Madness of the Heart

After finishing his cigarette, Tan Guosheng looked at the paper money and incense candles at his feet, picked them up, and continued walking towards the mountain.

When Hao Lu just died, he thought that he could not accept the life of "falling" from a university teacher to an ordinary person, but when he left the podium, left the laboratory, and was no longer ignored by professors and students, he suddenly felt serious. Get a new life.

Maybe I should have given up a long time ago, and I should have changed my life a long time ago, but I just haven't been able to take the first step.

After thinking this through, he felt relieved.For nine years, he deliberately imitated Hao Lu, who only had a junior high school education, wandering around in the market, doing various low-level jobs, and completely wiped out the bookish spirit that senior intellectuals are accustomed to, almost from the past. He came out of the depression, and learned simple disguise from the craftsman.

Most of the time, he thought he was Hao Lu—the rural man whose parents died of cancer and who was misdiagnosed as having cancer.

The identities have been switched, and the only person in the world who knows that he is not the real Hao Lu has long since died. Among them, there are even police officers who testified, perfect death without proof, but he still dare not use Hao Lu’s ID card frequently, never enters a regular hospital, never Do not take planes and trains.

Three years ago, he wanted to return to campus. He wanted to apply for a dormitory supervisor or librarian at Dongye Medical University, but he was worried that he would be found to look like the dead "Lecturer of Qin Guosheng", and he was even more worried about those who had worked in the same school. Colleagues working in the laboratory can no longer remember the appearance of "Lecturer Qin Guosheng".

He has been neglected for most of his life, and what he cares most about is being completely forgotten.

In the end, he chose to work in the Jiulin Psychological Clinic opposite the Medical University.

Jiulin Psychological Clinic belongs to Guangye Hospital, but unlike most departments of Guangye Hospital, Jiulin Psychological Clinic is relatively independent, and most of its doctors are hired from other places with high salaries.

He found a job as a security guard in Jiulin, a very leisurely job, and what he needs to do every day is to patrol the various floors.

Every week in Jiulin, there is a public psychological popularization meeting. Anyone can sign up to participate, and the doctors in the clinic take turns to host it.He was interested in psychology when he was still in medical university and read some books on psychology.In every exchange meeting, he never left behind, wearing a security uniform, sitting in the last row to listen to the lecture.

Among all the doctors who presided over the lecture, he was most interested in Luo Yi.

Luo Yi is young, talented and personable, the kind of person he thought he would become when he was in his twenties.

He was envious of Luo Yi, and at the same time jealous of Luo Yi, the feeling of depression that was stuck in his heart many years ago came back unknowingly.

He is eager to prove that if he had specialized in psychology instead of pharmacy, his current achievements would not necessarily be worse than Luo Yi's!

Jiulin has a small library open to all employees, and [-]% of the books in it are related to psychology.He borrowed a few books to read when he was free, and consulted the doctors in the clinic when he had the opportunity—but he never communicated with Luo Yi.

He is a highly educated person. Although he is Hao Lu who only has a junior high school education in name, he is actually Tan Guosheng who has received a doctorate.He digested the basics of psychology very quickly, and when he had the foundation, he went to listen to Luo Yi's lectures, and his competitive mentality became more vigorous.

The past few years ago jumped into his mind, and he couldn't help but think of his failed drug experiment.

Did the experiment really fail completely?

If it failed completely, then why was Hao Lu turned into a lunatic by him?

If the experiment continues...

He was trembling with excitement, and seemed to have found his direction in life again. He was going to do another experiment, and this experiment no longer used drugs to affect people's spirits, but psychology!

There are very few geniuses. Most of us are ordinary people who live hard and ordinary. Ordinary is nothing to be ashamed of. Hard work is something to be proud of. This is what Luo Yi said to the "losers" at an exchange meeting .

He wanted to refute - the efforts of the mediocre are a disgrace!A person without talent, even if he is alive, is still a walking dead!

He used mahjong to form dominoes in the rented hut. With a light touch of his index finger, the first tile fell down, and then he didn’t have to move any more. The subsequent tiles—those mediocre and hardworking people—were pushed one by one. die.

The plan took shape.

He only needs to "push" one person to watch this huge death game.

Wu Zhen, that mediocre screenwriter who came to Jiulin to participate in the exchange meeting, was his first target.

After many years, he once again dressed up as a university teacher.It's just that compared with the past, his hair is much grayer, and the wrinkles on his face are deeper.

Last autumn, he started to approach Wu Zhen.

Wu Zhen has been obsessed with writing scripts all year round, and he doesn't know that there is a lecturer named "Qin Guosheng" in the School of Pharmacy of the University of Medical Sciences who committed suicide by taking poison nine years ago.When he intentionally or unintentionally put the certificate he had kept in front of Wu Zhen, and talked about his job and identity, the middle-aged man who was hit by reality to the point of despair believed it easily.

He was older than Wu Zhen, and he managed to trick Wu Zhen into thinking that he was a university professor.When he talked about his hopeless struggle in half his life, Wu Zhen fully empathized with him.

"People like us live only to be the laughing stock of the world." He said this to Wu Zhen many times.

In December, Wu Zhen fell into an extremely negative mood. He saw the timing and finally informed Wu Zhen of his "suicide" plan.

Wu Zhen was surprised, "You want me to kill you?"

"I've been mediocre all my life, at least I don't want to be mediocre in my final death." He looked into Wu Zhen's eyes and said earnestly: "We are the same people. Rather than being looked down upon by others and trampled underfoot by talented people all our lives, it is better to be a Let the world finally pay attention to our business."

Wu Zhen was shocked beyond words, and fled immediately.

He was not disappointed, it was normal for Wu Zhen to have such a reaction, but after thinking it over, Wu Zhen would definitely come back.

In the meantime, he has one more important thing to do.

That is to find a scapegoat.

This person will die in front of Wu Zhen instead of him, so that Wu Zhen will be convinced of his death, and then take the baton from him. At that time, he will only need to push one "seed" to Wu Zhen's side Let's see how Wu Zhen let them germinate.

He looked at all the fallen mahjong and let out a series of dark laughter.

Once this experiment is successful, he will be a stronger psychologist than Luo Yi.

Jiang is still old and spicy, how can a young man like Luo Yi compare to him?

Huang Mouquan, a skewer seller on Shanxiang Street, is Hao Lu's fellow-townsman—that is, his fellow-townsman from Tan Guosheng.

This person came to Dongye City half a year earlier than Hao Lu. Back then, Hao Lu told him about the tragedy of the Huang family, and mentioned that he and Huang Mouquan played together when they were young.

In the early years, Tan Guosheng was most afraid of meeting people in Hulu Town, and he was even more afraid to contact people who knew Hao Lu.

But it is different now, time is enough to change his appearance and blur his memory, he is no longer worried about being suspected by the people in Hulu Town.

Time was running out, and he needed to find a suitable scapegoat as quickly as possible.

He went to Shanxiang Street to observe Huang Mouquan. Huang Mouquan did not look like him, but his body was similar.

Huang Mouquan lives alone in the deceased daughter's house, which is Building 4-4, No. 1, Kanzi Nine Lane, Shanxiang Street.He brought home-style stewed vegetables and wine, and visited as Hao Lu.

Having not seen each other for ten years, Huang Mouquan was surprised to meet a blind date in a foreign land.

His mastery of psychology is unimaginable for ordinary people like Huang Mouquan. After a meal, Huang Mouquan let go of his guard.Since then, he has come to Shanxiang Street many times, wearing a mask and hat. Because it is winter, his outfit has never attracted the attention of others.

Taking advantage of Huang Mouquan's inattention, he took away the key of Huang's house and made a new one.

Soon, as he expected, Wu Zhen came back.

"I will join your 'suicide' plan." Wu Zhen's voice trembled, "People like us have no other choice but to help each other. Living...living is really too painful!"

He comforted Wu Zhen kindly, "It's okay, we can't choose birth and talent, but fortunately we can still choose death."

The plan was to be during the Spring Festival—every family visits relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, and the city management is not working, which is the best time to commit crimes.

"You don't need to be charged with murder for me. I will commit suicide by taking poison. Just come here and help me with my funeral." He took Wu Zhen to the gate of 4-1, "This is the house my parents left behind. I I seldom come to live here, and I didn’t honor them well during their lifetime. So I hope to spend the last moment here. I’m useless in my life, I haven’t established any fame, and I have no face to go down to see my family. I will use this cloth to hide Hold your face, please don't take the fabric apart."

Wu Zhen nodded solemnly, "What kind of poison are you taking?"

He smiled, "Sodium cyanide, there is no pain, it will pass in a while. If you need it in the future, I can give you a copy."

On the night of the third day of the first lunar month, he went to Huang Mouquan's house for the festival.

Two old men with no relatives in a foreign land drink a little wine and eat small dishes together, and this year is over.

Huang Mouquan prepared a lot of hometown dishes in advance, Qin Guosheng cut up the fruits he brought and put them on plates, and sprinkled highly toxic sodium cyanide on the oranges.

Huang Mouquan is a rough man, he eats as soon as he picks it up.The toxicity of sodium cyanide occurred very quickly, and Huang Mouquan fell on the table and died not long after.

He put on gloves, moved Huang Mouquan to the bed, wrapped Huang Mouquan's head with the prepared black cloth, and tied a knot in the back of his head, just like Huang Mouquan tied it himself.

Then, he put all the small objects that he touched—such as fruit knives, dishes—into his bag, and then cleaned the site to ensure that there was no trace of his own, and then left, and Put the key in the flowerpot outside the door.

Afterwards, Wu Zhen wore the clothes of a cleaner, opened the door of 4-1 with a key, put the body that had not yet stiffened into a special sack for sanitation, and dragged it from the fourth floor to the first floor.Then put it into a hand-push garbage truck, and step into the black water-like night amidst the inverted "Fu" and red lanterns all over the street.

Four months later, on June 6, Wu Zhen committed suicide by taking sodium cyanide. He imaginatively sealed himself in cement, and he didn't know whether he wanted to be immortal or not to be discovered forever.

He happily played with the mahjong blocks at home, waiting for Sha Chun, who was "inspired" by Wu Zhen, to pass the baton to the next "desperate".

Sha Chun was the most "excellent" among the targets he chose for Wu Zhen.At the same time, he took great pains to lure Wang Ying, a journalism major from the University of Medical Sciences, to Wu Zhen, but Wu Zhen seemed to be more interested in a person named "Luo Ganfeng".

This person disappeared suddenly later, and he sensed a first-line crisis.

However, the smooth handover between Wu Zhen and Sha Chun gave him great confidence and satisfaction. At this time, he happened to know that Luo Yi had a patient named "Wen He", whose self-evaluation seemed to be very low .

Another potential "seed".

He laughed secretly, remembering that Luo Yi once suggested that people with a tendency to depression develop personal hobbies at an exchange meeting, so he guessed that Luo Yi had also said similar things to Wen He.

So, he gave the leaflet of "Jianjia Bailu" to the children playing on the street, and coaxed the child to stuff the leaflet into Wen He's arms with change.

His "seed" was Long Tianhao who was making a fuss in Guangye Hospital.

But just like last time, the development of things deviates from his ideal again. The person closest to Sha Chun is a senior high school repeat student. seed".

Gradually out of control.

Only one of the "dominos" fell, and it was almost stuck.

He extremely suspected that Luo Ganfeng had learned the whole story from Wu Zhen, so he suddenly disappeared.He must find Luo Ganfeng and use sodium cyanide to kill the man who escaped with a secret.

But Luo Ganfeng has not been found yet, and Sha Chun died.

He fell into a great panic—the Wen He and Long Tianhao he chose for Sha Chun, one of them was not in the country, and the other had lost contact with Sha Chun long ago, and the one who had the closest relationship with Sha Chun was Yu Xiaocheng, and Yu Xiaocheng Not long ago, I went back to school and repeated it again.

Who would kill Sha Chun?

He discovered that his "dominos" seemed to have been moved by an invisible person.

Nine years ago, when he exchanged identities with Hao Lu, he met a group of policemen who only wanted to close the case quickly. The little trick he played on the DNA test was not discovered by the police, and they didn't even investigate, "Tan Guo Why do you want to take out all the money in your passbook before you die, and where does the money go now?

If this kind of perfunctory criminal policeman is investigating the Sha Chun case...

But the policeman in charge of this case seems to be an elite in the police circle.

To this day, he still has a deep fear of the "elite", and his fear has given birth to jealousy. He used to be jealous of those professors who are better than him in the School of Pharmacy, and later he was jealous of the young and promising Luo Yi.He was afraid of them and wanted to be them, his psychology had already been twisted to the extreme.

The policeman named "Mingshu" tracked down "Jianjia Bailu" from the Performing Arts Group.

He couldn't sit still any longer.

In order not to attract attention, he privately asked the security captain for leave, saying that there was an urgent matter at home and he had to leave for a while, then he disposed of all his personal belongings, took a little luggage, and took a private bus to Hulu Town.

Halfway through the car, he suddenly realized that Hulu Town is Hao Lu's hometown, but not his Tan Guosheng's hometown!

It was a long journey from Hulu Town to Lanchuan County in the southeast. He took a private car all the way, and when he returned to his hometown after decades of absence, he suddenly felt that nothing mattered.

Struggle, struggle, struggle, coax, kill...

Everything seemed to have happened in his previous life, something others did, but he just stood aside and watched a depressive and crazy person.

He is not Hao Lu, nor is he a lecturer Qin, he is still the young man who takes his father's words as his motto, but now, he no longer wants to go to the big city, he doesn't want to get ahead, he just wants to be a laborer in the countryside A farmer, like his father who was killed by his mother.

But who killed the father?

Is it really mother?

Or the self who is unwilling to give up his future?

Qin Guosheng woke up from the memory.

The road up the mountain was difficult, and the two large packages of paper money and joss sticks were too heavy.

He stood for a while, and whispered to himself, "It's so tiring to be alive."

Granny Xu, who lives in Building 4-4, Building 5, Kanzi Nine Lane, is a widowed old man in her 60s.

Xiao Yu'an asked the team members to learn about the Xu family's situation from the surrounding residents, and learned many important details——

Granny Xu's husband died young, and she was both a father and a mother, raising her only son Zhang Yike.Zhang Yike used to work for a technology company called "Ming Mou", which provides camera monitoring equipment and technical maintenance to the government and major enterprises.In the past few years, "Bright Eyes" had a strong development momentum, but lost to competitors in a government bidding, and has gradually become silent in recent years.

Zhang Yike was laid off after "Bright Eyes" began to decline. He was eager to find a new job, but encountered a car accident during the job search process and died on the spot.

The white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and Granny Xu became extremely gloomy from then on, living off the car accident compensation, her son's savings, and her own pension.

Everyone who lives nearby knows Granny Xu.When her son just passed away, some women tried to comfort her. They made some good dishes and soups suitable for the elderly at home, and they brought a portion to 4-5, but Granny Xu's temperament changed drastically. Entering the house, he knocked over the food that others kindly brought.

As time passed, no one went to 4-5 anymore, and the children "talked like a child" and called Granny Xu an "old witch".

This miserable old woman was probably the only one who witnessed Wu Zhen moving Huang Mouquan's body away from the first scene.

Xiao Yu'an took the physical examination report of Granny Xu from the community hospital and figured out a possibility.

The old man's hearing is poor, and his legs and feet are not very convenient, but his eyesight is not bad.

Mingshu judged from Granny Xu's reaction and the newly added safety chain on the door that Granny Xu saw the abnormality of 4-1.

But the prerequisite for watching is that Granny Xu, like the residents of 4-6, heard the movement outside.

But obviously, Granny Xu's hearing ability is not enough to hear the movement outside.

It's also impossible that Granny Xu just came back from outside at that time.

The last time I went to Kanzi Nine Alley, Xiao Yu'an had already noticed that there was no cat's eye on the door of 4-5.

Then how did Granny Xu see what happened outside without the outside world knowing?

Zhang Yike used to work in a company that developed surveillance equipment. It was an easy task to install a tiny camera that was difficult to detect for his mother.

Granny Xu is not only an important witness, she may also hold more critical video evidence.