Chapter 20: The Beheaded Wolf Boy

The past is like smoke, and many memories come to Yang Xiao's heart:

Han Dalin is a driver hired by the newspaper, and Han Qing is indeed his son. That incident happened last winter, and Han Qing was studying at the Wancheng Academy of Fine Arts. I heard that Han Qing fell in love with a female classmate at that time. The female classmate is a very beautiful girl, but she suffers from mental illness. Han Dalin said that he did not agree with his son's relationship with her. As a result, the girl became ill and was admitted to the Big Duck Mountain Psychiatric Hospital. Han Qing actually made a desperate bet, ran to the hospital in the mountains alone late at night, stole the hospital's snowpuff and eloped with the girl. As a result, while passing by the cliff, the snowpuffer rushed down the cliff. At the moment of crisis, Han Qing pushed out the girl and rolled off the cliff with the snowcart, and her life and death were uncertain. Later, I heard that Han Qing was not dead, he fell on the snow at the bottom of the cliff and was frightened, the whole person was insane, forgot everything, wandered alone in the mountains for a long time, grabbed the small animal and twisted his neck to drink blood, and was later found by the mountain people and sent to the nearby police station. When Han Dalin found out, he was overjoyed and surprised. I am glad that my son is still alive, and I am surprised that my son no longer knows him. I had to let my son be treated in a psychiatric hospital. In the days that followed, news often came that Han Qing always escaped from the psychiatric hospital and went to nearby villages to catch chickens and ducks and suck blood, which was very cruel, and he broke his neck alive. Once, the boy didn't know where to get a sharp knife, and he actually cut off the head of a wild wolf. Others say that instead of finding the knife, he used his teeth to bite off the wolf's neck. Anyway, there are quite a lot of versions. Some residents of the mountain village gave Han Qing an alias: "The Severed Head Wolf Boy"! For this reason, I heard that Han Dalin also lost a lot of money. However, these are all rumors. As the saying goes: good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles. What's even more terrifying is that sometimes, when the sesame seeds are big, they will become as heavy as watermelons. Yang Xiao, who is busy, will naturally not be gullible. He had met Han Qing twice. The first time was in the summer of the year before last, when Han Qing came to the newspaper to find his father, and it happened that Yang Xiao was going to take Han Dalin's car to the countryside for an interview. Han Qing, who was thin and tall, stood next to the car with an easel on his back. The impression he gave Yang Xiao was that he should be a good child. Han Qing seemed to know Yang Xiao, and when he came up, he pestered Yang Xiao to sign a book, saying that he likes adventure, and especially loves to read thrilling suspense and reasoning novels. Yang Xiao happily went back to the office and took out a newly published novel "The Bride of Xenomorph" from the drawer, signed the title page, and wrote casually: "Life is full of suspense, because everyone has their own stories that they don't want others to know. Han Qing took the book with both hands, looked at the signature very carefully, and then looked up and asked, "Uncle Yang, I don't have a story that I don't want others to know." ā€

Yang Xiao smiled and said, "That's because you haven't grown up yet." You'll understand when you're a little older! ā€

"What if you want to know someone else's story?" Han Qing asked again.

Yang Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Then use your eyes to observe, your heart to feel, and your head to think." The easiest way is to 'associate' and 'empathy'! ā€

"Han Qing, stop making trouble, we're still in a hurry to go to the countryside for an interview!" Han Dalin patted his son on the head.

Han Qing nodded at Yang Xiao: "Uncle Yang, goodbye!" Then he ran away happily. At that time, Han Dalin looked at Yang Xiao with grateful eyes and said, "Thank you, Director Yang!" This kid always asks me about you at home! Yang Xiao smiled and said, "Your son is very cute, let him come to talk to me more in the future." Enjoying reading suspenseful mystery novels can improve a child's intelligence. Han Dalin nodded resignedly. Yang Xiao knew that Han Dalin was a driver hired by the newspaper and was only responsible for driving a dilapidated half-cut interview car. This car will only be activated when going to the countryside for reporting missions. Newspaper editors and reporters rarely use it. Now, wherever I go to interview, I like to talk about style. Yang Xiao doesn't care, and sometimes asks for Han Dalin's car by name. Yang Xiao knew that if this car was always unused, then Han Dalin's job would be difficult to protect. Han Dalin is not easy, his wife died early, and he has to provide for his son to study. The second time I saw Han Qing was on the afternoon of the day when Han Dalin was dismissed from the newspaper. Yang Xiao came back from a business trip to the provincial capital, and as soon as he walked into the office, his mobile phone rang. At first glance, the caller ID was an unfamiliar number. After connecting, I realized that it was Han Qing calling. The child cried on the other end of the phone and said, "Uncle Yang, can you come to the detention center now?" Help me get my dad out, I don't know what to do. Yang Xiao was shocked and hurriedly asked what happened, but the phone was disconnected. Yang Xiao was on a business trip for more than a month, and he didn't know what was going on, so he went to the editor-in-chief's office to ask Lao Wei. Lao Wei said that Han Dalin, a bastard drunk driver, is still detained by the traffic police team!

Yang Xiao hurriedly took a taxi to the city detention center and saw Han Qing standing alone in front of the door. In the cold wind, the child was shivering, and it was sad to watch. Yang Xiao didn't say anything, took Han Qing to find a familiar traffic police friend, and paid a fine for Han Dalin before bringing Han Dalin out. When separating from the father and son, Yang Xiao took out another five hundred yuan, stuffed it into Han Dalin's hand, and told him to take the child to eat something. During the whole process, neither father nor son said a word. Yang Xiao didn't care, he thought, people will have times when they are in trouble, and it doesn't matter if they do their best to help. A month later, Han Dalin came to the newspaper to ask Yang Xiao to repay the money, and told Yang Xiao that he had found a new job again, or still driving. But within a few days, the news came that Han Dalin's son Han Qing had an accident. This also confirms the old saying that "disaster does not go alone".

"yes, that's him! Han Dalin used to drive in our newspaper office, who doesn't know these things? Jiang Meimei's body was still trembling, was she afraid that her head would also be cut off? Mentally ill homicide is not legally responsible!

"Didn't you hear that this child's condition has improved?" So many things have happened, so Yang Xiao has no bottom in his heart. If it was really as Jiang Meimei said, it was Han Qing, this "decapitated wolf boy", it was terrible! If this kid doesn't have a stick in his hand, it's a kitchen knife, and it's over. Yang Xiao unconsciously touched the swollen place on his head, grinning in pain.

"Jiang Meimei, tell me quickly, what's going on? How do you know he's a 'severed wolf boy'? How did we get into this box? Yang Xiao asked with a sideways face, the tip of his nose just touched Jiang Meimei's nose.

"It's not because of you!"

"Me?"

"You won't come after going out for so long, I was scared in my heart, so I looked out the window, and when I looked at it, I saw a man walking into the yard with a sharp knife in one hand and a headless chicken in the other, and the chicken was drenched in blood, it was too scary......"

"Sharp knives?"

"yes, it's supposed to be a pig-killing knife. This person's eyes are still straight, and he doesn't look like a normal person at first glance. I thought it was too late to run, so I was in a hurry, and I jumped to the Westinghouse. ā€

"You, have you seen Han Qing before?"

"Yes, of course I did."

"Seen?" Yang Xiao has the impression that Han Qing has not been to the newspaper office a few times!

"The year before last, one day at noon, I came home from work and saw Han Dalin standing at the door of the newspaper office, reprimanding a thin and tall boy. Han Dalin said that this was his son Han Qing. Later......"

"Okay, I know you've seen him. But, Comrade Jiang Meimei, don't talk about that useless, my head...... And what about later? Yang Xiao was very anxious.

"Later, when I hid in the westroom, I didn't dare to make a sound, and I heard a noise in the outhouse, as if I was giving too much firewood to the stove...... I'm terrified, and I hope you'll come back soon......"

"Just now, I went to check on some of the other residents, and all of them locked their doors. Also, all four tires of my car were punctured with knives. So, I was afraid that you would be in any danger, so I ran back, but I was knocked unconscious! Yang Xiao said expressionlessly.

"What? Oh my God, how can this be? It's horrible, how nice it would be that I—I'm not coming to this place today! I'll tell you all, when we go back, you just won't listen! Woo woo ...... "Jiang Meimei began to sob.

"Jiang Meimei, don't be afraid, isn't there me? Tell me, what happened next? How was I defeated? How did I, how did we get into this box? A smile squeezed out of the corner of Yang Xiao's mouth, it seems that Jiang Meimei must know a lot of things.

"Later, I suddenly heard the sound of the door opening, and suddenly there was no movement outside the house, and I thought he was going out, so I hurriedly climbed out......"

"Crawl out?"

"Yes, it's the box that houses the TV!"

"Oh. So, do you see anything? Yang Xiao understood, he and Jiang Meimei were curled up in the old-fashioned paper TV packaging box in the West House at the moment.

"No, I didn't see anything, but I saw steam coming out of the gap in the lid of the pot, and the smell of meat. I was about to push the door open when I heard footsteps outside the door, and I hid back again. Then I heard a 'poof' sound, as if something had fallen or been knocked down......"

Yang Xiao lost his mouth for an "ah", he thought, that should be the moment he was knocked unconscious.

Then I heard the sound of the door opening again, and I hurriedly crawled out to the door to look, and saw you lying there upright, and I was in a hurry, and I didn't care that my feet and necks hurt, and even dragged you into the West House, and dragged the box over and covered us both. You're so heavy! Jiang Meimei took advantage of the situation and pinched Yang Xiao's face. Then he said: "Yang Xiao, you remember for me, today, I saved your life, if I hadn't saved you, when he came back, he would have cooked you with the chicken!" ā€