Chapter 325: Keep the clouds clear and see the moonlight
I haven’t seen her for some days, and the little witch looks the same as she did then.
He was thin and malnourished, with disheveled hair and only one pair of eyes as black and bright as purple grapes.
Su Chengyi looked at her for a long time, and the other party blinked, looking calm.
“Do you know each other?”
Ye Ju on the side observed for a while and couldn't help but asked hesitantly.
“It doesn’t count as acquaintance.”
Su Chengyi replied slowly.
He was just an accomplice who helped her cover up the crime of theft.
"Really? Xiaoxia seems to be very close to you."
Ye Ju was doubtful and added:
"She usually hides far away when the doctor comes to check, but she didn't run away when she saw you."
It turns out that you are close if you don't run away. Su Cheng thought.
"Forget it, Xiaoxia, come here, sister, let me introduce you."
Ye Ju held Yu Xia's hand and touched the top of her furry head.
"This is Su Chengyi. Although he looks bad, he is actually a good person."
"Su Chengyi, this is Xiaoxia. I am mainly responsible for taking care of her here.
Very well-behaved A little girl who can draw Looks good.”
“Okay, let’s shake hands~”
Ye Ju is like a kindergarten teacher, and Su Chengyi is very suspicious of her vast part-time career. Do you have any experience in daycare?
Yu Xia stared at him with her eyes, but her hands made no move.
Su Chengyi had no choice but to squat down and look at her level. At the same time, he spread out his palms and raised them slightly.
“Hello.”
Although I have met him before, we can now be considered a formal acquaintance.
After a long time, it seems that I have passed the examination.
Yu Xia stretched out her hand and did not shake it back. She just lightly brushed his palm with her fingertips.
"Okay! Xiaoxia is so good!"
Ye Ju touched her head again, and at the same time took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket and put it in her hand.
Su Chengyi lowered his eyes to hide his thoughts.
When they met before, the little witch was always wrapped in a wide floor-length nightgown, which is why he nicknamed her little witch in his heart.
Today she was wearing the same hospital gown as other patients. When she raised her hand, Su Chengyi clearly saw large burn marks on her wrist.
It looks like an old injury, and the twisting and twisting scars are actually a bit scary.
After Yu Xia took the chocolate, although her face was still expressionless, there was obviously a little more color in her dark eyes, and she seemed very happy.
But she was not in a hurry to eat, but turned around and opened the drawer beside the bed.
As if she felt that everyone in the room was trustworthy, she did not hide it.
Su Chengyi stood behind her and could see what was filling the drawer.
A few stacks of colorful transparent candy wrappers, like those left over after eating old-fashioned fruit candies, were carefully spread out and spread out evenly.
A flat iron box in the shape of a bear. If you read it correctly, it was originally used to hold wine-filled chocolates.
Su Chengyi recalled the time when Chocolate was suspected of stealing chocolate. Unexpectedly, the murderer behind the scenes also collected stolen goods.
Keychains for plush kitten toys, colorful cartoon stickers, and decompressing plasticine that are very popular among children.
This guy looks like a picker of rags.
Su Chengyi gave the final evaluation.
But Yu Xia seems to regard these as precious treasures.
She opened the iron bear box and carefully placed the chocolate Ye Ju had just given inside.
Su Chengyi took a look and saw that there was already a lot accumulated in it.
To her, it might be the equivalent of a piggy bank.
Aware of Su Chengyi's probing gaze, Yu Xia quickly hugged the box and took two steps back warily.
Su Chengyi raised her hand and explained helplessly:
“I won’t eat, I won’t eat.”
After a long while, she seemed to have made up her mind. He took a piece of chocolate inside, squatted down, and gently placed it between the two of them.
Ye Ju checked the lock on the window, and when he turned around, he couldn't help but exclaim.
"Oh my God, why are we, Xiaoxia, so sensible? We are also willing to share our favorite chocolates! That's great. My sister is going to buy you a big box tomorrow!"
Su Chengyi watched Looking toward the tightly nailed window frame, I found a pot of small succulents placed underneath. They were not lush, but a little wilted, as if they were malnourished.
It looks a bit like its owner.
After the routine inspection, Ye Ju obtained Yu Xia's consent and showed her picture album to Su Chengyi.
Speaking of which, this picture album was a meeting gift given to her by Ye Ju.
Because before I officially joined the job, I heard other caregivers complain that this little girl used chalk to draw on the wall all day long, which made it difficult for them to take care of her.
So Ye Ju bought a picture album and watercolor pens and brought them over.
In fact, it is the kind often sold in boutiques in front of schools. It is very cheap and common.
But this gift made Yu Xia like it very much, and it became a bridge for her to trust and accept Ye Ju.
Su Chengyi listened to Ye Ju's explanation and nodded thoughtfully.
It's hard for her to think of these methods. If it were him, he would definitely not have such thoughts.
I originally thought that the picture album would be the kind of common children's paintings, with blue sky and white clouds, a simple small house, and a few stick figures holding hands
However, the paintings that came into view made Su Chengyi frown instantly. He frowned.
The large swaths of dazzling colors and the weird shapes that are difficult to identify look like they were applied casually with your eyes closed. Overall, it is very abstract.
"Can you understand what this painting is?"
Su Chengyi couldn't help but ask.
“I can’t understand it, but it feels very powerful.”
Ye Ju looked nervous and turned back a few pages.
“Well, this one is easier to understand, it seems to be a person.”
Judging from the body shape, he should indeed be a human being, but the facial features on his face were upside down and misplaced, and his expression was twisted and horrifying.
Looking at it makes people suddenly feel very uncomfortable.
Su Chengyi endured the discomfort and turned back a few pages, not wanting to see that face again.
"Although, don't you think these paintings look wrong?"
"Well, this one seems a bit scary. I didn't see it yesterday. Did I just draw it today? ?”
Ye Ju frowned and looked at the latest page in the album.
Compared with the previous abstract paintings, this one is actually much easier to identify.
The upper left corner of the painting is a house, and a "person" is crawling out of it on all fours in a twisted posture.
Behind him was a large black shadow with messy brushstrokes.
Su Chengyi tried hard to identify it for a long time, but could not see anything in the shadow.
"Oh, it makes people feel a little uncomfortable."
Ye Ju closed the album and fell into deep thought.
Don’t the previous paintings give you this feeling? ? The insensitivity is too strong!
Su Chengyi couldn't help complaining in his heart.
However, with his art appreciation ability, apart from being uncomfortable with his intuition, he could not tell any more information.
In this case, it’s better to ask a more professional person.
Before leaving, Su Chengyi took some pictures in the album that impressed him the most and sent them to Chu Qingmian.
The other party responded very quickly.
"Su Chengyi!!! What are you doing in broad daylight! You're so scared!"
"Screen, scroll, scroll, scroll!"
"It's so scary!"
"I'm warning you, don't scare me! Otherwise I'll bite you to death."
Looking at the situation, I probably mistakenly thought that he was deliberately posting ghost pictures to scare people.
"I'm not scaring you. This is a painting by a little sister. Please help me take a look. Can you see any information?"
"Oh, then you can send it again. I just Manually delete those messages. ”
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Su Chengyi had no choice but to send it again.
Chu Qingmian’s replies took a little longer this time.
“It’s still scary if you look carefully!”
“Especially the last one, look carefully.”
The last picture was the latest one that Ye Ju just mentioned. Chu Qingmian edited the picture and circled the shadow.
“I can’t see it.”
“Oops.”
Chu Qingmian had no choice but to use her fingers to outline the outline of the pattern in the shadow.
Su Chengyi finally saw that there was a face in the shadow.
The teeth are sharp and the smile is hideous.
“It’s definitely not random scribbling, it has a story to it.”
Chu Qingmian made a conclusion on this.
“In the last painting, the person crawling out is running away, and the faces floating out of the room represent danger and evil.”
“However, how could a child draw like this? Where’s the painting? Could it be a nightmare?”
Under Chu Qingmian's explanation, Su Chengyi finally understood what this painting wanted to express.
At the same time, his thoughts became more and more serious.
Finally, he confirmed one more thing to Ye Ju.
"Can you help check Yu Xia's admission record?"
In fact, logically speaking, such information is personal privacy and cannot be disclosed casually. If it were Miss Chu, she would feel ashamed of this due to her high moral principles, although she would still help to find out with integrity.
If it were Chen Jinzhi, she would definitely tell the information and at the same time find out from Su Chengyi why he needed the information.
But fortunately the other party was Ye Ju. This guy nodded and agreed without asking anything.
"The admission record was from five years ago. Except for the name, other information is blank. Maybe the procedures at that time were not strict enough.
By the way, the last name of the person who handled the procedure for her High.”
This high is obviously the high of Gao Qiang Sheng.
On the car ride home, Su Chengyi looked out the window, his thoughts fluctuating.
By now it is obvious.
This little witch who is a master thief is the only survivor of the tragedy that Chu Yuanjiang mentioned.
From her paintings, some of the details of the case can even be restored.
She herself is the one running away in the last painting.
Chu Yuanjiang suspected that this case was related to Wu Shaobo, so he sent Yu Xia to a nursing home.
Of course, he obviously didn't do this because he was a super good person.
Just because he wanted to protect Yu Xia, the witness, as a pawn.
When he realized that Yu Xia was mentally disturbed and could no longer function, he quickly abandoned her and stopped paying attention to her.
Yu Xia grew up in a nursing home. Some time ago, she met Granny Xu, who was admitted to the hospital due to Alzheimer's disease.
Mother Xu may have had a bad memory and mistook her for her relative. She told her her home address and said something like, "If you want to eat, take it yourself."
So this guy really escaped from the nursing home and came to Qinghe District, which is near Su Chengyi's home, thus creating a series of thief incidents.
Because of this, she looked so confident when Su Chengyi taught her to stop stealing.
Because in her mind, she was not stealing anything at all.
Suddenly, all the clues were connected in this way.
Su Chengyi, however, had no sense of excitement about successfully solving the puzzle.
Because the story behind this puzzle is so bloody, it only makes people feel heavy.
And Su Chengyi always felt that Yu Xia was not "mentally insane" in the conventional sense. On the contrary, she was definitely sober.
But is this good or bad for her?
Perhaps it is easier to live in a hazy state than to face everything soberly.
Su Chengyi was very depressed because of what happened in the past few days. When he realized that he couldn't adjust on his own, he called and made an appointment with someone who knew what silly music is.
Su Chengyi straightened his back, drew the bow and string, and tilted his head slightly.
"Whoosh——"
With the sharp sound of wind, the arrow that left the string hit the red heart of the target steadily.
"Damn it, Boss Yi, have you practiced before? It's so accurate!!"
Xu Yang was holding a bow at the side and looking at him in disbelief.
Su Chengyi dropped his posture and said calmly:
“I practiced for a while before.”
“It’s so handsome, you can go directly to act in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" Let’s shoot the white deer in the snow~”
Xu Yang has always liked these cool skills the most, and his eyes almost turned into starry eyes.
The huge archery hall echoed with his monkey calls, and it was deserted, with only the two of them.
Belonging to the era of hot weapons, bows and arrows have long been outdated and become a symbol of the old era.
With the fully automatic repeating crossbow, even the last silent advantage is gone.
Because of this, bows and arrows have become one of the few weapons that can be legally held.
But of course Su Chengyi practiced bow and arrow not to use it as a weapon.
It’s just because when pulling the bow and string, one’s emotions are tense to the extreme, and when one holds one’s breath and concentrates, there will be no more unnecessary thoughts.
All that is left in the world is the arrow about to leave the string and the bullseye in the distance.
For the former Su Chengyi, this was a good way to relieve stress.
Xu Yang happened to mention it today, so he agreed. After shooting the arrow, he felt much calmer.
Xu Yang had just studied for a few days and originally thought he could show off his skills in front of Su Chengyi, but unexpectedly he was shown off in reverse.
The two of them sat by the steps, drinking water and resting.
Xu Yang secretly glanced at the expressions of the people next to him, and finally asked after careful consideration:
"Mr. Yi, are you in a bad mood today?"
"Is it obvious?"
Su Chengyi crumpled the finished mineral water bottle into a ball.
"It's obvious. When you were shooting, I would have stayed far away, otherwise I would always feel like you were going to shoot an arrow through your throat."
Xu Yang touched himself with a little fear. His throat felt like a bloody hole would suddenly appear.
Su Chengyi did not answer, just sighed softly.
“What’s going on? I need to talk to my brother about something!”
Xu Yang scratched his head anxiously when he saw him keeping silent.
Su Chengyi looked at the big golden retriever jumping up and down in front of him, suddenly wanted to laugh, and reached out to hit him on the head.
“Don’t worry, brothers will definitely help you if they can, no matter what, no matter what, no matter what.
What kind of relationship do we have? Tell me, don’t be coy and say it quickly. No matter what, It’s all on me!”
Xu Yang seemed really worried about his condition.
Su Cheng thought, is it so obvious? He thought he hid it well.
"It's really nothing."
Seeing that Xu Yang was getting anxious again, Su Chengyi had no choice but to continue:
"I just thought of some problems."
< br>“What’s the problem?”
Xu Yang looked unbelieving.
What else in the world can stump the non-human god of learning in front of me?
"Do you know about Zhou Yan?"
Su Chengyi asked.
“Well, Mu Mu told me.”
Even though Xu Yang was usually careless, at this time he still had drooped eyebrows and looked a little sad.
Su Chengyi thought for a while, then continued:
“Do you know why I feel I must help?”
“Of course it’s because of chivalry!! ”
Xu Yang waved his fist, looking ambitious.
"Mr. Yi, you are great, a role model for us! The only flaw is that you didn't call me!"
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Su Chengyi was silent for a long time, feeling that he should have guessed what was going on. A wise person would answer like this.
He always believed that he actually didn't have that much chivalrous heart. More often than not, he was even a cold-blooded person.
But when faced with such a thing, he had no way of just sitting idly by.
Especially as a reborn person.
If she was like a passerby in her previous life, in this life, Su Chengyi felt like she was the center of the world.
After all, even time has turned around for him.
So, perhaps it can be said that everything that happens in the current timeline is related to him.
The more you feel this way, the sadder you feel when you witness the suffering and regret of others and are unable to do anything about it.
"Mr. Yi, do you still remember a primary school text?"
Xu Yang suddenly asked confusedly.
“Which article?”
Su Cheng didn’t know why.
“After the storm, a man went to the beach for a walk and found many small fish trapped in the shallow puddles on the beach. Soon, the water in the shallow puddles would dry up, and these small fish would also follow. And die.
The man continued to walk forward and suddenly found a little boy in front of him. He kept bending down to pick up small fish and threw them back into the sea with all his strength.
The man couldn't help but go over and tell him that there are probably thousands of small fish trapped here, and you can't save them.
The little boy didn't even raise his head and replied, "I know."
The man was even more strange and continued to ask him, then why are you still throwing it away? Who cares? ”
When Xu Yang talked about this, Su Chengyi had already remembered the end of this text.
"This little fish cares."
The boy replied as he continued to pick up the little fish and threw it back into the sea.
“I care about this, I care about this too!”
“Mr. Yi, you are very cool in my eyes, really. You are the coolest man in the world.”< br>
Xu Yang’s eyes fell on the arrows embedded in the target in the distance.
"It's not because you are accurate in archery, nor because you are a super god of learning, nor because you know everything, nor because you are handsome.
It is because you seem to have the feeling of saving all sentient beings. A lot of things are done without any consideration for reward."
Su Chengyi almost laughed at his praise and coughed to hide her embarrassment.
This is almost to the point of praising him as a living saint, and the clever filter he applied to him is a little too heavy.
“It’s true! So don’t worry about these things.
Don’t even think about it. How old are you now? Things that can’t be solved now may be nothing more than water for you in two years! ”
It was rare for Xu Yang to speak so seriously and with sincere eyes.
Su Chengyi was suddenly a little moved. He didn’t expect that he would really be persuaded by the smart guy.
Yes, It's useless to stay where you are, just keep your spirits up and move forward.
No matter the obstacles ahead, there will always be a day when the clouds clear and the moon shines.
Thank you Ying Ying Jinghong Treading Snow Mud and the Only God Bishop for the reward, and thank you all for your subscription and voting support!
(End of this chapter)