Chapter 19: Uncertainty (2)
Bedtime prayer worked.
Gao Caiqin still couldn't help but think of Lin Xuerou before she fell asleep last night.
"It's worthy of being a self-centered arrogant lady, who doesn't even let people sleep for a peaceful night's sleep! It's annoying! Don't show up again, you've been eaten! I won't dream of you anymore! β
She slipped into a silent nothingness, where there seemed to be no concept of time, and it seemed like only a moment had passed between closing her eyes and opening them. The darkness was still thick and could not be dissolved, and it was still early in the morning.
Damn it! What exactly woke her up!
The bed next to her was empty, and Lin Xuerou was taken to the hospital yesterday morning. On the bed diagonally opposite, a person could be faintly seen lying on the bed, making a regular breathing sound. She was the only one in the dark, with her eyes wide open, not knowing where to look.
"Lin Xuerou! Lin Xuerou! β
Bedtime prayer works, as soon as you chant her name and remember her face, she will enter your dreams.
"Lin Xuerou! Lin Xuerou! Gao Caiqin called softly, but no one responded.
She couldn't lie comfortably on the bed, so she had to crawl out of it.
"Goo-goo-goo-" There was a strange sound outside, I don't know if it was a frog chirping, or a bird's chirping,
"Lin Xuerou!"
"Goo-"
"Lin Xuerou."
"Goo-"
She whispered, and the thing screamed, as if it were the same thing.
"What's weird?" Although she said this, her hand involuntarily rested on the doorknob. She stared at the hand as if it were someone else's hand, slowly pressing the doorknob.
The cold wind was pervasive, and it rushed in and hugged her first, as if they were old friends in the dark night.
There was only a faint green safety passage light in the hallway, but this little light alone was enough to see what should be seen.
A red figure, passing a glowing green light, flickered and appeared, strange and cold as the evil of the underworld. The shadow moved extremely fast, and disappeared at the end of the corridor before Gao Caiqin was stunned.
She covered her mouth so that she didn't scream - that figure was clearly Lin Xuerou!
But she was obviously in the hospital, how could she appear here out of thin air? Don't...... Is this my dream again?
Birch, why didn't you eat Lin Xuerou? And let her disturb me again and again in my dreams? Can...... No, if I see her, it means I'm not in a dream.
What's going on? No, I have to figure it out, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well in the future!
Gao Caiqin mustered up her courage and walked out again. Like the first time, I walked through the hallway and up the stairs. Looking down, it's a spiral, and looking up, it's still a spiral.
She decided that it would be better to go to the rooftop first.
Tremblingly pushed open the rooftop door, and as soon as she stretched out her head to enter, she saw a person in a red dress standing in the middle of the rooftop, even if the light was dim, she could recognize at a glance that it was Lin Xuerou's strange dress.
"Lin Xuerou!" Gao Caiqin was afraid of being extremely angry, she deliberately raised her volume to embolden herself, but the voice that came out of her throat was sharp and thin, with a slight trill: "What do you want to do!" Can you stop pretending to be a ghost! I've had enough! β
"I lost something, did you see it? Do you know where it is? Lin Xuerou's voice sounded exceptionally cold today.
"What...... What is it? Gao Caiqin suppressed the fear in her heart while trying to talk to her.
The girl in red slowly raised her head, and Gao Caiqin also followed her movementsβthe moon halo was deep and the moonlight was dim, and it seemed that tomorrow might be a rainy day.
Moon? She remembered the strange ballad that Lin Xuerou hummed and sang that day: red jasmine, yellow pines and cypresses, and the moon that will never be full.
"I ...... I also lost my dad. Gao Caiqin suddenly said, "I can understand your feelings. β
"Do you remember one time when I took three days off to go back to my dad's funeral?" Gao Caiqin's lips moved, spitting out bursts of white steam.
"I didn't even tell Teacher Qin, and the whole school probably didn't know what I was going to do when I took leave." Gao Caiqin laughed silently.
"It was like a dream at first. He's just going on a long trip, a long trip, as usual, and he'll come back after a while, meet us a few times, and then continue to work, travel, and so on. β
"It's just that now he's taken away the time he spent seeing us a few times in between." A few hot tears flowed from the corners of her eyes and crossed her cold cheeks.
"He took my time." His voice trembled: "How can he be like this...... Don't say hello...... Assertiveness...... Unceremoniously take away someone else's time! β
Lin Xuerou's body trembled slightly.
Gao Caiqin looked at her thin figure, as if she was looking in a mirror, her voice became as soft as a feather, and she said to the person in front of her, more like saying to herself: "You don't want to be like this in the future...... On such a cold day, you still wear so little, are you really not afraid of catching a cold? β
As he spoke, he was about to walk up and hold her hand, but as soon as he took a few steps towards her, Gao Caiqin suddenly stopped.
"How are you!" Her sad expression froze on her face, and she was immediately extremely ashamed, and wiped away the remaining tears on her face, as if someone had discovered an ulterior secret.
"I ...... Root...... It was me. Ling Ling was also a little embarrassed.
"Why are you pretending to be Lin Xuerou to lie to me?" She was really angry.
"I ...... Without pretending, when did I say I was Lin Xuerou? Although Ling Ling said this, he obviously lacked confidence.
"Then why are you wearing her clothes?"
Ling Ling almost wanted to shout injustice: "Is it what I want to wear?" That's not the two of them...... Alas, what about people? She circled around the water tower on the rooftop twice, and Wen Qiao and Liu Mengwei, who were hiding there, were gone.
Ling Ling hurriedly said: "I'm really wronged, I have a problem with my brain to wear a skirt in this cold day, deliberately tricking you!" It's all Liu Mengwei's idea! β
"Then why did she do it?" The little girl's eyes were red, and she didn't know if she was crying just now or angry now.
"How do I know this? Neither of them knows where to run now! Ling Ling shivered from the cold, and kept rubbing his arms.
Liu Mengwei and Wen Qiao didn't go far, really when she listened intently to the conversation between the two, her arm was suddenly grabbed, just lightly, and she was pulled by the person, left from the rooftop exit, and came to the 6th floor.
"What do you do?" Liu Meng's lips opened slightly, and there was a different kind of temptation in the dark night.
"There's someone upstairs on the other side."
"Really?"
"I came with you."
"So I'm so popular." Liu Meng's eyes are as silky as silk.
"You don't have to say it, but aren't you afraid of implicating the daughter of the Gao family?" Wen Qiao's calm words seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
"But you don't seem trustworthy." Liu Mengwei's voice was as cold and piercing as the night wind: "You are not even as trustworthy as that cute Officer Xiaoling. β
"Some people may be sincere and reliable, but they are not capable enough, and at best they are just decorations, and they are not useful." He looked at her proudly: "Would you rather seek the skin of a tiger, or be a little white rabbit that obediently eats grass?" β
Liu Mengwei tried to read his mind from his mask-like delicate face, and there was no doubt that she failed.
"What are you two doing here?" Ling Ling's shrill voice broke the silence, and in her eyes, she saw a pair of men and women standing almost together, their ears and temples grinding, like glue.
Wen Qiao heard her voice and took half a step back, which was even more of a sign of weakness in her eyes.
"I've been blowing the wind on it for a long time, and it's almost frozen into popsicles, you two just see me ugly, and you're still hiding here......" Ling Ling's pretty face turned red, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a good word to describe the behavior of the two of them just now, only feeling sour and bitter and stuffed in his heart.
"I'm really the No. 1 big fool of the Son of Heaven, and I've been used as a monkey all night!" The more she talked, the more aggrieved she became, and her voice was a little out of tune.
Liu Mengwei saw that she was not in the right mood, and hurriedly said: "Today's matter, Officer Xiaoling is the first to make a contribution. I've got an eyebrow, but it's too late today, and everyone is tired. Let's go back and rest first, and tomorrow I will personally go to the police station to 'turn myself in'." β
As soon as they left school, they saw a familiar car parked on the side of the road. Seeing this, Ling Ling hurriedly rushed over, it was Ling Feng. He heard that his sister was going to come to investigate the case in the middle of the night, and even if someone accompanied him, he was a hundred worried. I happened to be on the night shift, so I stopped by to take a look, but I didn't expect to see my sister running towards me with a face full of grievances.
"Why are you dressed like this?" Ling Feng saw that under her thin coat was a dress that exposed her calves, and quickly took off her own clothes and wrapped them around her.
"They bully people, let me pretend to be a ghost and scary!" When Ling Ling saw the person who came to support her, she was full of grievances, threw herself into his arms, and complained loudly.
Liu Mengwei suddenly felt dizzy, but she could only force herself to squeeze out a smile: "Officer Ling, let's take your sister back to rest first, what happened today is what I did wrong, I will personally come to apologize another day." β
After seeing the two of them go away, Liu Meng didn't reply and said, "Why don't you leave?" You don't want to be a gentleman and send me home, do you? β
Does he want to take advantage of people's danger? Liu Mengwei's heart tightened, with her current mental state, I'm afraid she won't be able to deal with him.
There was a long silence in the darkness behind her, and she couldn't help but look back, but it was empty.
Liu Meng frowned slightly, he could still feel the cold and vigilant aura on Wen Qiao's body in the last second, and the next second he disappeared like a ghost.