Liu Lingzhong's Selected Short Stories Serialized (1128)

Under the Mask (3)

I begged Guo Jia, others don't know your wife's feelings, but you don't know either? You are absolutely not allowed to hurt her when you play the treasure hunting game, even if you dislike her, you can't do too much, and by the way, you will kill her. We were just about to pass by the entrance of Maple Tree Elementary School, and you were waiting for her there, and if she found out that you had run away from home, she would have chased you desperately on a motorcycle, and came around the bridge to meet at Maple Tree. You have to go home with her this time anyway, and we will make other arrangements.

"Tian Sen, you are the most honest treasure hunter in the world. ”

"Are you very possessive? I asked him.

Guo Jia repeatedly emphasized that he didn't want to hurt his wife's heart too much. My treasure finding partner really killed Dong Xueqin, and he chased people on a motorcycle and got into a car accident, only I know that he designed it in advance in the game. It's her husband riding a motorcycle, don't mention whether this kind of link is good or not, if Guo Jia reports to the police station, it will only be regarded as an accident. No one ever believed that a murder had occurred. Guo Jia had already hidden murder intentions against her.

"Dong Xueqin shouldn't hook up with Chen Houjing and cuckold me, even if I'm sorry for her. Guo Jia told me.

"You don't have any evidence. I hastened to say.

"There's ironclad evidence!" Guo Jia said, his cheeks very stiff.

Even though his old cousin had flaunted to me, he whistled and washed the foot, and the female technician would run out and go to sleep in the rental house. But he never mentioned Dong Xueqin.

"She was pregnant with my old cousin once, and they went to the county seat to have a baby without telling me. Guo Jia said, "Chen Houjing didn't dare to tell you my wife's name, but the female technician was her." ”

"Aren't there any other little girls in Footwashing City?" I asked.

My treasure hunter is definitely a demon, he laughed and showed his white teeth. I also smiled a little innocently. My far-fetched explanation is naturally not credible, but it more or less pinned on the last remaining glimmer of hope for the treasure partner, and real life is quite cruel. Even raising dried ducks will be wiped out, after the relocation of the father to repair the house, the parents are the masters of the two brothers to divide the remaining money, Guo Jia has always had a strong interest in breeding, originally expected to turn over. Dong Xueqin has the same idea as him, if she succeeds in raising ducks, she doesn't need to go to Foot Washing City to be a female technician. Guo Jia firmly believes that Lao Biao deliberately raised the dry fire duck, and his two family made a desperate gamble and ruined their careers. He definitely doesn't care, Lao Biao is his aunt's only son, and he has a lot of money left over from the relocation of his family to repair the house, and it all belongs to him alone. Chen Houjing instigated the gang to open a foot washing shop in order to continue to hook up with Dong Xueqin, Guo Jia's money was borrowed from a credit union, and his two are now in debt. I think it's a bit strange to find a partner with Bao, he should hate Chen Houjing instead of his wife.

"Why did Dong Xueqin become a scapegoat?" I asked.

"She didn't die for anyone, she was guilty. Guo Jia said loudly, "I thought that both of them would die on a motorcycle, but the old watch only injured one leg, which is a pity." ”

Only then did I realize that the cyclist turned out to be Chen Houjing.

Guo Jia really designed to deceive Chen Houjing from the rental house, and happened to meet his wife when he entered the door. She hurriedly dropped the work she was doing, and said to her husband without reason: "Look, didn't the old watch take the initiative to come to the door, after all, he is not an outsider." ”

He stood up and said, "Wife, I'm sorry, I actually beat you yesterday." I didn't expect you to have a way to get the old cousin to take out his money obediently. I have no objection to opening a foot washing shop. ”

"It's okay, you're doing it for my good. Dong Xueqin said.

Guo Jia only admitted: "I am for the good of our family." ”

We were wandering through the adolescent forest, and when we arrived at the cat graveyard near the Ironworks, I suddenly hesitated a little. I wondered what he would do if his partner was the murderer of his wife. Guo Jia decided in his mind that the old cousin was an adulterer, he didn't like his wife, so he looked for opportunities to kill her again and again, and once he was buried alive, I don't know which tendon of Chen Houjing was wrong, and he dug the dwarf out of the mud and rescued him and carried him home. Guo Jia forgot that this incident was actually what I told him on the way to find the treasure, it seems that the two of us were trapped in the Demon Palace and couldn't escape from the cat cemetery, or in the room of the ironworks hotel. How did we get back to our accommodation before dark?

"How could it not be my fantasy!" I said.

"I believe in Chen Houjing, he will do whatever he is shameless. ”

But I really can't resist the temptation of revisiting the place where we buried the cat's corpse, and I have no immunity, which is in the garden of the Suzaogou Psychiatric Hospital. And in the winter of 2015, Guo Jia and his new treasure partner Long Fei set off after drinking orange soda from a cold drink shop in Maguan Town, starting their week-long escape journey. The cat at the gate of the castle must have been snoozing on purpose. That was the time, he consciously took the young and handsome Long Fei to deliberately choose to take the road that the two of us had looked for treasure many times. It's easier to meet Mutangjie.

"Maybe. I said lightly, noncommittal.

They broke into our cat cemetery, maybe it was really not planned in advance, after all, Guo Jia didn't want to relive the old dream. It is said that we also arrived at the piercing, and the two of us sneaked out of the psychiatric hospital ward, walked through the southern jujube groves and gardens, and left the glowing pebbles on the worship platform. I hope to be able to stay with our dead cats forever, so that we have an absolute chance of winning, and there will be no tangled sage time.

"Tap, be careful not to break it. ”

"But the pebbles were covered with a layer of ash. ”

"Well, stay still, let me do it myself. ”

I walked to the side hopelessly and almost blocked Guo Jia.

He shoved me away, never before. "It's so fierce, I don't know how Long Fei can stand your anger. ”

The gems we put in when we were young are still there, and they continue to shine brightly, illuminating the adolescent forest. Then the cat bones must still be in the tomb as well. Guo Jia whispered to me that it was a weird, a little evil, and lonely night, that is, the magician used countless gems to light up the night sky for them, and I directly suspected that he and Long Fei were referring to the starry sky, and those fireflies were flying in the jujube forest.

But then he completely forgot how to get out of the cat cemetery. "We couldn't find a way out of the Demon Palace, and at that time, the guide cat had died quietly at the masquerade. Tian Sen, I think more about that person is still you. Facing with Long Fei and obese Ding Qiang, even though it is the barren grass and overgrown cat cemetery of Wang Fengshuo, a teacher from the Changgou Leprosy School, I still think of you inadvertently. ”

"Long Fei is worth your life for him?" I was surprised.

He said, "No, he's really not as good as you." ”

I was shocked that when Changgou Middle School had not moved to the county seat, it was with Fengxiangshu Primary School. From another point of view, Fengxiangshu Primary School is actually a middle school for leprosy patients in Changgou. Guo Jia and his brother both studied there, but Ding Qiang, a native of Hunan, would definitely not be one of their classmates, and Mr. Wang Fengshuo was undoubtedly Guo Jia's earliest guide, and his first partner to find treasure. It was Wang Fengshuo who took his brothers to find the big hole and pick pebbles, which they called Baoguang Cave. Later, the cold drink shop in Maguan Town drank orange soda to find treasures, and people continued to use this statement. At the same time, we believe that walking through the jujube forest, walking through the bridgehead, and then passing through the garden of oleander flowers and flowers blooming in the psychiatric hospital, and entering from the Grand Canyon is the most exquisite treasure hunting route in the adolescent forest. I guess it's probably the first part of the cat cemetery to be developed. According to Qin Feng, a professional cat breeder and the owner of a cold drink shop on our street, it is actually the game he plays the most in entertaining dignitaries including dignitaries and dignitaries - hiding their names and wearing wooden shell masks, and is the most tempting game for treasure hunters. Then the leper school teacher took my treasure-finding partner to drink orange soda at a cold drink shop when I was a teenager, and it completely makes sense.

"Treasure hunting games are not allowed to be equated with scams. ”

"It's too unexpected that Wang Fengshuo would accept a fat man. ”

"Maybe it's safer!" I said cautiously.

Guo Jia had thought about it countless times in his heart that he had to return to the town where his family had moved from the ironworks inn before December 7. Because his wife Dong Xueqin's birthday happened to be that day, he didn't want his old cousin Chen Houjing to accompany her on her birthday.

He shouted at Long Fei in a hoarse voice: "I can't stand it. ”

"Then get out of here!" said the young man.

There are only three days left before Dong Xueqin's death, that is, her birthday, and it is impossible for him to hide from our cat graveyard, although Mu Tangjie has been suspicious of Guo Jia since he was a teenager, or he has directly become suspicious, simply refuses, and often breaks appointments with him. Wang Fengshuo exhausted his mind to barely appease Guo Jia, they also suffered from severe depression and night wandering disease in that isolated and helpless era, as students, their ability to withstand blows is definitely far inferior to that of teachers. Once in the room of the Ironworks Inn—we had just escaped from the Demon Palace. I walked through the mountains with my treasure hunting partner, carrying the colorful glowing pebbles that were ready to be sacrificed to the cat's graveyard, and the two of them were sweating, frightened, and out of breath. We didn't get Mu Tangjie at the exit of Yanying Railway Station, and we knew that we had a shared responsibility, so we needed to avoid sage time as much as possible - Guo Jia told me that the reason why his brother wanted to study clinical medicine was probably to overcome depression.

"Does your brother often show up in Sage Time?" I laughed.

"The most troublesome thing for him is probably insomnia and nocturnal wandering syndrome," said his partner "when he comes back from Chengdu." ”

"What do you mean, Guo Jia?" I asked rhetorically.

"Tian Sen, because the relationship between my brother-in-law and Manager Yang has affected you, maybe it has caused harm to you, and I feel deeply guilty. My wife has been hooking up with my cousin for a long time, and I have to open a foot washing shop, do what you think humiliates the technician's work, and deepen the hurt to you, I just apologize to you is not enough. I want to introduce my brother to you and be your treasure hunting partner, he is no worse than me. swore that when he was in middle school, he swore to teacher Wang Fengshuo that he would never get married in his life. My brother might be your ideal treasure hunting partner. ”

"Long Fei went grocery shopping. I said quietly.

Guo Jia said: "Tian Sen, how can I bear to miss you." ”

Even if there is a slight possibility, Guo Jia provided me with clues, he introduced me to the doctor brother and me, told me that his brother's guide cat is fat, no worse than himself, and he is more obsessed with playing treasure hunting games, more professional, and even chose to give up marriage, which is the proof of our friendship for many years, of course, it is the best birthday gift from my ex treasure hunting partner. This suddenly reminded me of Dong Xueqin's weird birthday, which was actually her death at the same time, which made me shudder. A layer of sweat foams on the back.