Chapter 4 first murder

It was really a blissful day of sitting on a banquet, embracing flowers, drinking wine and drinking wine. On the stage, bells and gongs clang and clang to create a prosperous and prosperous world. Under the stage, towels dance and melon seeds are scattered, laughing and cursing, another ukiyo-e is staged. The dense smoke and flickering lights are entangled with each other, and love wants to live. , the evil wants to die, the audience lives in the cross-section of time and space that does not know the past and present, listening to the story and experiencing the story, they are all blissful, drunk, suffering or enjoying it, men and women are tired and lazy, then There is a melancholy beauty in the decadent taste, like a scroll unfolding slowly, exploring the truth of the story bit by bit.

Elegant, depraved, obscure, and legendary—the alien beauty of half a century ago brings temptation and loss that cannot be matched by today's people... Probably because of the premiere, the movie theater was full of people and required to be seated.Xiaowan bumped into someone's knee and said sorry all the way to go in, finally found her seat, but saw that someone had already arrived first, so she had to take out her ticket and said, "I'm sorry, please let me go, this is my seat." of." The other party was two young people, wearing old-fashioned suits and gold-rimmed glasses, very similar to Xu Zhimo's appearance in "April in the World". They looked up at Xiaowan, a little unhappy, but they still stood up silently and gave up their seats.

Zhang Zhi also asked strangely: "Xiao Wan, who are you talking to?" "Those two took our seats." "Who? Who's sitting in our seat?" The announcement bell screamed like an air defense siren, and the lights went out suddenly. Xiaowan murmured in her heart, wondering from which era the use of bells to announce the opening of the show was inherited, couldn't there be a gentler way?The ringtones of mobile phones are becoming more and more diverse. Why can't the notice bells of movie theaters be changed? The singing of Kunqu Opera "A Dream in the Garden" sounded melodiously, and the movie began.

Rong Lan, played by Wang Zuxian, said quietly: "For a long time, I have been intoxicated by the smell of emerald flowers, opium, perfume, and the sad smell when she sings..." Now, Xiaowan is also addicted with her. Indulge in the taste of "A Dream in the Garden". It is indeed a good movie worth watching.About the 1940s, the secret history of the private affairs of a declining family.There are Kunqu opera, opium, homosexuality, heterosexuality, secret love, abnormal love, romantic love, the entanglement of love and desire is vividly expressed by Wang Zuxian, as if the snakes that refuse to hibernate are entangled together, lingering to death.

Xiao Wan was in a daze, suddenly, she felt that she was not watching this movie alone, but there seemed to be someone following behind her, following her like a shadow, never leaving her body, her breath brushed over her bare neck. No, not Zhang Zhiye.Zhang Zhi is also very gentleman, keeping a distance of one foot from her all the time, and his cell phone has been ringing non-stop since he entered the cinema, now he has to go out to make a call. But that shadow was so close that it almost penetrated into her skin, becoming one with her. She turned her head, and behind her was a man and a woman, hugging each other and kissing passionately, as if no one else was there. The woman was wearing a very revealing old-style cheongsam, her hair was permed into an exaggerated retro chrysanthemum, which was Maggie Cheung's dress in "In the Mood for Love".

Xiaowan disdains, since the famous cheongsam show movie was shown, the cheongsam trend suddenly swept across the country, even wedding studios stopped shooting wedding dresses and changing cheongsams.And these star-chasers who are known for their openness, regardless of their temperament and body shape, pretend to be ladies in a cheongsam, but then go to the theater to have an affair. Xiaowan hugged her head, the discomfort became more and more intense, her head felt dizzy for a while, and her body felt cold.In a trance, I heard a woman's thin cry, as if it came from ancient times, and it seemed to be underground, whimpering, sorrowful, who is it?

Then, she watched the singing girl Cuika, played by Rie Miyazawa on the screen, move her waist and start singing "A Dream in the Garden", with a tone of voice that seemed familiar: "Dream back to the warbler, chaotic time is everywhere. People set up small courtyards and deep courtyards. The smoke is exhausted, and the embroidery thread is thrown away. Does this spring feel like last year?" The woman stood still, and Yingying read the dialogue softly: "Chunxiang, did you ask someone to sweep the flower path? Get the clothes from the mirror stand." She turned her back and made up her hair in front of the mirror. Water sleeves, turned around, appeared, and changed her face in the pitch, far more beautiful, brighter, younger, softer, charming and cold, weaker than the Japanese queen Rie Miyazawa, and peerless.

"The clear silk blows to the courtyard, shaking the spring like a thread. Stop for a while, and the flowers are made. There is no water chestnut flower, stealing half of the face, and the colorful clouds are slanted..." She babbled and sang and danced, feeling sorry for herself, looking straight at Xiao Wan with her pair of water-cut pupils, her four eyes met, and she had already spoken a thousand words in an instant. "Your name is the emerald green skirt, the gorgeous flower hairpin filled with eight treasures, you know that my lifelong love is nature. It's just that no one sees the benefits of three springs. If you don't watch out for the noise of the fish, the geese, and the birds, you will be ashamed and the flowers will close. Moonflower trembles with sorrow..."

Xiaowan has never seen a woman who can harmoniously blend the two completely different styles of glamorous and seductive. Who is this peerless beauty?The most terrible thing is that there is an indescribable familiarity between her eyebrows and eyes, as if the lost childhood memories are picked up, and they can't be distinguished all at once. The people on the stage have sung to their happiest point: "It turns out that the flowers are blooming everywhere, like this, but they are all ruined..." Suddenly, "Okay" sounded like thunder, the lights were turned on, the audience was in an uproar, mixed with the cries of "cigarette melon seeds", hand towels were flying around in mid-air, the seats were uneven, there were tea cups and snacks in front of them, a table and a table. The table was separated by some distance, the man sitting next to him turned his head and smiled at Xiao Wan, his mouth flickered, revealing two gold teeth, who did some little tricks, a woman screamed softly, that woman also Wearing a cheongsam, sprinkled with strong toilet water, the whispers of the people behind came over one after another, talking about a tobacco business...

Xiaowan panicked, her mind was buzzing, she seemed to understand something, but she couldn't figure it out for a while.Why?Why is the theater full of light instead of lights out?Why are people sitting around dressed so strangely?Why do they ignore their eagerness and helplessness?Why are they clearly speaking Beijing dialect, but they can't understand every word they hear? After the people on the stage sang a song, there was applause, applause and whistles from the audience. Big money flew onto the stage like snowflakes, and some even threw handkerchiefs wrapped in jewelry on the stage recklessly. The singers had already returned to the backstage. However, he was supported by two maids to take a curtain call, and his half-smile eyes flashed across the audience, and immediately there was another "OK" like a thunderstorm, and the sound shook the roof tiles.What is a role, what is a famous actress, there is nothing better than this in the happy autumn of life.A tall, thin man in a long gown then turned around, holding gold paper in his hand and singing loudly: "Ruo Meiying's anti-Japanese fundraising performance, Boss Wu donated two hundred! Ruo Meiying thank you! Minister Chen donated five hundred silver! Ruo Meiying thank you Commander He donated 1,000! Ruo Meiying thanked you..."

Anti-Japanese fundraising?Ruo Meiying? ! ! Like spring thunder, Xiaowan suddenly understood that all this is not true, there is a problem with time and space, what she saw and heard was the era in the movie, the scene of "A Dream in the Garden" was moved from the screen to the bottom of the screen, I am surrounded by ghosts, ghosts living in theaters in the 1940s. They find their lost years in "A Dream in the Garden" and relive the smoke and clouds of their previous lives.And the person on that stage is Ruo Meiying. Ruo Meiying! She remembered that when she went out, she seemed to have heard grandma say that today is July 17th, the last day of Ghost Festival, after today, those ghosts who asked for leave to "tour" in the underworld will go back to Huangquan and continue to live. That endless career in the underworld, waiting for the day of reincarnation.Today is their last carnival night!And I actually broke into the world of ghosts and became one of them!He even competed for seats with two glasses ghosts when he entered the arena.So, will I just join their ranks, get on the ghost train with them, return to the underworld together, and never come back? Watching helplessly, Ruomei Yingfeng on the stage helped Yangliu to the ground to thank her, and she gracefully walked off the stage and walked towards the auditorium.All the ghost audience stood up together, thundering and rhythmically cheering over and over again: "Ruo Meiying! Ruo Meiying! Ruo Meiying..." Inside, there are merchants with big gold teeth, scholars wearing glasses, servants wearing bunts, and wounded soldiers on crutches. They are all calling Ruo Meiying's name loudly and enthusiastically, hoping that she will look at her. Take a look and smile.However, Ruo Meiying ignored her at all, and walked towards her directly.Getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, tremblingly reaching out to myself. Xiaowan only felt cold sweat dripping down her body, as if being haunted in a dream, she could only look, but couldn't move, only struggling in vain... "Drink water?" Zhang Zhi also came back as soon as Coke was stretched out in front of him. Xiao Wan only felt her body relax, and her whole body suddenly regained her freedom. Looking at the screen again, Wang Zuxian had already taken pictures of Cuihua to celebrate her mother and daughter moving out of the Rongfu, and the surroundings were still normal and trendy modern youths.Everything just now disappeared like a bubble. She felt cold in her heart, and reluctantly said: "It's the same, let's go, okay?" "Don't watch it?" Zhang Zhi was also puzzled. Xiao Wan lowered her head, feeling sorry for herself: "I'm not feeling well, I want to go home... Or, I'll go back by myself, you can read it here." "No, I'll take you back." Zhang Zhiye was indeed a gentleman, without saying a word, he immediately stood up and walked out with Xiao Wan. Stepping out of the theater one step at a time, and standing in the sun again, Xiaowan immediately breathed smoothly, and her dizziness, chills and other symptoms disappeared without a trace.She looked at Zhang Zhiye apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I didn't see it as a burden to you." "No need to apologize. If you feel better now, let me treat you to dinner as compensation." Zhang Zhi also smiled, and immediately seized the opportunity to go further. Xiao Wan is embarrassed: "Then I should invite you." "Then, I want to eat Quanjude roast duck." Young people's friendships are always established quickly, and Xiao Wan and Zhang Zhi have become good friends who talk about everything in just one meal. Oh no, Zhang Zhiye and Shui Xiaowan are the only ones who talk about everything, but they have reservations—the memory of Dead Rose is an eternal wound in her heart, and she doesn't want to reveal it easily.And there is no way to talk about the horror in the movie theater. It is unbelievable to say that, she doesn't want to talk about it, and be suspected of being crazy. Zhang Zhi also talked about his first love girlfriend Wei, a standard modern urban girl: she wears Christina when she wears clothes, cappuccino when she drinks coffee, 520 when she smokes, wine red CD for lipstick, and even The names were all changed to the foreign name Vivienne. "The most terrible thing is that she likes clubbing very much!" Zhang Zhiye said while gesticulating: "Almost all the nights are devoted to Sanlitun, and she only goes to South Street, because she said that the taste of South Street is higher than that of North Street. But she has a personality, and she doesn't want to be single blindly in love with which bar, she has to change every time, and drinks all over South Street with all her heart, and she also has a theory, saying that "there is no conclusion until there is comparison". In fact, I guess she goes to bars not because she likes it, but to increase conversation and show off to her peers." Xiaowan nodded: "Is this called Xiaozi? I also have many girlfriends like this. Xiaozi is very popular now." Zhang Zhi also beat his chest and sighed: "It's the word 'petty bourgeoisie' that hurts the vain women who are rich and jaded! Either rich or poor, it's easy to handle. The most fearful thing is this kind of poor but pretending to be rich." It was a half-launching capitalism that was out of tune at both ends, and it made people anxious to death. So, later on, I never wanted to hang out with Vivienne, because I was afraid that her dating a boyfriend would be like going to a bar, "there is no conclusion until there is a comparison", I'm not sure Whenever I become one of her talking points." Xiaowan laughed: "Don't exaggerate you!" "Is this exaggeration? Let me tell you, the real reason why Vivienne likes to go clubbing, I have already guessed it, because there are so many foreigners on South Street." "What's the meaning?" "What do you mean? It means 'fishing for a son'. Sanlitun is close to the embassy area, and Vivienne wanted to meet an Earl of Windsor here—unfortunately, Windsor didn't wait, but she met a crop after crop of American drunks. Han. They are poorer than she." Xiaowan laughed again. Zhang Zhi was also encouraged, and sighed even more exaggeratedly: "But this has an advantage, that is, it has cultivated Vivienne's patriotic self-esteem and national pride. She is the type who does not see the rabbit and does not cast the eagle. It is easy to pretend to foreigners. And you can tell whether they are rich or poor at a glance." "so smart?" "That's right. Based on this alone, no matter how you say it, she is better than her female companions who get dizzy when they hear foreign language." Xiao Wan laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist, she pushed Zhang Zhi also: "How can you ruin your girlfriend like this?" "I'm not talking bad about people behind their backs. She didn't get angry when I pitied her so much in front of her." Zhang Zhi smiled indifferently, "We are childhood sweethearts. We have been a couple since we were young. After growing up We broke up amicably when we found out that our personalities were more incompatible, but we are still friends until now.” "She's so chic." "That's right. As far as Vivienne is concerned, she is really more colorful than ordinary girls, but unfortunately she is not the type I like." "Which type do you like?" As soon as Xiao Wan said that, she already regretted it, her face blushed layer by layer, and she wished she could take back the question. Sure enough, Zhang Zhi also stared at her bravely, and confessed without blinking: "It's you, who are classical, modern, lively, quiet, generous, shy, and..." "Okay, okay, stop talking, talk about me like a monster, nothing like it." "I just like four images." Zhang Zhi also stretched out his hand and gently held Xiao Wan's hand, "No matter what you look like, I like it. Do you like me?" Xiao Wan lowered her head even lower, her face was oozing red, the redness was so red that her face was swollen, her voice was softer than a mosquito: "I don't know." Zhang Zhi also looked at her deeply, knowing that this is a shy and reserved girl, very different from Vivienne. Such a girl is not allowed to play, can't afford to play and can't afford to lose, if you want to start a story with her, the story must have a beginning and an end, and he, like her, is not ready yet. He couldn't help thinking of Vivienne again. Wei only lives in this minute forever. In the game dictionary, there is only the beginning without the end. All the stories stay at the prologue of the beginning, because the power is cut off before the end. So can never wait for the curtain to end. When they were together, they would occasionally think about tomorrow, next month, or even next year...it won't be farther away, no matter how long the plan is, it is a luxury. Not only was Wei unwilling to be responsible to only one man, but if it was him, she would not stay where she was forever and wait for Wei to come back. Wei often said a word: I only hope that one day when I look back, I will see you waiting for me there. This sentence is not Wei's invention, just like the wine red CD, it is also one of the signs that petty bourgeoisie groan and pretend to be elegant. "Wine red", this is their most romantic adjective.It can be compared with Zhang Ailing's "Moon White", but it has more modern urban characteristics...the decadent and textured colors. The sum of all Vivienne's thought cells is not enough for the thickness of a book, Zhang Ailing plus the Internet baby divided by two, that's it. So she adores endless love, gets hurt, flaunts her love experience while flaunting her love experience while lamenting her cruel youth with self-pity and self-pity. A desolate gesture, sighing: I hope that one day when I look back, I will see you waiting for me... And the reason why he could bear her for so long and allow her to look back again and again is because, despite being vulgar, she is still the best among vulgar people; , there are "petty bourgeoisie" and "quasi-petty bourgeoisie" everywhere, as well as "petty bourgeoisie" who are worse than "petty bourgeoisie".Therefore, not only did he catch Wei's gaze when she turned her head, but it was also when he turned his head to look for Wei's trace again. Until one time Vivienne said: "Sometimes money is just a number and has no real meaning-100 yuan can be used for a meal, 1,000 yuan can be used for a meal, and 10,000 yuan is still used for eating. At least 100,000 You can consider buying a few good clothes if you have 100,000, plan to settle down if you have 1 million, but you still can’t work happily, 10 million, maybe you can really be chic..." It was these words that frightened Zhang Zhiye, and he settled down to seriously think about whether he really wanted to break up this time. He thought that if he was with Vivienne, he would never be chic.If you want to live a chic life as an ordinary reporter, you have to find a local Beijing girl with superior conditions, a pure heart and a noble character—he met Shui Xiaowan. Shui Xiaowan, this girl who is so pure and untouched by the world of mortals surprises him but also makes him hesitate. After playing the game for too long, she no longer knows how to be serious.This time, he wants to study hard, pursue love well, and really start a pure love story with a girl? Xiaowan's conditions are undoubtedly good, but because she is so kind, it makes him feel a sense of fear, fearing that his vicissitudes are not something she can bear. After a long time, Zhang Zhi also spoke first, but changed the subject: "I'll show you the most beautiful thing." "What is it?" "yourself." "Me?" Xiaowan laughed, this person is really strange, and what he said will never be guessed, "You let me see me?" "Yes." Zhang Zhi also smiled and spread out a stack of photos, "It's not you, what is it?" "Ah, it was the photo you secretly took of me that day!" "The most beautiful things." Zhi Ye smiled and placed them one by one, "It's so beautiful." "Hey, are you complimenting me or your photography skills?" Xiao Wan giggled, and halfway through the laugh, she felt fake and hollow, and her voice didn't sound like her own, so she had to stop, turned her head, and put on a pair of I don't know where to look with my eyes, and I feel uncomfortable all over. "You are beautiful, and you are even more beautiful with my technology. Therefore, your beauty and my photography are a perfect match, and you and I are a perfect match." While talking, he slipped away Zui, Zhiye watched Xiao Wan's face turn red again, couldn't help regretting it, and hurriedly interrupted, "Hey, this one is the most special, because you don't look like you, but you have a taste of the ancients." Xiao Wan picked it up, and was stunned suddenly - that one, only the eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to her own, but it was definitely not herself.No one will fail to recognize herself, but at this moment, Xiao Wan looks at the photo of "herself", but feels strange from the bottom of her heart.No, the woman with heavy make-up in this photo is not me, but the person I met in the theater just now, Ruo Meiying! Zhang Zhi also saw that Xiaowan remained silent for a long time, so he couldn't help but misunderstand, and hurriedly found some topics to cover up his embarrassment: "The last time I went to interview with your troupe, your accountant is really legendary. Do you know that? He, an orphan, an abandoned baby, grew up under the care of the nuns of Guanyintang, engaged in martial arts, became a young general, went to the countryside, was recommended to go to university, and was assigned to a theater troupe after graduation. Going back to Guanyin Hall, she was ordained and became a self-combing girl—" Zhang Zhi also used the intonation of a storyteller and exaggeratedly said, "I guess there must be a story in it. So, I want to go to Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and also Go to the countryside where she was devolved, and do an exclusive interview to see why a person who was born in New China and grew up under the red flag must be a self-combed girl? Watch it, it must be a very sensational documentary .” "Then you haven't asked Mother Zhao herself?" "I asked, but she was vague and refused to say. She kept saying that she didn't want to get married, didn't believe in men, and didn't want to have children. She also said that she herself was an abandoned baby, which proved that getting married and having children is not a good thing. It's clear and neat whether to marry or not... I don't believe it, it's all an excuse." "As reporters, you are willing to poach people's privacy." Xiao Wan frowned, "The accountant is unwilling to say, there must be something hard to tell, why do you have to force her?" Zhang Zhi was also embarrassed and choked for a moment. Xiaowan was not satisfied, and hurriedly said: "That's not what I mean. If you want to get information, you might as well ask some old people in the troupe, such as the troupe leader, Huber..." "Hu Bo? Is that the blind master who plays the erhu?" Zhang Zhi also remembered, "A few days ago, when I went to interview your theater troupe, I found him. He was sitting at the door tuning the erhu with an erhu in his hand. , I asked him about Mother Zhao, but he didn't answer, but said to me mysteriously: "She's back." I asked him, "Who's back? Mother Zhao?" He shook his head, or said, "She's back." I'm back', he hurried away with the erhu in his arms, and almost hit the wall. I walked over to help him, but he used the erhu to separate me, with a nervous expression on his face, he still said 'she's back'. Hey, he Is there something wrong with your brain?" "She's back?" Xiaowan suddenly remembered the day when Huber opened the box and asked everyone "what did you see?", and suddenly jumped up, "I know!" "What do you know?" Zhang Zhi also stood up inexplicably, "Why are the people in your troupe so weird? Where are you going?" "Go back to the troupe and find Uncle Huber." Xiaowan looked at Zhang Zhiye and suddenly felt guilty, "Are you coming with me?" They are one step too late. When I arrived at the troupe, I saw an ambulance parked there, surrounded by a group of people, including medical staff, and the troupe's leaders. Xiao Wan's father, Shui Rong, was also there, and he told his daughter: Huber is dead. Died of a heart attack. The old heart that had been beating for sixty years suddenly stopped beating on the afternoon of the seventeenth day of the seventh lunar month.The death was extremely terrifying. Xiao Wan covered her face, tears streaming down her face.Dimly, she felt that the death of the blind man Huber had something to do with Ruo Meiying and also with herself.Around her, something terrible happened, and it continued to develop. Huber is dead, and many more will die because of it.She already felt the horror of the matter, but she couldn't stop it.It was a secret, buried in the bottom of my heart, I should know the answer, but it was buried too deep, it was rare to see clearly. How much she wanted to be like Zixia in "Moonlight Treasure Box", turning into a heart-piercing worm to see clearly, but what she wanted to see was not the heart of Supreme Treasure, but her own.However, nothing can be done. Shui Rong looked suspiciously at Zhang Zhiye and then at his daughter, and asked, "Why did you come?" Xiao Wan faltered, not knowing what to say. Zhang Zhi also stepped forward and introduced himself. Out of professional instinct, he asked about the incident.Shui Rong said that when he received the call, he was writing. He heard from the concierge that Huber had fainted. He ordered to call 120 and rushed over. The people from the hospital had already arrived, but when he checked, he found that there was no further rescue. necessary.Now, waiting for the car of the funeral home. Zhang Zhi also went to ask the concierge again. The concierge was still in shock, and said incoherently: "No, chat, you told me about Ruo Meiying, didn't you open the suitcase that day, everyone in the group has been talking about Ruo Meiying these days, I asked Huber why he asked us what we saw that day, and he kept saying 'she's back' tremblingly, and then fainted." "She's back?" Zhang Zhi was also surprised, and asked, "Did he say who's back?" "No. I asked the same question, but he had already started to convulse, and he collapsed after convulsing. I was so frightened that I quickly called the leaders..." Shui Rong was also attracted by this dialogue, and asked to himself, "She's back. What do you mean? Who's back?" "Ruo Meiying." Xiao Wan suddenly answered clearly.