Eight Fresh Soup

Chapter 1 The Ominous Invitation

"Have you received it?" Dai Rou's hoarse voice came from the phone.

"Huh?" Moran, who was still curled up in bed with his eyes closed, was puzzled by this sudden question.

"Wake up, wake up, it's almost 12 o'clock at noon, why are you still asleep?" Hearing that there was still sleepiness in her voice, Dai Rou was a little impatient.

"What is more important to me now than sleep?" Moran said lazily.Because she had just divorced, she was a little depressed and just wanted to sleep all day long.

"Don't be like this, aren't you just a stinky man? You are only 26 years old, young and beautiful, and there are still many opportunities waiting for you in the future."

"Thank you for your encouragement. What's the matter with you?" Moran couldn't help yawning, "What did you just ask me?"

"Did you receive Du Xiaomei's invitation?"

Du Xiaomei?Moran thought the name sounded so far away.

Du Xiaomei is a college classmate of Mo Lan and Dai Rou's. Although they are in the same school, they have different departments and different grades, so Du Xiaomei, who is two years younger than them, can be regarded as their school girl.In my impression, she is a girl from a wealthy family, with a lot of money, ordinary looks but good at dressing up, with an innocent and fair face, she likes to play the role of a sweet princess in the crowd, she is affectionate with everyone, and can become a girl with anyone sisters.

But since Moran graduated from university, she has never had any contact with Du Xiaomei. In fact, her husband Liao Yongli is her real good friend.

"Did she send you an invitation?" Moran asked suspiciously.She didn't understand why Du Xiaomei, who had never called her, never met her, and didn't even invite her to the wedding banquet, would send her an invitation in the six years since graduation?

"Yes, she sent me an inexplicable invitation." Dai Rou seemed to be speaking in a low voice on purpose, with a trace of mystery in her voice. She paused, and then said, "I believe she also sent you an invitation."

"Oh, how do you see it?"

"Because she mentioned you in the invitation card she gave me, she said that she would invite the four of us to her apartment to have eight fresh soup." At this point, Dai Rou's voice stopped abruptly.

Eight delicacies soup? !

Moran's heart tightened.

"What does she mean?" she couldn't help blurting out.

"I want to know too." Dai Rou replied, and then asked again, "Then did you receive it?"

Moran suddenly remembered that because he came back too late last night, yesterday's letters were still on the dining room table and he hadn't had time to read them.

"Wait a minute." She put down the phone, hurriedly put on some clothes and ran to the living room, and she found that yesterday's letters were all there, and the first letter was actually an invitation wrapped in a pink delicate envelope.She couldn't wait to open the envelope, and the sender was indeed Du Xiaomei.The content of the invitation is as follows:

Dear Moran:
Still remember me?Yes, it's me, your lovely little sister Du, I haven't contacted you for many years, I really miss you and hope to see you.Are you free this Friday (October 10th) at 5:6pm?I would like to invite you and four other friends from our former culinary society to come to my house for a night so that we can have a good time together.You must come, I have good news to announce.In addition, I will cook a big pot of delicious and tempting eight fresh soup waiting for you.Don't let me down.

Address: Building 18, Jinhe Villa, No. 2, Jinhe Road

Du Xiaomei

After reading the few lines of small characters on the invitation, Moran couldn't help laughing. It was indeed Du Xiaomei's cute tone.Still, no matter how breezy her wording, the invitation struck her as odd.

"I received it." Back to the phone, Moran said calmly.

"How does it feel?" Dai Rou asked.

"I can't tell."

"Then are you free that day?" Dai Rou asked tentatively.

Moran had already made arrangements, so he said, "I won't go. What about you?"

"Aren't you going? Why?" Dai Judao.

"I promised my parents to go to France to visit relatives. I have already bought the air tickets, and I will leave on October 10." Moran felt warm when he thought that he could leave this sad place to visit his parents right away.

She asked Dai Rou, "are you going to go?"

"I'll go even if I ask for leave."

"Then why bother." Mo Lan was puzzled, she knew that Du Xiaomei's relationship with Dai Rou was not as good as hers, so she really didn't understand why she insisted on going to this appointment.

"I want to know what this woman wants!" Dai Rou said angrily.

The story of Baxiantang is still fresh in Moran's memory.

It happened eight years ago, in the summer of 1996.

At that time, Moran was a freshman in the foreign language department of the university.Like most freshmen, she was arranged to live in an eight-person dormitory for girls with rather difficult conditions, and the person who slept in her lower bunk was Zhang Suping, who later became famous for the Baxiantang murder case.

Zhang Suping is a local, two grades older than her, and a third-year student in the same department.In Mo Lan's impression, Zhang Suping was an ordinary-looking, introverted, and plainly dressed girl. She only remembered that she had a fair round face and short hair with noodles in clear soup. She spoke softly and was a little careless. The type of girl who would be ignored.But Mo Lan found that when Zhang Suping smiled, the pair of single-lidded eyes would emit a bit of charming brilliance.

Zhang Suping's family background is quite complicated.When she was 3 years old, her father died suddenly due to a medical accident. Less than three days later, her mother also committed suicide by taking poison. Since then, she has been adopted by her father's old colleague Zhang Guojun.

Zhang Guojun is an easy-going middle school history teacher. He has always had a close friendship with Zhang Suping's father. Since his own son died of illness when he was 10 years old, he came to Zhang Suping's house as soon as something happened to Zhang Suping's mother and expressed his willingness to adopt this lonely child. girl.His proposal was accepted immediately, because none of the relatives was rich, and for them, Xiao Suping was undoubtedly a big burden that they were eager to get rid of.Therefore, before the mother's funeral was finished, Zhang Suping followed Zhang Guojun back home.

When Zhang Guojun's family adopted Zhang Suping, his wife Tu Zhen was about 45 years old and was working as a clerical worker in a state-owned enterprise.She was a thin woman with a sallow complexion and a gloomy expression.Neighbors said that since the death of her son, her nerves were not normal. People often heard her slapping the table and cursing people at home. Sometimes she was seen pouring food out of the window angrily, or sitting on the corridor in the middle of the night. in a daze.Although when someone greeted her, her sluggish face would immediately reveal a smile similar to greetings, but for some reason, anyone who saw her smile felt creepy.

The relationship between Zhang Suping and her adoptive mother was relatively harmonious at the beginning, because Tu Zhen was still a competent mother when she was a little baby at the mercy of others.Although she has only given birth to one child, Tu Zhen is a good hand at taking care of children.She can always take care of everything properly, and she also gives love to her children.She left the best food for Zhang Suping, took her to the park, took pictures of her, bought her the right clothes when the season came, and ran around to get her into a better kindergarten... She became a mother Everything that should be done.

But on the other hand, her education to Zhang Suping gradually went astray.She always dressed Zhang Suping as a boy.She cut Zhang Suping's hair very short, bought her boy's clothing, and kept telling her that she was her dearest son, and she was not even allowed to sit and urinate. If Zhang Guojun hadn't fought hard, her name would probably be Changed to a very masculine "Zhang Xiaodong".In fact, in her mind, Zhang Suping should have been Zhang Xiaodong.For this kind of abnormal education, Zhang Suping's adoptive father felt very helpless. Many people thought that he knew what his wife was doing, but in order to calm things down, he finally chose to let her go.

But as Zhang Suping grew up, things changed.Since high school, Zhang Suping wore skirts, and Tu Zhen was very annoyed. The two often had disputes over this. Later, whenever Zhang Suping's hair grew, she would feel extremely anxious, and she could not help attacking her with swear words. Therefore, Zhang Suping never dared to grow long hair. Until the accident, her hair could only cover her ears, and it could be seen that the barber's workmanship was very poor, and Moran suspected that this crappy barber was someone else. It is Zhang Suping's adoptive mother, Tu Zhen.

After going to university, Zhang Suping was able to temporarily leave her adoptive mother because of living on campus.She works as a tutor while going to school, and her adoptive father will send her a small amount of pocket money every month, and as an obligation, she will go back to have dinner with her adoptive parents every week. The purpose of her doing this is very To a large extent, it was also to appease the suspicious heart of the adoptive mother.If she doesn't show up at home for two weeks, her adoptive mother will probably come to the school to ask her to blame her.

During her junior year in college, the year she met Moran, her life took a major turn.

She is in love.

Zhang Suping's boyfriend is her employer, a widower with the same appearance and income, with an 8-year-old boy.No one knew how it happened, but in short, less than two months after Zhang Suping became his son's tutor, she began to stay out at night.Moran remembered that there was a time when Zhang Suping often had a slight smile on her face.She always bows her head and thinks about things alone, and then the corners of her mouth will slowly and slowly bend up.

But it didn't take long for the smile on her face to disappear, replaced by dullness and indifference.

Zhang Suping is not the kind of person who can easily show her feelings.

The tragedy happened at 1996:8 pm on August 6, 6. Widower Lu Qiang received a call from Zhang Suping, who said she would cook him a last supper as farewell.Because before, he had already proposed to her to break up. It turned out that he had a girlfriend who was talking about marriage.Later, Lu Qiang told the police that Zhang Suping was very calm after learning that he was on two boats, but when she heard that he was about to end the relationship between the two, she suddenly burst into tears and started to smash things. She smashed his television and tape recorder.At that time, he understood her actions as showing too much affection for him, so he didn't ask her to compensate.Afterwards, she apologized to him and told him to break up within a week.

That day was the last day of the week.She knew that he went to work during the day and would not get off work until around 7 o'clock in the evening, so she went to his house before him and contacted him with his phone number. Give it back to him.Her request was reasonable, so he agreed without thinking.Lu Qiang later said that as soon as he entered the room, he found a "ghost-like fierce light" in her eyes.

"I made a pot of eight fresh soup for you." She said.

"Eight Fresh Soup? What's in it?"

"Love," she said quietly.

"Love?" He didn't know what she wanted to say.For a moment, he suspected that she was trying to poison him.

But he dismissed the idea immediately, because he saw her take a sip of the soup and put it into his mouth, as if tasting the taste, and then she skillfully sprinkled some salt into the soup.

"It's delicious." Finally she nodded with satisfaction, and turned her head to look at him with a smile, "It's better than anything I've made for you."

"Really?" He sat down at the table, full of anticipation and a little uneasy.

"Eat, this is the last dish I can cook for you." She served him a bowl of soup, and he saw her scoop up some ribs and the like and put them in his bowl.

"Okay, let me try your handicraft." He didn't want to respond to the sadness in her tone, so he turned his attention to the eight fresh soup in front of him.He took a spoonful and swallowed it, it was really delicious, he admired in his heart.

She sat quietly opposite him and watched him.

"Is it good?" she asked.

"Not bad, not bad, very good..." In order to avoid her sad eyes, he lowered his head and just drank the soup. He scooped up a piece of "small ribs" with a spoon and was about to put it into his mouth, suddenly!His eyes suddenly widened, and his heart jumped wildly at the sudden horror scene, he could hardly believe his eyes, but it was too obvious, he couldn't read it wrong, and there was an impressive display on his spoon. With a human ear...he jumped up from his seat.

"This is... you, you, you... what did you do?" Because of fear, he instantly became incoherent.

"Your love, I will fulfill you. Since you like her so much, eat her." She still sat motionless opposite him, and he felt that she had changed from a lady to a devil overnight.

"What did you do to her?" he asked tremblingly.

"The rest is in the bathtub, she can't sleep with you anymore."

Zhang Suping smiled, with a charming face that had never been seen before.

Lu Qiang recalled that he suddenly felt like he was about to have a heart attack and almost passed out. He didn't have the courage to go to the bathroom to check the apparently mutilated body, but he stumbled to the bedroom and called the police.When he returned to the restaurant, he found that she had disappeared.

It was later known that at the moment he called the police, Zhang Suping jumped from the window on the 11th floor of his house and died on the spot.

Afterwards, the police guessed that on the morning of August 8, Zhang Suping asked Lu Qiang's girlfriend to come here on the grounds that Lu Qiang's child needed to be taken care of.As soon as the other party entered the door, Zhang Suping smashed the other party's head with a wooden chopping board, killing him.Then, Zhang Suping dragged the body into the bathtub, cut off the victim's ears, fingers, nipples and other eight organs with a kitchen freezer knife, threw them into a casserole, and cooked a pot of human bone soup with onion, ginger and garlic.Finally, she called Lu Qiang calmly and waited quietly for him to come back.

"Could she be trying to stew us?" Dai Rou's voice sounded from the other end of the phone.

"Of course not." Moran replied without hesitation. Even if she killed her a hundred times, she would not believe that Du Xiaomei had such courage. Easily give up her superior life to take risks, unless she is crazy.

"I think she was just doing it for fun, to scare us, and you know she's never a joker," Moran said.

"That's true."

"But then again, why are you so nervous? It's just a reunion party for old friends." Dai Rou has always been a party animal, and Moran didn't understand why this party made her so sensitive.

"Why am I nervous? Okay, let's not talk anymore, my boss has called me." Dai Rou hung up the phone in a hurry.

Dai Rou and Moran have known each other for ten years, and they have been good friends since college, so no matter how Dai Rou conceals it, Moran can hear each other's true emotions at once.She clearly felt that today Dai Rou was irritable and very restless.

(End of this chapter)