Chapter 5 Chapter Four: The Shadow of Death Occupying the Mind

Su Xiaosan decided to go to Xiang Hanlan. Chen Huaiyuan agreed to go with her.It wasn't like this before, if Su Xiaosan went out to do errands and begged him, he would not leave, but stayed at home to sleep or chat online.Su Xiaosan thought, maybe he really wanted to change something. The rain is still falling. Chen Huaiyuan scolded: "Damn weather!" It is one of Chen Huaiyuan's characteristics that he can't understand everything and complains about everything.To go out with him, be prepared to put up with his constant whining.Su Xiaosan feels that this is not important anymore, what is important is to have a man by her side and feel safe.Sure enough, Chen Huaiyuan complained angrily along the way, ranging from municipal construction to women's clothing.Listening to his nonsense, Su Xiaosan had a faint smile on his face, neither expressing objection nor approval.She thought about Xiang Hanlan, what would happen to Xiang Hanlan if something happened to her?

This world is weird and unpredictable, and anything can happen. Su Xiaosan entered Xiang Hanlan's company building and asked Chen Huaiyuan to wait for her at the entrance of the building.Chen Huaiyuan didn't say anything, took out a cigarette and lit it, and looked indifferently at the people passing by on the street.The reason Su Xiaosan didn't want him to go in with him was because he was afraid that he would talk nonsense at Xiang Hanlan's place of work. Besides, Xiang Hanlan didn't like him, even hated him. After Su Xiaosan entered the building, a pretty lady at the front desk asked with a smile, "Who are you looking for?"

Su Xiaosan smiled and said, "I'm looking for Hanlan." The pretty lady asked again: "Which department does she belong to?" Su Xiaosan was a little surprised: "You don't know Xiang Hanlan?" The pretty lady shook her head with a smile and said, "I'm sorry, I just came here not long ago, and I don't know every employee in the company." Su Xiaosan said: "No wonder! Xiang Hanlan is from the marketing department." The beautiful lady said: "Please wait a moment, I will ask you." Su Xiaosan felt uneasy. After a while, the pretty lady who finished the call told Su Xiaosan that Xiang Hanlan had resigned and left the company a month ago.Su Xiaosan was particularly lost and frustrated. I heard her say that she was dissatisfied with this company before, but she didn't say that she would resign. She should have told herself such a big thing as her resignation, but... Su Xiaosan walked out of the building depressed door, but was extremely worried about Xiang Hanlan.

Chen Huaiyuan was squatting on the side of the street in front of the building, smoking like a bored homeless man. Su Xiaosan said with a gloomy face, "Let's go!" Chen Huaiyuan threw away the cigarette butt, stood up, patted his buttocks and said, "Where are you going?" Su Xiaosan said coldly: "Go to Hanlan's house." Su Xiaosan is very familiar with Xiang Hanlan's home, which is next to the Caobao Road subway station.Opposite the Hongtai Community where her home is located is the Longhua Funeral Parlor.Every time Su Xiaosan saw the wreaths and portraits of the dead outside the row of small shops at the entrance of the funeral parlor, Su Xiaosan panicked and didn't understand why Xiang Hanlan bought the house here.Xiang Hanlan once explained in this way: "Generally, there are prosperous land next to the funeral parlor, which is very good." Su Xiaosan asked her why.Xiang Hanlan didn't give any convincing reason, just said: "Feng Shui master said." Su Xiaosan often has the idea that Xiang Hanlan may encounter erratic ghosts when going out.

This time she has been missing for so long, does it confirm Su Xiaosan's thoughts? When he came to the gate of Hongtai Community, Su Xiaosan felt chills all over his body.Chen Huaiyuan acted as if nothing had happened, and just said: "The government is so fucked up, why hasn't this funeral home been moved away? The funeral home is a cancer in this place." Su Xiaosan didn't leave Chen Huaiyuan at the door, let him go in together, a strong sense of fear rose from the bottom of her heart, like a suffocating black mist. This is the so-called Noble Community, and the greenery inside is very good, with many flowers and plants planted, like a garden.Su Xiaosan came to Xiang Hanlan's downstairs, looked up and saw that colorful clothes were still drying on the balcony on the tenth floor.It seemed that Xiang Hanlan was at home, if she was at home, why did she ignore Su Xiaosan for a long time?Su Xiaosan found it incredible.

Take the elevator up to the tenth floor.Oddly enough, the elevator rattled like it was about to fall. When they got out of the elevator, they had different expressions. Su Xiaosan was terrified. Chen Huaiyuan was very curious, and even touched the clean white wall with his hands, like a child. There are only two households on each floor reached by the elevator.On the left is Xiang Hanlan's house, and the house on the right is unoccupied.Su Xiaosan heard from Hanlan that the owner of the house moved out within half a year, and the reason is unknown.The owner of the house rented it to a Taiwanese, and the Taiwanese moved out after living there for more than two months, for unknown reasons.Later, it was leased to a Guangzhou businessman who was doing business in Shanghai. He moved out after living there for more than a month. This businessman liked to visit and had some contacts with Xiang Hanlan. When he left, he told her that the house was not clean. , and told her to be more careful.When asked Hanlan why he was not clean, he looked terrified and did not continue.After Su Xiaosan heard about this, she also advised her to sell the house and buy a house elsewhere.Xiang Hanlan is a very courageous woman. She said, there is nothing to be afraid of. I am fine watching horror movies in the middle of the night alone. What the hell is going to happen? It is similar to horror movies. Maybe there are no horror movies yet. It's scary, besides, I'm used to living here, and I have to re-adapt to the environment when I go to other places, it's quite annoying, so I'd better stay here.Xiang Hanlan also said that she often wakes up in the middle of the night and vaguely hears a baby crying, but she doesn't care, because it is normal for someone's baby to cry in the middle of the night.But one day, she came back late, and as soon as she opened the elevator door, a shadow flashed past her eyes, because she drank too much wine and thought she was dazzled.When opening the door, Xiang Hanlan heard a baby crying behind her, and looked back, but there was nothing... When she said this, she seemed very calm, but Su Xiaosan was numb from fright.

Su Xiaosan stood in front of the door of her house, reaching out to ring the doorbell. The doorbell rang quite loudly, but no one heard it, and there was no movement in the room. Instead, there was a sound coming from the room opposite her house. As if someone was crying. Su Xiaosan trembled all over. If Chen Huaiyuan wasn't present, she would have screamed. Chen Huaiyuan didn't feel like her, so he ran over, looked in through the peephole of the door, and said while looking: "Why is this house empty, there is no furniture, by the way, there is one thing, on the ground There is only a children's shoe, why is it only a children's shoe, it is still a red embroidered children's shoe."

Su Xiaosan said tremblingly: "Chen Huaiyuan, you bastard! Stop talking!" Chen Huaiyuan didn't understand the fear in her heart at all, so he smiled and returned to her side. Chen Huaiyuan suddenly twitched his nose, took a deep breath, frowned and said, "Xiao Shan, do you smell a strange smell?" Su Xiaosan also took a deep breath, and then said: "It seems to have an unpleasant smell, I said why I feel something is wrong." Chen Huaiyuan bent down and put his nose under the door of Xiang Hanlan's house like a dog. He said: "The strange smell comes from her house!"

Su Xiaosan frowned and said, "Are you sure?" Chen Huaiyuan said seriously: "Sure!" Su Xiaosan also bent down like him, and put her nose under the door. The bad smell seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. Su Xiaosan murmured, "What is this smell?" Chen Huaiyuan said, "It seems to be the stench of rotting corpses." Su Xiaosan thought of Xiang Hanlan, she said loudly: "Chen Huaiyuan, you are talking nonsense!" Chen Huaiyuan said: "I'm not talking nonsense. It's really the smell of rotting corpses. That year, a lonely old man died in our village. It took a long time for anyone to find out. That's what the smell is like. I've smelled it before. No nonsense, this is indeed the stench of corpses!"

There was a bang in Su Xiaosan's head, like being hit by a heavy hammer. "Impossible, impossible—" she said dully, her eyes flickering with horror and bewilderment. Chen Huaiyuan also suddenly realized something, Xiang Hanlan, an arrogant woman who looked down on him, might have died in her own home! Chen Huaiyuan's judgment was correct. Under Su Xiaosan's order, Chen Huaiyuan knocked open the door. There was a strong stench of corpses in the house.This is a house with two rooms and two halls.The door of the master bedroom was closed, and Xiang Hanlan's body was right at the door of the master bedroom, and she fell face down there, making them think that she fell on the floor when she was about to enter the master bedroom from the living room.On the coffee table in the living room was an open bottle of foreign wine, and a tall glass with traces of dried foreign wine in it.Maybe she was drinking and wanted to go into the master bedroom to do something, but suddenly fell to the ground and died.

Her body has decayed. Su Xiaosan broke down in tears. Chen Huaiyuan was also very shocked. He didn't expect that this woman would die. Even though this woman was very unfriendly every time she saw him, and used harsh words to hurt him, trying to separate him and Su Xiaosan, Chen Huaiyuan was still very sad. How sad it is to disappear like this, and no one knows after being dead for so long!Unlike Su Xiaosan, Chen Huaiyuan was so sad that he lost his mind, so he quickly called the police. The police arrived at the scene quickly. While the police were investigating the scene, Su Xiaosan and Chen Huaiyuan were taken back to the police station to take notes.The inquiring policeman had a pretty face and wore a pair of myopia glasses. He had a serious expression, a cold tone, and a condescending look.When he was asking what happened, Chen Huaiyuan looked at him coldly and said nothing, but the sad Su Xiaosan answered him with sobs.In addition, he also asked many questions, such as when Su Xiaosan saw the deceased for the last time, did the deceased have a boyfriend, and if so, who was it, etc. Chen Huaiyuan sat there, looking very impatient. Su Xiaosan answered what she knew, and truthfully said she didn't know what she didn't know. For example, she really didn't know whether Xiang Hanlan had a boyfriend now, and she talked about it before, and she blew it away. The police asked her, who was Xiang Hanlan's former boyfriend?Where do you live? Su Xiaosan shook her head: "I don't know." The policeman said, "How could you not know?" Su Xiaosan said: "It's been too long." At this time, Chen Huaiyuan said: "Mr. Police, have you finished asking?" The little white-faced policeman stared at him: "I must ask clearly!" Chen Huaiyuan said: "I think Xiaosan has answered all the things we know. If you keep asking this question, when will we not be murderers? You are a bit human, don't you see Xiaosan being so sad? ? Can't you just keep her quiet?" The policeman said: "Please don't get excited. I asked some questions to give an explanation to the dead and the living! If it was a homicide, don't you want to solve the case as soon as possible and avenge the dead?" Su Xiaosan said: "Huaiyuan, don't talk about it, he did the right thing." Next, the police asked some random questions and asked them to sign and leave.Before leaving, the boyish policeman asked them to leave their address and contact number. He left a police card for Su Xiaosan and Chen Huaiyuan, telling them to contact them anytime.Walking outside on the street, Chen Huaiyuan cursed something, and threw the police-civilian contact card into the trash can. Back home, Su Xiaosan lay on the bed and cried bitterly. Sitting by the bed, Chen Huaiyuan put one hand on her twitching back, and said weakly, "Xiaosan, don't cry anymore, people are dead and can't be resurrected. I don't think she will let you so sad." Su Xiaosan cried so hard that the sky was so dark that she couldn't hear him at all. Chen Huaiyuan sighed and walked out of the bedroom. He said to himself: "Damn, it's just starving and cold, what kind of world!" He also wanted Su Xiaosan to get some food, but it was impossible, if he asked her to cook at this time, then he would be such a bastard.After thinking about it, I called and ordered two fast meals.While waiting for the fast food, Chen Huaiyuan seemed restless. He wondered if he should leave this place. He didn't want to hear the woman's cry. Don't want to take on too much stuff. Chen Huaiyuan's cell phone rang suddenly. "Don't call me again, I don't want to talk to you!" He said in a low voice. "Haha, are you still angry with me?" It was a woman's crisp voice. Chen Huaiyuan said lightly, "Are you worthy of my anger?" "Hahahaha—" The woman smiled happily. Chen Huaiyuan said in a low voice: "Crazy woman!" After speaking, he hung up the phone, thought for a while, and turned off the phone. The fast food finally arrived. Chen Huaiyuan dug out the wallet from Su Xiaosan's purse, took out 30 yuan and handed it to the young man who delivered the food: "You guys are too much of a swindler, you charge 15 yuan for just such a box of lunch! Why don't you just take it?" Go to the street and grab the kitchen knife!" The young man took the money and said angrily, "Whether you like to eat or not, no one begged you to buy our lunch box, and I am not willing to give it away! Why don't you go to a big restaurant for a big meal!" The young man's words choked him speechless. Chen Huaiyuan was indeed hungry, so he picked up the lunch box and devoured it hungrily. After eating the boxed lunch and drinking a large glass of water, he remembered Su Xiaosan who was still crying on the bed. He walked into the bedroom with the lunch box and said, "Xiao Shan, please, don't cry, get up and eat!" Chen Huaiyuan didn't say it was okay to eat, but as soon as he talked about eating, Su Xiaosan rolled off the bed, rushed into the bathroom, put his head close to the toilet, and vomited wildly. It was on that Sunday night that the death of a man rocked the university campus.On the concrete floor in front of the boys' dormitory building, Zhu Nanhai lay crookedly there, his head was bloody and bloody, and on his body and the ground around him were scattered pieces of pottery and soil, as well as green leaves and flower petals.According to eyewitnesses, when Zhu Nanhai, who was looking depressed, walked to the door of the dormitory, a large ceramic vase suddenly fell from the sky and hit him precisely on the head.When paramedics arrived, he was confirmed dead. This is a weird event. No one grows flowers in the boys' dormitory building, so how could a vase be dropped.The police and the school security office set up a joint investigation team and found nothing, so they had to let it go.People in the entire university campus were in panic, for fear that a vase would suddenly fall from the sky and smash themselves to death. If Zhu Nanhai didn't die, I wouldn't realize the seriousness of the problem. Only I know that Zhu Nanhai's death is related to me.It is impossible for me to tell anyone about the vicious words I said at noon on that Sunday, and it is impossible for me to tell anyone that there is a weasel and the soul of Wang Hairong hidden in my body.There was a mysterious force that caused Zhu Nanhai's death. This mysterious force came from within me. Suddenly, I became terrified. Zhu Nanhai didn't deserve to die, really shouldn't.He is not wrong, how can love someone wrong.Thinking of his huge head and burning eyes, and his gray suit and bouquet of roses, my heart trembles.I am a murderer!A deep sense of self-blame and fear took hold of me.I always come to a corner where there is no one, and cry quietly. I cry for Zhu Nanhai. When I cry, the wind blows, and I can feel Zhu Nanhai's soul crying.I know that there is another soul in this world who has nowhere to rest. I said to the weasel in my body, go away, don't live in my body anymore, and I don't want that mysterious power anymore.But it treats me with a silent attitude, and this silence makes me even more afraid. I am afraid that I will suddenly have malicious thoughts and hurt those innocent people.And Wang Hairong's soul was also silent, even when Zhu Nanhai's soul was howling in the wind, he also remained silent. I dare not let anyone go deep into my inner world. In front of people, I have to pretend nothing happened, as if nothing happened. Zhu Nanhai's death is an understatement. The more I cover it up, the more painful I feel.Zhao Yan, a female classmate who was always arrogant, cast a strange look at me one night after Zhu Nanhai's death and said, "Xiao Ahong, doesn't Zhu Nanhai like you? Why don't you feel sad when he is dead?" ?” The other female students in the same dormitory also looked at me with strange eyes.At that time, I seemed to be standing on a trial platform, and they were the judges, trying to penetrate my soul with their eyes.I tried my best to restrain my terrible emotions, and I didn't say a word. I knew the weasel in my body was about to move, and I was afraid that I would hurt them if I said it, so I left the dormitory silently.They said behind my back that I was a cold-blooded animal, a cold-blooded animal without emotion. I came to a dark corner with no one there, and I looked very sad. If my mother Xiao Sanniang was by my side at this time, I would throw myself into her arms and cry bitterly, telling her while weeping that the weasel did not leave my body.She must let it go, she has the ability.And I don't have this ability.Xiao Sanniang is far away from me, she can't touch me, she can't give me warmth.On this lonely night, I begged the weasel to leave my body again and again.It still treats me with silence.I was suddenly furious, clenched my fists and beat my abdomen vigorously, shouting while beating: "Hurry up, go away, I hate you, I hate you to death! Why don't you go! Harm, You hurry up, I want to live a normal life, I've had enough of you!" It was silent, allowing me to shout angrily. At this moment, I felt that there was a person hiding behind the camphor tree behind me. He was peeping?I fell silent immediately, turned around, and tiptoed towards the camphor tree.At this time, the weasel in the body woke up, and it was saying, this is a dangerous person, don't approach him, don't approach him!I am fighting against it, and I want to walk over it.Before I got close to the camphor tree, I heard a rush of footsteps, and the footsteps disappeared quickly. The man had already run away, and I didn't even see his back. I stood there dumbfounded. Did he discover the secret of my heart? There was a feeling of imminent disaster, and I was submerged like a flood of fear.I really want the weasel to leave my body quickly, it has been with me for so many years, it has become a part of my life, I have a deep affection for it, if it wasn't for Zhu Nanhai's death, I might have lived with it in peace go down.Now, if it doesn't leave my body, it hurts because of me.I don't want it to hurt others, and I don't want it to be hurt by others. I have very complicated feelings at this time. In fear, I lost my mind. I went back to the dormitory, took a sharp fruit knife, and went back to the dark corner.I pointed the tip of the knife at my stomach and said in a trembling voice, "Go quickly, if you don't leave, I will use the knife to cut open your stomach, so you have nowhere to hide." It is silent. I still tremblingly said: "I'm not joking with you, you hurry up and go!" It's still silent. The hand holding the knife was shaking, and a rush of hot blood rushed to my forehead. The knife went into my stomach. I heard a sharp whine. If the students in the dormitory hadn't noticed that my expression was wrong when I went back to get the knife, they might not have followed me out, nor would they have rescued me.When I woke up in the hospital bed, I saw many concerned faces. They were my classmates.I was very surprised, why are they here, they usually ignore me. Zhao Yan said emotionally: "Ah Hong, we blamed you wrongly, and shouldn't say those words to provoke you. Now we know how painful you are when Zhu Nanhai is gone. Usually we seldom care about you, we always think You are a cold-blooded animal without emotion, I'm sorry, Ah Hong! You have to think about it, living well is the best memorial for the deceased." I understand, it turned out that they thought I committed suicide because of Zhu Nanhai.How could I commit suicide? I haven’t found a place to put my soul for Wang Hairong. Most importantly, I’m going to die. What about Xiao Sanniang? Don't let her die alone in the wild boar col country. I smiled at them: "Thank you!" I won't explain anything to them, they can think whatever they want, and that's fine, people won't doubt me. My stomach is empty. What about the weasel that has been with me for many years? I felt a dull pain in my heart. Su Xiaosan's sadness is not so easy to disappear. The shadow of death occupied her mind. She calmed down a bit, trying to use work to dispel her sad emotions.As a result, after reading a few pages of the manuscript, I couldn't continue.Xiang Hanlan's gloomy face appeared on the computer screen, as if saying to her: "Xiao Shan, I died unjustly—" Su Xiaosan's tears flowed down again. Chen Huaiyuan was lying on the sofa watching TV, which was turned on very loudly. Su Xiaosan said loudly: "Chen Huaiyuan, can you turn down the sound on your TV! I don't know where you are in such a good mood, you can watch trash TV dramas with peace of mind!" Chen Huaiyuan turned down the volume of the TV and muttered, "Everyone is dead, what's the use of being sad!" "You—" Su Xiaosan stared at him angrily with tears in her eyes. Chen Huaiyuan continued to watch TV as if nothing had happened. Su Xiaosan sighed, wiped her eyes, there was nothing she could do about him. Maybe, Xiang Hanlan died, and he was happy because no one would say anything about him. Su Xiaosan suddenly remembered that little white-faced police officer. Find out his police and civilian contact card, which has his name and phone number on it.His name is Zhong Feiyang.Su Xiaosan walked into the bedroom, closed the door, and called Zhong Feiyang. "Excuse me, is this police officer Zhong Feiyang?" "I'm Zhong Feiyang. Are you?" "I'm Su Xiaosan, and it was you who recorded my statement yesterday—" "Understood, it's Miss Su. Do you have anything to do?" "I want to ask, how did my friend Xiang Hanlan die?" "Oh, I'm busy now, you can go and buy today's evening paper, which has a report on this case." "thanks!" Su Xiaosan walked out the door impatiently.