Madness of the Heart

After smoking a cigarette, Qin Guosheng looked at the paper money and joss sticks at his feet, picked them up, and continued to walk towards the mountain.

When Hao Lugang died, he thought he could not accept the life of being "degraded" from a university teacher to an ordinary person, but he left the podium and the laboratory, no longer being ignored by the professors and despised by the students. He suddenly felt serious Get a new life.

Maybe it's time to give up long ago, it's time to change life long ago, but it has been unable to take the first step.

Thinking of this, he felt relieved. For nine years, he deliberately imitated Hao Lu, who only had a junior high school culture, and he mixed in the market, doing all kinds of low-level jobs, and whipped up the books that senior intellectuals were used to, almost from the past. I walked out of the depression, and learned simple disguise from the craftsman.

Most of the time, he thought he was Hao Lu, a rural man whose parents died of cancer and he was misdiagnosed as having cancer.

The identity has been changed. The only person in the world who knew that he was not the real Hao Lu had already died. Among them, there were even police testimonies. There was a perfect death. But he still dare not use Hao Lu’s ID card often and never enter a regular hospital. Not by plane or train.

Three years ago, he intentionally returned to campus. He wanted to apply for a dormitory or librarian at Dongye Medical University, but he was worried that he would be found to look like a dead "Tin Guosheng Lecturer", and he was even more worried about those who used to be in the same place. Colleagues working in the laboratory can no longer remember the appearance of "Tin Guo Provincial Lecturer".

He has been left out in the cold for most of his life, and what he cares most about is being completely forgotten.

In the end, he chose to work in the Jiulin Psychological Clinic opposite to the Medical University.

Jiulin Psychological Clinic belongs to Guangye Hospital, but unlike most departments in Guangye Hospital, Jiulin Psychological Clinic is relatively independent, and most of its doctors are hired from other places with high salaries.

He took a job as a security guard in Jiulin, a very leisurely job, and all he needed to do every day was to patrol all floors.

Jiulin has a public-facing psychology science exchange meeting every week, anyone can sign up to participate, and the doctors in the institute take turns presided over it. He was interested in psychology when he was still in the Medical University and read some books on psychology. At each exchange meeting, he did not fall behind, wearing a security uniform, sitting in the last row to listen to the lecture.

Of all the doctors who presided over the lecture, he was also most interested in Luo.

Luo is also young, talented, and handsome, the kind of person he thought he would be when he was in his twenties.

He envied Luo Yi, and he was jealous of Luo Yi. The depression that was stuck in his heart many years ago came back unknowingly.

He eagerly wanted to prove that if he had specialized in psychology instead of pharmacy, his achievements would not be worse than Luo Yi!

Jiulin has a small library open to all employees. The books in it are about psychology. He borrowed a few books when he had time, and consulted the doctors in the clinic when he had the opportunity-but never communicated with Luo Yi.

He is a person with higher education. Although he is nominally Hao Lu who only has a junior high school education, he is actually Qin Guosheng who has obtained a doctorate degree. He digested the basic knowledge of psychology very quickly, and when he had the basics, he would listen to Luo Yi's lectures and he would be more vigorous.

The past few years ago jumped into his mind, and he couldn't help but think of his failed drug experiment.

Did the experiment really fail?

If he fails completely, then why is Hao Lu turned into a lunatic?

If the experiment continues...

He was trembling with excitement, and seemed to have found his direction in life. He wanted to do another experiment, and this experiment no longer uses drugs to affect people's spirits, but uses psychology!

There are very few geniuses. Most of us are ordinary people who work hard to live. Ordinary is not shameful. Hard work is something to be proud of. This is what Luo Yi said to the “losers” at an exchange meeting. .

He wanted to refute—the efforts of mediocre people is a shame! A person without talent, even if he is alive, is a walking dead!

He used mahjong to form dominoes in the rented cabin. With a light touch of his index finger, the first card fell, and then he didn’t have to shoot again. The cards behind—those mediocre people who worked hard—were all pushed one by one. death.

The plan took shape.

He only needs to "knock down" one person to watch this massive death game.

Wu Zhen, the mediocre screenwriter who came to Jiulin to participate in the exchange meeting, was his first goal.

After many years, he once again dressed up as a university teacher. It's just that compared with the past, his hair is much whiter, and the wrinkles on his face are more profound.

Last fall, he began to approach Wu Zhen.

Wu Zhen has always been obsessed with writing scripts. He didn't know that a lecturer named "Qin Guosheng" in the School of Pharmacy of the Medical University committed suicide nine years ago. When he deliberately or unintentionally placed the documents he had kept in front of Wu Zhen and talked about his job and identity, the middle-aged man who was hit by reality to almost despair easily believed it.

He was older than Wu Zhen, and he succeeded in making Wu Zhen mistakenly think he was a university professor. When he talked about his hopeless struggle in the past half of his life, Wu Zhen felt it all.

"People like us are just a laughingstock for the world." He said to Wu Zhen many times.

In December, Wu Zhen fell into a very negative mood. He saw the right time and finally informed Wu Zhen of his "suicide" plan.

Wu Zhen was surprised, "Do you want me to kill you?"

"My life is mediocre, at least the last death I don't want to be mediocre anymore." He looked at Wu Zhen's eyes and said earnestly: "We are the same people. Instead of being looked down upon by others and trampled underfoot by talented people in our lives, it is better to do something. Let the world finally notice our affairs."

Wu Zhen was shocked and ran away immediately.

He was not disappointed. It was normal for Wu Zhen to have such a reaction, but after he figured it out, Wu Zhen would definitely come back.

During this period, he still has one important thing to do.

That is to find a dead ghost.

This person will die in front of Wu Zhen instead of him, make Wu Zhen believe in his death, and then take the baton from him. At that time, he will only have to push one "seed" to Wu Zhen's side. , To see how Wu Zhen let them germinate.

He looked at all the fallen mahjongs and let out a series of gloomy laughter.

Once this experiment is successful, he will be a better psychologist than Luo Yi.

Jiang is still old and spicy. How can a young man like Luo Yi compare to him?

Huang Mouquan, a person who sells skewers on Shanxiang Street, is a fellow of Hao Lu-he is a fellow of Tan Guo Province.

This person came to Dongye City half a year earlier than Hao Lu. Hao Lu told him about the tragedy of the Huang family and mentioned that he played with Huang Mouquan as a child.

In the early years, Qin Guo Province was most afraid of meeting people in Hulu Town, and even dared not to contact people who knew Hao Lu.

But now is different. Time is enough to change his appearance and blur his memory. He is no longer worried about being suspected by the people in Hulu Town.

Time is running out, and he needs to find a suitable substitute for the dead as quickly as possible.

He went to Shanxiang Street to observe Huang Mouquan. Huang Mouquan didn't look like him, but his body shape was similar.

Huang Muquan lived alone in the house of his deceased daughter, which is Building 4-1, No. 4, Kanzi Nine Lane, Shanxiang Street. He brought home-style stewed dishes and wine and visited as Hao Lu.

It hasn't been seen for ten years, and Huang Mouquan is surprised when he meets a blind date in his hometown.

His mastery of psychology is beyond the imagination of ordinary people like Huang Mouquan, and Huang Mouquan has let go of his guard after a meal. Since then, he has come to Shanxiang Street many times, wearing a mask and a hat, because it is the big winter, his dress has never attracted the attention of others.

While Huang Mouquan was not paying attention, he took the key of Huang's house and matched it with a new one.

Soon, as he expected, Wu Zhen returned.

"I'm joining your'suicide' plan." Wu Zhen's voice trembled, "People like us, there is no other way than to help each other. To be alive... To be alive is really painful!"

He kindly calmed Wu Zhen, "It's okay, we can't choose birth or talent, but fortunately we can still choose death."

The plan is set for the Spring Festival-every household visits relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, and the city management is not working, which is the best time to commit a crime.

"You don't have to bear the charge of murder for me. I will take poison and commit suicide. Just come here to help me with my funeral." He took Wu Zhen to the door of 4-1, "This is the house left by my parents. I am. I rarely come to live, and I did not honor them well before they were alive. So I hope to spend the last moment here. My life is useless, and I have not established any fame. I will go down to see my family without a face. I will use this fabric to hide Hold your face, please don't take the fabric apart."

Wu Zhen nodded solemnly, "What kind of poison are you going to take?"

He smiled, "Sodium cyanide, there is no pain, it will pass in a while. If you need it in the future, I can give you a copy."

On the night of the third day of the first lunar month, he went to Huang Mouquan's house for the holidays.

Two old men in a foreign land, without relatives, have a drink and a plate of side dishes together, and this year is over.

Huang Mouquan prepared many hometown dishes ahead of time. Qin Guo province cut the fruits he brought and arranged them on the plate, and sprinkled the highly toxic sodium cyanide on the oranges.

Huang Mouquan is a rough person, so he eats as soon as he picks it up. Sodium cyanide's toxicity quickly broke out, and Huang Mouquan fell on the table and swallowed shortly afterwards.

He put on his gloves, moved Huang Mouquan to the bed, wrapped Huang Mouquan's head with the prepared black cloth, and tied a knot behind his head, just like Huang Mouquan had tied it up by himself.

Then, he put all the small objects that he had touched-such as fruit knives, dishes-into the bag, and then cleaned the scene to make sure that there were no traces of his own. Then he left, and Put the key in the flower pot outside the door.

After that, Wu Zhen wore the clothes of a cleaner, opened the door of 4-1 with a key, put the unstiffened body into the prepared sanitation sacks, and dragged it from the 4th floor to the 1st floor. Then put it into a hand-push garbage truck, and step into the black water-like night among the inverted "fu" and red lanterns all over the street.

Four months later, on June 22, Wu Zhen committed suicide by taking sodium cyanide. He "imaginatively" sealed himself in cement. He didn't know whether he wanted to be immortal or would never be discovered.

He happily fiddled with the mahjong pieces at home, waiting for Sha Chun, who was "inspired" by Wu Zhen, to hand over the baton to the next "desperate".

Sha Chun is the most "excellent" target he chose for Wu Zhen. At the same time, he took great pains to bring Wang Ying, a major in journalism from the University of Medical Sciences, to Wu Zhen, but Wu Zhen seemed to be more interested in a person named "Luo Ganfeng."

This person suddenly disappeared, and he sensed a first-line crisis.

However, the smooth handover between Wu Zhen and Sha Chun gave him great confidence and satisfaction. At this time, he just learned that Luo also has a patient named "Wenhe", whose self-evaluation seems to be very low. .

It is another "seed" with potential.

He laughed secretly, remembering that Luo Yi had suggested that people with depressive tendencies develop personal hobbies at the exchange meeting, so he guessed that Luo Yi had said similar things to Wen He.

So, he handed the leaflets of "Jianjia Bailu" to the children playing on the street, and used the change to trick the children into stuffing the leaflet into Wen He's arms.

His "seed" is Long Tianhao who is making a big noise in Guangye Hospital.

But like last time, the development of things deviated from his ideals again. The closest to Sha Chun was a third year repeater. This person took the initiative to learn guzheng in "Jianjia Bailu", not what he chose for Sha Chun." seed".

Gradually out of control.

Only one "domino" fell, and it was almost stuck.

He extremely suspected that Luo Ganfeng had learned the whole story from Wu Zhen before he suddenly disappeared. He must find Luo Ganfeng and use sodium cyanide to kill the man who ran away with secrets.

But Luo Ganfeng has not been found, and Sha Chun died.

He was caught in a huge panic—Wen He and Long Tianhao he chose for Sha Chun, one of them is not in the country, the other has long been out of contact with Sha Chun, and the one who has the closest relationship with Sha Chun is Yu Xiaocheng, and Yu Xiaocheng Has returned to school not long ago and repeats again.

Who would kill Sha Chun?

He found that his "dominos" seemed to have been moved by an invisible person.

Nine years ago, when he exchanged identities with Hao Lu, he met a group of policemen who only wanted to close the case quickly. The little tricks he used in DNA testing were not detected by the police, and they did not even investigate. Why do you want to take out all the money in your passbook before you die, and where is the money now?

If it was this kind of perfunctory detective who was investigating the Sha Chun case...

But the police in charge of this case seem to be the elite of the police circle.

To this day, he still has a deep fear of the "elite". Fear gives birth to jealousy. He used to be jealous of the professors of the School of Pharmacy who were better than him, and later he was jealous of the young and promising Luo Yi. He was afraid of them and wanted to be them, his psychology had already been distorted to the extreme.

The policeman named "Mingshu" found "Jianjia Bailu" from the performing arts group.

He couldn't sit still anymore.

In order not to be noticeable, he asked the security captain for leave in private, saying that there was an emergency at home and he was leaving for a period of time. Then he took care of all his personal belongings, took a little luggage, and got on the private bus to Hulu Town.

Halfway through the car, he suddenly realized that Hulu Town is the hometown of Hao Lu, but not his hometown of Qin Guo Province!

There was a long journey from Hulu Town to Lanchuan County in the southeast. When he took a private car all the way back to his hometown where he had been away for decades, he suddenly felt that it didn't matter.

Struggle, struggle, struggle, coax, kill...

Everything seemed to have become a thing in the previous life, something other people did, and he just stood aside, watching a depressed and crazy person.

He is not Hao Lu, nor is he a lecturer Tan. He is still the young man who takes his father’s words as his motto, but now, he no longer wants to go to the big city, he doesn’t want to get ahead anymore, he just wants to be a job in the country. The farmer is like his father who was killed by his mother.

But who killed the father?

Is it really a mother?

Or the one who is unwilling to give up the future?

Qin Guosheng woke up from his memories.

The road up the mountain is difficult, and the two large packages of paper money and incense candles are too heavy.

He stood for a while, whispering to himself: "I'm alive, so tired."

Granny Xu, who lives in Building No. 4-5, No. 4, Kanzi Nine Lane, is a widowed old man in her sixties.

Xiao Yuan asked the team members to learn about Xu's situation from the surrounding residents and learned many important details——

Mother-in-law Xu’s husband died young. She was a woman who was both a father and a mother, and brought up her only son Zhang Yike. Zhang Yike once worked for a technology company called "Mingmo", which specializes in providing video surveillance equipment and technical maintenance to the government and major enterprises. In the past few years, “MingMou” had a strong momentum of development, but lost to a competitor in a government tender. In recent years, it has gradually fallen silent.

Zhang Yike was laid off after "MingMou" started to go downhill. He was eager to find a new job, but he was killed in a car accident during the job hunting process.

The white-haired man gave the black-haired man, the mother-in-law Xu became extremely gloomy ever since, relying on the car accident compensation and the savings of her son, as well as her own pension.

Everyone who lives nearby recognizes Granny Xu. When her son had just passed away, some women tried to comfort her. They made some good dishes and soups for the elderly at home, so they brought a portion to 4-5, but Mother Xu's temperament changed drastically, not only did she not allow others Enter the house and knock over the food that was kindly brought by others.

As time passed, no one went to 4-5 anymore. The children were "told and unscrupulous" and called Granny Xu an "old witch".

This struggling old woman is probably the only witness who Wu Zhen removed Huang Mouquan's body from the first scene.

Xiao Yuan took the medical examination report of mother-in-law Xu transferred from the community hospital and explored a possibility.

The elderly have poor hearing and inconvenient legs and feet, but their eyesight is pretty good.

Ming Shu judged from Granny Xu's reaction and the newly added security chain on the door that Granny Xu saw the 4-1 abnormality.

But the prerequisite for seeing is that Granny Xu, like a 4-6 householder, heard the movement outside.

Obviously, Granny Xu's hearing condition is not enough to hear the movements outside.

It is also impossible that Granny Xu happened to come back from outside at that time.

When I went to Kanzi Nine Alley last time, Xiao Yuan had noticed that there were no cat eyes on the doors 4-5.

So how did Granny Xu see what happened outside without the outside world knowing it?

Zhang Yike used to work in a company that developed surveillance equipment, and it couldn't be easier to install a miniature camera that is difficult to detect for his mother.

Mother-in-law Xu is not only an important witness, she may also have more critical video evidence.