Chapter 2 An extra book from the first chapter
At the turn of Wenxing Road, there is a small building from the 1950s, which is a library.It's not big.The internal structure is still in the style of the 1950s, and the exterior walls of the floors are covered with green creepers.This kind of plant can absorb a lot of sunlight and heat, so when walking in the aisle of the building, not only do you not feel the extreme heat in late summer, but you feel a burst of coolness.
Quietness is the only atmosphere here. No matter how large the flow of people is, it is still quiet all year round. The most basic principle of the library is this requirement, but another meaning of silence is an extraordinarily fragile balance.Because you can't know what will break the balance of static in the next second, even if a needle falls on the ground, it will make your soul tremble.
Zhou Jue finished packing the newspapers, looked up at the old-fashioned wall clock, and patted Lao Zhao who was sitting and having breakfast: "Master Zhao, I'll go and tidy up the bookshelves first."
Old Zhao took a sip of tea unhurriedly, squinted his eyes cheerfully: "Okay, then I will trouble you. By the way, a batch of new books finally came this time. I guess the curator must give those old books Kick it, come out and help me when the time comes."
A look of miscalculation flashed across Zhou Jue's eyes, but in the next second he changed into a smiling face, because he had something to do at noon, and originally wanted to sneak out during the shift change, but unfortunately he has no chance now.
At this time, the library is not yet open for business. In order to save electricity, the curator asked them to only turn on the row of lights in the middle, so the work of checking book labels in the morning is the most annoying.It was supposed to be Lao Zhao who checked the book today.
Zhou Jue glanced back to make sure no one was staring at him, and then secretly put on the earphones. There was still a pack of cigarettes in his pocket, and he planned to hide in the back window and secretly smoke one.Thinking of this, Zhou Jue felt a little better, humming a little tune, and wandering back and forth among the rows of bookshelves with a flashlight.
After walking for a short time, he has reached the innermost row of bookshelves, which is the oldest row of bookshelves according to the order.At the beginning, the curator meant to throw away those old books, but I don't know why they kept them in the end.He had asked Gu Lao in private, and Gu Lao looked a little scrupulous, but said that throwing was not allowed.In short, after working for a long time, he didn't know why that shelf of old books was placed here.It seems that this group of old antiques is going to be kicked out today.He could vaguely feel the sadness of these books, and of course Zhou Jue knew in his heart that this feeling was pure nonsense.
Arriving here, the light in the passage has lost its power, and the bookshelf is dark brown, so it looks like a dark place except for some vague outlines, and to the north of this shelf is the room where there is only a book drying room. The warehouse will only be opened.Zhou Jue doesn't come here often, because he can't get used to the smell here.What came to the face was an indescribable rotten smell. This smell was not a smell, but a fishy smell.Like the smell of old cotton wool.He waved his hand into the air.But it didn't work at all.He walked in, clutching his nose, thinking that he only needed to walk around, and then pass the time by the bookshelf outside to go back.Thinking of this, he couldn't help quickening his pace.
At this moment, Zhou Jue suddenly felt a person rushing out of the warehouse at an extremely fast speed.However, he vaguely felt that it was a woman, because her hair was very long, that person flashed by, and he only saw the hair on the back of that person floating behind her like a black veil.Zhou Jue shouted from behind, but the woman disappeared between the bookshelves in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Jue failed to call out to the woman, and before he could recover, he suddenly heard a swishing sound coming from behind him, like someone flipping through a book quickly.He turned around abruptly, and found that the closed and narrow warehouse had been opened at some point.Zhou Jue felt something was wrong, he thought someone might be stealing something.So he quickened his pace, and the only sounds in the empty library were his hurried footsteps and breathing.The surrounding bookshelves stood darkly at the door of the warehouse, Zhou Jue went straight through, and suddenly he felt his feet being caught by something, because he walked too fast and rushed forward.Instinctively, Zhou Jue immediately supported the bookshelf next to him with his hand.Yi pulled out a book from the bookshelf vigorously, and he fell to the ground with the book.
Before he had time to recover from the pain, he felt several books crackling directly on his body.He quickly covered his head with his hands.He also ripped off the earphones, and there was subtle music coming from the earphones, like the cry of some kind of insect.As soon as he got up, he heard Gu Lao's voice from the door, asking him what happened.He slapped the books on his body in a panic, and shouted to the door: "It's okay, some books fell off, I will come out after putting them away."
Gu Lao let out a cry.Zhou Jue quickly grabbed the books on the floor and stuffed them back on the bookshelf indiscriminately without looking at the labels.When he picked up the last book and wanted to stuff it in, he found that this book couldn't fit in anyway, and there was no place for it at all, as if it was an extra book.He leaned the book in hard, and managed to squeeze out a gap, but it was not enough to fit the book.At this time, he heard Gu Lao's voice shouting at the door again: "Are you ready? Xiao Zhou, come out and help!"
Zhou Jue took a look at the book, it was a book with an earthy yellow cover, the leather was very old and moldy.But the quality is good, still very strong.He reluctantly put the book in a corner, looked at the bottom of the bookshelf again, and found that there was nothing that could trip him.Gu Lao's urging sound came again, and he was a little impatient.
Zhou Jue came out in a hurry and found that everyone was waiting for him. He smiled embarrassedly and said that he accidentally fell down.
The curator helped Zhou Jue pat the ashes on his body, and said: "We have brought in a batch of new books, you two, Xiao Zhou and Lao Zhao, help Mr. Gu kick out those old books in the library, and then put the new books on."
Gu Lao hummed, and asked with a little concern: "Then the last row is going to move this time?"
The curator scratched his head for a while, and finally said: "Okay! I kicked it! There are so many piles there and no one looks at it, it should have been kicked long ago."
Gu Lao and Lao Zhao looked at each other, and there was an indescribable strangeness in their eyes.Before Zhou Jue saw the trick, they started working.
At this moment Zhou Jue was still thinking about what it was that tripped him up. He always felt that it looked like a woman's hand, and there were wounds on this hand, which was very rough to the touch.But almost at the moment when Zhou Jue tripped, his hand disappeared out of thin air, just like the woman who flashed by.Zhou Jue belongs to the kind of person who would rather believe in what is there than in what is not, so he pondered for a long time and decided not to go there alone in the future, maybe there really is such a thing as a "book spirit" in the world.
When carrying the box with everyone, Zhou Jue secretly threw the book with the yellow cover into the box.Mr. Gu marked it with a marker pen, and he could sell the old book immediately, and this morning's work was basically done.When everyone else was sitting in their seats to rest and wait for a meal, Zhou Jue was not free. He hurriedly rode his bicycle to the gate of the university not far from the library.
Zhou Jue is actually a sophomore in university, but he majored in a very unorthodox major, the Department of Humanities and Sociology. To put it bluntly, it is what we now commonly call folklore.According to Zhou Jue's own understanding, he was not admitted to the Department of Journalism when he applied for the exam, but he did not expect to be admitted to a department that he filled out blindly.This made him have the urge to hit the wall in a dumbfounding way. One is that he has lost his second degree, and the other is that he really thinks that this major has no future, so he might as well come out as a specialist to find a job...
This time he came to pick up new textbooks and schedules for the new semester.Unexpectedly, he was late again. The teacher and classmates had already left, and the classroom was locked.He knocked on the door ventingly, straightened his hair that was disheveled due to his haste, and was about to leave. At this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind him, holding a set of books in his hand.He seemed a little nervous because of the weird experience in the morning, so he turned around quickly - he found a tall man in a gray shirt standing behind him at some point, the buttons on his chest were not buttoned at all, revealing a very fashionable man The exorcising pestle pendant in Tibetan Buddhism (Zhou Jue himself has one, but he can't get the uninhibited feeling of wearing it anyway).The jeans this man is wearing are also very fashionable, they don't look like street stalls.His hair was a little long, covering his eyes a bit, but he didn't dye his hair, otherwise he really thought it was some little singer who came to the school to perform.
He quickly took the book and thanked him.The man held a cigarette between his hands, glanced at him, and pointed to the wall clock in the corridor. Zhou Jue nodded, with an apologetic expression on his face, and said, "Hey, isn't this Brother Chen?"
Zhou Jue knew who this man was, his name was Chen Hao.He and Zhou Jue are from the same university, but he has a master's degree in archeology.He is only a few years older than Zhou Jue, but it is said that this person is not easy to get along with, and he has fought with people in the society in the past, it is said that it was because of a woman.Anyway, the school was a mess, enough to be expelled, but it seems that his family has some skills, and in the end it was settled without even a punishment.This made everyone firmly believe that this kid's backer is definitely very good, and it is likely to be the principal's immediate family.Although this kid is so arrogant, his grades are astonishingly good, which is really awesome.Everyone in the school knew him, but no one dared to provoke him, and of course no one dared to get close to him.
Zhou Jue took the book, Chen Hao stubbed out the cigarette butt, ignored him, and left after glancing at him.Zhou Jue breathed a sigh of relief, thinking why he left a book for himself, and he had no friendship in the past.Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao's back, twitched his nose a few times, casually flipped through a few pages of the book, and looked at the schedule again, and he understood: it turned out that this substitute was not someone else, but this suspected hooligan.However, shouldn't all the lectures in universities be at the doctoral level? Why do you ask a master student to give a lecture?Zhou Jue suddenly thought of something, and said to himself: "No way... Could it be that this kid passed the examination of the Expo last year?" He secretly cursed, damn it!It's impossible to skip a level so exaggeratedly, is it really a book-eating monster?Zhou Jue quickly put away his books and prepared to go back to the library.
At this time, that Chen Hao unexpectedly turned back again.He held another large stack of books in his hand, but what was cruel enough was that he walked over holding it with one hand.For the first time, Zhou Jue felt that this kid might really be a good fighter, because his hands are big enough...
Zhou Jue suddenly had an ominous premonition, he was naturally sensitive to the troubles and extra labor that would happen.Zhou Jue's mother once said that this kid is as smart as a monkey.However, his father quickly clarified a fact for him. His father sneered: "Fart, he is much smarter than a monkey." So his parents concluded: this kid is a character.
Zhou Jue knew that he was looking for something to do when he came back, so he quickly thanked Chen Hao and said, "Brother Chen! I am in a hurry to go to work, let's go first, thank you for leaving me a book." After speaking, he waved his hand and was ready to go run back.But Chen Hao walked three steps at a time, caught up with him, and grabbed his shoulder.
Zhou Jue had no choice but to look at Chen Hao, and Chen Hao said: "You work part-time in the library, right? Return it for me. Three of the books are overdue. You try to erase them for me."
Zhou Jue twitched the corner of his mouth and said with a dry smile, "How long...how long has it expired?"
Chen Hao rubbed his forehead, and after thinking for a while, he replied, "It's hard to say, maybe two or three years, maybe three or four years."
Zhou Jue's tongue was a little stiff, and he stammered: "Brother, Brother Chen, do you know how much you owe? Two or three years, counting as 20 cents a day, how much is it!"
Chen Hao continued to touch his forehead, and after a moment of silence, he said, "You are Zhou Jue from the Department of Humanities. I will teach you this semester. Let's get to know each other and make friends."
Zhou Jue smiled and nodded again and again, he almost lost his teeth, but he already greeted Chen Hao's ancestors in his heart.It seems that the rumor that he is a hooligan is definitely not groundless. Isn't this clearly blackmailing him with credits?
Chen Hao quickly stuffed the book to Zhou Jue, then patted him on the shoulder, threw him a cigarette chicly, turned his head and left.Zhou Jue nodded in resignation, and reluctantly stuffed the books into the backpack, calculating in his mind that there would always be a chance to pay back the debt in the future, and then returned to the library as quickly as possible.Old Zhao held the glass and walked to Zhou Jue. He looked at Zhou Jue's backpack and said, "Xiao Zhou is back to school?"
Zhou Jue knew that Lao Zhao had guessed that he had sneaked out, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "Hey, Uncle Zhao, come and smoke a cigarette." After speaking, he took out the cigarette Chen Hao gave him from his pocket, and borrowed flowers to offer Buddha Handed it to Old Zhao.
Old Zhao held the cigarette in front of his nose and sniffed it. After confirming that it was a good cigarette, he patted Zhou Jue's shoulder with a smile and said, "We are all on our own, and Uncle Zhao won't say anything. You go out to let the wind out." Let me know in the future, otherwise, if the curator comes, isn’t that a fraud?”
Zhou Jue nodded with a smile and said yes, and then quickly handed Lao Zhao a lighter.After they talked and laughed, they went about their own business.Soon it was Lao Zhao's turn to check the bookshelves again. Zhou Jue glanced at Gu Lao, who was dozing off listening to the radio, so he quickly sat down in front of the computer like a secret agent, and took out the book that Chen Hao wanted to return from his backpack. The book was scanned.If you don’t scan it, you don’t know, but if you scan it, you will be surprised. Zhou Jue finds that each book is at least four years old. If the credit card system is also used for borrowing books, this boy Chen Hao will probably be blacklisted by all libraries.Zhou Jue quickly shut down the background operation, and quickly put the book into the pile of books to be put on the shelf, the action can be described as a coherent one.Zhou Jue thought to himself, if they found these books unfamiliar, they might open the backstage to check and put them on the shelves themselves, so they pushed the trailer and went to put them on the shelves.
While pushing, he looked outside boredly, and symbolically stroked the bookshelf with one hand.His hand suddenly dropped a book, and when he picked it up, he found that it was the old book that couldn't be inserted.
He couldn't help but gasped, and said to himself: "Didn't you kick it into the box? How come it's here again? Could it be that someone dug it out and came back? But it's not right..." He said to this book The book took on a strange interest, so that the resistance in my heart was completely overshadowed by curiosity.This feeling is like a strange yet familiar invisible person hugging him from behind, completely controlling his every move.He picked up the book and wanted to see what was written in it.The name of this book is "Ring of Seven", there is no author's signature, not even the publishing house, and the first page of the book has an obviously kicked old seal.So how can a book that has been kicked out for a long time appear in the new book recommendation area?He opened the book, and there was the choking smell unique to the warehouse.Zhou Jue turned a few pages and felt that it was a novel, but the author's name was not revealed at all, which made him think it was a privately printed or pirated book.Zhou Jue leaned against the bookshelf and began to read this strange book.
This is a story about commitment, and you as the reader are also the characters in the story. When you discover this book, you have already entered the world of the book, and you will find that your life is a part of the novel.This is your world, a journey to find redemption and answers. The story took place in the winter of 1938 in an inconspicuous small town on the edge of Nanjing.Our protagonist is Lin Xu, a military doctor who was originally a field military doctor of the Fifth Division of a certain branch of the National Famous Party.According to the military rank, he belongs to the rank of lieutenant.At this time, Lin Xu's troops fought with the Japanese outside Nanjing.The opponent was the main force of the Japanese army. Most of Lin Xu’s comrades were killed, and the few remaining were scattered by the Japanese firepower, and his gun was also lost in the hand-to-hand fight with a Japanese soldier. Except for a military doctor's backpack, there is nothing on him.He avoided the Japanese devils' pursuit all the way, and stumbled to avoid the bullets flying around.He fled into a foreign church that used to be a makeshift hospital aid station, but now there was nothing left but blood and trampled crosses. Less than ten seconds after Lin Xu entered the church, before he could straighten out his anger, there was a burst of crackling gunshots at the door.He clutched the wound on his shoulder, bent over and tried to hide in the prayer room of the church. He walked to the door of the prayer room and was about to open the door to enter, when a man rushed out with a broken samurai sword in his hand, and the blade was covered with dried blood.He pointed at Lin Xu tremblingly, and after realizing that Lin Xu was Chinese, he fell towards Lin Xu as if he had collapsed.Lin Xu didn't stand still, he staggered, and both of them fell to the ground. Lin Xu wanted to push the big man away, but his hands were covered with blood at some point, and he realized that the man was seriously injured.Just when he was about to give the man first aid to stop the bleeding, the roar of the Japanese came from outside.The man groaned, and subconsciously wanted to pick up the half-cut knife. He pushed Lin Xu away with all his strength, and held the broken knife.However, at this moment, a pair of hands stretched out from behind the big man and hugged his waist.Lin Xu took a closer look, and it turned out that it was a woman hugging the big man. Because her hair was disheveled, she couldn't see her face clearly.The woman held the man back, and looked at Lin Xu with red eyes desperately, her expression extremely terrified.Lin Xu's first reaction was to quickly push the two of them back into the prayer room.Just as he closed the door of the prayer room, the Japanese kicked open the door of the church...
When Zhou Jue saw this, he realized that it was a book about the War of Resistance Against Japan. Perhaps this was why he said it was not a fiction at the beginning, and it was probably a documentary story.At this time, he heard someone approaching, so he quickly hid the book in the compartment of the bookshelf, and then pretended to be carefully arranging the bookshelf. After seeing the visitor walk away, Zhou Jue took out the book again, and he decided to take the book home to read, since no one would borrow this book anyway. Suddenly he found a very weird fingerprint on the edge of the book. The fingerprint was purple, not like the trace of a seal, but rather like blood that had been dried for a long time.He compared the fingerprint with his hand and found that the fingerprint should have been pressed by his thumb.He didn't care so much, he stuffed the book into his backpack, and then started to deal with Chen Hao's troubles. After get off work, as soon as Zhou Jue came home, he threw away his schoolbag and started playing games on the PSP (handheld game console).Zhou Jue's mother peeled the orange while watching the financial channel, and handed him a piece when he came back. Zhou Jue's mother asked, "The new book has been released, how is it going? What subjects are there?" Zhou Jue chewed the orange and squeaked vaguely, and returned to the room, he suddenly remembered the novel named, and the feeling of being covered hit his heart again.According to Zhou Jue's habit in the past, such books are at most read in spare time, and he will never be so obsessed with them.Zhou Jue always felt that something was attracting him, so he wanted to simply look up what book it was on the computer.He entered the three words "Seven People's Ring" on Baidu, and the moment he moved the mouse, the computer screen suddenly went black, but the fan of the case did not stop running, and the song played earlier was still playing on the stereo. But the monitor didn't know what was going on, it just kept going dark.Zhou Jue patted the monitor, but the monitor was still dark.Zhou Jue suddenly found that the monitor was black, but the Baidu website was reflected on the desk.Zhou Jue looked a little mysterious, so he patted the monitor vigorously.The monitor suddenly trembled, and then a picture flashed out, not a Baidu website, but a person's face, either smiling or crying in extreme pain.Zhou Jue only felt an indescribable coldness rushing from the soles of his feet to his forehead, but the face only appeared for a second, and Zhou Jue didn't even see whether the face was male or female.He immediately thought that it might be a legendary virus, and the poisoned computer would display the head portrait of a female ghost.Such news has also been published in the newspapers, and there are also cases of people being frightened and fainted.He comforted himself in this way, and knocked several times in a row, but the monitor still didn't respond, even the vibration was gone.In the end, Zhou Jue had to forcefully shut down the computer, and when it was turned on again, everything was normal.He was worried, and killed the virus again, but his heart was full of pimples, so while killing the virus, he took out his backpack and wanted to find out the book to see what it was, but he couldn't find it after searching the backpack. find that book. Zhou Jue scratched his hair and thought for a long time, but he didn't have any clue.Inadvertently, Zhou Jue glanced at the neighbor's house opposite, and he found that there was something extra on the iron railing of the neighbor's window sill. Zhou Jue didn't know why, but immediately thought of the half samurai sword in the man's hand in the novel, why now the novel disappeared, but this half sword appeared?What kind of grotesque coincidence is this that lasts from morning to night?Suddenly he thought of the first few sentences of that book, which seemed to mean that reality would merge with fiction.Zhou Jue realized that he might have messed with something, so he rushed out of the house, ignoring his father calling him from behind, and rushed to the building opposite, knocking on the door of the family in a hurry.The man who opened the door was a man in his thirties, carrying a big bag and dressed for a long trip. He looked very ordinary. Only then did Zhou Jue calm down, not knowing what to say for a while.He groaned for a long time, then squeezed out a sentence: "Brother, do you have a half samurai sword hanging on the window sill?" The man glanced at Zhou Jue, nodded and said: "Ah, yes, I like to collect all kinds of interesting things. I collected that broken knife many years ago, and now I think it is worthless to collect, so I bought it. It was used to fix the bars. What's wrong?" Zhou Jue breathed a sigh of relief, while making excuses to say that he also likes these things, while trying to get away with good words.Seeing Zhou Jue's kindness, the man smiled and said, "Hey, you have good eyesight. That broken knife is real. Its history can be traced back to before the liberation. It is a Japanese military officer's saber. But it's broken, so there's only one left. It’s time to fix the window rails. Since you like these too, come and play often in the future. Oh, by the way, I’m going to Nanjing. If you have a chance, you must come to my place. I’ll show you a few Take the complete real dick!" Zhou Jue backed out with a smile, and said goodbye in embarrassment, but after returning home, it seemed that a seed had been planted in his heart, and that seed seemed to have germinated. Early the next morning, the alarm clock woke up Zhou Jue who was sleeping with his head covered.He glanced sleepily at the alarm clock, and it took him ten minutes to get up. Last night he hadn't slept soundly and was dreaming all night.He dreamed of the novel and the blood-stained samurai sword, which kept dangling in his dreams. In addition, he had other dreams one after another. He dreamed about Lin Xu, the church, and the woman with disheveled hair...but he didn't dream about the man with the knife. When he came to the library unsteadily, he saw Chen Hao at a glance!Zhou Jue immediately decided to sneak in through the back door. At this time, Chen Hao was already a real hooligan in Zhou Jue's heart.But Chen Hao had sharp eyes, and before Zhou Jue adjusted the front of the bicycle, Chen Hao had already waved at him. Zhou Jue had no choice but to ride towards him in an awkward manner, muttering dirtyly: "His uncle, last time he gave me a few books that were four or five years in arrears, and this time he won't let me pay off his credit card debt." money?" Zhou Jue put the car beside Chen Hao, and gave him a blank look: "Mr. Chen, what's your business?" Chen Hao leaned against the gate and smoked. Seeing Zhou Jue's neither yin nor yang attitude, he twitched the corner of his mouth, took out a cigarette, and handed it to Zhou Jue with a smile: "Boy, you are neither humble nor overbearing. I think you are very pleasing to the eye, and you don't need Mr. Chen." Come to Teacher Chen to call me, I don’t care how old you are, you call me brother, and we will be on our own from now on.” Zhou Jue laughed out loud, but because of credits, he nodded and took the cigarette, but he didn't smoke and didn't rush to call brother, just waiting for Chen Hao to continue talking about his intentions.Chen Hao took out a note from his pocket and said, "Check it out for me, do you have these books in your library?" Zhou Jue took the note, grinned and said, "Yo, it's such an unpopular book, I can't remember it for a while, why don't you come up with me, and I'll help you look it up on the computer. Our computer is connected to the Internet, even if other Books in the library can also be found." When Chen Hao heard that he was going into the library, he couldn't help frowning.Seeing this, Zhou Jue understood that Chen Hao was embarrassed to go into the library, after all, he was a model who did not return the books he owed.Zhou Jue narrowed his eyes, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Brother Chen? What's the matter? I'm afraid of being recognized..." Chen Hao didn't reply right away, but just looked down at his own shadow with a pensive look, as if he was making an important decision. Zhou Jue looked at him like that from the side, couldn't help laughing, and said a few more sarcastic jokes.But Chen Hao still didn't answer. In the end, as if he had broken some demons, he hummed alone, patted Zhou Jue's bicycle and said, "Stop the car, I'll go up with you. Also, you really laughed Much like a fox." Zhou Jue's smiling face suddenly became as long as a horse's face. As soon as the two entered the library, Mr. Gu recognized Chen Hao at a glance, frowned and said, "Little brat, do you want to return the book now? I thought you were going to spend the rest of your life." Chen Hao burst out laughing when he saw Gu Lao. It turned out that Chen Hao and Gu Lao knew each other in the past. Zhou Jue didn't realize it for a while, so he didn't make a sound.Zhou Jue wanted to pull Chen Hao in, but Chen Hao ignored Zhou Jue, and instead patted Zhou Jue on the shoulder and said to Gu Lao: "Isn't this Mr. Gu? I'm not here to return the book, I'm here to borrow it." book." When Zhou Jue was slapped like that by him, he knew that Chen Hao was deliberately messing with him, and then it was estimated that the matter of returning the book would have to be messed up.Zhou Jue bumped Chen Hao's abdomen hard with his elbow, but Chen Hao was more agile, grabbed Zhou Jue's arm and turned it in the opposite direction, catching him like a chicken.Zhou Jue's face distorted immediately, and he kept crying out for pain. Gu Lao didn't see these small gestures, but just looked sad: "You borrowed? You haven't paid back what you owe! Who will lend it to you..." Gu Lao finally found Zhou Jue who had been winking all the time, Zhou Jue was unnatural Coughed a few times.Gu Lao glanced at Chen Hao, then at Zhou Jue, and asked, "Xiao Zhou, do you know him?" Zhou Jue quickly shook off Chen Hao's hand, and then said: "Ah, yes...the thing is like this, he is my teacher, and he is in charge of my credits...I returned his books for him, hehe, Pay it back." Gu Lao heard the taste in the words, Zhou Jue frowned and stared at him with a long face. Gu Lao liked this child in the first place, and Zhou Jue's appearance added a lot of points.In Gu Lao's eyes, the child was a little confused, but he was very polite, so he could only stare at Chen Hao and Zhou Jue, and stopped talking.Zhou Jue knew that Mr. Gu was sulking, so he took the opportunity to whisper to Chen Hao: "Brother, don't poke here. I'll take care of things here for you. Go in and see if there is any book you want. After reading it Just go!" After speaking, he pulled Mr. Gu to the corner and said in a low voice: "Master Gu, I really can't do anything about it. He is my subject teacher. If he is not happy, the homework I have worked so hard to review will be lost." I failed the exam. I have no other choice, or the money will be counted on my head, and I will fail the exam like a tiger! My grandpa Gu!" Mr. Gu sighed, and said: "I didn't expect him to be your teacher, but if you are like this, it will be troublesome if you are found out. This is a matter of discipline! Sigh, but I really have to remind you, don't talk to me in the future. He blends in." Zhou Jue asked in puzzlement, "Is he really a hooligan?" On the contrary, Mr. Gu was confused by the question, he said for a long time: "Who told you that he is a hooligan?" Zhou Jue coughed, trying to cover up his slip of the tongue.However, Mr. Gu just waved his hand to keep him from interrupting, and continued, "He's not a hooligan. In fact, I've known this kid since he was wearing crotch pants. He lived with us when he was a child, and he's very famous." Zhou Jue hummed, and continued to repeat Gu Lao's words calmly.Gu Lao saw that there was no one around, so he chatted with Zhou Jue, and he said, "Don't look at his current behavior, in fact, this kid is very smart. I remember that he had a serious illness when he was in kindergarten, and he was notified when he was critically ill. It all came down, but then it got better for no reason, and this kid has become a prodigy since then." Zhou Jue asked with a disdainful smile, "What magical method?" Gu Lao pushed his presbyopic glasses: "Since the boy suffered from that serious illness, he has the ability to remember with a photographic image. As long as he has seen things, whether it is words or patterns, he can remember them exactly. .” Zhou Jue asked suspiciously: "Are you right?" Gu Lao hummed: "It's not bad, it's even more reliable than a computer. You say this is not a child prodigy, what is it?" Zhou Jue stroked his chin and said to himself: "Could it be that I really hit the mark, this guy is a freak who eats books..." Gu Lao ignored Zhou Jue's muttering, and the more he talked, the more energetic he said: "But he has never been here five years ago, and it is said that he has also never been to any library or bookstore. I checked the information on the Internet. I didn't expect that five years later, he would come again. But this kid is a little weird..." Gu Lao wanted to continue talking, but at this time Chen Hao had already walked out holding a large stack of books.He put the book and library card on the table, and then said to Zhou Jue: "Brother Zhou, you will return it for me in the future." After speaking, he joked to Gu Lao: "Gu Lao, you said you Why aren't there any decent books here?" Gu Lao was so angry at what he said, he could only wave his hands at him to drive him away.Zhou Jue noticed that after Chen Hao entered the library, he always had an uncomfortable expression, as if he was hiding something. Although he tried his best to appear normal, Zhou Jue was a person who paid close attention to subtle observations, so he naturally I guessed that it wasn't that Chen Hao was too lazy to return the books in the past five years, but that he deliberately didn't come to the library. As for the name of it, I don't know. Zhou Jue was still wondering what made Chen Hao not come here, suddenly Chen Hao put a hand on his shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, don't forget that school starts next Monday, there is nothing else to attend my class relationship, but I pay attention to attendance." After speaking, he patted him on the shoulder. Zhou Jue turned his head to the side and vigorously shook the hand on his shoulder away. Chen Hao laughed out loud, patted Zhou Jue's face provocatively, and squeezed his hand, laughing and slapping Gu Lao. He said hello and left.Zhou Jue's face darkened, and he was even more convinced that this guy is definitely a hooligan. This kind of typical way of flirting with chicks cannot be used by good people! Gu Lao sighed and comforted Zhou Jue: "When did this kid become such a hooligan? He was quite honest when he was young." Zhou Jue sneered a few times, raised his eyebrows and said, "This kid is lying sideways in our school. Basically, we can only see his nostrils when walking... Forget it, let's not talk so much. Gu Lao, what did you say earlier?" Don't hang out with him?" Seeing Zhou Jue's pressing questions, Mr. Gu suddenly became a little timid. He hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "This kid is a bit weird. You young people may not believe this, but I found that the guy around him There's something unclean! And...forget it, anyway, don't get too close to him." Zhou Jue also leaned back a little when he heard this, he felt that there might be something weird here, and he didn't want to get too close to this Chen Hao, Zhou Jue could be regarded as a little fox type of person, but He felt that Chen Hao was at least a thousand-year-old fox. The conversation came to an abrupt end, and Gu Lao didn't want to say more about Chen Hao, and it was time for Zhou Jue to sort out the books.Seeing Mr. Gu urging him to go to work, Zhou Jue shrugged and left his seat, but before he took a few steps, he heard Mr. Gu behind him say, "Huh? Chen Hao's book was not taken away. When you meet him in the future, he will bring it to you." Him." Zhou Jue went back and looked through in wonder, and found that there was an extra novel with a yellow cover in the stack of books.Zhou Jue picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help crying out in a low voice, this is the book he read yesterday, why did it appear here?Doesn't this book have long legs?Zhou Jue had an indescribably strange feeling in his heart, hesitating whether to take the book.Mr. Gu didn't know what Zhou Jue was thinking. He thought he was still having trouble with Chen Hao, so he smiled and said, "Chen Hao is just joking with you. I watched this kid grow up. He I'm not a bad person, so don't take it to heart." Zhou Jue held the book, and didn't listen to Gu Lao's words at all.这时侯，他突然有了一种极度想要看这本书的冲动，想要知道这故事的发展，好像瘾头突然被勾了起来。他拿着书径直朝着书架那边走去。
This is a story about commitment, and you as the reader are also the characters in the story. When you discover this book, you have already entered the world of the book, and you will find that your life is a part of the novel.This is your world, a journey to find redemption and answers. The story took place in the winter of 1938 in an inconspicuous small town on the edge of Nanjing.Our protagonist is Lin Xu, a military doctor who was originally a field military doctor of the Fifth Division of a certain branch of the National Famous Party.According to the military rank, he belongs to the rank of lieutenant.At this time, Lin Xu's troops fought with the Japanese outside Nanjing.The opponent was the main force of the Japanese army. Most of Lin Xu’s comrades were killed, and the few remaining were scattered by the Japanese firepower, and his gun was also lost in the hand-to-hand fight with a Japanese soldier. Except for a military doctor's backpack, there is nothing on him.He avoided the Japanese devils' pursuit all the way, and stumbled to avoid the bullets flying around.He fled into a foreign church that used to be a makeshift hospital aid station, but now there was nothing left but blood and trampled crosses. Less than ten seconds after Lin Xu entered the church, before he could straighten out his anger, there was a burst of crackling gunshots at the door.He clutched the wound on his shoulder, bent over and tried to hide in the prayer room of the church. He walked to the door of the prayer room and was about to open the door to enter, when a man rushed out with a broken samurai sword in his hand, and the blade was covered with dried blood.He pointed at Lin Xu tremblingly, and after realizing that Lin Xu was Chinese, he fell towards Lin Xu as if he had collapsed.Lin Xu didn't stand still, he staggered, and both of them fell to the ground. Lin Xu wanted to push the big man away, but his hands were covered with blood at some point, and he realized that the man was seriously injured.Just when he was about to give the man first aid to stop the bleeding, the roar of the Japanese came from outside.The man groaned, and subconsciously wanted to pick up the half-cut knife. He pushed Lin Xu away with all his strength, and held the broken knife.However, at this moment, a pair of hands stretched out from behind the big man and hugged his waist.Lin Xu took a closer look, and it turned out that it was a woman hugging the big man. Because her hair was disheveled, she couldn't see her face clearly.The woman held the man back, and looked at Lin Xu with red eyes desperately, her expression extremely terrified.Lin Xu's first reaction was to quickly push the two of them back into the prayer room.Just as he closed the door of the prayer room, the Japanese kicked open the door of the church...
When Zhou Jue saw this, he realized that it was a book about the War of Resistance Against Japan. Perhaps this was why he said it was not a fiction at the beginning, and it was probably a documentary story.At this time, he heard someone approaching, so he quickly hid the book in the compartment of the bookshelf, and then pretended to be carefully arranging the bookshelf. After seeing the visitor walk away, Zhou Jue took out the book again, and he decided to take the book home to read, since no one would borrow this book anyway. Suddenly he found a very weird fingerprint on the edge of the book. The fingerprint was purple, not like the trace of a seal, but rather like blood that had been dried for a long time.He compared the fingerprint with his hand and found that the fingerprint should have been pressed by his thumb.He didn't care so much, he stuffed the book into his backpack, and then started to deal with Chen Hao's troubles. After get off work, as soon as Zhou Jue came home, he threw away his schoolbag and started playing games on the PSP (handheld game console).Zhou Jue's mother peeled the orange while watching the financial channel, and handed him a piece when he came back. Zhou Jue's mother asked, "The new book has been released, how is it going? What subjects are there?" Zhou Jue chewed the orange and squeaked vaguely, and returned to the room, he suddenly remembered the novel named, and the feeling of being covered hit his heart again.According to Zhou Jue's habit in the past, such books are at most read in spare time, and he will never be so obsessed with them.Zhou Jue always felt that something was attracting him, so he wanted to simply look up what book it was on the computer.He entered the three words "Seven People's Ring" on Baidu, and the moment he moved the mouse, the computer screen suddenly went black, but the fan of the case did not stop running, and the song played earlier was still playing on the stereo. But the monitor didn't know what was going on, it just kept going dark.Zhou Jue patted the monitor, but the monitor was still dark.Zhou Jue suddenly found that the monitor was black, but the Baidu website was reflected on the desk.Zhou Jue looked a little mysterious, so he patted the monitor vigorously.The monitor suddenly trembled, and then a picture flashed out, not a Baidu website, but a person's face, either smiling or crying in extreme pain.Zhou Jue only felt an indescribable coldness rushing from the soles of his feet to his forehead, but the face only appeared for a second, and Zhou Jue didn't even see whether the face was male or female.He immediately thought that it might be a legendary virus, and the poisoned computer would display the head portrait of a female ghost.Such news has also been published in the newspapers, and there are also cases of people being frightened and fainted.He comforted himself in this way, and knocked several times in a row, but the monitor still didn't respond, even the vibration was gone.In the end, Zhou Jue had to forcefully shut down the computer, and when it was turned on again, everything was normal.He was worried, and killed the virus again, but his heart was full of pimples, so while killing the virus, he took out his backpack and wanted to find out the book to see what it was, but he couldn't find it after searching the backpack. find that book. Zhou Jue scratched his hair and thought for a long time, but he didn't have any clue.Inadvertently, Zhou Jue glanced at the neighbor's house opposite, and he found that there was something extra on the iron railing of the neighbor's window sill. Zhou Jue didn't know why, but immediately thought of the half samurai sword in the man's hand in the novel, why now the novel disappeared, but this half sword appeared?What kind of grotesque coincidence is this that lasts from morning to night?Suddenly he thought of the first few sentences of that book, which seemed to mean that reality would merge with fiction.Zhou Jue realized that he might have messed with something, so he rushed out of the house, ignoring his father calling him from behind, and rushed to the building opposite, knocking on the door of the family in a hurry.The man who opened the door was a man in his thirties, carrying a big bag and dressed for a long trip. He looked very ordinary. Only then did Zhou Jue calm down, not knowing what to say for a while.He groaned for a long time, then squeezed out a sentence: "Brother, do you have a half samurai sword hanging on the window sill?" The man glanced at Zhou Jue, nodded and said: "Ah, yes, I like to collect all kinds of interesting things. I collected that broken knife many years ago, and now I think it is worthless to collect, so I bought it. It was used to fix the bars. What's wrong?" Zhou Jue breathed a sigh of relief, while making excuses to say that he also likes these things, while trying to get away with good words.Seeing Zhou Jue's kindness, the man smiled and said, "Hey, you have good eyesight. That broken knife is real. Its history can be traced back to before the liberation. It is a Japanese military officer's saber. But it's broken, so there's only one left. It’s time to fix the window rails. Since you like these too, come and play often in the future. Oh, by the way, I’m going to Nanjing. If you have a chance, you must come to my place. I’ll show you a few Take the complete real dick!" Zhou Jue backed out with a smile, and said goodbye in embarrassment, but after returning home, it seemed that a seed had been planted in his heart, and that seed seemed to have germinated. Early the next morning, the alarm clock woke up Zhou Jue who was sleeping with his head covered.He glanced sleepily at the alarm clock, and it took him ten minutes to get up. Last night he hadn't slept soundly and was dreaming all night.He dreamed of the novel and the blood-stained samurai sword, which kept dangling in his dreams. In addition, he had other dreams one after another. He dreamed about Lin Xu, the church, and the woman with disheveled hair...but he didn't dream about the man with the knife. When he came to the library unsteadily, he saw Chen Hao at a glance!Zhou Jue immediately decided to sneak in through the back door. At this time, Chen Hao was already a real hooligan in Zhou Jue's heart.But Chen Hao had sharp eyes, and before Zhou Jue adjusted the front of the bicycle, Chen Hao had already waved at him. Zhou Jue had no choice but to ride towards him in an awkward manner, muttering dirtyly: "His uncle, last time he gave me a few books that were four or five years in arrears, and this time he won't let me pay off his credit card debt." money?" Zhou Jue put the car beside Chen Hao, and gave him a blank look: "Mr. Chen, what's your business?" Chen Hao leaned against the gate and smoked. Seeing Zhou Jue's neither yin nor yang attitude, he twitched the corner of his mouth, took out a cigarette, and handed it to Zhou Jue with a smile: "Boy, you are neither humble nor overbearing. I think you are very pleasing to the eye, and you don't need Mr. Chen." Come to Teacher Chen to call me, I don’t care how old you are, you call me brother, and we will be on our own from now on.” Zhou Jue laughed out loud, but because of credits, he nodded and took the cigarette, but he didn't smoke and didn't rush to call brother, just waiting for Chen Hao to continue talking about his intentions.Chen Hao took out a note from his pocket and said, "Check it out for me, do you have these books in your library?" Zhou Jue took the note, grinned and said, "Yo, it's such an unpopular book, I can't remember it for a while, why don't you come up with me, and I'll help you look it up on the computer. Our computer is connected to the Internet, even if other Books in the library can also be found." When Chen Hao heard that he was going into the library, he couldn't help frowning.Seeing this, Zhou Jue understood that Chen Hao was embarrassed to go into the library, after all, he was a model who did not return the books he owed.Zhou Jue narrowed his eyes, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Brother Chen? What's the matter? I'm afraid of being recognized..." Chen Hao didn't reply right away, but just looked down at his own shadow with a pensive look, as if he was making an important decision. Zhou Jue looked at him like that from the side, couldn't help laughing, and said a few more sarcastic jokes.But Chen Hao still didn't answer. In the end, as if he had broken some demons, he hummed alone, patted Zhou Jue's bicycle and said, "Stop the car, I'll go up with you. Also, you really laughed Much like a fox." Zhou Jue's smiling face suddenly became as long as a horse's face. As soon as the two entered the library, Mr. Gu recognized Chen Hao at a glance, frowned and said, "Little brat, do you want to return the book now? I thought you were going to spend the rest of your life." Chen Hao burst out laughing when he saw Gu Lao. It turned out that Chen Hao and Gu Lao knew each other in the past. Zhou Jue didn't realize it for a while, so he didn't make a sound.Zhou Jue wanted to pull Chen Hao in, but Chen Hao ignored Zhou Jue, and instead patted Zhou Jue on the shoulder and said to Gu Lao: "Isn't this Mr. Gu? I'm not here to return the book, I'm here to borrow it." book." When Zhou Jue was slapped like that by him, he knew that Chen Hao was deliberately messing with him, and then it was estimated that the matter of returning the book would have to be messed up.Zhou Jue bumped Chen Hao's abdomen hard with his elbow, but Chen Hao was more agile, grabbed Zhou Jue's arm and turned it in the opposite direction, catching him like a chicken.Zhou Jue's face distorted immediately, and he kept crying out for pain. Gu Lao didn't see these small gestures, but just looked sad: "You borrowed? You haven't paid back what you owe! Who will lend it to you..." Gu Lao finally found Zhou Jue who had been winking all the time, Zhou Jue was unnatural Coughed a few times.Gu Lao glanced at Chen Hao, then at Zhou Jue, and asked, "Xiao Zhou, do you know him?" Zhou Jue quickly shook off Chen Hao's hand, and then said: "Ah, yes...the thing is like this, he is my teacher, and he is in charge of my credits...I returned his books for him, hehe, Pay it back." Gu Lao heard the taste in the words, Zhou Jue frowned and stared at him with a long face. Gu Lao liked this child in the first place, and Zhou Jue's appearance added a lot of points.In Gu Lao's eyes, the child was a little confused, but he was very polite, so he could only stare at Chen Hao and Zhou Jue, and stopped talking.Zhou Jue knew that Mr. Gu was sulking, so he took the opportunity to whisper to Chen Hao: "Brother, don't poke here. I'll take care of things here for you. Go in and see if there is any book you want. After reading it Just go!" After speaking, he pulled Mr. Gu to the corner and said in a low voice: "Master Gu, I really can't do anything about it. He is my subject teacher. If he is not happy, the homework I have worked so hard to review will be lost." I failed the exam. I have no other choice, or the money will be counted on my head, and I will fail the exam like a tiger! My grandpa Gu!" Mr. Gu sighed, and said: "I didn't expect him to be your teacher, but if you are like this, it will be troublesome if you are found out. This is a matter of discipline! Sigh, but I really have to remind you, don't talk to me in the future. He blends in." Zhou Jue asked in puzzlement, "Is he really a hooligan?" On the contrary, Mr. Gu was confused by the question, he said for a long time: "Who told you that he is a hooligan?" Zhou Jue coughed, trying to cover up his slip of the tongue.However, Mr. Gu just waved his hand to keep him from interrupting, and continued, "He's not a hooligan. In fact, I've known this kid since he was wearing crotch pants. He lived with us when he was a child, and he's very famous." Zhou Jue hummed, and continued to repeat Gu Lao's words calmly.Gu Lao saw that there was no one around, so he chatted with Zhou Jue, and he said, "Don't look at his current behavior, in fact, this kid is very smart. I remember that he had a serious illness when he was in kindergarten, and he was notified when he was critically ill. It all came down, but then it got better for no reason, and this kid has become a prodigy since then." Zhou Jue asked with a disdainful smile, "What magical method?" Gu Lao pushed his presbyopic glasses: "Since the boy suffered from that serious illness, he has the ability to remember with a photographic image. As long as he has seen things, whether it is words or patterns, he can remember them exactly. .” Zhou Jue asked suspiciously: "Are you right?" Gu Lao hummed: "It's not bad, it's even more reliable than a computer. You say this is not a child prodigy, what is it?" Zhou Jue stroked his chin and said to himself: "Could it be that I really hit the mark, this guy is a freak who eats books..." Gu Lao ignored Zhou Jue's muttering, and the more he talked, the more energetic he said: "But he has never been here five years ago, and it is said that he has also never been to any library or bookstore. I checked the information on the Internet. I didn't expect that five years later, he would come again. But this kid is a little weird..." Gu Lao wanted to continue talking, but at this time Chen Hao had already walked out holding a large stack of books.He put the book and library card on the table, and then said to Zhou Jue: "Brother Zhou, you will return it for me in the future." After speaking, he joked to Gu Lao: "Gu Lao, you said you Why aren't there any decent books here?" Gu Lao was so angry at what he said, he could only wave his hands at him to drive him away.Zhou Jue noticed that after Chen Hao entered the library, he always had an uncomfortable expression, as if he was hiding something. Although he tried his best to appear normal, Zhou Jue was a person who paid close attention to subtle observations, so he naturally I guessed that it wasn't that Chen Hao was too lazy to return the books in the past five years, but that he deliberately didn't come to the library. As for the name of it, I don't know. Zhou Jue was still wondering what made Chen Hao not come here, suddenly Chen Hao put a hand on his shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, don't forget that school starts next Monday, there is nothing else to attend my class relationship, but I pay attention to attendance." After speaking, he patted him on the shoulder. Zhou Jue turned his head to the side and vigorously shook the hand on his shoulder away. Chen Hao laughed out loud, patted Zhou Jue's face provocatively, and squeezed his hand, laughing and slapping Gu Lao. He said hello and left.Zhou Jue's face darkened, and he was even more convinced that this guy is definitely a hooligan. This kind of typical way of flirting with chicks cannot be used by good people! Gu Lao sighed and comforted Zhou Jue: "When did this kid become such a hooligan? He was quite honest when he was young." Zhou Jue sneered a few times, raised his eyebrows and said, "This kid is lying sideways in our school. Basically, we can only see his nostrils when walking... Forget it, let's not talk so much. Gu Lao, what did you say earlier?" Don't hang out with him?" Seeing Zhou Jue's pressing questions, Mr. Gu suddenly became a little timid. He hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "This kid is a bit weird. You young people may not believe this, but I found that the guy around him There's something unclean! And...forget it, anyway, don't get too close to him." Zhou Jue also leaned back a little when he heard this, he felt that there might be something weird here, and he didn't want to get too close to this Chen Hao, Zhou Jue could be regarded as a little fox type of person, but He felt that Chen Hao was at least a thousand-year-old fox. The conversation came to an abrupt end, and Gu Lao didn't want to say more about Chen Hao, and it was time for Zhou Jue to sort out the books.Seeing Mr. Gu urging him to go to work, Zhou Jue shrugged and left his seat, but before he took a few steps, he heard Mr. Gu behind him say, "Huh? Chen Hao's book was not taken away. When you meet him in the future, he will bring it to you." Him." Zhou Jue went back and looked through in wonder, and found that there was an extra novel with a yellow cover in the stack of books.Zhou Jue picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help crying out in a low voice, this is the book he read yesterday, why did it appear here?Doesn't this book have long legs?Zhou Jue had an indescribably strange feeling in his heart, hesitating whether to take the book.Mr. Gu didn't know what Zhou Jue was thinking. He thought he was still having trouble with Chen Hao, so he smiled and said, "Chen Hao is just joking with you. I watched this kid grow up. He I'm not a bad person, so don't take it to heart." Zhou Jue held the book, and didn't listen to Gu Lao's words at all.这时侯，他突然有了一种极度想要看这本书的冲动，想要知道这故事的发展，好像瘾头突然被勾了起来。他拿着书径直朝着书架那边走去。