Chapter 14: A Strange Call

In 1997, in a hotel in Nantou City, Taiwan, a group of people gathered, three men and two women, several people took drugs in the hotel, including K powder, ecstasy of the old-fashioned drugs, there are also some people who are not famous for the new drugs, after a few people smoke, some people keep eating, some people keep drinking water, and some people lie on the ground, on the sofa, or in a daze on the bed, motionless, stupidly looking at the ceiling, looking at the lamp on the ceiling, I don't know what I am thinking, among them is a middle-aged man surnamed Chen, In his forties, he did not participate in drug use, but he was very heavy in drinking and smoking, although he was the only one smoking in the whole room, but the room was also full of smoke, choking on the eyes of several people.

The man surnamed Chen often participates in such gatherings, although he does not take drugs, but he is a serious alcoholist, he is unwilling to stay at home, and the family is all dependent on his wife to take care of him, and one night, the man surnamed Chen participated in such a party again, this time it is different from the past, it is a tobacco party, among which there is marijuana, everyone drinks and smokes, smokes marijuana, some people lie motionless in a daze after hallucinations, and some people are playing cards.

The cigarette butts littered in his hands caused a fire, when the fire broke out, the man surnamed Chen was drunk and fell asleep, and several other people were also drunk and asleep, and more of them entered the hallucination lying on the bed motionless, and when the fire was big, some jumped out of the window, and some opened the door and escaped, and the man surnamed Chen was buried in the fire in his sleep, I don't know if he was choked to death by smoke or burned to death, after experiencing this kind of thing, the hotel naturally could not open,

After a period of time, the boss was compensated a sum of money, the boss took the money and planned to redecorate, this time he didn't do a hotel, he planned to do the catering industry, so that he could avoid this kind of thing, the boss thought so in his heart, one night after drinking, came to the scene to inspect, the fire burned a lot of things, what surprised him was that there was a landline phone that was fine, although the light pink landline was smoked black, but it looked fine, the boss thought he had drunk too much, and took a few steps forward to pick it up and see, At this time, the phone rang, and under the influence of alcohol, the boss picked up the phone, and the voice of a middle-aged man was said on the other side of the phone: "Hey.... Hello.... My surname is Chen..."The boss snorted, and said on the other phone: "Trouble you... Tell me about it... Give Xu XX (woman's name) a call and say... I'm sorry for him... I'm going to treat her well in the next life... Thank you..."

The boss felt a little sad at this time and asked, "How can I find her?" The other side of the phone said: "Her phone number is XXXXXXXXXX... Thank you... I'm stuck here... I can only ask you for help... I'm sorry..."The boss smeared a little dust on the wall with his fingers, wrote it on his arm, wrote down the phone number and said, "Okay brother, don't worry, I will definitely tell her, don't worry." As he spoke, the phone hung up.

The boss started dialing the number, calling the person just now, strange, why can't the number be displayed? The small screen is burned out? I dialed it first, picked up the phone receiver and brought it to my ear, there was no sound in it, the boss put down the phone and said, "Strange, why is this?" Is there no power? No way, it's not a battery. "The boss went along the line to take a look, but found that the other end of the telephone line was burned, and the lines were broken...

The boss pretended to be calm and walked out, after walking out of the fire scene, the boss's footsteps became faster and faster, and after a few steps, he shouted and ran up, returned home and fell asleep, and woke up the next day, his wife asked what was going on in his hands? The boss took a look, it was he who remembered the phone number yesterday, just wanted to wipe it off and suddenly remembered that he promised someone, after writing it down with a pen and paper, he went to the bathroom to scrub it off, but he couldn't scrub it off anyway, which made the boss very scared, he ate breakfast first, planned to find a temple, find a master to show himself, and decided to go after lunch.

After eating at noon, I plucked up the courage to make this call first, the phone was answered by a woman, and the boss said cautiously: "Hello, is it Miss Xu?" The answer on the other end of the phone was, asking what was the matter? The boss completely relayed the words of the man surnamed Chen to Miss Xu, and finally told Miss Xu that Mr. Chen asked me to tell you.

Miss Xu cried on the other end of the phone after hearing this, and after crying for a while, she thanked the boss and asked, "Who are you?" Is it the master in the temple? The boss said, "No, I'm just a hotelkeeper, and I may open a restaurant in the future, because the hotel is gone." Miss Xu said, "Is your hotel open in XXX?" The one that had a fire? The boss snorted, and Miss Xu said, "Thank you, excuse me." Then he hung up the phone, which made the boss feel very strange, and began to recall the words of the man surnamed Chen, "In the next life... Stuck here..."Isn't it... The man died? Still stuck there??

The more the boss thought about it, the more scared he became, and immediately prepared, planning to set off to the temple, when he was dressing, he found that the number on his arm disappeared automatically, which made the boss even more afraid, and immediately went to the temple, wanting to find a master to show himself, and when he went to the temple and walked to the gate, there happened to be a woman who also came from the side, and the two of them inexplicably wanted to say hello to each other, but they didn't know each other, and after entering the temple, they saw the master, and the master looked at the boss and looked at the woman waiting behind him and said, "Come here, You are here for the same people. The woman behind her was stunned when she heard it, and then stepped forward again, the boss looked at the woman, and asked with questions: "Could it be that you are Miss Xu?" Miss Xu nodded and said, "You are the kind person who called me?" The boss nodded and smiled.

The master looked at the boss and said, "Don't worry, now that his wish has been fulfilled, he is already planning to leave, and he will not appear again in the future." After saying that, he looked at the woman and said, "You want to go over for him, but you have to thank this person first." As he spoke, he opened his palms and placed them on the boss's chest.

The woman said a lot of thanks to the boss, and the boss said to the master: "I also want to help this person overdue, by the way, please come and see the location of my previous hotel, I want to be a restaurant, okay?" The master nodded and agreed, and asked the two of them to wait for a while, and then give it overdue, and then go to see if the location can build a hotel.

Later, the hotel was built, and the phone never rang, some people knew this story and scolded Chen Xian for his life, saying that this was retribution, some people said that they felt very sad, and people had to lose it to know how to cherish, just like Mr. Chen, who didn't care about it before he died, but he was powerless and powerless, and some people felt that despite this, Mr. Chen was still a good person, sad for him, shed tears, and I didn't dare to say how to judge, but I can only persuade those who are still alive not to lose before regretting it, just like a lyric, some people, Once you miss it, it's not there.