Madness of the Heart

Nancheng District, Dongye University of Foreign Languages.

It's summer vacation, half of the canteens on campus are closed, and most of the students who are about to enter their sophomore year leave school and return home, while most of the students who have just finished their sophomore and junior years choose to stay on campus, either to work part-time, or to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, or Most of them are worried about the upcoming campus recruitment.

In the past two years, it has been difficult to find a job. When it comes to employment, many people will inevitably feel impetuous.

Dongjiu Building, the girls' dormitory, is full of third-year students majoring in English.Once this summer vacation is over, they will join the torrent of job hunting.It was in the evening at this time, and the cooling draft passed through the corridors, and many dormitory doors were opened to dissipate the heat that had been stuffy in the room for a day.

The door of bedroom 509 was closed tightly, and not a gleam of light came through the crack in the door.

"Is no one in their dormitory?" Wang Jiao lives in 510, the opposite door, and is in the same class as the four girls who live in 509. "Why is the door closed at this time? Didn't you agree to go swimming together tonight?"

Shu Yu put her index finger on her lips, "Shh, Wen Jingjing just came back this afternoon, she has a fever and is sleeping."

Wang Jiao immediately lowered her voice, "Why do you have a fever? Is it serious?"

"It should be serious, otherwise Wen Jingjing wouldn't ask for leave and come back to rest." Shu Yu said, holding Wang Jiao's arm as she walked towards the stairs, "Her family entrusted her to find her an internship at the foreign affairs unit. Gang, it's been hard work."

"Where are the others in 509?" Wang Jiao looked back, "Why is no one here today except Wen Jingjing?"

"It's either in the library or working part-time." Shu Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry about it, their dormitory is a dormitory for high school students. Except for Wen Jingjing and Li Hongmei, they all have to take the postgraduate entrance examination, which is different from our dormitory. Hurry up, Go eat barbecue first, then go swimming."

"Didn't you go swimming first, and then eat barbecue?"

"It's all right, it's all right!"

The two of them fought and descended the stairs, passing by a girl wearing a shopping mall t-shirt and straight-leg jeans.

Going down to the first floor, Shu Yu looked up, with a dissatisfied face, frowned and said, "Why is this woman here again? It's disgusting to look at her. Now only Wen Jingjing is the only one in 509, and Wen Jingjing is the most annoying She's gone, did she go up to scold her?"

"She doesn't know that Wen Jingjing is the only one here, so she must be looking for Li Hongmei." Wang Jiao sighed, "The sisters in 509 are unlucky too. How could they have such a wonderful Li Hongmei? They always bring these strange people to the dormitory." , I was a missionary last year, and now I’m a bad worker. Hey, why don’t we tell Aunt Zhang that some foreigners have entered the dormitory?”

"Forget it, they don't care about their dormitories. Why do we worry so much?" Shu Yu said, "And Li Hongmei is crazy, so I can't be messed with. There have been several murders in the dormitory in the news, so let's stay away from Li Hongmei. "

Just when the two walked out of the gate of Dongjiu Building, the girl in cultural shirt was already standing outside the gate of 509.

She first stretched out her right hand, knocked on the door, and then pressed her face against the door.After about half a minute, there was neither sound nor lights inside.She knocked again, and asked in broken Mandarin with an obvious accent: "Is anyone there? Hongmei, are you in? I'm Xiao Min."

Still no response.

On the contrary, someone from 513 came out to take a look, with contempt in his eyes.

At this time, it seems that there is no one in 509, the girl takes out the key from the bag, and opens the door like the master.

"I'll go!" The spectator at 513 exclaimed in shock, "Can it still be like this?"

Suddenly, the lights in 509 were brightly lit, and Wen Jingjing's voice came from inside, "Who the hell is opening the door of my mother's bedroom?"

The girl obviously didn't expect that there was someone inside. In a panic, the key fell to the ground with a "snap", and she backed away with a blushing face, "I, I knocked on the door, I don't know..."

Wen Jingjing has a hot personality, dare to speak and act, although she is a little sluggish because of the fever, her momentum is still there.

She quickly rolled over from the bed, approached the girl, and said sharply, "You didn't know there was someone in this dormitory, so you dared to open the door with the key? Are you so courageous? Are you a thief? Today you have to make it clear who the key is." For you? Is it Li Hongmei?"

The girl kept shaking her head, completely panicking, "Hongmei just left the key with me..."

"Thief!" Wen Jingjing stepped forward, grabbed her wrist, and shouted, "Catch the thief! Who will inform Aunt Zhang for me?"

Those who live on this floor more or less know that Li Hongmei is not on good terms with other people in 509, and it is particularly uncomfortable for outsiders to enter the dormitory. Wen Jingjing's shout immediately attracted many people to respond, some Surrounded the girls, and some went downstairs to call dormitory management and security.

Soon, the girl was sent to the dormitory management room.

Trembling with fear, she took out all her documents.Her name and age were written on the certificate—Chi Xiaomin, 21 years old.

This is not Chi Xiaomin's first visit to Dongjiu Building.Before and after the summer vacation, Li Hongmei brought her here many times.

Wen Jingjing was furious and called back Qin Manyue and Lian Qiao who were studying in the library. She had a very tough attitude and insisted that Chi Xiaomin be sent to the police station.

Li Hongmei, who was working off-campus, rushed back after hearing the news. She was wearing straight-leg jeans similar to Chi Xiaomin, and her upper body was an event T-shirt issued when she was an English major freshman. She smelled of sweat and body odor all over her body, and her flat face was full of anxiety. , apologized dully: "I'm sorry, Xiao Min is my friend, and I gave her the key. She recently worked in the fruit shop in front of the school. I think, I think she can come to our dormitory to have a rest."

The stench caused many girls to cover their mouths and noses.

Wen Jingjing sharp-tongued, "You own the dormitory alone? Who gave you the power? Li Hongmei, you are too much! Do you think we don't know what you do outside? Preaching, making friends with dubious people This is a university, you keep bringing people to the dormitory, what are you going to do?"

"Xiao Min is not a dubious person, she is my friend." Li Hongmei was sweating coldly, her eyes were helpless and paranoid, "I was at fault for what happened today, and I apologize to you."

After speaking, Li Hongmei bowed deeply to her roommates.

Lian Qiao sneered, "Apology is the end? Who knows what this Chi Xiaomin is doing, I have to send her to the police station today!"

Chi Xiaomin cried softly, "Sister Hongmei, help me..."

Li Hongmei clenched her teeth, her eyes swept over the faces of the three people in the same bed.

Wen Jingjing couldn't see her eyes the most, and scolded: "Why are you staring? Don't think you're okay, you cronies have entered the police station, and you can't get away with it! Do you believe that I can make you fail your graduation?"

"I'm sorry." Li Hongmei bowed again, "It's all my fault, please let Xiao Min and me go. I swear, I will never bring anyone to the dormitory again. Please believe me."

"Fuck!" Lian Qiao rolled her eyes, "I have to go to the police station today!"

"I beg you." Li Hongmei bowed even deeper, her thin back trembling.

Aunt Zhang, the dorm manager, said to Wen Jingjing in a low voice, "Li Hongmei also apologized, I think it's fine, it's meaningless if this matter gets bigger."

"No!" Wen Jingjing said firmly, "I have long since disliked her. If she can bring a thief back today, do you know what she will bring tomorrow? Do you have to wait for her to bring a man back?"

The girls onlookers laughed, "Jing Jing, what are you talking about? Can Li Hongmei bring a man back? Which man would like her?"

Li Hongmei was still bowing, her expression completely blocked.

"I'm not a thief!" Chi Xiaomin muttered.

"You don't have a place to talk!" Lian Qiao slapped her, "Shut up!"

Li Hongmei pushed Lian Qiao away violently, with an extremely angry and depressed expression on her face.

Wen Jingjing inexplicably felt a little fear, and almost instinctively gave Lianqiao a hand.

"Forget it." Qin Manyue, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "Everyone at the police station is not good-looking, Jing Jing, Li Hongmei has already apologized, and Aunt Zhang also advised us not to make things big, I think we will stop here today."

Li Hongmei kept panting heavily, her expression became more and more strange.

Wen Jingjing refused to compromise at first, but Qin Manyue suddenly hugged her and whispered in her ear: "Li Hongmei is not normal, let's not make her anxious. We still need to live together. If she goes crazy and kills, she will die. us."

Wen Jingjing's heart beat violently, and she fainted almost instantly.

Qin Manyue laughed softly, "It's okay, there's still one year left, your job has already been fixed, and Lian Qiao and I will definitely be able to go abroad or graduate school, but Li Hongmei is alone. Let's play her slowly, not to death, but to her Useless."

Only then did Wen Jingjing laugh, "You still have a way."

The farce ended hastily, Li Hongmei went back to 509 to pack her luggage, and Chi Xiaomin was waiting for her in the corridor.

The atmosphere in the dormitory was weird, Wen Jingjing, Lian Qiao, and Qin Manyue gathered together, saying "whispering words" in a not-so-low voice——

"There are really all kinds of species in the university. I have learned a lot in the past three years."

"It's also called 'Hongmei'. It looks like a peat seed."

"Do you know that some incompetent people like to stick together and make friends everywhere. In fact, what kind of friends are they, just a bunch of garbage to be disposed of."

Of course Li Hongmei heard all these words, 509 still has her bed, but she doesn't want to live in it anymore.

"It's so late, where are you going?" Seeing Li Hongmei dragging her suitcase and preparing to leave, Wen Jingjing suddenly asked hypocritically.

"I'm going out to live." Li Hongmei said with her head down.

"Don't, this is still your dormitory. What's the matter if you leave now? The counselor thought we were bullying you when he found out." Lian Qiao wanted to hold her back, but she broke away.

"Yo, are you playing your temper?" Lian Qiao snorted, "I'm showing you some shame, right?"

Li Hongmei didn't say anything more, pulled Chi Xiaomin and left quickly, leaving behind Qin Manyue's shout: "Hey, are you really leaving? Leave the key—"

"The key is mine." Li Hongmei turned her head, "I will come back."

Her voice was calm but uncomfortably eerie, like fingernails about to be wiped off a blackboard.

Qin Manyue had goose bumps all over her body.

Ming Shu and Xiao Yu'an have their own residences, they don't live in the same place.Mingshu's house was bought after the job was settled, and it was closer to the city bureau. It was in a medium-sized community, with two bedrooms and one living room. Both the layout and the decoration were very ordinary.

Xiao's house is farther away. It was purchased three years ago. It is a high-end residence, and it is not listed under Xiao Yu'an's name.The decoration is very simple, the interior is full of gray and white, and all are cold and straight lines.

Mingshu didn't understand at the beginning, "Why are you buying a house? You don't live here."

Xiao Yuan asked back then: "How do you know I don't live here?"

No matter how simple and cold the house is, once the kitchen fires, it will have life.Mingshu has been busy working on the case lately, and he was really tired. As soon as he got home, he lay on the sofa in the living room and slept with a huge pillow in his arms. He didn't wake up until he smelled the smell of chicken soup.

It gets dark late in summer, but when nine o'clock comes, it's still dark outside.

He sat up, not realizing for a moment where he was.

He is actually no stranger to this family, Xiao Yu'an gave him the key, when solving the case encounters a bottleneck, when he misses Xiao Yu'an, and when he has nothing to do, he will come to live for two days and sleep on this sofa.

The pillow he hugged just now was bought by himself. Although the color and shape are far from the style of the whole suite, there is no sense of disharmony when he hugs it.

But it feels completely different now.

He rubbed his temples and looked towards the kitchen.

There were bright lights, the range hood was working, and the half-closed door blocked Xiao Yuan's figure.

He stood up and walked eagerly to the kitchen.

"Are you awake? Take the bowl out." Xiao Yu'an was frying lettuce, "Don't touch the chicken soup, it's hot, I'll get it later."

"Brother." He didn't do so, he put his arms around Xiao Yuan's waist from behind, and buried his face in the familiar shoulder socket almost shamelessly.

Xiao Yu'an smiled, "Haven't woken up yet?"

He shook his head slightly, "Wake up, hungry."

"Then hurry up and serve the bowl." Xiao Yu'an's tone was indulgent, and he put the fried lettuce into the porcelain plate, let Ming Shu hug him for a while, and then held the hands that were restlessly caressing his abdomen, "It's time for dinner."

Two dishes and one soup for dinner, Mingshu got over the flurry of getting up, and quickly cheered up. The chopsticks moved quickly, and the pot of chicken soup didn't take long to bottom out.

Xiao Yu'an didn't eat much, finally broke off the parietal bone of the chicken head, and fed the tender brains into Ming Shu's mouth.

Mingshu liked to eat this when he was a child.But a chicken has only one head, and when one head is knocked open, there will only be a little bit of brain, which will disappear when the tip of the tongue is squeezed, which is not enough to eat.

The brothers and sisters of the Xiao family sat around a table, grabbing wings and legs. Xiao Yu'an helped Mingshu grab the head, and then peeled off the brain and put it in Mingshu's bowl.

As long as Xiao Yu'an was around, Ming Shu never knocked the chicken's head off by himself.

In recent years, the pollution has become more and more serious. When eating out, Xiao Yuan disapproved of Mingshu eating chicken brains. He would only keep the chicken brains when he made soup with native chicken.

Mingshu ate to his heart's content.

After the meal, the bowls are washed clearly, and the fruits are also peeled clearly. It is already eleven o'clock after everything is tidied up.

Time to do "homework".

"No, I still have to go back." Mingshu sat on the sofa for a while, then stood up again, "The case has not been solved, so I don't feel at ease."

Xiao Yu'an seemed to have expected it a long time ago, picked up the car key, "I'll see you off."

Mingshu raised his eyebrows, "You don't want to keep me? I only drank a bowl of chicken soup when I came here."

"It's not a bowl, it's a pot." Xiao Yuan wrapped his arms around his neck and kissed him on the forehead.

"I thought you couldn't bear to part with me." After fastening his seat belt, Mingshu was still muttering in a fake way.

Before starting the car, Xiao Yu'an smiled and threw a blindfold, "Squint for a while, I'll call you when we arrive."

Half an hour later, Mingshu strode into the serious crime team with the milk tea he just bought.

And on this sultry and busy summer night, the desperate murderer raised his butcher knife.