Poison (I)
The village, which was bustling a few days ago, is now almost deserted. Women have left one after another with the help of public security organs. Only a few houses are lit in the long night, and the village has suddenly become several degrees quieter.
Yu Huan had wanted to leave the village long ago, but Yu Ding'an wouldn't let both of them go out, so he stayed behind to let his brother go out and see what was happening outside. Now that everything was revealed, he naturally didn't want to stay in this haunted place anymore.
"Brother, can I go with you?" Yu Huan lowered his head slightly and glanced at Yu Shu's face.
The words of refusal came to his lips but he couldn't say them. Yu Shu couldn't help feeling distressed when he saw his brother's cautious look.
Yu Huan gave him the opportunity to go out, so he did not go to college. He has been saving interest at home for so many years. Moreover, since Yu Huan knew about the evil deeds committed by Yu Ding'an, he executed him first and reported to the emperor later and donated all the money. Now he is penniless.
Although Yu Shu resented the presence of Yu Ding'an's blood in his veins, Yu Huan had known him for over twenty years and knew his younger brother well. Furthermore, now that everything was over, he couldn't bear to leave his younger brother alone in this seemingly barren village.
Yu Shu pinched his brother's face and smiled faintly: "Go pack your luggage and leave today?" He didn't want to stay in this village for a moment longer.
Although he had many loans to repay, he still had some savings, so it would not be a problem for him to support Yu Huan for a period of time. As for his unemployment, he could keep it secret for as long as possible.
We set off at noon and arrived at Yu Shu's residence at around nine o'clock in the evening.
As soon as Yu Shu entered the house, he took off his clothes and hung them on the clothes rack, then took out the hand-free disinfectant from the cabinet in the entrance hall and sprayed it on his own hands and his brother's hands.
Yu Huan carefully examined his brother's house in the city, finally gaining a clearer understanding of Guangzhou's high land prices. The 120-square-meter house was only about the size of their bedroom. But the view from the upper floor was quite nice, with a view of the colorful, changing lights of the small shopping district.
"I use the second bedroom at home to store miscellaneous items. I'm sorry to ask you to share a bed with me tonight." Yu Shu's smile seemed particularly warm under the soft light of the crystal chandelier, like a pool of spring water with ripples.
"Okay!" Yu Huan's eyes lit up.
When he opened the bedroom door, the smell that rushed into his nose was exactly the same as the one Yu Shu had smelled the day before when he returned home to attend a funeral. The light fruity aroma was so refreshing that he couldn't help but take a few more breaths.
Yu Shu hung his and Yu Huan's clothes neatly and orderly in the closet.
This house is full of traces of his brother. Yu Huan feels novel and satisfied with the new environment.
"There are usually no guests coming, and there is no wardrobe in the second bedroom, so you can put your clothes here with me." Yu Shu looked back at his brother. He was already 27 years old, but when he saw the appearance of his house in the city, he looked like a child who was full of curiosity to explore new things.
"What do you want to eat?" Yu Shu said with a low laugh.
Yu Huan blinked and sat down on his brother's soft big bed: "Brother, you decide, I can do anything." As he said that, he lay down, his body sinking into the quilt in a big letter shape.
"Then go take a bath in the bathroom. The takeaway will be almost here when you're done."
"Brother, I want a back rub." Although they were born and raised in Guangdong, Yu Dingan often rubbed the brothers' backs when they were young, so they developed a habit.
"good."
Just as Yu Shu agreed to Yu Huan's request, someone rang his doorbell. The only person who would come to see him at this hour was Zhao Jingyun who lived across the street.
She likes to chat with him and share delicious food with him on weekdays, and sometimes she will bring him some souvenirs when she comes back from business trips.
"Doctor Yu, you're back. Your hospital is so lively today." Zhao Jingyun said as she tucked the hair scattered on her cheeks behind her ears.
When Yu Huanchu saw Yu Shu bringing the woman into the house, his eyes gradually became covered with a layer of gray.
"Doctor Yu, who is this?" Zhao Jingyun looked at Yu Huan, who was holding a change of clothes in his hand, with surprise in her eyes. This was the first time she saw Yu Shu bring someone home to spend the night.
"My brother, he came to the city to develop his career." Yu Shu looked at Zhao Jingyun with a watery and ambiguous look. He paused and said, "Yu Huan, my neighbor Ms. Zhao Jingyun. You go in and soak first, I'll have a few words with her."
Yu Huan said "oh" in a muffled voice and went into the bathroom.
The cool night breeze blew up the strands of hair in front of Yu Shu's forehead, and his delicate and well-behaved face showed the refreshing freshness of a young man. Zhao Jingyun forgot to look away for a moment.
Yu Shu was not stupid either. He could see that Zhao Jingyun was interested in him. Since he chose to study medicine, he spent most of his time on studying. He had no love affair during his student days, and he had no time to expand his social circle and fall in love after he started working.
He used to be very busy with work and had a lot of tedious tasks, so when he had time, Zhao Jingyun might not have the time. After he was laid off, he had the time but no courage.
He glanced at the small pimple on Zhao Jingyun's nose and poured her a cup of monk fruit tea to clear away heat and reduce internal heat.
"What happened to the hospital?"
"Today, over a hundred students and a dozen teachers from No. 6 Middle School went to the hospital for checkups." Zhao Jingyun took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "I wanted to send you a WeChat message about this, but I saw your lights were on downstairs, so I came to disturb you."
"It's not really a bother. I was browsing my friends' circle and was curious about asking a colleague in the laboratory department, and then you came." Yu Shu paved a step and walked down.
He drove all afternoon and started packing his luggage when he got home. He didn't even have time to check his Moments.
Zhao Jingyun and Yu Shu looked at each other sincerely. "Didn't I tell you about the teacher falling from the building at No. 6 Middle School a few days before you went back to the countryside? A few days after you went back, another teacher drowned. Today, a group of people went to the hospital for a checkup. It seems to be very serious."
When Yu Shu listened to Zhao Jingyun speaking, the concentration in his eyes poured out. Every time she said a few words, he nodded in response.
He did have an impression that it made the headlines of local news and was reported on TV. He didn't expect that in just half a month, No. 6 Middle School had two accidents in succession.
"It seems a teacher drank water and suffered cardiac arrest. Three such incidents have occurred in just over a week. With the college entrance exam approaching, these incidents are causing a lot of anxiety."
Yu Shu saw that Zhao Jingyun had only half of the tea in her cup, so he added some more to her.
Zhao Jingyun lowered her eyes, lost in thought as she stared at the pieces of monk fruit floating at the bottom of the cup. Just as she opened her lips to speak, Yu Huan's voice came from the bathroom.
"Brother~"
Yu Shu smiled apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, my brother is here and I have a lot of things to arrange."
"It's okay. I'm sorry for disturbing you. Since your brother is here, we will be neighbors in the future. A close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. If you have time this weekend, how about the three of us have dinner together?" Zhao Jingyun's faint smile was full of the intelligence and gentleness unique to oriental women.
"What a coincidence! I was just trying to figure out what to do this weekend. In that case, why don't we just get together at home and I'll cook."
"Okay, see you this weekend."
Yu Shu walked her to the door and watched Zhao Jingyun enter the house before closing the door.
Yu Shu went in to rub his brother's back. He forgot to take off his clothes and his pants got wet, so he and his brother simply rubbed each other's backs.
The bathroom was not small, but with two tall men over 1.8 meters sitting in it, it seemed a bit cramped. Fortunately, the two brothers did not feel embarrassed.
The two brothers felt refreshed after taking a bath, as if they were completely liberated from the depression and heavy pressure and were reborn.
They lay lopsided on the sofa, eating takeout and watching TV, feeling the breeze coming in from the French windows. The last time they had such a relaxing time was during the summer vacation when Yu Shu was recommended for a doctorate.
While Yu Huan was engrossed in watching the drama, Yu Shu picked up his phone and checked his Moments. He didn't see any updates from his former colleagues mentioning today's large-scale inspection, but he did see a video posted by Jiang Yu of him taking a walk in No. 6 Middle School.
Once the accident was connected with Jiang Yu, he knew that something was wrong. It seemed that the accident at No. 6 Middle School was not simple.
He scrolled down and didn't see anything interesting, so he swiped back to the chat interface. The dense messages were basically from public accounts or news. He slowly swiped down to delete the red dots, canceling them one by one without reading the content at all.
However, when he checked the news at 3:15 pm, Jiang Yu's conspicuous glowing Pie Star avatar attracted his attention.
The content prompt clearly reads: "Would you consider changing jobs?"
Yu Shu clicked on it and saw the video Jiang Yu had posted on his WeChat Moments, along with another message: "When will you return to Guangzhou?"
Jiang Yu's words must be bad news. Either he was taking him to see a ghost or something strange happened. He didn't want to have anything to do with Jiang Yu anymore.
He took a deep breath and deleted the dialog box.
"What's wrong?" Yu Huan turned his head and asked with concern.
"It's nothing, I just saw some gossip on WeChat Moments."
Yu Shu found Yu Huan's dialog box and transferred some money to him.
He had to go out to look at job postings during the day, so he couldn't take Yu Huan out for a walk. He didn't want Yu Huan to be bored at home because his pockets were empty, so he took him out for a walk. Moreover, if he offered to buy something, Yu Huan wouldn't have to ask him if he wanted to.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Yu Huan panicked. He wondered if he was interfering with his brother and Zhao Jingyun, so his brother wanted to kick him out and rent a house.
Yu Shu was startled by Yu Huan's puzzled and aggrieved look, and quickly explained: "I'm busy during the day. If you want to go out and play, you can go to Tianhe City for a stroll."
Yu Huan breathed a sigh of relief and accepted Yu Shu's transfer generously.
It turned out that his brother was worried that it would be inconvenient for him to go out without money, not to drive him away.
The two brothers fell asleep on the sofa while watching a TV series. When Yu Huan woke up the next day, Yu Shu was gone.
There was handwriting on the sticky note on the coffee table in the living room that looked like Yu Shu's ghostly scribbles. Yu Huan looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure out what was written in the doctor's handwriting.
He took a photo and sent it to Yu Shu. Before he could finish typing, he received a reply: "I'm not going home for lunch. There's a food court just outside the east gate of the community."
Yu Huan curled up the corners of his mouth as he looked at the message on his phone. It felt so good to be spoiled by his brother.
After washing up, Yu Huan went downstairs to find food.
The big city was indeed different from the small mountain town where he had lived for more than 20 years. The internet-famous stores he had seen while surfing the Internet before came into view in rows.
He felt like Granny Liu visiting the Grand View Garden. Every restaurant seemed interesting to him and he wanted to try everything. However, he couldn't eat that much, and he also couldn't waste the money his brother had worked so hard to earn. After some hesitation, he decided to go for barbecue.
"Brother, can I pack some barbecue for you?" Yu Huan edited the message and sent it.
"Don't just eat barbecue at noon. Eat staple food to get vitamins and protein. It's a balanced diet. I'll have barbecue with you in the evening."
Yu Shu had seen too many patients with gastrointestinal problems caused by unhealthy diets, so he was quite strict about the diet. However, he was afraid that if he talked too much, Yu Huan would find it boring and disappointing, so he added an emoticon of a cat with its head tilted at the end.
"good."
Yu Huan himself didn't think that he was a spoiler at all. On the contrary, he was quite happy.
Yu Huan finally decided to eat at a barbecue place around the corner where there was not much line at the door.
"Hey, did you bring it today?"
Three boys blocked a boy with curly hair and big black glasses against the wall and questioned him aggressively.
Jilaijuan didn't respond, his messy bangs covered his eyes, making it impossible to reveal any emotion.
The leading boy was irritated by Jiraiya's silence. He grabbed the man by the collar and pushed him against the wall.
The dull sound of flesh hitting steel and concrete was very painful, but Zilaijuan kept his head down and said nothing.
The three of them were a little annoyed. The leader raised his hand and slapped the other person hard. The crisp and sharp sound of the blow lingered in the air.
"Your father is asking you a question, are you mute?! Speak!"
"You don't want to talk, right? Then I'll beat you until you talk! I think you have what it takes."
The three boys completely ignored the fact that they were in a public place and started to kick them.
Yu Huan couldn't bear to see this and went over to pull Zilaijuan away: "Who taught you to bully others?"
He was half a head taller than the little boys who were a little over 1.7 meters tall. He used his body as a wall to separate Jiraiya from the other three to prevent them from attacking again.
Yu Huan narrowed his eyes and looked down at them. He saw the words "No. 6 Middle School" printed on the school badge and saw that one of them was a high school student from nearby.
"Fuck, you're lucky, little loser."
The leading boy glared at Yu Huan angrily, turned around and left with a look of resentment on his face, as if he was blaming the ignorant guy for ruining his plans.
When Zilaijuan encountered bullying, he didn't say a word and wouldn't run away. Yu Huan saw the red slap marks on his face and was puzzled: "Are you okay?"
The boy finally raised his head slowly: "Thank you, I'm fine."
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