This encounter with the man in black and hooded made my nerves tense to the extreme. I wasn't sure that this man was the killer, but the way he looked at me was not an unintentional glance from a passerby, because there was a kind of evil in his eyes.

I returned to the store in a trance, and there were no customers in the store. Liu Rumei sat by the tea table and leisurely sipping tea, and when she saw me enter the door, she said hello to me. I nodded, walked over to the tea table and sat down. Maybe she noticed that I wasn't looking good, and she asked me what was wrong.

I shook my head, and after thinking about it, I told me about the man in black and hood I had just met.

Liu Rumei frowned and thought about it, and said: "This person is not necessarily a killer, he left without doing anything, at least it shows that he didn't mean to move you, doesn't it?" ”

I nodded, and it was.

Liu Rumei said: "Anyway, let's talk to Wang Bo first." ”

I nodded, and hurriedly sent a text message to the fat man on my phone, telling him about the man in the hood in black.

Liu Rumei saw me nodding, so she pulled the topic aside, and she said, "I came to you for something." ”

"Oh? What's up? That's when I reacted.

Instead of answering, she reached into her bag and pulled out a document bag, squeezed it in her hand, and then handed it to me, motioning for me to look at it myself.

I took it curiously, and when I opened it, I found that there was a stack of photos inside. As I pulled out the picture, I asked, "What?" Those photos you took were washed out? ”

"Hmm." Liu Rumei nodded, and then said, "I came here to show off my skills in developing photos." ”

"Uh......" I was a little speechless, feeling that she was also led astray by the fat man.

She smiled at me, apparently just joking. So, I smiled innocently along with her, but when I saw the photo in my hand, the smile on my face froze.

The photo I held in my hand felt so familiar, the curvy lines, the gray background, the ghostly pattern......

I looked at the photo in my hand in shock, and after a moment's pause, I hurriedly pulled out the letter addressed to the fat man from my backpack, and after opening the envelope, I took out the photo inside.

I put the two sets of photos together and spread them out for comparison.

Liu Rumei also noticed that my behavior was abnormal, and came over curiously, and when she saw the two sets of photos clearly, she asked, "Your photos, where was this group taken?" ”

I didn't answer, but arranged the forty photos one by one on top of the tea table. The upper row is the photo that Liu Rumei just brought, and the lower row is the stack of photos sent to the fat man. I looked at the top and bottom rows of photos, hoping to find any difference from them. I was disappointed with the results, the upper and lower sets of photos were completely copy and paste, the only difference was that the group of photos sent to the fat man was slightly yellowed.

"This?" Liu Rumei wanted to speak and stopped.

At this moment, I felt that there was no need to hide it from her, and I didn't say anything, but handed her the envelope in my hand.

Liu Rumei subconsciously took the envelope I handed over, she glanced at the information outside the envelope, her brows furrowed slightly, and she didn't say anything.

I handed her the two remaining photographs in my hand, one of which was of the altar as a whole, and the other of me and the fat man and a strange girl.

Liu Rumei took the photo and looked at it for a long time, her brows were still furrowed, and she still didn't say anything.

I feel very uneasy in my heart, if there is a slight difference between the twenty photos sent to the fat man and the twenty photos that Liu Rumei just brought, then I may be a little more acceptable. But these forty photos correspond to each other in the slightest, which makes me unacceptable, can it be said that these photos will still cross?

Liu Rumei finally put the photo in her hand on the table, then looked at the envelope carefully, and finally took out the envelope in the envelope, unfolded it and quietly looked at the four Juanxiu words on it.

I watched her quietly, not knowing what was going on in her mind at the moment. I was thinking that if it were me, I would be crazy if I saw that the photo I had just taken and developed was already exactly the same in someone else's hand.

Liu Rumei didn't go crazy, she took out a delicate notebook and a pen from her bag, opened the notebook and quickly wrote four words on it, and then handed it to me.

I took it and took a look, and the four-character Juanxiu was written "Send it to Qin Fen". I took the envelope she handed me again, and when I put the two together, I found that the words on the envelope were exactly the same as those in my notebook.

"This ......," I was speechless with some surprise.

Liu Rumei still didn't speak, just shook her head at me and smiled helplessly.

I didn't know what she meant, I wanted to ask but didn't know what to ask. I thought she should be as confused as I was when she saw her own handwriting on the envelope.

Liu Rumei calmly put away the photos she brought, put them in a file bag, and stuffed them into her bag. Then she sorted out the remaining twenty-two photos and put them in an envelope and handed them to me.

I thought she was too calm and asked, "Koyanagi, is there nothing to say?" ”

Liu Rumei shook her head.

Seeing that she didn't answer, I took out the letter sent to me from my backpack, held it in my hand and thought about it for a long time, and finally handed it to her.

Liu Rumei did not refuse, took the letter I handed her and looked through it. She looked at the envelope outside, then at the envelope inside, and finally took out the letter inside. The note I wrote after the last presentation to the fat man was also packed with the stationery that was already there. Liu Rumei opened the two notes, looked at them carefully, then closed them and put them in the envelope and handed them back to me.

After I took it, I clenched both letters in my hands, thought for a moment, and then said, "Xiaoyanagi, have you also received one before?" ”

Liu Rumei finally nodded and said, "I also received a letter, just look at the contents of it I sent to myself." ”

"Huh?" I was surprised, and then asked, "What's in there?" ”

After I asked, I regretted it a little, after all, there is privacy in such a thing as letters, not to mention that people have already said that they sent it to themselves. But I didn't expect that Liu Rumei didn't hide it, she said: "It was also sent by this person named Luo Hai, and inside was a notebook." ”

She raised the notebook in her hand and continued, "It's exactly the same as the one I use." ”

I can imagine how she felt when she first received the letter, it must have been incredibly complicated. She can face it all now in peace, and I think she must know more than I know. I wanted to ask, but I didn't know where to start.

Liu Rumei seemed to know what I was going to ask, she smiled at me slightly, and said, "Qin Fen, there are some things that are inexplicable now, and you will understand when they happen naturally." ”

When she said this, it was almost equivalent to blocking me from asking questions, but I still didn't give up, raised the letter in my hand, and said, "Then you sent both letters." ”

I originally thought that she might not answer, but I didn't expect her to nod and say, "It can be said that I sent it, but not the current me." ”

Hearing her say this, the amount of information was really a bit large, and I couldn't help but pat my hand on my somewhat swollen forehead. I feel that my worldview has collapsed, is there really a time crossing and even rebirth in this world? Could it be that this space and this time can really overlap? Could it be that the message on the letter was really written by me? Could it really be me and the fat man in the photo?

Before I could speak, she continued, "Listen to me, don't ask, at least we've always been on one side." ”

I shook my head and said to her, "It is true that we are on one side as you say, but what is it that I want to ask, what is it that is on our side?" ”

Liu Rumei shook her head and said, "I don't know this either." ”

"Don't know?" I saw that her expression was serious, not like she was lying, so I didn't ask any more questions, maybe as she said, when everything happened, I would understand.

I shook my head, trying to shake off the clutter of thoughts in my head, but the clutter of thoughts was like bugs gnawing everywhere, giving me a headache.

Liu Rumei looked at my pained expression, sighed, then poured me a cup of tea, handed it to me, and said, "That's why I haven't said it, I didn't know that you received two letters, otherwise I wouldn't have given you this photo." ”

Liu Rumei's words suddenly sobered me up, and I asked, "Xiaoliu, when did you receive that letter?" ”

"A year ago." Liu Rumei didn't hide it, she saw that I didn't take the teacup, sighed again, put the teacup on the tea table, and then said: "I was as confused as you at that time. ”

"And then?" I tried to ask.

"Later?" Liu Rumei took a sip of tea, and then said, "There is no later." ”

"Huh?" This answer surprised me a little.

Liu Rumei continued: "I'm still just as confused, but I'm used to that feeling. ”

Accustomed to feeling lost? What would that be? Numbness? Sit down under? I can't tell you clearly, looking at Xiaoyanagi, this girl is soft and weak, but I didn't expect that she has also experienced things that ordinary people can't understand in the past year.

One thing suddenly occurred to me, and I asked, "What about you getting people to buy my store?" ”

Liu Rumei didn't answer directly, she said: "I just want to take fewer detours." ”

"Fewer detours?" Her remarks filled me with doubts, do we have to take many detours before we can open a store together?

"That's right." She nodded and continued, "No one believes such a thing as fate. ”

The more I listened, the more confused I became, and I took the cup of tea she had just poured for me and drank it down, then gently lowered the cup.

I roughly sorted out my thoughts and felt that things should have been like this: a year ago, Liu Rumei received a letter with her notebook, maybe a diary, maybe a diary from the future. Maybe this diary is about what is happening now, and it is in this way that she will say "avoid detours", and because of this sentence I can be sure that the events in the diary are slightly different from what is happening now. But what the difference is, only she knows at the moment, and if she doesn't say it's a permanent mystery.