Blue and white porcelain

First, the groom is someone else.

When the wedding March sounded in St. Meadow's Cathedral, the sky was suddenly covered with thick dark clouds. I stood in front of the church, looking at the gray sky and smoking silently. The groom is my good friend Qin Feng, and I know the bride. Her name is Javert. The arrival of autumn rain is often silent, and thin rain threads are intertwined around me. When I put out the cigarette in my hand, the master of ceremonies hurried out of the church and panted to me, "Mr. Wolf Seven, Mr. Qin Feng said to let you in."

I nodded and followed the MC into the church. The church was white and solemn, and Qin Feng's relatives and friends blessed the couple with smiles on their faces. Few people noticed my arrival. Only Qin Feng smiled at me, and I always felt that his smile was full of apologies. The official start of the wedding, the melodious and elegant March, and the couple with light steps, all of which broke my memory into countless tiny pieces in an instant: just a few months ago, when Javert and I were about to enter this solemn church, she suddenly left me for no reason. After I waited for a whole month, she finally appeared, and at that time, she had stuck to Qin Feng.

I want to talk to her alone countless times to find out what happened, but she seems to have been avoiding me. Even if I meet her alone occasionally, I just say hello with a straight face. I sighed heavily. The wedding March is still going on, and now it's time to exchange rings. I looked up, and Qin Feng happily put the ring on Javert's ring finger. Javert also picked up the ring at this moment. She gave me a gentle look. Is this an apology? I don't know.

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second floor[British English]; third floor[American English]

I sat in the corner of the wedding banquet and said nothing. Qin Feng was drunk when he came over. He held Javert's shoulder, raised his glass and said loudly, "Wolf Seven, although you lost the battle for Javert, we are still best friends." Then he gulped down the wine in his glass. I just smiled and drank my glass of wine.

Javert kept hanging his head, as if it was hard to look me in the eye for a moment.

I didn't turn on the light when I got home. Under the influence of alcohol, I typed hard, piled up my world with words, and escaped the fact that I didn't want to accept it until I finally fell asleep.

When I wake up, the sky is still gloomy, like a sponge that absorbs enough water. The slightest vibration will lead to heavy rain. I got up from my computer desk and my joints ached. At this time, I accidentally caught a glimpse of Javert's picture hanging on the wall, and the pain that sank in my heart came to me again.

She is someone else's bride now, I think, and the phone suddenly rang. Who will call me so early? When I connected the phone, Javert's frightened voice came.

"Wolf seven, you, you come to the hospital, Qin Feng he ..." She sobbed here.

"How is he?" I have a vague sense of foreboding.

"He's dying!" This sentence is like a boulder hitting my chest instantly.

When I drove to the hospital, the lights in the emergency room had gone out, and there was a body covered with white cloth in the emergency room. There was no one in the corridor, only Javert sat on the bench, burying his head in his arms and crying in a low voice. I walked gently to her side and held her shoulder. She looked up at me blankly, then suddenly hugged me tightly, and tears began to flood her face again.

"What's the matter?" I asked, stroking her hair gently.

"Qin Feng, what about him ... he received a strange phone call in the middle of the night yesterday, and then immediately became a different person with a straight face. Cold sweat began to sweat, and the joy on his face was swept away. He hurriedly put on his clothes and left home without saying a word. I have never seen him so nervous. I thought there was something wrong with the company, and I didn't ask much. But in the morning, I vaguely heard someone knocking at the door. When I opened the door, I found him lying at the door, covered in blood. He looked at me blankly and told me in horror, let me tell you to be careful. " Javert's words made my body tremble slightly.

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Fourth Floor

When I came out of the hospital, the long-planned rainstorm finally came down, and the car ran wildly in the rainstorm. Javert sat next to me, looking out at the city, lost in thought. Black tall buildings far and near are shrouded in hazy water vapor. Her chest rose and fell rhythmically, and suddenly she said faintly, "Wolf Seven, do you still love me?"

My heart is shaking again, and now I don't know how to answer her. If she hadn't married Qin Feng, even if she had married Qin Feng, if she hadn't died, maybe I would have said a sweet word piously, but now I just looked coldly at the steam rising from the rain on the asphalt road.

The car quickly stopped in front of her house. After getting off the bus, she gently said, "Actually, I still love you ..." Then she turned and ran to the house.

Along the way, my mind was full of countless questions. Why did you leave me when you liked me? I thought I had freed myself from the inner torture, but just her words let me fall into this torture again. When I got home, there were several policemen in police uniforms standing at the door. When they saw me, they greeted me.

"Are you Mr. Wolf Seven?" One of the tall policemen looked at me coldly and said.

I nodded, a little at a loss.

"Oh, we are from the major crimes unit, and now we want you to go to the station with us to cooperate with the investigation because of a murder." His words were euphemistic, but he doubted me.

The tall policeman sitting in the interrogation room of the police station lit a cigarette and asked, "Mr. Wolf Seven, we want to know what is your relationship with Qin Feng?"

"Friends." My answers to questions from people I don't know are always short.

"When did you meet?" The policeman then asked.

"About three years ago!"

"What is your relationship with Qin Feng's lover?" Obviously, he came prepared.

"She used to be my lover." I have roughly guessed the reason why the police suspect me now.

"Well, where were you last night?"

"I have been writing novels at home, and then I went to bed!"

"Can anyone prove it?"

"No."

"Well, thank you for your cooperation. We'll call you again if necessary. I hope you won't leave the city during this time. " The implication of his words is that I have been identified as a suspect. I smiled helplessly and walked out of the interrogation room.

"Wolf Seven ..." I heard a familiar voice. I turned around and a burly policeman came up to me. This man Xiao He once helped me. He smiled at me and said, "Your boy is not at home and writes well. What are you doing here? Or because of that? "

I reported Javert's disappearance a few months ago, but Javert came back and I never came back to close the case. I shook my head helplessly.

"You don't look very well. What's wrong? " Xiao He patted me on the shoulder. "Come on, let's go out and talk!"

Second, the mystery of disappearance.

Sitting in a familiar position in the ancient teahouse, the waiter brought a pot of green tea, and the fragrance of tea immediately filled the surrounding air. Xiao He sat opposite me and kept fiddling with the lighter. He is a man who will go crazy immediately without cigarettes, but unfortunately smoking is forbidden here.

"What's the matter? Tell me what happened recently? " Xiao He put down the lighter, took a sip of tea and said.

I breathed a long sigh of relief, told Xiao He exactly what happened after I left Javert, and soon married Qin Feng. He is the only one who can listen to me patiently now. He listened quietly, sometimes fiddling with the lighter, sometimes suddenly stopping and frowning, but always wanted to say something.

After all this, Xiao He put down his lighter and said, "You mean you went to the police station today for the case of Qin Feng."

"Yes, from now on, I am the most suspect." I can't help but feel a little disappointed.

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Fifth Floor

"By the way, I have known you for so long, only know that you and Qin Feng are good friends, but I have never known how you met? After all, he is the boss of the most famous enterprise in our city and he is so young. " Xiao He looked at me curiously and said.

"Because of blue and white porcelain." My heart still shakes when I think of it. "Three years ago, I have been collecting materials for writing a book about porcelain." By chance, I saw a blue and white porcelain bottle at an auction. Do you know that?/You know what? The first time I saw the blue and white porcelain bottle, I was deeply attracted by what was on it. At this moment, as a seller, Qin Feng appeared in front of me. He recognized me at once and was my fan, so we became friends. "

"Ha ha, it seems that you are predestined!" Xiao He said.

"Yes, I think so too. He likes mystery novels very much. What surprised me even more was that he not only liked reading, but also created some himself, so he showed me all his novels. " I took a sip of tea and continued: "He knew that I was particularly interested in that blue-and-white porcelain, so he told me that there was a curse behind this blue-and-white porcelain, because this blue-and-white porcelain was made of a woman's ashes and dirt. His story inspired me a lot, and later I wrote a novel called Blue and White Porcelain, which changed my life. "

"Changed your life!" Xiao He said with some surprise.

"Yes, I know Xia Wei is blue and white porcelain. It was a winter afternoon, when my signing ceremony was drawing to a close, a girl wearing a light-colored trench coat with long hair appeared in my field of vision. She told me that her hometown is the hometown of ceramics, and there was such a legend. I am curious. After all, most of the plot of that novel is beyond my imagination, except for a few outlines that Qin Feng lost. If I can fully listen to the real legend, I think I can create a novel. So I begged her to tell me all the legends, and she promised me that she would tell me everything she knew in due course. "

"Later, I knew that she was in college, majoring in the ancient history of China. One night a few weeks later, she finally agreed to tell me all the stories. We made an appointment to meet in this teahouse. She came wearing a red down jacket and sat opposite me with a smile. I heard the most beautiful and touching story in my life in the atmosphere of green tea. That night, I had an idea that I must write this story into a novel. Later, because of many details in the novel, I took the initiative to find her, so we gradually became familiar with it. When the novel was published, we officially began to fall in love. "

"I really don't believe such a bizarre story." Xiao He said with a sigh, "This is more like a novel."

"Sometimes I doubted like you, but when I saw Javert, I knew everything was true, because she was on my side. A few months ago, she suddenly became very silent, like a different person. She is always absent-minded in her work and always turns on the light when she sleeps at night. I didn't think so at first, but then her behavior became even more strange. She began to go out early and return late. Every night when I come back, I always find her eyes are red-she must have cried. A week later, she left me quietly without saying a word. I will never forget that day, because there was a gas leak in the painting and calligraphy shop next to the restaurant where we ate that day, which triggered an explosion. "

"Well, I also remember that day. The daughter of the owner of that calligraphy and painting shop was killed on the spot, and the scene was quite chaotic. The deceased is curled up and has been burned into a human form. " Xiao He said with a sigh. Xiao Yue seemed to want to say something, but he didn't continue to sigh.

"On that very day, I found her gone without leaving a letter or anything else." As I said this, my tears began to swirl in my eyes. "I didn't expect her to come back a month later, but she never looked for me again. We seem to be strangers. Soon after, I received an invitation from Qin Feng. When I saw Javert's name on the invitation, I was completely shocked. I looked at it blankly for a long time. "

"It's strange that nothing happened between you, but she left you for no reason. Stranger still, she married your best friend, but your best friend was killed on their wedding night. " Xiao He handsome eyebrows locked, thinking about something.

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Sixth floor

Third, the mystery of blue and white porcelain

After I left Xiaohe, I drove back to my residence. When I turned on the computer, I saw the edited information. He wants me to finish the second part of Blue and White Porcelain. Seeing these words, my heart began to twitch violently again. The story Javert told me once again rushed into my mind and made me linger:

Sitting in the corner of Gudao Teahouse, the air is filled with faint tea fragrance. She wore that red down jacket, held a tea bowl in her hand, took a sip of tea gently, and said, my hometown has a strange name, called Gucheng.

I took a notebook out of my pocket, nodded, and began to record. Her speaking speed is very slow, which matches my typing speed.

It is a little-known place, located between cliffs and mountains. The houses in the town are all wooden structures, which have turned blue-black after a long time. Her house is one of the oldest buildings in town. Hundreds of years ago, this town was once famous for blue and white porcelain, but then something happened and the village began to decline. In the end, almost everyone moved out, and only their family was still guarding their old house.

"What the hell is that?" I looked at Xia Wei curiously, and she nodded knowingly. Then she said, It is said that hundreds of years ago, our once glorious town always produced a kind of exquisite blue and white porcelain, with appropriate brushstrokes and vivid patterns. At that time, businessmen traveled between the town and the outside world. However, the war broke out soon, and the smoke of the war swept across the country like a scourge. The patriarch's son was drafted into the army on their wedding night. A few months later, the wife who lives alone received the last letter from her husband and the letter from the army. It turned out that her husband had died in battle. She was in great pain and wanted to die with her dead husband. Just then, she found herself pregnant.

In-laws were shocked by the news. They clearly remember that their son left home on their wedding night, but the doctor said that the child was only over a month old. They couldn't stand the shame of this family, so they kicked her out of the house. In the cold winter, the air conditioner attacks people, and she has nowhere to go, so she can only hide in a long-abandoned cave and beg for a living.

The painful time is always very long. Every night, she dreamed that he would come back to her, gently stroking her long hair and kissing herself. Sometimes she knows it's a dream but still refuses to wake up, as if she could lie in his arms forever.

Ten months later, she gave birth to a baby boy on a thunderstorm night. My in-laws soon learned the news and took the child away by force. A woman was sitting at the door of her in-laws' house, crying rudely. She knows that children are the continuation of his life, and as long as he can see them, he will come back to her. She gradually became a thorn in her in-laws' side. In a dark and windy night, the abandoned cave where the woman lived suddenly caught fire. Outsiders listened to the woman's heartbreaking cry, and gradually became more and more slim, turning into a low moan until the last silence.

For a long time after that, people seemed to be able to vaguely hear the heartbreaking cry coming from the abandoned cave. One afternoon three years later, an army entered the village with dignity. In front of those people, there is a man with a cool face and a colorful shirt riding a white horse. He is the husband of a woman who died in battle. That night four years ago, a man was drafted into the army on his wedding night, but life in the army made him have an unprecedented desire for family property. In the middle of the night, the man quietly left the army, drove the horse for a day and a night, and finally returned to the remote town. Knowing that leaving the army without authorization would destroy Jiuzu, the man sneaked into the house at night and woke up his wife. The man wanted to elope with her, but the woman politely refused. She said that if you could come back alive, I would serve you all my life. If you die in battle, then I will be alone for you all my life.

The man was deeply moved by the woman and quietly put on his shirt in the early morning. When he returned to the army, he realized that his army had been destroyed by the enemy the night before, and he was the only survivor of this army. He sneaked into the army headquarters and found a half-dead man. He carried him out and the man woke up and said he was a prince.

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Seventh Floor

Later, the man stayed with the prince for three years. After three years, the prince ascended the throne. This man was named the general of the earthquake country for his meritorious service in rescuing the driver three years ago. On the second day after the seal, the emperor prepared to be his wife, but he politely refused. He told the emperor that he was married when he joined the army, and his wife should have been waiting for him after several years. He struggled these years because he always received letters from his wife.

So the emperor ordered him to go home to visit his relatives, and his cavalry hardly stopped on the road. In the meantime, he has been looking through the letters written by his wife. From the letter, he knew that his parents had been in good health and his son was in good health, but apart from some thoughts about men, he never mentioned whether he was doing well in her letter. It's been two months since the last letter from a woman. In the letter, the woman just said that she missed a man very much. She always dreamed of a man thrusting his eyebrows in his dream and heard his heavy snoring.

Men can't wait to see it. He came to town and hurried home, but only his parents and his three-year-old son were in front of him, and his parents were surprised and happy. They can't believe that their son is still alive. My son sat there, holding the hand of his elderly parents and telling the story. When it was all over, his parents turned pale.

"You said you snuck back?" Father's voice was trembling.

"Yes, she advised me to go back and make contributions. If it weren't for her persuasion, there might not be today. " The man can't wait to see his wife. "Where is she?"

Father suddenly burst into tears and cried. When he looked up at his son, his face became like a blank sheet of paper, and then he vomited blood and threw himself on the ground. Mother looked at her husband who died instantly and fainted. Not long after, the man finally learned from the population of the town that his wife was burned to death by her parents in the cave. But he still doesn't believe the fact that his wife is dead. If it is true, who wrote these letters to him?

Later, men learned from the population of the town that every night, they could always vaguely see the flickering lights in the cave, and occasionally women whispered, just like the humming when women were burned to death that night. The man buried his father, resigned from his official position and moved into the cave destroyed by the fire alone, hoping to see his wife again.

The emperor was very moved when he learned about this, so he made a decree to set up a chastity memorial arch for women. Every night, men will put out all the candles at home and wait for their wives to appear. Soon, the ancestral grave of the man's family in the town was stolen. When he reached the grave, he saw an epitaph dug out and lying on the ground. It turns out that there has been a legend in this family that the ashes of the deceased will be made into porcelain bottles, and then the soul of the deceased will return to the stranger. After reading the epitaph, the man hurried back to the earthen kiln. After seven days and seven nights of sleepless nights, the man finally made the woman's ashes into a delicate blue and white porcelain.

The man looked at the blue and white porcelain in a daze every night, and finally one day she came back. She was wearing a red robe, and her long hair fell like a waterfall. She looked at her husband with a full face of Cang Sang and cried.

Javert finished the story with a long sigh, then looked at me with a smile and said, "This is all the legends I know about blue and white porcelain."

Since then, I seldom take a week off. This story deeply touched me. Every time I write about this spoony man and woman, my hands are shaking. A month later, my novel was published I didn't expect it to be more successful than the previous blue and white porcelain.

Thought of here, a dangerous idea suddenly flashed through my mind. It seems that the story told by Qin Feng is so strikingly similar to Javert's, but Javert's story is more detailed. Are they telling a story, and the origin of this story is all about the blue and white porcelain in Qin Feng's hand?

I dialed Javert at once, but there was only a continuous busy signal on the phone. I hung up the phone, put on my coat and drove to Javert's house.

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The eighth floor

Fourth, escape

The night is already deep, and the community where Xia Wei lives is very quiet. This silence made me have many fatal associations. I stopped at Javert's house. The door was locked, but the light inside was on. I knocked on the door several times, but it took me a long time to get no response.

She's not here? Where can she go so late? I sat in the car, quietly watching Javert's door, hoping to wait until she came back. Today's moon is particularly bright, and I can hear the sound of Parthenocissus tricuspidata growing wildly through the window. I smoked one cigarette after another until I finally fell asleep.

The smell of the night came at me like a black wave, and I only felt that I was sinking gradually until I sank to the bottom of the sea.

She didn't come back all night, so I went home helplessly and fell asleep on the sofa. When the phone rang, my body was shaking violently, and I felt that my sensitive nerves couldn't stand any more fright.

"Wolf Seven?" Xiao He's voice came from the phone.

"It's me. What can I do for you? " I haven't fully woken up from my sleep.

"Where did you go last night?" His tone was blunt, as if he were asking the prisoner.

"at home."

"Are you sure?" Xiao He tone with obvious questions.

"What's the matter?" I asked impatiently.

"Javert disappeared last night, the safe was pried open, and the priceless blue and white porcelain inside was gone." Xiao He's voice is urgent. "Above all, your car was seen parked in front of Javert's house last night."

"What did you say? Javert is gone? " Xiao He's words came as a bolt from the blue to me, and I suddenly sat up from the sofa.

"Did you go to Javert's house yesterday?" Xiao He's voice became stern. "If you don't tell me the truth, I don't think I can help you. Now the police have put the focus of suspicion on you. "

"Well, I went to Javert's house yesterday, but Javert wasn't there when I went. So I decided to wait for her at her door, but she still didn't show up in the morning, so I came back. " I answered Xiao He's question truthfully.

"no?" Xiao He suddenly added.

"What's the matter?" I have some doubts.

"At three o'clock in the morning, it was recorded that your car was out of the city at the high-speed entrance. It was not until four o'clock that your car came back through the highway intersection. Where have you been this hour? " What Xiao He said surprised me again. I feel dizzy in an instant. I clearly remember falling asleep in the car, and now Xiao He keeps saying that my car left the city at three or four in the morning.

"You must tell me where the hell you have been?" The urgency in Xiao He's words has begun to pervade.

I was silent and didn't want to defend myself. I know that even if I defend myself, I can't produce any evidence, but Xiao He has a lot of evidence waiting for me.

"I'll come to you now, wait for me!" Xiao He said as he ran, and his panting voice came from the phone.

"Are you here to see me?" I said coldly.

"Wolf seven, everything will be clear, so before that, you must be calm. As long as you find Javert, your doubts will disappear. " Xiaoyan wanted to continue to say something, but I hung up.

I packed some clothes in a hurry, then ran downstairs and took a taxi to the outer ring. The fast approaching dark tall building slammed on me like a dark cloud, which made me feel suffocated. Qin Feng's bizarre death, my motive for killing, Javert's disappearance, the theft of blue and white porcelain, my appearance at the crime scene and my car inexplicably entering and leaving the intersection of expressway in the early morning, all these can't be explained even if I have a thousand mouths. Find Javert, and my suspicions will disappear? I don't think anyone can find Javert except me now.