I think my expression must have been very strange at the time, otherwise the cup in Lu Yao's hand would not have suddenly fallen onto the sofa, and some of the remaining milk flowed onto the gray quilt I had laid for him, leaving a dark stain that was difficult to describe, or I didn't want to describe, especially this stain happened to fall on the lower half of Lu Yao's body.

"No, no, no, I didn't mean that! Hey, look at my two tigers! He was busy explaining, and at the same time anxious to help me wipe the stain clean, and his hands were in a hurry, which was kind of discordant and funny with his tall image.

"And what do you mean ......?"

"Sleep next to me, that is, lying down, clothed! Lie down next to me and fall asleep together! Yes, that's it! He explained it to me seriously, and it was already a lot of effort to see what he looked like. I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, first, I thought he looked really cute, and second, he explained for a long time, but I still didn't understand why I was lying with him.

"Don't you want to sleep on the couch? It doesn't matter, or you sleep on my bed and I'll sleep on the sofa. ”

"No, no, no! Hey, forget it! I'll explain to you when the first day of junior high school comes, Miss Wu, go to bed, you still have to go to work tomorrow. ”

Now I really have to wait for Qin Chuyi's kid to come back and explain it to me. Get me a man home in the middle of the night, and don't say anything, and you want me to sleep with him? Although Lu Yao is tall and strong, he is a bit like Johnson, one of my male gods, and I don't have a boyfriend...... But! I'm still principled! He should go to N City tomorrow, and I will definitely ask him when I finish the location!

"Then you go to sleep first, you're tired after so many journeys, let's talk about something tomorrow." Lu Yao nodded, seemingly a little embarrassed. To be on the safe side, I turned on the corridor light leading from the hallway to the bedroom, so that if I woke up suddenly at night, I could remind myself that there was someone in the house. I said goodnight to him, and I went back to my bedroom to sleep. Suddenly, I didn't have time to take a shower when I got home, so I had to change into clean clothes and lie on the bed half-dressed.

If he had been like him, he would have had trouble sleeping tonight. How did he get sleep problems? Why did Qin Chuyi come all the way from abroad to ask me as a little clerk for help? I couldn't figure it out for a while. Looking at the dim lights in the hallway, I couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. What kind of love is it for strangers to be alone in a foreign land, and it is difficult to sleep at night. The electronic watch in the room beeped, and it was twelve o'clock. I put away the quilt and fell into a deep dream.

……

I don't know how long I slept, but in a trance I seemed to smell the smell of meat. I rolled over, and the smell of the meat was closer. I tried to hold my eyelids, but I was dazzled to see a man dressed in black sitting upright on the edge of my bed, so frightened that I quickly grabbed my glasses and jumped out of bed. The man in black in front of him was not Lu Yao.

"Lu Yao! Lu Yao! Someone! ”

"Sample! What are you doing! The man in black was smiling at me, not seeming to have any criminal intent. I swallowed and looked intently at the person in front of me.

"Me, me! Qin Chuyi! Qin ~ Chu ~ One! Your junior high school brother! Hahahahaha......" The man in black laughed and raised the pan in his hand, there were a few slices of freshly fried bacon in the pan, and the fragrance wafted from here. "The nature of the 'meat woman' really hasn't changed!"

Hearing the words "meat woman", the person in front of me was no stranger at all, it was my "good friend" Qin Chuyi. It's just that I have grown my hair long abroad over the years, combed a quiff hair that is now very popular, the acne on my face is gone, but my beard is not shaved clean, and I am wearing the same black down jacket as Lu Yao, and I have a gray scarf around my neck.

I had a lot of things to say, I wanted to scold him, I wanted to ask him, all of them were mixed together, and I stuck to my mouth like a paste, and I didn't know where to start. Lu Yao heard me calling him outside, and hurriedly ran over.

"Ken, give me the bacon, I haven't made it yet, how can I eat it when it's cold?" Lu Yao dragged away the frying pan in Chu Yi's hand with one hand.

I turned my head and saw Lu Yao's dress, and I laughed out loud. He was wearing the out-of-print Sailor Moon apron I bought, and the slippers on his feet were the soft and cute cat slippers I got for him last night. Seeing him pedaling ill-fitting shoes, wearing a cute apron, and holding a frying pan to talk to Qin Chuyi with a serious face, it was really a rare scene.

"Lu Yao, what are you doing here?" I asked him with a smile.

He looked at the outfit on his body embarrassedly and laughed, "Hey, I don't want to cook, there's just such an apron in the kitchen, and I put it on." If you can't wear it, I'll take it off for you! Seeing that he was about to take off, I hurriedly stopped him.

"Dressed, dressed, look good!" I rarely cook at home, and I basically haven't used an apron or anything, and I'm embarrassed to tell him that this apron is out of print, just for seeing.

At this time, Qin Chuyi, who was sitting on the side, stopped doing it and waved his hand to let Lu Yao out. "Eh, I said how do you know him better than me, haven't you only known each other for one night. Lu Yao, you go, go and cook your food, I want to talk to my sister Qi. ”

"Who's going to talk to you!" I rolled my eyes, thinking that you dead boy still had the face to call me sister, "Won't you tell me sooner when you come back!" ”

"It happened suddenly." He smiled embarrassedly and touched the stubble on his chin, "Get up, I'll tell you about it when I have breakfast." So saying, he got up and walked out the door.

"Huh! How did you get in in the morning? ”

"Sister Haruka opened the door for me."

“……”

Ten minutes later, I sat down at the table where I usually put instant noodles or takeout, but today, it was full of all kinds of breakfast. Sandwiches, scrambled eggs with butter, cereal almond crepes, French croissants, freshly squeezed orange juice, omelets, hash browns, honey muffins, and a few other foods I can't name but summon all my saliva just by looking at them.

"You did all this?" I looked at Lu Yao in disbelief, but he wiped his hands as if he was normal, and said lightly: "Anyway, I can't sleep well, so I got up early and found something to do." There was nothing in the fridge, I asked Ken to buy some ingredients from outside when he came, and your kitchenware didn't seem to be used much, so I didn't dare to use it, so I had to make it first. ”

Only...... My eyes widened and I turned to Qin Chuyi. "Did you go to college at New Oriental abroad?"

"Don't look at me, I won't!" Qin Chuyi looked innocent, "Cooking is Louis's special hobby, let him cook a whole meat feast for you next time, meat woman!" ”

"Say it again!" Meat Po is a nickname that my mother especially likes to call me, because I have always loved to eat meat since I was a child. As soon as Qin Chu came to my house to play, he heard my mother call me that, and he immediately went to school, and since then he has been out of control. He knew that I had a good face, and he would not give up until I called him my first brother, otherwise the children in the whole school would know this nickname.

"I won't say anything about calling my junior brother!"

"I'm not a kid again! KenKenKen, like a gay! ”

"I said you don't understand, do you know what 'junior high school' says in English, kalends, how similar it is to Ken!"

"Cut!"

Lu Yao hurriedly beckoned us to eat, and I didn't bother to quarrel with him anymore, so I ate a bite of the omelette, and immediately wanted to tie Lu Yao to my home to cook for me every day, but I didn't expect such a big man to cook so sloppy. Lu Yao looked at my delicious and crying expression, made a victory gesture to complete the task perfectly, and kept pouring orange juice for me. While eating, Qin Chu began to tell me about Lu Yao's poor sleep.

About a week ago, Lu Yao began to sleep unsteadily at night, always dreaming, and the dreams were the same, but the dreams were not very clear. In Lu Yao's words, it is "always able to see a human-like thing in the depths of darkness". That dark depth, as if it had a purpose, neither let you see clearly, nor disappear, just haunted around you, like being tied up with a rope every day, and it was hard to breathe. As long as Lu Yao wakes up every time, he is as tired as after a day's running, his physical condition is getting worse every day, his speed is extremely fast, and his memory is not as good as before. For this reason, Lu Yao has seen many doctors, even psychiatrists, but taking medicine and injections has no effect, and he is almost desperate.

"So what do you think I can do?"

"Xiaoxiao, do you remember what you told me about that crematorium when you were a child?"

When I heard him say this, goosebumps immediately rose on my body. What Qin Chuyi said should have been something I did when I was in elementary school.

My grandfather died of a sudden heart attack when I was in the sixth grade of elementary school, and I followed my mother to my grandmother's house to mourn. My grandmother's house is about ten minutes' drive from my house, and it belongs to the township area. My grandfather's family is surnamed Xu, and they are a well-known family of local doctors. Dr. Xu has been helping the world all his life, and has a very good reputation in the local area with his medical skills. His sudden death surprised many people, and some of the patients and patients he had helped rushed over to see Dr. Xu on his last journey, plus relatives and friends, and his grandmother's family was very numerous. My grandfather has three children, my mother is the second in line, there is an older sister above and a younger brother below, all three of them are doctors, known as "Dr. Sanxu". In my generation, I can't do it, my aunt's daughter studied art and now opens her own online store to sell clothes; The uncle's son was forced by his family to go to the medical school in N City, but his grades were at the bottom of the class, so he counted on the family to arrange a half-official position for him in the hospital by relying on his connections; And I, running for my love of literature, well, did not do well in the college entrance examination, and became an editorial staff. My grandfather has always been a golden glittering store in my heart, and no matter where I go, someone will respectfully shout, "Dr. Xu is here!" "With my grandfather's light, I also received a lot of special treatment. For example, when my grandfather went to the store to buy fish food, the store would give Dr. Xu's granddaughter a pack of crispy noodles. In my grandfather's office, the nurses would call me "Dr. Wu" and teach me how to use various medical equipment, and I would pretend to treat them. If I hadn't encountered Waterloo in the college entrance examination, I might have really chosen to be a doctor. My grandfather was also very kind to me, and often at family gatherings, he did not shy away from saying that I was his favorite grandson, which made my younger brother always jealous when he was a child, and took the opportunity to tease me, a sister who was half a head shorter than him.

My grandfather's sudden death made me feel empty all of a sudden, as if I had lost something, except for crying wet pillows and quilts every night, but I couldn't do anything to make my grandfather come back. On the day of cremation, I followed the adults to the crematorium with sadness but curiosity, which for me was like a hell with a candy house, terrifying and full of magic. Along the way, there were weeping and screaming family members of the deceased and red, green, green, and green wreaths and black veils of bright colors but hair-raising, and mourning filled my eardrums near and far. After the farewell ceremony in the condolence hall, we sent the body to be cremated. I didn't dare to take a big breath all the way, and the mixed smell of disinfectant and burnt smell in the air made me nervous. Just as my grandfather was being sent to the crematorium, I noticed that the family next to us had very few family members, so a man and an old couple came. The man held a sleeping child in his hand and cried loudly to himself. My mother told me that the family had come to deliver pregnant women and children who had died in childbirth, and that they were patients in their hospital. The mother is an orphan, so she has no family. The child in the man's hand is the mother's firstborn, now about two years old, in the mother's dystocia on the unconscious, the family thought that the child was tired, did not care, the result is that the child has not woken up until now, the mother due to slipping at home in advance has a will, sent to the hospital but shoulder dystocia, adults and children are not saved. It's so pitiful that the family fell from heaven to hell all at once. Before I could hear my mom finish speaking, I also felt a strong sense of sleepiness. My mom thought I was too tired for the past two days, so she went to sleep in the lounge with me.

I had a dream that it was dark and dark, and I was in an idyllic place in the countryside, and there was no one around. The strange thing is that I did not feel fear, and along the path in the field, I walked towards the light in the distance, without stopping. From afar, I saw a huge strange bird with a fiery red body and several heads chirping in a distant house, its cry was sharp and strange, and the phosphorus fire around it was shining, and the atmosphere was extremely eerie. Curious, I ran over to see what it was, but was horrified to find that the bird had a human-like face on several of its heads, and a child between its paws. Strangely, instead of being frightened and running away, I stared at the bird's face, as if trying to get it to notice me. I don't remember very well what happened after that, it seemed that the giant strange bird disappeared and turned into a woman in red with her back to me, and the woman seemed very frightened, but she couldn't escape, and finally disappeared beside me. It seemed that I saw something pale green again, drifting away into the distance. It didn't take long for me to wake up. Since I was in a crematorium at the time, I didn't dare to tell my mother about this dream. Later, on the way back to my grandmother's house from the crematorium, I vaguely saw that the man in his hand seemed to be holding his father's hair with his little hands. Later, when I returned to school, I told Qin Chuyi about this dream. It's been ten years since this incident, and I don't remember it very clearly, but he still remembers.

"What does this matter have to do with Lu Yao's poor sleep?" I took a bite of the croissant in my hand.

"It's true that I didn't think much about it at first. But I thought about the cause and effect for a while, and I always felt that there seemed to be some connection between the two things. Don't you think it's strange that the kid suddenly woke up on the way back? ”

I lowered my head and thought about it for a while, and it seemed that there was some truth, so I asked Qin Chuyi to continue. A week ago, when Lu Yao could still eat and sleep well and be in good health, he went to see a museum exhibition with Qin Chuyi. After watching the museum exhibition, Lu Yao had his current symptoms.

"What is that museum exhibition about?"

"Some unearthed vessels from ancient China." Qin Chuyi turned on his phone and handed it to me, "It just came out of the soil, and it's still hot." ”

MysteriousLand:CHINA

Fromtheancientcountryoftheeast,mysteriousunknownunearthedutensils,thefirstexhibitionintheworld.

December9,2014–September7,2015.THEMETROPOLITANMUSEUMOFART

"That, Miss Wu, it's almost eight o'clock." While I was intently looking at my phone, Lu Yao pointed to the clock on the wall. I glanced at the time on his phone, and sure enough, it was almost eight.

My whole body suddenly woke up like a thunderbolt, it was eight o'clock! Where's my alarm clock! I hurried back to the bedroom and lifted my pillow, but I didn't see my phone. It's broken, it's broken, why didn't this nodding sister call me to urge me, and the alarm clock didn't go off.

"Xiaoxiao, are you looking for your phone?" Qin Chuyi felt in his pocket and took out my mobile phone, "I'm afraid to wake up your sweet dreams, so I'll turn it off." "Serious, harmless to humans and animals.

I couldn't laugh or cry, so I grabbed my phone and turned it on immediately. Sure enough, Sister Zui has made no less than ten calls to me, and she has received seven or eight text messages. A few seconds after turning on the phone, Sister Zui's phone immediately called again.