There is a garden in the courtyard, full of peony and roses, the walls are covered with hydrangeas, and a red-leaf peach tree stands in the southwest corner. Every summer, this courtyard is full of colorful flowers and fragrant flowers. My mother suffers from rhinitis and cannot smell pollen, so whenever the flowers bloom, my mother will retreat, and only my father will come here to escape the summer heat.

Zhou Song came with his father several times. What impressed him the most was the scene of his father squatting among the gorgeous peony flowers on the ground to pull weeds and eliminate insects. In his childhood impression, his father loved cleanliness and never allowed any stains on his clothes and skin. However, when he was taking care of flowers, he let his hands be covered with soil. His father's hobby of growing flowers started two years ago. One night, he came home from get off work and brought back a Phalaenopsis planted in a flower pot. A week later, the Phalaenopsis bloomed. His father seemed to be inspired and planted seedlings in this summer villa yard located in the suburbs. Whenever he had time, he would come to serve the flowers and grass. In just one month, the flowers bloomed all over the garden and the fragrance blew ten miles away.

Zhou Song also liked that garden, but his father never allowed him to go in, let alone fold flowers. He only allowed him to sit far away under the corridor covered with flower vines and watch silently, as if the garden was a forbidden area that belonged to his father alone. In addition to the garden, there was also a place forbidden area, which was the basement located below the garage.

About a few months ago, he went to the garage to look for ski shoes. He found a door more than one meter high behind an old wardrobe. The door panel was very thick and a dark metal door with iron chains and iron locks, which looked mysterious and confined. He wanted to know what was on the other side of the door, so he went to ask his father for the key, but his father said that he could not give him the key now, because it was not yet time, and when the time was right, he would take him in in person.

He didn't know when the "time" would mature in the future, and this incident was quickly forgotten by him. Until a few months later, on his 9th birthday, his father woke him up, held his hand and came to the garage, pushed open the heavy metal door, and took him into another world.

It takes a few meters of stairs to lead to the basement. When he walked down the stairs, he felt that the stairs were very long, circling down, deeply rooted in the center of the earth, as if leading to the legendary hell. But at the end of the stairs was not hell, but a neat and wide basement. There were simple tables, chairs and wooden frames in the basement, and there was a long marble-covered table, and the marble table reflected pale light under the lamp. In addition, there were photos of the walls hanging, and there were women with miserable smiles. They looked at Zhou Song, but their eyes were very scared, so the smiles on their faces also seemed distorted and weird. Their photos were framed by photo frames and hung on the wall, like an art exhibition.

Zhou Song held Chi Chenguang's hand and asked, "Dad, who are they?"

Chi Chenguang was still gentle as usual, his voice was as gentle as the breeze: "They are father's prey."

Prey? Where are these preys at this time?

"Where are they?"

This was Zhou Song's question, so when he heard this, Zhou Song thought he was saying this, but the voice came from beside him. He turned his head and realized that Chi Chenguang was still holding a boy. He wanted to see who the boy was, but he saw a face with flesh and blood sticking and charred facial features.

Zhou Song suddenly woke up, his heart beat wildly, and his body was covered in cold sweat, and he realized that he had just had a nightmare.

The curtains in the bedroom were closed, and a burnt night light was on the head of the bed, and the air was filled with the fragrance of lavender essential oil. He lay on the bed and looked straight at the chandelier hanging down on the roof. The fear of the nightmare was still stirring in his chest. Gradually, the fear in his heart faded, and he felt dry mouth, as if he had been sleepy in the desert for several days and nights.

He got out of bed and walked out of the bedroom, went to the kitchen to pour water, and took a look at the little clock on the TV cabinet. It was past three o'clock in the morning. The doorbell was suddenly ringing, and then the door of the house rang.

Zhou Song put the water cup on the displaced platform, walked to the entrance, and asked, "Who?"

No one answered outside the door, but the door sounded twice again.

Zhou Song asked again: "Who?"

Still no one responded, but the knocks on the door kept stopping.

Zhou Song moved away the cat's eye cover and looked out. The door was empty, but the sensing light in the corridor was on. He unlocked the lock, pulled the door wider, stopped vigilantly for a while, then opened the door and looked into the corridor.

"Have you found my mom?"

Someone was talking behind his back. Zhou Song suddenly turned around and saw Lan Lan, who had been missing for a long time, standing in the living room, with long hair spread out, wearing the T-shirt and shorts he wore the day he disappeared. The T-shirt was covered with dried blood, which was Liu Qin's blood.

Zhou Song closed the door and turned around and looked at her: "Why are you here?"

Lan Lan: "Where is it?"

Zhou Song suddenly noticed something, looked around and found himself standing in a strange room. He felt terrified: "What is this place?"

Lan Lan said nothing, turned around and walked towards the window, opened a layer of white glass curtains, looked out from the window, and looked at the night fire in the city that had been endless all night. She asked again: "Have you found my mother?"

Zhou Song wanted to know where he was, so he walked towards her, trying to determine his position by identifying the surrounding buildings. He stood behind Lan Lan and looked out the window, only seeing the continuous lights, like fishing boats moored on the dark river.

"Where is your mother?" Zhou Song asked.

Lan Lan sighed as if it were a breeze: "You have found her."

Zhou Song: "She is dead, right?"

Lan Lan nodded and said, "I regret it very much."

Zhou Song: "What do you regret?"

Lan Lan: "I regretted that I didn't help her or stop him."

Who was she talking about? Who did she not stop? Did her father Lan Zhaolin?

Zhou Song slowly walked to her and asked, "Is your father the murderer?"

Lan Lan was speechless for a long time. Zhou Song turned his head to look at her and saw that she was pale and looked faint, like a corpse that was still frozen in the morning light. Only then did he realize that Lan Lan was dead.

Lan Lan said: "My dad said that the fittest survive. This is the instinct of human survival, and it applies even to relatives."

Zhou Song: "Your mother has a terminal illness, which is a burden to you and your father. So she is not suitable to survive."

But, in this way, is it right? Can people be so selfish and so vicious?

Lan Lan said: "I miss her very much. If she knew that my fate was as miserable as her, maybe she would forgive me."

A circle of blue bruises gradually appeared on her neck, like traces of being strangled with a rope. With a hush, she fell straight back and fell on the floor, her eyes wide open, her face turned blue and white, and turned into a dead body for a long time.

Zhou Song sat down beside her, looked at her face, and saw relief and peace on her face without any worries. He drew energy from Lan Lan's body that could soothe his anxiety and panic. This energy was like a clear spring, wading through the black mountain and white water, flowing into the most unknown secret corner in his heart.

He was reluctant to leave for a long time, and even wanted to lie beside her and turn into another corpse, embracing the satisfaction and peace of his heart, and then the sea was gone.

"Mr. Zhou? Mr. Zhou, oh, why are you sleeping here? You will catch a cold!"

Zhou Song was woken up by someone shaking his shoulders. He opened his eyes and found that he was lying on the sofa, his silk pajamas were already cold. He sat up and saw a water cup on the coffee table in front of him, which seemed to be the glass of water he had poured up last night in the middle of the night.

Sister Cai was worried that he had a cold, so she asked him to go back to the room to get dressed. He stood up in a dizzy state, perhaps because he was getting up violently, and he felt dizzy. Sister Cai hurriedly held his hand and felt his body temperature was a little hot: "Mr. Zhou, your hands are so hot, are you having a fever?"

Zhou Song gently pushed her hand away and said, "I'm fine, pour me a cup of hot water." After that, he went to the bathroom to wash.

Sister Cai was right. He did have a low fever, perhaps because he slept on the sofa all night. The dizziness and swelling feeling became more and more obvious when eating breakfast. Sister Cai bought him antipyretic medicine, and he took a tablet and went to work. In fact, he really wanted to get off the fire when he was slightly injured and slept at home due to illness. But today was the first day Zhou Lingjun was discharged from the hospital and returned to the company to work. He was more or less reluctant to let Zhou Lingjun think that he was a lazy guy who skipped work.

When he arrived at the company, he started a new day of sex work. The physical discomfort caused by illness caused him to be in a bad mood. He was cold to everyone and could save as much as possible. Department manager Daisy spoke to him and he was perfunctory. In just one morning, he ruined all the good popularity he had accumulated before.

The reason why he was so abnormal was not only because of his physical discomfort, but also because the newcomers who came in the marketing department yesterday showed great interest in him. They always glanced at him with a curious look, and frequently took out their phones to take photos of him secretly. They even ran to his workstation to talk to Tian Xin on excuses, hoping to stick their eyes to him all the time. Zhou Song felt that he had become an animal in her eyes, a rare species introduced by a zoo.

The reason why this person is so bold and reckless, he disregards his identity as the second young master of the Zhou family and visits him like a wild animal because she was the female manager Daisy who was directly recruited by Daisy. It is said that she has some relatives with Daisy, so she thinks she has a lot of royal blood than others. On the first day of her job, she called the General Affairs Department employee to change the chairs and tables in her workstations into a brand new set, which was very ostentatious.

Julie came to Tian Xin's work station with another project information, saying that she wanted Tian Xin's guidance, but in fact she was creating opportunities to observe Zhou Song up close. Zhou Song could only turn a blind eye to her and concentrate on her work. Everything was calm until Zhou Song left her seat and went to indirect water for tea. When she came back, she found that Julie was taking photos of his mobile phone and computer with her mobile phone.

This behavior completely annoyed him, and he walked back steadily and asked, "What are you doing?"

Julie was caught and was in business. Of course, she refused to admit that she was peeping at his privacy. She pretended to be stupid and said nothing, and then she was about to leave. But Zhou Song snatched her cell phone. She was stunned and shouted: "What are you doing!"

Zhou Song avoided her hand that shot her phone and threw her phone into a small fish tank on Tian Xin's table. With a thud, the phone instantly sank the bottom, and a circle of water gradually splashed out.

Julie: "I bought a new phone!"

She salvaged her cell phone with her teeth and claws, and did not forget to curse Zhou Song fiercely: "Crazy!"

Zhou Song ignored it and sat down and continued to work.

The farce alarmed the female manager Daisy. Daisy rushed over and stepped back from the crowd, asking, "What are you arguing?"

Julie held her wet cell phone and cried and told Zhou Song that she threw her cell phone into the fish tank, ruining her newly bought Love Crazy 12.

After hearing this, Daisy raised her eyebrows: "Xiao Zhou, why did you throw away your colleague's cell phone?"

Zhou Song had headphones stuffed in his ears and was translating a document. When he heard Daisy ask him, he hung his hands on the keyboard and stopped for a while, then took off the headphones and threw them on the table, saying, "I'm not doing it anymore."

After saying that, he picked up the suit jacket on the back of the chair and walked out. The incident happened too suddenly, and a group of people stood there, at a loss.

But Zhou Song had not been able to leave, and before he could leave the marketing department, he ran into Liang Zi. Just now, Tian Xin saw that the situation was wrong, so Liang Zi quickly informed him, so Liang Zi came very soon. As soon as Liang Zi came in, he saw Zhou Song throwing his suit jacket on his shoulder, looking like he was about to take off his armor and return to Tian. He patted Zhou Song's shoulder and said, "Stand and don't move."

He went directly to Daisy and entered the office with Daisy. As soon as Daisy entered the door, she criticized Zhou Song's work and people, and kept talking to herself until she was dry. She stopped drinking water, and only found that Liang Jue had not spoken yet, so she asked, "Secretary Liang, why don't you speak?"

Liang Jue Ben stood at the window and looked out. Hearing this, he turned around and looked at Daisy with a cold expression: "Do you think I'm here to plead with you?"

Daisy then felt wrong: "What do you mean?"

Liang Jue walked towards her two steps and smiled coldly: "Did you forget that Wanheng Group's surname is Zhou? Even if Zhou Song does something wrong, it's your turn to say something. You need to recognize your position. You are just working for the Zhou family, not Zhou Song's teaching director."

Daisy: "But Zhou Song just took his colleague's cell phone-"

Liang Jue truncated her words very strongly: "Zhou Song threw your niece's cell phone into the water? What did your niece do? Everyone in the marketing department can see it. You should look for the reason from your niece, but you blame Zhou Song. Why do you think you can blame Zhou Song? Why do you think Zhou Song is angry with you?"

Daisy's face turned red and she didn't dare to answer.

Liang Jue even swears every second. After looking at his watch, he said, "Don't think you are so irreplaceable. I can find someone to replace you at any time. If something happened for the second time today, I will arrange for the Human Resources Department to resign for you and your niece."

He glanced at Daisy with a warning, then walked out of Daisy's office, quickly adjusted his kind smile, and smiled at the office area, "What happened just was just a misunderstanding, and now it has been resolved. Who is Julie?"

Julie raised her hand: "I."

Liang Jue smiled and said, "I apologize to you on behalf of Zhou Song. Your mobile phone company will double the compensation. The compensation will be paid to you next month together with your salary." He said to everyone, "It's okay, it's okay, everyone work."

Liangzi was very popular and everyone listened to their words. The order of the marketing department quickly returned to normal.

Liang Jue came out of the office area of ​​the marketing department and found Zhou Song in the corridor. Zhou Song stood against the wall, with a lazy and cold expression. As soon as he walked over, he heard Zhou Song say, "I'm not doing it anymore."

Liang Jue vetoed: "No."

Zhou Song glanced at him: "If you say no, then you can't?"

Liang Jue: "Yes, if I say no, I can't."

Zhou Song: "I lift my foot and leave. What can you do?"

Liang Jue: "I have no choice, but my brother will be very disappointed."

Zhou Song was speechless. Now Zhou Lingjun has become his weakness, and Liang Ju knows how to pinch his weakness.

Seeing that he had a look of unwillingness, Liang Jue knew that he had changed his mind, so he smiled and said, "It's time for lunch, go for dinner, and go to work well in the afternoon after dinner."
Chapter completed!