Circus...Circus!!!

DAY2

1.

01:35AM

The restaurant had a small front and low eaves, Li Lang walked in stoopingly, greeted the shopkeeper, and ordered a bottle of cold beer.It was early morning, and there were not many people in the shop, except for Li Lang, there was only one table of four young people gathering to smoke and eat supper.The buddy gave Li Lang a plate of peanuts, the beer was too cold, as soon as the bottle cap was opened, the cold air burst out, and in the blink of an eye, dewdrops formed on the green glass bottle.Li Lang touched the body of the bottle, his hands felt a little cold, he didn't drink, and peeled the peanuts with the plate.

Not long after, a tall and burly middle-aged man squeezed in from the entrance of the restaurant. He smelled like cigarettes. Li Lang could smell it two tables away. They both waved at each other at the same time. , what to eat?"

Li Lang pointed to the wine bottle, the middle-aged man smiled, looked at the guy leaning against the counter playing with his mobile phone, and ordered ten skewers of mutton skewers, two skewers of lamb kidneys, more spicy.The buddy didn't raise his head, he waved his hand, and went to the back kitchen while pressing the phone.At night, everyone was in a slump, and even the young people who were eating supper were silent, occasionally shaking the cigarette ash, occasionally looking at each other, and then continuing to play with their mobile phones.

"Have you worked overtime so far?" Li Lang took the tableware from the next table and set it on the middle-aged man, "Uncle Hua, I'm really sorry that I still found you at this juncture."

He said politely, added wine to an empty glass, and pushed it to Uncle Hua's hand.

Uncle Hua looked at him, looked around, and said in a low voice, "The clown caught in People's Park is indeed Liu Lu."

Li Lang was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "No, I didn't want to ask you about this, I couldn't make it clear on the phone just now."

Hearing this, Uncle Hua laughed heartily, with a bitter smile, he patted his thigh and said, "That's right, why are you asking about this, you and Liu Lu haven't had anything to do for so many years."

Li Lang ate the peanuts, divided the peeled and unpeeled peanuts into two sides on the plate, lowered his head and said, "That's high school classmates, they are not in the same class."

Uncle Hua asked: "Then why are you looking for me? Why don't you go back to bed in the middle of the night? I'm working overtime in the whole bureau to find and arrest people. You..."

Li Lang raised his head halfway and said, "My mother is lost."

Uncle Hua responded, drank half a glass of wine, filled it up himself, and wrinkled his brows little by little, before asking after a while: "I've looked for everything? I remember I got lost last month and went back to you guys." In the old house, I was squatting stupidly downstairs, I went to your father’s grave last month, and lay down in the woods and slept all night.”

Li Lang said: "I've searched for everything. The hospital called me in the morning, and I rushed over immediately. After checking the surveillance in the security room, I lost it at 06:30 in the morning. I just walked out the front door openly. Me and The nurse had a fight with the doctor and called the police, but as you know, calling the police won't help."

Uncle Hua grabbed a handful of peanuts and let out an "um" from time to time.Li Lang continued: "After leaving the hospital, I went to my father's grave, the old house, my grandmother's grandfather's grave, my uncle's and second uncle's house, but they couldn't find her."

Uncle Hua said, "Let me keep an eye out for you."

Li Lang said: "I have to trouble you, I know it's an extraordinary time, are you busy with that female robber?" He paused, touched the wine glass, looked at Uncle Hua, and said, "You just said , is the kidnapped person Liu Lu?"

Uncle Hua didn't respond, so Li Lang moved closer, tried to probe the ground, and asked quietly, "Is that the Liu Lu I know?"

Uncle Hua pulled out a smile, even more helpless than the wry smile just now, met Li Lang's eyes, and said, "Yes, it's the one who was suspected by your mother of killing your father, and even went to beat him many times, and almost made a fuss." Fuck you, your former high school classmate Liu Lu."

The corners of Li Lang's mouth curled up, as if he was about to laugh, but he didn't laugh, but said calmly, "That mess in our family is a mess, so let's not talk about it."

He raised his wine bottle and clinked glasses with Uncle Hua. Uncle Hua's skewers came to the table, and Li Lang ate a skewer. It was so spicy that he couldn't help it. He took a big gulp of wine to relieve some of the spiciness. He asked casually : "What's the background of that woman? I saw the news filming, she still has a big belly, is she really pregnant or fake pregnancy? Is it true that your police can't beat pregnant women?"

"When a woman is ruthless, it is called ruthless."

"Did they plan to rob a kindergarten spring outing bus? That woman was originally a teacher in the kindergarten."

Uncle Hua stared and said angrily, "I think you understand better than I do."

Li Lang bent his fingers and tapped the mobile phone on the table twice: "In the Internet age, no one has privacy."

Uncle Hua clicked his tongue softly, and shook his head: "Sooner or later, these people will make mistakes."

The two ate in silence for a while, Uncle Hua added a few more dishes, and then talked to Li Lang: "That woman is ruthless, she has already killed a female teacher, and she is already a desperate dog who jumped over the wall. Liu Lu has more bad luck than good luck."

"Is she going to exchange Zhu Wanquan with you as a hostage?" Uncle Hua took the initiative to mention this matter, and Li Lang asked along the way.

"Hey, I said you've changed your career to become a tabloid reporter, right?" Uncle Hua stared at Li Lang again, and Li Lang hurriedly smiled and said, "It's inevitable that you're curious."

Uncle Hua didn't pick up the words, and just ate the skewers, Li Lang said to himself: "What kind of character is Zhu Wanquan? The biggest black fish spirit in the fish pond was finally caught, and what kind of character is the hostage she caught? It's impossible to agree to change anything, right? Uncle Hua..." He winked, "You think so?"

Uncle Hua still ignored him, Li Lang simply acted as a detective, and analyzed: "But you have seen what this woman looks like, so it should be easy to find, right? Besides, now that the road surveillance is so dense, they are Did you drive a car? I think it’s fast to solve the case.”

Uncle Hua disdained: "Speak lightly." He stretched out his hand towards Li Lang, but Li Lang didn't understand, so Uncle Hua said, "I didn't bring my mobile phone with me, so I'll borrow yours and I'll call Xiao Lu, if your mother I went to our house and told her to take good care of her."

Li Lang handed over the phone, his phone was locked with a password, Uncle Hua avoided suspicion, put it back and asked him to decode it first.Li Lang was so busy eating chicken wings that he couldn't move his hands, and without raising his eyelids, he said, "My birthday is 1225."

Uncle Hua muttered: "I said you young people, there are so many things bound to your mobile phone now, if you lose your ID card and mobile phone together, will the password be cracked without blinking an eye? Is it so difficult to remember four numbers other than birthday?"

"I have a bad memory," Li Lang said.

"Why doesn't your address book save a single phone number?"

Li Lang reported a series of numbers, and Uncle Hua glanced at him: "Good guy, the numbers are all on the back, and you say you have a bad memory?"

Li Lang laughed and said, "How can I forget Xiaolu's number? Your precious daughter, my mother's future daughter-in-law."

Uncle Hua seemed to want to refute, but the phone was connected at this time. He gestured to Li Lang as "go cool off" and said in a good voice, "Xiao Lu? No, it's your dad!" As soon as it was green, Li Lang smiled straight.

"Why haven't you slept yet? Let me tell you something. Li Lang's mother is lost again. Don't worry, just listen to me. If she goes to our house, you should contact us immediately."

Li Lang listened silently, wiped his hands with a paper towel, and buried his head in picking up the peanut wrap in the peanut shell.Peanut wraps are thin and brittle, harder to handle than confetti, and will break apart with a little force and stick to your hands.He picked carefully, and when Uncle Hua returned the phone to him after talking on the phone, he remained unmoved, still sorting and sorting the debris in front of him.

"I'm leaving first." Uncle Hua left a hundred-yuan bill on the table, "You can go home and rest too."

Li Lang shook his head, blew away some of the peanut coats on the edge of the table, and said, "I'm going back to the hospital, sort out my mother's things, and see if there are any clues."

He raised his head, a pair of tired eyes met another pair of tired eyes, Li Lang smiled first, bright and generous: "Take care too."

Uncle Hua's Adam's apple rolled up and down, but he hesitated to speak. He patted Li Lang's shoulder twice, each time heavier than the other.He comforted him and said: "Don't think too much, your mother will find it, and she will come back, don't worry."

Li Lang put his hands under the table, rubbed his palms back and forth on his trousers, and finally gripped his knees tightly. Ten slender fingers opened and closed, closed and opened again. Because of the force of his fingers, his facial features couldn't help but tense. But he kept a very light smile and said: "I know, she will be fine, people can't lose it, I won't lose it, I will find her."

"I know." He repeated.

After Uncle Hua left, Li Lang was still sitting, and when the young people at the other table in the restaurant also left, he pointed the lens of his mobile phone at the small plate on the table and took a photo.The peanut shells on the plate are peanut shells, the peanut shells are peanut shells, and the unfinished peanuts are peanuts. The three categories are clearly distinct.

This photo is in front of some pictures of flowers.

It's spring, the willows are sprouting, the apricot blossoms are blooming first, the crape myrtle and peach blossoms are blooming one after another, and the begonia, evening cherry and rhododendron are opening their arms one by one.

Li Lang flipped through the photos on his phone, and he found that there was a kind of flower, whose name he didn't know. When it was in full bloom, it was pressed on the branches, like pink and white cotton balls. When the flowers fell, it was like crepe paper, piled up by the roadside Let anyone trample at will.

There are still some photos of animals in the phone, all taken recently, some have been adjusted to black and white, and some have not been modified in any way.

A boa constrictor is lazily coiled on a dead tree, a skinny lion looks at the camera through an iron cage, and the lower body of a zebra is soaked in the river.There is also a monkey holding a man's right hand.

That hand was very white, and the skin was like a transparent raincoat to it, gently covering its blood vessels and veins, gently hugging it.

"Pay the bill." Li Lang said, and the clerk came over lazily, looking at his mobile phone with great interest.Li Lang glanced, what the guy was watching was a video, the clarity of the picture and the quality of the sound were not very high, on the dim screen, a man could be vaguely seen sitting.The guy who counted the money noticed Li Lang's eyes, arched him, and said, "Have you seen it? The latest video! The woman who kidnapped the clown said she was going to explode!"

Li Lang withdrew his eyes, took the change, and sat for a long time until his calf was numb and he almost lost consciousness, before he got up.

2.

Hu Fenglan put away the camera. She used an induction cooker to heat hot water, took out a bag of instant noodles from the leather bag thrown on the ground, opened the bag, and threw the noodles in before the water boiled.When cooking noodles, she always had acid regurgitation and hiccups. Twice, she pressed her chest and bent over to retch, but in the end she didn't spit out anything except a few mouthfuls of saliva.She lit a cigarette and wiped away the spittle on the ground with the sole of her shoe.

"Damn it." She shook her legs and scolded her mother, the cigarette between her fingers shook off a few pieces of ash, which floated into the noodle soup.

"Damn it, the old three are bitches, let the younger brother come on top, and run away with the family, fuck, bitches, no loyalty." Hu Fenglan cursed for a while, half smoked Gen, turned off the switch, grabbed the noodle pot and turned around, throwing the pot on the table.The table was a square wooden table, she was standing on one side, and Liu Lu was directly opposite her.Some soup splashed on Liu Lu's face, and he subconsciously made an evasive movement.Hu Fenglan walked over and straightened his head, facing the pot of noodles, said: "Eat."

Liu Lu said, "I can't move my hands."

Hu Fenglan said: "Who said you have to use it?"

She tilted the noodle pot at an angle, and asked Liu Lu to put her head against the pot, so that her mouth could touch the pot and suck the noodles by herself.She was smoking a cigarette, looking down at the top of Liu Lu's head. His hair was black and shiny, and it was rare that it could still emit a lustrous luster under the faint light.Hu Fenglan said, "What shampoo did you use?"

Liu Lu replied in a muffled voice, "It was washed with soap."

"Fuck." Hu Fenglan was upset, and pressed Liu Lu's head into the noodle pot. Liu Lu shrank her shoulders, struggled to get outside to breathe, sneezed loudly, and two noodles sprayed out from his nostrils.

Hu Fenglan pointed at him and laughed, Liu Lu looked extremely embarrassed now, her lips were slightly swollen, her chin and collar were covered with red-orange soup stains, and there were a few dry diced carrots stuck to his neck .He is white and dirty.

"Do you know how to eat noodles?" After Hu Fenglan laughed heartily, her face became serious again, she kicked Liu Lu angrily, pulled the chair over, sat beside him, and snorted with the noodle pot in her hand. The noodles were eaten clean.

"You..." Liu Lu looked at her, and asked cautiously, almost furtively, "Six months?"

Holding the pot in one hand, Hu Fenglan gulped down the soup. After belching, she slashed at Liu Lu and said, "Eight months."

Liu Lu's eyes widened, and she stammered, "Eight...eight months? Eight months...that means she's about to give birth, right?"

"None of your business." Hu Fenglan looked down, swept across his chest, and said, "You should pay more attention to the explosives on your body when you have time."

Liu Lu swallowed, thought for a while and said, "No matter what, you will kill me, right?"

Hu Fenglan raised her eyebrows, threw the pot back on the table, sat with her legs spread apart, and stroked her stomach with one hand.She stroked her pregnant belly gently clockwise.

"Have you ever killed someone?" Hu Fenglan threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, "I did, today, I killed a woman, my former colleague, today I also killed four godbrothers, among them One was killed for blocking a bullet for me."

Her hands were still turning on her belly, as if about to create a whirlpool.

"My man is in prison, sentenced to death, and I'm pregnant with his child."

"You asked me if I would kill you, and I told you, yes, I will kill you one hundred percent, the question is whether to kill only one of you, or to throw you into the crowd and kill a hundred of them indivual."

Liu Lu listened very carefully without blinking, and said, "Didn't you already make a decision when you made the video just now?"

Hu Fenglan drank water, she sweated a lot, Liu Lu also lost a lot of water, her lips were chapped, beads of sweat hung on her eyelashes, and she was panting in a trance.Hu Fenglan asked him with drooping eyelids, "Did you owe a lot outside?"

Liu Lu was puzzled at first, then slowly shook her head, Hu Fenglan sneered: "Then you just want to commit suicide."

With her chin in her mouth, Liu Lu was even more confused: "Why are you talking about me all of a sudden?"

"I've been observing you for a long time. You have no intention of running away. You didn't take the opportunity to ask for help when you recorded the video. You know where you are now, but you didn't reveal anything. You even said you didn't want to die."

Liu Lu immediately said, "You are a paradox."

"paradox?"

"When you brought me here, you let me know my location, where we are, you are telling me, you will not let me live, even if I reveal my location, if I call for help, the police will beat you Are the bullets in the gun faster?" Liu Lu said, staring intently at Hu Fenglan, "I don't believe it."

There were bursts of stench in the basement, the smell of sweat, urine, and putrefaction mixed with each other and confused each other. Hu Fenglan's eyes were so smoked that she couldn't open her eyes. In the dim and hazy vision, she could only see Liu Lu, who was so black and shiny. The hair, the glistening white skin.

Hu Fenglan rubbed her eyes and looked at Liu Lu carefully.

Liu Lu leaned against the back of the chair, sitting upright, the stains left by the noodle soup dried on his face, it seemed that he suddenly had an extra birthmark, but his face was still pretty.His facial features are very delicate, his eyelashes are very long, making his eyes big and energetic, and his eyes are always full of water, so he can be tender and affectionate without making a fuss.His beauty caused the oil stains on the lower half of his face to transform into a round of sunset, spreading the warm radiance, making him a bright spot.

Hu Fenglan couldn't help saying: "You look very good-looking."

Liu Lu lowered her head.Hu Fenglan asked him, "What do you want to take?"

"what?"

"You asked me this afternoon if I could get something from the van."

Liu Lu said, "Coat, I'm afraid of the cold, it's cold at night in spring."

Hu Fenglan kicked him, and Liu Lu fell silent.Hu Feng got up in a hurry, she was full of energy now, and rushed over to greet Liu Lu with two slaps.

"You are courting death, aren't you?"

Liu Lu's head was like a rattle drum, swaying left and right. He insisted, "It's really a coat. Why did I lie to you? I thought you were going to take me to the mountain to bury me. I'm afraid of the cold."

Panting heavily, Hu Fenglan stopped her hands. She pressed Liu Lu's chest and tore off the red rope around his neck.

"An eyesore!" Hu Fenglan poohed, but the red rope was just a red rope, without pendants or ornaments, it was a simple red rope made of several strands of red cotton thread, and the joints were originally tied. It was a dead knot, and the cotton thread was fragile, and it broke when Hu Fenglan pulled it.She held the red rope and squinted at Liu Lu. His beautiful face was swollen from the beating, and the corners of his mouth were scratched and bleeding a little.His gaze was still quiet and full of tenderness, and he said in a blunt tone: "After I die, can you leave this rope to me?"

"Girlfriend gave it to you?" Hu Fenglan smiled maliciously.Liu Lu remained silent and licked the corner of her mouth.

The blood beads bloomed small red flowers around his mouth.He ate the flower.

Hu Fenglan froze for a moment, she went to lie down on a leather sofa.Her gun was placed on the sofa, she rested the pistol on her lap, leaned her arm against her stomach, aimed the gun at Liu Lu.

"Hey, clown, you said your parents are gone, are you an orphan?"

"Why do you have to discuss my affairs..." Liu Lu was reluctant.

Hu Fenglan's wrist twitched, she looked down, it was the baby's fetal movement.When Hu Fenglan looked at Liu Lu again, she suddenly felt that he was far away from her, 18 or 20 years away.

"How old are you?" she asked, the corners of her eyes moist.

"26."

"Your mother, do you still remember her?" Hu Fenglan had a hallucination, and she knew very well that all of this was an illusion.It is impossible for three springs to pop up in the basement for no reason, and hot blood gushes out for no reason. She is aware of her hallucinations.The sea of ​​blood is flooded, and a child is floating in the sea.The child is ice blue.Even Liu Lu was floating on this ocean, he took off his vest covered with explosives, he was like a bamboo raft, tenacious and dazed, drifting with the current.

Liu Lu lowered her eyes, Hu Fenglan choked up, and she said, "What about your father, do you remember him?"

Liu Lu raised her eyes: "Didn't you ask me if I have ever killed someone?"

Hu Fenglan pulled the red rope wrapped around her hand, and she felt that Liu Lu seemed to be pulled closer by her.She tugged again.She remembered that in spring, adults would take their children to fly a kite. The kite flies so high, the string of the kite is very thin, and it is easy to be hidden in the world, but the kite flyer pulls it lightly, and the kite will come back.

Hu Fenglan fell asleep.

3.

Liu Lu looked at the camera, the lens of the SLR camera was like a huge fish eye, very big and empty, reflecting a half circle of moist and clean halo lifelessly.He also saw Hu Fenglan standing behind a tripod and cursing at the camera.

This Japanese brand of camera is often used to record emotions in advertisements.

Hu Fenglan tied her hair into a ponytail. Her hair was thin, dry, and dyed flaxen. At that time, it looked like a bundle of straw dangling behind her head.

"You are not allowed to say a word, do you hear that?" Hu Fenglan spoke, pointing at Liu Lu's own gun, looking fierce.Liu Lu nodded, Hu Fenglan seemed worried, and grabbed a towel to cover his mouth.

The towel was full of sores, tattered, and smelled of blood. Liu Lu's tongue had to touch the surface of the towel. He had eaten gasoline, and the smell was pungent, and he couldn't help frowning.

Hu Fenglan looked at him, wondering what he was thinking, and pulled the towel out of his mouth again.She stuffed some biscuits into her mouth and ambled over to a sofa with a towel in her hand, where she put the gun down.Liu Lu's eyes followed her, and he saw that Hu Fenglan pulled out a plastic basin from under the sofa, poured several bottles of mineral water into it, and then supported the sofa with one hand, and pressed the other hand against her hip, In an extremely slow, cautious, and twisted posture, he bent his knees and squatted on the ground.She sighed and scrubbed the towel in the plastic tub.Sweat spread from her forehead to the tip of her nose, and flowed down her temples to her neck.

She sweats easily, gets hungry easily, loses her temper easily, and loses her mind easily.

Liu Lu was still looking at her intently. At this moment, Hu Fenglan raised her arm, rubbed her face twice with her sleeve, and raised a middle finger at him.

"Look at the fart!"

"I warn you! During the video, if you dare to say a word! I fucking..."

Liu Lu said, "You've said it once, I won't speak."

He added: "I swear."

Hu Fenglan threw the towel into the washbasin, leaned on the arm of the sofa, grabbed the leather cushion with both hands and finally sat down on the sofa. She lowered her head: "The oath is bullshit!"

Liu Lu's lips parted slightly, but she didn't make a sound.Hu Fenglan happened to catch this strangeness in him, and asked viciously, "What do you want to pick up?"

Liu Lu shook her head, raised her shoulders slightly, and then relaxed again.

"Fuck." Hu Fenglan stood up, and she gestured to Liu Lu to slit her neck, threatening, "Don't move!"

Liu Lu is like an answerer, she just agrees to whatever she says.Hu Fenglan untied the chains tied to him. The chains were heavy and rusty on the surface. Not only did they leave a few brown marks on his clothes, but even Liu Lu smelled of rust.Then, Hu Fenglan released the handcuffs that bound Liu Lu's left hand to the chair, and she repeated: "Don't move around."

She has a gun.

Liu Lu knew her subtext.

She will kill.

She can kill.

She put Liu Lu's left hand through the left sleeve of a vest, and then locked his left hand with the chair again. Liu Lu obediently let her dictate, and this murderous pregnant woman put a hanging on him. A vest full of explosives.

"If you dare to mess around, I'll detonate it immediately!" Hu Fenglan said, "This is Lao Liu's craftsmanship. There is an electronic control here. I have a remote control, which can be remotely controlled!"

Liu Lu listened, didn't have any questions, didn't ask anything.

"Damn it." Hu Fenglan pushed Liu Lu's head, messing up his hair.

After the vest was ready, Hu Fenglan started to record with the camera.

"This hostage is now strapped with three kilograms of explosives. I will take him to a place in 24 hours. I will inform you of the specific address separately. I will exchange him for Zhu Wanquan at that place. Listen carefully, if I detonate He was not the only one killed by the bomb, definitely not the only one."

Hu Fenglan had no other requests, she didn't have a means of transportation to escape, she didn't ask for money, she just wanted her own man.

It didn't take long for the recording to end. Liu Lu kept silent and quiet the whole time as promised.Hu Fenglan was not very satisfied with the recording, and lost her temper with Liu Lu.

"Are you fucking dead? You can't even cry? Damn it!"

"If you tell you to shut up, you fucking shut up, cowardly, I didn't even take the gun, are you dumb? You can't even call for help, should you have a girlfriend?! I'll tell you now! That was just now The last time she saw you! Regret it? It’s too late to regret it! Damn it.”

Hu Fenglan cursed and took the camera off the tripod, and even spat at Liu Lu. She carried the camera and went to work in front of the computer.

Liu Lu asked her: "Are you afraid that others will misunderstand that we are accomplices?"

"Fuck." Hu Fenglan bit her lips tightly.

Liu Lu couldn't understand what she was messing with, the computer screen emitted bursts of faint blue light, according to Hu Fenglan, he thought of some horror movies and science fiction movies.

In the dark night of the universe, a blue planet is shining brightly.

Liu Lu said: "Your man has done a lot of bad things. He sold drugs, smuggled arms, opened brothels, and harmed many people."

"Shut up." Hu Fenglan said in a deep voice.Her voice was not as high as before, and for some reason, the anger and irritability melted away and faded.She was stroking her belly, and the expression on her face became serene and quiet. She suddenly looked like an ordinary pregnant woman, like a lazy cat, as if she tilted her head and was about to share her unborn baby with her husband beside her. Ai Qingjing is having a fresh experience of fisting in her stomach.

Liu Lu suddenly had several questions.

"Are you going to send it to the police or post it online?"

"Will everyone see it?"

Hu Fenglan was noncommittal, and said sarcastically, "You expect Superman to save you?"

After she turned off the computer, she lay down on the table and took a nap.

She also gets tired easily and gets sleepy easily.

But after a while, she jumped up from the chair, her eyes were wide open, and she covered her stomach with her hands and looked left and right.She trembled slightly, as if she had seen a ghost, her mouth moved a few times dryly.Her back was wet.

Liu Lu could read lips, and what he saw Hu Fenglan said was: Don't come here, don't come here.