That day, I hid a knife inside my trench coat, because I was going to kill an enemy.
I hated her very much, but I didn’t dare curse at her, so I had no choice but to choose murder.
She wasn’t tall, but she was a top student at a martial arts school. I figured I couldn’t beat her empty-handed, so I had to hide a knife.
She was very pretty, but she never even glanced at me, so I hated her very much, so I was going to murder her.
I couldn’t murder her at her school, because the kids at the martial arts school were all very good at fighting. After killing someone, I worried I wouldn’t be able to get away unscathed;
I also couldn’t murder her at her home, because she wasn’t familiar with me, so she definitely wouldn’t open the door for me;
I couldn’t murder her in the daytime. If people saw me, the Public Security Bureau would arrest me and have me shot.
So, at night, I braved the bitter cold and lay in ambush on the road she took home.
To work up my courage, I drank a whole bottle of erguotou (the two-liang size).
But I’m not very good at drinking baijiu. After lying in ambush for a while, I fell asleep, and when I woke up the next day I had caught a cold.
Now I’m in the hospital on an IV drip, but I definitely won’t give up.
The doctor said I had to stay two more days before I could be discharged, so I had to wait two more days before continuing my plan.
“Huh, nurse! Where’s that knife from inside my trench coat?”
“Oh, I borrowed it.”
“What for?”
“To peel apples~ ”
A young nurse is just a little nurse.
Her face was very fair, maybe the white coat set it off; her eyes were very big, maybe the big glasses set them off.
The little nurse wasn’t as pretty as my enemy, but she still counted as a beauty.
But even if she was a beauty, how could she take the knife I was going to use for killing and use it to peel apples?
So I got a little angry and said, “How can you use that knife to peel apples?”
The little nurse stared at me with wide eyes and said, “But this is an apple knife to begin with.”
I went from a little angry to very angry, and said, “No no, anyway, I use it for something else!”
The little nurse picked up my knife and looked it over carefully. She said, “How come I can’t tell what else it could be used for? Could it be for killing people?”
I was shocked. My criminal plan had actually been seen through by a little nurse. This was trouble...
No, I had to kill her first to silence her!
So I hurriedly got up, wanting to snatch the knife back from her hand, but she shoved me back onto the bed: “Don’t move! Your IV isn’t finished yet!”
I asked how much longer. The little nurse said another hour.
Fine, killing her to silence her after an hour won’t be too late.
Sigh... not only good things take time, bad things do too...
To pass the time, I had no choice but to chat with this “living witness” for a while first: “Can you give me my knife back?”
The little nurse said I looked silly and then said hehe.
After saying hehe, she asked again, “Who are you planning to kill with it?” Then she said hehe again.
I figured she’d be dead in an hour anyway, so there was no harm in telling her.
I said, “The one I want to kill is my enemy.”
The little nurse went hehe hehe and said, “Did she offend you?”
I said, “Of course she offended me! She... she’s very pretty, but she won’t even look at me!”
The little nurse’s hehe turned into haha, and she said, “That’s not enough reason to kill somebody, is it?”
I said I had nothing to say to you, and I also said hmph.
Being sick seems to make people sleepy easily. I fell asleep before the IV was done.
When I woke up, the little nurse was already gone.
The one in a white coat in the room was another nurse. She had wrinkles on her face, so she was no little nurse.
Her skin wasn’t fair and her eyes weren’t big, so I didn’t want to kill her. Besides, the knife was gone.
I guessed the little nurse had taken it off to play with.
I liked to guess that because I was worried she had gone to report me.
Of course, that possibility couldn’t be ruled out.
The little nurse must be on her way to the Public Security Bureau right now, and this “not little” nurse must have been sent to keep watch on me.
I started planning to escape this hospital and kill the little nurse before she could turn me in.
I said I wanted some water, and the not-little nurse went to pour some.
I sprang up, rushed to the window, climbed onto the sill... unfortunately, I had forgotten my ward was on the seventh floor...
So I could only slink back to bed and think of another plan.
When I climbed to the window, I was wearing only a pair of red briefs, and the wind saw my bare body and came rushing in.
By the time I got back under the covers, I was sneezing nonstop.
The not-little nurse was afraid I’d pass my cold to her, so she quickly put on a mask. Later she still didn’t feel safe, so she left.
I thought this was a good opportunity.
Having learned from my first failed escape, I first put on the clothes hanging on the rack, then rushed out the door and ran like mad.
After running around several corners, I still hadn’t found where the exit was, but I unexpectedly ran into the little nurse.
She stared at me with wide eyes and said, “The toilet is at the corner ahead.”
I panted, “Wh-who’s going to the toilet? I’m looking for you!!!”
The little nurse froze.
I said, “Give me back my knife!”
The little nurse hehe’d, then said, “You’re really funny.”
I looked left and right, saw nobody around, and let a murderous look show on my face.
I thought... strangling this little nurse to death shouldn’t be a problem, right?
I made a move as if about to pounce, but the little nurse pulled that knife out of her pocket.
After hesitating a bit, I had to refrain from making any reckless moves for the moment—she had a weapon in her hand.
The little nurse asked, “This one?”
I answered, “Yes, yes, give it back to me!”
She seemed to have taken an interest in my knife, because she actually asked, “Can you give it to me?”
I had no choice and said gloomily, “The knife’s in your hand. Whatever you say goes.”
Then the little nurse escorted me back to the ward.
I say “escorted back” because she was gripping the murder weapon tightly in her hand.
Sitting on the hospital bed, I stared at the little nurse without letting up, trying to figure out how to get rid of this living witness.
The little nurse sneaked a glance at me and said, “What are you looking at? So annoying!”
I knew she found me annoying, because I was a would-be murderer, and I was also going to kill her to silence her.
Of course, she didn’t know that was my intention, and I couldn’t let her know. I had to take her by surprise and get rid of her. If you kill someone, it has to be by surprise.
The little nurse looked at the card by the bedhead and read my name. Not to be outdone, I looked at the badge on her chest and read her name.
The little nurse hmph’d, then made a face at me.
The face the little nurse made wasn’t scary at all. It was actually very cute, so again I felt the impulse to kill her.
For the next two days, we were together from morning to night.
She gave me many opportunities, but unfortunately I didn’t seize even one. Looks like killing people really is a field of study...
When I was handling my discharge papers, I had no choice but to ask her for a pager number. She cheerfully wrote it on a little slip of paper and handed it to me.
Fine, there would be plenty of time in the future. She would definitely die by my hand, I thought.
At noon on the second day after I was discharged, I lay in wait under the big tree by the hospital gate for her to appear.
Because a pager number alone was far from enough.
I also had to figure out the route she took home.
I hid behind that tree for ten minutes. I didn’t spot the little nurse, but she spotted me first.
She came up behind me, patted my shoulder, and asked, “What are you doing?”
At the time I didn’t know it was her. Actually, even if it really hadn’t been her, I still couldn’t have told the truth. It was just an awful conditioned reflex.
When someone suddenly asked me, I answered: “I’m going to follow a pretty little nurse with glasses...”
Of course I regretted it as soon as I said it. So I turned around and saw that the person I wanted to follow was standing right behind me smiling.
Her smile was very pretty, but it had to be the kind of smile that was making fun of me. So even though she was smiling at me, I didn’t appreciate it one bit. I still wanted to kill her.
Although I was determined to kill her, when this little scheme of mine to stalk her got exposed, I still felt very embarrassed.
Because I was embarrassed, my face turned red, and when my face turns red I can never say anything.
The little nurse hugged a folder to her chest and pretended to look around. Every now and then she glanced at me and then snickered.
After laughing she said, “There is a little nurse with glasses, but she’s not pretty.”
My face was burning. This was awful. There was probably no murderer in the world more shy than me...
“Why are you following her?” The little nurse was obviously interrogating me.
Hmph! I had to show national spirit and refuse to confess even in death!
I said I wouldn’t say, I just wouldn’t say. She said go on, say it, don’t be shy. I said I still wouldn’t say, no matter how you asked, in short I just wouldn’t say.
She bobbed back and forth like a roly-poly, opened her mouth wide as if laughing hard, then said again, “You’re really funny.”
I didn’t quite understand what she meant. Maybe she was insulting me in a roundabout way. Even if she wasn’t, I still couldn’t let her off.
The little nurse suddenly said to me, “My home is the red brick building a hundred meters ahead. Want to come drink some tea?”
This was really unbelievable. This little nurse whom I was plotting to kill to silence was asking whether I wanted to go to her house for tea?
There had to be a conspiracy here... ah! Right, she wanted to put rat poison in the tea and poison me to death!
This was called striking first, just as they say, “If she’s not ruthless she’s no woman, if she’s not poisonous she’s no wife”!!!
Once I thought that through, I felt a bit uneasy.
The little nurse coaxed and urged me: “It’s fine. My family won’t be back at noon. Come on.”
Rubbish. If they were coming back, would you still be able to murder a promising young man like me? Thinking that, I still let her lead me into her home.
It was a big house. Only rich people lived in houses like this. I had to get a clear look at the way in, otherwise I might get trapped here and not be able to find the exit.
Sure enough, no one was home in the little nurse’s house. I thought I should get rid of her before she poisoned me, but I had forgotten to bring the murder weapon.
I thought I had enough strength to strangle this little girl, but not in the living room. The most suitable places for murder should be the bathroom and the bedroom.
Thinking that, I said, “I want to go to your bedroom. Are you coming?”
The little nurse said, “Huh? Are you trying to get funny ideas about me?”
Heavens! She could actually see through my thoughts!?
Startled, I stammered, “N-n-n-no, I-I-I-I’m not, y-y-you’re talking nonsense...”
The little nurse tilted her head and walked up to me. There was a half-smile on her face, and she stared at me so hard I kept wiping sweat, not understanding what she was going to do.
Then I heard her say, “Sometimes I really think you’re very strange. Are you naturally this funny? Or are you deliberately acting this way because you want to hit on me?”
I didn’t understand that at all. Calling me “funny” was one thing, but how could she think I “wanted to hit on her” and was “deliberately acting”???
Seeing me standing there in a daze without saying a word, she frowned hard (though even when she frowned hard, she didn’t look angry at all).
In an “angry” tone she said, “Come on, say it, say it, I know what you’re thinking!”
I was done for. This little nurse was too terrifying!
I had no choice but to honestly tell her: “You know I have a motive for killing, so I want to kill you to silence you...”
The little nurse stared blankly at me for a long while, then suddenly burst out laughing, “haha,” laughing so hard she could barely stand and grabbing my left shoulder with one hand.
She must have been laughing at me, saying I didn’t know my own limits...
Maybe she also came from a martial arts school. Maybe she could fight even better than my enemy. Otherwise, why would she laugh so happily when she knew I wanted to kill her?
Given that, I had no choice but to give up the plan of committing the crime.
What was I supposed to do next? My mind was completely blank...
The little nurse kept laughing. I knew she didn’t take my threat seriously at all.
Since that was the case, all I could do was stand there in a daze and see what she could do to me! Anyway, I hadn’t brought a weapon. She couldn’t lay hands on an unarmed man like me.
At long last the little nurse finished laughing and took my hand: “All right, I’ll take you to see my bedroom.”
Her hand was soft. It didn’t feel like the hand of someone trained in martial arts. Looking at her build too, she seemed light and delicate... so maybe... perhaps... I had worried too much...
The little nurse’s bedroom was like a kindergarten child’s room, full of fluffy dogs and bears and things. Even if you smashed someone over the head with one of those, nothing would happen.
The little nurse said with a grin, “Sit wherever.”
There was only one chair here, and it was already occupied by a furry bear. The only place left to sit was that gaudy bed.
I carefully felt around on it. The little nurse asked what was wrong. I said I was checking whether there were any hidden mechanisms. The little nurse burst out laughing again.
I thought she must be the kind of girl who was born loving to laugh. Still, I had to confirm the earlier guess I had.
I asked, “C-can you tell me why you aren’t afraid of me?”
The little nurse said, “Afraid of you??? What’s so scary about you?”
That really hurt my self-respect a bit. If it was true, then I really was an unqualified murderer.
Of course, I still had to keep the topic going, so I asked again, “I said I was going to kill you to silence you?”
The little nurse barely suppressed her laughter and said, “So coming into my bedroom was all because of this?”
I nodded hard and, with a stiff face, said, “Are you afraid now?”
The little nurse shoved me and said, “Oh, come on!”
Then she made a baffling suggestion: “Let’s go. I’m hungry. Buy me a meal!”
I asked in surprise, “Why?”
The little nurse answered, “I’m too lazy to cook, and even if I did, you might not like it. After all, we’re only just starting.”
What did “just starting” mean? Starting what? I was confused...
Somehow or other, we ended up on the street, found a restaurant, and started ordering dishes.
The little nurse seemed to have a big appetite and kept ordering.
As for me, I was full of anxiety, because I only had sixteen yuan and fifty cents in my pocket...
Maybe the little nurse knew I had no money and wanted to trap me in this restaurant washing dishes...
I couldn’t fall for her trick, so I shamelessly asked her, “Did you bring money?”
“What for!” The little nurse shot me a look. “You said you were treating me!”
I took all the crumpled bills from my pocket and piled them on the table, saying pitifully, “This is all I have left...”
The little nurse stared at me with her mouth open and muttered, “Y-you can’t be serious...”
Then she opened her handbag and took something out, saying, “How can a guy go out without bringing money?”
She stuffed two large bills into my hand and said, “I’ll lend you two hundred yuan first. Anyway, the first time we eat together, you have to treat me.”
I scratched my head. This was really embarrassing. It looked like I was definitely going to owe this favor.
Maybe the little nurse had calculated that I wouldn’t kill someone I owed a favor to. This girl really wasn’t simple!
Forget it. I was hungry anyway. Better fill my stomach first and make plans afterward.
That meal cost eighty yuan, enough for a week’s worth of my fast-food expenses. I wanted to return the remaining hundred and twenty yuan to her, but she wouldn’t take it.
She said, “If you repay it, repay it all together. It’s not like I’m a mortgage.”
No help for it. I could only trail after her dejectedly. Who told me to owe her money?
The little nurse asked, “Oh right, what kind of work do you do?”
I answered truthfully, “I haven’t found a job yet. I just wander around the streets all day.”
The little nurse jumped up, grabbed my arm, and cheered, “Great! I was worried you might not be free this afternoon!”
I asked, “For what?”
The little nurse moved her face very close and said, “I’m off this afternoon. Will you wander around with me? Hehe~ ”
I thought my head had turned into two. How had trying to kill someone ended up like this? It was really impossible to understand...
(And she wasn’t even the main target.) After that, we wandered around all afternoon.
The little nurse deliberately chose big department stores and bought a lot of teddy bears and kitty things, making me carry them all.
At the end, she even insisted that I buy her something as a gift. I bought her a fifty-cent pack of chewing gum, and she still wasn’t happy.
In the end I was forced to buy a jingling bracelet—exactly 136 yuan, which completely emptied out what I had left on me...
The little nurse seemed kind of silly, so she probably wouldn’t affect my plan much. That meant I could just put the matter of “silencing the witness” aside.
I hated her very much, but I didn’t dare curse at her, so I had no choice but to choose murder.
She wasn’t tall, but she was a top student at a martial arts school. I figured I couldn’t beat her empty-handed, so I had to hide a knife.
She was very pretty, but she never even glanced at me, so I hated her very much, so I was going to murder her.
I couldn’t murder her at her school, because the kids at the martial arts school were all very good at fighting. After killing someone, I worried I wouldn’t be able to get away unscathed;
I also couldn’t murder her at her home, because she wasn’t familiar with me, so she definitely wouldn’t open the door for me;
I couldn’t murder her in the daytime. If people saw me, the Public Security Bureau would arrest me and have me shot.
So, at night, I braved the bitter cold and lay in ambush on the road she took home.
To work up my courage, I drank a whole bottle of erguotou (the two-liang size).
But I’m not very good at drinking baijiu. After lying in ambush for a while, I fell asleep, and when I woke up the next day I had caught a cold.
Now I’m in the hospital on an IV drip, but I definitely won’t give up.
The doctor said I had to stay two more days before I could be discharged, so I had to wait two more days before continuing my plan.
“Huh, nurse! Where’s that knife from inside my trench coat?”
“Oh, I borrowed it.”
“What for?”
“To peel apples~ ”
A young nurse is just a little nurse.
Her face was very fair, maybe the white coat set it off; her eyes were very big, maybe the big glasses set them off.
The little nurse wasn’t as pretty as my enemy, but she still counted as a beauty.
But even if she was a beauty, how could she take the knife I was going to use for killing and use it to peel apples?
So I got a little angry and said, “How can you use that knife to peel apples?”
The little nurse stared at me with wide eyes and said, “But this is an apple knife to begin with.”
I went from a little angry to very angry, and said, “No no, anyway, I use it for something else!”
The little nurse picked up my knife and looked it over carefully. She said, “How come I can’t tell what else it could be used for? Could it be for killing people?”
I was shocked. My criminal plan had actually been seen through by a little nurse. This was trouble...
No, I had to kill her first to silence her!
So I hurriedly got up, wanting to snatch the knife back from her hand, but she shoved me back onto the bed: “Don’t move! Your IV isn’t finished yet!”
I asked how much longer. The little nurse said another hour.
Fine, killing her to silence her after an hour won’t be too late.
Sigh... not only good things take time, bad things do too...
To pass the time, I had no choice but to chat with this “living witness” for a while first: “Can you give me my knife back?”
The little nurse said I looked silly and then said hehe.
After saying hehe, she asked again, “Who are you planning to kill with it?” Then she said hehe again.
I figured she’d be dead in an hour anyway, so there was no harm in telling her.
I said, “The one I want to kill is my enemy.”
The little nurse went hehe hehe and said, “Did she offend you?”
I said, “Of course she offended me! She... she’s very pretty, but she won’t even look at me!”
The little nurse’s hehe turned into haha, and she said, “That’s not enough reason to kill somebody, is it?”
I said I had nothing to say to you, and I also said hmph.
Being sick seems to make people sleepy easily. I fell asleep before the IV was done.
When I woke up, the little nurse was already gone.
The one in a white coat in the room was another nurse. She had wrinkles on her face, so she was no little nurse.
Her skin wasn’t fair and her eyes weren’t big, so I didn’t want to kill her. Besides, the knife was gone.
I guessed the little nurse had taken it off to play with.
I liked to guess that because I was worried she had gone to report me.
Of course, that possibility couldn’t be ruled out.
The little nurse must be on her way to the Public Security Bureau right now, and this “not little” nurse must have been sent to keep watch on me.
I started planning to escape this hospital and kill the little nurse before she could turn me in.
I said I wanted some water, and the not-little nurse went to pour some.
I sprang up, rushed to the window, climbed onto the sill... unfortunately, I had forgotten my ward was on the seventh floor...
So I could only slink back to bed and think of another plan.
When I climbed to the window, I was wearing only a pair of red briefs, and the wind saw my bare body and came rushing in.
By the time I got back under the covers, I was sneezing nonstop.
The not-little nurse was afraid I’d pass my cold to her, so she quickly put on a mask. Later she still didn’t feel safe, so she left.
I thought this was a good opportunity.
Having learned from my first failed escape, I first put on the clothes hanging on the rack, then rushed out the door and ran like mad.
After running around several corners, I still hadn’t found where the exit was, but I unexpectedly ran into the little nurse.
She stared at me with wide eyes and said, “The toilet is at the corner ahead.”
I panted, “Wh-who’s going to the toilet? I’m looking for you!!!”
The little nurse froze.
I said, “Give me back my knife!”
The little nurse hehe’d, then said, “You’re really funny.”
I looked left and right, saw nobody around, and let a murderous look show on my face.
I thought... strangling this little nurse to death shouldn’t be a problem, right?
I made a move as if about to pounce, but the little nurse pulled that knife out of her pocket.
After hesitating a bit, I had to refrain from making any reckless moves for the moment—she had a weapon in her hand.
The little nurse asked, “This one?”
I answered, “Yes, yes, give it back to me!”
She seemed to have taken an interest in my knife, because she actually asked, “Can you give it to me?”
I had no choice and said gloomily, “The knife’s in your hand. Whatever you say goes.”
Then the little nurse escorted me back to the ward.
I say “escorted back” because she was gripping the murder weapon tightly in her hand.
Sitting on the hospital bed, I stared at the little nurse without letting up, trying to figure out how to get rid of this living witness.
The little nurse sneaked a glance at me and said, “What are you looking at? So annoying!”
I knew she found me annoying, because I was a would-be murderer, and I was also going to kill her to silence her.
Of course, she didn’t know that was my intention, and I couldn’t let her know. I had to take her by surprise and get rid of her. If you kill someone, it has to be by surprise.
The little nurse looked at the card by the bedhead and read my name. Not to be outdone, I looked at the badge on her chest and read her name.
The little nurse hmph’d, then made a face at me.
The face the little nurse made wasn’t scary at all. It was actually very cute, so again I felt the impulse to kill her.
For the next two days, we were together from morning to night.
She gave me many opportunities, but unfortunately I didn’t seize even one. Looks like killing people really is a field of study...
When I was handling my discharge papers, I had no choice but to ask her for a pager number. She cheerfully wrote it on a little slip of paper and handed it to me.
Fine, there would be plenty of time in the future. She would definitely die by my hand, I thought.
At noon on the second day after I was discharged, I lay in wait under the big tree by the hospital gate for her to appear.
Because a pager number alone was far from enough.
I also had to figure out the route she took home.
I hid behind that tree for ten minutes. I didn’t spot the little nurse, but she spotted me first.
She came up behind me, patted my shoulder, and asked, “What are you doing?”
At the time I didn’t know it was her. Actually, even if it really hadn’t been her, I still couldn’t have told the truth. It was just an awful conditioned reflex.
When someone suddenly asked me, I answered: “I’m going to follow a pretty little nurse with glasses...”
Of course I regretted it as soon as I said it. So I turned around and saw that the person I wanted to follow was standing right behind me smiling.
Her smile was very pretty, but it had to be the kind of smile that was making fun of me. So even though she was smiling at me, I didn’t appreciate it one bit. I still wanted to kill her.
Although I was determined to kill her, when this little scheme of mine to stalk her got exposed, I still felt very embarrassed.
Because I was embarrassed, my face turned red, and when my face turns red I can never say anything.
The little nurse hugged a folder to her chest and pretended to look around. Every now and then she glanced at me and then snickered.
After laughing she said, “There is a little nurse with glasses, but she’s not pretty.”
My face was burning. This was awful. There was probably no murderer in the world more shy than me...
“Why are you following her?” The little nurse was obviously interrogating me.
Hmph! I had to show national spirit and refuse to confess even in death!
I said I wouldn’t say, I just wouldn’t say. She said go on, say it, don’t be shy. I said I still wouldn’t say, no matter how you asked, in short I just wouldn’t say.
She bobbed back and forth like a roly-poly, opened her mouth wide as if laughing hard, then said again, “You’re really funny.”
I didn’t quite understand what she meant. Maybe she was insulting me in a roundabout way. Even if she wasn’t, I still couldn’t let her off.
The little nurse suddenly said to me, “My home is the red brick building a hundred meters ahead. Want to come drink some tea?”
This was really unbelievable. This little nurse whom I was plotting to kill to silence was asking whether I wanted to go to her house for tea?
There had to be a conspiracy here... ah! Right, she wanted to put rat poison in the tea and poison me to death!
This was called striking first, just as they say, “If she’s not ruthless she’s no woman, if she’s not poisonous she’s no wife”!!!
Once I thought that through, I felt a bit uneasy.
The little nurse coaxed and urged me: “It’s fine. My family won’t be back at noon. Come on.”
Rubbish. If they were coming back, would you still be able to murder a promising young man like me? Thinking that, I still let her lead me into her home.
It was a big house. Only rich people lived in houses like this. I had to get a clear look at the way in, otherwise I might get trapped here and not be able to find the exit.
Sure enough, no one was home in the little nurse’s house. I thought I should get rid of her before she poisoned me, but I had forgotten to bring the murder weapon.
I thought I had enough strength to strangle this little girl, but not in the living room. The most suitable places for murder should be the bathroom and the bedroom.
Thinking that, I said, “I want to go to your bedroom. Are you coming?”
The little nurse said, “Huh? Are you trying to get funny ideas about me?”
Heavens! She could actually see through my thoughts!?
Startled, I stammered, “N-n-n-no, I-I-I-I’m not, y-y-you’re talking nonsense...”
The little nurse tilted her head and walked up to me. There was a half-smile on her face, and she stared at me so hard I kept wiping sweat, not understanding what she was going to do.
Then I heard her say, “Sometimes I really think you’re very strange. Are you naturally this funny? Or are you deliberately acting this way because you want to hit on me?”
I didn’t understand that at all. Calling me “funny” was one thing, but how could she think I “wanted to hit on her” and was “deliberately acting”???
Seeing me standing there in a daze without saying a word, she frowned hard (though even when she frowned hard, she didn’t look angry at all).
In an “angry” tone she said, “Come on, say it, say it, I know what you’re thinking!”
I was done for. This little nurse was too terrifying!
I had no choice but to honestly tell her: “You know I have a motive for killing, so I want to kill you to silence you...”
The little nurse stared blankly at me for a long while, then suddenly burst out laughing, “haha,” laughing so hard she could barely stand and grabbing my left shoulder with one hand.
She must have been laughing at me, saying I didn’t know my own limits...
Maybe she also came from a martial arts school. Maybe she could fight even better than my enemy. Otherwise, why would she laugh so happily when she knew I wanted to kill her?
Given that, I had no choice but to give up the plan of committing the crime.
What was I supposed to do next? My mind was completely blank...
The little nurse kept laughing. I knew she didn’t take my threat seriously at all.
Since that was the case, all I could do was stand there in a daze and see what she could do to me! Anyway, I hadn’t brought a weapon. She couldn’t lay hands on an unarmed man like me.
At long last the little nurse finished laughing and took my hand: “All right, I’ll take you to see my bedroom.”
Her hand was soft. It didn’t feel like the hand of someone trained in martial arts. Looking at her build too, she seemed light and delicate... so maybe... perhaps... I had worried too much...
The little nurse’s bedroom was like a kindergarten child’s room, full of fluffy dogs and bears and things. Even if you smashed someone over the head with one of those, nothing would happen.
The little nurse said with a grin, “Sit wherever.”
There was only one chair here, and it was already occupied by a furry bear. The only place left to sit was that gaudy bed.
I carefully felt around on it. The little nurse asked what was wrong. I said I was checking whether there were any hidden mechanisms. The little nurse burst out laughing again.
I thought she must be the kind of girl who was born loving to laugh. Still, I had to confirm the earlier guess I had.
I asked, “C-can you tell me why you aren’t afraid of me?”
The little nurse said, “Afraid of you??? What’s so scary about you?”
That really hurt my self-respect a bit. If it was true, then I really was an unqualified murderer.
Of course, I still had to keep the topic going, so I asked again, “I said I was going to kill you to silence you?”
The little nurse barely suppressed her laughter and said, “So coming into my bedroom was all because of this?”
I nodded hard and, with a stiff face, said, “Are you afraid now?”
The little nurse shoved me and said, “Oh, come on!”
Then she made a baffling suggestion: “Let’s go. I’m hungry. Buy me a meal!”
I asked in surprise, “Why?”
The little nurse answered, “I’m too lazy to cook, and even if I did, you might not like it. After all, we’re only just starting.”
What did “just starting” mean? Starting what? I was confused...
Somehow or other, we ended up on the street, found a restaurant, and started ordering dishes.
The little nurse seemed to have a big appetite and kept ordering.
As for me, I was full of anxiety, because I only had sixteen yuan and fifty cents in my pocket...
Maybe the little nurse knew I had no money and wanted to trap me in this restaurant washing dishes...
I couldn’t fall for her trick, so I shamelessly asked her, “Did you bring money?”
“What for!” The little nurse shot me a look. “You said you were treating me!”
I took all the crumpled bills from my pocket and piled them on the table, saying pitifully, “This is all I have left...”
The little nurse stared at me with her mouth open and muttered, “Y-you can’t be serious...”
Then she opened her handbag and took something out, saying, “How can a guy go out without bringing money?”
She stuffed two large bills into my hand and said, “I’ll lend you two hundred yuan first. Anyway, the first time we eat together, you have to treat me.”
I scratched my head. This was really embarrassing. It looked like I was definitely going to owe this favor.
Maybe the little nurse had calculated that I wouldn’t kill someone I owed a favor to. This girl really wasn’t simple!
Forget it. I was hungry anyway. Better fill my stomach first and make plans afterward.
That meal cost eighty yuan, enough for a week’s worth of my fast-food expenses. I wanted to return the remaining hundred and twenty yuan to her, but she wouldn’t take it.
She said, “If you repay it, repay it all together. It’s not like I’m a mortgage.”
No help for it. I could only trail after her dejectedly. Who told me to owe her money?
The little nurse asked, “Oh right, what kind of work do you do?”
I answered truthfully, “I haven’t found a job yet. I just wander around the streets all day.”
The little nurse jumped up, grabbed my arm, and cheered, “Great! I was worried you might not be free this afternoon!”
I asked, “For what?”
The little nurse moved her face very close and said, “I’m off this afternoon. Will you wander around with me? Hehe~ ”
I thought my head had turned into two. How had trying to kill someone ended up like this? It was really impossible to understand...
(And she wasn’t even the main target.) After that, we wandered around all afternoon.
The little nurse deliberately chose big department stores and bought a lot of teddy bears and kitty things, making me carry them all.
At the end, she even insisted that I buy her something as a gift. I bought her a fifty-cent pack of chewing gum, and she still wasn’t happy.
In the end I was forced to buy a jingling bracelet—exactly 136 yuan, which completely emptied out what I had left on me...
The little nurse seemed kind of silly, so she probably wouldn’t affect my plan much. That meant I could just put the matter of “silencing the witness” aside.
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大功告成,打个Kiss!
ko20010214@MSN.com
神州优雅Q300C
Intel CeleronM 370处理器 | 256MbDDR内存
40G硬盘 | USB2.0 | IEEE 1394
13.3 ' WXGA 宽屏(16:10) | COMBO光驱
10/100M网卡 | 四合一读卡器






