Chapter 7 Chapter VII

When the white extended Lincoln car drove to the entrance of Fu'an Hotel, there were already many guests waiting there.With the sound of cheers, four angelic girls began to play "Praise of Love" with violins.Zhou Yulou and Jiang Dan stepped off the float with wide smiles, and immediately countless colorful ribbons rose into the sky and floated down slowly above their heads. Zhou Yulou's suit today was custom-made in a famous Hong Kong tailor shop. The charcoal gray fabric, pistol collar and single-button rounded corner design make him look handsome and casual.He gently held Jiang Dan who was wearing a white lace wedding dress, and a large bouquet of flowers bloomed delicately in his bride's hands.What is worth mentioning is Zhou Yulou's tie. He chose the dark red one among many ties. focus.

The ceremony will be held in the Fu'an Hall on the second floor, and the guests can fill up to 30 tables.In addition to Zhou Yulou and Jiang Dan's guests, Xie Lan's old and new acquaintance, Jiang Siye, Jiang Dan's father and many friends of a famous literary critic also came to congratulate. Group photos, greetings, beaming, ribbons dancing, zither fluttering. Zhou Yulou and Jiang Dan stood at the door to welcome everyone into the hotel.Every guest shook hands with them warmly, murmured sincere blessings, and some even hugged tightly. The lively scene was overwhelming. Zhou Yuting came early today, and she has been carefully avoiding direct contact with her brother, just greeting the guests from the sidelines.Feng Tai came, he was very cautious when he walked in front of Zhou Yulou, but when Zhou Yulou held his hand while stroking his arm and said, "Mr. Feng, thank you for coming." He was visibly relaxed a lot of.Wang Yue is Xie Lan's assistant to the dean. She is a divorced woman in her early thirties. She is enthusiastic and energetic. She has been helping Jiang Dan when preparing for the wedding.A lot of students from the Department of Vocal Music came, headed by Xue Ge, who was the most active group today, who came with the ideal of leaving after the bridal chamber, and laughter came from among them from time to time.The chief person in charge, Huang Dasheng, is dedicated to his duties, and all procedures are in order...everything is as expected, if Tang Kai doesn't come.

Zhou Yulou saw Tang Kai when people were about to enter. At that time, Zhou Yulou was sending Huang Dasheng upstairs, asking him to go in and make some arrangements.As soon as Huang Dasheng left, Zhou Yulou was about to raise his arms to stretch his muscles and bones, when he turned his head, he saw Tang Kai. Tang Kai stood in front of a mobile phone store across the road, with his arm resting on a Coca-Cola light box, and looked at Zhou Yulou motionlessly.The road was more than 30 meters wide, and Tang Kai had just cut his hair, but Zhou Yulou recognized him at a glance.From the moment when the four eyes met in room 1218 that day, that face was firmly engraved into Zhou Yulou's memory like an iron plate painting.

"Rain Tower, Rain Tower..." Jiang Dan was calling Zhou Yulou, Zhou Yulou turned his head and saw that only him, Jiang Dan, Lu Qing and a young female makeup artist were left at the entrance of the hotel. "Oh," he promised, "go, let's go up." Saying that, he looked back again.Tang Kai has already started to cross the road and walk towards this side.Zhou Yulou felt slightly dizzy.He walked into the restaurant, and when he was about to reach the stairs, he looked back. Tang Kai had already reached the middle of the road. He seemed to know that Zhou Yulou was looking at him, with a slightly smiling expression on his face.

An eerie smile. "Uh... you guys go up first." Zhou Yulou said to the makeup artist, "Please help the bride touch up her makeup, I'll smoke a cigarette and rest here first. Lu Qing, Dandan will be handed over to you, and I will then Just go up." Jiang Dan wanted to give some more instructions, but before he finished speaking, Zhou Yulou half helped and half pushed him up the stairs.When Jiang Dan and the others walked to the jogging platform in the middle of the stairs, Tang Kai walked into Fu'an Hotel. Zhou Yulou walked a few steps and turned into a corridor next to the lobby.

The corridor is very quiet, with private rooms on both sides. There are no customers at this time, only occasionally waiters pass by.Zhou Yulou stopped before taking a few steps, turned around, and sure enough, Tang Kai was standing in front of him. Zhou Yulou knew that panic was the most unwise choice at this time.Tang Kai didn't speak, so Zhou Yulou didn't speak easily.He stared steadily at each other for a few seconds.He really wanted to know how this man got here, but he didn't intend to ask this question, that's not the most important thing right now, even if he knew the answer, it wouldn't help.Zhou Yulou knew that he didn't have much time, since the man came, he must have his purpose, so the first question he asked was straight to the point.

"What do you want?" Tang Kai smiled.His smile was originally simple and honest, and it was even more so at this moment.There was an unsettling gentleness in his voice. "As expected of a university professor, what you say makes people like it. It will be much easier for you to think about me." "Say it." Tang Kai put away his smile, "Are you sure you can do it?" At this time, a man who looked like a foreman turned into the corridor from behind Tang Kai.Zhou Yulou pretended to cough lightly and turned away his face. After the foreman walked over, he said to Tang Kai: "Okay, come here."

Zhou Yulou opened the door of a private room, and Tang Kai followed him in.There are milky white curtains hanging in the private room, just enough to block the view from the outside.Zhou Yulou walked a few steps in, Tang Kai closed the door, and then stood by the door. "Tell me, what do you want?" "Apologize." Tang Kai said softly. Zhou Yulou breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly.He lowered his head and looked up again, "Well, I'm sorry, I apologize for hurting you because of my impulsiveness, but please believe that I didn't mean to destroy your family. Since I made a mistake, I can Accept the punishment, I can consider any compensation you want, but today..."

"no!" Tang Kai suddenly raised his voice.His tone was firm, and his face turned red, resembling the face in the door mirror that day.Staring at that face, Zhou Yulou began to feel that the seriousness of the matter might be far beyond his estimation. Tang Kai's voice was cold. "I want you to apologize in a moment, at your wedding ceremony, in front of everyone who came today..." Tang Kai bit the word "all" very hard, as if insisting on a lifelong belief.Zhou Yulou frowned in surprise, "What? I apologized to you in front of everyone at the ceremony..."

"Not for me, but for your wife." Tang Kai said this very lightly, almost muttering it, but when Zhou Yulou heard the word "your wife", he still couldn't help trembling!This idea was beyond his expectation, Zhou Yulou lost the ability to argue for a moment, and could only let Tang Kai continue. Tang Kai said slowly: "You have to tell your wife in front of everyone who attended your wedding that you have been fooling around with other people's wives behind her back in less than a week from today. You have to admit your mistake to your wife , and promise her that you will never do such a despicable thing again in the future. Moreover, you must beg everyone to be your witness and let them supervise you so that you will not make the same mistake in the future."

Although Tang Kai spoke slowly, he spoke quite coherently, as if he had already recited these words ten thousand times silently in his heart. The private room was very quiet, and the noise outside could not enter this remote, dark, and even a bit chilly private room.Zhou Yulou stared at Tang Kai, clenching his teeth.But Tang Kai clenched his teeth even tighter... At the same time, in the Fu'an Hall upstairs, the guests had already sat down orderly under the arrangement of Huang Dasheng and others.Four girls playing the violin performed emotionally on the stage, and people waited with great anticipation for the ceremony to begin.In the dressing room, Jiang Dan, who had already touched up her makeup, looked left and right in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, and her face was flushed with nervousness.Lu Qing and Zhou Yuting helped her arrange the wedding dress and head flower.In fact, there is no need to organize it, it is already very good. Zhou Yuting looked at his watch and asked Jiang Dan: "Sister-in-law, why isn't my brother coming up?" As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Lan opened the door and walked in.Xie Lan looks heroic today, as if she was ten years younger. "Dandan, everyone is almost seated, why don't you start? Hey... where is the Yulou?" "Mom, Yulou wants to smoke a cigarette downstairs and be quiet for a while, and I'll come up soon." Jiang Dan said. "Smoking? Oh...I've advised him to quit smoking a long time ago. How can a vocalist be addicted to cigarettes?" "Okay, mom, you go in and sit down first, we'll start right away." Xie Lan closed the door and went out. Before closing the door, she did not forget to take a gratified look at her daughter. Private rooms on the first floor. It is no exaggeration to say that Tang Kai's request was pushing Zhou Yulou to the edge of a cliff.Zhou Yulou told himself that he had to find out as soon as possible whether this man was trying to intimidate him or if he really came here with the attitude of trying to kill him. Zhou Yulou asked in a low voice: "What if I can't do it?" "I'll do it." Tang Kai blurted out, obviously he was prepared, "If you don't do what I said after a while, I will rush to the stage, snatch the host's microphone, and tell everyone you are six What did you do in Room 1218 of the Yadu Hotel a few days ago. Director Zhou, I assure you, I can say it and do it." "It seems that you must ruin my wedding." "Then you have to blame yourself. It was you who ruined my family, my wife, and my whole life! You put a green hat on my head, and you let my wife and I Divorce. I only have one woman, Xia Churong, in my whole life. Without her, I have nothing! You put on your pants to live your life, have you ever thought about others..." "Wait," Zhou Yulou was surprised, "What did you say? Xia Churong wants to divorce you?" "Don't pretend to be garlic, isn't that what you discussed?" "No, I swear to God, I really don't know." "It doesn't matter whether you know or not now. What matters is what you did six days ago, those vile and shady things. Do you tell those people yourself, or do I tell them?" "Is there no other way?" "No." "Really do not have?" "I said, no!" Tang Kai yelled and threw a chair by the wall to the ground. silence.It was suffocating in the private room. Fu'an Hall. The violinist is still playing, and the Minuet has been played twice.The wedding host has notified the general manager Huang Dasheng several times that everything is ready and the ceremony can begin.The guests were whispering, and their voices even drowned out the sound of the violin playing.Hundreds of people speak at the same time, and even whispers can create a huge noise.Amidst such voices, both Xie Lan and Jiang Siye couldn't sit still.Jiang Siye asked Xie Lan to ask what was going on, Xie Lan looked for Huang Dasheng with his eyes, Huang Dasheng indicated that he was calling Zhou Yulou.He had just asked in the dressing room, and Jiang Dan told him that Zhou Yulou hadn't come up yet. Private rooms on the first floor. Zhou Yulou's phone rang, he looked at the screen and answered the phone. "Hey! Yulou! Where are you? I'm waiting for you! The ceremony is about to start, what are you doing?" Huang Dasheng's anxiety pricked Zhou Yulou's ears, and Zhou Yulou could fully imagine the situation above. "Dasheng, please tell everyone not to worry, I will go up immediately." After finishing speaking, Zhou Yulou turned off the phone without waiting for Huang Dasheng to speak again, and said to Tang Kai: "Look, everyone is waiting for the ceremony up there." At the beginning, do you really want to make me feel ashamed in front of everyone?" "You asked for it, I have long since felt ashamed." "Let's be honest, it's impossible for me to apologize in front of everyone." "Then it's up to me to say it myself." "What if I don't let you go up?" "Unless you kill me now, I must go." Tang Kai's words were resolute and decisive.Zhou Yulou had only one last move left.Several options flashed through his mind just now: call the police, find someone to mediate, or simply be ruthless, let a few people look at this guy first, and wait until the wedding is over... But, none of them work.Those practices have a common drawback: increasing the number of insiders.Zhou Yulou must let this matter be resolved within the scope of the two of them!He regards fame as his life.He would never allow anyone to know about Yadu Hotel, not even one, not even his best friend Huang Dasheng. So Zhou Yulou spoke up very directly. "I'll pay, how much do you want?" "No amount! I want to apologize." "Twenty thousand." "no." "Thirty thousand." "no." "forty thousand." "no." "Sixty thousand." "no." "One hundred thousand, I will pay immediately!" "No, no." "One hundred and fifty thousand! I only have so much." "..." Tang Kai fell silent.The sudden silence was like a fist, powerfully hitting the "apology" he had sworn a moment ago. Zhou Yulou is well versed in the weaknesses of human nature.Perhaps the man never thought of the word "money" when he came here today, but this does not mean that he rejects using money to solve problems.Yes, ruining someone's wedding like a lunatic, what else can I do besides relieve my anger?It's not good for me at all, and it's never as happy as cashing in immediately.And an incisive point of view applies everywhere: the accumulation of quantity produces a qualitative change.What can be done with 10,000 yuan and 150,000 yuan is different.The asking price just now has been precisely brewed in Zhou Yulou's mind. First, the price was raised in small steps, then suddenly jumped to 100,000 and emphasized immediate payment, and finally the price was suddenly raised to 150,000, which was a final decision.Sure enough, it worked. Huang Dasheng couldn't wait any longer. He called Zhou Yulou twice just now, but Zhou Yulou turned off his phone.Now everyone wants Zhou Yulou from him, Jiang Dan even suspects that something happened to her husband, tears almost come out of his eyes.As the chief person in charge of the wedding, Huang Dasheng couldn't stand it anymore, and he also really wanted to know what Zhou Yulou was doing.So he came down from the second floor and looked for Zhou Yulou himself. Zhou Yulou took out his wallet from his trouser pocket and took out a card inside. "There is a full deposit of 150,000 yuan in it, and the ID card is also here. I can go to the bank next to me and withdraw all the money to you. This is all my savings over the years. I would rather spend it to buy you a lesson." .Now I'm a poor man again, and we'll be inseparable from now on! Shall we go?" Ever since Zhou Yulou uttered the words "150,000", Tang Kai didn't speak again.The determination and coldness in his eyes gradually faded away, replaced by panic and hesitation—this number was too big for him!That's the equivalent of more than five years' salary.One fact is obvious, without Xia Churong, you can find her again, but if you miss this opportunity, you will definitely never meet again.Tang Kai was stunned for a while, and then said with some embarrassment: "I...you, are you sure you can get the money at the bank now?" "Yes! But I want you to promise me that after you get the money, you go your way, and I will go..." Suddenly, Zhou Yulou stopped talking. When he was asking the price just now, he felt the door of the private room move slightly, but he didn't pay attention at that time.But now, he saw the door slowly open.Zhou Yulou's eyes widened in surprise... Xia Churong stood silently by the door. Obviously, Tang Kai noticed the change in Zhou Yulou's expression, and he turned around following Zhou Yulou's eyes. As soon as Tang Kai turned his body around, Zhou Yulou saw him tremble violently. At the same time, he heard a "poof", very dull.At that time, Zhou Yulou didn't know what happened, because Tang Kai completely blocked Xia Churong, until... Tang Kai staggered back a few steps, and Zhou Yulou saw that there was a knife stuck in his left chest! Zhou Yulou's body convulsed like an electric shock! ! He didn't know how his eyes sent information to his brain, but at this moment his brain clearly flashed two words: It's over. That knife must have stabbed deeply... No matter how Tang Kai trembled, the knife stuck to him without moving!Blood burst from the edge of the knife like a startled earthworm.Zhou Yulou guessed that if he pulled out the knife now, a column of blood would be sprayed out of the private room! Tang Kai didn't call. He didn't make a sound, just held onto the table next to him, and stared at Xia Churong with astonished eyes... Xia Churong was surprisingly calm, she neither hesitated nor could she see any nervousness, she walked towards Tang Kai again, with a steady pace It's as simple as flipping a light switch.Zhou Yulou wanted to go up and grab her, but suddenly, he heard a burst of chatter and laughter from the corridor. The door of the private room is open! Zhou Yulou strode over and closed the door.When he turned his head again, he almost cried out!He saw Xia Churong's arm was raised, and her hand was holding the handle of the knife again. She was exerting force... The blade continued to penetrate into Tang Kai's body... With a "plop", Tang Kai fell to the ground... Zhou Yulou almost fainted!At this moment, he heard the chatter and laughter in the corridor stop behind him, and a waitress' voice sounded outside the door: "Please come in, this is a private room for ten people." The door of the room was pushed open a crack... Zhou Yulou put his hands on his head in despair!Then, a God-like voice came through the crack of the door, and a man said, "Wait, there's another call over there. We need to add a few more guests, let's change to a private room for twenty people." The private room door was closed again. Zhou Yulou knelt on the ground in a collapsed state, the sound of his knees hitting the ground was muted by the carpet.In a daze, he heard the waiter say that the private room for 20 people was going to the second floor, and then those terrifying voices left in a flickering manner. Zhou Yulou felt that his heart was put into a blender, bumped, moved, and broken!He stood up, barely standing up, half straight and half bent, and threw himself in front of Tang Kai.Tang Kai's face was pale and motionless, his chest was dark red, and the blood had already flowed into pools beside him. Obviously, he died. The blade was almost completely submerged in his body, and the three shiny iron nails on the handle dazzled Zhou Yulou's eyes.Zhou Yulou's eyes narrowed, he wanted to meet Tang Kai's eyes, but Tang Kai didn't look at him, Tang Kai's eyes stared at the ceiling in shock, it was an eternal freeze, as if he couldn't find the way to heaven . Really hopeless. Tang Kai, poor man, fate has set up a stage for him to stage a tragedy.Until he died, he didn't resist, and he didn't even yell out of pain or shock.As we said, Tang Kai has good qualities, he doesn't hit women, and he can't even shout in front of Xia Churong.This quality was maintained by him to the end of his life. Really hopeless.Zhou Yulou didn't even know the man's name. Suddenly, Zhou Yulou raised his head and glared at Xia Churong!Xia Churong was motionless, her face was as pale as her husband's, her messy hair covered the corners of her eyes, but her expression was unusually calm.Just like in the lobby of the Yadu Hotel that day, before Zhou Yulou's twitching lips made a sound, Xia Churong spoke first, with a calm voice: "It's okay, let's go." "You! You, you, you... why did you... kill... you crazy..." "Hmph," Xia Churong actually smiled, her smile was very sad, "I slept with other men, and this turned out to be my husband's capital to make a fortune, which can make him more than 100,000 yuan, shouldn't such a husband deserve to die? " "But... you, how can you, can you kill..." "Okay, let's go, the guests are waiting for you, don't be late on this kind of day." "But, but, but..." Zhou Yulou's countless horrors, fears, and secret worries turned into stammering but, Xia Churong resolved his but with one sentence: "I will take care of everything here, and whatever happens has nothing to do with you, you go upstairs immediately Participate in the ceremony, if you don't go up, it will really end." Zhou Yulou looked at Xia Churong in a daze, and Xia Churong called out in a low voice, "Let's go!" Zhou Yulou forced himself to straighten up, walked to the door in disorder, and when he opened the door, he suddenly withdrew his hand nervously and looked back at Xia Churong.Xia Churong said softly: "Let's go, I'll wipe off the fingerprints." When Zhou Yulou came out of the private room, he was extremely nervous! For God's sake, there was no one in the corridor.He quickly ran up the safety stairs at the end of the corridor, and quickly went up the stairs. Halfway up, Huang Dasheng walked into this corridor. Huang Dasheng searched the lobby just now but didn't see Zhou Yulou, went out and looked around but couldn't find it, only when he re-entered did he notice the corner next to the lobby.He turned in and found a long corridor, so he shouted "Yulou..." while pushing open the doors of the private rooms one by one. Of course Xia Churong heard the voice. She knew that someone was walking towards here, looking for Zhou Yulou in every room.She didn't know who that person was, and that didn't matter.The situation is too urgent!The door of the private room will be pushed open soon, and I have nowhere to escape!At this time, she suddenly saw a vase on the sideboard of the wall—an antique blue and white vase.Xia Churong ran over.The vase is very heavy, weighing about ten kilograms, with a thin neck and a big belly. It is really an excellent weapon. It is most suitable for holding people's heads and blowing them open! Recently, Xia Churong has become more and more amazed at her explosive power!She found that there seemed to be an astonishing energy in her frail body, and the instant burst of energy was unimaginable.Just like that day in room 1218, I was able to round up the solid and simple Tang Kai and throw him out!So Xia Churong can completely predict what will happen to the head that pokes in when the door of the private room is opened after a while... Now she is standing upright by the door, clinging to the wall, looking at him warily. The door, firmly holding the neck of the vase, is no different from the policeman holding a gun in both hands and ready to go in a detective film. Soon, Huang Dasheng stopped in front of the private room.Xia Churong's arms began to exert force, her eyes were wide open, and she was nervously planning the trajectory of the vase... She heard the person outside the door shout "Yu Lou", and put her hand on the door handle... The door handle was turning, "click" With the sound of ... Xia Churong suddenly picked up the vase! The phone rang outside the door. Just as Huang Dasheng was about to open the door of the private room, his cell phone rang.He hurriedly looked down, and finally saw the long-lost "Zhou Yulou", he immediately picked up the phone and shouted, "Where are you!" "I'm back, upstairs, where are you?" Zhou Yulou asked him. Huang Dasheng heaved a sigh of relief, and he couldn't control his anger, "Damn it! Are you going to kill me?" He said and walked away quickly. The ringing of the phone almost caused Xia Churong's body to fly off.If she had reacted a little slower, the situation would have been completely different. In Jiang Dan's dressing room, Zhou Yulou said solemnly to everyone, "I'm sorry everyone, I wasted time. Just now, I wanted to smoke a cigarette downstairs and take a rest, but I received a call from Haining's mother. Haining had a high fever of over 40 degrees and was lying in the hospital. Her mother said that the doctor was not very optimistic. She asked me if she could come over. I said no, because today is my wedding day, and then I turned off my phone. Go outside, alone, alone..." Zhou Yulou couldn't continue, he cried out, and the fright that was dense like a honeycomb was released at this moment. Throughout the ceremony, Zhou Yulou mustered all his nerves to deal with the dazzling scenes: handing glasses of wine, cutting cakes, champagne towers, kisses, speeches, applause, applause... Forgot how many times he saw Tang Kai in a trance He walked in through the door, stumbled, angry like a gossamer, his face flushed with resentment and anger.He walked through the three arches of flowers on the red carpet, and dripping blood followed him all the way... He rushed to the stage and wanted to shout, but no one could hear him, so he rushed to the host To grab her microphone...he couldn't, because the host was the fierce Xia Churong, and the microphone turned into a murderous sharp knife.The iron nail on the handle of the knife reflected the brilliant lights in the hall, and the strange reflection stung Zhou Yulou's eyes.Then, Zhou Yulou heard that voice again, muffled, "Pfft"... He saw Tang Kai collapsed at his and Jiang Dan's feet, blood was flying wildly, and his wife's wedding dress was instantly muddy. You have to understand the illusion that Zhou Yulou saw.At the same time, you can also imagine how determined Zhou Yulou was to keep himself standing there all the time, instead of rushing to the host to grab her microphone—a sharp knife. Yes, he held back.Zhou Yulou, who was holding Jiang Dan's arm, tried his best to maintain a bright smile.In his memory, that was the most difficult laugh in his life.He always took the opportunity of laughing to blink his eyes vigorously to drive away the hallucinations that came like a torrent, so that Xie Lan, who was sitting on the guest seat not far away, secretly speculated that Yulou was so excited today, and his eyes widened when he smiled. All smaller than usual.