Lin Qisong knew very well that he had never had any thoughts of committing suicide before.
But when he put his head over the railing, he would think for a moment, if he died, would it be easier than now? He didn't know the answer.
And just when he was about to think deeply, someone pulled him back from behind, and his random thoughts disappeared instantly.
The three of them laughed and scolded each other for a while, and then went to the cafeteria to have dinner together. Although Lin Qisong regained some energy, he didn't talk much on the way. Ling Zhi could feel that the knot in his heart had not disappeared, which made him more determined to implement the plan.
.
Returning to the dormitory in the evening, Ling Zhi took out his mobile phone, clicked on Zhao Shiyan's WeChat, and sent:
"Shi Yan, are you done with your work? I want to discuss something with you. Are you free next Sunday? I want to invite you to go hiking. Are you interested?"
After sending it, he didn't wait in a hurry. He picked up the unfinished "Alphabet Mystery" and entered his own suspense world.
There are four chapters in this book, and Ling Zhi saw the third chapter.
The first three articles talked about three tenants living in the same landlord's house. One of the tenants was a policeman. Due to professional reasons, he came into contact with three cases. After mastering a large amount of evidence, he still had no clue to solve the case, so he turned to a thoughtful police officer.
landlord.
In the third case, the victim used a lighter to burn the tablecloth into a C-shaped pattern before he died.
The police believed that the victim was reminding the perpetrator of his initials, but more than one of the four suspects present had the initials c.
Some police officers also suspected that the victim actually wanted to write not only c, but g, but he just didn't finish it.
There was no progress in the case, and the police had no choice but to turn to the landlord for help. Based on the clues provided by the case and the furnishings in the room at the time, the landlord came up with a new idea: the letter c was not written by the victim, but...
Seeing this, Ling Zhi's phone vibrated. Ling Zhi opened the phone and saw that it was Zhao Shiyan who had replied to him. Ling Zhi resisted the urge to see the truth and temporarily put down the book.
"Oh, hiking. I didn't expect you, Lingzhi, to have such a hobby. Where should I go hiking and how far will it be?"
Lingzhi first pushed the link to the official account to Zhao Shiyan, and then replied:
"Actually, I have always had this hobby, but I always go alone. I saw this event this morning and wanted to ask if you are interested in going."
After a while, Zhao Shiyan probably finished reading the push and replied:
"Oh, that's it. I've run a half marathon before, but I've never participated in a hike. I'm actually quite interested. It's just the two of us, right?"
"Well, that's actually the case. I also want to invite one of my roommates to go with me, but I haven't told him yet..."
Ling Zhi told Zhao Shiyan about Lin Qisong's recent status, and expressed his willingness to invite him to go hiking and help him untie his knot. But because he was worried that he would not want to go with him, he wanted to invite her as a girl.
It would be better if we could contact other girls to get together. Brother Song should be more likely to be interested.
"That's it, that, are you willing to come?"
After typing a long paragraph, Ling Zhi suddenly felt a little uneasy. He felt that by doing so, he seemed to be treating the girl as a tool, and quickly added:
"Well, don't get me wrong, I originally wanted to ask you to go alone, but I saw Brother Song was very depressed in the evening and couldn't bear it, so I just wanted to ask him to come with me. It was just a coincidence."
After a while, the girl replied:
"Haha, I didn't misunderstand, don't worry. I think Lingzhi, you are very kind. Being so concerned about your roommate is much better than me. Well... I actually have other arrangements for next Sunday, but it shouldn't be a big problem.
, I'll just turn it down, because I want to help you." Ling Zhi felt warm in his heart, but he still asked with concern:
"Um, is your arrangement urgent? If not, forget it. I don't want to force you."
"It's okay, really. Compared to my own arrangements, I actually want to go hiking with you [smiles]. I'll ask the girls in our laboratory if they are willing to go together, next Monday
Reply to you please?”
Ling Zhi felt that having a considerate girl friend could really make him smile every day, and he would no longer be pretentious.
"Yeah, I'm glad you can come. I'll trouble you then."
"Why are you so polite to me?"
"Well, what are you busy with today? Can you share it?"
This time the girl didn't reply immediately. Ling Zhi thought she was busy with other things. After 2 minutes:
"Hey, let's keep it a secret for now, because I said I would tell you later."
Huh? Did she say that? Lingzhi recalled the dialogue last night and suddenly remembered that he wanted to ask her why she liked billiards. She seemed to have mentioned the word 'ice', which should be the matter. However, 'ice'
Well, she likes skating? Did she go skating today? But what does it have to do with billiards?
Ling Zhi was still confused, and he no longer thought about it or asked any questions.
"Oh, okay, I look forward to the day when you tell me. But your weekend life is quite rich, unlike me, who studies during the day and reads at night."
Ling Zhi still wanted to see if he could get some clues, but unfortunately the girl didn't fall into the trap and kicked the ball to him instead:
"[Squints and smiles] I'm not rich. By the way, Lingzhi, what book are you reading? Is it still "The Catcher in the Rye"?"
"That's not true. I switched to a suspense series called "Alphabet Mystery" and I saw a case about..."
Ling Zhi does not have long speeches. Although no one else teaches him, it is his habit to explain one thing clearly in a few sentences to prevent others from waiting too long when talking to him. This habit is also used in WeChat chats.
"Oh, it's quite interesting. You will see the ending of this story soon. You can share it with me then."
"Yeah, no problem."
But then he seemed to remember something again.
"Here I go, I just remembered something. My copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" seems to be due today. I have to go to the library immediately and check it out as soon as I return it."
There was silence for another minute.
"Oh, that's it, then go ahead."
Ling Zhi didn't waste any time, immediately put the book in his bag and walked to the library.
The first floor of the library.
After returning the book, Ling Zhi wanted to borrow it again, but found that the renewal failed.
What's going on? I've never encountered this kind of situation before.
Lexus walked to the service desk and asked:
"Hello, I would like to ask, I want to borrow this book again, but the renewal failed. Can you help me find out why?"
The lady at the counter took the book, scanned the barcode, looked at the computer screen, and replied:
"Oh, your book has been reserved by someone else, so you can't borrow it anymore."
"Ah, it's booked."
Ling Zhi knew that the official website of Huacheng University Library had this service, but he had never used it before. He didn't expect that someone else would book it for him today! Alas, his luck was really bad.
Ling Zhi scratched his head and could only say helplessly:
"Oh, forget it, I'll lend it out later."
The lady at the counter nodded apologetically to him. After Ling Zhi responded to her with a smile, he turned around and walked out of the library.
"Oh, I'm really unlucky. That book was reserved by someone else, so I can only borrow it next time [dumbfounded]"
Ling Zhi, who immediately returned to the dormitory, complained to Zhao Shiyan.
"Ah, I was booked by someone else."
"It's okay. In fact, there is more than one copy of this book in the library, but it's too late today, so I'm too lazy to borrow another one. I'll borrow another one another day and read it slowly."
The strange thing is that after sending this message, the girl opposite did not reply for 5 minutes.
"Is she busy with other things? Or is she worrying about my book being pre-ordered?"
Ling Zhi couldn't understand what the girl was thinking, and just as he was about to comfort her by telling her not to worry, the girl replied:
"It's okay, Lingzhi, just lend it out and read it next time. I originally wanted you to share your reading experience with me earlier, haha."
"So that's it, then I can borrow it early and read it."
"Okay, Ling Zhi, you can continue reading."
"Well, let's talk about that later."
Ling Zhi continued his investigative journey, and he was surprised by the truth. It turned out that the burned C-shape was accidentally formed by the reflection of the sun's rays from the vase in the room. And because this letter affects the main interests of the police investigating the case
Therefore, the police later eliminated this factor and quickly found the real culprit.
It's really disappointing. This kind of plot development is unexpected. But then again, it is accidental, it is indeed quite accidental. In fact, the book "The Catcher in the Rye" is not a rare book, and there are many in the library.
, but someone just ordered this book of his. What is the probability of such an accident happening? I'm afraid it's about the same as the probability of forming a C-shape.
Ling Zhi stopped thinking about it and prepared to wash up and go to bed.
…
On Monday morning, it started to rain lightly in Huacheng.
Ling Zhi held up his umbrella. When he walked to the door of the cafeteria, he hesitated and put the umbrella on the umbrella stand outside the cafeteria door.
He vaguely recalled that when he was in college in Suzhou and Hangzhou, there was no washing machine in the dormitory, so he had to go to the public laundry room to wash clothes.
At that time, Lexus always put a washbasin on top of the washing machine to show that he occupied the washing machine and that he would temporarily go back to the dormitory to do other things. When his roommates were doing laundry, they would bring a bucket there so that they could put more
clothing.
But sometimes when they return to the laundry room, they will find that their bucket has been taken away by someone else by mistake, so they will randomly grab another bucket from the scattered buckets nearby. Their own bucket has been lost, and they still care about what others are doing.
Well.
Ling Zhi would never do this himself. Even if his basin was taken away, he would go back to the dormitory to get a new one, but he also understood what his roommates did.
He sometimes jokes with his roommates, saying that this is the legendary "law of non-conservation of barrels." And the umbrellas on the umbrella stand also comply with this law, especially when it rains, there are always some people without umbrellas.
If there is an umbrella on the umbrella stand, and 1-2 out of 100 people without an umbrella have evil thoughts, then the law of non-conservation of barrels will always be true.
Although Ling Zhi proposed this law, he still hopes in his heart that there is a place where he can break this law. So since he came to Huacheng, whenever it rains, he is still used to putting his umbrella on the umbrella stand outside the door.
No exceptions have been taken away.
Just like Zhao Shiyan said. Although the phenomenon of cheating and cheating can be found everywhere, at least in Huacheng, if you don’t lock the door at night, you don’t have to worry about things being stolen or the umbrella on the umbrella stand being taken away. The city treats him
Full of goodwill, he fell in love with this city.
After returning from dinner, the umbrella was indeed still in place. Ling Zhi came to the laboratory and sat for a while. After feeling that Lao Wang had almost arrived, he walked to the office and knocked on the door.
"Please come in."
Ling Zhi sat opposite Lao Wang and said firmly:
"Teacher, I have already thought about it. I want to apply for a combined master's and doctoral program."