Chapter 22: Catching Shadows with a Knife
After Zheng Wei finished the instigating words without pain or itching, he calmly patted the stunned Tang Shu on the shoulder, laughed meaningfully again, hurriedly turned his back to Tang Shu and left happily.
……
With Tang Shu's naïve and simple thoughts, he probably didn't think that Zheng Wei's words to him had any special and profound intentions at first-
This is because Zheng Wei has always had a bad reputation for being good at trickery, pretentiousness, and cynicism - and he is famous for telling right and wrong, hiding ghosts, hiding knives in his laughter, and being good at fooling others in everything he does, especially in the process of interacting with people.
Zheng Wei's whole body is filled with the kind of hypocrisy and cunning that is almost unpredictable, which further encourages him to fool others with the heart of the Buddha's mouth and snake......
Because of this, in Tang Shu's opinion, when he started talking to Zheng Wei, Zheng Wei just wanted to tease and even set up a lot or play a snipe.
However, since he said the sentence "There must be a dark shadow in the garden", Zheng Wei casually said every word lightly - Tang Shu had to concentrate on scrutinizing and thinking.
These words were like the venom of a wolf and a bee venom, pouring into every cell in Tang Shu's blood and penetrating deep into the bone marrow, and the liquid in those cells was pouring out of Tang Shu's brain at this time......
"Ah...... Is that really the case? I can't be wrong! ”
Tang Shu saw Zheng Wei walking away and said to himself.
"No wonder, I've been restless lately – as her boyfriend, it's my responsibility to stop these things from happening......"
He shouted loudly—deep and gruff...... He glared and slammed his fist on his chest again, his eyebrows raised one by one, and his face erupted with bruises.
However, he thought about it:
"Zheng Wei, will he run to his community garden in the middle of the night? Who knows, the neighborhood where he lives is not far from his own......"
"Although there are security guards on duty at night in the community, the surrounding fence is not very high, and it is not difficult for an adult man to climb in from above the fence, or the security guard guarding the door in the middle of the night may fall asleep...... Did he sneak in? ”
"Maybe he said it himself, Zheng Wei is very bold to do this kind of thing......"
However, Tang Shu wanted to turn around again-
"Why did Zheng Wei do this secretly? Even if he has the purpose and motive of cheating with Song Jie, Song Jie's feelings for Zheng Wei have not yet reached that level! There's no way she'll let him in! ”
"Therefore, it doesn't make sense to suspect Zheng Wei!"
"If it weren't for Zheng Wei, who would it be?"
“……”
He thought about it, and finally decided, whoever it was, that I was going to get a piece of the water, remove the stone that was pressing on his heart, and solve the mystery so that it would no longer come to torment him.
He went back to his room, took out a knife he had bought not long ago from the drawer of his desk for self-defense, and tried its sharp edge with his hand—the blade was as smooth and sharp as a frosted gemstone, and could easily cut through anything.
He frowned like a piste, and with a calm, determined determination to shove the sharp knife into his pocket, as if he were used to it...... It's not strange, and it doesn't seem like it's the first time I've done this.
The anger in his heart was as strong as thunder and lightning rage, and it was surging up his head, and he had become cold and bitter —
Until the night operation, he frowned, never let go, except for eating and drinking, he never took the initiative to open his lips, they were all closed......
He was in the room, sometimes stopping, sometimes sitting, sometimes getting up...... While sticking one hand in his pocket, he pinched the sharp knife that had been pinched hot, and at the same time thought in his mind that he had planned to do something quite terrible and not trivial.
Until that moment, these trembling and dangerous feelings, never felt before—like the feeling that awaited him in the dark abyss of fear, and he couldn't let go of the childish entanglement of his hands and feet that he wanted to try.
Throughout the afternoon, this complicated sense of fear completely occupied his heart, and his frowns and keyeyes even made him a little nervous and his palms sweated, so he really didn't have time to think of Song Jie, a beautiful woman, now......
At this time, he remembered what happened to his friend named Xiaopeng - Xiaopeng fell in love with a girl named Xiaoxian while working in City C and married her.
However, later Xiaoxian fell in love with another middle-aged man, and she no longer loved Xiaopeng. In a fit of rage, Xiaopeng killed Xiaoxian and her lover......
Tang Shu wants to learn this kind of courage from Xiaopeng...... Of course, he never thought of killing, just trying to figure out what was going on.
When I returned home, I saw that my father Tang Kui was not at home - this is normal, and my father rarely comes home.
However, the mother Zhen Yan was extremely concerned about her son's every move, and since a certain time when her son came home, she was in a state of excitement and anger that she almost dared not speak, and she noticed her son's unusual ugly expression as if something big was about to happen-
At dinner, Zhen Yan said to Tang Shu:
"Son, why do you have a stiff face when you come home? I feel that you are not very happy, as if you have a big heart, it seems to be ...... Indescribable feeling – what's wrong with you? Tell me about it! ”
Tang Shu just smiled at his mother reluctantly and said, "Mom, I'm fine, don't worry, I'm just a little hungry, just eat something." ”
But he thought to himself: "If my mother knew that I was holding a knife in the middle of the night to catch the dark shadow, it would be strange if I didn't scare her to death!"
In the evening, Tang Shu returned to his room early, played a game, and then lay on the bed without taking off his clothes...... When he saw that his phone showed twelve o'clock in the morning, he got out of bed.
"It's the right time...... Let's go! He whispered this through his teeth, buttoned his shirt all the way to the neckline, and even rolled up the cuffs, and went downstairs into the garden.
He was still sitting on the long chair painted with green paint last time, and this waiting place happened to be the only way from Building B where he lived to Building C where Song Jie lived - no other way would work.
At the end of the road, there is a fence separating Buildings B and C, which connects to a small public plaza shared by the two buildings, and a yellow cypress tree grows alone.
If you stand under its low, dense foliage, you can clearly see everything that is happening around it as far as the darkness of the night allows—
Here, there was a winding path, which he always seemed to think was mysterious—it meandered like a snake near the fence.
Even through the fence, there was a bush next to the place, but through the light, I could see the footprints of someone crawling in order to take a shortcut—Tang Shu thought, this footprint might be the previous one.
He finally walked up to the yellow cypress tree, leaned against its thick trunk with a wrinkled bowl like the face of an old man who had gone through vicissitudes, and began to crouch quietly......