Text: Episode 5

1.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Drink like a fish? Tao Qiwu no longer looked up at the window of Da Liu's house, and said to Cao Chengrui on the other end of the phone.

"I didn't drink much, and it really seems like there is someone in the family! It really is! ”

"Don't be so incoherent, what's going on?" Tao Qiwu looked at the time, 10:00.

2.

The rain stopped, but it was still cloudy.

Cao Chengrui got up from bed in the morning, went to the bathroom to pee, and washed his face and was in good spirits. He poured a glass of water, took a big sip, and sat in front of the computer to read what he had written last night.

Looking at it, Cao Chengrui frowned, and then opened his eyes and quickly scrolled the mouse wheel.

He vividly remembers writing yesterday that "there are no absolute coincidences. Then he fell asleep with his upper eyelids down, and fell asleep on the bed.

But what he saw now was a long and long text of text.

3.

I did feel like someone was going to kill him.

It's a feeling of being manipulated.

This is no coincidence.

There are no absolute coincidences.

Zhao Shutong suddenly laughed when he saw Tao Qiwu's surprised appearance, it was not terrifying, but it was very sweet.

"You know the 'Soul Return', right?"

Tao Qiwu was not as frightened as Fang Cai after seeing Zhao Shutong's smile.

His brain was racing, recalling stories he had seen or heard about the "first seven souls" before.

"I think I probably know."

"Well, I think you've come back to your soul."

I didn't expect dead people to joke, Tao Qiwu thought.

"Have you ever killed someone?"

This sentence pierced Tao Qiwu's heart like a sharp sword.

"Nope."

"Really?"

Tao Qiwu didn't speak, staring at Zhao Shutong.

Zhao Shutong laughed again, still so youthful.

"None of what we see is true, and all that we hear is false."

As soon as she finished speaking, a melodious piano sound came from the room behind Zhao Shutong.

"I know you don't want that." Zhao Shutong pointed to the piece of paper in Tao Qiwu's hand and asked him, "You wrote this?" ”

Tao Qiwu nodded, shook his head again, and muttered, "I don't think I wrote it alone." ”

"Ever wondered who wanted to kill you?"

Tao Qiwu pondered for a long time and nodded.

"What you think, that's what you think."

Zhao Shutong turned around and walked into the room, and said to Tao Qiwu at the door: "You go quickly, lest he find you." ”

"Who's looking for me?"

There was a bang, and the door was slammed shut.

Only Tao Qiwu stood at the door in a daze.

He'd forgotten why he was here, and he had forgotten about those two naughty bags.

"You want to die!"

The child's childish voice.

"Don't blame me, then why should I die?"

Tao Qiwu thought to himself.

4.

"You mean the computer is moving on its own?" Tao Qiwu smiled and said: "Don't be kidding, you're too memorable!" Am you mistaken? ”

Cao Chengrui sniffed and said, "Do you think I'm joking with you?" ”

"Okay, you're not kidding." Tao Qiwu continued: "I have something to do now, I have to go back later." ”

"You hurry."

5.

10:36。

In Wuyi Park, it rained again.

With a "ding" sound, a new message was received.

The screen shows the number of Da Liu's daughter-in-law.

"My husband is back."

Tao Qiwu shuddered and hurriedly dialed back.

"Hey, sister-in-law?"

"That night you should have been on the night shift to deliver medicine to the ward."

"Where are you?" Tao Qiwu asked.

"You should have died."

"Sister-in-law, I don't understand what you're saying."

"Don't pretend anymore, that's what he told me."

"Who told you?" Tao Qiwu's hand holding the phone shook unnaturally.

"It's all your fault!"

Liu Yinghong's daughter-in-law yelled and hung up the phone.

Tao Qiwu trembled and wanted to put the phone in his pocket, but he couldn't find the mouth of the bag no matter what. He tried a few times, but he still couldn't control his trembling hands, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet in anger.

"Who told her?" Tao Qiwu thought and slowly squatted down.

He was already drenched in the rain.

6.

12:01。

"Did you listen to me?" Cao Chengrui stood up and stretched, twisted his neck and asked Tao Qiwu who was sitting on the sofa.

"Listen." Tao Qiwu responded, but his mind was not on what Cao Chengrui said.

Cao Chengrui opened the refrigerator again, took out a bottle of beer, and said, "My girlfriend seems to have a problem." ”

Tao Qiwu took a deep breath, looked at Cao Chengrui and said, "You drink less bars, don't drink your head melon seeds." He looked at the computer again and said, "You're the one who wants to make a name for yourself." ”

"What?" Cao Chengrui poured a sip of beer and asked Tao Qiwu.

"I'm going to go out." Tao Qiwu didn't take a stubble, put on his shoes and opened the door and walked out.

"Going again? You don't have an umbrella, do you? Cao Chengrui shouted in response to his "bang" closing the door.

He turned his head to look at the computer, thinking about what Tao Qiwu had just said.

7.

I was standing on the fifth floor of the inpatient department of the Seventh Hospital, at the door of the last ward at the east end of the corridor.

On June 27, at 14:07, it was raining heavily outside.

The weather forecast says the rain will continue until tomorrow evening.

The full name of the seventh hospital is "Songbai City Psychological Hospital", which is directly under the Municipal Health Bureau, and Songbai locals call it "Psychiatric Hospital".

Through the glass and iron mesh on the door, I looked inside the ward in front of me.

The walls were upholstered, the cloth was smeared, the floor was covered with dirty carpets, there were no windows, and the room was lit only by a dim wall lamp.

There is only one bed in the middle of the ward, on which lie patients in bondage suits.

Just over a month ago, he killed Liu Yinghong.

Just over a month ago, I was a caregiver here.

I drank a lot of alcohol and slept heavily on the night of the accident.

Liu Yinghong went to the patient in the early morning to take the medicine in the early hours of the morning, as the doctor asked.

The tragedy was staged.

"Yang Ying, I've come to see you." I whispered and raised my hand and knocked on the door.

Yang Ying on the hospital bed looked sideways at me, and her cloudy eyes suddenly opened wide with fright. He shouted as he wriggled his body. I could faintly hear the content of his shouting: "I'm not sick, I'm not sick, why are you harming me, I'm not sick, I don't take medicine, I'm not sick, you can't kill me!" ”

I smiled disdainfully, thinking that he was struggling uselessly again, like his first day in the hospital.

I remember that it was half a year ago.

Yang Ying was taken to the hospital by his family, and he kept struggling, howling, knocking over things around him, and attacking everyone around him. He was manic, violent and aggressive, and he felt that everyone around him was going to harm him. He struggled to get out of the hospital, but to no avail.

After a few months of medication, he finally changed: he was quiet and obedient.

"Yang Ying, get up and take medicine." I held a glass of water in my left hand and a pill in my right.

He took the glass of water I handed over, and suddenly threw it at me without warning and said coldly, "I don't take medicine!" ”

This is already the fifth time.

I wiped my face and smiled and said, "Don't blame me if you don't obey." ”

Yang Ying looked at me defiantly.

From that day on, as long as I was on night duty, I would take more care of him.

Except for the doctor's help with his medication at noon and early in the morning, I would wake him up every hour or two at night. Time is as I think, as long as I don't sleep, he doesn't want to sleep well.

"Do you think I'm annoying?" I slapped Yang Ying in the face, and he woke up, his eyes bloodshot.

Yang Ying howled and pounced on me, and I quickly rang the call bell.

I held his hands down and let his feet kick wildly on the bed.

The doctor and nurse on duty rushed over, gave him a tranquilizer, and told me to take good care of him and increase the amount of medicine appropriately.

I looked at Yang Ying, who was groggy and collapsed on the hospital bed, muttering "You can't kill my ......" like a gnat.

"I'm helping you, I'm saving you, I'm not hurting you." I sat on his hospital bed and said, "I know you have your problems, maybe you were really framed and sent to a psychiatric hospital?" But let me tell you, I'm not having a good time, I'm also depressed! I may even be 'mentally ill', just like you. I may be really sick, but I always feel like something invisible is pressing down on me and making me breathless! I found out that you also want to 'bully' me?! Just want to mess up my life? Plagiarizing my stuff?

I'm telling you, I'm not a saint, and I'm tired! So you can't just rely on the fact that you're a patient and you're willful! You're going to lose your temper! No one in this society has to get used to anyone! Unless it's your mom and dad! But I'm not your father, am I? You have to cooperate with the treatment! Listen to me! Good boy! Do you hear that? I raised my hand and slapped him twice in the face and continued: "It's unfair everywhere, and rich people are great? Right! It's amazing! Is it great to be powerful? That's right! It's amazing! Other people's dogs are more expensive than you! Do you understand what I'm talking about? ”

Seeing that Yang Ying didn't react, I slapped them both again, it seems that the medicine has come up, and he has fallen asleep.

I don't know why, every time I hit Yang Ying's face, I feel very comfortable.

Now I'm standing in front of Yang Ying's hospital room, holding the key stolen from the duty room.

There were no lights on in the hallway, and there was no one else looking around.

The rain outside the building was getting lighter.

I put the key in the lock hole.

8.

"Yang Ying, I've come to see you." I gently closed the door.

I looked at Yang Ying on the hospital bed and said, "No one should come to see you again except me, right?" I thought for a moment and said, "I remember, you used to have a sister who used to come to see you!" But you killed someone! They threw you off and ran away! Ha ha! ”

"You should have been the one who died."

Yang Ying lay calmly on the hospital bed, looking back at the ceiling.

"You hate me so much?"

"I hate you all."

"But you're the only one who wants to kill me."

"But you're the only one who thinks of my sister."

"Nonsense!" I wanted to punch him hard in the stomach.

Yang Ying grinned.

"You don't look at her right eyes."

"I have a girlfriend!"

Yang Ying laughed even louder.

"But you can't marry her."

I was surprised by Yang Ying's words and was stunned for a moment.

"Don't be surprised, although I will be confused after taking the medicine you gave me, I can hear everything you say to me."

"Psychotic!" I had a fever on my face and said viciously.

"We're all neurotics."

I stared at Yang Ying, and he looked at the ceiling.

"Someone else besides me wants to kill you." Yang Ying giggled, laughed twice.

"Who wants to kill me? Is it Liu Yinghong? ”

"Crazy! You're such a psychopath! Yang Ying smiled even more happily: "How could a dead man kill you?" ”

He laughed maniacally.

The laughter drilled into my ears and shook my head.

I ran out of the room and stood in the hallway, gasping for air.

Yes, he was right, I really wanted to sleep with his sister for a moment.

Her sister is less than 1.6 meters tall, small and exquisite, with delicate facial features and a towering chest.

But it was just a fleeting thought.

I went to the hospital opposite the noodle restaurant that my children frequented and ordered a big bowl of wide noodles.

Drinking the hot noodle soup, my heart is much calmer.

Da Liu's daughter-in-law said that her husband was back. Her husband is undoubtedly talking about Liu Yinghong. But Liu Yinghong has long become a handful of dust in a small box.

I thought about it and took out my mobile phone again and dialed Da Liu's daughter-in-law.

No one answered.

It seems that I have to go to Liu Yinghong's house.

9.

"How about you accompany me to my former colleague's house?" Tao Qiwu said to Cao Chengrui on the phone that he had thought about it for a long time, but he was neither willing nor daring to go to Liu Yinghong's house alone.

"What colleague? Male or female? ”

Tao Qiwu paid for the noodles and said goodbye to the owner of the noodle restaurant, and casually said to Cao Chengrui on the other end of the phone: "What I mentioned to you is Brother Liu's family who was killed by the patient." ”

"Orphans and widows, you always run to other people's homes, I say?" Cao Chengrui continued: "Do you know how many rights and wrongs there are in front of the widow's door? ”

"Yes, yes! You have a point! That's why I'm taking you there! I'm thinking about sending them some money and something to eat. ”

"Send me the address."

10.

Coming out of the "Goa Po" fruit store, Tao Qiwu was carrying bananas, apples and grapes in his hands, and Cao Chengrui, who was following him, was also carrying a lot of fruits in his hands.

At 17:03, the light rain was like silk.

Tao Qiwu estimated that the rain would not last long, and it would be sunny tomorrow.

"That building?" Cao Chengrui asked with a pant.

"It's not far ahead, look at you so tired! Plastic physique, right? ”

Cao Chengrui pursed his lips and said, "Nonsense! It's not a problem for me to help you make two fat sons! ”

"I need you?" Tao Qiwu responded and walked into the unit door.

After a while, the two of them stood at the door of Liu Yinghong's house, and Tao Qiwu raised his hand and knocked on the door.

Originally, Tao Qiwu was mentally prepared to return in vain, but he didn't think that he had just knocked twice, and the door was opened with a "squeak" in response to the knock.

Tao Qiwu was stunned.

Liu Yinghong's house was not lit, and his daughter-in-law stood in the shadow at the door and looked at Tao Qiwu.

"Come in." Da Liu's daughter-in-law turned sideways.

Tao Qiwu said while responding: "This is my good brother, let's come to see you and the child!" Huh? The child is not at home? ”

"Sent him to his grandmother's house." Da Liu's daughter-in-law had a sallow complexion, sunken eye sockets, and wore a white short-sleeved shirt and a black tennis skirt.

Tao Qiwu's eyes involuntarily glanced at the thighs under the skirt. Just a glance at him, he felt that someone was looking at him.

raised his eyes to look for it, and suddenly looked at Liu Yinghong's portrait.

"Haha......" Tao Qiwu smiled awkwardly, his heart beating wildly.

Da Liu's daughter-in-law turned around and went into the kitchen and poured two glasses of water on the coffee table: "You two can sit casually." ”

The two agreed to put down their things and sit on the couch.

"Sister-in-law, what are you looking for me?" Tao Qiwu said straight to the point: "Who did you say came back on the phone, sister-in-law?" ”

"Your brother Liu is back."

Cao Chengrui was puzzled by the second monk on the side, glanced at Tao Qiwu and then looked at Liu Yinghong's daughter-in-law.

"Sister-in-law, you have to pay more attention to rest, people can't be resurrected after death, and the festival mourning is ......" Tao Qiwu didn't know what to say, so he swallowed and foamed and had to talk.

"He told me everything." Da Liu's daughter-in-law looked at Liu Yinghong's portrait and said, "I also went to the hospital to see the murderer. ”

"Did that psycho tell you something?" Tao Qiwu's face twitched unnaturally.

Da Liu's daughter-in-law looked at Liu Yinghong's portrait silently.

Tao Qiwu thought for a while and said: "That psychopath speaks incoherently and has violent tendencies, you should have seen it when you went, he was tied to the bed." Seeing that Da Liu's daughter-in-law did not react, Tao Qiwu continued: "On the day of the accident, Brother Liu went to assist the patient to take it. Sister-in-law, you also know that mentally ill patients, especially those with delusions and hallucinations like Yang Ying, are very resistant to taking medication. That's why we have to help patients take their medications, and sometimes we use coercive measures. But no one expected Yang Ying that he would remove the toilet tank lid from the bathroom and smash it...... You know the rest of the story. ”

The room fell silent, but Liu's daughter-in-law still looked at Liu Yinghong's portrait, with an idiotic smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Hey, let's go." Cao Chengrui whispered in Tao Qiwu's ear: "Why do I feel a little infiltrated." ”

Tao Qiwu glared at Cao Chengrui and just wanted to speak, but Da Liu's daughter-in-law muttered: "Da Liu has given me a dream these few nights." ”

"Dream?"

"Well, I can always dream of him as if he were alive."

"That's why you said that Brother Liu is back."

"He told me he was going to the ward for you that night."

Tao Qiwu swallowed and spat again, licked his lips and said, "Sister-in-law, you have thoughts and dreams at night." ”

"Da Liu said he died for you. You should have died. ”

She withdrew her gaze from Liu Yinghong's portrait and slowly turned her head to look at Tao Qiwu.

"Sister-in-law, you really need to have a good rest." Tao Qiwu barely squeezed out a laugh.

"I told Da Liu that I would let you pay for your life!"

She laughed "hehe" after saying "hey".

Cao Chengrui frowned when he heard this, pushed his glasses to the bridge of his nose and was about to speak, but was stopped by Tao Qiwu.

"Brother Liu wants me to accompany him." Tao Qiwu looked at Liu Yinghong's portrait after speaking.

"No, he advised me." Da Liu's daughter-in-law smiled and shed tears: "He said that you are good friends and brothers, and he insisted on working in the hospital thanks to you this year." He doesn't blame you, he knows you have something on your mind that makes you drink so much. ”

Da Liu's daughter-in-law laughed and cried, or cried and laughed, she lowered her head, covered her face with her hands, and her body twitched.

There was no sound in the room except for her sobbing.

Tao Qiwu found Liu Yinghong's portrait as if it was alive, smiling at everything that happened in the room.

He was momentarily stunned, and his thoughts returned to the day of the accident.

Text: Episode 5 -End-