June 19, 2014, 7 p.m.

It was getting dark, there were several layers of thick clouds overhead, not a drop of rain had fallen, and the humid air was suffocating.

Ouyang Xiaozhi didn't go out all day, just like all summer teachers, staying at home to prepare travel plans. Are you hesitating to go to Nanming Road? Just like two years ago today, I went to burn paper money for that person, but I was afraid that I would bump into Si Wang again......

Suddenly, she missed him a little.

He touched his lips and neck, remembering the feeling of the young man's slender fingers, which slid coldly across his skin. Rushed to the mirror in the bathroom, looking at her thirty-seven-year-old face, knowing that she was about to grow old, maybe in a few years, Si Wang would not recognize her.

Slowly turned on the faucet, washed his face very carefully, applied toner and lotion, and smeared his face with foundation; Apply a little eyeshadow, sweep the powder with a brush, draw the eyeliner on the upper and lower lashes, and sweep the lashes twice with the eyelash curl; Carefully swept over the rouge powder, drawing a natural lip shape with a lip pencil, almost no traces, but able to capture the heart of a young man; Finally, she picked up a wooden comb to arrange her hair, and accidentally found a white hair, which she pulled out with great force, and the hair flowed like a black waterfall on her shoulder.

Twigs went out with the tin foil and paper money they had bought a few days ago.

This is her newly rented house, in an old-fashioned neighborhood in the suburbs, which is not very popular at night, and even school colleagues do not know the address. Walking down the corridor of the black hole, she felt a panic, stopped and listened, as if there was a burst of crying, she knew that it was an auditory hallucination.

When I came to the corridor at the bottom of the building, I suddenly covered my mouth with one hand, and before I had time to struggle, a special smell rushed straight to my nose, and at the moment of losing consciousness, two words flashed - ether.

An hour later.

Ouyang Xiaozhi woke up in the murderous mansion at No. 19 Anxibu Road.

Her head was still groggy, as if she had slept for a long time, and as if she had died once, she had just opened her eyes from the coffin, and she saw the face of a middle-aged man, with a dry complexion, a smooth chin, no half of a beard, and a light cyan mark on his forehead.

Twenty-six years had passed since she had last seen it, and she recognized the face.

In 1988, in the twilight of spring, opposite Nanming Senior High School, he was a young senior boy, but she was a poor and dirty little girl.

She stole a piece of chicken leg from him, only to be caught by him and punished by him, and locked in the hatch of the witch's quarter.

If it weren't for the statement that appeared three days later, she would have been a withered, emaciated skeleton underground.

For eight years, she had been looking for the man, expecting to kill him.

For affirmation.

Twig tried to stand up and speak, but found that he could not move at all, and his hands and feet were firmly tied, along with a wooden chair.

She turned her head to see the wooden bed next to her, and on the wooden cabinet opposite, a few old unclothed dolls, the kind of toys that were often picked up in the tramp's garbage dump before the age of ten.

Finally, she saw Si Wang.

I have grown to the age of nineteen, and I am getting stronger and stronger, I don't know what the results of the college entrance examination are? Which university will you be admitted to? He was also tied up with five flowers, with a large pool of blood on the top of his head, a roll of duct tape on his mouth, and his head shook hideously, his eyes full of surprise and worry.

"Si Wang!"

She shouted loudly, but Lu Zhongyue grabbed her neck and coughed a few times in pain. Si Wang was almost crazy, blood oozing from under the tape, probably biting his tongue.

"Ouyang Xiaozhi, I have spent a few weeks and just found out your whereabouts. I've been lurking downstairs all day, worried if you won't leave until tomorrow. Sure enough, your tin foil and paper money prove that you still want to go to Nanming Road and the Witch District. ”

"Two months ago, that weird phone call was made by you, right?"

"Yes, I asked for your phone number from Chen Xiangtian."

"You're finally looking for her?"

Lu Zhongyue lit a cigarette again: "I killed her." ”

Xiao Zhi trembled slightly, looked at Si Wang's eyes, raised his head and said, "Then you can kill me too, but please let this boy go, he is innocent." ”

"I'm looking for another boy, you should know where he is, right?"

"I don't know."

He took out a mobile phone from Xiaozhi's bag, flipped through it in the address book, and quickly found the name: Lu Jizong.

Lu Zhongyue slapped her mercilessly: "My son was really hidden by you." ”

Then, he forcibly put the tape on Xiaozhi's mouth, and looking at her flustered eyes, Lu Zhongyue took out his mobile phone and dialed Lu Jizong's number.

"Hey, hello, is it Lu Jizong?"

"Who are you?"

A young voice came from the other end of the phone, Lu Zhongyue suppressed his excitement, and replied calmly: "I am Ms. Ouyang Xiaozhi's lawyer, she has some matters entrusted to me to handle, where are you now?" ”

"Now?" Lu Jizong was a little hesitant, and the voice in the radio waves was very noisy, "Shaxian snacks from Qixian Bridge." ”

"Okay, half past nine in the evening, are you still there?"

Lu Zhongyue looked at the time, it was now eight and three quarters.

"Haven't gotten off work yet."

"Please wait for me, goodbye."

Ouyang Xiaozhi began to struggle violently, but the rope became more and more embedded in the flesh, and the pain was so painful that he almost shed tears. When she stopped, she found that Si Wang also had tears in his eyes.

A few minutes later, Lu Zhongyue brought up a few barrels of gasoline and a strange black machine. He put two batteries in them, saw the red light flashing, and said, "At least enough for 24 hours!" ”

Si Wang's mouth was oozing more blood.

Then, Lu Zhongyue packed his luggage and cleared out all the garbage by the way, including all the cigarette butts, leaving no trace in the house - except for two living people and a few barrels of gasoline.

In the murderous mansion on the rest of the road, only Si Wang and Ouyang Xiaozhi remained.

Through a layer of curtains, you can see the shadows of the ginkgo biloba leaves swaying under the street lamps at night.

The pungent smell of gasoline filled the room.

Si Wang let out a rough breath through his nose, the blood in his mouth was running and dry, dry and flowing, and the tape was tightly sealed on his lips, eager to bite off his tongue.

Suddenly, he remembered his mother.

Struggling to move the chair, the muscles of his body were about to explode, and he still couldn't get close to the twigs. Less than half a meter apart, both of them were taped with their mouths sealed, but she looked through her tearful eyes-

You are a teacher of affirmation!

In an instant, he understood this sentence, but he could only answer with his eyes: I am!

Ouyang Xiaozhi's vision was blurred by tears, remembering that on December 21, 2012, that cold night, she saw Si Wang's body, the young man's shiny body, and a red birthmark like a scar on the left side of the vest.

A wound from a previous life?

At the end of the world, Xiaozhi didn't say anything, just kissed him on the back with pity, and in the blink of an eye, he was overwhelmed by the crazy raging tide......

Her eyes widened, looking at Si Wang, whose mouth was sealed with duct tape, she could no longer distinguish him from Teacher Shen Ming, and she had one more thing to say to him before she died-

Teacher Shenming, I know your last question: Nineteen years ago, at noon on the day you died, why did I ask you to meet in the witch area at ten o'clock in the evening? Because, from your farewell eyes, I saw your desire to kill. So, I want to rush to the witch zone where we first met before you kill......

Si Wang completely understood, and he couldn't wait to shout: What do you want?

Idiot! Twig really wants to slap him!

She continued to speak with her eyes—

Want to give me to you! That would be my first time. It's a pity, Mr. Shenming, you were killed that night, and my first time I couldn't leave it to you, is the biggest regret of my life. The whole world knows that your fiancée has abandoned you! Everyone has abandoned you! Poor man, you've lost everything you've had, and if—that night, I could give myself to you, you'd not want to kill anymore, at least you still had a twig, didn't you? Affirm the teacher.

Large tears slipped from Si Wang's nineteen-year-old eyes—he finally understood: she was there to give Shen Ming hope to live.

The tears melted into the makeup of the twigs, as if two black lines flowed from the eyes, but he nodded wisely-

Yes, June 19, 1995, at ten o'clock in the evening, the Witch Zone, I want to give myself to you, so that you can have tomorrow, because from now on - you have to wait for me to grow up!

If only there was a regret medicine in this world! This is the only emotion that can be expressed in the depths of Si Wang's gaze.

On June 19, 1995, at half past nine in the evening, Xiaozhi wanted to sneak out of school at the agreed time. The girls all climbed out of a window on the ground floor, and when she walked to the window, she found that it had been sealed with wooden planks - because of Liu Man's death, the school strengthened the management of the girls' dormitory, all the loopholes were plugged, and the teacher stayed at the door of the dormitory all night, and she had no chance to escape.

That night, Ouyang Xiaozhi hid in the dormitory and cried, listening to the rumbling thunderstorm outside the window, and didn't close his eyes all night, worried about whether something would happen to Teacher Shenming.

The next day, the body of the dean was found, and there was no doubt that the murderer was Mr. Shen.

The police in the whole city were arresting him, but there was no news for three days, and Xiaozhi quietly went to the witch area and found Shenming's body underground.

Xiaozhi did not dare to destroy the scene of the killing, so he could only kneel in the puddle and cry loudly. She goes back to school to wash herself up, and inadvertently reveals to the school that the teacher may have gone to the witch quarter.

Nineteen years later, June 19, 21:30.

Outside the window, thunder rolled.