Chapter 14: The Asylum
Shuqing and Jinpeng took the address and hurriedly walked to Zhu Hui's house, but Zhu Hui was not at home, they went to the supermarket where Zhu Hui worked, and Zhu Hui was not there. Jin Peng dialed Li Zhen again, but the phone was still turned off, so he wanted to go to other parts of the town by himself, maybe he could meet Li Zhen. Shuqing stayed in the supermarket, and she borrowed a stool from the supermarket owner to sit down and rest under the pretext of physical exhaustion. In fact, she thought that maybe the boss knew where Zhu Hui went, so she started a routine with the owner of the supermarket.
"You're doing a good business here. You're the only one in town. Shuqing said.
"It's not just us, there are several over there, but our place is bigger and the goods are more complete, and everyone loves to buy them. ”
"Then you can't usually be busy alone. ”
"Fortunately, I didn't catch the market today, and there weren't many people. I was a little busy when I was in the market. ”
"Then you can ask a few more people to help. ”
"There is an eldest sister who helps, she has a guest at home, and she took a day off today. ”
"It must have been a very important guest. Shuqing smiled, looked at the puzzled supermarket owner and said: "Oh, I'm a local, but I've moved to the city for several years, I don't think you're too young, I think the eldest sister in your mouth may be the same age as me, and people of our age will not affect their normal work if they are not particularly important." ”
"Oh, no, no, no, she's much younger than you. The supermarket owner laughed. "I don't want to offend you, but, I don't think I'm going to hire an old woman to help me move my goods. I can't afford to take responsibility for something going wrong. ”
"That's right. This town has changed a lot. I can't see what it used to look like anymore. By the way, I remember, it turned out to be an insane asylum in front of it. Shuqing pointed to the flat ground not far from her. There were no houses there anymore, it was all fresh mud, and an excavator was parked there.
The supermarket owner looked in the direction of Shuqing's finger. "It used to be a madhouse, but it was demolished early, and now the government has sold the land to a real estate developer," he said. There is a need to build the 'Longmen Garden'. Said it was to make it the best residential area in town, you see, the advertisement. Shuqing looked in the direction of the supermarket owner's finger, a large spray-painted cloth printed on a family of three, they were put very large, it seemed that the whole body was a little deformed, behind the family was a large dark red small high-rise building, next to it printed in regular script 'Longmen Jiayuan, the home of love' a few green characters. The supermarket owner kept saying: "Hey, in fact, everyone doesn't like to build any 'Longmen Jiayuan', in order to repair this community, the residents next to it were forced to be demolished, you don't know, one of the families was crippled because they didn't want to demolish it." Some say it's the government's work, and some say it's the developer's work. ”
"Well, I've heard of several murders in town. It doesn't have to do with this developer. Shuqing said. She shifted her gaze from the clearing to the supermarket owner, unconcerned.
"You must have heard about the smashed-up murder in our town. No, the developers hadn't come to our town yet. Hey, poor man. The murderer came back, the son of the madhouse nurse, his mother cooked and cleaned the madman every day, fortunately all his life, he made up the tuition for the university he went to, but he brought a girl from the city back, and after getting married, he has been restless, but he did not expect to embark on this road. It's. ”
"He didn't work in the city and settle down, how could a girl in the city want to come to such a remote town?" Shuqing frowned, this was different from what she thought. Why did Li Zhen marry Hu Sheng, it is impossible to win her mother's attention. She doesn't look like someone who can live in the countryside. She would not be willing to sacrifice her future in order to anger her mother.
"Then I don't know, maybe it's because of love! Young people always like to do this, and if they don't torture themselves and their families to death, it's not real love. He brought back a girl from the city, told his mother that they were going to get married, and said that he would take over his mother's job in the future. Working as a nurse in an insane asylum. You don't know, his mother has saved up all her life to save money, just to send him out of this town, let him go to the city, and get ahead. didn't expect him to come back and bring a girl from the city. I heard that his mother was mad at the sight of the girl, and she didn't agree to anything. Some people also said that the girl was not a city girl at all, but Zhou Zhiwen's crazy daughter. ”
"Zhou Zhiwen's crazy daughter?" Shuqing said lazily to herself. She knew that the supermarket owner must be talking about Anna. The people in the town didn't know Anna's true identity, and they didn't know that Li Zhen and Anna were Ann Xiaowensheng's twin sisters. Besides, no one wants to go to an insane asylum, I heard that the madmen inside want to eat people. Of course, rumors are always like this, and the more outrageous they are, the faster they spread.
"That's right, it's the murdered Zhou Zhiwen whose head was smashed. What a tragic death. But what is even more tragic is that 1 week after his death, his wife remarried. Married to a butcher from the same village. Eighty percent got along when Zhou Zhiwen didn't die. I heard that the butcher often sneaked to their house while Zhou Zhiwen was not at home. In fact, I think it's not Hu Sheng who killed Zhou Zhiwen, it's more like the butcher. But who knows about this kind of thing, in the end, I didn't expect that it was really that irrelevant Hu Sheng who killed him. ”
"The Hu Sheng you are talking about, is it the one who beat his wife? Shuqing squinted her eyes and asked pretending to be confused.
"Oh yes, when the case was tried, the evidence of his domestic violence was turned up. I heard that he was sentenced to 10 years, but only sat for 7 years. If I want me to say that he will pay for his life, he will pay for his life if he kills. ”
"Oh, is there a madhouse now?"
"Yes, of course there is, but it has been reduced a lot, and the government wanted to send them away and send them to Hechuan, but it didn't work out, and the specific reason is not clear. Now it has moved to the 6 brigade. ”
6 brigade, Shuqing thought, isn't this their village, the closest village to the town, now the road has been built, leading directly to the commune. Oh, Aunt Xia mentioned it to her, saying that the commune built a big building somewhere, and occupied her land, and only paid her 8,000 yuan, and she found the commune to make trouble, but there was no result, and if she said that it was another trouble, there would not even be 8,000, so she could only receive money to let those big guys push off the crops that had just been picked up. She hadn't seen that place yet, she had to go and see it.
"Thank you for being hospitalized, I feel better. I have to go. Thank you so much. "Shuqing saw Jinpeng from afar. She stood up, thanked the supermarket owner, and then turned and walked towards Jinpeng.