let me look at you

Chapter 51
Year of the Orange, I just came to say goodbye to you.I swore it and knew you would come.

Ju Nian walked out of the room, looking for the exit like a lost child. The only way to the street was a narrow aisle. A bald middle-aged man was sitting behind the desk watching the seven o'clock morning news that had just started.Ju Nian lowered her head, she hoped that no one could see her, but if she wanted to go out, she had to pass by the table.

"Morning, are you awake?" The middle-aged man who was suspected to be the boss still noticed her, looked up, and smiled, revealing a row of teeth yellowed by smoke.

Ju Nian suddenly felt that she was in an unintelligible farce. For the first time in her life, she woke up in a strange place, surrounded by a naked ordinary male classmate who was hugging her tightly.She had no memory of how she appeared in this dim private inn. Even the boss who had never met at the door seemed to know better than her, and said "good morning" to her with a smile.

Ju Nian didn't answer, and ran towards the only exit as if fleeing.The street in the early morning is so peaceful, the faces of the people rushing to the morning shift are expressionless, the tune of "Orchid Grass" is wafting from the sprinkler in the distance, and there is a smell of dusty water vapor in the air... This is what she is familiar with The world, the turbidity, filth, and stickiness of the previous moment was like a dream. She escaped from birth, and nothing changed, but she was the only one who didn't know what she had become.

The legend likes to say: One day in the mountains is a thousand years in the world.

That was the saddest story Ju Nian had ever heard.

When she woke up, the shirt and skirt were hanging on the line in the bathroom. They were crumpled, but they were completely dry. Only the close-fitting underwear still looked damp, wrapping around her body like snake vines, like when she just opened her eyes. Clinging to her hands.She walked in the direction where there might be a bus stop. She walked on the solid road, but it was like wading through piles of cotton wool.

Gradually, she seemed to remember something, about the note that fell from her fingers as if it took a century to fall to the ground, about the hopeless phone booth, the boiling dance floor, three cups of sweet and slightly pungent liquid, about the When she woke up in pain, Han Shu dripped a drop of sweat on her chest.Of course, there is also the search that has never stopped in the dream.

Ju Nian once asked herself why she had to inquire about Wu Yu's whereabouts over and over again like Mrs. Xianglin.Even though he said that she is the best girl in the world, but when the best boy in the world wants to take another girl away, there is no way.

That was Wu Yu's own decision, he may love Chen Jiejie, besides love, there is also a responsibility.Even if Ju Nian finds him, what can he do, except say "goodbye".

However, it was a nightmare that woke her from the chaos early in the morning to give her the cue.In that dream, she seemed to have returned to the summer vacation before the first year of high school. In the dark space covered by the curtains of Lin Henggui's small shop, those devilish hands ravaged her body crazily.She opened her mouth, panting like a fish out of water, but there was no sound. Despair was always silent. She shed tears, and then Wu Yu's anger, he rushed over, his eyes were bloodshot.

"I'm going to kill you!" Wu Yu's hatred was like a raging wave breaking a bank, but Lin Henggui was a ghost in the water.She watched helplessly as the villain gradually gained the upper hand. He overturned Wu Yu, grabbed Wu Yu's neck, and took Wu Yu's knife. Blood was the only memory she had when she woke up.

This is the source of her fear, she seems to understand why she is so anxious, Wu Yu will go to him, she knows he will, she should know so much about her "little monk".

She can't see him being hurt by Lin Henggui again.

When the sun shines on the earth, Ju Nian has also reached the darkest corner of her heart.The rolling shutters of the small shop were closed, and Lin Henggui was famous for going to bed late and getting up late, which was not surprising.Ju Nian approached tremblingly, trying to prove to herself that Wu Yu had never been there, but when she stood by the door, she carefully discovered that the door was not locked.

Perhaps it was worry that overcame fear, Ju Nian's head became hot, and he didn't know where the courage came from. He even put his hand on the handle of the rolling shutter door, and lifted it up forcefully, and it really opened a gap half a foot wide, dark and closed. The space overflowed with a fishy and sweet smell.Ju Nian's stomach tightened after a hangover, and he continued to lift the door up with cold hands and feet. After about a third of it was opened, the door naturally rolled up according to inertia. The wooden door behind was wide open, and the storefront was empty. A cloth curtain that was so old that the original color could not be seen clearly swayed gently, like a banner summoning souls, and the sweet smell of blood came through the curtain.The tragic scene in the dream is so vivid that it almost suffocates Ju Nian.

Ju Nian opened the curtain with trembling hands as if it didn't belong to him, if Wu Yu died, if Lin Henggui was waiting for his prey inside... When the fear came to an end, her heart was ashamed, and she walked in through the curtain.

There is no window inside, and the light switch is lurking in an unknown corner. Ju Nian moved forward and stepped on something soft with her right foot. She staggered in fright and bumped into a hard object, which seemed to be a chest of drawers in the room. , the wine bottle above fell to the ground with a clang.It was also at this time that her eyes had slightly adapted to the dim environment. There was a vertical rope on the side of the chest of drawers. She tried to pull it with her hand, and the yellow light instantly filled the entire space, and all the tragic scenes came into view.

The cubicle was in disarray, obviously having been the victim of horrific abuse, and all the drawers of the suitcase had been hastily opened.In the middle of the floor lay a man crouching, and it was his outstretched palm that Ju Nian stepped on just now, and a dark brown liquid spread out from under him, bloody and tangy, before that, Ju Nian had never Knowing that so much blood can flow from a person's body.

That's not Wu Yu, she can make a judgment just by looking at Ju Nian, but this doesn't make her let go of her hanging heart.

Lin Henggui, is he dead? !

The most terrifying devil in the Nightmare of the Year of Orange has no life in his lying down posture, and even a heavy foot on his fingertips has no response at all. Could it be that the dream is the opposite? Wu Yu really came, but the final result was He killed Lin Henggui?

Over the years, Ju Nian, like Wu Yu, has thought countless times, Lin Henggui, this bastard, this scum, why doesn't he die, why doesn't he die!However, when he finally died, Ju Nian felt endlessly desolate.If Wu Yu really did it, his life would be ruined because of it.Is it worth it to pierce the darkness and dye myself black all over for such a shameless person?
The smell of blood made Ju Nian dizzy. She ran away in a panic, but before she could go far, her ankle was suddenly grabbed tightly by a cold hand. She screamed and turned her head. Lin Henggui raised his face with difficulty, and cried out weakly and intermittently : "Save...save..."

Ju Nian kicked and struggled like crazy, he tried his best to grab it, but under the serious injury and powerlessness, she finally got rid of him.It is thought that Lin Henggui had lost a lot of blood and was unconscious. When he was dying, the pain and the light that stepped on the back of his hand after Ju Nian broke in made him wake up briefly, and fell into a death-like coma for a while.

Ju Nian lost her soul and stumbled out of the cubicle. The scene just now made her heartbroken. She took it for granted that Lin Henggui was dead.He was originally a person who did not deserve to live in this world, but who is the master, who is qualified to decide the life and death of another person?Even though she hated him so much, as long as she had a sliver of conscience, she still couldn't help but watch him die before her eyes.More importantly, if Wu Yu really did it, then as long as Lin Henggui survives, even if Wu Yu is guilty, it is not an unforgivable crime.

She finally used the phone in the store to call the ambulance center. Maybe the ambulance will arrive soon. She doesn't want to know if Lin Henggui can survive until then. She only knows that she can't stay here for another second. .

There seemed to be only one path under her feet, and she walked and ran in a daze, but no one noticed her.In the past, she passed by this bamboo forest path countless times during her morning jogs. When she turned her head, the "little monk" followed lazily behind with an innocent smile on her face.

The sugarcane fields were left behind, the bamboo groves were left behind, and finally, the 512 steps.At the edge of the empty mausoleum square, she fell down on the grass with the rough branches of the pomegranate tree on the edge of the empty mausoleum square, and she remembered crying.

Wu Yu, where are you, what happened to us?
"Year of Orange?"

The hallucinations left by the alcohol still refused to let her go, she actually thought that she saw Wu Yu running towards her from behind the towering tombstone of the martyrs through tears.

"Orange year." In the hallucination, Wu Yu grabbed her shoulders head-on. The warmth of his palm seemed real, but his body, which was always clean, was covered with blood, his clothes were torn, and his forehead was bruised and swollen. up, the blood is still wet.

"You..." Ju Nian was stunned for a while.

"I knew you'd find this place." He could still grin.

Ju Nian touched his face with both hands. It was really him... She suddenly pushed him away forcefully, and asked in a hissed voice, "Did you do it? Really you...Why are you so stupid?"

Wu Yu's silent approval made her heart fall into the abyss completely.

"Damn him, I just want to get back what I deserve!" Wu Yu wanted to continue, but his face became hot, and the gentle and pleasant Ju Nian actually slapped him hard.

"Just for those thousands of dollars, you don't even want your life?"

Wu Yu covered her face and bowed her head for a long time.

(End of this chapter)