Chapter 227 Memory - Death

"Well, that's all they talked about... In short, they are suspecting you, the unfortunate fellow."

The child was walking around the chair, looking so happy as if he had heard some gossip, laughing so hard that his eyes were invisible.

Su Beixun put the bowl back on the table, wiped the corners of his mouth, jumped off the stool and smiled at the woman.

"I'm full!"

Classes start at 3pm, with nearly two hours of free time in between.

Su Beixun ran back to the room, stood on tiptoe to open the door, and slammed himself back into the room.

The bright face suddenly turned gloomy.

He leaned against the door, the coldness of the wood seeping into his lungs and making his heart sink.

Su Beixun didn't expect to encounter such a thing.

He has lived in this orphanage since he was conscious. Now at the age of seven, being adopted by a well-off family is already a very ambitious consideration for him.

But, I was caught off guard and dragged into this kind of trouble...

"Are you anxious, brother?"

The child, with his hands behind his back, walked through the wall like a ghost.

"That's right... those guys are not easy to deal with. They are indeed a big trouble for you now."

He shook his head and reminded: "If you don't want to fall asleep so early, then make preparations early."

"...No! Not necessarily."

Su Beixun bit the soft flesh on the side of his mouth and said with his eyes narrowed.

"I didn't go out last night. It's not likely that a kid would be able to overhear a secret without revealing it. As long as we follow the procedures, it's unlikely that they will find me."

"Really? That's what you think?"

the child asked softly.

He raised his head, a look of disappointment on his young face.

"So brother, you want to rely on criminals to clear your name?"

Su Beixun choked.

He was speechless.

"Innocent!"

The kid sneered.

He stretched out his hand to poke Su Beixun's chest, his short, fat fingers piercing through clothes and flesh.

"Being stable and following the rules... I thought these were just your camouflage during your growth period. But I didn't expect that when the time comes, cowardice will seep into your body!"

"You want to leave your fate to others...Okay! I have no objection!"

"But brother, you see, accidents are always one step faster than the future."

"Being passive means being at the mercy of others!"

As he spoke, he became a little excited.

"Strike first, brother!"

He punched down with excitement in his eyes.

"Those who are hostile to us will be pierced with burning spears! Let them fall into hell forever!"

Su Beixun pursed his lips.

He lowered his head to look at the other person and suddenly sneered.

"Naive? Oh, the truly naive one is probably you... I stopped having this kind of self-fulfilling dream after I was three years old."

He stepped back and let the child's fingers be pulled out of his body.

"Reality is not a game. Everything will go as planned if I say my fate is in my own hands."

"In this world, power is the foundation of recklessness!"

"But now I..."

"no doubt!"

"He's a weakling!"

Su Beixun spoke in a cold voice, staring at the pair of inky black pupils with his scarlet eyes.

"Your performance and speech are like a cheap stage play, just like trying to persuade beggars to build a country."

The child stared at him.

"So, you lost your power, and also lost your heart that only I can think of?"

He whispered, "A true king will not compromise! If the world wants to destroy him, he will give him the most splendid funeral with the sword."

Su Beixun was silent for a long time.

He stepped past the child blocking his way and spoke in a low voice.

"That's enough! I don't want to argue with a self-talking Chuunibyou."

"quarrel?"

The kid followed with his hands in his pockets: "You just want to escape."

Through the colored light that passed through the glass, he saw Su Beixun's scarlet pupils were obscure, just like the Black Sea beside Crimea.

He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly clapped his hands.

"...Oh, I see! You are the type who needs someone to push you to make a decision at the critical moment."

The child instantly became happy, swaying from side to side as if he was following a tail that he couldn't get rid of.

"Hey brother! Don't you always think that I'm just an imaginary personality? Then why didn't you question it when I said those people were targeting you?"

He hummed and turned in circles, making unsystematic tunes.

"Because, deep down, you don't feel safe. You think what I said is likely to happen."

There was slight friction between the sheets and the corners of the quilt.

Su Beixun rested his head on a white pillow.

The child stood beside the bed, looking at Su Beixun who was resting with his eyes closed, and his loud voice slowed down slightly.

"So……"

"What are you still struggling with?"

##
It was nice weather after the wind and rain.

The sunlight was slanted, and the shadows of the house spires swirled in circles like a solar corona.

3pm.

The old man parked his electric bike outside the orphanage.

He came to class.

……

The woman was wearing her bright red dress as usual and was sitting at the back of the classroom as she had done in the morning.

Her eyes wandered, as if she was supervising the children to study hard, but that lingering glance was always fixed on the three people.

Su Beixun suddenly appeared at the door of the welfare home five years ago. He didn't remember his parents or his past. He was a loner and relatively more mature.

Wang Er suffers from a congenital disease, and his binocular vision will gradually decrease as he grows. He has a sensitive personality and does not like to interact with others.

Haozhe was abandoned in an orphanage three years ago. He was born mute and has an inferiority complex. Every day he just holds the doll left behind when he was abandoned and stays in the corner all the time.

The woman recalled the three people's situations and suddenly felt that she was particularly unlucky. Each of the suspects had a gloomy personality, and it was normal for them to be stiff when facing a hug.

The only good news is that none of the three have any friends.

Through today's surveillance, she was able to ensure that the three of them were still keeping to themselves and had not done anything suspicious like telling others what they had overheard.

but.

She didn't know what to do next.

After all, she was just an ordinary person who colluded with criminals and provided a hiding place in exchange for money.

Take a deep breath.

Thinking of her own child who was still in school, a fierce look flashed under the woman's kind eyes.

As a single mother raising a child with considerable expenses, she cannot be arrested, nor can she lose this extra source of income!

If she had no other choice, she could only tell these three kids to shut up!

……

The old man rigidly explained the rules of addition and subtraction on the stage.

Su Beixun could feel the burning gazes behind him, but there was no need to pay extra attention to it. He knew that the woman was there to prevent eavesdroppers from confessing to the old man.

His eyes were fixed on the boy in blue-green clothes, two rows and one column away, in front of him on the right.

——Haozhe.

One of the three suspects.

Su Beixun took a pencil and wrote down the answer to the arithmetic problem on a piece of white paper, his thoughts in turmoil.

……

Time pounces on the pencil and gradually disappears with the sound of friction on paper.

When the old man left with the book, the two hands of the clock pointed to six.

The woman locked all the children in the entertainment room and went to the dining room to prepare dinner.

The light was dim, and white rice grains fell into the boiling water.

She opened the cupboard, pulled a packet of white powder from her pocket, and, somewhat uneasily, muttered to herself, she sprinkled it into three bowls.

——This is not poison, but a powder that can relieve sore throat for a short time.

A child who had just overheard such a big secret would have a more intense reaction if her body suddenly had problems due to panic. She planned to observe the panic levels of the three people to determine who was outside the door last night!

The sticky rice porridge fell into the aluminum bowl, hiding the medicine powder in the crevices of the food.

But women don't know.

An invisible phantom stood behind her.

Take it all in.

……

On the dining table that reflected the oily shine, bowls and chopsticks had been placed at everyone's seat.

Su Beixun did not act rashly and remained in his usual position.

"Drink it, it's okay, there's nothing deadly in it."

The child stood nearby with one hand behind his back, like a diligent and elegant old butler.

Su Beixun did not comment.

He guessed that the woman would not be stupid enough to choose to poison them here directly... Let the two accomplices adopt them and then kill them. This is the best way.

Su Beixun calmly swallowed the rice porridge with a sour taste.

As the tingling sensation grew stronger, he put on a strange look and raised his arms to the woman.

And glanced at the other two people out of the corner of his eye.

……

Sore throat caused by cold and inflammation.

This is the diagnosis notice the woman issued to the three people.

After saying that, she just perfunctorily asked the three people to drink more hot water, and left without looking back.

The woman's expression was not good, because she still could not find the eavesdropper whose reaction was unusual from this test.

Su Beixun was also very curious about this eavesdropper with good psychological quality. He looked at the two of them and then looked at the child.

"Didn't you notice anything last night?"

He already had a vague belief that the other party was not just imagining things.

The child nodded and explained: "The connection between you and me is not stable. After you fell asleep last night, I lost the sense of this side."

Su Beixun indicated that he understood and stopped asking questions.

……

Night is coming.

The moon hangs between the dead trees, looking towards the beautiful fruits.

There was no clock in the room, and Su Beixun quietly counted his own heartbeats.

"Well, they're all asleep."

The child was like a ghost in the night, lying beside the bed, hissing and breathing.

Su Beixun opened his eyes.

With very gentle movements he got out of bed and opened the door.

"Are you going to go find those two men... Oh! Talk without worry, they are sound asleep!"

Su Beixun ignored him and continued to walk at a cautious and quick pace across the corridor, slowly pushing open a door through the pillowcase.

The child's eyebrows twitched, and he ignored the darkness, looked up at the wooden sign hanging on the nail, revealing an indescribable expression.

……

Close the door carefully.

Su Beixun leaned against the door and waited for a moment, then he tiptoed forward with the help of the moonlight.

On the bed board.

You can see a child sleeping soundly.

"Brother! You are a bit mean!"

The child followed behind him and shouted in dissatisfaction: "Why don't you go find those two men? If all else fails, you can go find that woman!"

Su Beixun said nothing, squatted down, grabbed a corner of the bed sheet, and pulled it out hard!
The white sheets were quickly pulled out!
The child sleeping on the bed startled and opened his eyes confusedly.

Seeing the dark figure standing next to him, he instinctively opened his mouth to scream, but his muteness and sore throat only allowed him to utter barely audible groans.

"Feel sorry."

Su Beixun said softly, twisting the bed sheet into a thread and reaching towards the boy huddled on the bed.

……

Darkness covered everything.

Su Beixun pressed the boy under him to prevent his excessive struggle from making any noise.

slowly.

In each exhalation.

The ruddy face turned pale and gray.

The warm body gradually stiffened and cooled.

Su Beixun suppressed the urge in his lungs to breathe, stood up as calmly as possible, wrapped the sheet around the boy's neck, and tied a slipknot.

Then he opened the window and tied the other two ends into a knot on the window handle.

Then he picked up the dead boy and slid him down the window little by little.

The child had been watching, rubbing his temples and sighing.

"Brother, this is very different from what I imagined."

"You can say I'm a bully. But I like the safer option."

After cleaning up everything and wiping off any possible fingerprints, Su Beixun responded to him in a hoarse voice.

The child asked, "So you chose Haozhe because he is the only mute in the orphanage?"

Su Beixun nodded.

After making sure that no shoe prints were left, he returned to his room the same way.

But lying in bed, he couldn't fall asleep with his eyes open.

"Are you feeling guilty?"

The child looked into his bright pupils.

Su Beixun's fingers pressed on the hard bed board, and the tips of his fingers turned slightly white.

After a long time.

He sneered.

"No, I won't feel guilty! If it's for my own life, then everything I do can't be called evil!"

in the dark.

The child was silent.

……

at last.

Its daybreak.

Accompanied by a short scream.

The woman and the children who had already gotten up all saw the body hanging in the air, swaying slightly.

The woman was panic-stricken and at a loss.

But after a brief moment of fear, she suddenly felt completely at ease.

Haozhe committed suicide...

why?
The only reason she could think of was the fear of overhearing a secret!

Great……

that is really good!
This way, she is safe!
The woman touched her throbbing chest and felt the joy of surviving a disaster.

She staggered to her feet, told all the children to go to the first floor and not run around, then she rushed to the innermost room on the second floor.

This matter cannot and should not be concealed.

and so.

Before the police arrived.

She must make the two men leave quickly!

##
"Is this the truth behind why someone escaped at night?"

Caesar stood in the dark corridor, watching a child come out of a room with a wooden sign that read "Su Beixun" and enter another room with a sign that read "Haozhe".

Then there were the sounds of someone jumping out of the window and running.

"By persuading another person to run away, the woman will put all the suspicion on the other person, thus ensuring her own safety... haha!"

He snorted contemptuously.

Lu Mingfei walked into an empty room.

Through the glass he could see the child running towards the gate in panic and the woman chasing after him.

I couldn't help but ask curiously: "But...what did Su Beixun say?"

"who knows?"

Caesar couldn't think of an answer, so he simply shrugged.

"After all, this isn't just a memory... maybe it's embellished a bit?"

(End of this chapter)