Is the boss fine today?

"Unlucky! There was a car accident and rain on the road, and I still lost money this time..." The driver honked the horn cursingly, "Get out of the car! Hurry up!"

Tan Yue stumbled off the bus, it was too dark, there were only a few emergency lights and headlights in the bus station where the power was out, and he couldn't see anything clearly.The conversation became darker and swaying, his forehead hit a wall, and he became dizzy.

Hitting the wall attracts a man.He turned on the flashlight, and the beige beam of light shone on Tan Yue's young and sluggish face.

"The power is out. You are a foreigner, where are you going?"

"Where are you going?" the man asked.

His Chinese is not very fluent.This area is inhabited by ethnic minorities, and it is a remote town that doesn't shit. The popularity of Mandarin is extremely limited.

Tan Yue was dazzled by the flashlight, and he was already scolding his mother in his heart, but of course he was still polite: "Taxi?"

The man pointed behind him - a green leather taxi, dusty.

"I want to find a place to live." Tan Yue wiped his face, "How much?"

"Take you to the hotel, 40 yuan, get in the car." Before he could answer, the driver had already opened the car door, "Sit in the back, someone in front vomited and just cleaned it up."

The rear door was opened by the driver, and in the flashlight, a man was lying on the side of the car in the dark rear compartment, lying motionless, his face invisible.

Tan Yue held on to the car door for a few seconds, "Brother, what's going on?"

This is very similar to a black car that robs and kills people. Will it cause trouble?He thought and couldn't help laughing.

His face was reflected on the black window of the car: beautiful eyebrows and eyes, fair skin, but no smell of makeup, even when he smiled and talked, he looked a little bit hostile.

The driver glanced at him and said lightly, "Oh, he's drunk." He bent down into the rear compartment, slapped the man in the car on the back, and shouted: "Get up, give way, I'm not just driving." You alone."

The man in the car woke up and straightened up fumblingly.He is about 30 years old, with gray eye circles and dull eyes, with two beards and long hair, wearing big underpants in this cold weather, and his legs are hairy.On the whole, it looks like an artist in the city.

He poked his tongue out and asked, "Brother, where are you from?"

"Province A."

"Excuse me." Tan Yue pushed him and got into the car.

Seeing this, the driver lit the ignition, stepped on the accelerator and flicked his tail.The long-haired man slammed into the side of the car door crookedly, his face sticking to the window glass in a funny way.

"I'm also from province A. Are you here to travel?" He shook his head, his face was flushed, and he looked not sober.

Tan Yue said, "Yes, what else?"

"I'm here to sketch."

What an artist.

The long-haired man came over again, "My name is Zhao Zhao. How about you?"

"Talk more."

Tan Yue sniffed, but didn't smell any alcohol.

The taxi drove into the town quickly, but there was no power outage in the town, and the lights were brightly lit everywhere.The driver couldn't help saying that, relying on the unfamiliarity of the two foreigners in the car, he half-coaxed and half-deceived them to an inn half an hour's drive from the station.After talking and searching, I couldn't find this inn on the app at all. I don't know if it is a serious hotel, and there is no serious name on the plaque at the door, so I just wrote the word "Inn".

Mei Town is one of the gathering places of the Mei people, very close to the southern border of Huaguo.This place has a humid climate all year round. When I got out of the car, Tan Yue could smell the smell of mud after the rain.There was a lot of voices on the street, but it was quiet at the entrance of the inn. There was only a tall middle-aged man standing with a broom.

The middle-aged man is about 1.9 meters tall, as strong as a bodyguard, with a fierce face that makes people daunting.He didn't come to strike up a conversation when he saw the two who were obviously guests. He glanced at them and continued to sweep the floor.

Tan Yue and Zhao Zhao didn't mind.Zhao Zhao asked him loudly as he dragged his suitcase: "Master, how much is it for a day here?"

The middle-aged man pushed the door of the store, extremely cold, "Come in, 400 a day for a single room."

"It's so expensive in the off-season." Zhao Zhao complained, but his neck stretched and he drilled into the store.

"Do you live here?" Zhao Zhao turned to ask him.

"Stay." Tan Yue responded.

"Success, let's be companions."

The light in the store was too dim, and only one wall lamp on the wall was turned on, which was as dark as an oil lamp that was about to run out.Tan Yue glanced at it hastily, there were a few wooden tables and plastic stools inside, it was so empty that it didn't look like a hotel.The walls are white, the floor tiles are shiny, and it looks clean.

Zhao Zhao is a man of action, he has already taken out his wallet and headed to the cashier.Immediately, a man's clear voice floated over the wooden cash register: "700 yuan for a double room."

Then five or six wall lamps came on, and the man behind the cashier stood up surrounded by the lights, with a halo covering his shoulders.

The man was in his twenties and tall.When sitting, it is blocked by the counter, and it is extra tall when standing up.Not only is he tall, but his body is also strong, his facial features are cold and handsome, his eyes are very dark, but they have no focal length, and his gaze is always upward.

—The man is blind.

"I'm ordering a private room, little brother, don't get me wrong, I'm not a couple with him, I'm straight. Don't you think so, brother?"

Zhao Zhao didn't seem to notice this, and was still laughing and joking.

Tan Yue ignored him, and richly scanned the QR code on the table to pay for a week.Like a zoo visitor who paid for the entrance fee, he stood by the counter and observed the handsome blind man like a rare animal, his eyes full of curiosity.

After looking at it for a while, Tan Yue suddenly asked him: "Are you the owner?"

How can a normal store hire a blind person as the front desk?Unless he is the owner.

The man nodded and said: "My surname is Si. Lao Xing is my buddy. If you live in a bad place, you can talk to him. I can't see it and it's not convenient to manage things."

The more I talked, the more I was surprised. The owner of the shop is fluent in Chinese, without any accent of ethnic minorities, which is rare in this kind of backcountry.

"Is the boss sick?" Zhao Zhao's attitude was completely different from Tan Yue's, he didn't care about the shopkeeper's accent and blindness at all, "Brother, let me live next door to you."

After Zhao Zhao also paid, Lao Xing came in from outside the store carrying their luggage.The man bent down from behind the cash register, as if looking for something, Lao Xing hurriedly put down his luggage and went to support him.

Lao Xing said, "It's fine if I come."

The man waved his hand, which means to refuse.He took out a thick leather notebook from under the table, and said concisely: "Fill in the form."

Tan Yue took the notebook and pen, which turned out to be a check-in book.The net in front is some names like Nobi Nobita, Uchiha Assistant, Zhang Ailing and so on.

Tan Yue scribbled in his name and date, and silently placed the registration form on the counter.The man couldn't see, he looked straight ahead and asked him, "Have you filled it out?"

"Here." Tan Yue knocked on the table, "I'm sorry."

Only then did the man accurately take the register, "It's all right."

Tan Yue continued to caress the other person's body suspiciously with his eyes.During his senior year internship, he came into contact with many blind people.Most people lack exercise due to inconvenient movement, and their bodies are either thin or fat.He had never seen an innkeeper like this—although he was thin, he obviously had a body that had been trained for a long time, and it would not be against the law to ignore the problem of his eyes and throw him into the school basketball team and track and field team.No matter how you look at it, it is not the same as the blind man in his impression.

Probably because his scrutinizing eyes were too scorching, when Tan Yue came back to his senses, Lao Xing, who was beside the innkeeper, was staring at him fiercely, with a bad expression on his face.

The man didn't notice this, "Have you two just arrived, have you eaten yet?"

Zhao Zhao shook his head, "No."

"Let the kitchen make a meal, is there any taboo?"

"No."

"Do not eat offal."

Zhao Zhao and Tan Yue said at the same time.

"You guys take a break, I'll ask Lao Xing to call you when the food is served."

"Oh, thank you." Zhao Zhao said.

Tan Yue put his luggage away, looked down from the stairs, and saw only the innkeeper sitting alone behind the cashier in the lobby on the first floor, so he went downstairs.

The innkeeper probably didn't notice Tan Yue's arrival, and was leaning loosely on the back of the chair, slightly hunched over.When he's not smiling he's cold, sullen and aggressive, like someone who's been made out of the wet weather of this place.

Tan Yue asked him:

"What's your name?"

Hearing the sound, the man turned his face to Tan Yue's direction, and when he spoke, he raised the corner of his mouth slightly, as if he was smiling.

He said: "Situ. The one whose surname is 'Situ'."

"Sir?"

"Correct."

"My name is Tan Yue."

Situ touched a cigarette on the table, but didn't light it.On his index finger was a shiny silver ring with strange engravings. It was a bird with a beak as sharp as a hook.The bird's tail feathers are very long, extending from one end of the ring to the other.

Tan Yue has seen this animal, which coincidentally is also engraved on the ring.

Mother's relic, also a silver ring, also engraved with the bird.

Tan Yue asked him: "Do men of the Mei nationality have the habit of wearing jewelry?"

"Forget it, wearing silver jewelry is a custom here, regardless of gender."

"Should married people also engrave their lover's name on their rings?"

"You're talking about a pair of rings. The man's side engraves the woman's name, and the woman's name is engraved on the man's name. This was done before when we got married or engaged." Situ said, "Are you going to give your girlfriend a ring? When you go out, turn right and you will find a jewelry store."

He never said yes, nor said no.

"What's the name of the nearby river?"

"Yado River."

"On the map, the river comes from Mount Mei. Does anyone live in the mountain?" He seemed to have a lot of questions.

Situ took the trouble and explained like a tour guide: "Yes. Hunters, tree planters, and herb pickers. There are soldiers on the border."

"It's really troublesome." Tan Yue's tone was a little disappointed.

There are people living in the mountains, and it sounds like there are quite a few people. If he jumps into the river, he might be rescued.

"What are you going to do in the mountains?" Situ fiddled with the lighter and asked nonchalantly, "Are you here to poach?"

"Photograph."

"Travelers usually ask me where 'God' is, not where 'man' is."

Tan Yue ignored Situ's insinuation: "What god?"

"The living god of the Mei tribe, it is said that he lives in the mountains. Every year, the Mei tribe worships him to bless the coming year with good weather..." Situ whispered.

Just as he was talking, Lao Xing came out from behind the bead curtain at the back door again, and his gaze towards Tan Yue was still full of hostility from a long distance away.Situ Wensheng stood up: "I'm going to rest first, see you tomorrow."

"Goodbye." Tan Yue said.

Lao Xing helped away the blind Situ without saying a word.He looked at the five big and three rough, but he was cautious in supporting Situ, and before he left, he gave Tan Yue a hard look as if he hadn't forgotten to warn him.

The more he talked, the more he guessed that Situ was probably hurt by the passengers, which made Lao Xing so nervous.Perhaps Situ's blindness was caused by this.

Is life difficult for the blind?Can they only hear the sound to distinguish between good and evil?Tan Yue thought about the ups and downs of blind people for ten seconds.As a result, when he woke up the next day, his eyes could not see, and he suddenly became a blind man.