1

Obviously, Zhou Zeming didn't want to talk much about what he dreamed about. He only said that he was very tired every time he woke up in a dream, and he forgot all about the specific dream.

However, Sang Xiaoge noticed that when Zhou Zeming said that he had forgotten the dream, he picked up the coffee cup almost immediately, only to find that the cup was empty, he smiled a little self-deprecatingly, stood up and poured two glasses of water.

When a person lies, there is some body language. One of them is a slight thirst.

Sang Xiaoge didn't show anything, she was guessing, what is unspeakable about this handsome man?

……

"Let's assume that if it's a soul body, then it must have a parasite." Sang Xiaoge said as he looked at the man casually.

He is more than 1.8 meters tall, has a refreshing hairstyle, and has a pair of good-looking single eyelid eyes under thick eyebrows. The bridge of the nose is high, the lips are thin, and the chin is slightly square but just right. The shoulders are wide due to the insistence on fitness, the sleeves of the shirt are rolled up, and on the wrist of the right hand is a very low-key Vacheron Constantin watch......

Sang Xiaoge's heart suddenly froze, and he had his own speculation in his mind.

"If there's any ghost parasite, then the parasite must be in this watch!"

She guessed.

2

The two chatted for a while, after all, the matter of taking pictures in the dream was so simple, so the topic naturally moved closer to other directions, such as their usual hobbies.

In fact, the topic was caused by Zhou Zeming, and he asked Sang Xiaoge's usual hobbies. Sang Xiaoge told his experience quite calmly.

"I've been interested in things about predictions since I was a kid. For example, astrology, tarot cards, four pillars, Qimen Dunjia or something. Although most of them can't be understood, I like to fiddle with those things when I was still in kindergarten. ”

Sang Xiaoge's fingers gently slid over the mouth of the finished coffee cup, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly and said, "Can you imagine?" When other girls were playing with toys like Barbie dolls, small houses, and building blocks, I would hold a set of tarot cards every day and tell fortunes when I saw someone coming. Although I don't know the text of the card explanation, I just look at the picture of the card and explain it to others. ”

Zhou Zeming smiled lightly and nodded in understanding.

"When I was a child, my home was in a mountain town in the south, and I would sometimes go to my grandmother's house. My grandmother's family lived in a village deep in the mountains. Every time I went to my grandmother's house, as long as it wasn't raining, I would secretly climb up the bamboo tower at night and stare at the stars in the sky for a long time. Many times I fell asleep watching the stars, and my grandmother carried me back to bed......"

The corners of Sang Xiaoge's mouth turned up even higher. Memories are like dreams, reflecting the helplessness or disappointment of reality. So that smile, there is a sad melody flowing secretly.

"When I was a child, my family said I didn't look like a girl. Especially when I went back to my grandmother's house, I went around with a group of boys during the day, digging bamboo shoots, making slingshots to shoot innocent birds, and if I couldn't hit the birds, I went to ambush the free-range chickens in the village. A bunch of boys followed my ass and got naughty everywhere. The boys were afraid of me, because if they didn't listen to me, they would be beaten up. Even a boy who is two or three years older than me is obviously a head taller than me and weighs a lot more than me, but as long as he takes a look, he will be ridden under me and beaten in the next second. When I think about it now, I find it incredible. ”

"Hahaha......" Zhou Zeming heard this, thinking of the petite girl in front of him, even smaller and domineering, he couldn't help laughing, the laughter was very hearty, and the voice was elegant.

3

"I think the happiest thing in my memory was before I was ten years old. When I realized I was a girl, or when the boys realized that I did, they wouldn't play with me. ”

The corners of Sang Xiaoge's mouth drooped down, and then his lower lip poked out and blew the hair curtain upward: "Later, because I didn't have the opportunity to run like a boy all day long, I began to get fat." By the time I was in middle school, I was the fattest person in my class. At that time, I basically knew all the words I should know, so I devoted all my spare time to studying the clues of our fate. I'm still curious about the world, and I think there must be some rules of operation that can be explored beyond the surface that we see with our eyes. It's like why those boys don't play with me anymore, I don't think it's because I recognize gender differences in adolescence, but I think it's because I did something wrong and was punished by fate. But I don't know what I'm wrong with, so I hope I can find some way to figure out what I've done wrong, so that I'll change around and go back to those happy days. ”

"And ...... One reason. ”

Sang Xiaoge's eyelashes drooped and trembled slightly:

"My dad left home after I was in the second grade of elementary school and didn't come back for many years. Mom's temper began to get grumpy. At the time, I thought that my dad must have been so bad that I didn't come home. So I wanted to be well-behaved, so I wanted to do something that looked like I was well-behaved, like cooking, like doing laundry. As a direct result, there was a fire in my kitchen, which allowed me to see the fire truck up close for the first time; Soon after, my house, even the downstairs households, were flooded by the Seventh Army. ”

……

4

Unconsciously, the two chatted for a long time. Today is cloudy, the sky outside is a little dark, Sang Xiaoge bit his lip lightly, looked at Zhou Zeming, who had been listening with relish, and said:

"Mr. Zhou, it's a little unfair!"

"Oh? How is it unfair? Zhou Zeming asked with a smile.

"I've been saying it all along. Originally, you should have talked more, let me know more about you, and try to find some clues. ”

In the dimly lit room, Sang Xiaoge's eyes blinked, and his expression was like that of an innocent rabbit.

"I didn't have a wonderful childhood like yours." Zhou Zeming shook his head lightly and said: "My family is also a mountainous area, but the northern mountainous area is much poorer than the southern mountainous area, and the mountain is also a bald mountain, except for the stone is the soil, there is nothing to do." Our children have to walk a long way to go to school, and their only goal is to get out of the exams, work in the city, and settle down. Then I will pick up my family. So I study very seriously, I don't have any hobbies except studying, and I have always been the first in the class, and I am the first in every subject. This is true for elementary school, middle school and high school, and even more so when I enter university, and the scholarship is mine every year. Later, when I went to Europe for graduate school, my supervisor used my thesis as a standard for my later classmates...... It's a pity that by the time I was able to take the family out, my grandfather and parents were gone. ”

Zhou Zeming said very plainly, and there was no emotion in his tone. However, Sang Xiaoge listened very carefully, and when she saw him stop, she just let out a "hmm" in her nose, looked at him with both eyes, and motioned him to continue.

Zhou Zeming exhaled deeply, still with the kind of smile on his face that looked very decent, and continued:

"After I successfully graduated, I was favored by Fulian Biotechnology with a graduation thesis, and I was assigned back to the Rubik's Cube City branch in the European company for half a year, and I had a smooth journey, no special achievements, and no special setbacks. I'm a step-by-step person, I don't look bad, but I'm also very boring. Probably the biggest setback I've ever had in my life was this incident. ”

5

The two chatted for a while, and it was already completely dark outside. Then suddenly neither of them spoke, and the two of them looked at each other in the dark for three minutes, and the atmosphere was a little delicate.

Then, Sang Xiaoge's cell phone rang.

It's Yuri.

"Little Ge'er, where are you?"

"Oh, Yuli, I'm here with Mr. Zhou, and I made an appointment to follow up yesterday." Sang Xiaoge's face suddenly turned a little red, but fortunately, it was very dark in the room at this time, and the other party couldn't see it.

"I didn't disturb your good business, did I?" Yu Li's voice suddenly became narrow, and she deliberately lowered her voice and asked.

Sang Xiaoge's heart just disturbed, can I say?

"Don't talk nonsense, get down to business."

"Wangfushi and I are here in Beishang City, if you finish your 'business', let's study what to eat at night - don't talk about hot pot, who said hot pot I broke off with whom! I've been eating hot pot for the past few days, and I'm about to vomit! ”

"Hot pot." Sang Xiaoge replied solemnly.

"Break up!" Yuri said categorically. Then the phone was hung up.

Three seconds later, Zhou Zeming's phone rang.

6

"Hello?"

Zhou Zeming's magnetic voice sounded, and at the same time he stood up and walked to the wall and turned on the light in the living room.

"Hehehe! No problem, I'll arrange it, of course I'll please, it should be! Okay, then we'll meet you at the north gate in about a quarter of an hour. ”

Hanging up the phone, Zhou Zeming looked at Sang Xiaoge: "Yuli asked me to arrange, I know that there is a very good Sichuan restaurant not far away, let's gather with them at the door, it's time for dinner." ”

I don't know why, hearing the word "we", Sang Xiaoge's heart was slightly sweet.

……

Xinjiang people from Hubei are looking for a Hokkaido chef Sichuan restaurant in Shanxi.

Yes, this Sichuan restaurant is called that, and fortunately, the door is long enough, and the short one is not enough to hang a sign. At this time, it was full of people, and there were at least a dozen tables of guests queuing up at the door.

Because Zhou Zeming called the boss here in advance, Wang Fuyi, You Li and her hot pot restaurant boyfriend Fang Xihu, Sang Xiaoge plus Zhou Zeming. The five of them were invited directly into a very quiet room in the depths of the hotel.

"It's quite intimate, I know I invite you to a Sichuan restaurant." Yu Li teased Sang Xiaoge when the two men went to wash their hands: "Tell me honestly, where has your adulterous affair been!" ”

"You think I'm you!" Sang Xiaoge rolled his eyes unceremoniously, and then looked at Wang Fuyi: "Wangfushi, you don't like to talk all the way today, what's wrong?" Sichun? ”

"Think of your size!" Wang Fuyi said angrily: "It's not February yet, and the topic of you two is inseparable from the matter of your spouse." Didn't I come out of the long vacation from the unit to open a pet hospital? Today, the unit has sent a message, and it is possible that I will go back to work in the next two days. ”

"Huh? Why? You didn't ...... because you were disgusted with that director."

Yuri was talking when she stopped talking when she saw the two men return.

"Maybe there's some big change in the unit." Wang Fuyi said a word, and then everyone ordered food and began to eat while chatting. This Sichuan restaurant is really authentic, and even Sang Xiaoge, who grew up eating Sichuan cuisine, is full of praise.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, when several people were talking about happiness, Zhou Zeming answered a phone call, and his originally smiling face gradually became serious.

7

"I'm sorry everyone, the unit is urgently recalled, and there is a meeting at night, so I guess there is something big."

Zhou Zeming hung up the phone and said sorry to everyone. But it's mainly for Sang Xiaoge.

"I'm a super member here, what do you need, I'll rearrange everyone another day, not today! I'll go first. I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone! ”

Zhou Zeming showed an extremely apologetic attitude, and everyone said that they could understand. After all, as an executive of a large company, this kind of emergency must be present.

Zhou Zeming left, in fact, everyone was basically full, and chatted for a while, You Li asked Fang Xihu to go back, it was still early, Wang Fuyi drove, and the three girls went back to Xinling Bay to drink tea and chat.

……

Actually, it was Yuri who wanted to hear the gossip.

Unfortunately, there really isn't.

Sang Xiaoge really has a good impression of Zhou Zeming, but that's it. She really doesn't have a lot of thoughts in her heart, but she is obsessed with the "case".

And at this time, there is often a way to come.

Originally, he said in the morning that he would send Xiao Dezi to his upstairs for "training" from tonight, but he didn't expect him to come at this time. He also carried a bag of tea and a small cloth bag in his hand.

"Who is this old man?"

You Li and Wang Fuyi looked at the little old man who suddenly visited this big night in surprise and asked.

"My neighbor. Upstairs. ”

Sang Xiaoge didn't dare to say anything about his funeral business, for fear that the two of them would be afraid at night.

8

"I and Sang are half of the same company, I just came back from outside to see that the lights are on here, and I sent some tea by the way." Chang Youdao put the paper-wrapped tea leaves in his hand on the table, without disturbing the consciousness of the three girlfriends whispering in the middle of the night: "This is the Dongyin tea sent by my friend, this kind of tea is rare, it has the effect of nourishing beauty and nourishing yin and warming the uterus, especially suitable for girls' families to drink." But I'm an old man, and I only have a distant nephew by my side, so I just brought it to the Sang family, you can taste it, and the taste is not smooth. ”

Yu Li, Wang Fuyi, and Sang Xiaoge got together and asked in a whispered voice, "What the hell is Sang?" How does it feel like the honorific title of the old bustard? ”

"Get out!" Sang Xiaoge unceremoniously twisted her thigh.

There is often a way over there while talking, but he doesn't treat himself as an outsider, and directly instructs Xiao Dezi to boil water, and he sits down in Xiao Dezi's position, and then opens the cloth bag, and takes out a set of portable tea sets like magic, a covered bowl, a male cup and four teacups.

Xiao Dezi brought the kettle, and saw that the little old man was very skillful in taking out a pinch of tea leaves from the paper bag, brewing tea in a hot cup, and the room was full of strange fragrances for a while.

Sang Xiaoge is not counted, although Wang Fuyi and You Li are not addicted to tea, but in this era, they have been in contact with many high-end tea bureaus, but they have never smelled such a "fragrant" tea taste.

"It smells so good! What kind of floral fragrance is this? ”

Wang Fuyu gently clasped the table with his index finger, thanked Chang Youdao for the teacup that he had put over, and smelled the rich fragrance of flowers before he entered his mouth, but he couldn't tell what kind of flowers would be so fragrant.

"It's not a floral scent." Chang Youdao smiled mysteriously and said, "This is a family friend that my ancestors have made friends with, and for several generations I have cultivated a tree called 'cold willow' in the mountains. This kind of tree is extremely resistant to cold and heat, and begins to grow spores in the ninth month of the lunar month every year, and the tree is full of flowers in the Spring Festival, but slowly loses its leaves in summer. At this time of year, the spores are picked and fried with a special process. And its fragrance is incomparable to any flower in this world! ”

The three girls each took a sip of the teacup, and found that the tea was clear and beautiful, slightly bitter, and after only a short while, it was full of relish, rich and sweet. And when you drink it in your stomach, it's very comfortable to warm from the inside out.

Chang Youdao divided the tea into four cups, but the cup in front of him didn't move. Xiao Dezi saw that the three young ladies were all happy, and looked at Chang Youdao and asked, "Master Chang, this cup is mine?" ”

"Well, you can have a cup and try it, but this tea is not recommended for men to drink more, especially if you are an unmarried offspring."

Xiao Dezi's weight of 200 catties is not a waste of fame, but is obtained by virtue of strength. He didn't care about anything other than "have a drink and taste", so he took it and drank it.

9

A few people tasted the tea for a while, and the topic naturally returned to Zhou Zeming's incident. Sang Xiaoge's heart moved, and he said that damn blue fat man doesn't help me, I might as well let this old man help me as a staff officer, although I think that although the old man here looks obscene, after all, he is a thousand miles of herd, and he is well-informed, so he may help himself.

Just as Wang Fuyi asked about today's incident, Sang Xiaoge told Zhou Zeming what happened to him, and told his own speculation in the afternoon. After speaking, she looked at Chang Youdao with her eyes and asked, "Master Chang, what do you think about this?" ”

Chang Youdao's eyelids drooped, his fingers twisted his beard, and he said with a smile: "Although I am in charge of white affairs, I have seen and heard more things when I am old, and I can be regarded as a doctor after a long illness." Listen to what you say, what happened to your friend should be fine. Every time he fell asleep, some kind of energy took pictures of him, or it was due to some obsession, but there was nothing else so far, indicating that although the obsession was deep, there was no hatred. Sang's speculation is very reliable, this friend is reluctant to talk about his dream, there must be a reason why it is inconvenient to speak to people. Everyone has their own secrets, so if you don't have to, don't dig into them. ”

However, curiosity is the nature of women and cats, especially Yu Li, who especially wants to know what secrets Zhou Zeming has in his dreams.

"Well, there's no way around it." Xiao Dezi spread his hands beside him and said, "His dream, people don't want to talk about it, you can't go to his dream to see it, right?" ”

Chang Youdao raised his eyelids, glanced at Xiao Dezi, and said slowly: "Don't say it, there is really such a way." ”

10

Two "sachets".

This is often sent down from upstairs by a letter from his mobile phone calling his mute nephew.

You Li and Wang Fuyi snatched one by one, and looked at it curiously in their hands. This is a cloth bag the size of a black and a white goose egg, and it smells slightly like traditional Chinese medicine. At the top of the seal, there is a hemp rope end exposed.

"Just two sachets, can they have such a magical effect?" Yuri asked with a look of disbelief on her face.

"It's not a big deal, it's just a flash of thought. These two gadgets, one black one is next to the dreamer, and the other white one is placed next to the other person, and the distance between the two cannot exceed ten zhang, and the other person can peep into that person's dream - don't pull that rope! Chang Youdao saw You Li's two fingers pinching the hemp rope exposed in the sachet, and quickly stopped her: "After pulling out this hemp rope, it will be effective within eight hours." After that, these two gadgets are useless. ”

Yu Li tilted her head and thought for a while, then squeezed her eyes at Sang Xiaoge and smiled: "It seems that someone has to sleep with a customer because of business needs." ”

"You're going to die." Sang Xiaoge glared at him, turned to look at Chang Youdao and said:

"Master Chang, you said just now that it's some kind of obsession, so no matter what the idea is, it always has to be stored on a certain item, right?"

Chang Youdao nodded and groaned, and replied: "According to what you just said, since he has also changed his place of residence, things still happen. It must be something close to him. Generally, rings, watches, etc. are more likely. ”

……

The time was getting later and later, and Chang Youdao finally said what he meant—he was here to pick up Xiao Dezi for training.

Sang Xiaoge didn't care about this, and with a wave of his little hand, he ordered Xiao Dezi to go with the old man.

……

"Then, the next step is to try to let you spend the night with that Zhou Gongzi."

Yuri looked excited.

"You think everyone is like you? Anthomaniac! Sang Xiaoge reprimanded angrily, then frowned and said, "Within ten zhang, that is, as long as you sleep in two adjacent rooms, there will be no problem." ”

Yu Li drank another cup of tea, and said with an old look on her face: "Don't worry, leave this matter to me, and tomorrow night will accomplish a good thing for the two of you!" ”

11

When everyone was gone, and only Sang Xiaoge was left, Mr. Lan walked out of it. Ignoring Sang Xiaoge's disdainful eyes, it jumped on the table, put its nose into the bowl and sniffed it, then turned back to Sang Xiaoge and said:

"It's good stuff, make me a drink."

Sang Xiaoge glanced at it, turned his face and ignored it.

"I won't help you with this matter, because there is no mortal danger in that person, just take this opportunity to let you learn to explore the truth behind the matter - after all, you opened this unknown event research institute, right? And that kid is annoyed when I look at it, and I'm too lazy to get involved in this kind of......"

"Huh? What an interesting thing you say! Sang Xiaoge grabbed the cat's tail and pulled it in front of him: "Are you jealous?" Let me tell you, although this girl and I are naturally beautiful, but after all, we are different people, even if you want to stage "Beauty and the Beast", then you must at least be a beast, you poultry ......"

"Meow! Who is the meow of the poultry? Uncle Ben is a prince trapped in the cat's body......"

"Hahaha...... Okay, well, Prince, the Queen Mother will make you a cup of tea, don't be angry, don't be angry. ”

Sang Xiaoge was smiling, obviously in a good mood.

12

At the same time, thousands of miles away.

Farther north than Rubik's Cube City, Yaoye City, a small city famous for its mines, a thin man walks down a desolate street carrying a suitcase.

This road is called Beitong Lane, and even during the day, few people dare to walk alone.

Over the years, many murders have occurred here, but they are difficult to solve. After all, the security of Yaoye City has always been a virtual reality, and the north-south alleys of the abandoned kiln area have become a place outside the law.

This thin man's back was a little rickety, and his thin body seemed to be blown through by the cold wind of this mountainous area, and he coughed twice after walking a few steps.

In the distance, a motor roar suddenly sounded, and a modified jeep drove up. The thin man quickly took refuge on the side of the road with the suitcase, but the jeep stopped beside him with a screeching sound of brakes.

Two big men jumped out of the car, one holding a military machete and the other a metal baseball bat. The two of them stepped forward and stopped the thin man.

The mountain wind was howling, and the two fierce men shouted a few words to the thin man, and the latter seemed to shrink in fear, but kept shaking his head, as if he had always refused.

One of the big men seemed to have lost patience, and suddenly the machete in his hand slashed at the man. The one in the back also swung a metal baseball bat and hit the man in the back of the head.

A bloody case is about to happen!

Bloodshed happened.

The thin man's fingers moved as if playing the piano, and the body of the stout man in front of him suddenly split into several sections, and blood splattered everywhere.

Behind him, the sturdy guy wielding a baseball bat, his hands empty.

The metal baseball bat had been stabbed into his stomach at some point, leaving only one handle outside his mouth.

Then, the thin man walked to the window, and inside the car, there was another person who sat in the driver's seat and did not get down.