Chapter 20: Apathy and Loss
Yuan Huaxing came to the fourth floor, the door of 415 opened, and she was still a little heartbeating, and she wanted to ask a lot of questions, such as, "Where did you go today?" I dreamed of you last night, did something happen at home, did you hear that noise last night? What happened upstairs last night? What are you in a hurry today,...... Do you know I'm dying! ”
But when he saw Chen Xiao standing at the door safe and sound, Yuan Huaxing swallowed back these words that came to his mouth.
She felt that if these words were said in one go, it would not only be exaggerated and noisy, but also a little embarrassed, so she wanted to stop talking.
But at that moment, Chen Xiao saw something in Yuan Huaxing's eyes, which was clearly eager, worried, concerned, and then pretended to be relaxed.
"I'm back early today."
Chen Xiao smiled faintly, "Well, I came back early." ”
"You're very busy today, and you're not here, where did you go?" Yuan Huaxing didn't want Chen Xiao to know that she came to look for her in the daytime.
"My uncle was sick, I went out early in the morning and came back in the afternoon."
"Your uncle is sick? Is it a big problem? ”
"He...,... He was very sick. When Chen Xiao said this, he didn't know what he thought, and his face was a little dazed.
Looking at Chen Xiao's expression, Yuan Huaxing couldn't help but worry. "Are you alright? Don't have a good face and haven't eaten at night? ”
"I don't eat at night, didn't I tell you last time. By the way, you haven't been back to the dormitory yet, why didn't you come to me first? Chen Xiao asked knowingly.
"I haven't gone back yet, I'm just some..."
"What?"
Yuan Huaxing wanted to tell her very much, he missed her and worried about her, but he didn't know what he was worried about, and he couldn't say it.
"No... Nothing, are you scared at night? ”
"Don't be afraid."
"I've heard you're the only one on this floor." Yuan Huaxing said.
"There's nothing to be afraid of, I'm a little tired today." Chen Xiao was very cold, and didn't seem to want to talk anymore.
"Well... Well, then, I'll go down first. Yuan Huaxing was a little lost, and the eagerness and anticipation in his heart were instantly poured through.
Chen Xiao could see Yuan Huaxing's emotions, she wanted to say more, but the emotions that surged up from the bottom of her heart were suppressed by Uncle Hai's hideous and cloudy eyes.
She thought it would be better to keep their distance from each other.
After thinking about it, he said coldly.
"Let's go down!"
Yuan Huaxing was stunned in his heart, glanced at her, and wanted to look forward to something, but Chen Xiao's beautiful lips didn't move again.
Yuan Huaxing turned to leave, his heart was empty, and he was inexplicably a little depressed.
Closing the door, Chen Xiao's heart was complicated, she didn't want to be so cold to Yuan Huaxing, but what could she do.
She can't figure out what she is, and what's even more terrifying is that she will end up becoming a monster like Uncle Hai.
She wants to stay awake, she is here on a mission, she has failed Yuan Huaxing's kindness, after thinking about this, Chen Xiao is even more sad in her heart.
After the lights went out in the dormitory building, Aunt Wan came to dormitory 415 again.
"Aunt Wan, Uncle Hai said that the matter of the old building has been reported to the bureau, do you have eyebrows?"
"The stiff voice, you have only heard it, you haven't really heard it, but in order to be cautious, the bureau still sent someone to investigate.
In 1993, in order to cooperate with the public security bureau in the investigation of a rape case, Xu Ke, the owner of that building, was shoveled to death by an out-of-control forklift on the road in front of the school, and the forklift cut people through the chest.
At that time, he only had his wife and son at home, his son had just turned 12 years old, and his wife's background was also very simple, so on the surface, he couldn't find out what his wife and son could have to do with Da Hu Zombie. ”
Chen Xiao thought for a moment and said again.
"I also found that in that building, there are suspicious people, who are either snooping on Yuanhuaxing, or finding me monitoring Yuanhuaxing."
"These two possibilities are not very likely, wait for the investigation to be clear before making a conclusion, don't act rashly." After Aunt Wan finished speaking, she thought to herself, not to mention those suspicious people, even I, the liaison, don't know what the director sent Chen Xiao to supervise Yuan Huaxing.
Chen Xiao knew that she was just an inexperienced novice to the bureau, and anything she said was not convincing, but her intuition was sharp, and she continued.
"But now, Yuan Huaxing has to go to the old building every day to feed the cats, and the cats are brought into that building, and I always have a feeling that they did it on purpose."
"And have you noticed any movement lately?"
"No, not recently, I just saw some ghosts in that building."
"What was that building used to do, I'm afraid you don't know! The specimen exhibition room, how many corpses have been parked, so a little bit of those things don't matter.
As long as they don't harass Yuanhuaxing. You've got to follow her, protect her, and be adaptable. Aunt Wan said as she took something from her finger and handed it to Chen Xiao.
"This is a cold fire whistle, a special material, you put it away, in case something happens, crush it, I can hear and see it. You also need to keep me informed of what you know, and don't figure it out for yourself. ”
Chen Xiao did not mention Yuan Huaxing's birthday, and there was also the matter of going to surpass Yu Hui. She couldn't tell why she was doing it.
Uncle Hai, who raised her from childhood to adulthood, never told her something, she was like an outsider, she knew too little, she needed to keep some, she still had a lot of questions, but no one answered.
Aunt Wan didn't notice Chen Xiao's expression, and handed her a ring like a ring, and Chen Xiao put it on her little finger like a tail ring.
"Aunt Wan, what happened to the Yin Man after the mutation?" Chen Xiao wanted to know.
Aunt Wan was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes flickered slightly.
"After the final period of the Yin Evil People, they will mutate..."Aunt Wan paused when she thought of this, "The mutations have become monsters, and they are all sealed in the end." You'll learn a lot later. She sighed, and without waiting for Chen Xiao to ask anything more, she pulled the door and went out.
Chen Xiao knew what Aunt Wan said, but she didn't say it completely, maybe there was something unspeakable, or maybe there was an ulterior secret.
The lights in the dormitory were all turned off, Chen Xiao was lying on the bed, and when he was about to fall asleep, a thin cry faintly appeared in the corridor.
She woke up quickly, got out of bed, opened the door and looked into the corridor, there was no one, but the cry was intermittent, she followed the cry and walked to the fourth floor terrace.
There is nothing on the sundeck, and there are a lot of clothes and sheets hanging in the summer, but in the winter, there is no way to dry, it will be frozen hard, and now there is nothing here except for the big sundeck.
Last night, the drying frame was knocked over by her and Uncle Hai, and today it should be Aunt Wan who came up and restored to its original state. At this time, the air is very fresh, cold and refreshing.
The tips of Chen Xiao's hair swayed with the breeze, and the cry loomed on the sundeck, and a yellow paper talisman in the corner was swept up by the wind and fell in front of her.
Chen Xiao bent down and picked up the yellow rune paper, which didn't know what was going on, and half of it was broken.
Chen Xiao had seen this thing before, and Uncle Hai always carried it with him, but Chen Xiao didn't know what it was for.
If you can fall here, you should have fallen from Uncle Hai during the fight yesterday.
The characters drawn on the mutilated yellow symbol, Chen Xiao couldn't understand it, and there was a word "thunder" in the middle, and a square seal was printed on it.
She thought to herself, "I'm afraid that Yu Hui's ghost yesterday has nothing to do with this thing, and that cry should have led her to find it, and it will surpass Yu Hui in two days, maybe this will be of great use." Thinking about it, Chen Xiao folded it and put it in his pocket.
Another day, day after day.
Today's sunny day, the temperature is a little warmer, the edges of the snow piles piled up on the side of the road have melted, originally white, but in just a few hours in the morning, it turned black and blue, which is dirty, but the winter sun, even if it is not warm enough, will make people feel comfortable.
When the time for the interval was up, Yuan Huaxing didn't go upstairs to find Chen Xiao, because she had nothing to feed the cat, and after feeding the last bit of chicken liver and steamed buns yesterday, she ran out of food, and she planned to buy some outside the school at noon, and then feed them in the afternoon.
And yesterday because of her cranky thoughts, the six gods had no owner for a day, although she really wanted to get a little bit of Chen Xiao's attitude of missing her, but that coldness did make the gap in her heart a little bigger.
It's a little sad, but Chen Xiao can't be blamed for this, it's her own problem, after all, her relatives are sick, and she still adds to the mess.
She felt that she was a little self-inflicted, she didn't know her feelings for Chen Xiao, whether it was friendship or something else, she couldn't tell the difference, she couldn't figure it out, she was upset, she wanted to sober herself up and understand it.
So, instead of feeding the cat, she went to the playground for the first time and did a long-lost intermittent exercise with her classmates.
Chen Xiao didn't wait for Yuan Huaxing, she didn't know why she didn't come, she felt a little lost in her heart, but after thinking about it, when she wasn't exposed before, didn't she always perform tasks like this, and then returned to normal, and also went to the intermittent exercise.
Their class is a little farther away from the science class, but if you look west in the last row, you can still see it.
Although most of the students did not wear cotton clothes for the convenience of movement, they all wore blue and white school uniforms, which was a little difficult to distinguish, but Chen Xiao still saw Yuan Huaxing from a distance, and Yuan Huaxing's head was also facing this side, I don't know if she was looking at her, I can only see that Yuan Huaxing's original rapid movements of doing exercises became slow, but it was only for a while, and it returned to normal rhythm.
During the next exercise, Chen Xiao didn't move in place, she just wanted to go to Yuan Huaxing's side, but found that Yuan Huaxing glanced at this side, hesitated, and followed the other classmates upstairs.
Chen Xiao sighed, maybe she was too cold yesterday and hurt Yuan Huaxing's self-esteem?
Yuan Huaxing had just returned to the class, rubbed his hands, and looked up to see Xu Junfang flipping through a yellowed history book, and swiped his slender fingers in front of a line of words with interest.
"You like history, huh?" Yuanhua Xing moved the table behind Xu Jun's room and squeezed in.
Xu Junfang said with a smile: "Do you say that the history in this book is true?"
Yuan Huaxing squeezed into his seat, turned his head and stared wide-eyed.
"Why, do you still want to question it? What is in the book must be true! What kind of history book is this, it's different from our school! ”
Xu Junfang said with a smile: "I think that we don't know how many hands we have seen in this history." When people were compiling, they were influenced by a lot, revised, polished, added personal colors, and subjectively assumed, and the real first-hand historical materials have long been a little ethereal, and many of them are not the same until now.
You look at this paragraph, the description of the Qin Dynasty is particularly interesting, burning books and pit Confucianism, you see, there is also a rumor that this Xu Fu Dongdu became the emperor of Japan, what is this, hahaha! ”
Yuan Huaxing was puzzled when he heard it, and said in his heart, "What's so funny about this." She shook her head helplessly.
At this moment, Liu Jing walked in from outside, she greeted Xu Junfang and said to Yuan Huaxing.
"This year's New Year's Day tea party, our class and the second class of liberal arts will be held together!"