At three o'clock in the morning, Li Manshui woke up again from his dream.

It has been a month, and she has been having the same dream for a month.

In the dream, Li Manshui was standing by a lake next to the school, and on the opposite side of the lake was a man.

The man with his head down, wearing a blue shirt and jeans, stared quietly at the water.

Obviously not far away, but Li Manshui still couldn't see his appearance clearly.

She always felt that the man had something to say, but every time the man was about to raise his head, she would wake up.

It was midsummer, but Li Manshui's clothes were mostly soaked in cold sweat.

After Li Manshui woke up, he no longer felt sleepy, and kept his eyes open until dawn.

After everyone else in the dormitory got up, she slowly got up from the bed.

Xu Jian, who was on the lower berth, looked up at her, and said in surprise, "Didn't sleep well again, why is your face so bad?"

Li Manshui walked to the mirror and took a look at himself. The person in the mirror was pale and his lips were bloodless.

"Ah... a little insomnia lately, it's okay." Li Manshui said a few perfunctory words casually, but Xu Jian's eyes behind him never left.

"Because of what happened before?" Xu Jian asked leisurely while pouring water into the cup.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Li Manshui knew that he couldn't hide it from her, so he nodded, "Yes."

A month ago, the river near the school died.

It was Saturday morning, and everyone had to get up early because of exams.

"Oh, it's really annoying. I have to take some computer exams on Saturday. There are so many messes."

Everyone was complaining, but whoever suddenly yelled: "The people below are dead!"

In an instant, the surroundings were silent for a while, and then they became noisy again.

Xu Jian was the first to rush to the balcony and pull the window to watch. Li Manshui also got out of bed and put on slippers. He was still in a daze and lay on Xu Jian's body.

"Did he stumble into the water and drown while drunk, or did he not want to commit suicide?" Xu Jian raised his shoulders, turned his head to look at Li Manshui, and asked like a cannonball.

"Huh? Maybe he was murdered."

"That murderer is too stupid. There is a lot of traffic near the school hospital, so it's easy to be discovered."

Li Manshui didn't reply anymore, she looked at the corpse in the lake quietly.The police were picking him up, surrounded by a few onlookers, who were far away and did not dare to approach.

"Don't look around now, hurry up and wash and change clothes, we still have to rush to the exam." Xu Jian stretched out his hand and pulled Li Manshui's hair, signaling her to get up quickly and stop pressing herself.

Li Manshui responded, and obediently went to change clothes.

Death is nothing more than an ordinary thing, and no one can escape the matter of life and death.But the strange thing is that from that day on, Li Manshui began to have that dream, every night.

On the first night, Li Manshui opened his eyes and found himself standing by the lake, which was the one near the school and the one where the dead man was.

As soon as Li Manshui raised her head, she saw the man opposite, and she staggered back a few steps in fright.

Isn't this the man who died in the lake this morning!

Although he couldn't see his face clearly, his clothes were exactly the same, and...and...although the man lowered his head, Li Manshui could clearly feel that he was staring at him!

"Ah..." Li Manshui wanted to call for someone to save him, but he couldn't say a word at all, he could only make a sound of "ahhh".She wanted to escape from here again, but her feet were as heavy as lead, and she couldn't move.

The two of them stood quietly facing each other in the dream, neither of them moved halfway.

Suddenly, the man on the opposite side moved, and he slowly raised his head!

As if someone was choking her neck, Li Manshui couldn't help but dare not breathe. She wanted to close her eyes and not look, but she couldn't close her eyelids anyway. If you want to see it, you will see it. What to do, why stare at yourself?

"Am I going to die in a dream?" The last thought came to Li Manshui's mind, and just when she was about to see the man's face, she woke up from the dream.

Li Manshui gasped for breath and tried to calm himself down.

Why do you have this dream?Why is that man staring at himself like this?

Too many whys are backlogged in her heart, making it difficult for Li Manshui to fall asleep again, or in other words, she dare not fall asleep again.

The consequence of not getting enough sleep at night is to doze off in class. After a month of such fearful days, no one can stand it anymore.

Li Manshui was afraid that if he continued like this, he would really collapse, or he would go crazy.

"...Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Xu Jian was a little dissatisfied that Li Manshui kept it from him.

"It doesn't matter if you say it sooner or later, I think I should go to the temple to burn incense." Li Manshui responded weakly.

Xu Jian rolled his eyes: "What kind of incense to burn, sleep peacefully tonight, I have plenty of solutions."

Li Manshui glanced at her, full of suspicion.

"Look at it, when did you encounter something that couldn't be solved, and I didn't solve it for you, but now you don't believe me?"

"Then what if I wake up scared tonight?"

Xu Jian stretched out his hand and tugged at her hair: "Then you come down and sleep with me, I won't be angry if you wake me up, go to class now!"

"Okay, okay, don't pull my hair. If it becomes bald, I'll pull it out for you too!"

All morning, Li Manshui was thinking about how Xu Jian would help him solve the problem.

With my appearance, I am afraid that I have provoked some dirty things, ghosts, or evil spirits?Could it be that Xu Jian also knows how to exorcise evil spirits and avoid ghosts?

Just like that, Li Manshui stared at the back of Xu Jian, who was sitting diagonally across from him, in a daze all morning, and his mind was in a mess.

There was no class in the afternoon, so Li Manshui returned to the dormitory after eating, and there was no one there, and Xu Jian, who always liked to stay in the dormitory and read books when he had nothing to do, was also there.

"What is she doing out in this weather?" The sun outside was quite scorching, and in the afternoon when there were no classes, the rest of the people either went home or went back to the dormitory to lie down.Compared with other people in the dormitory, my home and Xu Jian's home are relatively far away. Unless there are holidays, the two of them stay in the dormitory when they have nothing to do.

It was almost dinner time when Xu Jian came back from the outside. She held an umbrella and seemed to be holding something in her left hand, and she was walking slowly towards the dormitory building.

Li Manshui narrowed his eyes, trying hard to identify what she was holding, but Xu Jian pinched it too tightly and it was too small to see clearly.Forget it, anyway, she will know when she enters the dormitory.

As soon as Xu Jian entered the dormitory door, he threw something over. Li Manshui caught it, but it was just an ordinary sachet?

Li Manshui pinched it hard, and there was a hard thing inside, which seemed to be made of wood.

"What is this, wood?" Li Manshui asked curiously.

"Put it next to your pillow tonight, so you can sleep soundly." Xu Jian didn't answer his own question, but only talked about how to use this thing.Li Manshui knew that if she didn't want to say it, it would be useless to ask, so she had to answer.

I hope I can sleep well tonight.

This summer night was extremely hot, the cicadas outside the window kept screaming, the wind passed through the forest, and the leaves rustled.

It was three o'clock in the morning again, and Li Manshui fell into that dream again.

At the same time, Xu Jian who was on the lower bunk slowly opened her eyes. She got up gently, leaned against the head of the bed, and stared at the moon outside the window expressionlessly.

"Full moon..."

At this time, Li Manshui's breathing suddenly became rapid, as if he encountered some terrible situation in a dream, and it took about four or five minutes before he gradually calmed down.

When Xu Jian saw that she had finally calmed down, he was relieved and lay down.

It was only six o'clock the next morning, when Li Manshui opened his eyes, he rushed to the person on the lower bunk and shouted, "Xu! Cut!"

"Tsk... why are you bothering the people on Saturday morning, and there is no exam today." Xu Jian turned over and muttered dissatisfied.

"Oh, disturbing you is not disturbing the people, and..." Li Manshui scolded quite angrily, "Didn't you say that I could sleep soundly last night, what a fart to be safe!"

Xu Jian turned to face Li Manshui who was on the upper bunk, and blinked: "Yes, I said I could sleep soundly, but I didn't say who it was, anyway, I slept soundly."

Li Manshui's expression gradually froze, and he looked at Xu Jian in disbelief.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha!" Xu Jian looked at her with a silly face, and laughed endlessly on the bed.

Only then did Li Manshui realize that he had been tricked, rolled his eyes and turned back, ignoring Xu Jian.

Xu Jian reached out and knocked on the fence: "Hey, the dream I had last night must have been different, so tell me about it."

"I thought you knew what I was dreaming about." Li Manshui lay on the bed rail, looked at Xu Jian who closed his eyes again and said softly.

"I'm not a god, how come you know everything in your dreams?"

"Last night..." Li Manshui recalled the different dream last night.

At the same time, she and the man were standing opposite each other across the lake, with their heads still bowed.

But this time, Li Manshui found that he could speak.

"You..." Hearing her voice, the man slowly raised his head and looked over.

It was an ordinary face that could no longer be ordinary.

Li Manshui swallowed a little nervously, and continued to ask: "Why do you keep coming to my dream? Did you let me have this dream?"

The man stared at her in silence for 2 minutes before he said, "Kill him."

"Huh?" Li Manshui didn't react for a while, and looked at him in astonishment.

"It was him, he killed me!" The man suddenly became emotional.

Li Manshui asked cautiously, "Who is it?"

"My twin brother."

"and then?"

"Not anymore." Li Slowwater blinked innocently.

Xu Jian looked at her expressionlessly, and after a long time, he said a word: "Is he sick?"

"Huh? Why are you scolding people!"

Xu Jian glanced at her and said, "According to what he said, we have to find his murderer brother to help him solve it, otherwise we will continue to pester you?"

"But how do we know who his younger brother is? It seems that this man is really sick, and he can't speak clearly!"

"However, who am I?" Xu Jian suddenly smiled, "As for the matter of investigating information, leave it to me, and you can tell me at any time if there is any situation, you know?"

"Well, so what kind of person are you? An exorcist? A witch? Or a dancer?"

Xu Jian sneered: "Of course I'm... a rich second generation with connections."

"..."

With a "bang", before Li Manshui could say anything, Xu Jian put on his coat and went out.

Inside a police station in City B.

Xu Jian sat on the chair boredly, rocking back and forth.

"Why did the eldest lady come here today?" The man who spoke was about 40 years old, with a high-spirited air, not angry and pretentious.

"Uncle, have you received any cases recently?"

"There are no major cases, but there are many small cases. Why, when did you become interested in these?"

"Then... the recent case that happened on the river next to my school, you should have a file record, right?"

"The one who committed suicide? What do you want his file for?" The man called uncle couldn't help but feel a little strange. Usually, this young lady who doesn't care about world affairs would be curious about these cases.

"That seems to be a distant relative of my classmate, but I haven't contacted for a long time and I'm not sure. I'm very worried that I can't get in touch now. Thinking that I have connections, please ask me to take a look. Uncle, look, at least classmate One, this is not a particularly big case that needs to be kept secret, I have promised them, if I don’t help, it will be a breach of promise.” If running the train with a mouthful is considered a crime, Xu Jian must be the first to go go to jail.

"That's what I said, but let's not take this as an example. Don't always be a good person, otherwise people will think you are easy to bully." Gu Zhaoyi said, turning to find the man's file.

Xu Jian sat paralyzed on the chair, staring at the ceiling in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Here, this man is an immigrant who came to work in city B." Gu Zhaoyi handed over a file, only about a few thin pages, as short as the life of the deceased.

"Wang Mingli, male, 46 years old, married, has a daughter..." Xu Jian quickly memorized it in his mind while flipping through the pages.

"This man's wife passed away two years ago. It seems that because the family was poor, in order to support their daughter's education, the couple finally decided to give up treatment. They are also poor people." Gu Zhaoyi sighed, there are so many poor people in the world.

"Then does he have any family members, such as sisters and brothers?" Xu Jian closed the file and looked up.

Gu Zhaoyi thought for a while and replied: "Yes, he also has a twin brother named Wang Mingshi, but he is not in city B, but works in city D far away. In addition to notifying the deceased's daughter, we also notified his brother. But , after all, we are so far away, and he won't be able to come here in a while."

Xu Jian tapped the table lightly with his index finger, and continued to ask some questions.

In the end, Xu Jian came to a conclusion: "Uncle and my classmate made a mistake, this is not her relative, I'll go and see you later!" Gu Zhaoyi, who hadn't reacted yet, was left alone in the office in a mess.

Sitting on the subway back to school, Xu Jian went through all the information he had obtained before in his mind.

The deceased, Wang Mingli, his wife passed away due to illness two years ago, and he was working in city B. Apart from his daughter Wang Ruxue, the only family member he has now is the younger brother whom he called the murderer.But my uncle said that he committed suicide, and Wang Mingshi had been working in a distant city D, so it was impossible for him to come and go in such a short time.Furthermore, if he was really in city B when the incident happened, the police could not have missed it.

However, Xu Jian still felt that Wang Mingli's death must have something to do with his younger brother.Otherwise, why did he ask Li Slowwater to kill his younger brother? There must be some grievances between the two.

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