Chapter 10 chapter Ten

Zhou Yulou's cell phone was always turned off. He turned off his mobile phone on the way home from Fu'an Hotel on the day of the wedding, and he hesitated several times before he dared to open it.Tonight, he decided to check to see if he had any important calls, but as soon as he turned on the phone, the ringtone suddenly rang.When he fixed his eyes and saw that it was Xia Churong's number, he broke out in cold sweat.Fortunately, Jiang Dan was taking a bath at this time. It was the third night after the wedding. Zhou Yulou answered the phone and said "Hello" briefly, and Xia Churong's anxious voice came from the other end immediately: "Is it Yulou? I'm Chuchu! Why do you keep turning off the phone? I'm going to be scared to death!"

Zhou Yulou was shocked! "What's wrong?" "It's okay, I just want to find you." Director Zhou Yulou breathed a sigh of relief, with a hint of reproach in his voice, "Why are you calling me at this hour? My wife is at home." "I was trying to call, you have been turned off the phone." "How...how are you doing?" Xia Churong knew what he was referring to, "Don't worry, it's all done, it's just..." "what?" "fingerprint." "What happened to the fingerprints?!" "I wiped off all the fingerprints in the room, but when I went out, I suddenly remembered the door handle on the outside. Does it have your fingerprints on it?"

"Yes!" "So I hurried back and wiped the door handle. It was so dangerous that a waiter almost bumped into me." Zhou Yulou touched his heart, full of gratitude to the woman. "Besides, Yulou, you are so careless, you know? You left your business card there." "What..." He was stunned for a moment, and then the scene of taking out Tang Kai's wallet appeared in his mind... At that time, there was a stack of business cards in his trouser pocket, side by side with the wallet!He asked impatiently, "Did you take it?" "Of course, fortunately, I checked the whole circle before I left, otherwise it would be broken."

"Thank you!" "Also, just after you left, I heard someone calling you in the corridor, and opened the door of each private room to look. He almost came in! I was so scared at that time, but fortunately his cell phone rang at that time, It was you who called him and the guy asked where you were and left." Zhou Yulou really thanked himself for calling Huang Dasheng in time. He calmed down a little and asked Xia Churong, "Did the police look for you?" "Come and ask me some questions, but I didn't find any problems." This next week, Zhou Yulou's heart finally returned to his stomach.Xia Churong was fine, so he was naturally safer.He wanted to end the call, but Xia Churong obviously didn't want to, her concerned voice was full of tension: "Yulou, those who attended the wedding didn't suspect you, did they?"

"No." "Do you know? After you left, I suddenly remembered something, which made my whole body go limp from fright!" "What's up?" "I suddenly remembered that you seemed to have rubbed blood on your body, and there was a big red spot on your shirt. Then I realized that it might be your tie. It scared me to death!" This misunderstanding instantly chilled Zhou Yulou's whole body.Xia Churong then asked him: "I read in the newspaper that the police found the body at noon. Was your wedding over by then?" "not yet." "Have the police found you?"

Zhou Yulou suddenly remembered the pair of round eyes in the photo, and he said wearily: "A policeman took the photo for everyone to identify, and for me to see..." He sighed, unable to continue. "Seriously, are you nervous?" Xia Churong asked him. Zhou Yulou didn't answer, Xia Churong continued to complain: "You're fine, just looking at the photos, the police took me to identify the body that night, almost scared me to death, Tang Kai's face... Can you imagine? Scary, with his mouth open, as if he has something to say to you." This was the first time Zhou Yulou heard the name "Tang Kai" from Xia Churong, and his heart tightened for a while.Then, he heard Xia Churong say pitifully: "Yulou, I... am very scared. I haven't even had a full sleep these days. Can you come and accompany me?"

"No!" Zhou Yulou panicked at this request, and just as he was about to say goodbye, Xia Churong's excited voice came from over there: "Yulou, please meet me, please? How did I live? I have nightmares every day, and I always feel that someone is watching me, and I am alone at home, can't you really come and accompany me?" "Really not!" Zhou Yulou resolutely said, "I'm on wedding leave and I spend every day with my wife, let's talk about it later." "Then when can we meet?" "Don't think about it at this time. The police must be watching closely after such a big incident. We won't be in touch for a while."

"why?" "Why? Do you still need to ask? The police are investigating..." He endured it, but still couldn't say the word "murder case", "He will suspect everyone, and he will definitely pay more attention to you. Throwing in a snare?" "But you can't hide, let me carry such a big matter alone?" Zhou Yulou frowned deeply, "You know what? I'm hurting you by going to see you at this time. You should calm down now." "But how can I calm down?" Xia Churong's voice began to shake my ears, "Tang Kai's face flashes in front of my eyes every day, and the house is as cold as a morgue. I'm afraid I'm going to collapse. Really, you change Come to think of it, if I killed your wife..."

"Stop talking! Why don't you understand? Your every move now will attract the attention of the police. To be on the safe side, we will never contact again, and don't call again. My wife is here, so I hang up." Zhou Yulou quickly Hanging up, and just about to turn off the phone, the ringtone rang again. After connecting, Xia Churong's almost crazy voice said: "Yulou... I beg you not to be so cruel, don't leave me alone, I can't take it anymore! I want to See you soon, will you come to my house now?" "no!" "Tomorrow, is tomorrow okay?"

"no!" "What about the day after tomorrow?" "no!" "The day after tomorrow..." "I said, the police are solving the case, meeting now is tantamount to hell, why can't you understand me?" "One time, one time! Is it my last request?" Suddenly, Zhou Yulou felt his head ignite with a "boom"!It's like being put into a high-temperature furnace, the flames are flying, and the pain is burning!It was all because of the "last request" that Xia Churong said. The night more than a week ago came back to Zhou Yulou's mind, when "Chuchu" typed the same words in the QQ dialog box that day - can you agree to my last request?Can we meet?Then there was this big group of nightmare encounters!Now, the woman on the other end of the phone kept saying "one last request", Zhou Yulou really wanted to throw the phone out of the window!The mattress springs under his ass trembled with his angry panting.He endured it, and said with the greatest patience: "Listen to me, you need to calm down. Now is an extraordinary period. Even if you want to meet, you have to wait until this matter has completely subsided. This is also for your safety."

"But I don't care so much, my endurance has reached the limit! Every night I feel that he is watching me by the bed, and he just died. He is my husband after all." "What's the use of saying this now!" "Of course it's useful. If you understand, I'll come out and meet me..." What Xia Churong said next, Zhou Yulou didn't hear at all, because Jiang Dan had already finished taking a shower, and when he heard her leave the bathroom, he would immediately into the bedroom.He stared at the bedroom door, "I'm going to hang up, my wife is here." "When will we meet? When..." "Let's talk about it when I get to work next week." Zhou Yulou turned off the phone, and Jiang Dan walked into the room. That night, Zhou Yulou lay in bed for a long time without sleep, and Xia Churong's magical "meeting" made him deaf and numb.That woman's irrational entanglement was beyond Zhou Yulou's expectation anyway.Compared with the calmness after killing Tang Kai, Xia Churong just now is a different person. A strong fear spread in Zhou Yulou's heart.He had a feeling that there must be a subtle change taking place in the woman's body.It's a lot like drinking strong alcohol. You don't feel anything when you drink it, but the most terrifying thing is the power of backlash. Alcohol will grab every nerve of yours, making you lose control, confused, paranoid, Frenzy, insanity... If killing people is also strong alcohol, then this bottle of alcohol will undoubtedly have the greatest stamina.God knows what kind of torment that woman has experienced in her heart during the three days, and God knows what those torments will turn her into.Maybe she was slowly going crazy, or maybe she was already crazy, crazy crazy, crazy crazy! scary woman. Zhou Yulou didn't sleep very well that night, and had nightmares again and again.When he awoke the next morning, his sweaty body was unbearably hot.He looked at his watch, it was past 9 o'clock, and Jiang Dan was not on the bed.He sat up feeling exhausted, and the nightmare-ridden sleep made him feel even more tired.He began to try to recall the contents of those dreams, but found that he didn't remember anything at all, he only knew that it was a solid nightmare, mixed with all kinds of messy and terrible things.He wiped the sweat off his neck, and his sense of smell came to life at the same time, and the smell of fried eggs wafted into the bedroom. On the dining table is the breakfast made by Jiang Dan, a sandwich on whole wheat bread with lettuce, tomato and ham, next to steaming milk and fried eggs.After the meal, the fruit is placed in a delicate glass plate, with a few strawberries, bright red. When Zhou Yulou walked into the restaurant, Jiang Dan was coming out of the kitchen with two dishes of side dishes.She returned her husband with an early morning smile and told him to brush his teeth quickly and then come to dinner.At that moment, Zhou Yulou vaguely got rid of the shadow of the nightmare, but what followed was even greater fear.In a trance, he seemed to hear the sound of something breaking, crashing, distant and clear.He couldn't help shivering, and asked himself in his heart, wouldn't all these good things be broken by an unintentional mistake of his own?Sometimes, the more you have, the less courageous you are. After breakfast, Jiang Dan sat in front of the computer to sort out the manuscripts of the publishing house, and Zhou Yulou opened the newspaper box at the door.The newspaper box was full, so he took out a newspaper casually, and as soon as he opened it, he saw the headline at first glance: A man's corpse was found in Fu'an Hotel, shocking and fatal. It was a typical Huang Dasheng style, clear and shocking, like a muffled drum beating in Zhou Yulou's ears. That was a newspaper a few days ago, and Huang Dasheng wrote the killing that Zhou Yulou witnessed in his page immediately.Zhou Yulou's hands were shaking. He was just about to read the content under the headline when the doorbell rang. He put down the newspaper and walked to the door.In the past, he never had the habit of using the door mirror, but at this moment, without thinking about it, he naturally lay on the door, his eyes fixed on the door mirror. This is really unusual, there is no one outside the door. He looked again.In fact, there is no need to look carefully, there is no one.The walls and steps of the corridor jutted out towards him, empty and silent.Zhou Yulou stood by the door in a daze, feeling another muffled drum sounding in his ears, and a face of uncertain owner formed a hideous image in his heart along with the drumbeat... At this moment, a person suddenly appeared in front of him. rise up. Xue Ge. An ill-timed joke. Xue Ge came with four other classmates. They brought a wedding gift to Zhou Yulou, an antique gramophone, which everyone chipped in to buy. It was quite heavy, and two people carried it.Zhou Yulou hurriedly invited them into the house, and Jiang Dan was very busy with drinks and fruits.They chatted at home for a while, and then Zhou Yulou invited everyone to have a meal at the restaurant downstairs.When they said goodbye, the boys were still full of ideas, and Zhou Yulou was also full of ideas, the difference is that he was pretending. After this incident, Zhou Yulou discovered a problem.Serious changes had taken place in his life, and Xia Churong and the murder incident followed behind him like a shadow.He didn't dare to turn on his cell phone, he was inexplicably nervous, abnormally cautious, unreasonably frightened and uncontrollably absent-minded... Zhou Yulou couldn't bear such a life, and he didn't want to linger like a dying patient. In the next few days, Zhou Yulou tried his best to adjust himself.He began to sort out the materials for applying for professors, and brewed special papers.This time the province promotes young professors, and the review team requires each applicant to write a thesis, and to defend the content of the thesis with the review team.Many people in the Conservatory of Music have already started writing. Feng Tai has even listed four sets of outlines for his own selection, while Zhou Yulou has not even had a shadow of a topic yet. For three consecutive days, Zhou Yulou buried himself in piles of old papers, let the words wash away his brain, and drove away the haze with the sunshine of academics.It really works.On the last day of the wedding leave, when he woke up in the morning, he felt refreshed and refreshed.At this time, he received a call from Xie Lan. Jiang Siye and Xie Lan decided to hold a grand banquet, the main purpose is to thank Huang Dasheng and Lu Qing for their contribution to the wedding.On the day of the wedding, Huang Dasheng and Lu Qing had been busy, and finally left without eating, which made Jiang Siye and his wife very sorry.Also, Xie Lan reminded that Yuting must also be called. Zhou Yulou and Huang Dasheng haven't seen each other for a whole week, and the reunion of old friends made him excited.He immediately made an appointment with Huang Dasheng and Lu Qing, and then called his sister.Huang Dasheng and Lu Qing are fine, but Zhou Yuting is not.Tomorrow morning, Zhou Yuting will have a crucial trial lecture. She has to fully prepare tonight, so she cannot attend the appointment.Speaking of which, Xue Ge helped Zhou Yuting a lot this time.Zhou Yuting majored in teacher training at university, and Xue Ge's mother happened to be the leader of a key middle school in Shenjiang. Zhou Yuting will give a trial lecture tomorrow, which is Xue Ge's mother's school. As dusk came, Jiang Dan dressed up meticulously, Zhou Yulou was also in high spirits, and the two went to the hotel Xie Lan had booked. They met Huang Dasheng at the entrance of the hotel.After exchanging pleasantries, Huang Dasheng pulled Zhou Yulou over and asked with a smile, "Are you tired? You don't even bother to bring your mobile phone." These words really surprised Zhou Yulou!Then he realized that what Huang Dasheng was talking about, he immediately made a helpless expression, "Yeah, people who are almost forty, four or five times a day, I can't bear it." Yulou pretended to be serious, "Really, don't you believe it? Go to our trash can. There are more condoms than eggshells." Huang Dasheng asked, "How much are eggshells?" Zhou Yulou thought about it seriously, and stretched out With three fingers, he said: "Four dozen." Huang Dasheng laughed wildly. The old friend's jokes made Zhou Yulou relive the happiness of the past, but who would have thought that the situation would change completely after eating.As if it had been discussed in advance, the topic of the dinner table almost never left the murder case at Fu'an Hotel.Huang Dasheng seemed to have become the captain of the criminal police, and everyone was a legal reporter: Is the murderer caught?Who is most suspected?How could he die there?Is that person married?What does a wife do?Vendetta, love or for money?What are the waiters doing?Did someone you know do it?How did you find out?Dasheng, you have also interviewed many such things... Humans are always interested in the destruction of the same kind. Zhou Yulou felt that he was about to explode, and the reason why he hadn't exploded was because the information revealed by Huang Dasheng's words gave him some comfort—the case has not made any progress so far.Moreover, the police did not point the finger of suspicion at the poor widow in the slightest. That night, Zhou Yulou's nightmares continued.