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Chapter 2 Diary
The old house of the Chu family was rebuilt 30 years ago when Chu Chengmin married his daughter-in-law. No one has repaired it since then.
Gu Chu pushed open the rusted iron door and dragged his suitcase into the yard. The scene in front of him was far more desolate than what he saw outside. Even the most tenacious climbing vines were as empty as dead branches. Clinging to the wall, the wind will break and fall into the corner, let alone those vegetables and fruits that need to be carefully cared for.
Gu Chu Yuguang glanced at the dry and rotten vegetable seedlings in the private plot, and walked straight to the house.
The lock of the house had been picked up, and it was just hidden for now. When the door was opened, a musty smell came out.
The main room is very empty, with only a dining table and a few chairs, which looks a bit shabby. There are two black and white photos on the side wall, which are the last photos of the second elder of the Chu family.
Gu Chu lowered his head and saw a mess of mud footprints. These were left by the villagers who came to hear the sound of her brother's disappearance and a pool of suspicious bloodstains in the house. Later, the police collected evidence and blocked the yard. But no one came to clean up after the unblocking, so the sand left at that time had already dried up on the ground.
Obviously, the direction of the footprints is the room where her brother has lived all these years.
She remembered that it used to be her parents' room, and that's the most sturdy room in this small bungalow. The Chu family's family background was average. When they built the house, they suffered a lot of famine. This new house alone is the best. It was built with blue bricks, and better quality bricks were used on the roof.
It is estimated that the only room in the entire yard that can barely live in is that room.
Gu Chu pushed the suitcase to the corner, placed the shoulder bag on the suitcase casually, and walked into Chu Xiangru's room following the direction of the footprints.
Because it was rummaged for evidence, the room was rather messy, but even so, the original furnishings in the room could be roughly restored.
A bed, a wardrobe, a table and a chair on the wall by the window, that's all, it's an extremely humble house. According to what the villagers just said, Chu Xiangru spends most of the time in In this house, rarely go out.
There is no tablet, no computer, the only communication tool is a PHS mobile phone, which has long been eliminated, and its function is limited to calling and texting.
This is too withdrawn and weird for someone his age.
Gu Chu looked around, and then his eyes were fixed on the dried and blackened blood on the edge of the bed.
This is Chu Xiangru's blood...
Such a big beach, at least one or two thousand milliliters. Under normal circumstances, acute blood loss of 1000 milliliters or more than 20% of the human blood volume will lead to shock, and if it exceeds 30%, it will exceed the limit of human compensation and endanger life.
That is to say, in the absence of timely treatment, the missing Chu Xiangru could almost be judged dead.
Gu Chu frowned slightly, his thick black eyes like a deep fog, and he couldn't see the complicated emotions in it.
"I hate you, why did Mom take you instead of me back then!"
"I'm living a good life now. Since you chose to abandon me back then, don't try to take my light. I will never recognize your sister or that woman again."
...
Gu Chu was a little troubled by his good memory, and what happened in nine years was still stored in his brain as clearly as what happened yesterday.
In the 20 years after her parents divorced, she had met with Chu Xiangru once. To be precise, Chu Xiangru found her, but except for the two involved, no one else knew the secret.
Her brother, who once loved her, looked at her with hatred. He was wearing clean and tidy brand-name sportswear and holding a flip phone, which was very fashionable at the time.
The reason why he appeared in front of her seems to be to show off his current life as a winner. In his definition, the mother who left Xiaoyang Village and her sister who was taken away by her mother were betrayers.
Perhaps it was because of the same father and mother, Chu Xiangru's appearance was very similar to hers. Seeing such a cold expression on his face, which was almost the same as his own, Gu Chu didn't know what it was like.
On the day we met, she just ran out of the house.
The stepfather was drunk and intended to violate her. My mother came home and saw this scene and interrupted the stepfather's evil deeds. She didn't blame the stepfather too much, but slapped her in turn, scolding her for being disrespectful, calling her vile, and even the stepfather. All seduce.
When she ran out of the house, she was still wearing slippers, her hair was disheveled, and there was a bright red slap print on her face.
The elder brother seemed to turn a blind eye to all this, and it seemed that because he knew that she had not had a good life these years, his expression was filled with pleasure.
Gu Chu didn't say a word to keep her. She didn't know what to say to her brother who seemed to have suffered a lot after being separated for more than ten years, but just watched him leave.
That night, she went to the barber shop to cut off her waist-length hair, pushed it an inch, and changed out all the feminine clothes.
At that time, she hated all the feminine features in her body. Later, when she matured, she realized that it was never the beautiful appearance and the curves of the body that were wrong.
It's just that I'm used to this kind of dress, and I can't change it anymore.
Later, what happened later?
Half a month later, the stepfather was drunk at the construction site and carried out high-altitude operations, and fell from the twenty-seventh floor. The construction site lost a sum of money out of humanitarianism. Inheritance, unfortunately, most of the inheritance was taken away by the stepfather's parents because the two only served wine but did not receive a license.
Her mother was depressed all day long, either complaining about her stepfather or cursing her relatives over there. She was diagnosed with breast cancer within a few years and passed away soon.
In the following days, she was always alone. If she hadn't received that special letter, Gu Chu thought that she would have no interaction with him as Chu Xiangru asked.
The affair was eccentric from beginning to end.
A letter without a postmark that appeared at the door inexplicably
Half of the blood-stained rice cake, the other party not only knows the relationship between her and Chu Xiangru, but also knows the agreement they made when they were young
Who sent the letter? Does he know the truth behind Chu Xiangru's disappearance? Why did he guide himself back to his hometown...
All this made Gu Chu unpredictable.
However, the biggest doubt on this trip obviously goes beyond that. The Chu Xiangru she heard from the villagers is obviously completely different from the Chu Xiangru who appeared in front of her nine years ago.
Gu Chu stayed in Xiaoyang Village for three days. During the period, he found someone to repair the old house and the tombs of the elders of the Chu family who had already been covered with weeds. Then he went to the local police station and left his I hope the police can contact me as soon as possible after finding clues.
Gu Chu's current residence is more than a thousand kilometers away from Lincheng, spanning several provinces and cities.
The house she lives in now is an old dilapidated small house bought with a down payment after working for several years. Most of the residents in this residential building are elderly people and tenants from other places.
Because it is an old community, there is no property, and the sanitation and security conditions are not very good.
Gu Chu's house is on the sixth floor, and the top floor without an elevator has always been the cheapest. After opening the door and putting the suitcase at the entrance, Gu Chu walked quickly to the bedroom with a shoulder bag.
She took out a slightly yellowed notebook from her backpack, which she found in the old house.
There were not many useful clues to be found in Chu Xiangru's room, which had already been carefully searched by the police several times. This diary was found by Gu Chu in another room.
Strictly speaking, that room was Chu Xiangru's original room. Before Gu Chu left Chu's house with his mother, the slightly older Chu Xiangru already had his own small independent room. Gu Chu, who was even younger, still shared a big bed with his parents.
After Chu Xiangru moved into his parents' room, the original house was left unused. Because of the years of disrepair and lack of popularity, the room was rotten. During the rainy season, clumps of mushrooms grew on the ground.
Gu Chu remembered that there was a loose stone brick under the bed in this house, and there was a gap under it that could accommodate a small box. When she was young, she and her brother often got under the bed and hid unfinished candies in the small box. Inside the cave to prevent it from being confiscated by the elders.
It was under that stone brick that the diary was found.
January 21
Dad died, he seemed to have seen something terrible, and his expression was very frightened
January 23
I feel like there's something staring at me
January 24
I'm sure it's not an illusion
...
February 13
When I got home, I found an extra book on the table. Has anyone been there?
...
Afterwards, the handwriting became more and more illegible, Gu Chu frowned and read on.
February 18
I entered the ()(), it's terrible, why is there such a thing, can I live...
February 25
I saw someone burn that book and he got burned too
...
March 28
This is a curse, this must be a curse, but whoever gets close to () () will be cursed
...
The more you get to the back, the more unrecognizable the handwriting is. It can be seen that the owner who wrote the diary was full of infinite fear.
Gu Chu frowned, there were too many things in the diary that she couldn't understand, what book? What curse?
And what were written in those erased words?
The diary that I thought could solve some mysteries made Gu Chu's thoughts more and more chaotic.
This thick diary only records a few short pages, and the diary is not written every day, and judging from the date, Chu Xiangru only wrote it for half a year before abandoning it.
But being able to hide it in such a secret place carefully, this diary must be very important.
Gu Chu quickly flipped through the blank pages, until the last second page, and suddenly there were words again.
March 17
It's spying on me, I gotta hide that thing
Gu Chu's fingers tightened, and he gripped the diary slightly.
The handwriting of this line of characters is obviously newer than the previous handwriting, and it seems to be left recently. That is to say, it is very likely to be related to the reason for Chu Xiangru's disappearance.
What does "it" mean?
What does it have to do with the thing staring at Chu Xiangru at the beginning of the diary?
What is that hidden thing.
Gu Chu took a deep breath, feeling a sense of insignificance shrouded in a huge fog.
In the days that followed, Gu Chu read the diary over and over countless times. She didn't have a clue about some of the mysteries above, but she still didn't give up.
"Who."
At one o'clock in the morning, Gu Chu walked down the narrow corridor with a supper bag.
The light bulbs that have been in disrepair for a long time are a little dim, making a sizzling sound, disappearing and appearing now and then.
I don't know why, but there is always a feeling of being peeped. Gu Chu stopped and turned back sharply, but there was still only an empty corridor behind him.
She paused for a long time, then quickened her pace and returned to the room.
This is not the first time that this feeling has appeared. Gu Chu thought of the words written in Chu Xiangru's diaryโโ
I feel like something is staring at me!
Gu Chu put down his supper bag and had already returned to the closed and safe room, but the sense of peeping from all directions still did not disappear, as if a huge eye was staring at you.
She moved slowly around the room, staring, looking for things that weren't supposed to exist in the room, like tiny cameras.
When his eyes swept across the bookshelf in the living room, Gu Chu paused.
The bookshelves on the eighth floor were full of format books, and they were arranged in an orderly manner. With just one glance, Gu Chu found the third book on the right in the second row, a book that did not exist in this room.
She thought of another diaryโ
When I got home, I found an extra book on the table. Has anyone been there?