Chapter 61: The Cause and Effect (II)
I asked, "What's the matter?" β
Officer Zeng replied: "This matter is related to Hu Xiaolan, and the relationship between her and Lin Zihui was not very good at that time......
Hearing this, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows and interrupted Officer Zeng's words: "Officer Zeng, are you saying the opposite?" How could the relationship between Xiaolan and Lin Zihui be bad? β
How could the relationship between the two of them be bad?
The relationship is not good, Lin Zihui will give his life to find the ring? Will Xiaolan have an accident in order to find Lin Zihui's body? Xiaolan's ghost will always think about Lin Zihui after waking up?
Officer Zeng seemed to be taken aback by my excited reaction, looked at me strangely, and said, "It is true that it cannot be said that the two of them have a bad relationship, but it is more accurate to describe it as 'something wrong with the relationship'." β
I frowned and looked at Officer Zeng, waiting for his next step.
"Before the accident, the relationship between the two of them was really good, no, it should be said that it was excellent. Too good to be jealous, they are a pair of golden boys and girls in the police academy. It's just ......" Officer Zeng sighed and said, "When the accident happened, the two of them were breaking up. β
"What?" I was a little skeptical of what Officer Zeng said, "Break up? β
Officer Zeng's calm expression let me know he wasn't joking, so I asked, "Why?" β
Officer Zeng smiled bitterly and said, "Who can figure out the matter between men and women?" Although I am a good friend of Lin Zihui, I don't know very well about the relationship between him and Hu Xiaolan. β
I frowned and said, "There's always a reason, right?" β
Officer Zeng replied: "Lin Zihui and I mentioned a few words, it seems that Hu Xiaolan thinks he is too close to other girls, so he makes trouble with him." β
I said angrily: "Lin Zihui split his legs? β
If that's the case, then Hu Xiaolan is really not worth it!
Officer Zeng shook his head and said, "That's not true, I know this very well." Zihui has a good personality, is outgoing, and handsome, so the girl has a good relationship and has a few female friends who have a good relationship. But I am sure that he only has Hu Xiaolan in his heart, and he is just an ordinary classmate and friend with other girls. β
Officer Zeng is a good friend of Lin Zihui, since he said so, coupled with Hu Xiaolan's series of actions after Lin Zihui's death, I understand that I should have misunderstood.
"And then?" I looked at Officer Zeng and asked, "What does all this have to do with the question I started asking?" β
"Nature is related." Officer Zeng lowered his head, his mood became a little confused, and said, "Hu Xiaolan is dissatisfied that Zihui is too close to other girls, and she wants to break up, but Zihui is naturally unwilling." Because of this incident, they quarreled many times, and finally once on the edge of Yang Lake, they quarreled again, Hu Xiaolan was angry, took off the promise ring in his hand, and threw it into Yang Lake! Alas...... If they weren't so impulsive at the time, they could each take a step back...... Then the tragedy that followed would not have happened......"
Officer Zeng was still sighing over there, but I was full of doubts in my heart. Why is his statement different from Xiaobai's?
Xiaobai said that the ring was lost in the lake by Hu Xiaolan, which was said by Hu Xiaolan herself. Whose statement is the truth?
I asked, "Officer Zeng, were you there at the time?" How do you know that it was Hu Xiaolan who threw the ring into the lake? β
Officer Zeng looked at me strangely and said, "Lin Zihui told me." At that time, on the edge of Yang Lake, Hu Xiaolan said that she broke up and threw away the ring, Zihui was very angry and said cruel things. But at night, he regretted it and secretly ran to Yang Lake to get the ring back, so as to save Hu Xiaolan. β
In my mind, I compared the two versions of what Officer Zeng and Xiaobai said about how the ring was lost, and finally I was inclined to believe the version that Officer Zeng said.
There are two reasons for this.
First, Officer Zeng is an outsider, and after all these years, there is no need for him to lie.
The second is that the ring is customized by Hu Xiaolan, the size is definitely appropriate, and it generally does not fall off on its own when it is worn on the hand.
As for why Hu Xiaolan lied on this issue, I don't know how she and Xiaobai talked, but if you think about it, you can understand it.
A girl, because of her willfulness, because of an unintentional move, destroys herself and her lover. Such a painful memory, even today, more than ten years later, is unbearable.
I even suspect that in Hu Xiaolan's mind, the development process of this matter has become the version she herself said.
It's just that Hu Xiaolan is no longer there, and I can't ask her for verification anymore.
After a little more talk with Officer Zeng, we separated. When I went back to the dormitory, Xiao Hei was not there, and I lay on the bed alone, recalling the love-hate entanglement between Hu Xiaolan and Lin Zihui, and thinking of the ending of the two of them, I couldn't help but be silent.
The world talks about cause and effect, but the cause and effect of Lin and Hu are also difficult to say.
Is this 'cause' Lin Zihui getting too close to the other girls, or is Hu Xiaolan jealous and too impulsive? After hearing that Lin Zihui had an accident in order to find the ring, Hu Xiaolan dived into the water so frantically and finally died regardless of her own safety. Ten years later, Hu Xiaolan's ghost was awakened by me, and all she thought about was Lin Zihui, and she didn't think about her own affairs at all. Now that I think about it, in addition to the love for Lin Zihui in her heart, it is difficult to say that there are no psychological reasons for guilt and regret.
Thinking about it, I thought of Fan Ruru again. In the past few months, I have not been in touch with her, and the night I shared in the hotel was like a memory of the last century, and occasionally looking back, there is always a dreamlike sense of unreality.
Love, love, what the hell are you?
I thought of Xiaobai again, I don't know if she was in love before she died......
The ghost who lost her memory must have made her very confused......
remembered what he had said to her, said that he would help her retrieve her memory, but it was just ...... It's easy to say, but how?
I put my hand under the pillow, and the unique touch of the Nanmu box made me feel certain. Inside the box are books and talismans left by my grandmother, which have saved my life many times in critical moments.
There are still ten more spells, but as time goes by, I can feel the mana on the charms being lost little by little.
Because there is a 'ghost charm' in these charms, which is used to scare the ghosts away. I once had the idea of playing a prank, using that 'ghost charm' to scare Xiaobai, but I didn't expect her to react at all. And she said that she felt that there was only a faint amount of mana on that talisman, the kind that could be ignored.
How could the charm made by my grandmother have no mana? Later, I checked and found that the other charms were the same, and they were gradually losing their effectiveness.
It seems that charms, like everything else in the world, have an expiration date, and I don't know when they will completely lose their effectiveness and become pieces of waste paper.
I've been looking through the spells in the book, and I can't be more familiar with them now.
Judging from what happened during this time, my grandmother was right, I was indeed more likely to provoke unclean things.
In just a few months, the nine-tailed fox, the evil baby, Hu Xiaolan, Xiaobai...
I've dealt with so many horrible beings. A few of them were even close to death, and I didn't know what sinister things would break into my life in the future, and now that the spells were starting to fail, I had to find something else to defend myself against.
I have an aunt who lives in Kucang Mountain, and this is what my grandmother told me before she left.
I haven't had time to go back for a few months, and in a few days the school will be closed for the winter break, so I can go back to find my aunt.
I have a lot of questions in my mind that I need someone to answer for me.
By the time I got back to my bedroom, I had already fallen asleep. I told him about Officer Zeng's visit to me today.
After listening to the whole story of Hu Xiaolan and Lin Zihui, Xiao Hei was silent for a long time before he held back a sentence: "It's really a dangerous thing to fall in love." β
A curious question rose in my heart: "Xiao Hei, have you ever been in love?" β
Xiao Hei's expression suddenly became writhing, and he stammered, "Of course I talked about it!" β
Listening to him say that he was so embarrassed, he naturally didn't believe it.
My disbelief was written on my face, and Xiao Hei saw it, and his face darkened all of a sudden: "Then have you talked about it?" β
I thought about it and said, "Did Fan Ruru count that time?" β
Xiao Hei thought for a while and said, "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be counted." But you were dating Fan Ruru with your life that time, so you can barely count it. β
I have a kinship in my heart, and I can't agree more when I think of the short-lived relationship with Fan Ruru and the bloody case caused by it.
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