Gao Caiqin, who was in a daze, suddenly woke up from his sleep. She wasn't woken up by some noise or nightmare, but as if she should wake up at this time and there was something destined for her to complete.
She opened her eyes in the darkness.
Their dormitory was not full. In addition to her and Lin Xuerou, there was another girl named Guan Yu who slept opposite Gao Caiqin, and Lin Xuerou slept on the same side as her head to head.
She stood up slowly and looked forward. In this pitch-black darkness, she should have been unable to see anything. But for some reason, she clearly saw the person in front of her - the girl hiding in the darkness was leaning on her body in exactly the same posture as her, staring straight at the person opposite.
The two of them were like a pair of mirror images, looking at each other in the mirror.
Gao Caiqin bit his dry lips and swallowed, feeling a little at a loss.
The two were in a stalemate for a while, but Lin Xuerou made the move first. She suddenly sat up and moved to the edge of the bed, dangling her two slender legs.
Only then did Gao Caiqin see clearly that she was still wearing the red dress she had worn during the day.
Red jasmine, lush green.
Yellow pines and cypresses, bare.
Suddenly there was a faint singing voice in the darkness. If you are still far away, sometimes far and sometimes close.
Gao Caiqin was startled by the sudden sound. She wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, leaving only her little head exposed. The bed board made a creaking sound, and Lin Xuerou seemed to have gotten out of bed.
Birds have broken wings and horses have broken hooves.
The voice sounded again, and this time she was sure that the person singing this song was Lin Xuerou.
The first month is not round, and the fifteenth day is not round either.
Sixteen or seventeen rainy days are never round.
She sang with resentment and admiration, weeping and complaining. But to others, it sounds as terrifying as a ghost asking for his life. After all, no good person would sing these unexplained things in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep.
Gao Caiqin finally couldn't help it, and she plucked up the courage to shout a few words in a low voice: "Lin Xuerou, what are you doing?"
But she didn't seem to hear Gao Caiqin's call, and actually started to cry.
When Lin Xuerou appeared, Gao Caiqin was always present. It can even be said that she found Lin Xuerou immediately. She witnessed the missing girl who was in a trance and lost her soul, like a rootless duckweed, silent and swaying in the midst of everyone's arguments, looking so lonely and helpless.
Gao Caiqin also had his own guess. In the past few days, Lin Xuerou must have experienced something special that made her look like a different person. She was the high-spirited, arrogant and innocent school beauty in the past. , now my body is filled with deathly silence, indifference and alienation.
"Has she been stimulated by something? Is she mentally disturbed?" Gao Caiqin thought like this in his heart, so he didn't feel panicked by the cry. Instead, he felt a little more sympathetic to her, and softly called a few more words: "Lin Xuerou" , Lin Xuerou."
But still no response.
"She... couldn't be sleepwalking, right?" Gao Caiqin thought.
It seemed like the wind was blowing outside, and the gaps between the windows and walls became musical instruments at night. The wind rushed in there, making strange roaring sounds.
At this time, the dormitory door was suddenly opened, and the cold wind of the autumn night broke in unbridled.
Lin Xuerou stood at the door, the wind pulling up her skirt, making her look even more petite and thin. A pale and lifeless face slowly turned around and glanced at the shivering girl huddled in the bed.
"You're almost done! Why are you messing around without sleep in the middle of the night!" Gao Caiqin used anger to cover up his fear.
But Lin Xuerou just sang that sad song repeatedly:
Red jasmine, lush green.
Yellow pines and cypresses, bare.
Birds have broken wings and horses have broken hooves.
The first month is not round, and the fifteenth day is not round either.
Sixteen or seventeen rainy days are never round.
"Guan Yu, Guan Yu!" Gao Caiqin seemed to finally remember that there was another person in his dormitory. He was still surprised that she had no response to such a loud movement, so he simply let go of his voice and called her twice.
But on the bed opposite, you could only vaguely see a black shadow huddled, and he was indifferent to her calls.
"Damn! This damn girl is pretending to sleep!" Gao Caiqin thought bitterly.
Lin Xuerou had already walked out of the dormitory. Gao Caiqin hesitated for a moment, then slowly got out of bed, gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, put on some clothes and followed her out.
Walking out of the dormitory door, I happened to see the red color disappearing at the end of the corridor. Gao Caiqin trotted after him, and Lin Xuerou was like a red ghost, floating on the stairs, walking up step by step.
The girls' dormitory has a total of 6 floors. The fifth floor is not yet occupied, and the sixth floor is almost vacant. Gao Caiqin couldn't help but flash all kinds of campus ghost stories and supernatural rumors in his mind, and his steps up the stairs became soft.
Lin Xuerou walked to the 6th floor, paused for a while, and then walked up. She opened the door to the rooftop and stepped up.
Gao Caiqin's heart trembled, and he had a bad feeling.
"She...she wants to jump off the building, right?" This thought occupied her mind for no reason, causing her to panic all of a sudden. All kinds of thoughts flooded into her heart, and she didn't know whether she should rush to it first. I stopped her in the past, or pretended to be calm and stabilized her first. I didn't know whether to stop her loudly or to dissuade her softly so as not to wake others up and make the matter worse.
Fortunately, after Lin Xuerou walked onto the rooftop, she did not walk towards the edge guardrail, but stood still.
Gao Caiqin breathed a sigh of relief, but still stared at her every move, fearing that something would happen in the next second. The night wind blew her hair around, covering her pale face. Her red clothes were like blood, which looked even more strange under the bright white moonlight.
"Why are you here?" Lin Xuerou seemed to wake up suddenly from a big dream, saw the girl in front of her, and asked doubtfully.
After hearing her words, Gao Caiqin became very angry and said with wide eyes, "I should be asking you this, right? Why are you so crazy to come here in the middle of the night?"
"Oh." Lin Xuerou said lightly, "I can't sleep. It seems like I haven't slept for a long time."
"If you can't sleep yourself, you have to make a noise so that others can't sleep either!" Gao Caiqin cursed secretly in his heart: "As expected, Lin Xuerou is still the same arrogant and self-righteous Lin Xuerou."
"Can you go back now? What do you mean by standing here all the time? Also, are you not cold if you wear so little clothes?" Gao Caiqin urged impatiently. All she could do now was to get Lin Xuerou back first.
"No, he's not here yet."
"Who?" Gao Caiqin was shocked. Who would come here in the middle of the night?
"...Dad." Lin Xuerou mumbled.
When school was over today, I heard rumors in the school that there was an explosion at the school gate. The person who died in the explosion was a parent of a student who came to school today. People in other classes may not know who this person is, but they in Class 6, Grade 2, have already locked onto this victim, who is Lin Xuerou’s father who has often appeared in front of them in the past two days. Facts also proved that their guess was completely correct.
Gao Caiqin didn't know if Lin Xuerou, who had been staying in the dormitory in the afternoon, had learned the bad news, but whether Lin Hui was dead or alive, there was no way he would show up here at this time.
Could it be... could he already know that his father was killed? People who are close by blood may have some inexplicable telepathy. So, what she is waiting for now...could it be her father's ghost?
Gao Caiqin was startled by his own thoughts and quickly shook his head to get rid of this absurd idea. But suddenly, she hoped that this was true - if the dead could reconnect with people in the world, then... she would also have hope of seeing her father again.
Yes, the two of them are now single-parent daughters with the same disease.
Thinking of this, Gao Caiqin couldn't help but sigh: "Don't do this, you will die..."
Before she finished speaking, Lin Xuerou suddenly seemed to see something and sobbed into the void: "Dad...Dad..."
Gao Caiqin felt goosebumps all over his body when he saw her looking like she was possessed. She looked around and saw that the rooftop was empty. Could she really have seen a ghost? Lin Xuerou's strange sound, like a baby's cry, surrounded her ears and drove her crazy. At this moment, Gao Caiqin, with courage appearing out of nowhere, rushed forward and grabbed her arm.
"That's enough, don't go crazy again! I know you may have experienced some bad things and been stimulated. I have a very good psychiatrist friend. I will take you to see her in two days and ask her to help. You. Now, can we go back first?"
Lin Xuerou stopped, staring straight at her with those hollow eyes, and her voice was so far away that it seemed as if it was coming from the horizon:
"I'm sorry, little butterfly, I was wrong."
Gao Caiqin was so shocked that he could not stand still: "You...what did you say?"
But at this moment, Lin Xuerou suddenly turned into that puppet doll that didn't respond to anyone's call.
Gao Caiqin had no choice but to say: "Forget it, let's go back to sleep. You don't have to go to class tomorrow, and I still have to go to class."
"I can not sleep."
Gao Caiqin sighed, pulled Lin Xuerou back to the dormitory, took out a medicine box from the closet, rummaged for a while, found a board of pills, peeled out two white pills from it and handed them to her: "Take this." ."
"What is this?" Lin Xuerou tilted her head and looked at the two white things.
poison! If you eat it, you can sleep forever! Gao Caiqin couldn't help cursing in his heart. After being tormented by her for most of the night, he was already exhausted mentally and physically. At this moment, he just wanted to get her to calm down quickly. He coaxed her like a prank and said: "My secret calming and nourishing pills are all natural. Made from herbs, it is non-toxic and pollution-free, and it is very effective. My mother has also suffered from insomnia recently, and after taking this medicine I prepared, she slept soundly."
