Chapter 7: Before I Was Born
Qu Zhen suddenly turned around and asked me: "Sun Xiaoshuai, have you ever thought about where we came from, where are we going, who was me before I was born, and who am I after I go?" Why did I meet you, and why did I seem to know you as soon as I saw you? Is there a force in the dark that orchestrates all of this? You and I have nothing to do with each other, why did we meet here? ”
As she spoke, the moon climbed up the mountain, and the moonlight shone obliquely on her face, and her eyes were large, and she stared deliberately, and her cheeks bulged out, as if all the light was around her.
Qu Zhen said these words repeatedly, but I didn't know the answer at all.
I reasoned out, why did I meet Qu Zhen here, first of all, I failed the college entrance examination and was admitted to Tibetan University, and then I encountered strange things in the internship of Lin Zhou Hospital, and I didn't want to take the civil service exam from the medical examination to Ali, and when Ali was dispatched again, I didn't have my name, I found a relationship and went through the back door to change the rules, and then I found the third brother to arrange me to Dongcuo Township, plus I haven't turned positive, and I can't take a vacation this year, so I met Qu Zhen who came back for the New Year during the Tibetan calendar.
All this seems so natural, but if you think about it carefully, is there a link in the middle that is wrong, and there will be no encounter today? I don't know, including where she asked where I came from, where I went, who was me before I was born, who I am after I went, etc., should belong to the category of philosophy, or are more advanced philosophical questions, and the encounter with Qu Zhen should be cause and effect, I don't understand, and I haven't thought about it seriously, so I told Qu Zhen the truth.
Qu Zhen listened to my words, shook her head, slowly closed her eyes, and then slowly opened them, and when she opened her eyes, her eyes no longer glowed, and in an instant, the heavens and the earth became quiet, only the whistling wind, the moon seemed to be no longer so bright, it became dim and desolate, and Qu Zhen's face was full of extreme disappointment.
I suddenly felt extremely painful, sad, and lost, and walked up and hugged Qu Zhen very naturally, Qu Zhen did not push me away, but said in an extremely disappointed tone: "Others can not want to, others can not know, but you are different, you must find the answer." As she spoke, Qu Zhen whispered in my ear: "Only when you find the answer can you find me......"
I felt something wet my ears and temples, and I touched it with my hand, touching the tears flowing from Qu Zhen's eyes, her body was very cold, shivering, her face was cold, there was no temperature......
Then I fell into a groggy sleep, I don't know how long, when I was woken up by the sound of a cart honking. When I woke up, it was already dawn, I felt a very painful head, very painful, and my heart said that I hadn't drunk much, why did my head hurt so much, and I saw myself lying on the side of a road.
Carefully recall what happened last night, but the more I think about it, the more my head hurts, I only remember that in the end, Qu Zhen said, "Only when you find the answer, can you find me", I stood up, but I couldn't stand steadily, as if something in my body was peeled out, it seems that the current me is no longer the same as before, I lost something, from the soul. I looked up and saw a street sign that said "Nima County 1KM".
Nima County is more than 100 kilometers east of Gaize County, and there are dozens of kilometers away from our Dongcuo Township, I remember that I didn't go far with Qu Zhen last night, and I could see the township government and the street lights in front of the gate when I turned back, but now it is only one kilometer away from Nima County, so that means, I walked dozens of kilometers last night?
No, no, my previous limit of hiking was to drive 50 kilometers a day, walked for more than ten hours, my legs hurt, and my feet were worn out, but now I have a headache, but there is not much tiredness on my body, I took out my mobile phone, fortunately, there is electricity.
I called Sozi and asked him to pick me up. Then I sat on the floor, patting my head, trying to remember what had happened last night. I think of Qu Zhen, we were out together last night, and now I'm lying in Nima County by myself, where did Qu Zhen go?
I looked at my phone again and remembered that I hadn't written down Qu Zhen's phone number last night.
I had no choice but to dial the phone number of the deputy township head Puqimi, and I didn't have time to explain, so I had to call Qu Zhen and call her, but although the phone was connected, no one answered. I felt in my pocket again, the cigarette was still there, and I pulled out the cigarette and smoked it one by one.
In less than an hour, Suoci drove up, honked his horn, got out of the car and looked at my virtue, and said with a smile: "You kid beat the dog and ran so far last night?" ”
I took a bottle of mineral water from his car, drank it all, and after drinking the cold mineral water, I said, "Don't mention it, talk about it as you go." ”
When I got in the car, I first asked Suo Ci: "Brother, what does the name 'Qu Zhen' mean in Tibetan, do you know Qu Zhen, the daughter of our township Puqimi?" ”
Suo Ci lit a cigarette and said: "'Qu Zhen', accurately translated, is Qu Zhen, the daughter of the Dharma's Tara and the head of Puqimi Township, I have heard of it, studied in Beijing, but I have not seen it. By the way, what the hell did you do in the canteen conservatory yesterday, I saw that you drank more than a box of wine by yourself, and you drank quite quickly, I was playing dice at that time, and you disappeared when you finished playing the dice, where did you go, why did you run so far, really hit the dog? ”
I was stunned for a moment and said, "You didn't see Qu Zhen yesterday?" Qu Zhen and I were drinking and chatting, drinking until dusk and going out with her, and I don't know how to turn to Nima County. ”
Suo Ci was also stunned for a moment, and then said: "I didn't see it, I only saw you sitting there alone yesterday and smirking, laughing and drinking at the same time, not only me, but also the colleagues who played the dice together saw that you were drinking yourself, and we also joked that you were going to drink and beat the dog." Oh yes, you said you didn't know how to go to Nima County, you know, in Tibet, there are legends of ghosts and seductive ......"
"What the hell is tempting?"
"It's a person who is lured by a ghost to a far place at night, sometimes hundreds of kilometers, sometimes hundreds of kilometers, sometimes a hundred and ten kilometers, and the person who is lured doesn't know how to go that far, which is very similar to your situation."
I lit another cigarette, took a hard puff, and thought about it, Suo Ci would not lie to me, he said that he only saw me drinking in the cafeteria, and did not see Qu Zhen as I said, and I followed Qu Zhen out and walked not far, but woke up in Nima County, isn't it exactly the same as a ghost seductive!
I went back to the township at noon and ate something, I was in no mood to drink anymore, Qu Zhen I saw yesterday, was it a ghost or did I have some hallucinations? I can't figure it out, because Qu Zhen left me with too deep and too real an impression, including the faint fragrance on her body, her glowing eyes, and her sentence "You can only find me when you find the answer", all of which are so real.
When sitting in the cafeteria in a daze, the deputy township mayor Puqimi came in and said: "In the afternoon, everyone went to my house to eat and drink, I had a treat, my daughter just came back, I will pick her up, and I will also introduce you to you." ”
Hearing Pu Qimi say this, I was a little relieved, sure enough, his daughter came back, it is estimated that Suo Ci was too focused on playing the dice yesterday, or it was the angle of Qu Zhen's sitting, he didn't see it, this is not to catch the wind at night.
In the afternoon, Suo Ci and I went to Puqimi's house, where many colleagues had already sat down, and it seemed that everyone was very interested in Puqimi's daughter. Not long after Suo Ci and I sat down, Puqimi's daughter came out, and Puqimi enthusiastically introduced him while asking his daughter to toast everyone.
However, I was disappointed, because although this girl is seven points similar to Qu Zhen, both have big eyes, but her eyes do not shine, they are not as bright as Qu Zhen's eyes, and she does not have the fragrance of Qu Zhen's body. Listening to Puqimi's introduction, this is his second daughter, Niyang, who only came back today and is also studying in the mainland.
When Niyang came over to toast me, I whispered, "Where is your sister Qu Zhen?" ”
Niyang looked puzzled and said, "My sister didn't come back, the school is going to do an internship, are you my sister's friend?" I haven't heard my sister mention it. ”
I smiled awkwardly and didn't say anything, just called Qu Zhen's phone repeatedly, but no one answered. I didn't have the heart to drink, so I simply played around to deal with it, sat there, looked at the photos posted on the wall of Puqimi, many of them were group photos of Niyang and Qu Zhen, the sisters were standard beauties, but Qu Zhen was more temperamental, or I thought Qu Zhen was more temperamental.
After spending more than an hour at Puqimi's house, Puqimi answered a phone call and only heard him say, "What? Are you sure? Confirmed? Okay, okay, I know, well, thank you" and then hung up the phone, his face was pale, everyone asked him what was wrong, Pu Qimi said: "I just received a call from the police, saying that Qu Zhen is missing, Qu Zhen should have gone back to school after the internship yesterday, but he has not returned, his roommate thought Qu Zhen went to play, and he didn't answer the phone, 24 hours have passed now, Qu Zhen still hasn't returned to school, and the police have filed a case ......"
I froze and looked at the time, at this time yesterday, Qu Zhen and I were drinking in the cafeteria, but no one saw it, except me. After hesitating for a while, I told Puqimi about the encounter with Qu Zhen yesterday, including drinking in the cafeteria, walking outside after drinking, and then being in Nima County when I woke up.
Puqimi's face was cloudy, and he glared at me with an unkind look. I asked him again if there was a very faint fragrance on Qu Zhen's body, but Pu Qimi shook his head and said no, and Niyang also said that there was no fragrance on his sister's body.
In the next few days, I went to Beijing with Puqimi and Niyang, and went to Qu Zhen's school, but Qu Zhen was not found, and there was no progress on the police side.
Back in the township, I have been worried about Qu Zhen, she said that only when I find the answer, can I find her, I checked a lot of information, still can't find the answer. Later, I went to the temple and asked the living Buddha in the temple, and the living Buddha said to me: "No one else can tell you the answer, the real answer is on your way in the future." ”
In the days that followed, it was dull and tasteless, I felt like the walking dead, and some things in my soul were lost, lost on the night of the sixth day of the Tibetan Lunar New Year, lost in the road I walked with Qu Zhen, lost in Qu Zhen's glowing eyes, and lost in the faint fragrance of Qu Zhen's body.
The township government, the government stayed for a year, transferred to the organization department of the county party committee, more and more work, the more materials were written, the more 6, and the amount of alcohol became better and better. To be honest, in the two years of the reform, I don't remember how much material I wrote, how much work I carried out, and how many boxes of Budweiser I drank.
When I'm idle, I like to sit in front of the window in a daze, not knowing where my future path is, and I don't know if I can find the answer, whether I can find Qu Zhen.