I work as a housekeeper in Guilou

Chapter 16 A Family’s Funeral ()

This is the room of a couple. There is a wedding photo of the two of them on the bedside. The wife is smiling brightly, and anyone can see her happiness and longing for the future life.

Xiaobai paused as soon as he raised his head: "At that time...sister, what are you going to do?"

Xia Qimiao rolled up her sleeves and started searching from the door: "Don't waste time, talk while looking for clues."

"Oh, oh." Xiaobai followed suit and started checking from the bedside table on the other side.

Time went back ten minutes to when Xia Qimiao went out.

The short-haired boy glared at Xiao Yang: "What are you doing? Do you know that you might kill her?"

"What am I doing? I'm saving everyone," Xiao Yang yelled, "That old thief looks like a trick at first glance. If I hadn't handed someone over, she would have gone crazy, and not one of them would have died by then. It’s that simple.”

"Why do you have to hand over one person? Can't you tell her that there are only six people and there are not more than one person?"

"How do you know she will believe it? Don't reason with monsters. They are not human and they won't accept this."

Xiao Yang scanned the young boy from beginning to end with his slender eyes, and gave a scornful smile: "Why didn't you go out for her just now? You didn't dare to fart even though you were standing nearby. Now you are hypocritically criticizing me. It's so false." Not hypocritical."

"We are all beneficiaries and executioners. Now we are in the same boat, don't you think?"

The young boy blushed at what he said. He turned around and rushed out to find someone, but was grabbed by the middle-aged woman.

"Sister, you knocked on the door later. I saw no one opened it, so I went."

Xiaobai bit her lip: "Sister, I'm sorry."

She obviously took Xiao Yang's words to heart. She was also the one who watched her die, and she was even glad in her heart that it was not her.

After she realized this, a greater sense of guilt overwhelmed her little joy, and she fell into deep self-blame. This was also the reason why she decisively opened the door.

Xia Qimiao was looking through the wardrobe. She went through the pockets of every piece of clothing, even the wardrobe, and touched it inch by inch.

"Why are you apologizing to me?"

"Because I refused to save him, but I still, I still think, luckily it's not me." It took a lot of courage for her to confess, not daring to look up and look at Xia Qimiao's expression.

He is so "good" and at first glance he looks like a well-educated and well-protected child.

Although Xia Qimiao only wanted to team up with her temporarily because of this, she still couldn't help but sigh: "Listen carefully, I will only say the next words once."

"Don't want to save and can't save are two different concepts. Can you understand this?"

"I can." Xiaobai nodded. Her Chinese is very good, and her reading comprehension can sometimes achieve perfect scores.

Not wanting to save means unwilling to save people on a subjective level, while being unable to save means being restricted by objective or other conditions and unable to save people.

"If you are very strong now and can punch a monster with one punch, will you go out for me?"

"Yes, of course I will!" Xiaobai said without hesitation.

"So, you didn't save people not because you were hypocritical or anything, but because you were too weak and couldn't save them. It would be nice if you could protect yourself."

Her sister seemed to be comforting her, but it was very distressing and uncertain. Please listen again.

"We were strangers at the time, so it's normal for you not to come forward. Even now that we have formed a temporary team, I never expected you to save me." "However, harming others and not saving others are two different concepts. You can still do it now You can’t save me, but you can’t harm me, do you understand?”

Xia Qimiao changed the topic and got to the key point she wanted to say.

"Understood." After hearing these words, Xiaobai obviously became more energetic, and his cheeks also turned a little red, "I will never do that."

Xia Qimiao agreed, but he didn't really believe her in his heart. He was just joining the team because she was young and wanted to help her. If Xiaobai betrays her later, we will treat her as blind and we will not let her go lightly. Her kindness will only be shown once.

She returned to the topic: "You just said that the aunt held the boy and refused to let him go out. Why?"

"Oh, she said that when she saw him, she thought of her dead son and didn't want him to die too. She even cried and looked quite sad."

Xia Qimiao was noncommittal. She felt a crack in the cabinet wall and looked carefully before looking for the secret button.

She buckled it and pulled it out. There was an extra small space inside, about two cubic meters in size. There was a wooden tablet inside, with "The place of my beloved daughter Zhang Ying" engraved in the middle, and the small words on the right side read "Died in August 2004" 18th."

The years in the game are all confusing, don't worry about it, there is just something wrong with the position of this date.

Xia Qimiao is familiar with tablets. She has mainly seen two types of tablets. One has the year of birth and death written all on the front, and the other has the year of birth and death written all on the back. She has never seen one that only writes death but not life. .

There is no incense burner in front of this row, and there is a small paper-cut doll.

She noted the date and pushed the door back, not wanting to give it a chance to scare it.

"Sister, look, I found a diary." Xiaobai found a black book from the cracks of the bedside table and waved it excitedly, "I didn't expect people in the game also like to write diaries."

Xia Qimiao took the book and said firmly: "You haven't seen Feiniao's strategy post."

"I, I've seen it, but I didn't look carefully." Xiaobai still wanted to struggle, but in the end he told the truth. After all, his sister must have her reason for saying so.

"Go back and look carefully. It's best to memorize it. It can save your life."

Upon hearing the first two words, her eyes lit up like a rekindled fire, and she sincerely promised: "I will definitely do it."

"Most of the diaries in the game are clues deliberately set up by the dungeon to show the past experiences of monsters or NPCs. It does not mean that they have actually written them. Since they have not really written them, there is a possibility of fraud, so it only You can use it as a reference, but you can’t believe it entirely.”

[It became cloudy and sunny on August 30, 2023]

I'm getting married. I've never thought that a wedding would be such a tiring thing. I didn't want to move at all at the end of the day, but both of us were giggling like fools!

[Sunny on October 11, 2023]

I found out I'm pregnant today, and someone came to me quietly and said they could check whether it's a boy or a girl. I don't care about that. It's fine for both my son and my daughter, as long as the baby is healthy.

[Light rain on October 13, 2023]

Today my husband went to the temple to pay homage. He said that a master pulled him and asked him to draw lots. He drew three times and all the lots were good. Haha, maybe there is only one kind of lot in the tube. After losing three thousand yuan, he gained three blessings of peace, and he was still enjoying himself.

Xia Qimiao jumped to read. Most of them were written by the hostess about a happy life. She simply jumped to the last page and wrote in red pen -

"Where is my child? Where is my child? Where is my child?"

　I have a lot of wish collections, and every time I add one, it makes me happy for the whole day.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)