Chapter 3 Temporary Arrival in the Town
In a remote town, a bright moon hangs high in the night sky, the lotus pond reflects the delicate moonlight, draped in a thin layer of silk satin, and under a Huaye tree, a few dead branches that reflect the window screen, swaying non-stop. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info then disappeared with the figure behind the window. It felt like the whole town had fallen into a kind of tranquility like never before, and even the howling cold snap was much more deserved, as if it was the eve of a stormy night, but in the bitter depths of winter, it was unlikely to rain in a shower.
The three-storey inn, probably the only tallest building in the area, was seen through the dense forest path outside the town, and the relatively tall figure appeared in the faint moonlight. The signboard of the door plaque looks dilapidated even in the dark night, because the inlaid night lights are only three on, but there are four big characters: "Duanmu Hotel".
The word "pavilion" is in the dark, and the surrounding night lights can be seen clearly, in fact, it does not matter, seeing the first three words, you can naturally associate its meaning.
Mu Tianyu stayed outside the closed gate, looking back at the lonely streets and alleys, the residential houses on both sides, lying quietly in the dark night, those joyful themes that were carefully arranged in front of the house, couldn't help but make people's dreams come to naught, and everything came to an end.
Mu Tianyu frowned, and before he could push the door open, he heard a few hurried footsteps coming from the crack in the door, so he took a step and pushed open the door of the hotel.
Creak......
With the creak of the heavy gate, several young people who came in front of him passed by Mu Tianyu. Several people showed a little surprise, and one of them was a blonde woman, nodding and smiling, indicating friendship. Six people, three men and three women, disappeared outside the fastened gate in the blink of an eye. Mu Tianyu only looked back, thinking deeply, in the middle of the night, it was cold and windy, where would these young people go. I almost bumped into the old man next to the counter in the front hall, an old man who was almost seventy years old, with fine lines at the corners of his eyes extending to his temples and white hair, and his rickety body was difficult to straighten.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Mu Tianyu's face was full of apologies, but fortunately he stopped his pace, otherwise he would have crashed into it.
"It's okay, it's okay, people who are generally polite will always be a small step away from making a mistake." The old man shook his head and smiled, his trembling hands, as if the sequelae had fallen with the years, he returned to the inside of the front desk cabinet. "Are you alone?" Mu Tianyu's eyes were stunned, and at the same time, the old man smiled and said: "In the middle of the night, an outsider comes to the hotel, it must be accommodation, I have to know how many people you are staying in before I can register for you." ”
Mu Tianyu replied, "I'm the only one." ”
The old man looked out the window, and in the silence of the night, everything seemed so peaceful, it turned out to be a one-way perspective glass, and the town could be clearly observed from the hotel. The old man's astonished eyes could not hide from Mu Tianyu, and he speculated that this young man was definitely not a local, and the town was nearly a hundred miles away from the nearest market, and he neither drove here nor walked with people. "Yes, can you show me your ID?"
"No problem." Mu Tianyu took out his ID card from the zippered pocket on the inside of his backpack.
"Mu Yu?" The old man looked at it carefully, and the portrait on the document was even younger and more handsome. "You're a Southerner?"
Feeling that the other party seemed to be surprised, Mu Tianyu asked, "Yes, is there any problem?" ”
"Oh, no, it's just that very few southerners come here, wait a minute, I'll register for you first."
"Okay, thanks."
In the gloomy streets and alleys, several young people stepped in, and a man with unkempt hair and short hair stopped in front of him, and the crowd also stopped, led by him. "Just now, what just now?" The man was dissatisfied, stared at the blonde woman in front of him and said, "Don't think I'm blind! How dare you make eye contact with that man? ”
"What?" The blonde woman said unhappily: "With whom?" ”
The short-haired man snorted coldly. "I saw it, the man I met at the door of the hotel just now, carrying a backpack, and you even smiled back at him!"
"Song Ji! You're sick, I'm just smiling at him nicely! ”
"Friendly smile, hum......," Song Ji mocked. Why didn't I see you smile back at me. ”
"It's okay for anyone, even for you, I won't!" The blonde woman replied arrogantly, "Can you see the disdain in my eyes?" That's a smile on your lookback! ”
Song Ji raised his hand and screamed. "You ......"
"You dare! Song Ji, if you really dare to hit me, you will never touch me again in this life! ”
"Okay, what are you arguing about, or for an inconsequential person. Ah Rong, Song Ji also does this because he cares about you, don't always keep a straight face, you have been married for three years, and it is impossible to be more considerate than us newcomers! "Next to her, the woman in the coat, persuaded and snuggled in her man's arms, the wedding that was held last month." Alright, alright, let's stop making a fuss, let's find out where the wax museum is, maybe it's not in town at all. ”
"But the map sign in the magazine is here." The big-eyed man holding her said in a deep voice: "I checked it on the Internet last night, but the hotel's network signal is really bad enough, intermittently, from time to time, and I almost didn't send out the project application to the company." ”
"Hey, don't talk about it, this remote ghost place, it's good to have a place to settle down, what else do you want?" A young man at the end of the crowd sighed, always with a worried look on his face.
"Eh, I said, Zhang Jing's boyfriend, we didn't call you here at the beginning, you had to follow, and now you're complaining, how can you be like a sissy." The big-eyed man, with a contemptuous expression, looked directly at the man in the distance.
"Hmph, I don't know who's complaining."
"You ......"
"That's it! You're not done yet! I haven't found the wax museum yet, so if you can't find it tonight, don't go back to the hotel! Song Ji let out a low roar, and the night fell silent again.
In the hotel, Mu Tianyu, who had completed the registration procedures, was about to go upstairs to his room, he just took a few steps, retreated, and asked with a little curiosity: "Old man, can I ask you something." ”
The old man smiled slightly: "No need to be polite, but if I know, I will tell you." ”
Mu Tianyu nodded and smiled lightly: "The young people just now, it's so late, where are they going?" ”
The old man's body trembled slightly, he was silent for a moment, shook his head and sighed: "Hey, I don't know where a group of young people who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth came from, since they arrived here yesterday evening, they have been asking around about the wax museum, hey......"
"Wax Museum?"
"Yes, the wax museum, a mysterious and strange place in the early years." (To be continued.) )