Chapter 6: An Invisible Person Lying on My Back
I went to my grandma's house. My grandpa had been dead for several years. My grandma lived alone and she was really sick.
My mother takes care of me.
I don’t know if my mother wants to escape, and I don’t want to bring up this issue anymore.
That day I was walking on the street, which was my father’s favorite street. I could hear the sound of wind chimes from the Liao Tower. This street is an ancient street.
I met Yinyan, she was driving and ignored me.
I climbed up Mount Gaolu, sat on the top of the mountain, and looked at the city. Suddenly, I felt so strange.
I think of my father, I owe him too many hugs.
The next day at work, Yinyan was sitting in the office. When I went in, she closed the door.
"You're ignoring me?"
"Master, I don't have any."
Yinyan started crying, softly at first, and then she cried heart-wrenchingly. The sound was so loud that it scared me to death. It was really fatal to make the master cry so loudly.
I was stunned for a long time, then went over, pulled Yinyan up, and she threw herself into my arms.
"Stop crying."
"Then you can't not talk to me."
"well."
My forehead was covered in sweat.
My master and I sat at the operating table, and they looked at us from time to time.
"What are you looking at? Mingzhe and I are in love."
I almost fell to the ground at that time. I fell in love passively like this.
Someone suddenly stood up. It was Zhang Xiaoxue, who worked at console number six. Zhang Xiaoxue and my master had come in the same day, and we didn't talk much, as if we had some kind of disagreement. Zhang Xiaoxue and I rarely spoke either.
"Yanzi, you are too overbearing. How can you treat your master as your husband? You are a bit shameless."
As soon as I heard what this meant, I understood. There must have been some grudges between them. It's normal to have some grudges here, after all, there are many women.
"Xiaoxue, this is called skill. If you have the ability, you should use it."
Zhang Xiaoxue came over, walked to my side, looked at me and said.
"Mingzhe, I'm actually the most suitable. I'm gentle, and she's not. You can't control her temper when she gets angry."
Yinyan stood up suddenly .
“Oh my god!”
Zhang Xiaoxue screamed "Oh my god" and ran back to the console.
"Little guy, I'll scare you to death."
Everyone in the room burst into laughter.
I didn't expect that Zhang Xiaoxue's feelings for me were real.
Yinyan didn't think Zhang Xiaoxue was serious at first, it seemed like this was going to be a very troublesome matter. Zhang Xiaoxue bought me a box of ice cream, I hesitated for a moment but finally accepted it, it would be impolite not to accept it.
Yinyan looked at me and I handed her the ice cream.
"Master, you eat."
"That's more like it."
Yin Yan looked at Zhang Xiaoxue proudly. The struggle had begun. It was likely that there would be a lot of trouble for these two women.
After get off work, the master said to go to her house, and I was stunned.
"It's okay, my parents want to see you."
I know what this means.
"no."
I said this sentence decisively, and I thought of my mother.
"Why?"
"No reason, no."
"You don't like me?"
I shook my head. I didn't want to make my mother cry anymore. She'd cried for most of her life. Was I going to make her cry again? Or escape? Never return home? I could hardly do that. At this moment, I didn't want to mention my mother to Yinyan.
"Do you like Zhang Xiaoxue?"
"No, no."
I got angry and went to my grandma's house. My mother was taking care of my grandma. My grandma was already well. She held my hand and looked at me. She was always like this, very kind, always like that. And my mother always had a gloomy face. Had she never been happy in this life? I really don't know.
I left my grandmother's house, thinking about Yinyan. My master had confessed his feelings to me, but now I was caught between a rock and a hard place. On one side was my mother, and on the other was my master. What should I do? I didn't know. It was the same situation as if my mother and my girlfriend had fallen into the river. I couldn't figure it out.
I was sitting at station 8 and Zhang Xiaoxue came over.
"Mingzhe, would you like to go to the movies with me tonight?"
Girls these days are all very brave. My master glared at her, but she stood there without moving.
"You don't have to glare at me. I have the power."
My master stood up, but I didn't move. Even Zhang Xiaoxue didn't move. She was serious now, and she wasn't afraid anymore. The director shouted.
"Zhang Xiaoxue, go back to your stage."
Zhang Xiaoxue turned around and went back to the stage.
The director called me out.
"Mingzhe, you have to make a choice. I know you're a good person, but think about what the outcome will be."
"Director, actually, I don't want to fall in love right now."
The director was stunned for a moment.
"Then explain it to them yourself."
Actually, I can’t explain it clearly. I don’t know what to do at this moment.
That day, I felt someone lying on my back again, not just once, and I was stunned.
After get off work, I told my master.
"Master, I want to talk to you about something."
We went to a restaurant to eat. Yinyan didn't say anything and just looked at me.
"The first thing is, I like you, but my mother..."
I told her about my mother, and she looked at me for a long time before she continued.
"That's not a problem, I'll take care of everything."
"The second thing is that the person on my back got on my back four times today."
"That's not a problem, let me do it."
The master's expression was a little serious, just like the first time I saw her.
When I returned home that day, my mother had not come back yet. I knew that my grandmother had recovered a long time ago, or that she could have been brought over, but she didn't. I think she really wanted to escape from this home.
Going to work now makes me feel scared. That person will lie on my back again. I can't see or touch him/her. I don't know if he/she is a man or a woman, old or young. I am very confused. The master has never given me a reasonable explanation. She just said that she can handle it. This keeps me in fear.
I was sitting at the eighth operating table, Yinyan was also sitting there in a daze, Zhang Xiaoxue came over and brought me a bottle of drink, but the master acted as if he didn't see it.
"Master, key number two."
Yinyan didn't respond, so I reached out and pressed her button. Then she came to her senses and picked up the drink on the table and started drinking it.
Zhang Xiaoxue ran over and snatched it away.
"It's not for you."
Yinyan smiled, looked at me and said.
"Zhang Xiaoxue, don't bother. Mingzhe and I kissed yesterday."
Zhang Xiaoxue looked at me blankly, and then tears came out of her eyes. She ran back to the operating table and the director came over.
"You go home, I'll come."
Zhang Xiaoxue burst into tears as soon as she walked out the door.
After get off work that day, the head of the department called me over.
"Am I sure?"
I was stunned for a moment and nodded.
Then, the master took me to someone's home. It was a row of bungalows in a ravine. The yard was very large, with flowers and plants, a pond with fish, a small rockery, and a rocking chair. Sitting on the rocking chair was a white-haired old lady who was in a very good spirit.
"Hello, Master Zhou."
"Ah, little swallow, here comes my little swallow."
The old lady stood up and hugged Xiaoyanzi. They were very close.
The old lady looked at me, Yinyan said.
"My apprentice."
"Yo, pretty handsome."
The old lady is very good at cooking, Yinyan said. She can speak four languages and is a chemist at the crematorium, a national chemist.
We ate, drank, and chatted. After dinner, when we sat in the yard drinking tea, Yinyan told her about me. Master Zhou looked at me a few times and said nothing.
"I'm walking around."
I can see that some of the things they said are not convenient for me to say here.
I went out for a walk. The air here is really good, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful. The old lady is quite good at choosing places. It must cost some money to buy this valley.
I stood by the river, watching the flowing water. I didn't know how to tell my mother about what happened between Yinyan and me. Yinyan said she could handle it, but I had no idea how she was going to do it.
It was more than an hour later when I got back.
Yinyan said let’s go back, and my master and I left Master Zhou’s house. Yinyan said after getting in the car.
"Go to the crematorium tonight. I'll pick you up after dark."
I went home, but my mother still hadn't come back. I called her, and she said, "Stay here for a while, stay here for a while." This was meant for me. This meant that if I stayed with Yinyan, this period of time wouldn't last very long.
It was dark, Yinyan sent me a text message, telling me she was downstairs.
I went downstairs and got in the car.
Yinyan didn't say anything and looked very serious.
The lights in the crematorium were dim. This was my first time coming to the crematorium at night. In the entire crematorium, only the guard's light was on. When we went over, Yinyan knocked on the glass and the gatekeeper came out.
"Master Yin."
The gatekeeper opened the door and we went in. He didn't ask us what we were doing there. Yinyan said that the gatekeeper, Uncle Zheng, has been guarding the gate for his entire life, from his youth to now.
Let’s go in, said the master.
"Follow me into the morgue."
It's so late at night when we enter the morgue. There's no one in the entire crematorium now.
The master went into the morgue. She didn't stop, but walked into another corridor. It was a single room, not a freezer. Some of the lights inside were on and flashing, indicating that there was a corpse inside. The master walked forward without looking to the sides. Every time she passed a door, the white curtain moved, and my scalp tingled.
The master walked to the end and turned. I didn't know there was a corridor there, so I followed him closely.
Turning around, the corridor was not long. When she reached the end, the master took a key from the wall. The key was hanging on the wall with a black rope. She opened the door and pushed it open to go in.
I followed him in.
"Close the door."
When I arrived at the door, the master turned on the light, but it was dim.
There are ten more doors here, one by one, just opposite.
"This is the morgue of our crematorium experts. This means that after we die, we will rest here."
I glanced at the master and realized that this was where my father, Ke Zuo, had been buried when he died, in the innermost morgue, Room 1. I had no idea why the master had brought me here.
The master walked to the side wall, where there were ten keys. The master stood there motionless. I could see clearly at this time that there should be ten keys, but one was missing. The one on the far left should be for morgue No. 1.
The master turned around and looked at me.
"Walk."
We went out and left the door a crack. The driver knocked on the glass twice and got in the car. I got in the car, but the driver didn't drive. Instead, he took out a cigarette and lit it.
"Why are you still smoking?"
The driver ignored me, lit a cigarette, and looked ahead. I had no idea what had happened. How did the key disappear?
I didn't know. My father had been to that place once when he died, but he didn't go through that door, so I thought he had never been there. The door he went in through was sealed.
After Uncle Zheng locked the door, the driver finished smoking and drove away, then sent me downstairs to talk.
"get off."
I got off the car and the driver drove away, leaving me confused. What was the driver going to do?
