April stayed in this room for three days, most of the time in a daze, I thought that in this place full of memories will remember a lot of people or things, but I found that my head was empty, whether it was joy or pain, it seemed to be separated by a veil, foggy and unreal.

She is a person who lives in the moment, and she has known since she was a child that there is nothing more important than being alive. Only in this house with a grandmother did she dare to slightly fade the thick cocoon wrapped around her body.

April took the first bus to leave early in the morning of the fourth day.

After getting off the station, April first went around to the vegetable market to buy enough vegetables and meat for one person to eat, and then returned to the rented house. She methodically washed and chopped vegetables, prepared all the ingredients she needed, and was about to put down the oil pan when there was a knock on the door outside. She was slightly stunned, turned off the fire, and turned to open the door.

It turned out to be the landlord, and she nodded at the other party and quietly waited for the other party to speak first.

The pot-bellied man outside the door smiled at her, and his smile didn't help but feel a little flattering, "Where have you been these days, a woman came to you the day before yesterday, she was very beautiful and looked very rich." ”

"I'm back to my hometown." April said lightly.

"Oh." The man smiled wryly and looked at the woman in front of him out of the corner of his eye.

This woman is dressed very poorly and sourly, with a strange and fierce temper, and she doesn't give any oil when she wants to, but she pretends to be quite high. Except for paying rent and utility bills, she has always ignored him, and she can't see that she knows such a rich man.

While being annoyed by his eyes, he said in a chattering voice: "The woman who is looking for you asked me to give you a message, saying that you should go to the Bauhinia Apartment on Qingyang Road to find her after you come back, by the way, this is her phone number." With that, he handed the note in his hand to April.

Looking at the unfamiliar number written on the note, April was a little puzzled, "Did she tell you her name?" ”

The landlord touched his nose, "She didn't say. He wanted to talk to that beautiful woman, but they wouldn't give him a chance.

April nodded, thanked her, and didn't gossip much with the landlord, closed the door, put the note aside, and she turned on the fire again, stir-frying the vegetables with her hands and feet. In less than an hour, the simple two dishes and one soup were ready, and after eating at the small table, she put the rest of the dishes in the refrigerator. Speaking of this refrigerator, I bought it from the second-hand market because I wanted to freeze the ingredients for the barbecue.

Since Ah Yu was arrested for loan sharking, she has no leisure to go out of the stall. In fact, it has only been a week since Ah Yu's accident. In the past, Ah Yu would occasionally gamble a few times, all of which were petty fights, and April didn't care too much, who knew that he was obsessed with ghosts half a month ago, and he lost 100,000 yuan in one night.

He was afraid that April would know, so he borrowed a loan shark and wanted to win it back, but how could a person who lost a red eye have any reason at all, his courage is surprisingly big, and he gambled big every time, not to mention that the money was lost, and the loan shark rolled in interest, and he owed 300,000 yuan.

If it weren't for the loan sharks who called, April would have been kept in the dark.

Flipping out the passbook in the bag, a few zeros were engraved on the hard paper, and you could see the head at a glance. There are only 800 cash left in the wallet, and the remaining 200,000 is impossible to get together. April stared at the passbook in his hand in a daze, and suddenly thought of something, and found the note that had been put aside casually before.

She carefully flattened the thin note, perhaps the owner of the number was in a hurry to write it, and the last number 9 was too hard to cut the back of the paper.

I checked the map on my phone to find the bus route to Bauhinia Apartment, and it took several buses to reach my destination in April. Although it is literally an apartment, it looks like a villa with red bricks and green tiles inside through the fence with a hollow pattern. The green and flourishing camphor trees stand in rows, and the occasional white dove flies by, making it seem to be isolated from the rest of the world.

April's right hand holding the phone was slightly wet, and she took out the note and entered the numbers into the phone one by one. When she had dialed the number, she doubled it a few more times, took a deep breath, and pressed the dial-through button.

She waited quietly, and after a few rings, a cold, mechanical voice came from the phone, "I'm sorry, the number you dialed was empty. There was a moment of blankness in his mind, April subconsciously broadcast the replay button, and still got the reply on the phone. She was a little confused, and although she didn't have any great hopes, she didn't think about the fact that the number was empty.

She and Ah Yu don't have any good friends, and since Ah Yu's parents died in a car accident two years ago, they have been cut off from their relatives over there. Ah Yu has a bold and cheerful temperament, and she can make a lot of friends anywhere, but these are the so-called wine and meat friends, and she called them one by one and said that she couldn't get spare money when she was in trouble.

I thought that this unfamiliar number was called by a friend she didn't know about Ah Yu, but in the end it was really empty.

Sure enough, the psychology of luck is unacceptable.

A black Maybach slowly drove from a distance, with soothing soft music in G minor playing on the car, Gu Qingyan looked at the rows of receding camphor trees outside the window, his right hand was on the side of the window, and his fingers were beating for a while. Xia Bai straightened his head leaning on his shoulder, rubbed his sore neck, and asked sleepily, "Have you arrived?" ”

"Hmm." The man lazily answered, not retracting his gaze.

Xia Bai was a little dissatisfied, and also turned his head to look out the window, I don't know why, Qingyan's temperament is becoming more and more unpredictable, he is like a gust of wind, I don't know when he will slip away from her. casually, when she saw a familiar and unfamiliar figure, she suddenly paused, withdrew her gaze in disguise, and took the man's hand, "Qingyan, I want to eat French food on Qinghua Road." ”

When Gu Qingyan heard this, she turned her head and looked at her a little strangely, and the smile on Xia Bai's face was a little stiff. He didn't say anything, even though he passed by Qinghua Road on the way back. He closed his eyes a little tiredly, and instructed lightly: "Lao Wang, turn around and go to Qinghua Road." ”

The car quickly turned around, running counter to a figure at the door of the apartment. Xia Bai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and when he saw Gu Qingyan's sleepy look, he was a little distressed: "Tired, take a good rest." As he spoke, he naturally reached out and helped him rub his temples.

It's just that my heart is like a heavy stone falling down, and I can't live anymore.

***

When she got home in April, it was already more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and she was not very hungry, so she directly filled a small half bowl of cold rice and ate some of the vegetables fried at noon.

She actually got a little motion sickness, although she wouldn't vomit, but she would get dizzy, and she didn't want to move at this time. Reluctantly went to the kitchen to boil a kettle of water, she wiped her body with a towel, and when she got into bed, she picked up the remote control on the side and turned on the small 24-inch TV. Since there was no cable TV, there were only a few stations over and over again, and in April, I randomly switched one and watched the TV quietly.

She was actually a very boring woman, and she didn't know what to do when she was alone.

Before going to bed, she found a yellowed piece of propaganda paper from the corner, with a few words written in bold black font on the paper, and left a string of phone numbers.

She glanced at the number and slipped the paper under her pillow. Her heart beat a little slower, and she touched her heart, vaguely wondering where the organ was.

In the afternoon of the next day, April found the address according to the route given by the other party, which was a relatively hidden abandoned factory. There are no pedestrians around, and there is a garbage collection station not far away, and you can smell a disgusting and unpleasant smell from a distance. She subconsciously shook the knife wrapped in cloth in her bag, stabilized her beating heartbeat, took out her mobile phone and dialed.

The phone was quickly picked up, April briefly explained her whereabouts, and after waiting for a while, a man with a peaked cap walked into her.

April looked at him and happened to see a shallow scar on the right side of the other party's face.

Her heart suddenly burst, her eyes widened, and she asked stiffly and rigidly: "The price that is good will not change, right?" ”