CHAPTER XXIII. Ding Shiyu

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What is the end of love? The answer to this question is open-ended. Because, you can only decide who you are with at this time, you can't decide how long you can be together, maybe when, a relationship that you maintain with your heart will come to an abrupt end.

To paraphrase a popular phrase now, "You don't know which comes first, tomorrow or the unexpected." ”

But, no matter what it ended, you think a relationship is over, but at any point, it suddenly reappears without warning, or in front of your eyes, or in memories, or in dreams. It's like an old scar from many years ago, and suddenly it hurts again.

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Ding Shiyu woke up in a nightmare again, and the sky was already bright. In the dream, her boyfriend was covered in blood and said to her in the dark: "I'm so scared, I miss you so much......"

She went to the bathroom to take a shower, and instead of getting dressed immediately, she stood naked in front of the bathroom mirror and looked at herself in the mirror.

The woman in the mirror looks emaciated, pale, and covered in scars on her body and arms. On her shoulder, above her left chest, there was a deep scar that ran through her back. There was another penetrating wound on the thigh of the right leg, and a bandage was still tied on the arm.

The scar brought her memory back to a year ago, when she and her boyfriend - no, fiancé should be said to be a car trip, only a dozen miles away from the destination, suddenly a strong wind blew, and on a very sharp curve, a large truck pulling construction materials suddenly appeared in front of it and suddenly overturned. Sudden braking, impact, rolling, severe pain...... Before losing consciousness, Ding Shiyu's last impression was that several steel bars flew towards their car window like arrows from a string, and her boyfriend turned around and protected her with his own body......

Her boyfriend died in that car accident, and Ding Shiyu survived after being rescued. Although severe, the injuries did not hurt the internal organs and bones, except for two ugly scars on the chest and thighs.

Ding Shiyu looked at herself in the mirror, her mind was in a trance, and she reached out and slowly picked up the eyebrow trimmer on the dresser. The blade shimmered blue under the mirror lamp, and when she came out of the hospital, she used this to cut the artery in her left hand, but at that time, my aunt and her boyfriend's mother took turns living with her, and she was rushed to the hospital in time to be rescued. She remembered that on the arm that had just been cut, the wound was like a child's lips upturning, and her body was weak and sleepy, as if a voice was calling her to another mysterious and distant world.

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Since then, my aunt and her boyfriend's mother (now called her 'godmother') have been taking care of me in every way, and in the past year, I have finally come out of the shadow of that accident. Recently, I have gradually begun to accept my aunt's blind date arrangement. But on the night of the first blind date, she dreamed of her boyfriend.

After that day, she began to face all kinds of accidents.

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On the first day, on her way home, she passed by an old building and felt that someone behind her called her name, and at the moment when she stood and looked back, a flower pot with a diameter of forty centimeters fell from the balcony upstairs, making a dull loud noise.

The next day, the unit worked overtime until more than nine o'clock, the weather was bad, and the smog was serious. Ding Shiyu took a taxi home after work, and when she stood on the side of the road and stretched out her hand to stop the car, she suddenly felt that her back was pushed hard by something, and she fell in the middle of the road......

Fortunately, the truck driver reacted quickly, and as soon as he braked, the wheels almost stopped against Ding Shiyu's face.

On the morning of the third day, Ding Shiyu woke up with a terrible headache, and the gas stove in the kitchen leaked for no reason. Fortunately, she forgot to close the window at night, so she stumbled out of the house.

On the fourth day, when she was charging her mobile phone at work, when she went to unplug the power cord, the mobile phone battery suddenly exploded. At that time, she also happened to turn around to talk to her colleague, so the shattered mobile phone screen flew past her ear, only to blow up her hand......

Such things happened one after another, and at the same time, Ding Shiyu had a period when she was still ten days away, and she had a lot of blood. She usually has a maximum of five days off for her period, but this time, it seems endless. She visibly felt her health getting worse and worse, waking up every day in nightmares, sleeping very little, and seemingly bleeding every moment......

Just when Ding Shiyu was in a trance, a knock on the door alarmed her. With the sound of knocking on the door, a familiar voice was heard: "Tintin! Tintin! It's me, open the door! ”

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It was the voice of the aunt, Ding Shiyu hurriedly pulled a bath towel wrapped around her body and ran out to open the door. When she turned to run out, she didn't notice that she didn't move in the mirror, still maintaining the posture she had just held in the mirror, but a strange smile appeared on her face......

Ding Shiyu's aunt is called Liang Li, thirty-eight years old, single, because she is usually well-maintained and very good at dressing up, at first glance she and Ding Shiyu are like peers. She wore a white sweater today, a black octagonal hat, a large sapphire blue scarf, and a dark blue DK underneath, which made her two straight legs more slender. A rainbow reflective sunglasses almost obscured half of the face, bright red lipstick sparkling. In Rubik's Cube City, Liang Li is Ding Shiyu's only relative, and she and her niece are more like best friends, and it is she who helped Ding Shiyu survive the most difficult time.

"Tintin, what's the matter with you? Your unit said that you were on vacation, and the phone was turned off. What's wrong with your hand?! ”

Liang Li found Ding Ding as she spoke (let's call her that, easy to remember.) The bandages on his hands, screaming.

Ding Ding closed the door and explained while wiping his hair with a towel: "The battery suddenly exploded when my phone was charging, and I haven't bought a new one in the past two days." ”

"Is it serious? If you are injured and take a bath like this, what if you are infected? Liang Li looked at Ding Ding's arm with concern, blaming her mouth.

"Cutaneous trauma, it's okay. Lily, what are you looking for me? "Ding Ding has always called Liang Li 'Lily'.

"Oops! What's going on? How can there be blood? Liang Li suddenly screamed again, looking at Ding Ding's lower body, where a trace of red oozed out.

"Don't make a fuss, okay? Something happened. ”

Ding Ding reluctantly went to pad the sanitary napkin first and changed his clothes. At the same time, he told Liang Li about the various situations he had encountered recently. The more Liang Li listened, the more heavy her face became, and when Ding Ding finished speaking, she suddenly stood up and said:

"Tintin! These things are no accident! I have feelings! ”

"You're doing this again!" Ding Ding smiled and said, "Could it be that you are possessed by a great fairy again?" ”

Liang Li ignored Ding Ding's quip, and her face was extremely solemn: "I have had the same dream for several days in a row. I dreamed that you were getting married, and you were carried to a round room in a sedan chair in your wedding dress, and I wanted to see who the groom was, but I approached the room and saw that it was your ex-boyfriend who was dragging you all over blood, and half of your body had become a skeleton! ”

Liang Li paused, swallowed her saliva, blinked her eyes, lowered her voice and continued: "After waking up, I thought, a semicircular house—isn't that a tomb?" ”

Liang Li spoke with emotion, her voice was low, and the hairs on Ding Ding's body stood up when she heard it!

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"It's just a dream...... "Tintin muttered.

"Don't take dreaming too seriously! You and I both have the same dreams over and over again, and it can't be a coincidence! Liang Li said with a worried face: "I had that dream again last night, and I was restless, so I asked for leave early in the morning to come to you......"

"Our dreams are different, okay?" Ding Ding still sensed that Liang Li was making a fuss.

"It's not the same. However, now that I think about it, it is actually a dream from a different perspective! You are the party, I am the bystander. Lookers-on see most of the game...... Oops, no! We've got to figure it out! ”

"What can you do?" Ding Ding pouted and said, "I didn't tell you, I actually went to the Nine Buddha Pavilion to burn incense after having that dream for three days in a row, and then bought a bunch of paper money to burn it for him." Not only that, but I bought these things—"

As he spoke, Ding Ding took out a small box from a table drawer in the living room and put it in front of Liang Li, who flipped through it, and there were scattered Buddha beads, broken Buddha statues, burned miniature diamond scriptures, and other things that were so unrecognizable that they were no longer recognizable.

"These are the so-called things that can ward off evil spirits, and many of them have been enlightened, but as soon as they come into my hands, they become like this." There was no fear on Tintin face, more helplessness.

However, at this time, Liang Li's face was already full of panic, she was stunned, as if she was making up her mind, and finally straightened her chest, wrapped those things and put them in her carry-on bag, and said to Ding Ding: "It seems that I have to beg him this time." Tintin, pack up and follow me to someone! ”

"Looking for someone? You mean......" Tintin hesitated for a moment, and then changed to a look of sudden realization: "Lily! You're not trying to find 'him', are you?! ”

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Between the old and new urban areas of Rubik's Cube City, north of the railway station, the south side of the third floor of Xinlingwan Commercial Plaza is the wholesale of funeral supplies, and at the end of the north side, there is a café. Because the café is in the innermost, the corridor is sealed with glass, and the guardrails are removed and replaced with floor-to-ceiling windows, so that the east sun will shine into the café all morning.

The café has a strange name, "Tomb Cafe with Constant Trouble".

In the morning, there were no customers in the café at all. (The café is named like this, so I guess there won't be many people at other times.) But the door was open, and in the innermost part of the floor-to-ceiling window opposite the door, a bearded guy with a thick pipe in his mouth, was looking at the tablet intently while swallowing the clouds. The style of the casual suit is good, but it is crumpled.

"Is that guy?"

Ding Ding and Liang Li walked to the door and looked in first.

Liang Li put on big sunglasses, pulled her, and the two walked in together.

A girl with an obvious student temperament was cleaning at the bar, and when someone came in and said, "Welcome!" Two of you? ”

Ding Ding nodded to the girl, while Liang Li didn't bother and walked directly to the pipe man. Her high heels stomped on the wooden floor of the café and made a loud noise, "gurgling" all the way to the man:

"Always less annoying."

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Looking at the man up close, I realized that this was a very "exquisite" guy.

At the age of forty or fifty, the maintenance is quite good; The curls should be permed, and the styling is obviously carefully groomed; The facial features were originally a little feminine, but the two mustaches under the nose covered the feminine energy on the body; a linen shirt with a thin silk scarf around the neck; On the right wrist, there is a string of olive core carving bracelets, the color is jujube red; pinching a pipe with a long mouthpiece; In his left hand, he held a Hetian jade plaque; With Erlang's legs crossed, a pair of Italian handmade leather shoes are worth a lot of money at a glance. At this time, Liang Li and Ding Ding got closer to see that the reason why they didn't notice this guy when they got closer was because they were watching the live broadcast of an Internet celebrity face on the tablet in a daze.

Hearing Liang Li's voice, he raised his head and looked at the two ladies in front of him for a few seconds, his eyes turned back and forth on Liang Li and Ding Ding's faces, obviously not recognizing who these two were. Until, Liang Li took off her sunglasses.

"Uh...... Hi! Lily! Sit down! Sit! Chang Shaofu stood up suddenly, and his body touched the table and knocked over the tablet. Obviously, he let the two of them sit down opposite each other with some crampedness, and quietly closed the tablet, and then looked up and shouted to the girl:

"Lingling! Make two cups of coffee and take my personal beans! ”

The girl came over and asked, "What flavor do you want?" ”

"Cappuccino...... No, two cups of matcha latte. Chang Shaofu waved his hand, picked up the purple clay pot on the table and took a sip, then looked at Liang Li.

"Looks like you've forgotten about me, haven't you?"

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Although Chang Shaofu still remembers that she likes vanilla latte, her heart is slightly warm, but Liang Li is still sarcastic.

Chang Shao took a few puffs of his pipe, seemed to be in a hurry, couldn't help coughing violently, took a breath for a while, and said, "How could I forget you, haven't you seen you for more than four years?" You're wearing sunglasses that half the size of your face again, didn't you think? ”

"Five years, two months." Liang Li corrected him.

"Yes, it's been so long......" Chang Shaofu's eyes flickered for a moment, and then fell on Ding Ding: "Rude, this is ......"

Liang Li turned her head to look at Ding Ding and said, "This is my niece's daughter, Ding Shiyu, she has had some unusual experiences recently, isn't your brother specialized in studying these things?" Let's see if your brother has any way. Tintin, tell him about you. ”

Ding Ding briefly talked about his situation, and Chang Shaofu became more and more serious the more he listened, and finally stopped Ding Ding and said: "This thing is really unusual, you wait a minute, I'll call my brother over." ”

With that, he took out his phone, walked to the door of the café, and dialed a number.

"Hello? Boss, I have a friend here who is in trouble...... What the? You're not there? I haven't looked for you for two years, and once I looked for you and you said you weren't there? You're buddies with me......"

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"You know you haven't looked for me in two years?"

On the other end of the phone, Chang Youdao said angrily into the microphone: "What's the matter, you tell me briefly first." ”

Chang Shaofu gave him a general explanation of Ding Ding's matter, and Chang Youdao sent Sang Xiaoge's phone to him.

"This girl is downstairs from us, you can contact her directly."

In this way, after another half an hour, Sang Xiaoge wore rabbit ear pajamas, hugged the cat, and yawned to the café upstairs.

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"Uh...... Ding Shiyu: Right? Before you talk about your affairs, please answer me a few questions - is your name Ding Shiyu, Ding of A, B, C and Ding, the poetry of poetry? That elm is ......"

Giving his cup of coffee to the cat, Sang Xiaoge asked Ding Ding's name, the year, month, day and hour of birth, took a pen and wrote on the sticky note paper in the café for a while, and looked at Ding Ding carefully a few times, and after a while raised his head and said:

"Before I talk about you, I'll talk about your eight characters."

She picked up the stack of sticky notes in her hand, and said while looking at it: "Miss Dingding, with all due respect, from your analysis of the eight characters, you should have had a very serious 'calamity' a year ago, this calamity is related to life and death, and it also blocked a marriage...... Two years ago, the year was Renshui, it should be a water disaster, your physiognomy looks, you are the inner condensation of water and the outer vine wood, the vine wood is the most resilient, so, the water is not enough to hurt you, according to the accident of the moon and the earthly stem to calculate, get a "gold" and a "speed", so I think it is a traffic accident...... However, this is not the end, from the analysis of the hexagram, there is another catastrophe in your life, this time it is not lighter than last year's, or even more serious! ”