Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen

As soon as Zhou Yulou entered the corridor, he smelled a strong smell of paste.He went upstairs and saw the door was open, a neighbor was looking in, and the smell was coming from the house, along with a puff of smoke. Zhou Yulou was shocked. "What's wrong?!" "Mr. Zhou, something in your house is burnt, and no one answered when you shouted..." Zhou Yulou stepped into the house with one foot, walked through the dining room, and rushed into the kitchen...the kitchen muttered thick smoke, and the fire was still on.He fumbled to turn off the gas valve, opened the window, poked his head out, gasping for breath, coughing violently, the smoke choked his eyes and nose sorely.After a while, he turned around and saw a piece of black charcoal in the pan. After thinking about it, he realized that it was Jiang Dan's fried steak.

"Dandan!" Zhou Yulou quickly checked around the house, but there was no Jiang Dan in any room.He dialed Jiang Dan's cell phone, and after a few rings, Xia Churong's cold voice came from inside—— "The 316 hospital next to your home is on the top floor of the inpatient department. If you come alone, the police will accompany you and collect your wife's body." The new site of the 16th hospital was built two months ago, and the main part of the hospital has been moved. In the past, the old site was next to Zhou Yulou's house, but now only a few departments remain here.The inpatient department has long been abandoned and is an empty building.The original outpatient building had undergone fixed-point blasting a few days ago, and the ruins had not yet been cleared. A pile of cement garbage about ten meters high looked like a monster, overlooking Zhou Yulou and entered the 316 Hospital.

The inpatient building was desolate, and the silence and emptiness made people shudder.When he walked up to the top floor, Zhou Yulou's eyes had already adapted to the darkness, so he saw Jiang Dan and Xia Churong in the corner at a glance. He wanted to rush over and hug his wife! But no.The tip of the knife was attached to the artery on Jiang Dan's neck.As long as Xia Churong's hand holding the knife exerted a little force, Jiang Dan's blood would swell all over the wall.That was not difficult for Xia Churong, she had done more difficult massacres before.Xia Churong's other arm was across the front of Jiang Dan's neck, tightly strangling her.She was half a head taller than Jiang Dan, and she seemed to be very handy in this posture.

Jiang Dan was terrified, and shivered in Xia Churong's hard arms all the time. When she saw Zhou Yulou, she cried "Woo...", and Xia Churong stuck her throat just as she yelled "Yulou..." , I was too scared to speak out. "Let her go!" The dust on the wall fell down. Xia Churong was not angry at all, her voice was low, even a little sad. "Zhou Yulou, let me ask you, why did you betray me?" "Let her go! I'll settle our matter with you. It has nothing to do with my wife. Do you hear me? Let her go first..." "Tell me first, why did you betray me? Why did you call the police?"

"I didn't call the police, I swear I didn't! I beg you, Xia Churong, from the beginning to the end, I have never done anything wrong to you. Don't hurt my wife. This matter has nothing to do with her. She is very innocent. You let her go." She, and then you said that I will accompany you wherever you go." "Innocent? Hehe..." Xia Churong laughed, and the tip of the knife bounced up and down with her laughter. "Zhou Yulou, do you think she is innocent? Is there anyone more innocent than me? I betrayed my husband, abandoned my family, and even killed someone. When you married your wife happily upstairs, I killed your husband downstairs for you." , but what did I get in exchange? You killed me... let the police go to my house to arrest me..."

"No! I swear to God that I never called the police. There must be a misunderstanding here! You let my wife go first, and I will explain to you slowly, this afternoon..." "Explanation!" Xia Churong tightened her grip on Jiang Dan!Jiang Dan's head was forced to tilt to one side, and the arteries in his neck were clearly exposed.Xia Churong finally shouted: "You put your arms around your wife's coffin and explain!" After she finished speaking, she stabbed Jiang Dan in the neck! "what……" Desperate cry. Zhou Yulou knelt on the ground with a plop.

Xia Churong's house. Xia Churong's back appeared in front of Huang Dasheng's eyes - it was a photo. The assisted investigation report has been sent to various passes in Xinjiang through the computer networked with the Public Security Bureau.Now Huang Dasheng's mind is full of speculation about the couple.What kind of secret do they have?What happened to cause a quiet and thin woman to raise a sharp knife at her husband. Beside the sofa, Huang Dasheng opened the door of a closet and took out a photo album from it to read.There are very few photos of the couple together, most of them are photos of Xia Churong alone.From the first page of the album, Huang Dasheng felt a faint strangeness in his heart. He didn't know where this feeling came from, and he couldn't tell the specific content, but he just felt that something was wrong.Until he turned to the last page - the photo by the seaside, Xia Churong faced the sea, turned his back to the camera, looking into the distance intoxicated - Huang Dasheng finally realized it!

This afternoon, the back figure I saw in the tea house... Could it be her? Then, when Huang Dasheng thought of another thing, his heartbeat began to speed up - that figure came out from that small aisle, and there was only one private room in that corridor, and he must have stayed in that private room before the figure came out inside. That's Zhou Yulou's private room! God, no wonder Zhou Yulou looked flustered. Once Huang Dasheng's thinking was opened, he expanded rapidly. In the next moment, he suddenly remembered Zhou Yulou's disappearance on the day of the wedding—his disappearance and Tang Kai's murder happened at the same time. Is this a coincidence?Also, after the wedding, Zhou Yulou's cell phone was always turned off.On the day Xie Lan and his wife invited guests, everyone spent a long time talking about the murder case at Fu'an Hotel. Looking back now, he was still not very natural that day...

Huang Dasheng was stunned!Heart to throat. Is this murder related to Zhou Yulou? ! Could Zhou Yulou be the one behind the scenes... Huang Dasheng didn't dare to think about it any further.He sneaked to the balcony and called Zhou Yulou's mobile phone, but Zhou Yulou's number changed, so he called his home number again, but no one answered after several calls. An ominous premonition accumulated in Huang Dasheng's heart! 16 hospitals. At the moment before fainting, Zhou Yulou saw the tip of the knife resting on Jiang Dan's skin. Xia Churong's saber was like a frightened horse stopping abruptly in front of the cliff!If it is slower, the consequences will be disastrous.Jiang Dan came out of shock, gasped weakly with his mouth wide open.For a moment just now, she felt that she was dead, and hot blood was spurting from the gap in her neck.

Zhou Yulou decided to act!Xia Churong was far crazier than he had imagined, he could no longer bet on his wife's life on an invisible ending.He put his hand into his trouser pocket, trembling... Finally he found the phone.He hoped that under the cover of darkness, Xia Churong would not see his action. When he walked into the gate of 316 Hospital just now, Zhou Yulou had already pressed the three numbers 1, 1, and 0 on his mobile phone. He can press the connect button at any time, and the police car will come roaring.But at that time, he didn't want to call the police. On the one hand, it was because of Xia Churong's threat, and on the other hand, there was another obvious reason. If the police knew the truth, the trouble would be even greater.He wished he could sort it out himself.He didn't know why Xia Churong suddenly lost his temper just a few hours after they broke up, but he always felt that Xia Churong was not completely crazy to the point of being out of control.Calling the police was just a destructive remedy, and he didn't want to make that call lightly unless it was absolutely necessary.

But now, it is indeed a last resort!How could he care so much about saving Jiang Dan's life? Finally, Zhou Yulou's thumb touched the connection button of the phone...Aim at...press it... When he guessed that the call had been connected, he suddenly raised his head, glared at Xia Churong, and shouted at the top of his lungs— — "You lunatic, you let my wife go, you let her go! You let us leave the 316 hospital immediately! Leave the 316 hospital... We have no grievances with you, why are you doing this?! You let her go...Leave 316 Hospital..." "Shut up!" Xia Churong let out a furious voice.She raised her arm suddenly, a cold light flashed, and the sharp knife stabbed Jiang Dan's shoulder! "what……" Jiang Dan and Zhou Yulou screamed at the same time!Zhou Yulou's two arms stretched out like a startled snake coming out of a hole... It was just a subconscious blocking action, but in a panic, he took out the mobile phone from his trouser pocket.The mobile phone flew high and fell to the ground with a snap, the back cover flew off, and the battery was thrown far away. Jiang Dan passed out and fell limp in Xia Churong's arms.The knife didn't stab her, but pierced her clothes, and the knife clattered on her shoulder with a cold light.Like a mad cat, Xia Churong brutally tore at the prey's nerves.Then, she tightened her grip on the handle of the knife again. Zhou Yulou didn't know whether the call was really connected, whether the people in the alarm center heard "316 Hospital" clearly, or whether he pressed the wrong key due to nervousness... He staggered to stand up, dripping with sweat. Wet his whole body.He's going all out... He's going to rush over and grab Xia Churong's knife.At this time, Xia Churong spoke. "Zhou Yulou, look how worried you are about your wife, but have you ever thought about my life? I saw that policeman in the tea house today, and I was still trying to excuse you in my heart. You definitely didn't find them. You wouldn't be so Unfeeling. But when I got home at night, I saw the police upstairs and downstairs, and they were all looking for me. Zhou Yulou, I am not afraid of death, but I want to die to understand, why are you treating me like that?" "Listen to me," Zhou Yulou's weak voice was full of tremors, "those people in the teahouse are indeed investigating your husband's case, but they have nothing to do with you going there. They suspect that a security guard killed your husband because he was with you. The security guard that your husband had clashed with is now working in the sauna opposite the tea house, and they went after him. He must have said something that made the police suspect you, so they went to your house. Xia Churong, please Believe me, if I had called the police, why would I have to wait until today? Let my wife go. If you feel angry, you can kill me with a knife, just like you killed your husband, but this has nothing to do with my wife , why did you treat her like that? I beg you...let her go..." Zhou Yulou couldn't continue talking.He choked up.Counting from the time nine days ago in the private room next to Fu'an Hall, this was the second time he cried. When she heard Zhou Yulou say the word "security", Shen Mingfu's face immediately appeared in Xia Churong's mind.She finally matched up, and it turned out that he was the security guard who was fighting with Tang Kai that the police asked her last night.She didn't know the name Shen Mingfu, but she remembered that face.That face appeared on the gatepost of the community for the last time on the morning when she killed Tang Kai, and she habitually nodded to that face—it was that nod that betrayed her. Xia Churong stood there in a daze, the hand holding the knife was no longer so firm.After a long silence, she spoke again, and a sad female voice sounded in the empty hall. "Yulou, don't blame me, I'm crazy, and I don't know what I did. Can you understand? A person has only one thing, one thing, and if that thing suddenly disappears, he will go crazy. For more than a year , you are the only meaning of my life. I don't love anyone, I don't love anything I can touch, and I don't love my husband. I married myself to him in a daze. Go down till I meet you. "For more than a year...hundreds of nights, we were happy together. Even though it was just a symbol, it was enough for me. That symbol is my bosom friend, my lover, my friend, my Husband, my all, with this symbol I don’t need anything else. Then you said, you’re getting married, you’re leaving, and you can never imagine how much that hurt me! Then, Thank God, you didn't reject me, I finally met you, it was the happiest day of my life..." Xia Churong's eyes lit up, as if the revolving door of Yadu Hotel was slowly opening in front of her. "From the moment you walked in, I knew it must be you, the night fell into the sky... the man I have been waiting for. We drank, chatted, ate, and then we went upstairs... I have never felt the excitement in my life, I Melted by you, that is the happiness that a woman is worth pursuing even after death. I fantasize about being your woman forever, and I tell myself that this day will definitely come. But since that incident, everything has changed, you Started avoiding me, fearing me, hating me. Yulou, I killed Tang Kai because of you, do you know why? Because Tang Kai turned me into a prostitute for money. But I am your woman , How could I make your woman a prostitute? So I killed him without any hesitation. But what did I get in exchange? There is no understanding or sympathy, only your avoidance and disgust." Xia Churong might be tired, her hand holding the knife hangs down, but the arm holding Jiang Dan did not let go.She lowered her head, her body trembling slightly, as if she was crying.After a while, she suddenly raised her head and said in a low voice, "I know you called the police just now." Zhou Yulou was shocked!Xia Churong glanced at Jiang Dan, Jiang Dan's teeth were closed tightly, and his breathing seemed to be absent.Xia Churong raised the knife, then threw it gently on the ground, and said to Zhou Yulou, "Explain to them well, and it will be fine." Xia Churong let go of Jiang Dan, who fell to the ground with a plop.The moment Zhou Yulou was stunned, Xia Churong had already rushed to the window.She turned her head, glanced at Zhou Yulou, and said the last sentence: "Yutou, it's all over." After speaking, she jumped out of the window. The inpatient building of Hospital 16 has eight floors. Xia Churong jumped from the eighth floor. The 30-meter vertical impact broke her whole body. When the light of several flashlights illuminated the 316 compound, Zhou Yulou was carrying Jiang Dan on his back, and staggered out of the inpatient building. Sure enough, Zhou Yulou's distress call was sent successfully, and the public security sub-bureaus in the districts where the old and new 316 hospitals are located quickly received instructions from the alarm center: The gangsters are taking hostages, act immediately!The sub-bureau at the old courtyard site paid great attention to it. The sub-bureau chief personally led the team to rush over, and the snipers were armed with live ammunition and ready to fight, but these were no longer needed. Just now when Zhou Yulou went downstairs with Jiang Dan on his back, Jiang Dan woke up for a moment.She yelled, kept shaking, twisted her body violently, grabbed Zhou Yulou's shoulders, and finally retched a few times, her eyesight became slack, and she lost her mind.The officers took her to the emergency ward. Han Jian and Huang Dasheng are here. Han Jian rushed over after receiving a call from the 316 jurisdiction bureau.The colleague told Han Jian on the phone that the murderer of the Fu'an murder case had just committed suicide by jumping off a building in the 316 Hospital. Before she died, she also took an innocent hostage - of course, this was all a paraphrase of Zhou Yulou's statement. Han Jian first inspected the body of the jumper under the inpatient building.That's right, it was Xia Churong.After a while, Han Jian and Huang Dasheng found Zhou Yulou in the corridor outside the emergency room. Seeing Zhou Yulou, Huang Dasheng couldn't help being surprised.Although he had vaguely felt the unusual relationship between Zhou Yulou and Fu'an's murder case, he was very surprised that Jiang Dan was the hostage kidnapped by Xia Churong, and it also made him firmer in his previous judgment. "Why are you here?" Huang Dasheng asked him. "Oh..." Zhou Yulou tried his best to let himself be natural. There must still be residual fear in nature. The scale is not easy to grasp, but Zhou Yulou is okay. His years of acting experience are pouring out at this moment to repay the master without hesitation. .He rubbed his hands, and timidly told his old friend: "I met a crazy woman and almost killed Jiang Dan. It was... so dangerous! Dasheng, why are you here?" "How is Jiang Dan?" "I'm getting an infusion. Fortunately, there's nothing serious and I'm not injured. I'm just in a coma." The acquaintance of Huang Dasheng and Zhou Yulou surprised Han Jian.Huang Dasheng introduced their relationship to him. Han Jian said that the world is too small, and then began to ask Zhou Yulou what happened. Huang Dasheng was at the side, listening to their conversation quietly. Throughout the conversation, Zhou Yulou's heart kept beating.He is so nervous!For a moment, he felt that his heart was like a fragile balloon, ready to burst at any moment.He prayed for the conversation to end quickly, while tensing every nerve, trying to make it look like his nervousness was caused by "innocent kidnapping" and not because he was telling a big lie. Will this big lie work? Zhou Yulou didn't know.But this is the only way to go, there is no way out.Zhou Yulou thought that if the police knew the truth, there would be no doubt that he would be convicted for covering up.Besides, Xia Churong was already dead. If the police now suspected that she was the murderer of Tang Kai, they would not be able to tell even if they had 10,000 mouths.So I can only hold on and try, anyway, Jiang Dan is in a coma, Xia Churong will never speak again, now I can do whatever I want.If Jiang Dan wakes up tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, I will have enough time to agree with her.Jiang Dan will be full of anger, but she doesn't want her husband to go to jail. This is a veritable risk-taking!Saying a wrong word will give away his flaws, but Zhou Yulou still went forward despite the risk, even though his lies could be exposed at any time——Huang Dasheng was on the sidelines.