Is the boss fine today?

Yi Yun played shuttlecock with the girls outside after school, attracting a large number of primary school girls, blocking the entrance of the inn.Tan Yue sat behind the counter and stretched his neck to look around, trying to find Ya Duo's face among the girls' faces.

No.

Yaduo may not like kicking shuttlecock.

After the sun went down, it was cold again.The store is far from closing time.Tan Yue put his legs together and put his hands between his knees to keep warm.There is no heating in the south, and everyone in the area is used to this climate.Situ was wearing a thin sweater, and his fingers turning the Rubik's Cube were clean, without any trace of freezing red.

The more I talked, the more I thought of Yaduo at noon, Yaduo didn't look like a child, she might be a precocious child, or a fairy.There are gods and there are fairies.

What does Yaduo know?

Who is Situ?

What is his relationship with the living god?

Tan Yue wished he could follow Situ day and night with a magnifying glass in his hand.

Situ lost his eyesight and couldn't see all of this. He still sat obediently and quietly in the inn every day, and Tan Yue took care of him meticulously. Except for sleeping and going to the bathroom, they almost never left each other.

The more we talked, the more we couldn't see anything, and the patience was about to run out. Until this day, Situ was about to leave the inn.

Situ said, "I need to worship God."

"you?"

Aren't you a god?

"Take me there, it's on the mountain, can you drive?"

Situ opened his hand to him, and he put a car key in his palm.

The more I talked, the more surprised I was.The inn actually has a car?

Situ’s car, or Lao Xing’s car, is in a nearby parking lot. It’s a white Phaeton, very new. It looks like it’s barely used. I don’t know how long it’s been parked here. The car is full of dust. .

The winding mountain road is very long, and Tan Yue was driving, feeling that time passed very slowly, and the lucky cat charm on the car beckoned to him quietly.It was very cold, colder up the mountain than down, and the sky was full of dark gray clouds, and it looked like it was going to rain at any moment.Situ was wearing outdoor attire, mountain boots, and a thick coat.Clasping fingers on his knees, Situ took a nap with his eyes closed. He looked a little pale, as if he hadn't slept well.

Before coming, Situ said that this god is not a living god.The Mei people believe in multiple gods, and Mei Town is full of local gods and monsters.The god he was going to pay homage to was called Tula.

"I haven't heard of it." Tan Yue expressed his doubts.

After he finished speaking, he felt that he was throwing an argument. Tan Yue, a foreigner who doesn't even know the most famous living god, how could he recognize other local gods.

Fortunately, Situ gave him face and explained patiently: "Tula has fallen. It was very famous decades ago. Now everyone only remembers the living god."

decline.Tan Yue noticed his words.

Did the gods also decline?

The car circled up the road slowly, and Tan Yue didn't know the way. He only knew to go up according to Situ's memory. He said that the Tula Temple was on the top of the mountain.

The heater was turned on in the car, and it was very warm, and Situ didn't talk to him, and the conversation soon became a little sleepy.

At this moment, Situ spoke suddenly, which shocked him into shock.

"I don't come every year, but I feel like this year might be different."

Situ opened his eyes, staring at the windshield.

"intuition?"

"intuition."

"Really?" Tan Yue turned around while holding the steering wheel.

The temple is in the woods on top of the hill.

Tan Yue didn't know exactly where it was, but Situ couldn't see it, and the two of them wandered around in the woods like headless chickens.Tan Yue took Situ's hand and walked slowly, his eyes kept looking around everything in the forest, looking for the temple that Situ was talking about.Of course, he also inevitably thought of the elusive living god.

Tan Yue quietly glanced at Situ.

Situ and Living God never appeared at the same time.

After wandering around in the forest for about half an hour, the two actually found the temple.The temple was so dilapidated that it could be compared to the Buddhist temple where we stayed that night. I don’t know how many years no one has paid attention to it.

Situ stood outside the door, he raised his face, a drop of rain fell on his expressionless face.

Tan Yue looked at him from a distance.

Situ looked calm. He stood in front of the temple, and the temple was gathered in the arms of towering trees. Looking from below, the thick green crown over the temple covered the sky, like a solidified parachute in the sky.Some kind of tiny red fruit grew on the tree, which rolled down from the branch and hit him under his feet and on his head. The ground was covered with a piece of thin red fruit, leaving a sticky red footprint when he stepped on it.

A temple of loneliness and vicissitudes, and a blind visitor...

Before coming to Mei Town, Tan Yue never expected to see such people and scenery.

He squatted on the steps and lit a cigarette, "Go in and worship God, it's going to rain heavily, let's go back early."

"You can come in too." Situ pushed open the door, and when he put his hand down, his palm was full of dust.

The more I talked, the more I realized that he couldn't see, so I got up and helped him across the threshold.

The temple is completely different from the Buddhist temple. The walls are covered with cobwebs and curtains whose original color cannot be seen clearly. There are no windows in the temple, and the air is stuffy and bitter.The god is tall. He sits cross-legged in the center of the temple. He is as tall as an adult just sitting.His eyes are closed, he is naked, his gender cannot be seen, and there are two hands on his back, one pointing to the sky and the other supporting the ground.

Situ stood in front of him, folded his hands, looked pious, and whispered a few words in dialect.

He thinks that the existence of God is meaningless, but he goes all the way up the mountain to worship Tula?Thinking about this, Tan Yue walked around the temple with breathless concentration. There were strings of locks hanging on the two vermilion pillars in the temple.The lock is about half the size of a palm, a bit like the kind of concentric lock for couples. I don’t know how many years. The iron locks strung together by these ropes are all rusted. It is the characters of the eyebrow tribe, like twisted flowers.Some of the ropes had rotted away, so there were many fallen locks scattered on the floor, mixed with a thick layer of dust.

"What are these locks for?" Tan Yue squatted down and blew the dust from one of the locks.

"People who make wishes in the temple write their names on the locks, praying for Tula to appear." Situ walked to him, "Now there are no padlocks."

Situ asked him, "May I pay homage to Tula?"

"Why?"

"Speak to Tulla what you want."

After thinking about it more and more, standing in front of Tu La who lowered his eyes and lowered his eyebrows, he folded his palms like Situ just now.

"Bless my parents, Situ is healthy and everything goes well-is this all right?"

Situ was silent for a while, looking a little puzzled.

"Why don't you make a wish to yourself?"

"I don't want anything."

Tan Yue walked to the pile of locks again, and looked carefully, he was keen on the traces of these people.

"What is written on the prayer lock?"

"The name of the padlocker." Situ said, "Let's go, it's raining."

At this time, the temple gate was suddenly blown open by the wind and smashed against the wall.

boom!

Tula's body was shaken by the shock.

When gusts of wind blew in, the curtains all over the room were also lifted, and the dust billowed.

"Ugh?"

Tan Yue covered his mouth and nose, regretting that he didn't bring two masks.Situ stood in front of the door frowning, his clothes rattling in the wind.Just as Tan Yue was about to leave, the rope above his head swayed and swayed, and several locks fell off and fell to his feet.

Tan Yue lowered his head by accident, and saw the two names on the wish lock.

One of them he had seen before, engraved on the inside of his mother Yanni's silver ring.When I was at Tanyue University, I asked someone to translate it. It was translated into Chinese as a man's name: Tan Kesheng.

Tan Yue's biological father's name.

The expert had lived in the settlement of the Mei people for several years. He said that the rings should have been a pair. The male ring was engraved with the name of his wife Yan Ni, and the female ring was engraved with the name of her husband Tan Kesheng. It was extremely romantic.

The more I listened to the conversation at that time, I said: "What is the translation of 'Yan Ni' into the language of the Mei nationality? Write it to me."

He didn't expect that after many years, he saw the wish lock with his parents' names written on it in this temple.

Tan Kesheng and Yan Ni fell to their deaths in 1992, and they died in this mountain.

Tan Yue looked around blankly.

are they here

Are you here?

The wind was so strong that some of the painted paintings on Tula's body trembled and scattered.Tan Yue moved his feet that seemed to be filled with lead, cautiously, with heavy steps to avoid the locks that fell by his feet, he did not pick them up.

He patted the dust off his body, and said dejectedly: "Let's go, go back."

On the way back, he didn't say anything, and Situ took a nap in silence as usual.In fact, Tan Yue's mind was completely muddled, although he couldn't see it on his face, because he always had such a deadpan expression, even Lao Xing couldn't see anything here.

As usual, Lao Xing had already returned when he returned to the inn. He was cleaning the table and carrying a washbasin.

He said, "Where did you go?"

"On the mountain, Tula Temple." Situ replied, "I haven't been there for a long time."

Tan Yue sat in his seat as if nothing had happened, Situ also sat down, and he lit a cigarette.

Lao Xing walked past them and entered the backyard.

Smoke gushed out from Situ's lips, Tan Yue looked at him and called his name.

"Huh?" Situ turned his head suspiciously, "What's the matter?"

He probably thought that he would ask Tula about the more he talked, just as he was curious about the existence of living gods.But it's not, Tan Yue doesn't care about these ghosts anymore, his heart has been beating fast since he came back, it seems that his body can no longer hold him.

He wants to die now.

Before he died, he wanted to kiss Situ.

So Tan Yue pressed Situ's wrist holding Yan, lowered his head and kissed him.

He instinctively touched Situ's lips and tongue, imitating the kiss taught him by the living god.

The door was open, guests could come in at any time, Lao Xing could come in from the back door at any time, Zhao Zhao Yiyun and Xia Sheng could come down the stairs at any time, but they were kissing.

Situ didn't refuse him, and while his lips were intertwined, his hand reached in from the hem of Tanyue's shirt, and rose from Tanyue's skin as if trembling with electricity.Tan Yue quickly grabbed his hand, and he said "no" to Situ's lips.The two separated.

The ambiguous and charming dissipated the moment the two opened their eyes.Tan Yue asked calmly, "Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Situ smiled and asked him back, "What do you want to know?"

Tan Yue was very disappointed, it was all written on his face, although he himself didn't understand what answer he wanted.He left Situ in a daze and went back upstairs by himself.

After taking a shower, he saw his scarred body in the mirror, and changed clothes to cover these ugly scars.In the cabinet, he found the rope that was broken last time, and carefully tied it up. This time, Tan Yue twisted the rope into three strands.

When he committed suicide that night, Tan Yue didn't think about anything.

A strong sense of suffocation imprisoned his voice, but his thoughts were flying around in his body, like countless flying horses galloping in his blood vessels.He thought of a lot, Tan Kesheng, Yan Ni, Living God, Situ, Zhao Zhao... This feeling was very bad. When he was dying, all Tan Yue could think of was his life of meaninglessness and belief.

At the same time, Situ went upstairs, and he knocked on Tan Yue's door again and again, but he didn't know that Tan Yue was dangling on the rope.About the fifth time he knocked, he started calling Tan Yue's name, and the frequency of knocking on the door became more urgent.

Bang bang bang, bang bang bang.talk more?

Then, the door was kicked open.

Tan Yue turned his back to the door, and the voice in his ear was intermittent.He vaguely realized that Situ was calling his name.

The thing that strangled his neck was loosened, and fresh air suddenly flooded his lungs, and he couldn't help coughing and panting more and more.He was carried down, lay flat on the ground, opened his eyes with more difficulty, he was dizzy, but saw clearly Situ's anxious and handsome face.

He looked him in the eyes and said, "You're not blind..."

Situ knelt beside him, his face was pale, probably he was frightened by Tan Yue just now.He looked at Tan Yue, his eyes were gloomy, like a pervert, he took the rope back and clutched it in his hand without saying a word, and found the disabled knife on him, and confiscated it.

"If I want to die...you can't stop me." Tan Yue said with a smile, "Don't you want me to die?"

Situ's voice was very calm: "You are sick, I have to take care of you."

He carried Tan Yue to the bed, closed the door, and checked the wound on Tan Yue's neck.

Situ sat by the bed and watched over him, non-stop, as if he was on guard against Tan Yue taking him unawares and continuing to commit suicide.But Tan Yue just lay down under his gaze, sickly, with a weak and pale face, with his eyes closed and his breathing calm, with an obedient appearance about to fall asleep.

Tan Yue was in pain and tired and couldn't sleep, he was waiting for when Situ would leave.However, after a long time, Situ still sat by the bed, and finally he took off his shirt and slept next to Tan Yue.The bed is big enough to sleep two people.

The more inexplicable the conversation became, I asked him: "Are you planning to sleep with me in the future?"

Situ ignored him.Before turning off the lights, he covered Tan Yue with a quilt.

The lights went out and the room was plunged into darkness.The black light is blinding the fire, suitable for sleeping with feet.

After a long time, neither of them fell asleep.

Situ asked him, "Why do you seek death?"

When one asks a person who wants to die why he wants to die, he can get many kinds of answers.It can be traced back to childhood shadows, family changes, work pressure, depression and so on.If Situ asked this question when he attempted suicide at the inn for the first time, Tan Yue would definitely answer that he was depressed, but now, Tan Yue is even more uncertain.So he was silent.

When he woke up the next morning, there was no one around Tan Yue, and the door was locked, so he couldn't get out.He was not surprised at all, so he lay back on the bed after washing up.

After a while, Situ opened the door with the key.

"Don't forget to go to work," he said.

Situ sat behind the counter and started playing with his mobile phone. He stopped playing Rubik's Cube. Since his identity was revealed, he simply stopped pretending to be blind. He walked around like a normal person and played games online.

Tan Yue ignored him, and he ignored Tan Yue.

At noon, Yaduo appeared with her schoolbag on her back, and she ordered vegetables and soup like an adult.After eating, she does her homework on the table.

Tan Yue supervised her homework, her handwriting was crooked like a child's.

He looked at it for a while, then lowered his head and asked her quietly: "You told me last time, who should be careful?"

Ya Duo didn't look up, and wrote a few words in the workbook with a pencil.

"They", "the owner of the inn".She erased it immediately with an eraser.

everyone?

Zhao Zhao, Yi Yun, Xia Sheng, Lao Xing and Situ?

It's impossible not to be surprised, Tan Yue is not familiar with other people, but he has a lot of contacts with Zhao Zhao, Tan Yue has never doubted him.Now that I think about it carefully, Zhao Zhao is not without doubts.

In the taxi on the first day, the driver said that Zhao Zhao was drunk, but Zhao Zhao didn't drink at all...

So suspicious, his cell phone vibrated suddenly.

WeChat from Qingqing.

-Don't get too close to Yaduo.

He raised his head in agreement, and sure enough, Situ was leaning against the door with an Apple mobile phone and looking at him from a distance.

Tan Yue gritted his teeth and typed a line.

- Sure enough, it's you.You are so perverted, I am the girl of your dreams? ?

The phone vibrated again.

- yeah ^_^