Chapter 1: Fooling Around
At the beginning of November, the capital ushered in the first snow of winter. Located at No. 17, Qianhai West Street, XC District, Beijing, Prince Gong's Mansion is more than 200 years old, with red walls and green tiles and white snow flying, intertwining a beautiful scene in the world.
When Chu Liuli went out in the morning, she read the weather forecast, and knew that it was going to snow and cool down, so she deliberately changed into a thick coat, but the weather of more than ten degrees below zero still made her feel chilly. She couldn't help but quicken her pace and trot to the subway.
Chu Liuli is the daughter of Chu Zhiwei, the inheritor of the construction skills of ancient official buildings. She and her brother Chu Jingkai have been by their father's side since they were children, and they both like this skill. She studied ancient Chinese architectural engineering at Jingcheng University, and was about to write a paper on the study of the color painting of Prince Gong's Mansion, and she often came to Prince Gong's Mansion these days. But today, she felt a little different from the past. A man in a black coat was by her side when she took the subway, got on the train with her at Beihai North Station, and transferred to Line 2 at Chegongzhuang Station. At this moment, at the exit of Dongzhimen Station, she saw him again. Chu Liuli walked briskly to the way home, and her boots made a "creaking" sound when she stepped on the snow. After walking a distance, she subconsciously looked back and found that the man in black was behind her, and the distance between them was only a few meters.
Chu Liuli was completely stunned! She didn't believe that there was such a coincidence, there was a person who got on the train at the same station as her, changed trains at the same station, got off at the same station, and even went in the same direction. Unless, he's stalking her!
Although I have seen such scenes in TV series and novels many times, Chu Liuli is still a little nervous after experiencing it personally. It takes nearly 20 minutes to get off the subway station and get home, and there are not many pedestrians on the road because of the snowy weather. In Chu Liuli's tense nerves, the footsteps of the man behind her were infinitely amplified, filling her eardrum.
She had only one thought, run! Turn left at the intersection in front of her, and after a few hundred meters, she will be at the entrance of the community. As long as she sees the security uncle she is familiar with, she is safe. Thinking of this, she riveted her strength and ran straight to the intersection.
"Rustling ......and rustling" Chu Liuli gave full play to the advantages of the long-term running champion of the school sports for many years, and soon ran to the corner of the intersection.
Anxious to verify whether the man in black followed, Chu Liuli turned around as he turned. However, before she could see the man, she crashed into a wall, a wall of flesh to be exact. She could feel it through her coat, and the chest of the man in front of her was firm.
Unprepared and running extremely fast, the strong impact made her lean back before she could see the face of the man in front of her.
Just as she felt like she was about to fall to the ground on her back, her arms were grabbed by a pair of large, powerful hands. With inertia, she plunged headlong into the man's arms.
"It's over, it's over! It's a shame! ”
After a brief touch, Chu Liuli reflexively pushed the man away and staggered back a few steps.
"I'm sorry, I ran too fast, I didn't mean to hit you!" Even if he was wearing a mask for warmth and covering his face, Chu Liuli didn't dare to look up.
"It's okay, I can tell you didn't mean to. However, why are you in such a hurry? It's too fast! The man's voice is very good, and it is Chu Liuli's favorite kind of warm and magnetic anchor style.
Attracted by his voice, Chu Liuli forgot her previous shame and looked up at him. The man's eyes were also on her. The brief look at each other made Chu Liuli stunned for a moment.
The man's thick eyebrows were slightly raised, and under the long, slightly curled eyelashes, his clear eyes carried a bit of teasing. Chu Liuli looked at him very familiarly, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.
Faced with a strange man she looked familiar with, she couldn't ask, "Handsome guy, where have we met?" It would have made him think that she had deliberately accosted him.
She was already embarrassed just now, and she couldn't ask such shameless words again!
After thinking about it, she pointed behind her and whispered, "I...... As soon as I got off the subway, a man followed me. ”
"Someone stalking you?" The man took a few steps forward and looked in the direction that Chu Liuli was pointing. Chu Liuli also followed him to look over.
On that road, except for a man and a woman supporting each other, two women walking alone, there was no one else.
"The man is gone! I'm sure he must have been following me just now. He got on and off the subway with me, even the transfer station! Chu Liuli was very sure.
"Where are you going, I'll send you." The man's eyes were smiling, crooked, like a bright first quarter moon in the night sky.
"No, I'll be home right away. It should be fine! Chu Liuli said to the man gratefully.
I don't know if it was because of the high level of nervousness just now, or because I was too tired in the past few days, in an instant, Chu Liuli's panic was committed again. It was as if there were countless hands itching in her heart, making her subconsciously cover her chest.
The man seemed to see her strange appearance and asked, "Are you sick in your heart?" ”
"Well, panic, maybe I was a little nervous just now." Chu Liuli was still a little embarrassed.
"Hold out your hand and I'll take a look at it for you." The man gestured.
Chu Liuli looked up in surprise, and he said help her to see, could it be that she bumped into a doctor.
Confused, she slowly raised her hand. The man lightly placed his fingers on her wrist, released it after a moment, and said, "You put your palm up, put the three fingers of your right hand together, put your ring finger on the horizontal stripe of your left wrist, and the midpoint of the intersection of your right index finger and your left wrist is the Neiguan acupoint." You press here for a while, and the panic will be relieved. ”
The man's words confirmed Chu Liuli's judgment even more, she expected that he must be a doctor, and it was likely to be a Chinese medicine doctor.
Chu Liuli did what she said, and gently rubbed the Neiguan acupoint for a while, and it was really much more comfortable. She was just about to thank him, but the man raised his wrist to look at the time, told her a few words, and hurriedly left.
Chu Liuli raised his foot and walked in the direction of the community, only to notice that his ankle was a little uncomfortable, as if he had twisted his foot when he leaned back just now.
Chu Liuli secretly laughed at herself, when she was in school, she participated in the school sports meeting almost every year, and she was a long-distance running champion, so why did she fold in the hands of a strange man. She just bumped into him and twisted her foot for the first time in the world. Fortunately, she is not far from home, and she can still hold on to the journey of a few hundred meters.
"Xiao Liuli, what's wrong with you?" At the gate of the community, seeing Chu Liuli limping back from walking, security guard Zhang Quanan asked with concern.
Zhang Quanan is an old neighbor of Chu Liuli's family, and after being laid off by Factory A, he went to the community to work as a security guard. He is enthusiastic and helpful, and is deeply liked by the residents of the community.
"I accidentally broke my foot. It's okay, Uncle Zhang, do you think I'm not good? Chu Liuli held on, wanting to get out of her normal appearance.
"You girl, you just love to be strong!" Zhang Quanan looked down at Chu Liuli's feet, and then went into the security room to call someone out and asked him to help Chu Liuli upstairs.
Chu Liuli couldn't help but smile when he saw him, the person who came out was Zhang Quanan's son Zhang Pengtao. Zhang Pengtao is a few years younger than him and has just entered his freshman year.
At the insistence of the two fathers, Chu Liuli had to let Zhang Pengtao support her.
When Chu Liuli arrived home, no one at home had returned. Zhang Pengtao watched her open the door, and sat on the sofa with her before leaving.
Chu Liuli leaned on the sofa, thinking back to the man she bumped into just now, and felt more and more that she felt right, she must have seen him somewhere before, otherwise she would not have a sense of déjà vu.