Chapter 26: Between Reality and Fiction
After Su Jiatang left, Su Tao felt that his last bit of strength had been drained, and all that was left was a shell. However, when I lay in bed after nightfall, I felt that I could not sleep.
There is no evidence, no clues, if even the police can't find out, then what's the use of bothering yourself? Maybe the police's statement is right, maybe it's really just an accident, maybe I have been immersed in a delusion of being killed, but I refuse to sober up to see the reality. What's more, Su Ying is dead, and she won't come back to life anyway. Does it really make sense to search for the truth in such hysterical ways yourself? Su Tao has questioned herself like this more than once since her sister's accident, but none of them have been as strong as today, so desperate. Maybe it's time to leave these past behind and start a new life of your own...... No, maybe someone else can, but yourself, no! She couldn't fool herself like that, just standing in front of the ruins and pretending that this was still the edifice of your memory. She just can't do it! She couldn't pretend that nothing had happened, pretend to be happy and let it pass.
But what now? She even felt that she might as well die directly and neatly like Su Ying, and this kind of torture of slowly dying was even more painful. Su Tao tossed and turned in the dark night, she couldn't sleep, as if time had frozen in this silent desolation. I don't know when, anyway, the night is already very deep, Su Tao doesn't know what time it is, she only feels that her consciousness is gradually blurring, and the curtains begin to flick gently, strange, didn't you close the window? She sat up and prepared to get out of bed and close the window, but the white curtain gradually showed a figure under the moonlight, Su Tao suddenly got up and said tentatively, "Who is there?" ”
A graceful and graceful figure flashed behind the curtain, she turned her head and smiled at Su Tao coquettishly, her bright lips hooked up a just right arc, and her familiar eyes bent beautifully-Su Ying, is it really her sister Su Ying? Su Tao looked at her walking towards her in a little daze, lightly opened her lips, but there was disgust in her squeamish tone, "Oh, Xiao Tao, my dear sister, what do you think of this gang of waste investigating cases?" They're so boring, so unimaginative. Oh, it's so unlucky~" There was a little self-pity and self-pity in her voice, and a little bit of her usual cunning.
Su Tao faintly felt strange, and didn't know what was wrong, so she asked tentatively, "Su Ying?"
"Or else? Oh my God, you won't have forgotten me, will you? You should think of me even when you look in the mirror every day. Su Ying's familiar tone made Su Tao a little relaxed, but she still felt that something was wrong.
"You, what do you want to do?" Su Tao asked stumblingly.
"You know, it's useless." She walked over, leaned against Su Tao's side, and rested her head on Su Tao's lap, "My disappearance, death." Murder or something, whatever it was, was accepted calmly. It's like it didn't happen, right? ”
Su Tao looked at her sister who was pillowing on her lap in a trance, and said, "No, no, I haven't forgotten." Not a moment was forgotten. "Yes, sister, isn't she dead, Su Tao suddenly became confused, yes, she died.
"Hey, let me tell you, sooner or later the truth will come out." Su Ying sat up suddenly and looked at Su Tao steadily.
"What are you talking about?" Su Tao felt like there was a fog in her head, and she couldn't figure out anything now.
"Clues, stupid. This doesn't make sense! You know it in your own heart, otherwise why would you come here? Just to spend the moon with your stupid little boyfriend? Stop getting dizzy. Wake up!" Su Yingdi's expression suddenly became fierce, and she yelled at Su Tao, "Be sober, Su Tao!" ”
"What?" Su Tao still looked ignorant.
"Think about how I died, fool! Wake up! Su Ying yelled at her, her delicate and beautiful face vivid.
Yes, my sister is dead, she was burned to death, why is she here? Su Tao finally understood what was wrong, she looked at Su Ying in horror, only to see that her beautiful eyes gradually turned into two black holes, and her expression gradually became hideous, and then she burned, she burned! She's on fire! Su Tao watched as her sister was devoured by flames in front of her, and gradually turned into char in a heart-rending scream...... Don't, don't! Someone! Help me! Su Tao wanted to shout, wanted to call for help, but she couldn't make a sound, she felt like her throat was sealed, she tried to open her mouth, "Don't!" No! Save her! Su Tao finally shouted, she struggled to sit up from the bed, and found that she was covered in cold sweat, soaked through her clothes, there was no Su Ying around, there was no fire, and even the windows were closed quite tightly, and the curtains hung obediently in front of the window. It turned out that I had fallen asleep unconsciously, and it was just a dream. Su Tao breathed a long sigh of relief, took the alarm clock at the bedside and looked at it, it was only four o'clock in the morning, but he was really not in the mood to sleep. She got up, wiped the thin sweat on her head and face, went into the living room and poured a glass of water, she noticed the portrait leaning against the corner, and Su Ying in the painting was still smiling charmingly. That's why you're dreaming, right? Su Tao comforted herself like this, because this painting was too real, she thought about it day and dreamed at night, which was really normal. Dreams or something, it's just feudal superstition, don't think about it anymore. But how can this be said that you don't want to want to? No matter what Su Tao was doing, her mind was constantly spinning the words that Su Ying said to her in her dream, "The truth will come out sooner or later", so the real truth hasn't appeared yet, right? "Clue, stupid." "This doesn't make sense!" , "Don't get dizzy anymore." Wake up!", but what kind of clue is it? This doesn't make sense, so what makes sense? Thinking about it casually, Su Tao felt a splitting headache.
In this way, on Monday morning, Su Tao, who had not slept all night, appeared at the gate of Boya Private Middle School with two huge dark circles under her eyes, she arrived very early, on the one hand, she couldn't sleep at all, and on the other hand, she didn't want to stay alone in the empty apartment at all. At this point, Boya will appear on the campus either as sports students who come out to train in the morning, or as for the top students in the top classes who study hard, as for Su Tao's class, almost all the young masters and young ladies can come as late as they can, and the first two minutes of the bell are the peak flow of people entering the classroom, and many of them are specially stepping on the point. Su Tao estimated that the classroom in her class was probably empty at this point, but the moment she just walked into the classroom, she was greatly surprised, there was someone earlier than her, she fixed her eyes, isn't this Zhou Xiaonan? Seeing Zhou Xiaonan, she felt a little guilty, since he let him go to the Shangri-La Hotel alone on Saturday night, she hadn't taken the initiative to contact him, she wanted to ask him about his situation yesterday morning, but He Yang suddenly wanted to take herself to see the art exhibition, distracting her attention, and then the rhythm of the day yesterday was really intense, making herself tired of coping, let alone caring about Xiaonan's condition. As a result, in the evening, I thought I could relax and call Zhou Xiaonan, but who would have thought that Su Jiatang, this guy, would suddenly come over again and stir himself upset, and he was in a trance last night and completely forgot about it. Unexpectedly, I met Zhou Xiaonan in the classroom early this morning.
"Xiao Nan," Su Tao walked over and greeted, "Why did you come so early today?" ”
Zhou Xiaonan turned his head when he heard the voice, "Huh? Su Tao, you came so early. It's only been a day, but Su Tao obviously feels that Zhou Xiaonan has lost a lot of weight, and his little face, which was already slender and beautiful, is even smaller, and his chin is much sharper. Zhou Xiaonan smiled again and said, "Su Tao, why did you go yesterday?" said to call me, but I waited until the evening and didn't see your Miss Su's phone call, and finally had to go to sleep. ”
"Alas," Su Tao sighed and replied rather tiredly, "It's hard to say, it's not good news anyway." Yesterday I had a very unlucky day, first I lost a million, not to mention, and I heard about it......"
"One million, Miss Su Tao, you are very generous, you won't go to the casino, right?" Zhou Xiaonan's mouth opened wide.
"Oh, what a casino! I said, Zhou Xiaonan, do you want me to do something good? Su Tao couldn't help but roll her eyes.
"Okay, okay, you say, you say, I think you don't usually buy anything, you spent a million at once. It's either a casino or a scam. Zhou Xiaonan pouted.
"I'll go to you," Su Tao was speechless again, so she had to say helplessly, "I'll buy the painting." ”
"Hey, cultural people. Where did you buy a famous painting and spend so much money at once? Zhou Xiaonan asked curiously.
"Hey, it's not that broken art gallery in your house!" Su Tao couldn't help but complain, "But strictly speaking, it's not your family?" It's Zhou Xiaobei's family! Is that Huaihai Art Museum knowing? It was built by Zhou Xiaobei's grandfather! Or is it named after him? Have you heard of it? ”
"Oh, that's it. What are you doing at that art gallery? That's what he wanted to build for his daughter before, but her daughter died, and the art museum didn't care much, you said he was a politician, what kind of art did he know? Most of his art exhibitions are related to the main string rhythm, and for the sake of political achievements, what famous artists can come to this kind of art museum. Zhou Xiaonan was puzzled, "Whose painting did you buy?" ”
"Actually, it's not the handiwork of a famous artist," Su Tao said the truth helplessly, "It's a work painted by He Yang." ”
"What? Are you really stupid in love? Spent so much money to buy a painting of this kid of him, why didn't I find out that you were so infatuated before? ”
"I didn't buy it for He Yang," Su Tao said, "at least ...... Not exactly. ”