Chapter 7 Chapter Six The Second Night

Due to the traffic jam, Ye Caixia and Shen Hua didn't bring Shen Le home until 8:00 in the evening. It turned out that it was Shen Dan who made the mistake of Shen Le being stranded at the airport.Half a month ago, Shen Le called back and said the date and time of returning to China, but he didn't account for the time difference when calling. Shen Dan, who was awake in the early morning, answered the phone. This person with mental problems didn't convey it to him. .The person who made the mistake is a mental patient, and it is not worth worrying about. Everyone is already hungry, so there is no more nonsense.Ye Caixia and Shen Huaqi were not particularly surprised by Gao Pingying's appearance. It seemed that they knew Gao Pingying and knew that he was here.

The long oval western-style dining table seemed a bit crowded at this time.Ye Caixia sat at the owner's seat, and the others sat on two sides. On the side of the glass door were He Yi, Shen Dan, and Wu Meilan, and on the other side of the wall were Shen Le, Shen Huaqi, Ye Wan, and Gao Pingying.The advantage of having a large number of people is that it reduces the deserted feeling of the ruins.Ye Caixia introduced the stranger to her son with a tired voice, and the introduction made Ye Wan understand that Gao Pingying was the son of Shen Huaqi's friend, no wonder they were not surprised by Gao Pingying's appearance.

"Why are you neither like a father nor a mother." Wu Meilan glanced at Ye Caixia, then stared at Shen Le, and sneered strangely, her words were mixed with doubts about genes. "As long as it doesn't look like you." Shen Le replied sarcastically. The dialogue between the two people put another layer of cold frost on the already discordant atmosphere.Ye Wan also saw Shen Le for the first time, and didn't know much about him.She had never met her uncle, so she couldn't be sure whether Wu Meilan's words were intentional or sincere, but Shen Le was indeed not like her aunt, she couldn't find a bit of his mother's beauty, small eyes, short nose, and ordinary face shape.Shen Le is the same age as her, and she just graduated from university. American universities are based on the credit system. Graduation is relatively free and there is no time limit. You can graduate if you reach the credits.It's not surprising that Shen Le came back from graduation in late autumn.

The hunger made everyone ignore the atmosphere and focus on their own stomachs first.The dull dining table made Ye Wan feel more restrained than last night. The faces of the people around the table were not relaxed, and they all had their own concerns and doubts.Ye Wan glanced around from her left, and made a careful observation of everyone. The first one on the left is Shen Huaqi, this person eats arrogantly, he seems to come here with the mood of watching a good show; the second one is Shen Le, he picks up the food, eats slowly, but his eyes are fixed on Shen Dan, The angry eyes showed that he was still angry about being stranded at the airport; the third was her aunt, whose face trying to calm down could not hide the unrest in his heart; the fourth was He Yi, he had not changed at all , eating calmly with her head down; the fifth is Shen Dan, with a pale face, eating as if no one else is there;Ye Wan withdrew her gaze, and then glanced to her right. Gao Pingying on the right, like her, didn't concentrate on eating, and was quietly looking at the people at the table.

"When I was studying abroad, a student on campus became mentally disturbed because of the stimulation. One afternoon, he suddenly shot his classmates with a gun on campus, and several people died. Therefore, people with mental problems, it is best to It is to go to a mental hospital for treatment, which is good for the patients and others." Shen Le pointed at Sang Huai and told a story. Everyone at the dining table knew who Shen Le was targeting. Everyone looked at Shen Dan, nervous about this person's reaction.Shen Dan looked at Shen Le expressionlessly, her hateful green eyes were in a stalemate with Shen Le's eyes full of anger.After facing each other for a few minutes, Shen Dan suddenly withdrew his eyes, put down the bowl and chopsticks, lowered his hands, and then lowered his head, like a child who has done something wrong and has no shame.Before everyone could react, Shen Dan, with his head down, suddenly made a strange sound, twitched violently a few times, raised his head and sat on the chair, like a witch with a ghost upper body.

Then, Shen Dan uttered something like an incantation in a rough, muddy voice: "The rose garden in the ruins, the tomb in the ruins, who still remembers the bloody past, and who remembers the sinful past?" At the root, only resentment floods the breast, only death sings in the night, a rose garden possessed by demons." Seeing Shen Dan's performance, Ye Caixia's expression was extremely ugly, and Shen Huaqi's expression also became awkward and weird. He immediately stopped Shen Dan's performance and asked everyone if they wanted to drink.The others present were still admiring Shen Dan's ghostly appearance and did not respond.Seeing that everyone was still paying attention to Shen Dan, Shen Hua yelled loudly from the seat and asked Mama Zhang to bring a bottle of beer, preferably iced.Then he said to himself that it's a bit sweltering today, so drink some ice to relax.Following the topic, I turned to the weather forecast, reminding everyone that it will rain tomorrow, and it may rain for two or three days.

"It seems that there is a cold air coming." He Yi said in agreement. "I hate rain the most, it's wet everywhere." Wu Meilan said disgustedly, "especially the rain in autumn and winter, it's cold and damp." Finally, everyone's attention was attracted by Shen Huaqi's words, and they stopped paying attention to Shen Dan.Just when everyone focused on the dining table again, a piece of something flew down from the air quietly, and suddenly arrived without saying hello, making it too late for the people at the table to catch it. It had already landed on the plate on the table between.This is an old three-inch black and white photo. The person in the photo is a young woman in her early twenties.

Shen Huaqi was the first to pick up the photo and look at it. The puzzled expression showed that he didn't know the person in the photo.He handed the photo to Ye Caixia and asked her to see if she recognized her.As soon as Ye Caixia took the photo, she let go with a cry of surprise, and the photo fell on the table.Her original ugly face was even uglier, and the hand that touched the photo seemed to be shaking a little, as if it had been electrocuted.Then, whispering "It's impossible, it's impossible..." she left the table in a state of confusion and went upstairs. The people in the restaurant looked at Ye Caixia who had gone away in a daze, and began to study the photo, but no one had ever seen the person in the photo.The young woman in the photo has a simple and sweet smile. The photo should have been taken in the early 1980s.Calculating from the age, this woman seems to be about the same age as Ye Caixia, but she is not the Ye Caixia when she was young, her appearance is too different.The back of the photo is slightly smudged, probably from vegetable juices.

The uninvited photo made the restaurant fall into a moment of silence, Ye Wan looked up at the ceiling, there was only a luxurious chandelier on it, no window opening.Where did the photo come from?This question seemed to confuse everyone at the table, and they didn't understand the photos floating in the air and Ye Caixia's reaction. Mrs. Zhang brought beer and cups, and found that something was wrong, so she didn't dare to ask any more questions, opened the cap of the beer bottle and left.Shen Huaqi was still wondering about the photo, ignoring the opened beer.The cold beer seemed to be angry, foaming in the air-conditioning, and the white foam was getting more and more.Shen Huaqi felt that it was a bit wasteful, so he reached for the beer bottle and prepared to pour it.Before his hand touched the beer bottle, he heard a "bang" burst, followed by a scream.

The cracking sound was from the beer bottle on the table bursting, and the scream was from Shen Huaqi whose hand was cut by the glass.The splashed beer and glass shards made everyone startled. Fearing another explosion, they hurriedly left the table and stood aside.After venting his anger, the beer bottle did not move except for bubbling. "Mother Zhang, Mother Zhang, get the medicine box." Angrily, Shen Huaqi shouted while holding his injured hand. "Ghost-possessed rose garden, ghost-possessed rose garden..." Shen Dan started chanting this mantra again, and while chanting, he left the restaurant like a ghost, as if he was possessed by a ghost again.Wu Meilan hurriedly followed her daughter, and when she left, she kept looking back at the restaurant with a look of panic on her face, I believe she also tasted the ghostly smell here.

Zhang Ma, who came over with the medicine box, looked at the messy tabletop and the injured Shen Huaqi, and asked what happened in panic.No one answered her, and Ye Wan didn't understand how the beer bottle would burst by itself.He Zhuang helped Shen Huaqi pull out the small piece of glass from his hand. Fortunately, the wound was not very big, and it would be fine with a little treatment and bandaging. After the wound was taken care of, Shen Huaqi's mood calmed down a little, but he still couldn't let go of his hatred, and asked Zhang Mama if she had tampered with the beer.Mama Zhang looked aggrieved, and she didn't understand what was going on. When she was making dinner, she thought that Mr. Shen was coming and might want to drink cold beer, so she put two or three bottles of beer in the freezer for a quick freeze, that's it. "It's nothing surprising. The beer has been in the freezer for too long and it has frozen into ice. Once it is taken out and opened, the outside air enters the beer bottle, the temperature will rise rapidly, and the carbon dioxide gas in the beer will quickly turn into bubbles. The volume of the ice cube expanded, and the beer bottle couldn't bear the pressure, so it burst." Gao Pingying checked the beer bottles on the table to comfort everyone. Mrs. Zhang quickly said that this might be the case. She put the beer in the freezer and forgot to take it out. She took it out when Mr. Shen wanted it, but unexpectedly it froze into ice.Ye Wan touched the cracked beer bottle with her fingers, and it was indeed frozen. After the beer bottle turmoil passed, Mama Zhang started to clean up the dining table, and the rest of the people also left the restaurant. This chaotic dinner ended hastily.And that weird photo was finally passed on to Gao Pingying.But the shadow hovers in everyone's heart. Ye Caixia's abnormality makes everyone guess that the woman in the photo has a huge intimidating power to Ye Caixia. At ten thirty in the evening, only Ye Wan and Gao Pingying were in the living room.Shen Le went upstairs to sleep early because of the time difference; Ye Caixia hid in the room and never came out again; Shen Huaqi thought that dinner was not good, so she drank and ate supper alone in the restaurant; Wu Meilan seemed to be watching TV with Shen Dan on the balcony; The figurine went back to his room to read. The sound of Shen Huaqi eating in the dining room came from the quiet living room, Ye Wan frowned, feeling extremely bored.The chaotic dinner made her feel restless. With such a state of mind, it was difficult to think of going to sleep.Ye Wan wanted to go to the balcony to kill some time, but she was afraid of someone on the balcony. She looked at Gao Pingying who was studying the photos, and asked him if he would accompany her to the balcony to watch the night.The other party immediately put away the photo, stood up and made a gesture of invitation. There are no lights on the stairs of the house, only the lights in the corridors of each floor are borrowed, and the lights in the corridors are only energy-saving lamps, and the miserly light is bleak and pale.In a normal small residential room, these lights are already very good, but in this remote and quiet residential building, this light is particularly pitiful and insignificant.The gloom in the secluded place can easily arouse people's imagination. With Shen Dan's spell and the shadow of the dead, the feeling of ghosts comes out.Now, it is a good thing that there are many people, especially those who are righteous. Ye Wan looked at the people around him. He can give people a sense of security, but also has a sense of mystery. "I think you are very mysterious." Ye Wan glanced at the people beside her. "Why?" asked the person next to her. Ye Wan thought for a while and said, "Because everyone who comes here has a reason, only you don't." "A reason is not necessarily a reason, and if you don't say a reason, it doesn't necessarily mean there is no reason." Gao Pingying said with a smile, "From the perspective of behavior, every behavior has a reason. The reason should be The purpose comes, what kind of reason comes from what kind of purpose. If this person does not want others to know his purpose, he will use false purpose to confuse others, and false purpose will have false reasons. Therefore, not saying reasons is better than false Good reason, at least not deceitful." Ye Wan didn't understand what he was talking about, at this time they had already reached the third floor, Gao Pingying pointed to the first room on the third floor, and asked her if she would like to greet her aunt.Ye Wan hesitated and shook her head. He Yi said that her aunt had the habit of insomnia, and people who don't sleep well are most annoyed by being disturbed while sleeping. When they reached the fourth floor, the dim light suppressed a voice, which was very soft, like whispering or muttering, but they couldn't make out what it was.Ye Wan glanced at the special room on the fourth floor, she felt that the voice came from there.And Gao Pingying had already walked towards the special room on the fourth floor, and it was obvious that he also felt the source of the sound.He put his ear to the door of the special room in the middle.Seeing his concentration, Ye Wan held her breath, and wanted to hear what the voice was, but the voice disappeared, it was gone. Gao Pingying left the door, Ye Wan was about to ask, but was stopped by Gao Pingying, he put his finger on his mouth, motioning her to keep quiet.Then, he quickly led her into the opposite flower room, hiding among the flowers and plants.Soon, the special room in the middle of the fourth floor opened, and a figure came out. His aging and amazing face was very pale under the dim light. After locking the door, the figure walked downstairs. Ye Wan was very familiar with that figure, it was her aunt Ye Caixia.What happened by coincidence made Ye Wan suddenly realize that the most suspicious person here is her aunt Ye Caixia.The meaning in Shen Dan's crazy words should be to imply that there is a problem here, and before her father disappeared, the last person she saw was her aunt, and that photo, and Shen Huaqi, and these three special rooms, It seems that many things are related to my aunt. What is the suspicious aunt hiding on the fourth floor?Ye Wan really wanted to break open those three doors to see what was inside.She asked Gao Pingying what she heard outside the door just now.He replied regretfully, and before he could hear anything, her aunt came out.Seeing his calm expression, there was no intention of concealing it, Ye Wan was glad that he didn't hear it, and it might not be a good thing to be heard by him. There was no one on the balcony, Wu Meilan and Shen Dan were gone.The uninhabited balcony flaunts the coldness of darkness under the darkness of night.Gao Pingying walked over and turned on the desk lamp on the shelf, the soft light was full of melancholy.The light reflects on the glass and brings out a ghostly light, just like a ghost house deep in the forest.Ye Wan raised her head and looked at the sky, the sky infected by the tint of glass was dark green, without moon or stars, densely covered with dark clouds, coupled with the dull air, indeed, as Shen Huaqi said, there was a harbinger of rain. Gao Pingying asked her if she wanted to watch TV.Ye Wan shook her head, how could she be in the mood to watch TV, usually she wasn't interested, not to mention the current atmosphere.In her eyes, watching TV is the patent of leisurely or boring people, and she doesn't like wasting time on meaningless things.Her personality is very strange, unlike her parents. The two were walking on the balcony, Gao Pingying suddenly stopped in front of the glass wall facing the door, staring outside the wall.Ye Wan walked over, stood beside him, and followed his example to stare at the night.It was very dark outside, and although I couldn't see clearly, I could guess what it was.It is a field, behind the house, it should also belong to the house, because the iron fence wall of the house also surrounds it.The fields were overgrown with weeds and seemed to be deserted. When she first came here, she saw that there was an iron fence behind the house in the car, because Uncle Zhang didn't lead her to visit the back of the house, and she didn't dare to see it by herself.The first two times I came to the balcony were just sitting on the balcony, and I didn't have a chance to pay attention to the scenery around me at high altitude.Ten years ago, she vaguely remembered that there was a planting shed behind the house, and the deserted field in front of her should be the former planting shed of the rose garden.Ye Wan didn't understand why her aunt abandoned this field, how good it would be to use it. Gao Pingying suddenly turned around and glanced at the balcony, and rushed over. Ye Wan didn't know what happened, she didn't want to stay on the balcony alone, turned off the lights, and hurriedly followed.The people in front ran to the fourth floor and stopped, probably because they couldn't find their target. "What's wrong?" Ye Wan asked Gao Pingying. "Just now, I felt someone was peeping on the balcony." Gao Pingying looked at the corridor on the fourth floor suspiciously. Peeping on the balcony?Who is the one?Ye Wan thought of the pair of men's feet she saw yesterday. Could it be this mysterious person?She looked at the fourth floor, and felt that it was like Shen Dan's gloomy face, expressionless and indifferent, as if he would burst out with vicious words at any time.Who can expect, the mentality behind the silent face, who can know the secret behind the quiet things. After the evening viewing was interrupted, the two planned to go back to their room to rest.Walking to the third floor, I saw Shen Dan sitting on the sofa in the study combing his long hair, like a restless female ghost.The weird figure seemed to remind everyone that people would be possessed by ghosts here. "Miss Shen hasn't rested yet?" Gao Pingying greeted Shen Dan politely. Shen Dan ignored him, and combed his hair on his own. While combing, he said to himself: "Forgive all sins, that's the behavior of Jesus, but Satan will not perfect Jesus, he will plant in everyone's heart. Plant poisonous weeds, so there are no more clean souls, no more kind people. In the end, Jesus was crucified, and Satan possessed human beings." After appreciating Shen Dan's great theory, they walked downstairs. Gao Pingying laughed inexplicably, and praised the mental patient upstairs for his philosophical words.Although Ye Wan didn't understand Shen Dan's words, she could smell some omens from the words. Ye Wan didn't know what would happen next, but something would definitely happen, she had a premonition of this. Back in the room, looking out the window, the wolfhound was dozing off on the ground, as if it was a symbol of peace.Ye Wan, on the other hand, smelled an ominous smell coming from among the clouds in the peaceful night.The air was very dull, and the dull air reminded her of the afternoon ten years ago, when thunderstorms broke out in the dullness, and the horror always liked to hide in the remoteness. "Rose Garden of Ruins" is ominous due to its name.The ominous atmosphere has continued from ten years ago to the present. Someone knocked on the door, Ye Wan opened it, it was Mama Zhang, holding a small bowl in her hand. "Dinner didn't go well, I made some supper, it's lotus seed soup." Mama Zhang's tone was surprisingly kind. "Thank you." Ye Wan thanked her and took the bowl. Within a few minutes of eating this bowl of lotus seed soup, Ye Wan felt drowsy. She felt that something was wrong. This kind of drowsiness was a bit compulsive, which made her feel weak and collapsed on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.