With a pop, a grasshopper jumped on the lampshade.
Zhou Song was a light sleeper, so he was woken up by this subtle sound. He opened his eyes and saw a big fat green grasshopper standing on the lampshade of the bedside table. It was strange. It was already summer. In the courtyard
The flowers and plants had withered long ago, where did the grasshopper come from? He held his hand on the bed and approached the lamp to have a closer look, but as soon as he got closer, the grasshopper got into the lampshade and disappeared.
He lowered his head and looked into the lampshade. There was only a white lamp inside, and there were no grasshoppers. It turned out that he had seen it wrong. He felt thirsty, so he lifted the quilt and got out of bed, put on his slippers and walked to the bedroom door.
, he opened the door and suddenly heard even breathing from behind him. He turned around and saw someone sleeping on the bed. It was a boy about his age, lying on his side on the bed with his back to him. Zhou
Song was very puzzled. He didn't know that there was another person on the bed. Was it his younger brother? No, his younger brother's room was next door, and his younger brother hated sleeping with him, so it couldn't be his younger brother.
Since he was not his younger brother, who was sleeping on his bed at this moment? He wanted to go back and lift the quilt to see what was going on, but suddenly he heard a noise downstairs, like a cup falling to the ground and being broken.
When I went downstairs, I saw Zhou Han squatting in the open kitchen, picking up pieces of cups on the floor.
"Mom, watch your hands."
He ran over to help pick up the broken glass, and his hands came and went to touch Zhou Han's long hair falling on his chest. He raised his head and saw his mother's pale and thin face, as well as the dry and lifeless eyes on her face.
Eyes. Zhou Han suddenly grabbed his hand and pulled him up, roughly pulling him towards the living room. There were a few glass particles in her palm, which hurt Zhou Song, but Zhou Song neither hid nor cried out in pain.
, because since his father didn’t come home, his mother has never been close to him. She doesn’t even look at him, let alone hold his hand. Zhou Han dragged him to the living room and took out a book from the living room drawer.
It's a flat black wooden box with intricate flower patterns carved on it, one wrapped around the other and one hooked inside the other, just like the blooming scene in the front garden in the past.
Zhou Han took the wooden box and asked him: "Do you have it?"
Zhou Song looked at the wooden box and shook his head in confusion.
Zhou Han squatted down, grabbed his arm hard, and looked at him fiercely: "Tell me the truth, did your father give you the same box?"
Zhou Song never lied: "Dad never gave me a box." He stretched out his hand to grab the wooden box, "What's in here?"
Zhou Han suddenly took the box into his arms and said, "Go upstairs."
Zhou Song walked back and reached the stairs. He saw a kettle sitting on a stove in the kitchen. The water was already boiling and making a gurgling sound. He remembered that he came down to drink water, so he wanted to go to the kitchen to drink.
water, but Zhou Han grabbed him, dragged him upstairs, pushed him into the bedroom without any explanation, and closed the door. Zhou Song returned to the bed and found that the other half of the bed was empty, and the person lying on his bed just now disappeared.
, lying on the pillow was the grasshopper that had just got into the lampshade. He stared at the grasshopper for a while, and gradually became sleepy, so he turned off the lamp and fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but he was awakened by the itching feeling. He opened his eyes and found the grasshopper standing on the tip of his nose. He quickly drove the grasshopper away. The grasshopper fell on the floor and jumped to the entrance hall. He wanted to take the grasshopper away.
The grasshopper chased him out, so he got out of bed to chase after him. The grasshopper jumped on the door handle, and the door opened unexpectedly, and then flew into the corridor again.
Zhou Song chased it out of the bedroom and found that all the lights in the house were out, but the moonlight was bright tonight. The moonlight shone through the windows on both sides of the corridor, and even the grasshoppers lying on the ground could be seen clearly. There were layers of grasshoppers.
Jumping down the steps, Zhou Song followed it downstairs to the first floor. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor, he saw Zhou Han sitting on a chair under the verandah. She was wearing a long skirt and long hair, and the clear moonlight was shining on her.
On her body, her back is as beautiful as a painting.
He walked out of the house and came to Zhou Han, only to see her face covered with tears. He was stunned and suddenly felt uneasy. He wanted to ask Zhou Han why he was crying, but suddenly he saw a fire burning behind Zhou Han, and the raging flames were swept away.
Blocked behind glass windows, trapped in the house, the fire swept through every void in the house.
"Help! Zhou Song, help me!" A child hit the floor-to-ceiling window hard, his body covered in flames, his face burned to pieces, and his true appearance could not be seen.
"Do you want to save him?"
Zhou Song heard Zhou Han's voice, but when he took a closer look, the person sitting on the chair turned into himself. The person had the same face as him, wore the same pajamas and slippers, and rested on his shoulder.
The green and plump grasshopper seemed to be a second soul split from his body.
He walked to Zhou Song, looked at the fire in the house, and asked, "Do you want to save them?"
They? There was only one person in the room? Where did they come from? Zhou Song looked again and found a woman lying on the floor. She was swallowed by the fire, but through the firelight she could be seen wearing a fruit green French floral dress.
, just like the one on Zhou Han just now.
"Mother!"
Zhou Song suddenly opened his eyes, his back was soaked with cold sweat, as if he was lying on a wet mattress. The sound of a child crying for his mother could be heard in his ears from far to near. He thought he was still in a dream, but there was no room in the room.
The smell of engine oil and the old working fan in the corner were very familiar to him. He sat up on the bed and found that the sound was coming from the window. He walked behind the window and pushed the ajar window open.
I saw two children playing in the yard downstairs. The girl couldn't beat the boy, so she cried and stamped her feet to call her mother.
He closed the window, took off his sweaty clothes, and put on a rough-made but clean white short-sleeved shirt. The short-sleeved shirt was ill-fitting, too loose on him, and smelled similar to the smell of machine oil in the room.
He bought these clothes from the male owner of the house, and the accommodation was also provided by the male owner. The room he was in at this time was on the second floor of the male owner's house. The first floor was an auto repair shop. There were only two people, the male owner and the female owner.
management, the two children playing in the yard just now are their twins.
The room was extremely hot, and the fan in the corner was blowing out hot air. Zhou Song went out to get some fresh air. The stairs of this small commercial-residential building were outside. An iron ladder stretched from the first floor to the second floor. Downstairs was
Zhou Song was sitting on the first step of the stairs in the spacious courtyard. Two children in the courtyard were playing with remote control cars, and the male owner was changing the tires of a van.
That day, he drove the injured Qin Xiao all the way along the provincial highway. He walked from day to night before finding this small town. It was far away from the urban area and was located on the side of the provincial highway more than a hundred kilometers away from Yucheng. Just like Qin Xiao
As he said, driving is not difficult. As long as you drive the car on the road, everything behind it can be learned by yourself. Zhou Song drove for several hours without distinguishing between east, west and northwest before breaking into this paradise-like town. The town is more than ten kilometers deep to the west.
The large lake is a branch of the river. The scenery around the lake is beautiful, but it is not large-scale and does not have a mature tourism economy. There is a clinic in the town. He sent Qin Xiao to the clinic to treat the wound on Qin Xiao's finger. Facing the doctor in the clinic,
When asked by the doctor, he lied that he and Qin Xiao came here on a self-driving trip and encountered a broken down truck on the road. Qin Xiao helped to check the engine, but the driver suddenly started the engine, causing Qin Xiao's finger to be rotated rapidly.
The belt was twisted. The truck driver did not want to take responsibility and drove away immediately. They found the nearest doctor here. There was only an elderly doctor in the clinic. When he saw that Qin Xiao was seriously injured, he sutured Qin Xiao's wound without asking for details.
.Zhou Song took Qin Xiao's half-amputated finger and wanted to reattach it, but the old doctor said that they wasted time on the road and the severed finger had shrunk and could not be reattached.
Qin Xiao's wound was sutured, but he was in a coma due to a lot of blood loss. Zhou Song spent the night with him in the clinic. The next day, he asked the old doctor about a place to stay in the town, and the old doctor showed him
I went to my son-in-law's home. He ran an auto repair shop and had a separate courtyard and a two-story building. The first floor was a shop and the second floor was occupied by people. The son-in-law paid Zhou Song a little money and let them live there. Today
It's already the third day.
The two children of this family quarreled again over a remote control, alarming the mother upstairs. Their mother came down the stairs, passed by Zhou Song, went down to the courtyard, pulled the two children apart, and ordered
They stopped fighting, then drove a white car out of the garage and told her husband, who was repairing the car, that she was going to the supermarket to buy something and asked him if he had anything special to say.
While the couple was talking, Zhou Song's eyes were attracted to the two children. They all wanted to go out with their mother. The two of them rushed to get into the car, but their mother kicked them out again. The hostess said to take them with her.
It was too troublesome, so I quickly went back by myself. When I was about to leave in the car, I remembered that I didn’t bring my wallet with me, so I went upstairs to look for my wallet. The two children were unwilling to accept it. The naughty brother took advantage of their mother to go upstairs to get her wallet, and opened it.
The car cover climbed into the trunk, and he waved to his sister to get in too. The little girl was incited by him to get into the trunk too. The hostess came out of the room and happened to see two children lying in the trunk. The boy
As her son was trying to close the back cover of the car, she shouted angrily: "What are you doing? Come out quickly!"
She hurried downstairs. Zhou Song was sitting on the stairs. She accidentally bumped into Zhou Song's back. Without a second thought, she rushed to the yard to pull the two children lying in the trunk. The boy refused to get out of the car.
, crying loudly, the girl was more sensible and took the initiative to be taken out by her mother, helping her mother to persuade her brother.
Zhou Song looked at the scene in front of him, feeling strange and unspeakable in his heart. He felt that the scene happening in front of him was somewhat familiar, like the feeling of déjà vu that he had experienced personally...
Finally, the mother compromised, let the two children get into the car, and took them out together. Not long after their car drove out of the yard, Qin Xiao came back carrying a backpack. He called the male owner who was repairing the car.
He said hello, then stepped onto the steps. When he saw Zhou Song sitting on the steps, he patted Zhou Song on the shoulder and said, "Go back to the house."
Zhou Song couldn't see or hear him. He was still looking at the courtyard in confusion. He called him again before he realized that he was back. He followed Qin Xiao back to the room. Qin Xiao threw his backpack on the bed and put it in the bag.
He stuffed a few clothes into his bag and said, "I just contacted a boat with my friend. Let's take the boat tonight."
His left hand was tightly wrapped with gauze, making it inconvenient to move. Zhou Song took the bag from his hand, neatly folded the clothes and put them inside, saying, "I won't leave, I want to go back to Yucheng."
Qin Xiao was stunned for a moment, then snatched the clothes from his hand: "What did you say?"
Zhou Song slowly put down his hands and suddenly felt weak all over. He turned around and sat on the edge of the bed and said, "My elder brother is not in good health and I am very worried about him. He must be anxious and worried about me every day from the time I left home.
I can't just walk away and leave him alone."
Qin Xiao: "Think clearly, Han Feilu will definitely be watching your house, and you will fall into a trap when you go back!"
Zhou Song looked out the window at the square blue sky: "Leave it to fate, it doesn't matter to me whether he catches me or kills me. Whether he lives or dies tomorrow, it makes no difference to me." He smiled faintly, "
It's a good thing that I was caught, because you won't be implicated by me anymore. You are different from me. You are clean and you should not end up with the same fate as me."
Qin Xiao also sat down by the bed, thinking for a while with a sullen face, and said: "It is indeed easy for me to turn back, but what about you? You have a human life on your back, let alone whether Han Feilu will believe that Jiang Chao forced you to be burned to death.
Even if he believes that person, you are the one who killed him and the evidence is conclusive, you still can't escape."
Zhou Song: "He won't believe me unless I bring Jiang Chao to him. But you are right. I burned a person to death with my own hands. Plus Julie, I will only die if I fall into his hands."
."
Qin Xiao: "Then you are going back to seek death?"
Qin Xiao was right, he was indeed looking for death. He decided to flee because he wanted to live, but now he wants to go back because he doesn't want to live anymore. The reason is very simple. His life is too heavy now. The dead Julie and Jiang Chao
The doubles never left him. They grabbed his ankles on the left and the right. Every time he took a step forward, they dragged the two heavy corpses. He had been walking for so long and was already tired.
Simply give up the struggle and let them drag you into hell.
Zhou Song stood up, folded Qin Xiao's scattered clothes, and said, "You should go back with me. I will explain clearly to the police that I did everything. You were coerced by me to go with me."
.They won’t make things difficult for you, at least not too much.”
He had made up his mind to leave, and Qin Xiao had no choice but to go on the road with him.
On the way back, Qin Xiao was still driving. Zhou Song suggested taking a look at the lake in the town, so Qin Xiao drove the car onto the rural road between the green mountains. Zhou Song looked left and right, taking in the scenery on the road, as if he was seriously traveling by car.
When he came, Qin Xiao had a solemn look on his face and showed no interest in enjoying the scenery.
Zhou Song said with a smile: "If you're here, just take a look. You won't have the chance to come here a second time in the future."
Qin Xiao still said nothing and only occasionally looked at his phone.
Halfway through the journey, the sparkling reflection of the lake a few kilometers away in the sun could be seen. Qin Xiao suddenly stopped the car, said to go to the toilet and got out of the car. Zhou Song sat in the car and waited, thinking about what to do after returning to Yucheng
Should he go directly to see Zhou Lingjun? He was worried that he would be caught by the ambushed police as soon as he arrived downstairs at Zhou Lingjun's house. He would not even have a chance to say goodbye to Zhou Lingjun. With this in mind, he decided to get in touch with Zhou Lingjun first and make an appointment with someone who could avoid Zhou Lingjun.
Open the police meeting place so that you can have a chance to meet Zhou Lingjun.
His mobile phone was taken by Jiang Chao to record videos, and then taken away by Jiang Chao. Now he had no mobile phone to use, so he could only use Qin Xiao's. He searched around with his eyes, but did not see Qin Xiao's mobile phone, but Qin Xiao
I had been using it just now. Did Qin Xiao take the phone away when he got out of the car? But Qin Xiao just went to the toilet and had no reason to carry his phone with him. Zhou Song rummaged around in the car, opened the bottom drawer, and found that there was another cell phone inside.
A mobile phone. He took out the mobile phone. This mobile phone was very unfamiliar. He had never seen Qin Xiao use it. He turned on the mobile phone and a digital lock appeared on the screen. He tried to enter 1234, but unexpectedly it actually turned on. The mobile phone turned on.
A text message came in as soon as he unlocked it, and Zhou Song passively saw the message at the top: The money has been received, don't worry, I won't talk nonsense.
This message aroused Zhou Song's suspicion. The person who sent the message seemed to have received a sum of money from Qin Xiao and promised to keep a certain secret, so he said, "I won't talk nonsense." He looked out the window and saw
Qin Xiao was nowhere to be seen, and then he opened the text message and found that Qin Xiao had sent multiple text messages back and forth to this unmarked number. He scrolled up and read the messages one by one. The more he read, the more surprised he became.
The more I looked at it, the more frightened I became.
In fact, there were not many text messages, only a dozen or so. The first message was sent by Qin Xiao on his own initiative, with only four words: Give me the card number. The sending time was 3:23 noon on April 16. The other party quickly replied with a list of banks.
Card number, Qin Xiao sent another message: Put the things on the bedside, and remember to take pictures. The other party sent a photo, and Zhou Song was shocked when he saw this photo. The photo was taken from his bedside.
He was too familiar with the small ancient European-style clock in the photo, which was more than 20 centimeters high. At this moment, the clock was still placed on the low table beside his bed. He continued to look down, and Qin Xiao and this mysterious man were next.
The conversation made him even more frightened. From their words in the text messages, it can be judged that Qin Xiao gave the mysterious man something to put into his essential oil every day, and the mysterious man did it one by one. From April 16
Up to now, Qin Xiao has been in constant contact with him for more than four months.
Zhou Song dialed the number, put the phone to his ear and waited with bated breath, his heartbeat abnormally disordered.
The phone was connected, and an elderly woman's voice rang: "Hello? I received the money. Don't worry, I won't call you again in the future -"
Zhou Song hung up the phone, feeling frightened and angry. He held the phone with both hands and almost broke the screen. He recognized the voice of the woman who answered the phone just now. It was Sister Cai, the nanny he had hired for more than four months.