forget the soul

Yu Rong went back to the hotel and fell asleep. When he woke up, it was just 10 minutes after two o'clock in the morning. He couldn't sleep anymore. The server reads the mail. Janet sent him a letter asking how he was doing, how the documentary was going, and she said, "Matt will never want you to know, God, he has to find three people to do what you do alone. Wait for you Back in New York, maybe I'll quit my job by then too, who knows. I hope everything goes well with you. I miss the steamed buns from Suzhou, and say hello to your father for me."

Yu Rong clicked into the reply interface, put his finger on the keyboard and thought for a long time, then quit, he looked down at other unread emails, almost all of them were mass emails, such as airline promotional packages, New York Film Academy The invitation letter for the class reunion, the recruitment details of the assistant director of an overseas reality show of Hehe Film and Television, and the recruitment of the [-]th Montreal Chinese Film Festival has started.

The water boiled, Yu Rong made a cup of tea, closed the computer, sat by the window and lit a cigarette. He smoked, drank tea, and looked at his mobile phone.In the middle of the night, the circle of friends is still very lively, and people update it from time to time. Qu Shengge’s new film is screened at midnight, and the film company distributes tickets everywhere. Uploaded a photo on the inside page, the photographer is Japanese, and the shooting location is in Chinatown, New York, where Wang Tong's second Chinese feature film will be filmed. I don’t see any difference in the background. One of the accompanying texts reads: Night Sioux City, and the other reads: The school girl said, piercing my heart, with a laughing and crying emoji; someone reposted Time magazine to vote for the top 20 movies of the [-]th century Some people reposted articles on the official account, focusing on Sanhe, the second child, how to get out of the dilemma of consumerism, and where to go for the disappearing villages.

Yu Rong clicked on a few articles, read a few and closed them all at the beginning. He sent a WeChat message to his WeChat friend Jennifer.

I have arrived in Suzhou.

After a break, he sent another post: Osmanthus fragrans are blooming, and they are very fragrant everywhere.

Jennifer didn't reply, the night was getting darker, no one even posted selfies, the world was silent inside and outside, Yu Rong grabbed his mobile phone, finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, took his room card, put on his backpack and went out.

There is no one on the street, and occasionally cars pass by, crushing the spotty street lights, the wind falls asleep, and the city breathes warmth and fragrance of flowers.When passing by a few osmanthus trees, Yu Rong stopped. He took out his mobile phone and took a few pictures. The light was dim and the imaging effect was poor. He turned on the flash and took a few more pictures. The small white flowers are clustered tightly together, as if afraid of seeing people, carefully hiding under the long and thick leaves.

The flowers are so fragrant.

Yu Rong sneezed and sent all the photos to Jennifer.

He continued walking along Fenghuang Street for a while, saw the street sign of Kuojiatou Lane, and turned in. The alley was so narrow that one person could pass through it, and the road was very uneven. It was only slightly wider after passing the main entrance of Master of the Nets Garden. However, the road was still difficult to walk. After walking about ten meters further, Yu Rong saw a few strings of withered creepers hanging on a white wall. There was an electronic gate on the side of the creepers, and black oily paint was scrawled on the gate. The pen reads: Kuojiatouxiang-4.

Yu Rong took out the key, unlocked the door, and entered the door. Behind the door were two low public houses. He turned into a four-story public house on the east side, went up to the third floor, opened the door of 301, and entered the house.It was a bit hot in the room, and the doors and windows were closed tightly. Yu Rong first opened the doors and windows downstairs, and then went to the second floor to open the windows for ventilation. Bookcase, surrounded by that bookcase is a desk with only one lamp on it.Yu Rong went over and touched the table, then looked at the floor.

Yu Rong clicked on WeChat and sent a message to Sister Mingming: Thank you Sister Mingming for helping to clean it, please tell Lao Yu for me.

I couldn't think of anything to say, so Yu Rong deleted it again.This WeChat message was not sent.

He put his phone back into his pocket, took a few books from the bookcase and put them into his backpack. He looked at the desk again, thought for a while, and went to the kitchen downstairs to find a garbage bag.He opened all the drawers under the desk, there were four drawers, and there was a mess inside, mini flashlights, photo albums, balls of wool, empty folders, Thai plants, Vietnamese Dong, cross-stitch storage boxes , stacks of bank deposit and withdrawal records, and courier slips.He threw and received things, and tore up the receipts with his name on them. In the bottom drawer, he found two bulging envelopes. The envelopes were of the same size and style, and they were both printed with: Hu Bingshun, Zhende Address: No. 89-1 Xiatang Street, Changmen Nei, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

There are two landline numbers attached, the area codes are both in Shanghai, and there is another mobile phone number.

The difference is that one envelope is handwritten: Yu Rong, a brief test of the horoscope and a brief analysis of the natal hexagrams, and the other is written: Huang Xiuli, a brief test of the horoscope and a brief analysis of the natal hexagrams.

Yu Rong sat down, turned on the lamp, and opened Huang Xiuli's envelope.There are five sheets of A4 paper folded in the envelope, two sheets are the horoscope analysis, three are the hexagram image analysis, and one of the three hexagram image analysis sheets is in the form of a table, with Tiande, Yuede, and Tianguan printed on one side Nouns, some of these words are circled, and some are crossed. These five sheets of paper are almost all classical Chinese. Huang Xiuli is the reincarnation of the God of Cookery, with both wealth and fortune. Just beware of villains harming her. She will suffer a catastrophe at 88. If she can get through it safely, she will live to be a hundred years old, and her children and grandchildren will be full. Sharing a family relationship is not a problem.

Yu Rong opened the envelope of "Yu Rong" again. The paper said that because he was born in the early morning and the five elements lacked water, he suggested digging a well in the southeast of his residence. There are no signs of robbery and waste, and it is also said that he will meet two noble people in his life, who can help him turn danger into luck and turn danger into safety.

Yu Rong spread the paper on the table, rested his cheeks, and sent Jennifer a WeChat message: It feels like I'm making a movie.

He looked out of the window and said: "It's not yet dawn outside, I'm sitting here watching my own fate."

He laughed to himself, put the two letters into his backpack, closed the window, turned off the light, and left.

Coming out of Kuojiatou Lane, he walked in the direction of Ganjiang Road. It was still dark, but the potsticker shop and pancake stall on Fenghuang Street, Xi Shengyuan, had already started business.Yu Rong carried his bag on his back and lit a cigarette. After the cigarette was finished, Jinshuitai was nearby. He went in and ate a bowl of noodles. When he came out, Zhu Hongxing Braised Vegetables opposite had opened. There were more people on the road, and battery cars drove past on the sidewalk. He avoided a few cars, and went back with smoked fish in his pocket.

He entered the room, pressed the "Do Not Disturb" indicator light, put down his backpack, sat on the sofa and took out the two fortune-telling letters to read. He still couldn't understand them. The words just circled him, trapped him, made him confused, made him dizzy, his consciousness was suddenly disconnected, he seemed to be asleep, and he seemed to be dreaming.He saw a woman sitting at a desk writing, sitting at a desk reading a letter.He also saw Lin Wangyue, saw him step out of a magazine photo, saw him crawl out from under a mountain of mannequins.I saw Lin Wangyue, 17 years old, sitting on the steps smoking a cigarette, his trouser legs rolled up to his calves, his hair and arms were wet, and he was also seen wearing a black robe, like a god of death, like an emperor.He wields a sickle, and he holds a scepter, and a golden crown on his head.

He flew away like a crow.

Yu Rong woke up and looked at the time. At 03:30 in the afternoon, Yu Rong pinched the center of his eyebrows and called Lao Yu. He said, "I'll go to your place now, and I'll be there in about an hour."

He took the smoked fish to take the bus, 935, got off at Xuhongyuan, walked for about ten minutes to Xinkang Garden, and found Lao Yu's house after another ten minutes of searching.

Lao Yu was waiting for him at home, when Yu Rong entered the house, Lao Yu kicked him a pair of slippers, Yu Rong said while changing his shoes, "I bought some smoked fish."

Lao Yu was wearing cotton-padded clothes and trousers, and looked at Yu Rong: "Ah Leng, are you wearing such a little?"

Yu Rong was wearing short sleeves and single pants, he shook his head: "It's not cold."

Lao Yu led him to the living room: "Buy me smoked fish? Sit down and rest."

"Just passing by Zhu Hongxing."

"What's good about Zhu Hongxing's stewed vegetables?" Old Yu said, leading Yu Rong to the sofa, and took the smoked fish in his hand to the kitchen.Yu Rong sat down, looked around, turned on the TV, and asked Lao Yu, "Are you alone at home? Wu Wu still goes to school on Sunday?"

Wuwu is sister Mingming's daughter, and has no blood relationship with Lao Yu.

Lao Yu didn't speak, and ran out of the kitchen in a hurry, still holding the bag of smoked fish in his hand, he turned off the TV in a hurry, and said, "There's nothing to watch on TV right now." He winked at the corridor, "Xiao Zhao, do your homework in the room."

Yu Rong raised his hand, but didn't make a sound.Lao Yu carried the smoked fish into the kitchen again, and after a while, he came out, clasped his hands, and stood looking at Yu Rong: "Wait, let's go downstairs and buy some groceries together, what do you want to eat?"

"Eat whatever you want." Yu Rong said, and Lao Yu muttered: "Eat whatever you want..."

He frowned, looking unhappy.Yu Rong sat silently without speaking. He saw the TV cabinet behind Lao Yu and asked, "Those vases and the purple sand teapot, did you bring them from home?"

"Ah?" Old Yu turned sideways, waved his hands wildly in the air, and sat next to Yu Rong: "What, I bought it crookedly when I was with your mother, don't you remember?"

Yu Rong stopped talking, and there are some other decorations in the living room, such as agate potted plants, bronze pixiu, a miniature clay model of Huangshan Yingke Pine, and many photos hanging on the wall, including black and white photos of Old Yu when he was young, and old Yu He Sister Mingming’s group photos are by the sea, by the mountains and by the water.The background of one of the photos is an old house with a bluestone wall. There is a group of people who look like a camera crew standing in front of the door. Lao Yu is also inside, wearing a hard hat, leaning next to several other people wearing hard hats. standing right.

Doesn’t mean Rong Wen, Lao Yu said first: “Isn’t there a show about renovating old houses in Shanghai before? I came to Suzhou for an episode and asked me to make some furniture.”

Yu Rong nodded, Old Yu cleared his throat, opened the package of fragrant melon seeds, and ate the melon seeds, the father and son had nothing to say again.

Later, Wu Wu came out of the room. When she passed the living room, she saw Yu Rong and waved enthusiastically: "Brother! You're back."

Yu Rong also greeted her: "Are you going out?"

Wuwu was carrying a schoolbag, her big eyes were blinking behind her round glasses: "Are you having dinner at home?"

Yu Rong said, "Why are you wearing glasses?"

Wu Wu said: "Don't mention it, everything looks like a dandelion at night with astigmatism!"

Yu Rong smiled, and Lao Yu rubbed his hands, and asked Wu Wu with a smile, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Wu Wu said: "I'll go to Xiaofeng's house later."

Old Yu still smiled: "Then I'll take you there."

Yu Rong asked him, "Did you get your driver's license?"

"Xiaofeng lives in the neighborhood next door, let's walk over there." Old Yu said.

Wu Wu said: "I'll go there by myself, I'm leaving."

She left as soon as she said, and Lao Yu chased to the entrance: "Don't forget to tell your mother! I'll pick you up at night!"

The door was closed, and Lao Yu came back, with his shoulders upright, stroking his palms back and forth, and said, "Xiaofeng is her boyfriend." He looked at Yu Rong, and asked him, "What happened to that mixed-race little Niangyu (little girl) last time?" Didn't come back with you this time?"

Yu Rong said, "Wuwu will take the college entrance examination this year?"

Lao Yu found the remote control and turned on the TV, and said, "Girls, as long as they marry well, Xiaofeng's family has a pretty big business, and they also make furniture. I know his father and uncle."

Yu Rong said: "Just tell me about this kind of thing, don't say it in front of Auntie."

Old Yu raised his eyebrows and threw away the remote control: "Why am I talking about this in front of Auntie?"

Yu Rong lowered his head, touched his fingers, and said, "Auntie is fine."

"Auntie is pretty good." Old Yu's voice turned up, "Am I not good to Auntie? I bought the car. When Wuwu gets married, I will definitely give 30. How much will her father give her?" in spite of."

Yu Rong didn't speak.

Old Yu said again: "Why don't Wuwu eat at home? Let's eat whatever we want. Auntie doesn't eat at night, so she can lose weight."

Saying that, Lao Yu went to the kitchen, pots and pans, ping-pong, Yu Rong watched TV, occasionally looked at Lao Yu, Lao Yu was fast, and in a blink of an eye, a pot of soup and a plate of fried chicken feathers came out He greeted Yu Rong: "Eat!"

Finally he brought out the smoked fish, opened a bottle of beer and took two glasses.

Old Yu drank, poured wine for Yu Rong, and said: "There are venetian knots in the chicken soup, you like to eat, eat more!"

Yu Ronghao (sheng) soup, a whole butter chicken, only half of the chicken breast, two chicken legs, and two chicken wings are missing.

Yu Rong asked Lao Yu, "Is there any food?"

Old Yu said: "We don't eat now! We eat miscellaneous grains! There is still some rice left in the morning, you should eat vegetables first, eat."

Yu Rong picked up some chicken feathers and chewed them carefully. Old Yu drank too fast, and he was on his second bottle. After drinking too much, his voice became louder and the topic became wild.Old Yu said: "You are [-] years old this year. Dad knows that you are all celebrating birthdays of your full age. Dad will celebrate your birthday for you!"

"My birthday has passed." Yu Rong said.

Lao Yu hiccupped, drank all the wine in the glass, smacked his tongue, opened the third bottle of beer, stared and said, "I'm sure I'll give you a watch!"

Yu Rong ate vegetables and dried chicken breast, and asked Old Yu, "When did I give birth, do you remember?"

"Why don't you remember! You were born at noon!" Lao Yu's eyes were as wide as copper bells.Yu Rong put down his chopsticks and said, "I don't usually wear a watch, so you can keep the money for yourself."

"If you have it, wear it crooked!!" Lao Yu touched his forehead and made his hair stick up one by one. He stood up on the table, brought chicken soup and chicken feathers into the kitchen, and said, "I used to Cooked vegetable porridge, your favorite food!"

He opened the refrigerator and took out a plate wrapped in plastic wrap. Yu Rong looked at it, and it seemed that it was a few pieces of braised pork. The pork belly formed white grease under the plastic wrap.Yu Rong lit a cigarette.

Lao Yu turned on the fire, put all the chicken feathers and braised pork into the chicken soup, and finally added rice. There was a gurgling sound in the soup pot. He turned off the fire and took the pot to the table.A pot of soup became muddy and red.

Yu Rong flicked the ashes, and Lao Yu filled him with a large bowl of chaotic rice.He also filled a bowl for himself, sat down, took two mouthfuls, breathed out the hot air, and asked Yu Rong with trembling lips: "Ah, delicious? Is it delicious?"

Yu Rong lowered his head to eat the chicken feathers and venetian knots in the rice. After a break, he looked up at Lao Yu, who was eating hotly and sweating on his forehead. Yu Rong put down his chopsticks, looked at Lao Yu, looked at him behind the kitchen.The kitchen window was half open.The fragrance of flowers wafts in.

Yu Rong said: "When I came here, I saw that the sweet-scented osmanthus downstairs was in full bloom."

Old Yu Hulu Hulu eating rice.

Yu Rong said: "It seems to be golden osmanthus, which is relatively rare."

Lao Yu wanted to add more rice to Yu Rong, and looked at his rice bowl: "Why do you only eat this little! Eat more, eat more!"

"A little sleepy." Yu Rong said, lighting another cigarette.

Old Yu frowned and asked him: "Yesterday, it was too late to play, what time did you play until?"

"I'm jet-lagged," Yu Rong said.His head started hurting again.

Old Yu asked: "What time did you go back yesterday? Did your friend send you back?"

Yu Rong said: "In the future, I may cooperate with Tianxi Media to write scripts or something."

"Writing scripts? Didn't you learn to be a director?"

Yu Rong fell silent.Lao Yu still told him to eat more: "Eat, you lose weight too? Look at your arms, don't eat KFC McDonald's all day long, what did you have for breakfast? What did you eat in the hotel? How much is it?"

Yu Rong said, "I went to Jinshuitai to eat a bowl of noodles in the morning."

Lao Yu stopped talking, gnawing chicken feet and gizzards.Yu Rong ate cigarettes and picked up a piece of smoked fish. The TV station was broadcasting entertainment news. Qu Shengge's new film was screened to great acclaim.

Old Yu took out two tissues and blew his nose, and said, "You can go to that Uncle Qu and ask, isn't he the one who wrote your letter of recommendation?"

Yu Rong cleaned up the dishes and said, "I'm really sleepy."

"Jet difference? If you can't hold on, it will pass."

Yu Rong took the bowls and chopsticks and went to the kitchen. He washed the dishes and brushed the chopsticks, but didn't answer, and Lao Yu said, "Ah, auntie is back."

Yu Rong turned off the faucet and leaned out to look out. It was indeed Sister Mingming who had returned and was changing shoes at the porch.Yu Rong wiped his hands, walked out, and said apologetically, "Sister Mingming, I'm sorry, Lao Yu dragged me to eat, so we'll eat first."

"You guys are done eating, it's okay, do you want to add something?" Sister Mingming came over wearing slippers, looked at the dining table, turned around and said, "I'll go down and buy a roast duck, these are not enough!"

Old Yu said: "Let's talk after eating, talk after eating!"

Yu Rong said, "I've already eaten."

Sister Mingming had already walked back to the door and was putting on her shoes, so Old Yu said, "Let's buy some more candied lotus root."

Yu Rong chased after him, changed his shoes, and said, "It's really unnecessary, I'm full, so don't bother me."

Old Yu shouted behind them again: "Don't go out to play!! Come over for dinner tomorrow! I called your uncle and uncle! I haven't seen you for a long time!"

Yu Rong bowed his head to tie his shoelaces, sister Mingming opened the door, Yu Rong looked up at her, and she said, "I'll see you off."

There is always no expression on her face.Yu Rong smiled, and the two went downstairs together.

When walking on the stairs, sister Mingming asked Yu Rong: "Ah, I want to call a car for you. You don't have Didi in your mobile phone. You can't use it in the United States."

Yu Rong said: "I came here by bus, 935 can go directly, and you can also go to 5."

Sister Mingming was quiet, and after a break, she said, "Come back and sit down when you have time. Your father is very happy to see you coming."

Yu Rong nodded and didn't speak.There are sensor lights installed in the corridor, and the response is extremely sensitive. They just walked around the corner, and the lights on the next floor were already turned on. Sister Mingming walked in front of Yu Rong, below.She said: "White shoes are more difficult to clean when they are dirty."

Yu Rong hurriedly said: "There is a film company in China that intends to invest in my film, and the salary is very cool (refreshing)."

"That's fine."

"It's called Tianxi Media."

"Ah."

Yu Rong said: "Sister Mingming, I might have something to do tomorrow night, so I won't come here."

Sister Mingming said: "It's important that you're busy with your own business. Sometimes your father just thinks about getting out."

When we got to the ground floor, sister Mingming said again: "Your dad fell down earlier, do you think he's not walking smoothly?"

Yu Rong said: "I saw the circle of friends you posted."

The two stood under the streetlight at the entrance of the apartment building. Sister Mingming said, "I'm going up."

Yu Rong looked at her, his throat was astringent, and he said, "Thank you for taking care of my father."

Sister Mingming glanced at him, left without saying anything.

Yu Rong still took the bus back. He walked to Tongjing Park and waited for You 5. He looked at the electronic information board of the bus. You 5 was waiting for a while, and there were two stops in a while. There was no confirmation, and it took more than 40 minutes to arrive. The bus, Yu Rong was almost pushed into the bus by the flow of people. During the evening rush hour, the road conditions were bad, the road was bumpy and swaying, and the bus stopped and walked quickly. Some people in the bus wanted to open the windows to ventilate. If one person refused, everyone was bored. The air smelled bad, and Yu Rong wanted to vomit, but he held back, went back to the hotel, drank most of the bottle of mineral water, and lay down on the bed to rest before he recovered.

When it was dark, he took off his shoes and pulled up the quilt to cover his feet.

He thought of Lin Wangyue, and suddenly, he only thought of him.

Lin Wangyue's hometown is in Jiangxi, but he appeared in Suzhou. Lin Wangyue saw him in the lounge and walked towards him. Lin Wangyue still recognized his classmate in the cram school.

The more Yu Rong thought about it, the faster his heart beat, the clearer his head became, and the more itchy his fingers became.

He sent a friend application to flymeto, and the application information was filled in: I am Yu Rong.

After waiting for two or three minutes, but he couldn't hear back, he sent again: It's really me.

This time he waited a little longer. After waiting for ten minutes, he still failed. Yu Rong gritted his teeth and invited for the third time. This time, he sent: Zhuhui Hotel 411, 5000.

forget the soul