The person standing outside the door was not a prostitute, but the owner of the small hotel. He shrank his neck when Li Zhenruo yelled, and then said, "Little brother, are you asleep? I'm here to change your room."
"Change room?" Li Zhenruo was puzzled, "What room?"
The boss said: "The sewer pipe in this room is leaking, and the residents downstairs are responding, so this room is temporarily unavailable, and I will give you another room."
Li Zhenruo still felt strange and asked, "Which one should I change to?"
The boss said: "Don't worry, I will change you to a better one, and I won't charge you more."
Hearing what the boss said, Li Zhenruo felt that there was nothing wrong with it. He didn't have any luggage and didn't even take off his clothes, so he said to the boss, "Then change."
The boss led him upstairs and opened a new room for him.
After entering, Li Zhenruo found that it was much more comfortable than the one just now. At least the beds looked clean and wrinkle-free, and the bathroom was complete with toiletries.
The boss left him the key card and left. Li Zhenruo lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep comfortably.
When he woke up the next morning, Li Zhenruo bought two steamed buns for breakfast at a nearby bun shop. He stood by the side of the road and ate the steamed stuffed buns, then walked slowly towards the station to take the train.
Just as he walked to the station, a car stopped beside him and asked, "Where are you going? By car?"
When Li Zhenruo saw that it was a black car, he didn't intend to take care of it.
The driver persisted, "Where are you going? How about I give you a ride for free?"
Li Zhenruo looked him up and down, and felt that if this person was not mentally ill, then he had other ideas. Reminiscent of the hotel owner who came to change his room in the middle of the night last night, Li Zhenruo couldn't help leaning against the car door, bent down and asked the driver : "Did someone ask you to see me off?"
The driver seemed to be an honest man, and he shut up when asked by Li Zhenruo.
Li Zhenruo knocked on the car door and said, "I won't ride in your car, you should go."
After speaking, he stood up straight and watched the driver drive the car away.
After a while, when Li Zhenruo was about to get on the bus, another car stopped in front of the station. The driver honks the horn and lowers the windows.
Li Zhenruo looked back and saw that the person sitting in the driver's seat was Yan Xiujie. He was a little surprised, because after thinking that someone was taking care of him secretly, Li Zhenruo's first reaction was that Li Zhenran was following him. Even if it wasn't Li Zhenran, that person should be Hua Yibang, and how could it be Yan Xiujie
Did Yan Xiujie recognize him? This possibility is really not very big.
He walked to the side of the car and asked, "Why are you here?"
Yan Xiujie said, "Second Young Master asked me to come."
Li Zhenruo had clearly guessed this possibility in his heart, but after hearing Yan Xiujie's talk, he still felt a little complicated, so he couldn't help asking, "What did he ask you to do?"
Yan Xiujie also seemed a little dazed, and said, "He just said that he asked me to come over and take care of you secretly."
Secretly... Li Zhenruo was silent for a while, and then asked: "Then why are you appearing in front of me again now?"
Yan Xiujie was a little embarrassed, "Because you rejected that driver, I called Er Shao and said that you might have noticed me, so he told me to come to you on my own initiative."
Li Zhenruo looked at him, still puzzled, "Why you and not Hua Yibang?"
Yan Xiujie also looked a bit dazed, "I don't know."
Li Zhenruo thought of many things at once. He was very surprised why Li Zhenran asked Yan Xiujie to come over. He probably didn't just think that he was here to investigate the cause of Li Zhenruo's death, so he specially asked his former assistant to come over, right
I always feel that Li Zhenran may be doubting his identity. Since when did you become suspicious? When he confessed to Li Zhenran that he was investigating the cause of Li Zhenruo's death, Li Zhenran still looked angry as if he had been cheated.
"Mr. Li?" Yan Xiujie called him.
Li Zhenruo suddenly came back to his senses and asked, "What did you call me?"
Yan Xiujie hesitated for a moment and said, "Second Young Master said your name is Li Tuanzi, and he asked me to bring your ID card and mobile phone."
After finishing speaking, he took the document bag in the co-pilot, and gave Li Zhenruo the ID card and mobile phone inside, and then a credit card. He said, "Second Young Master said that you can withdraw cash."
Li Zhenruo took the mobile phone and ID card, and finally took the credit card. He was in no mood to be embarrassed by the name Li Tuanzi, so he just opened the passenger door and got in.
"Did he say anything else?" Li Zhenruo asked.
Yan Xiujie said: "He said, tell you to play enough and remember to go home."
Li Zhenruo stroked the raised numbers on the surface of the credit card with his fingers, slowly moving from left to right, and finally stopped and asked Yan Xiujie, "Where's his girlfriend?"
Yan Xiujie smiled wryly, "I don't know, I don't know anything about the Second Young Master's personal affairs, he just asked me to come over and take care of you, with a few words by the way."
"Take a few words?" Li Zhenruo glanced at him, "Didn't you secretly take care of me? He knew I would find you?"
Yan Xiujie still smiled wryly, but did not answer this time.
Li Zhenruo shook the credit card between his fingers, and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this, just drive, I'm going to find someone."
Yan Xiujie stopped talking and started the car.
Along the way, apart from occasionally telling Yan Xiujie how to get on the road, Li Zhenruo kept silent. Yan Xiujie didn't speak and drove silently.
What Li Zhenruo thought about the most was about Li Zhenran.
Sometimes he feels that his brain capacity is really limited, and he thinks about Li Zhenran more than he thinks about the cause of his own death every day. It seems that the center of gravity of his life is slowly shifting, and revenge has become less important than Li Zhenran bringing a woman home This kind of thing is important, and he feels that he can't continue like this.
But so what? I don't think so, can he really be cruel
What Li Zhenran asked Yan Xiujie to bring to him was Li Zhenran showing weakness. That day he clearly said that he would be given one last chance to choose, but he chose to give up. With Li Zhenran's personality, he should never be ignored, but he still called Yan Xiujie to find him.
Maybe they shouldn't have ended so vaguely.
At this time, Yan Xiujie had already driven the car onto the small road, and Li Zhenruo came back to his senses and showed him the way to drive all the way to Aunt Wu's two-story building.
Li Zhenruo got out of the car, while Yan Xiujie reversed the car into the yard and parked on the right side of the yard.
The door of the small building was still locked, and Li Zhenruo was not sure if there was anyone in the house, so he stepped forward and knocked on the door.
No one responded, he took a step back and looked upstairs, when suddenly he heard a shrill cat meowing from inside.
Just as Yan Xiujie locked the car door, he couldn't help asking, "What's going on?"
At this time, there was another meow, sharp and shrill.
Although Li Zhenruo is still in human form now, he seems to feel that the hairs all over his body are standing on end. He can hear that the meowing is really painful, as if he can feel the pain too.
He stepped forward and slammed on the door, "Open the door!"
The people inside were silent.
Li Zhenruo was emotional, raised his foot and kicked the door hard a few times, and shouted loudly: "Open the door!"
Then, he heard a heavy footstep that seemed to be walking towards the door.
The door was opened from the inside. Standing in front of the door was a tall and gloomy young man. He looked at Li Zhenruo with a fierce expression, "Who knocked?"
Li Zhenruo took half a step back so that he would not get too close to him, and said, "Is this Wu Jiamei's home?"
The young man asked, "What's the matter?"
Li Zhenruo said: "I have something to ask her, can I ask her to come out and talk?"
The young man shouted, "She's not here!"
Li Zhenruo noticed that when he was talking, he kept his right hand behind his back, as if he was holding something, so he couldn't help being a little wary, and asked, "Who are you?"
Before the man could answer, something jumped out of the window of the room on the second floor. Yan Xiujie was startled because he was so close, and shouted, "What?"
Li Zhenruo turned around and saw that it was a cat that had landed in the yard. It was a garden cat with white fur and black patches, and one foot was stained with blood. It was screaming miserably and wanted to run outside.
As soon as the young man pushed Li Zhenruo away, he chased after him.
But Li Zhenruo moved faster than him. Before the man rushed over, he took one step over and hugged the cat, and then took two steps back.
At first the cat wanted to run, but it was a pity that it could not move flexibly. After being picked up by Li Zhenruo, it became quiet and meowed softly.
Li Zhenruo looked down at the wound on its leg, only to find that not only the leg, but also the back was stained with blood, he couldn't help frowning: "Are you crazy? What are you doing to abuse the cat?"
At this moment, the man pulled out his right hand that was placed behind his back, and Li Zhenruo saw that he was holding a kitchen knife in his hand, and he said, "Give me back Ajuan!"
Seeing this, Yan Xiujie hurried forward to give Li Zhenruo a hand, and said, "Be careful."
Li Zhenruo saw that the man's eyes were confused and his face was a little ferocious, he quickly backed away holding the cat, and said, "What Ajuan?"
"Ahh—" the man shouted, but he didn't say any more, and directly slashed at Li Zhenruo with a knife.
Li Zhenruo said to Yan Xiujie, "Run!"
Two people came out of the yard, one left and one right ran towards both sides of the road.
The young man obviously came out for the cat's pursuit, so he ignored Yan Xiujie and ran after Li Zhenruo.
Li Zhenruo was completely inexplicable, and ran all the way with the cat in his arms, not knowing how he could provoke a lunatic who abused the cat, but the kitten in his arms kept meowing, which made his heart ache.
Occasionally, I met two passers-by on the road. Seeing their posture, they all hid in the fields on both sides. Li Zhenruo also heard someone say: "The youngest son of the Liu family has gone crazy again!"
Li Zhenruo saw a small door opened in the front yard, and a girl was about to come out of the door. When she saw the situation outside, she trembled in fright and wanted to close the door. Li Zhenruo reacted quickly, rushed over, pushed the door open and forced his way in, shouting, "Close the door, close the door!"
The little girl slammed the door quickly, and stopped the person outside at the last moment, hearing the sound of the kitchen knife hitting the iron door.
Li Zhenruo and the girl were leaning against the door together, worried that people from outside would break in. Fortunately, the door had two big iron doors and the locks were fairly secure.
The kitchen knife cut it up but left a trace, so the man began to hit the door with his body, shouting: "Give me back Ajuan!"
The girl was so frightened that she almost cried, and yelled at Li Zhenruo: "What did you do to him? Give him back the cat!"
Li Zhenruo said: "No, he wants to hurt the cat!"
The girl said: "He is crazy. He thought the cat was Ajuan. Return it to him quickly."
Li Zhenruo was short of breath and asked, "Who is Ajuan?"
The girl said, "His younger sister was drowned while swimming."
Li Zhenruo couldn't hold back and cursed: "Fuck! You can't give it to him, he bullies the cat!"
The girl said, "What should I do now?"
Li Zhenruo said, "Is no one in his family watching him?"
The girl suddenly realized, "Oh, Aunt Wu, tell Aunt Wu to come back!" After she finished speaking, she yelled at her small building, "Mom! Call Aunt Wu to come over quickly, her son has gone crazy!"
The people upstairs responded.
They were in a stalemate inside and out, and the people outside kept banging on the door tirelessly. Li Zhenruo and the girl pressed against the door together, feeling that his strength was gradually weakening, but the frequency of the impact had not weakened.
The blood on the kitten's body slowly dried up, and the fur condensed together, still looking very pitiful.
After more than ten minutes, Li Zhenruo finally heard a woman's voice outside and shouted eagerly: "Ah Qiang, what are you doing?"
The little girl beside Li Zhenruo was obviously relieved, "Aunt Wu is back."
The two heard Aunt Wu's footsteps approaching, until they came to the door and pulled her son, telling him to stop making trouble and go home with her.
Even so, the two of them waited for a while before opening the small door and looking out.
The kitchen knife in the man's hand had already been snatched by his mother, but when he saw Li Zhenruo appearing with the cat in his arms, he still pointed at him excitedly and said, "He stole Ajuan and wants to take Ajuan to bathe in the river!"
Aunt Wu frowned and said, "That's not Ajuan, Ajuan is gone."
The man looked dazed and said, "Ajuan just wanted to sneak out to the river, I won't let her go! Tie her up!"
Aunt Wu touched his back, "It's not Ajuan, there is no Ajuan."
At this time, Yan Xiujie ran towards them, stood not far from them, and looked in this direction with some vigilance.
Aunt Wu apologized to Li Zhenruo and the others, and then said: "When he was a child, he took his sister to swim in the river, but his sister had an accident, and his mind was not so clear. Didn't hurt you?"
Li Zhenruo shook his head, "This cat was cut by him."
"Oh—" Aunt Wu didn't know what to say.
Li Zhenruo touched the top of the kitten's head and said to Aunt Wu, "Aunt Wu, I have something to ask you."
Aunt Wu looked at Li Zhenruo with a strange expression.
Li Zhenruo said, "It's about Li Jianglin's fourth son, Li Zhenruo."
Aunt Wu's face suddenly changed. She took her son's hand and stammered, "I, I'll take him back first." After speaking, she pulled her son and turned around to leave.
Her son was still looking at the cat, "Ajuan, you can't take a bath by the river."
Li Zhenruo took a step forward and said, "Send him back first, I'll wait for you to come out, and I want to ask you something."
Aunt Wu avoided his eyes, didn't answer him, and just pulled her son forward.
Li Zhenruo carried the cat and Yan Xiujie back outside the small courtyard of Wu's house. Aunt Wu took her son into the house and closed the door.
Li Zhenruo squatted down in the yard and put the kitten on the ground.
The cat walked with a limp, and although it was put down, it still clung to Li Zhenruo and refused to leave. Standing at Li Zhenruo's feet, she raised her head and yelled weakly at him.
Li Zhenruo gently smoothed its fur with his fingers, and said, "I need to find a pet hospital to show it."
Yan Xiujie stood beside him, turned his head to look at Xiaolou, and frowned slightly, "Why don't you come out? Do you want to knock on the door?"
Li Zhenruo said, "Wait a little longer."
They waited for another four or five minutes, and the door was opened from the inside. Aunt Wu stood at the door and peeped out. Seeing Li Zhenruo and the others, she said, "You go, I don't know anything."
Li Zhenruo stood up, took a deep breath, and said in the calmest tone possible: "Aunt Wu, did you give something to others in Li Zhenruo's room?"
Aunt Wu stared blankly at him, clutching the door frame tightly with one hand, her voice trembling, "Who are you? What does this have to do with you?"
Hearing this conversation, Yan Xiujie was also slightly stunned, and looked at Li Zhenruo in surprise.
Li Zhenruo said: "You have worked in Li's family for so many years. Although you are not as long as Wang Ma, Li Zhenruo has always been polite to you. Every time you meet, you are called auntie, and you have never been treated badly for food and lodging. Why are you hurting me?" Him? For money?"
Aunt Wu became emotional, and she spoke with a tearful tone, "I didn't harm him! No one told me what I want those things for? I don't know what they are for!"
Li Zhenruo felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but his momentum did not soften at all, and he asked sharply: "Who is it? Li Zhenruo was killed by them just like that. If you tell me who it is, it will be regarded as paying for what you did. Let Li Zhenruo You can go away with peace of mind, and don't come back to look for you again."
Aunt Wu's body froze all of a sudden, and her eyes flickered. Obviously she had suffered a lot because of this incident, and finally said tremblingly: "It's Young Master Zhu. He told me to find something in Li Zhenruo's room. He, He originally said to see if he could find some semen, hair, etc., but I didn’t expect to have a tissue with blood on it, so I showed it to him and asked if it was okay, he said yes, and gave me 2,000 yuan. What else? I don’t know, and I don’t know what it was used for. Later, the Fourth Young Master was kicked out, and I wondered if it might be related to this matter, but I didn’t dare to ask.”
As she spoke, she couldn't hold back her emotions and began to cry.