Qimen Dunjia

Chapter 21
There are many people on the train.

All the people were unfamiliar, but Sangya could feel that a pair of familiar eyes were staring at her.

She looked back, forth, left, and right—beside him was a fat man with the appearance of a businessman, already sound asleep.Opposite him was a cautious boy who seemed to be a student, and his mother sat next to him. She looked around from time to time, no doubt wary of thieves.There was a card game on the other side of the aisle, and there were a few spectators, all of whom were from their backs.

No one knows.

An old man came over with a teapot and said humbly as he walked, "Which passenger needs tea? You're welcome. Who needs it?"
No one spoke up.

The old man walked up to Sangya and said, "Girl, do you need tea? I just brewed it. Try it."
Sangya said, "Thank you, sir, I don't need it."
The old man walked over and said as he walked: "Which passenger needs tea? You're welcome, try it."

Sangya leaned against the window and closed her eyes.

Half asleep, she felt those eyes wandering over her forehead.

Her attention had been tied to her shorts, where her mother had sewed a pocket for the living expenses her mother had brought her.

She stayed up in a daze until dawn, and finally arrived at the north where she had been thinking about day and night.

The mountains and rivers in the south and the plains in the north.In the dark night, the intermediate change process is omitted.As soon as she opened her eyes, she was overwhelmed by the flatness and vastness of the north, and kept looking out.

The train slowly entered the capital.

This is a majestic city. She saw the dense high-rise buildings, overpasses, beetle-like cars, and old people doing morning exercises in the park...

The train slowly drove into Beijing Station and finally stopped.

Everyone went on one after another.

Sang Ya, carrying a large bag and a small bag, followed everyone through the underground passage to the ticket gate.She still felt that those eyes followed her closely in the chaotic flow of people.

Now, Sangya is getting closer to Lou Xiaolou, and she becomes more courageous.She didn't look back.

When I walked out of the ticket gate, there was a noise from behind.Looking back, a tall man was stopped, and he didn't seem to buy a ticket.

Sang Ya felt that this person looked familiar, but couldn't remember who it was.The dense flow of people out of the station pushed her away, and the last scene she saw was: the police pushed the man into the fare-replenishment room.

On the square of Beijing Railway Station, there are many signs erected, most of which are from various colleges and universities to pick up the station.

Sang Ya squinted her eyes to look for the words "University of Chinese Medicine", but she didn't see it.

At this time, she suddenly remembered that the tall man just now was very similar to the sloppy man she and Zhu Xi saw at the entrance of the "Car Bar"!Later, he showed his head in the video and disappeared again...

Sangya's legs immediately went limp.

Imagine that you occasionally turn your head and see a stranger behind you. He is dressed in ordinary clothes. He looks at you quietly. When he sees you turning his head, he turns his head away... What will your reaction be?
Of course, you probably don't care.

One day, when you recalled this inexplicable person, you felt a little bit suspicious in your heart, so you looked back suspiciously, but saw this stranger again, he was still wearing the same ordinary clothes, and he was still watching quietly like that. You, seeing you turned around, he turned his head away... How will you react this time?
Suppose, you leave your hometown and come to a city far away, and when you walk on an unfamiliar street, you feel that there is someone behind you, so you turn around and see that this person is still following you... At this time, you will be What's the reaction?
He seems to have no job, no life, no purpose, the whole content of his existence is to follow you...

As Sang Ya walked forward, she continued to look for the sign of the University of Chinese Medicine.

Tsinghua University, University of Posts and Telecommunications, Peking University, University of Political Science and Law, University of Science and Technology... After watching for a long time, a sign caught her attention, which said: Take you to the past and come to the future.

Her heart was beating wildly, and she took a peek at the person holding the sign. It was the man who chatted with her on QQ.

He saw her too, and smiled at her.He had never seen Sang Ya before, but now, he was smiling slightly at Sang Ya.

Sang Ya is a calm girl, but at this moment she is a little flustered.She really wanted to pretend she didn't know him, lower her head and walk away in a hurry.However, under his penetrating gaze, she knew that she couldn't escape at all.

Now, she feels unprepared. She has been in the car all night, her hair is unkempt, her eyes are red and swollen...

Also, in her imagination, she didn't meet this man in such a scene. It should be a grass field at dusk, surrounded by red roses, and the evening breeze blows gently, and the flowers are rippling.Even if you can't get out of the city, it should be a quiet bar with flickering candles and soft music... But it's early in the morning, and it's a messy train station.

Finally, she brushed the hair from her forehead and walked straight towards him.

He looked at her with a smile.

Standing in front of him, she said quietly, "Didn't I not let you pick me up?"
Lou Xiaolou put down the sign and said, "Beijing is so big, I'll pick you up, and you'll feel like this is your home."
Then, he made a gesture that Sangya would never forget: "There is something dirty on your nose..." He stretched out his hand while speaking.Sangya waited obediently.He fiddled with her nostrils with his slender fingers, the movement was very gentle, and Sangya smelled the smell of Lysol on his fingers.At this moment, Sangya felt that he was like a father.

He took Sangya's luggage and backpack and said, "Come with uncle."
Sangya said, "I don't call you uncle. North."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Very well, I will call you Nanfang from now on."
Lou Xiaolou drove Sangya on the bustling streets of Beijing.

Wangfujing, Beijing Hotel, Tiananmen, Xidan...

Sang Ya looked out the window and said, "Am I the same as you imagined?"
Lou Xiaolou said: "I have painted you a long time ago."
Sangya said, "When?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "It was three months ago."
Sangya said, "What did you take the picture for?"
Lou Xiaolou said: "I painted it according to my dream."
As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from the toolbox and handed it to Sangya.

Sang Ya took it and looked at it, her eyes widened: "You must have seen me!"
Lou Xiaolou said, "You never showed me the video or the photos, how could I have seen you?"
Sang Ya said: "Otherwise, you can't draw me, you must have seen me!"
Lou Xiaolou said, "Really not."
Sang Ya suddenly stopped talking. She looked at Lou Xiaolou's profile, and suddenly thought: The person who picked her up in the car is so similar to the person who has been following her all the time.Is he and he the same person?He got rid of the police, rushed out of the train station, quickly shaved, changed his clothes, then held up the sign, changed his expression, and quietly waited for her to walk over obediently...

Lou Xiaolou turned to look at her and asked, "What are you thinking?"
Sang Ya said, "I didn't think about it. Beijing is really big."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Don't hide it from me, you must be thinking something."
Sang Ya said: "You are too similar to him..."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Who?"
Sang Ya said: "That person who always follows me. I saw him again just now."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Has he followed to Beijing?"
Sang Ya said: "I know, he is not an ordinary person. The day before I came to Beijing, he appeared in my bedroom. We had a conversation, and his words appeared on paper. I couldn't see the existence of the pen, only the pen. I wrote them out in Chinese characters one by one. At that time, I was very scared. I didn’t know if he was a ray of soul that could pass through walls and escape from the ground, or if he was invisible through high-tech means..."
Lou Xiaolou said: "What are you afraid of? Just think that you have entered the magical world of "Harry Potter". Those children ride brooms, chanting spells, and can fly all over the sky. Harry Potter is not scary."
Sangya said: "A story is a story, reality is reality. If a rabbit in the fairy tale appeared on the side of the road, stopped the car, and said to you, my mother is very hungry, can you take me to the market to buy some carrots?" ——It’s no wonder you’re not afraid.”
Lou Xiaolou nodded and said, "That's right."
"He repeatedly prevented me from coming to Beijing, and I don't know why," Sangya said.
Lou Xiaolou said, "Maybe he is afraid that you will see me."
Sangya said, "Why?"
Lou Xiaolou pondered for a while before saying, "He may really be another me."
As soon as his words fell, the sky and the earth suddenly went dark, he stepped on the brakes quickly, and the car stopped in the middle of the road with a strange screech.Fortunately, the car behind was far away, and there was no rear-end collision.

At first, Lou Xiaolou thought he was blind, so he asked Sangya, "Why is it getting dark?"
Sangya said: "I don't know!"
Only then did he know for sure that it was getting dark.He looked around, and felt so terrified for the first time in his life—the night in Beijing was also full of bright lights, but now there was no light around him, only the sound of vehicles driving, but no headlights could be seen.

The darkness lasted for half a minute, and the "Hula" came on again.Lou Xiaolou found that all kinds of vehicles were driving normally. They passed by his car one after another, and some drivers were looking at him and muttering something.

He poked his head out of the car window and looked up. The sky was a rare blue.

He said, "What happened just now?"
Sangya said, "Is it a solar eclipse?"
He said, "There is no forecast."
Sangya said, "What's going on?"
At this time, a handsome policeman came over, saluted Lou Xiaolou, and asked him to step aside.

Lou Xiaolou said, "It's troublesome."
He parked the car on the side of the road, and the policeman came over and asked, "Is the car broken down?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "No."
The policeman asked in surprise, "Then why are you parked in the middle of the road? Who is responsible for the accident? Take out your driver's license."
Lou Xiaolou took out his driver's license, handed it to the policeman, and said, "It suddenly got dark just now, didn't you see it?"
The policeman looked at his driver's license and said, "You need to go to the hospital to check your eyeballs or blood pressure. If you are not in good health, you must not drive."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Oh, I'll go to the hospital right away."
The policeman returned the driver's license to Lou Xiaolou, looked at Sangya again, waved and said, "Let's go."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Thank you."
After continuing on the road, Lou Xiaolou said: "It seems that we have hallucinations."
Sangya said: "If one person has hallucinations, it is impossible for two people to have hallucinations. Can two people have the same dream?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "What did I just say?"
Sangya said, "When?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "What was my last sentence just before dark?"
Sang Ya said: "You said that the invisible person following me might be another you."
Lou Xiaolou didn't say anything more.

There are eight people in Sangya's dormitory, and she is arranged on the upper bunk, next to the door.

Lou Xiaolou said: "My house has been vacant all the time. It is near your school. You can live there."
Sangya said, "It's not suitable."
Lou Xiaolou said: "The house is like a person, it cannot be alone, otherwise, it will grow old very quickly."
Sangya said, "What about you?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "What do you mean?"
Sangya said, "You will also age quickly."
Lou Xiaolou said: "I'm not alone. Since I met you, I'm not lonely anymore."
Sang Ya said: "Who knows how many aunts you know on QQ!"
Lou Xiaolou laughed: "Look, I'm still your uncle."
Under Lou Xiaolou's insistence, Sang Ya finally lived in Lou Xiaolou's empty house.

At the door, there is an absolute:
Smoke Lock Pond Willow

Paozhen Haicheng Tower

All characters have the same radicals, and correspond to the five elements of "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth".

After entering the house, Sang Ya took a look around and liked the layout of the house very much, as if it was specially designed according to her ideal - two bedrooms and one living room.The study is large, the bedroom is large, and the living room is small.She felt that the study room was a place for thinking, so it must not be small.The bedroom is a place to rest and must be comfortable.The living room is for receiving outsiders, and she doesn't like talking with many people.The color of the study is light blue, and the color of the bedroom is light pink.There is also a spacious balcony with a tea table and a deck chair, and the light is very good.

That night, Lou Xiaolou took Sang Ya to a nearby tea restaurant for dinner, which was a way of cleaning her up.

Lou Xiaolou ordered a lot of food——Tuna Fish Salmon, Satay Beef Salmon, Salt and Pepper Duck Chin, Curry Chicken Chop, Baked Broccoli with Portuguese Sauce, and Original Pot Fish Porridge.

But neither of them ate much, they chatted while drinking milk tea.

Sang Ya said: "In your house, I saw a group photo of your whole family. The regular soldier is indeed similar to you, but there are still some gaps in his facial features. The man who has been following me in Huadu, I have witnessed him For once, he was just like you."
Lou Xiaolou said: "This matter is indeed strange..."
Sangya said: "I have an imagination that that person is you, but you don't know it. You enter a trance state, and you go to Huadu to see me every time. That state is similar to sleepwalking, but your entity It's not moving, it's just your spirit that's moving. Therefore, the shadow that follows me is actually your spirit."
Lou Xiaolou said, "But, have you seen that person appear?"
Sangya said: "Perhaps, you were carried by your dreams and flew across thousands of mountains and rivers to Huadu. Most of the time, your body and voice are not transmitted, but your soul is in place. Sometimes, your The body was also transmitted, so I saw you. Until the end, your voice was not transmitted..."
Lou Xiaolou smiled and said, "I would like to imagine that too. If this is true, then all the horrors you experienced were false alarms, and turned out to be love stories."
Sangya paused, her face was as rosy as a lover, she looked at Lou Xiaolou and asked, "The question is, is it your dream to meet me in Huadu?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "Of course it is, but it doesn't seem that strong. I have been patiently waiting for you to come."
Sangya looked out the window and said: "In my imagination, you can fly like the wind. You take me, fly to the past, and fly to the future. I closed my eyes nervously, and heard the mighty wind. The wind was whistling. Later, you taught me to fly, you said, it’s not difficult, as long as you put your feet together, spread your arms, and look forward, you will be able to fly. I really did fly, that feeling is so real Wonderful..."
Lou Xiaolou said with a smirk, "Don't talk about flying, I can't even drive a car well - online dating is really harmful."
Sang Ya continued: "Nonsense, I didn't date you online."
Lou Xiaolou said: "Your imagination is a typical symptom of online dating. Hey, I'm a doctor."
Sangya didn't bother him with this topic, and continued: "In that sleepwalking state, you are separate from you, and you don't allow me to come to Beijing to meet another you, just like you reject him."
Lou Xiaolou said: "In this way, it is a happy thing for you to be contended for by two men, but I feel horrible—could it be that my soul is really out of my shell?"
Sang Ya said: "Think about it, if you have never seen me, how could you draw me so realistically?"
Lou Xiaolou had always been a little playful and smiling, but Sangya's words made him serious.He thought for a while, and finally said, "Eat chicken chops."
It was already late when we sent Sangya home.

The long and narrow dead alley is dark, without a single street light.The gray walls and tiles on both sides look extremely cold.A dead end is like fate, it doesn't go straight, but turns nine corners, so you can't see the end.

In the empty alley, two people's footsteps were loud.

Sangya said, "Next time, we will drink."
Lou Xiaolou said, "How much can you drink?"
Sangya said: "I guess you can't drink me."
Lou Xiaolou said: "Okay, let's try it someday." While talking, he looked back.

Sang Ya said: "I used to smoke, but I quit later."
Lou Xiaolou said: "Smoking is not good." At the same time, he looked back.

Sangya said, "What are you looking at?"
Lou Xiaolou said: "There seems to be someone behind..."
Sangya stopped, looked back, and said, "Could it be him?"
Lou Xiaolou said, "Stand here and don't move, I'll go and have a look."
After speaking, he strode back.The night was dark, and soon he was no longer visible.

Sangya was left alone, and she became frightened.

After a long time, footsteps came from the depths of the alley, getting closer and closer, and a figure appeared.Sang Ya squinted and saw that it was Lou Xiaolou.

Sangya asked, "Have you seen him?"
The other party did not speak, and continued to walk towards her.

Sangya said, "Did you see him? Talk!"
The other party still didn't speak, looked at her, and continued to walk over.

Sangya shuddered, she found that this person was very similar to Lou Xiaolou, but he was not Lou Xiaolou!Lou Xiaolou was wearing a beige T-shirt and black trousers.The man was wearing a light yellow dress shirt and navy blue dress pants.In addition, this person's hair and beard are longer than Lou Xiaolou.His eyes are straight, and his steps look very tired...

Where did Lou Xiaolou go?
For a moment, Sang Ya didn't know whether she should run away, so she just stared blankly.

The man walked up to Sangya, stopped, stood one meter away from her, and waved vigorously at her, as if warning her something.

Sangya looked at him, unable to even speak.

The man pointed to the ground and kept waving his hands.

At this time, footsteps came from afar again, it was Lou Xiaolou, who shouted: "Sang Ya!"
The person in front of him looked back, gave Sangya another sad look, and then left in a hurry, disappearing at the end of the alley in a blink of an eye.

Lou Xiaolou came over and said, "I ran all the way to the entrance of the alley, but I didn't see anyone."
Sang Ya said: "Just now he walked in front of me!"
Lou Xiaolou was taken aback: "What about others?"
Sang Ya said: "He left when he saw you coming back. He was like a copy of you. When he walked over, I thought it was you!"
Lou Xiaolou asked, "What did he do to you?"
Sangya said, "It's nothing."
Lou Xiaolou said, "Did he say anything?"
Sang Ya said: "He seems to be a mute. I feel like he is going to tell me some secret..."
Lou Xiaolou was stunned.

(End of this chapter)