Chapter Four: Secret Shadows, Soft Musks in the Sound of the Rainstorm(1/2)
We must first figure out whether Zhang Muyi is the Zhang Muyi in the news.
But it cannot be too direct, so as not to arouse his suspicion. What should I do? If Zhang Muyi can leave my house on his own initiative, that is of course the best. Once I finish it, I am not a good person. I also know that there are no purely good people and evil people in this society. Many people go on the road of crime, which is actually forced by the situation. I don’t have the strong sense of justice like catching criminals to maintain social security. Because I am in my thirties after all, I am in my thirties. After years of experience, I know that if I call Zhang Muyi to the police, it may only cause him to go to extremes and do something that will kill the death of the net. It is better to pretend not to know and be polite to him. After he leaves, at least he will consider that my attitude towards him will not do extreme things.
Of course, there are still things to do to prepare. At present, the most reliable one in my family is James. After all, he is a police detective, a veteran, with strong abilities and the most experienced dealing with prisoners.
After thinking about it, I still didn't disturb the confinement. Instead, I went downstairs alone to find James and told him the incident softly. James also showed a surprised expression when he learned about this. He thought about it and then reminded me that I would find a way to contact the police first and ask them for photos. As long as the photos are obtained, the matter will be revealed.
"Actually, I think the possibility of Zhang Muyi being a criminal is as high as the possibility of not being." James said to me, "Because mobile phones cannot be used in prison, but now it seems that we are summoned by the girl named Miyako because we use mobile phones. In addition, if Zhang Muyi is really a criminal, he should also use a pseudonym instead of real name, right, Mr. Yang?"
I think james' words make sense. He is very smart and thoughtful. When he said this, I felt a little relieved, but for safety reasons, I took my cell phone to call the police outside the villa.
When I called the police, I told the police that I saw news about the criminal Zhang Muyi online, and then today I met a stranger named Zhang Muyi and didn’t know if he was a criminal.
After receiving my news, the police really attached great importance to it and said that they would send photos of the ID card that was checked online to my QQ for comparison. Of course, I planned to go to my room to open my laptop and go online to see the photos sent to me by the police. However, I had just walked to the door of the room and met Zhang Muyi who was already wandering there, squinting his eyes and smiling.
"Boss Yang, that, I wonder if you have a laptop. Can you lend it to me?" Zhang Muyi asked me with a embarrassed smile.
"notebook?"
"Yes, you know, I'm an art creation. Actually, I still have some photography works and have to submit them before, and there are two scripts to read. Time is a bit tight, I don't have an ID card, so I can't go to the Internet cafe. I don't know if you can lend me yours... If it's inconvenient, it's fine." Zhang Muyi's tone was really sincere, "I just asked you Qiqi to borrow her computer, and I saw her chat with her classmates, saying that I can lend you, and your computer is not very useful..."
When I heard Zhang Muyi's words, I couldn't help but feel a little surprised. Why did he choose to borrow a computer from me at this time? Could it be that he had just heard me calling the police? It should be impossible. In order to prevent him from hearing it, I deliberately chose a hidden place, and James kept helping me to monitor him, and there should be no possibility of being heard by him.
But for safety reasons, I still thought about it and said:
"Sorry, my computer happened to be broken today, I can't use it..." But I regretted it as soon as I said it, because Zhang Muyi asked immediately with concern:
"It's broken? What's wrong? I just know how to repair the computer. Is it a problem with the graphics card or the driver disk or the parts, why don't I take a look?"
"Forget it, I really can't use it anymore. Even if I can use it, it's stuck and can't move. To be honest, it was broken by me. After all, it's an old model for 2009." I found an excuse for Tang Sa to go over and his tone became firm, because I must not lend the computer to Zhang Muyi, at least before I figure out his identity.
Zhang Muyi finally had to leave in disappointment and anxiety, while I returned to the room, locked the door with my backhand, and then opened my laptop computer. My laptop is connected to the anti-theft cameras in four directions outside the villa. Generally, more remote villas like my home are equipped with cameras, mainly to prevent criminals from entering.
I quickly logged into QQ and received the photo of the criminal named Zhang Muyi sent to me by the police. After seeing the photo, I breathed a sigh of relief because I found that the person in the photo was not the same as Zhang Muyi, who is now in my house. The Zhang Muyi who was pursuing the police was tall and thin, with a haggard face, which was completely opposite to the person in my house.
When I saw the police photos, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help laughing at myself. It seemed that I was really scaring myself.
Afterwards, I sent Yuhui a text message, telling her not to worry, there was nothing wrong. Then I took a shower, made a cup of tea, played a few chess and card games on the computer, looked at the company's drug import price floating report, and then planned to go to bed early and recall what happened today.
Lying on the bed, I took out the "Ordinary World" I just got from the cabinet. I wanted to see the contents inside, but found that the cover of the book was actually different from that in the evening.
On the cover, I don’t know who wrote a line of words:
Completeness: 10%
What does this mean?
I suddenly got up from the bed, wiped my eyes, and confirmed that the words on it were true. But I had read this book before Xueqi's birthday party, but there was no such line on the cover of the book? Even Xueqi had seen the cover of this book at that time, and was one of the witnesses. This is really strange, right? Could it be that it was written in invisible ink? I remember that some invisible ink would be displayed on the paper after a while. Maybe this line on the cover is like this.
However, looking at the words on the cover, I was always very uneasy, just like an invisible invisible person standing behind me, staring at my every move at all times. I suddenly thought of what the girl named Miyako said, conquering the world within a month... Could it have anything to do with that?
I really can't figure out the meaning of the line on the cover, but I'm a little afraid to read this book again, as if there was a magic invisible power in this book that would suck me into the bottomless abyss.
Just as my fear arose in my heart, the door of my room suddenly rang. I was shocked and hurriedly got up from the bed again.
"Who?"
"Dad... it's me..." Xue Qi's somewhat sleepy and weak voice came from outside.
"Ah, Qiqi, I haven't been asleep so late?" I hurriedly got out of the bed and walked to the door and opened the door. Xueqi, who was sleeping in a piece of cashmere, was standing at the door. Her black hair was slightly dispersed, and part of it was scattered around her neck. Xueqi looked at me with a pale complexion, and her eyes seemed a little complicated. I don't know what was going on. And what surprised me was that Xueqi was holding a pillow for an anime character in her hand.
"What's wrong? It's almost twelve o'clock. I haven't gone to bed yet so late?" I asked in surprise.
"I can't sleep..." Xueqi clearly looked sleepy, and then she said with a bit complicated expression, "Dad... Can I sleep well with you tonight?"
"Sleeping here?" I was a little unbelievable. In fact, Xueqi had always slept with me when she was a child. She also slept in the same room when she was in junior high school. In the second half of the semester after high school, she suddenly proposed to organize the next room and move it over. After that, she never slept with me again. Unexpectedly, she suddenly proposed to sleep with me today.
"What's wrong, why is it so sudden? I celebrated my birthday and got smaller and smaller?" I smiled.
"No...I'm just..." Xueqi blushed a little when she said this, and her ears turned red. Then she stared at her feet stepping on the floor and said, "I don't know what's going on, I'm always a little scared... There's a bit strange feeling at home..."
"What a strange feeling? What a strange feeling? Is it a little uncomfortable when a stranger comes?"
"No..." Xueqi shook her head quickly, "...No, it's just not very clear... Dad, I feel... there seems to be a ghost at home..."
When I heard Xueqi's words, I was shocked at first, but I couldn't help laughing.
"There is a ghost at home? Tell me nonsense, Qiqi, tell me, how old are you? It's not when you were in elementary school, so you don't dare to go to the toilet at night. Did you encounter a mouse biting the water pipe while you were in the toilet?"
Xueqi was a little embarrassed when I said this. She held the pillow with a cartoon girl's avatar in both hands and said hesitantly:
"No... When I went downstairs to boil water just now, the fire suddenly rushed to the wall, and a small piece of black stain was printed on the wall. The stain looked like a human face, a little scary..."
When I heard Xueqi say this, I couldn't help laughing loudly. I didn't expect that Xueqi was afraid to sleep because of this.
"Haha, what's there to be afraid of? It's because of accidentally opening the electric stove. Just be careful next time?"
"But...and..." Xueqi almost cried, "When I was sleeping, I heard the sound of a violin in the activity room upstairs, and then I ran upstairs to look... There was no one there..."
I became a little serious when I heard this. The villa where my house is located is close to the suburbs, and there are no other villas or houses nearby. The sound of the violin cannot be heard from other people's houses, but there is no one in the activity room upstairs. There is nothing else there except a bunch of outdated bear dolls, torn clothes and other messes and other toys.
"And..." Xueqi continued, this time, her voice was a little trembling, "When I was taking a shower just now, there seemed to be a human face on the bathroom transverse window, but the transverse window is more than two meters long. It is not as high as ordinary people without a stool... I thought there were people outside, but I didn't see anyone or stool when I walked out..."
"That's it?" I asked with a frown and stared at Xueqi's eyes.
After I asked this, Xueqi felt a little embarrassed. She stared at the floor and didn't dare to look at me. She seemed to know that what she was talking about was a bit absurd.
"And... I don't know what's going on. When I was downstairs just now, when I closed my eyes, I could always see a vague black and white face... It was so scary..."
After Xueqi said this, I became a little creepy, especially since so many strange things have happened today, I can believe anything strange happening at home.
"You must have read it wrong. Forget it, let me go and see where?" I put on my coat, followed Xueqi downstairs to the kitchen room and looked at it, and found the location where Xueqi boiled water. Sure enough, I saw a black mark on the flour-white wall behind the coal stove. I knew that sometimes when the fire rushed to the wall, it would indeed leave such marks. At first glance, this mark is no different from ordinary marks. However, with Xueqi's special reminder and a little association, I found that the marks on the wall were really a bit like a human face.
If you look closely, this face turned out to be the face of Jesus.
Especially the kitchen lights are a little broken, flashing, and under the lights and dark lights, this face looks even more scary.
"Correspondence is because of coincidence, this kind of thing is often found. Sometimes you can just stare at the bark of a tree for a long time and you can see the faces of a human being. Okay, go to bed, oh." I patted Xueqi's head, wiped the faces on the wall with a rag, and then held Xueqi's hand upstairs. Xueqi was still a little scared, and a small hand kept holding my big hand. I felt that her palm was sweating hot and wet, because of the movements between Xueqi and me, the confinement period, James and the little boy Frexiu were shocked by us. They were not sleepy because of the jet lag. Seeing us asking this and that, they were willing to go back safely after explaining.
Xueqi held my hand shyly along the way. I suddenly remembered that since Xueqi entered junior high school, she seemed to have rarely held my hand so actively, especially as tight as she is now. It really makes me miss Xueqi when she went out with me when she was a child. At that time, she didn't know anything. When she saw strangers, she was nervous and she grabbed my hand tightly, as if she was afraid of being abducted.
I still remember one time, I took Xueqi out to buy clothes. In order to find change, I had to find several stores. Later, as I walked, I didn’t know why I got separated from Xueqi. That time, Xueqi cried on the street for a long time, and kept shouting on the street, "Come on Papa, Papa, come back soon..." Later, for a long time, she had to hold my hand or pull the corner of my clothes when she went out. It was so pitiful and cute.
Afterwards, I checked the air window outside Xueqi's bathroom, but I didn't find any abnormalities. Generally speaking, if someone really peeked at Xueqi for a bath, there might be handprints, water stains left after breathing when they woke up, but there weren't them. Finally, I went to the activity room again, and there were no one or violins there. If there was a violin, such a big thing would definitely not be able to escape. In the end, I was sure that Xueqi had an illusion. It was probably because there were too many strangers living in the house all at once, so I would be a little nervous.
"Okay, you can see it yourself, there's nothing. There's no ghost here. Go to bed early. Get up early tomorrow. Don't sleep in at home just because it's National Day."
"Yeah." Xueqi nodded obediently, and I saw that she was indeed a little sleepy, so I asked her to go to bed early. However, Xueqi said she was still a little scared, and lowered her head and said, "I want to sleep with me."
"Okay, it's up to you." I didn't object to Xueqi. To be honest, I was a little excited when I slept with Xueqi.
In fact, Xueqi and I were used to sleeping together before. At that time, I liked to hold Xueqi's small waist and knead her round and tender buttocks and thighs in the quilt with both hands. When I was in the fifth and sixth grade, Xueqi had a sense of crisis as a girl and began to sleep with me.
Tonight, Xueqi ran to my room with her big flower quilt with the avatar of the robot cat, and slept with me on the same bed. Of course, the quilts of the two of us were each rolled up, which was Xueqi to avoid "ill-thinking" against her.
I was a little sleepy, but when Xueqi slept beside me, I couldn't sleep anymore. My body was shrank in the quilt, my head was exposed, and my thoughts were flying in my heart. Looking at the ceiling for a long time, I turned my head and found Xueqi's back to me, shrinking her body, her black little head was exposed, and her black slender hair fell scattered on the white pillow, which looked particularly messy.
Compared to when she was a child, Xueqi's hair was really much longer, and she had already shawls. She had to tie her ponytails at school.
Like Xueqi when she was a child, although she had grown up, she still didn't know how to take care of her hair when she was sleeping, and she looked so casual and childish. Seeing Xueqi like this, I couldn't help but smile.
In the eyes of other boys in the class, Xueqi must have been an unattainable goddess in their minds, but at home, to me, she is still a child who has not grown up.
Really, except for knowing a little more, Xueqi's personality, habits and tone of speaking are really the same as when she was a child. Moreover, because I was locked up at home and rarely went out when I was a child, and my family was relatively well-off, Xueqi herself is much simpler and innocent than other girls.
I really don’t know what kind of boy Xueqi will fall in love with in the future, and what kind of boys will pursue her and deserve her.
How many opportunities will there be to sleep intimately with Xueqi like this?
Many years later, the one who slept beside Xueqi was another man who replaced my position. He was younger and stronger than me, and could bring Xueqi more happiness and happiness.
When I think of this, I feel very, very uncomfortable, my heart seems to be twitching, and even an inexplicable anger, as if my things have been taken away. Even deep in my mind, there seems to be a voice roaring:
Xueqi is mine, always mine. She has been with me for almost twenty years, and she has been sleeping with me since she was a child. I watched her grow up little by little. I took care of her and raised her since I was a child. Why is a man who has only been with her for at most three or five years qualified to be with her in the future, and why is others qualified to take her away?!
Such thoughts almost occupied my brain completely, and I even had the idea of taking Xue Qi away and living a life of two people in a world where ethical principles cannot be controlled. Of course, I know that it is impossible. It will never be possible.
I can't just care about myself, I have to consider Xueqi's idea. For me, Xueqi is really the most precious thing in my life. For me, she is even the whole world. The world that is too big outside cannot be controlled. Since my father passed away, I have lived with Xueqi. I have no other relatives at home. At most, I will come back to live occasionally during the confinement period. But her real home is in Japan, not here at all. One day, she will leave to find her partner in another country and spend her life with him.
Then, what about me?
I was alone, waiting alone in this empty villa, slowly aging until my hair was gray and my eyes were blurred, I could no longer see Xueqi's face, until my back was bent and hunched, and did I slowly drift like sand in the wind?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt uncomfortable, and the less I couldn't sleep. I just folded my hands behind my head and didn't sleep.
I don’t know how long I woke up, it took about half an hour, but suddenly I remembered Xueqi’s gentle voice like a whisper in my ears:
"Dad...what's wrong...can't you sleep..."
A faint voice like the wind sounded in my ears. I was shocked and turned my face, but saw Xueqi's bright black eyes staring at me in the dark, looking worried about me.
"Ah, Qiqi, why haven't you been sleeping yet?"
"Well... I can't sleep too much..." Qiqi pressed her hand under her cheek, looked at me sideways, and slowly stuttered.
"What's wrong? Are you worried?"
"..." Xueqi shook her head gently, but looked at me with her bright black eyes, but pursed her thin mouth and didn't say anything.
"Hey, it's better to go to bed early. Staying up late is not good for your health." I looked at the ceiling and sighed.
"Well..." Xueqi also turned her face like me, staring at the ceiling with me. For a while, I felt that it was a century. Xueqi and I were staring at the ceiling foolishly together, as if staring at the vast night sky. No one said anything, as if he was thinking about something, and as if he was thinking about nothing.
However, at that moment, I felt an indescribable sense of happiness. This feeling came so suddenly and inexplicably, and even I couldn't figure out what it was.
To be continued...