Chapter 014 Enemy
Li Daming said, "Divide it into three parts and let the three of us watch it at the same time. This way we can go faster and be more efficient."
"This is Wang Yue's diary. Did you get permission to tear it apart?" I got angry: "I didn't say anything when you rummaged through other people's things. Isn't this a bit too much?"
"I understand your feelings." Li Daming said, "It's indeed impolite for me to do this, don't be angry. But you have to consider that we are in a special period now. In wartime, all red tape must be simplified, and when doing big things, we should focus on the big things and not pay attention to those small details. Uncle Zhong, do you think I'm right?"
Uncle Zhong's eyes were full of admiration. "I like Xiao Li's character. Xiao Lin, don't be picky. Now you can help Wang Yue first, and put the rest aside. Wang Yue will understand after she comes back to life."
After hearing what they said, my anger disappeared, but I just felt bad and a little depressed.
Li Daming handed me one of the three parts of the diary and said, "It's already been torn up. Don't think too much about it. You need to find the main contradiction. The goal now is to quickly find the person Wang Yue hates the most in the diary."
I snorted, "I think you will soon become the person she hates the most ."
Li Daming laughed: "It's an honor."
The three of us each took a diary and started reading. I turned the pages one by one. Wang Yue's writing style is very good, and there is a freshness unique to girls between the lines. She rarely records things in her diary. She always describes the events in a few words at the beginning, and then starts to talk about her thoughts in a long article at the end.
As for me, I don't really like this kind of article. The story is boring and the views are naive. After reading two pages, my eyelids started to feel heavy. I didn't get a good rest last night, so I felt sleepy.
At first, I was a little curious and wanted to find out Wang Yue's secret. After reading a few pages, I found that she rarely wrote about her identity as a ghost messenger. I suddenly had an idea that her diary seemed to be a diary, but in fact it was a means of concealing herself, and she wrote it purely for the sake of writing.
So what was her purpose in writing a diary? Was it just to practice her writing skills, or was it to deliberately show it to someone to cover up herself?
It was already past midnight. Li Daming and Uncle Zhong were yawning non-stop as they watched. Their sleepiness was definitely contagious. The three of us were getting sleepier and sleepier as we watched. We didn't even know when we fell asleep.
When I got up, it was already daybreak outside. I looked at the clock and it was about six in the morning. Li Daming and Uncle Zhong both woke up after wiping their eyes. Uncle Zhong said, "I say, you two young people, cheer up. I'm getting old, and the main work still needs you two to do it. Stop yawning and be a little more energetic, okay?"
I asked Li Daming if he found anything. Li Daming smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't expect Wang Yue to be so childish. What she wrote is just a bunch of crap. I had to hold my nose when reading it."
We didn't eat breakfast, but we managed to keep ourselves alert and continued to read the diary. An hour passed unnoticed, and I carefully read every newspaper clipping and receipt in the diary, but still found no clues.
At this moment, Li Daming suddenly said, "Found it!" His voice was full of surprise.
I quickly moved over. Li Daming turned to that page and everyone looked at it. Li Daming pointed to a block in the middle of a large pile of text and said, "She hid her experience at the age of thirteen in a pile of reflections. If you don't read carefully, it's easy to skip over it."
I rubbed my eyes. The words on this page were written very densely. Although the handwriting was beautiful and easy to recognize, the logical relationship between the words and sentences was very confusing, which made it easy for people to lose their concentration while reading. It was not easy for Li Daming to find this paragraph of text.
Uncle Zhong looked at it for a moment and shook his head: "My eyes are blurry. Just take a look and tell me the general idea. "
I took the page and read it carefully. Wang Yue's description was very brief, but between the lines I could read a strong hatred and fear. I broke out in a cold sweat after reading it, and I could feel how much harm this incident had done to her.
I looked at Li Daming, and his face also looked a little gloomy.
I suddenly had a thought: was Wang Yue's entire diary just to hide this experience, and the rest were just empty tricks? If this experience is not written down, it will probably become her nightmare and inner demon for the rest of her life.
On Wang Yue’s thirteenth birthday, something happened that was almost a disaster for the girl.
According to the diary, her father died early and her mother eloped with another man very early, so Wang Yue became an orphan and lived with her grandparents. At that time, in the countryside, the two old people were not well-off, and it was already a great thing to barely send their children to school. When she was thirteen years old, she had no ability to celebrate her birthday.
Wang Yue must be a precocious child. She remembers her birthday every year. She is very sensible and does not make any excessive demands on the two elderly people. On her birthday, she went to her father's grave after school to pray, telling him her little daughter's thoughts. She prepared a few candles and lit them after dark, and that was considered her birthday.
She was very happy that day and wrote in her diary that it was like her father had come back to celebrate her birthday with her.
The night was getting darker, and fearing that her family might be worried, she packed up her things and went down the mountain to go home. As soon as she came out of the mountain road, she saw a man walking slowly on the path. The moonlight was bright at the time, and she recognized that he was a migrant worker working at the pig farm in the village. The pig farm had just been established, and many men from the surrounding villages were recruited to work there as temporary workers. This man was one of them.
He seemed to be drunk and was staggering as he walked. He came close to Wang Yue and suddenly grabbed her arm.
Although Wang Yue was only thirteen years old, she was still a grown-up girl. She knew something was wrong and started to struggle. The man was very strong and had done rough work for many years. He was very strong and dragged Wang Yue into the woods.
The diary did not describe the subsequent process in detail. This is also human nature. No one would write down all the details of the harm they suffered. In a nutshell, Wang Yue was violated by a rude migrant worker on her thirteenth birthday.
The characters on the back of the paper were so strong that the pen was soaked through. In other words, Wang Yue was crying while writing, and the handwriting was blurred. I felt uncomfortable when I saw what happened that night. I felt a sense of empathy and felt like a knife in my heart.
Li Daming looked at me for a long time without saying anything, and then said softly, "I didn't expect Wang Yue to have had such an experience."
Uncle Zhong was puzzled and asked what happened.
Li Daming simply repeated the contents of the diary. Uncle Zhong pondered for a moment, "Did she mention the name of that person?"
"His name is Cai Cheng." I said, "His name is written in the diary."
Li Daming thought for a moment and said, "It's really strange. There's a question here that I can't figure out."
Let’s look at him.
Li Daming said: "Wang Yue later became a ghost messenger. Uncle Zhong, you also said that she is very powerful and has her own unique qualities. Then why didn't she take revenge on Cai Cheng?"
"How do you know she didn't retaliate?" I said, "Even though it's not written in the diary, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Wang Yue is not someone who can be easily dealt with. According to common sense, how could she not retaliate?"
"That's the problem." Li Daming said, "If she took revenge, no matter what means she used, Cai Cheng would not be well, and might be dead now. But according to your conversation with Wang Yue, she asked you to find the answer from the person you hate the most, and it seems that Cai Cheng is still at large. There seems to be a contradiction here."
Uncle Zhong said, "I am older than both of you, and I have seen and experienced more things. In fact, I think that no matter how powerful a person is, there is also a weak side in their heart, and things that they dare not touch. You see, from the diary, this incident lacks a lot of details. Why? First, Wang Yue did not dare to write it, and second, she automatically blocked a lot of memories at that time. She did not dare to face that past. She was afraid, afraid of Cai Cheng. Even if she became the Queen Mother in the future, I am afraid she will not be able to overcome this mental barrier."
Li Daming and I didn't say anything, we just looked at each other. We are both adults and can understand this feeling.
Uncle Zhong sighed, "The bardo realm is really not fun. Each level of the test directly targets your mind and the experience you are most reluctant to face, forcing you to recall, face, and resolve. We still have one day left, and we must find Cai Cheng!"
"The only clue now is," I said, "Wang Yue's hometown is in Longshan Township. I wonder if we can find Cai Cheng."
Uncle Zhong stood up and said, "Hurry up and go over now."
Without further ado, the three of us went out and went to the parking lot downstairs to get the car. Li Daming drove the car, took Uncle Zhong and me, and headed straight to Longshan Township.
The city we are in, Jiangbei, is called this because it means north of the Yangtze River. Many prefecture-level cities, towns and villages under the city are on the banks of the Yangtze River, and Longshan Township is one of them. After getting on the highway, Li Daming drove the car so fast that the wheels almost flew off.
