1700 Chapter 1699-two deaths
If this was a novel or movie, the following plot would be Cai meiwen fighting with the suspect with a bunch of stray hairs, finally bringing the criminal to justice without any danger, receiving high praise from the public and the school, and becoming an excellent member of the Communist Youth League … But unfortunately, this was often not the case in real life.
In real life, those who wanted to be heroes might not become heroes, but they would become the next victim of the criminals.
She only had one life. She was just a third-year middle school female student, and a small dog that had not received any professional training. What were the chances of winning against a real criminal? He was probably just seeking his own death.
In fact, after that evening when she met her suspicious colleague, it was like a roller coaster that had reached its peak and suddenly fell. Cai meiwen’s life had completely returned to peace. Whether it was in the corridor after the evening self-study or when she was alone at home late at night, she didn’t encounter anything that scared her. Even if there were some, it was quickly proven to be a misunderstanding.
Not long after, she had to take her high school entrance exam and enter high school. She took this opportunity to bid farewell to her former problematic self. After that, she had to take three years of college entrance exams and five years of mock exams. She was so busy that she could sleep from day to night.
Once, during lunch, his parents happened to be at home. The three of them chatted and laughed as they ate. There was even a mottled dog under the table, ready to pick up any leftovers.
With her return, her parents were, of course, more and more pleased. After getting rid of their biggest worry, the family atmosphere was much better. There was more joy and laughter, and the family was happy and harmonious every day.
They talked for a while about the school and her plans for the college entrance examination in the future. Although her parents wanted her to stay in the local university, she wanted to get into a better school as much as possible.
It didn’t matter if there were differences in opinions. There was still a long time before the college entrance examination anyway, so there was plenty of time to discuss it slowly.
At this moment, someone knocked on the door. It was a neighbor from the neighborhood committee. Her father got up to receive him, and after Cai meiwen and her mother greeted the guests, they cleared the table.
Cai meiwen kept putting the dishes into the sink and wiping the table with a rag. Her mother was washing the dishes in the kitchen.
The guests were talking and she couldn’t take an afternoon nap. She had planned to go back to her Room to Read a book after wiping the table and sleep after the guests left, but a few words from the guests caught her attention.
It turned out that a vicious case had happened a few days ago in the neighborhood next door. The victim was a female student who attended the same junior high school as the other children nearby. It was also the junior high school that Cai meiwen attended. The murderer used self-made tools to break into the room and commit the crime when the victim’s parents were not at home. He then fled overnight and was currently being arrested by the Public Security Bureau.
There was no news of what the murderer had done. They only knew that the Public Security Bureau had used the word “particularly cruel”. They could only be sure that the girl had died on the spot.
In order to avoid causing large-scale panic, the Public Security Bureau did not publicize the matter. Instead, they asked the housing Committee of the neighboring communities to search for families with young girls in the community and remind everyone to pay attention to safety in the next few days and not let the young girls be alone, in case the murderer was still hiding nearby and continued to commit crimes.
His parents couldn’t help but sigh after hearing this. A young girl in the prime of her youth with a bright future had withered just like that. How could it not make people feel sad?
Cai meiwen’s heart suddenly throbbed, and she almost dropped the bowl.
She thought of those two nights and that evening again. It had only been one or two years, but it felt like a lifetime ago. Although the police didn’t say it clearly, she had a hunch that the murderer might be the co-worker she had met before. He knew that he had been recognized and remembered by the punk, so he had to regretfully give up his original plan and look for another target. Otherwise, she might have been the girl who was killed.
After the neighbor left, her parents might have recalled her previous experience, but their dignity as adults made them play dumb and pretend to forget. Cai meiwen wanted to bring the murderer to justice and uphold justice for the girl she didn’t know, but what could she do? And to be honest, she was scared and afraid of revenge.
Death was something that she had never come into contact with. She never thought that her first encounter with death would be due to the death of a girl of similar age. The black wings of the Grim Reaper had once enveloped her head, so close to her that it was only a step away from landing. If not for a little bit of luck, the one who would have died would not have been that girl, but her.
From a certain perspective, that girl had died in her place.
The most terrifying thing was that the murderer was still at large.
This incident had a huge impact on her soul. Fear and guilt made her hide in the house for several days, not daring to go out or go to school. As long as there was the sound of footsteps outside the door, she would scream nervously.
Her parents were very worried about her and no longer dared to say that her worries were groundless. They even took shifts and asked for leave with others, spending a few days at home to take care of her. At the same time, they were also worried that the murderer would return.
However, her parents could only accompany her for a while. They were all working class, what would they eat and drink if they didn’t work? They didn’t have the money to buy a new house and move. Even if they did move, they couldn’t just move as they pleased. Moreover, because they had taken a few days of leave in a row, they would have almost no leave to take for a period of time.
After her parents went back to work, she was left alone at home. If she was alone, she might have stayed at home forever out of fear like the cocoon dwellers, but there was still mottle at home. No matter what, she had to go out for a walk.
When it was time to walk the dog, even if she didn’t want to go out, mottled hair would excitedly pull her out to have fun and solve her physiological problems.
She believed in mottled hair. She could only believe in him. After all, he had saved her more than once.
Since it was acting normal, then … There was probably no danger nearby.
After sealing herself off for a few days, she finally tried to walk out of her home. It took her a long time before she managed to overcome her psychological fear and went back to school and classes. She also spent some time making up for the lost lessons.
However, this city, which was her hometown, had left a psychological shadow in her heart. It made her secretly decide to enter a University in another city and usher in a new beginning in a new city.
At that time, her parents had not retired yet, and they were unwilling to leave their hometown because of their deep affection for it. However, there must have been a place in her vision for the future.
Unfortunately, people in that era lacked knowledge about pets. Although mottled hair was a puppy, it was only small in size. Neither she nor her parents knew that it was not young in terms of age. At that time, pet feeding wasn’t scientific. High salt or leftovers mixed with food that were harmful to dogs were still fed to dogs. In addition, the pet medicine industry was just starting out, and people didn’t know how to regularly give pets physical examinations, which led to a lower pet lifespan than it is now.
Mottled hair died the same summer vacation when she received the acceptance letter from Binhai University. He died without any warning. He might have died of old age or illness. His parents couldn’t explain it clearly. They only said that he was fine when they walked the dog in the evening, but he didn’t wake up the next morning, and his body was cold.
At that time, she was on a graduation trip with her high school classmates as a celebration. When she came back, the dog had already been buried, and she didn’t even get to see it for the last time.
Thinking back, the high school classmates who went on the graduation trip with her said that they would travel together for life and that they would be friends forever, but ironically, these classmates who had once sworn to be undying friends were now few and far between. She didn’t even have a deep impression of them and couldn’t even remember their faces clearly. Although Yingying’s words were a little sorry for them, her impression of them added up was worse than mottle ‘s.
So, what was the point of this graduation trip?
He didn’t keep anything, not his youth that was destined to pass away, not even the mixed hair.
To this day, she still suspected that the murderer, who had never been caught, had returned and poisoned the rascal who had ruined his plans time and time again because of his hatred.
If she had not gone on the graduation trip but stayed at home instead, mottled hair might not have died. She had always been very careful and vigilant when walking her dog with mottled hair. No matter which strange man approached her and mottled hair, she would stare at his face. However, her parents were very casual when walking the dog. They would always chat with their neighbors and co-workers and let mottled hair play by himself.
Of course, this was only a suspicion. There was no evidence. Perhaps the stray hair had died of old age or illness and had nothing to do with the murderer. But even though she knew this, she couldn’t contain the regret in her heart. She almost couldn’t breathe when she thought of the bad attitude and behavior she had shown to the dog when it first came to this house.
In her heart, she blamed her parents. She knew that she shouldn’t have done this, but she wanted to find a scapegoat because of her remorse.
The time they spent together was too short, and she was too busy with her studies. She didn’t know how to cherish it at first, and it was too late for regrets after losing it.
She had successfully been admitted to her ideal University and had no academic pressure. The summer vacation after graduation was supposed to be a rose-colored color, but it was already covered in a layer of gray haze.
Without waiting for the University to officially start, or even saying goodbye to her high school classmates, she packed her bags and went to Binhai city. Because she had lost her friend, she no longer felt safe in her hometown. No one could protect her, so it was better to leave this sad place as soon as possible.
Her parents were busy with work, so it was difficult for her to take leave. She rejected her parents ‘offer to send her to Binhai city and went to a foreign land with her own bags. From then on, she ushered in a new stage in her life.
From then on, her life trajectory was fixed in Binhai city. She went to college, found a job, fell in love, got married, had children, divorced, and raised a child on her own …
Cai meiwen knew that Qianqian had to keep this a secret. The two deaths she had experienced during her adolescence had a huge impact on her life and world view, which had caused her to develop a certain degree of psychological defects. She was paranoid and sensitive, and she didn’t consult a psychiatrist at the time. This also caused her marriage to fail to a certain extent.
Fortunately, her failed marriage wasn’t completely useless. At least it left her an extremely precious product, and that was little celery.
She couldn’t imagine how she, who used to be a problem girl and had a terrible marriage, could have such a perfect child like little celery. She was much better than she was back then!
That was why she especially cherished little celery, even more than her life.
It was precisely because of her terrible experience that she was particularly vigilant and nervous when she heard the sound of little celery talking with a strange man on the phone. She instantly thought of the poisonous snake-like gaze on the stairs of the fourth floor in the dark. She wanted to rush to her daughter’s side regardless of the storm, until she saw her daughter safe and sound with her own eyes.
She hoped that her daughter could grow up healthily and not take the wrong path like her. In order for her daughter to grow up smoothly, she was willing to smooth out all the possible hardships for her.
For example, death.
She could not control the death of humans, but she could at least control the death of pets.
Back then, as a problem girl, even though she despised it at first, she eventually fell in love with the ugly mixed-fur dog. As her daughter, it was natural that little celery would like pets. She could understand.
If her daughter wanted to keep long-lived pets like turtles, or aquatic pets like koi or pigeons that had limited interaction with people, she would not have the heart to refuse her daughter’s request. After all, she was well aware of her daughter’s self-control. Her daughter would not delay her studies because of these pets.
If her daughter wanted to raise a cat or a dog, she might reluctantly agree. After all, cats and dogs had long lifespans. If she raised them from a young age and carefully took care of them, it wouldn’t be a problem to raise them for more than ten years. Maybe she could raise them for more than fifteen years. By then, little celery would be an adult and even have a boyfriend. Her outlook on life and world would have formed, and she should be able to bear the impact of the death of her beloved pet.
If it was any other pet that was easy to raise and had a long life, she could seriously consider it. But why did it have to be a hamster and rabbit?
Whether it was her former family compound or her current colleagues, some people had kept hamsters and rabbits as pets, so she had some understanding of them. Hamsters and rabbits were not as easy to take care of as cats and dogs. Their vitality was very weak. Their theoretical lifespans were one thing, but their actual lifespans were another. If he kept a hamster and rabbit as pets, he could predict that they would die when little celery was in her puberty, which was unstable.
Cai meiwen knew her daughter’s personality very well. Little celery was too gentle and loving. Once she had a pet, she would put too much love into it, and the more love she put in, the more pain she would suffer when she lost it.
She absolutely did not want her daughter to be stimulated by the death of her beloved pet and form her own paranoid character. Instead of that, it was better for her to eliminate this possibility.
She knew that she might be overprotective, but she had no choice. She only had her daughter, and her daughter only had her. Her daughter did not have a father, so she could only pour double the love on her daughter.
If this was stubbornness, then she was willing to continue being so. This was her right as a mother.