There was a screech of brakes, and the taxi stopped in front of me. The driver rolled down the window and yelled at me in a rage.

"Are you crazy?!"

I didn't bother to argue, I just rushed over, pulled the car door open, and sat in the back seat.

"Lakeside Community, please hurry up, I can't hold it anymore." I leaned back in my seat and muttered to the driver.

……

The house was empty and deserted, but it had always been like this. I staggered through the door, tossed the key on the coffee table, and threw myself on the couch.

The excitement of the first few days was like a dream. My head ached, so I had to lie down first.

I was so sleepy that my chest felt like I had been pressed against a thousand rocks, and I couldn't breathe.

I didn't have the strength to think, let alone be sad, so I just curled up in a ball and fell asleep in a groggy state.

I slept soundly, as if every cell in my body was sleeping. Only dreams slowly rose in my mind, like fog and smoke, and I wandered beyond that haze, and I hesitated for a long time before I made up my mind to step into the fog.

In the mist was a forest that saw no day, and I couldn't name the trees, except for a light at the end of the forest.

I struggled towards the light, and when I walked out of the woods and into the sunshine, I realized that it was actually the river from my childhood home.

Then I saw the big black boat coming from upstream, and the long monster still biting the line and churning hard behind it.

The woman in red walked out of the attic of the ship, and she walked towards the back of the boat with light steps and elegant postures, which is really appropriate to describe it as "the lush and fragrant step of the pepper".

Because of the distance, and the air seemed to have been distorted by the blazing sun, I couldn't make out her face.

I saw her walk to the stern of the boat, bend down lightly and play the taut fishing line, and the monster in the water immediately stopped the noise as if afraid.

The sun was a little harsh, the leaves of all the grass and trees on the shore reflected the pale light, and the cicadas chirped dryly. She turned a deaf ear and walked towards the attic.

I kept my eyes on her. Just as she opened the attic door, she seemed to notice my gaze, and she held the door with one hand and looked over the pergola with the other.

Despite the glittering sunlight, despite the blurred vision, I could still feel a sense of déjà vu for her face, and I struggled mentally for similar faces, but for some reason I couldn't think of them.

I woke up from my anxiety when my phone was ringing. I picked up my phone, but the afterimage of the black ship in my mind seemed to be still moving, turning across the bend and disappearing into a thick fog.

It was Lin Ying's mobile phone, and I pressed the speakerphone, only then did I realize that I was very thirsty.

"Hey, I said, are you awake?"

"Just woke up." I sat up from the couch, picked up the kettle on the coffee table, poured a glass of boiled water, and drank it with my neck tilted.

"I'm in Yuntang Town, come here, there's a major discovery!" There was excitement in her tone.

"I'm not going." I remembered what Shen Yu said last night, and my heart suddenly twisted.

"No, you are also a consultant hired by the police department, and you have to obey the contract." She cut through the mess so quickly that she didn't seem to allow me to bargain at all.

"What's the use of going? It's just going to make trouble for you. ”

"Did you two quarrel? Whatever the case may be, come over to me! There's something important for you to do! She clicked and hung up the phone.

"It's so cruel to ask someone to do something!" I grumbled and dropped my phone on the coffee table.

Shen Yu should also be there, if we meet, will it be embarrassing?

However, have the bodies hidden in the garbage heap been dug up? What happened to the old man of the Zhu family and the fish-faced child? How did the fish-faced child disappear in the courtyard of the Zhu family?

I thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to go to Yuntang Town.

No matter, anyway, Lin Ying said that there is something important that needs me!

I got up and took a hot shower, and the exhaustion seemed to be swept away—except for a little heaviness in my heart.

It's not that I haven't fallen out of love, it's not that I haven't been rejected, it's not that I haven't put a hot face on my cold ass, I'm afraid of a bird!

While driving, I kept cheering myself up, and as soon as I entered the boundary of Yuntang Street, I hurriedly called Lin Ying.

"Where are you?"

"Zhu family compound, come quickly, I'll be waiting for you!"

The alley of the Zhu family is very narrow, I parked the car on Yuntang Street, and quickly ran towards the old Yuntang Town.

"Ahh You're not ......," the eldest sister pointed at me, a frightened expression on her face.

Before she could fully recognize her, I hurried into the alley.

I saw Xiao Yu standing at the gate of the Zhu family's compound from a distance, and she waved vigorously as soon as she saw me.

"Hurry up! I'm waiting for you! ”

"Huh? What can't I do without it? ”

"I don't know, Teacher Shen told Team Lin that I have to ask you to come."

I was stunned for a moment, but walked quickly through the door. As soon as I entered the courtyard, I saw Shen Yu and Lin Ying standing in the shade of the main house of the Kui family, discussing something with their brows on their faces.

"You're here." Lin Ying dragged me over. Shen Yu saw that I didn't speak, and turned his head slightly to the side, as if to avoid eye contact.

"What do you need me for?" I asked.

"It's not the old man of the Zhu family. Teacher Shen chatted with him just now, he shouted and screamed, saying that he almost died last night, and shouted nonsense such as 'flying immortals in the sky', and later Mr. Shen analyzed that he may have had nightmares, and now he can't figure out the difference between dreams and reality. ”

I stole a glance at Shen Yu and almost burst out laughing. She really has a smart head, and she can find a reason for everything.

"Uncle Zhu believes it?"

"I still seem to be a little confused, but I finally calmed down. As a result, before he could recover his strength, Mr. Shen made another move, directly exposing the lie that his old man pretended to be deaf. ”

"Huh? How did he react? Panicked, or excited? ”

Annoyed and angry, he stared at Teacher Shen for a long time, suddenly pointed at his nose and scolded, and bit back, saying that Teacher Shen brutally abused him last night and brought him to death - this didn't kick us out, and we weren't allowed to enter the door.

"Yes, the old man is thin-skinned, and he can't hang his face when he is exposed." I'm also playing in the round.

"So, Teacher Shen said that you know something about the situation and asked you to go in and ask him."

"What?" I was shocked to learn that I had never interrogated a suspect, let alone a stubborn old man.

"What are you doing? Who is going if you don't go? Shen Yu stood next to him and suddenly burst out with a sentence.

"Oh-" I looked into her eyes, and she was glaring at me, what a familiar look......