Chapter 41 Chapter Forty-One

Zhou Yulou stopped abruptly!He turned his head...to look behind him, around him, and into every window, but all he could see was the afterglow of the setting sun and some seemingly irrelevant figures. Zhou Yulou hardly dared to move.He knew that somewhere, in a dark corner, there were eyes watching him, witnessing his every move!Just like now, he was panicked, at a loss, and embarrassed, everything was reflected in those eyes... He suddenly felt an anger of being played with! The phone rang again. Short message: Do you see the police car? The police are at the school. I can call the police just a few steps away. Can you cooperate?

Zhou Yulou glanced around, then quickly walked into the "Art Garden" not far away.It was a green space, surrounded by hedges and moon gates, with a gazebo in the middle.He sat down on the stone bench in the pavilion.The weather wasn't too warm anymore, and the stone bench was even colder to the bone because it didn't see the sun all day long, but he didn't feel it at all.He collected himself and was about to write something on his phone when another text message came: My forbearance has expired. Can I ask you for a cooperation last time? Last chance Zhou Yulou asked him with trembling thumbs:

how to cooperate soon: three hundred thousand There was a bang in his head! To be honest, after confirming that the other party was a pure blackmailer and not a policeman, Zhou Yulou was much calmer.Obviously, he made a mistake when he left Bai Xiaoxi's house, and was caught by a bastard again by mistake.Fortunately, he was not a policeman, and he didn't want to put himself to death. He just wanted to get some benefits. It's a good luck rather than a disaster.Problems that can be solved with money couldn't be easier.He never thought that there would be so many!He felt that 100,000 yuan should be the upper limit, and if the other party was eager for money, there was still room for bargaining.But now it seems that I have greatly underestimated that appetite.

Zhou Yulou replied: where do i get so much money other side: give you three days to prepare Zhou Yulou opened his mouth wide!Open your eyes wide!Even the pores are dilated... three days... 300,000? !There was a cry in his reply—— joke!I can't prepare that much! other side: then prepare to die Zhou Yulou: who the hell are you can we meet and talk other side: You only have three days and three hundred thousand don't take risks Zhou Yulou: I really don't have that much! A few minutes had passed, and the phone hadn't rang again. Zhou Yulou had been sitting on the stone bench, feeling cold all over his body.He called the phone again, of course it was turned off.The initiative of the dialogue is there, and this has not changed through the ages.Anyway, he has said all he wanted to say!There is no room for negotiation.That's 300,000, three days, didn't you say it?You have to prepare to die if you don't have money, that kind of fucking determination is impossible to fight!

"Damn!" Zhou Yulou uttered a monosyllabic word angrily, and then he heard a shout not far away. "Xue Ge, what are you doing?" Zhou Yulou raised his eyes and saw a figure running out from the bushes in Yiyuan.It can be seen from the back that it is Xue Ge. Zhou Yulou had followed the person in front for about ten minutes. Xue Ge. Zhou Yulou didn't know why his favorite student appeared in that place at that time.But the moment Xue Ge ran out of the art garden from behind, Zhou Yulou suddenly remembered what he said: "Mr. Zhou, why do you look listless today? It's not because there are no girls from the acting department. Don't you feel bored?" ——It was in the piano room, the time was the morning of the second day after Bai Xiaoxi died.At that time Zhou Yulou just thought it was an ordinary joke about "The Hunchback of the Clock Tower", but now, he doesn't know if there is any other meaning in that sentence.

Xue Ge walked out of the school gate, made a phone call, and then walked down the road in front of the Conservatory of Music.Zhou Yulou distanced himself and followed unhurriedly until he reached a tavern.The tavern was once the stronghold of Zhou Yulou and his students. It is small but clean.Usually, when someone celebrates a birthday or encounters something worth celebrating, there will always be boys relying on Zhou Yulou to treat them there. Zhou Yulou lit a cigarette outside the tavern, and when he was halfway through, he stomped it out and walked in. Xue Ge sat at a table against the wall.When Zhou Yulou entered the room, he was swallowing a sip of beer. The sudden appearance of the teacher made the drink choke his throat, and he stood up coughing.Sitting with him was a young man of about his age, with a large, cropped head and small eyes, strong and somewhat rude.

"Teacher Zhou, why are you here?" Xue Ge cleared his throat and greeted Zhou Yulou. Zhou Yulou sat down at their table. "It's okay, come and have a seat." "This... is my buddy, named Taozi. Taozi, this is our teacher Zhou." Taozi stood up and greeted Zhou Yulou, Zhou Yulou nodded, and asked Xue Ge with a smile: "Xue Ge, you haven't taken professional classes recently, have you stopped practicing your voice?" "No, I've been practicing all the time. Mr. Zhou, did your business trip to Shanghai go well?" "fine."

"Have you eaten? Pour you a glass of wine." Xue Ge called the waiter to bring the glass, and picked up the bottle by himself.The wine bottle was covered with drops of water, and when he slipped his hand, the bottle fell on the table, foam splashing everywhere.He blushed instantly. "What's wrong with you?" Zhou Yulou asked, "Why are you in such a panic?" "It's okay." Xue Ge said, but his expression already denied the answer. Zhou Yulou stood up, "I'm leaving, you can't let go of me here." "Teacher Zhou, are you waiting a while?"

Zhou Yulou waved his hand without looking back.When he got to the door, he turned around and said to Xue Ge: "Xue Ge, haven't you done anything out of the ordinary recently?" "Huh? Uh... no." The boy put together a smile with a flushed face. Zhou Yulou also smiled and walked out of the tavern.He trusts his eyes, his students are very abnormal. There are already two empty wine bottles on the table. Xue Ge and Taozi didn't speak to each other, they drank their beers in silence, like two strangers.After a long time, Xue Ge whispered to Taozi: "Couldn't he already know?"

"Impossible," Taozi said confidently, "Didn't he go to Shanghai for a meeting? He hasn't been in Xinjiang all this time, how could he know?" "Then why did he ask me that sentence? You haven't done anything outrageous recently, have you? What an obvious hint, what do you mean?" "If you're always thinking about that, you'll definitely think what you think. Think optimistically, maybe he's asking that because you're out of school and drinking with friends." Xue Ge still had a sad face, "What should he do if he really knows?"

"Come on, it's over anyway, beg for mercy, cry bitterly, kneel down to him, I don't believe he can kill you?" "But I really feel sorry for him for doing this. He has always treated me like a younger brother and worked hard to train me..." "Hey... come on," Taozi drank the wine in his glass and said with a tinkling sound, "Don't be a man, why are you acting like a girl?" Xue Ge wanted to say something more, but Taozi interrupted him with a firm gesture, leaned his head closer, and asked Xue Ge mysteriously: "Can you help me think about it, you and I, the teacher, used to know each other Will there be any chance to meet?" "What's wrong? Familiar?" "Well, since he came in just now, I feel as if I've seen him somewhere." "That's no big deal. There are many people who can remember it with just a glance on the street, especially because he is so handsome." "He went to my place to repair the car?..." Taozi muttered about his memories.His parents own a car repair shop, and he himself has been working there, so he has such a guess, but Xue Ge quickly told him, "He doesn't drive at all. When he was studying abroad, the two were the best. All of my friends died in a car accident, and he fainted after holding the steering wheel." "No, no, no, no..." Taozi also denied himself, narrowed his small eyes, and said slowly, "I always feel that I should not see him in a normal place." "Not normal? Where? The crematorium?" Taozi gave Xue Ge a blank look, and Xue Ge continued to joke, "Then... spaceship? Mars? Bermuda? Iraq? Execution ground? Prison? Sahara..." "Wait, what did you say?" "what?" "Prison." Taozi said seriously. "Prison?! Did you see him in prison?" "No...it's the Public Security Bureau," Taozi's eyes lit up, "it's the police station to be precise...I remember!" "The police station? What did you do there?" Taozi showed shame, and said vaguely, "It's about prostitution." "Prostitution? You?" Xue Ge laughed loudly, "You can't sell even if all the men in the world are dead." "What are you talking about? I don't prostitute, I'm... a client." "Prostitution? Have you ever done this?" "That's right! I remembered, he was the one who took it away." Taozi finally made a decision. "Who are you taking?" "That girl, the prostitute. That night we were both arrested and brought back to the police station. Later I saw that it was you, the teacher, who took that girl away. That's right, it was him. No wonder he looks so familiar..." "Fang Lili!" Xue Ge shouted, standing up abruptly. "What's wrong with you?" Taozi was startled by him. "The girl you're looking for is a classmate in our department, one year younger than me, you know? Later she committed suicide because of that incident!" "Si... committed suicide?" Taozi was dumbfounded, "The girl is from your school? She... died?" "Nonsense! Hanged." "Wait, are we talking about a person? It can't be such a coincidence, can it? How do you know it's her?" "Why not? Ever since I entered the school, there has been one incident of prostitution among girls, and if you say that Teacher Zhou took her away, then it must be Fang Lili." "That girl's name is Fang Lili?" "When did you find her?" Xue Ge asked. "About a month or so..." "It must be her!" "He's tall and has long hair..." "right!" "She... is really dead?" "Nonsense, the school punished her and announced it. She hanged herself as soon as she couldn't think about it, right in the dormitory." "But, you can't blame me, and I didn't let her commit suicide." "But anyway, she died because you found her, right? From this point of view, you also contributed to her death!" Xue Ge raised his head and poured the beer into his mouth, put down the glass with a "slap", and got up to ask for help. Let's go, Taozi hurriedly grabbed him, "Hey, wait..." "What for?" "Actually..." Taozi pushed Xue Ge back on the chair vigorously, looked around mischievously, put his head close to Xue Ge's ear, and whispered: "Listen to me, this matter really has nothing to do with me. That woman's prostitution is actually fake, and my prostitution is also fake. They are all fake. We were ordered by someone to do it. If we want to blame, we have to blame that person. I charged that person 2,000 yuan. As for you I don't know how much that girl took." After speaking, Taozi quickly drank a sip of beer to calm himself down. Xue Ge was dumbfounded.