Chapter 14: The Night Walk in Brocade (I)
"You mean, we're going now?"
"I'm just making a suggestion, I, I think you should go. If you think it's too late, forget it, after all, you have to go to work tomorrow during the day", his police uniform is still on his body, and he must be working hard.
"It's 7:23, if we can catch the bus at 8:10, we will be able to reach Fengbo Village at about 9:30", he looked at his watch, stood up, put the two pairs of dishes and chopsticks back in the kitchen sink, washed his hands, and then unbuttoned the collar with his wet hands, leaving a watermark on his fingers on his shirt, "I'll leave when I change my clothes." There must be a demon when things go wrong, and what you said makes sense, although I don't believe in ghosts and gods, but I should still find out. ”
He's going to take off his clothes, but I'm still at his house, so it's not good. I hurriedly turned my head away, "I also changed my clothes, and in ten minutes I will meet on the seventh floor, in front of my house." ”
I took the key and walked out of Li Lu's house and walked down the safe passage alone. That's not what I intended, I obviously planned to be a hands-off shopkeeper and use Li Lu's hand to investigate Cao Ke's death, why did I suddenly have this trip to Fengbo Village, and I had to go with this little policeman? Is this the reason for taking other people's soft hands and eating other people's short mouths? Chen Chen Xiangyin repays each other for injustice, and my beautiful night is the payment for that bowl of curry rice.
I quickly got home and found a solid black baggy tracksuit from my closet and a pair of dark khaki sneakers. I tied my hair into a high ponytail, and when I shook my head, it still got in the way, so I changed it to a ball head. Adding a black mask would be perfect, I took a picture in the mirror and took out a mask to bring on. Now the makeup steps are left.
There was a knock at the door, presumably Li Lu had come down. I opened the door and came out, and saw Li Lu standing in the hallway waiting for me. He changed into a denim baseball jersey and a pair of dark green slacks, and his figure was just right, like a tree.
"Let's go. ”
When he saw me, his eyes twinkled like a stream of water and he couldn't help but laugh. "You're dressed like this, like a professional inverted fighter. ”
I didn't pay attention to him, and I dared to wear white shoes when I found the corpse, and I didn't know what I would encounter when I got to the place. The two of us took the elevator side by side and went downstairs, chatting along the way about the construction of our neighborhood and sharing with him a few of my favorite restaurants. The streets gradually became more crowded, and at the beginning of the day, some Western restaurants played ambiguous Western European tunes, reflecting the whole world of dogs and horses.
"The bus is coming, and we have to run a few steps. "As we walked to the bus stop, the two of us were talking about Hermann Hesse's novel, when suddenly Li Luo grabbed me by the arm.
The bus creaked to a stop on the platform, and in an instant, the people waiting for the train rushed desperately to the door, like a school of fish that had been caught in a net. Li Lu's hand holding my arm did not let go, probably because he thought I couldn't run fast, so he had to take me by the hand to catch the car, and he didn't let go until he arrived. The passengers in front of us got on the bus slowly, and when we ran to the door, the door was not closed.
Li Lu motioned for him to get in the car first, and then escorted me into the car in a very graceful manner, and was very considerate enough to lead me through the crowd. It's the evening rush hour after work, the cars are packed with people of all statuses, the hot and humid air is almost suffocating, and people's elbows and knees are forced to squeeze around. The salesman shouted loudly at the top of his voice, squeezing through the crowd with change in hand. I want to use my mobile phone to scan the code to pay, Li Lu has already taken the lead and bought a ticket for two people.
"It looks like I'm going to stand for a while, and there should be a place after the West Railway Station, and many people will transfer at that station", my body shook violently with the bus, and I could only hold on to the railing and continue the topic before getting on the train, "So mental crises are often epochal, especially for people who live in the alternation of times, such as us, mental illness often becomes a characteristic of the times." "During the day when I was at his house, I noticed that he had Steppenwolf on his bedside and was supposed to be reading.
"Indeed, the crisis of the times and the crisis of human nature have always gone hand in hand. But I appreciate Hesse's lighthouse-like personality in this novel, that a truly healthy person must possess great mental strength. ”
"That's true, but actually. Existence precedes essence, and a person's existence is actually a constant existence in the problem, so people will always be at a loss for their own existence. Sometimes I wonder if I'm a full-fledged being, because there is often an argument between the two ends of the body...... "I didn't go on, it always reminds me of myself."
The windows of the bus are completely closed, they can't be opened normally, and the air conditioning is not open, and the car is simply stuffy. Passengers got on the bus one after another, and some people got off the bus, and the conductor had a bad temper and often let out a roar like a big bear.
The two of us didn't speak again, letting the car sway between stops and goes. Finally persevered to the train station, almost half of the people in the carriage got off the train, and the air suddenly became a lot fresher. After the West Railway Station, you will basically reach the outskirts of the city, mainly in the industrial area, and the windows are getting darker and darker, and there are few bright lights.
We finally saw the two empty seats at the end of the carriage and sat side by side.
"You're almost completely different from what I thought," Li Lu was the first to break the silence, "at least it's different from the one I met yesterday, I didn't expect you to be so easy-going and knowledgeable." ”
"Do you just mean that I can look at feng shui, hobby, it's all trivial", I was still a little embarrassed to hear him praise him so seriously, "You didn't really think yesterday that I was a bad girl." ”
"Hahahaha", he laughed awkwardly a few times, then nodded, with a righteous look on his face, "Your eyeliner was so deep yesterday, and you are still full of alcohol." To the point that there is no other meaning, except that according to my experience in criminal investigation, such a girl is more likely to become a victim of a criminal case. As he spoke, he pointed to the position of his lower eyelid.
I was too embarrassed to tell him that the lower eyeliner he was pointing to might be the dark circles under my eyes that I had smudged off. "You are almost as I thought, a police comrade full of justice, rigorous, serious, and optimistic", and he is also a particularly straight man.
"Then it's inconvenient for you to reveal what you do. He seemed pleased with my compliment, and smiled so vigorously that even his eyebrows rippled softly.
"Me......" I smiled at him and put a finger on my lips, "It's a secret. ”
As the bus got closer and closer to Fengbo Village, my mind became more and more restless, and I knew that it was Cao Ke's remnants that had been pulling me to her. As the night darkens, there are few passengers, there is silence outside the window, and the moon hangs in the sky like a white jade mirror, gently reflecting everything in the countryside.
Everything fell silent. Li Lu beside him leaned on the back of the chair, his eyelashes lowered, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate.
I'm a celestial master and a ghost, so how can I tell you so easily.