Chapter 24 twenty-three

What Happened in the Rubber Plantation (10) "Because—because there are so many memories written on her face, no one can escape her. You will deal with her sooner or later. Do you think she is hiding in this flower shop?" They both went into the dark shop together, and heard a commotion behind the house, and then fell silent. "My God, something terrible has happened in this house!" Reagan whispered, horrified. Vincent is not nervous, he is thinking about his Chinese woman.Could she have anything to do with this "black beauty"?They were not far apart, and probably knew each other.Everyone on the street knew the warm, slightly eccentric Joyner, and Vincent's company often ordered flowers from her.But Reagan was still sniffing the air, shaking like chaff.

Vincent could only smell the scent of those potted flowers, but he couldn't see what flowers were in the dark.Regan passed through the potted plants and went to the back of the house. When Vincent made up his mind to follow, Regan was already gone.Behind the house is a narrow patio with a staircase to go upstairs.Vincent stood in the patio, lit a cigarette, took a sip, and fell into deep thought. There was no doubt that he had been in this place, just yesterday.This steep and narrow staircase leads to a landing.At that time, he stood on the springboard at the edge of the platform and jumped down with his eyes closed, entering the deep water.That's when he discovered that he could breathe like a fish.How had he forgotten all about it?It turns out that the "entrance" is in this place, and Reagan knew it a long time ago.Then it is possible that his Chinese woman also entered the water world through this entrance.He thought of Lisa again, and of the Arab women, and he thought it possible that they had all been to this place.Joyner's greenhouse is the real entrance to the world.Then the "Black Beauty" is the gatekeeper of the world, and in this small street, Vincent once saw her grabbing a client's shirt so eagerly that the two of them were on the verge of a fight.

In his wild thoughts, Vincent heard footsteps on the stairs—not just one person, but several people's footsteps.The footsteps were getting closer and closer, but only one person came down. "Who did you come down with, and them?" "They? No one, they are shadows." Reagan said dejectedly. "What's on it?" "Up? There's everything up there. But I can't remember. Tell me, what is this place?" He became irritable, and he left the flower shop without looking back.Vincent, who was following him, heard a commotion in the darkness behind him, as flower pots toppled one by one.Vincent couldn't help turning his head, and at this moment he suddenly saw a row of wet crows sitting on the large window sill above the flower shop, and a black hand stretched out from the window, calmly placing the bird food. "It turns out that the crow flew out from here!" Vincent sighed in his heart, and then his spine felt a little chilly.

"Hui Mingxia!" Joyner's crisp voice flew out of the window, and she called a Chinese name. Vincent stared at the window, he thought Joyner was calling him a Chinese woman.However, no one responded. Reagan was gone, and Vincent ran after him. "I'm going to the station, and I'm going back to the south." There was a hint of mockery in Reagan's voice. "Then I'll go see you off." "You've got to keep an eye out for people like Georgina, you're so close. I'm pretty close to her, too, and I find that out every time I'm in town."

Reagan boarded a northbound train at the station.Before that he said to Vincent: "I always take any car. Any car will get home." On the way back to the office, Vincent kept muttering: "Hui Mingxia, Hui Mingxia..." He saw Joe in front of the office building, he asked Joe where he was going, and Joe said to pick him up Client Reagan, Reagan's train arrives in town at three o'clock in the afternoon. "People from that kind of place like to make surprise attacks," said Joe, looking distressed. Vincent saw Joe putting a rather thick book into the purse.