Youjia Inn

"Su Rui, there are guests coming, you go and prepare." Boss Bai put away the joking look on his face, straightened his clothes, and showed a habitual hospitality smile, gentle and friendly.

"Guest, stay on your feet. If you miss this inn, you will be sleeping on the streets tonight."

Boss Bai stood on the side of the road and greeted the woman who was pacing. The lantern beside him swayed slightly, revealing fiery red light. The door of the inn opened behind him, and warm yellow light poured out, illuminating a piece of land in the vast wilderness. .

The woman with a sad face stopped in her tracks, turned around and glanced at the roadside inn, then at the endless dark night and mist in front of her, and walked into the brightly lit room in a daze.

The high-heeled shoes under his feet made a dull and bloated clicking sound due to the procrastinating footsteps.

"Be careful." Boss Bai reached out to support the woman who tripped over the threshold.

The woman stabilized her figure and said thank you feebly.Looking up with a pair of tired eyes, meeting Boss Bai's eyes, there is not even the slightest wave of displeasure.

"This way please." Boss Bai gestured for the woman to sit down.

Su Rui poured tea and water swiftly on one side.The woman took a sip of the tea, and then felt a little sensation in her numb body.

When she regained her senses, she noticed a glimmer of light in the ashen eyes of the smiling strange man in front of her.

Her intuition told her that this man who seemed to be in an ancient painting was not simple, and the ancient inn that appeared inexplicably on the side of the road could not be explained by common sense.

An hour ago, I was with Tongtong in the hospital, and then I came to this place in a daze. Qingshi Road, now sits in a classically and elegantly furnished inn.Perhaps, perhaps, this is the miracle God gave her.

"This lady, what is your name?" Boss Bai asked.

"My surname is Shen." She gathered the coat that was covered outside the small suit, straightened her back, and put on her polite smile in the workplace.

For the past half month, she has been like this every day, forcing herself to work on makeup, pretending to be calm and strong and smiling to face every relative and friend who came to comfort her. As long as she wears a mask, she believes that nothing can break her down.

"Ms. Shen, can you tell me what happened to you? Maybe I can help you."

The woman looked at the man in front of her with hesitant eyes, and she tapped the white porcelain cup to light it, her fingernails hitting the porcelain with regular sounds, and white water vapor curled up, blurring her eyes.

The gentle and picturesque facial features of the man could not be seen clearly on the other side of the fog, which added a bit of mystery and unknown.

"Ms. Shen, your daughter can't stand the strain in the hospital bed." Boss Bai said lightly, with a look of determination flowing from those gentle and harmless eyes.

"How do you know about my daughter?" The woman blurted out subconsciously.

Boss Bai didn't speak, picked up the teacup, blew lightly, and took a sip.

The woman sighed, unable to support the shiny shell anymore, she bent her upright waist decadently, as if she had aged ten years.

The traces left by the years show through the tired eyes, the dark circles under the eyes, and the two darkening nasolabial folds. Even the best cosmetics can't cover them up, and even the best skin care products can't bring them back. She I am old, I am really old, I can no longer bear those heavy blows, I can no longer bear the pain of gouging out the flesh.

"My daughter, she is in the hospital now, and I didn't know she was like this." Her voice was a little hoarse and a little nasal, "There was a small fire in the school that day because of the aging of the circuit. Everyone is fine, why is she, why is she, the doctor said she was fine at first, but a month has passed, she, she still hasn't woken up.

I spent a lot of money to put her in the best hospital and hired the best doctor, but she still didn't wake up, and all kinds of tests were done, and all the results were normal. How can this be normal? How long have you been unconscious?

I even invited the most famous Mr. Zheng in City B, and he even let me wait at ease.

Wait, wait, what am I waiting for?How long do I have to wait?two months?half a year?ten years?My daughter spends her best years in a hospital bed?Oh, maybe she won't wake up at all. "

The woman let out a wry smile, and the laughter quickly turned into crying. Tears flowed down her face, and her makeup was stained by crying. Her pale and old face was fully exposed. She was nearly fifty years old, and it was impossible for her to have any more children.

Tongtong is her only child.Now Tongtong is just lying on the hospital bed like this, unconscious of life and death, but she can only cry and cry, and can't do anything to help.

The ocean of despair and helplessness has long engulfed this woman. During the day, she was up and down in the shopping mall with a hypocritical plastic mask. At night, she took off the mask and cried and struggled silently in the ocean.

"What we're waiting for is today." Boss Bai handed the woman a snow-white handkerchief.

"Really?" The woman looked up with tears on her face, took the handkerchief to dry her crying face, and clenched her fists, "I, this is my only child. My husband and I divorced a long time ago. She's the only one, no matter what you pay? I can afford whatever you want."

"Have you brought anything about your daughter?"

"Hmm." The woman thought for a while, then took out a thin mobile phone from the windbreaker pocket, "Is this okay? If not, I'll go back and get it now."

Boss Bai took the phone and looked at it. The photo was a selfie. It was obvious that one of the women was the woman in front of her, but she looked younger, her face was well-groomed, and she was confident and capable in a professional suit.

The other girl, if you don't tell me, I really can't believe it is the daughter of the woman in front of me.

The face in the photo is chubby, the facial features are not obvious enough, the smile is silly, the chubby figure is put into a more chubby school uniform, the mother can be said to be beautiful just by applying makeup, and this girl probably wears makeup It can only be cute.

The only highlight of the girl's whole body can be said to be the fat school uniform on her body.

The school uniforms of XX No. [-] Middle School are notoriously ugly, and XX No. [-] Middle School is also notoriously difficult to take the exam locally. Anyone who wears this loose, fat red and white sportswear is definitely an idol worshiped by all local middle school students.

With a rate of more than 90.00% every year, it is the cradle of sending fresh blood to famous schools in the country and even the world, making this high school the dream of all parents and middle school students in this province.

"Your daughter is fine physically." The boss opened his eyes and handed the phone back to the woman. "The reason why she doesn't wake up is because she doesn't want to wake up."

"What do you mean she doesn't want to wake up?" the woman asked in confusion.

"She locked her soul in her dreams, presumably as an escape from reality."

"What can she escape from? In my impression, she, she has always been happy. When I was in elementary school and junior high school, she was always my pride. She was good at studying since she was a child, and she got along well with her classmates and teachers. This, this, What else can this escape?"

"Ms. Shen, this is you. How long ago did you remember it?" Boss Bai poked lightly.

The woman was speechless for a while, unable to speak for a long time.

"This, this, it's so possible, she is always the most worry-free one, she is also very happy every time I see her, including the time I took her out to play more than a month ago, she didn't talk to her What can I say, it's all normal."

"I think there are some things that you need to understand by yourself. As a parent, you are still unqualified. If you give more care in normal times, then you may not be so confident in saying that everything is normal." Bai The boss interrupted the woman's pointless rebuttal.

The woman fell into thinking with her head down, recalling bits and pieces about her daughter, and suddenly found that she couldn't remember anything clearly.

My daughter lives in a boarding high school, and she is released once a week, and once in the third year of high school, and once every two weeks. In addition, I am busy, and I can see my daughter no more than three times a month.

Every time I see her, I take her to eat her favorite food, take her to the movies, or accompany her to buy things as compensation. A few hours are only enough to do this, let alone when I am with my daughter. Always troubled by different phone calls and calls, she seems so careless, and her understanding of her daughter only stops at her being healthy and not worrying about food and clothing.

My daughter also didn't seem to have a heart-to-heart talk with me again. Maybe she did, but she didn't remember it, or she was interrupted by a certain phone call.Hey, maybe I am really an incompetent parent.

"I can help save your daughter." Boss Bai said, and the eyes could not help but hold his breath. With such eyes, no matter what kind of request he made, he would never be rejected.

"But I'm not doing charity either. I should have the remuneration I deserve."

"How much do you want? I'll write you a check." The woman's confidence suddenly hardened.

"I don't want money."

"Then what do you want?"

"A piece of soul that didn't belong to you."

"Soul? Doesn't belong to me?" The woman frowned, "Will it affect me?"

"No." Boss Bai smiled and shook his head.

"Even if there is, I'm afraid I will agree in the end. After all, she is my only daughter. I owe her. Maybe, no, it is really too much."

A light spot emerged from the woman's forehead, Boss Bai carefully put it away, and put it into the black porcelain bottle that Su Rui handed over.

"Su Rui, come here." Boss Bai waved to Su Rui.

"Oh." Su Rui came over with a sound.

"Stretch out your hand." Su Rui stretched out her hand obediently.Boss Bai used his index finger as a pen to outline in Su Rui's palm.

"Don't shrink, you are responsible for the crooked drawing."

"Itches, don't blame me for your body's natural reaction."

Well, it's obvious that it can be drawn from a distance, Su Rui curled her lips, but couldn't hide the flattering smile at the corner of her mouth.The last stroke was completed, and the golden rune slowly sank into Su Rui's flesh and blood.

Boss Bai patted Su Rui on the forehead lightly.Su Rui felt his body lighten, and the corner of his mouth twitched, and found that his body was lying limply in Boss Bai's arms.

That's right, it's the body. Now Suri is floating in mid-air in a translucent spirit state.

"You go on a trip. This is someone's dream. We will keep in touch at any time. If there is anything wrong, we must tell you." Boss Bai put Su Rui's body on the seat.

"He, he, he." The woman stared, and opened her mouth for a long time without saying a complete sentence.

"Ms. Chen, you just need to wait for a moment. Your daughter will wake up when he comes back."

The bluestone road stretches from the outside to the house, and stops at Su Rui's feet, waiting for him to go on the road.

"Hey, don't be surprised, don't be surprised, don't you just turn into a ghost again, I can hold on, I can hold on." Su Rui floated up the Qingshi Road bitterly.