In front of the North Gate

Chapter 11

Lou Huaiyu's head was dizzy.

He seemed to be chained to a high-speed cart. The porter's foot skills were excellent, and he ran fast. Lou Huaiyu's whole body was sore on the gravel road, and his vision was blurred.

The scenery along the way looks like a small town in the north for a while, an unknown village for a while, and an alley in the south for a while.

Lou Huaiyu's familiar people and things always appear in front of his eyes quickly, and then move away quickly, forming short episodes that make people confused.

The road the coachman passed was like an endless circular maze, and Lou Huaiyu was forced to shuttle through it, frightened but unable to stop.

For a few moments, Lou Huaiyu seemed to be out of his mind, and clearly saw him dreaming on the familiar bed, but the next moment, he was pulled into the swamp by dizziness, and continued to face the noisy dreamland helplessly.

He struggled in a daze between half dream and half awake.

This went back and forth several times, until suddenly something cold was stuck on the forehead.

The coldness seemed to be able to suppress the dizziness and the noise in his head, so Lou Huaiyu subconsciously chased after him, but failed to catch up.

The icy thing was pasted for a moment and left, and it took a long time before another even colder object landed on Lou Huaiyu's forehead again.

Lou Huaiyu was snorted by the ice, and the cold thing paused, and then slowly, as if very carefully, it pressed him more tightly.

The chaotic dream also slowly cooled down.

Lou Huaiyu was thrown by the coachman at the door of a small three-story building in an alley.

The plaque in front of the building is very old, covered with a layer of black putty.Lou Huaiyu looked up, but couldn't recognize the words on it, but he always felt very familiar.

Before he had time to think, he was caught.

The person who came was an old nanny, but she smeared thick and white powder on her face inappropriately, looking a little funny, she stared at Lou Huaiyu, and said fiercely: "Why are you waiting here to drink urine?"

Lou Huaiyu opened his mouth to speak, but when he made a sound, he realized something was wrong.

In the dream, I became very small, with a childish voice, and I had to raise my head to talk to the old mother.

The old mother continued: "Go quickly, there are three rooms on the second floor, a plate of mung bean cakes."

She said and threw a few copper coins on the ground.

The copper plate fell into the stagnant water, shattering its reflection.

Lou Huaiyu stared at the copper plate for a while, then reached out to take it, feeling that the touch was almost real and he was suspicious.

A man passed by across the street, whistling this way.

At first, Lou Huaiyu thought it was blowing towards her, but she was puzzled. After a while, she realized that the other party was looking at the second floor.

Lou Huaiyu walked out curiously, and saw two white arms like lotus joints protruding from the window on the second floor.

With a slender hand holding a handkerchief attached to his arm, he waved at the man who was whistling, and covered his mouth and nose to make some laughs.

Lou Huaiyu frowned.

As if following instinct, he came to a dim sum shop not far away, and the young clerk asked him briskly: "Today's mung bean cake or osmanthus cake?"

Lou Huaiyu said mung bean cake, and the man quickly packed it up and handed it to him as if by magic.

The steps from the small building to the second floor are steep and dark.

The higher you go, the stronger the strong aroma becomes.

There are four rooms on the second floor, and the doors of three are not closed. The elder sister who was laughing across the street just now has sat back, looked at Lou Huaiyu on the bed and smiled, and pointed out: "The third girl wants it again, you little girl." The action of the thing is slow, and I’m afraid I won’t have a chance to eat it now.”

Lou Huaiyu didn't understand.

The windows of the other two open doors were closed, and the room was dark and unreal, with only sporadic light from a large smoke lamp.

He stared at it for a while, and someone scolded in one of the rooms: "You little bastard, what kind of idiot are you looking at?"

Lou Huaiyu shrank her neck subconsciously and walked towards the only closed door.

For some reason, the girl who was talking to him started laughing again, and even walked to the door and stood gracefully, as if she was about to see a very interesting scene.

Lou Huaiyu was inexplicably nervous.He swallowed, and walked towards that door, and gradually, he heard what seemed to be suppressed breathing inside the door.

The closer you get, the more obvious it becomes.

When Lou Huaiyu walked to the door, the girl was still laughing, urging him, "Go in quickly."

Lou Huaiyu stretched out his hand in fear and pushed, the door was unlocked and opened inward.

This room was obviously larger than the other three rooms, and with the windows closed, only a little light came in.

The suppressed breathing and the sound of wood rubbing stopped when he pushed the door open, and then continued quickly, much louder than just now through the door.

The girl said "um" and "ah" from her nose with restraint.

Lou Huaiyu finally guessed what was going on, felt his face was hot and his heart was beating fast, but as if he couldn't control himself, he walked towards the other side of the bed.

And the rubbing sound of the bed became more and more intense.

Lou Huaiyu saw someone lying on the bed half upright, judging from the figure, he was quite tall.He moved again and again, with both arms firmly supported on the bed, in such a dim place, Lou Huaiyu seemed to be able to see the lines of his muscles.

The laughter of the girl next door became distant.

A man at the door laughed and scolded: "Look at this little bastard, he is very perverted, his eyes are straight at such a young age."

Lou Huaiyu looked straight, and he also felt short of breath, and an indescribable feeling spread from his chest, gradually spreading to all his limbs.

That body made Lou Huaiyu feel so familiar, even the sound of his breathing seemed to ring in Lou Huaiyu's ears every night.

Suddenly, the man pushed hard, the girl let out a long cry, and then the voices in the room fell silent... leaving only a scene of men and women, and Lou Huaiyu's rapid breathing.

After a short while, the man lay on the girl's body.

Lou Huaiyu also saw his face clearly.

Shi Jichang pulled out a smile that had never appeared on his face before, full of lust and satisfaction.He leaned next to the girl's ear and called her in a low voice: "Lingling."

Lou Huaiyu suddenly opened his eyes.

He took a few breaths, and saw clearly that he was still lying on the exquisitely carved and ancient bed in the familiar courtyard, not the brothel/lounge in the south when he was a child.

The interior is also brighter than the room in the dream.

Someone quickly came over and touched Lou Huaiyu's forehead.

"Are you awake?" The person in the dream appeared beside his bed, frowning, "How do you feel?"

Shi Jichang held Lou Huaiyu's daily scrubbing towel in his hand, covered with some sporadic white foam, it looked like he had just gone out and washed it with accumulated snow.

Before Lou Huaiyu could fully recover from the dream, he stared at Shi Jichang with a rather distracted gaze. After seeing him pause, he resumed his movements and folded the snow-stained towel into small cubes.

"You have a fever." Shi Jichang frowned and explained while putting the small cube on Lou Huaiyu's forehead.

However, as soon as the cold towel touched Lou Huaiyu's forehead, he was interrupted by a sound from outside the door.

Du Juan slammed on the door several times and shouted loudly, "Boss Lou? What's wrong with this?"