Chapter 35 Chapter Thirty-Five

Sometimes, it doesn't take too much noise to scare people, just a soft call is enough.Zhou Yulou heard such a voice.On the morning of the second day after the murder, Zhou Yulou sent the suit and trousers he wore yesterday to the dry cleaner downstairs, and then went to work.As soon as he got off the taxi at the school gate, a soft call came from behind him. "Xiaoxi..." It was just a soft sound, but Zhou Yulou almost rose from the ground.He turned his head sharply and saw Wang Yue, assistant to the dean, waving at a five or six-year-old girl.The girl ran up to Wang Yue, and Wang Yue picked her up. At this time, Wang Yue saw Zhou Yulou.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm on a business trip in the afternoon, why do you still come to work?" Wang Yue asked him. "Oh, there are two classes in the morning." He forced a smile. "What's wrong with you? You don't look very well." "Maybe it's okay to not rest." "Abducted by me to work overtime, right? I'll treat you when I come back from a business trip...Come on, baby, say hello to Uncle Zhou." The girl obediently followed Wang Yue's words, and Zhou Yulou remembered that she was Wang Yue's daughter. It's called Xiaoqian.

This is just the first tease from Bai Xiaoxi. Not long after "Xiao Qian" passed by, Xue Ge made a little joke with the absent-minded Zhou Yulou during class in the piano room: "Mr. Zhou, why do you look listless today? Could it be that you have no performances?" Dear girl, you feel bored, don't you?" What Xue Ge was referring to was Zhou Yulou tutoring Bai Xiaoxi and the others in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".Such jokes are very common for their teachers and students, but Zhou Yulou was furious immediately, and he smashed his fist on the keys with a "bang".

"What did you say!" Xue Ge's face flushed immediately, and he didn't dare to make a sound. Then, just after two classes, Director Sun found Zhou Yulou.Director Sun begged him to take time to review the makeup rehearsal of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" before boarding the train.Director Sun said: "Students have already changed their clothes, and they are all in the physical classroom, waiting for you." This sentence made Zhou Yulou feel cold all over.Are they all in the physical classroom?Is Esmeralda there too?While thinking this way, Zhou Yulou followed Director Sun into the physical classroom with hesitant steps.

Of course Esmeralda was not there. Everyone has changed into their costumes, the singers are practicing their voices, and the dancers are stretching their bodies. They only wait for their director to give an order to start.Only Esmeralda was missing from the crowd, and her costume was placed on a chair against the wall. Director Sun immediately noticed the problem. "Where's Bai Xiaoxi?" Director Sun asked. "Didn't see her," said an actor. "Go find it." "Looks like she didn't come today." "Really! This Bai Xiaoxi." Director Sun showed sullen expression, "Director Zhou will be on a business trip in the afternoon, so he specially spared time to give you counseling. Does she have a phone number? Give her a call."

The girl playing Lily took out her mobile phone and called Bai Xiaoxi, but no one answered. "Fight again!" Director Sun was a little annoyed.The atmosphere became tense, and the room was silent.When the third time was played, the girl suddenly smiled. "I picked it up! Hey Xiaoxi, oh..." She glanced at Director Sun in frustration, "I'm sorry, I got it wrong." The girl closed the phone and said to herself angrily: "Why doesn't this guy Answer the phone." This little trick shook Zhou Yulou's entire internal organs!Director Sun called him twice before he regained his composure.Director Sun asked him: "Director Zhou, from your previous tutoring, do you think the girl who plays Esmeralda is okay?"

"Ah? Uh... yes, she has good comprehension and good psychological quality. It's really here... There shouldn't be any problems during the performance. Why don't we start first, I have a business trip in the afternoon." "Okay, everyone, let's get started!" That's when the door was pushed open.Just as the first actor opened his mouth to sing, a voice came unexpectedly from the door. "Excuse me, is Bai Xiaoxi there?" Everyone looked over and saw a young woman standing timidly by the door. "Bai Xiaoxi is not here." Director Sun told her again, motioning for the actors to start.But the woman went on to say: "Teacher, I called her, but she didn't answer. I went to the department to find her, and they said she was here..."

"We are rehearsing!" Director Sun interrupted the woman impatiently, "Bai Xiaoxi didn't come to class today, you can come later." "But..." The woman obviously didn't want to leave, and said persistently: "I couldn't find her when I called last night. I am Xiaoxi's sister. I came from another place yesterday. I haven't seen Xiaoxi yet. She Is there anything wrong? Do you know where she lives?" "You are his sister, don't you know?" Director Sun asked. "She has always told her family that she lives in the school dormitory, but I just asked her classmates and found out that she has long since lived in the school, and it seems that she has rented a house outside."

Director Sun looked around at the others. "Is that right?" Several people nodded. "Where does she live?" Director Sun asked. The girl who played Lily said, "We don't know either, Wu Qian is usually good with Xiaoxi, she should know." "Go find it." Wu Qian will come soon. Wu Qian told Director Sun: "Xiaoxi made a boyfriend last semester, and she should live in that man's house." After saying this, Zhou Yulou finally confirmed the relationship between Bai Xiaoxi and that man.At the same time, a sense of disgust arises out of the tension: Damn people!Using his girlfriend's body to seduce others, but he killed himself!

"Do you know where that man's home is?" Director Sun asked Wu Qian. Wu Qian shook her head. "What does her boyfriend do?" "have no idea." "Have you seen it?" "I saw him come to the school to pick up Xiaoxi a few times, but I didn't see what he looked like. He always came in a car and didn't get off. The car was parked outside the school gate." "What car?" "Grey, it seems to be... Xiali or something." "Does Bai Xiaoxi often not come to class?" "Occasionally, but in the past, no matter what the situation, I could always find her by calling. This is the first time like today. Director Sun, it won't be... something really happened?" Wu Qian was worried, and everyone They all looked at Director Sun silently, Bai Xiaoxi's sister was already in tears.Zhou Yulou stood quietly by the side, but his heart was already overwhelmed.He was particularly worried that his mouth would suddenly go out of order, and he would say something like "I know where she is...".

After a while, Director Sun said to Bai Xiaoxi's sister: "Wait a little longer, even if you report the crime, you have to wait for forty-eight hours." He forced out an ugly smile at Zhou Yulou, "Shall we start?" "Okay." Zhou Yulou said. The feral cat that was picked up started the protracted war between the old couple. The old couple lived on the top floor of Zhao Duo's house.The old man is a sports fan. He is proficient in everything from badminton to shuttlecock kicking, from table tennis to diabolo. He spends all day in various parks in Xinjiang showing amazing energy with his thin body.The old lady's daily life is cooking and cleaning the house.Most women have given up strict requirements on indoor hygiene when they reach her age, but the old lady does not, her desire to clean increases with age.So you can imagine how angry the old lady was when the old man brought the stray cat home two weeks ago. The old man had found the cat by the wall of a park.He had just finished a ping-pong match and defeated a defiant young man 3-0. He left the ball table amidst applause, and saw the cat within a few steps.The cat leaned against the wall weakly, shrunk its head, and cast a sad look at the old man.Maybe it was a perfect victory that inspired the old man's heroism - he had never dealt with any pets before; or maybe it was that look that broke the old man's heart in an instant.Anyway, he took the cat home. The old man gave the cat an appropriate name: Ono. Wild cats. From then on, the old lady must open all the windows and doors unless she goes to bed at night.This aspect is due to the need for ventilation, because the sensitive nerves of the old lady can always catch the "body odor" of Ono's body; and the most important reason is that the old lady hopes that one day Ono can walk out of her house and never come back. It's been two weeks now and cat hunting has replaced all the old man's exercise. After all, it is a wild cat. After it is warm and comfortable, the open door will always stimulate its great potential.The old man found it behind the bicycle shed in the middle of the night before yesterday.Last night, after pestering Zhou Yulou for a while, the old man continued to search, and finally found that Ono was flirting with another wild cat in the grass outside the community.He had thought about taking that one home with him, but eventually gave up on the idea.Let Ono be single first, the old man thought, or I will be single. This morning, the old man issued an ultimatum to the old lady: "Resolutely don't open the door again!" The old lady smiled lightly, "Yes, get your wild cat away, and the door is guaranteed to be closed every day." The old man Reluctantly, after breakfast, I hugged Ono in my arms and watched "Three Thousand Questions of Naughty Blue Cat" on TV together.The old man didn't know when he squinted, and when he woke up, he felt empty in his arms.Looking around, there was nothing else in the room except my wife who was concentrating on cleaning the floor. "Where's Ono?" "have no idea." "You took it away?" "I hug it? Touching it makes me sick with nausea. That stray cat has never been with you. As soon as you fell asleep, he slapped his ass and left." "you saw it?" "Ok." "go out?" "Ok." "Why did you let it go out again?" "What are you doing if I let it out the window?" The old man ignored the old lady, jumped out of the house, and started a new round of cat hunting.Little did he know that a discovery far more important than cats was waiting for him not far away. If she had waited forty-eight hours before reporting the crime, Bai Xiaoxi's sister would have gone crazy long ago. Bai Xiaoxi's older sister is called Bai Na, and she came to Xinjiang this time to ask her sister for help.A batch of woolen sweaters that Bai Na bought in Xinjiang last month were returned due to quality problems, but it took many days to get a refund.In the past, Bai Xiaoxi always told her sister in front of her sister how good she was in Xinjiang and how good friends she had made, so this time Bai Na wanted her sister to come forward and find some people to get the money back.She called Bai Xiaoxi as soon as she got off the train at 10 o'clock last night, but no one answered. She didn't think much about it at that time, but when she went to the school today to look for it, she suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter.At this moment, the payment for the goods doesn't matter to her anymore, it's the inexplicable disappearance of her younger sister that really makes her anxious. Wu Qian accompanied Bai Na into the police station. The policeman on duty checked the general situation, made a record, and asked them to go back and wait for news. The body classroom was very lively, and the make-up rehearsal of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" looked exciting.Zhou Yulou tried his best to suppress all the irritability and tension.He doesn't know what is the most important thing for him to do now, but he thinks that maybe the more normal he is, the safer he will be.So after the actors performed, he began to guide everyone very seriously.Singing skills, emotional control, and even pronunciation... He found something strange when he talked about the cooperation between singers and dancers. He looked around the body classroom, and finally confirmed that Director Sun was gone. He felt a vague worry.It's a bit abnormal to invite someone to review the program, but to leave quietly, especially for someone as careful and thoughtful as Director Sun.Are you too nervous?Zhou Yulou thought, it's better to be more cautious.He told the actors to practice by themselves first, and then opened the door and walked out of the physical classroom. As soon as he went out, he saw Director Sun's back going up the stairs, and he followed quietly. Because he was full of anger towards the old lady, the old man walked down the stairs vigorously.At the same time, he called loudly: "Ono!" When he went down to the third floor, he accidentally kicked on the railing of the stairs, grinned in pain, and reached out to rub it.But when he was rubbing, he suddenly stopped.He had a feeling that Xiaoye hadn't gone far, it was nearby, in this building.He forgot the pain and stood there quietly. After a while, he finally heard the voice coming from a corner of the corridor. "Meow……" The voice was very weak, but it sounded like Ono. Director Sun's heart has been beating non-stop since Bai Na and Wu Qian left the body shape classroom.He had a chilling premonition: the suicide of a girl from the Vocal Music Department has just passed, so it shouldn't be his turn this time to the Acting Department, right?At this age, Director Sun doesn't want to get promoted and get rich anymore, he just wants to get a job smoothly, and make a few more friends by the way, and he will be satisfied.Will something really happen to Bai Xiaoxi?He has no idea.But no matter what, he felt that he should go to say hello to Xie Lan first, lest something really happen and catch the school by surprise, Xie Lan would definitely not give him good fruit. Director Sun was stopped by Wang Yue as soon as he entered the door.Wang Yue's office is in the dean's room.She pointed to the door inside and told Director Sun: "The leader of the Education Committee is here and is talking with Dean Xie. Sit down and wait for a while." At this time, outside the dean's room, Zhou Yulou was leaning on the door to listen to the movement, and at the same time uneasily guessing the intention of Director Sun's trip.He didn't know in his heart that he would soon face the biggest test in history. three... four... five... The old man went upstairs following the meowing of the cat, and when he reached the fifth floor, he finally found the source of the sound.There was a slightly open door in front of him, and the cry came from there. "It turned out to be someone's cat." The old man was very disappointed.However, just as he was about to go downstairs in frustration, he suddenly remembered something.There seemed to be two young people in this room, a man and a woman, who had met before, and the girl was very pretty, but I had never seen them raise a cat.Moreover, it seems that once I heard the girl say to the man, don't keep pulling the door so hard, it's almost impossible to lock it tightly. Is there no one in that house?The door was not locked, and Ono went in by himself? The old man turned around, leaned his head towards the crack of the door and called cautiously, "Is anyone there? Is that someone at home? Is that your cat?" There was no human voice, only the cat meowing. It must be Ono. "I'm coming in." The old man gently opened the door and walked into the room. Ono was strolling happily in the middle of the bedroom.After all, it was a cat who had seen the world before. The two bloody corpses didn't arouse the slightest fear in it, but the owner's howl made it jump up in fright! That broken door was really bad.Although the arm that closed it last night was already very hard, but that strength was far from enough for it.Especially under the circumstances at that time, who would dare to make such a loud noise to buckle the door lock? Zhou Yulou paced uneasily outside the dean's room, his mind was full of random thoughts, ignoring any sound.So, when he realized that the door of the dean's room was pushed open, it was too late to leave. Xie Lan walked out with the two leaders. "Yulou?" Xie Lan was very surprised, "Aren't you on a business trip? Haven't left yet?" "Oh... yes..." Zhou Yulou faltered. "Is there something wrong?" Xie Lan asked. "It's just... a small matter. The program list for the school celebration needs to be adjusted. I'm here to find Teacher Wang." "Go in, she's here." Zhou Yulou bit the bullet and entered the room, and then picked up a topic to talk to Wang Yue.He said that he had just watched "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in the acting department and thought it was really exciting, and it would be better to adjust it to a more important position.When he said this, he secretly watched Director Sun's reaction, and Director Sun gave him infinitely grateful eyes.That gaze made Zhou Yulou believe that his worries were a little unnecessary. When Zhou Yulou was about to leave, Xie Lan came back.Xie Lan told everyone with a smile on her face: "The education committee has placed great expectations on our college in this evaluation of professors. The leader said that our school has a solid foundation and a good academic atmosphere. I hope more young teachers can go there." Then she asked Zhou Yulou , "It just so happens that you are here, have you brought your thesis? I suddenly remembered that there are two things that need to be corrected." Zhou Yulou shook his head, "The thesis is at home, I will print another one for you later." When he said this, he touched his suit subconsciously.Then, two seconds later...he suddenly felt...his heartbeat almost stopped! ! He was wearing another suit yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, after he and Xie Lan finished discussing the thesis, right here, he slipped the thesis into his suit pocket.Early this morning, he took the suit to the dry cleaner.He had checked every pocket before he went--as he had always done--and found all of them empty.At that time, he didn't even think about that, in the pocket of the suit, there should be a paper of his own! Two images flashed before Zhou Yulou's eyes - last night, he pressed on Bai Xiaoxi, took off his suit, and threw it on the ground.Another scene - Zhao Duo forced him with a knife and asked Bai Xiaoxi to get his clothes.Bai Xiaoxi picked up his pants and T-shirt, and then found the suit on the ground on the other side of the bed.Bai Xiaoxi bent down, but her fingers were very stiff, she couldn't pick up the suit after picking it up a few times, and when she picked it up, she dropped it... Oh my god!It must be...it was that time...the paper must have fallen out of the suit's arms at that time! !Besides, it had no chance of falling off last night! The other side of the bed... the other side of the bed is just a narrow space next to the window.Zhou Yulou clearly remembered that before he left last night, he never checked that place at all! The thesis falls there. must go back! ! Zhou Yulou rushed downstairs to Zhao Duo's house as quickly as possible. It's still too late. Far away, through the glass of the taxi, he saw a cordon, and so many policemen.