Guilty: Murder of his lover

Xing Zhou hitchhiked halfway there when he received a call from Li Hejia.

Li Hejia looked panicked. She said that Xing Zhou heard that your house was on fire, and the fire was very big, so I called to ask if you were at home... Ah, as long as you are not at home, as long as you are fine!What?Do you mean Tong Yao?He should still be in the meeting.You have to be mentally prepared, the content of the meeting has something to do with him... Well, I'll visit your house first, and you should come back quickly.

Li Hejia rushed to the house of Xing Zhou and Tong Yao on a bicycle, and the flames that filled the sky had already wrapped the whole house into a fireball.People from the fire brigade were pouring water into it, and there were people all around.

"Ouch! My house! My house!" Aunt Chen, the homeowner, was crying and her daughter Chen Erya was supporting her.

"How did comrades get so angry?" Li Hejia asked the commander beside him.

The other party shook his head.

Li Hejia sighed, this is the house of Tong Yao and Xing Zhou, if it is burned down, what will happen to the contents inside.

It's really a house leak and it rains all night. She was lamenting what happened to the two, when she looked up, she saw Xing Zhou running over with sweat on his head.

"No way, the fire was already like this when I came, your property..." Li Hejia sighed again.

Xing Zhou shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's a good thing we're not at home, but how did this fire start?"

"I asked just now, and they also said they didn't know." Li Hejia blinked and said, "It can't be that you forgot to turn off the power of something when you went out, right?"

Xing Zhou shook his head again: "Impossible."

"That's strange, how did it start..." Li Hejia murmured, "If he knew the house was gone, he would be very sad."

Xing Zhou said: "Well, but I will find another house..."

"Captain! There are people inside!!!"

"What did you say?"

"Someone! Someone! Come and help!"

The firefighters' voices exploded in Xing Zhou's ears like bombs.

hum...

What did they say, they said there were people in it, they said there were people in the house.

Who is that, who will be, who will be in, who will be in his and Tong Yao's house.

Will not.

No.

His mind was blank, he was stunned for a few seconds while walking, and he was about to walk towards the fire reflexively.

Li Hejia was also stunned for a moment, but she quickly realized that she stopped him and said, "Impossible! He's in a meeting, so I'll call him first!"

She quickly dialed Tong Yao's phone.

Hello, the number you dialed is not answered, please try again later...

how come……

She stared at Xing Zhou blankly, and Xing Zhou panicked immediately.

"Impossible! Call him, I'll call the school!" Li Hejia seemed calm and organized, but his voice was already shaking.

Teacher Tong?He left without finishing the meeting, as if he had received a phone call and left in a hurry.Fortunately, this meeting was specially communicated with several leaders by the principal to discuss whether he will stay or not...

Li Hejia's hands were shaking badly, she looked at Xing Zhou, who was staring at her with bloodshot eyes.

"He, he's not here..." Li Hejia was almost suffocated by those eyes, and with trembling lips, he spoke a few words for a long time.

Xing Zhou turned and ran towards the house without saying a word.

Li Hejia screamed: "You can't go! You can't get in!"

Several people with quick eyes and quick hands hugged Xing Zhou who was rushing towards the fire, and the commander on the side also strictly stopped him from interfering with his work.

"Tong Yao!"

"Tong Yao!"

"Tong Yao..."

Xing Zhou, who was pressed to the ground by four or five people, yelled heart-piercingly. Li Hejia knelt aside, covering his mouth with tears streaming down his face.

"People were rescued..."

"Extensive burns..."

"Patient is severely dehydrated..."

"Patient's heart rate drops..."

"I'm sorry, we tried our best..."

At four o'clock in the morning, the morgue was lit with pale incandescent lights.

Xing Zhou leaned against the cold iron cabinet, staring blankly at the ground.

Da, da, da, the heavy footsteps came from far to near, and finally stopped beside him.

"Xing Zhou...don't be like this, he doesn't want you to be like this..." Li Hejia's eyes were red and his face was pale.

Three hours had passed since the doctor announced Tong Yao's death, and Xing Zhou was still the same, his soul gone.

Li Hejia's heart ached even more when she saw it. She squatted in front of Xing Zhou, took his hand and said, "Xing Zhou, come with me to my house first... let's... tomorrow..."

She couldn't go on.

Do you want to deal with the funeral tomorrow?She couldn't speak.

When Tong Yao was rescued, she was holding a laptop that almost burned down in her arms.It was Xing Zhou's computer full of manuscripts.

"Xing Zhou, don't be like this, you come back with me..."

Li Hejia burst into tears again.

……

A week later, Li Hejia accompanied Xing Zhou back to her temporary residence holding Tong Yao's ashes.

The relevant procedures required the signatures of relatives, and Li Hejia was very embarrassed, because she had never heard Tong Yao or Xing Zhou talk about family matters.When she thought that the follow-up work could not be advanced, Xing Zhou suddenly took out a small booklet, which was a marriage certificate.

She was surprised that although same-sex marriage is legal, it is only practiced in a few places.When they met for the first time, Xing Zhou told her that Tong Yao was married. She thought it was just a warning to herself, but she didn't expect it to be true.

Did Xing Zhou carry it with him all the time?Li Hejia was very surprised.Because of the fire, the entire house was gone.The Chen family on the first floor of that house was used as a warehouse, and it was full of wood, which was also the reason why the fire could not be extinguished in time.

When the hospital staff saw the brochure, they didn't say anything more, and went through all the procedures neatly.

The evening wind at the end of summer was still scorching hot, and Xing Zhou carried the urn into the small attic.

Li Hejia reminded him to get a good night's sleep from behind, but I don't know if he heard it.

Li Hejia asked the school to stay with Xing Zhou for a full week. She had never seen Xing Zhou take a rest during the week when Tong Yao had an accident. She either sat in a daze or hid in the attic crying.

A young man with a height of 1.8 meters has lost weight at a speed visible to the naked eye.His hair had grown, and so had his beard, his black eyes were sunken in his pale face, and he was sickly, as if a gust of wind could blow him down.

She cooked porridge and knocked on the attic door.

No one responded, and there were no other voices.

She panicked and pushed open the door in a panic.

With his back to the door, Xing Zhou curled up on the bed, he couldn't feel any vitality in his body, like a corpse that had been dead for many years.

Li Hejia's heart beat faster, and she almost confirmed that she walked to the bed and reached out to touch Xing Zhou's forehead.

Her forehead was cold, but still warm, she breathed a sigh of relief, she just fell asleep.

Xing Zhou slept deeply, still holding the urn in his arms.Li Hejia wanted to help him take the urn to the side, but just as she stretched out her hand, she suddenly retracted it. She thought it was better to let him hold it, if it would be better.

She gently closed the attic door and went out.

When Tong Yao had an accident, she was sad, and Xing Zhou was also sad, but she knew that kind of sadness was different.Tong Yao left, and Xing Zhou's soul followed.

Tong Yao died unexpectedly before resigning. Several leaders and colleagues lamented the impermanence of the world, but they did not plan to hold a memorial service.Li Hejia also knew that it was impossible for Xing Zhou to be willing to hold this memorial service.

Another week passed, and the house owner, Aunt Chen, found her and said she wanted to see Xing Zhou, saying that the house caught fire while Tong Yao and Xing Zhou were renting, and they were responsible for compensation.

How could Li Hejia let Xing Zhou see her, she pushed Aunt Chen to the door, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry about this matter, he just lost someone, and his mental state is not good now, wait..."

"When do you want me to wait? If it weren't for renting to them, would my house be set on fire? I'm so stupid, I should kick them out immediately, people say renting to that kind of people To be unlucky, why am I so unlucky!"

"Aunt Chen!" Li Hejia shouted uncontrollably, "One week! We'll talk to you about this in another week! Please get out of here now!"

Aunt Chen was frightened by her momentum, muttered a few words and left.

Li Hejia felt sad, for Tong Yao, for Xing Zhou, and for hundreds of people in the town.

She bit her lower lip and was about to enter the room, but when she turned around, she found Xing Zhou standing there.

"You..." She was startled, not sure if he heard what Aunt Chen said just now.

However, Xing Zhou just smiled at her lightly.

"You want to go out?" She felt a little uncomfortable when she saw that Xing Zhou had changed into the clothes she wore at the scene of the fire.

Xing Zhou nodded: "I'll go and cut my head."

His voice was very gentle, and it was the first time Li Hejia heard him speak to herself in this tone, and was quite surprised.

"I'll go with you!" She tried her best not to show worry.

But Xing Zhou still refused: "No, I will do a good job for such a small matter. By the way, I saw this in the house. I don't know if you still want to use it. If you don't use it, can you give it to me?"

Li Hejia saw that it was a thick roll of blue ribbon that she brought back when she was helping the flower shop in the town a long time ago.

"No, I'll give it to you." Li Hejia was puzzled, "But can you tell me what you want to use it for?"

Although the ribbon is only as wide as a thumb, if it is wound a few more times, it can still bear the weight of an adult.

As if seeing what she was thinking, Xing Zhou smiled again: "You don't think I will hang myself with this, do you?"

was said.

Li Hejia explained embarrassingly: "I didn't, I wouldn't think that way!"

"I want to use this bundle of flowers. He used to like flowers very much, and I gave them to him a few times. Later, we were busy moving, so we forgot. I will go to the town to buy flowers, it will be a little late." Xing Zhou smiled and told her Speaking, the tone is still sad.

It turns out that Tong Yao likes flowers.

Li Hejia said: "Then go buy it, remember to buy a bunch for me too."

Xing Zhou nodded: "Goodbye."

Li Hejia watched him go out.

Xing Zhou turned around again, looked at her and said, "By the way, help me find a place to put the columbarium."

This time he didn't smile.

Li Hejia always felt that there was something wrong, but couldn't tell, so he nodded to him.

Xing Zhou left.