Chapter 22 Section 2 What is the other "I" doing

Sangya has been in Beijing for more than two months. On weekends, Lou Xiaolou took her to climb the Great Wall, visit the Forbidden City, take her to visit the China Science and Technology Museum, and play in Happy Valley. Sangya doesn't seem to be very interested in these places, she prefers to sit and chat with Lou Xiaolou, and chat with him about Qimen Dunjia. Lou Xiaolou said: "The fax machine was finally not thrown away, and it returned to my study. Now, in the middle of the night, it occasionally spits out a fax, all about Qimen Dunjia." Sangya said, "Aren't you afraid?"

Lou Xiaolou said: "I will treat it as an invisible teacher, teaching me correspondence every day in a distant place." Sangya said, "Are you studying?" Lou Xiaolou said: "Too busy. However, I collected all the words and patterns and bound them into a book. When I am free, I must learn it." Sangya said, "Recently, what was your teacher telling you?" Lou Xiaolou said: "Five elements." Sangya: "Is there any relationship between gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in the five elements and these five substances?" Lou Xiaolou: "The five elements are actually dividing everything in the world into five categories according to their nature. They are mutually beneficial, mutually restraining, mutually opposing, mutually beneficial, mutually harmful, mutually compatible, and mutually transformable. No one can do without each other. For example, a person has parents, children and grandchildren, nobles and villains on the left, spouse and lover on the right, and you and brothers and sisters in the middle. Parents, children and grandchildren, superiors , spouse, you and brothers and sisters as the center, and each of them has a relationship of five directions. Everything is intricately intertwined in this way, dynamically forming a family, society, and even the universe. For example, the relationship between the five elements of this person’s parents affects changed his five-element relationship. And this person's changed five-element relationship has affected the five-element relationship of his descendants..."

Sang Ya: "This is a bit similar to the theory of the biological chain." Lou Xiaolou: "Except for the biological world, there is such a chain relationship in everything, but it is invisible to the naked eye." Usually, Lou Xiaolou goes to work and Sang Ya goes to school. It's cold, it's snowing, and the world is pure white. When it snows, the whole world becomes a hospital.That is God healing the ashesed souls of mankind. On this day, Lou Xiaolou called her mother at work, and wanted to ask her if she had received her paper letter recently, or had she received a call from her, or had she seen herself.

Mother is not at home. The person who pretended to be himself has now followed Sangya to Beijing.Lou Xiaolou became worried for her mother.He decided to buy a mobile phone for his mother so that he could contact her anytime. He put down the phone and was about to go to the street to buy a mobile phone, when a person walked into the consultation room. He was Lou Xiaolou's former colleague. Two years ago, he was recruited by a private plastic surgery hospital to become a plastic surgeon. It is said that the annual salary is 50. Ten thousand. As soon as he came in, he sat down on Lou Xiaolou's chair carelessly, with a "creak" sound when he pressed it down.Then, he crossed his legs and said, "Lou Xiaolou, you are getting fat."

Lou Xiaolou said: "You are the one who is rich." The beautician said, "When I saw you three days ago, you were at least fifteen pounds thinner than you are now." Lou Xiaolou said: "The last time we met was three months ago!" The beautician said: "Nonsense, didn't we meet three days ago?" Lou Xiaolou said, "You must have mistaken the person." The beautician sat up straight and said, "I even gave you a box of Pu'er tea! Do you want to renege on your debt?" His expression didn't look like he was joking. Lou Xiaolou became vigilant and said, "Why should I go to you?"

The beautician said: "You go and find a girl named..." He patted his head and remembered: "By the way, Lin Yaoyao, you go find a girl named Lin Yaoyao." Lou Xiaolou felt gloomy. If Lin had been a medical representative a year ago, this old colleague would not know her.He asked carefully, "What clothes is he wearing?" The beautician said: "What do you mean? That person is not you? How is it possible!" Lou Xiaolou didn't want to scare him, so he said, "I have a half-brother who is very similar to me. I suspect it's him." The beautician thought for a while and said, "I'm wearing a brown jacket on the outside, a light yellow dress shirt on the inside, and a pair of navy blue dress pants..."

Lou Xiaolou continued to ask, "What does he look like?" The beautician looked at Lou Xiaolou and said, "It's exactly the same as you, and the twins are not so similar. I have worked with you in the North Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for seven or eight years, and I am very familiar with you. You said he is your colleague. I wouldn’t believe it even if I killed my half-brother.” Whether he believed it or not, Lou Xiaolou continued to ask, "What did he say?" The beautician thought for a while and said, "He talked to me with a pen. He said he had a polyp in his throat and couldn't speak. He said that the girl named Lin Yaoyao came to the plastic surgery hospital to change her face for a man. To stop her. I checked for him, and there was no customer named Lin Yaoyao in our hospital, so he left. Before he left, he still said on the paper that he would search all the plastic surgery hospitals in Beijing. I want to find Lin. I also told her that if she finds this girl, she must be recommended to our hospital. We have several Korean experts, and we can give him a discount..."

Lou Xiaolou said, "What else?" The beautician said, "No more." Lou Xiaolou said: "How many plastic surgery hospitals are there in Beijing?" The beautician said: "There are too many, I haven't counted them." Lou Xiaolou said: "If you see him again, call me immediately." The beautician said: "If he is really not you, if I see him again, I will definitely call the police." Lou Xiaolou said: "Check first, what if it's me!" The beautician looked at Lou Xiaolou and suddenly smiled: "Aren't you making up ghost stories with me?"

Lou Xiaolou said, "Just take it as a ghost story." After the beautician left, Lou Xiaolou called Lin Yaoyao again, but the phone was still turned off.Called the pharmaceutical factory, they said she still did not show up. It seems that Lin Yao is really going to do something stupid.She took the portrait of the girl he drew and went for plastic surgery, and wanted to appear in front of his eyes with the face of his dream lover... However, how does the other self know what Lin wants to do? In the afternoon, Lou Xiaolou was driving on the street looking for it. Whenever he passed a plastic surgery hospital, he would go in and ask if there was a customer named Lin Yaoyao.If not, he asked if a man had come here recently to find Lin Yaoyao.

He had smelled another version of himself in several plastic surgery hospitals—the one in the brown jacket, pale yellow dress shirt, and navy blue dress pants had just left before he walked in. Lou Xiaolou has no brown jacket, no light yellow shirt, no navy blue pants. After dinner, Lou Xiaolou continued to drive around. Near the Southwest Third Ring Road, he stopped when he saw a mobile phone store, went in and bought a silver-gray Nokia 8800 mobile phone for his mother.Coincidentally, next to this mobile phone shop is a plastic surgery hospital named "Perfect Storm".He stepped in with one step.

There was no one at the front desk, so he yelled a few times before running over to a girl in a light blue suit. Lou Xiaolou said: "Please check for me, do you have a customer named Lin Yaoyao here?" The girl looked him up and said, "Didn't you check yesterday? I told you, she's not here. Are you her boyfriend?" Lou Xiaolou simply chatted with her: "I'm not. Let me ask you, if a girl loves a man obsessively, but the man doesn't like her. One day, this girl suddenly disappears, what is the biggest possibility?" The girl thought for a while and said, "I committed suicide." Lou Xiaolou looked at her for a while and said, "Can you?" The girl said: "I don't know, there are so many men in this world! Hey, your voice is healed so quickly?" Lou Xiaolou didn't answer, just smiled at him, then turned and left. Back in the car, Lou Xiaolou leaned on the seat and began to think: Why is that person exactly like himself?If he is really another self, why are the costumes of the two different?Also, why did he break through the iron shoes to prevent Lin from having plastic surgery? Suddenly, he thought of an absurd possibility—the man who had been looking for Lin Yaoyao was not himself.He loves Lin Yao Yao as madly as Lin Yao Yao loves himself.He knew that the dream lover Lin wanted was Lou Xiaolou, so he changed into Lou Xiaolou's appearance through plastic surgery.Now, this man who has become a copy of Lou Xiaolou, knows that Lin is going to do plastic surgery for Lou Xiaolou again, he frantically looks for her, and wants her to rein in the precipice, because he has already become Lou Xiaolou... … Thinking of this, Lou Xiaolou immediately realized a certain danger—since this man is willing to change his appearance for the sake of Lin Yaoyao, then after he becomes Lou Xiaolou, he may kill the real Lou Xiaolou, In this case, Lin Yaoyao has no choice... Soon, he overturned these speculations.Perhaps, such a plot exists in TV dramas, but it cannot happen in real life. He drove to his mother's house. Without knowing whether this person is good or evil, he is very worried about his mother's safety. Along the way, he even thought that at this moment, it would be best for that person to be by his mother's side, and to be blocked by him... Regardless of whether the other party is another self, according to witnesses, he is about the same height, weight, and strength as himself.Then, if there is a conflict, he will definitely win and capture the opponent alive-under the premise that the two are evenly matched, the evil will always prevail. But, just like the real and fake Monkey King, how can he prove that he is the real son?After much deliberation, he was relieved again.There must be a way for the car to reach the mountain. Since the other party is a fake, it must be full of loopholes.If it doesn't work, call the police. Lou Xiaolou hasn't come back for several months, the building seems to be much older, and he smells a decaying air.None of the lights in the corridor were bright, it was dark. He crept upstairs gently. A man came down with a "thump, thud, thud". When he and Lou Xiaolou passed by, the two of them glanced at each other.It was too dark in the corridor, and they couldn't see each other clearly. After the man walked past Lou Xiaolou, he seemed to stop and look back. Lou Xiaolou ignored it and continued to climb up, thinking urgently in his heart, what should he do if he ran into that person at his mother's house... When he came to the door of his mother's house, his heart skipped a beat, he took a deep breath, and knocked heavily on the door. Mother came to the door, looked out through the cat's eyes, opened the door with a "crash", and said something that made Lou Xiaolou feel cold all over: "Why did you come back just after you left? What did you leave behind?" Lou Xiaolou looked at the dark stairs, turned around and rushed down. Mother shouted at the door: "Why are you running!" Lou Xiaolou chased downstairs, but it was pitch black outside, and there was no one to be seen.A gust of wind blew over, and the bushes beside the corridor fell down.Lou Xiaolou shivered. He slowly climbed up the stairs, and his mother was still waiting for him at the door. She said, "Little Lou, what did you see?" Lou Xiaolou said, "It's nothing. I bought something for you, but I forgot it in the car. I just went down and brought it up. Where's Uncle Chang?" Mother said: "He went out for a walk. Is your throat all right?" Lou Xiaolou said casually, "I don't know what's going on, it just got better all of a sudden." My mother said: "You have to be careful! If the throat is serious, it will lead to suffocation!" Lou Xiaolou took out the mobile phone from her bag and handed it to her mother: "Mom, I bought this for you. You should appreciate it. I spent a month's salary, which is more expensive than my own mobile phone." Mother said in a daze, "Why did you buy me so many mobile phones?" Lou Xiaolou turned his head quickly, and immediately realized that just now, another self must have sent a mobile phone too!He stammered and said, "The one just now...is for Uncle Chang, this one is just for you." The mother said: "Neither of us go out, and we still use two mobile phones? Can I return it?" Lou Xiaolou said, "Mom, take the mobile phone I gave you just now, and I'll take a look again." Mother took out a brand-new mobile phone from the drawer, which was exactly the same as the one Lou Xiaolou bought—a silver-gray Nokia 8800. Mother said: "I wanted to ask you something just now, but I forgot, just happened to be you back." Lou Xiaolou said, "What's the matter?" Mother said: "I went to the house in Shaoyaodi last night. Who is that girl?" Lou Xiaolou said, "A friend." Mom said, "Girlfriend?" Lou Xiaolou asked back: "What did she call you when she saw you?" Mother said, "Grandma." Lou Xiaolou said: "That's it. She calls you grandma, but she calls me uncle. How could it be a girlfriend." The mother said: "This girl is very good, but she is too young..." Lou Xiaolou said, "Mom, I told you earlier that you don't need to worry about my affairs." My mother said: "If you say you don't worry about it, I won't worry about it? When I'm gone, you will be alone, can I close my eyes! No one will cook for you, no one will wash your clothes for you..." While talking, the mother stared at Lou Xiaolou's clothes: "Did you go down to change clothes just now?" Lou Xiaolou hesitated and said, "What kind of clothes was I wearing just now?" Mother looked at Lou Xiaolou in confusion, and said, "A brown jacket, a light yellow shirt, and a pair of navy blue pants... What are you doing changing?" Lou Xiaolou said, "I'm going to a party in a while." Mother said, "Where did you change it?" Lou Xiaolou said, "In...the car." Mother said: "You must have something to hide from me!" Lou Xiaolou said: "Mom, you worry too much. Nothing happened." The mother asked again: "Just now, before you changed your clothes, what did I tell you?" Lou Xiaolou suddenly became flustered, looked down at his watch, and said, "Mom, the party is about to start, I have to go." After speaking, he walked away.His mother chased him to the door and shouted to him: "Little Lou, come back!..." Lou Xiaolou fell into deep anxiety. That night, he dreamed that he was walking in a dark world with no light around him.A gust of dark wind blew over, and he heard the rustling of the weeds. Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning in the sky, and he gasped - a man's face was almost pressed against his face, and he couldn't see who it was because it was too close. He took a step back, and there was another flash of lightning in the sky, and this time he saw the whole picture of the opponent clearly.He was wearing a light yellow shirt. He continued to stagger back, and when the third bolt of lightning flashed, he realized that the other party was a photo inlaid on a huge tombstone, with three blood-red words written on it: Your Tomb. The lightning never came on again. Lou Xiaolou couldn't see anything, and was running alone in the wild cemetery when he suddenly tripped and fell to the ground.In the darkness where no fingers could be seen, a voice sounded close to his ear: This dream went on and on all night. The next day, Lou Xiaolou woke up very late.He walked into the study and saw another piece of paper spit out from the fax machine. This time, I wrote about what each hexagram represents in nature, what role it represents in society, what identity it represents in the family, what place it represents geographically, what direction it represents in space, and what season it represents in time , what kind of animal is represented outside of human beings, what is represented in still life, what organ is represented in the human body, which color is represented in color, and which taste is represented in food. There are also the information meanings of heavenly stems, earthly branches, eight gates, nine stars, and eight gods, the corresponding specific things, and the intricate and constant relationship between them. There are also Qimen Dunjia's common jig and common fierce... Lou Xiaolou put it away and went out. On this day, he did not go to work.A college classmate came to Beijing for tourism, and he took her to climb the Great Wall. On the third day, he came to the unit, and just after opening the consultation room, someone followed him in. He was a young man in his twenties, white, wearing glasses, and a large wart between his eyebrows. "Warrah" said humbly: "Dr. Lou, after my grandfather received acupuncture at your place yesterday, he lost half of his body when he got home. We don't know what happened..." Lou Xiaolou shivered. Here comes the man. That person seemed to know that he didn't go to work today, so he walked into his consulting room in a big way, sat on his chair, and began to see patients in a serious manner. But how could he open the door of the consulting room? "Wart" is still waiting for his answer.He came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Go, I'll go to your house to have a look." "Warrah" quickly said, "Thank you, thank you, Doctor Lou." On the way, "Warrah" asked Lou Xiaolou with concern: "Is your voice able to speak?" Lou Xiaolou said: "I don't know what's going on, I just woke up this morning and it will be fine." The patient was an old man in his seventies. He sat on a wicker chair, said nothing, and was full of hostility towards everyone.His children and grandchildren respect him.The old man lives alone in a room with bright and clean windows and bright colors.Lou Xiaolou felt that the juniors in this family were very filial. Since the old man did not speak, Lou Xiaolou had no choice but to ask his relatives about the situation. They told Lou Xiaolou that the old man suffered from high blood pressure, bronchitis, and diabetes.In recent days, he felt a stiff neck and slurred speech, so he went to the North Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine yesterday.However, after acupuncture by "Doctor Lou", it became more serious when I returned home.Now, he can't even walk. Lou Xiaolou asked, "Where was my acupuncture point yesterday?" "Warrah" looked at Lou Xiaolou, with obvious dissatisfaction in his eyes.He pointed at Grandpa. Upper limb shoulders, Quchi, Waiguan, Hegu, Neiguan, Shixuan.Lower limb ring jump, Yanglingquan, Zusanli, Chengshan, Sanyinjiao, Kunlun, Yongquan. It seems that the other self is also proficient in acupoints and acupuncture. Under the glaring gaze of the old man, Lou Xiaolou gave him a physical examination, and then he said to his family: "Now, he is in the early stage of the disease, it is best to give him western medicine. In addition, for patients with hemiplegia, massage The treatment effect is more obvious, you can take him to the massage department of our Northern Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital." When Lou Xiaolou left the old man's house, "wart" sent him downstairs. Lou Xiaolou said: "You are too polite, please go back." The elegant "wart" stopped suddenly, showing a fierce look, and said word by word: "If my grandpa is paralyzed from now on, I will never let you go."