sunk in yesterday

"Guan Yuzhou..." Xia Zhuo stared at the jelly beans hesitantly, and somehow felt his throat tighten, as if something was stuck in his throat.He touched his Adam's apple, but found nothing unusual.

Hearing his call, Guan Yuzhou immediately put down the cushion and looked over.But this glance made his pupils shrink suddenly, and he suddenly reached out to Xia Zhuo's neck.

Dense strangle marks suddenly appeared on the originally slender skin, winding and converging into the shape of a palm, and tiny blood spots appeared, which seemed to be able to merge into blood beads and slide down the neck at any time.

"Don't move." Guan Yuzhou frowned tightly, and his voice was very low, as if suppressing deep anger.

Xia Zhuo still didn't understand what was going on, watching Guan Yuzhou pull a hair from behind his ear.

It is one meter long.

He shuddered in disgust, "What is this?"

That hair seemed to be alive, grabbing it in my hand and sinking into the flesh.Guan Yuzhou frowned, tied it tightly and threw it aside, touched Xia Zhuo's neck with his hand, and was relieved when he saw that there was not much blood coming off, "Does it hurt?"

Xia Zhuo shook his head.

"We can't stay here for long. Let's find a way to leave. Follow me and don't take half a step away from me."

Although he had fallen asleep several times, it was the first time Xia Zhuo encountered such a difficult situation. Just as he was about to nod in agreement, Guan Yuzhou snapped the necklace he had stuffed back around his neck again.He lowered his head and glanced, the only remaining blue eye actually shone slightly, and the cold feeling soaked his collarbone, which made all the impatience he had just born dissipated.

The two went to the bathroom together, and the original milky white frosted glass on the door was also dazzlingly red, and it closed automatically after they stepped in.

There were countless bloody palm prints on the white walls, and the ceiling was not spared either. It was a mess like graffiti drawn by a child on a whim.

The shower curtain was still hanging on the rod. When Xia Zhuo looked over, the thin plastic sheet would automatically move without wind, and the little girl's cry could be heard in the small space circled, and she couldn't hear what she was shouting clearly. .

Thinking of the blood in the bathtub, Xia Zhuo pursed his lips and moved closer.Through the shower curtain, he seemed to see the continuously steaming hot air, heard the constant sound of stirring water, and also saw the trembling little figure behind him.

[It hurts, it hurts...]

The fishy-sweet smell diffused with the mist, blurred the mirror, and landed on the skin sticky and damp.

Crying and shouting are clearly very close, but they are as vague as separated by a wall.He stretched out his hand to sweep away the cloud of white gas, but one end of the shower curtain was suddenly grabbed by a hand, scarlet blood sprayed on the plastic sheet, and then slid down sparsely, coughing and vomiting sounds followed. , My heart tightened when I heard it.

There was a sudden knock on the door behind him, and the tuk tuk seemed to be dying.

Xia Zhuo's eyelids twitched, but when he turned around, he saw Guan Yuzhou standing there calmly, as if he was not surprised by the knock on the door at this time.

[Dream, dream! ] The voice covered countless anxiety, and the fist hit the thin glass plate, shaking the whole small room to echo continuously.

[Dream!Xu Mengzhi! ] couldn’t wait to open the door, and used hands and feet instead of fists. The doorknob was shaken and trembled, but the lock that fell on it did not move at all.

But the more urgent the voice was, the quieter the voice behind the shower curtain became, and the original bitter cry turned into a soft moan.

With a loud bang, something hit the glass, and cracks spread like spider webs.

With a flick of the lock, the originally closed door opened a crack.

One hand stuck to the glass, leaving a fresh red mark, and a strand of hair swept in close to the crack of the door, revealing a red eye below.

Xia Zhuo was so familiar with those eyes, Xu Mengzhi stared at him in the dark with such eyes the night before yesterday!

Guan Yuzhou squeezed his palm.

Xu Mengzhi lowered his head, but raised his eyes, staring at them through the crack of the door.

A bloody hand stretched out from the crack of the door, begging for something.

Xia Zhuo saw her lips hidden in her hair move.

[I dropped my sugar in the bathtub, can you bring me the sugar? ]

Xu Mengzhi's voice was completely different from what he had imagined, it didn't sound like a child's tenderness at all, it was harsh and hoarse like a saw cutting across a piece of wood.

Xia Zhuo blurted out: "Come in and get it yourself."

With a movement of Xu Mengzhi's eyes, they shifted from Guan Yuzhou's face to staring straight at him.

The strands of hair spread along the wall, sticking in like a creeper, as if they really listened to Xia Zhuo's words, and planned to manipulate the hair to come in to get the sugar bowl instead of themselves.

Xia Zhuo's scalp was numb from the rustling voice, "... No need, I'll help you, just wait outside the door."

A man can bend and stretch, but a fool is a man who rises to difficulties.

He grabbed Guan Yuzhou's wrist and stretched out his hand to open the shower curtain.

The bathtub was not filled with blood, but filled with clear water.Before the heat dissipated, a drop of water fell from the faucet, and because of his actions, it fell in a hurry, causing ripples in a pool, and the shadows of several sugar bowls deposited below were also fragmented.

"Hiss..." He retracted his hand, and the water droplets on his fingertips scattered randomly with the movement of his hand.

The water that came out of the faucet was at least sixty degrees Celsius, and half of his palm was scalded when he touched it, making his arm numb.

Guan Yuzhou pulled him back behind him, reached out and fished out one of them at random.When the temperature on it dissipated a little, he handed the bottle to Xia Zhuo, and said, "You can't give it to her."

Xia Zhuo glanced at the crack of the door, "I know."

This candy cannot be given to Xu Mengzhi.

Why is the sugar bowl buried in water?Because Xu Mengzhi wanted to hide the candy, she didn't want to eat it.But she had nowhere to hide, her room was only that big in all.

He thought for a moment, opened the lid, poured all the pink jelly beans back into the water, then took out three toffees from his pocket with a frowning face and stuffed them in.

Guan Yuzhou gave him a handful before, and he just took one and put it in his mouth. After one night, there were only three left.

After the lid was closed, Xia Zhuo held the bottle and looked at Guan Yuzhou distressedly, "Can you reimburse me?"

It was clearly supposed to be an atmosphere of tension and fear, but it was broken up by his words.

Guan Yuzhou looked over with a smile, and his frowning brows were all released, "Yes."

Only then did Xia Zhuo wipe away the crocodile's tears, forget about the pain when the scar was healed, and gently put this can of candy into Xu Mengzhi's hands, "You save some, it's not good for children to eat too much candy."

When Guan Yuzhou heard it, the corners of his mouth were pulled and he was almost amused to laugh out loud.

There are only three pieces in total, how can I save some to eat?Every time you peel it off, lick it, taste it, and then put it back?

Xu Mengzhi glanced at Xia Zhuo, and the hair coiled on the wall gradually shrank back.

She closed the door again, and the figure disappeared in front of the glass.

But then the sugar bowl was slammed to the ground.The shards of the bottle passed against the wooden boards and glass of the door, and the friction made one's teeth ache.

Xia Zhuo's ears buzzed from the sound, and he pushed the door open again.

Xu Mengzhi disappeared long ago, leaving only a piece of black glass on the ground.The wrapped toffees were gone, replaced by an old photograph pressed under the bottle cap.

The photo is in black and white. The smaller Xu Mengzhi is standing in front of an iron fence with a shy smile on his face.And holding her hand next to her is a young but a bit haggard man, who looks no more than 40 years old, with a dilapidated suitcase beside him, a skirt slipping out of the seam, following the wind in the picture Fluttering gently.

Although the two were holding hands, there was a distance of half a meter between them, and they seemed not close.Xia Zhuo took a second look at the man's face and felt that he was somewhat similar to Xu Heze. He should be the old head of the Xu family, Xu Mengzhi and Xu Heze's father.

But he felt something was wrong.

He handed the photo to Guan Yuzhou. Guan Yuzhou glanced at it and said, "This pose is the same as the stick figure I saw on the wall."

"Same?"

"Well, although those lines are very simple, the painting also shows an adult leading a child in a skirt."

Guan Yuzhou turned the photo to the back, and wrote a line of words with a gel pen in the lower right corner: Mengzhi, six years old.

"This photo was taken when Xu Mengzhi was six years old, that is..." Xia Zhuo counted with his fingers, "Eh, around [-] or [-]? Xu Heze is going to high school this year."

Guan Yuzhou frowned, and suddenly said, "Not necessarily."

"what?"

"This photo is very worn, and who would take black and white photos in [-] and [-]? The most common cameras at that time were all in color."

Xia Zhuo lowered his head and stared at the photo for a long time, then suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened.

"...This photo should have been taken a long time ago?"

"Well." Guan Yuzhou paused for a while, "But dreams and reality are different after all, and it is very likely that cameras were not popular here five years ago."

Xia Zhuo opened his mouth, as if he felt that what he wanted to say next was a little funny.He held back the words, and smiled to himself, "I can't think about it, I get goosebumps just thinking about it... Was it Xu Heze who knocked on the door just now?"

He thought that Xu Heze installed the mirror to spy on his sister, but he didn't expect that it seemed to be to observe his sister's physical condition.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the ceiling, and there was indeed something flickering in the corner.

Don't even think about it, it's a camera.

"Let's go first, the cabinet should be open."

Xia Zhuo was a little reconciled, "I almost lost my life when I came here, but in the end I only got a photo with an unknown purpose?"

Guan Yuzhou said seriously: "Well, I also paid three candies."

"..."

"Actually, just give her one."

"...Are you making fun of me? You have to pay me nine."

"Okay, eighteen coins for you."

"36."

"Row."

The two of them went back to the cabinet the same way, and the glued door was lit up, and the disgusting liquid on the ground disappeared completely.

Xia Zhuo leaned on the wall and turned his head in time. The bloody boudoir behind him returned to its clean appearance, and the creepy-looking puppet on the bed disappeared.

Probably went back to the bathtub again.

After confirming that there was no movement outside, the two pushed open the cupboard door and returned to the original dirty room.

Xu Heze didn't know where he went, and there was a ball of clothes in the suitcase that fell on the ground, with a little blood on it, as if he had worn it on an injured person.Xia Zhuo was not interested in messing with a piece of dirty clothes, and quickly put her gaze on the desk.

The desk still kept the appearance they turned over before, but the box taken out by Xu Heze was placed in the middle, and there was no lock on the outside.

Guan Yuzhou opened the lid of the box, and inside was an old envelope that had been torn apart, and a metal key was pressed underneath, which seemed to be used to open a slightly larger door, which was a circle larger than the room key they got.

Judging from Xu Heze's expression, the contents of this box are very important. If the key is not important, then the letter is important.

Xia Zhuo touched the sawtooth on it, "Hey, Mr. Guan, could this key be used to open the lock on the iron chain?"

"Try it tonight."

"What is written in this letter? Have you read it?"

Guan Yuzhou's skill of "one glance and ten lines" is already full, but the letter is very long, and he has just read half of it.The recipient only had the word Xu, and the first half was just greetings. He turned to the end beforehand and left a "Zou" in the lower right corner. sent.

It is written in the letter that the project has been successful, but there is a shortage of funds in the laboratory, and it may not be possible to conduct further research, and more capital investment is needed.They continued to conduct experiments on animals. After a series of follow-up investigations, they confirmed that the drug would be effective after one year of consistent use. However, the side effects of using it on humans are still unknown, and they have to wait for a suitable subject to observe for a long time. in conclusion.

It can basically be concluded here that those pink candies are the so-called medicine in the letter.

"So he did an experiment on his daughter? He gave his daughter medicine? In the end, Xu Mengzhi cried out for pain and vomited blood. Could it be a side effect? ​​Is he human? My God." Xia Zhuo was extremely disgusted, " It’s a good thing he’s dead, otherwise I’d have to change the plot line no matter what I say, and let him take medicine and suffer.”

Guan Yuzhou refolded the letter and put it back in the box.They can take the key, but not the letter.

Xia Zhuo was sulking from the aborigines, "Teacher Guan, are you going downstairs to eat? I'm hungry."

It's probably time for dinner.

Guan Yuzhou glanced at the clock on the wall, and pointed it out to him by the way.

Xia Zhuo took a look, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

"..."

Co-authoring is not until the meal time, but it has been over an hour since the meal time.If he came out of the closet a little later, he would have just bumped into Xu Heze.

Guan Yuzhou had no intention of leaving now, and stood in front of the table and reached out to him, "Give me the photo I got just now."

Xia Zhuo didn't know why, so he handed it out.

Guan Yuzhou put on those sunglasses.

Xia Zhuo looked at him carefully and thought he was quite handsome.But Guan Yuzhou didn't wear it for long, but took it off in two seconds, and returned the glasses to him together with the photo, "Put it on and have a look."

"What?" Xia Zhuo put the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, thinking for a moment that he had seen it wrong.

On the photo of Xu Mengzhi and the old Patriarch, the originally empty lower left corner revealed a line of date under the effect of these glasses: 2004/04/23.

This is a photo from 26 years ago.

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