Short story Lily of the Valley Poison

1

Suzuran doesn’t like to live alone. She said she is afraid of the loneliness at night.

She always said that women don’t actually need to care about many men in their life, at most two, one in their heart and one by their side.

When it comes to choosing the man in her heart, she is always indecisive, but when it comes to choosing the man next to her, she seems to be too casual.

"The man next to me is just someone who has sex with me and accompanies me to eat and go shopping. I don't have so many requirements for this. Everything I do is for myself. I just Love yourself!"

When I first met her, she explained it this way. Her words were as pale and unbearable to refute as her face with makeup.

"Do you know the lily of the valley?" she asked me. "It is so beautiful, short, hairless, and highly poisonous." She smiled. The flowers trembled wildly, "I gave myself this name originally, for no other reason than that lily of the valley has a kind of poison that can make people's heart rate drop and make people dream. And I want to be the poisonous person." A woman!"

She was in her prime at that time. She said these words and successfully turned them into reality.

I tried to persuade her, but ultimately failed.

Fortunately, life is not static. It is always full of surprises. The people or things you expect or are arranged by fate will always appear quietly without surprise.

A man broke into her at an inappropriate time when we first met. He took away her person and her heart.

This is distressing to me, but also worth celebrating. Celebrate that she finally doesn't have to be a poisonous lily of the valley flower.

She always said that I was a bad person who thought about others every day. Looking back now, it was true.

Speaking of this man, I don’t have a very deep impression. I only remember that his name is Anan.

Anan was deeply attracted when he heard the name of Linglan for the first time. Anan said that Linglan can be used as medicine and is good at treating heart disease.

As you might imagine, Suzuran scolded him for being crazy and called his whole family one by one. But this did not make Anan angry. He humbly and sincerely begged a girl who had just scolded his whole family to be friends, and the girl surprisingly did not refuse.

She agreed.

When I heard the news, I felt how crazy and wonderful the world was! It was incomprehensible but also deeply immersed in it and unable to extricate myself.

"Why do you think I agreed to that stupid request?" Suzuran asked me this question the last time she talked to me on the phone. I couldn't answer her correctly, so I could only use maybe Fate is a short fictitious sentence to excuse her.

Perhaps she was disappointed with my answer. Since then, she has never contacted me.

And I never took the initiative to contact her.

Maybe, I am really a timid and bad person! Yes, that’s what I told myself.

But no matter what, I felt that we would meet again eventually, so I kept waiting and waiting.

Wait until you forget about love.

Wait until you forget about life.

Wait until you forget the time.

……

Dear friend, if you can see this, I’m sorry, I can’t continue to talk about it. I don't have much time, so I hurriedly wrote down the few sentences above. If you still want to hear the next story, go and look for it deep in the luxuriant lily of the valley bushes in the park.

I will wait for you there, and perhaps, I will also sleep there.

2

Looking at the half piece of cloth in my hand, my mind was extremely confused.

I don’t know what evil happened to me. I bought a second-hand sofa online. When I came back to clean it up, I pulled out this shabby piece of cloth from under the cushion. The most weird thing is that it clearly said: A short paragraph, yes, the ones you just saw.

I don’t care whether you are a lily of the valley or not, and I don’t care whether you are poisonous or not. This kind of thing is very disappointing, okay! Besides, the person who wrote this is also bored. Why doesn’t he have time? Just kidding!

He threw the piece of cloth into the trash can casually, not interested in looking for the remaining parts buried under the lily of the valley bushes. He didn't even bother to clean the sofa.

For some reason, after I threw the piece of cloth into the trash can, I suddenly felt a certain sleepiness, and my eyelids kept fluttering up and down. Without thinking much, I lay down on the sofa casually. On.

In a daze, I seemed to have had a dream, a very long dream.

This dream became clear when I put down the phone in my hand. Just like a first-person perspective movie, in this dream, I became another person, a man.

I must not be very old, as can be seen from my thin beard, and I must not be very rich. After all, when I accepted this body, I found that I only had a few dozen dollars.

I am quite interested in this kind of thing that only happens in movies and novels. Do I want to spend my whole life here? When I think of this, I feel a little worried but also a little excited.

Turning around and looking around, I realized that I was in an ordinary small room with a few photos hanging sparsely on the wall, a small bed with a purple quilt on it. There was a pillow, a desk next to the bed, and an old-fashioned white home phone on the table, and I was standing there holding the receiver.

Ding dong

The sound of water drops falling to the ground was particularly clear in this silent room. I was surprised because the water drops fell from my face. I wiped my face with my hand and found a little moisture on it.

I don’t know what this is for, and I can’t remember it.

Maybe it’s hot! I said this to myself, then put down the phone in my hand, walked to the wall with the photos, and looked at it carefully.

These photos are very ordinary family photos, a man, a woman and a little girl. They took photos in different places, including hugging each other on the Bund, and playing with seedlings in the farmland. There were also simple group photos. All in all, in my mind I knew this was just an ordinary family and it had nothing to do with me.

I am not a little girl, and the man in the photo is not me.

Without looking at these photos that had nothing to do with me, I went straight to the door. For some reason, I suddenly felt that something bad was going to happen, and my chest felt inexplicably tight.

Ah! ...

As soon as I walked out of the door and looked towards the living room, I fell to the ground, my hands were shaking constantly, my eyes almost popped out of their sockets, I screamed out loud, and looked at it in horror. The scene before me.

There were three bloody bodies lying in the living room, a man, a woman and a little girl. They were lying in different places, blood flowed from under their bodies, and a strong smell of blood wafted over. , I couldn't help but vomit.

The door of the living room suddenly sounded the sound of turning the key. Before I could react, a figure appeared behind the opened door, and then let out a deafening shout

I was caught, without any resistance.

I have no idea what happened? In fact, I don't even know who I am, I just know that I fell asleep after cleaning the sofa and showed up here.

Obviously, the judge would not listen to my explanation that no one would believe, but fortunately, they all agreed that I was insane.

No normal person would act like nothing happened after killing three people, and still talk nonsense.

So, because I was judged to be mentally ill, I was exempted from death and changed to life imprisonment, solitary confinement, and deprivation of political rights for life.

I don’t know whether to be happy or sad. I came to a strange place inexplicably and became a strange person. I also became a mentally ill murderer inexplicably.

The moment I heard the judgment hammer fall, I, who had never experienced anything like this before, was frightened and fainted. My eyes darkened and I lost consciousness.

3

When I opened my eyes again, I found that I was back in my world, and I was lying on the sofa I just bought at home.

He sat up with lingering fear, touched his back and found that it was already soaked in sweat. Suddenly I remembered something, and as if I had seen a ghost, I immediately ejected from the sofa underneath me. Holding the rag in his hand, he stared at the second-hand sofa fearfully.

I have not forgotten the scene in the dream. Even the bloody corpse I saw in the dream can still clearly appear in front of my eyes. When I think of the corpse, my nose smells the smell of blood. I couldn't help but want to vomit again.

Holding back the feeling of vomiting, my still young brain is constantly running, guessing the possibility of all these weird events happening, but no matter what I imagine, there is still no more reasonable explanation. .

Is it a ghost?

When I think of this, I sweat. Although I am not a materialist, I am not a believer either. I maintain a neutral attitude towards these ghosts and gods. But what just happened seems to have tilted the balance in my heart.

No, no, I’m confused.

Man, phone, piece of cloth, lily of the valley, the story behind, time is running out...

One by one, the fragments flashed through my mind, almost in an instant, I have an answer in my mind.

Without staying any longer, I picked up the keys and ran out of the room.

"Hello, where are you going?"

"Master, go to the park"

"Okay!"

……< /p>

4

I rushed to the park almost as quickly as possible. After getting off the taxi, I walked non-stop to the special area in the park. I remember that there was a scenic area called Lily of the Valley. time.

For poisonous animals and plants, parks with a large number of people every day often have to set up a special area to prevent poisoning incidents. As a highly poisonous plant, lily of the valley should not appear in this park. , but it seems that a manager who invested in the park in the past liked lily of the valley very much. In order to please him, the director of the park specially divided a large area to plant lily of the valley. Unexpectedly, as soon as the park opened, as the largest multi-functional park in the city, and the lily of the valley flowers are very beautiful, especially girls and children, it made the park a lot of money and reputation. This is also an unexpected surprise. ! Since then, people in the city have designated that area of ??the park as Lily of the Valley Time, and people come to see it in an endless stream every day.

Not long after, I came to the most famous lily of the valley time in the park.

Since it is already late and it is a working day, there are not many people here. Occasionally, there are only one or two couples in love taking photos.

Is this where the second half of the story on the piece of cloth is located? When I think of this, I feel a little excited. I am getting closer and closer to the answer I guessed in my heart, and the youthful hormones of adventure are also gushing out. No boy will refuse an adventure and can't help but get excited.

I looked around and found no one paying attention here. I took a breath and ducked into the lily of the valley bushes.

Fragrant, really fragrant.

This is the first feeling that lily of the valley brings to me. The floral fragrance of lily of the valley is a very light but unforgettable smell. Like a water snake, it penetrates from your nose and penetrates deep into your lungs, and then goes straight to your forehead and disappears. When your nose doesn’t remember it, your mind will still imagine it.

This is so incredible, but it actually happened. It's a pity that I'm not here to enjoy the fragrance of flowers. I'm going to find the remaining story.

Without stopping, I quickened my pace and walked towards the middle of the endless sea of ??lily of the valley flowers. According to the piece of cloth, the end of the story was there.

In order not to attract the attention of tourists who suddenly arrived, I chose to crawl forward. Fortunately, the branches of the lily of the valley are not too short, and there is a little space between the branches, so I can successfully crawl among the flowers.

In fact, this was quite painful. As I crawled forward, I knocked off countless lilies of the valley. Some fell to the ground and turned into fertilizer, and some even fell into my mouth. But I couldn't care less, so I wiped it off casually, and some of it was squeezed by me into juice, which flowed into my mouth along the corners of my mouth, mixed with saliva, and finally swallowed by me.

I was crazy at this time, inexplicably crazy.

I didn’t know how long I had been crawling, but finally I seemed to feel that I had reached the place I should be.

This is a very strange feeling, as if there is God's will in the dark.

I looked to my side, and sure enough, my intuition was right. Just a little to my left, there is a plant that looks different from other lilies of the valley. It is also a lily of the valley, but it is made of plastic, and the flowers are made of light pink paper. Compared with other real flowers, it has lost its spirituality, so it is easy to identify.

I quickly leaned over. I didn’t appreciate the lily of the valley flower made from the piece of paper. I dug up the soil below with my hands. I dug again and again. Finally, I dug for about a minute. My fingertips were hard. The feeling told me that I had found what I wanted.

5

We are sitting on a park bench covered with fallen leaves. A gust of wind blew, and the fallen leaves flew wildly, not falling for a long time.

Suzuran's white hair on her temples was also messed up. She sat there quietly, seemingly not caring. I wanted to gently go up and help her comb her temples, but she raised her hand to signal me no, and casually pushed the few white hairs back of her head.

"We are almost 90, so we should make less big moves if we can. If we are not careful, we may have to say goodbye to this tragic world." She smiled, and the corners of her eyes The wrinkles are like the New Year's flower-skin dumplings, one layer next to another, even if they are put under boiling water.

"What have you been doing all these years? It's been more than 50 years since I left, and I thought you were dead!" I couldn't bear to look at her anymore, just like I often didn't dare to look at myself in the mirror. , looking down at the yellowing leaves, asked.

"What can I do! Ever since I left with him, I have completely changed. Later, I gave birth to children, made money to support the family, and my whole life passed in a haze. I didn't expect that I could be as fast as dirt." I have no regrets when I met you." She said it casually, as if she was talking about someone who had nothing to do with her.

"Are you still there now?" I asked cautiously, as if a timid soldier had just entered the battlefield and was afraid of stepping on a landmine buried in the ground.

That's it, she said, without any expression on her plain face.

"Oh" I stopped talking and stared at the yellow leaves that had not yet fallen.

"He was very kind to me! At least he only had me in his heart at first." Suzuran looked over, and the memories in her eyes reflected a shy girl.

"Oh!" My old face felt inexplicably hot.

"Ping"

"En"

"What have you been doing all these years?"

"Go and do it It’s something I don’t regret and want to do”

“For whom?”

“For the person I once loved deeply”

“She really Happy and enviable"

"Yes! She is really good"

"Can you tell me who she is?"

"Well, Can you not say it? Haha"

"You are still the same, caring about face"

I was curious why she suddenly asked me these questions, and looked at her, eighty She was several years old, but she was still so beautiful, exuding an alluring aura, which made people's hearts beat faster without knowing it.

She noticed that I was looking at her, and looked at me without any scruples.

"Ping, if time went back, would you have said anything to keep me?" Her eyes became very firm, making people dare not tell any lies for fear of being violently punished. refute.

"I don't know, maybe, not!"

"Why?"

"Because you were in love with that person at the time. Besides, I I have never succeeded in persuading you, just like I told you not to be a poisonous lily of the valley"

"You still care about others so much, you are a good person"

"There is no way I can’t change it for the rest of my life!”

“Ping, have you ever liked me?”

“No”

“Really?”

"Fake"

"You...Oh!"

This was the last conversation I had with Suzulan, according to her children that day She died at night. As for why they told me this, I think it was probably because others thought she had lived enough!

But I don’t think so.

She has not lived enough and will not live enough.

She is the deadly lily of the valley, and her toxins can stay in the human body for a month, a year, or even longer.

I am a person who has been poisoned by lily of the valley, unable to extricate myself, hopeless and willing to do so.

I remember more than 50 years ago, when I learned that the boy left you, I wanted to kill him, the man named Anan. I still remember that it was a family of three, with a beautiful wife and a cute daughter. I couldn’t do anything, but unfortunately, the poison has penetrated deep into my bones.

I waved my arm and used the knife in my hand to cut on the flesh and blood. Blood spurted on my face, but I didn't feel any ripples at all. In my heart, this is right, this is what must be done, and this is without regrets. I ended up calling the police myself, using their home phone.

I am burdened with sin that I cannot even forgive myself for.

In the end I was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court because they thought I was mentally ill.

I don’t know whether to be happy or sad.

In the end, maybe the prison saw that I was getting old and didn’t want to waste money on me anymore, so it reduced my sentence by a few years. After I was released, I sold all my property and donated it to the city to build a park.

Someone asked me what I liked best, and I told him it was lily of the valley.

I had nothing else to ask for, but a letter changed my mind. That was written to me by a friend I met in prison. He gave me a way to regain my desire for life.

I want to resurrect you, my lily of the valley.

……

You may not believe it, my friend, when you see this letter, I’m sorry. You are going to be the next sacrifice.

I don’t want to hurt you, but I really can’t give up!

I can no longer tolerate her being unhappy in my world.

I can no longer watch her suffer in my eyes in vain.

I was poisoned by her, and I will eventually live for her.

5

My hand holding this letter was shaking constantly. For some reason, I felt a little dizzy.

He raised his head and looked around. The white lily of the valley flowers beside him were floating in the wind, one after another. The flowers collided with each other, and fine dust spewed out.

It floated and floated, and finally it was sucked into my body.

I wanted to stand up and run away, but for some reason I couldn't move. I could only watch the pollen fall in my eyes and on my lips.

Gradually, I lost consciousness.

The moment before I became unconscious, I seemed to see a man kneeling among the lily of the valley flowers, holding a very beautiful girl by the hand. Vaguely, I heard him say something.

Lily of the Valley, I want you to live.