Everything seemed hopeless. Yu Xiaorong's visa and passport have been processed and within the time limit, and it is a three-month travel visa. It was originally intended to accompany her mother back to see her old classmates during the Chinese New Year, but now Luo Binhan was defeated. Even though her mother was a little angry with her move of killing first and then showing off, it was just a lesson learned in the last half hour before boarding the plane.
"You are so rude!" her mother said, "You didn't even ask your brother if it was inconvenient."
"That's right!" Luo Binhan agreed.
"He didn't tell me when he came here," Yu Xiaorong said. "I've been in Africa for two years and came right away. Such sudden visits must be a common occurrence for him."
Luo Binhan had to admit that his defeat was certain. He has one last chance, that is, Yu Xiaorong's seat is far away from him on the plane. Success or failure is unknown until the plane lands.
"I have to stay at your house for a few days." Luo Binhan grabbed Zhou Yu who was sitting next to him and said, "I'll stay for three months."
Zhou Yu reminded: "You still have things at home."
This is absolutely true. Luo Binhan remembered that he had Li Li at home, as well as a lizard and a hungry cannibal who were probably quite angry. Although before he left, he had filled the refrigerator and cupboards with fresh meat, bacon, milk, boxes of nuts and potatoes, and made sure that Fina knew how to use the faucet and toilet (that was also Momolo's credit, This allowed him to forgive the missing guy again), but none of this could cover up the problem of him not being able to return home as scheduled. Fina and Miffy are not harmless pet cats. They eat, sleep and scratch the sofa covers all day long. If one of the cannibals found him late, they might think he was dead and use his entire apartment as their lair. The bad guy will know how society works here through TV or the Internet. As soon as a naughty kid like Yu Xiaorong enters his home, he might be paralyzed by a lizard and then filled by cannibals.
"No, no." He said immediately, "I have to take them all to your house to live for three months. We will book a hotel for her as soon as we land, and then I will pack her things first. After I finish packing, let her live in Get in."
"...Is this really good? No one will move out when their relatives come to play, right?"
"Then you come live in my house." Luo Binhan said casually, "No, I made a mistake - let her live in your house."
Zhou Yu looked at him in confusion, as if doubting his mental state. Luo Binhan immediately realized what an outrageous thing he had said. Let the underage sister stay alone at the house of an adult friend of the opposite sex. No brother in his right mind in the world would do such a mindless thing, even if that friend was Zhou Yu. He sighed and had to accept the reality.
"Help me hold her down for a while." He asked helplessly, "Take her to have a meal, or go shopping or something. I'll rush back to pack up first. Do you mind taking care of the lizard and the things in the closet for me?" I’ll put them all in a box and buy you a bigger cage later.”
Zhou Yu agreed to help as always. As for whether Fina would permanently sever ties with him because of the cage and boarding, that would be something he would have time to worry about after he had dealt with Yu Xiaorong. Before setting off for Regenberg, he promised it that he would give it more food, more toys and more time to accompany him. Now he completely broke his promise. Fortunately, Fina has not learned how to leave. Run away from home.
That was it. After the parrot, Zhou Yu's home became a little more crowded and lively because of him. This was of course also part of his best friend care plan. When they got off the plane, he immediately found Yu Xiaorong and told her that he had to clean up the house first, and she could go to dinner with Zhou Yu first.
"I can go clean it up with you." Yu Xiaorong said.
"Absolutely impossible." Luo Binhan picked up Zhou Yu's luggage from the conveyor belt, "You don't want to peek into the complicated and depraved private lives of adults."
Yu Xiaorong raised his eyebrows: "You have a girlfriend?"
"None of your business!" Luo Binhan said angrily, "If you don't accept it, go live at Zhou Yu's house!"
"Okay."
Luo Binhan didn't want to accept her angry words. But Yu Xiaorong took out a palm-sized booklet and a half-finger mini signature pen from his backpack.
"Address?" she asked bluntly.
"What address?"
"His. I'll call a car myself."
This has exceeded the appropriate level of joking and is almost crossing the red line of etiquette. Luo Binhan could only pretend to be a temporary guardian and tell her seriously that it was absolutely impossible. Of course, it wasn't that he didn't welcome her to come to Lihai City for a long vacation, but he just didn't have time to prepare. But the conflicts between them should not involve unrelated people. In any case, she didn't know Zhou Yu that well, nor was she a primitive person who escaped from the tropical rain forest.
"Then at least I can go to his house as a guest, right?" Yu Xiaorong said, "While you are packing your things? Is one day enough for you?"
That didn't sound like a problem, but Luo Binhan never thought that Yu Xiaorong would be interested in Zhou Yu's residence. He looked at Zhou Yu and saw that his host had no objection.
"Okay. You can go to his house first." He agreed, "He has a parrot at home, which is quite interesting. You can play with it...but don't cause too much trouble to others, you know?"
Yu Xiaorong raised his chin. She never liked to act like she was obedient and teachable, but overall she was quite trustworthy. Luo Binhan was not worried that she would go to Zhou Yu's house and smash things like an eight-year-old child. In this regard, she is much more reliable than Jing Huang. But when they walked out of the airport, Luo Binhan still excused himself to fill out some itineraries and asked Zhou Yu to help them look after their luggage, while pulling Yu Xiaorong alone to the farthest information desk.
"If you see anything that looks like women's products in his house," he warned, "don't touch it, okay?"
"Is it from his missing fiancée?"
"Just know it yourself." Luo Binhan made a slit gesture, "And if you are hungry, order takeout, or go out to find a restaurant. Never, absolutely, definitely, don't let him cook."
Yu Xiaorong squinted at him suspiciously, as if he thought he was being mysterious. Luo Binhan could not let his blood relatives make mistakes. He took a deep breath: "One day, I heard that his fiancée was going to attend an art exhibition out of town, so I wanted to go to his house to see how he was doing. When I walked in, he was reading a book in the living room. There was a pot burning on the stage. I walked over to the pot and took a look, and there was a fish in it."
He stretched out a palm and let it swim between him and Yu Xiaorong like a fish. "The fish scales were scraped off, the internal organs were removed, and there was nothing else. The whole fish was soaked in a pot of white water. I went out and asked him what he wanted to do, and he said he was making fish soup. Then I went to the pot to look at it. At that time, I had a hallucination. I felt like the fish came to life and was staring at me. It was just swimming in the pot."
Then he and Yu Xiaorong fell silent.
"No one can do such a thing." Yu Xiaorong said.
"Oh no, he really can. He can still drink it."
"Then what are you doing? Can't you teach him the right way?"
"Summer insects cannot be said to be ice." Luo Binhan replied, with a tragic smile on his face, "So I convinced myself - he is my best friend!"
Yu Xiaorong turned around and left without saying a word. Until she and Zhou Yu got into the same taxi, the pride of victory was no longer visible on her face. She might be able to stop Zhou Yu from cooking and entertaining guests, but maybe not. Luo Binhan could only wish her success. He himself got into another car and headed home. On the way, he sent a message to Luo Jiaotian, telling him that Zhou Yu had returned with a German guest, and also told Nan Mingguang that he had just arrived in Lihai City. The latter replied to him almost immediately, asking him to come to the head office tomorrow to have a meal and chat with some old friends and "get together well."
Luo Binhan almost wanted to find a reason to run away, but he held back. After all, this matter could not be avoided by Fifteen. Let’s talk about tomorrow’s matters tomorrow. He walked straight to the apartment without stopping, holding his breath before entering in case there was any scary sight in the house, such as the rotting remains of raw meat on the floor. It turned out that the situation was not bad. The living room was quite clean, but there was a little dust on the table.
"Fina?" he called. The floor-to-ceiling curtains shook, and the gleaming head poked out from behind. The pair of horizontal bar-like eyes stared at him steadily, seemingly not forgetting him yet. Luo Binhan breathed a sigh of relief and flopped into the sofa. "Come here, come here."
Fina walked in circles in the living room, slowly approaching him, and finally sat on the back of the sofa. It put its tail against Luo Binhan's neck, and then lay there motionless. Luo Binhan sighed, feeling suddenly inexplicably moved in his heart, and stretched out his hand to scratch the scales that were turning into navy blue. And when he thought that he had to lock it up at night and send it to Zhou Yu's house for dozens of days, that kind touch inevitably turned into guilt.
"Perhaps you should stay on board," he said to himself. "I think you can live quite well without a companion."
Fina lazily closed her eyes. They rested on the sofa together for a few minutes, and then Luo Binhan gave it some raw meat and water. He carried the other half of the thawed meat into the bedroom. Everything in this house was in better condition than he had imagined, and the bedroom was still neat and tidy, not even dusty. He carefully opened the closet and found a glimmer of slime in the deep shadows.
"Are you there?" he asked. More slime poured out of the cracks, forming eyes and string-like sound generators in front of him.
"You're back." Miffy said.
"Yeah, I was delayed for a few days because of something." Luo Binhan turned to look at the room, "I didn't expect you to be so honest."
"The food you left can temporarily keep me alive," Miffy said gloomily, "I think I shouldn't take risks until I'm sure you're completely dead."
"Are you forcing me to take you into the coffin?" Luo Binhan said, "Has anything special happened in the past few days?"
Nothing happened, at least not by Miffy's standards. In addition to Fina who was entrenched in the living room, she was still eyeing it, and the process of letting it go to the refrigerator to eat was always not smooth. It has to make convenience foods in the cupboard a priority.
"You are all territorial species," Luo Binhan placed a piece of raw meat on top of it, watching the texture of the muscle slowly dissolve in the mucus wrap. "Speaking of territory, I have to tell you one more thing. I I brought an extra person with me when I came back this time, and she has to stay at my house for a while. I can't let her see you and Fina, so I thought..."
"So, your sister is here too."
Luo Binhan turned around, and Li Li was sitting beside the bed, as if she had participated in the conversation from the beginning.
"How do you know I have a sister?" Luo Binhan asked strangely. He couldn't quite remember whether they had mentioned Yu Xiaorong before. Logically speaking, no, because the topic between him and Li Li was always about the Silence. But that's not a sure thing, because after all, they had talked about past events, but they didn't mention any specific names.
Li Li is still her usual image, like Luo Binhan who has just been out for five seconds. "If she's going to live here," she asked naturally, "how are you going to accommodate us?"
"You can't read my brain waves, can you?" Luo Binhan questioned.
"I'm just inferring."
Luo Binhan thought to himself that it was a very accurate inference. Even Holmes still had to run around and inquire around. That's what Yu Xiaorong likes to do, but Li Li is an easy-chair detective who stays at home all day long and listens to other people telling her stories. But he couldn't complain too much, because now he needed Li Li to listen to his story. Momolo seemed to have disappeared from the world, and he had no choice but to tell her in detail the strange thing he experienced in Regenberg.
He thought he had spoken in detail enough, but he was still interrupted by Li Li from time to time, asking him a few weird questions that he didn't expect, such as what style of shoes Lot wore and what tone he used when talking to Yu Qingshu. What did Zhou Yu bring when he came in, and what was his sister's reaction afterwards? He could barely recall the answers to some questions, and some were truly unknown to even a ghost. Finally, he finished speaking and stopped talking about the day Yu Xiaorong fell ill.
"Isn't it inspiring?" he asked before her, "What do you think of this?"
"This is indeed a very strange story." Li Li said, "How is your recovery from your leg injury?"
"The minor injury is almost healed. But I still have to pretend that it's not all healed."
"What about Mr. Zhou Yu?"
"He's going to need a while." Luo Binhan pointed to his stomach, "It's just a skin injury, but the position is still quite fatal. Now he can't move heavy things, and he will probably have to rest for more than ten days. If he really takes a good rest. "
"So, he was stabbed in the skin with a long serrated knife but not his internal organs?"
"right."
"Stabs instead of cuts?"
"should?"
"How was this done?" Li Li asked in an interesting tone, "At what angle was he stabbed?"
"I can't explain this clearly. I was looking for Lao Mo on my mobile phone."
"So, who saw clearly?"
"My sister?" Luo Binhan guessed. He didn't ask Yu Xiaorong about it because it really didn't matter.
"I assume you didn't ask about the cause of the attack."
"There was no reason." Luo Binhan said, "The two of them entered the kitchen, and Luo De suddenly went crazy and gave Zhou Yu a knife."
"That sounds far-fetched."
Regarding this point, Luo Binhan has a lot of room for justification. He patiently explained to Li Li about Zhou Yu: It is true that he is an ordinary person, but this is from the perspective of ability and physiology, and if they include some elements of luck, metaphysics or cooking skills, then whoever It cannot be said that Zhou Yu is ordinary. Zhou Yu has bumped into suicide and murder scenes. A nurse once hanged himself where he was on duty. It is said that he was stabbed by a patient with a criminal history before. These things may not be surprising when it comes to Luo Jiayang, but Zhou Yu himself has never been the kind of person to cause trouble. He lives his life completely according to the rules of society, and like a magnet attracts accidents and injuries.
“I’m exaggerating,” he added. “I don’t mean that he had a knack for provoking someone to commit suicide or murder with just a few words. He just somehow got into it. No one knows why the suicidal nurse spoke to him, or why the patient suddenly attacked him - he just happened to happen upon it."
"Is this a view you wish to maintain, sir?"
"What do you mean?" Luo Binhan asked uncertainly.
"I'm just understanding the situation." Li Li said, "This is my personal opinion: When you explain how you see others, you are also explaining yourself in another way."
Luo Binhan shrugged. Regarding the theories that Li Li sometimes said, he just felt that they were talking in circles. "I want to know more about Lot. Where did his ability come from?"
"We can first assume that this power comes from outside."
"Tianwai is a very large area."
"But he found you."
Luo Binhan wanted to correct her statement, because in fact the person Lot found was Yu Xiaorong, the despicable primary school student who had deceived Klein. But Li Li then said: "When he first came to the door, he was looking for you, sir. He spent a lot of time talking to you and asking about your thoughts, not your sister's. I think this is The first sign worth considering. No doubt he knew you were there beforehand."
"He killed a policeman. Maybe he asked who was in the house."
"No, he doesn't know. That's what you told me too. You said he had spoken to your sister's father."
"Yes, he asked Mal a few questions."
"At the time, he said he didn't know why the artist was in the house. If he had really looked into it, he wouldn't have gotten the information wrong."
Li Li crossed his ten fingers and leaned forward slightly. In Luo Binhan's eyes, he looked like a typical easy chair detective.
"Even if he comes because of your sister's past," she mused, "he must have heard someone mention you."
"The question is, who did it? Do you have any clue?"
He just asked casually. Because after all, Li Li is a warehouse manager trapped in a nut shell. Even the armchair detective can't do anything if you can't provide a list of suspects that must include the real culprit. As expected, Li Li failed to give him an answer out of thin air. She just looked at her tangled fingers carefully.
"I think we should be prepared." She said calmly but abruptly, "I don't recommend that you send me and the other two tenants to Zhou Yu's house."
