Men and Widows

Chapter 39

"It's full." The young man took the money from You Ming and gave You Ming a smile without hesitation.

You Ming looked at the time again, it was almost eleven o'clock.

The young man asked strangely: "Aren't you leaving yet? This is a bit far from the city."

You Ming nodded: "I'm waiting for a friend."

The young man is a bit strange, waiting for someone in the wilderness at such a late night, what are they going to do?

He returned to the table with a strange expression.

His companions asked him in a low voice, "Why hasn't that man left yet?"

The young man also whispered, "He said he would wait for a friend."

"Did you see his car? Do you think there is someone in his trunk? He came to the wild to kill people and throw away corpses?" The companions shuddered, "Stop talking, the more you say it, the more scary it will be."

The young man was still paying attention to You Ming from the corner of his eye.

Several people continued to play cards.

You Ming drove the car to the side of the road, sat in the car and waited for time.

At twelve o'clock in the morning, You Ming looked at the hour and minute hands and the second hand coincided, turned his head and saw Jiang Yu'an sitting on the co-pilot, Jiang Yu'an was looking at him with his chin propped up: "Aren't you going back tonight?"

You Ming shook his head: "I called my parents, and I will investigate the matter thoroughly before going back."

Jiang Yu'an turned to look at the boy in the back seat, and smiled.

The moment Jiang Yuan appeared, the boy lowered his head, his shoulders trembled involuntarily, fear was written all over his body, he covered his ears with his hands, not daring to look up at Jiang Yuan.

"Born with yin and yang eyes?" Jiang Yu'an smiled and said, "It's rare."

The boy swallowed, he had never seen such a thick black, such a wide range.

Jiang Yu'an asked softly: "You are the one who lures people to the orphanage."

The boy raised his head, his wide eyes filled with fear.

You Ming also looked at the boy.

"I...I found out..." the boy stammered, "For the matter in the orphanage, she must be reincarnated."

The boy swallowed: "The teacher... taught me this way..."

Jiang Yu'an looked at the little boy, his voice was very soft: "Since this is the case, shouldn't we tell all the news we know?"

The boy glanced at You Ming, he felt that You Ming was a soft-hearted person who should protect him.

However, You Ming said: "If you want to ask someone for help, it will be more sincere if you explain the matter clearly."

The boy lowered his head: "I saw Yin Qi here, so I sneaked here."

"But the ghost's resentment is too heavy, I was trapped in the orphanage, and I could only lure people over."

The boy didn't dare to look at Jiang Yu'an.

You Ming asked, "Is the female ghost lying, or the person at the gas station?"

The boy shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's hard to tell a ghost from a human lying."

You Ming: "Then enter the orphanage again."

Boy: "Now?"

The boy pursed his lips and said, "Now is the time when the yin is the most serious. She finds out that we are outsiders, so she won't let us out like she did just now."

The boy still didn't dare to look at Jiang Yu'an, and said bravely, "If this uncle also goes, it should be fine."

Jiang Yu'an narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked with a smile: "Why is he an elder brother, but I am an uncle?"

I'm inferior.

The boy was taken aback, apparently he did not expect Jiang Yu'an to ask this question.

He whispered, "Then...you are also a brother."

This time the boy did not dare to ask You Ming to hug him, and the three of them got out of the car. Jiang Yuan stood in front of the gas station, and with a light wave of his hand, the fog filled the sky, and the fire in the orphanage was still burning. Open as if to welcome them in.

Jiang Yu'an stepped into the gate, and You Ming followed behind him. The boy suddenly reached out and pulled out You Ming's clothes.

You Ming said softly to the boy: "Don't be afraid, she can't harm you."

The boy bit his lower lip tightly. What he was afraid of was not the female ghost.

Jiang Yu'an walked in the midst of the fire, and the flames licked his trousers, but could not leave a trace.

The path he walked was without flame.

Yang Jinhua was standing not far away holding the youngest child, her body and the child's body were burning with flames, and the other children were still surrounding her, screaming sharply, the fire turned them into burning men, they called Calling my aunt, crying for help, crying for revenge.

Jiang Yu'an stood two steps away from Yang Jinhua, and You Ming stood beside Jiang Yu'an.

Yang Jinhua's face without facial features shifted to You Ming's angle, and she asked, "Did you find them?"

You Ming nodded: "I found it."

Yang Jinhua walked over with the children in her arms: "Then why didn't you bring them here?"

You Ming: "Because I'm not sure whether they killed you or not."

Yang Jinhua stopped, her flesh fell to the ground piece by piece, but there was no trace of blood, the original pink flesh turned black, and the scorched debris fell on her feet, her eye sockets, her teeth, her The ribs are all displayed in front of You Ming.

At this time, Yang Jinhua turned into a skeleton, a scorched black skeleton.

"They killed it." The child in the skeleton's arms was also burned to ashes. It walked towards You Ming, and every step it took, the bones were creaking. "They set fire and burned us to death."

"Burn me, my children."

"Didn't you hear? The children are crying." The skeleton stayed where it was, and it stretched out its arms, "They are crying, why are the people who killed them still not dead? Why are we burned every day, but they can Live an ordinary life?"

"My children could have studied well, gone to school, and grown up to be adults who have contributed to society."

"But they are all dead." Flames flowed from the skull's eye sockets, which seemed to be its tears, "The murderer is still alive."

The skeleton's arms waved, and the children burned by the flames around it were silent.

You Ming suddenly said, "It's impossible for them to set fire outside. The gate is 100 meters away from the small building of the orphanage. Even if the fire might extend to the small building, the children can still leave through the back door. The space here is not small."

You Ming looked up at her: "You are lying."

"You let me see the girl who fled to the corner of the wall." You Ming closed his eyes, "If she was really burned to death in the corner, people outside would not know where she was. The noise it makes is unnoticeable."

You Ming opened his eyes and looked at the skeleton: "Why are you lying?"

The skeleton screamed, "I'm not lying! They're murderers! They're murderers!"

"I don't want to reincarnate, I just want to watch them die! Watch them die!"

You Ming: "Those children must have already been reincarnated, right?"

The children who were still standing by were crying again.

The skeleton turned his head: "The children are all with me, all with me."

You Ming pursed his lips: "The fire was because of you, right?"

You Ming thought that during the day, Yang Jinhua would close the door when going in and out. Except for the door of the activity room, the other doors were locked, and the children would never open the door to go out—because they knew that the door could not be opened. It's open.

Skeleton: "It's not me! I didn't set the fire!"

You Ming: "Then why did you lock the door?"

Skull: "I'm protecting them! Don't run around, don't talk to strangers, be obedient, eat well, don't be picky eaters, you're safe in the orphanage, there are bad people outside."

The skeleton's body was shaking, and the bones kept making noises: "I just want to protect them."

The children were locked in the house and could not escape, so none of them survived.

"It's said that the wires were short-circuited, and the sparks ignited the combustibles." You Ming said seriously, "Although it may not be true, the fire should be accidental."

Skeleton: "It wasn't an accident! They set it on fire! It wasn't my fault! I wasn't wrong!"

Jiang Yu'an said softly, "Let me do it."

You Ming nodded, Jiang Yu'an raised his hand, and tapped lightly in the void, the fire light dissipated, and the orphanage returned to its appearance before the fire.

It was just the time for the sun to set.

It was the afternoon of the day the orphanage was on fire, and the fire would burn in the middle of the night.

At this time, the orphanage was still very peaceful. The children were playing games in the yard. The older children acted as eagles and mother chickens, while the younger children acted as chicks. The seesaw and swings were surrounded by children. smile.

Yang Jinhua stood on the steps and watched them, still holding a knitting needle, she was knitting sweaters for the children.

"Come and eat soon." Yang Jinhua greeted the children.

"Auntie! We'll come right away!" The children ran over holding hands, and Yang Jinhua had a gentle smile on her face.

"Wash your hands clean." Yang Jinhua took the children to wash their hands.

When the skeleton saw this scene, the flames in its eye sockets burned even more intensely.

It was originally a warm welfare home like a big family.

As night fell, Yang Jinhua watched the children return to the room and climb into bed. She sat on a chair and told the children a story. After telling the story, Yang Jinhua turned off the light in the room, walked out of the room, and locked the door.

Everyone thought that this was an ordinary day. When the sun rose tomorrow, they could still play games as usual, have fun as usual, and look forward to what kind of adults they would become in the future.

You Ming and the others followed Yang Jinhua, the accident should have happened at this time.

Yang Jinhua yawned as she walked. She checked the facilities of the orphanage, such as natural gas, stove and so on.

After making sure everything was ok, she went to her room.

So where did the fire start?

You Ming continued to follow Yang Jinhua, and Yang Jinhua went back to sleep.

They stopped at the door of Yang Jinhua's room.

You Ming was a little stunned, did he think wrong?Was it really set on fire from outside?

impossible……

If it was set on fire outside, how could the turf at the gate of the orphanage burn?

Even if it can be burned, it will take time to spread to the building, and it will take too long. As long as Yang Jinhua can take the children away before the fire has burned the whole building, she will not die.

Jiang Yu'an took You Ming's hand and comforted him: "Don't worry, you will see the truth."

The boy held You Ming's clothes tightly. He lowered his head, still unable to restrain his fear, turning back time, even if it was a fantasy, which he had never heard of. The teacher said that all spells in this world, Whether it is the East or the West, no one can travel back in time and space in a long time.

Moreover, it is not human beings who go back in time and space...

is a ghost.

Such a ghost, can anyone really subdue him?

Can you keep him from harming others?

Can you keep him sane forever?

Jiang Yu'an snapped his fingers.

You Ming looked at the clock in the corridor, and it pointed to 10:30 in the evening.

The door of Yang Jinhua's room opened.

Yang Jinhua came out of the room in her pajamas. She went to the kitchen and turned on the stove to boil water. The firepower was relatively low. Yang Jinhua went to the bookshelf to get a book and waited while reading. There were two eggs on the kitchen counter. She probably I'm hungry, I want to boil boiled eggs.

Yang Jinhua yawned, but the water hadn't boiled yet.

She rested her chin on her hand, and her eyelids began to droop.

She turned her head and looked at the stove, but the water was still not boiling.

Yang Jinhua leaned against the chair, still holding a book in her hand.

You Ming just watched Yang Jinhua leaning on the chair and falling asleep.

He turned to look at the skeleton.

The skeleton stood there without any sense of existence, its black eyes staring at itself when it was still alive.

There was a time when the skeleton would not move after You Ming, the skeleton moved, it seemed unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy, it ran to Yang Jinhua, and it wanted to reach out and grab her collar.

"Get up!" screamed the skeleton, "Get up! Get up!"

Of course the phantom doesn't respond to it.

The water boiled, but Yang Jinhua still didn't wake up.

The house was tightly shut, not a single window was opened.

The skeleton was still yelling hysterically: "Get up! Get up!"

The fire is still burning.

The lid of the kettle was overturned due to the steam, and the cooking oil on the side was knocked down.

The fire started to burn.

Yang Jinhua didn't realize it, she was too tired, she had to take care of so many children by herself, she was always overloaded.

You Ming and the others watched the fire burn hotter and hotter. The kitchen had a lot of solid wood and was waxed. The flame climbed up Yang Jinhua's trouser legs, and she woke up from the burning pain.

When Yang Jinhua woke up, most of the kitchen was already on fire.

The skeleton was still yelling, "Leave it alone! Let it go! Go to the children! Go to them!"

But Yang Jinhua's first reaction was to fetch water. She wanted to put out the fire by herself, but she yelled that it was on fire while carrying a water basin to fetch water.

You Ming couldn't bear to watch it any longer.

But the fire was no longer under control. Yang Jinhua seemed to realize this when the flames spread to the corridor, and she ran towards the child's bedroom in a panic.

"The key..." Yang Jinhua turned around halfway, wanting to go to her room to get the key to lock the door.

But her room was next to the kitchen, and the curtains and sheets were on fire, as was the locker where she kept her keys.

Yang Jinhua seemed to be stunned for a second, but she rushed over to find the key from the flames with her bare hands.

Her hands blistered from the heat and began to deform.

"Where's the key?" Yang Jinhua cried, "Where's the key?"

The skeleton is still shouting: "In the clothes! In the changed clothes!"

But Yang Jinhua couldn't hear it.

She started rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for keys.

In the flames, there was hardly a good skin on her body, and she had poured water on herself when she left the kitchen, and the fire did not catch her soaked clothes.

But the smoke didn't let her go.

Yang Jinhua didn't faint, but her movements slowed down, and she finally found the key in the clothes.

But the whole building is now on fire.

She crawled to the door of the children's bedroom.

She still had hope on her face.

As long as she opens the door, the kids live, they can escape.

Yang Jinhua picked up the key.

—she froze.

The keyhole was deformed by the fire.

The key wouldn't fit in at all.

The children cried bitterly in the bedroom.

"Auntie! Where are you, Auntie! It hurts so much!"

"Auntie! Auntie!"

Yang Jinhua's whole body seemed to have been pressed the pause button, her face was full of horror and disbelief.

Her hands, her legs, and her face were all severely burned. She had lost the ability to move, and it took all her strength to crawl out of the bedroom, and the breath that supported her disappeared.

Yang Jinhua leaned against the door, she raised her voice and said, "Don't be afraid! Let's play hide-and-seek! Find a place without wood to hide! Be good, and you'll be fine! It'll be fine!"

The children cried louder.

The skeleton stood guard at the door, maintaining the same posture as Yang Jinhua.

Same despair.

The fire enveloped her in it.

You Ming's ears were filled with the cries of children.

Not one, not one escaped.

Their young lives are stuck in this night.

The firelight is the only thing they can see at the end of their lives.

Jiang Yu'an accelerated the passage of time, and when it was almost dawn, the nearby residents discovered that there was a fire here, and called the fire department. After the fire was extinguished, You Ming saw the children Yang Jinhua was talking about.

They hang out with others.

One of the boys said: "Actually, I saw a fire here last night, but I was afraid that my mother would scold me for staying up so late, so I didn't dare to tell my mother."

"I don't know how many people died." Another boy said, "It's the first time I've seen such a big fire!"

"If only I didn't sleep last night, how exciting!"

Everything is clear.

The illusion created by Jiang Yu'an disappeared.

The skeleton sits on the ground, and it has recovered all its memories.

The fire in the orphanage and the deaths of the children were all her responsibility.

But she couldn't accept this reality, so she thought that the boy who saw the fire but didn't notify the adults was the culprit.

After a long time, her memory was blurred, and her hatred and guilt towards the boys took over her.

So the boys became arsonists.

Skeleton bones start falling from the body.

The fallen bones turned to ashes and disappeared with the wind.

Jiang Yu'an said to You Ming, "It's going to die."

You Ming pursed his lips tightly.

Those children were all created by Yang Jinhua's illusion. The children didn't have that much resentment, and they all went to reincarnation after death.

Only Yang Jinhua stayed until now with hatred.

It was time for her to say goodbye to this world.

When the last bone of the skeleton turned to ashes, the orphanage disappeared and became a gas station again.

The young man looked at them strangely.

Illusions and reality are staggered. In the eyes of the young man, the three of them came here after getting out of the car.

"Have you reunited with your friend?" Although the young man felt weird, he still said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"

You Ming nodded: "I'm a little thirsty, do you sell water here?"

The young man breathed a sigh of relief: "It's for sale. A bottle of mineral water costs three yuan, which is one yuan more expensive than outside."

You Ming: "I'll buy two bottles."

Young man: "...won't you buy three bottles?"

You Ming looked at Jiang Yu'an.

Jiang Yu'an smiled and said, "I'm not thirsty."

The young man went to fetch three bottles of mineral water.

"There is still one bottle, just treat it as a gift from me." He said with a smile to You Ming, "If you come here in the future, come and take care of my business, because it is too far away, the business of the gas station has not been very good, and you can barely support me. Own."

You Ming suddenly asked him: "When the orphanage caught fire, did you live near here?"

The young man was stunned, and he sighed: "I live on the opposite hillside, and I saw the fire that night."

You Ming looked at him.

The young man said: "At that time, I was too young. I was worried that if I woke up the adults, the adults would scold me for staying up so late. I had never seen a big fire, nor had I seen people burned to death. I thought it would be nothing serious. .”

"When I grew up, I often thought, if I went to call the adults at that time, wouldn't people die?"

"Later, no one was contracting the land, so a few friends and I spent money to contract it."

The young man touched the back of his head and said with a wry smile: "Maybe it has something to do with my childhood experience."

You Ming took a sip of water: "Fires must be prevented at gas stations."

For a moment, the young man didn't know whether You Ming was reminding himself or cursing himself.

You Ming said again: "Let's go, goodbye."

The young man watched their backs, watched them get into the car, and drove onto the highway.

Friends called him in the house: "Close the door, go to sleep, don't stand around foolishly outside."

The young man walks back into the house.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that his expression was wrong, his friend asked with concern.

The young man asked them, "Do you remember what a gas station used to be?"

"The orphanage? Who can forget this?"

"Yeah, I've seen the wreckage of the orphanage before, it's too miserable, it's all burned to the bone."

The young man closed the door.

"Don't mention this, worry about it."

"Yes."

The young man lowered his eyes.

They have all forgotten what happened in the past, and they have forgotten that they could save so many lives.

But time does not turn back.

He couldn't go back to that night, couldn't wake up his parents, couldn't save the people in the orphanage.

The past is all over.

The young man smiled at his friends: "Go to sleep, you have to get up early tomorrow."

On the expressway, You Ming was driving.

Jiang Yu'an was sitting in the co-pilot, and the boy was still in the back seat.

With Jiang Yu'an around, the boy was as obedient as a quail, shrinking his neck and not even saying a word.

"Where is your home?" You Ming asked the boy, "I'll take you home."

The boy shook his head: "I don't have a home."

"I used to have a teacher. After the teacher died, I have no home."

You Ming glanced at Jiang Yu'an.

The boy lowered his head and said, "Just put me by the side of the road. I can find food and a place to live."

You Ming glanced at the boy through the rearview mirror: "Go to my house first, and send you to the police station tomorrow."

You Ming: "Don't be afraid, my parents are very gentle people."

boy:"……"

I'm not afraid of people...