Hidden Corners

late at night.

In the bedroom, a line of moonlight was projected through the gap in the curtains, falling on the ground and becoming the only light source.

In the gray moonlight, the tiny shadows of insects crawling on the window are faintly reflected.

Woo~

A community vehicle passed by downstairs with a soft engine sound.

The pale headlights passed through the gap in the curtains, drawing a fan-shaped halo on the ceiling, and then gradually dimmed as the vehicle moved away.

click.

The old tape was inserted into the machine, and then the lid was closed, making the sound of a switch closing.

Li Chengyi frowned, plugged in the earphones, adjusted the volume, and suddenly there was a subtle music sound, which quietly floated out of the earphones and penetrated into the ear holes.

The music has no lyrics, just pure classical music mixed with guzheng and pipa.

The rhythm is slow and clear.

The sounds of the two musical instruments are like two slender and sharp silk threads, sometimes entangled with each other, and sometimes clearly separated.

Like telling some old story, like two pale fingers constantly intertwined.

Li Chengyi lay on his side on the pillow, looking at the dark curtains, motionless, listening to the songs in the earphones.

The chilly pillow cover was gradually warmed by the side of his face, and it began to emit a faint fragrance of laundry detergent.

He opened his eyes, as if in a daze, but also as if he was thinking about something.

He clearly remembered that 20 minutes ago, he was halfway up the mountain. Twenty minutes later, he just found a beautiful flower, and his head was dizzy. Everything changed. He changed his body inexplicably. Here it is, this room. People are also much younger.

After ten minutes of shock, disbelief, disbelief, etc., he began to accept the reality.

At this time, a large amount of information and memory in his mind quickly merged with him. These are all the memories of another Li Chengyi with the same name as him, who has been in this world for more than 20 years.

The information is not complete and much of it is vague. But it was enough to give him a preliminary understanding of his situation.

"Tomorrow, I have a very important friend coming to my house as a guest. You and Li Chengyi go out for a stroll, find something to do, and come back after five o'clock in the afternoon. Do you understand?"

A deep young female voice came faintly from outside the bedroom.

The thoughts in Li Chengyi's mind stopped, and the name came out automatically according to the voice - it was Li Chengjiu.

This is his sister in this body, and she should be talking to his parents.

"Okay, don't worry, it will never affect your affairs." Mother Feng Yurong replied cautiously.

Father was muffled and didn't make a sound, but his breathing was a little rough, which was the default.

"Nine, your younger brother's job has not been settled yet, you see." The mother then carefully mentioned another matter.

"What's the rush? I haven't stabilized the situation yet. I'll talk about it later. Just don't make trouble for me." Li Chengjiu said impatiently.

"Don't worry, definitely not." Mother Feng Yurong replied softly.

"Sleep, remember, after twelve o'clock, don't come back early, if you meet me going out with a fair-skinned girl, don't say hello to me, just pretend you don't know each other, you know?" Li Cheng Nine continued.

"Don't worry, don't worry, let's go farther, we will definitely not miss your business." Mother's voice paused, but she replied in a low voice.

"That's right." Li Chengjiu paused, "I'm about to pay the class fee this month, about 190,000, and you will pay it to me tomorrow."

"Didn't you just pay over 190,000 yuan?" Mother Feng Yurong was a little embarrassed. She and her husband are a little tight because of frequent handovers.

One hundred and ninety thousand is not a small amount.

"This time it's material fees, and training fees!" Li Chengjiu said impatiently. "Don't you still have pensions? Just take it out and pay it to me, and then make it up slowly later."

"This..." Mother Feng Yurong paused, "Okay, I will hand it over to you."

She didn't say that the pensions of herself and her husband had already been taken out and spent by Li Chengjiu.

Recently, the efficiency of the factory has not been good, and their wages have been lowered repeatedly. The money in hand is really not enough.

Li Chengjiu snorted, pushed away the chair, stood up and walked away, and went to the bathroom to wash up.

Feng Yurong and his father Li Zhao were left sitting in the living room talking quietly.

"I don't have enough pension here. You can use the medical funds to make up for it. My daughter's business is important." Feng Yurong whispered.

"Xiaoyi's job there is also to find a relationship to send money, take it out, what should I do to see a doctor? You don't care about your back pain? You have to prescribe medicine every day." Father Li Zhao replied stiffly.

"Let's save some time later, and it will be made up soon. Don't worry. My waist doesn't hurt much now. It's fine." Feng Yurong urged in a low voice, "It's okay, my daughter's future is important, don't worry about it at a critical moment. Hold your daughter back."

"I know, I know." The father replied impatiently, paused, and sighed a long time, as if a little helpless and a little uncomfortable.

Then the two of them held their mobile phones and studied each other how to operate them.

Li Chengyi lay on the bed, opened his eyes, and sighed softly.

Uncontrollably, the scene where he saw his father Li Zhao humbly asking relatives to borrow money the day before yesterday appeared alone on the balcony.

Although he is not yet familiar with the surrounding situation, the parents of this body have the same family affection as his previous parents, which still makes him feel a little less uneasy.

Different bodies, different worlds, but the dedication of parents to their children seems to be the same.

Slowly, the sound outside gradually quieted down. Li Chengjiu closed the door to sleep, and his parents got up, washed and went to sleep.

Everything outside slowly became silent, only the pure music in the earphones was constantly looping.

The music repeats over and over again, and it seems to gradually become smaller and weaker in the ears.

Li Chengyi lay still, and as his memory was sorted out, he began to feel a little chaotic in his mind.

Scenes of memories kept flooding his mind.

'He' has studied hard for twenty years, but in the end he will face unemployment after graduation.

The various certificates that have been worked so hard for so long have now become worthless in front of the unemployed army.

In the six months after graduation, hundreds of resumes were sent out, but very few responded.

The ambition before graduation has completely turned into a loss now.

'He' doesn't know what he should do, nor what he can do, no plan, no idea, no expectation.

Just stay at home every day, one day is one day.

In addition to these, there is also a picture of the predecessor and his sister Li Chengjiu quarreling harshly.

Sister Li Chengjiu has always regarded her family as her burden.

On the outside, she is outstanding and dazzling, with a bright future, capable and ambitious, and looks down on all those who have no talent.

And the parents who are just ordinary factory workers, and the mediocre younger brother are also the objects of his intolerance.

The former Li Chengyi was dissatisfied because of her sister's attitude towards her parents and herself, and she also quarreled, but the result was meaningless. His parents were willing to give, and it was useless for him to dissuade him, and the two even talked about him in turn.

On the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination, he worked hard, but he only got an ordinary university. Compared with Li Chengjiu, who was sent to a top military academy in his second year of high school, it was completely different.

Although he has also made a good internship resume, the biggest problem is that he chose the wrong major because of his naivety.

What the hell is a plant conservation profession? Although I heard that the salary of high-end plant maintenance is indeed very high, but it is too expensive.

The only way out for such ordinary school students is to enter the forestry bureau or urban greening company.

It's not bad to be able to barely survive on three thousand yuan a month.

There is too much automation in this era, and many people can't even find a job.

Turning over, Li Chengyi kept sorting out the memories of his predecessor in his mind. Although many places are somewhat blurred because of the person's own forgetting mechanism.

But you can still get a lot of useful information from it.

The night is getting deeper and deeper.

Another car passed by outside the window, beeping its horn, accompanied by a man's loud curses.

"Who the hell messed up the parking spaces again!"

"I* the ancestors of your family!"

The voice scolded for a while, gradually weakened, and became quiet again.

The mixed music of guzheng and pipa kept repeating in his ears, over and over again.

The other noises around slowly receded, as if only the pure music remained.

Crisp, cold and quiet.

Li Chengyi's consciousness was constantly sorting out, as if he was watching a movie. With the continuous consumption of his spirit, his body also began to feel inexplicably tired.

This kind of tiredness is getting heavier and heavier, making his consciousness gradually blurred, and he is about to fall asleep.

The predecessor fell asleep like this every day. The long-term poor rest and the unsatisfactory mood caused by not being able to find a job made him more reticent and inarticulate.

As time passed slowly, Li Chengyi became more and more tired physically and his mind fell into chaos.

He closed his eyes and adjusted his sleeping position, intending to take a short rest.

Click.

Suddenly, a clear and crisp sound woke him up from his drowsiness.

His eyes slowly opened wide, and the sleepiness that had just gushed out began to disappear.

'what sound! ? '

He half sat up and looked around, but found nothing. Then I found that there was no movement in the earphones.

"Why is there no sound?" Li Chengyi picked up the tape player. This old-fashioned music player was a collection of his predecessors from the second-hand market.

Now in this off-white tape drive with peeling paint, through the glass-like plastic casing, you can see the tape inside is spinning, but there is no sound in the earphone.

The music just now has disappeared, and now there is only a slight current noise in the earphones.

Frowning, he picked up the machine and shook it, but there was still no music.

Li Chengyi took off the earphones and looked at the bedroom in a blink of an eye.

The street lights outside the window disappeared at some point, leaving only darkness.

There are not many furnishings in the bedroom, with white walls, it looks a bit cold.

Wardrobe, desk, utility cabinet, two high-backed metal chairs with two backpacks hung askew, and a pair of white plastic slippers with their toes facing each other.

There is nothing else but these.

'I always feel that something is wrong. '

Li Chengyi frowned, feeling a slight sense of strangeness in his heart.

I have slept in this room for many years, obviously every place is very familiar, but now

‘Could it be that the predecessor lived for more than 20 years and was fine, but something happened when I came here? '

He looked around again, his eyes slowly stopped, and stopped at the door of the room.

The door is open!

He felt a slight chill in his heart.

Obviously it was locked when I went to bed before!

And now, the door opened a crack.

In the darkness outside, there seemed to be a group of black figures in the shape of a human, squatting at the door and peeking inside.

In the darkness, Li Chengyi's hair was trembling, and his eyes were fixed on the crack of the door.

Outside the gap that was only as thick as a finger, it was unknown whether it was an illusion or a hallucination, but there seemed to be a black eye, through the gap, staring straight at the bed, staring at him sitting on the bed.

creak.

A gust of cold wind blew into the room along the crack of the door.

The bedroom door was pushed open by the surge of air.

Li Chengyi was covered in cold sweat, and his eyes were slightly dizzy.

At this time, he looked carefully again, and found that there was only darkness at the crack of the door, without any eyes or figures.

Everything just now seemed to be his illusion.

He paused for a while, and sat quietly on the bed without making a sound.

After waiting for several minutes, until the body was no longer overly tense, I slowly eased my breathing, put on the slippers lightly, and slowly got out of bed.

Take a deep breath, let your chest rise and fall, and calm your emotions. He lightly grasped a metal bat standing in the gap between the head of the bed and the closet.

That was the guy bought by the predecessor for self-defense.

The hard texture brought by the cold bat made him feel a little more at ease.

Lifting the bat silently, he started to walk slowly, took steps, and walked around to the back of the door where the crack of the door could not be seen.

Standing behind the door, this angle is just right to see the night view from the window and the gap in the curtains.

However, what surprised Li Chengyi was that he only glanced out of the corner of his eye, and found that there was still only darkness and nothing outside the gap between the curtains.

'Illusion? dream? ? '

He felt his throat dry, swallowed his saliva, clenched the bat with one hand, and slowly grasped the doorknob with the other.

call!

Suddenly he pulled hard.

Turning around to face the opened door, holding up the bat high, about to smash it down.

The new book sets sail, thank you for your support to Lao Gun~