Zhou Yu picked up his phone, opened a certain comprehensive self-media app, found the “Red Sleeves” public account in the follow list, then opened its homepage and browsed its recently pushed articles.
This “Red Sleeves” account is one of the most popular emotional accounts on the self-media platform in recent years. The content of the articles mainly focuses on “hot emotional topics,” with almost every article exceeding 1 million views. In just two years, the account has attracted more than 5 million followers.
Zhou Yu has been following the account for more than a year and is a loyal fan. He has read almost all of the articles it pushes, and it often becomes his pastime after meals.
A month ago, the account pushed three articles about the “7.18” poisoning case in Jincheng. Relying on its strong fan base, coupled with sensational titles and content, it quickly attracted a large number of netizens to “watch,” and two articles even topped the hot search list.
Zhou Yu still remembers the general content of the three articles, which can be summarized as follows:
First, Ning Yaohong, a woman suffering from mental illness, brought her son from her hometown thousands of miles away to Jincheng to visit her husband, Li Yuehua. Unexpectedly, the mother and son mistakenly ingested cola containing cyanide at home and died of poisoning. Then, a gas leak caused a fire that burned the bodies beyond recognition. There was also a middle-aged woman named Lü Yuchan who died of cyanide poisoning at the scene, and her body was also burned beyond recognition.
Second, according to a source, Li Yuehua initially married Ning Yaohong because he was interested in her family’s wealth. He had no feelings for his wife. After their son was born, he secretly took away his wife’s savings and went to another place. As a result, his wife was severely stimulated and suffered from mental illness, and was hospitalized many times. During the treatment, he never went to the hospital to visit his wife, and even rarely returned home, appearing very cold and unfeeling.
Third, according to the WeChat chat screenshots provided by Lü Yuchan’s husband, Xiong Zhiyang, Lü Yuchan and Li Yuehua were suspected of having an improper relationship.
To date, the comments on the three articles have exceeded 20,000, which can be described as a surge of public opinion.
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More than ninety percent of the comments cursed Li Yuehua, and many netizens even suspected that Li Yuehua was the murderer, that he wanted to poison his wife, but unexpectedly his son and lover accidentally lost their lives. There were even more radical remarks that Li Yuehua had always wanted to poison his wife and son, and then be with his lover for a long time.
Zhou Yu had commented in the comment section, also scolding Li Yuehua for being cold, selfish, and ruthless, and also believed that Li Yuehua might be the murderer in this case.
At a little after eleven o’clock in the evening, the train traveled at a constant speed on the night screen like a long dragon.
The journey was long, and many passengers were sleepy, so they leaned against their seats to doze off, or slept on the storage table; but Zhou Yu and Li Fei had no sleepiness along the way, and their minds were all on the box under the seat. They hoped that time would pass quickly, and that the train would arrive in the city they were going to reach—Jincheng—as soon as possible.
However, in fact, they would not arrive at their destination until a little after five o’clock the next morning.
Suddenly, Zhou Yu saw a tall man wearing a black T-shirt and black-framed glasses passing by in a hurry, and he blurted out: “Hey, isn’t that him?”
Li Fei asked in surprise, “What are you talking about?”
Zhou Yu pointed at the man and said, “I suspect he switched my suitcase!”
Li Fei was quite surprised, and carefully looked at the woman’s back for a while, and said: “I suspect that he has a problem with his brain to take the wrong suitcase, but how can it not look like that – I think he is very particular about his dress, and his pace is also very steady, where is it like having a problem?” In his mind, people with brain problems are generally disheveled and sloppy.
Zhou Yu got up and said, “I’ll go take a look.”
Li Fei asked in a hurry, “What are you going to do?”
Zhou Yu said, “Ask him if he took the wrong box.”
“Hey, don’t go! Don’t go!” Li Fei reached out to grab Zhou Yu but didn’t catch him, and was so angry that he almost spat out his anger. He suspected that Zhou Yu wanted to return the property to its original owner.
Zhou Yu quickly chased after him and saw that the man was holding his stomach and standing next to the toilet, looking like he was waiting to go to the toilet. Zhou Yu walked up to him and asked, “Hey, did you take the wrong box?”
The woman turned her head to look at Zhou Yu, and at the same time her face changed, and said, “I’m mistaken, how could I take the wrong box?”
Zhou Yu couldn’t help frowning and said, “Think about it carefully, on the square of Galaxy Train Station…”
The woman squeezed out a smile and waved her hand, “I didn’t get on the bus at that place, I must have seen it wrong. I have a stomachache, excuse me.” Before she finished speaking, she walked towards the end of the carriage.
Looking at his quickly moving back, Zhou Yu wondered if I had mistaken him? No, he is clearly the same person as the person I saw in that square, why is he lying?
Zhou Yu returned to his seat with a stomach full of questions.
Li Fei asked in a low voice, very unhappily, “How was the question? Is he going to come over to get the box in a while?”
Zhou Yu also said loudly, “He said he didn’t take the wrong box.”
Li Fei breathed a sigh of relief and said, “He said he didn’t take the wrong one, then he really didn’t take the wrong one, you must have remembered the wrong person.”
Zhou Yu recalled and said: “At that time, in that square, he was the only one who took the same color and the same style box as you. If my box was not switched by him, then who switched it? No, he goes back and I will question it carefully!”
Li Fei’s face sank, and he rebuked: “Are you out of your mind! He has already said that he did not take your box by mistake, which proves that the box is not his at all, and it is superfluous for you to ask him! Even if the box is his, he flatly denies it, are you going to throw away the pie that fell from the sky?”
“I didn’t think that he would flatly deny it, isn’t there a big problem in this?” Zhou Yu still believed that the woman deliberately switched his box, so he wanted to lead Li Fei into the ditch of his own thinking, “His money must not be right, so we can’t take it for ourselves!”
“My idea is exactly the opposite of yours. If his money is really ill-gotten, then we can take it and use it with confidence, because he doesn’t even have the guts to claim it, and he certainly wouldn’t think of calling the police!” Then, Li Fei smiled mockingly, “You, you have always been timid and afraid of trouble, you don’t even dare to eat the meat that falls into your mouth, how can you do great things?”
“You admit that you are not as brave as me.” Zhou Yu was not annoyed, “However, I have to weigh myself, will eating this piece of meat choke me to death!”
“Okay, okay, don’t say those scary words! When you went to find that guy before, I knew what you were thinking. You are a great person who doesn’t pocket money found; and me, his mother, a greedy ghost, who is happy to see money.” Li Fei became more and more angry, folded his arms around his chest, and expressed his serious resistance to Zhou Yu’s actions.
Zhou Yu stopped talking, Li Fei was right, he did come to find someone to return the property to others, what he thought at the time was that the owner of the property must have taken the wrong box due to a moment of negligence, and he must be very anxious before he got off the train when he found that he had taken the wrong box. If that money was his life-saving straw for urgent matters, such as the cost of surgery for seriously ill relatives, then wouldn’t it be murder for money and a great evil to take the money for himself?
However, now Zhou Yu is no longer thinking about returning the property to others, but is thinking about what incredible things are hidden behind the guy’s refusal to claim the box.