Chapter 02 of the urban romance novel "Bright Star".
After work in the evening, I worked an extra shift, and by the time I finished eating out and returned to my accommodation, it was already dark. Since it was only eight o'clock in the evening, the yard was very lively, several collar homes were lit up, the moonlight was also very bright, the yard was brightly lit, and a few children were still chasing and playing. I walked into the courtyard, said a brief hello to everyone, and then tired and wanted to go back to my house, and when I saw the woman who had done the laundry in the morning, I casually joked with her. She said that the white trench coat she hung here last night frightened me when I came out in the middle of the night to breathe, but she was surprised to tell me that she didn't dry the trench coat last night. At the mention of the trench coat, I felt a flash of sadness on her face, but it was quickly glossed over.
I was also shocked in my heart, and even a little afraid, but after thinking about it, maybe she didn't remember the clothes she washed too much, or maybe I drank too much last night and was dazzled. It seems that horror novels and movies will be watched less in the future, so as not to scare yourself. For a while, I didn't have nightmares at night, and as time went on, I forgot about it. It wasn't until that day three months later, when I received that inexplicable text message, and when I cleaned up the warehouse and saw the dusty box in the corner, that I was reminded of this experience again. And in my memory, the address mentioned by the woman in the dream seems to be a bit like the address written on this box.
I wiped the dust off the box, put it on the table where we usually distribute, and when Master Feng went to work in the afternoon, I asked him if he knew the origin of this box. Perhaps, the woman who came last time was looking for this box, but why she stayed in front of the shelves of the Bright Star for a while, it only surprised me why it had been ten years before she came to look for it. Why did I receive such a strange text message, not only the address matched, but even the name in front of the address turned out to be the word "Bright Star"!
I took a box of bright star gift boxes, put it on this box and gestured it, I found that this box with a courier bill is just a little bigger than the gift box. If I'm not mistaken, it's very likely that it's a box of Bright Star gift boxes, and things are getting more and more bizarre, is it just a coincidence, or is there another reason, why did I find this box shortly after I received the text message, who is the woman in white, why did it appear in my dreams, why does that address feel so familiar to me? Could it be that in the dark, all this has something to do with me, all of it, maybe when I see Master Feng, I will know.
When Master Feng saw this box that had been sealed in the dust for ten years in the afternoon, he had always been very calm, and he was also a little excited and out of shape. He trembled and gently stroked the courier list on the box, especially the small holes on it that looked like needle, which seemed to cause Master Feng's most unforgettable memory. And I took a closer look at the date on it, and it happened to be ten years ago today. He was silent for a long time, and then suddenly asked me where I found it. So, I took him to the place where I found the box, and he looked at it with an incredible expression on his face, and then seemed to fall into some kind of deep memory. Along with those memories that made him sigh, a rather legendary past was also narrated from his mouth.
Ten years ago today, the day the box was returned, it was also the first month he had moved to the warehouse. At that time, Master Feng had been working in this company for ten years and was considered a veteran employee. Because of the rapid development of the company's business, the warehouse is also expanding, the original warehouse in the urban area, the rent is high, the area is too small, after ten years of development, and the agent of several brands, naturally the need for a considerable area of the warehouse, and the urban area is expensive, in order to reduce costs, to come to this suburb. In this industrial park, I rented a large warehouse, although the building looks a little simple, but it is better than the large area, and the rent is reasonable.
The area is large, and it is obvious that Master Feng will not be able to be busy alone, so he recruited a new young man to be his assistant, this young man is named Cui Yi. Although the education is not high, but the person is very clever, smart and studious, and he is also very handsome, and he has only been on work for less than a month, and he is already familiar with the location of all products, and he can completely stand alone. Originally, Master Feng had to recheck the goods he had to recheck when he first went to work, but now he doesn't need to recheck anymore, and his work efficiency has improved a lot. And this young man is also deeply appreciated by Master Feng, plus this young man is a good character and often enthusiastic to help others, so not only has a good reputation in the company, but even many girls in other factories near the industrial park also like him.
Ten years have passed, and when Master Feng mentions Xiao Cui, he still sighs, which shows that the impression left by Xiao Cui on Master Feng back then is very comparable. Although Xiao Cui always looks very sunny in front of others, only Master Feng knows that this seemingly sunny boy actually has an unknown side. Master Feng has also inadvertently discovered many times that since Xiao Cui has been at work since the first day of work, when he is not busy, he will often stop in front of the window alone. Especially when he was about to get off work, he was always facing the sunset, silently looking into the distance, his face was covered with vicissitudes that did not belong to his age, and he often stood for an hour, his back, under the backdrop of the sunset, was full of endless sadness.
Master Feng had also quietly paid attention to Xiao Cui, and at the window where he stood every time, he saw that there were four-story small buildings not far away. They were all houses built by the peasants themselves, and there was a small building in which a girl blew on the garden platform on the second floor every day between four and five o'clock in the afternoon. Among the wind instruments in ancient China, Xun is the oldest one, and its main development stage is in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, so its timbre obviously has the unique spiritual temperament of the Shang and Zhou dynasties: simple, vigorous, low, vicissitudes, mysterious, and mournful, so Xun is particularly good at expressing grievances and creating solemn, ancient, poignant special effects, and has always been regarded as a characteristic musical instrument.
As for this girl, Master Feng was also very impressed, and soon after coming here, he heard the sad story of this girl. It is said that this girl is a top student of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, not only beautiful, gentle temperament, kind and determined, but also a good girl who is loved by everyone and dignified and virtuous. However, fate always makes people, such a perfect girl, but unexpectedly blind, and since she lost her sight, she is so strong, she doesn't like to rely on the care of her family, and she doesn't want to be a burden on her family for a lifetime, so she groped for herself to live independently as soon as possible. Helplessly, when she tried to practice going up and down the stairs alone while her family was not around, she accidentally fell down the stairs, hurting the back of her head, and thus lost all her memories.
Since then, this frail girl has basically been lying in bed to recuperate, but every day from 4 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, she will wear a white windbreaker and come to the platform on the second floor to play a representative work in Xunqu "Dressing Table Autumn Thoughts". The melody is full of nostalgia for the best of the past, sad and sad, especially played by a blind woman most affectionately, and people who pass by can't help but stop and stay, accompanied by this sad Xun sound, and secretly cry. Whenever this time, if Xiao Cui is busy and listens to this Xun sound, it will be like a sudden change of person, lost his soul and absent-minded. Although Master Feng couldn't see Xiao Cui's expression, every time the girl left the platform and returned to the room, Xiao Cui always had a faint tear stain in the corner of her eyes, a sad face, and then silently packed up her things and went home from work. And on the ground in front of the window where he stood, there would be a puddle of water, apparently condensed by a drop of tears.
Master Feng also felt that Xiao Cui seemed to know this girl, and tried to ask him vaguely, but he smiled faintly every time, as if he didn't want to mention it. A few times later, Master Feng didn't ask again, and one day not long after, Xiao Cui bought a set of the company's most popular gift box products on Valentine's Day - Bright Star, carefully packaged it, packed it in a box that was slightly larger than the gift box, pasted the express delivery slip, wrote every word on the list with beautiful handwriting, and carefully pierced it with a needle on the back of the list. According to Master Feng's recollection, it was the most exquisite express order he had ever seen, and it was also the most carefully written express order, because the row of raised needle eyes on it was a very standard braille, and after doing all this, Xiao Cui reluctantly sent this express delivery, and the address on it was the building where the girl lived opposite, as for the recipient, it was called Chen Zhizhen, and it happened to be the girl's name.
In the days after the express delivery was sent, Xiao Cui was always in a particularly nervous mood, as if he was looking forward to it, and he seemed to be afraid of something, and he looked like he was suffering from gains and losses all day long. And in the days after Xiao Cui's express delivery was sent, the girl on the other side strangely never appeared again, and the sad Xun voice never sounded again. In those two days, Xiao Cui became depressed, listless all day long, and always made mistakes at work.
Finally one day, that is, on the third day after the courier was sent, and it was also the day when Xiao Cui came to work in this warehouse for exactly a month, and the courier was returned. The moment he received the box, Xiao Cui burst into tears, and he walked to a corner of the warehouse in despair, holding the box and sitting on the ground crying bitterly. Master Feng didn't know how to persuade him, so he was very understanding and didn't bother him, and matched all the goods in the warehouse alone. I believe that let him be quiet, and when he figures it out, he will naturally be fine, with his mood at the time, even if he can distribute the goods, he will only make mistakes.
During the distribution period, there was a list of products that happened to be placed at the top of the shelf in the corner where Xiao Cui was alone and sad. Master Feng originally didn't want to bother Xiao Cui, but this list was still in a hurry for the customer, because the event would be held tomorrow, and the event would not be held without this special product for the event. Moreover, this product is not usually used, only used for major events, plus the volume is large, and the weight is relatively heavy, so it is usually placed on the shelf in this corner, so as not to occupy the limited space of the commonly used products in front. But when Master Feng walked to that corner and saw Xiao Cui, who was still holding the box and was deep in thought, he couldn't bear it again.
Hesitant to alarm Xiao Cui, if you want to take that product, you can either ask Xiao Cui to get out of the way, or go around the top of the row of shelves behind you, move other goods, and you can also get this product. But that is both dangerous and troublesome, Master Feng thought about it again, and decided that it would be troublesome, and it was better not to disturb Xiao Cui. When Master Feng stepped on the stool, stood high, and moved the other goods on the shelf, due to the time and too much dust, the dust accidentally raised flew into Master Feng's eyes, and after a stinging pain, Master Feng patronized and rubbed his eyes, stepped on the air, and slammed into the shelf in front of him. As a result, even the people with the shelves, and many of the goods on them, fell forward. And the heaviest product also fell down fiercely, smashing it hard at the head of Xiao Cui, who was still sitting on the ground in a daze.