The woman had long black and shiny hair, tied behind her head with a white ribbon, which looked refreshing and elegant, not like a firework in the world.

She came with a smile in her eyes, like a white chrysanthemum blooming in the night.

"These are the dishes that we only cook for our customers, so please try them and give us some valuable opinions. She pushed the food cart over and nodded politely to me.

The hostess came over, brought the eight cold dishes from the dining car to the table, and then set the chopsticks and flavor plates.

"What's wrong?" the woman patted Qi Mei lightly on the shoulder, then leaned over and pressed her face to Qi Mei's ear, silently comforting him.

"I'm fine...... I'm fine. Qi Mei whimpered and stopped crying.

"No matter how dark the night is, there is a time when the dawn, and no matter how difficult the journey is, there is a time when it comes to the end, what is the use of crying? As I said, nightmares are just nightmares, they don't come true, everything is your fantasy alone, and it can't be true. She said.

Then, she stretched out her hand to me: "Hello Mr. Xia, I am Bai Fenfang." ”

I got up to shake her hand, and I couldn't help but feel a little nervous under her watchful gaze.

She has a pair of very beautiful eyes, her eyes are like water, and she is full of tenderness.

When I held her hand, I felt that her fingers were silky, as if there were no bones.

"Mr. Xia, I am a good friend of Mr. Qi, and we have nothing to talk about between us. So I've heard the horrible nightmares he told you about many times. She said with a slow smile.

"How do you feel?" I asked.

"Of course it's false, those things can only happen in myths and legends. She said.

"Did you make a recording of what he said? I want to hear the real thing. I said.

She shook her head, "No, but I used another method to keep everything he said." ”

"How?" I immediately asked.

"I came from a family of painters, and I have been practicing the tip of the pen since I was a child, and I have been in the painting industry for 20 years. So, I can draw whatever he says, including the nightmares he describes. If you're interested, I'll ask someone to show you the painting?" she asked.

I nodded, and she immediately instructed the hostess, "Bring me the stack of drawings locked in my safe." ”

The waitress turned to get the information, and the woman said slowly: "I have been in Jinan for a long time, and I know the terrain within the ring road, but I have never seen the strange thing of the whole building sinking. The most ridiculous thing is that an underground building disappears, and what remains should be a vacuum fault, not filled soil. Ordinary people or people from construction companies can't do this at all, how can ordinary people have the power to move mountains and reclaim the sea?"

I'm very interested in her paintings, and if I can really put my eyebrows on paper, then all the unknowable problems will be solved.

"One of you can speak, the other can draw, it's really a match made in heaven!" interjected the red-sleeved gesture that had not spoken for a long time.

Bai Fenfang laughed: "Where, where, this joke can't be made." Mr. Qi and I are just close friends in artistic exploration, and we don't have any emotional involvement. During the Boyazi period, the mountains and rivers flowed, and the bosom friends were good, which had existed in ancient times. ”

After a while, the girl came back with a stack of drawings, seventy or eighty of them.

"Put the table together and open the drawing. Bai Fenfang commanded.

The waitress moved the chair in the center of the hall and put the four tables together to form a huge table, and then carefully placed the sketches on top and spread them out one by one.

"Please come and see—let Mr. Qi rest for a while. Bai Fenfang said.

We gathered around the table and looked at these simple but profound strokes.

One of the most conspicuous paintings has the words "Nightmare, listened to for the third to fifteenth time, absurd, but there seems to be some kind of mysterious clue consistently." I'll draw first, and then I'll add when I'm done. ”

In the painting, a man stands in the middle of a cliff with a crack in the belly of the mountain, far from the main snow-covered peak.

It doesn't seem like this should be Qi Mei's dream, because he dreamed of the sinking of the mirror room, not the vast snow-capped mountains.

Bai Fenfang pointed to the painting and explained with a faint smile: "Two, the dream of human beings is extremely grotesque, with a great jump, suddenly the South Mountain, suddenly the North Sea, suddenly the wind turns into a tiger, and suddenly the cloud turns into a dragon. Therefore, my painting is only done according to the meaning described by Mr. Qi, and there is no way to investigate whether its details are reasonable or not. I only hope that the two of you can find traces in these paintings and help him break free from the shackles of his heart. ”

I nodded, looking at the picture intently.

If a person is trapped in such a crevice in a cliff, the only way to get out is to grow wings and swoop down, like a goshawk vulture on a snowy mountain.

Since it was a dream, there was no need to explore how the person was trapped there.

"That's his predicament. Bai Fenfang said again.

Qi Mei sighed gloomily, his eyes lost focus, and he looked out of the glass window.

He is respected by the rivers and lakes as "the first doorman in the provincial capital", and he is naturally a delicate character with methods, ways, and vision, who can only manipulate others with his heart and brain, how can he be trapped? Perhaps, this kind of change can be called "the extreme of things must be opposed"? It is all caused by his excessive use of his brain and excessive intelligence?

I can't give an explanation, after all, a person can be the "first guest in the provincial city", and the next step to climb the height must be "China's first guest", becoming a longitudinal and horizontal family such as Su Qin and Zhang Yi in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, relying on the best eloquence and emotional intelligence to conquer the commanders of great powers, and then become famous through the ages and forever in history.

"He was cold, scared, and tormented. Red Sleeves said.

Bai Fenfang gasped: "Miss Hong can see it from this painting?"

Red Sleeves shook his head: "No, I just touched the scene and deduced it after comparing my heart to my heart." ”

The winter snow is very cold, the cliff has no ladder, and the psychological activity of Qi Mei shown in this painting is exactly what the red sleeves say, there is no way to go to the sky, there is no door to the ground, and he is already on the verge of despair.

"Yay. Bai Fenfang nodded, "Miss Hong is a smart person, Mr. Qi often mentioned Miss Hong's name when he was talking about the heroes and heroes of Jinan before. ”

Quietly, she has already shown her relationship with Qi Mei's confidante, and this kind of "words in words" is used very skillfully.

"As for Mr. Xia, Mr. Qi has always said that you are the dragon and phoenix among people, incomparable. There are almost 700 people in Shandong who can be regarded as 'heroes and heroes', each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and Mr. Qi can count their advantages and disadvantages one by one, without any confusion. Among all the people, only Mr. Xia has no shortcomings and is the perfect of the best. Bai Fenfang said.

I didn't expect Qi Mei to speak so highly of me, but I wouldn't listen to Bai Fenfang's beautiful words.

Shandong has been a place of great glory since ancient times, and if I want to be called the first in Shandong in the world, I am still far away. If I don't even have such self-knowledge, then how can I argue with the heroes of the world?

"Thank you, Miss Bai's painting skills are really amazing, and it fully expresses Mr. Qi's mood. I whispered in response.

"Mr. Xia has won the award, my painting skills are family heirloom, see laugh, see laugh. Bai Fenfang said.

She lifted the first picture and handed it to the hostess, and the second one below made me lose my mind and stand up.

Most of the painting was empty, and the little man was still standing in the crevice in the belly of the cliff, leaning forward, looking down the cliff.

At the very bottom of the painting, a small part of a building is exposed, with only two floors of windows and the roof visible.

Of course, the meaning of this painting is not that the villain sees the roof of the building, but that he watches the building fall. In other words, the sinking of the mirror chamber was born under his nose.

"Really...... ......"I couldn't control the trembling of my body, because from this painting, I could imagine Tang Wan sinking forever into the abyss with the fall of the building, and his despair and confusion at that time could not be described in human language and voice." This kind of sinking is equivalent to the sinking of the "unsinkable ship" Titanic when it hit an iceberg.

No one believes that a building can sink in an instant, even the people who are in it. They believe that they are safe, and they also believe that this huge cement concrete structure can survive for a century, just like the Titanic will never sink.

"It's true. Bai Fenfang said.

"Mr. Xia, don't be too sad. Red Sleeves grabbed me by the arm and dragged me back to my seat.

"I've seen a lot of strange things, but none of them have ever been like this, and there is no possibility at all, even if I look through the encyclopedia of the world, I can't find any answers. The scariest thing is that my friends are in it, and they ...... together Lost all together. "I wanted to cry, but I couldn't, because the pain was so great that it covered me so much that I couldn't shed a single tear.

Mr. Qi said that he saw it with his own eyes. If you jump out one second later, you'll fall along with the building. He also said that he was a damned person, he just escaped by luck, and the final outcome must be worse than at that time. Bai Fenfang said.

In the third picture, there are only continuous and endless staircases, and the villain runs on the stairs, but the stairs are end-to-end, infinitely looping, and never run to the end. What's even stranger is that there is a sun hanging in the sky above the villain's head, and the sun has eyes and a mouth, and looks at him with a grin.

This picture is indeed puzzling, if the villain represents Qi Mei, then he is facing an endless cycle, repeatedly, back to the same place, unable to stop.

He trapped himself and at the same time was trapped by external forces, and under this double bondage, he gradually became powerless to struggle. Red Sleeves tried to explain.

She is a girl, and girls are often thoughtful and able to read what is subconscious of others.

"Mr. Xia, what do you say?" Bai Fenfang asked.

From this painting, I thought of the legend of "Kuafu chasing the sun" in ancient mythology. Kuafu began to run wildly from the sunrise in the east to the sunset land in the west, and when he was about to succeed, he died of exhaustion and his body turned into a hill and woodland. This mythical image has brought all kinds of inspiration to future generations, men take him as an example of struggle, women look to him as an idol, the old people learn from him not to act in vain, and the children are willing to learn his fighting power to fight against the entire universe single-handedly.

So, what kind of mentality does the "endless running" and "smiling sun" appear in Qi Mei's dream?

"He knows—" I thought as I organized my vocabulary, "he knew something, and those things had to do with the higher-ups, the higher-ups, the big men, even some mysterious organization, some kind of great power, and the smiling sun represented the big men who were high up. As this running villain, he knows that all efforts are in vain, that all power is in the hands of the big men, that the people are like ants, and the gods are like the sun and the moon. He saw his predicament, but he was powerless to change it, and he couldn't help what he lost and what he gained, and he couldn't refuse or stop it. So, he questioned his own existence. ”

Anyone who has read history knows that the word "doorman" is just an official synonym for "idler, long-term worker, and short-term worker", but its fundamental meaning remains the same.

The doorman can use the master's reward to dress and eat, but he cannot influence the master's will, so he can only go with the flow. At the critical moment, you must also stand up and repay the kindness of your master with your body and life.

Therefore, even the "first doorman of the provincial capital" is just a "doorman".

As a man, once you see through your obscene and humble life, what is the point of living?

Bai Fenfang nodded lightly: "I deeply agree." ”

She peeled off the third and opened the fourth.

In the middle of the painting there was only a huge pool, and there were hundreds of fish in it, all gray and black. Several of the large fish were up to a third the length of the pool, with their backs exposed on the water's surface, almost stranded.

According to the unspoken rules of Chinese dream interpreters, dreaming of fish is a sign of wealth, big fish and big wealth, small fish and small wealth, flying fish raining windfall, and fish in dry land is digging up the soil to get wealth.

All in all, no matter what kind of fish it is, as long as you see a fish, it is a good dream and a good thing.

"Good picture. "I was the first to say the praise.

Everyone's mood was very low, and the atmosphere in the hall of the café was depressing, so I wanted to dispel the thick clouds in the house by saying this.

"There are a lot of fish, just like the fish in Wulongtan Park. "Red Sleeves echoed me.

"Yes, a lot of fish. Bai Fenfang smiled bitterly.

(Tianjin)