Chapter 8 Chapter 8 The Untold Secret

In the amphitheater, Zhou Peng, the youngest teacher in the Chinese Department, is teaching the students about "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" and the demeanor of Wei and Jin people in ancient Chinese literature.There were no empty seats in the audience, and most of them were girls. The reason why these girls from the Chinese Department were able to listen to the class so intently was that apart from Zhou Peng's unconventional teaching style, the most important thing was that Zhou Peng had a face that many girls admired. It can be said that more than half of the girls came here to attend classes because of this face.The same is true for the four sophomore girls who live in dormitory 315.

"Xu Miao, why do I never get tired of seeing this face?" Chen Ling held her chin, looking fascinated, "Especially his melancholy eyes, I simply can't use an accurate word to describe it. I think his elegance is not inferior to the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove', comparable to Ji Kang." "And his small white teeth." Li Yan, who was sitting behind Chen Ling, said, "The health of a man's teeth shows that he has a particularly strong ability in that area." "Where did you hear this argument?" Dong Yixuan, who was beside her, tilted her head with a look of surprise, "Do you have a personal experience?"

"I would like to, but it seems that there is no chance." Li Yan said with a low smile, "I heard that Zhou Peng's girlfriend is very beautiful, and she is also a fashion model." A class ended in the whispers of a few girls chirping.After walking out of the classroom, Chen Ling was still standing outside the classroom, refusing to leave. Xu Miao grabbed her and said, "Let's go, nymphomaniac, she already has someone to marry, so you should give up on that heart." "I'm just admiring it." Chen Ling curled her lips, sighed softly and said, "For such a beauty, you can only watch it from a distance and not play with it!"

The night wind in early autumn blows comfortably over the sycamore tree outside the window of the female dormitory of Shujiang University, and the lush branches and leaves sway gently, making a harmonious rustling sound, as if singing a soft lullaby for the sleeping girls.The moonlight spilled into pieces of warm clear yellow from the window, adding a little warmth to the boudoirs full of faint fragrance. A thin figure appeared downstairs in the girls' dormitory.She looked a little tired, and her big eyes were red with alcohol.She walked to the door of the dormitory, pulled the useless lock on the door, and tiptoed upstairs.

Although she was very careful, the empty and silent corridor still amplified her light footsteps dozens of times. She came to the door of bedroom 315, pushed open the door gently, and saw that her three roommates were already sound asleep.She breathed a sigh of relief, stooped to her bedside, took off her clothes gently, and slowly got into the bed. She closed her eyes, but the thrilling scene just now still appeared in front of her eyes. She was born in a single-parent family.The mother's meager monthly salary could not afford her tuition at all.In order to earn enough tuition fees, she worked as a tutor and washed dishes in fast food restaurants, but the money she earned was pitifully small.In desperation, she chose a part-time job, sitting in a nightclub.

But she only sings and drinks with the guests, and never sells her body. Although the income will be greatly reduced in this way, she is already very content. But tonight, when she was singing with the guests, a familiar figure suddenly appeared.The man who rushed into the private room seems to have opened the door because he went to the wrong room.Although only for a short time, both she and the man saw each other. She fled the nightclub in a panic.Although she was lying on the bed at the moment, she couldn't fall asleep because of her uneasy mood. She was worried that her behavior would be exposed, which would ruin her studies.Of course, she was also afraid that her boyfriend would know about this matter, if that was the case, then she would have nothing.

Just as she was tossing and turning on the bed in fear, the phone suddenly vibrated slightly beside her pillow. She picked up her phone and saw a text message coming in.She pressed the read button and saw a message that made her shudder: "I saw you tonight, but I will not expose you to the school. At 12 o'clock tomorrow night, come to the abandoned staff dormitory building north of the school to find me. I will wait for you in room 404." After she silently read the message, she felt that an ice pick was slowly piercing her heart. The next day, time seemed to grow wings, and it slipped into the night without giving her a chance to breathe. At 11:30, all three roommates fell asleep.

She took the self-defense knife that her boyfriend gave her with her.She didn't know what the use of this knife was, because she knew herself too well, and even if something happened, she couldn't use this knife to stab the other party. Walking on the small road on campus, she felt exhausted physically and mentally. After walking a few hundred meters, she turned north and saw the dilapidated dormitory building lurking in the night. She didn't know why that man asked her to meet her in this dormitory building that was going to be demolished, but she knew very well that if she didn't come to the appointment, then the news about her sitting on stage in the nightclub was very likely to spread to the school. .

This dormitory building with decades of history is now in its dying years.She raised her head and looked at the dilapidated and crumbling building in front of her, a chill never felt in her heart. She bit her lip and walked up the dark stairs.When she came to the fourth floor, she saw what the man said was room 404. She stood at the door and peeked inside along the crack of the door.At this time, light footsteps suddenly sounded in the corridor, and they were getting closer.She subconsciously turned her head to look, only to see a familiar face appearing in front of her eyes. "Come in." The man threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, and gently pushed open the door of Room 404.

"You, what do you want from me?" She stood at the door without moving. "Come in and we'll talk." The man stepped inside, as if expecting that she would follow in. She hesitated for a moment, followed the man into the room. "Close the door." There was no doubt in the man's voice.She shivered and closed the door behind her. "Let's make a deal." The man approached her, reeking of alcohol. "Do, what deal?" She trembled in her heart, as if she had a premonition of something. "Hehe." The man couldn't help smiling, showing his neat white teeth, "Don't pretend to be confused, you know what I want."

"I don't understand what you mean." She subconsciously took a step back, but her body was blocked by the door. "You have become a lady, don't you understand what I want?" The man took a step forward, and the two bodies almost touched each other. "As long as you promise me, you can graduate from this school." The man grabbed her shoulder with his hand.She wanted to hide, but was pushed against the door by the man's body, unable to move at all. "It's not what you think." She tried her best to turn her face away, avoiding the man's mouth that smelled of tobacco and alcohol, "I just sang and drank with the guests, nothing else." "Who can believe you?" The man said viciously, "Do you think you are nobler than others? Stop pretending to be innocent in front of me, I've seen it more." After the man finished speaking, his two hands began to grope around her body irregularly. "Don't, don't do this, please." She was terrified and began to resist.And instinctively exhausted all his strength to push the man out. The man didn't expect her to be so strong, he couldn't help but staggered, but immediately stabilized his body.Just when the man was about to pounce on her again, she took out the knife from her pocket. When the man saw the knife in her hand gleaming coldly in the dark, he couldn't help but froze. "Don't come here." She felt her hands shaking violently. "I don't think you would do that." The man saw the timidity in her heart and approached her step by step. She knew that she didn't have the courage to kill, but when the man approached her, she threw the knife in her hand at him forcefully.And taking advantage of the man's chance to avoid, he opened the door and rushed out. When she ran up the corridor, she suddenly noticed a black figure flashed in the opposite room, but before she could react, it disappeared.At this moment, she couldn't care about that much anymore, and ran towards the stairs like a frightened rabbit.And at this moment, she heard a dull sound from behind, like a sack full of sand being thrown on the ground.She didn't dare to look back at all, and ran downstairs in a panic. She ran back to the dormitory in one breath, hid in the bed and waited for the dawn in fear. "Something happened, something happened." Excited Li Yan suddenly ran into the dormitory and said to her three roommates, "Something happened." "What happened?" Chen Ling put down the book in her hand and looked at the expression on Li Yan's face and said, "Seeing how excited you are, you seem to be afraid that the world will not be chaotic." "Yes, Li Yan, what is it that makes you so excited?" Dong Yixuan also asked. Li Yan glanced at Xu Miao who was approaching, then turned around and closed the bedroom door. "Vice-Principal Zhou Jianbin is dead." Li Yan said in a low voice, "This morning, someone found the body of Vice-Principal Zhou in front of Room 404 of the abandoned faculty dormitory building." "Ah!" Dong Yixuan's eyes widened, "Tell me, how did he die?" "It's not clear at the moment." "What is Vice President Zhou doing there?" Xu Miao swallowed, with a look of disbelief. "How do I know?" Li Yan curled her lips, "He doesn't report to me wherever he goes." "It's over, it's over." Chen Ling shook her hand, with a disappointed expression on her face. "Chen Ling, what does this have to do with you? You're in a hurry." Li Yan looked at Chen Ling with a confused face. "Did you forget?" Chen Ling looked at the other three and said, "Vice Principal Zhou is Zhou Peng's father, so we won't see Zhou Peng for a while?" "Cut!" Li Yan waved her hand, "You can figure it out. I thought you were sorry that our school lost such an excellent leader." "That's right, that's right." Chen Ling seemed to suddenly recall something, "Have you heard that three years ago, a sophomore girl jumped off that faculty dormitory building and fell to her death?" "I've heard of it." Dong Yixuan nodded hastily, "It is said that the girl ran out of Room 404 at that time, and then jumped directly from the upstairs." "It's also Room 404?" Li Yan looked at Dong Yixuan in surprise, "What's going on here?" "It's a coincidence." Xu Miao couldn't help but trembled, and looked at his classmates, "I think it can only be the reason." "I don't think so." Dong Yixuan shook her head, looking thoughtful, "There must be something wrong here." "What's the problem?" The other three girls looked at Dong Yixuan at the same time. "Room 404 must be haunted." Dong Yixuan looked serious, and looked at the three pairs of puzzled eyes in front of her, "Think about it, that girl ran out of Room 404 three years ago, and jumped into the room without hesitation. After three years, our beloved Vice Principal Zhou died there again for no apparent reason. Think about it, that dormitory building has been abandoned for many years, why did that girl and Vice Principal Zhou appear there? There is no necessary connection between the two events before and after, so I think it can only be explained in this way.” "The analysis makes sense." Xu Miao nodded slightly. "There's a reason." Li Yan snorted disapprovingly, "Have any of you ever seen a ghost? What does a ghost look like? Please describe it to me, but don't fool me with those from Liaozhai." As soon as Li Yan's words came out of her mouth, the other three fell silent and looked at each other in blank dismay. In the middle of the night, Xu Miao, who was lying on the bed, suddenly woke up from a nightmare, gasping for air with his mouth open, as if he would suffocate immediately if he closed his mouth.She raised her trembling hands, wiped the fine beads of sweat from her temples and forehead, and turned her head to look at Chen Ling who was sleeping opposite. Chen Ling was sleeping soundly, Xu Miao was a little jealous with her even breathing and calm expression on her face. Xu Miao sat up from the bed and looked at the small alarm clock on the bedside table next to him - midnight.She got off the bed gently, and walked out of the bedroom with the towel. There was silence in the dark corridor.Xu Miao combed her disheveled hair with her hands, and walked towards the bathroom in a daze. As soon as the cold water touched her face, Xu Miao shivered violently, and the topic she had talked with Li Yan during the day rang in her ears again. When Xu Miao finished washing his face, wrung out the towel and was about to walk out of the bathroom, he suddenly heard light footsteps coming from the corridor.She stretched her head to look, only to see a familiar figure flashing at the stairs and then disappearing. "Dong Yixuan!" Xu Miao's heart skipped a beat.Although she didn't know where Dong Yixuan was going so late, she couldn't bear the curiosity and drove her out of the bathroom quickly, before she could wake up the other two roommates, she quietly followed. Walking out of the dormitory, Xu Miao saw Dong Yixuan walking along the side of the road not far away. After Xu Miao followed for a few hundred meters, she found Dong Yixuan turning north.She hesitated for a moment, then turned to the path leading to the abandoned faculty dormitory building. Not far from the dormitory building, Xu Miao found Dong Yixuan stopped.She hastily hid behind a tree and poked her head out to spy forward. Less than half a minute later, Dong Yixuan walked into the dormitory building.When Dong Yixuan's figure disappeared in the corridor, Xu Miao walked out from behind the tree and followed her with a cat. Listening to Dong Yixuan's footsteps ahead, Xu Miao adjusted her speed to prevent Dong Yixuan from finding her.Xu Miao went up to the stairs on the fourth floor and poked his head out to look in the direction of Room 404 in the corridor on the fourth floor. In the ghostly corridor, there are two vague figures standing at the door of Room 404.Xu Miao recognized Dong Yixuan, who was a little shorter, and the taller one was obviously a man from his figure, but she couldn't see the man's face clearly. Xu Miao pricked up her ears, but she didn't hear any sound.At this moment, Dong Yixuan pushed open the door of Room 404 and walked in with that tall man. Xu Miao bravely came to the corridor.Through the window of Room 404, she saw faint lights flickering inside.She didn't dare to move forward, but returned to the entrance of the corridor. About ten minutes later, Xu Miao heard the door of Room 404 rang. Dong Yixuan walked out of the room and walked towards the stairs.Xu Miao hurried downstairs in fright. Xu Miao returned to the dormitory. When she got into bed, she heard light footsteps in the corridor.She squinted nervously at the door. Sure enough, as the footsteps approached, Dong Yixuan's slender figure appeared at the door of the bedroom.Xu Miao hurriedly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, but her body was trembling slightly under the blanket. The footsteps were getting closer.Although her eyes were closed, Xu Miao could feel Dong Yixuan walking to her bed. "Xu Miao." Dong Yixuan called out in a low voice. As Dong Yixuan called her name, Xu Miao felt a gust of hot air on her face.Not only that, she could even feel a certain smell from Dong Yixuan's body. When Dong Yixuan's hair fell to her nose, Xu Miao realized that Dong Yixuan was close at hand. "Could it be that she found me, so she deliberately came to test me?" Xu Miao felt her breathing becoming more and more rapid.In order not to let Dong Yixuan see the flaw, she muttered something vague on purpose, then turned over, facing the wall, trying to make her breathing sound more even. It worked.Dong Yixuan stood still for a while, then climbed onto the bed, and after a while, there was no movement. At dawn, the faint morning light penetrates the leaves of sycamore trees and sprinkles silently on the window sill.She rubbed her sleepy eyes and sat up on the bed.Although after a night's sleep, she still felt listless and tired. In class, she hardly listened to a word the teacher said.The death of Vice President Zhou made her feel very shocked and frightened.What made her even more depressed was that she had to pretend to be nonchalant in front of her classmates and tease each other. She felt that she was about to collapse.She didn't know how Vice Principal Zhou died, but she would always think of the knife thrown at Vice Principal Zhou. She tried her best to recall what happened that night, in order to make sure that the knife she threw did not stab the beast. On the way back to the dormitory, she called her boyfriend.Her boyfriend is also a sophomore, and he is also a handsome boy who is popular with his peers. In the small cafe not far from the campus, she and her boyfriend were sitting face to face.The boyfriend saw her absent-mindedness and held her hand carefully. "What's wrong with you?" the boyfriend asked softly. "No, nothing." She murmured, "I, I just feel tired." "No, you have something on your mind." The boyfriend seemed to see that she had a secret hidden in her heart. "It's really nothing." She raised her head, looked at her boyfriend's concerned eyes, and couldn't help but burst into tears.She really wanted to tell everything to her beloved, but she didn't have the courage at all. She stood up and turned to her boyfriend, like a poor kitten, snuggling in his arms, feeling the only warmth. It was night, and it was raining lightly outside the window.She was still restless in bed.She dared not close her eyes, fearing that if she opened them again, the police would appear in front of her. She turned over and saw the phone flash.She pressed the read button and saw a nightmarish text message. "Vice Principal Zhou was killed by you. I saw everything, including your knife, which is in my hand. If you don't want your boyfriend to know that you are sitting in a nightclub and don't want the police to take you away , please remember to remit 1,000 yuan to this account regularly every month. This 1,000 yuan can save your life and your love." She silently finished this short message, and then looked at the string of cold Arabic numerals at the end of the text message, feeling that she was falling into a cold abyss. The number was unfamiliar, and she didn't know who the demon who blackmailed her was, but she could feel that this person was near her and was watching her all the time. She called the strange number back, but the phone had been turned off. On the weekend, when only Xu Miao and Dong Yixuan were left in the dormitory, Xu Miao walked to the door, looked around, and then closed the door. "What are you doing closing the door?" Dong Yixuan, who was half lying on the bed and playing with her mobile phone, looked up at Xu Miao. "Yixuan, are we best friends?" Xu Miao sat beside Dong Yixuan's bed. "Yes." Dong Yixuan looked at Xu Miao strangely, "What's wrong with you today, you're mysterious." "Since we are good friends, tell me, why did you go to that dormitory building that night? Who was that person with you?" Xu Miao asked in a low voice. "Are you following me?" Dong Yixuan looked at Xu Miao in surprise, "How could you do this?" "I didn't intend to follow you either." Xu Miao felt her face was hot, she avoided Dong Yixuan's questioning eyes and explained, "I came out of the bathroom that night and accidentally saw you Go downstairs, I didn't know where you were going at the time, but it was so late, I was worried about your accident, so I followed you." "Oh, so that's the case." Dong Yixuan's face softened a little.She leaned back, thought for a while and said, "Xu Miao, I think it's better that you don't know about some things." "Actually, I don't want to ask so much." Xu Miao looked at Dong Yixuan with some embarrassment, "Everyone has their own privacy, I'm just worried about you. As soon as someone died in that place, you ran away in the middle of the night Go, what if something happens?" "Don't worry, Xu Miao." Dong Yixuan smiled softly, "Thank you for caring about me so much, I'll be fine, but I hope you don't tell others about it." Dong Yixuan's eyes were a little sad, but they were more meaningful.This kind of look made Xu Miao feel very uneasy, but she knew that she could not continue to ask, so she stretched her arms and said, "Don't worry, Yixuan, I won't tell anyone. Since you said it's okay, I'll let you know." Stop asking." "That's good." Dong Yixuan smiled happily, "A good sister should be like this." The neon lights of the Marriott Nightclub appear colorful and intoxicating in the bleak late night.She got off the taxi, said hello to the waiter at the door, and walked straight to the depths of the luxurious life. At noon three days ago, she remitted 1,000 yuan to the designated account.This was the third time she had compromised with that despicable blackmailer. Although she was angry, she was helpless. In the evening, she received a text message: "You are doing well, I hope you will continue to work hard." After reading the text message, she had the urge to drop her phone on the ground.But she finally bit her lip and swallowed the tears back into her stomach. At three o'clock in the morning, dragging her body drugged by alcohol, she walked out of the nightclub with a tired face.When she was about to get in the car, she suddenly saw a familiar figure standing across the road. She was stunned, and hurriedly got into a taxi and fled.When she quietly returned to the dormitory and was lying on the bed, she received a text message: "I saw you, why? Why are you a miss?" The heart-piercing pain finally turned into tears gushing out.She wiped the tears dripping on the screen with her hands, and replied a text message with trembling fingers: "I'll wait for you at the cafe tomorrow night, see you soon." The auditorium was full of seats.When Zhou Peng stepped onto the podium, there was a small commotion in the audience, but as Zhou Peng glanced at everyone, the whispers disappeared in an instant, and everyone was staring at the podium intently. "He seems to have lost weight." Chen Ling tilted her head and muttered to Dong Yixuan. "Father is dead, can the son not be thin?" Dong Yixuan replied in a low voice, "This is human nature, if it is fat, it is abnormal." "But it looks more energetic this way." Li Yan, who was sitting in the back row, put her head between Chen Ling and Dong Yixuan and said, "The face seems to be a little pale, which makes people feel pity." "It's more appropriate to say cold." Xu Miao smacked his lips and said in a low voice, "It looks more attractive than before." "Well, Xu Miao's comments are very good." Chen Ling turned her head to look at Xu Miao, "I admire your appreciation of men." "But his mental state still looks good." Dong Yixuan touched Chen Ling with her hand. "This is the legendary dedication." Chen Ling rested her cheeks on her hands and stared at the stage. At 8 o'clock in the evening, bedroom 315 in the girls' dormitory was extremely quiet.Li Yan was half lying on the bed, listening to MP3 as if no one else was there, Dong Yixuan was doing thumb exercises, and Xu Miao was holding up a book and reading it intently. "Li Yan, that day you said that Zhou Peng's girlfriend is a fashion model?" Chen Ling put down her phone, looked up at Li Yan who was on the upper bunk and said, "Have you seen Zhou Peng's girlfriend?" "What did you say?" Li Yan took off her earphones and looked at Chen Ling with her head hooked. "Have you met Zhou Peng's girlfriend?" Chen Ling repeated. "No." Li Yan shook her head, "I also heard from others." "Maybe it's all rumors." Chen Ling scratched the tip of her nose, "It would be fine if he didn't have a girlfriend." "Stop!" Li Yan stretched out her hand and said, "Student Chen Ling, I sincerely advise you to put your studies first. It's best to put away those unrealistic thoughts as soon as possible, so as not to end up with a pink, rouge, fragrant Xiao Yu died." Li Yan's words made Xu Miao and Dong Yixuan turn their eyes to Chen Ling at the same time. "Li Yan is right." Dong Yixuan put down the phone and said, "Student Chen Ling, it's better to be realistic. Didn't you also say that this kind of beauty can't be played with?" "I also think you are a little whimsical." Xu Miao continued Dong Yixuan's words, "It's enough to dream about it when the spring heart sprouts, don't daydream." "Why am I so whimsical?" Chen Ling glared at Xu Miao and said, "Based on my beauty, how can I not be worthy of him?" "Okay, okay, I won't chat with you idiots anymore." Dong Yixuan stood up and said, "Miss Ben is going out to get some air, remember to leave the door open for me." Seeing Dong Yixuan walk out of the dormitory, Xu Miao picked up the book again and said, "A man like Zhou Peng, who is so lonely from the bottom of his heart, can't stand meaningless arguments like ordinary people like us." "Incisive." Li Yan said to Chen Ling with a thumbs up, "You heard it, this is a sharp analysis, I think you should give up that idea." "I think it's a fart." Chen Ling curled her lips, glanced at Xu Miao and said, "Maybe that kind of man is not good enough." "It's unlikely." Li Yan said with a smile, "Didn't you see his teeth? How healthy!" "It's your fallacious theory again." Xu Miao also said with a smile, "Good teeth can only mean that his chewing ability is strong, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with that aspect." "Xu Miao's words are what I love to hear." Chen Ling bared her teeth at Xu Miao. "If you can't eat grapes, you say the grapes are sour." Li Yan said as she lay on the bed again, "The mentality of a typical little woman." At 11 o'clock in the evening, she sat face to face with her livid boyfriend in the cafe. "How do you know?" She lowered her head, not daring to look her boyfriend in the eye. "I received a text message." The boyfriend took out his mobile phone and put it in front of her. "At first I didn't believe it at all, but the time and place on it were very clear, so I went to prove that the text message was just a prank. But ..." The boyfriend stopped talking. "Listen to my explanation?" She felt her nose a little sore. "What do you explain? There is no longer any prostitution. What you do is your own will." "But I need money." She wanted to tell the story of her being blackmailed, but she held back in the end.She didn't have the courage to tell what happened that night. "Let's break up." The boy looked at her silently for a while, then took the watch off his left wrist, "Don't you need money? I'll return this to you. We will go our separate ways in the future. Don't blame me." Looking at the birthday gift she bought for the boy in front of her with frugal expenses, she lowered her head deeply. "But please rest assured, although we broke up, I will keep this secret for you." The boy stood up. "No, please don't go." She just wanted to reach out to pull the boy, but the boy's eyes made her give up the idea of ​​keeping him.She loves boys, but she doesn't want to pray. This evening, she bought herself wine for the first time.When she staggered out of the bar, a tall figure watched her silently from the shadows. In the next few days, she kept calling that strange number back, but the other party was always turned off. The departure of her boyfriend made her feel stupid.In the end, she decided not to send money to that account anymore. Early in the morning of the weekend, Dong Yixuan stood in the dormitory and said loudly: "Today is my birthday. In order to celebrate this great festival, I announce that everyone in the dormitory will participate in the 'Sing' tonight. PARTY held at KTV." After Dong Yixuan finished speaking, she looked at Xu Miao and Li Yan and said, "You two can reserve any opinions, and I will mention them after my birthday." "I have no objection." Li Yan waved her hand, "It's just that money is a little tight this month. I think birthday gifts should be more about courtesy than affection." "What about you, Xu Miao?" Dong Yixuan turned her gaze to her friend. "Of course I have no objection." Xu Miao smiled and said, "I'll go buy you a gift in a while." "The gift is free." Dong Yixuan stretched out an arm and said, "I accept everyone's wishes, as long as you sing me a birthday song together." "Well, I am willing to give this gift." Li Yan said with a smile, "Dong Yixuan still has taste and understands that spirit is more important than material." "Chen Ling went out early in the morning, should I call her?" Xu Miao glanced at Chen Ling's bed. "Don't worry, I will definitely notify her." Dong Yixuan picked up the satchel and said, "Xu Miao, you are fine anyway, why don't you come and do your hair with me, I have to do a new hairstyle today to celebrate my birthday 20th birthday." The lights in the KTV private room are dim as before.There are glasses of frothy beer and some snacks on the coffee table; on the LCD monitor hanging on the wall, a coy woman is winking at the person sitting on the sofa; Slowly, an out-of-key mezzo-soprano came out. "Drink and drink." Chen Ling stood up and raised the wine glass high, "Today is Ms. Dong Yixuan's 20th birthday. On behalf of myself, I would like to wish her a happy birthday. Wishes come true!" He gulped down the beer in the glass. "By the way, Chen Ling." Dong Yixuan looked at Chen Ling and said after drinking, "I remember you have a very beautiful hair flower, why didn't I see you wearing it?" "No, I don't know where I threw it." Chen Ling was stunned for a moment, "Why did you suddenly think of asking this?" "Didn't you see my new hair?" Dong Yixuan shook her hair and said, "I usually tie it up in class, so I thought of your hairdo." "That's easy." Chen Ling seemed relieved.She put down the cup, walked in front of Dong Yixuan, looked at Dong Yixuan's hair and said, "The new hairstyle is very beautiful, I will take you to buy that kind of hairdo later." "Okay, okay, let me say a few words." Li Yan stood up from the sofa, raised the cup in front of Dong Yixuan and said, "Although I didn't buy you a gift because of tight budget, even though I will eat for nothing tonight It’s in vain, but my blessings are sincere. Happy birthday Yixuan.” "Thank you." Dong Yixuan drank a few sips with Li Yan. "It's your turn, Xu Miao." Chen Ling snatched the microphone from Xu Miao's hand, "Stop singing, your tune is out of tune, if you don't read the lyrics, I really don't know what song you are singing Hurry up and say something nice to Dong Yixuan." Xu Miao walked up to Dong Yixuan, smiled and said, "Yixuan, you are so beautiful today." "Thank you." Dong Yixuan stroked her hair that still smelled of perm water, "No matter how beautiful you are, I can't compare to you." "Stop talking nonsense." Xu Miao picked up the wine glass on the coffee table and said, "Happy birthday." "Oh." Li Yan suddenly exclaimed. "What's the matter, Li Yan?" Xu Miao was startled, and hurriedly turned to Li Yan. "Yeah, Li Yan, what's wrong with you for a moment of surprise?" Chen Ling also turned her head away. "We forgot one big thing." Li Yan looked at Dong Yixuan and said, "We forgot to buy Dong Yixuan a birthday cake." "Yes!" Chen Ling slapped her head and said, "How can you forget the most important thing?" "It's okay." Xu Miao waved his hand and said, "I originally wanted to buy a cake for Yixuan, but she said that someone had already bought it for her." "Really?" Li Yan and Chen Ling looked at Dong Yixuan at the same time. "Yes." Dong Yixuan nodded with a smile, "The cake will be here soon." "Then I have to turn off the light quickly." Li Yan stretched out her hand and pressed the switch on the wall. "Turn off the TV too." Chen Ling picked up the remote control and turned off the TV, and the private room was plunged into darkness. "When will the cake come?" Chen Ling's impatient voice sounded in the darkness. "Immediately." Dong Yixuan's voice came from the corner. At this time, the door of the private room was gently pushed open from the outside, and a birthday cake filled with burning candles first caught the eyes of several girls. "Ah!" Chen Ling and Li Yan screamed at the same time.When Xu Miao saw the man holding the cake, he was also taken aback.In addition to the man's face, the tall figure in the dark made her feel inexplicably terrified. "Happy birthday." The man put the cake on the coffee table, looked at the girls present and said, "Dong Yixuan told me that today is her birthday, I hope I can come to celebrate her and meet you guys by the way How many people." "Mr. Zhou, I really didn't expect you to come!" Chen Ling stood up from the sofa first, and walked straight to Zhou Peng, "You, why did you come?" "Why can't I come?" Zhou Peng smiled at Chen Ling and said, "I am your teacher. My students invited me on their birthdays. Of course I am willing to come." "But, but." Chen Ling was so excited that she was a little incoherent. "Don't be too much." Dong Yixuan pointed her mouth at the candle, "Stop talking so much, I have to blow out the candle first." "Let's make a wish first." Xu Miao said from the side. "I'd have forgotten if you didn't tell me." Dong Yixuan glanced at Xu Miao and slowly closed her eyes. When Dong Yixuan opened her eyes, there were tears in her eyes. "Yixuan, what's wrong with you?" Xu Miao asked hastily. "Yeah, Yixuan, why are you crying?" Li Yan and Chen Ling were also at a loss, not understanding what happened to Dong Yixuan. "Do you know what my wish is?" Dong Yixuan raised her face and looked at Zhou Peng. "What wish did you make?" Xu Miao asked quietly from the side. "I hope good people live a safe life." After saying this, the gentle expression on Dong Yixuan's face suddenly disappeared, and turned into a somewhat incomprehensible resentment. hell!" After Dong Yixuan finished speaking, she puffed her cheeks and blew on the candle.As the candles were extinguished, the private room was suddenly pitch black. "Turn on the light." Chen Ling's voice sounded strange. "I, I'm going to drive." Li Yan also trembled. Just when Li Yan was about to reach out to turn on the light, a dull sound suddenly came out.当包房里重新恢复光亮时，所有的人都看到，在蛋糕的上面，插着一把刀！ “为我唱支生日歌吧。”董漪萱似乎没有看到蛋糕上的那把刀，她站起身走到点唱机跟前，用手指轻轻地点了几下，然后拿起麦克风走到许苗的面前说，“许苗，这首歌我希望你能为我唱。” “祝、祝你生日快乐，祝你生日快、快乐……”许苗感觉自己拿着麦克风的手抖得厉害，她瞟了一眼那把插在蛋糕上的刀，浑身禁不住战栗起来。 当许苗跑着调、磕磕巴巴地把生日歌唱完后，董漪萱把蛋糕上的那把刀拔了出来。 “漪萱，你这是干什么？”陈伶吓得一哆嗦，紧紧地盯着董漪萱手里的那把刀。 “是啊，漪萱，你究竟怎么了？”李燕退到了周鹏的身后，“周老师也在这儿，有什么话可以好好说。” 董漪萱拿着刀晃了晃，冷笑着问道：“你们有人见过这把刀吗？” “没、我没见过。”陈伶的头摇得跟拨浪鼓似的。 “我也没见过。”李燕也摇了摇头。 “你呢，许苗？”董漪萱把脸转向许苗，“你见过这把刀吗？” “我……”许苗犹豫了一下，看了周鹏一眼，然后像是鼓足了勇气似的点了点头，“是的，我见过这把刀。” “哦？”董漪萱一副很惊讶的样子，“你知道这把刀是谁的吗？” “我知道。”许苗再次点头，“这、这把刀是我的。” “哈哈！”董漪萱突然笑了起来，“可你知道这把刀为什么会到我的手里吗？” “不知道。”许苗感觉自己的身子在不停地抖动，她咬了咬嘴唇，看着董漪萱说，“你不会要告诉我，那个给我发短信的人就是你吧。” “敲诈你的人不是我。”董漪萱把目光转向周鹏，“但我可以告诉你，那个敲诈你的人就在这里。” “啊！”许苗下意识地向后退了一步，把目光投向了李燕。 “不、不是我。”李燕急忙摆手。 许苗又向陈伶看去。只见陈伶正蜷缩在角落里瑟瑟发抖，脸色白得如同溢出杯口的啤酒沫。 “为什么？”许苗忽然捂住了自己的嘴。陈伶的样子让她已经明白了一切。 “因为嫉妒。”董漪萱看了一眼快要虚脱的陈伶，转过脸对许苗说，“你不仅有一张令她嫉妒的脸，并且还有一个令她嫉妒的男友。” “仅仅是因为这些？”许苗吃惊地看着董漪萱。 “是的，就是因为这些，觉得很不可思议是吧。”董漪萱扶着浑身不停抖动的许苗坐到沙发上说，“那天晚上陈伶跟踪你去了宿舍楼，她躲在404室对面的房间里偷听到了你和周副校长的谈话。并且在你离开后从404室里捡到了你遗落的这把刀。而周副校长的死，让她看到了机会。于是开始对你进行卑鄙的敲诈。” “可这一切你是怎么知道的？”许苗泪眼婆娑地望着董漪萱。 “我会告诉你我是怎么知道的。”董漪萱突然从沙发上站起，来到陈伶的面前，“陈伶，你不觉得你的行为很无耻吗？许苗从来没有做过对不起你的事，而你竟然在她走投无路的时候落井下石。此时此刻，你是不是应该对许苗说点什么。” “对、对不起许苗，是我不好，鬼迷了心窍。”陈伶跪在地上，把头深深地埋在了胸前。 站在那幢岌岌可危的教职工宿舍楼的四楼走廊上，董漪萱向下面看了一眼，然后转过身对许苗说道：“三年前我姐姐就是从这里掉下去的。” “什么？”许苗吃惊地看着董漪萱。 “是的。”董漪萱凄然一笑，“我姐姐三年前也在这里上学。她和你有着极为相似的命运。我们家很穷，为了能挣够学费，我姐姐去做了兼职，在一家夜总会坐台。但她和你一样，只是陪客人喝酒唱歌，从不出卖自己的身体。三年前的一个深夜，我姐姐在夜总会里撞见了周副校长。 “当时我姐姐和周鹏老师是恋人。这个事情周副校长也是知道的。当他看到自己未来的儿媳竟然浓妆艳抹地出现在了夜总会，这个经常出入风月场所的老色鬼开始打起了坏主意。 “他把我姐姐约到了这里，并要挟说，如果不答应他的要求，他就要毁了我姐姐的一生。我姐姐当然没有答应。两个人在相互撕扯中，我姐姐失足从这里掉了下去，造成了终生残疾。” “为什么不揭发那个禽兽？”许苗忍不住问道。 “做小姐本身就是一件很丢人的事，况且我姐姐是那么爱周鹏。她不想让家里人知道她做小姐，更不想让周鹏知道他父亲是一个道貌岸然的伪君子而抬不起头。”董漪萱擦了擦眼泪说，“我之所以考入这所学校，目的就是想要替我姐姐讨回公道。而当我无意中发现你也在走我姐姐以前的路时，我在你身上看到了我姐姐的影子。所以我主动和你亲近，成了你最要好的朋友。 “那天夜里你在出门的时候我跟踪了你。而在我之前，尾随你出门的还有陈伶。”董漪萱抽了抽鼻子接着说道，“也许是因为我姐姐的缘故，我会经常替你担心。而当我发现你往这里来时，我内心竟然有了一种不祥的预感。 “事实证明我的预感是对的。当我躲在楼下向楼上观望时，我看到了那个禽兽的身影。我意识到悲剧可能要重演，于是我急忙给周鹏打了个电话，把事情的真相告诉了他，并且让他赶快到这里来。 “周鹏来了，并且在他父亲追赶你时，从后面用石头猛击了那个禽兽一下。他本来只想着把他的父亲打昏，但是没想到却失手杀了人。 “当你和陈伶都离开后，我上楼见到了周鹏，并且在404室对面的那个房间里捡到了陈伶的头花。” “那陈伶知道周副校长的死是周鹏老师干的？”许苗不禁担心起来。 “她应该不知道。”董漪萱想了一下说，“当时周鹏把自己的脸用黑布包了起来。” “他为什么要蒙面？” “因为他对我所说的那些不是很相信。”董漪萱说，“在没有确定自己的父亲真的是禽兽时，他不想让他父亲看到自己。但是，当一切都发生、并且来得那么突然时，周鹏来不及现身去斥责自己的父亲，而是不得已拿起地上的石头，阻止了他父亲对你的侵犯。” “可你是怎么知道陈伶敲诈我的？”许苗显得有些激动，但脸上带着无比的疑惑。 “还记得你上次跟踪我来到这里的情形吗？我和周鹏来这里的目的，是想尝试着找到你的刀。”董漪萱丝毫没有介意许苗的迟疑，“因为那个禽兽是被石头砸中后脑致死的，并且是死在走廊上的。所以我想着警察也许并没有仔细勘察过404室。但是，当晚我和周鹏没有找到那把刀，而且从警察那里传出的消息来看，你的刀似乎并不在侦查范围，于是我就想到了陈伶。 “我暗中翻了陈伶的东西，最终在她的褥子下面找到了你的刀。”董漪萱看了看许苗那张憔悴的脸接着说道，“我知道那把刀是你的男友在你过生日的时候送给你的，所以当我在陈伶的褥子下面看到那把刀时，一眼就认出来了。但令我困惑的是，陈伶为什么要留着那把刀？如果是想保护你的话，她应该把刀偷偷销毁了才是。 “后来我发现陈伶换了新手机，并且还添了好几件价格不菲的新衣服。陈伶这个人你我都清楚，她的吝啬不仅是对别人，对自己也是一样。所以，她的变化引起了我的注意。而在一次我无意中翻看你忘在寝室的手机时，发现了那条敲诈你的短信，于是我才明白了陈伶藏着那把刀的真正目的。” “漪萱，你这样做，岂不是把周鹏老师暴露了吗？”许苗觉得身上在阵阵发冷，“你和周鹏老师完全可以把这件事隐瞒起来的。” “许苗。”董漪萱的身子晃了晃，嘴角微微地抽搐了一下说，“你没有杀人，但却一直背着这个沉重的包袱，加上陈伶对你的敲诈，虽然你平时极力表现出若无其事的样子，但是我能够感受到你内心巨大的痛苦。而且，我后来还知道了你和男友分手的事情。这么多的打击，本不应该是你来承受的，但现实却是，你一直在扛，我担心你会被压垮。而我今天之所以把真相告诉你，其实也是经过周鹏同意的。” “可他为什么要这么做？要知道杀人是要付出代价的呀！”许苗抓住董漪萱的手不停地摇晃着。 “虽然周副校长禽兽不如，但毕竟是他的父亲。”董漪萱轻轻地叹了口气说，“周鹏已经决定自首了。不过，他并不是故意要杀人的，而且事出有因。我想，到时候你会在法庭上为周鹏作证的。” “当然。”许苗咬了咬嘴唇，“我会说出事情的真相，即使付出再大的代价我也愿意。”