Well of Mystery

Among all the people, except Chen Chao who was staying in the mausoleum on duty, Curator Cheng and Minister Xu followed Xiao Li into a car.There was originally a seat in the car, but because the drunk Su Zi had been clinging to Zhang Han, Zhang Han acquiesced that he and Bai Xiuqi would go with him.

The thunderstorm had already subsided unknowingly. Due to the low temperature, a thin layer of ice slag was condensed on the ground, which reflected a layer of silver light under the illumination of the headlights.

Because she was going to get out of the car early to buy a mobile phone later, Bai Xiuqi sat in the passenger seat.Behind him, Su Zi had already entered a state of drunkenness—wrapped around Zhang Han like an octopus, and was still muttering something that no one could understand.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this should indeed be regarded as a very strange scene - a small employee who has just been probationary, but carelessly lay on the big boss's body and went crazy with alcohol, even if he was thrown halfway, it would not be surprising.

But Zhang Han didn't say anything, not even a word of greeting with Bai Xiuqi.He just quietly let Su Zi lean on his shoulders, motionless, as if he carried his whole world on his shoulders.

Half an hour later, the vehicle returned to Baiguan County.

It was [-]:[-] in the evening, and the main road in the county town was still full of people.Bai Xiuqi asked the driver to take him to the only mobile phone store in the county, and then turned his head to look at the people in the back seat.

"You go, I will send him back." Zhang Han said.

Bai Xiuqi nodded at him, then got out of the car and ran into the shop.

The black car restarted and slowly moved along the crowded street.

Zhang Han gently pushed the person next to him, and waited for the other person to respond before asking in a low voice, "Where do you live?"

"I..." Su Zi moved her lips.But he answered irrelevantly: "I'll get out of the car too, I can walk by myself..."

Of course Zhang Han did not agree to this request.He thought for a while, reached out to pick up Su Zi's old backpack, unzipped it and searched inside, and found a crumpled courier bag.

"Go straight to the family compound." He said to the driver, "Take us to the side door."

The county seat is not big, and the vehicle stopped outside the side door of the family compound after a few minutes.Zhang Han refused the driver's help, and helped the drunk Su Zi into the compound.

Come to Tailing to take up the post these days.This is the first time Zhang Han has set foot in this area of ​​the compound.The old concrete building is inlaid with cold iron windows up and down.The clothes that I forgot to put in the house shook stiffly in the north wind, and there were a few dogs barking in the distance.

According to the address on the courier bag, he helped Su Zi to the door of one of the units.

"key?"

"Hmm..." Su Zi leaned on his shoulder and twisted. "The jacket pocket..."

Zhang Han reached into the pocket of his down jacket, found the key among a pile of coins and receipts, and the door opened.He walked inside with his arms around Su Zi again.

The room is the east suite on the first floor.A small room with one bedroom and one living room, with white powder walls and concrete floors.There is no furniture, and there are cardboard boxes piled up one by one on the floor.It is a container for storing belongings.

Unable to find a suitable place in the living room, Zhang Han could only help Su Zi into the bedroom.

The bedroom is narrower than the living room, with only a simple wardrobe and a bed.The quilt on the bed was neatly folded, but upon closer inspection it was very thin.

It was cold in the house.Zhang Han helped Su Zi walk to the bed, and suddenly felt a cold wind blowing in front of him.

He put down Su Zi and looked around, and soon found that there was a hole in the window beside the bed, and the paper towel plugging the hole was wet with snow and fell on the window sill.

He went over and replugged the hole in the glass.Then I heard a "snap" behind me, and something fell to the ground.

Zhang Han turned back.He found that Su Zi had sat up at some point, took off his shoes and threw them on the ground, and then went to take off the bloated down coat on his upper body.

But he was still drunk after all.With trembling fingers, he managed to unzip the zipper, but was caught in the sleeve again.He twisted from side to side twice in distress, then fell back on the bed.The half-taken down jacket hung on his arm, and the coins and mobile phone in his pocket fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.

Zhang Han walked over, picked up the phone and coins and put them beside Su Zi's pillow, then bent down to support Su Zi's back, and helped him take off his coat completely.

Zhang Han noticed it when he was in the car just now——Su Zi's body is very light and thin. It's hard to imagine how such a physical quality can resist the severe cold in winter with only a thin quilt.

He asked Su Zi to lie back on the bed, pulled up the thin quilt and tucked it in, and put the down jacket on top of the thin quilt again.After doing these things, he thought for a while, and then ran to the closet to find a coat to press the down jacket.

As a result, Su Zi was tightly wrapped, only half of her blushing cheeks were exposed.His eyes, covered by long eyelashes, were as black as ink, and he didn't know if he was asleep or awake.

It seemed that there was nothing else to do, so Zhang Han planned to leave.However, he had just turned around when his right hand was gently grabbed.

"Don't go..."

This pull obviously didn't bring any strength, but Zhang Han still stopped.

He lowered his head and saw the hand sticking out from under the layers of quilt, so pale that there was no trace of blood, and the fingertips were as cold as ice and snow, as if they would melt away with just a little squeeze.

"Young master... don't go..."

Su Zi was still calling softly.

In just a few moments, his cheeks were already stained with tears.But there are more tears, which are constantly falling from the moist star pupils.

Under the influence of alcohol, Su Zi looked very weak, so weak that she didn't even have the strength to speak.

Zhang Han only felt his heart tighten for a while, he knew that there seemed to be some emotion in his chest, which was overflowing uncontrollably...

The fingers are the first to be affected.They were bending up little by little, holding Su Zi's cold hand carefully.The thumb rubbed lightly on the back of the bloodless hand, carefully feeling the slightly undulating tendons and bones under the skin, confirming that all of this is true.

But just before this touch deepened, an inappropriate voice came from Su Zi's pillow.

It was the mobile phone that fell to the ground just now, and it was ringing loudly.

Su Zi didn't move at all, she still held onto Zhang Han's hand firmly.Instead, Zhang Han glanced at the phone subconsciously, just in time to see the word "Zheng" on the caller ID on the screen.

The bell continued to ring, with no sign of stopping.In the middle, it automatically hung up once because the connection timed out, but it continued to ring soon.

It's really persistent...but it's all right.

Zhang Han gave himself a vigilance in his heart, and then slowly let go of his fingers, and twisted his wrist a little bit, completely freed from Su Zi's shackles, turned and walked towards the door.

The lights in the bedroom were turned off, followed by the lights in the living room.In the darkness, the last thing heard was the sound of the door opening and closing again.

When the sound of Zhang Han's footsteps completely disappeared at the end of the corridor, Su Zi suddenly opened her eyes.He grabbed the phone that was ringing non-stop and threw it into the open closet.

Bai Xiuqi was lucky.

He bought a mobile phone before the mall closed and got a new mobile phone number.After finishing all these, it was already around ten o'clock in the evening when we returned to the guest house.

The strength of the plum wine has almost completely dissipated, but the smell of the wine still lingers on the clothes.Although Bai Xiuqi was physically and mentally exhausted after walking all day, he still couldn't wait to take a hot bath.

After yesterday's "tuning", the water temperature of the shower was fixed at a relatively comfortable number, and the shower curtain was simply removed and thrown aside.Just as Bai Xiuqi was enjoying the relief and refreshment brought by the hot water, he suddenly heard something fall down in the bedroom outside.

Having learned from yesterday's painful experience, Bai Xiuqi was not in a hurry this time.He rinsed off the foam on the floor first, then slowly opened the bathroom door and looked outside.

Under the dim light, everything in the room was very quiet.After observing for a while, he realized that the mobile phone paper bag on the writing desk had fallen down, and a corner of the curtain was lifted to reveal the mirror-like window glass.

Bai Xiuqi had to laugh at herself, she was really a little nervous.

The water droplets all over his body had started to turn cold, he shivered, and hurried back under the hot water again.

But because he walked in a hurry, he didn't notice the figure flashing past on the window glass at all.

After taking a hot bath, Bai Xiuqi sat back on the bed contentedly, and began to study the newly bought mobile phone.The first thing he thought of, of course, was to call Jiang Chenglu.

This time the person who answered the phone was finally the right one, but Jiang Chenglu's voice sounded muffled, as if he had caught a cold.

"What are you doing?" Bai Xiuqi asked directly.

"My wife ran away, drinking with my brother." Jiang Chenglu replied rudely, "Whose phone number is this?"

"Whether you drank wine or vinegar, I can smell the sour taste." Bai Xiuqi didn't argue with him, and asked the main point directly: "Just now there was a storm and thunder on my side, did you come over?"

"It's really not me." Jiang Chenglu shook his head: "If I can still wait for you to call me? I would have punished you as a monster on the spot."

"You are the evildoer, the real thing." Bai Xiuqi covered the microphone to prevent Jiang Chenglu from hearing his upturned voice: "This is my new mobile phone number, you save it. You also live in room 404 of the guest house of the research institute. Make a note, just in case."

"What if, what if? What if you miss me? If I come to you now, what will happen to you?"

"It's not good. Anyway, the bed here is very narrow, and there is no place for you to come here. And you can't draw, and you can't pass the exam here..."

While muttering, Bai Xiuqi threw the towel to wipe his hair on the bedside table, and then lay on his back on the bed.