Ch37 - Saw Blood (1/2)
After he finished washing the clothes, Yu Hao laid down on his bed and looked at the stars on the ceiling.
10:45pm, Zhou Sheng wasn’t back yet. It was closing time for the dormitory building.
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“Where are you going?”
Fu Liqun’s phone screen reflected his face that was as handsome as Wang Leehom, and they looked especially alike from the side.
Yu Hao, “To buy cigarettes.”
Fu Liqun, “But you don’t smoke.”
Ever since Fu Liqun broke up with Cen Shan, he would always speak in a flat tone that was neither sad nor happy, and it really resembled the male Siri voice on his phone.
“For coaxing someone.” Yu Hao said, then put on his shorts, slippers and T-shirt. When he reached the second floor, he slid down the heating pipe.
The dormitory curfew wouldn’t deter this group of sports students, especially Zhou Sheng, who was the first person to discover a way to get into the dormitory after 10pm.
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Zhou Sheng was practically an expert at parkour — he would leap onto roofs and vault over walls as if he was walking on level ground; he jumped from the first floor to the anti-theft window, then did one more flip to reach the second floor. But Yu Hao couldn’t do that. Zhou Sheng had tried to teach him the ropes several times before, but he could never get the hang of it. In the end, he could only change tack and teach him how to climb up the heating pipe while mocking him mercilessly.
Yu Hao bought a pack of Zhonghua for Zhou Sheng and stuffed it into his pocket. He remembered that Zhou Sheng’s lighter ran out of fuel a few days ago. The dormitory had been filled with the sounds of arduous flicking, so he bought a lighter as well.
He suddenly felt an impulse to tear it open and smoke one.
On this spring night, there was a a big ruckus erupting on campus. Male hormones meant that wild wolves had been confined within the physical bodies of men, and they were walking around in the corridor half naked. They would occasionally let loose a few howls as they had nowhere to vent the energy from their youthful bodies, so they were all feeling immeasurably dejected.
Yu Hao walked along the trail behind the dormitory and gradually left the dormitory area. The world then seemed to quieten; on this intoxicating spring night, only cigarettes, alcohol and sex could provide consolation, but he didn’t have even one of these three.
I need to get Zhou Sheng to smoke less. Yu Hao tore the packet of cigarettes open. He was sitting next to the field, and thought that smoking while he still needed to train for the Iron Man Triathlon wouldn’t be good for his heart. It would be best if he could find an electronic cigarette to gradually replace real cigarettes. But Yu Hao liked the subtle scent of smoke on him — it mixed with Zhou Sheng’s natural odour and this mixture had turned into his signature scent.
He took a cigarette out, ruminated for awhile, then put it back away.
Within the deathly silence, Yu Hao suddenly looked up. He seemed to have caught a glimpse of a figure walking straight through the garden behind the basketball court, towards the dormitory building outside the field.
Yu Hao frowned as he watched; that figure hardly made a sound as it moved parallel to the building, and soon disappeared behind the dormitory.
Yu Hao felt that something was wrong — that was the teacher’s dormitory building. It didn’t have a curfew, but those returning to the dormitory building wouldn’t usually pay such special attention to the sound of their footsteps. Only one kind of person would try their best to not make a sound as they moved — someone who was trying to conceal something.
Yu Hao got up and looked through the barbed wire of the field. This time, he really did see it — a figure had entered the dormitory building, but he didn’t go upstairs, and didn’t open the door! He just went into a space below the corner of the stairwell!
A chill suddenly shot down Yu Hao’s spine. Who’s that? There was a very narrow triangular space below the dormitory building’s stairwell, and it was usually used to store broomsticks and paraphernalia. Now it was approaching 11pm and someone had actually entered the place used to store broomsticks?!
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He held his breath. Yu Hao carefully walked through the parking lot and made a detour along another path towards the back of the teacher’s dormitory building, then headed to the stairwell.
The figure stood quietly with its back to Yu Hao.
Yu Hao, “……”
His breathing quickened The figure turned around and faced him.
Chen Yekai.
Chen Yekai stood quietly below the stairwell, as if he was a ghost.
“Chen Laoshi?” Yu Hao felt his hair stand on end, and his voice almost sounded like it didn’t belong to himself.
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The sound of a car drifted in from outside. Its bright headlights swept over the first floor of the dormitory building — a car was coming, and it was about to illuminate the place where Yu Hao stood. Chen Yekai reacted instantly; he grabbed Yu Hao’s wrist and forcibly dragged him into the stairwell!
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Yu Hao’s body collided with Chen Yekai’s. He could smell the lingering scent of alcohol emanating from his coat and shirt.
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“Okay, the most important thing is that she hasn’t woken up.” The man was on the phone. He sighed, “I really don’t know, what else is there to say?”
Yu Hao heard Chen Yekai’s heartbeat instantly shoot up to 160bpm. One of his hands remained in his pocket — he has never taken it out. At this moment, Chen Yekai’s whole body was trembling.
Yu Hao held Chen Yekai’s hand through his coat and pressed down. He felt something in his coat pocket.
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“Okay.” A man’s voice said, “Then, I’ll have to trouble you.”
The man passed by without noticing the two people hiding nearby in the darkness, then walked up the stairs.
“I hope so ba……”
The voice gradually faded. The electronic lock on the third floor beeped, then they heard the sound of a door closing.
Only then did Chen Yekai put his hand down. Neither of them spoke, and stood still within the darkness. Yu Hao held his wrist.
“Give it to me, Laoshi.” Yu Hao said.
Chen Yekai trembled constantly, but eventually, he slowly loosened his grip and allowed Yu Hao to pull his hand out of his pocket, revealing a sharp scalpel in his hand.
Through the coat pocket, the scalpel had cut into Yu Hao’s hand so it was bleeding a little, and it had dyed the corner of Chen Yekai’s clothes red.
“Yu Hao, why did you find me at such a time?” Chen Yekai’s voice was abnormally calm, “Is this really dictated by fate?”
Yu Hao whispered, “If that’s what you wish, then you can believe that it’s fate. Alright, it’s okay now, Laoshi, I’ll take care of the knife for now. Don’t think about anything else, forget about it ba.”
It was as if the allusions in Chen Yekai’s speech, his minute expressions and movements for the past few days, had all suddenly become clear with what had transpired tonight.
Yu Hao held the knife in his grasp and motioned for Chen Yekai to go up and return to his dormitory.
Chen Yekai said, “Come up for a cup of coffee ba.”
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Yu Hao answered, “We’ll talk tomorrow, I’m sleepy. Good night.”
Chen Yekai, “Good night.”
Yu Hao couldn’t see Chen Yekai’s expression clearly in the dark, but he knew that tonight had — to a certain extent — changed Chen Yekai’s entire life completely.
“Where have you been?”
Yu Hao walked across the field with a heavy heart and was completely startled by Zhou Sheng. He subconsciously shifted his hand behind him.
Zhou Sheng had drunk quite a bit of alcohol, and was standing quietly underneath the basketball hoop.
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“I’m asking you a question.” Zhou Sheng’s voice had an obvious hint of impatience, “Answer me!”
Yu Hao said, “I……went to buy cigarettes for you.”
“You came all the way here to buy cigarettes?” Zhou Sheng clearly didn’t believe him.
Yu Hao said, “I couldn’t sleep, so I came out for a walk too.”
Zhou Sheng, “Where’s the cigarettes?”
Yu Hao searched for the cigarettes and passed them to him. Zhou Sheng uttered a “hei” and bit one in his mouth as he swayed to and fro. He made a gesture of pressing a lighter, and Yu Hao took out a lighter.
Zhou Sheng gave Yu Hao a sidelong glance, and with a smile that didn’t look like a smile, he said, “Light it for me ah, why are you standing there like an idiot?”
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