curse

Chapter 11

The sun finally spilled into the room, she opened her eyes and looked at the hazy light outside the window.She knew that she didn't sleep well all night, and her face should be paler when she woke up, Bai Bi inserted her fingers into her hair, and the hair slowly slipped between her fingers.

An hour later, after washing everything, she sat by the window and spread out her portfolio and palette.Bai Bi now makes a living selling paintings to galleries. She has no interest in becoming a painter, although her father always had high hopes for it when she was a child.She just wants to be a good painter, and a painter is a kind of craftsman. She thinks being a craftsman is more meaningful than being a master.Craftsmen are always unknown, they only know how to work happily, there is no greater burden, but the works can be seen by most people, she likes the feeling of craftsmen.The paintings displayed in the street galleries may not be worth much. Of course, occasionally a nouveau riche may spend a lot of money to buy one of the paintings.Bai Bi has no special feeling about this, she only needs the gallery to pay her on time, and she just needs to hand in the paintings on time, and the rest seems to have nothing to do with her.

What are you drawing today?

She wants to paint Lop Nur.So, I began to draw outlines on the drawing paper with a pencil.Just after drawing a horizon, the doorbell suddenly rang.Bai Bi put down his pen and walked to the door.She thought it was Xiao Se, but when she opened the door, she found a man who was both familiar and unfamiliar standing at the door.

She is familiar with that face, but she is not familiar with that person, because she knew from the first sight that this man is not her Jianghe, her Jianghe has been turned into ashes, buried deep in the earth, and will never appear in front of her.Although she felt that the face in front of her was very familiar, the eyes were unfamiliar.Of course, Bai Bi immediately remembered that yesterday morning at the gate of the Archaeological Institute, this man was standing across the road looking at her.Yes, she remembered this person's eyes, and she also remembered a sentence - "A familiar face is the biggest trap".So, she had an instinctive self-defense reaction, she only opened the door a small crack, and asked him carefully: "Who are you?"

The man took out the ID from his pocket and put it in front of Bai Bi. The name on the ID was Ye Xiao, and the unit was the Municipal Public Security Bureau.Bai Bi nodded, let him in, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you were a police officer."

Ye Xiao still looked at her with that look and said: "It doesn't matter, I always wear casual clothes when I work, are you Bai Bi?"

"Yes." Bai Bi avoided his gaze, but in fact, he didn't want to see his seemingly familiar face.

"My name is Ye Xiao, and I'm in charge of Jiang He's case." After walking a few steps, he saw the drawing paper and paints spread out in the room, "Excuse me, are you a painter?"

Bai Bi said lightly: "No, it's just painting some paintings for the gallery for sale, not a painter."

"Oh, what are you drawing?"

"It's nothing." She started to pack up the drawing paper and paints, Ye Xiao stood beside her and looked at her, which made her a little nervous, so that she wiped some paints from the palette on her hands, "Sorry, I'm going to Wash your hands."

Bai Bi walked into the bathroom quickly, Ye Xiao was still standing in the room looking at the surrounding furnishings and decorations, he could hear the sound of the faucet splashing in the bathroom.He noticed the painting hanging on the wall and looked at it carefully, but he felt a little strange. In fact, he also studied art. Before he was admitted to Public Security University, he once dreamed of going to the Academy of Fine Arts, but then he failed.The sound of water in the bathroom disappeared, and Bai Bi came out. Ye Xiao felt that she was a little embarrassed. Of course, this is normal, and many people will be like this when they are questioned by police officers.

Ye Xiao finally wanted to ask the real question: "I heard that you and Jiang He have already made an appointment to get married next month, right?"

"Yes."

Ye Xiao felt that his gaze was too sharp, which made Bai Bi a little scared.So, his gaze and voice softened, and he said, "It is written in the case file that you told the police that you had received a phone call the night Jiang He's accident occurred, and it was later confirmed that the call was indeed made from the room where Jiang He's accident occurred."

"I guessed it a long time ago."

"Well, it's no wonder. I'm going to get married soon. It's normal to have a heart-to-heart connection. Can you talk about Jiang He?"

Bai Bi looked a little cold: "There is nothing to say, he is such a person, you should have investigated it clearly."

"Bai Bi, don't be afraid, I'm just here to investigate some issues, you just need to tell me what you know." Ye Xiao tried to speak gently.

"He never had any grudges with others, and he never had any dangerous social relationships. He didn't have any bad habits, and he was always in good health. Maybe only God knows what happened to him."

"God knows?" Ye Xiao repeated in a strange tone.

"Tell me, how did Jiang He die?"

"If I had known, I wouldn't have come to you now. As for the specific situation, I can't tell you now." Ye Xiao paused, then looked into Bai Bi's eyes again, and almost couldn't help it, he thought in his heart Secretly blaming himself, he knew that this would cause the other party to misunderstand, especially a young and beautiful woman like Bai Bi.However, he had to admit that Bai Bi's eyes were very attractive.He adjusted his mood and asked in a serious tone: "I'm sorry, can you tell me when was the last time you saw Jiang He before his accident?"

"It was the day after he came back from Xinjiang. That night, he came here and told me that he had just got off the train with the archaeological team. He looked very tired and struggled to speak. Especially his eyes were very strange, It seemed that something was hidden from me. He only stayed here for a while and then hurried away without saying anything special. In the next few days, I called Jiang He several times to ask him out, but he pushed Said that he is very busy with his work recently, and he doesn't have any free time, so we can talk about it after he finishes his work. In this way, I haven't seen him again until the night of his accident." As he spoke, Bai Bi There was a dull pain in his head.

"Excuse me, he said that he is very busy at work recently, so what is he busy with?"

"I don't know. I never asked him about his work. I only know that they went to Lop Nur for archaeology in Xinjiang. They went there for a full month and there was no news." After finishing speaking, Bai Bi looked at him. When Ye Xiao took out a pen, he wrote all these down in his notebook.

Ye Xiao frowned and said, "I'm sorry, there is one more question. Do you know Jiang He's colleague Xu Anduo?"

"He is dead."

"So you already know that he died in a car accident." Ye Xiao was sure that she knew Xu Anduo very well.

"No. I don't believe that the deaths of Jiang He and Xu Anduo were accidental."

Ye Xiao's heart skipped a beat, the girl in front of him actually said the same thing as him, but he couldn't easily reveal his point of view, so he just asked indifferently: "Why?"

"Xu Anduo's accident happened on the night after Jiang He's memorial service. After the memorial service, he talked with me alone. He said that he couldn't understand some things that happened recently. I asked him what happened. , but he refused to say anything. Then he left, but unexpectedly, he died that night. There must be something we don’t know, police officer, what do you think?”

Ye Xiao nodded and said: "Thank you for the information you provided, it will help us a lot, but don't call me police officer, I don't feel comfortable, just call me Ye Xiao, okay? From now on we There will be frequent dealings, you have to be mentally prepared."

"Okay, Ye Xiao."

Ye Xiao suddenly remembered something again: "Oh, I'm sorry, I almost forgot just now, I checked your information, your father used to work in the archaeological research institute where Jiang He is, right? The information says that it was in 1988 Accidental death in a car accident. Can you talk about this, my gut tells me it might be related. I know it's not good for you to talk about, if you feel like it's going to make you uncomfortable, then you don't have to. "

Bai Bi raised her head and looked at him face to face. Now she dared to look at him face to face. Yes, the shape of her face was indeed very similar to that of Jiang He, especially the lines of her chin and lips, which almost gave her the illusion that she was talking to Jiang He.However, there are still differences in some facial details, and those differences seem to say to her-he is not, he is not the one you love.

She nodded to herself, and then said lightly: "It's okay, that car accident is indeed a bit puzzling. I was only 10 years old at the time, but I clearly remember everything that happened on that day. It happened to be my father's 40th birthday. On my birthday, it happened on the way home after he sent me to the hospital. At that time, my mother and I had crossed the road, but my father suddenly stopped motionless, and my mother yelled at him, but he didn’t seem to Hearing it was like turning into a statue placed on the crosswalk, seeing the red light in the other direction turn into a green light, and a turning car approaching, but my father didn’t respond at all, and something happened like this.”

"It's really unbelievable, like a horror movie." Ye Xiao said.

Now, Bai Bi didn't seem to have the same wariness towards him at the beginning, she began to trust the young police officer in front of her, because in her heart, she had completely separated him from Jiang He: "I'm really a little scared now. "

"Because the two closest people left unexpectedly?"

She nodded.

"And what about your mother?"

"She lives in a mental hospital and has been mentally abnormal since her father's accident."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, then, thank you for your cooperation. I think you have provided us with some valuable leads. I am sorry to trouble you. Here is my business card. If there is anything, please call me, please Don't worry, I don't have any days off, and I will come anytime, sooner or later." After speaking, Ye Xiao handed her his business card.

She took the business card and thought carefully about what Ye Xiao said, especially "please call me if you have anything to do" and "I will come anytime, sooner or later".So the subtext was that she might be in danger. Could it be that after Jiang He and Xu Anduo, it would be her turn?She raised her head and looked at Ye Xiao, her eyes filled with anxiety.

"Trust me, you'll be fine. I'm leaving." Ye Xiao felt that he had controlled the situation, he nodded to her, and walked to the door.Just as he was about to say goodbye, he turned around and said to Bai Bi: "Also, I saw you at the gate of the Archaeological Institute yesterday, and you seemed to be in a bad mood."

"Yes." Bai Bi felt ashamed.

"Don't go there anymore, believe me, that archaeological research has all the problems, don't take risks."

"Do you think anything else will happen?"

"Maybe, no one can tell right now, it would be great if they could." Ye Xiao was also a little helpless.

He also couldn't tell, maybe people will die, Bai Bi felt a slight chill in her heart, and she blurted out two words: "Curse."

"What did you say? A curse?"

"I'm sorry, I was just talking casually, thinking wildly." Bai Bi explained hastily.

Ye Xiao frowned again, looking at Bai Bi's eyes from the corner of his eyes, he knew it was definitely not as simple as she said.But now is not the time to get to the bottom of it, he said "goodbye" and left Bai Bi's house.

He walked down the stairs quickly, and when he returned to the road, he turned his eyes to the intersection. More than 10 years ago, Bai Bi's father, Bai Zhengqiu, had a car accident here inexplicably. He tried his best to imagine what Bai Bi had just described. scene.While walking, he softly recited the two words Bai Bi said - curse.

Bai Bi was leaning against the window, quietly looking at Ye Xiao on the road downstairs, but she still couldn't tell whose back it was?

(End of this chapter)