Chapter 7 The stars looked like you last night
You are the most dazzling fireworks I have ever seen, brighter than all the brilliance in the past 20 years.
Yu Nansheng01
"Nan Sheng, there's your package!"
I was fiddling with the camera with my head down when the new girl who was doing the odds and ends suddenly called me loudly.
I responded, put away my camera and walked towards the tea room.
I have been at the newspaper for a few months now, and I have started to get used to this job. Even Shen Yuxi said that I look a bit like a reporter. I am naturally in a good mood, and every interview I have done recently has been very successful. It is another undercover investigation... Never mind, I don't want to think about it, it's no big deal.
It is normal for journalists, especially those like us who cover social and civil news, to receive one or two threatening phone calls.
The handy girl looked at me with a smile, and she had a big package in her arms.
"Nan Sheng, is someone pursuing you recently? They actually sent such a big package!" She was in her early twenties and came to work at the newspaper after graduating from school. However, she did not produce any outstanding works during her school years, so she could only start with small things.
Someone is chasing me? That's impossible, right?
I looked down.
what?
Qi Qi also came over and wanted to open it with a gossipy look on her face.
I was a little puzzled and said, "Let's open it later. These are the photos I sorted out, Qi Qi. Please help me deliver them to reporter Xie's office later. This is what he wanted."
"good."
Since the end of last month, I can go out on my own to cover news without my master following me. At the beginning, I felt that my master was very worried and would always follow me to check and make sure that I was ok on my own before going out to do my own things. Later, he simply let me go and do it on my own.
I took the wallpaper knife and was a little confused about where to start cutting.
When the girl came back and saw me looking at a loss, she rolled her eyes and came over to me, took the knife from my hand, and said, "Hey, Nan Sheng, you said you have such excellent grades, why are you so stupid even when it comes to small things?"
I smiled and said to her, "That's why I need you! I can't live without you!" My tone was very sincere. Ache is a very careful person and will definitely be a good reporter in the future.
A Che smiled and said, "You only know how to comfort me."
She opened the box with a smile, but her smile froze the next second.
I was a little confused and went over to take a look.
There are a lot of messy things in the box, including bricks and other things, and a red area. Is it blood?
I stood closer and my nose was filled with the smell of blood.
I was stunned. What is this?
"What are these?" Qi Qi arrived late and stood behind us. After seeing what was in the box, he cursed.
I uttered "Hush" and quickly covered Qi Qi's mouth.
"Auntie, please keep your voice down, don't let others hear it!"
My brain was working fast, and I started to think about what this person was going to do. After thinking for a long time, I still couldn't figure out what it meant. There was no information in it that could prove the sender.
"Why are you all gathered here?" Han Shao walked in from outside the newspaper office. When he passed by the tea room, he saw the three of us gathered here with serious expressions.
Lu Shuang followed behind him. Lu Shuang didn't look at us or say anything. She walked sideways and only paused for a second when she caught a glimpse of the package out of the corner of her eye.
Qi Qi glanced at me, and I scratched my head and said embarrassedly, "It's okay. Someone else sent the wrong package. I'll just return it to the courier company after get off work. Reporter Han Shao, did you just come back from the south of the city?"
Han Shao nodded and spoke to us for a few more words before leaving.
"I'm telling you, Qi Qi, you have to keep this a secret from me! Don't let my master know!"
Qi Qi was puzzled and asked me why.
"Oh, just don't let him know! Che, you too!"
I quickly packed up my things, carried the package back to the office, hid it, and started working as usual.
When Shen Yuxi came back, I had already sent out the manuscript that was due today. There was something strange in the way Shen Yuxi looked at me, but I didn't think much about it.
"What news are you following recently?" Shen Yuxi asked me.
I was in a daze, wondering who would joke with me and send me something like this, when Shen Yuxi suddenly asked me. I was stunned for a moment, then reported some very important news. He still looked very strange, but he didn't ask any more questions.
I thought about it in my mind.
Secret visit...
Could it be something to do with the last time I secretly visited that shady workshop? But all the manuscripts were anonymous! How could anyone know it was me? I couldn't figure it out, so I just gave up thinking about it.
I thought there wouldn't be a next time.
"Nan Sheng, is this really okay? Should we call the police?"
Qi Qi looked at me with concern. This was the third time this week.
I took a deep breath, packed up my things again, and threw them into the trash can behind the newspaper office, warning A Che and Qi Qi not to tell anyone else.
"Nothing. I heard from reporter Xie and my master that this is normal. It will be fine when they get tired of it."
Previously, I secretly asked my master what reporters should do if they encounter such a thing. He said that he had experienced it many times and it was normal to receive razor blades by mail. He left the razor blades in the restroom of the newspaper office for others to use for shaving. I felt helpless, but relieved.
Qi Qi put a piece of chocolate in my hand and asked me quietly, "Do you know who it is?"
I nodded and tore open the package. "I think it's the group of people from the unscrupulous workshop I visited last time. They just sent some things. It's harmless. It's okay."
But I didn’t know that what I thought was harmless would lead to a major turning point in my life.
"That's it for now. Go ask Lu Shuang from Senior Han Shao's group for photos and write the report accordingly. Come back to me when the final draft is ready. You must submit it before Sunday, okay?" I looked up at the new intern reporter.
"Okay, got it. Miss Yu, you look so charming when you work!"
I felt a little embarrassed when the intern said that, so I smiled, said "thank you", and let her go.
Shen Yuxi was sitting not far away watching me do these tasks.
"Stop laughing. You get so happy you lose your mind."
Now I have discovered that the purpose of my master's existence is to give me a blow when I am happy and to comfort me when I am down.
This person is always so conflicted.
Because the intern was working late on the manuscript, it was already late at night when I left the newspaper office. I sighed, no wonder my father always said he couldn't see me during the day.
I wrapped my coat tightly and walked towards the road. There were definitely no buses at this time, so I had to take a taxi back.
I had just walked for a while when I felt something was wrong. There was a car following me not too far behind, with its headlights on. It flashed twice when I turned around, and if I quickened my pace, it would speed up too. I frowned and wanted to hail a taxi, but at this time, there were very few .
The street was so quiet that I could hear my breathing.
I gritted my teeth and tried to rush across the road, but at this moment, the car that had been following me suddenly accelerated, and I was so scared that I stood still.
"Nan Sheng!"
When I came to my senses, I couldn't believe what was happening before my eyes.
I couldn't even remember when my father rushed to me. I was a little slow to look at the car that had stopped, and my father fell at my feet. I was stunned for a long time until my fingers touched my father's blood, and the hot and wet feeling made me sober up.
"dad……"
The late night wind blew up the corners of my clothes. I knelt on the ground and took out my cell phone from my bag with my blood-stained hands.
I don't remember clearly what happened after that.
I couldn't hear what the doctor and nurse in the ambulance asked me. I couldn't hear anything clearly. I just stared at my father's face which was getting pale. I couldn't even cry.
The editor-in-chief was the first to arrive, followed by the police.
"Ms. Yu, have you been receiving threatening packages recently?" the police asked me. I guess my uncle must have talked to the police about it on the way.
I heard my uncle's sighs and the sobbing around me, and my head started to hurt.
I looked up and saw that it was the young policeman who always cooperated with me. It was he who stopped the man who was holding a kitchen knife and wanted to chop me.
But this time, why did he come so late?
I didn't answer, just looked down at my hands.
The blood had cooled and solidified on his hands.
I squinted my eyes, the smell of disinfectant in the hospital kept irritating my eyes, it was very uncomfortable. I rubbed my eyes, but it was even more uncomfortable.
The police were sent away by the editor-in-chief uncle. I sat alone on a bench outside the operating room, staring at the bright lights. For the first time, I felt that the night was so long. The lights were so dazzling, but I couldn't hear my father say to me: "Daughter, close your eyes."
"Nan Sheng, you..." Uncle came back, saw me, and wanted to say something.
I shook my head and was about to speak, but I found that my voice was hoarse. I cleared my throat and said, "Uncle, don't tell me anything. I don't know anything."
Yes, my mind is blank at this moment, just like the walls of this hospital.
The operation lasted for 5 hours and the lights in the operating room finally dimmed. I watched the doctor come out, watched him take off his mask, watched him shake his head at us, and then said my condolences.
