Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

When he walked into the conservatory the next morning, Zhou Yulou's head was buzzing.He had slept soundly last night, so the nightmare had no chance of interruption. There is a fragment of a nightmare that he still remembers firmly in his mind after waking up: Jiang Dan came home, happy, holding a large bouquet of roses and two lilies in his hands, just like the hands on the wedding day Flowers are the same.Zhou Yulou was overjoyed, but as he spoke, he suddenly felt that Jiang Dan's words were wrong, his speech was incoherent, and his state was abnormal... In the blink of an eye, Jiang Dan disappeared.He looked around, and suddenly heard Jiang Dan calling him from behind, he turned his head...Jiang Dan suddenly turned into Xia Churong!The rose turned into a sharp knife, and Xia Churong raised the knife and stabbed at him... This dream almost made Zhou Yulou incontinent.

Dream, who knows if it is a stub of yesterday or a prophecy of tomorrow. There were classes in the first two periods, and Zhou Yulou received a call from Xie Lan just as he was going to the piano room.Xie Lan asked him to go to the dean's office when he had time.Zhou Yulou said yes, the second get out of class will be over after class. Xie Lan didn't ask Wang Yue to call Zhou Yulou.She clearly distinguishes between public and private, since it is a private matter, she can do it herself.Zhou Yulou knew that the precious daughter ran back to her mother's house in the middle of the night carrying a suitcase, her face was pale and her limbs were weak, her parents must have been shocked by that posture.He didn't know how far Jiang Dan had told them about the matter, he thought, let's play it by ear after meeting Xie Lan later.

When the doorbell rang, Jiang Siye was bringing a bowl of poached eggs to his daughter's bedside. Jiang Dan did scare the old couple enough last night, but she didn't tell them anything, she simply said "I had a fight with Yulou" and went to bed.Xie Lan was not willing to give up, and asked the reason again and again. Seeing that Jiang Dan was silent, he wanted to call Zhou Yulou, but Jiang Siye stopped him.Jiang Siye had just retired from the Provincial Art Research Institute, and was worried that he had nothing serious to do every day. His daughter's sudden return made him a little happy.He thinks more openly than Xie Lan, the young couple have some quarrels, bickering and quarreling are inevitable, it doesn't matter if you go back to your mother's house in anger, if there is no storm, just treat it as a daughter returning home to visit her relatives.

Jiang Dan started to have a fever in the middle of the night yesterday. After taking two antipyretics, he fell asleep until dawn.At 8 o'clock in the morning, she called the publishing house and said that she was not feeling well and could not go to work.Then he lay motionless, looking at the ceiling, weeping unknowingly. Just now, Jiang Siye wore an apron and was busy in the kitchen for a long time. When he came out, he had a fine porcelain sea bowl in his hand, which contained four round and plump poached eggs, with diced green onion and coriander on top, looking appetizing.As soon as it was delivered to my daughter's bedside, the doorbell rang.Jiang Dan said: "Dad, there are guests coming, take off the apron." Jiang Siye asked his daughter in a low voice: "Is it an old lady?" Jiang Dan said: "No, it is Huang Dasheng."

Huang Dasheng called Jiang Dan just now and knew that she had returned to her natal home. Huang Dasheng put down a bunch of fruits, exchanged pleasantries with Jiang Siye, and walked into Jiang Dan's room.Seeing Huang Dasheng, Jiang Dan's tears flowed down again.Jiang Siye closed the door for them. The conversation started with Huang Dasheng's greetings, and then quickly got to the point. Huang Dasheng said: "Jiang Dan, you know, I am Yulou's best friend, and I will never harm him. Everyone will have troubles, and when they have troubles, they need help. In this world, if anyone can be sincere Helping Zhou Yulou, I must be one of them, but if you want to help him, you must first know what the truth of the matter is..."

"Stop talking," Jiang Dan interrupted Huang Dasheng, "Dasheng, you are not a person who beats around the bush, so just speak up if you have anything to say." "Well, I already talked to Yulou last night, and he also told me about him and that woman. I think, after you stayed together in the 316 inpatient building for so long, the woman told Yulou What, you must know. Now I want to hear a word from you, was that woman's husband killed by Yulou?" "Dasheng, what Zhou Yulou did has nothing to do with me. I'm no longer his wife. You should ask him."

"Jiang Dan, you can settle the matter between the two of you by yourself, but you can do me a favor, okay? Please tell me the truth, did Yulou kill that man?" Jiang Dan stared at Huang Dasheng seriously without blinking his eyes without blinking. "Dasheng, this is the last time I will talk about something related to Zhou Yulou. Listen carefully, that man was killed by his wife. This is what the woman said last night. She said she betrayed Zhou Yulou Abandoned her husband, abandoned her family, and killed someone for him. One of them married his wife upstairs, and the other killed her husband downstairs. This is all I know. Dasheng, you go back, I know you are following this case. Zhou Yulou knew from the very beginning that the woman was the murderer. He has been covering her up and hiding the truth from the police. If you tell the police about this, I will never stop you. Dasheng, you can go."

Xie Lan made an exception.She even talked about family affairs with Zhou Yulou in the office, and the conversation lasted for forty minutes. "You've only been married for a few days, why did this happen..." Starting with this, Xie Lan was out of control. Fortunately for Zhou Yulou, Jiang Dan did not tell his family the real reason for the quarrel.And Xie Lan didn't ask, she just recalled the grievances and grievances between her and Jiang Siye with emotion, and then firmly established Jiang Siye as a model in the husband world, so as to teach Zhou Yulou how to treat his wife and be open-minded , be tolerant, considerate, and feel sorry for her... When it comes to the emotional part, Xie Lan can't help tears in his eyes and choked up in his words.Zhou Yulou always sat obediently on the chair opposite her, repaying the teaching with repentance repeatedly.Finally, he asked Xie Lan, look, should I bring Dandan back?Xie Lan thought for a while and said, she is quite angry with you now, so let her stay with me for a few days, and then talk about it after the anger subsides.When walking out of Xie Lan's office, Zhou Yulou saw Wang Yue, assistant to the dean.Wang Yue teased Zhou Yulou, hey, I heard that Director Zhou's house had a new wedding?Zhou Yulou smiled wryly and said, Mr. Wang is very well informed. Fortunately, you were not transferred to the hospital newspaper, otherwise I would have to change my life.

Zhou Yulou returned to the office, took out Xia Churong's bag from the drawer, went out to find a deserted place, and burned the bag, Xia Churong's cell phone and other things in the bag.In the rustling light of the flames, he prayed that Xia Churong would not misunderstand, he just wanted to destroy these things, and he definitely didn't want to send them to her.Even if she did receive it, she must never use that mobile phone to call him again.The fire died out after a short while, and a breeze carried away the ashes.Zhou Yulou said silently in his heart, "I hope Xia Churong is safe there", and then left silently in the opposite direction to those ashes.

Huang Dasheng came out of Xie Lan's house and wandered outside for a long time, feeling his heart was overwhelmed and confused, and then he went to the Renhui Brigade.When he entered the room, Han Jian was listening to the call recordings from the 110 command center.Seeing Huang Dasheng coming in, Han Jian played the recording for him again. Zhou Yulou's voice—— "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..." followed by Xia Churong's hoarse cry.

Han Jian said, your friend is really witty. At this time, Han Jian's colleagues just came back from Fu'an Hotel, and they brought back new information.They took Xia Churong's photo and went to Fu'an Hotel to investigate. As a result, one of the restaurant's cleaning staff said that she had seen the woman in the photo go out from the side door on the first floor that morning.The cleaner said that she was just about to push the grocery cart into the door when the woman suddenly came out of the door and almost hit her. The timing of Tang Kai's death coincides. Han Jian asked Huang Dasheng: "How is your friend's wife? Are you awake?" Huang Dasheng gritted his teeth hard.At that moment, he thought he was dead.He replied to Han Jian: "Wake up, I went to see her just now, what she said...is similar to what my friend said last night, and she is also... frightened." Tumbling, wishing that there was a 30-ton heavy truck in front of him, the brakes failed, and he crushed himself to pieces, without a trace. Han Jian asked Huang Dasheng to apologize to his friends on behalf of the police force, saying that if the woman had been caught earlier, what happened yesterday would not have happened. Huang Dasheng was in a hurry to report to the agency, and Han Jian was going to the Municipal Bureau to go through the transfer procedures, so the two of them went out together.When they were about to break up, Han Jian suddenly remembered something, and said to Huang Dasheng: "Hey Dasheng, didn't you tell me two days ago that you happened to have a friend who was having a wedding at Fu'an Hotel on the day of the crime? You can also take Ask them about Xia Churong's photo, maybe they saw her too." Huang Dasheng said vaguely, "Oh... yes..." In fact, Han Jian was just making a joke, but Huang Dasheng was really upset.Two hours later, Huang Dasheng made an important decision. Huang Dasheng resigned. Two hours ago, Huang Dasheng returned to the newspaper office from the Renhui Brigade and began to write a report on the Fu'an murder case.Of course, there won't be any large-scale case reports. He just wants to use a few hundred words to deal with a press release, and simply finish the "event process". The fuse is still on the title. Huang Dasheng's headline was "Fu'an Murder Case Solved—Killing Wife and Daughter and Kidnapping Passers-by, Jumping to Death in Haste".The editor-in-chief of Dai Houping was very dissatisfied after seeing this title.He called Huang Dasheng to the office and said, Dasheng, your title is too common, and your sharp style does not reflect it at all.Just because I changed your title in the last report, you can’t overcorrect.The title of this report should be changed to, "Fu'an Murder Case Solved-Killing Wife and Daughter, Frenziedly Binding Passers-by, Jumping to Death and Difficult to Know".You see, we want to emphasize that the woman who killed her husband has reached an outrageous level of insanity.In order to vent their personal anger, they even arrest and tie up passers-by when they see them. If everyone is like this, will there be peace in society?Is the life of the people still guaranteed?Therefore, her madness and stupidity must be emphasized in the title, and the words "remorse is difficult to know" must be added to warn readers!Huang Dasheng blurted out without thinking, what kind of passerby?How do you know that she would arrest and tie passers-by when she saw them?The editor-in-chief said, hey?That's what it says in your manuscript.Huang Dasheng said, okay, editor-in-chief, you can change it however you like. Huang Dasheng went out from the editor-in-chief's office. After a while, he knocked on the door and came in again, saying, "Editor-in-chief, I have already decided, I want to resign." This is not an act of will.Just now, Huang Dasheng stood in front of the large window of the editorial department for a while, thinking and thinking.What happened to Zhou Yulou annoyed him, and as Zhou Yulou's close friend, he really couldn't tell the truth from the standpoint of absolute justice, which made him even more frustrated.He felt that he was no longer worthy of being a reporter, especially a legal reporter.Since you can't maintain her dignity, then just quit, staying will only increase the pollution.And from another point of view, it is only fair that someone must be punished when things have come to this point.Since that person is not Zhou Yulou, it can only be himself, giving up his beloved career and ruining his beautiful future, this punishment, Huang Dasheng thought, maybe it is not enough. Using a friend's mistakes to punish oneself is probably the highest level of being a friend. Huang Dasheng's words made the old editor-in-chief stunned. "Dasheng, what's wrong with you? Just because of that title?" "No." Huang Dasheng explained, "I've thought about it these days. How should I say it? I...maybe I'm not suitable to be a reporter at all. A reporter's bounden duty is to restore the truth, but... Anyway, I can't allow myself to tarnish This profession..." The following words were talking to himself, but the old editor's expression changed. "Dasheng! Did you fabricate the news? Does the higher-ups know..." Huang Dasheng smiled, "It's not that serious, I just don't think I'm suitable for this job. Editor-in-chief, thank you for training me these years, I know that you have always loved me, and I am always grateful to you. Really, you Don't overthink it, it's nothing, I really don't think this industry is for me, it's just a feeling." The editor-in-chief said: "Then you can't ruin your job just because of a feeling. What are you going to do if you don't become a reporter?" Huang Dasheng's answer almost made the editor-in-chief fall off his chair. He said, "Marry." On the night of Huang Dasheng's resignation, he asked Lu Qing out, and the two sat in a bar until midnight. In fact, Huang Dasheng has always had feelings for Lu Qing, and he also knows that Lu Qing feels better for him.Several times, Lu Qing wanted to express his feelings to Huang Dasheng, but Huang Dasheng turned him off.It's not because of anything else, it's just that Huang Dasheng feels that he has no distractions all day long, and all his thoughts are spent on work, which will definitely weaken his sense of responsibility to his family.Moreover, the work of legal reporters is always dangerous.Once, Huang Dasheng went to the scene in order to take a few photos in a crackdown on gangsters. A bullet flew past his ear that day. Thanks to the power failure of the camera at that time, he tilted his head to check , otherwise he would have been a martyr for a year and a half now.There could be more than one such thing, so Huang Dasheng thought that avoiding Lu Qing's kindness, maybe he was more responsible for her. But today, all worries are gone.And at this moment, Huang Dasheng suddenly had a strong desire, hoping to have a warm force to wrap himself up.The longing was as strong as longing for a fire in winter. Is life really that scary?Huang Dasheng kept asking himself.Then, Zhou Yulou nodded in frustration in his heart. The greatest stimulation must come from the nearest people. Over the years, Huang Dasheng has dealt with the police and his opponents. He has witnessed one person after another, making the same or different mistakes, and receiving punishments of light or heavy... But he has always regarded himself as a bystander Those who watch calmly, rarely distracted.Because those are others and have nothing to do with Huang Dasheng's life.But this time, this person was in his life, his closest friend for more than half of his life.Huang Dasheng suddenly feels that those things that seem far away are actually around him, dangerous desires, soaring grievances, deadly temptations, crazy butcher knives... everything is hidden and obvious, close at hand, within reach . Is life really that scary? ——"Yes." In his heart, Zhou Yulou said. Huang Dasheng was a little cold.He wanted to warm himself up.He wants to build a nest with a kind girl, a place where he can feel safe and secure. In the bar, Huang Dasheng told Lu Qing about his resignation after he finished drinking a pint of beer.Lu Qing was greatly surprised, and hurriedly asked the reason, Huang Dasheng only vaguely said that he was too tired from work and wanted to take a rest.Lu Qing said, that's fine too, when people don't want to do anything, don't force yourself, anyway, you are very talented and you don't have to worry about finding something to do, otherwise, don't go anywhere, just stay at home Write something you like, just like me. "Same as you?" Huang Dasheng said, "Why don't we just... live with you." Lu Qing was taken aback for a moment, and blushed and muttered, "What are you talking about?" "Really." Huang Dasheng took a sip of wine, trying to drive away his shyness, "Lu Qing, if you think I'm okay and not annoying, look, can you consider...marrying me?" It was so sudden that Lu Qing was at a loss. "What's wrong with you? Did you drink too much? Did you see the wrong person?" "No, Lu Qing, in fact, I have always liked you, but I used to feel that I was not sure what to do in this industry. Stay with you well. We are not young, and a lifetime will pass in the blink of an eye, what do you think? You think about it, I mean it." Huang Dasheng held Lu Qing's hand on the table.Lu Qing pulled out his hand, lowered his head, and cried. After a while, Lu Qing raised his head and asked, "Is this a marriage proposal?" Huang Dasheng nodded hastily, then rummaged around, and stammered, "Look at me, I haven't prepared anything, or... I'll buy a diamond ring for you tomorrow, and it will be better than what Zhou Yulou gave to Jiang." Dan's is bigger." Mentioning Zhou Yulou, he felt a little bit in his heart. Lu Qing said: "Who wants your diamond ring? Just don't be as heartless as you used to be. I thought you were addicted to rejecting beautiful women." Huang Dasheng said: "But Lu Qing, you have to think about it. I am a vagrant now. I don't think I can find any suitable job in a while. Can you support me?" Lu Qing said: "Don't be so deep, please, why do I feel like I am your retirement allowance?" Huang Dasheng thought for a while and said, "No, it's pension insurance."