Qimen Dunjia

Chapter 16 A New Pair of Leather Shoes
The college entrance examination is approaching.

The mother became even stricter, monitoring Sangya's study every day, forbidding her to go out or surf the Internet.

The students have all entered the battle state, and the air is filled with the smell of gunpowder.

Sangya was not in a hurry, she was sure of herself and went to school and went home step by step.

The invisible person seemed to have not appeared behind her for a long time, and Sang Ya was as relaxed as if she had cut off her tail.

That night, my mother went to my grandma's house, and Sang Ya secretly surfed the Internet at home.

Lou Xiaolou is not online.At this time, he was driving on the road, followed by a taxi, and Lin Yaoyao's hunter-like eyes flashed in the car.Lou Xiaolou is going to chat with a friend who likes Qimen Dunjia.

She landed on her blog.

Her blog has only a dozen articles and just over 100 hits.

She sees a new message:

Blogger:

Hi.From the day you opened the blog, I added you to my favorites, and I will take a look if I have nothing to do.I really like your words and your heart.It's a pity that I can't associate with you, you are always in the light, and I am always in the dark.You have to remember, April 2007, 4 is a special day, on that day, you will meet me.See please reply.

Nov. 2007, 4

Seeing this date, Sang Ya felt a sense of resistance again.

She wrote back to the mysterious man:

Thank you for following my blog.

I don't know who you are, looking forward to meeting and becoming friends.

Just after replying, I heard the sound of the door opening, and my mother came back.Sang Ya hurriedly exited the blog, turned off the computer, picked up a book, and ran into the bedroom.

Mom walked into the house, changed her shoes while scanning with those hawk-like eyes, then walked to the computer, reached out and touched the host, her complexion darkened instantly.

When school was over, Sangya always walked very slowly.

She doesn't want to go home, and prefers to walk quietly on the road alone.The setting sun showed half of his face in the buildings, the light was soft, just like father's smile.The breeze gently blows on the cheek, very comfortable.

She was thinking as she walked.

Zhu Xi hasn't bothered her much recently.He has been pampered by adults since he was a child, and he can't be attached to anything.Recently, he seemed to have fallen in love with another girl in the class. When school was over, Sangya saw him take that girl into his car several times.That girl is called Pari, and she is pretty. Her parents are farmers who went to work in the city, and their life is very poor.However, a few days ago, she suddenly had a new mobile phone.It seems that Zhu Xi bought it for her. His text messages that smell like mobile phones finally have a number that can be sent...

Sangya really wanted to keep walking like this, no matter what was ahead.

However, home was waiting for her not far ahead, and she had to go in.

When she reached the alley, she sat down on a stone bench and continued to think wildly.

Before I knew it, it was getting dark.

As soon as it got dark, she felt the presence of that person.

Today, she didn't bring a video recorder, and she had returned it to Zhu Xi a few days ago.

She stood up and walked quickly into the alley.That pair of eyes swayed all the way down her spine.She didn't look back, she knew she couldn't see anything when she looked back, and she walked forward as usual.

After walking for a while, the voice behind her became complicated. She turned around and was taken aback. Dozens of cats suddenly appeared out of nowhere, all of them were white. They all stared at her gloomily.

This is a city, where are there so many stray cats?

Sangya was stunned.

The group of cats came slowly, passed her on both sides, and continued to move forward, drifting past like a white cloud, and none of the cats looked back.

After they passed by, Sang Ya saw two dark things in the distance, and walked back a few steps. She saw clearly that they were a pair of black leather shoes. They were placed in the middle of the alley, with the toes facing her.

She has always been used to walking with her head down, so she concluded that she didn't find these shoes when she walked over just now.

She approached the shoes step by step, intending to take a closer look.

By visual inspection, she guessed that the shoes were about a size 43, which was about the same size as the footprints that had appeared in the flour in the middle of the night!Not sure if it was the wind, but Sang Ya saw the shoelaces moving.

Just when she stopped in front of the pair of shoes, the two leather shoes suddenly moved, backed up to the wall, then turned around, kicked a few times, climbed up the wall, and jumped into the inner yard.

That's definitely human action!

Sang Ya pinched her cheek, it hurts, this is not a nightmare.

She was in a daze, wondering if she hadn't recovered, or was waiting for the pair of leather shoes to appear.She suddenly regretted that she should have touched the top of the leather shoes just now, maybe she could touch a body!
The next day, the hostess of a family in the alley went out to buy vegetables in the morning, and when she opened the door, she saw a pair of brand new leather shoes thrown in the yard. At home, they shouted loudly: "A thief broke into the house last night!"
The husband was sleeping, and asked impatiently, "Did you lose something?"
"I didn't find anything missing...but I found these leather shoes in the yard!" she said.
My husband got up to look at it, tried it on again, and found that it fit well, so he said, "I didn't steal anything, and I sent you a pair of new leather shoes. You call him a thief. Are you wronged?" where?"
After speaking, covered the quilt and continued to sleep deeply.

The "leather shoes" incident frightened Sangya, and she had a high fever.

As soon as school was over the next day, she hurried home.She no longer dared to walk alone at night.

One day, when she came home from school, her mother just opened the door for her, and Tiaotiao yelled at her.

Mom picked it up, stroked its fur, and said softly, "My dear, what's wrong with you? You don't even know your sister?"
Then she pointed to the food on the table and said, "Eat quickly."
Sangya put down her schoolbag and said, "Mom, I have a headache today and I want to rest, so I won't eat."
Mom said: "How can you not eat? Have some porridge and lie down!"
Sang Ya had already walked into the bedroom and lay down on the bed.

Mom came in, touched her forehead, and said, "Is it heatstroke? I'll get you some medicine."
Sang Ya said, "No need, just lie down for a while and you'll be fine."
My mother said: "No! You are going to take the college entrance examination soon, and your body is the most important thing, so don't be careless!" She went out to get medicine while talking.

Tiaotiao stood in the living room, still screaming into the air.

Sangya's heart turned cold—could he come again?
Mother brought porridge and medicine. After Sangya ate it, she drew the curtains and lay down.

In a daze, she heard Tiaotiao yelling all the time, sometimes ran to the corner of the sofa, and sometimes ran to the balcony to yell.Mom got annoyed and yelled at him, "What's your name? What the hell?"
After dark, my mother picked up and jumped back to her bedroom.After she closed the door, Tiaotiao screamed for a long time, and finally gradually quieted down, and the room returned to silence.

Sang Ya finally fell into a drowsy sleep.

In a daze, she came to an unfamiliar small street lined with low-rise shops, all of which were closed.There is a lantern hanging in front of a store, which is dimly lit.She looked at the plaque, it was a shoe store.So, she leaned on the window and looked in to see if there were any shoes she liked.It doesn’t matter if you look at it, take a breath—the shelves are empty, all the shoes are on the ground, a pair of men’s shoes and a pair of women’s shoes, dancing on the ground in pairs...

She also dreamed of a football field with mercury lamps on high, pale as a dead man's face.The ring stand was empty except for her as an audience.On the football field, there were more than a dozen pairs of sneakers running, vying for a football—she herself was wearing a pair of red embroidered shoes.She wanted to escape from this weird ball game, but she couldn't find the exit.At this time, a pair of sneakers came straight to her, stopped in front of her, and said, "Embroidered shoes, shall we play together?"
She also dreamed that she walked into a cemetery, where the wind was blowing and the grass was luxuriant.She saw that there was a pair of shoes in front of each tombstone, and the toes of each pair of shoes were facing upwards.She was terrified, turned around and wanted to run, but the standing shoes fell down one after another, the toes of the shoes turned to her, jumping up and down neatly, approaching her...

In the middle of the night, someone rushed into Sangya's bedroom. Sangya was awakened, sat up immediately, and asked loudly, "Who?"
Mom said: "Me!"
She turned and locked the door, then reached for the phone.

Sang Ya sensed that something was wrong, and asked eagerly, "What's wrong with Mom?"
Mom dialed the number and whispered, "Someone has come in!"
Sangya said, "Where is it?"
Mother said tremblingly: "In the study!"
The phone was connected, and my mother said loudly: "110, come quickly! Room 33, Building 702, Miyun Community!"
Putting down the phone, she looked around for weapons, only saw a pair of tennis rackets, she picked it up and handed one to Sangya, holding the other tightly in her hand, lying on the door, listening to the movement outside.

It was dead silent outside.

Mom remained motionless and continued to listen.

The police were very fast, and within 10 minutes, they knocked on the door.

Mom immediately ran out of the bedroom and rushed to the door to let the police in.

Three policemen came, one fat and two thin.As soon as they entered the door, they asked, "What's going on?"
My mother said: "Just now when I got up to go to the toilet, I heard some movement in the study, so I walked over to have a look, and I saw a strange man!"
The three policemen drew their pistols at the same time and quietly approached the study.

Sangya got up and stood at the door of the bedroom watching nervously.

The three policemen stopped at the door of the study, and the fat policeman raised his foot and kicked the door open—there was no one inside.

The police turned on the lights and searched around, but there was no one there.A thin policeman drew back the curtains and looked at the window, which was intact.Then they checked all the rooms again, still empty.

All three cops put away their guns, and the fat cop said to his mother, "Can you describe that man's physical features?"
My mother said: "The study was very dark at the time, and I couldn't see clearly... By the way, he was barefoot and didn't wear shoes!"
"What was he doing when you saw him?" asked the fat cop.
Mom said: "He seems to be writing..."
The fat policeman asked, "Write in the dark?"
Mom said, "Yeah."
Several policemen glanced at each other, the fat policeman continued to ask Mom, and one of the thin policemen walked into the study.

There was a piece of paper on the desk in the study room, and it was full of crooked characters. The skinny policeman picked it up and walked out of the study room, saying to his mother and Sang Ya, "Come and see, who wrote this?"
Mom took a look at it, shook her head, and handed it to Sang Ya.

Sang Ya looked at it and shook her head.The paper reads:

April 2007, 4.rain.

I went out for a walk when I had nothing to do, and in mid-air, I saw you at a glance.You are walking in an alley, extremely gorgeous.You are a flower and I am a drop of rain.I think I have to land before I can meet you.Billions of raindrops, if I can hit you on the head, that's luck.In this way, I threw myself on the ground.A gust of wind pushed me south, and I didn't agree.A gust of wind pushes me north, and I don't agree.Just right, we bumped into each other...God's will.

The fat policeman said: "It seems that someone did sneak into your house tonight, maybe a homeless man, maybe a mental patient. Before going to bed, you must lock the doors and windows."
After the three policemen left, my mother went into Sangya's bedroom and sat on her bed.

Sang Ya comforted and said, "Mom, you may be delusional."
Mom said: "He left his handwriting!"
Sang Ya said: "A few days ago, some of my classmates came to our house, maybe they wrote it nonsense."
Mom thought for a while and said: "Maybe I'm nervous, I don't know when, I often have a feeling, as if there are three people in this house..."
Sang Ya said: "Don't tell Dad about this, because Dad will think that a third party is involved."
Mom patted Sang Ya on the face: "Silly girl, nonsense."
Sangya said: "Mom, if you are afraid, you can sleep with me."
Mom responded softly, pulled off the quilt, and lay down with Sang Ya.

Sang Ya hadn't slept with her mother for ten years, so she hugged her mother gently.At this moment, she suddenly felt that her mother was actually very fragile.

She never fell asleep again.

She began to think about the secret of life again.

There is a person named Maruko's wife who once left a message on her blog:

Our whole life may be just someone's dream.Our death is because someone's dream woke up, and the world after that person wakes up is the real world.To the dreamer it is but a night, but to us it is a lifetime.Then the so-called afterlife is just the beginning of another dream.In another dream, we will forget everything and start a new life. Occasionally encountering familiar scenes or people who seem to have known each other is nothing but the similarities between the two dreams.

If this is the case, then what we are doing now is nothing more than enriching someone else's dream, meaningless.The dreamer who controls your life may also be living in someone else's dream.The real world is surrounded by the imaginary world, which is endless.

So, did you also dominate the life of the person in your dream last night?
When it was about to dawn, Tiaotiao was in another bedroom, and seemed to see something again, and screamed "Wow, woof, woof".

(End of this chapter)