I unzipped the bag and its contents were a disappointment to everyone. I saw that the bag contained several bank cards and the rental form for this store.
Everyone present counted each other, and all smiled helplessly. I originally thought this would be something useful, but unexpectedly it was the deposits and rent slips of Huang Li and Cao Xuedong. I smiled bitterly and put the bag on the mattress, and looked around the cabin.
To be honest, there wasn't much to look at here, since there was nothing else besides the bed and the dresser. Judging from the marks left on the wall, there should have been something similar to a portable wardrobe opposite the double bed. It might have been taken away when the two of them left. Now the only things left in the house were the dresser and the bed. Since there was nothing on the bed, it was natural to look for the dresser.
Zheng Shuang squatted in front of the dressing table and opened the drawers one by one, only to find that in the drawers of the dressing table, apart from the invoices left unknown when, there were empty cigarette boxes one by one. Zheng Shuang sighed and said, "Hey, it seems there is no hair here." He stood up and patted the dressing table.
In fact, it is said to be a dressing table, but it is actually similar to an old-fashioned writing desk. The drawer is also removable. After pulling the drawer out, it will be empty inside. Wait a minute! Thinking of this, I quickly walked to the dresser, reached out and pulled out all the drawers one by one. Zheng Shuang looked dumbfounded next to me, and Lin Feng said at this time: "Damn it, why didn't I think of it! This is a trick to hide private money when I was a kid!"
As Lin Feng finished speaking, I already saw a small paper box leaning on the floor behind the dressing table, smaller than a shoe box. Zheng Shuang quickly took out the cardboard box, stood up and placed it on the dressing table. The mobile phone's flashlight shone on the box at close range, and the light became brighter. It turned out to be a box containing cookies, with a "cookies" sign written on the box. I shook the box, wanting to hear what was inside. Chong Xi was speechless: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, that was a bank card just now, isn't it a bankbook this time?"
I shook my head and opened the box. I saw a small notebook and a few photos inside the box. I raised the notebook and looked around, and found that everyone was also confused. I opened the first page of the small book and saw it through the light of my mobile phone. It read, "On September 24, 2014, the instructor accepted my invitation and had lunch with me today. Everything went smoothly. , but that man named Murong Shiyan is really hateful, it would be great if he could disappear."
I suddenly looked up and said: "This is Huang Li's diary, and it started when she first entered university. It was when she and Cao Xuedong first started." As I said that, I turned directly to the last page with words. . I saw it said "July 4, 2018. People from my father's company came to see me today. I was scared. Fortunately, Xuedong went out to purchase goods today and was not at home. My father asked me to go to the company to work with Xuedong, but The flower shop run by the two of us has finally taken off, and we have just saved up enough money to rent a decent house. Now I am scared when I think of my father when I was a child, and I don’t want to go.”
Several of us looked at each other. This is the last page of this diary, and everything after that is blank. I flipped through a few pages in the middle and found that Huang Li's diary was not written every day. Sometimes the dates in the diary were consecutive, and sometimes they were separated by several days or even ten days. The content also starts from her pursuit of Cao Xuedong, to the two actually falling in love after Cao Xuedong retired from the army. I lit a cigarette and looked through the contents of this diary. It turned out that Huang Li's parents were divorced and she was living with her mother. The diary did not mention the reason why Huang Li's parents divorced, nor did it mention the name of Huang's father's company. It only mentioned Huang's father's "terribleness" many times in the diary.
The diary also wrote in detail that after Cao Xuedong was discharged from the army, he rented this small shop with his own allowance. From then on, Huang Li and Cao Xuedong depended on each other here. Although life is hard, the sweetness in Huang Li's heart is everywhere between the lines. From this we can see Huang Li's sincerity towards Cao Xuedong.
I closed the diary and picked up the stack of photos in the box. There are some old and new photos, the ones at the bottom look very old. The photo shows a young man and woman holding a four or five-year-old child, standing in front of the earthquake monument. The time "October 1, 1999" was written on the lower left corner of the photo. I smiled and said, "It seems that this should be a photo of Huang Li when she was a child." Zheng Shuang looked at the photo and nodded. The next few photos are also from 2000 to 2002, all of Huang Li and her parents. However, there have been no photos of Huang Li's parents since 2002. It can be inferred from the diary that Huang Li's parents divorced around that time. Huang Li was only seven years old at that time. I asked why Huang Li was so excited when I mentioned the "father's love" part. That's why she was so excited.
The next few photos are new, taken within the past two years. I looked through them one by one and found that they were wedding photos taken by Huang Li and Cao Xuedong. Although they are enemies, seeing this pile of wedding photos makes me smile. He handed the photo to Zheng Shuang and said, "Come on, let's go back first. We will continue tomorrow." With that, he took the lead and walked outside. Zheng Shuang asked me from behind: "Where are we going tomorrow!?"
Back at Nanhu Villa, a few of us were sitting on the sofa, with Huang Li's diary on the coffee table. I said: "Whether it is from the photos or the diary, it is not difficult to see that Huang Li has a deep affection for Cao Xuedong." Zheng Shuang didn't understand what I meant and asked subconsciously: "So?" I took a puff of smoke. : "So don't you think it's strange?" Everyone said in unison: "What's strange?" I licked my lips and looked at Xiao Baihua and said: "Hua'er, if we are put into the roles of Huang Li and Cao Xuedong, can you Can't you tell something is wrong?"
Xiao Baihua blinked, thought for a while and then shook her head. I looked at Lin Feng again and asked, "Brother Lin, if you and Yuanyuan were put in their roles, would you feel something is wrong?" Lin Feng frowned and thought for a long time, but found nothing. I shook my head helplessly and looked at Chong Xi: "Where is Chong Xi? What if you and Xiao Yu..." Before I could finish my words, seeing Chong Xi's confused look on his face, I was in no mood to ask further.
Na San came in carrying a box of Coke from outside the door, put the Coke on the coffee table, then took out the change from his pocket and handed it to me. I distributed the Coke to everyone, opened a can of Coke with a "pop" and took a sip. Then I said: "We overlooked one thing earlier! Do you still remember the time when the three of us broke into the Eight Gates Formation?" Everyone nodded, of course, except San and Chongxi. I shook my head and said: "Since Huang Li has such deep affection for Cao Xuedong, why did Huang Li ignore Cao Xuedong's body when I collected his soul and fell into the villa? Huang Li even learned that Cao Xuedong's soul was separated from his body, which was still the second time. Did I tell her this morning? Does this seem like something a person with deep feelings would do?"
Zheng Shuang was the first to react and took a breath of cold air! "That's right! I didn't expect this before! If he were a normal person, he would never disappear for one night without caring about his lover's life or death. Even if he was 100% sure, he would never sit back and relax and ignore it!" Lin Feng also said: She patted her thigh and said, "That's right! Huang Li had a calm expression when she came to see us that day. Logically speaking, if she saw that we were all safe, something must have happened to Cao Xudong, but she still looked indifferent. This is not normal!"
The old lady held the Coke in confusion and said: "But what does this mean?" I exhaled and said: "This means that something happened to Huang Li and Cao Xuedong, which caused the two to become strangers. If what I said If your guess is correct, it should be what Huang Li said about what her father did to them. Although we don't know what it is yet, we can be sure that it will change people's temperaments. Just like Huang Li and Cao Xuedong, It's inhumane. Don't you think that Huang Li, Cao Xuedong, and the other four people with indifferent faces you saw today are all like walking zombies? "
Xiao Baihua sat next to me and asked curiously: "Then what happened to them?" Chongxi and I looked at each other, and Chongxi said: "When I was interrogating Huang Li, I discovered that Huang Li has three souls. The situation is unstable." I nodded and continued: "I suspect that what Huang Li's father did to them was to manipulate the three souls. You must know that people with incomplete souls will be in a state of stupidity. Zheng Shuang should know this, right?"
Zheng Shuang nodded and said: "Of course. Isn't that what the third thinker in the Bagua Sect was like?" I nodded and continued: "Huang Li and others are different from that third thinker. That third thinker was... I took away part of the soul, so I can only act instinctively. But Huang Li and others are different. Obviously their ability to move and think is sound, but they seem to have no emotions. It's like... "
Zheng Shuang quickly asked: "What does it look like?"