Chapter 10 9. Religion in five-star hotels

After finishing the devotional class, I dragged my two valgus legs back to the hotel, turned on the computer, and prepared to write down some Buddhist nouns that the Zen master said later. When I wrote the food column, I could also increase my spiritual height. Remember those words well, open QQ, there is a message from the editor-in-chief, and there is a file to be received. "Is everything going well over there? Be careful. I'll send you a list of reimbursable expenses. You should have given it before you left, but I forgot. I'll send it to you now, so that you won't be reimbursed when you come back. "

I clicked the receive button, put the computer aside, went into the bathroom and began to take a shower, trying to ignore the yellowish water. There is a large jar of bath salts I brought on the sink. I just purchased it from Japan not long ago. I don’t have a bathtub at home, so I can’t enjoy a bath. Now hotels are also thieves. Ordinary business hotels don’t Speaking of the bathtub, the bathroom is separated by glass, so I wish I didn't even install a door. After knowing that I could go to Italy, I hurriedly purchased bath salts from Japan. I bought the most expensive ones. I thought that after the sun in Tuscany every day, I could take a dip in the old four-claw ceramic bathtub in a country hotel. Japan The purchasing agent took a long time, and I was afraid that the goods would not arrive before I left, so I urged the seller almost every day: "Has the goods arrived? Has the goods arrived? I'm in a hurry." I deliberately did not add punctuation marks to show my insanity.

In the end, the seller was forced to reply me: "My dear, please don't leave me such a message on Wangwang, we are about to be targeted by the anti-drug department." But in the end, the bath salt was delivered to me in time, the day before I came to Nepal. While I was taking a shower, I looked at the jar of bath salt through a layer of water mist. This bath salt was really wronged. It came across the ocean. People on the other side of the sea were looking forward to it. When I arrived in Nepal, it became useless. It literally witnessed the whole process of my half-month dream being inflated and re-inflated and then broken with a bang, so this bath salt has basically become my dream of Tuscany. urn.

When I was mourning, there was a bang, and the whole room was dark—the power went out, and I stood in the darkness, with water still splashing on me, and I couldn’t see anything clearly. I felt the bath towel by hand, wrapped it up casually, and walked out of the bathroom. It was really dark all around. Fortunately, the laptop was still on, and a small piece of light was faintly illuminated by the white light. I opened the door and looked outside, and the corridor was also dark. It seemed It’s because the whole building has a power outage. I’m most afraid of the dark. Since I was a child, I’ve lived alone for so many years. Every night before going to bed, I turn on a small light to deal with the unknown danger when I’m asleep—ghost I am afraid of thieves, thieves, and underpants robbers, but what I am most afraid of is the darkness itself.

I found my mobile phone and called Racine. Racine was sleeping soundly and spoke in a daze: "A power outage...it's normal. In Kathmandu, there is very little electricity and it is precious, so the whole city will have a power outage at night." ...When will the call come?...Everyone is asleep...Afraid of the dark? Oh, then you can look in the room, there are candles, there should be..." For the last few words, Racine spoke in a dreamlike tone. I hung up the phone and searched. I found two white candles in the drawer. They were thin and long. After getting up, the two small flames dangled, making the room even more spooky.

In order to relieve the tension, I held the computer firmly in my hand, and the screen showed that the reimbursement list sent to me by the editor-in-chief just now had been downloaded. List of Reimbursable Items: Accommodation category: None. (All hotels have been paid in advance by the magazine, and all the additional accommodation expenses of the author himself in the local area are not within the scope of reimbursement.) Excursions: None. (All itineraries have been entrusted by the magazine to a travel agency, and the author's own additional plans will be taken care of by himself.)

Catering: In view of the fact that the author is entrusted by the magazine to go to the local area to collect and write articles, so the catering category provides relevant account reimbursement, but only for local food in Nepal. Medical treatment: The magazine provides full reimbursement for medical treatment expenses caused by food poisoning, but the author needs to provide local medical treatment manuals, full names of therapeutic drugs and other relevant certificates. Medical treatment other than food poisoning is not within the scope of the magazine’s solution , the author himself needs to contact the overseas insurance company to solve the problem.

After reading such a reimbursement list, I was suddenly not afraid of the dark. Moreover, fortunately there was a power outage, otherwise the surrounding lights would make me feel that this list looks indifferent and cold in broad daylight. I put down the computer and walked to the window. Because I live on a high floor, the view outside the window is not bad, but as Racine said, the whole city, at least as far as I can see, is pitch black, with no neon lights, no Street lights, no office buildings that glow all over, only low buildings and temples, quietly hidden in the darkness. Because the whole city is absolutely dark, but the sky is very bright against it. Outside the window, on the right hand side, there is a pagoda standing motionless, which looks more like that than it looks in the daytime, even a little silent distant.

I'm going to bed, let go of my complaints first, let the knife in my heart be inserted first, just like the things I really want to buy on Taobao, but the grass grows and I can't afford it, let the grass let it go Well, since the whole city has a power outage, I might as well shut it down temporarily, and cooperate with each other to understand the meaning of existence. Just when I comforted myself to the point where I was about to ascend to immortality, the moment I turned around, there was suddenly a light behind me. . I turned around in surprise, and saw Hyatt opposite our hotel, that palace-like five-star hotel, with a bang, the whole was lit up, and every small window revealed a warm yellow light, looking from a distance, There is a little light in the black bushes, just like the center of the universe, and the majestic sound of the generator can be heard from a distance.

I tried flipping the light switch in my room, but still no power. The pagoda built in the middle of the hotel where I live and hyatt has a clear dividing line separated by light. The pair of prajna eyes on the top of the pagoda, one is shining in the light, and the other is in the dark Looking down at me, his expression darkened. Even if you were lying on the bed, through the thin curtains, and turned around, you could still see the dazzling light. It turns out that as long as you can afford the price of 1,600 yuan a night, Nepal, a country, can still bring you constant electricity, constant water sources, and constant service quality. The machine creates a warm color light for you. Everything happened in the five-star hotel, which has nothing to do with Nepal, the stupa, or the original mind taught by the Zen master. The religion of the five-star hotel is based on the accommodation fee. It is a system and a school of its own.

So why do so many ordinary people come to this country to find happiness?I experience this kind of gap every day in China, so why come here specially, under the witness of the gods, I am sure again that I am a complete loser in life.