Chapter 052: Butterfly
Fu Liangtao checked the CCTV footage in his office, and it was not until about 11 o'clock that Fu Liangtao finally intercepted the video of several suspicious people. Fu Liangtao saw that the time was not early, so he picked up the water cup and prepared to make another cup of coffee, wanting to rest for a while before continuing to fight.
Throughout the night, Fu Liangtao's face was gloomy, and he didn't know if it was because of the bottleneck in the investigation, or because of the stuffiness of the summer night.
When Fu Liangtao passed by Pang Jitong's seat, he saw a picture book on Pang Jitong's desk. The cover of the picture book is black and white, and the center depicts a real rabbit with a mysterious and lifelike feeling. The title of the picture book is Rabbit Stubit and his butterflies
Fu Liangtao's mind was immediately attracted by the picture book, so he sat down at Pang Jitong's desk, put down the cup, opened the picture book and read the story in it.
(Author's voiceover: *** This story is the feeling of a cyberbully, and it is only related to the characters and plot of this story, and there is no other deep meaning, so please do not over-interpret it.) ***)
1.
The Dull Rabbit is very fond of butterflies and always goes to the field every day to have fun with them.
When his father saw this, he gave him a gift.
2.
In order to protect the gift, the blunt rabbit wears a veil.
The pattern of the veil is unique, so that blunt rabbits can even eat without taking off the veil.
Since then, almost no one has ever seen a blunt rabbit take off his mask.
The veil became part of the blunt rabbit.
3.
I don't know when it began, all kinds of rumors began to circulate in the town:
"Blunt rabbits don't have mouths."
"No, it's said to be a torture device from a neighboring town, and only liars are to be put on."
4.
Over time, people who knew and didn't know the Dull Rabbit called him a "liar."
It may not be without a cause.
Even though almost none of them actually spoke to the Dull Rabbit, they were all united in their belief in it.
5.
The Dull Rabbit knew exactly what they were thinking, but he didn't take off his veil because of it.
The Dull Bunny loves his veil, it's an important part of him.
6.??
The time after school every day is the time that the dull rabbit looks forward to the most.
He will quietly take off his veil on the road where no one is around.
It turns out that where the veil covers the lips of the blunt rabbit, there is a mark in the shape of a butterfly.
7.
The butterfly mark on the face of the blunt rabbit gradually deepens after exposure to light.
When the color of the imprint could not be deeper, the butterfly imprint actually broke away from the blunt rabbit's face and came to life.
The butterfly mark changed back to a faint color once again.
8.
It turns out that this butterfly mark will give birth to a butterfly with a different pattern every day.
Whenever a blunt rabbit sees a colorful butterfly, it will be in a good mood.
It's a secret unique to the Dull Rabbit, and it's almost a source of happiness for him.
9.
However, the voices against the blunt rabbit are very loud:
"Prove it! Prove that you are not a liar!"
There is a consensus that this is the treatment that liars deserve.
Who made the blunt rabbit insist on wearing a veil? Under the melon fields and plums, it's no wonder that they are.
10.
Finally, one day, the Dull Rabbit could no longer support it and took off his veil.
That day, he cried all night, sadder than cutting his own tail.
He hated himself for not being able to keep his precious secrets because he couldn't stand people's words.
11.
The townspeople saw the butterfly mark on the blunt rabbit's face, and they felt that the previous rumors were becoming more and more credible.
They said, "Who said that if you take off your veil, you will not be a liar?"
Their gossip made the ears of the dull rabbit buzz.
12.
One, two, three, four......
And the father said, Forgive them, forgive them. Because they don't know what they're doing.
The blunt rabbit is constantly at war with the insistence on forgiveness and the weight of outside.
Over time, his state of mind began to change.
13.
A resentment gradually grew in the heart of the dull rabbit, which deepened over time.
Due to the inner conflict, at first this resentment had no direction, sometimes depressed, sometimes arrogant.
Later, this resentment gathered on the blunt rabbit's butterfly mark.
The color of the butterfly mark gradually changed from pink to black as the grudge deepened.
14.
The blunt rabbit still remembers the first butterfly that spawned after the mark turned black.
Unlike the colorful colors of the past, the butterfly was all black, accompanied by a mysterious blue light that followed him.
But the blunt rabbit thought that this butterfly was more beautiful than anything he had ever seen before.
15.
The blunt rabbit stretched out its hand to touch it, and the butterfly turned into black smoke and dissipated, leaving only a black mark on the palm of the blunt rabbit.
It was a black mark that could never be washed away. 16.
After that day, the blunt rabbit put on the veil again.
This time, however, the veil he chose was translucent, revealing the butterfly mark while wearing the veil.
The appearance of butterflies is no longer something to look forward to, because their appearance is no longer changed every day.
The blunt rabbit let the butterflies fly away where he didn't know, and no longer cared where they went.
17.
The rumors against the Dull Rabbit became more and more unstoppable, and he became a well-deserved target in the town.
Paradoxically, the increasing number of people imitating the blunt rabbit with a veil seems to have formed an irrepressible trend.
The people outside the town began to alienate the townspeople as they had once from the townspeople.
18.
Later, there was not a single person in the town who did not wear a veil.
The town has also been completely cut off from the outside world.
19.
It turns out that butterflies born of black marks swim around and like to kiss people who don't have marks on their mouths.
At the moment of kissing, the butterfly dissipates on people's lips, leaving a black mark that can never be washed away.
These marks are the same as those of a blunt rabbit, except that they do not give birth to the same living butterflies.
20.
Everyone knows that these butterflies that infect the black mark must be related to the blunt rabbit.
The people who have been marked with the mark have become more and more resentful of the dull rabbit, and they are unwilling to admit that they have become like the dull rabbit.
People invariably wear veils to hide the marks on their faces.
21.
Until one day, people realized that all the people in the town were stained with the black mark.
As when the veil was worn, people invariably began to take off the veil.
However, in their hearts, the dull rabbit is still different from theirs.
22.
One day, the Dull Rabbit felt a breeze blow across his lips.
It was as if he could still hear his father's gentle voice coming in the wind:
"This mark I gave you was originally a blessing, wasn't it?"
23.
Since then, the black butterfly mark of the blunt rabbit has never given birth to a fresh butterfly.
The dull rabbit is finally no different from the others.
Seeing the last page, Fu Liangtao glanced at the same inscription as Xu Jingjia's painting, closed the picture book, flipped the picture book over and looked at the back cover.
The publication date of the picture book is December 2018.
Fu Liangtao leaned back on the back of the chair, and a fierce color flashed between his eyes opening and closing. Fu Liangtao recalled everything that had happened around Xu Jingjia in the past two weeks, but this picture book gave him a completely different perspective on these things.
Fu Liangtao finally understood why Xu Jingjia was afraid that he would pay attention to her paintings.