Blood money

Author: Li Ximeng
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: On a midday in June 1995, a sixteen-year-old boy lay in a corner of a wall in Mudan Street, Chiban City, looking at something. It was a corner of his own home. The midday sun was brilliant, wilting the leaves of the French trees by the street. He didn’t understand why there was such brilliant sunshine in the rainy season. In his memory, the sky during the rainy season was overcast, like a pot bottom that never turned white. At noon in June, sixteen-year-old Gu Chen Guang saw a line of blood-red words at the corner of his own home: “My blood and your blood will forever merge together.” At that time, the disappearance of a girl was causing a sensation in the city. The day before the rainy season arrived, he saw in a dream the room that had always been closed to him and his long-lost parents. Upon waking, he opened the room door and found a hundred-yuan blood-stained banknote. From then on, wherever the blood-stained banknote appeared, disaster followed. The nightmare continued. Who had killed his parents more than ten years ago? Was it his grandmother? His mother’s lover? His father’s lover? Or someone else? And who had killed the beautiful women in the city, dismembered them, and thrown them into the sewers? Many terrifying things happened during this long rainy season.