Qimen Dunjia

Chapter 10 Vacancy
After dark, Zhu Xi came to Sangya's house - he went home to ask for leave with his parents.

He was carrying a big bag full of food: pistachios, chocolate, biscuits, chips, melon seeds, beer...

The night is getting darker and darker, and the lights of the small town are getting brighter and brighter, red orange yellow green blue blue purple.

Zhu Xi and Sang Ya sat side by side on the sofa, drinking.

Zhu Xi felt that Sang Ya seemed to have something on her mind, so she kept telling her jokes.Talking and talking, he stopped talking.

Sang Ya looked up at him and said, "What's wrong?"
Zhu Xi glanced around the room, then continued talking.

Sang Ya said: "You have uploaded all these jokes on your mobile phone too much, do you want something fresh?"
Zhu Xi thought hard for a long time, and said: "Then let me tell you a dirty story?"
Sangya said, "Okay."
Zhu Xi began to talk: "There was a young woman who married a very old man. The next morning, the young woman walked out of the new house leaning on the wall, cursing—"
Sang Ya went on to say: "Damn it, he said he had savings for 30 years, I thought it was money!"
Zhu Xi blinked and said, "Why have you heard of it? It seems that I have to tell you a horror joke."
Sangya said, "I don't listen."
Zhu Xi put his arms around Sang Ya's shoulders: "I'm here, so you don't have to be afraid."
Sangya didn't stop his arm, or his story.

Zhu Xi said: "In an old house, there lived a mother and daughter. One night, the mother woke up and heard a strange sound coming from her daughter's room. She walked over gently and stuck to the door to listen. The daughter seemed to be chatting with a man, the voice was very low, like a person in a relationship whispering, but she couldn’t hear the man’s words. The mother knocked hard on the door, and the daughter came out. The mother asked, are you Who are you chatting with? The daughter said, my husband. The mother asked, when did you get married? The daughter said, I have been married for 18 years, you don’t know? He has been running around doing errands, and he finally came home today! The mother feels Feeling cold all over, I pushed the door and went in. On the coffee table, there were two cups with straws inserted, and half of the drinks were left. The sofas on both sides of the coffee table were empty..."
Zhu Xi stopped.

Sangya looked up at him again.

He took his arm off Sangya's shoulder and began to look around again.

Sang Ya followed his gaze, looked around the room, and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Zhu Xi said, "Sangya, I want to say something."
Sangya said, "Say it."
Zhu Xi said, "Why do I feel that... there is another person in this house?"
Sang Ya took a sip of beer and said after a while: "Didn't I tell you that recently I always feel that someone is following me. Now, I suspect that he has sneaked into my house... Mom is on a business trip, I am very scared, I had to find you to accompany me."
Zhu Xi's expression was a bit complicated.

Before that, he misunderstood Sang Ya's intentions, but now he finally understood, and he couldn't help showing a disturbed look on his face.

Sangya said, "Are you afraid?"
Zhu Xi said, "Have you checked the room?"
Sangya said: "Just like the story you told, I have never seen him. But, I suspect, now he is standing next to us, quietly watching us talk."
Zhu Xi's face turned pale immediately.

Sangya said, "Are you afraid?"
Zhu Xi said: "Why don't I call Uncle Liu?"
Sangya lowered her head and spoke for a long time: "I've lived at home alone for two nights."
Zhu Xi thought for a while and said, "Okay, Sangya, I'm not afraid."
Sang Ya continued: "It is said that he does not exist, but I can always hear some of his voices, and I can smell the smell of Lysol on his body. It is said that he exists, but he has never appeared, only... ..."
Zhu Xi asked alertly: "What?"
Sang Ya originally wanted to say: Only last night, he stepped on a set of footprints.However, she was worried that Zhu Xi was afraid, so she changed her words: "There is only a feeling of illusion."
After a pause, Zhu Xi asked, "Did you meet someone recently?"
Sangya said, "How do you know?"
Zhu Xi said, "I'll just ask."
Sangya said, "Yes, a man from the north named Lou Xiaolou."
Zhu Xi said, "Is he a doctor?"
Sangya said, "How do you know?"
Zhu Xi said, "Guess."
Sang Ya said, "Yes, he is a Chinese medicine practitioner."
Speaking of Lou Xiaolou, the uneasiness, gloom, and loneliness in Sangya's eyes are all swept away, revealing a bright longing.

Zhu Xi has been listening.

After speaking, Sangya looked at him: "What are you thinking?"
Zhu Xi said: "I'm thinking of coming to Sushui..."
Sangya asked puzzledly: "Come to Sushui?"
Zhu Xi suddenly said: "Have you ever thought that the person you are chatting with on QQ is actually the person who has been following behind you?"
Sang girl's scalp exploded.

When it was time to go to bed, Zhu Xi tentatively asked, "Where do I sleep?"
Sangya thought for a while and said, "You sleep in my bedroom, but don't move around."
Zhu Xi said: "I sleep very honestly."
Sangya said, "I'm afraid your heart is not honest."
That night, the two of them lay on the same bed.

They lay on opposite ends of the bed, nearly two feet apart in the middle.

Sang Ya leaned against the wall and said, "You should face out a little more."
Zhu Xi said: "Baby! If you face outward again, I will fall to the ground."
Sangya said: "If you move a little towards me, I will sleep on the sofa."
Zhu Xi said: "I can't guarantee it after I fall asleep."
Sangya said, "I don't care if you fall asleep or not."
Zhu Xi said: "You fell in love with that person in QQ."
Sangya said: "I love him. Generally speaking, liking is superficial, while love is deep. But I think love has a broad sense, and there are all kinds of love, while liking is in a narrow sense, specifically referring to the relationship between men and women. Love. I know I love him, very deeply, but I'm not sure if it's love."
Zhu Xi: "I like you [-]%."
Sangya: "What do you like about me?"
Zhu Xi: "Everywhere."
Sangya: "I am very grateful."
Zhu Xi: "Actually, I am very timid. When I was 14 years old, I still slept with my parents. But today you made me a hero."
Sang Ya: "I doubt that before you drank with me, you never drank alcohol at all."
Zhu Xi: "Yes. The wine is too bad. I like to drink."
After a pause, Zhu Xi said, "Are you scared now?"
Sangya: "What about you?"
Zhu Xi: "I feel a little empty in my heart. Do you know what the best way to resist fear is?"
Sangya: "I don't know."
Zhu Xi: "I mean when a man and a woman are together."
Sangya: "Don't make things difficult for me."
Zhu Xi: "Okay, when we grow up, after college, or after work."
Sang Ya: "These are not important. Wait until I like you, now I regard you as a friend."
After a pause, Zhu Xi suddenly said, "Before going to bed, can I... kiss you?"
Sangya didn't speak.

Zhu Xi: "Kiss the forehead."
Sangya still didn't speak.

Zhu Xi got up and put her mouth together.

Just when he was about to kiss Sangya's forehead, he stopped suddenly.

A voice came from outside: "Wow, wow, wow, wow." The study room was not turned on, who was slowly turning the pages of the book in the dark?
Sang Ya immediately grabbed Zhu Xi's arm.

Zhu Xi put her finger on her mouth, gave a soft "shh", and then asked in a low voice, "Is your mother back yet?"
Sang Ya said tremblingly, "Impossible."
Zhu Xi said, "That's because the wind blows. Are the windows of the study closed?"
Sangya said, "I forgot."
Then, both of them fell silent.

There was a dead silence in the house, and there was no more sound.

After a long time, Sangya asked softly, "Are you asleep?"
Zhu Xi said inarticulately, "No."
Sangya said: "You can't go to sleep first, you have to wait until I'm asleep before you go to sleep, promise me."
Zhu Xi said, "Okay."
A few minutes after the promise, Zhu Xi snored.

Sangya suddenly fell into loneliness.The wind that squeezed in from the window fluttered the gauze curtain one after another, just like Sang Ya's mood.She was thinking of Lou Xiaolou to drive away her fear.Every time I think of him, it is the scene at the beginning——

Sangya and Lou Xiaolou flew forward side by side.

In the distance, the sea is vast and flowers are blooming.

Flying past Zhu Xi, he wanted to stop Sang Ya.As soon as Lou Xiaolou waved his hand, a chubby girl appeared, so Zhu Xi left happily hand in hand with her.

Flying over the school, the teacher with a cold face jumped up and ordered her not to be whimsical, but to land immediately, keep her feet on the ground, and devote herself to learning, which involves the school's enrollment rate.As soon as Lou Xiaolou waved his hand, the teacher was all smiles, and stretched out two fingers towards her, shaking them in a V shape, encouraging her to go far away.

Fly over the exam room.Thousands of students are nervously answering the papers, and countless parents are waiting anxiously around.As soon as Lou Xiaolou waved his hand, Sang Ya got the highest score in the province.

After flying out of Huadu, her mother grabbed her by the hem of her skirt and scolded her severely, not allowing her to run away from home.Lou Xiaolou waved her hand, and her mother let go.

Flying out of the country, soldiers wearing white gloves, majesticly stop them from going forward, ask them to show their passports and so on.As soon as Lou Xiaolou waved his hand, the soldiers backed away from both sides, saluted and let them go.

Flying over mountains, rivers, forests and lakes, monsters appeared, and Lou Xiaolou waved his hand, and the monsters turned into smoke and disappeared...

Sangya finally fell asleep in her imagination.

I don't know what time it is, Zhu Xi is half asleep and half awake, and feels that Sang Ya's body is touching her.He thought in a daze that she must be scared, and slowly leaned over.In the darkness, Zhu Xi tentatively stretched out his arms to hug her, but she pushed her away.She has great strength.

Sang Ya also woke up once, and she felt Zhu Xi close to her in a daze, so she kicked him hard.However, Zhu Xi remained motionless, as if she was soundly asleep.Maybe the kid was scared, and leaned over in the middle of the night, but he didn't act excessively, so Sang Ya stopped kicking him, turned over, listened to the movement outside for a while, and fell asleep again.

At dawn the next day, Sangya woke up.

She opened her eyes and saw that Zhu Xi was still asleep, and there was a distance between him and herself.She called, "Hey, we have to go to school today, get up quickly."
Zhu Xi opened his sleepy eyes and said, "Get up first, and I'll squint for a while."
Sangya said: "You put on the quilt, I will wear clothes."
Zhu Xi covered herself with a quilt.

Sang Ya said while putting on her clothes: "You sleep like a pig, I kicked you a few times, do you know that?"
Zhu Xi said, "I don't know."
Sangya said: "Whoever told you to fall asleep, you ran to my side."
Zhu Xi threw off the quilt and sat up, Sangya screamed, and wrapped her coat around her body: "What are you doing!"
Zhu Xi looked at Sang Ya for a long time and said, "There is a problem..."
Sangya said, "What's the problem?"
Zhu Xi said: "Last night, I have been sleeping beside this bed without moving!"
Sang Ya said, "Maybe you fell asleep."
Zhu Xi said: "Impossible, I have been very honest since I was a child, and I never roll around!"
Sang Ya was also stunned: "What do you mean?"
Zhu Xi said: "Last night, a man was lying between us!"
A chill surged from Sangya's feet to her head.

Zhu Xi continued: "Last night, I also felt that you ran to my side. I stretched out my arms... I wanted to hug you to sleep, but you pushed my arms away, so much strength!"
Sang Ya shook her head and said, "I don't have any..."
The two looked at the middle of the bed at the same time, it was empty, and there was just one person lying there.

(End of this chapter)