Qimen Dunjia

Chapter 17 Changes
Whether it's working hours or eight hours away, Lin Yaoyao keeps sending text messages to Lou Xiaolou.

At the beginning, Lou Xiaolou occasionally replied, but after a long time, all her text messages fell into the sea.

On this day, Lin Yaoyao secretly came to the door of the Acupuncture Department of the Northern Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and while sending text messages to Lou Xiaolou, he peeped in through the crack of the door.

There were three patients, all elderly.

Lou Xiaolou was dressed in a white coat, clean and dignified.On his desk, there is a bouquet of elegant lilies. In the white consulting room, its delicate yellow color looks extremely lovely.Lou Xiaolou is the only doctor who grows flowers in the Northern Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Lin Yaoyao: "Last month, I sent you 450 six text messages, and you replied to me six in total. Last month, I sent you 510 four text messages, and you replied to me three in total. This month, I I sent you three 690 text messages, but you didn't reply to any of them."
Soon, Lou Xiaolou's text message rang. He picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, then put it aside and continued to work.He was giving acupuncture to an old man's neck.

Lin Yaoyao: "Handsome guy, how about some interaction?"
Lou Xiaolou picked up the phone to look again, muttered something impatiently, opened the drawer, and threw the phone in.

Lin Yaoyao: "You can ignore me, but I still have to keep sending you text messages. You should act as a believer muttering prayers to her god."
This time, when Lou Xiaolou's text message rang, he didn't even look at it.

Lin Yao wanted to leave the acupuncture department in frustration, his eyes were a little wet.A doctor came over, and she happened to know Lin Yaoyao, she asked, "Lin Yaoyao, what's the matter?"
She smiled dryly, lowered her head and hurried over.

After getting off work that day, she went to the supermarket to buy a stack of magazines, and when she got home, she lay down on the bed and searched for articles about what kind of women men like.

In the end, she got a very old answer - men like the new and dislike the old.

After thinking about it, she realized that change made sense. Since Lou Xiaolou didn't accept herself anyway, she had to change herself from head to toe and appear in front of him with a brand new image.

The next day, she bought a lot of discs, all of which were youth idol dramas, American, Korean, Japanese, Hong Kong... After watching for several nights in a row, she carefully studied every heroine who fascinated men. , Learn their expressions, speech, clothing, and methods.

A week later, she brought her bank card, took out most of her savings, and went to the mall to buy more than a dozen sets of fashion, some high-end jewelry, and a bottle of Paris Lancôme perfume.

When she got home, she started to pack herself like the heroine in the movie.

After work this day, Lin Yao would come to the underground parking lot, lean on Lou Xiaolou's car, and wait for him.After Lou Xiaolou saw her, he almost didn't recognize her: "You...what are you doing here?"
Lin Yaoyao smiled at him with the expression of a heroine in a movie, and said, "Can I give you a ride?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "I'm going to the suburbs today to do some errands. If I face west, you face east. You can't get along."
Lin wants to say: "Fool, I can also face west."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Where do you want to go? I'll take you off."
Lin wanted to say, "I'll run errands with you, and then I'll go to your house and do your laundry. Tomorrow is the weekend."
Lou Xiaolou said: "Yesterday I called a part-time worker, and I washed everything. When I need your help, I will find you, thank you." Then he got into the car.

Lin Yaoyao stood in front of the car and said, "Idiot, didn't you realize that I am different?"
Lou Xiaolou raised his head, looked carefully from top to bottom, and smiled.

Lin wants to ask: "Why are you smirking?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "I feel a little weird..."
Lin wants to say: "Why?"
Lou Xiaolou said: "I always feel that you put on other people's clothes, put on other people's makeup, put on other people's perfume, and put on other people's smiles—it's not natural, it's better than the past."
Lin Yao said discouragedly: "Stinky mouth."
Lou Xiaolou said: "Okay miss, get in the car, I'll take you home."
If Lin Yao didn't get in the car, she stood outside the car window and said, "Lou Xiaolou, I want to ask you something, can you tell me the truth?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "No problem."
Lin wants to say: "Which female star do you like?"
Lou Xiaolou smiled: "No one likes it."
Lin was about to say, "It's a lie."
Lou Xiaolou said: "I don't like radiant women, they are too fake. Relatively speaking, I prefer Cinderella."
Lin Yao thought about it, and then said: "Can you draw the kind of girl you like in your heart? - I know you can draw."
Lou Xiaolou said, "What on earth are you going to do?"
Lin wants to say: "I just want to take a look."
Lou Xiaolou said: "Okay, okay, someday I will draw a picture for you."
Lou Xiaolou drove to the dump again.

He parked his car in front of the row of shed-like houses and saw the buck-toothed Henan woman washing a pile of empty bottles in the yard.

Lou Xiaolou shouted: "Sister-in-law."
The woman looked up at him and said, "Oh, are you here to pull that fax machine?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "Is it still there?"
The woman said, "Of course."
She walked back into the house and quickly carried out the smashed fax machine.

Lou Xiaolou took it and said, "Sister-in-law, thank you for keeping it for me for so many days."
The woman suddenly said, "Go find a great fairy and stick a talisman on it."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Is it necessary?"
The woman said: "There must be something attached to it. You take it home and stay with it every day, aren't you afraid?"
When Lou Xiaolou returned home, he carried the fax machine into the study and placed it neatly on the table.

He is not afraid of it.

He even developed a fondness for it.

Just like an old friend from the previous life, you misunderstood him, you doubted him, reprimanded him, abandoned him... After several reincarnations, he is still closely behind you, chatting with you calmly...

He forgot what Lin wanted to ask.

Lou Xiaolou didn't care about this girl's words at all.

However, Lin Yaoyao did not forget.She sent a text message, reminding: Lou Xiaolou, don't forget to draw that girl.

Lou Xiaolou knew that if he didn't paint, she would have another reason to pester herself endlessly.

So, with a wry smile, he walked into the study, set up the drawing board, and prepared to write.

What does she look like in her dreams?
This is the first time Lou Xiaolou thinks about this question.His mind gradually became serious.Only then did he feel that it is very difficult for you to draw the lover of your dreams on paper, and it also feels almost solemn.

From the time he had gender awareness, that woman appeared, in and out of dreams, from far and near.She has been very vague, he can only feel her smile and fragrance...

At this time, the text message rang again.

He opened it, looked at it, and was stunned.The text message reads: Don't ask Lin for a portrait, otherwise, you will destroy her!

Who is this guy?
How did he know that he was about to paint Lin Yao's portrait?
He looked around subconsciously, then opened the window and looked out, there was no one.

He fell into deep thought again.

In the past, there was a text message reminding him not to go to Nanchen Mall to buy watches, but he didn't listen, and lost his wallet as a result.Now, this text message reminds me again, don't ask for a portrait of Lin!He felt that the person who sent the text message today should be the same person as the person who sent the text message that day...

No matter who this person is, Lou Xiaolou dare not write easily.

The next day, Lin Yaoyao called and asked him if he had finished the painting.

Lou Xiaolou said: "I'm too busy, let's spend some time."
On the third day, Lin Yaoyao called again, asking him if he had finished the painting.

Lou Xiaolou still said: "Let's live a little longer."
On the third night, Lin Yaoyao broke into his house directly.

She said, "Lou Xiaolou, besides this painting, what else have I asked you for?"
Lou Xiaolou said: "I want to paint, but I can't do it anyway."
She said, "You lied to me. I want you to paint now!"
Lou Xiaolou said, "Don't force me."
She said: "If you don't paint, I won't leave today. Do you believe it?"
Lou Xiaolou shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay."
He came to the study again, set up the drawing board, and prepared to draw the girl in his dream.

Lin Yao sat next to him and waited.

Lou Xiaolou was a little confused, and said, "You're disturbing me. You go out, and I'll call you when you're done painting."
Lin wants to say: "Okay, I'll go online."
Lou Xiaolou closed the door, continued to capture the face of the girl in her dream, recalled her temperament, and finally wrote.

This is a difficult project.After two hours, a strange girl appeared on the drawing board.Lou Xiaolou stared at the person in the painting for a long time, and was shocked by his painting skills—he believed that he had accurately outlined the girl in his fantasy!
Like a bizarre dream, shown on the screen by the director.

Like a fuzzy image, it is restored by the computer bit by bit.

Like an invisible phantom, fixed in broad daylight by Taoist priests.

It's her.

He made a copy of the painting, then opened the door and said, "I want it, I'll give it to you."
Lin Yaoyao ran over, took the painting, looked at it carefully for a long time, and said dismissively: "This is the girl you like?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "Almost."
Lin Yao wanted to say: "I thought the girl you liked would be all over the world, but I didn't expect it to be so ordinary!"
Lou Xiaolou said, "Isn't she pretty?"
Lin wants to say: "What do you think?"
Lou Xiaolou said: "In my opinion, no one in this world is more beautiful than her."
Lin wants to say: "This is called the bastard looking at the mung beans—the eyes are right. Well, you have completed the task, take a good rest, and I'm leaving."
After leaving Lou Xiaolou's house, Lin Yaoyao sat on the stairs and looked at the facial features of the girl in the painting repeatedly by the light.

A little boy ran up, looked over his head, and asked, "Auntie, who is this?"
Lin wanted to say, "This is me, didn't you see it?"
The little boy looked at Lin Yaoyao, then at the person in the painting, shook his head, and said, "Who drew this, it doesn't look like it at all."
For a long time, Lou Xiaolou felt very clean.

After thinking about it, he suddenly realized: Lin Yaoyao's text messages have been interrupted for a long time, and it seems that she hasn't been to the North Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for a long time.Moreover, when Lou Xiaolou was walking on the road, he no longer felt that someone was following him behind him.

He thinks that Lin Yaoyao has given up and retired from his life.

Thinking of his previous indifference to Lin Yaoyao, he felt a little apologetic, thinking about asking Lin Yaoyao to have dinner with him one day.

He made a call to her, but she turned off the phone.It's a bit of an anomaly.

On this day, he went to the pharmaceutical factory to run an errand, and stopped by to see Lin Yaoyao.Whether Lin is here or not.Her colleague said: She hasn't come to work for a long time, and she may have changed jobs.

On the way back, Lou Xiaolou thought while driving, where did she go?

Back home?
Lin Yaoyao's hometown is in the northeast.It is impossible for her to leave Beijing without saying hello.

Was killed?

Recently, there has been no news of unidentified female corpses being found.

Some kind of person dangles before your eyes, and you can rest easy.One day, this person suddenly disappears from your field of vision, then you have to be careful.

Thinking about it, Lou Xiaolou heard the sound of clothes rubbing against the seat from behind. He looked back and saw that the back was empty.

After a while, he heard the sound of lowering the car window from behind, and he looked back, but the back was still empty.

He turned on the radio.

The radio is broadcasting news: At noon today, a parent sent his child to take the college entrance examination. While waiting outside the gate of a certain middle school, he suddenly fainted.The doctor said that the parent collapsed due to overwork and worry. After rescue, he was out of danger...

Lou Xiaolou suddenly thought that today is the second day of the college entrance examination.I don't know what happened to Sangya...

While driving, Lou Xiaolou got lost. He wandered around an overpass for a long time before driving home.When he was about to enter the community, the sky darkened.

Lou Xiaolou saw a car in the mirror, which was also a silver-gray Bora sedan.Lou Xiaolou's car is fast, so it is fast; Lou Xiaolou's car is slow, so it is also slow.It has no driving lights, and it is attached to the rear of Lou Xiaolou's car so close that Lou Xiaolou can't see the driver's face at all.

Is Lin wanting?

Lou Xiaolou stopped slowly.It also stopped and stuck behind Lou Xiaolou's car.

Lou Xiaolou walked forward and suddenly accelerated.That car also accelerated.

Lou Xiaolou drove into the underground parking lot of the community, and the car still followed.Lou Xiaolou was annoyed, and suddenly stepped on the brakes, and it bumped into the car with a "bang".

Lou Xiaolou got out of the car and walked straight over.

He finally saw the driver, it was a man.He reeked of alcohol, fell asleep on the steering wheel with a "huh huh huh".

He pushed the drunk and said, "Wake up!"
The drunk mumbled, "I repair fax machines..." and fell asleep again.

Lin Yaoyao walked into a plastic surgery hospital with the portrait painted by Lou Xiaolou.

The receptionist was a beautiful girl. She introduced the equipment, experts and reputation of their hospital to Lin Yaoyao with sharp teeth, and then she asked Lin Yaoyao what project he wanted to do.

Lin Yao handed her the portrait in his hand and said, "Do it like this girl."
The receptionist said, "Here... let me get an expert to talk to you."
After she went out, a middle-aged male doctor soon walked in, with slender fingers, gentle eyes, and a very trustworthy demeanor.

Lin Yao handed him the portrait in his hand and said, "This is what I want myself to look like. I specially asked someone to draw it. Can you do it?"
The doctor took a look at the portrait, looked at Lin Yaoyao's face again, and said, "This portrait is quite different from your appearance—she has a long face, while you have a short face; she has a narrow forehead, while you have a wide forehead." ;She has a pointed chin, you have a round chin; she has a high nose bridge, you have a flat nose bridge; I personally think that you have your beauty and your characteristics, so why not do it based on the current foundation to make you more perfect."
Lin Yao got a little impatient: "I just want to become the girl in this portrait, how long will it take?"
The doctor thought for a while and said, "About six months."
Lin wants to say: "I will pay the fee now."
In the evening, Lou Xiaolou logged into QQ online, looking for Sangya, and Sangya was online.

Lou Xiaolou: Sangya, how did you do in the exam?
Sangya: It's over.

Lou Xiaolou: Did it go well?
Sangya: No problem.All three of my volunteers applied to schools in Beijing—Renmin University of China, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Beijing Communication University.After three months, I can go to the north.

Lou Xiaolou: I will pick you up.

(End of this chapter)