My House of Horrors: Zhang Ya: Let’s get the certificate
Dark clouds hang over the city, and the sky seems to be within reach.
Li Man stood by the window, watching the rain slide down the glass, leaving trails behind.
The clock on the wall is ticking, and the dull time flows quietly in the cabin.
“Five thirty, call off work.” Li Man stretched, moved the succulent on the windowsill into the house, and walked to his desk.
She put the sign with the marriage registration office on the table into the drawer, and glanced at the large characters on the wall-administration according to law, civilized service.
“It’s raining so hard today, someone from probably not came to register the marriage.”
Li Man hummed a song and started cleaning. She was alone in the empty marriage registration office. The employees of the divorce registration office next to her had already left work fifteen minutes earlier.
“Hello, is this where the marriage license is handled?” The door was pushed open, and a mature and magnetic male voice came from the door.
With such a nice voice, he must be handsome.
Li Man looked up and saw a man in a black raincoat standing at the entrance of the marriage registration office.
He looks ordinary, but he has an indescribable aura about him.
“Yes, do you…do you want to apply for a marriage certificate?” Li Man looked at the man carefully. It was the first time she saw a man wearing a raincoat and carrying a heavy mountaineering bag to apply for a marriage certificate.
“Well, I made an appointment online to do it today.”
“Let me check, what’s your name?”
“Chen Ge.”
Li Man typed the words Chen Ge into the computer, and sure enough he saw his appointment application: “I’m about to get off work, let’s make a quick decision, do you have everything with you? Also, there is no proof of the relationship between you two of your direct blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations.”
“Brought it all.” The man opened the backpack and began rummaging inside.
Li Man vaguely heard a cat meow, and she glanced curiously into the man’s backpack.
The bag is stuffed with a repeater, a comic book, dolls, ballpoint pens, and a big white cat.
“Excuse me.” The man handed the two household registration books and two ID cards to Li Man: “Everything is here, I have seen the woman’s family, and they are very satisfied with me.”
“It seems that you have made a lot of preparations.” After Li Man registered the man’s information and was about to start registering the woman’s information, he suddenly found that the magnetic strip on the ID card was no longer usable. She looked at the woman’s ID card. , suddenly realized something.
The man in front of him came to register the marriage, prepared all the documents, and even brought a cat, but he didn’t see his girlfriend.
“Wait a minute, sir.” Li Man stopped his work: “Are you here to get married?”
“Yes.”
“What about your girlfriend? How can you get married alone?” Li Man smiled bitterly: “You must be present in person to get the marriage certificate.”
The clock on the wall was ticking, and the rain outside the house was getting heavier and heavier. The man pursed his lips lightly and looked up at Li Man: “She is here, standing behind me.”
Raindrops slammed against the windows, and the air in the house gradually solidified.
“Sir, stop joking, the marriage must be attended by both parties in person. I can’t help you handle it like this.” Li Man clutched her chest, she didn’t know why she was suddenly out of breath.
“She is really here, we are inseparable, where I am there is her.” The man’s eyes were clear, and there was a hint of stubbornness in his tone.
Seeing the serious look of the man, Li Man held the demagnetized ID card in her hand, and she suddenly thought of a possibility.
Opening the woman’s household registration book, on the page with the woman’s name, there is a stamp of the police station declaring her death, and the time of death was several years ago.
“Sir…” Li Man wanted to say something, but she looked at the man’s stubborn expression and was a little moved.
Glancing over the man’s backpack, Li Man looked at the items in the bag.
Are these things the girl used to use? Are these preserved and treasured things the memory of the two of them? Is this cat the one the girl had raised before she died?
In an instant, Li Man understood why a man brought a lot of things to the marriage registration office, and also understood why a man said that a woman was always with him.
Blind eyes, Li Man held the girl’s ID card. She didn’t know what to say, whether to comfort the man or tell him the cruel truth.
Lips slowly opened, but Li Man couldn’t say what she thought. She looked at the man who looked like a child in front of her, and her mood was a little complicated.
She forced herself to keep smiling: “Sir, you must love her? How did you meet?”
“She chased me, and the first love letter I received in my life was from her.” The man’s eyes were erratic, as if recalling the past: “Our first date was at the abandoned school.”
“Abandoned school? First date to an abandoned school?”
“Western Jiujiang’s Private Academy, there are her obsessions and pasts, I stand in the hall where she used to practice dancing, with my back to the mirror, my back to her, and we talk to each other.”
Man Li listened silently, and a picture emerged in his mind.
In the quiet night, the two recalled the past in the abandoned alma mater. The school used to be beautiful and lively, but now there are only the two of them, back to back, cuddling each other, what kind of poignant love is this!
“The second date was in a mental hospital. She was wearing a red dress, and she was stunningly beautiful.”
“Mental hospital?”
“Because of my parents, that day I…”
“Understood, sorry.” Before the man finished speaking, Li Man apologized. She didn’t like to open up other people’s scars. Maybe her parents were another pain in the man’s heart.
“The third date was in a building where I stuck the man who made her unhappy in the elevator and taught him a lesson he will never forget.”
“You really dote on your girlfriend, and I think she’ll be very happy when she finds out about it.”
“She was by my side at the time.” The man looked gentle, thinking of the elevator wrapped in black hair in the Ghost Stories Society building.
“That scene must be very romantic and warm.” Li Man felt that the man in front of him was simply a boyfriend.
“The fourth date was at Underground Corpse Storehouse in Forensic Faculty. She was injured but didn’t tell me. She sat quietly with me, as if she had hugged me secretly.” The man’s voice was very nice, with a hoarse voice. With a mature flavor, he was reminiscing about the past, and the faint feeling even made Li Man subconsciously ignore the special dating spot of Underground Corpse Storehouse.
“The fifth date was on the roof of a small town. It was very similar to today. It was raining heavily outside, and I was leaning against her.”
Compared to the abandoned school, the mental hospital and Underground Corpse Storehouse, Li Man is a little uncomfortable with the normal date place this time: “Did you confess to her that day?”
The man nodded lightly: “I stood at the top of the town and shouted out my heart to that strange world. I don’t believe there is anything more romantic in this world than being inseparable for a lifetime.”
“Wow.” Li Man has heard many people’s stories, but none of them are as shocking as Chen Ge’s story. It may be because she saw the death certificate on the household registration book and already knew the reason for the result in advance: “What about later? ?”
“Later…” Chen Ge took a light breath: “She fell asleep, and it took a long time to wake up, so I’ve been waiting for her.”
The death certificate on the household registration book pierced Li Man’s heart like a steel needle at this moment, and tears welled up in her eyes unconsciously.
Bending her head, Li Man pretended to be looking for something. When the computer covered her face, she secretly wiped her tears. She already knew the ending of the story.
No one spoke in the room. After a long time, it was the man who broke the peace. His hand was lightly placed on the empty seat next to him, as if his girlfriend was sitting there: “Our sixth date…”
It doesn’t matter what the man said afterward. Li Man knew that this man had trapped himself in a cage called love after his wife’s accident. He thought his girlfriend was still in the world.
Because of deep love, I refuse to believe the fact that the other person has left.
Holding her hands together, her fingertips turned white, Li Man wanted to tell Chen Ge the truth, but she couldn’t bear to say it.
She buried her face behind the computer and entered all the information on the application form. She wanted to help the man in front of her to complete a dream, but when she pressed the OK button, the computer popped up a household registration information matching pages.
The girl died many years ago and there is no such person in the household registration data.
Reality is like a basin of ice water pouring on Li Man, she looked at the man’s face in memory and bit her lip: “Sir, our data here is incomplete, the system is being upgraded, and there is no way to help you at the moment, Come back in a week.”
Li Man wants to help the man in front of him, even if it is to make a similar little red book without legal effect.
“Okay, then I’ll trouble you.” The man slowly got up, packed everything and walked out. When he reached the door, he suddenly took off his raincoat and propped it over his head, as if he was at this moment. There was another person standing next to him: “Zhang Ya, don’t get too far away from me, it’s raining heavily.”
Li Man could see clearly in the room that there was no one else under the man’s raincoat except himself.
Looking at the man’s back, Li Man wiped the corners of his eyes: “Maybe this is love, I love you, I’m loyal to you, I’m sincere to you, and it ends with you.”