June 19, 2014.

In the early morning, the sky was still bright, Si Wang quietly got up to wash, and in the mirror was a nineteen-year-old face, already a little adult-like, especially these black eyes.

Ten days ago, Si Wang had just finished the college entrance examination, and almost every exam was the first to be handed in, and he walked out of the examination room expressionlessly in the eyes of teachers and students.

In the days after the college entrance examination, he has been locked up at home on the Internet and watching all kinds of horror movies. Although He Qingying was a little worried, it was better than him going out to make trouble, not to mention that Officer Ye Xiao had come to the door to warn her that Si Wang was not allowed to go out on June 19, and that he had to call the police wherever he went.

Last night, He Qingying sat in front of the TV and stayed up all night, and couldn't hold back to fall asleep at four o'clock in the morning. At this moment, she breathed evenly on the sofa, if it was a few minutes late, when the sky was brighter and she woke up, Si Wang would have no chance to go out.

He walked down the stairs silently, got on his bicycle and pedaled out of the neighborhood. During the rainy season, the air is so humid that it is difficult to breathe, and there is still water on many grounds, so it is unclear when it will rain again.

Si Wang bought two servings of egg cakes to satisfy his hunger, and looked blankly at the people who got up early to work on the street, and the bicycle faucet hesitated a few times, but turned in the direction of the rest road.

Ten minutes later, the bike sped down to the quiet path, and he looked around with one foot, where the ginkgo biloba was growing more and more luxuriant, and the trees covered the windows of several small western-style buildings, and the occasional crisp birdsong sounded.

Looking at the old house along the street, the sound of residents brushing their teeth and washing their faces came from the window. The half window next to the ground was covered with thick dust—he thought of Yin Yu and the old man from his previous life.

Suddenly, Si Wang turned to look across the street, the murderous mansion that had been empty for thirty years.

19 Sabbath Road.

Crossing the narrow road, the rusty door number is about to fall, and there are chains and large locks hanging in front of the door. There were no pedestrians around, he climbed over the low wall, exercised his skills for more than two years, and climbed over the wall or something was really weak. Stepping on the courtyard of the murderous house, Si Wang felt a sense of nausea in his heart, and subconsciously looked upstairs. He climbed in through a broken window, and the morning light shone into the dimly lit living room, the floor dusty and unchanged from the last visit.

In 1983, on a rainy autumn night, his mother, He Qingying, killed her adoptive father here.

The symbols and lines on the walls are still eye-catching, but the old blood stains have long since faded.

He walked up the stairs with his nose covered, and found that the windows on the second floor had been opened, and the cool wind whistled through the hall, which seemed to sweep away a lot of dust and cobwebs.

The first door was still a dirty bathroom, and the second room had a corpse-like bed, until the last door, He Qingying's boudoir from his childhood.

Pushing the door open cautiously, a familiar feeling jumped in my heart, like late at night on June 19, 1995.

The witch area on the second floor?

As he turned to flee, a cold wind blew behind him, and a figure was projected onto the opposite wall.

With nowhere to escape, Si Wang was about to bend over and throw a hook when the iron rod hit the top of his head.

There seems to be some kind of metal in the body.

The world swirled, and he collapsed in the filthy hallway, blood gushing from his forehead until it filled his mouth.

Salty, astringent, deathly taste.

Heavy footsteps rang out, vibrating eardrums on the floor, trying to keep their eyes open, but they were blurred red by the blood, and only the slanted and cloudy world was seen.

Someone grabbed Si Wang's ankle and dragged him into the small room, his chest and cheek rubbing against the floor, and the pain was like a fire.

There was a broken wooden cabinet in front of me, and there were a few * wooden dolls, which were toys from my mother's childhood, and they looked at him with wide eyes - was it the doll that knocked me unconscious?

Next to the cabinet is a small wooden bed, covered with a thin bamboo mat, pillows and blankets. Thrown by the wall was a suitcase, a large pile of leftover boxes of instant noodles, a travel stove with oil, and a large bucket of drinking water.

He moved his neck with all his might, and then moved his eyeballs to the limit, only to see that the mirror on the wall, with a black frame of oval wood, had been polished.

Finally, a figure appeared in the mirror.

In the dimly lit room on the second floor, the rusty mirror was quite blurry, and when the man approached the mirror, a man's face was faintly reflected.

"Lu Zhongyue?"

There was a slight tremor between the teeth, some doubt and uncertainty, and it sounded indistinct because of the large lump of blood in the mouth.

The man turned from the mirror, pulled back the thick curtains, and looked out. He took his phone out of Si Wang's pocket and went downstairs to check around to make sure there was no one else around before returning to his room on the second floor.

Si Wang's physique was beyond ordinary people, and the blood on his forehead had automatically stopped, but his head was groggy and he didn't have the strength to get up. The other man fixed him to a chair and found a strong rope to tie him from head to toe.

Finally, the cyan birthmark on the middle-aged man's forehead was clearly exposed in front of Si Wang's eyes.

He gasped and half-squatted down, frowning intently, with some regret in his eyes: "Finally meet again." ”

"You...... You...... Sure enough, he's still alive......"

With every word Si Wang spoke, his head ached so much that he almost exploded.

"I didn't expect you to take the initiative to come to the door, if it weren't for the fact that I have been a wanted criminal for eight years, I have been a soldier every night, and my ears are as sensitive as rabbits - maybe I would be the one who was tied up here and bled out."

"You...... Over here...... Waiting for me? ”

He held Si Wang's chin and replied, "I'm not that bold!" I remember that four years ago in the fall, you came to me with that policeman, and it really scared me out of half my life. ”

"For the Yellow Sea."

Si Wang closed his eyes and muttered to himself.

"Two months ago, I just came back from the South. As an old fugitive wanted by the whole country, I have three different ID cards, but I still don't dare to stay in a hotel. This little building is my uncle's house, and almost thirty years ago, he was killed in the downstairs living room, and since then it has become a murderous mansion that no one dares to set foot in - I don't think you or the police would have thought of this place! So, I'm very curious, how did you find it? ”

"June 19th, you won't forget this date, will you?"

Finally, Si Wang was able to finish the sentence completely.

"Do you really think you're affirming? Dear Wang'er, at least for most of the year, I was still your adoptive father! You're just a pathetic paranoid little kid who is always lying, controlled by the conspirators around you, like your mother He Qingying, like that bastard named Mali, who destroyed me completely in order to seize the Gu family's property and at the same time. ”

"Lu Zhongyue, you should be grateful to me - it was I who discovered the secret of your emasculation by Gu Qiusha's medicine."

Sure enough, he touched the sore spot, he slapped Si Wang fiercely, rubbed the young man's cheek and said, "I'm sorry, you've grown so big, there are a lot of girls who like you, right?" ”

"Really, I didn't expect you to be here! In the morning, I came to the Rest Road, opposite which was the basement where I had lived. And this sleeping murderous mansion used to be my mother's home, and this small room belonged to hers, as well as these dolls on the cabinet. In the afternoon, I planned to go to Nanming High School, and by 10 o'clock in the evening, I would spend it in the Witch Zone—just like Shenming's life. ”

"A life of affirmation?" Lu Zhongyue laughed strangely, "Little friend, your paranoia is more serious, right?" There is no one in this world who knows the affirmation better than I do, even better than himself. ”

"What else do you know?"

"Tonight in 1995, dying underground in the witch area may be his best destination."

Only then did Si Wang regain the strength of his facial muscles and put on a hideous expression: "What do you say?" ”

"Even if Shen Ming marries Gu Qiusha as his wife, even if he becomes Gu Changlong's son-in-law, do you think he can really become a dignitary? Can you really get rid of his lowly origins? Whether it is the Gu family or the Education Bureau, no one has ever been able to afford to affirm it. He is just a pawn of Gu Changlong, in order to make him more assured to sell his life, he can also kick away at any time - in 1995, after he was declared a murder suspect, didn't Gu Changlong do this? This kind of thing, a year earlier, a year later, will happen sooner or later. Even if he didn't make any mistakes, everyone's jealousy alone would be enough to die a thousand times! ”

"Thank you for telling me these ......"

"In this world, the only one who really regards Shen Ming as a friend is my Lu Zhongyue!"

"You still think of him as a friend?"

"To this day, I still miss my best brother." Lu Zhongyue knelt on the ground and confessed to the wall, "I'm sorry, affirmation, in fact, I have always been happy for you, when you were escorted to Peking University, when you talked about your fiancée, when you became a respected teacher, I knew that you were about to get ahead, and you no longer had to be looked down upon from the bones - but this world can't tolerate people like you, even if you work hard in this life, be conscientious and conscientious, and excel in character and learning, in the end it will be just a sweet dream!" People's fate is predestined from birth, and if they must change, they will be crushed. You don't know, everyone is saying in private: Affirm, that bastard and wild seed, who grew up in the servant's basement, is also worthy? ”

"You passed on the bastard child, right?"

"When I was in high school, I was always curious about Shenming, I don't know what kind of person you are? And you never mentioned your parents, let alone took us to your house. Once, I secretly followed you and found out that you were living under someone else's fence, and your grandmother was just a servant. That day, a middle-aged man came to see you, quietly stuffed you with some money, and told you how your father was. Later, I found out that he was a prosecutor. ”

"That's how you dug up my secret?"

"yes, but I didn't tell you because we're best friends. If I tell you that you are an illegitimate child, you will lose the last bit of self-esteem, and you will disown me from now on. I don't want to lose your friend, so I'm keeping it a secret from you, including you. ”

"But you said it anyway."

Lu Zhongyue walked to the window and smoked a cigarette, slowly exhaling blue smoke: "In 1995, after the engagement ceremony between you and Gu Qiusha, I felt jealousy for the first time. Watching you accept everyone's congratulations, those guys, although they hate you in their hearts, are as obedient as a dog on the surface, and they really want to get on the ground and lick your shoes! You'll soon have it all: status, power, wealth, and beauty, but you don't know how long you'll last. And me? My dad was also an official, but I didn't have much money, working as an engineer in a factory that was about to close down, and God knows what the future holds. When we were in high school together, I always paid for you, and when I arrived at school in new clothes, you occasionally showed envy — now it's all the other way around. ”

"I'm sorry, I should have thought about your mood earlier."

"There is another reason - Gu Qiusha, since I saw her at your engagement ceremony, I remembered that my family and the Gu family can be regarded as world friends, maybe I met her when I was a child. That night, I dreamed of her. Then I forced myself not to think about her, but the more I did it, the stronger I missed her. So, I drank outside every night, and that's how I met a girl - I think it's fate, she actually gave birth to my only son. ”

Si Wang looked at his smooth and white chin: "You actually have a son?" ”

"Yes, his name is Lu Jizong, and he is nineteen years old like you, and he is a beautiful, tall and thin young man, and many girls will like him." He couldn't help laughing, looking back at Si Wang's eyes, and making a straight face, "Let's go back to 1995, my attitude towards Shen Ming began to reverse, and I hated him from the bottom of my heart, especially when he still cared about my work and love, I wanted him to disappear from this world." ”

"So, you're spreading the word that you're an illegitimate child?"

"I only told our math teacher of the day, but I believe that telling him was tantamount to telling the whole world, because deep down this man was just as jealous as I was."

"You've done more than that—like that so-called handwritten letter."

Lu Zhongyue snuffed out the cigarette butt: "I wrote that letter!" Isn't it ridiculous that only I can forge the handwriting of the statement because we are best friends? I colluded with a classmate at Peking University to celebrate the New Year, and that guy had just made a mistake and left Beijing and was transferred back to the Youth League Committee of the Municipal Education Bureau. We secretly discussed the contents of the letter, and I wrote it and handed it over to the president of the university, Gu Changlong, during the New Year. ”

"You killed the New Year, right?"

"Yes, I framed Shen Ming together with He Nian, and I became Gu Changlong's son-in-law, and He Nian only got an executive position in Erya Education Group. He thinks that there is an uneven distribution of the spoils between us, and threatens to tell the secret, so he extorts money from me. So, I killed the New Year. In his jeep, I hid the body in the trunk and drove to the most remote corner of the Suzhou Creek. I didn't expect to be discovered by you after two years - I felt that you were a terrible child from then on. ”

"Gu Changlong was also killed by you, right?"

"I didn't think about killing him - it was he who came to me for trouble, broke in in the early hours of the morning and pointed a knife to my chest. I can't remember the struggle, but when I came back to my senses, the old man was covered in blood. Even though it was a legitimate defense, I still had a murder case on my back, and if I fell into the hands of the Yellow Sea police officer, I would be arrested sooner or later. I chose to run away overnight, but there were police everywhere, and when I went to the train station or something, I was caught in the net. And there's one more thing I want to do before I run away. ”

"You're going to kill Gu Qiusha?"

Si Wang's physical strength had gradually recovered, and his arm was slightly strained, but the pain became more and more serious.

"The person I hate the most in my life is her! Before I knew it, my wife had castrated me for a few years, and no man would forgive her. I killed her, a woman who could not conceive herself, and who did not allow her husband to give birth. Thankfully, before I married her, I left a seed for another woman, and she actually gave birth to me - if there was no Jizong, I don't know why I would have lived like this? ”

"The most precious thing to you is your children."

He lit another cigarette, his lips turned a little purple, "I'm so miserable that I live like a mouse and a wild dog all day long, even if I am shot, it is better than now!" But if I die, who will protect my son? He will forever become a child without a father, living in the discrimination of everyone for the rest of his life, just like the statement that died back then - I don't want my son to become a person like the statement! ”

"You're going to kill him."

"No, I will live with Jizong." Lu Zhongyue laughed to himself, "You won't understand." ”

"And one more question - how did you recognize me all at once? Compared to when I was in elementary school, I guess I don't even recognize myself. ”

"When I come back to this place, I sleep during the day and haunt by night. I remember your original address, and I ran over to find that it had become a construction site. I tried every means to inquire and avoid seeing my face, and finally found out where you lived. I followed you quietly, for example, two weeks ago, at a food stall to chat with people and eat. ”

"No wonder I feel like a pair of eyes are staring at me."

Si Wang regretted it in his heart, why didn't he stop Ye Xiao at that time and immediately search for wanted criminals around?

"Little friend, I still want to thank you for chatting with me - it's the first time I've said so much in eight years!"

"I'm not a child."

"I'm sorry, I'm going out to find someone, please sit here obediently, goodbye."

The nineteen-year-old boy blurted out, "Is it too late to be reincarnated?" ”

This is the mantra of Shen Ming's high school days, Lu Zhongyue's heart beat wildly, but on the surface, he remained silent and took out a roll of duct tape from his suitcase.

As soon as Si Wang was about to struggle, his mouth was sealed with duct tape. Lu Zhongyue patted his face, checked the room and the window, and left.

At 19 Sabbath Road, the murderous house, on the second floor of the tomb-like silence, in the prison of ropes and duct tape, Si Wang let out a mad dog-like snort.