Chapter 5: Anger
"You are Mr. Tong's criminal defense lawyer, you are responsible for saving his life, and I want to charge him with the death penalty, this is really wonderful, and the decision is completely in your hands." The mystery man laughed, he didn't know how disgusting his laughter was.
I'm a smart guy, I know what he means, he wants my father to eat that yellowed apple, that apple must be poisonous, but the most disgusting thing is that he always calls me a criminal defense lawyer and asks me to defend every victim, but I can't win at all, because if I win, my daughter will be devastated, or even killed, I am disgusted with such analogies.
The phone had been hung up, and I could only dial the past, dial a call I had never made before, and the call went through in an instant: "Zhuang...... Solemn, is that you? The voice on the other end of the phone looked a little surprised, as if he couldn't believe that I was going to call.
"If you want money, come by yourself, the address is Zhongjing Garden, Xiahai Street, Unit 3, 6th Floor, 013." I hung up the phone without waiting for him to reply, because it wasn't me asking him, but he was begging me for money, so even though it was past eleven o'clock, he would still come over willingly.
I took advantage of the time he came, pulled Wang Dan's body down to the bedroom, I gently carried her to the bed, stared at her unconsciously for a few seconds, and then I covered her with the quilt, and then went out and closed the door with my backhand.
"Getting more and more skilled, Mr. Murderer." The mysterious man's mocking words came from the phone.
After about forty minutes, the doorbell rang, and I sat on the chair with my legs crossed, thinking that I was not afraid of anything, and all my thoughts were lost, but when the doorbell rang, I was still a little panicked, so that it rang for half a minute before I got up and went to open the door.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw an old man wearing a padded jacket and a scarf, with gray hair and old skin, he was not yet 60 years old, he already looked so old, but this time I felt strange that his dress was not as sloppy and casual as before, and his expression was also a little strange, a little submissive, looking at me as if I saw a creditor.
And I was as dead as ashes, and there was no anger on my face: "Come in." I said.
He nodded and came in, and waited for me to close the door before moving forward, he wanted to sit on the chair where Wang Dan had sat at the beginning, I was excited, stepped forward and grabbed the chair, and said, "Sit on the coffee table." "I don't know if I'm afraid of electrocuting him, or if I want him to eat that apple quickly, maybe it's both, maybe it's the former, maybe it's the latter?
He didn't think much of it, but sat down, perhaps because he had seen the fruit bowl and knew that it was the place to entertain guests.
"How much money do you want." I turned around and took out a stack of money from my coat on the hanger, walked back and moved a chair to the coffee table, where I sat on the high chair and looked at him condescendingly, as if suppressing him.
He looked at me counting the money, his expression was a little embarrassed, and he whispered, "I'm not here to ask for money, solemn." ”
I was counting the money with my head down, and when I heard him say this, I suddenly looked up at him in disbelief.
He saw me staring at him, a little overwhelmed, and in a panic, he took out a crumpled box of cigarettes from his coat pocket: "Oh, solemn, let's have one." He smiled and handed it to me.
"You don't even know I don't smoke." I looked at him coldly.
His smiling face froze, and he slowly pulled back the cigarette case, stuffed it into his pocket, and didn't smoke it himself, he smiled a little embarrassedly: "Solemn, I watched the news, you are out, I didn't come to ask you for money, you were right last time, your father...... No, I'm a failure......" He lowered his head from time to time, not daring to look directly at me, and explained: "Look! I was trying to change, I met a good boss, he helped me pay back a lot of money, promised to let me work with him, I came to send you money. As he spoke, he took out a very thin stack of bills from his inner pocket, about seven or eight hundred, and contained scattered pieces of money, fifty, twenty, and ten dollars.
"Peng!" At this moment, I suddenly kicked on the coffee table, and the coffee table was directly kicked crooked, and I stood up angrily: "What the are you pretending to be a good person!" I roared from the bottom of my heart, and at this moment I seemed to have forgotten about the mysterious man.
He was shocked, and just looked at me in a daze, not daring to speak.
"You're pretending to be my mother!" I hammered the chair with my backhand, and the chair fell directly, and my heart was like a volcano erupting at the moment, and I couldn't vent my endless anger: "You owe me and you can't pay it back in your next life, what kind of good person are you pretending to be now!" You think I'll forgive you that way? When you hit my mother, you didn't have such a face, my mother didn't see you once when she was wailing in the hospital bed! What the are you pretending to be a good person right now! ”
In the face of my repeated questions, he was silent, bowed his head and did not speak, like a student being questioned by a teacher, not daring to raise his head.
"Solemn, I'm sorry for you, I can make you a cow and a horse in the next life." He explained helplessly: "Actually, Dad never wanted to harm you, but Dad is a failure, Dad is useless, and in the end it will only drag you down......"
I clenched my fists tightly and my teeth clenched together, but after calming down a little I still remembered my daughter's matter, which was the priority, and I tried to change my mood, at least in my facial expression, "Eat an apple." ”
He was stunned for a moment, nodded vigorously, and picked up an apple directly without hesitation, but he didn't take the yellowed apple, I walked over and took the apple in his hand, and exchanged it with the "sweet" apple: "Eat this, this sweet." I said with a blank face.
He smiled and didn't suspect: "I'll wash it for you." "I said suddenly, I don't know why I said that, did I want to wash the poison off this? I don't know, after all, my daughter's life is at stake, and this poison can't be washed away.
He suddenly stood up on his own and said, "It's okay to be solemn, I'll wash it myself." He ran to the bedroom door with a smile, he thought it was a toilet, my eyes suddenly widened, and I ran directly to grab the doorknob, he couldn't move at all, there was Wang Dan's body in it, if he saw it, it would be over.
"It's not a toilet, it's in the hallway." I stared at him like a hungry wolf staring at a sheep.
He groaned, turned and walked to the bathroom in the hallway.
I put the coffee table and the chair in place, sat on the chair and waited for him, he quickly sat back in his seat, I looked at him, did not speak, just as he was eating the apple, but suddenly he looked down and saw the cigarette butts under his feet, there were 9 of them, and they were all very short, he remembered that I never smoked, and when I just sat down to hand me a cigarette, I also said that I don't smoke.
Watching him stare at the ground, my heart was cold, and I thought, "It's broken, cigarette butt!" "I started sweating profusely on my forehead.