【 Suspense 】 Nightmare Floating Life (18)

The eighteenth episode

1.

The river flows through strange stones, or builds a splash or forms a small waterfall.

Look downstream along this river, and you can see a suspension bridge. One end of the suspension bridge extends into the deep mountains along a railway at the foot of the mountain.

The suspension bridge is narrow and small, but it is strong enough to row two motorcycles side by side. The dark and bright iron chain quietly looked at the river at the foot. Cross the bridge to the other end of the village. The village is in the valley on both sides of the river. On both sides of the river, the mountains are towering, and the Woods with all the leaves are dead. Several crows landed on the cable crossing the river. Did they let out a piercing cold crow? I wonder what they are talking about. The floodplain is covered with a new layer of snow, reflecting the sunlight coldly.

Tao Wuqi committed suicide by jumping off a building for a long time. This shadow lingers in Cao's mind. He wanted to travel to dilute the shadow, but everything in front of him made him even more chilling.

People who have witnessed death are prone to psychological shadows and then fall into depression. Cao should be like this.

On the coming train, he met a girl named Yi Yao. Seven or eight hours' drive made two people chat one by one, and because of this, the journey became no longer lonely.

"I also came out to relax." Yi Yao picked up the thermos and took a sip of hot water and said, "It's not much different from your situation."

"It should be much worse."

The long sand road extends along the river, and I don't know where it ends.

"Aren't you afraid to follow me? We've only known each other for less than ten hours. Haven't you read the article about girls traveling alone, missing, being raped, robbed and trafficked? " Cao glanced at the top of the mountain.

"No, exactly, nothing scares me." She looked around slowly, her breath rising like a cloud.

"awesome!" Cao smiled and said, "I have wine. Do you have a story to tell me? "

Yi Yao said with a smile, "Let's find the reserved inn first, or we will freeze to death here."

"Not really."

Few people enter the mountains in winter, and two people walk on the dirt road leading to the village. Just entering the village, there was no excitement as expected. The smoke from the chimney and the barking of dogs in the yard suggest life. No one, one day passed. You can hear crows squeaking far or near, just like accompanying two people.

This ancient village has a history of hundreds of years because there are stones around it. As early as the Bohai Kingdom, there were quarries here, and stones could flow down the river. During the Japanese occupation, factories were built here. There are "industrial" relics of our ancestors everywhere, and there are also ironclad evidences of the invasion of China.

Even so, the village is little known. For most people in China, places like Lijiang and Wuzhen are the mainstream.

On the edge of darkness, the two finally found this inn hidden in many cottages.

The fenced yard is clean, the snow is piled on one side of the yard, and the wooden benches in the yard are placed on the wooden table. I think we can enjoy the cool and drink in the yard in summer. A string of red lanterns is hung on the lamppost at the door, facing the yard is a two-story building, and there are two one-story buildings on the left and right sides.

Pull open the cotton curtain, push the door and enter the second floor, with a warm face.

"You two are really rare guests." The boss looked up at the door in the counter, and Ann and the cavalry sang "Red Mountain Fruit" in the stereo.

"Few people come in winter." The boss smiled and said, "But it doesn't matter. Let's stop like this. "

Cao Chengrui wiped his nose and said, "Well, that's enough."

"Big bed room?" The boss is bald and wearing a black Chinese cotton-padded jacket.

"Two ..." Cao Chengrui was about to speak when Yi Yao stopped him. Yi Yao scrambled to say, "Yes, we need a big bed room."

Cao didn't know whether he was happy or worried, so he nodded.

After settling down on the second floor, the two men came to the front hall. This inn has more than a dozen rooms, but now there are only five guests. The innkeeper told me that besides Cao and Yi Yao, there were a young couple in Chifeng and an old local photographer. The old photographer came here to collect the wind, and the young couple went to the nearby mountain temple to beg for children. The boss also said that the couple left at noon and would stay in the temple for one night and come back the next day.

Two people found a sofa near the firewall in the corner of the front hall (similar to a fire-resistant heating facility). Cao took four bottles of glacier beer in the restaurant, ordered spicy fried chicken with sauerkraut and white meat, and ordered a plate of rice sausage.

"There is wine and food!" Cao opened a bottle of beer, poured a glass for Yi Yao and another for himself.

"To you, to our destiny." Yi Yao took the cup and said.

Gulp two people, smile at one another.

2.

"I think this is very good." Yi Yao drank the third bottle of beer and turned reddish.

Cao put a piece of meat dipped in garlic sauce in his mouth and smiled at Yi Yao.

"You and I will not break into each other's lives. To be precise, we are both strangers. " Yi Yao raised his glass, and the beer glowed autumn in the warm light. "I can open my heart to you, and I don't have to worry that you will tell the people we know together, hahaha, because we don't know anyone together!"

"hmm." Cao nodded and felt much more comfortable after his death.

The song "An and Ma Dui" is very unique, but it sounds very special in the northeast mountain fire.

Yi Yao couldn't resist the temptation of the tune and sang along.

"The Songhua River is long and long, boiling wine and boating on the river, and there is a fragrance in the wind. Fish and rice roam in the middle, and I sing by the river. Boatman, where are you going? Please take me with you ... "

"Good singing!" The boss sitting behind the bar applauded, and the old man sitting in front of the bar smiled and nodded. When Cao saw the old man smiling at them, he raised his glass to propose a toast. The old man immediately picked up the glass at hand and replied.

3.

Singing, laughing and drinking, time flies.

"I really have nothing to be afraid of." Yi Yao's fifth bottle of beer has bottomed out. She walked over and hummed, "But I still want to fly to the sky to have a look, even if my wings may be broken by the wind ..."

I looked at Yi Yao's face: "Listen to your tone, as if you have experienced something more terrible."

"That's right." Yi Yao also smiled.

"Let's hear it."

"Do you really want to hear it?"

"I'm kidding. If you don't want to talk, you can continue to drink. "

"I tell you, stranger," she continued, "my childhood was really bad."

4.

There are four children in our family, and I am the youngest.

I remember the first time I saw Super Guerrilla, I didn't find it funny. When I grow up, I feel as miserable as lead. Because of this family planning policy, I lived in my aunt's house in the country until I was thirteen. I haven't seen my parents for seven years, and I haven't seen my sisters for seven years.

When I learned about the "two-child policy", I felt very sick, and I felt like I was going to take off my pants after taking a shit.

Living in the country, almost no one cares about me. Like a boy, I go out to play with my neighbors' brothers and sisters.

The nightmare began when I was eleven years old.

My neighbor's brother is six years older than me. He asked me to go to his house. He said he had some candy for me to eat ... It's been like this for two years, and now I'm scared to think about it. It's too dark.

I dare not tell my family, and I don't know what's going on. What am I supposed to tell them? I am very helpless. I can't leave. I can only bear it silently. The body hurts, but the heart hurts more.

The year before last, I knew he was getting married. Being a distant relative, he even sent an invitation to our family. This fucking shameless guy.

I want revenge, but I can't. I want to get justice for myself, there is no evidence. I can only silently clench my fist in the blessings of my relatives and friends and watch him get married and have children.

5.

Cao put down his glass and looked at Yi Yao silently. Yi Yao was crying silently.

Indeed, everyone has everyone's story, and what will be abandoned and what will be gained in the story.

22:53。

Cao Chengrui helped Yi Yao to bed, tucked her in and put a glass of water on the bedside table. He left the room quietly and went to the lobby on the first floor. After cleaning up, the innkeeper turned off the lights, except for two yellow imitation candlestick lights. He sat by the fire and looked at the faint light coming out of the coal seam that was pressing the fire. Like the light from hell, calling something in the dark.

He poured a glass of beer and drank half a glass at a stretch.

6.

The next day, Yi Yao drank wine for a whole day, and he didn't want to move in bed.

"You are really a good man." Yi Yao leaned against the bed and looked at me. "Why don't you sleep in the front hall tonight?"

"Not really, there are so many rooms anyway." I thought about it and then said, "I'm a little worried that the boss will misunderstand us." I originally asked for a room, but now I have to sleep separately. "

"Ha ha, that's interesting."

"So I'm still drinking in the conference hall tonight."

7.

[If! On the third day, what happened in the [endif] inn caused a sensation in the whole village, and it didn't take long to spread throughout the county and the city.

Three people died in the inn, two women and one man, because of gas poisoning. They all come from the same place, but they are different in turn.

Using wet coal to suppress the fire can really keep warm all night, but it is also easy to kill people.

The innkeeper's face looks as if he had eaten something unclean. He watched the body being carried out of the room.

Cao couldn't say anything, but he sank for a long time

Even if that person hurts you, his wife is innocent after all, Cao thought.

8.

Just like in the novel, I couldn't say anything, so I locked the screen of my mobile phone and put it in my pocket.

I helped the couple next door take their girl to the hospital, and on the way back, I received a reminder to update the novel.

Yi Yao appeared and died like a epiphyllum in the article.

But I didn't write this.

How did Li Ling know about Yi Yao?

I only met Yi Yao once, that time at the dinner table, with Yang Xinyue. Li Ling, she can't know!

She's following me?

Why?

9.

"What did you write?" Yang Xinyue's voice on the phone was urgent: "Do you want to kill Yi Yao? What did she do wrong! ? "

"You are cold." A cold wind blew through Cao's coat, and he couldn't help shivering. "No one wants to hurt her, and she won't die because she wrote it."

"But what if that coincidence happens again?"

"That's not my fault!"

"Who else but you?"

Who else? Cao's brain is running fast. Could it be Zhao?

This crazy idea startled him and quickly took a deep breath and said, "Nobody wants to hurt her. Forget it. Listen to music and think about happy things. "

Compared with Yi Yao's life and death, Cao Chengrui is more concerned about how Li Ling wrote such a chapter. She can't know who Yi Yao is, and Li Ling can't know that she thought about writing Yi Yao to death in the article.

10.

Like a child whose lies were exposed, my hair stood on end.

I can hear my heartbeat, my face is burning and my ears are buzzing.

How did Li Ling know about Yi Yao? How do you know I want to write her to death?

My teeth are chattering, and my neck is as painful as being strangled. It took me a long time to stabilize my mind. I took out my key and opened the door.

Anyway, I'm going to face Li Ling, and I'm going to ask her what all this is about.

18:50。

It's already dark. Open the door. There is no figure or sound.

Text: Episode 18-End-

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