38. Shadow out
Ye Shu sent a message to Tan Xiao, asking her not to act rashly and prevent the "tumbler" from discovering it. He kept an eye on the movement of the "Shochikudo" in the dark.
"Shochikudo" is still very quiet there, and "tumbler" has not come out again, I don't know if he is hiding somewhere in the building to observe the same.
It wasn't until a long time later that the door of the "Shochikudo" opened, and the middle-aged woman walked out quickly and walked quickly across the street. When the woman entered the back door of the welfare home, Ye Shu went south to the west wall of the welfare home, and found a place to jump into the welfare home.
The backyard of the orphanage was quiet, except for the sound of sleeping even breathing coming from a few dormitories with windows open. The courtyard was quiet, only the room in the corner was lit, and you didn't have to guess that it was the room of the woman who had just returned.
Ye Shu lurked under the windowsill, looked in, there was a single dormitory inside, there was no one in the room, only a bed, a table, a chair, the layout was very simple, there was no decoration, it could be seen that the woman was not a person with a mood in life.
After a while, the door of the room inside opened, and the middle-aged woman walked in wrapped in a bath towel, Ye Shu hurriedly retracted into the dark, and said secretly, "Why do people who have been to 'Songzhutang' take a bath when they come back?"
The middle-aged woman sat at the head of the bed and pulled her hair, and stretched out her left hand from time to time to look, Ye Shu looked out the window for a long time and didn't see anything special about her left hand, I don't know what she put her hand into that jar just now, and let out that obviously painful scream.
Until the middle-aged woman turned off the light and went to bed, Ye Shu didn't notice anything abnormal, and after a while, the breathing sound in the room became even, Ye Shu knew that it was someone who was asleep, so he had to find a place to jump out of the welfare home, and quietly returned to the car in a circle.
Ye Shu and Tan Xiao talked about what they found at night, and both of them felt that this matter was very strange, the lonely man and widow avoided other people's eyes and ears in the middle of the night, and they were blind in the dark, and they didn't do anything to break the moral bottom line, which was very abnormal. It's so mysterious, if you don't do something, you shouldn't do it. And why did the woman put her hand in the jar?
Ye Shu felt even more strange that he was outside the "Songzhu Hall" just now, and he obviously heard that there was no one on the first floor, and then the "tumbler" hugged the altar and went upstairs, so where did the "tumbler" go before? In the past, when he and Tan Xiao used the excuse that there was nothing, they didn't see that there was anything else on the first floor, could there be a dark room? It is even more suspicious. The more I think about it, the more strange it becomes, and the more I think about it, the more unusual it feels. The two believe that even if these people have nothing to do with Sun Shuang's case, it is estimated that it will not be a good thing.
Since being found outside the window, Ye Shu has not approached the "Songzhutang" for several days, in order to avoid startling the grass, the two of them just watched from a distance, and asked someone to borrow a new car, which is more broken than the previous one, and it is more in line with the temperament to park there.
"Tumbler" seems to really regard the people outside the window that night as thieves, and does not suspect that he is being targeted, and still repeats his previous life, opening a store normally during the day, and teaching children to write in a welfare home in his spare time, how to live at night or how to live. But Ye Shu didn't dare to be too careless, he always felt that something was wrong, but it was just a kind of perception, and he couldn't say it.
Ye Shu and Tan Xiao came to the back of the welfare home every night to squat, except for the woman in the welfare home and the proprietress who went every few days, and they didn't find that others went to find the "tumbler" in the middle of the night.
After a few days, except for the middle-aged woman in the welfare home and the proprietress of the restaurant, no one else was found to go to the "tumbler" at night. In order to spy on them, Ye Shu lost his only regular "customer".
But the two of them didn't find nothing, they found the pattern: every other day someone would knock on the door of the "tumbler", and the time was after one o'clock in the evening, and the time to leave was basically just after three o'clock, and the two women seemed to have made an appointment, without passing at the same time, without any conflict. And the restaurant proprietress would get the boss drunk before going every time, and the boss didn't suspect that his wife would go out at night.
The closing time of the "Shochikudo" is also regular, closing at 8 p.m. the night before and closing at 9 p.m. the next night. When the door closes at nine o'clock, after closing, the "tumbler" will go out for a walk, pushing a "permanent" bicycle of the same age as Ye Shu, with a cloth bag hanging on the handlebar, Ye Shu has deliberately followed, he is turning in the park and the river, eating something by the way, and if he can't eat, he will put it up in a cloth bag, and he will put it down when he passes by the place where wild cats and wild dogs are infested, and then return to the 'Songzhutang' before eleven o'clock. And when the door closes at eight o'clock, he doesn't go out for a walk, but makes food in the house alone, and eats something with a unique taste, and then goes to bed early. But every night when he closes early, a woman knocks on his door, as if he had been waiting for them with all his energy.
That night, the "tumbler" closed the store just after nine o'clock, and then appeared on the street pushing his bicycle, and Ye Shu still followed not far behind.
The "tumbler" is still the same route as before, first go around the park, then buy something to eat at the stall, and eat it on the side of the road. Then push the cart and continue along the river, admiring the love and sweetness of those young people by the river from time to time.
After following the "tumbler" for a while, Ye Shu found an acquaintance by the river, a woman he wanted to see but didn't dare to see, and often appeared in his dreams.
Bai Xue sat facing the river, with a drawing board in front of him, and was drawing a night scene by the river. Wearing a long dress, she is also a beautiful beauty in the eyes of others, from time to time someone deliberately passes by her to peek twice, or takes out her mobile phone to take a picture of her in the picture.
Ye Shu didn't dare to step forward to disturb, he had always remembered Sun Shuang's words when he scolded him, and he couldn't forget the "mantra of relief" that he had recited countless times, he and Sun Shuang and Bai Xue were not people at the same level at all, this is an indisputable fact, that beautiful dinner was just a reward for his hard work for a few days, there was no result, there was no need to have too much involvement. Although Sun Shuang is gone, he still knows that this beautiful woman is a dream for himself, and it is still a good dream not to disturb, if he is disturbed, the dream will wake up.
When Ye Shu was still reminiscing about the dinner, he found that the "tumbler" had actually walked behind Bai Xue, stood there silently watching Bai Xue's painting for a while, and then took out a half-finger-sized bottle from his pocket and slowly unscrewed it, and Bai Xue also knew that someone was coming, turned around and smiled at the "tumbler", and then continued the painting in his hand.
"Do they know?" Ye Shu was stunned for a moment, and at the same time, a gust of wind blew from the river, with a faint smell of sandalwood and a special smell in the wind, which seemed to be somewhat familiar and smelled a little disgusting.
"Hmm!" Ye Shu was shocked in his heart, that smell was the earthy smell mixed with the stench he smelled outside the "Songzhu Hall" at night. Ye Shu was shocked, "Could it be that the 'tumbler' wants to attack Bai Xue?" Ye Shugang wanted to shout loudly to remind Bai Xue to be careful, but found that there was nothing unusual about the people around him, as if he didn't smell the earthy smell, and no one had a "disgusted" expression. Including Bai Xue, he only nodded slightly to the "tumbler", nothing abnormal.
"Is it just me who smells that smell and doesn't feel comfortable?" Ye Shu was suspicious for a while, and said to himself. When I looked up at the river again, the "tumbler" had already pushed the bicycle away, and Bai Xue had also packed up her sketchpad and was walking out, holding a porcelain bottle in her hand, which was the "tumbler" one, and I don't know how it fell into her hands.
"Alas, white ......"
Ye Shu was just about to say hello, Bai Xue had already gotten into the car, her car stopped on the side of the road behind her, and drove away directly, Ye Shu waved her hand and she didn't see it.
Turning his head to look at the "tumbler" again, he had already ridden his bicycle away.