Chapter 3 Section 3

Zhang Dashan copied the lyrics on a piece of paper and read it to Shaoling.When she went to listen to the old man singing again, her eyes were wet. Zhang Dashan suddenly said: "Shaoling, you are my daytime." "Don't talk nonsense!" Shaoling gave him a hard look, shook her head and left. Zhang Dashan was stunned for a while. In the third year of high school, because of the college entrance examination, the academic work became more and more tight. Shaoling was afraid that Zhang Dashan's frequent "weekend visits" would affect her studies, so she thought about several ways to get rid of him, but they all felt inappropriate.The classmate in the same dormitory gave her an idea: "That man, don't look at him as a sloppy person, he is actually a person with a face, you tell him clearly, 'I don't like you, don't come to me from now on. I'—he's sure not to come."

"This, it's not good...it hurts." Shaoling sat on the upper bunk, buried her head between her knees. The next day was the weekend, but Zhang Dashan didn't show up again until noon. On the third day, Zhang Dashan was still not seen.Shaoling felt that something was wrong, she sent him a text message but there was no reply, and when he called, his cell phone turned off again, which made her a little uneasy.In the next few months, she did the simulation questions day and night, and only when she rubbed her sore eyes, the simple and honest figure of Zhang Dashan quietly appeared in front of her eyes.

After the college entrance examination, she finally found out about him. It turned out that when he was shopping for vegetables at the vegetable market that day, he saw a Honda knocking down an old lady who was picking up vegetable leaves. The car didn't even stop, so he planned to drive away.Furious, Zhang Dashan grabbed a brick and threw it at the Honda, smashing a big hole in the rear window with a bang. This caused a big accident, and the nanny of the deputy county magistrate's family was sitting in the car. Zhang Dashan was captured on the spot.In the end, the court sentenced him to three years in prison.

Shaoling ran to the prison to see him, sat in the dark visiting room for a while, the door opened, and only the prison guard came in, and told her: "Zhang Dashan doesn't want to see you, you can go." Go again, still missing. The third time I went, I still couldn't see her—Shaoling knew that he would never see her again. The university admission letter was sent to Shaoling soon. She was admitted to a university in the provincial capital and studied "Senior Service and Management" for three years.After graduating, she did not rely on connections and find a way to stay in the provincial capital to work like other students. Instead, she went back to her hometown - that still remote and barren village, and opened a nursing home.

Not long after, the nursing home was forced to close because of an accident.She went to the county hospital as an ordinary nurse.Since she lives in the countryside, she has to travel by bus between counties and townships for several hours every day. 00 Today, a pregnant woman had a massive hemorrhage. She participated in the rescue and got off work very late, and the last bus was gone long ago.She stood on the side of the road, tiptoeing anxiously, hoping that there would be no passing car to pick her up.A gust of wind caused her to half-close her eyes, and when she opened her eyelids, a Jinbei stopped in front of her.The car window was rolled down, revealing Zhang Dashan's familiar yet unfamiliar face. The shape of the face remained unchanged, but there were some fine lines worn by the years, especially the eyes, which were a little cloudy.

"Go home?" Zhang Dashan yelled at her, "Get in the car!" She didn't really want to, but eventually she did. "How are you doing recently?" Zhang Dashan stepped on the gas pedal, and Jin Bei swayed his bulky body onto the national road. Shaoling didn't answer. She felt that these years, and everything that happened in these years, could not be explained clearly in one or two sentences. She looked out of the car window: the vast night covered the entire grassland, and the sky and the earth could not be distinguished at all. There were only some darker undulations on the dark background. They were mountains, undulating but inexplicable in shape—just like her at this moment. thoughts.The wind rattled the car windows, and the cold air gnashed into the car through the gaps in the glass, hissing... The body shook more and more violently, as if it was about to be torn apart by the wind.

Let it go, don't many things go by it?Thinking like this, she gradually closed her tired eyes. Just when the consciousness became more and more blurred—— Squeeze the brakes! Then I saw that terrifying scene... A line that is often said in TV dramas is "It's like being in a dream". At this moment, sitting in the bumpy car, holding the woman in white clothes covered in blood, Shaoling doesn't know if this is a nightmare that is about to end, or just start…… Jinbei walked around several low hills, and saw a shiny oval spread out in the distance of the grassland—"Eren Chagan Nuoer" had arrived. "Chagannuoer" means a white lake, and "Eren" means "illusion". Therefore, the full Mongolian name of this lake should be "dreamlike white lake".

But the nearby Han herdsmen call this lake "Lake of Tears". The reason why it got such a name is because the shape of the lake is like a teardrop, and the lake water is bitter and salty.Clumps of tangled reeds surround the shore of the lake, and there are several strangely shaped birch trees standing upright like bones in the cold wind.A small two-storey building stands alone by the lake—this is the lakeside building, an ordinary hotel. Jinbei stopped in front of the lakeside building, and the moment the engine was turned off, the wind outside the car window suddenly increased.Zhang Dashan squinted his eyes to observe the small dark building, and suddenly remembered the word "vortex".At this moment, he clearly had an unusually clear feeling in his heart:

This small building is like a vortex, as long as he dares to take a step out of the carriage, he will be sucked into an unfathomable black hole by a huge mysterious force, and he will never be able to escape from there... Crash! The sound made Zhang Dashan's heart skip a beat. Turning around, he saw Shaoling open the car door, ready to jump out of the car. "What are you doing? Let the wind blow away!" he yelled. "Come back!" Shaoling hesitated for a moment, then shrank back into the car, "Didn't Li Dazui's shop always keep the lights off all night? Why is it so dark now?"

She said, how could Zhang Dashan, who often drives at night, not know? As for Li Dazui, the owner of the Hupan Building—Zhang Dashan is very familiar—he is a hardworking and enthusiastic person. He is afraid that there will be travelers who cannot find accommodation on the grassland at any time, so the lights in front of the hotel are always on all night. of.When Zhang Dashan emptied the car and went home, if he was unhappy or too tired, he would definitely come here to find Li Dazui for a drink, and chat for a whole night. However, there were times when the two fell out. That time, Li Dazui, who was full of alcohol, put his arms around Zhang Dashan's shoulders, hiccupping and said: "That girl Shaoling... Uh, it's not good to do something when she comes back from college, open a nursing home, and it turns out... Uh, it's not as good as Come to me, my face is so handsome..."

Before Li Dazui could say anything more extreme, Zhang Dashan slapped him under the table, scaring the shop assistants to call the police.When "Carrot", the director of the township police station, brought people over, Li Dazui ignored the bright red five finger prints on his face and insisted that he bumped into the wall.Carrot was very angry and funny, so he gave Zhang Dashan a few words and left. Seeing the back of Carrot leaving, Li Dazui turned around and scolded the man who called the police: "We brothers are just kidding around, why the hell are you calling the police?!" Thinking of this, Zhang Dashan suddenly became nervous, Li Dazui regarded himself as a brother, and now his hotel is black and white, obviously something is wrong, if something serious happens, it is appropriate for him to just wait and do it? Zhang Dashan took out his mobile phone and called the police at the township police station. The signal was very poor, and it took him a long time to get through. immediately?I do not know yet?Thank goodness you didn't drive that wretched Jeep into a ditch in weather like this. Just keep waiting. Jinbei's headlights were on, and two beams of light were projected on the gate of the lakeside building.In the dark balcony, the two glass doors reflect a yellow luster, just like the round "Shou" character on a cardigan shroud.The door was swayed by the night wind, as if some indescribable objects were about to get out from under the shroud and float away... As a result, the building became stiffer and colder like a corpse . Zhang Dashan's heart sank more and more, sinking, sinking, like a stone thrown into a well, but it never sank to the bottom.This feeling is really uncomfortable. Vortex... Fuck the vortex! Zhang Dashan grabbed the big wrench and pushed open the left-hand car door. The wind rushed into the car, choking Shaoling to cough uncontrollably.He glanced back at her and jumped out of the car. "Dashanzi! Come back! Come back to me!" With a bang, Zhang Dashan slammed the car door behind him, sealing her cries in the narrow compartment.She looked at Zhang Dashan's back, and watched him get in through the opening of the "shroud".Beside him, the woman in white was sitting stiffly, like a piece of lifeless skin. Shaoling shuddered.