He Qiu opened the door of his house, and glanced at Mu Qin outside the door, and Zhou Yue in the wheelchair under him. Immediately afterwards, He Qiu opened the door and asked Mu Qin to push Zhou Yue in.
The first thing Mu Qin said when he entered the door was to ask: "Did any strange person come to harass you during this time?"
He Chou replied: "That's not true. The relationship between the two of us is very secretive. Those who follow you should not find me here."
Mu Qin sighed and said, "That's good, I'm afraid it will bring you some trouble."
He Qiu closed the door of the house, looked down at Zhou Yue in the wheelchair, and replied to Mu Qin, "It doesn't matter if it brings trouble, I have no relatives and no reason like you, and my address can be changed at any time. If I'm not feeling well, just get out of here and go somewhere else."
After finishing speaking, He Qiu couldn't help staring at Zhou Yue: "Is this your girlfriend?"
As Mu Qin's psychiatrist, He Qiu certainly has a good understanding of Mu Qin's life experience and mental journey. Out of the protection of patients' privacy, He Qiu usually takes his patients to private places, or Drive directly to his home, he will keep his patient information completely confidential and will not disclose it to anyone.
But it is precisely because he has mastered many patients' private information, and even deeper information. The identities of many of the patients He Qiu received in the past were sensitive and special, especially people like Mu Qin, and the information obtained from them was even more dangerous.
He Qiu, who has mastered these, knows that he may be probed or hostile. In order to protect himself, He Qiu signed a confidentiality agreement with each of his patients. At the same time, he basically lied about his work unit and home address to the outside world. He lives in a rented house and needs to change it every once in a while. He has five or six phone numbers and three mobile phones. Difficult to be traced.
It was because of this thought that Mu Qin called him in advance, hoping to temporarily avoid the limelight with He Qiu, and He Qiu agreed.
In order to gain He Qiu's understanding, Mu Qin basically told He Qiu all the situation on the phone. Committed 'debt', or for some other reason?"
"I think the reason is not me, but Zhou Yue." Mu Qin pushed Zhou Yue into the living room of the house, picked him up, and let him sit on He Qiu's sofa.
Seeing that Mu Qin was moving cautiously, He Qiu kept staring at Zhou Yue in his arms. After putting Zhou Yue on the sofa, He Qiu massaged Zhou Yue's legs. His concentration immediately made He Qiu realize that this man named Zhou Yue What a status in Mu Qin's heart, he couldn't help shaking his head regretfully, "If I didn't know that you already have someone you like, I would have thought I had a chance."
Hearing this, Mu Qin turned around and smiled at He Chou: "Stop joking, you don't like men."
"But if it's you, I don't think it's a problem for a man." He Qiu stepped forward to go to the kitchen, and asked Mu Qin at the same time, "Do you want to drink something?"
"Ordinary water is fine." Mu Qin thought about it, "I won't stay with you for a long time, maybe after a few hours, someone else will pick me up and Zhou Yue."
He Qiu probably understood what Mu Qin meant: "Did you ask your former comrades-in-arms to help?"
"I don't trust many people." Mu Qin looked up at He Qiu seriously.
He Chou immediately understood, and seemed to be a little happy to squint his eyes: "So, I am also one of the people you trust?"
Mu Qin sighed, couldn't help lowering his voice, and said, "Doctor, I'm not joking, wait a minute, after I leave here, I hope you can move out of this room immediately."
Probably Mu Qin's words were really dignified, his tone and expression were very serious, and He Qiu couldn't help being taken a serious tone by him, and said, "Is it really that serious?"
"At least I think it's serious," Mnuchin said.
He Chou could only helplessly spread his hands and said, "Well, since you've said that... Anyway, I often move, so I'll do it, and the lease of this room has almost expired, so I'll move too. Always ready to move out."
"Excuse me, doctor." Mu Qin turned his head and continued to look at Zhou Yue on the sofa, and reached out to touch Zhou Yue's cheek.
After that, He Qiu prepared some food and drinks for Mu Qin. Although Mu Qin said that he only needed ordinary water, He Qiu still prepared hot green tea for Mu Qin, but when he piled these things on the coffee table in front of the sofa in the living room Afterwards, Mu Qin basically didn't touch it, whether it was tea or snacks, he showed no sign of touching it.
"Your mental state is too tense." He Qiu looked at the things piled up on the coffee table, and then at Mu Qin, who had a gloomy face. He could tell at a glance that Mu Qin was still in a state of high tension. On the sofa, but Zhou Yue who was next to him was always close, holding Zhou Yue's hand with one hand, as if he was afraid that someone would jump out and snatch Zhou Yue away.
He Qiu tried to ease Mu Qin's mood. He pushed hot tea towards Mu Qin: "You are so nervous now, if something really happens later, then you won't have the strength to be nervous anymore, Mu Qin ... you have always been very calm."
He Chou's words are very reasonable, and Mu Qin actually understands this in his heart, but he can't relax himself for a while, so he can't help but smile and say to He Chou: "Doctor, what can you do? Let me relax?"
"How about listening to music?" He Qiu took out his old record, which he had bought abroad for collection, and he bought more than a dozen records in a row.
For some reason, Mu Qin suddenly remembered He Qiu's music box, and said to He Qiu: "Doctor, I like your music box very much. The music in it is a piano piece called 'Fate'. I heard my adoptive father play it, and now I finally remember the name."
He Chou touched his chin and said, "Do you like that music box? This is a collection gifted to me by a friend of mine. It is said that it was made by a very famous watchmaker. It was probably in the 1970s." It is very precious, but it also has a bad meaning. It is said that this music box is cursed."
He Qiu easily aroused Mu Qin's interest with a story about a music box, and successfully brought Mu Qin back to his normal pace from a tense state. Mu Qin didn't know this, but asked He Qiu out of curiosity: " Bad meaning? Curse... what does it mean?"
He Qiu said: "The story of the curse is just a story, don't take it seriously, but I can tell you if you want to hear it, the story is like this... In the 1970s, there was a watchmaker who made clocks for people. The clocks he made were beautiful. Practical and well-received, it has made him famous in some circles."
He Qiu continued: "One day, a rich and powerful businessman approached the watchmaker and asked the watchmaker to make a watch for him. This was originally a very simple task. The watchmaker's skills are sophisticated, no matter how complicated the client is. He can easily make the clocks that customers want, but the requirements of this wealthy businessman stump the confident watchmaker.”
"The rich businessman took out some bones and asked the watchmaker to make these bones into the clock he wanted. When the watchmaker saw these bones, he was shocked and said, 'What kind of bones are these?' The rich businessman didn't tell him at first. The watchmaker is the bone of something, just say 'I'll give you the money, you do it, and there's not much else to talk about.'”
"Because this rich businessman is rich and powerful, the watchmaker can't offend him, so he has to take these bones and carve them into clock parts...that kind of tiny gears."
"When the watchmaker was only halfway through the clock, he heard the news that the rich businessman had been arrested." He Qiu's tone was unhurried, telling the story just right, "It turned out that the rich businessman had a wife who was well-matched. But This wife was dissatisfied with the rich businessman looking for a mistress outside, so she also took care of a little boy to fight against the rich businessman. The rich businessman thought it was nothing to find a mistress, but his wife's finding a good friend made him very angry. He killed his wife in a fit of anger, skinned her The bones were removed, and the skins were hung to dry in his yard."
He Qiu said: "After the wife of the rich businessman died, his wife's family felt that something was wrong, so they ransacked the rich businessman's home while the rich businessman was away, found the skin and flesh of his wife, and then called the police immediately, and the police came to arrest the rich businessman. It was taken."
"After the watchmaker heard the news, he realized that the bones brought to him by the rich businessman were probably the bones of the rich businessman's wife. He wanted to use these bones as evidence and hand them over to the police, but he had already made parts of these bones into The watchmaker was frightened by the bones processed by himself. He was afraid that he would be regarded as an accomplice of the rich businessman by the police, so he gave up handing over the bones, but continued to hold these bones and prepared to use them to make Something brand new."
When He Chou said this, he stood up, went to his cabinet and took out the music box. He opened the lid of the music box, took off the two embracing little figures on it, and then lifted the cover to give Mu Qin looked at the inside of the music box, and there were delicate and small parts inside. There were many gears and some mechanisms that Mu Qin could not understand.
Although he couldn't understand such a delicate thing, Mu Qin noticed an important point. He found that the gears and parts inside the music box were all white...the white of bones.
Knowing that he saw it, He Qiu smiled and said to Mu Qin, "Understood? The watchmaker didn't continue to make bones into clocks, but instead made a music box, which is the music box you see now."
He Qiu re-covered the cover of the box, put the two small figures on it, and wound up the clockwork, so that the music box made a beautiful music sound, and then He Qiu put the box on the coffee table, listening to the music it played .
"This music box is regarded as a masterpiece of the watchmaker. Its story was told by the watchmaker when he was old and exhausted and dying. Later, this music box was collected by many collectors as a work of art, and it was lost among many people. However, people are surprised to find that every collector who gets the music box will transfer it to others as soon as possible, and ask the reason. Will keep having the same nightmare over and over."
"Nightmare?" Mu Qin felt as if he had thought of something, and couldn't help interjecting a question.
He Qiu smiled and said, "At least I've listened to it so many times, and I haven't had a single nightmare. Some of my other patients have also heard it, and they haven't had any nightmares when they go back."
Mu Qin didn't speak, he stared at the music box.
His silence made He Chou a little inexplicable. He Chou thought of the incident of hypnotizing Mu Qin before, and couldn't help asking Mu Qin: "You didn't have a nightmare, did you?"
"I don't remember..." Mu Qin murmured, and suddenly made a request to He Qiu: "Doctor, can you lend me this music box temporarily?"
"It's okay to lend it to you... But, do you really want to try if this thing can give you nightmares?" He Chou seemed to have guessed his intention.
Mu Qin said: "I want to try...doctor, can you lend it to me?"
"Lend it to you... well, but it's okay. If you really want it, I can even give it to you." He Chou said.
Mu Qin said bluntly, "Then give it to me!"
He Chou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "If you really had any nightmares, don't cry and return the box to me when the time comes."
"Don't worry!" Mu Qin joked solemnly, "I will use it to deceive others then."
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After staying at He Qiu's house for almost an hour, the person Mu Qin was waiting for finally came to his door.
Because I had called in advance to set up the password, when the person came to the door, he knocked on the door according to a certain frequency, that is, knocked three times briefly and violently, then stopped knocking for a long time, and then continued to knock three times, so that After repeating it three times, Mu Qin knew that the agreed person had come to the door.
After confirming the password, Mu Qin went to open the door for someone, and there was a familiar yet unfamiliar face standing outside the door. A man who is about the same height as Mu Qin looks very young. He is the kind of 18 or 19-year-old boy with slightly messy haircut, smiling eyes with crooked eyes, and looks very fashionable in his clothes. Ripped jeans, a black T-shirt, sneakers, and a blue blazer with a hood. He is carrying a guitar bag on his back, though it is not clear whether he has a guitar in it.
This fashionable looking young man is accompanied by another man. This man is dressed more seriously, wearing a suit, bow tie, and shiny leather shoes. His forehead bangs are all combed back, and his eyes are narrow and sharp. Her lips were pursed into a line, and she looked unhappy. Although she was clean and tidy, she gave off a sharp and sharp look.
"Xu Haoyu." Mu Qin looked at the two people outside the door, first spoke to the young guy, and called the other person's name.
Xu Haoyu was also very happy when he heard Mu Qin calling him. He danced and said, "Mu Qin! Mu Qin, you finally know that you are coming to me!"
Seeing Xu Haoyu so happy, Mu Qin couldn't help but smiled at him, he stepped aside, motioned for two people to enter the door, and said at the same time: "Don't stand outside, come in and say."
So Xu Haoyu and the man in the suit and leather beside him followed Mu Qin into Doctor He Qiu's room. He Chou was not surprised to see two strangers in the house, but went to the kitchen to prepare two more cups of tea.
Xu Haoyu observed He Chou for a while, as if wondering if He Chou was a threat. Seeing that He Chou handed him tea, Xu Haoyu took it politely, smiled brightly and thanked him, but then looked at Mu Qin again. Seeing Xu Haoyu's eyes, Mu Qin understood what he meant, and said to He Qiu: "Doctor, I have something to talk to these two alone. Can you go to the bedroom and stay for a while?"
He Chou nodded to express that he had no objection, and simply gave them the living room in his house. He got up and left for his bedroom, and even closed the door.
As for the man in the suit and leather next to Xu Haoyu, he didn't sit down on the sofa in the living room with Xu Haoyu and Mu Qin, but stood at the entrance of the house, guarding there like a guard.
"I know your situation is not very good, so let's not waste time." Xu Haoyu cut to the point as soon as he opened his mouth. Although he looks very young, he is also very fashionable and youthful, like a fresh meat, but The actual age is about the same age as Mu Qin, and he is also 27 or 8 years old. He once trained in the same army as Mu Qin, and then went to the same military department. He is the closest person to Mu Qin in the army for so many years. comrades.
"The purpose of calling you here is actually nothing else." Mu Qin considered his words. He and Xu Haoyu hadn't been in touch for many years. Since he retired from the army, Mu Qin never called Xu Haoyu again, and never used any means contacted him.
So suddenly calling Xu Haoyu at this time, and making people run all the way to Mu Qin's city, was really abrupt and abrupt. I felt that I would bring Xu Haoyu a lot of trouble, but Mu Qin had no other choice. Among the people Mu Qin knew, Xu Haoyu was the most likely and able to help him.
Xu Haoyu is a child born in a military family. Three generations of his ancestors have been in the army. His grandfather is still a major general-level officer, and his father seems to be a captain. Unlike Mu Qin who had to leave the army in a hurry halfway, Xu Haoyu can stay in the army for a long time. Under the influence of his parents, Xu Haoyu has good military quality and physical fitness since he was a child. There are many opportunities for promotion and development in all aspects , It's just that this guy's character is a bit foolish, and he doesn't have much interest in joining the army, but at critical moments, he is a very reliable person.
"I want you to find a way to protect my friend temporarily." Mu Qin said to Xu Haoyu, and at the same time turned his head to look at Zhou Yue beside him, "That's him."
Xu Haoyu followed Mu Qin's gaze and looked at Zhou Yue beside him. When he saw Zhou Yue who was as thin as a stick and looked like a mummy, Xu Haoyu was puzzled: "He seems to be sick."
"He did get sick," Mnuchin explained. "He's in a vegetative state right now."
Xu Haoyu seemed surprised: "Shouldn't you send him to a hospital or a nursing home or something?"
"It's not safe...you know what I mean." Mu Qin continued, "I think he and I have been targeted by a group of unknown forces. It would be fine if they only focused on me, but I can't take care of him, and his body He is not in good condition and cannot follow me around, so I can only leave him with someone I trust."
Xu Haoyu nodded: "I understand, you want me to take him to a safe place, preferably with medical equipment, where he can take good care of him and not be harmed."
"That's right." Mu Qin couldn't help looking at Xu Haoyu with some expectation, "Although I know that my request is very rude, but I really... can only turn to you for help."
Xu Haoyu replied very chicly: "No problem, I can still do such a simple thing... But, can you explain in detail who you are being targeted by? And, can I help you?"
Mu Qin didn't know how to describe it. He actually felt that what he had done was a bit too much.
He was only worried that those who wanted to snatch the white card would harm Zhou Yue, so he moved Zhou Yue out in a hurry, and after he found out that his home was also searched, he contacted Zhou Yue directly and quickly. Comrades who haven't seen each other for many years, please ask your comrades for help.
However, in fact, Mu Qin could not really confirm the existence of such a group of people who were eyeing himself and Zhou Yue. Perhaps the thief who searched Zhou Yue's ward in the hospital had no direct contact with the group who searched Mu Qin's house. , Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's just that Mu Qin thinks too much and overreacts.
Mu Qin was thinking about it, but he couldn't help but reached out and touched the blank card in his pocket. This card gave Mu Qin a very ominous feeling from the beginning. It was blank and stained. The bloodstains and the faint smell it exudes made Mu Qin feel panic and disgust from the bottom of his heart.
And Mu Qin couldn't even explain his inexplicable sense of fear.
He always felt that something terrible was happening quietly around him, but Mu Qin couldn't prove its existence to anyone.
Mu Qin simply stopped explaining, he raised his head and said to Xu Haoyu: "I can't explain too much to you, because I am completely confused, so besides asking you to help take care of my friend, I also want to Please investigate one thing."
"What's the matter?" Xu Haoyu didn't force Mu Qin to tell him everything. He knew Mu Qin's character. No need to get too involved.
"Help me investigate a person, military region No. B6703, a special soldier named Zhou Yue." Mu Qin reached out and grabbed Zhou Yue's wrist, and said to Xu Haoyu: "He is Zhou Yue, help me investigate how he was tortured back then. What about the mission he performed, I think there should be a file recording him at the Personnel Bureau, but I can't enter the military department now, and I don't have the identity to inquire, so I can only ask you."
"Okay, leave it to me." Xu Haoyu understood Mu Qin's meaning, and he continued to say to Mu Qin: "I have someone who can lend you."
Speaking of which, Xu Haoyu greeted the man in a suit standing at the entrance, and explained to Mu Qin: "He is my subordinate, and his name is Peng Zhe. This guy has been free for a while. I will lend him to you. You can call him what you want, let him protect you or do other things, he will completely obey your orders."
Mu Qin was a little moved and surprised, and asked Xu Haoyu, "Did you bring him here, did you mean that from the beginning?"
Xu Haoyu said that he looked at Mu Qin seriously: "Mu Qin, we haven't seen each other or talked on the phone for nearly five years, but in fact, you are still my best brother in my heart. When you called me today, I really It's a surprise, I don't know what happened to you, but you have never asked me for help in such an anxious tone before, you are a person with strong will, as long as it is something you can accomplish by yourself, you will Do it on your own, and you'll do fine."
Xu Haoyu said taking a deep breath: "Although I hated you before, because you never knew how to rely on me."
"But try to leave things to me occasionally." Xu Haoyu said, "Aren't I your most reliable friend?"