Qimen Dunjia

Chapter 36 Hotel
Not far from Sangya's home, there is a small hotel.Sangya had to pass an alley to go home, and this hotel was at the entrance of the alley.Because of the remoteness, it seems very deserted.

A cleaner was cleaning room 404. She cleaned up quickly, came out, locked the door, and cleaned another room.

After cleaning everything, she walked down the long corridor to go downstairs.Suddenly, she stopped in front of the door of room 404, put her ear on the door and listened.

Then, she went to the service desk and asked the waiter on duty: "Is there a guest in 404?"
The waiter said, "No wow."
"It sounded like there was a TV in there," she said.
The waiter said, "I'll go and see."
She picked up a bunch of keys, walked over to open the door of room 404, and the TV was on.She went into the bathroom and looked, but no one was there.Opened the closet again, no one was there.Finally, she turned off the TV and walked out.

The unoccupied guest room is neat and quiet.

In the middle of the night, the TV in this room was turned on again, with the volume turned down very low.The Huadu satellite TV channel is broadcasting the unique Sichuan opera "Short Man".

The pair of slippers under the bed moved one after the other, and they walked into the bathroom.After a while, there was the sound of a shower in the bathroom.

When he was alone in the room, Lou Xiaolou took out the stack of Qimen Dunjia to study.

There are different destinies waiting at the corner of everyone's front, in the blind corner of sight - some people will get rich, some people will lose their fortune; some people will be promoted, some people will be demoted; There will be dew fate; some will be happy, some will cry; some will be helped by nobles, and some will be plotted against by villains; some will be safe, some will be disabled; some will live a long life, and some will be terminally ill... …

Everyone is running around in a hurry, not knowing what the future holds.Everyone is blind.

Qimen Dunjia is to give human beings a pair of eyes to seek good luck and avoid evil.

If Lou Xiaolou had mastered Qimen Dunjia at that time, Sangya would have been able to avoid that dead end.

Now he has returned to the past and knows everything that happened in the future.However, Sangya didn't know anything, she was still spending day after day blindly.She couldn't imagine that the lightning strike on April 2007, 4 was patiently waiting for her.

Only Lou Xiaolou knows it all.

The mysterious force that threw Lou Xiaolou into 2006 must have wanted to tell him the great meaning of Qimen Dunjia through this great performance art.

Lou Xiaolou was very remorseful, why didn't he cherish those strange words spit out by the fax machine in the past?I think there are three reasons: first, he is lazy by nature and is overwhelmed by mundane trivialities every day; second, Qimen Dunjia is too advanced, too complicated, and too difficult to master; third, he does not fully trust this ancient numeracy in his bones.

Now, he suddenly realized.

Now, he has to calm down and study Qimen Dunjia seriously.

That night, after Lou Xiaolou took a shower, he put on his clothes, stood in front of the mirror, and looked at the mirror while wiping his hair.

This is a habitual action. In fact, he has long since discovered that since he came to 2006, he has disappeared in the mirror.In other words, he hasn't seen his face for many days, so he can only touch his face from time to time to see how long his beard has grown.He guessed that his face must be very ugly now.

After wiping, he saw a person appeared in the mirror, and this sudden image shocked him!He immediately discovered that this person was himself!
Could it be that he manifested himself?

To verify this, he immediately opened the door and ran out.In the scarlet corridor, a waiter happened to walk by.He walked towards her slowly, watching her eyes closely.

The waiter smiled at him.

Lou Xiaolou was so happy that he almost jumped up. He concealed his ecstatic expression and said, "Excuse me, is this Huadu?"
The waiter stopped and said politely, "Sir, what did you say?"
Lou Xiaolou gesticulated and said word by word: "You, can't you hear me!"
The waiter shook his head regretfully and said, "You should find a dumb translator."
Lou Xiaolou put down his hands in frustration, said: "I'm sorry..." and walked out slowly.

He walked out of the hotel and wandered alone on the street at midnight. As he walked, his heart was full of hope: it is not easy for a real person to travel through time and go back to the past completely.These days, his soul has come to 2006, but his image and sound have not been transmitted, it is very similar to QQ video.

Video technology needs to convert images and sounds into digital and then transmit them.Who knows what a physical being needs to become in order to travel through time?

Now, his image has been successfully transmitted, only the sound is missing, so he has temporarily become mute.Perhaps, his voice was halfway through, and in a few days he would regain full function of life.

Now, it is impossible for him to eat Bawang's meal and live in Bawang's restaurant again.He wanted to find a hotel, walked in openly, and checked in.He doesn't need to be a thief anymore!
There was a drunk man, riding a bicycle, staggering backwards.He wanted to dodge but it was too late, the bicycle bumped into him, and the drunkard made a "boom" sound and fell over and gnawed on the mud.Lou Xiaolou wanted to help him up, but this man stood up by himself, stretched out his hand to touch in mid-air, and cursed vaguely: "Bastard! You dare to block my way, why don't you show up?" ?coward!"
After finishing speaking, he picked up the bicycle, rode on it, and staggered away.

Lou Xiaolou was dumbfounded—he became an invisible man again!

Later, Lou Xiaolou gradually figured out a pattern: Every day at twelve o'clock at midnight, he will appear on time, the time is only 1 minute, and then disappear again.

Once, he stood in front of the mirror, checked the time with his mobile phone, and found that the mobile phone was 3 minutes faster.

After staying in this hotel for a few days, Lou Xiaolou discovered something incomprehensible: there was an old man who had been living in this hotel.Lou Xiaolou didn't know what he did, nor what floor he lived on.Every night in the middle of the night, he appeared in the corridor.

The first time Lou Xiaolou saw him was in the middle of the night when he was lying in his room and was about to fall asleep when he heard someone knocking on the door—not his door, but the door of another room.This person seemed to be very polite, and he knocked carefully, three times at a time, and only after a long time, he would knock three times lightly.That voice was very clear in the middle of the night.

No one opened the door.

The man knocked on the door in another room, still knocking cautiously.

Still no one opened the door.

The man then changed to another room and knocked on the door.

Lou Xiaolou felt very strange, so he stood up and looked out through the peephole—the corridor was lighted, empty, and there was an old man wearing a white vest and a pair of gray underpants, pulling a pair of hotel clothes. White slippers, holding a teapot in his hand, knocking on the opposite door.

He must be seventy years old, hunchbacked, with half-gray, half-white hair.Lou Xiaolou felt that he was very similar to the enthusiastic old man on the train.

There was no answer to the door.

The old man bent down, looked in through the dark cat's eyes, walked away, walked to the door of the next room, and knocked again.

After he knocked carefully three times, the door opened, and there stood a tall man in pajamas, yawning, and said impatiently, "It's midnight, who are you looking for!"
The old man bent over with a friendly smile and said, "I'm also staying at the hotel. I'll bring you some tea. I made it. Try it."
The man looked at the old man with some doubts, and said: "I'm already asleep, I don't drink tea." Then he muttered something and closed the door.

The old man stood outside the door for a while, then walked to the door of the next room and knocked carefully...

There were about twenty rooms on this floor, some occupied and some empty.He didn't know which room was occupied and which room was empty, so he knocked on one door after another.

The old man knocked one by one, and finally reached the room adjacent to Lou Xiaolou's left.Lou Xiaolou began to ponder whether to open the door for him.He realized at once that even if the door were opened for him, he would not be able to see his own.

The adjacent room on the left is empty.The old man came over.Lou Xiaolou didn't expect that the old man didn't stop in front of his door, but walked over slowly, stopped at the door of the room adjacent to his right, and began to knock lightly...

Lou Xiaolou felt even more strange.

Why did he bypass his room alone?

The adjacent room to the right is also empty.

Except for Lou Xiaolou's room, the old man knocked on every door on this floor.Only one room asked for tea from him, and Lou Xiaolou could hear that several people in that room were playing cards.After they opened the door for the old man, they heard that he had come to bring tea, so they happily accepted it and said "thank you" repeatedly.

The old man said gently: "They are all foreigners, so you are welcome."
After the door of that room was closed, the old man left. Lou Xiaolou could only hear the sound of him walking up the stairs, but could not tell whether he had gone upstairs or downstairs.I don't know if he continued to deliver tea to the guests on other floors, or went back to his room to sleep.

From then on, almost every day until midnight, this enthusiastic old man would appear with a pot of tea.Wearing a vest and drawers, he knocked on doors one after another, offering tea.The corridor was carpeted and the hotel slippers were very soft, so the old man walked quietly.

Every time, he would go around Lou Xiaolou's room and never knocked once.

(End of this chapter)