madman

"I won't watch it anymore. I've only had a cold for a few days, so I don't want to bother, and I don't like watching movies." Zhou Xun nestled on the sofa in the small study, his hands kept moving, and the carving knife scratched the wood. There was one click after another.

Zhou Xun really doesn't like to watch movies, but only "Fengyue", he has watched it countless times, and he didn't watch it by himself. He used to watch it with Lin Zhile every time.

Because Lin Zhile said before that they didn’t watch it the first time, and then the two of them bought the disc of "Feng Yue", and the disc is still placed next to the old DVD player. Zhou Xun watched it last time. At that time, the picture was already very frozen, and the voice did not match the actor's mouth shape.

The sky outside was still gloomy, and there was no light before six o'clock. The light from the small wood-carved bauhinia floor lamp next to the sofa fell on half of Zhou Xun's body, and half of the wooden figure in his hand.

Half bright, half yellow.

"Master, I haven't seen you go out to have fun in the past few years. You would rather watch cartoons at home than go out with us. Today's movie is very good. Really, I also called some friends, you just follow us Let's go together."

Ye Yunqing walked over from the door, stood on the side of the sofa, and bent over to look at the small wood carving that Zhou Xun was carving in his hand. It was only ten centimeters long. It is short of the last step of polishing and polishing.

"When I finish engraving this, I should do what I should do in the future."

This woodcarving was originally the first knife he made before returning to Mina River before the New Year's Eve. If he didn't carve half of it, Zhou Xun would always be thinking about it, and he would finish the carving no matter what.

Anyway, it doesn't take a few days. When the engraving is over, Zhou Xun should let himself go.

His cold has been completely cured for a while, but lunch on weekdays will still be delivered as usual, all day long.Every day is carefully matched, not repeated, delicious and nourishing.

As long as it is delivered, Zhou Xun will eat it.

Ye Yunqing couldn't move him, so she sat beside him and watched him concentrate on carving wood.

"Then Master, who will go to Xinning City the day after tomorrow, you or Brother Qu?" Sylvia asked.

"I'll go. Lao Qu's wife is about to give birth. Let him stay at home and concentrate on spending time with her. You don't have to follow me this time. I'll go by myself."

Zhou Xun is going to switch from a used car dealership to a car brand sales agent. The used car market has gradually become saturated. It was okay in the first two years. After that, due to the monopoly of several online platforms, he does purely offline, whether it is used cars. Both source and sales have dropped a lot, and Zhou Xun has no intention of switching to online.

He discussed with Qu Jinxiang, that is, his friend who was in the second-hand car dealership with him, and decided to become a new car dealer directly.

After the New Year's Eve, Zhou Xun has contacted several brand owners one after another, and he is more inclined to a domestic brand Che Changxing in Xinning City.

Qu Jinxiang had been talking about it before, and it was almost done. The day after tomorrow, he went to Xinning City to have a meal with the brand. If there were no accidents, he would basically be able to get the agency right.

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Lin Zhile has always followed the doctor's advice, rested well, took medicine on time, and never dropped a single pill. There was soothing and relaxing music in the bedroom, and even the lights were in warm colors.

This time he did not live next door to Zhou Xun, but in a detached villa that Fang Hua had prepared for him in the Haydn Mansion, which was closer to the Fang Group where he worked. Although he seldom came to live, he did Check back often.

Because the jujube trees in the courtyard need to be served regularly, although he will hire part-time workers to clean them regularly, but no one can enter or touch the courtyard.

Especially the jujube tree that grows barely in the courtyard, the neighbor's courtyard is full of flowers and plants, but in his courtyard alone, there is only a vaguely jujube tree.

After his grandma passed away, Zhou Dahai sold the jujube grove. In the beginning, the jujube tree essence in the yard was kept, but Zhou Dahai also sold the jujube tree essence in the yard a few years ago.

It was several months later when Lin Zhile knew about it. After going through several rounds, he finally found a buyer and redeemed it at a high price.

After that, he planted the date tree essence in the courtyard of Haydn Villa.Pruning and cutting leaves, turning the soil and fertilizing, do it yourself.

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The temperature in Beijing is higher than that of the Mina River. In March, green leaves start to emerge from the branches.

The spring breeze comes quickly but blows lightly, but the jujube branches respond enthusiastically.

In the afternoon, Lin Zhile changed into a one-piece overalls, holding a transparent watering can and a small shovel in his hand. Before the flowering period, the jujube trees had to turn the soil and fertilize once.

When Lin Zhile walked under the tree, she couldn't bear to be disturbed. She raised her eyes and looked at the new leaves of the jujube tree.Feeling inexplicably envious in my heart——

No matter where you are, the spring breeze will always come, and the flowering period will always respond sooner or later.

Lin Zhile's upturned side face, with long and thick eyelashes rising and falling with the spring breeze, said in a gentle tone, "This year's growth is worse than last year, but it's still not as good as when I was in Mina River, isn't it? Did you move the soil twice and hurt the roots?"

"Brother Xun said, you are a jujube tree essence, will your vitality be more tenacious than ordinary jujube trees?"

"Brother Xun said you can hear people talking, so let's have a chat."

"You will bear a lucky fruit every year. I used to be reluctant to eat one, but this time I ate it, and I ate it for five years. Why is there no effect?"

Lin Zhile touched the branches of the jujube tree, which were not too thick, and the rough bark touched the palm of his hand, causing a little pain in the palm.

"This year, I will eat it again, and you can satisfy me."

"My name is Zhile. I didn't know it before. Every second I met Brother Xun was satisfying and joyful. Now it's gone. If it was meant to be taken back, why did you give it to me? Give it to me. Once, can I have the cheek to ask for it again..."

Lin Zhile said that enough was enough, and began to concentrate on digging the soil. After the new soil was dug, he sprayed the nutrient solution in the watering can on the new soil, and cleaned up the weeds in the courtyard.

It was evening when the jujube trees were tidied up, and the wind was strong, so Lin Zhile entered the room.

The villa has two floors, and the [-]-square-meter big house has nothing but basic furniture. It is cold and empty, and the words echo.

Lin Zhile didn't even go up to the second floor, because there would be regular cleaners to clean up, so there would always be couriers and packages on the table, most of which were insignificant.

Lin Zhile originally wanted to take a shower and sleep, but saw a flat express box on the table, with yellow tape wrapped several times, he didn't want to open it at first.

But the name on the tape made him stop. It was not his name, but Zhou Xun. It was written with a bold black watercolor pen. The characters were big and crooked, filling the entire outer box.

Just those two words made him impatient, so he found a fruit knife in the kitchen and cut the tape off.

The first thing he saw was a piece of A4 paper sandwiched inside, with a bank card number on it, plus a sentence: send money, 50, within five days, otherwise the CD will be sent to Zhou Xun next time.

Lin Zhile now has no time to think about who the person who sent him the CD is, that person has only one purpose, asking for money.

Underneath the A4 paper is a CD, which is only packed in a transparent box. There are some scratches on the box, and it looks like it is several years old.

Lin Zhile didn't come back to the villa very often, so he didn't install an office computer at the beginning, so he had to take the CD back to his usual place.

His hands were shaking when he turned it on, and he had a premonition that what this disc would bring to him would be subversive.

People are always getting more and more anxious and flustered when they can't find a clue. Lin Zhile sat directly on the floor with the computer in his hand, and his fingers were always out of control.After clicking the mouse for a long time, I finally pressed the play button.

As expected, it was that night five years ago.

The video does not seem to have been edited. The hotel room first appeared on the screen. The location of the camera should have been prepared in advance. The big bed in the hotel facing it was empty and the background was dark, but the picture was still clear. , Even the ashtray on the bedside table can be seen clearly.

It was also not long before spring began, and the first spring rain was not heavy, only the faint patter of rain outside the window.

Lin Zhile's beast-like eyes shone coldly behind the lens. He knew what the next scene would be, but he didn't know.

Then there was a sound other than the sound of rain, the door of the hotel room was roughly kicked open with a "bang", and then there was the sound of dragging footsteps and the friction of cloth caused by dragging.

Zhang Qi's face first appeared in the camera.

Zhang Qi was originally the owner of the auto repair shop where Zhou Xun worked, and everyone gave him the same evaluation——

Gentle, always with a moderate smile on his face, polite and humble, he is a good boss.

Lin Zhile met Zhang Qi a few times before when he took Zhou Xun off work, and he also said hello. The first time he saw Zhang Qi, he said to Zhou Xun: "I don't think your boss is a good person. His smile It's like a fake mask, always with the same arc, and I don't like the way he looks at you."

Zhou Xun is usually careless, "The boss is very nice, and he usually cares about every employee."

After that, Lin Zhile didn't take it too seriously.

At this moment in the camera, the fake smiling face disappeared, replaced by facial features distorted by extreme excitement, and the smiling arc at the corner of the mouth turned into a disgusting twitch.

As soon as he entered the room, Zhang Qi turned his head in the direction of the camera, showing a ghostly and frightening smile.

Like a poisonous wolf that opened its fangs and salivated when it caught its prey.

"Don't accept me, but you are still in my hands..." Zhang Qi lowered his head and said to the unconscious Zhou Xun who was dragged by him.

Lin Zhile clenched her fists, the veins in her arms kept pumping, and it took all her strength to control herself from punching Zhang Qi's face on the screen...

In the picture, Zhou Xun hangs his head weakly, he is violently thrown on the bed by Zhang Qi, only a painful groan leaked out unconsciously.

Lin Zhile's breathing became more and more rapid. He had fantasized about the next scene countless times, and even filled the gap in his memory countless times in his dreams, so that he really thought that the gap he thought was... .just like in his dream...

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The video lasts for an hour. Zhang Qi has been weaker than ordinary people since he was a child. He is sickly and impotent due to drugs when he was a child. Therefore, he is very violent against Zhou Xun throughout the video. Lin Zhile's blood is in this hour. It froze and boiled again and again.

Until he saw that Zhou Xun was awake for a moment and wanted to struggle, Zhang Qi picked up the ashtray beside the bed and smashed it on Zhou Xun's head.

Lin Zhile couldn't take it anymore, and smashed the computer screen with a punch, and the back of his hand was covered with debris and blood, which he had no time to care about.

The screen was shattered, the last bit of light in the room disappeared, and it rained outside the window at some point, the first rain since the beginning of spring. After waiting for so long, it was connected with the ending rain sound in the video.

Lin Zhile walked to the window, there were hurried figures downstairs...

"Did brother Xun bring an umbrella? He has never been in the habit of going out with an umbrella," Lin Zhile murmured, looking at the raindrops hitting the window, "It's only been a few days since I've had a cold, so don't catch another cold."

The author says:

Spoiler alert, I'll start chasing tomorrow, and then Brother Xun is soft-hearted, but this time it's not so easy to agree, and then Xiao Lin started his life of washing and cooking, serving tea and pouring water, pinching his legs and beating his back, but not letting him go to bed at night ...