Schizophrenia. Wo ai ni, Andy

Schizophrenia. I love you, Andy.
The main character of the story, the beautiful blond Lolita, does not like how her name sounds, therefore she prefers when she is called by different names, she has six such names


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Wo ai ni (I love you) Andy


 The lady suffers from a split personality. She responds to six names. She has dreams about her past lives. She is sure that in a series of past lives she had the same lover, with whom insidious fate did not allow her to be together, but otherwise ... So, the blond beauty Lolita is unrequitedly in love with a famous Chinese actor. Her body and soul are looking for the satisfaction of their passions, but they cannot find it in any way. Everything changes when Lali meets an old master who teaches qigong. Lal discovers powers she didn't even know she had, but will it help her in her quest for love?

  “Meizhenye (Chinese) - Nobody needs you. Nobody will marry you."
"Zhaobudapojia (Chinese) - You can't find your mother-in-law's family."
"Sinitzi (Chinese) is a dead girl."
This is how Chinese mothers curse their daughters in their hearts. Some of these curses became a curse for a young girl several centuries ago.
From century to century, a girl searches for her love, finds it, but people and higher powers do not allow her to live on this earth with her beloved.
PROLOGUE
It was the middle of the month, the full moon looked in the windows and did not let especially impressionable people sleep. No curtains, curtains, blinds helped. A beautiful woman tossed about in bed, she had disturbing dreams.
Finally, she screamed and opened her eyes. The blond, almost white, hair of the woman was scattered in disorder, but this did not spoil her. The woman got up, the seductive nightgown did not close, but, on the contrary, revealed all her charms, but now, after an uneasy dream, the woman did not care about her own beauty. The woman only annoyedly wrapped her nightgown and shivered.
The room was rather warm, but the woman, after the horrors she had seen in her dream, felt that the room was arctic cold. The delicate skin of the woman's face was covered with a bright blush, then, remembering some more details of the dream, the woman screamed. The bright blush was replaced by pallor. The woman's blue eyes filled with tears.
The events of the dream stood before her eyes, the frames from the dream were bright and distinct, as if the woman was watching the movie from the end to the beginning. Not all dream events were unpleasant. Some memories even made the woman smile and sigh sweetly, but the end of the dream was truly terrible.
Lying still in bed, the woman sighed sadly, then gracefully sat on the edge of the bed, and, without putting on slippers, just touching the floor with her bare feet, moved towards the kitchen.
While the woman is pouring water into the coffee maker to make coffee, let me tell you her name. The woman's name was Lali. In the passport, her name was listed as Lilith, but the woman herself did not like her name. All friends and relatives called her simply - Lili or Lali. And also, Loli, Lal, Lita, or, in general, Leti. And sometimes even Lilita or Lolita. In general, they distorted the name of Lilith as they wanted. However, Lilith liked these name changes. The woman believed that the insidious name Lilith did not suit her at all, and welcomed all the changes that others made with her name.
Coffee acted on Lilith in a strange way, coffee invigorates someone, Lal, after coffee, I wanted to sleep. Lilith wandered around the empty apartment until she felt her eyes close.
It was three in the morning. But as soon as she lay down, the dream fled somewhere. Everything interfered and annoyed Lilith. She opened, then closed the window again, took cover, and then opened again. Finally, exhausted, she realized that her nightgown was in the way. Taking off her shirt, she saw her pale reflection in the mirror, but what she saw did not delight her as usual, but surprised her.
White skin, large breasts, a waist that turns into steep hips, slender long legs - all this seemed alien to her today. Throughout the dream, she saw herself as a small, swarthy, dark-haired girl, with small breasts, but a passionate, loving heart that beat under this breast.
CHAPTER FIRST
A trip to the city of Hunchun. Lilith finds herself in a ridiculous situation when she arrives in a town located at the junction of three borders - Chinese, Russian and Korean.
The dreams that tormented the girl began quite recently, after the last tourist trip to China. No, nothing unusual happened on this trip. It's just that this, the last time, Lilith went on a tourist trip all alone.
This was not typical for Loli, but the surrounding reality has tormented the woman so much lately that she felt the need to go to a place where no one could reach her and offend her. So, without a telephone connection, without the Internet, without Wi-Fi, without communication with Russian fellow travelers and relatives, she spent 5 days in a small border town.
The town was clean, the inhabitants of the town - Koreans and Chinese - sympathetic, the hot sun was shining, the whole city was fragrant. Lilac blossomed, the whole townshimmered with white and pink colors - it also blossomed cherry. White and pink trees made the city unrealistically beautiful. However, the Chinese, accustomed to this splendor, which was repeated every year by the beginning of May, were not up to the beauties of nature. The Chinese were, as always, busy thinking about how to find a way to make more money.
Lilith, as I have already said here, decided to go this time without fellow travelers. This had both its advantages and disadvantages.
There were a lot of advantages, one disadvantage. There was no one to help her on the way back to the bus heavy things that would have accumulated in a suitcase for several days of travel. Lilith knew that this final chord would be the heaviest. That is, a woman will have to carry heavy bags herself from the hotel to the bus, from the bus to the train station, that is, the bus station, and go through all customs crossings with heavy bags - Chinese and Russian. This means that things will need to be unloaded and loaded back into the trunk of the bus twice.
Lilith's weak hands were already trembling with horror at the thought of what burden they would have to endure before the bus finally set off on its way back to its hometown of Vladivostok.
But back to the events that provoked the dreams that now prevented Lily from sleeping. The woman came up and stood next to the shelf where there was a souvenir that Loli had brought from the Chinese town. Already, of course, it is time to name the city in which Lilith liked to relax in difficult moments of her life. The city was called Hunchun.
The event I want to talk about happened on the second of May, that is, for Lilith it was the third day of her vacation.
It was unusually hot that day. In Vladivostok it was still cold, dank and damp, people hadn't even thought about taking off their jackets yet, but here it was very hot. Lolita returned to the hotel several times during the morning to change. Now she was in shorts and a T-shirt, and it was still very hot, even a little hot on her head.
That morning, Lilith finally allowed herself to go shopping. The previous two days were devoted to excursions, walks around the city, photographs. Today, Lily decided to allow herself the pleasure of shopping.
Her name was shops! There were several orders from relatives, well, I also wanted to pamper myself, dear. Loli struggled to contain her shopping appetites, but still, no matter how hard she tried, there were more and more packages.
When Lilith found that the shopping bags no longer fit in her hands, she decided it was time to return to the hotel to leave the purchases and cool her overheated head.
In short, relax.
By the time the woman left the next store, on the shopping street where the store stood, the sea of \u200b\u200bpeople was already worried.
The May days were also a holiday for the Chinese, and therefore everyone was already here, from young to old.
Someone was buying, someone was selling, the music was very loud. To attract customers, each store owner considered it his duty to put a column in front of the entrance, from which very loud music or advertising poured.
Advertising sounded in Chinese and, slightly illiterate, Russian. Buying, selling, trading.
So that the scattered Russian guests would not pass by, the shopkeepers brought their goods directly to the sidewalks. Of course, the sidewalks did not become wider from this. Considering that this morning, in addition to the Russian guests, almost all the inhabitants of the town went out to the shopping streets, the aisles between the tents with goods and buyers remained so narrow that it was simply impossible to pass without hitting someone or something. However, this did not bother anyone. People accepted the apology with smiles and continued what they came here for. It got hotter and hotter.
At some point, Lilith realized that the path between the two tents, which had been free a second ago, suddenly turned out to be occupied. It was the only free passage to the taxi stand. Lolita decided to cheat and go through the long porch of the store, rounding which one could exit into another alley.
However, Loli did not take into account one thing, if the space in front of the store is free, then something is wrong here. Not noticing anything from fatigue, heat and handbags pulled, Lolita decided to take the last step and went down the porch. And then she heard a call. Lowering her eyes, the woman went cold. One of her bags hit a fragile piece of merchandise that the antiques owner had laid out on the sidewalk.
He sat right on the ground, only putting some kind of rag under the goods.
Of course it was a disgrace! From the point of view of a normal person, it is impossible to trade directly on the ground, without a counter, without some kind of fence, but Lita was now in China, and in this country everything is possible and everything is possible.
One of Lola's bags was overloaded with goods and dragged almost to the ground, seriously pulling the hand of its owner. It was with this package that Lily touched a fragile, small, white, porcelain pot with a lid. This pot was probably also an antique. It was studded with Chinese characters and painted.
The pot has fallen. The crack was insignificant, a chip was observedonly on the rim. But the owner of the pot, looking at his goods from all sides, considered that his antique trifle had suffered great damage. Loli took a deep breath. She realized that she was in trouble.
About ten Chinese people came running, noise and a loud discussion of the current situation began. If Lilith were not alone now, she might have tried to defend her rights, but, looking back at the human sea that was churning around her, she came to the conclusion that the situation was hopeless and she would have to pay.
The embattled salesman demanded 50 yuan for his little antique. It was a robbery! But there was nothing to be done. Realizing that she would still have to pay, Lolita decided to extract at least some pleasure from the situation. The woman was very fond of bargaining. Moreover, she received this pleasure only in China. At home, in Vladivostok, where all prices were fixed, naturally, there was no one to bargain with. The trade went on for a long time.
Spectators and the street vendor's cheerleaders supported the haggling with loud comments, cheers and whistles. Glancing back, Lilith found that she was surrounded by a decent crowd. A lot of people came running to see the performance in which they are trying to fool a stupid Russian woman. Bargained for 30 yuan.
Taking away the small fragile goods, Lilith did not hold the pot in her hands. The lid of the pot slipped out of his hands, tired from heavy bags, fell on the pavement and cracked. The crowd sighed in relief. 30 yuan is a lot of money for the Chinese, and a broken product is a disaster! Crouching uncomfortably, Lilith tucked the fragments of the cap into her bag and almost ran around the corner of the store. Nobody followed her.
Back in the room, the first thing Lily did was to shake out all the groceries from the bag and tried to put the broken pot lid back together. But it turned out to be useless. No Moment glue could hold such small pieces.
Sighing heavily, Loli picked up the pieces and threw them into the wastebasket. This action was given to the woman with difficulty. Just like the Chinese who attended the free performances, the woman was very sorry for the cap. Nothing else of note happened that day.
Lilith cleaned herself up, made a few more trips to the shops, and in the evening, together with her tourist group, she was at the tea ceremony.
The next day, Lolita remembered that when she was still planning her trip here, to the Chinese city of Hunchun, she really wanted to visit a Buddhist temple. Loli was baptized Orthodox, she performed all the prescribed rites, for Easter and Christmas, with pleasure, but she did not differ in special religious zeal.
Of course, Lilith would never have passed by an Orthodox church without crossing her forehead, but this action was, so to speak, mechanical.
Buddhist temples, on the other hand, evoked a strange feeling in Loli. Arriving in another Chinese city, Lilith was first of all interested in whether there was a temple there. At the beginning of her trips, she thought that she loved Buddhist temples because of their exoticism and incomprehensibility.
However, time passed, and the interest and ardent desire to inhale incense, listen to mangroves, and watch the monks in yellow robes did not pass. In general, Lilith decided to start the next day with a trip to a Buddhist temple.
Lilith was many years old, but her youthful trait - the desire to prove to everyone, and to herself, first of all, that you are strong and independent, prevailed over all the events in her life. Over time, she got tired of proving something to someone, but the desire to constantly test her strength and prove to herself that she is strong and still means something to herself remains.
Why am I telling this? This is me building a bridge under the events that happened next.
The Buddhist temple could be reached by taxi. Pay 10 yuan, go out in the courtyard of the temple and walk as much as you like. Loli, however, dreamed of walking to the temple, but could not figure out how to get there without a taxi, and this depressed her. Lilith did not know much about maps, and therefore, moving her finger over the map that she was given at the border crossing, Loli abandoned this attempt and decided to get to the temple at random, where her legs would carry her.
I want to say right away that the plan was a success, but a lot of effort had to be made. The road that led in the direction of the temple was not far from the hotel where Lily lived. After 10 minutes, the woman was already walking through the mud that remained from the construction site. There was no road - it was more like a track laid by a tractor. The mud froze, leaving a depression along which Lilith walked and walked.
Finally, she saw people ahead. A Chinese family with baskets and children, talking loudly, moved in approximately the same direction as Lilith. Hurrying after her family, Lilith came out on the real road. The road wasn't concrete—it was an earthen road—but still, it wasn't a muddy path. Having caught up with a cheerful Chinese family, Lilith greeted and, folding her hands in a Buddhist prayer manner, asked how to get to the temple. As the woman expected, the Chinese immediately understood her, the head of the family nodded his head and extended his hand in the directioney to the place where, according to Lily's estimates, the temple should have been.
Soon the Chinese family turned onto the path, but Lilith continued to walk along the road further. It was as hot as yesterday, but the woman did not feel uncomfortable. Finally, after twenty-five minutes, she was in place, but Loli was waiting for a blow! The temple was under renovation. Looking through the open gate, Lilith saw that only the Buddhist pagoda and the statue of the sleeping Buddha remained of the entire temple. The main buildings were demolished. Everywhere there were excavators, yellow mud, cars and workers.
However, the walls enclosing the temple were in place, and around these walls there was a real forest park. There were benches everywhere, there were several playgrounds and sports grounds, paths led in all directions. Having traveled such a long distance, Lil, of course, did not want to return right there and decided to take a walk in the park.
Since it was a weekend in May, there were many Chinese families in the park who came for a picnic. Lilith wandered all alone, and she became sad. Two hours flew by like a blink of an eye. The Buddhist temple was enclosed not just by a wall, but by a wall imitating the famous Chinese wall.
Finally, Loli decided to rest and sat down on a bench opposite the gate, which was cut into this wall. Closing her eyes, Lilith sat and listened to the sounds. The wind picked up, the bells rang softly over the weather, the iron gates rattled, children were chirping somewhere, while Lolita sat with her eyes closed.
Finally, she decided that it was time for her to go back, but, rising, suddenly, behind a bench, in the grass, she saw a small porcelain bowl, which was smaller than her little finger, and a lid, also porcelain, white, similar to the one she had broken. These porcelain things were lying in the grass and looked like they were left over from some Buddhist rite, or there were recent offerings that Chinese worshipers of the Buddha brought here on a holiday.
After a little hesitation and looking around, Lilith scooped up the next porcelain pieces in her bag and went in the direction in which everyone who had a rest in the park went.
Lol was a little tired, and decided for herself that if a taxi turned up, she would definitely return to the hotel on it. But there was no need for a taxi. Lal reached the city center in 15 minutes and returned to the hotel. On this, the cultural program of the fourth day of our stay in the Chinese city of Hunchun, Jilin Province, was almost over.
The next day was the end of the journey.
CHAPTER TWO
Horrible dream. Loli dreamed that she destroyed 400 kilometers of the Chinese wall with her tears
Now Lilith was at home, and she recalled with a smile all the events that happened in the city of Hunchun during her May trip.
Loli understood that it was not without reason that she began to have these dreams, but the meaning, the relationship of dreams could not be traced. There were all sorts of dreams - real, in which she was the main character, and fantastic.
She clearly saw that in dreams reminiscent of fantasy, she begins to bifurcate. Lali was watching a movie from the outside, but at the same time she felt that it was just a dream, a dream that looked like a movie.
One of the dreams was especially unpleasant to her, but it repeated, repeated, repeated. She dreamed that she was near a huge wall made of giant stones and was crying. Tears flowed in a stream without ceasing. A stream of tears flowed down her cheeks, flowed down her body, bypassing her legs, and ended up on the ground, right under a wall of stones.
In the dream, Lilith understood that it was high time for her to stop crying, but she could not do it. The tears that flowed from her eyes seemed to take on a life of their own.
Lily tried to control her dream, tried to smile, to transfer herself in a dream to another place, but nothing worked, the dream was terribly real.
She could feel the ground she sat on, the roughness of the huge stones that made up the wall. This was repeated night after night.
For a whole week, dreams that she was sitting and crying were seen by her every night.
Frightened, Lilith tried to take action. At first I took tranquilizers. When this did not help, she decided that in her case some special kind of coffee could help her. All evening, before going to bed, she was pumped up with caffeine. But she got nothing but a heartbeat and a disgusting taste in her mouth in the morning.
Loli began to wait with fear for the arrival of sleep. In the morning, during everyday affairs, she forgot the details a little, but in bed, before going to bed, the small details of yesterday's dreams began to emerge so vividly that the woman simply jumped out of bed and began to measure the apartment with steps.
It's time for sleeping pills. Loli never complained about the lack of sleep. But she hoped that sleeping pills could drown out the memories of strange dreams. But this method did not work either.
In the morning, with a fresh mind, the memories of the dreams I had seen were not very vivid, but in the evening, before going to bed, as I said, there was simply nowhere to go from the details of the dream. Finally, on the eighth day, or rather, on the eighth night, Lilith resigned herself, her inner struggle subsided, and on the same night the events of the dream began to accelerate.
This dream was different from the previous ones. seven that a stream of tears from a woman washed away the stones of a giant wall. The stones on the stretch, which lasted four hundred kilometers, began to disintegrate. Lilith tried to close her eyes in her sleep and not see what lay under the stones. And whoever controlled her sleep probably decided not to force things.
All that Lilith saw that night was stones, stones that crawled over wet earth and clay and revealed what they did not want to see terribly.
In the morning, at work, colleagues noticed that something was wrong with Lilith. She had to be called three times before she reacted to the question and looked up. To the questions of those around her about what was happening to her, Lilith, of course, could not answer anything.
The ninth night decided everything. The mosaic of dreams came together. In this dream, Lilith, or the woman in whose body Lily was now, was above the place that opened up after the stones fell out of the wall. A stretch of 400 kilometers was littered with hundreds of dead.
Not believing her eyes, Lilith walked and walked, noting to herself that as she moved away from the place where she sat at the beginning of her sleep, she became colder and colder.
Suddenly the woman fell. When she got up, she saw that the wrist on the arm was seriously bleeding. The woman's brain immediately sent an alarm signal. Lilith tried to tear off a flap from the hem of her dress, but no luck. The woman's body, which was now, here, in a dream, suddenly stopped obeying the orders of the brain. The woman approached one of the buried and raised her bleeding hand above his head.
A drop of blood fell on the forehead of an unknown man, and the woman smiled and walked on. The path was long, a section of four hundred kilometers cannot be covered in one minute.
At some point, Loli tried to break out of her dream. It seemed to her that she even succeeded, but she immediately saw that she was standing next to another buried man. Her resistance must have accelerated the sleep somehow.
Turning around, she saw that she had already passed almost the entire section of the dilapidated road. Suddenly Lilith heard a murmur, lowering her eyes, she saw that the blood flowing from the wounded hand was no longer dripping, but flowing in a stream.
Lilith tried to make out the man buried under the wall, on whose body her blood was now flowing. The man's face seemed so familiar and familiar to her! The memories were dizzy, her heart ached, the tears that she seemed to have already cried out for a week again flowed down her face, but as soon as the memories tried to completely penetrate her consciousness, Lilith's entire body was in a fever, and she woke up with a strong cough.
In the morning, Lil thought she was sick, but everything was in order, neither the fever nor the cough returned, moreover, the dreams were over for now.
CHAPTER THREE
The work of Lilith. The author shares with the reader his thoughts on how to live on this earth easier and simpler, without much effort.
It is very difficult for a person to live on our earth. He is forced to think about tomorrow all the time. A person does not live today, does not see the stars in the sky.
The warm breeze that blows on his face does not delight him. The rain that comes in the morning makes a person sad, a person takes an umbrella, goes outside, but rain is also a miracle of God!
A person lives hard, he gets up at dawn, when it is still dark, when he still really wants to sleep, he is forced to leave his relatives and friends at home, go to strangers, to the place that is his job and spend many, many hours with these people.
When a person returns home at dusk, his children are already getting ready for bed, a person has very little time left to communicate with those whom he loves more than life, for whom he lives.
They say that when Adam and Eve sinned, the Lord God told them to live in labor and torment in order to atone for their sin. Theological books say so, but is it really so?
What if everything on our earth happens in a completely different way? A person can live easier, simpler, without making so much effort to survive. There is a huge cosmos around us, it, the cosmos, can fulfill all our desires, because we are created from the same particles from which outer space is created, and we, in the old fashioned way, work hard like oxen and are proud of our perseverance. Work, discipline, years - all this leaves marks on our face, we grow old.
But what if you learn to live easier? If you find a way to get money and get everything you want without putting any effort? Do you think it's possible? I do not mean, of course, crime and taking money from those living nearby.
But back to Lilith. Relatives and colleagues really wanted to know what was happening with Lily. Lilith was the head of a department in one of the laboratories of the research institute. It was tied to a huge number of scientific developments. What the institute was doing, no one knew. The institute's experiments were developments for the military industry. There were branches of the institute all over the country. But the coordination center was precisely in Vladivostok, because China was nearby. The fact is that the essence of the experiment was connected with the ancient military art of China.
How was Lilith related to this? art, and even with the military, I will tell you gradually.
Lilith had a big family, she loved her family, took care of its members, but, however, sometimes she urgently needed to get her portion of solitude. Not having received this portion in time, Lolita broke down.
After the third breakdown, the management of the institute decided to allocate a temporary apartment to the woman - it was a service apartment. Lal stayed there more and more often to calmly wait out a state similar to an attack. Of course, this condition had nothing to do with medical attacks.
And now, after strange dreams, Lilith got ready, without warning anyone either at work or at home, and immediately left, locked herself in the service apartment. The woman needed to make as detailed an analysis of her dreams as possible.
Loli was a beautiful woman, but lonely.
It was a situation like in the song: “And I have enough gentlemen, but I don’t have good love”
CHAPTER FOUR
Love Lilith. Lilith recognizes on the poster the one she loved in a past life
As I have said before, Lilith was a beautiful woman. Lal has been married twice and divorced twice. Both ex-husbands, however, were interesting men, everything was with them. As people say, what the hell else does she need? When Lilith was younger, she could not understand in any way, but really, what did she need?
Now Lilith knew exactly what kind of man she was looking for, what kind of man she hoped to meet. Loli knew that the man of her dreams was married and had a child. But the problem was that Lal desperately loved this man, loved his body and his immortal soul. Lilith needed his soul. The woman believed in the transmigration of souls, she knew and was sure that the one she loves had already met four times, over several centuries, on her life path. Four times the soul of Loli loved the soul of this man, and all four times evil people and higher powers did not allow the loving souls to unite.
The difficulty was that the person whose soul she loved so much did not live in Russia. This man was Chinese.
Once, in China, Lilith saw a handsome, thin Chinese man on a poster. Apparently, it was a famous Chinese actor. The poster was advertising another Chinese film. It was in Harbin.
Glancing at the poster, the woman wanted to move on, but suddenly stopped and took a few steps back. Looking into the eyes of the man who was depicted on the poster, she suddenly felt that she wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. It felt like she had been punched right in the heart.
Time passed, Lala's companion looked at her in bewilderment, but Lal could not move. Reaching out her hand to the poster, she touched the eyes painted on the poster.
If there weren't so many passers-by around her, Lal might have tried to tear off the poster and put it in her bag, but now she contented herself with taking out her camera and taking a picture of the actor.
Then, later, she found out that the actor's name is Andy, he lives in Hong Kong, acts in films, and also records songs and performs in major concert halls in China. He was a famous Chinese singer and actor.
He did not understand a word of Russian, he was a cheerful and sociable person. The Chinese actor was a rich man, but all his money, down to the last yuan, he earned through hard work.
And Lilith had a modest salary, after the divorce she lived with her parents, and only occasionally spent the night in a service apartment.
Lilith kept her secret that her love is a Chinese actor like the apple of her eye. Yes, no one actually cared about who she loves, what music she listens to, what films she watches, over what photographs she sighs.
However, the head of the laboratory in which Lilith worked suddenly began to notice that the experiments that Lolita conducted on sick animals suddenly began to end successfully. He did not know that now Loli conducted all the experiments by listening to Andy's songs.
It all started, as I said, with dreams. In one of her first strange dreams, Lilith saw herself on the shore. She heard her own voice saying the name Andy, she saw her hand picking up a short stick from the sand. The hand drew a primitive pattern in the sand, the lips spoke the name, the ears listened.
“A stupid dream,” Loli decided in the morning, “a useless dream.” However, it was after this dream that changes began in the life of a woman. Changes occurred in all areas of her life.
CHAPTER FIVE
Laboratory. How Lily's abilities helped her find a job she loves
One of the tasks of the laboratory where Lolita worked was to learn how to treat animals, and then people, without using any drugs.
Once success had been achieved with the animals, it would be possible to start working with human volunteers. During the five years that Lali worked at this institute, success appeared and disappeared.
If it were an ordinary scientific laboratory, then it would probably have been closed long ago. But since it was a laboratory whose work was related to military development, the work of the laboratory was regularly funded, even though the success of the expertsnames were scanty.
There were nine employees in the laboratory. Lali, as I said, was the head of the department. Each of the employees was engaged in their own direction.
The direction of Lilith was the treatment of the sick. Treatment of patients at a distance, without contact, without injections, without drugs.
Lilith was very fond of animals. At the dawn of the laboratory, a woman categorically refused to treat animals that would be artificially infected.
It even got to the point that Lita wanted to refuse to participate in the project. The woman had nothing to do with science or medicine. However, the talent that Lilith possessed was so great that Lali was taken to the department, first as an employee, and then as head of the department.
Therefore, long conversations about the fact that medicine is experiments, and the result comes only by experience, she rejected in the bud. She would never allow herself to first infect an animal, and then treat him, watching his torment and writing down the result of his recovery in a notebook.
The case came to a standstill. The head of the project got angry, stamped his feet, called Lilith a stupid cow, but he himself found a way out. He suggested looking for sick animals in nurseries and bringing them to the laboratory. But Lilith was supposed to treat them.
So we decided. Animals were brought from nurseries, they lived in the laboratory for some time, but after the animals recovered, they were taken back to the nursery. There were always real veterinarians near Lilith's laboratory, this was thought out in case Lilith's experiment was not successful, and the animal Lilith was working with became completely ill. This is where veterinarians come into play.
To be honest, in four and a half years, Lilith cured only a few animals, and even then only half. Success came only in the last month ...
CHAPTER SIX
Qigong exercises for Lilith. Lily meets a qigong master, and is unaware of the significance of this meeting in the future for her.
Six years ago, in one of the cities of China, Lita met a qigong master. After that, she visited this master several times. The master, or as the Chinese themselves referred to him - Shifu, was an elderly man. The man showed Lal some simple exercises. Previously, a woman treated qigong gymnastics with distrust. She thought that this gymnastics was promoting some kind of religion. In fact, it turned out that qigong is just gymnastics. Gymnastics that regulates energy.
The qigong master showed Lali some simple exercises. There were eight qigong exercises. In addition, Shifu showed Lali several breathing techniques.
Every three months, Lilith tried to find an opportunity to go to China and show the completed tasks to the master. Shifu patiently corrected the woman's mistakes.
Four years ago, Lilith quit her job. This work did not give anything to the mind, neither to the heart, nor to the wallet.
Looking through job ads on the Internet, she came across a few lines that interested her very much. The ad said that a small office was recruiting people who knew qigong techniques.
Lilith was a little hesitant to send her resume, but then she decided that she had nothing to lose. There were many applicants. There were a whole audience of them, and they all walked and walked. In the end, there were so many people that they had to be placed in several more auditoriums.
The people were colorful and varied. There were psychos who considered themselves new messiahs, there were psychics, there were just loafers who came to see people and show themselves.
The woman took part in the competition and passed it. Then there was a three-month training. And only after that they explained to her the essence of the work of the laboratory in which she will work.
As I said before, the laboratory where Lilith worked was a place for testing. The nine people who worked in the lab were the only people Loli spent time with from morning to evening. The tenth person was the head of the department, but Lilith rarely saw him. He showed up at the lab on Fridays.
The laboratory was located in the city center, in a large beautiful building, on the eighth underground floor.
Today a beautiful little dog was brought to the laboratory. The dog was seriously ill. She lay on the mat and stared indifferently into space. Loli felt sorry for the dog. She tried her best to ease the pain of the baby, but she did not succeed.
After work, Lita put on her headphones and went down to the sea to calm down and think about what to do next. She sat down on a wide stone warmed by the sun and thoughtlessly looked at the waves that ran on the sand. The sun was shining, seagulls were screaming, people were sunbathing and swimming.
Loli listened to the voice of her favorite Chinese singer and suddenly realized how she could help the dog. Before the woman's eyes, the dog suddenly appeared as if in reality. She was still on the floor. The dog's eyes were closed, the drooping tail did not move. The decision came instantly.
People around saw a beautiful blonde who was sitting on a stone and listening to music smiling. But in fact, a woman is actively engaged insmall dog treatment. Lilith did some breathing exercises and also mentally did one of the qigong exercises. Within a few minutes, Lali found a way to treat the dog and immediately applied it.
When Loli returned to the lab the next day, the dog ran after the ball and felt wonderful.
CHAPTER SEVEN
The dreams are back. Background. What happened before Lilith was on the Chinese wall and destroyed its site
Lilith is tired of being alone. For many years she fought for happiness, but it was as if there was a wall around her. All beginnings ended in nothing. The woman was already quite a few years old, but it seemed to her that her life had not yet begun. In her youth, she dreamed of becoming a singer, she even graduated from a music college, but she never became a singer. Then she graduated from the institute, the faculty of directing, but fate turned in such a way that she had to go to work at school. The most significant event in the last few years was meeting a qigong master. Daily qigong practice triggered all the events that I am now talking about.
Three days have passed. Lilith thought that she had said goodbye to strange dreams, but this was not so. The dream was different, but the one whom Loli loved was also in this dream.
Lilith saw herself as a very young girl. She was walking in the garden with the maids when she saw him. The garden was surrounded by a fence, but everything that was going on behind this fence was very clearly visible. Behind the fence was the White River, and next to the river was a hill. Lal was picking flowers in the garden that morning. She must have heard some kind of exclamation, because she raised her head and saw a young man who was standing on a hill. The young man was tall, slender, and most importantly handsome. However, the young man's face expressed anguish. He looked anxiously into the distance. It seemed that the young man did not know what to do next.
And then a strange thing happened. Lilith reached for a flower and suddenly saw a snake. There were never snakes in her garden. Where this snake came from is not at all clear. The girl screamed. She lost her head from fear. It didn't even occur to her that she could run away. She turned her head in all directions, hoping to see a trusted maid. But the maid was already far away. Unlike her mistress, she did not lose her head.
The helpless girl stood there, unable to do anything. The snake hissed and writhed and approached the girl. The young man on the hill saw that the unfamiliar girl was in trouble. He ran to the fence and jumped over it.
Lilith saw herself from the outside. She was a young Chinese woman, a beloved, spoiled daughter. The young man, without a second's hesitation, ran up to the girl and picked her up in his arms. With his foot he kicked the snake away. As soon as the danger passed, the girl lost consciousness. At that moment, the servants and the girl's parents finally came running. The girl's parents were very grateful to the unfamiliar young man. They doted on their daughter, raised her carefully and with love.
The young man was invited to the house. Before entering the house, the young man turned around several times. What he saw satisfied him, and he followed the owners. After the guest was fed, the host invited the guest to stay overnight. The young man told the owner of the house that his parents and his native village were far from here. The next day, the daughter persuaded her parents to allow the guest to stay for a few more days. The young man was smart and smart, he liked the owners of the house and, of course, his daughter. The girl and the boy did not exchange even two words, and the girl already knew for sure that she fell in love with the boy. The young man also liked the girl.
The young man understood that it was time for him to know the honor, and yet he hesitated and played for time. But on the third day, the young man finally made a choice. He was already packing his travel bag when the maid came and said that the owner of the house was waiting for him. I repeat once again, the father loved his daughter very much, and it hurt him that his daughter was crying at night. The girl understood that the guest was about to leave, but she was ashamed to tell her father that she liked the unfamiliar young man. The father decided everything himself for the young lovers. At the wedding, the newlyweds were in seventh heaven with love and happiness.
Lilith tried to remind herself in her dream that this was just a dream, but the hands of the young man in love were so tender, and the kisses inexperienced. Lolita did not believe her feelings. She had never felt so good in her life. To make matters worse, the man, the husband, had Andy's face and body. And then Lilith screamed with pleasure and woke up.
She spent the night in the service apartment today and did not wake anyone up. Lilith went to the mirror. Her hair was tangled, her cheeks glowed, her eyes shone.
Lilith looked back. She clearly remembered that when she fell asleep, she was wearing a nightgown. Now there was no shirt. Looking at her body in the mirror, Lilith could have sworn that there were marks from the kisses of her young husband on her chest, stomach and thighs, but approaching the mirror, she was forced to admit that there were no marks from kisses, and it all just seemed to her. Needless to say, Lal liked this dream very much. Running her hand over her chest, stomach, and thighs, Lilith threw herself into bed. She wanted to quickly return to a beautiful dream. There, in a dream, she knew that a young husband was waiting for her, with love andcaresses, as well as Andy's face and body.
However, sleep did not come. The fact that she could not fall asleep in any way, Lolita perceived as a crime. It seemed to her that her young husband was frightened by her absence. Everything was mixed up in Lilith's head. She no longer understood where the truth is, and where is fiction, where is the dream, and where is the reality. She suffered for several hours, and when there were several hours left before dawn, she forgot herself in a heavy sleep. She didn't dream of anything that night.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Qigong helps heal from a distance. How qigong energy helped Lali cure a sick animal
The day passed in a blur. The woman was in a hurry. She wanted the evening to come quickly. However, the hands on the clock moved with insane slowness. Lyosha, the head of the laboratory, came with a warning that the high authorities would come in an hour. Communication with high authorities was not included in Lilith's plans for today. However, it was one of the ways to spur time.
At the staff meeting, which was attended by the entire laboratory, Lilith was praised. The dog that the woman had cured was still doing great. Veterinarians examined the dog and came to the conclusion that the disease that tormented the animal had disappeared. Before the dog entered the kennel, it was a pet. Then the owners left, and the dog remained on the street. After the dog was beaten by the yard boys, the dog was taken in by a janitor. However, after the beating, the dog got worse and worse. A kind woman brought the animal to the veterinary clinic. The director of the clinic was looking for something like this animal for the experiment. The dog was so ill that if Lilith hadn't helped, the dog would have had to be euthanized. The janitor brought the dog to the veterinary clinic late, the infection had already begun. They tried to treat the dog with antibiotics, but suddenly the dog had an allergic reaction. In general, the only hope for life for this dog was in Loli and her ability to heal at a distance. Happiness for the dog was that the talent, dormant in the bowels of Lilith's consciousness, manifested itself just in time. Now the dog was healthy. It was a breakthrough! Today Lilith was a star! She bathed in congratulations, sincere and not very.
For a while, Lilith even forgot about her dream yesterday. The events of the dream were covered with small ripples. The woman thought that now her life will change. Now that everything worked out, it was possible to think about helping not only animals, but also people.
Lilith felt like a birthday girl, but only until she heard the words of disapproval and envy addressed to her. It happened in the women's restroom. Two employees of the department did not know that Lita was in the booth, and gossiped with might and main about her. Lilith waited until the employees left the restroom, and then she left and went to the water tap. She turned on the water and looked for a long, long time at the stream of water that flowed from the tap. The holiday spirit is gone. Lilith was in such pain, as if her heartache suddenly turned into a thousand needles, and all these needles suddenly pierced her body with great force at the same time.
If it was possible to drown the pain in alcohol, Lilith would have done just that. However, the woman knew that this method could not help her. The fact is that alcohol did not affect Lita. This has already been verified many times. The alcohol did not numb the pain. Lali did not feel anything after the first, second and even third glasses. She dreamed of fun, but the sadness did not go away. She did not want to sing drinking songs, she did not feel sleepy either. However, alcohol still had one side effect. After Lilith tried to get drunk, she could not practice qigong for a whole week. As soon as she started the exercises, she began to feel sick, black flies swam before her eyes, a terrible headache began to split her temples. This state lasted for a whole week. Yes, yes, the retribution for drinking a glass of vodka haunted her for a whole week. This happened several times, and therefore now Lita did not even try to drown her sadness in alcohol.
CHAPTER NINE
Andy. What happened after Lilith saw for the first time a loved one not in a dream, but in reality
Returning home, the woman collapsed into bed. She was ready to give all the riches of the world for the opportunity to feel the kisses of her young husband on her body. However, the events of the day so aroused Lita's blood that she did not even hope to fall asleep quickly.
Taking out her most sexy nightgown, Lilith slowly slipped it on. She turned in front of the mirror, and she herself thought about the events that unfolded in a dream. She wondered what her young husband would think if he saw her in a modern nightgown. Lilith knew and was firmly convinced that her husband had Andy's face in his dream.
The fact is that she saw Andy not only in photographs and on the TV screen. It was incredible, but a year ago Andy was in Vladivostok. Then, in September, he came to Vladivostok with a film crew. Streets were closed in the city center because a Chinese film was being filmed. There was nothing surprising in the fact that the film was filmed in Vladivostok. It was surprising that of all the cities in Russia for filming, l Vladivostok was chosen. The main role in the film was played by Andy - a Chinese actor, or rather, a Hong Kong actor.
When Lilith read on the news that a Chinese film would be filmed in Vladivostok and that Andy would star in the title role, she couldn't believe her eyes. It was like a dream that came true.
The place where the shooting took place was cordoned off. However, it was a road to the sea, and therefore no one could forbid people to pass by.
Filming was scheduled for three days. Lilith several times during the day came to the place where the shooting took place, but so far the episodes were filmed, where the actors from the extras played.
It's the second day of shooting. If Lita had come five minutes earlier, then maybe she would have had time to touch her beloved man, and the story that I am now telling about would not have happened. Lilith wanted Andy to give her an autograph. Probably, in the process of getting an autograph, she would have touched Andy. But fate decreed otherwise.
Lilith really saw Andy, she had a few seconds, but she could not dispose of them correctly. While she was trying to get a notepad and pen out of her bag, a van pulled up, and Andy, along with the director, who goes by the funny name of Sammo Hung, moved to the van. Lilith rushed after her, but it was too late, the door of the minibus slammed shut. From annoyance with herself, Lolita even stamped her feet.
Then, six months later, she accidentally saw a recording of this episode. Someone filmed the moment the Chinese actor left and posted it on youtube.
Lilith even saw herself in the video recording. Her hair was then dyed red and she wore a red windbreaker. The woman saw the moment of Andy's departure, saw herself from the back and remembered her tears of rage from the fact that, as always, she did not have time. Fate gave Lilith the best chance. Lilith, as always, did not use it. I just didn't have time. That's why Loli knew what Andy looked like in life, and not just on the screen. She was sure that the young husband who kissed and caressed her in her sleep looked like Andy looked a year ago. Of course, the young man who saved her from the snake was dressed as a peasant, there were other minor differences, but the woman was confident in her feelings. The one she loved last night looked a lot like Andy.
CHAPTER TEN
Fan Qiliang and Meng Jiang Nu. Lilith discovers that her face has changed. The events that happened to her in a dream made her become younger
In the morning after waking up, Lilith wandered around the room, trying to gather her thoughts together. She was not wearing her nightgown again. She thought about it and came to the conclusion that she probably also spent that night in the arms of her beloved husband. Only for some reason Lilith could not remember the events of that night. This seemed so offensive to her that she got angry and in one motion threw the entire bed to the floor. However, the nightgown was nowhere to be found. The situation was ridiculous and stupid. Lilith could have sworn she fell asleep in her nightgown.
Before going to sleep, she turned in front of the mirror, trying to imagine if her fiery husband would like the dance she wanted to perform for him in a transparent nightgown. In the end, the shirt was found, but it was no longer possible to sleep in such a shirt. The shirt was torn.
Lilith was a little upset. She didn’t feel sorry for the shirt, all she regretted was that she didn’t remember how her husband’s hands, in moments of passion, tore this nightgown to get to her chest and body.
Glancing at her watch, she realized that she was late. Just as she was about to go outside, a chance glance in the mirror made her take off her shoes and go back into the room.
Lilith could look at her reflection for hours. However, this was not the case now. She was already late for work. But what she saw in the mirror immediately drove all thoughts of work out of her mind. Lilith's skin glowed from within, the wrinkles around her eyes disappeared, her eyes gained that depth that they had in their distant youth. The oval of the face became clear and toned.
In disbelief, Lilith ran to the curtains, parted them, and let the sunlight into the room. However, even now, in the merciless sunlight, Lilith looked the same as she had three minutes ago. There was no doubt. Something happened to Lali at night. Something pleasant and joyful. Something passionate and wild. Something that changed a woman forever.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Jade amulet. Things from dreams penetrate Lali's reality. The jade amulet that Fang Qiliang gave Meng Jiang Nei in a dream ends up in Lal's hands
When Loli was finally at work, she was in for a surprise. A sick monkey was brought to the laboratory. It was the perfect moment to start the second phase of the work. It is known that the monkey is an intermediate step between animal and man. This monkey was cheerful, mobile and restless. However, it would be nice if a smaller monkey ran and jumped. The monkey had a bad heart and shortness of breath.
It occurred to me that I was being unfair. I only talk about Lilith, and forget about the other eight people who are alsoworked with Loli. Each of the eight in the laboratory had their own line of work. Someone was engaged in telekinesis, someone was engaged in levitation, someone was telepathy. There were several other directions in the work of the laboratory, but I will not talk about them. These were the very secret military projects, they were supervised directly by the head of the laboratory himself.
Lilith wanted to see how the dog was feeling, but it turned out that the dog had already been taken away. It wasn't fair! Since today was Friday, Lilith knocked on Lesha's office to tell him everything she thought about his style of work. However, he was not. His secretary said that he had already left and would not be returning today.
Frustrated, Lilith went to the buffet room to drink coffee and calm down. She did not want to start working with the monkey until the work with the dog was over.
Lilith had a girlfriend. My friend was a psychologist. Her name was Olga. When Lilith was brought to a boiling point, only Olga could calm her down. But, unfortunately, now Olga was sick and was at home. And Lilith had no more friends in the department.
Realizing that she would have to start working with the monkey, Lilith entered the room, where everything was done so that the sick monkey was comfortable. Seeing that a person had entered the room, the monkey hung on the rope replacing the vine, and then suddenly ran up to Lilith and put her paw into the bag. It happened so fast that Lita didn't even have time to orientate herself. However, the contents of the bag did not interest the monkey. Not finding what interested her, the monkey ran up and put her paw into the pocket of Lala's jacket. This time, Lilith was on the alert. She did not let the monkey pull out what was in her pocket. Lilith grabbed the monkey's paw, unclenched her fingers, and took from the old monkey what belonged only to her, Loli. After that, she gave the monkey a banana, and locked the door with a key.
Looking at what the monkey was trying to steal from her, Lita blushed slightly. Glancing around, she almost ran to the office. Only then was she able to take a breath and consider once again what the monkey was trying to steal from her.
It was a miniature phallus - a symbol of fertility, it was made of jade. All the anatomical details of the phallus were carved with amazing realism. Looking at the phallus, Lilith blushed even more. The amulet was the size of a little finger, it was hung on a simple red rope. Lola didn't know how the item got to her.
Lilith ran her finger over the jade thing. And then I remembered the eyes of my beloved husband. Those eyes were slightly closed. Everything bubbled up around Lola. Passion, blurred eyes, a voice in her head calling Lolita by a false name, all this created such an effect that Lal groaned softly with excitement.
It was only now that Lilith remembered that in her dream her name was Meng Jiang Nu. But in that case, her beloved also had a different name and, of course, in a dream his name was not Andy. The name of her lover seemed to float in the air. Trying to remember the name, Lilith tensed. The blood roared in my ears. But the name that was spinning on the tip of the tongue was not remembered at all.
And then something happened! Without realizing what she was doing, Lilith brought the amulet to her lips and kissed him lightly. Lightning flashed before her eyes - in the darkness, the name of her beloved flashed in bright letters - his name was Fan Qiliang. Passion boiled in Lilith's body.
There was still plenty of time left before the end of the day. However, Lali could no longer be separated from the one she loved so much. She told the chief's secretary that she was ill and was going home. The secretary tried to delay Lilith, explaining that the veterinary van had not yet arrived, and the monkey should not be left alone. However, Lilith was unstoppable. She said that if she did not return home now to take the necessary pills and did not lie down, then later she would have to be on sick leave for a whole week.
Lilith knew that the monkey would not be left unattended. In such cases, the chief's secretary was needed. His duties included replacing laboratory staff if necessary. Probably the secretary had other plans for today, and therefore he tried to delay Lolita.
CHAPTER TWELVE
Its end! Lilith's love yearning and its strange result
The woman did not remember how she got home. She didn't remember what the weather was like outside. She did not remember the moment when she inserted the key and opened the door. All Lali was interested in right now was her bed.
Throwing her clothes right on the floor, Lilith undressed lay down on the sheets. Her eyes shone, her cheeks glowed, and in her hand Lita tightly clutched her husband's gift - a small jade fallos.
Lilith suffered all evening, from six o'clock in the evening until ten o'clock at night. Sleep did not go, no matter how hard the woman tried. At midnight, she decided that it was useless to torture herself further. Lilith knew how to relax and throw all thoughts out of her head without a trace. She did her usual qigong routine and decided that the more she forced herself to sleep, the later sleep would come to her. Then she turned on the TV, but all channels showed warsu, blood flowed, people suffered. Lilith could never watch such programs with indifference. She knew that she could not help, and this depressed her. Turning off the TV, Loli decided to take a bath. The hot water soothed the thoughts and softened the feelings. Bath foam surrounded Lilith's beautiful body from all sides. She felt like she was on a cloud. She was only sad that she was alone in this big bath. Lilith even dozed off in the water, but she did not dream of anything. Thank God that the next day was Saturday, because Lolita woke up late. She was lying in her bed, wearing a nightgown, her hair, which she had not dried after washing, stuck out in all directions. The bathroom was in order. This greatly surprised Lilith. She had absolutely no memory of getting out of the bath, putting on her nightgown, and getting into bed. She was also surprised to see that the water from the tub had been drained and that the drain cover was neatly in place.
This time, Lilith did not even try to sort out her feelings. If she had strained her memory, she would have remembered how men's hands helped her out of the bath, wiped her beautiful body, and even combed her hair. In the depths of her soul, Lilith remembered all this, but the whole story began to tire her. She believed less and less that all those events that she recalled with such trepidation had actually happened to her.
A lot of work has accumulated during the week at home. Although the apartment was service, but from time to time it was also necessary to do a general cleaning there. Moreover, on Monday, Lilith wanted to return home. Household chores occupied Lala's time until lunch.
At 2 pm, Olga's friend called and suggested that Lilith go for a walk in the park. Lilith wanted to agree to her friend's invitation, but suddenly she felt so sleepy that it was hard to even raise her hand to put down the phone. Her eyes closed, with the last of her strength, Lilith struck out an s-m-s and turned off the phone.
The road from the kitchen to the bedroom seemed incredibly difficult for her. Without undressing, she fell on the bed. Then events moved at breakneck speed.
The woman was asleep. However, underneath it was no longer a bed, but a warm can. And Lilith slept on it not alone. Beloved husband held Lolita's hand even in a dream, as if he was afraid that he would be separated from the one he loved more than life. The wind howled, promising the approach of winter, but the lovers were warm and comfortable together.
But life is like that, something that we fear most in the world is inevitable. It was four o'clock in the morning when cruel people came for Lilith's beloved husband. It turns out that the woman's husband was a builder, and had to build a great wall.
The builders of the wall lived in appalling conditions. They died of cold and hunger, as well as exorbitant hard work.
Somehow, Fan Qiliang managed to escape. For a while, the pursuers lost track of him. During this time, Fan Qiliang managed to marry Meng Jiang Nu and taste the joy of married life and love.
Meng Jiang Nu stood petrified, watching how harsh people take away with them the one who in a short time became the meaning of her life. The woman's life became empty. She put on his shirt, it seemed to her that in this way she feels everything that is happening to him now. The nights have turned into a nightmare.
The woman's body required warmth and affection. It seemed that it, the body, was screaming: “I am dying of loneliness! Where are my husband's hands that caressed me at night? Why should I sleep alone? Somebody, people, give me back my happiness.”
So a year has passed. Winter was approaching again. Meng Jiang Nu thought about her husband being cold on the windswept cursed wall. And the day came when the woman took winter clothes and set off on a long journey. Tears dimmed her eyes, cold seeped through her husband's shirt, which she still wore on her body. However, the woman kept walking and walking.
One day she got into a snowstorm. She walked as far as she could, the snow fell like a wall, and it was not clear where the west was and where the east was. Finally, the strength left the woman. Falling into a dead sleep, she held on to the collar of her shirt and repeated: "I will come, I must bring winter clothes to my husband."
Someone tried to wake Lilith. She shrugged off the one who woke her up. It was so good for her to sleep in the snow. The snow had already covered her whole body, only the beautiful face that her husband loved so much remained not covered with snow. However, the one who tried to wake Lilith had excellent perseverance. Finally Lola opened her eyes. Two people leaned over her - Lesha's boss and Olga's friend. It's good that the apartment was a service apartment, and Lesha's boss had spare keys. It turns out that Lilith had been sleeping for more than a day. When Lita was awakened, she screamed, "I must bring him winter clothes!"
Then, when a friend helped Lilith go to wash, Lolita searched for about an hour under the bed and around the bed for some lost thing. What this thing is, Lilith refused to say.
Finally, her friend's patience snapped, she told Lesha to go warm up the car, and she herself left several of Lali's things in her bag and told her friend to get ready. While the car was driving in the direction of Lola's house, Olga said that Lilithneed to be at work tomorrow morning. The dog treated by Lilith became ill again. She developed a high temperature. Loli had to finish her job. Otherwise, the experiment would be considered incomplete.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Chinese Wall. Lily tries to revive the one she loved in the guise of Meng Jiang Nu
On Monday, Lilith went to work. Before lunch she wrote reports. She spent an hour communicating with a sick monkey, she spent another two hours communicating with a dog. She walked the dog and played ball with it. It took her another two hours to complete the tests, which she conducted under Olga's control, but the whole of the past day was just a setting for the main action.
There was an hour left until the end of the working day when Lilith took the key to the relaxation room and locked herself in there from the inside. The work schedule in the relaxation room was scheduled by day for each employee.
Today was the day of one of the employees - Ivan. However, Lilith's force majeure forced the employee to change his schedule. The employee, as I said, was called Ivan, and he was very unhappy with the change in schedule. However, the fact that Lilith occupied the relaxation room off schedule was not a mere whim of a woman - these were, as I said, special circumstances.
I will not disclose all the methods by which I treated the sick at a distance Lilith. Let's just pop into the relaxation room and watch Lali as she works.
However, an outside viewer would be disappointed if they saw the work of Lilith. To the stern look of an outsider, Lilith just sat in place and did nothing. She turned on the stereo, burned the incense stick, and then sat in the lotus position. After 5 minutes, Lilith put on her headphones and lay on her back on a soft floor that covered the entire floor. The voice of his beloved Andy sounded in the headphones. This is all that an outsider would see if they were allowed to look into the relaxation room.
He would have seen a beautiful blonde, who was lying in a free position on the floor, and, slightly closing her eyes, listened to music. However, in reality, Lilith worked. For half an hour she lay without moving. After that, she got up, did her final qigong exercises, extinguished the scented candle, turned off the stereo, and left the room.
On her way home, Lilith approached the dog and stroked the animal's head. The veterinarian, who was sitting in the room where the sick dog was lying on a bed, told Lita that over the past half hour the dog's temperature had dropped and did not rise again. It was clear that the dog was still tormented by weakness, but the dog's eyes were no longer so cloudy and the dog's nose was in perfect order. The doctor, who was on duty near the dog, assured Lilith that this time the dog would remain in the laboratory until he fully recovered.
All the events that took place in the animal room were recorded by a camera, therefore, in order for the experiment to be considered clean, Loli could not touch the animal more than twice. Lilith limited herself to one time, although she really wanted to pat the dog's fur, but she overcame herself and, saying goodbye to the veterinarian, went out into the hall and moved in the direction of the elevator.
Ivan, whose turn it was today to work in the relaxation room, caught up with her at the elevator. Lilith apologized again for violating Ivan's work schedule and entered the elevator first. The elevator car traveled one floor and suddenly stopped. Lilith grimaced, she knew who had stopped the elevator car. Working with inanimate matter and electricity was Ivan's specialty. Realizing that the elevator car stopped for a reason, Lilith pretended to be very frightened. She decided to play dumb. Ivan worked in the laboratory for only half a year, he was three years older than Lilith, considered himself a genius, did not like the women who worked in the laboratory with him, and considered them all fools. That's the kind of fool Lilith was going to pretend to be now.
Vanya shone a flashlight from a cell phone in Lita's face, and Lilith made a frightened, plaintive face. What he saw seemed to satisfy Ivan.
Time passed, Ivan began to tell indecent jokes, his jokes became more and more bold. Lilith understood what was happening, and thought frantically about how she could get out of this delicate situation. Then Ivan began to talk about his achievements. He boasted and vilified the other laboratory staff. During the conversation, he moved closer and closer to Lilith. Lite Ivan resembled a rooster.
Finally, when Ivan's intentions became very, very clear, Lilith smiled to herself and decided to play a little narcissistic man. She allowed him to hug her, she even had the patience to listen to his rude compliments, but when the decisive moment came, Lilith suddenly complained that her stomach had been hurting since the morning.
Of course, it would be possible to tell Ivan in plain text that she had her period, but Lita liked to do everything gradually. As expected, Ivan did not understand anything, he did not care about Lilith's sick stomach. And only at that moment, when the man tried to throw Lilith to the floor of the elevator, and pull off her jeans, the woman announcedsilt to Ivan that she had her period.
Ivan jumped away from Lilith, as if from a leper, swore, and only after that the light came on in the elevator, and the elevator went up again. But Ivan would not have been Ivan if he had not tried to rehabilitate himself in his own eyes. He laughingly explained to Lale that he had no intention of pestering her. Ivan's goal was, according to him, to demonstrate his own achievements. He wanted to demonstrate his super capabilities. This was said just in case Lal hadn't realized by now that the elevator hadn't stopped by accident.
When the elevator stopped at the right floor, Ivan, without saying goodbye, got out of the elevator first and almost ran out of the building. Lilith walked down the street and smiled sadly. She suddenly remembered what care the young husband had surrounded her in a dream during her monthly ailments. Andy's beautiful eyes were filled with compassion and a willingness to help.
Lilith thought about her young Chinese husband, she felt bad, bitter, and hurt.
Readers may get the impression that I am praising Chinese men and trying to defame Russian machos. However, this is absolutely not the case. We are talking about men in love, and men who want to take by force what does not belong to them. Both those and other men are found in any nation.
Today Lilith spent the night at home. Not in a service apartment, but in his own home. A few years ago, after another divorce, Lilith returned home without a penny in her pocket, but with another child, with her son.
Lilith had old parents, very kind and very impressionable people. So Lilith tried to hide her sadness as far as she could and went about her household chores. And they accumulated a lot during the week of her absence.
When it was time for bed, Lilith tried to set herself up. She hoped that this night would pass without dreams and upheavals. It was like that during the night. Lilith woke up every half hour and looked at her watch. Things were moving towards dawn. At 5 o'clock in the morning the woman fell into a restless and heavy sleep. She no longer had the strength to control her dreams. At that moment, everything happened.
Opening her eyes once again, Lilith discovered that she was no longer in her room. The woman again stood near the section of the destroyed wall. Her head was spinning, because the blood from the wounded arm was already flowing without ceasing. Looking into the face of the one whom she tried to wash with her blood, Lilith, or the woman in whose body Lilith was now, slowly leaned over and kissed the man on the dead lips.
Fan Qiliang and Meng Jiang Nu finally met again. Meng Jiang Nu was distraught. She kissed her husband, then began to talk about the events that happened after the soldiers took Fan Qiliang away with them. Then she began to scold her husband and persuade him to get up.
Convinced that her husband did not want to answer for some reason, Meng Jiang Nu tried to lift her beloved's body and put on winter clothes. It was hard work.
At some point, Lilith tried to escape from the body of a Chinese woman; she did not understand how the poor woman was still holding on. She, Lali, was completely clear about the situation, but it cannot be said that she reacted calmly to what was happening. Meng Jiang Nu saw Fan Qiliang in front of her, and Lilith saw Andy. Her precious Andy's dead face was calm and peaceful. Drops of Lilith's blood sparkled on Andy's eyelashes like precious stones in the rays of the setting sun.
Lolita tried to break out of her dream, but Meng Jiang Nu needed her for some reason. The Chinese woman was aware that the soul of another woman was now in her body. Lilith fought and tried to escape from captivity, but the Chinese woman pushed Lilith to the periphery of consciousness with one movement.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
A son. Lola learns that her dreams tell of different incarnations of the soul. Details of one of the dreams that revealed to Lilith the secret that she was once the wife of the builder of the Chinese wall
Lilith woke up from the fact that she did not have enough air. The son and parents, alarmed by Lilith's cries, crowded around the bed where she slept. The woman was very ashamed that she had awakened the whole house. First, parents calmed Lilith, then Lala calmed her parents. When Lilith decided to sleep a little more, it turned out that it was already 7 o'clock in the morning, and she had to get up and cook breakfast for her son. After the son went to study, the woman began to get ready for work.
The parents were worried and asked their daughter to come after work to the doctor who was attached to the laboratory where Lilith worked. Lilith promised that she would. However, as soon as she crossed the threshold of her office, all thoughts of the events that happened at night flew out of her mind.
Again the high commission arrived. However, they were not interested in Lilith today. It was about Ivan. Olga announced over the loudspeaker that all members of the laboratory staff were waiting in the conference room. The secretary was absent today, and Olga had to perform his functions. Viktor Alekseevich, one of the founders of the laboratory, once again congratulated Lilit on the successful treatment of the dog. But that's where the good news ended.
Somehow it became known that oneof the laboratory staff, and specifically Ivan, committed an official crime. In the contract that each employee of the laboratory signed when they were hired, there was a separate line in which it was indicated that the laboratory employees did not have the right to use their knowledge and skills outside the laboratory, as well as for their own purposes.
Lilith caught Ivan's eye. There was undisguised hatred and disgust in his eyes. However, Loli didn't tell anyone about what happened in the elevator. Lilith was just embarrassed.
It turned out that Ivan himself blabbed everything. He boasted on the phone to one of the laboratory staff that he stopped the elevator with his energy and seduced a woman in a standing elevator. In Ivan's retelling, it turned out that he, Vanya, easily got everything he wanted from Lali. However, Ivan boasted in vain. The spirit of competition reigned in the laboratory. Not only women competed, but also men. Ivan did not name the woman with whom he was stuck in the elevator, otherwise Lolita would have simply quit. Ivan was given the first warning.
After that, everyone was once again reminded that the laboratory in which they all work is a secret military facility. Information about the work of laboratory staff should not go beyond the building in which the laboratory is located. All the skills and knowledge possessed by the laboratory staff should have been used only within the walls of the laboratory.
Ivan was told that for the first time he was forgiven, but he would not receive the bonus for this month in full. Lilith mentally applauded the big bosses, but suspected that she had made an enemy for herself, although she was not to blame for anything. With this, the unpleasant conversation was over, and the second half of the day passed calmly and well.
The dog's temperature did not rise again. The big bosses created a council of veterinarians. However, the council confirmed all the conclusions that Lola had already made in the morning.
This time there was no doubt, the dog was completely healthy. Lilith cured the dog in the half hour spent in the relaxation room. The evening passed quietly. Lilith watched TV for a long time, tried to read a book, and fell asleep with the book.
Unfortunately, nightmares continued to haunt Lilith. But the woman was so hoping for a respite.
This time, she ended up in the imperial palace. The story of a brave woman who went to the wall to find her husband reached the emperor's ears. The emperor ordered the woman to be brought to the palace. Struck by the beauty and courage of the woman, the emperor offered the woman to become his wife.
Meng Jiang Nu agreed, but she had a condition, she ordered the emperor to make a sacrifice to honor the memory of her husband.
The emperor was not very pleased with this condition, but agreed. Sacrificing objects were made of paper, among the objects were the imperial palace and furniture from the imperial palace.
Thousands of warriors carried various gifts. This was necessary in order for Meng Jiang Nu's husband to feel comfortable and good in the next world. A huge blazing fire was kindled. The emperor himself personally threw into the fire all those gifts that were assigned to Meng Jiang Nu's husband.
When the last item intended for Meng Jiang Nu's husband to live well in the next world was thrown into the fire, Meng Jiang Nu suddenly ran and threw herself into the fire. The fire immediately consumed the brave and faithful wife.
Lilith screamed as she burned down along with Meng Jiang Nu, but at the moment when the woman was already losing consciousness from pain, Meng Jiang Nu pushed Lilith out of her burning body.
At the last moment, Meng Jiang Nu showed Lilith what she kept Lola's soul to herself for. She showed her little son, who is now an orphan. This baby became a bridge to the events that happened to Lilith further.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
White snake and her lover. Lilith is surprised to realize that in the new dream she is not alone, with her there is the soul of the one she lost in the last dream.
A week has passed since Lola had a strange last dream. However, anxiety did not leave Lilith. Lita understood that she had absolutely no chance of happiness with her beloved man. Andy was married and happily married. However, this did not change anything. Lolita could not bring herself not to love him, especially after the events that happened to her in a dream.
Lilith tried to immerse herself completely in her work, leaving the laboratory last, arriving first, but it already smelled of obsession. It took a week to cure the sick monkey. Now the place of the monkey was taken by a small bear cub.
The bear's mother was killed by poachers. And the teddy bear was a newborn. When Lilith came to the lab, she was allowed to bottle feed the cub for a while. However, the bear cub ate very little milk formula. He had no appetite because he was sick. While working on the treatment of the bear cub, Lilith noticed a strange pattern behind her. The treatments she had used with the dog and the monkey, and those she had used in the past with other sick animals, did not work. teaching with a teddy bear. So it was before. It turns out that Lolita could not use one method of treatment more than twice. The bear's treatment has stalled. While Lilith was trying to find a way that was right for the bear cub, a team of veterinarians tried to cure the bear cub in the traditional way. However, things progressed slowly. The bear was moaning and crying in pain, just like a small child. He needed a mother, and his mother was not around. Lilith several times went into the enclosure where the bear cub was sleeping. She would like to pet him, but in that case she would no longer be allowed to participate in the experiment. Today was the day when Lilith could use the relaxation room. She tried to tune in to the right wave, but she did not succeed. The smoke from the scented candles irritated her, the music seemed too loud. Then came the song that she loved very much. This song, like all Andy's songs, was in Cantonese. And, of course, Lilith did not understand a single word of the song. But she felt the mood of the song and its intonation.
Suddenly, while listening to her favorite song, Lilith began to cry. The woman was not a very emotional person, and her own reaction to the song struck her very much. The voice of the beloved man sounded in the headphones and told a story as old as the world.
Lilith was sure that if she found a translation of this song, it would turn out that this song tells about unhappy love. However, there was no translation of the song.
Lilith wiped her tears, she completely forgot why she went into the relaxation room. It was unfair to the sick little bear.
Lolita read a lot as a child and loved to fantasize. And she also loved to think about problems. Before solving any problem, she always tried to turn the situation that created the problem in different directions. Quite often, a woman reminded herself that any problem can be solved if you move away from the usual patterns and try to find a new fresh solution. And now Lilith decided to use the method that had just occurred to her in the treatment of the bear cub.
The most surprising thing is that when she left the relaxation room, the veterinarian Vasily rushed to her and with a happy smile told Lali that the bear cub had eaten for the first time all day. Now the baby was asleep.
However, the woman asked Vasily not to hurry with the report to the authorities. She still needed to watch the bear cub in order to correct her treatment if his condition worsened.
The woman was deceiving herself. She knew very well that the treatment had worked. Lali simply did not want to return home, however, the loneliness of the service apartment did not attract her either.
To be honest, Lola yearned for her dreams. Of course, not for everyone. Lilith missed that dream in which she first felt the hugs and kisses of her dear Andy. Memories of the beloved man and his caresses drove Lilith into a frenzy!
Lolita was afraid to touch her body, it seemed to her that her whole body was now like a bare wire. She would give anything in the world to feel the lips of her precious Andy on her body.
The woman understood that her feelings were just a fantasy inspired by dreams. But what could she do?
The real Andy lived far away and had no idea that there was a Russian woman on earth who loved him so much. Lilith did not know Chinese, she could not write a letter to the subject of her adoration. And even if I could, I wouldn't do it. Lilith believed that the harassment of fans violated Andy's right to privacy and confidentiality.
Lolita knew that millions of female fans would do anything to make their favorite Chinese actor pay attention to them. Lilith even knew that one of Andy's fans committed suicide because of unrequited love.
Lilith resented the idea that she was just as unlucky a fan as the rest. Lita hated the herd feeling, she didn't like being in a crowd, she didn't like being thought of as a member of a collective.
However, something had to be done. The tension built up in her body needed to be released. Otherwise, the case would have ended in hysteria and breakdown.
Having exhausted herself and exhausted her relatives and friends, Lita finally came to the conclusion that she needed to forget about dreams if she did not want to go completely crazy.
To distract herself, Lilith decided to look at a dating site. She had been registered there for a long time, but she could not manage to find a man with whom she would like to go on a date.
In the evening, before going to bed, she sat down in front of the computer screen and decided not to leave it until she found a man on the site who would be worthy to go on a date with her.
There were many men on the site, the woman could not stop at any one. Finally, she decided to choose the one with Asian slit eyes in the photo. I mean, she was trying to find a kind of replacement for Andy.
The search took quite a long time. Then it seemed to her that she had found what she was looking for. The rest was a matter of technique.
The man wrote that he would like to have Lilith's phone number, Lilith hesitated a little, but nor phone wrote.
I will say right away that the date was a success, but what happened after the date discouraged Lola from any desire to get acquainted ever again on a dating site.
After a date and a walk along the seashore, the man hinted that it would be nice to end the date with shock sex.
Lilith tried to explain to the man that one date was too early for sex.
The man seemed to agree and offered to take Lola home, however, when Lita got into the car, the man turned the car into some lane and tried to rape her.
The woman tried to stop the man with words, but it looked like someone was trying to stop the locomotive at full speed. Lilith tried to do the same trick that she did with Ivan. However, the man Lita met today was deaf to reason. Then Loli told the man that if he only touched her, she would bite him.
And to demonstrate the seriousness of her intentions, the woman bit the rapist on the lip. The man was just trying to kiss her. Lita miscalculated her strength, and the man bled from his lip. While the man was trying to understand what had happened to him, Lilith opened the door and ran away. The man did not try to catch up with her.
Shocked and morally crushed, Lilith came home. As soon as she opened the door, she realized that she had come not to her home, but to the apartment that the head of the laboratory had given her. In short, she came to the service apartment.
It was too late to return home. Lilith called her son and warned that she would not come to sleep tonight. Everything in the apartment remained as it was on the day when Olga arrived and took Lilit home.
The woman burst into tears for the second time that day. She was so disgusted, as if she had been rolled in mud. No, Lilith did not deny the fact that sex is now the main topic that worries men and women. However, Loli was firmly convinced that sex is an addition to love, and not vice versa.
Lilith liked sex, but only sex with the person she loved. Otherwise, everything lost its meaning.
The woman wept and wept. Finally, she, right in her evening dress, went to bed. Turning on the TV, she watched a soap opera for a long time without understanding a word.
Lilith could not understand why she was so uncomfortable lying down, finally, she realized that something was bothering her and put her hand under the sheet.
It was a lost amulet. A small jade phallus, the thing that Lilith was looking for on the day when a friend came to this apartment with Lesha.
And now Lilith was crying again, but now they were tears of happiness. The phallus was confirmation that everything she saw in her dream was real.
Clutching the jade amulet to her chest, Lita fell asleep almost happy. And finally she had a magical dream, but this dream was not a continuation of the dream, the events of which ended a week ago. It was a completely different dream.
In the dream, Lilith was a snake. She lay peacefully in the sun and warmed herself, when she suddenly heard children's voices. Just in case, she crawled behind a rock.
She was a white snake, dangerous, powerful, but a snake that did not like to attack people first. However, sometimes she had to defend herself. But this time everything happened differently.
The boys found the snake and threw a net over it before the snake could react. The snake fought desperately, but it was all to no avail.
For some period the snake was in captivity, and then she felt that someone had opened the iron can, which became her prison.
Lilith's consciousness rippled, the woman felt great in the skin of a snake. Of course, she was worried about the fact that she was in captivity, but Loli was sure that everything would be fine. After all, everything always ends well in a dream.
Loli immediately received confirmation of her thought. The man who opened the lid so the snake could crawl out had Andy's appearance. The cruel boys caught the snake and put it in an iron can. The man was going about his business when he saw that the boys were building a fire to throw a can of snake into it.
The man, let's call him Andy for now, took the jar from the boys and released the snake. The snake's name was Bai She, and the man with Andy's appearance was named Xu Xian.
It was a different century, in China then another dynasty ruled, the clothes on the man were different, one thing remained unchanged: the man had the face of Andy, and the snake under the thick white scales had the beating heart of Lilith.
Lolita decided that now it would be more correct to hide. But she wasn't about to let Andy out of her sight. Andy was a simple peasant, but this meant nothing to the white snake. She loved her savior. It was amazing that in this body, the body of a snake, there was now only one soul, the soul of Lilith. Where did the snake's soul go, Lilith didn't care, she didn't care about anything now! All she wanted was to lie in the sun, smell the flowers and herbs, and watch her dear Andy work.
Andy, or Xu Xian, mixed herbs and roots and boiled them. Lilith was funny! She did not understand why boil the precious roots when you can eat them raw! Herbs and flowers are only delicious when they are fresh! butLola's soul immediately crawled out of the secluded place where she slept, and reminded that Xu Xian is engaged in a noble cause, he is trying to create a medicine that would help everyone and from all diseases.
Suddenly, the sensitive ears of the snake caught the sound of movement. Her man went somewhere in the direction of the forest. He lacked the necessary ingredients to create a cure. Sucking in air, the snake suddenly felt the energy of a threat that hung in the air.
Xu Xian was walking faster, he was humming some song, but he didn't hear anything. Loli has a sense of danger!
She coughed at the cloud of malice that followed Xu Xian at his heels. The woman tried to catch up with her beloved and block his path, but suddenly realized that she was late.
The insidious boys, from whom the man took away the jar with the snake, decided to take revenge. Rather, one boy decided to take revenge, the other two were only obedient weapons in the hands of their leader.
The boy who plotted revenge was the son of Van the snake-catcher. The boy desperately hated snakes. And now his hatred had spread to Xu Xian as well.
Beloved man Lilith climbed higher and higher up the mountain. He couldn't find the right herb. And suddenly he saw what he was looking for.
Leaning over a rare plant, he took out a shovel and carefully began to dig out what he needed. However, he was not destined to bring the necessary plants into the house today.
The vindictive boy crept up on the unsuspecting man and pushed him. Fortunately, a deep river flowed under the rock.
The man fell into the river. Lilith followed him. As soon as Lilith's body touched the water, she turned back into a woman.
However, action needed to be taken quickly. Beloved man Lilith was drowning. Lilith was a pretty good swimmer, but the sensations she now experienced were nothing compared to the sensations she had while swimming in the sea or in the pool.
The water hugged Loli, and Lilith also discovered that she could breathe in the water. The water kept her afloat. What could not be said about Xu Xiang. Lilith approached him in the water, and then unexpectedly kissed him.
It was her finest hour! Lilith has never felt so light and perfect. The man stopped choking, Lilith's kiss gave him an influx of air, and the kiss was so sweet that for a while the man forgot that he was under the water.
However, everything eventually comes to an end. Unlike Lilith, who could stay underwater indefinitely, it was time for the man to float up.
Lilith remained in the waters of the river. She knew that she was not allowed to show herself to people now.
Xu Xian climbed onto the bank of the river and lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, he saw that the snake-catcher Van was punishing his son. The father was an unintentional witness to the revenge of his son.
When Xu Xian asked the snake catcher about who helped him get out of the river, the snake catcher said that Xu Xian got out of the river himself, and only on the bank of the snake catcher's river Wang gave him artificial respiration.
When Xu Xian asked the snake catcher where the girl who tried to save him had gone, the snake catcher said that there was no girl. Xu Xian got out of the river himself, and he, the snake-catcher Wang, gave him artificial respiration. And the snake-catcher Van asked not to be angry with his son.
The fact is that many years ago, Van's wife died, and she died from a snake bite. Then Wang did not tightly close the box with the snakes that he had caught the day before. One of the snakes got out and bit Wang's wife. After that, the son was left without a mother.
Many years had gone by, but the snake-catcher's son still hated snakes.
Having given a slap in the face to his son, the snake-catcher went home.
Lilith heard the whole conversation, but she considered it unfair to take revenge on all the snakes for what happened many years ago.
Loli's beloved man sat on the shore for a long time and looked into the waters of the river, as if hoping that the girl who saved him was about to emerge from the water.
However, Lilith was afraid to appear on the shore for the time being. On the bank of the river there were boys who were friends with the snake-catcher's son.
Finally, Xu Xian got up and walked towards the village.
Lilith quietly got out to the river bank, then found a secluded stone and, curled up in a ball, remained to bask in the sun. She now knew where the man she loved lived and was sure that she would never lose sight of him again.
The next day, Lali went to the house where her beloved lived. Hiding in the shade of the leaves, she admired the beautiful face of her Andy, and although in this story his name was Xu Xian, all the same, all his movements, all his habits, even the turn of his head were the same as Andy actually was in real life.
Finally, Lal got tired of lying around and tried to get closer to Xu Xian's house, but she ran into an invisible obstacle, and suddenly felt like she was falling!
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Revenge. The events of reality make Lily forget about the sweet moments of love that she experienced in a dream.
Opening her eyes, Lilith discovered that she was late for work. It was hard for Lita to move, her dress was wrinkled, and there was nothing to change into.
Pulling out the iron, Lilith tried to quickly iron the dress, butwhich things are not done quickly. Lolita burned her hand twice and burned a small hole in her hem.
She wanted to cry and stomp her feet in frustration, but there was no time for that. She was already an hour late for work.
Leaving the apartment, she realized that she simply could not walk. Each step was given to her with great difficulty. This state was similar to when in a dream you try to run, but in reality you stay in place.
And suddenly Lilith understood why it was so hard for her. The abrupt transition from dream to reality did not allow the body to prepare for the gravity of the 21st century.
In a dream, Lita was too easy. She was easy in the water, she was easy in the air, she was easy in the mountains, she was easy in the lowlands. And now, in a huge, stuffy city, a city where the sky is not visible because of the smog, it was very difficult for her.
The way from home to work was given to her so hard that she entered the elevator doors with palpitations and shortness of breath. When she entered her office, she thought that she would forget herself, plunge headlong into work, but today this did not happen.
The clock hands barely moved, the air was so heavy and dense that it seemed like it could be cut into pieces. In addition to all this, at some point, Lilith realized that she had a missed call from her daughter. Not even one call, but six.
Calling her daughter back on Skype, Lilith found out that her daughter was ill. If my daughter were here in Vladivostok, there would be nothing to worry about. The horror of the situation was that her daughter was now living in Thailand. Moreover, the daughter's husband was forced to return to Russia, and the daughter with the newborn baby remained in Pattaya. Lilith was against the fact that her daughter was left alone in Pattaya, when it turned out that the affairs of her daughter's husband urgently required his presence at home. She several times asked her daughter to return with her husband. However, the daughter believed that in a month of separation from her husband, nothing would happen to her.
And now my daughter is sick. She had a fever. Started lactational mastitis.
Lilith was just horrified. She knew that in Pattaya there is no concept of such a service as an ambulance. The daughter had to get ready, dress the baby, take an open tuk-tuk bus or taxi and go to the hospital. But the problem was that the daughter had a terrible chill, and she could not even get to the first aid kit that was in the bathroom, let alone go to the hospital.
Lilith lost her head with fear. And that's when a thought came to her. She asked her daughter for permission to help from a distance. It was a risky experiment. Lilith had never healed people until now. But the fact was that the woman lost her head from fear, and did not understand what she was doing.
The daughter answered her mother with consent, she was so bad that she agreed to any help. Lilith tried to go back to Skype, but her daughter emailed her that Skype was hard to work today and offered to chat on WhatsApp. But since it was still difficult for her daughter to talk, Lilith suggested not to write messages, but to send voice messages to each other.
She instructed her daughter on what her daughter needed to do in order for the treatment at a distance to help, and determined the time.
Then she went to the relaxation room. Olga said that today the relaxation room is free.
Lilith spent half an hour in the relaxation room. Returning to the study, Lilith discovered that she had forgotten to lock the study door with a key. There was nothing wrong with that. In the emotional state in which Lilith was now, it was possible to admit not only such an oversight.
However, something from the office is still missing. Lilith's cell phone disappeared. Lilith thought she had left it in the relaxation room, but the phone was not there. When Lilith returned to the office, she found that the mobile phone was on the floor. And not just on the floor, but at the door. Or rather, outside the door, almost in the hallway.
Lilith scolded herself once more for being distracted, and then sat down at the computer to find out how her daughter was feeling. The daughter felt much better. The temperature dropped slowly. Half an hour ago, the temperature was 37 and 5, but now it was already normal, 36 and 6.
Lilith took a breath. It was the first good news she had heard in the morning.
When the lunch break came, Lolita was finally able to calm down and think about the events that happened to her in a dream.

Meanwhile, clouds were gathering over Lilith's head.
As soon as lunch was over, the chief's secretary announced over the speakerphone that all laboratory workers were invited to the conference room. Lilith walked to the meeting calmly. She thought that she would be praised again for the fact that the bear cub felt better. However, everything happened in a completely different way.
The high authorities were present at the meeting in full force. First, they discussed current problems, analyzed victories and failures. After that, there was a pause in the conversation. The high authorities cleared their throat several times, and only then did it become clear to everyone present in the hall why they were all gathered. Lesha's boss took the floor.
It turned out that half an hour ago, an anonymous letter had been planted in the office of Lesha's boss. The anonymous letter stated thato one of the lab employees uses her skills for her own purposes, namely, she spends her energy to cure her sick daughter, who is now in Thailand. The letter was accompanied by a flash drive, which contained files of recording voice messages between a laboratory employee and her daughter.
There was silence in the conference room. All laboratory staff knew that Lilith's daughter now lives in Thailand. And so, when Lyosha's boss read out the anonymous letter, everyone in the hall unanimously turned to Lali.
Lilith was petrified, it was strange for her to hear strangers talking about her daughter and about herself.
Turning to the team in which she worked for so many years, she saw a different expression on their faces, someone looked with pity, someone with poorly hidden arrogance, and someone just with gloating.
It was especially evident how Ivan rejoiced at her misfortune.
However, Lilith still could not understand how her secret ill-wisher knew about her correspondence with her daughter. And suddenly Lilith understood, she remembered her mobile phone, the phone that was first lost and then found. After all, all correspondence with his daughter was on him.
When Lilith turned towards Ivan, she saw that her guess was correct. Ivan openly laughed, and then he made a gesture of a telephone, or rather, a telephone receiver, which is brought to his ear.
Finally, silence fell in the conference room, and Lesha's boss gave the floor to Lilith. Lilith explained the current situation as well as she could. Her confusion, her fear for her daughter, finally that state, the state of panic, when she finally lost her head from fear.
The high authorities reacted to Lilith's explanation with understanding. Victor Alekseevich was a master of sports in martial arts, he practiced qigong for many years. He was a kind but strict leader. He explained to Lita all the subtleties of qigong energy for a very long time. He did not scold Lilith, no, he simply explained to her that with her release of energy, Lilith could cause irreparable harm to her daughter. After all, the treatment of people with qigong energy is in the experimental stage.
Hearing this, Lali burst into tears. Viktor Alekseevich absolutely did not expect such a reaction and shied away. This ended the meeting.
Lilith was scolded, explained, but no sanctions followed.
As the lab team members left the conference room, Lilith caught Ivan's eye. There was so much hatred in this look that it seemed that if you give Ivan matches and kerosene now, he will burn Lilith with pleasure and not frown.
Ivan hoped that Lita would also be deprived of her bonus here, or punished in some more severe way. However, the high authorities limited themselves to only a reprimand. It was evident that Ivan was not satisfied with this. Looking at the distorted face of her colleague, Lilith made a promise to herself to lock the office with several keys.
Viktor Alekseevich lingered at the door and asked Lita, after she calmed down, to look into his office. Lali was already calm. She just washed herself and combed her hair, and immediately knocked on the door of Viktor Alekseevich. Victor Alekseevich no longer scolded Lilith, instead he offered his help. Help was offered in case Lilith's treatment caused any side effects. Lilith sobbed and agreed with an endowment.
Viktor Alekseevich advised Leti to be careful. Apparently he understood who was the author of the anonymous letter. And he also ordered to write down today's treatment of his daughter in the report, as one of the preparatory stages of the experiment with people. Experiment with human volunteers. From next week, Loli will no longer work with animals. The target of her experiment is now people. This was the end of the whole conversation.
The second half of the day was chaotic and meaningless.
Lilith talked to Olga for a long time. The girlfriends decided to be on the lookout and not let Ivan close to their personal belongings and documents.
In the evening, Lilith returned home. Daughter was easier, or rather, she felt almost healthy. Lilit warned her daughter that one of her superiors, and specifically, Viktor Alekseevich, today would slightly correct the treatment that Lilit had applied to her daughter.
Lilit wanted to spend the night in the service apartment today, but just before the end of the working day, Lilit's mother called and began to complain about her grandson. Hearing her mother's weeping intonation, Lolita-Lilit realized that her absences and overnight stays in the service apartment had borne fruit, but, unfortunately, these were bitter fruits. The son is completely out of control.
Returning home, Lilith tried to understand the problem that her son had created. It turned out that the problem is not worth a damn. My son had a toy gun with bullets. Getting ready for school in the morning, he quietly put this machine gun in his satchel, and at recess he let a friend play with the machine gun. A friend did not find anything better than to start shooting from a machine gun at classmates. One of the bullets hit the leg of a classmate. The son, along with a friend, was called to the director. And tomorrow, Lolita and the mother of a friend were invited to the director.
Yes, today was a really bad day. However, that day, too, was coming to an end.
Lilith was very worried about her daughter. Viktor Alekseevich pretty much frightened Lilit. The woman is veryshe was afraid that her treatment might actually harm her daughter. It was already late at night, and Lilith kept sending and sending voice messages to her daughter. Until, finally, the daughter got angry and advised her mother to go to bed and not think about anything.
However, Lilith's nerves diverged so that no arguments of reason had any effect on her. The house had long since fallen into a slumber, and Lita kept torturing herself with thoughts.
Finally, when it was already 3 am, she decided to do qigong exercises to calm herself down. Lita desperately wanted to fall asleep and be back in that fabulous place where the laws of gravity do not apply. But Lali suspected that today she would not dream anything.
The woman recalled how sweet her precious Xu Xian's lips were.
Not realizing what she was doing, Lolita-Lilit began to caress herself, imagining that all this was happening in that serene and fabulous place that she had dreamed of today. And caresses her none other than her beloved Andy.
It was five o'clock in the morning when Lolita realized that a little more, and she would have to walk all day with her stomach aching from pain.
To drown out the desire, Lilith sat in the lotus position and plunged into meditation. However, sinful thoughts did not allow her to enter a state of relaxation. Mentally, she stroked Andy's body, kissed him, looked into his bottomless Asian eyes.
Then, realizing that all her efforts were useless, she tried to move her desire into the vault. She led a hot spark of desire through the spine, through the top of the head, then she sent the spark through the heart and placed it in the navel. These simple manipulations helped, but only by 10 percent.
It was six o'clock in the morning when Lita went to bed. She slept for one hour. At seven o'clock she woke up and went to wake her son up at school.
The day passed without incident. During the lunch break, Ivan hovered around Lilith all the time and smiled at her with a devilish smile. Lilith turned away and tried not to look in his direction. Olga, who had joined Lola at dinner, promised to call Ivan in for an interview. Olga was a good psychologist, and Lilit hoped that after a conversation with Olga, Ivan would calm down and he would lose the desire to do nasty things to Lilith.
Returning home, Lilith planned her route in such a way as to pass by the place where Andy and Sammo Hung had been sitting a year ago. The second video, which Lali also found on youtube, clearly showed the place where Andy and his director were giving an interview.
It was a marble border. Men sat there to hide from the heat. Here the reporter overtook them. As she touched the marble curb, Lilith hoped to feel the vibrations of Andy's body. However, the marble was cold and silent. Maybe it was because a whole year had already passed, or rather, almost a year. However, Lily knew that the energy was not going anywhere.
Returning home, Lilith saw the offended face of her son. She completely forgot that she was called to the director. Promising her son that tomorrow she would call the director and find out what measures the director was going to take, Lilith went to bed.
The events of the previous day and the sleepless night had exhausted her completely. She pulled on her oldest nightgown. Thus, she tried to inspire her body that access to pleasures was closed. However, it, the body, sweetly ached at the mere thought that somewhere out there, in a beautiful flower country, there lives a man with the face and body of Andy, but bearing a completely different name. Lilith really hoped to meet this man today in a dream. A sweet place between the thighs languished in anticipation of a meeting with his beloved.
Daughter Lilith was already completely healthy, and forbade her mother to call her every ten minutes. Lilith obeyed reluctantly.
She did indeed sleep very soundly that night, but she did not dream.
Lilith woke up in a bad mood. She scolded her son and promised to throw away all his toys if he ever took anything from the house without permission again. The son burst into tears and refused to go to school.
Seeing that the mother offends her beloved grandson, the grandmother entered into the conversation. The conversation went on raised tones. Lilith understood that there would be no winners in this dispute, but she could not stop. The case ended in tears, reproaches, and Lilith's promise to spank her son.
Lilith never raised a hand against her son, she raised her daughter in the same way, but she remembered that she must combine father and mother in herself, so to speak, in one bottle, and therefore sometimes broke down.
Finally, when there were 5 minutes left before the start of work, she realized herself and flew out of the house without even putting on makeup. She had a headache, and there was still a whole day ahead of her. Luckily, today was Friday, a shortened day.
Calling the principal of the school, Lilith found out a lot of interesting things about her son. But most importantly, the director said that, fortunately for the boys, the plastic bullet hit the girl's leg only tangentially, and therefore the girl's parents promised not to take any measures against classmates.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Andy and Carroll. In another dream, Lily sees the real, today's, life of her precious Andy
The next day was Saturdaythem. It's been a whole week since the first dream ended.
Lilith returned from her morning run. After that, she was in high spirits for some time. Lilith was going to the dance today.
Lilith was very fond of dancing. Beautiful rhythmic music gave her the same pleasure as singing. However, if she studied the ability to sing for three whole years, then no one taught her to dance. Moreover, when she walked or ran during her morning workout, she moved to the rhythm of the music that sounded in her headphones. Without words it is clear what kind of music accompanied her every morning while jogging. Of course, the songs of her precious Andy were playing in the headphones. When the tango sounded in the headphones, Loli did not just run, but ran or walked in the rhythm of the tango. The same was true for other songs. When songs were played in Latin rhythm, Lilith imagined that she was dancing samba with Andy in a pair.
And today Lilith decided to get out for a real dance evening. Lali was not looking for dance partners. Partners found it themselves. However, Lilith was absolutely not happy with the fact that some men came to the evening drunk or brought vodka with them.
And Loli didn’t like that her dance partners were trying to get under her bra during the dance or pat her soft spot. The woman was not a hypocrite, but today she came to dance.
However, time passed, and there were less and less sober men around. Evening came only to the middle, and there were already two fights. At first, the ladies did not share the man. Comic action under the motto: "He's mine!" filled the floor of the hall.
The women grabbed each other's hair, and then it came to a real fight. Half an hour passed, and the fight broke out again, but only now in the other half of the hall, where three men did not share the lady.
There were still about two hours left before the end of the evening, when Lolita decided that it was time for her to call a taxi. One, a particularly persistent dance partner, several times strove to pull Lilith out of the hall by the hand. Of course, this attitude did not please Lilith at all. She tried to hide in the crowd of dancers, but she did not succeed. The man was aggressive, rude, and there was no one to stand up for Lali.
When the cavalier, who was annoying her, once again went to the buffet for a portion of alcohol, Lilith quietly slipped out of the hall and went down to the hall. Luckily for her, the taxi arrived quickly. However, the unlucky boyfriend did not want to part with Lilith so quickly. Lilith just had time to slam the taxi door, as an angry man jumped to the car and tried to open the door. It happened so suddenly that Lita screamed in fear. Fortunately for Lita, the taxi driver was an experienced driver and had seen everything in his lifetime. He reacted quickly. A second, and the taxi door was locked. The drunken gentleman could only knock on the taxi door with his fist. He even tried to catch up with the car, but soon ran out of steam.
Lita was embarrassed. She sat all red, her eyes were downcast. However, the taxi driver whistled, as if nothing had happened, some song. Lilith gave the taxi driver the address of the office apartment.
Today was Saturday, and she had every right to spend the night where she liked. At night, the roads are free and after 10 minutes Lilith was at home.
Upon entering the apartment, Lilith realized that she was angry. She didn't have a specific source she could be angry at. Lilith was just angry. She so wanted to dance, but instead, all evening she had to brush off drunken gentlemen, and watch stories worthy of unbridled laughter.
It was only three in the morning, Lita did not feel like sleeping at all, so she quietly turned on dance music, put on high-heeled shoes and began to dance. She was aware that there was something wrong with dancing without a partner, but, to be honest, she didn’t give a damn about it. She just wanted to dance! What she failed to do at the dance party, she did here, in the quiet of the service apartment. Lilith had an old mop stick. Embracing the stick, Lilith danced the dance of sultry thighs, that is, the dance of the tango. It was six o'clock in the morning when Lit finally got tired, and decided that the dance evening could be considered successfully completed and held.
Having made the bed, she clutched the amulet in her hand and fell asleep almost happy. The dream that she had had nothing to do with the dream she was waiting for to continue.
She dreamed of Andy and his wife Carroll. On the face of Andy and Carroll were wearing masks similar to those that we wear in Russia during a flu epidemic. The couple made their way through the crowd of reporters. Andy tried to cover for his wife. When a few meters remained to the treasured door, one of the reporters asked a provocative question. Andy's face flushed, but he smiled, and squeezed his wife's hand even tighter in his hand. There was so much concern in Andy's eyes that Lilith, who was in a crowd of reporters in a dream, wanted to help this couple. However, what could she do? And then an idea came to Lilith's head. Moving around the corner of the building so that she could not be seen, Lilith shouted: “Jackie Chan, I seezhu Jackie Chan, everyone here!
Lilith hoped that a moment's respite would give Andy and Carroll the opportunity to get to where they wanted to go. Lilith really wanted to know how this story ended and whether the couple managed to get to the cherished door.
However, her sleep was interrupted by the sharp sound of the phone. The daughter called. She said that now the baby is sick. Most likely, it was a reaction to the teeth, the baby felt very bad, she was naughty and refused to eat. Lilith again lost her head with fear. However, now she knew that she could help, and this somehow calmed her. The daughter agreed to help Lilith this time as well. However, now the woman decided not to repeat the old mistakes. She called Viktor Alekseevich and explained the situation to him. Viktor Alekseevich said that this is exactly the case he was talking about. Lilith had no experience yet, she did not know how to put up a defense, and, probably, Lilith's treatment somehow hit the child like a boomerang. Victor Alekseevich allowed Lilith to treat the baby, but explained how to make sure that the echo from the treatment would not hit anyone else. And also, Viktor Alekseevich, advised Lali to do exercises to protect herself from diseases after the treatment session.
Lilit asked for help from Viktor Alekseevich, but he said that she could do just fine on her own. She just had to do defensive exercises.
Lilith was shaking all over. The thought that her treatment could harm the precious baby just killed her. However, something had to be done, the daughter was waiting for help. Gritting her heart, Lilith emptied her thoughts, cleared her feelings, and began her treatment.
After finishing the treatment session, Lilith felt that she was shaking all over. With every second she got worse and worse. Teeth were chipping. Losing consciousness, she dialed Viktor Alekseevich's number and managed to ask him for help. After that, Lilith lost consciousness. Unconsciousness enveloped her, and she fell.
When she woke up, she saw the water and the side of the pool. A swarthy hand gave her a towel. Raising her face, she saw...
Well, guess the first time who she saw? Of course, my precious Andy. However, next to Andy was Carroll. And that was not all. Not far from the spouses, a little girl was sitting and playing with a doll. It was probably the daughter of Andy and Carroll.
Lilith knew the baby's name was Hannah.
Carroll got up and Lilith saw that the woman was pregnant. Lilith did not understand what she was doing here. However, Andy and Carroll treated Lali with great respect.
Lolita did not understand what was happening. Andy thanked Lita for a long time, and then a car drove up and the couple left with Hannah. Lilith stayed.
The woman looked around, next to the pool was a magnificent house. Right in the courtyard of the house stood a small temple. The house was surrounded by a strong fence. Timidly opening the gate, Lilith looked out into the street.
She was in some hot country. Dark-skinned people walked along the streets, and across the road from the house the warm sea lapped. Looking around, she decided to enter the house. It was a three-story structure with several bedrooms, bathrooms, and a huge balcony that circled the entire house.
Lilith did not understand what she was doing here and how she got here. Going out onto the balcony, she saw a bright toy that Hanna had left in the yard. It was no longer a dream. Lilith ran out of the house and picked up a toy from the grass. It was a toy panda painted in bright colors. Lilith felt the roughness of the toy and even smelled it. It could not be a dream, but in that case it was completely incomprehensible why Lilith was in this house. Why did she see a pregnant Carroll? In what country, after all, is this house located?
Reaching for her cell phone to inform Carroll that Hannah had forgotten her favorite toy, Lilith accidentally pushed the wrong button, and Victor Alekseevich's voice came from the phone's speakers. The voice called and asked Lali to wake up. Lilith resisted with all her might. She felt good in a tropical country, under the hot sun. She clung to the side of the pool, but she knew that her strength was fading and she would have to give up.
When Lilith came to herself, she saw Viktor Alekseevich next to her. The man dialed an ambulance. Lolita dissuaded him as best she could. She assured the boss that she was already much better. Although in fact she was still very ill. My heart was beating wildly, my head was spinning and I really wanted to cry. Victor Alekseevich counted Lola's pulse and said that he would not leave her in this state.
Lita was embarrassed. She was wearing a transparent nightgown. Her daughter's message caught her as soon as she woke up. Viktor Alekseevich brought a dressing gown from the bathroom and advised Lolita to put it on.
Lilith tried to explain to Viktor Alekseevich that everything had already returned to normal. However, the man perfectly saw the state of Lolita. Realizing that Lita was embarrassed, he offered to call Olga. However, Lilith said she would go home. Viktor Alekseevich offered to give her a lift, but Lita said that her house was two stops away.
Then Lilith suddenly remembered that she did not know how the little girl was feeling right now. OkazIt turns out that three hours have passed since the treatment of the baby. The daughter said that the temperature rose several times, but not very high, only up to 37 degrees. And now it's been an hour since the temperature was gone. Even more, the baby ate for the first time in the last six hours and fell asleep peacefully. The daughter thanked her mother and disconnected.
And Lilith burst into tears. Viktor Alekseevich said that if Lilit reacted so emotionally, he would forbid her to treat her relatives. Seeing that Loli was not in the mood for a conversation, he said that he was leaving and asked that Lita, after all, not be left alone today. When the door closed behind Viktor Alekseevich, Lilit groped for the phallus-amulet in the bed.
She perfectly remembered her last dream, but did not understand at all what it meant. However, she really needed to go home. Her hopes that she would have a dream with a white snake and her lover were dashed. Moreover, the dream that she had instead of the expected dream was strangely disturbing to Lita. She did not want to analyze this dream, but the details of the dream kept popping up before her eyes. She saw the spots on the face of the pregnant Carroll, she saw the look of concern and concern on Andy's face. She even saw the flamboyant Mickey Mouse suit Hanna wore. She also didn't like the look of awe that Andy and Carroll wore. The couple looked at Loli in much the same way that she looked at Viktor Alekseevich today. This is how they look at a teacher and mentor, but they don’t look at a young, beautiful woman who is in love with one of her spouses.
Deciding that her sleep analysis today would lead nowhere, Lala got dressed and really went home. When she got home, she saw on her voice mail that her daughter had left her a message. The baby was already quite well, there was no trace of malaise. The daughter said that she did everything as her mother asked, so that this time the disease would not spread to someone else. Lilith did not call her daughter back. Or rather, she really wanted to call her, but she held back with all her might. She understood that her daughter, exhausted from a sleepless night, was probably resting now, but Lily needed confirmation that, now, at this moment, the little girl was as well as she was half an hour ago, and the temperature had not returned.
Viktor Alekseevich called, Lilit told him that she was at home, and that the baby was feeling better. Viktor Alekseevich ordered Loli to go to bed. Lilith objected, she stated that she never sleeps during the day, but Viktor Alekseevich said that this was an order, and orders were not discussed. Lilith laughed, but suddenly she really felt that she really wanted to sleep.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Zmeelov Van. What ended the dream of Lilith, who appeared in a dream in the body of a white snake
And finally, the dream she had been waiting for came to her. Lolita saw that she was inside the house where Xu Xian lived. Probably Loli missed some events. She didn't know how the white snake revealed to Xu Xian the truth about who saved him when he was drowning in the river. In any case, now Xu Xian's face had the same expression that Lolita had seen on Andy's face a few hours earlier when he looked at his wife Carroll. However, Lilith did not believe that she was now in the same position as Carroll was. Everything was so confusing and getting more and more confusing every minute. Xu Xian, Andy, Carroll and Lilith, all these characters are intertwined.
The events of the dream hinted at some reality, or a detail from reality, hinted at some event that Lyta overlooked. Lilith tried to force herself to focus on the reality she saw around her. Her ability to analyze all the time now only hindered her.
Lita wanted only to love and be loved. She sat next to Xu Xian and recalled the moment when she suddenly turned into a woman in the waters of the river, and then she kissed her man, and her kiss brought her lover back to life. Xu Xian also kept remembering this moment. He was happy and did not understand why the Buddha rewarded him so.
Meanwhile, Lilith was thinking about what act she needs to do in order to stay with her beloved forever in this blessed land. If in her 21st century she has no hope of happiness with Andy, wouldn't it be better to stay here, where the air is so clean, the intentions of the people around her are so clear, where the eyes of her beloved look at her without tearing away, and where, it seems, she will be able to raise your unborn child in peace and quiet, far from the hustle and bustle of the big city. Yes, Lolita felt like she was carrying Xu Xian's baby, which is why her husband looked so worried today. Just as anxious as Andy was this morning.
And Lita, even here, in this wonderful place that smelled of flowers and herbs, did not feel well. Her heart was still pounding, her head was still spinning, and she was still tormented by wild nausea. Xu Xian never left her side for a minute. And, despite the fact that Lilith did not look very good today, she did not care. She understood that she would be the most beautiful for her lover, no matter what state she was in. but. This feeling that you do not need to preen, think all the time about your appearance, about the impression she makes on others - this feeling was great.
For the first time in many, many years, Lilith felt that she could relax. The feeling of security was amazing, and only now did Lilith realize how tired she was of being strong. How tired she was of being mother and father to children at the same time. She knew that the person who was next to her now would never scream, never hit her. This man will never betray, and will fight for his wife to the last drop of blood. And also, and Lilith was sure of this, Xu Xian would never leave Lilith and would not cheat on her with the first woman that came across.
Suddenly, a neighbor boy came running and asked for Xu Xian's help. The boy's father had just returned from the city and suddenly fell unconscious. Xu Xian got ready and would have left if Lita hadn't asked to go along with him. Xu Xian did not have time to save the man, moreover, when they arrived, it turned out that the whole family of the man fell ill. The household members of the man lay unable to rise.
The disease spread like wildfire in a matter of hours. Xu Xian darted between his house and the neighbors' house. His potions were brewed and the furnace worked continuously. He was in despair. It was pitiful to look at him. Lilith was afraid for her lover, she was afraid to think that he, too, could become infected. However, her beloved did not think about himself at all.
Finally, when Lilith realized that a little more and the disease would cover all the inhabitants of the village, she remembered that there, in real life, she helped several close people to recover a little from the disease. However, this was a completely different matter. Here, almost all the inhabitants of the village were ill. But Lilith, in this story, or in this dream, was not just a woman, she was a white snake who was helped by the power of love to turn into a woman. And snakes have their own magic.
Lilith complained to her husband about being unwell and, therefore, he ordered her to stay at home, and he again went to save people. As soon as the man left, Lolita turned back into a white snake. Dropping three scales from her snake skin, Lolita hesitated a little, and then again turned into a woman. When the husband returned, the scales had already dissolved in the potion that was boiling on the stove.
Lilith's first act was to force her husband to drink his own potion. Now she was sure that her husband would not get infected. The medicine helped. The disease in the village was stopped.
The villagers thanked their herbalist as best they could. Only the man who brought the disease from the city died, Xu Xian managed to save the rest of the neighbors. When the villagers got stronger, they arranged a holiday for their healer. People were filled with joy, they were pleased to think that now there is a person in the village who can be turned to, and he will cure any disease.
Only the snake-catcher Wang was not happy. He looked strangely at Lilith and her husband. Suspicion flashed in his eyes. Zmeelov Van was still considered the main healer and sorcerer in this village. He watched Xu Xian's work with a contemptuous grin. While Xu Xian was looking for herbs, the sorcerer was calm, he believed that the herbalist was not his rival.
Indeed, this has been the case until recently. Wang looked for snakes, caught them and treated people with snake venom, and Xu Xian dug in the garden and looked for herbs in the forest.
However, the epidemic that one of the villagers brought from the city turned out to be too tough for Wang. People were dying and he couldn't do anything. Xu Xian's victory over the illness hit Wang's ego hard. He decided that now people would not turn to him in case of illness. Zmeelov earned money by treating people. He was a good doctor, even from the city they turned to him for help. However, Wang was very proud and unsure of himself, although he was a good sorcerer and had been catching snakes for many years.
Now, after drinking the medicine that the herbalist gave him, Wang began to suspect that there was a snake here. But if the herbalist added snake venom to his drug, then this was already a seizure of someone else's business. Until now, only Wang's snake-catchers in this district treated the sick with snake venom. In addition, the snake-catcher Wang was interested in the question of where Xu Xian's beautiful wife appeared in the village. Zmeelov Van himself would not refuse such a beauty. However, now was not the right moment to spoil the relationship with Xu Xian. Now the herbalist was a hero to everyone. Snake Van promised himself to lie low and watch the herbalist and his wife.
Three months have passed.
Bai She, that was the name of the woman in whose body Lolita was now, asked her husband to take her city to the boat festival. The husband was worried that his wife would become ill from the noise and crowding of the city, but the woman's pregnancy had already entered the stage when nausea and malaise gave way to peace and expectation. Lilith was kind to the world and to herself. She looked tenderly at her husband, still not believing that the man with Andy's face belonged to her.
Lilith had a lot of fun. She tried many sweets, looked at the fireworks at night, admired the boat race.
In another, far from here, real life, she gavebut she wanted to see the boat festival, but she still couldn’t do it. And now, unexpectedly falling into the past, she finally fulfilled her desire.
Sailing on a boat under the bridge, the woman raised her head to admire the openwork railing, but suddenly met the gaze of the snake-catcher Van. Seeing that Lita had noticed him, the snake-catcher nodded and, turning around, pretended to leave.
However, Lilith suddenly felt threatened. Her senses are heightened! Even without raising her head, she saw that the kite-catcher Van hadn't gone anywhere. She could smell the snake killer in the distance.
The smell told her everything. In a few minutes, Lilith knew everything about the snake-catcher. She learned that the snake-catcher hates her husband, dreams of kidnapping Lolita and making her his wife.
Lilith felt that in no case should she pretend that she knew about Van's presence, but the woman was a freedom-loving person and was not afraid of anything. She raised her eyes again to the railing of the bridge. Zmeelov Van looked at her point-blank. Now there was nothing to hide.
Lilith crossed her gaze with Van's. She really hoped for her charms, but she forgot that Van the snake-catcher was a strong sorcerer, and the main business of his life was hunting snakes.
Lilith became ill. She tried to take her eyes off the snake-catcher, but the snake-catcher seemed to be sucking the soul out of her. Lali clutched her throat. Xu Xian was frightened, his eyes darted around, he tried to find help.

And help came.
The snake-catcher Wang hurried to Xu Xian. Lali tried to explain to her husband that Van was his enemy, but her voice disappeared, the woman wheezed and lost consciousness.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Volunteers. Now the objects of experiments are people
Lolita opened her eyes. She was at home. It was night outside. Running to the mirror, Lilith made sure that she was wearing her favorite nightgown. This meant that she, Lali, was really at home.
Time counted down seconds and minutes, it was July 2015 on the street. Lilith was back in the 21st century.
Suddenly, severe nausea and vomiting folded Lolita almost in half. Lilith barely managed to run to the toilet. Lolita understood that her brain still thought that its mistress was pregnant. However, Lita knew for sure that this could not be. For the past six months, she has not been close to any man.
Gradually, the nausea subsided. It's good that it was night now, and tomorrow you could sleep longer. The events of the previous day returned to Lita gradually. Lolita realized herself, she remembered that her newborn granddaughter was sick.
She rushed to the computer, but there were no missed voice messages, so everything was fine with her granddaughter. What could not be said about Lilith. Sharp transitions from events that were in a dream to reality more and more confused Lolita's memory. And it was getting harder and harder to distinguish reality from fiction.
But what if reality is what happened when Lilith was in the body of a snake, and what she sees now around is just a dream? A dream that Xu Xian's pregnant wife has. However, having dreamed a little, Lilith realized that she should not deceive herself. Her reality is the 21st century, and what she experienced in her dream today is probably just an echo of what happened to Lilith in a past life.
However, to make sure that her feelings were real, the woman quietly entered the room where her son was sleeping and stroked the boy's head.
Returning to her room, Lita turned on the nightlight and wanted to read something, but the events of the book seemed to her gray, stupid and poorly thought out. Lilith was afraid to wake up her parents, otherwise she would go outside to wander around the city at night.
Lilith had already slept and did not know what to do with her. Finally, her eyes fell again on the bookshelf. On the shelf there were about ten books devoted to qigong gymnastics.
I was cunning when I wrote in the first chapters of the book that qigong is just gymnastics. My reader was then not yet prepared for the events that he knows about now.
Of course, qigong is more than just gymnastics. Qigong is a philosophy. This is a secret weapon used by the initiated Chinese at all times, and especially in times of turmoil and danger. Yes, qigong is energy, and qigong masters can transmit this energy from a distance.
Tibet, Shaolin - these mysterious words wind up thoughts about the eternal and the everlasting. Qigong cannot be described in words, qi energy is in every person, it is in every tree, it is even in stone. Everything living and non-living on this earth has qi energy.
As for people and the energy that is contained in each person, you need to remember that the energy is sleeping, but it is very easy to wake it up.
Lali just got lucky. She was afraid to think what would have happened if her feet had not brought her to the East Square of Hunchun City then, a few years ago.
Walking around the square, she saw a man wearing clothes that he probably needed for qigong practice. That first evening, Lilith was too shy to approach the man. She simply tried to memorize the exercises the man did and then tried to repeat them in a hotel room.
When the evening of the next day came, Lilith was again on the Eastoh square. However, she was disappointed, the man who did the gymnastics that fascinated her was not in the square.
Lily staggered around the square, bought a squid, which they immediately fried in front of her and planted on a stick. When she was about to leave, she saw that the qigong master was already standing in his place and doing the exercises. Lilith immediately changed her mind about leaving.
Yesterday she could not remember all the exercises. However, it was uncomfortable for her to stand and stare at the person who was doing the work. The master probably noticed Lita yesterday, but did not show it in any way. And only on the third evening he called Lilith and invited her to study with him.
Lilith did not understand a word of what the man said, she did not know Chinese. However, language was not needed here. Sign language is understandable to a person from any country, in order to understand it, translation and transcription are not needed. Lilith diligently repeated the intricate exercises after the master. At some point, she became embarrassed, onlookers began to gather around. However, looking at the imperturbable face of the master, she tried to adopt his expression of detachment.
Finding that they were not paying attention, the onlookers soon dispersed. That's how it all started.
The man with whom Lilith then came to the city of Hunchun was dissatisfied with her evening absences. However, Lolita lived with passions. If a woman liked something, no one could forbid her to do what she liked. This is how qi gymnastics entered life in Lita.
The night went on and on, and Lilith sat and read. Finally, when the first rays of dawn peeked through the window, Lilith got dressed, pulled on her sneakers, and, putting in her headphones, went for a morning run.
On Monday, Lilith sat in front of the computer for a long time. She needed to write down everything that happened in the last days with those she treated. The report is long. After rereading the report, Lilith noticed that there were too many lyrical digressions in it. The genre of the lyrics was not at all suitable for the report. It took her another two hours to remove the excess.
It was ridiculous for her to call her daughter, in the report, by her last name, first name and patronymic, the same applied to her granddaughter. Finally the report was finished.
After dinner, Olga came and said that the first volunteer was sitting in her office. She said that she had done all the tests and had a conversation with the girl who came. Now Olga has come to ask Lilit if Lilith is ready to start working with the first volunteer. Lilith agreed with her friend.
The first volunteer was a woman. Or rather, a young girl. I have no right to disclose the conditions of the experiment, and even more so, I have no right to talk about what the girl was sick with. Or rather, I had no right to tell Lilith about it, but I, not Lilith, and therefore I will tell you with pleasure what the girl was sick with.
The girl's eyesight was disastrously fast. Having started working with the girl, Lilith discovered that the girl had blocked energy channels that connect the liver and eyes. You say what nonsense! What is the relationship between the liver and the eyes? And here is the link! Remember, when a person is sick with hepatitis, first of all look at his eyes. With this disease, the eyes turn yellow.
Lilith worked with the girl for two weeks. The work was so hard that at some point the woman wanted to ask Viktor Alekseevich to allow her to return to the experiment with animals. But then suddenly the girl's eyesight began to recover.
It took another two weeks to consolidate the result. Then the girl again moved to Olga's office. In principle, Lita's work was already over, but she asked Lesha's boss for permission to work with the girl for another week. Lali needed to remove the echo from the girl's treatment. Viktor Alekseevich taught her this. This was necessary so that the girl’s illness did not spread to those who were close to her.
Lyosha's boss gave permission. However, he said that Lali was messing around with this girl for too long. From next week, only two weeks will be allocated for each Lilith volunteer.
People changed, and each time Lilith tried to think through the details of the treatment so as not to repeat. Her body was like a well-tuned instrument, but more than two times this instrument did not want to play the same melody.
Lilith liked her work. And she also liked that now the work does not leave her time to think and remember.
Lilith was always on the alert, she was afraid that Ivan would do something nasty to her again.
Once Viktor Alekseevich came to the relaxation room, he talked with Lilit for a long time, asked her about her daughter and granddaughter, asked about Lilith's health, and then asked if Lilit did not forget to do protection after the sessions.
Lilith was so surprised by the abundance of questions that she even became confused. After all, the woman was still embarrassed by the fact that Viktor Alekseevich saw her almost naked. This happened when she lost consciousness, and Viktor Alekseevich came to help her. That morning, he found Lita lying unconscious, then she was wearing a transparent nightgown.
That is why the woman now answered the big boss in monosyllables and dreamed thathe left quickly.
During the lunch break, Lilit told Olga about her conversation with Viktor Alekseevich. She listened attentively to her friend, clarified something else, and then made an absolutely absurd conclusion, from the point of view of Lilith. Olga told Lilit that Viktor Alekseevich probably went into the relaxation room and talked with Lilit in such detail and for a long time, because Lilit liked Viktor Alekseevich as a woman.
Lilith indignantly rejected Olga's suggestion. But it, the assumption, made Lilith look at Viktor Alekseevich with different eyes.
Viktor Alekseevich was an interesting man. Tall, stately, the man's hair was black, with a slight touch of gray. As far as Olga knew, Viktor Alekseevich was a widower, but he had no children.
He spent several years in Tibet cultivating his qigong skills and other spiritual practices. Viktor Alekseevich fought in hot spots. He had awards and titles. For several years he worked as a coach at the academy of martial arts.
The research institute and laboratory for the study of qi energy were the brainchild of Viktor Alekseevich. After demobilization, he had many acquaintances among the military. His proposal to establish a research institute with branches in several Russian cities was met with interest. A lot of time was spent on documentation and creation of a material base for the research institute. But for five years now, the institute and laboratories have been working.
The results of the laboratory research were applied in the development of the military-industrial complex.
Lilith became interested in the personality of Viktor Alekseevich, but then her inspired mood deteriorated. She realized that she could not give this man anything, because she had long and hopelessly loved another. Even if we assume that something will work out with Viktor Alekseevich, all the same, and Lita knew this firmly, they will have to part. Such was the fate of Lilith - to be always alone. And this loneliness was somehow connected with the inability to be together with Andy.
Lola's heart hurt when she thought about Xu Xiang, but she didn't want to be in that dream again. She hoped that if she didn't return, Xu Xian would be fine. She thought that Wang the Snake Catcher would leave Xu Xian alone if Lilith disappeared from his life. However, this decision was given to Lilith with great difficulty. And then Lilith told herself that regardless of whether she wants to or not, to find herself again in the world where she loved and was loved, the one who controls her dreams will still do as he sees fit, without asking Lilith's consent.
And Lilith was also worried about her future, the unborn child. If she does not return to the place where Xu Xian is waiting for her, then her child will never be born. And that was wrong! For the sake of a child, for a son who would be like Xu Xian, Lilith was ready to sacrifice everything, even her life.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Xu Xian's son. Lali for the last time in a dream feels herself in the body of a white snake
Lilith had a headache. She was tormented by one very persistent volunteer. It was a man, and he had an extremely mischievous character. The man's disease was trifling, the man seemed to want to be treated and at the same time was afraid.
Lilith couldn't concentrate because the man bombarded her with questions. Time passed, but Lilith still could not understand which method she should choose in order for the man's treatment to be effective. Finally, Lilith got exhausted and sent the man back to Olga.
She had previously spoken with a friend on the phone, and warned her that this volunteer had very little motivation. The man himself does not know whether he wants to be treated or not. Olga seemed to understand everything, but 15 minutes passed, another 10 minutes passed, and the man still did not return. Olga called Lilith herself and asked when the male volunteer would finally reach her office? Lilith explained to her friend that the man left 25 minutes ago. Upon learning this, Olga urgently rushed to Letya.
Without raising a panic, they searched for the man on all floors of the laboratory. The friends thought that the man was lost. Finally, when the women returned to their floor, one of Lilith's colleagues, Katya, said that she saw a man who was very unhappy with the work of the laboratory. He walked next to Ivan, and quite emotionally explained something to him.
Lilith was depressed, she immediately understood where the wind was blowing from. Tears appeared in Lilith's eyes, but Olga advised her friend not to cry and promised that she would not leave this matter like that. Ivan had his own direction in the work of the laboratory, and he had no right to interfere in the work of a colleague. Lali could take care of herself, but, in the last few days, she had a severe breakdown. She returned home and immediately went to bed. After sleeping for an hour or two, she woke up, then wandered around the apartment all night.
However, Lilith also understood that Ivan's actions were simply unethical, Ivan was openly asking for trouble. Troubles were not long in coming. In the evening, half an hour before the end of work, everyone was again gathered in a conferencenc-hall.
This time, on the podium, where the authorities usually sat, there was only Lesha. Alyosha announced that one of the volunteers had filed a complaint against the laboratory. He complained about two employees, Olga and Lilith.
In a letter that the volunteer left for the secretary, he called Lala a charlatan, and accused Olga of having probably bought her psychology diploma in some kind of transition. The letter was angry, there were many mistakes in the letter, and it was completely incomprehensible what the author of the letter wanted from the laboratory staff and from the entire laboratory as a whole.
Lali looked at Ivan. Ivan sat and pretended that for the first time he heard all the nonsense that Alexei was reading. He even folded his hands in front of him so that those around him would in no way think that he, Ivan, had something to do with writing this letter.
When the letter was read, there was silence in the hall for a minute, and then everyone started talking at the same time. Only Lita was silent, her headache intensified. Black dots floated before her eyes, and all this pleasure was accompanied by nausea.
When everyone was silent, Olga took the floor. She explained the whole situation, even told how she and Lita were looking for a man on all floors. Olga completed her explanation by saying that upon returning to her floor, they met Katerina. Ekaterina said that she saw a man who cursed the whole corridor. Ivan walked next to the man and whispered something in the man's ear. Ivan took the man to his office. After that, Katerina did not see this man again.
There was another noise in the conference room. Ivan alone sat in his place and smiled. Lyosha twice tried to call his colleagues to order. Silence was established with great difficulty. Glancing at Ivan, Lyosha smiled uncertainly. He could not believe that Ivan could be so stupid that he hoped that he could get away with this whole situation.
Finally, Ivan got up from his seat, but he did not directly admit that he had spoken to a male volunteer and persuaded him to write a complaint. Ivan began his speech by calling Lolita a prostitute. Olga, according to Ivan, was a pimp. Lilit and Olga engaged in obscene things in a service apartment, which the gullible leaders of the laboratory allocated to Lilith for temporary use. At the end of his speech, Ivan said that he was leaving because he did not like the atmosphere in the laboratory. And Ivan also said that the fish rots from the head, and he knows that one of the heads of the laboratory constantly visits Lilith in the service apartment. And without words it is clear, Ivan stressed, what they are doing there.
Having expressed everything that was sore, Ivan got up and went to the exit from the conference room. Before opening the door, Ivan stopped, smiled picturesquely, and then clapped his hands. The microphone rang out, the laptop that lay on the table in front of Alexei flared up, the light bulbs in the ceiling burst, exploded and caught fire, two speakers that stood on the sides of the stage. After making sure that the laboratory staff guessed why all the equipment suddenly failed, Ivan went out and slammed the door with all his might.
Ivan's spectacular departure, Lilith did not see. About the explosions and the slamming of the door, she already learned later from Olga. The moment Ivan clapped his hands, something exploded in Lola's brain. The light began to fade and a terrible rumble filled my head.
When Lilith opened her eyes, she tried to call Olga, it seemed to her that she was lying on the couch in Olga's office. However, Olga was not standing in front of Lali. The man who entered the room was vaguely familiar to Lita. Lali felt that the man entered the room with bad intentions, but she could not do anything. It was as if she was paralyzed, she could not raise her legs or arms. The man approached the wooden couch on which Lilith was lying. He raised his hand and wanted to say something, but the door creaked, and the man moved away from the couch. Tensing, Lolita finally recognized the man - it was Wang the snake-catcher.
The other man who entered the door after the first man was the husband of Bai She, the woman in whose body Lilith was again. Zmeelov handed something to Xu Xian. After looking back at Lilith once more, he left the house where Bai She and Xu Xian lived.
Xu Xian walked over to the couch and sat next to his wife. He removed a strand of hair from his wife's face and wiped her forehead with a wet towel. The woman was on fire. Xu Xian had tears in his eyes, but he tried to restrain himself so as not to scare his wife. Lilith suddenly remembered the latest events that had taken place in the city near the openwork bridge. Lilith knew that her fever was the work of the snake-catcher. However, she could not tell her husband anything. The voice still hasn't returned to her. She wanted to console her husband, explain to him that her fever would go away as soon as Wang disappeared from the village.
However, Lita could not explain any of this to her husband. Seeing his wife smiling, Xu Xian wiped away his tears and stroked Lilith's head. After that, he gave Lilith a cup of some kind of potion. She drank a few sips from the cup, and only then remembered the potion that Wang the snake-catcher had given her husband.
Lala threw away the cup, but even those few sipsShe took a sip, enough to start metamorphoses with her. Lita felt herself transforming back into a snake, and she also felt the familiar pushing. She started giving birth. Jumping up from the couch, Lilith, knocking over everything that came in her way, rushed into a small room where Xu Xian kept and dried herbs.
Lilith searched the shelves, boxes and jars with her eyes. But the antidote she hoped for was not there. Lilith understood that if she turned into a snake, her son would still be born, but he would be born a snake. So, she must fight with all her might to remain in the form of a woman.
Meanwhile, the transformation was in full swing, Bai She turned into a snake, then into a woman. Xu Xian pounded on the door, not understanding what had come over his wife. Lali would have given everything in the world just to look into the eyes of her beloved for the last time, but she had less and less time left.
The intervals between transformations lengthened. Lilith remained less and less in the form of a woman and more and more a snake. She was crying in pain. Physical pain was still possible to endure, mental pain could no longer be endured!
Xu Xian screamed and thrashed against the door, and Lilith suddenly saw the face of the snake-catcher's son Wang. He peered through a small window that was under the ceiling of the pantry!
His eyes were wide open!
At that moment, the snake turned back into a woman. Lilith for a minute emerged from the abyss of non-existence, where the snake was pulling her, and screamed! With all her might, she pushed the baby out of her. Next to her were Xu Xian's tools, which she knocked over as she rushed around the pantry. Among the tools was a knife. Losing consciousness, she cut the umbilical cord with a knife.
Now she had to prevent the snake, which was her second essence, from harming the baby. Taking off her shirt, she wrapped the precious bundle, and with tenderness, for the last time, looked at her son. The son had his father's eyes.
And the consciousness of the woman became more and more clouded. Opening the door, she saw the unhappy face of her husband. He sat leaning against the wall. After handing the package with the baby to her father, she looked at her precious Xu Xian, whom she loved more than life, for a while, and then rushed into the pantry and abruptly closed the door.
There was a heavy workbench in the pantry, blood gushing from her womb as she pushed the workbench toward the door. She heard the voices of people who ran to Xu Xian's house, but all this became more and more unimportant to her every minute. Her body became more and more powerful, and in another second, a white, powerful snake raged in the pantry, where the wife's supplies were stored. Breaking through the floor, the snake dived into the resulting hole, and at that moment, Xu Xian finally burst into the pantry.
However, it was already too late. His wife was nowhere to be found and there was a huge hole in the floor. Looking into the hole, the man saw nothing. However, he could not stay here indefinitely. The baby cried, his son. Xu Xian once again wiped away his tears and went to the one who was so weak and lonely, the one who was crying for his mother. Xu Xian took his son in his arms, and the baby suddenly stopped crying.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
In the hospital room. Lita is sad about the son she gave birth in a dream, but understands that she will not return to the dream of Bai She and Xu Xiang anymore.
Lilith woke up in the ward. There was no one around, she twitched, but felt a sharp pain, there was a needle from a dropper in her hand.
The woman tried to get up, but immediately collapsed back into bed. She wanted to call someone from the hospital staff, but she did not succeed. She opened her mouth, but her vocal cords didn't want to make sounds. To put it simply, Lita lost her voice. What happened to her in a dream happened in reality. The woman became scared. Lilith was very fond of singing, and she did it professionally. Losing your voice forever meant losing the meaning of life.
Lilith did not understand why fate was so cruel and unfair. She had just lost her husband, had to give up her son, and now someone has taken away her voice as well. Again, everything was confused in Lola's head, she clearly remembered the events that took place in a dream, but did not remember why she was in the hospital.
Lying motionless and not being able to speak was torture! And Loli was killing loneliness. However, this did not last long. Not even those hours had passed since she came to her senses, as a stream of visitors reached her ward.
First came relatives, then work colleagues, then friends. The penultimate came Olga, and the last was Viktor Alekseevich. Seeing the boss, Loli blushed and turned away. Viktor Alekseevich immediately realized that Lita was not just embarrassed, Lita did not want to talk to him. Then Viktor Alekseevich decided to speak for two
“I understand,” he said, “you feel very bad, but did you really think that someone even for a minute believed what this evil little man Ivan said?
Lilit turned her reddened face to Viktor Alekseevich and pantomimed that she needed a pen and notebook, or, in worst case, a piece of paper. Viktor Alekseevich immediately guessed what Lita was asking for, and handed her a pen and a piece of paper.
lilshe asked: “How long will I be in the hospital?”
Viktor Alekseevich replied: “You had a microstroke. Probably, when Ivan threw out a certain amount of energy, and not just energy, but negative energy, you took on an energy blow!”
- Why me? Lilith asked.
- Olga said that you have not been feeling well in recent days, is that so?
“Yes,” Lali replied.
- Well, here's your answer, - Viktor Alekseevich summed up, - your body was weakened, and you took the blow, which was intended for all those present in the hall, completely on yourself.
- And what should I do now? Loli asked again
— How to do what? - the man was surprised, - to rest and be treated!
How long will I be in this hospital? Lal asked again, drawing a face on a piece of paper.
- Do you want to go home as soon as possible? Viktor Alekseevich answered a question with a question.
“Yes, I want to go home,” Lali answered, “and I also want my voice to return to me as soon as possible.”
“I don’t promise to go home quickly,” the man smiled, “but your voice, I’ll try to return it to you right now.”
Viktor Alekseevich, as I have already said, was engaged in oriental practices for many years, and among these practices was qigong gymnastics. Watching the boss at work, Lolita smiled sadly to herself.
How little I know, she thought.
In general, in addition to treatment, the woman received today a master class on working with qi energy. Yes, Viktor Alekseevich, he spoke the truth, the voice returned to Lilit after 15 minutes. The man removed the energy blockage that Lali, without knowing it, had built for herself when Ivan clapped his hands. But with the return home, he asked Lilith to wait.
Lilith returned home a week later. If Viktor Alekseevich had not come to her ward every day to speed up the treatment, then Lilit would have been in the hospital for at least a month.
Returning home, she realized that she simply physically could not be within four walls. The walls pressed down on her. However, Viktor Alekseevich did not recommend her to walk a lot. The woman wanted to get to work as soon as possible, but the big boss said that this was out of the question.
Lilith was brave, but still afraid to go to work. She was ashamed. It seemed to her that after Ivan's false words, everyone would point fingers at Lita and laugh behind her back as soon as she turned away.
However, Viktor Alekseevich said that Ivan was forced to speak again at the meeting of the team, and take his words back. Viktor Alekseevich promised Ivan that he would file a lawsuit against him for libel if Ivan did not tell the truth. They also promised Ivan that if he did not repent of having slandered Lilit and Olga, then Viktor Alekseevich would force Ivan to pay damages for damage to the laboratory's property.
In general, the meeting was called again, and Ivan said that he was angry with Lilith and said a lot of superfluous things. Therefore, he turned the male volunteer against Lilith and Olga.
Viktor Alekseevich said that he was waiting for Lilit to go to work not earlier than in two weeks. Lilith can still use the service apartment as her own, but he, Viktor Alekseevich, would not recommend that she stay alone for a long time.
Lilith reviewed all the films, re-read all the books, even did a general cleaning in the service apartment again. However, time moved very slowly.
Then Lita decided to watch a movie with Andy on youtube. The film ended quickly. But the woman immediately turned on the second film, and then she watched the third film, the fourth and the fifth. Finally, Lilith felt that she had achieved what she wanted - she was tired.
The thoughts that had stung her all day subsided a little. However, the memory of the sad man and the little newborn boy did not leave Lita alone for a minute. Convinced that the memory was not going to stop showing the film from the dream, Lilith decided to continue to jam herself with films. In all the films she watched, the main character was, of course, Andy.
It was two in the morning when, finally, Lilith realized that she could not understand a word of what the main characters of the film were talking about. Pausing the movie, she took another look at Andy, then turned off her laptop.
Before going to sleep, Lilith was crying. She knew that Xu Xian would never leave her baby, but she wanted to make sure that her boy was doing well. But apparently, this dream has already come to its end. She will never see Xu Xian and her son again.
In order to remember Xu Xian's face, Lilith found some historical film that showed China's past. The main character in this film was, of course, Andy. He was dressed in national clothes, his movement, voice, his hairstyle corresponded to the era he played.
After watching Andy's performance in this movie, Lilith really felt like she saw Xu Xian again.
Lilith tortured her eyes so much that for a long time after the film was finished, frames from the film flashed before her eyes.
However, when she fell asleep, she did not dream of the past of China, but of the present. She dreamed that she was in a big apartment. Somehow Lilith knew it was her quartira, and this apartment is located in Hong Kong. Going to the window, lolita parted the curtains and looked out. One window of the apartment overlooked the sea. Running to the window overlooking the other side of the house, she saw that a huge city was visible from this window.
So far, Lilith has only been in Hong Kong in transit. When she flew to her daughter in Thailand, she had a transfer in Hong Kong. Then, at the Hong Kong airport, she sat for two hours, then they announced the boarding of the Hong Kong-Bangkok plane and Lilith flew away.
Now, she had the opportunity to view the city at a leisurely pace. And again, as in all previous dreams, the surroundings were so real, which probably does not exist in real life. Lita really wanted to go outside and wander around Hong Kong, but she knew that she had to wait for someone.
And she waited.
The door opened and three people entered the apartment. No, not like that, at first Lali heard voices. A man's voice said something affectionately, a child's voice objected. Then the duet turned into a trio. A female voice cut into the conversation. Then Lilith saw the owners of this voice - they were: Andy, Carroll and Hannah. After the greeting, Andy and Hanna sat down to play a board game, while Lali and Carroll retired.
Judging by the fact that Carroll changed into comfortable, homely clothes, this was not the first time the trio had been here. Lilith gave Carroll a relaxing, energetic, non-contact massage, and then began treatment.
Andy and Hanna called out to Carroll several times, but the woman jokingly promised them both trouble if they distracted her.
Lilith reminded Carroll several times that she and Andy didn't have to come here. After all, she, lita, can heal at a distance, to which Carroll replied that she was so calmer. When she, Carroll, sees Lolita's affectionate eyes, she begins to believe that everything will work out for them, and she will soon give birth to a healthy boy.
Lilith in a dream really wanted Carroll and Andy to succeed. When they left, Lita went out onto the terrace and plunged into the pool. Turns out she had a private pool.
Lying in warm water, Lilith thought that she did not recognize herself. She could not understand how it was that she calmly looked at Andy's care and love, and was not jealous of him for Carroll.
The phone rang. Lilith picked up the phone. A mechanical voice reminded Lilith that she was leaving for Thailand tonight. Lola smiled. In a dream, all events seemed so logical! Just as Lita hung up, the phone rang again, but now it was a call to a cell phone. It was Andy who called, he reminded them that in the evening they would meet on the plane, the next flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok.
Lali thanked Andy for the reminder and the phone switched off. Lilith now knew why she had been sitting in the apartment until now, and did not go out for a walk. However, now Loli was free and could wander the streets of Hong Kong until she flew to Thailand.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Duty. What Happened After Lilith Used Her Powers Wrong As She Promised Her Employers
A month has passed since the last dramatic events. Lilith had already forgotten how she was ill and was in the hospital. The dream event of Xu Xiang and the white snake generally rippled.
Lolita worked diligently, each time she got better and better. Everything related to people's health was very important for Lilith. Relations with Viktor Alekseevich died out before they even started. Lilith was content with her life. She was the first to arrive at the lab and the last to leave. The woman decided to just live, not thinking about curses, restless souls and forever separated lovers. She tried not to think about anything.
The days flew by at breakneck speed. The daughter and baby were no longer sick. However, Lilith was disturbed by the fact that her daughter and granddaughter still live alone in a distant hot country. The son-in-law had some business, and he could not return to the family. Lilith told herself that it was not her business, that the young people would figure it out themselves, but she noticed that her daughter was sad, and during Skype conversations she was no longer so cheerful.
Pressing on her daughter, Lilith learned that her son-in-law could not return to Pattaya, because here, in his homeland, he was kept by urgent business. It turns out that the work, because of which he returned to Vladivostok, remained unpaid. The man for whom the son-in-law did the work did not want to pay. He fed his son-in-law breakfast, that is, he promised to pay off tomorrow. These promises have been stretched out for a month now. The brother-in-law didn't know what to do. It was time to pay rent for an apartment in Pattaya, and he still had no money. The customer owed the son-in-law a very substantial amount, but now the son-in-law did not even have money to buy a ticket and return to his family in Thailand.
Lily pulled all this information from her daughter with difficulty. The young really did not know what to do now. Lolita did everything quickly, she thought quickly, made decisions quickly, all her actions were fast. As soon as she learned about the problem that hung over her daughter's family, she decided that she would try to help. However, Lilith had no money, and her son-in-law would not have taken money from her. He was very proud.
Lilith could helparound. She felt enough strength in herself to energetically try to influence the debtor. She learned from her daughter the name of the man, the area where he approximately lived, and sent the man an energy message. It was an experiment. She had never practiced such qigong before. And she wouldn’t have done it if her daughter’s happiness didn’t depend on it.
She saw that her daughter, separated from her beloved husband, was simply withering. Even the baby became whiny. It cannot be said that Lita did not doubt her rightness about what she was doing. She doubted how, but she did not see a way out of the situation. She reassured herself that she wasn't doing anything wrong. This man really owed money to his son-in-law, but, for some reason, did not want to give it back. Finally, Lilith decided to take action. She was not afraid of the echo from the perfect deed. Loli thought she was right, but the worm of doubt still gnawed at her.
Before proceeding with the energy message, Lilith asked her daughter for permission. The daughter was surprised by such a strange request from her mother, but after a little hesitation, she agreed. Three days later, the debtor paid off his son-in-law in full. Daughter was happy, son-in-law too. He took a plane ticket to Thailand and, a week later, the family was to be reunited.
Everything ended well, but Loli was still sharpening the worm of doubt. She thought about whether her act was ethical. On the one hand, she did not seem to have done anything wrong, however, if she took the side of the debtor, then he would hardly be happy if he knew that he gave the money under the influence of an energy message. Lilith turned the situation in all directions, but did not come to any conclusion. Then she told herself that there was no point in torturing herself with thoughts. After all, anyway, no one will believe that the debtor gave the money, because Lilith, without even moving her hand, but only with her qi energy, achieved what she wanted.
Lolita did not tell anyone about this story, not even Olga. However, a week after this story happened, Viktor Alekseevich approached lite and put a drawing in front of her. It was a drawing of a new employee who was taken to replace Ivan. The picture depicted the whole story with the debtor quite well. Rather, there were three drawings. The first picture showed her daughter saying goodbye to her husband, the second picture also showed her son-in-law. In this, the second, drawing, he held out his hand to an unknown man. It was clear that the man and son-in-law had just made a deal. The third drawing was full of different characters. Looking closer, Lilith even saw herself, as well as: a son-in-law, a daughter with a granddaughter, and all the same, an unknown man. Lilith peered at the picture, it was interesting for her to look at the one who had not given money to her son-in-law for so long. Lolita knew exactly what was going on.
The new employee was an empath, she transferred people's emotions to drawings. However, there was no hint of the main driving force of this story in the three pictures. I'm talking about money now. The girl drew the emotions that overwhelmed Lilith all the past week. Apparently, they, emotions, were so strong that they became an obsession even for an empath girl. And now, now, Viktor Alekseevich was standing in Lita's office and holding sheets of drawings in his hands.
He immediately warned Lolita that if a woman has no desire, then she can not explain anything. However, the problem that tormented Lolita was apparently so strong that Lita could hurt herself. Lolita was not going to hide anything, she believed that she had done nothing wrong. However, she still asked the empath girl to leave her alone with the big boss.
When Lilith told about what had happened, Viktor Alekseevich's face fell. He was silent for a while, not knowing what to say. Then he turned around and closed the door tighter. He tried to restrain his emotions, but he did not succeed well. The chief did not scold Lilith. He only said that the woman's powers are growing, but she uses them for strange things. Victor said that Lilith's only justification was that she was driven by caring for her family. However, he, Viktor Alekseevich, considers Lily's act unethical. The laboratory was created to do positive things - to heal, help people, but Lali did wrong, secretly influencing the will of a person. In addition, Loli was not a professional in this area, and could get a strong return. She has already received it, no wonder the empath girl drew her drawings. Viktor Alekseevich said that he would nullify the echo from Lilith's act. But he hopes Lita doesn't do that again. Otherwise, he, Viktor Alekseevich, will be forced to dismiss Lilit from the laboratory, even despite the fact that he treats Lolita very well and distinguishes her from other laboratory employees. Having said this, Viktor Alekseevich went out, not forgetting to carefully close the door.
When Viktor Alekseevich came out, Lilit burst into tears. She told herself that this man's opinion meant nothing to her. However, tears kept flowing and flowing, and my soul was dark and cloudy.
In the evening she went to the service apartment. When she was cookingzhin, she was surprised to find some kind of glass thing in the iron box, where the ginger seasoning lay. However, pulling out what she found in the box, Lilith was surprised to see that the thing she now held in her hands was not made of glass, but of jade. It was a jade phallus - a talisman. Lilith searched for this jade little thing for some time, but it was nowhere to be found. Then she stopped searching, and then she forgot about the amulet. And now the amulet lay in the palm of Lita. But Lilith could give a hand to cut off, that she never hid the amulet in a box of ginger. As soon as Lali held the amulet in her hand, the memories immediately returned, as if they had not gone anywhere. The woman felt as if she had been electrocuted.
Andy, in all the memories was her beloved Andy. Today, however, Lolita did not want to think about dreams that were, but already gone. Lita wanted to think about the future. Maybe that's why she had a dream that night about the future.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Dream. Pattaya. A week of life that fell out of Lily's memory
Lily dreamed that she was in Pattaya. She clearly knew that her condominium was not far from the condo where her daughter lives. But for some reason, Lily could not just take it and go outside the side chapels of the house.
In a dream, she knew that her daughter's husband had returned to Pattaya, and now harmony and love reigned in her daughter's family. But Lita was very offended that she was nearby, ten minutes walk from her daughter, but could not see her. It happens sometimes in dreams.
Lily knew that the apartment in this condominium belonged to her, but then, all the more, it was not clear why she could not just walk out the gates of the condo and go to her daughter. The apartment that Lali now owned was luxurious, and on the territory of the condo there were several swimming pools, a sauna, a gym, and so on, the elevator stopped right at the door of the apartment, and from the elevator doors you could go directly to the apartment.
The apartment, I repeat, was magnificent. A huge bed stood in front of a semicircular floor-to-ceiling window. The window overlooked the sea. The balcony had a jacuzzi tub as well as a small pool. Lily looked around, she must have lived here for more than a day. Because everywhere, on the tables and on the shelves, there were photographs of her family. There were especially many photographs of my daughter and granddaughter.
And again Lily saw Hannah's forgotten toy. She guessed that Andy's family had been here recently. Going to the door of the apartment, she saw a man - it was a security guard, and Lita remembered that now she goes everywhere only with security. Somehow, information was leaked to the press that Andy and his family had flown to Pattaya. Nobody knew the place where Andy and his family lived now. Even Lolita did not know him, but she actually did not need it.
Someone saw that Lali, along with Andy and his family, flew to Thailand. Of course, Lilith herself was of no interest to anyone, but since she was seen with Andy's family, then the reporters had a hope that Andy would again appear in this condo and give an interview. Now Lilith understood why she could not freely dispose of herself.
The guard received some instructions on his cell phone. He nodded to Lita and opened the door. The car was brought straight to the entrance of the condo. Journalists stomped outside the gates of the condo. The security of the condominium opened another, emergency gate, and Lita, with the guard, managed to leave unnoticed.
The car picked up speed faster and faster, then the gates of the condo in which the daughter lived flashed by. Lily twisted her neck. It seemed to her that she even saw her daughter, who was swimming at that moment in the pool.
The car picked up more and more speed, Lily knew that Andy and his family were waiting for her. However, she did not know exactly where they were waiting for her, and where her car was taking her.
Then the picture of the dream blurred, Lily saw the smoke from hundreds of scented candles. Loud music played, candles burned, the noise of a million human voices burst into Lilith's ears. The noise grew, it seemed that Lily's eardrums were about to burst.
When it was already completely impossible to endure, she shouted: “That's enough!” and the noise immediately subsided. Then the sound appeared again, but this sound was familiar to Lali. And he, this sound, all sounded and sounded.
Finally, to silence the sound, Lily woke up and opened her eyes. The cell phone rang. The daughter was very unhappy, she called for the third time, but Lilith still did not pick up the phone. Lily asked if her daughter was okay? The daughter said that everything was wonderful, and delighted her mother with the fact that her husband was now next to her.
Lali thought that her daughter was joking. She firmly knew that her son-in-law was supposed to fly to Pattaya only a week later. However, the daughter said that her husband arrived as he had intended. He did not change tickets and arrived on the day on which he was going to fly. Lilith did not object to her daughter anymore, she only thanked her daughter and disconnected.
Leaving her cell phone on the table, she went into the hallway to look at the calendar. For a few minutes she stared blankly at the numbers on the calendar, and then returned to the room again and looked at the screen of her mobile phone.

That was incredible!
Somehow Lilith lost a weekfrom your life. The woman grabbed her head. Some thought flashed through my head. Slightly concentrating, she grabbed this thought by the tail and pulled it into the light of day. Probably, she thought, this is retribution, this is the echo that Viktor Alekseevich spoke about.
Poking into the phone button, she dialed Olga's number. After asking some leading questions, Lily found out that yesterday was a regular work day. Moreover, it turns out that yesterday a new volunteer came to her - it was a man, and he had kidney problems. Lilith ended the conversation with her friend with meaningless phrases, and disconnected. She did not believe in what was happening, but there was no escape from the truth. The last week had slipped out of her memory.
Remember, at the very beginning of the book, I said that a person can live easier and easier, because he is a child of the cosmos. Moreover, man is the cosmos itself. Knowing the secrets of the cosmos, you can really live easier, and expend less energy to achieve the desired goals. It is possible, even without applying special forces, to persuade the cosmos to fulfill the desires of a person. It's all possible, and you've probably already seen this by reading this book almost to the middle. For those initiated into the mysteries of qi energy, there are no barriers.
However, everything has a downside. And Lita is now convinced of this. Of course, she did not ask for earthly goods for herself, and it would have been useless. For some reason, the universe is arranged in such a way that a healer can heal anyone, but he cannot heal himself. He can also help people so that their most cherished desires come true, but he cannot beg even five kopecks from the cosmos for himself. And besides all this, there is also an echo, a blowback from the actions of qi energy.
That's the blow Lita now received. A whole week slipped from her memory. Lilith remembered very well her last dream about Pattaya, about the Reflection condominium where she lived, about Andy and his family, who also lived somewhere in Pattaya. She even remembered that she had not been able to meet her daughter, although the Lumpini condominium where her daughter lived was very close to the condo in which the apartment belonged to Lily in a dream. Lolita remembered all this, she remembered the smells of the sea and grass, the hot rays of the sun on her skin, the moment when she basked in the jacuzzi, but Lilith absolutely did not remember the events, the real events of the last week.
However, Lily did not fully believe what had happened. She felt like she was the victim of some kind of prank. But she understood that her daughter would never allow herself to make such a cruel joke on her mother, would not allow herself and would not allow others.
Opening her palm, Lilith saw that the sharp edges of the amulet dug into her palm. The fingers hurt and cramped. On the inner surface of the palm there were deep marks from the nails and the edges of the amulet. It was insanely painful. Lily burst into tears, but no one was in a hurry to console her and relieve the pain in her wounds, because Lola was now alone in an empty apartment.
Having come to the conclusion that she alone could not cope with this problem, Lolita overcame herself and dialed Viktor Alekseevich's number. The man did not answer for a long time, but when he answered, it became clear that Lily distracted him from some event. You could hear loud music and, interrupting each other, laughing people.
However, when Lilit said that she needed help, Viktor Alekseevich immediately replied that he would come right away. Not wanting to repeat past mistakes, Lily put on her most beautiful dress and made up her lips. She hid the amulet away, just in the same jar of ginger, from which a few minutes, or a week earlier, to be exact, she took it out. For some reason, she did not want Viktor Alekseevich to see this amulet.
Viktor Alekseevich arrived fifteen minutes later. Lily explained the situation to him as best she could, and then showed him her palm, swollen from her own nails. At first, Viktor Alekseevich did not believe what Lita told him, however, when the woman burst into tears and showed him her hand for the second time, the whole seriousness of the situation began to dawn on him.
He tried to remind Lilith that he had spoken to her the day before yesterday. Together they tried to adjust the treatment of an elderly woman. Victor Alekseevich tried to remind Lali of the details, but Lilit did not remember anything.
Finally the man understood. What happened was the echo of intervening in the life of an unsuspecting person. We are talking about the businessman who owed Lilith's son-in-law money. Lolita agreed with Viktor Alekseevich, but their guess did not change anything. Memory did not want to return to Lily. But Viktor Alekseevich, after he learned about Lilith's act, spent more than one hour to minimize the danger that could threaten Lilith. Victor Alekseevich removed the echo from the chi energy that Lita sent to force the man to repay the debt.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Mother's curse. The chapter that should have been at the very beginning of the story. The curse is the key that changed centuries ago the path that was meant for Lilith's soul.
Viktor Alekseevich went to the pharmacy.
He wanted to buy medicine, which wasthere would have been inflammation that had engulfed Lolita's arm already up to the elbow.
While Viktor Alekseevich was gone, Lily thought she was trying to find a loophole to shake her brain and make it remember the past week. However, nothing worked. The last thing Lita remembered was the jade amulet and her palm, squeezing this amulet.
When Viktor Alekseevich returned, Lilit sat and cradled her hand. The inflammation has already risen to the forearm. It was a pity to look at the woman. Beads of sweat trickled down his face. The temperature rose.
After the hand was smeared with a special ointment and bandaged, Viktor Alekseevich began his treatment. The turning point came only when Lily felt drowsy. Victor Alekseevich offered Lita to sleep, he hoped that during sleep Lily's body would relax and be better treated. Lal did not really like this proposal, she told Viktor Alekseevich about it, but a little later she realized that she simply had no way out. Her hand itched and itched, Lita was even afraid to remove the bandage. Then she remembered that all the main events that had happened to her lately had happened in a dream.
Gritting her heart, she accepted Viktor Alekseevich's proposals, although she did not like being a patient. She liked to heal people, but she hated being treated. She asked Viktor Alekseevich to sit in the living room while she changed and went to bed. She wanted, or rather Lal suggested to Viktor Alekseevich, that she stay awake during treatment, but Viktor Alekseevich said that since dreams are of such great importance for her, it would be more logical if Lali was sleeping, and he, Viktor Alekseevich, was treating would her. And also, Viktor Alekseevich, said that it is not known how much Lal will sleep after the treatment, therefore, it would be better if the woman goes to bed right away. The situation was delicate, but everything that happened around Lilith recently did not fit into the framework of the life of ordinary people.
As Lali expected, she absolutely did not want to sleep. She was exhausted herself and exhausted Viktor Alekseevich. Her brain was inflamed, the woman's thoughts raced. Viktor Alekseevich sat by Lily's bed and waited patiently. However, half an hour passed, then an hour passed, and another half hour flew by, and Lily still could not calm down and fall asleep.
The man and the woman got into a conversation, it turned out that they had a lot in common. Lolita began to talk about China - it was her favorite topic. Then she told Viktor Alekseevich that five years ago, before she started working in the laboratory, she even worked a little in China. For several months, she lived and worked in the border city of Suifenhe. It was a period when she quit one job, but could not find another one. That is why she agreed to the offer to work as a singer in the cultural complex, which was called "Troika".
Viktor Alekseevich did not hide the fact that he was interested in everything related to Lily's life. He did not know that Lita sings. Victor said that he would be happy to hear about Lita's life in China. Lily tried not to burden Viktor Alekseevich with details, but gradually relaxed and got carried away with the story. She saw that the man was not pretending.
He was interested in everything, everything, everything, even the smallest details of Lilith's life. Lily spoke with her usual humor about life and work in the Chinese town. It seemed to her that if she started writing a book, the stories in which she was a participant would have been typed into a whole huge volume.
Glancing at her watch, Lily saw that it was almost evening. They chatted with Viktor Alekseevich almost the entire working day. It was all good, but the main goal was not achieved. Lily did not want to sleep, and her arm hurt more and more.
Viktor Alekseevich asked to give him a healthy hand so that he could determine the degree of inflammation by the pulse. He looked at the second hand and counted his pulse. Then the man frowned, growing more and more dissatisfied with what was happening to Lily.
Finally, he invited Lita to get out of bed and do some qigong exercises with him. He delicately left while Lilith was getting dressed. When Lily was ready, he suggested that she not only do the exercises, but share the qi energy with each other during the exercises.
Lolita tensed up, she didn't like something about Viktor Alekseevich's proposal. Seeing Lola's furrowed eyebrows, Viktor Alekseevich was surprised. There was nothing special about his proposal, and he did not understand Lal's reaction. He asked Lily about the reason for her confusion, but Lita did not explain anything to him. She asked to give her a message of energy, so that it would be easier to tune in. Viktor Alekseevich marveled at the change in the woman's mood, but he was not surprised that Lolita was able to concentrate so quickly. After all, she had been doing chi gymnastics for years, and that meant something.
The room was quiet, only the increased breathing of two people indicated that there was someone in the apartment. An hour later, Lily said that she was ready for Viktor Alekseevich to finally start treatment. She changed again and got into bed.
On thisfrom time not passed and 15 minutes, as the woman slept. Fatigue hit her all at once. She immediately ceased to be embarrassed by the ambiguity of the situation. Either she began to trust Viktor Alekseevich, or she really felt so bad that she decided to give up on everything. Most importantly, she was able to fall asleep and gave the man the opportunity to treat her.
Viktor Alekseevich patiently waited until Lali fell asleep more soundly. Finally he left the living room and entered the bedroom. Before starting treatment, he admired Lita's beautiful face for some time.
However, it was clear that the woman's sleep was not peaceful. She moaned and tossed about in bed. Trying not to hurt the woman, Viktor Alekseevich unwound the bandage, but when he saw what happened to Lolita's hand, he wanted to urgently call an ambulance, but this would be dishonest towards the woman.
Sighing, he began to heal Lilith.
Lolita slept, she dreamed of a rich Chinese house. A beautiful mature woman tried to achieve obedience from her daughter. The daughter wept and refused to obey her mother's will. The mother controlled herself as much as she could, but nothing worked, and time was running out. The woman's husband and, accordingly, the girl's father, ordered his wife to persuade her daughter to have a matchmaker come into the house. The girl cried and refused. Finally, the mother got tired of the whole story. She told the servant to bring a whip.
The woman thought that her daughter would be frightened, and she, the mother, would not have to punish the obstinate girl. However, the daughter stood her ground, she did not want to get married. The mother knew that her daughter had no one in mind. And she did not understand the reason for the stubbornness of the girl. In a few minutes, the mother's friends were due to arrive, and the mother was angry that her daughter was delaying her with her stupid stubbornness. However, she needed to weaken the will of her daughter, otherwise her husband would be dissatisfied.
When the servant brought the whip, the mother did not think that she would have to beat her daughter, but suddenly she suddenly went into a rage and began to beat the girl on the arms and legs. The girl at first did not believe her eyes, and then she realized that something was wrong with her mother. Her mother had never beaten her in her life.
The girl tried to run away and hide somewhere where the terrible whip would not reach her. However, her mother blocked her path. Suddenly the woman blushed and gasped. It became difficult for her to breathe. The daughter tried to help her mother, but the woman suddenly swayed and began to fall. The girl tried to keep her mother from falling. She saw that her mother was losing consciousness.
The girl screamed and cried, she told her mother that she agreed to everything that her mother would order her. However, the woman no longer heard her daughter. Her lips moved, and it seemed to her daughter that her mother was saying something to her.
The mother really spoke, but it would be better if the daughter did not hear what her mother said to her. The mother cursed her daughter. These are the curses that the daughter heard.
The mother said: “Meizhenye (Chinese) – no one needs you. No one will marry you!"
And then she croaked: "Zhaobudapojia (Chinese) - you can't find your mother-in-law's family." These curses were the lightest. However, what the mother said in unconsciousness was already a really terrible curse.
They called a doctor, the doctor was on time - he saved the woman. The mother was ill for half a year, when she came to, she certainly did not remember all those evil wishes that she had said to her daughter.
When a year had passed, the daughter married the one whom her parents had predicted for her husband. However, the mother's curse has already begun its terrible work. The girl lived a long but unhappy life. Her family life did not work out. And until the end of her life, she remembered the curses of her mother. The most terrible curse was the curse that the mother uttered just before the arrival of the doctor.
She whispered, “Sinji (Chinese) is a dead girl.”
And after that, gasping for breath, she said that she wishes her daughter to never be happy with her beloved. It seemed that some evil otherworldly creature was speaking through the mouth of the mother.
This creature said: “You will never be happy with your beloved husband. In this birth, and in others, you will be separated from your beloved.”
After ten years of marriage, when the daughter's husband had already died, the mother came and repented to her daughter. Then, when she lost consciousness, it seemed to her that a demon possessed her. In any case, all the words and curses that flew out of her mouth were not the words of a loving mother.
Someone else spoke in the voice of a mother!
The woman resisted, but could not do anything. After the mother told her daughter about what happened on that fateful day, the daughter offered to go to the monastery and tell everything to the monk, who then lived alone in this monastery. The monk listened to the whole story and said that, at about the same time that the women were talking about, one of the demons had escaped from prison. It could well be that then, he, a demon, moved into the body of a sick woman. The woman was weak and could not resist.
The monk said he couldn't undo the demon's curse, he could only change it. After singing the mantra, after lighting the candles, the monk said that he could not fix everything, but he still did something.
The daughter's soul in the next births will really know loneliness, and separation from her beloved will last for a long time. and the eight rebirths of the soul. People and higher powers will interfere in the love affairs of a woman. The woman will suffer, and the one who is destined for her by higher powers to be the only lover will also suffer.
The soul of this man will also suffer, because he is destined to be separated from his beloved all the time. And only in the ninth birth the souls of loved ones will unite.
The mother and daughter begged the monk for mercy, but the monk said that was all he could do. Too much time had passed since the mother's curse. Because the most powerful curse in the world is the mother's curse. And no matter what the demon spoke through the mouth of the mother at that moment, now nothing could be done.
Having made the proper offering to the monastery, the women burst into tears and left. They say that, after another six months, the monk caught that demon and imprisoned him. However, for the unfortunate women, this did not change anything.
A mother's curse, spoken aloud, cannot be changed!
Lolita saw the whole story from the outside, but she suspected that the one who made her be in this dream again wanted to explain or tell her something, only Lilith could not guess what these hints meant.
She suspected that until she understood what the creator of strange dreams wanted from her, she would continue to have bad dreams. In any case, she still burned and hurt those wounds that her mother inflicted on her, beating her with a whip on her legs, and especially her arms.
Lily groaned and opened her eyes. She felt pain in her beaten arms and legs. However, when she touched her sore arm, she saw that there was no trace of inflammation left. Only the holes from the nails that remained on the palm of her hand reminded her of the terrible pain that she endured.
It was deep night. In the living room, Viktor Alekseevich slept on the sofa. The man was so tired that he slept dressed. Lolita did not wake him up, she returned to the bedroom and tried to sleep. This time she managed to fall asleep immediately. She was asleep five minutes later. And she didn't dream.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Hongyanzhyji (Chinese)
Hongyan zhyji (Chinese) - who knows me with a red face. In China, long and passionate love is expressed in these words.
In the morning Lily felt very well. What could not be said about Viktor Alekseevich. He said he didn't feel so bad even after the worst hangover. Lilit offered Viktor Alekseevich to iron his suit, but the man said that on his way to work he would come home and change. Lily did not insist, she only said that they would meet at work.
Hearing this, Viktor Alekseevich returned back to the room, and, looking into Lolita's eyes, categorically forbade her to leave the house today. Lily flared up, she was a free-spirited woman, and she hated being given orders. Viktor Alekseevich looked at Lolita and realized that he had gone too far. Trying to somehow make amends for his oversight, he said that his order was joking.
However, when he saw that Lali continued to get ready for work, he nevertheless told the woman that after such a shake-up that Lolita received yesterday, one should not be on the street for more than two to three hours. But Lolita did not want any indulgences.
Seeing that the woman did not want to deviate from her decision, Viktor Alekseevich said that Lilit had the opportunity to attend a seminar today, which was conducted by a well-known qigong instructor and lecturer. Lolita understood that she still had to compromise. On reflection, she decided that it was better to be at the seminar than to sit at home.
Viktor Alekseevich wanted to offer to give Lali a lift, but when he stumbled upon her eyes, he realized that the woman would refuse him, and did not offer. The seminar was designed for three days, but two hours were enough for Lita to understand that she would not learn anything new here. The seminar was designed for people who had nowhere to put their money. The subscription to the seminar cost a lot of money. Also, the seminar was designed for people who have never met a real qigong master. The instructor-lecturer spoke such frank nonsense that Lita only closed her eyes from embarrassment. And this happened more than once. However, the woman honestly sat through the entire first day of the seminar.
In the evening, when Lita returned home, Viktor Alekseevich called her and asked permission to come. He said that yesterday he was so tired that he could not finish the work and the consequences of the echo still probably remained. Lilith allowed Viktor Alekseevich to come. She felt that he was telling the truth. Because Lily was too easy. It seemed to her that she did not feel her body, that she was not walking, but floating in a thick fog.
Viktor Alekseevich arrived late in the evening. While Lily was talking about what happened during the day at the seminar, Viktor Alekseevich was having dinner. In the evening Lily tried not to eat anything but apples and vegetable salad, but Viktor Alekseevich did not like such a dinner. That's why he went to bed hungry yesterday. In the morning, looking inside the half-empty refrigerator, the man realized that he was left without breakfast. He took note of this fact, and on the way to Lola forwent to the store and bought a lot of different products for dinner.
After dinner, Viktor Alekseevich took up qigong again, and removed the remnants of the echo. It was already well after midnight when the man felt that this time the work was done completely. Lily felt it too. After everything was over, there was an awkward pause. Lilit felt that if she gave only a sign, Viktor Alekseevich would stay with her that night. The woman understood that a man would not mind spending many, many nights with her, but she did not want this. She's been through this before. She was grateful to her boss for the help, but she wanted their relationship to remain at the boss-subordinate level.
Victor Alekseevich understood everything, and although it was already late at night, he got ready and quickly left. Lily had warned him before he decided to leave that she would not be attending the seminar tomorrow. Viktor Alekseevich did not argue, Lilit told him about the level of the instructor who conducted the seminar. The man said that his task today was to prevent Lolita from working, because the echo was not completely removed, and this situation could be fraught with any consequences. Tomorrow, Lola could do anything, that is, work according to the plan that was approved by the head of the laboratory.
Lolita saw that Viktor Alekseevich was a little offended, apparently he still hoped for a reciprocal feeling from Lali. But the woman did not feel the strength to start a new romance until she dealt with her feelings for Andy. Thank God that the law of gravity has found its rules again for Lily.
Viktor Alekseevich left a long time ago, and Lily decided to take up qigong, although Viktor Alekseevich warned her to try to just go to bed. He did not forbid her to do qi gymnastics, he simply asked her to refrain from any physical activity. However, Lily suddenly clearly felt that if she did not do qigong now, she would start crying again for no reason. She did not notice how two hours flew by. But instead of calming down, the woman suddenly felt a strong sexual arousal. She understood that she should have listened to her boss and just go to bed, but now it was too late to think about what had already been done. The desire was so great that she could hardly resist not to pick up the phone and call Viktor Alekseevich. She did not love this man, although she liked him outwardly. And now she was sitting and thinking whether she would feel good in bed with this man if he called him now.
Viktor Alekseevich apparently felt something, because the phone rang and his number appeared on the display. He apologized and asked if Lilith slept for at least an hour that night. The woman did not lie, she said that after Viktor Alekseevich left, she did gymnastics and completely lost track of time. There was a pause at the other end of the tube, the man simply did not know how to behave further. Lolita Lily did not want to listen to his recommendations, and he did not want to insist and set the woman against him.
When the man wanted to say goodbye, he heard a sentence that dumbfounded him. Lily invited Viktor Alekseevich to come to her. Viktor Alekseevich was alarmed, he asked the woman if everything was all right with her. Lolita said that if a man is worried about her health, then she is absolutely healthy. Victor Alekseevich tried to clarify why, in this case, Lilit was calling him, but he heard in response such that his ears caught fire. The man knew that Lily did not drink alcohol at all, otherwise he would have suspected that the woman was drunk.
After asking a few clarifying questions to the woman, he realized that what was happening to Lita now was also, so to speak, a consequence of the sudden removal of the echo. During his life, he met several times with such a reaction to the removal of the echo. The man knowingly asked Lily to go to bed. And now he did not know what words to refuse the woman. He understood that the woman would probably regret in the morning that she had invited Viktor Alekseevich. While Viktor Alekseevich was thinking, the woman at the other end of the tube was waiting. Her breathing quickened, the surprised man even heard languid moans. Finally, Viktor Alekseevich made a decision, he understood that his words could offend a woman to whom he was not indifferent, but the man saw no other way out. He explained to Loli what had happened. And he said that if he, Viktor Alekseevich, came now and stayed with her for the night, the next morning Lilith would hate him and herself. The man again advised the woman to go to bed, apologized, and hung up.
The refusal did not offend Lita, somewhere on the periphery of consciousness, she was even proud of Viktor Alekseevich's act. She understood that he could easily take advantage of her strange condition, but did not. One thing Lal did not understand now, she did not know what to do. Desire flooded her, and demanded an instant discharge. Lily went to the mirror, slowly undressed, and began to look at herself in the mirror. She wondered how long it would take her if she went out into the street like this to find a man and drag him into bed.
Lita's soul that was sentsomewhere on the periphery of consciousness, loudly protested. In fact, Lilith was a very modest and chaste woman, and what happened to her today was absolutely atypical for her. To some extent, Lily was very bashful and enslaved. Yes, she had a bright appearance, and for some reason, seeing this appearance, the men who met on Lily's life path did not want to admit that in addition to appearance, Lola has a beautiful soul. A soul that wants love and beauty. Today, however, her ex-men would be pleased. Today, a completely different Lily stood in front of the mirror.
Passing her hand over her chest, Lilith made her nipples tense. It is not known what the woman would have been brought to by her bold experiments, but suddenly she felt that she suddenly began to lack energy. Taking a quick look at herself in the mirror, Lilith saw that she was as beautiful today as ever. Her blue eyes were the color of the bluest sky, the color of her cheeks rivaled the color of the petals of the scarlet roses. Brown nipples stood out against the woman's alabaster body. However, Lily suddenly realized that if she did not replenish her energy now, she would simply die of exhaustion.
Rushing to the refrigerator, she scooped out everything that Viktor Alekseevich had bought today with one movement. She couldn't taste what she was eating. Her stomach had been groaning from a feeling of fullness for a long time, but Lola ate and ate and ate. She stopped only when she saw that all the food was over. By this time it was quite light outside, and, looking around, Lily saw what she had done, emptying the refrigerator. The floor was littered with shards of plates, torn bags, crushed plastic wrappers. After that, Lilith simply slid off the chair onto the floor. The woman understood that she needed to get up and at least get to the bed, but her stomach, stuffed to the eyeballs with food, was so huge that it seemed to Lita that if she tried to get up, her stomach would tighten, and she would fall back.
Lolita laughed, loud and hysterical in the quiet of the apartment. Then the woman still got up and went into the room. An hour later, her body finally recovered from the shock, and the woman began to feel sick and vomit. It was twelve o'clock in the afternoon when Lily was finally able to wash and clean herself up.
Lilith warned Lyosha that she would be late, but did not explain anything. Recently, too many people have been involved in her problems, and Lali did not like it very much. When she finally got to work, Lilith discovered that she had no volunteers today. She went to Lesha, but Alexey said that there were no applications for her services today. Alexei advised Lilith to take up reports. But Lita said she'd better get on with the work plan. However, today Lilith's office resembled a passage yard, colleagues at work did not allow Lita to concentrate. It turns out that not only Lita was present at the qigong seminar, Viktor Alekseevich distributed invitation cards to all the laboratory staff. And now colleagues came to Lita to share their impressions.
Finally, after looking at the schedule, Lily decided to go to work in the relaxation room. Today it was the turn of the new empath girl to use the relaxation room, but the girl had been sick for several days. Having collected the papers, Lilith went into the relaxation room and closed herself there. But the work didn't go anywhere. Finally, Lal realized that she lacked her favorite music. Putting on her headphones, she plunged into her work. Suddenly, strange music filled the headphones, went out, and then the light turned on again. When Lola looked at the display of the music center, everything suddenly began to blur before her eyes.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Shepherd and weaver. In another dream, Lilith finds herself in a new body, the body of a fairy weaver
When she came to herself, she saw that she was standing, completely naked, in the river. Six other girls were splashing in the water next to her. Finally, the girls decided that it was time for them to get ashore. However, when the naked beauties got ashore, it turned out that there was nothing at the place where the girls had left their clothes. The beauties were horrified. Goddess Xi Wang Mu let them go for a few hours to pick flowers. This was necessary so that the matter for the clouds could acquire earthly colors. However, the girls, instead of picking flowers, decided to take a dip. They had never before been immersed in water. They liked the river, they liked swimming, and they also really liked walking naked along the river bank. However, they were very afraid of their mentor, the goddess Xi Wang Mu.
Time passed, the goddess was about to start looking for girls, and the girls still could not find their dresses woven from magical fabric. When one of the girls burst into tears, the beauties heard laughter. The girls got scared and huddled together like sheep. The goddess warned the girls about the deceit of earthly people.
The bravest of the girls went to where the laughter came from. As she rounded the hill, she saw a young man. The girl knew that not only women, but also men live on earth. When the goddess Xi Wang Mu ordered the girls to study in a class where theycherished the art of weavers, she gave the girls books depicting life on earth. In this book, the girl saw a man for the first time in the picture. However, the man that the girl saw now was much more beautiful than the picture that the girl saw in the book. Dear readers, you probably already guessed that the girl I'm talking about now had something to do with Lali.
Rather, it will, if I say differently. Lily, who had just been in the relaxation room listening to music, suddenly found herself in the body of a naked fairy girl all of a sudden.
The girl's soul was like a light cloud, she did not fight when she felt that another soul suddenly appeared in her body. The soul of the girl simply clung to the soul of Lilith. A moment and both souls merged into one. The girl was timid, but Lita was bold. The girl was young, and Lily was mature. The girl did not know anything about the world in which she was, Lilith believed that she knew everything about this world. Two souls complemented each other, and both souls felt good now in the body of a young beautiful girl.
What happened next was unexpected for both the boy and the girl. And only Lilith knew and understood what she was doing. The young man's name was Nyulan, which means shepherd in Chinese. If the young man had an appearance not like Andy, then Lily would simply ask him to hand over the clothes. However, seeing in front of her the one whom she loved so much in the two previous dreams, Lily simply lost her head. Memories of hours full of passion filled Lola's memory. The young girl, in whose body Lilith was now, also felt what she felt in Lilith's past dreams.
Seeing her beloved face, Lily just lost her head. She walked over to the young man and took off his shirt. The young man was stunned, but he didn't push Lily's hand away. Embracing the young man, Lilith touched her lips to the lips of the young man. She was naked, and she had nothing to take off, but the young man still had some clothes on. Lily helped the young man get rid of these clothes.
What happened next was so beautiful that Lola cried with happiness and moaned. The young man, for whom this love experience was the first, was beside himself. His face was scarlet, he moaned and growled with pleasure. When the love song of these two came to an end, the lovers cried out, and their cry was a love oath before nature and the gods.
Nature has graciously allowed lovers to be called now husband and wife. When the lovers got up from the grass, the girl helped the young man to get dressed.
And only after that, she heard the timid voices of the sisters. The girl remembered why she was looking for the young man and asked him to give the clothes to the sisters and herself. The young man said that he would give only the clothes that belonged to the sisters, he was afraid that if he gave the clothes to his beloved, she would disappear. The girl laughed and said that after what happened to her now, she would never return to the sky castle. She told the young man that there, in heaven, she was a weaver and all day long was only busy weaving fabric for the clouds. There, in the castle in the sky, she was like in a prison. Having fallen in love with the young man and feeling the taste of freedom, she would never have agreed to return to Xi Wan Mu Castle anymore.
But then the girl heard that her sisters were crying, the girls froze and were afraid of the punishment of the goddess Xi Wang Mu. The girl took the sisters' dresses from the young man and told them that she would give them the dresses if the sisters promised that they would do the work that the girl herself did for six years. Yes, by the way, it's time to name the girl, her name was Zhinyu, which means, translated from Chinese, weaver. Zhinyu made the sisters promise that each of them would do Zhinyu's work. There were six sisters, and each sister had to work for a whole year for herself and for Zhin, so that the goddess Xi Wang Mu would not find out that there were only six weavers, not seven.
The sisters swore to Jin that they would do what she ordered them to do. After that, Zhinyu gave the sisters clothes, and then, together with Niulan, they helped the sisters pick the brightest and most beautiful flowers. Nyulan knew where the most beautiful flowers bloom, because he was a shepherd and spent days and nights in nature. After that, the sisters promised, once again, to Zhin that they would fulfill the oath, and immediately disappeared.
The happy shepherd and the weaver hugged each other, there were no more obstacles for their love! However, the shepherd was alarmed, he asked the girl what would happen when six years passed, and the goddess discovered that Zhinyu was not with her sisters. However, the beautiful weaver said that there was nothing to worry about yet. When six years have passed, then it will be necessary to think about what to do next. However, the girl asked her man to remind her of the upcoming problem when five and a half years had passed. The shepherd swore to his weaver that he would not forget to remind her when the time came.
Niulan didn't have any property. When the older brother's angry wife told Nyulan to get out of his home, she only allowed him to take the old cow with him. Nyulan loved the cow like his own mother, the cow helped the shepherd with advice. After the shepherd and the cow left their home, Nyulan built a hut from branches and straw, and this shepherd brought him to this huthour for your weaver.
The lovers were beside themselves with happiness. They loved each other day and night. Lily loved to watch her husband in a moment of supreme bliss. The young fairy Zhinyu was embarrassed to even open her eyes at such moments, but Lita, who was in the body of a girl, enjoyed every second of intimacy with a young man who had Andy's face and body.
Time flew by at an insane speed, two years later the couple had a son, three and a half years later they had a daughter. Five and a half years have passed. However, the birth of children did not change anything in the relationship of the spouses, on the contrary, they loved each other even more fervently and passionately.
The girl was born weak and therefore the parents threw all their strength into getting the child out.
Maybe that's why the shepherd forgot about his oath.
He forgot to remind his wife that five and a half years had passed since she became a woman. Another six months passed. Husband and wife forgot to think about the fateful term.
However, the goddess Xi Wang Mu did not forget about her fairy weaver.
A week before the fateful event, Niulan was in an anxious mood. He couldn't find a place for himself. Once he even suspected that his wife began to love him less. He decided that she wanted to return to the sky castle. When he asked his wife if she misses her sisters and the heavenly castle, the wife said that she had lived in the castle for many thousands of years, but all these thousands of years, she could easily change for another year of life with her beloved husband. Nulan calmed down.
However, some kind of anxiety still stung his heart, it seemed to him that he had forgotten something important. The man thought he was sad because his beloved cow had died. Before she died, the cow, who loved the shepherd very much, told the shepherd that after she died, he should skin her. At that moment, when the shepherd is overtaken by trouble, the shepherd will have to cover himself with the skin of a cow. The shepherd did everything the cow told him to do. When the cow died, the whole family of the shepherd mourned for her.
On that fateful day, the shepherd was working on a distant pasture, his daughter was with him. And the son stayed with his mother to help her, pick up threads for the complex pattern that Zhinyu wove. When the wind picked up, thunder struck, and lightning pierced the ground, Niulang picked up his daughter in his arms and ran with her to shelter so as not to get wet from the rain. However, there was no rain.
Suddenly, Nyulan heard the cry of his son. The son ran and cried. He said that when the thunder struck, a terrible deity came out of the cloud. This deity screamed in a terrible voice at the boy's mother. When the boy rushed to protect his mother, the deity threw him away. After that, the boy heard the cry of his mother, the mother told her son to run after his father.
When Nulan, together with his daughter and son, ran home, he saw that nothing was left of the house. The house was burned down. Raising his head, Nyulan saw how the wind was taking his beloved wife to heaven. He remembered the skin of a cow. Luckily, the hide was in an outbuilding that was far from home.
Niulan rushed to the annex like the wind. Throwing a skin over himself and the children, he began to rise into the sky. At some point, it seemed to him that he was catching up with a whirlwind, inside of which was his wife. However, the whirlwind suddenly turned into a beautiful, but terrible woman in anger.
The woman chuckled, and pulling a pin out of her hair, threw the pin between herself and the shepherd, and then she laughed so that the heavens trembled. And in the place where the pin fell, a river appeared.
This river surged its waters violently. Niulang could not bypass the river. He heard the cries of his adored wife, the children wept, the thunder rumbled. The river that separated the two lovers was later called the Milky Way.
The goddess forced Zhinyu to spin yarn for the clouds again, but not a single drop of rain could fall on the ground.
Nyulan spread the skin and blocked the path of moisture from the clouds. Not a single drop of rain fell on the ground.
Crops began to die on the ground. So a year has passed. Then the heavenly lord Yuhundadi intervened in the matter, and the formidable mistress Xi Wang Mu was forced to admit that love is stronger than anything in the world.
And on the seventh day, the seventh month, the goddess ordered the magpies to create a bridge. On this bridge the shepherd and the weaver rushed to each other. They were together for only one day and one night, and then the magpie bridge fell apart, and the loved ones parted for a whole year.
If you look at the sky, you can still see the star Vega and the star Altair, these stars are separated by the Milky Way - these are the lovers, the shepherd and the weaver. All year long the shepherd has been waiting for a meeting with his beloved, next to him two more stars, a daughter and a son, are waiting for a meeting with their mother.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
unsatisfied desires. The dream of the shepherd and the weaver irritated Lola's desires
Lilith woke up from a knock on the door. It turns out that the working day was already ending, and she was still sitting behind closed doors. Katerina, whose turn it was today to work in the relaxation room, went to Alexei with a complaint about Lola.
And now Alexei and Ekaterina unsuccessfully tried to get through to Lilith. Lilith did not understand for several minutes who she was and what she was doing here in this strange room. However, this time she recovered quite quickly. Maybe it happened because all the love of the shepherd and weavingChihi flashed before her eyes for some three or four hours.
Loli opened the door and apologized to her colleagues. She said she worked. Katerina reacted to these words with understanding, but Alexei was dissatisfied. Ekaterina distracted him from an important game of solitaire on the computer.
Lali collected the papers, took off her headphones, and went to the exit from the office. However, on the very threshold, she ran into Olga and Viktor Alekseevich. The best friend and the boss, having learned that Lal has been sitting in the relaxation room for several hours and does not come out, became worried and at the same time collided at the room where Lilith experienced the best hours in her life.
Viktor Alekseevich offered to take Olga and Lilit home. Lily wanted to refuse, but it suddenly seemed to her that she was too harsh with her boss and unexpectedly agreed. Everyone was surprised, both the friend and the boss, but Lilith herself was especially surprised at her decision.
She suddenly, more than ever, wanted a man to share this night with her. The story of the shepherd and the weaver taught her something. She realized that it was possible to live easier, and she also desperately wanted to be loved. Lilith loved her Andy, but for reciprocal love, and she knew that, it was useless to hope. Yes, the woman did not hope for anything. She just loved. But sometimes she, to the point of trembling, just wanted to be loved. Loved with soul and body, loved for who she is!
Lali hoped that Viktor Alekseevich would give her some kind of sign that he still liked her. However, the boss only took the ladies home and left, and Lal did not dare to hint. She was ashamed of what happened last night. It seemed to her that Viktor Alekseevich despises her now.
And Lilith was left alone again, alone with her unsatisfied desire, alone with the mess she had made at night. Having put things in order in the apartment, Lilith found that she had a lot of time, which she did not know what to do with. After getting dressed, she put on her headphones, and went to where the whole city flocked when summer began.
Lilith went to the Sports Embankment, to the sea. Every summer, many tourists from Asia come to the city. But this year there were more tourists than ever. There were especially many Chinese.
Lali walked and walked. She wanted to find a face even remotely similar to Andy among Chinese tourists, but it was a crazy idea. I repeat, there were a lot of tourists, among them were children, old people, men and women, but, greedily peering into the faces of visitors, Lilith in the depths of her soul understood that she was engaged in a useless business - there was no one like Andy on earth!
However, Lilith's soul screamed: "Look, I can no longer be alone!"
Fog descended on the city, its smallest droplets settled on the face, and it was not clear whether nature was crying, or whether Lilith herself was crying. An hour later, the woman returned home. The evening walk was over.
Taking out a box of ginger, Lali took out a phallus-amulet, however, when she brought it to her lips, she did not feel any return. The gem was dead. He did not awaken memories, he did not give desire, he did not give anything. Lali breathed on the amulet and kissed it, but all in vain, the jade was dead. Throwing a stone on the bed, Lali slid off the bed onto the floor and lay down, staring up at the ceiling. She did not understand what happened to the amulet, but the answer came, as always, suddenly. Lal suddenly remembered her wounds on her arms. And suddenly she had an idea! She realized that the jade gave her all his power! For too long she held it in her hands. However, this guess did not say anything or said too much!
Taking the amulet again, Lali drew attention to the fact that the stone was covered with cracks. Probably, it is enough to hit the amulet once, as it will crumble into separate pieces. But the woman did not want such a fate for the jade amulet. Gently holding the jade in her palm, she carefully lowered it into the box where she kept her simple jewelry. There were several earrings and a ring in the box, and now there will be jade.
Morning brought news, but they, this news, were disappointing. Lilith suddenly lost her energy, and having lost her energy, she, accordingly, could no longer heal people. Several of the volunteers with whom Lal worked for two weeks left the lab dissatisfied. Lilith couldn't help them. Lilith's failure cast a shadow over the entire laboratory.
Victor Alekseevich asked Lita to try his hand, again, on animals. However, it was useless, Lilith completely devastated her energy. Her battery needed recharging. Viktor Alekseevich tried again to share his energy with the woman, but nothing came of this venture.
After suffering for a month, Lilith said that she was leaving the laboratory, but the boss found a better way out, he said that he was sending Lali to a sanatorium, where, in the mornings, the old qigong master taught everyone. The sanatorium was located on the shores of the Yellow Sea, in the resort area of a small Chinese town.
Lilith was against it, of course she loved to go to China, but she did not like such gifts. Then Viktor Alekseevich said that, in that case, let Lola believe that she was sent into a comaindexing. On a business trip for new knowledge, skills, and new energy!
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Trip to the resort of Beidaihe. After a tense phone call, Loli suspects that this trip to China will be difficult.
Lilith did not like to travel by plane, so Viktor Alekseevich suggested that she choose a travel agency and a way of traveling to her taste. Lali had a breakdown and a bad mood, and, therefore, she chose the first travel agency she came across.
She seemed to like the conditions of the trip, but Lali especially emphasized to the manager of the travel agency her desire to live in the Qigong sanatorium. She explained to the girl that she was going not so much to rest as to study with a master who teaches qigong and works with residents of the sanatorium. The fact that the sanatorium was located near the sea played a big role in choosing the hotel. Of course, he was not very close to the seashore, but it was not very far to go to the sea from the sanatorium.
The travel agency manager assured Lilith that everything would be as she wished. Lolita was also bribed by the fact that the path to the resort had to run past her favorite city, Hunchun. That is, Hunchun was supposed to be the starting point of the journey. The manager named the amount of the voucher, but Lali decided not to delve into this issue, the woman simply told the nice girl to the manager that tomorrow the voucher would be paid by bank transfer.
We agreed that tomorrow Lilit will come back to the travel agency to complete all the paperwork. Returning to work, Lilit handed over the details of the travel agency to Viktor Alekseevich. The man asked Lolita in detail about everything she had learned about the upcoming trip.
Lilith answered questions reluctantly. Several times, during the conversation, she reminded the boss that there was still an opportunity to change her mind, but Viktor Alekseevich replied that there was nothing to think about.
The man was worried about another issue, he was not sure that the travel agency that Lilith had chosen was stable. His excitement about Lilith's impending safety was understandable. The man asked Lola if she had already traveled with this travel agency? If not, then you can look for another travel agency with a guarantee.
However, the prospect of meeting again with the manager of some other travel agency depressed Lilith. The woman lied to her boss that she was sure that the trip would go well, because she had used the services of this travel agency more than once.
Something did not satisfy Viktor Alekseevich in Lala's answer, but he did not object. Throwing another inquisitive glance towards Lilith, he warned the woman that, in case of anything, he would not be able to help her, because he was also going on a business trip. The path of Viktor Alekseevich lay in Japan. Of course, he will leave telephones for communication, but mobile communications in China are almost a fabulous thing, it may be, but it may not be!
Viktor Alekseevich flew away three days later. Unfortunately, he could not cancel his business trip, although he really wanted to see Lilith off.
Lola's trip was supposed to take place in a week - on July 28th. However, on July 27, the manager of the travel agency called and said that several tourists from the group with which Lola was supposed to go had refused the upcoming trip, and it was now unprofitable for the manager to send the group leader with Lolita, the only remaining tourist. Lilith was shocked! She didn't understand anything! How is that not profitable? Without going into details, and without answering Lola's questions, the manager, in a voice that suddenly became not so sweet, suggested that Lilith go not on the twenty-eighth of July, but on the thirtieth. But if Lali still decides to go on the twenty-eighth, the manager threatened that then Lolita would go on a trip alone, without a leader, and on the entire route, Vladivostok-Beidaihe, Lilit would be accompanied only by Chinese translators.
At first, Lal refused to change the day of the trip, and then, after thinking, she told the girl, whose name was Lyudmila, that she would take the money for the trip back if everything went like that. In response, the girl suffered some nonsense that, in case of refusal, the money would be returned only partially.
Lilit tried to prove that the problems arose due to the fault of the travel agency, to which Lyudmila pointed out that the contract signed by Lolita states in a separate line that the travel agency, in case of force majeure, can offer the client a change in the date of the trip.
Lilith bit her lip, it became clear to her that she herself was to blame for what happened, because she signed the contract without reading it. She traveled to China many times, and signed contracts more than once, but never read them. The contracts were standard and the text in them was repeated. However, this time there was a misfire with the contract!
Yes, the trip was still planned!
Lali realized that she could not return to the accounting department of her own laboratory and explain why she was canceling the trip. Moreover, Viktor Alekseevich, who initiated her trip, has already left. Gritting her heart, Lolita agreed to reschedule the trip to the thirtieth of July.
The bus that was supposed to take Lali to China left at six in the morning. The leader who met Lita at the door of the bus turned out to be an absent-minded middle-aged woman. years. The woman's name, like the manager of the travel agency, was Lyudmila.
After talking with Lyudmila for several minutes, it became clear to Lolita that Lyudmila considered Lilit and two other tourists who were in the same group with Lolita to be an burdensome burden.
The woman did not even hide her feelings and thoughts. She asked Lilith not to burden her with questions, but only explained that, upon arrival in the city of Hunchun, she would transfer the tourists to the interpreter Misha, and at that all her contacts with the tourists would be interrupted for almost a week.
Lyudmila remained in Hunchun, while Lilith and the other tourists went further. Lilith felt alone and unprotected. It was the first time she had been treated like this! Always, on all trips, from beginning to end, there was a group leader nearby. Lyudmila's functions were to guide tourists across the border, nothing else depended on her.
Two elderly tourists who were in the group with Lola got excited. The woman was especially worried, she did not understand how they could travel through all of China without the support of a leader. As Lali understood, the husband and wife were avid travelers, they visited Vietnam, Thailand, and many other countries, but they met with such a strange service for the first time.
If Lilith dreamed of walking around her beloved, Chinese town, then she was cruelly mistaken! After crossing the border, tourists, almost by force, were pushed into some kind of cafe.
Lali hinted that she would like to have lunch at the Aromat cafe, which she knew well, to which the Chinese Misha, to whom Lyudmila handed over the tourists with relief, angrily replied that they would eat here and made an annoyed grimace!
Sometimes Lali became stubborn, like a donkey, or rather, a donkey. This usually happened when her cup of patience overflowed! That day was just such a case, Lali tried to start a riot. Realizing that Misha brought tourists to the cafe where the owner paid extra money to the translator for each tourist brought, Lali, nevertheless, decided to make a fuss.
She didn't like the menu at this cafe, and she certainly didn't like the prices. As you remember, Lolita was in Hunchun not so long ago, only in May, and she knew what dishes cost how much. Misha snorted like a locomotive and said that there was simply no time to take Lolita to another cafe. You may miss the train.
This argument seemed to calm the heated woman, but she sat in the cafe, not wanting to order anything! Lilith has always disliked being manipulated. She, of course, wanted to eat, but the principles were more expensive. Of course, Lali did not remain hungry, she bought a bun and a bottle of water at the bus station, but her mood deteriorated more and more. The tourists were taken to the bus station to be put on a bus that was supposed to take them to the city of Yanji. The train that was supposed to take Lilith to the resort town of Beidaihe departed from the Yanji railway station.
Yanji City was big and beautiful. In this city, as well as in Hunchun, not only Chinese, but also Koreans lived. Lilith did not see anything special on the way to Yanji. The landscape was repeated. There were clean, wide roads around, along which the bus gently rolled, there were tunnels cut right into the rocks and endless signs. The houses on both sides of the road were built in the Korean style. The roofs of these houses were heavily curved. This was done so that the evil spirits could not settle in the house. According to a belief that exists in all Asian countries, demons move only in a straight line, demons do not like curved lines. When the bus arrived at the bus station, Lal saw an interesting picture, she saw eggplant beds that grew right on the bus station. A Chinese woman was picking eggplants and yelling something at two men who were baring their fat bellies, wrapping their T-shirts above their navels. The tourists were greeted by a new translator. The translator had a sonorous name, Daniel. Daniel picked up Lilith's suitcase and answered a few of the woman's questions. This was the first person in the last few hours who gave a clear answer to Lala's questions. It turns out that the interpreter Misha lied, it was still more than two hours before the train. Knowing the order of the Chinese, Lilith suspected that if Daniil led tourists to the station building, then they would not get out of there before the train left, and therefore Lilith asked the interpreter to show her some cafe. Still, the woman remained hungry. The cafe was attached directly to the station building. This cafe offered fast food to departing travelers. Lilith left more money in this cafe than if she had dined in that cafe that was in Hunchun, but, as you remember, it was a matter of principle, or rather, in principles, Lilith, or, more precisely, in Lilith's spoiled mood . However, when Daniil led the tourists through the turnstile into the building of the railway station, Lilith's mood improved dramatically. Daniel left, promising to return in forty minutes, and the Russian tourists were left in the middle of a sea of swarthy, curious passengers who did not take their eyes off the Russian tourists. Men especially stared at the tourists, and the object of their attention was in theI tear Lilith's turn. One of the Chinese men especially remembered Lilith. For two hours he did not take his eyes off Lilith. Lilith went to buy ice cream, the eyes of the Chinese followed her. Lola walked around the station and knew that the pretty young man did not take his eyes off her. The attention of the Chinese men was pleasant but unexpected. Lilit had a cherished friend, his name was Vasya, he lived in Beijing, Lilit corresponded with Vasya on the Internet for many years, he even came to Lola when she worked in the Chinese city of Suifenhe. Vasya was a smart, intelligent, very well-read person. Lola and Vasily were connected by warm and deep friendly feelings. So, when Lilith asked Vasya on the Internet the question of why, looking at her, Chinese men twisted their necks at the railway station in the city of Yanji, she received a discouraging answer. It turns out that Chinese men were attracted by Lilith's large breasts and her magnificent forms. Then Lola asked Vasya why she did not notice such attention to herself in Hunchun and other border cities, and received an answer, which, in general, she expected. In Yanji City, ladies with white skin and large breasts are rare.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
On the train. Lilith is reading a book, wrapped in a blanket like a butterfly in a cocoon.
The moment of boarding the Chinese trains is very different from the moment of boarding the trains of the Russian railway.
If our boarding begins twenty to thirty minutes before the train departs, and Russian passengers have the opportunity to safely enter the car, sit down and even walk along the platform to kiss the mourners once again, then the Chinese are much more complicated.
A huge crowd lines up near the aisle on the track where the train arrives in thirty minutes, but the controllers begin to let people through only when there are about ten minutes left before the train leaves.
During these ten minutes, passengers must have time: to break through the crowd of people like them who want to leave, show their ticket to the controllers, run along the endless passages of the station to the platform, and, finally, complete their run with the final action - to find their car.
Lola's carriage was almost at the beginning of the train. The number of the car was the third. Dragging a half-empty, but still heavy and uncomfortable suitcase, Lilith saw the number five on the car that was passing by. The woman decided that she still had to run and run, but she was surprised to see that immediately after the fifth car there was a third car. The fact is that in Chinese the number four and the word death are written in the same hieroglyph, and wherever possible the number four is simply ignored.
The travelers, who were in the same group with Lilith, fell far behind, but managed to jump into the car before the train blew the final whistle. Daniil was generally lost somewhere in the confusion of the landing. That's how imperceptibly the moment came when the travelers were left alone in the middle of the human sea, which did not know the great Russian language.
Passengers were looking for their seats, dumbfounded Russians were pushed away with elbows and suitcases. The fact is that the numbering of seats in Chinese cars is different from Russian ones. Let's start with the fact that there are no side shelves, as in Russian reserved seat cars. Instead, there are six shelves in each carriage compartment. Two lower, two middle, and two very high shelves. That is, respectively, the first, second and third regiment.
Lolita fiddled with her ticket, trying to figure out where to go. There were no conductors to be seen. One of the passengers, who occupied the first shelf in her compartment, took pity on Lola and showed her her place. And then Lola was waiting for a blow, her place was not in the compartment where the rest of the Russian tourists were supposed to sleep, and even on the third shelf. There was no one to complain to.
Of course, Daniel gave his mobile phone number just in case, but Lali did not bother to buy a Chinese SIM card, and, as the woman suspected, a call to the translator would not solve anything. It is unlikely that any of the Chinese passengers was eager to exchange shelves with a confused Russian woman.
At the neighbors, I mean, a couple of elderly tourists, everything was better at first glance. The woman got the first shelf, the man the second. However, this superiority was only apparent. Just before the train left, a crowd poured into the car. There were many people, and they all went to the compartment where the Russian tourists were located. The departing people brought with them several packs of beer, all sorts of food, some other liquor, and a bunch of bags and suitcases.
Cheerful, loud Chinese voices filled the entire space of the compartment. The train has gone. The clock was sixteen hours eight minutes. Where there are side shelves in Russian trains, there was a table and two folding chairs. It was early to sleep, and so Lilith sat on such a chair and began to observe the life of Chinese passengers. However, nothing special happened around.
People settled down, got food. Someone immediately went to bed, covering himself with a blanket. Lilith marveled at this strangeness of the Chinese passengers and exhaled, the journey has finally begun!
Bus trips, from Vladivostok to Hunchun, and from Hunchun to Yanji, she didn't consider it a journey. It was incredibly stuffy in Hunchun and Yanji, but here, on the train, it was cool, the air conditioner regularly supplied cold air.
Lola washed and cleaned herself up, glad that the sweat was no longer running down her face and stinging her eyes. However, after an hour had passed, Lilith understood why the passengers were lying with the blanket over their heads! It was already very cold in the car, but Lola, of course, did not have anything warm with her. She was wearing a short-sleeved blouse and sandals on her feet.
Taking out the camera, Lilith began to photograph the floating landscape through the window glass, but soon she got tired of it. The train picked up speed, and the frames photographed at high speed came out blurry.
Sellers with carts walked back and forth past Lilith. Looking into one of the carts, Lola saw that the cart was ready, either lunches or dinners. The woman wanted to buy what the seller offered, but saw that only chopsticks were attached to the food. There were no forks and spoons, and Lilith did not know how to eat with chopsticks.
It got colder and colder. Lola's nose turned red. Deciding to take a walk, Lali looked to the neighbors. The neighbors sat miserably on the edge of their first shelf. Communication between Chinese passengers reached a crescendo and went beyond all sound limits. An elderly tourist complained to Lilith that she already had a headache from the noise! The tourist's name was Lyudmila. Well, Lilith was lucky to have women with that name on this trip. Thank God that this Lyudmila was a calm and adequate woman.
However, it was not very convenient to communicate standing up, and it didn’t even occur to the cheerful Chinese fellow travelers to move a little so that Lolita could sit down. However, when Lilith decided to count those who were in the compartment, she was surprised, there were three times more people than shelves. It was not clear where the passengers sitting in the compartment were going to sleep.
Lilith returned to her side chair and thought, it was only six o'clock in the evening, and there was nothing to do. Lola was an active woman, she loved to move and did something at home all the time, idleness oppressed her.
Lolita had an interesting book - it was a new book by Stephen King. The woman specifically bought this book for the trip. However, it was cold to read, hands and feet were completely frozen. And then Lilith had an idea! She removed the blanket from her third shelf, wrapped herself in it, and sat back down in her seat. Looking around militantly, she was convinced that no one was looking at her and did not condemn her. The woman decided that if the conductor comes and swears, she will pretend that she does not understand anything! However, the conductors did not pay attention to the chilled passenger, wrapped in a blanket. Probably, during the work, they saw everything.
Having taken out the book, and putting one hand out of the warm cocoon of the blanket, Lita plunged into reading. Time raced forward. The book was incredibly interesting! People scurried around, the passengers in the tourist compartment had already emptied all the cans of beer, and went to bed in pairs, Chinese cities and towns floated outside the window, Lola didn’t see anything of this anymore, she was there, in the incredibly fascinating world of the great Stephen King. She woke up only at the moment when the lights were turned off in the car. I had to go to bed.
Having reached her shelf almost to the touch, Lola realized that she would not be able to change clothes, the shelf was too narrow not only in width, but also in height. Imagining how messy she would look in the morning, Lola smiled. Of course, being in wrinkled clothes is unpleasant, but Lilith hoped that she would have a minute in the morning to wash and, a secluded place to change.
The train arrived at Shanhaiguan Station at ten o'clock and four minutes. Lita did not immediately fall asleep, she lay listening to the soft rattle of the wheels. The train was moving smoothly, without jerks. At the stations, the train stood a little, and brightly lit platforms flashed by again. However, the conductor soon came and closed the windows with pleated curtains. After that, he, once again, swept the floor, and lined up the passengers' shoes in a ruler.
The woman was sleeping and smiling. The train carried her further and further away. She woke up several times. She woke up the first time when the guide woke her up to give her a camera she left on the table. The second time she dreamed something unpleasant, and she jumped up abruptly, hitting the ceiling of the car.
She probably screamed in her sleep, because the Chinese on the bottom shelf woke up and looked up. Lola felt ashamed. She mentally scolded herself, and strictly ordered herself to sleep further calmly, without screams and abrupt awakenings.
CHAPTER THIRTY
Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo. Lilith falls asleep on the train. She dreams that she is a butterfly meeting another butterfly. Hiding from the whirlwind, butterflies fall into a funnel under a tombstone with two names
And Lilith had a dream.
She dreamed that she was floating in the air. Loli could not figure out who she had turned into this time? Finally, flying past a beautiful lake, she sank a little and flew over the water surface, almost touching the water with her wings. And then she saw her reflection in the water. Hownot surprisingly, in a dream, Lilith was a butterfly.
Probably, the woman had not yet completely fallen asleep, because she understood that the life of a butterfly is not her life. Memories that in fact she, a man, a woman, did not allow the butterfly to gain height. The weight of memories pulled the butterfly to the ground until she saw that she was not alone. A butterfly of incredible beauty flew towards her.
A beautiful male butterfly circled over the one that now contained the memory of Lilith, and, softly flapping its beautiful wings, flew to a clearing where beautiful and fragrant flowers grew all year round.
Beautiful butterflies did not have names, so for now I will call them: the first butterfly, that is, the one in which Lilith’s soul was now, and the second butterfly, we are talking about the butterfly, the beauty of which took the breath away from the first butterfly.
The second butterfly flew faster than the first, probably no memory weighed down on its beautiful wings, but after flying quite far, the second butterfly paused, fluttering over some beautiful flower, and waited for the number one butterfly, which flew incredibly slowly.
However, the further the number one butterfly flew, the faster its wings moved. She only cared about one thing, she wanted the beautiful number two butterfly to always be with her. Not more than an hour passed and there was no trace of the memories of butterfly number one. Butterflies fluttered, now moving away from each other, then approaching in flight.
Time moved towards noon. It was getting hot. Butterfly number two decided to set the direction. She flew to the place where at noon you can wait out the heat. A grove of hundred-year-old trees stood in the very depths of the forest. Trees intertwined branches. The canopy of branches and leaves was a protection from the heat, but did not create dusk.
Probably, the second butterfly rested more than once under centuries-old branches, and therefore confidently flew in the direction of the very heart of the forest thicket, but suddenly thunder struck and the wind rose.
The wind was picking up strength every minute. Butterflies began to blow away in a whirlwind. Everything around went dark. Butterfly number one is alarmed! Memories began to crowd, taking away her sense of serenity. The whirlwind picked up butterfly number two and began to carry it farther and farther, and butterfly number one was exhausted, trying to catch up with the beautiful butterfly.
At some point, she pleaded, asking the flower goddess not to separate her from butterfly number two. The goddess probably heard her prayer, because in the next moment the wind picked up the fragile body of butterfly number one and threw it into the very middle of the whirlwind.
The first and second butterflies were together, but the flower goddess apparently laughed at the butterflies in love. Whirlwind brought butterflies to the cemetery. He broke trees and drove leaves around.
Suddenly it got even darker! It started to rain heavily with hail. The hail hit painfully on the wings. One hailstone almost broke the wing of butterfly number two. Screaming, butterfly number one tried to cover her beloved with herself.
And again she prayed to the flower goddess, forgetting about her deceit. And again the flower goddess responded. The butterfly asked the goddess to give shelter in order to wait out the bad weather, but what happened next could not be dreamed of by the butterfly even in the worst dream.
Thunder roared, lightning flashed. One of the tombstones swayed. Whirlwind lifted the tombstone and tossed it aside. The wind did the trick. A funnel has formed. The wind began to draw small, beautiful butterflies into this funnel, desperately fighting for the life of each other.
Losing consciousness, butterfly number one slipped her gaze and read on the tombstone the names of those who were once buried here. Their names were Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo.
The laughter of the flower goddess filled the entire space around, and then subsided and turned into a gentle melody.
To this melody, Lilith woke up. It was an early morning. The pleated curtains were already open, and a beautiful song was playing on the radio. The girl sang. Her voice was so high and beautiful that I wanted to listen to her and listen.
And I also wanted to cry. What Lilith did. The woman lay and cried, again not understanding who she was and where she was. It was hard for her in the confined space of the train, hard under the heavy, hot blanket. Finally, when the tears turned into sobs, someone touched her leg.
A middle-aged Chinese man, whom Lali did not let sleep at night, showed something with signs to Lilith. He accompanied the signs with guttural words. Lilith did not understand the words, but she understood the signs. Probably, the man felt sorry for Lali. He was saying something, pointing to his throat. He probably told Lilith about how she choked and screamed in her sleep at night.
Lilith lay in bed until the sunbeams illuminated the carriage. The transition from butterfly to woman was slow. Leti's memory always slipped the woman those moments when she was absolutely happy and free.
And also, she, memory, reminded that a butterfly cannot take off until it receives a charge from the sun's rays. Until the sun comes out, butterflies doze, sitting on a flower or on a leaf of a tree.
After washing and changing clothes, Lali again sat down on a side chair. She looked out the window, but saw nothing. The surrounding landscape did not interest her. The train went slowly, and suddenly LAli thought that the group of trees she saw in the green growth floating past her reminded her of something.
Lilith tensed. She tried to remember the dream she had seen today, but the events of the dream were fading away at a terrifying rate. Only sensations remained from the dream.
Feelings of happiness, freedom and love!
The feeling of flying!
Lilith was afraid of heights, sometimes, looking at the birds that dive into the air currents and soar freely above the ground, she admired their flight, but she never wanted to fly like a bird herself.
But Lal liked the flight of butterflies!
Moreover, Lilith herself liked being a butterfly in her dream. I liked flying low above the ground, fluttering in the sun, among the flowers, grass and sky! I liked to eat nectar, and to know that the moment would come when the beloved, attracted by her smell, the smell of a butterfly, would soon fly in and persistently woo her, seeking her love.
Lilith even smelled the pheromones she gave off when she was a butterfly! This smell was created by nature so that the male could find the butterfly that excites him by the smell of pheromones. This scent was one of a kind, and meant only for him! He, her beloved...
Lilith suddenly felt excited, and smiled mirthlessly to herself. This was still not enough, to experience excitement, and where, on a train full of strangers! On a train taking her to a strange city! Raising her head sharply, she saw a multitude of male eyes, which were attentively looking at her from the carriage compartments.
Lali cringed. It seemed that the smell of pheromones was still exuding from her body. The young man smiled sheepishly at Lilith. He thought that Lilith was looking at him, and Lali simply looked into space, and thought her sad thought. The strange transformations that happened to her affected not only the soul, but also the body. To distract herself, Lilith took out her headphones to listen to the songs her lover sang. However, today the music did not calm her down, but rather excited her. It was no good! My God, yes Lilith, would give a lot for the smell of her pheromones to reach the one she loved so much! He, her precious Andy...
By the way, about love… Grasping the remnants of sleep, Lali frowned.
Something was wrong!
Lal was firmly convinced that she had behaved incorrectly in her sleep. In fact, these are male butterflies flying after females and seeking their love, and in a dream Lali followed the male butterfly.
Lilith hoped that the transformation into a butterfly would be the last transformation. Whom only she was not in dreams! She was the wife of the builder of the ancient Chinese wall, she was a white snake, a fairy weaver! And everywhere, in all transformations, her beloved was with her!
However, love is love, but only half an hour remained before the train arrived at Shanhaiguan Station, and the events of the dream soon ceased to excite Lilith. Together with the other two tourists, she found a guide. The conductor exchanged plastic cards back for tickets. Oh, I forgot to tell you about plastic cards, you'll excuse me!
I mean, I forgot to describe the moment when the conductor changed tickets for plastic cards.
This happened at a time when the train had just left the city of Yanji. That's the way it is on Chinese railways. The conductors pick up the tickets and during the whole journey the passengers keep the plastic cards they were given in exchange for the tickets. And now the reverse has happened. The cards were taken away, and the tickets were returned in return.
The tourists carried their suitcases into the vestibule and waited for the train to arrive at Shanhaiguan Station. It was not very far from the station to Beidaihe. Daniil warned the tourists that the car ride would take no more than twenty minutes.
Lilith finally smiled!
She began to believe that everything would still be fine! Sea, sun, green tea and Chinese restaurants await her, which she loved very much! As well as…
Her dreams were interrupted by a man guide, he pointed to the camera that Lali was holding in her hands and offered to take a picture. Lilith was surprised, at night, when the conductor scurried back and forth, putting things in order, he had such an official look! What happened to him now? Could Lolita's pheromones have affected him too?
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
Shanhaiguan station. Almost on target. Not that hotel.
Lolita stepped out onto the platform. Neighbors also followed her. Lyudmila was very worried that no one would meet them, and they would stay overnight at the station. However, her worries were in vain, tourists were already waiting.
The one who met the tourists gave his name - his name was Valery. This young man was very different from his colleagues from Hunchun and Yanji. He was more calm, relaxed and somehow good-natured.
Valera was in no hurry. He said that a minibus was waiting for the tourists and they would be at the Beidaihe resort in 25 minutes. He even allowed Lilith to take pictures of the station and the area around the station.
The woman relaxed, she was pleased that she was not being teased or rushed.
Putting their suitcases in the trunk of the minibus, the tourists sat down in their seats and the bus drove off. Lolita looked out the window and enjoyed the beautiful views that stretched along the road. There were flowerbeds and bushes trimmed inde various fabulous figures and animals, beautiful gazebos, bridges and many, many more interesting and beautiful things.
Valera said that first he needed to arrange for Lyudmila and Gennady to stay at the Rossiya Hotel.
It turned out that Lolita and her neighbors, tourists, will live in different hotels. However, there was nothing special about it, because Lilith and her neighbors were from different travel companies. They were united only by the fact that they had one leader, and they went to one destination - to the resort of Beidaihe.
When Lyudmila and Gennady went to their room, Lilith's turn finally came. However, it turned out that Valera was going to take Lilit not to the sanatorium that was indicated on the ticket.
As you remember, when Lilit made out a ticket, she emphasized to the manager of the company that she wanted to live in the Qigong sanatorium. The same sanatorium was also indicated in Lolita's voucher, however, Valera said that his travel agency had received an instruction from Vladivostok to place Lilit in another sanatorium.
The sanatorium bore a sonorous name: "Sanatorium for excellent workers" and was located far from the sea. And also in this sanatorium, and this was the main thing, no one was going to do qigong gymnastics in the morning with Lilith.
The woman was dumbfounded, she took out a contract and a ticket and showed all this to Valera. However, this did not change anything. The young man stood his ground, he insisted that the travel company from Vladivostok ordered to settle Lilit in this sanatorium.
Lilith cried.
The young man was not used to the tourists who came to relax and enjoy the sea reacting so strangely to the hotel offered to him. He gave Lita his mobile phone and suggested that she call the leader of the group that was now in Hunchun.
The woman had the phone number of the leader Lyudmila, which she wrote down on a piece of paper just in case. However, the phone call didn't change anything. Lyudmila said that she had nothing to do with the travel agency Frog Traveler, which sent Lilith from Vladivostok to China. Now, if Lita had set off from the travel agency in which Lyudmila worked, then it would be a completely different matter. This ended the conversation.
Valera timidly offered Lola to at least look at the sanatorium where she was to live for seven days. Lilith, again, for the hundredth time, tried to explain to the young man that she had come here, to the Beidaihe resort, not only to relax, but also to practice at the Qigong sanatorium with a master who specialized in qigong gymnastics.
Of course, Lilith agreed to see the sanatorium that Valera offered her, but she was not going to live here. The woman only needed a phone from which she could call to Russia, to Vladivostok, to the travel agency Frog Traveler, because Valera's phone had no connection with Russia.
It was cool and beautiful in the lobby of the sanatorium. However, Lola was not touched. Calling the travel agency, Lilit explained to the manager, it seems that it was even Lyudmila, her problem.
Lyudmila listened to Lita and said she would call back. Lilit sensed a trick, she asked Lyudmila where she was going to call back, but Lyudmila replied that she would call back exactly to the phone from which Lola is calling now, and disconnected.
Lilith recounted the conversation to Valery, and they waited. However, five minutes passed, then ten, and Lyudmila did not call back. The Chinese girls who stood behind the reception desk looked impatiently in the direction of Lilith and Valery. Finally, when the woman's patience snapped, she decided to call back again. However, no one picked up the phone. After waiting some more time, Lilith again dialed Vladivostok, but a surprise awaited her, and, unfortunately, this surprise was unpleasant. A mechanical voice said that the subscriber is unavailable.
Lita was at an impasse, she did not know what to do now. Of course, you could call your friend Olga in Vladivostok and tell her the whole situation, but after thinking for a few seconds, Lolita decided not to do this.
The fact is that Lita was simply ashamed. When Lily told Olga that she was leaving on a business trip to the city of Beidaihe, Olga, just like Viktor Alekseevich, was very worried about the company that Lilit had chosen. Unlike Viktor Alekseevich, Olga knew that Lolita had never traveled with this travel agency, and asked Lita, before it was too late, to refuse the services of the Traveler Frog company and choose some company that had been working in the travel services market for a long time. years. However, Lilith believed that everything would be fine, and assured Olga that she checked the reviews about this company, and they turned out to be positive.
Not wanting to admit defeat, Lilit told Valery that she was not going to check into the room of this sanatorium. Lola insisted on her own, she demanded that Valery take her to the Qigong sanatorium.
The young man was confused. He tried to explain to the strange tourist that the sanatorium that he is offering her now is much better than the sanatorium that is written on her ticket. However, Lala continued to insist on her own.
Valery called his travel agency several times, but judging by the looks that Valera threw, during the conversation with the authorities, on Lilith, these conversations did not promise anything positive for Leti.
Finally, Valery said that the management of the travel agency agrees to settle Lilit in the Qigong sanatorium if she can pay extra money for accommodation. Lilith was out. She did not understand why she had to pay some more money if she had already paid for the ticket. However, Valery said that this was the last option for a settlement in the Qigong sanatorium.
Lita had money with her, but not enough to pay for the sanatorium, the services of which had already been paid for in Vladivostok. In the end, Valery said that it was probably time for Lola to rest, and suggested that she look at the room in which she would live.
Later, when the misunderstanding is settled, the woman will probably be able to move to the sanatorium that is written on her ticket. Lilith was really tired, but she wasn't about to stop fighting.
Only when Valery assured her that this was not the end of the conversation, but only a delay, did she agree to go up to the fourth floor, or rather, to the fifth floor, because there was no fourth floor in this hotel, and see the room in which she would live in Beidaihe.
The room was large, comfortable, it had everything you need, including a hairdryer, but this did not change anything. Leaving the suitcase in the corner, Lilith sat on the edge of the bed and hung her head.
Valery, who really took Lolita's problems to heart, tried to calm her down. He invited Lolita to go with him to the Qigong sanatorium and look at the place where qigong masters conduct their classes in the morning. However, the minibus had already left long ago, as gasoline was expensive. Therefore, Valery invited Lita to go with him to the Qigong sanatorium on his own motorcycle. Lilith refused, she was afraid to ride motorcycles.
Seeing that Lita's lips were trembling, and tears welled up in the woman's eyes, the young man offered her another option.
He said that there is an Olympic Park not far from the sanatorium, and there is a stadium in the park, in this stadium everyone is engaged in various sports. Including a couple of Chinese people doing qigong gymnastics and tai chi.
Lilith calmed down a little when Valera said that if she gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and goes to the stadium, the Olympic Park, she will definitely find a qigong master with whom she can work out.
Wiping her tears, Lilith told Valery that she appreciated his care and did not blame him for anything. The woman understood that the Chinese travel company, which was engaged in receiving guests from Russia, was not to blame for anything. The problem that arose was only due to the fact that the travel agency that sent Lola to Beidaihe did not work in good faith.
Valera tried to offer some more services to Lilith, but the woman did not understand anything. She said that she would sleep and, only then, would she think what to do next.
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Beach. Lilith meets a colorful old Chinese man on the beach and buys two jade rings from him.
Lilith is very tired. The woman knew it was stupid to lie there and stare at the ceiling after she had traveled so many miles across China. She was now in the heart of the Chinese Republic. The Beidaihe resort was located near the capital of China - Beijing. I wanted to eat and drink, I wanted to see if the city had changed. In 2012, Lilith already came here, though she didn’t live in this resort then, and the hotel was different. She then lived at the Open Hotel. This hotel was located just opposite the hotel in which Lyudmila and Gennady now lived.
By the way, it was in this hotel that the medical center was located, where Valery strongly recommended to look. Lolita knew that massages were good at this center.
Half an hour passed, Lilith opened her eyes, she could not sleep, but she did not have the strength to get up somewhere and go. Looking again at the room in which she was to live for the next few days, Lilith discovered that the room turned out to have two beds. The woman winced, the presence of two beds in the room meant that someone else would be added to her room. However, Lilith was powerless here. In order to live in a room alone, she would have to pay for the use of a second bed.
However, there was nothing wrong with the fact that Lola would have a neighbor. However, Lilith decided not to get ahead of herself, and to solve problems as they come.
Now she had to decide what was more important for her, sleep or food. And it was also necessary to call home, the son and parents were waiting for a call that she had arrived safely.
The bathroom had a huge wall-length mirror. Lali decided to cheer herself up. She went to shower. Throwing off her clothes, she almost turned on the water, but then returned to the room. She needed music. Turning on the slow, blood-curdling blues she had on her cell phone, she adjusted the volume and decided to put on a striptease show for herself.
Remembering the scenes from the film, where the hero and heroine soap each other and make love under the shower, Lita laughed. She decided to arrange a parodydance on the theme of erotic dances in the shower. True, she did not have a partner for dancing. However, in order to cheer herself up, she now did not need a partner.
Soaping herself, Lilith squirmed to the music, and then it became funny to her. After carefully looking at herself in the mirror, she decided that her body lacked a sun tan. Thoughts of tanning were anything but erotic.
Trying to return to the wave of eroticism, Lilith decided to use the shower as a partner, but suddenly she felt that she had lost all desire to dance. And the mirror in the bathroom was fogged up and no longer wanted to show the beauty of Lilith's naked body. Lilith wiped the mirror, but it fogged up again.
There was a knock on the door. Cursing to herself, Lilith threw a dressing gown over her wet body and went to the door. Behind the door was Valera. Seeing Lita's wet hair, he apologized and said that he wanted to offer Lilith a restaurant where a woman could eat well and inexpensively. However, he wanted to offer Lilith not even a single restaurant, but several to choose from. The restaurants were in the city center, but getting there was easy. Near the gates of the sanatorium, minibuses were on duty, on which the names of restaurants were written. The restaurants were called "Marina" and "Maxim". Lolita could choose any restaurant and take a minibus back and forth for free.
Lilith looked impatiently at the interpreter. This Valera was strange, in front of him was an almost naked woman, just out of the shower, and he talked to her about some restaurants and free travel. However, there was nothing to be surprised at, probably, from each visit to the restaurant by tourists from the group, Valera had some percentage.
However, Lilith decided that maybe she was wrong, maybe Valera was just embarrassed to hint to Lilith that he liked her. Chinese men are generally reserved in showing their feelings.
Seeing that Lita was confused and angry, Valery said that he would wait for the woman in the lobby of the sanatorium. Lilith did not have time to object, and Valera had already left.
Sitting in a chair, Lilith thought. She thought about how she could avoid the young man's custody. The woman hated being led.
Choosing the lightest, tightest sarafan, Lilith put on sandals to match him, but then she found herself at a dead end. She brought three bags with her. And now she was confused. All three handbags matched her outfit, and Lilith did not know which handbag she should choose now. It took at least 40 minutes while Lola chose her handbag. During this time, she repainted her lips several times, changed clothes and changed shoes.
Finally, she heard a delicate knock on the door and realized that it seemed to her that it was time to finally leave the room. Taking a deep breath, she took a few steps and opened the door.
Valera was standing outside the door, as she expected, but the sight of Lilith finally pierced the armor of Valera's equanimity. Of course, the young man did not say anything to Lolita about her appearance, but from the changed expression on her face, quickened breathing, flashing eyes, Lilith saw that her efforts were not in vain.
The woman felt satisfied. However, she was indifferent to the young man who was now descending with her in the elevator. Just to come to her senses, Letie needed to feel that she was admired. This desire was so innocent, but, nevertheless, the main and all-encompassing.
To get rid of Valera, Lilit chose a restaurant with a female name Marina. In fact, she really didn't care which restaurant to choose. However, the names of the restaurants reminded her of something.
The restaurant with the same name - Maxim was in the city of Suifenhe. Mostly Russian people dined in this restaurant. One day, while transiting through Suifenhe to the city of Harbin, Lilith dined at the Maxim restaurant. Opposite, a couple of Russians with children were sitting on it. What Lilith saw then was imprinted in her memory for a long time. A Russian dad, with a red, hungover face, sat and smoked right at the dinner table, the smoke from the cigarette flew into the faces of his young children, and the ashes from the cigarette fell into a plate of borscht, which stood in front of him. Remembering this picture, Lilith shuddered.
And in the restaurant "Marina" Lilit celebrated the new year in the city of Sanya. These were pleasant memories. Of course, it would be stupid to choose a restaurant by name and past memories, but Lilith still had to stop at one of the restaurants so that Valery would leave her alone.
Restaurants were nearby and were in the city center. Soon Lilith was already riding in a minibus to the Marina restaurant. I won't talk about the restaurant. There was nothing special about him. The staff was polite - the Chinese understood Russian, the food was delicious and really inexpensive. The only thing that Lali noted to herself was that her intuition did not deceive her this time either. The restaurant in the city of Sanya and the restaurant where Lilith was now had the same mistress.
Lilith said that there was no need to take her back to the sanatorium, and, having paid, she finally went for a walk. She threw away all negative thoughts. It didn't make sense to torture yourself with something that didn't come true, you had to think about the future.
Not far from the restaurant was a huge shop selling pearls. The store was called “Pearl Palace”.
Lilith was walking towards the palace, suddenly the woman felt funny. Feet, as they approached the pearl store, more and more accelerated step. It seemed that the head in this action participates only slightly. However, when Lilith entered the pearl palace, all thoughts left her, only a feeling of admiration was remembered. There were so many pearls that my eyes ran wide! Strings of white, black, yellow, pink pearls hung, lay just like that, on the counters, and under the glass of the shop windows.
There were pearls for every taste and budget. Lilith went from window to window, from counter to counter. She wanted to buy everything, a pearl necklace, strands of pearls, huge pearls on a black cord, but she did not know where to choose. Lita wanted to buy everything! However, she knew that this was impossible.
Promising herself that she would stop by this wonderful shop every day while she was in Beidaihe, she stopped at a magnificent piece of pearl. She liked what she saw in front of her so much that her hands reached for the purse by themselves.
However, it was necessary to get more pleasure from the purchase. The bargaining has begun. It was a whole show. The seller asked for 200 yuan for pearls. Lolita understood that the string of pearls she saw in front of her was not worth that kind of money. The woman bargained frantically.
The pearl seller was indignant, raised his eyes to the sky, explained something in his Chinese, but Lilith was inexorable. She dropped the price to 50 yuan and the seller was forced to sell the pearls to her.
The seller was happy to participate in the performance, which had a long title: "If you do not want to sell me pearls for my price, then I will leave now!"
Lilith several times pretended to really leave, and the seller returned her. Finally, the auction was over. The seller laughed and put the pearls in a small morocco bag. Lilith smiled at the salesperson and left.
It was three in the afternoon and it was getting very hot. Sitting on a bench under a tree, Lilith decided to rest. However, she was immediately surrounded by street sellers of pearls. There were three women, and each had a huge number of beads made of pearls, coral and some other stones. Women persistently offered their goods to Lilith. Lilith fought them off as best she could. Finally, to keep women away from her, she bought a string of beads for only ten yuan.
However, she got excited. From all sides, pearl sellers began to run to Lola. They handed her their goods, and shook the beads right in front of her face! She had already been offered, for only five yuan, any two pearls. Lilith was scared. A long time ago, when she was little, and lived with her grandparents in one of the villages of Bessarabia, she was surrounded by gypsies in the same way and frightened her a lot.
However, now she was an adult, even too adult, a girl, and she knew how to protect herself. Lilith promised the women around her that she would call the police now. The Chinese women perfectly understood the threat of Lilith, and they were blown away like a wind.
Fumbling in her purse for the visiting card of the sanatorium, Lilith stopped a taxi and decided to leave as quickly as possible from sin.
Having rested a little in the hotel, Lilith decided to go to where everyone who was now in Beidaihe flocked in crowds.
I mean the sea.
In Lita's hometown, Vladivostok, the sea was visible from everywhere. However, there was nowhere to swim! The beaches where Lilith had swum as a child were now inaccessible.
The beaches where you could swim were far from home, and even near these beaches there were signs stating that swimming was prohibited.
And so it happened, in order to swim in the sea, Lilith had to travel many thousands of kilometers. There were several passages to the sea, that is, descents. Moreover, these passages were very different from each other. What was the reason, Lilith did not understand. There were policemen standing in front of the aisles. The passage through which Lilith walked was free. However, another passage, parallel to the first, through which Lit returned to the sanatorium, was packed with people.
Even the beaches were different. On one beach, where only the Chinese swam, there was nowhere for an apple to fall. On the other beach, where the Chinese and Russians swam, it was freer. The beaches were not fenced. And on both beaches, anyone could swim.
There were also government beaches - these beaches were fenced with a symbolic lattice and in the middle of an empty beach, near the booth, there was a guard in uniform.
Lilith took off her sandals and lowered her tired legs into the sea. The sea looked yellow and muddy, but warm and gentle.
Swimming was great!
Lilith would have sat in the sea until night, but she knew that excesses did not lead to anything good. It was five o'clock in the evening when Lilith decided it was time for her to return to her hotel room. However, first it was necessary to dry and sunbathe. The sun was warming not so fiercely, and Lilith, who only planned to dry off, dozed off a little.
The sand under the bedding was soft and hot, the sea roared monotonously, the Chinese and Russians laughed and talked. Lita woke up becauseabout someone touched her. A Chinaman, a pearl seller, leaned over her. He sat on his haunches and stared intently into Lita's face.
Lilith raised her face from the bedding and wanted to scare the Chinese with the police. By the way, there were a lot of police along the coast. Police cars were parked here, people in police uniforms walked along the shore, sat in cars, stood at the post.
Looking at the seller, Lilith decided that she would not frighten him. The seller was very old. When he offered Lety more beads, Lilith shook her head and waved her arms. Looking closely at the woman, the old man thought a little, and then took out a green box from the depths of his huge bag.
Opening the box, he winked at Lita. Lilith smiled, beginning to enjoy the performance. Opening the box, the Chinese stroked the woman's hand and showed her what was in the box.
There were rings in the box, there were two green jade rings. There were two recesses in the bowels of the casket. The rings lay snugly in these recesses and gleamed with green facets. Lilith carefully took one of the rings, it was the smallest one, and tried it on. The ring fit perfectly. It looked great on Lola's finger.
Lilith wanted to buy this ring, but the Chinaman shook his head. He showed the woman to the second ring. The second ring was identical to the first, but was several sizes larger and was clearly meant for a man.
Lilith pointed to the second ring and shook her head. Then the Chinese took the ring, which she liked so much, from Lilith's finger and put it back into the recess of the box. After that, he closed the box and wanted to throw it into the bowels of a huge, dimensionless bag.
Lola waved her hands. She liked the ring so much that she was ready to take the second ring she did not need and pay any price, of course, within reasonable limits. However, the old man had not even stuttered about money yet. Lilith decided that she would have to bargain hard now.
However, the old man surprised her. He pulled the rings out of the box again, took out a calculator and began to show the cost of the rings in numbers. Lilith tried to adjust the price, but the old man was surprisingly uncompromising. At least five minutes passed before Lilith finally realized the benefits of what the old man was offering.
From the numbers that Lal saw on the calculator, it followed that if Lilith bought two rings, she would pay five yuan, and if she bought one ring, a small one, she would pay ten yuan.
The old man talked a lot, accompanying his words with gestures. He pointed with his hands at Lilith's chest, at her lips, eyes, he put his hand to her heart. Finally Lilith laughed and nodded her head.
It was still very hot on the beach. It's hot to sit in the hot sun and haggle with an old man for a pair of cheap jade rings. Lita paid, took the rings out of the box, and wanted to leave. However, the old man took the rings from the dumbfounded woman, put them back in the box, closed the box and gave it to Lolita.
For the first time in the last few days, Lilith just didn't know how to act. On the one hand, she seemed to have made a bargain, but on the other hand, it was a little unpleasant for her that the old Chinese man behaved so freely with her. Moreover, rising from his knees, which crunched from long squatting, the old man took a stone from the sand and drew an interesting picture on the sand.
He drew two hearts, below each heart he added rings. Big ring and small ring. Then he connected the hearts with one line and enclosed the whole picture in a circle.
While Lilith, dumbfounded, examined the drawing, the seller left. Moreover, he left so quickly that Lita did not even understand in which direction his steps were headed. Next to Lilith, two Chinese were resting, swimming in the sea. The Chinese were asleep. There were also Russian vacationers on the beach, but their sun beds were quite far from Lilit.
And so it turned out that there was no one to ask about where the old pearl seller had gone.
Lilith opened the box again, or rather the casket. For some reason, she felt that the old seller of coastal pearls had deceived her. But the rings lay where the old man placed them. They shone in the rays of the evening, setting sun.
Lilith wanted to put a small ring on her finger, but for some reason changed her mind. She didn't want to separate the small ring from the big one. At least now, on the beach, she didn't feel like doing it.
Returning, as I said, Lilith along the aisle, where many Chinese were walking. It was crowded, someone went to the sea, and someone, on the contrary, returned. Everyone was talking at the same time, laughing, carrying air mattresses, boats, circles with them.
The passage quietly turned into a small market. Here they sold everything, everything that could be useful on the beach. And also the stalls were full of products made of pearls, corals and other colored and shiny stones. Lilith wanted to look at other jade rings. She was wondering if she was cheap. However, there was nothing like what the old man sold. Someone hit Lita in the face and shoulder with an inflatable mattress, which probably just recently lay in sea water and then dried on the sand. That, who touched Lali did not even notice it, and Lilith was left all dirty in the sand. Sand stuck to his sweaty face and sweat-drenched shoulders.
The sand was so sticky that Lita could not shake it off herself. Angered, she raised herself on tiptoe to see the offender, but he was probably already far away. The old Chinese saleswoman who saw the whole scene laughed. However, Lilith was not at all funny, and even very insulting. Good thing the hotel room had a shower and there were other clothes she could change into.
Lali returned to the sanatorium and, undressing, rushed into the shower. Coming out of the shower, she suddenly realized that she could not get dressed. She was alone in the room - it was great!
Carefully laying out her purchases, she admired them a little, that is, put the purchases on herself and, naked, but with pearls around her neck and a ring on her finger, turned around in front of the mirror, and then hid them in the safe.
Yes, yes, there was also a safe in the sanatorium room that Lety didn't like so much.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Waking up at five in the morning. There was no qigong master in the Olympic Park
Lilith was a blonde, but contrary to popular belief, she was not a fool. Loli was a smart, deep-thinking woman, and she was also a disciplined woman.
Valery's words that qigong masters gather in the Olympic Park, at the stadium at five in the morning, sounded like a guide to action for her, because Lilit remembered that she had come here not only to relax.
The woman was a little afraid that she would have to walk through the Chinese city at such an early hour, she had never got up so early in China, but Valery was the official guaranteeing her safety, and Lola believed him. Therefore, having walked around the evening city before going to bed, Lilith decided to complete all the activities for this evening and go to bed early.
Still, getting up at five in the morning is not a joke! Dinner at Lola turned out to be modest, she bought herself juice and a banana. Yes, she also bought two glasses. After filling the glasses with juice, she patiently pressed the buttons on the TV remote control until she found what she was looking for. There was a movie with Andy on TV.
Without taking her eyes off the screen, Lola opened the safe and took out the rings. Throwing the rings into glasses of juice, she saluted with the first and second glasses to her beloved Andy, who suffered and laughed on the TV screen.
Having finished her juice, Lali took out her ring from the bottom and put it on her finger without washing it from the remnants of the juice. She didn't drink the juice from Andy's glass. Taking the glass with her to the bathroom, she stood in front of the mirror and tilted the glass so that its contents spilled over her beautiful breasts.
Juice flowed down her chest, and Lali carefully looked at herself in the mirror. She needed not to miss the moment when there was not a drop of juice left at the bottom of the glass. She was afraid that Andy's ring would fall out of the wine glass and fall to the floor. However, the ring gently slid right onto Lola's chest.
Taking, in trembling fingers, the ring, which, as she was sure, would suit her beloved, Lilith carefully washed it from the juice, and put it back in the green box. From now on, the small ring will now always be on her finger, and the big one will wait in the casket.
Having completed this action with an erotic eating of a banana, Lolita, as she was, in sticky smudges from the juice, went to bed. As she fell asleep, she thought that she seemed to have understood the old pearl salesman correctly.
The room was cool and quiet, but it seemed to Lilith that the walls of the spacious room were trying to tell her something. But Lal heard only silence. Not a single sound came from outside. Rising from the bed, she went to the window and opened the sash.
The loud, almost deafening, singing of cicadas immediately reached the room. For several minutes Lilith sat on the windowsill, slightly touching the window pane with her naked breasts, the woman knew that she needed to sleep, but the events of today flashed before her eyes, not letting her calm down. The hot air of the street and the deafening concert of cicadas called her out, but Lal still overcame herself and closed the window.
It really was time for bed. There were still many days and nights ahead, which, as she hoped, she would spend with benefit and pleasure, and for this she just needed to rest.
As she drifted off to sleep, she saw a sly smile on the face of the old pearl seller and smiled at the old man in her dream.
Soft waves of sleep filled her whole being, and she fell asleep calmly and without dreams.
The next morning, Lilith woke up at four in the morning. She was afraid to sleep. However, if we consider the time of Lala's awakening according to the time of Vladivostok, then she woke up not very early. In Vladivostok it was now six o'clock in the morning. The difference between China time and Vladivostok time was two hours. In winter, Lilith got up at this time, because she had a lot to do before work.
Of course, Lali was not going to suddenly jump up and run now. She basked in the dusk of the emerging morning. Despite the time that Lilith saw on the clock, it was already light outside.
At ten minutes to five, Lilith left the gates of the sanatorium. A woman was walking along the street leading to the Olympicpark, and thought that her fears were in vain. There were people on the streets. Of course, there were not as many of them as during the day, but the streets were not deserted. It got brighter every minute.
When Lali entered the gates of the Olympic Park, it was already completely light. It was exactly five o'clock. The park was crowded. The Chinese are generally trembling about their health, and therefore outdoor activities, and all kinds of morning exercises are in their first place.
The stadium was full of people, and more and more arrived every minute. There were almost no singles like Lilith in the park. People worked in groups. It was probably more interesting that way. The paths of the stadium were filled with families, companies, there were old and young people. However, no one has done qigong gymnastics yet.
They walked along the paths of the stadium, ran, backed away like crayfish. Several elderly people in a secluded corner were launching some strange things on the ropes. The bright plastic cones were similar to our tops, only these tops were large and designed so that they could be launched using ropes.
Lilith was looked at from all sides. Probably, the appearance of a Russian woman, at such an early hour, at the Beidaihe stadium, was not typical. Lilith did not want to run along the stadium tracks with everyone else, she wanted to practice qigong, but her desire was still unfulfilled.
Stepping aside, Lal decided to wait and watch. One of the men, wearing gloves, walked along the track of the stadium on all four limbs. He looked like a child who crawled quickly, but this baby was still that crawler! He walked quickly in a direction known only to him, and most importantly, this type of movement did not at all surprise the people around him.
In general, as Lilith noted, the people in Beidaihe City and the Olympic Park Stadium in particular were very tolerant and loyal. Another character caught Lola's attention, the man was walking backwards, listening to some song in his headphones. Lilith got tired of standing idle, and she went for a walk along the paths of the park.
For three years, the park has not changed much, only a few statues have been added. Lilith walked along the paths of the park until six-thirty in the morning. From time to time she returned to the stadium to see if anyone was doing qigong, but every time she only sighed in disappointment.
At six thirty, once again, returning to the stands of the stadium, she finally saw what she wanted. A middle-aged man and woman were doing qigong exercises. Lilith watched the couple's smooth movements for a few minutes, and then joined the students.
It was a qigong gymnastics that Lilith knew, it was called: "Eight pieces of brocade." True, several movements were changed and modified, but Lily continued to do the movements she was used to. If there was an interpreter nearby, Lilith would definitely ask the man who was now working next to her why he makes the elements of the old charge in this way, and not in the way indicated in the ancient Chinese canons, but there was no interpreter nearby, and it was impossible to ask the man .
Finally, the charge was over. The man expressed admiration for Lilith by giving a thumbs up, then he and the woman got up and left. Lita did not learn anything new, moreover, she was left in confusion. She began to doubt that she was doing the usual exercises correctly.
After wandering a little more along the paths of the park, she returned to the stadium again, but no one else was doing qigong gymnastics. Breakfast at the sanatorium began at seven in the morning, and Lilith hurried back.
Breakfast was so-so, but Lali was not picky. There were few people in the restaurant. The type of breakfast, as in all hotels in China, was called "Buffet".
Having collected some food from different pots on a plate, Lilith sat down at a free table. Soon a Russian tourist from another group joined her. Raising her eyes and greeting the tourist, Lali was surprised.
The woman's large plate was filled to the brim with meat. There was so much meat that it barely fit on the plate. Lilith thought that the woman having breakfast with her, well done! Eating so much meat at one time - it was worth a lot!
By the way, but Lilith could not eat meat just like that, without anything. She needed a salad for meat, and all sorts of side dishes. Smiling at her neighbor on the table, Lali decided to get up and put some more salad on her plate, however, when she returned to the table again, it turned out that the woman sitting opposite had already emptied her plate.
Lilith admired even more!
However, what a neighbor well done! Eat so much meat in a short time! Smiling at Lilith, the woman rose from her seat. Lali thought that the woman had finished breakfast and was going to leave the restaurant, but she was wrong.
The neighbor picked up a mountain of meat on a plate even more than the first time, and returned to the table. Finally it dawned on Lilith that something was wrong here!
Looking around, the woman bent down and, secretly opening the bowels of the bag, emptied the plate of meat right into the bag. Loli laughed, the anxiety released her. She was worried about the health of her neighbor onagainst, because it was not normal to eat so much meat in one sitting, but now everything became clear.
The fact is that in restaurants that belonged to various hotels and inns in China, it is forbidden to take food with you, and it is also forbidden to spend food not rationally. That is, put on a plate more than you can eat and leave a lot of food on the plates.
In this restaurant, as well as in the restaurants that Lal had previously visited in different cities in China, there was a warning on the wall.
The warning said that failure to comply with points one and two, which I have already written about above, entails a fine of one thousand yuan.
Lolita did not know how things were with buffets in hotels in Europe. She also did not know if the sanctions, which I have already written about above, apply to the Chinese, who also had breakfast in this restaurant, she only knew that if the restaurant staff would have caught a neighbor at the table for illegal, from the point of view of the owner of the restaurant, action, it would not have seemed enough to her.
However, of course, Lilith was not going to tell anyone about what she saw. On the contrary, she was having fun! She adored every element of defiance.
Lilith also understood that situations are different. It could well be that the woman sitting opposite ran out of money, and she simply would not have anything to dine on. Lilith got into various troubles, traveling through the cities of China, and was now full of sympathy for her tablemate.
However, after a few seconds, Lilith found out that she was not far from the truth. The woman sitting opposite muttered that she was leaving today. The meat, as Lala realized, the woman hid in a bag so that she would have something to dine on the train.
Rising from the table, Lal once again smiled encouragingly at her neighbor and went to her fifth, which was actually the fourth floor, and decided to hang her outfits in the closet. Yesterday she had neither the time nor the inclination to do so, and so her clothes were strewn all over the room.
However, Lilith did not have time to bring her plan to the middle, as there was a knock on the door. Lilith guessed who was standing outside the door now, but she decided to check anyway. So it is, Valery was standing outside the door.
Smiling encouragingly at the young man, Lali stood aside and let Valera through the door of the room. Valery acted according to plan, today he needed to make sure that the Russian tourist was doing well, firstly, and secondly, Valera needed to earn some money by introducing Lita to the sacrament of massage.
Lilith didn't mind, she planned to do some massages herself, but she didn't think that she would have to deal with this issue so quickly, that is, today. However, Valery said that the sooner Lola decides to visit the medical center and the more massage sessions she arranges, the greater the discount will be.
So far, everything was fine with Lali's money, and she did not worry about discounts, but Valera was unusually persistent. After a while, Lal realized that in the case of this young man, she had better relax and try to enjoy what was happening. Resistance was useless!
The Open Hotel was close by. It took no more than five or seven minutes to walk. However, it was getting hot outside, and Lolita was covered in sweat, trying to fit in with the step that Valery was walking.
The medical center was cool and solemn. The patients, sitting along the walls, sipping green tea, spoke in whispers for some reason. There were only Russian patients here. Lali smiled when she saw Gennady and Lyudmila.
Life is getting better every minute! Valery passed Lilith from hand to hand to the escort, and the woman was taken to the doctor. One doctor held Lita by the wrist and listened to the pulse, the other translated the words of the first doctor and swindled Lolita for money.
Lilith rejoiced, it was not yet noon, and she already had the opportunity to bargain! As you know, Lola adored these performances!
However, the guys at the medical center were cunning, and it was hard to bargain with them. Both doctors were filled with a nightingale in two voices. If Lilith had listened to men, then she would have had to leave all her money in this medical center.
The woman refused the procedures with acupuncture and banks, and agreed only to massage. The doctor clicked his tongue displeasedly, he didn’t manage to earn much on Lilith today, but, however, he very soon realized that you couldn’t break through Lola with signs of disapproval.
Lilith paid for the treatment, and immediately went to the massage room, to the man who was supposed to be her personal massage therapist for the next five days. The massage couch had a hole for the face.
Lying on her stomach and breathing exclusively into this hole, Lilith could not see what was happening around, but apparently a lot of interesting things were happening! However, as soon as Lola raised her head, the vigilant masseur immediately reacted and laid the head of the naughty client in place. There were several other women lying around on couches.
The masseur Lilit looked like a parodist Momenko, he was just as smiling. However, he was shorter in stature, and the article was thinner, and so, just one to one.
On that first day, Lilith thought that stroking her palmand, pinching naked breasts was part of a harmonious massage system, and only by the third massage session did she realize that the poor massage therapist had not escaped her charms and was trying to express his sympathy in this way.
By the way, Lilith was very annoying that she had to get naked so that the massage therapist could give a full massage. However, raising her head again, Lola saw that all the women around were in the same position.
The masseur's name was Zhenya.
The administrator of the center, her name was Angela, entered the massage room with a specific purpose. She needed to try to swindle those clients whom the doctors could not persuade for money. In pure Russian, only distorting some words, Angela started a song.
In her performance, this song sounded like this: “Our specialist, having examined you, came to the conclusion that you have a serious illness. And you have inflammation that will be difficult to treat! And therefore…"
Here followed a listing of those, and, by the way, very expensive procedures that it would be desirable for a sufferer who applied to a medical center to undergo.
When Angela addressed Lola with a fiery speech, with the ultimate goal of emptying Lilith's purse, Lola was forced to respond by sending words of refusal into the couch hole. And therefore, apparently, she was not very convincing, because when Lilith came for a massage on the second day, Angela again approached the Russian patient with her suggestions. However, this time, Lilith raised her head from the hole in the couch, and apparently the face of the Russian woman was so eloquent that Angela did not bother her anymore with her suggestions.
However, the same could not be said about Angela's relationships with other clients. Even without changing the text, she monotonously persuaded sick women, and sometimes she still achieved something. A woman from Yakutia, soft and delicate, could not refuse a persistent Chinese woman, but only complained that when she came here to the resort, she left all the money here, in the medical center, and she didn’t even have money left for her grandchildren for gifts.
But back to the day when Lilith lay on the couch and thought that an hour - a massage - is still a lot. The massage was not simple, but acupressure, and it was very painful. Lola could not help crying out in pain, and the cheerful, silly masseur mimicked Lilith, repeating Lilith's cries with a silly intonation. Finally, Lola got tired of this, and she sternly asked the masseur to stop mimicking. Surprisingly, the massage therapist understood her. On this day he no longer mimicked Lilith, which cannot be said about the next four days.
And now there will be an off-topic digression, but, however, maybe I'm wrong, what I'll tell you just smoothly integrates into the topic of massage.
Before leaving for the resort, in an hour of particular melancholy, Lilith sat in front of her laptop and flipped through the sites where Andy's films were posted. There were many films, there were films where Andy starred, there were films where Andy acted as a producer, and there were films where the favorite actor starred in episodes.
True, it was not immediately clear to which category the film belongs. The Chinese were so confused. I mean translations of Chinese films into Russian.
The film that Lola was going to see was called: "Golden Hen". Yes, I agree, the title was far from poetic. The theme of the film was even further away from poetry. The film was a comedy.
In short, the film was about this: a woman who moonlighted as a representative of the most ancient profession went to the bank to withdraw her unfortunate $ 99 from the card. The ATM was in the bank annex.
And just as she wanted to perform this simple operation, a robber ran up to her. As a result of the awkward movements of the robber, it turned out that the ATM and the extension to the bank were blocked.
And the prostitute offered the robber to get one dollar out of his pocket. At that moment, when the blocking would be lifted, and the ATM would start working again, the robber, with the help of a prostitute, would withdraw 99 dollars from the woman’s card, and then add another one, his dollar, and he would have a serious amount of whole money in his hands. 100 dollars!
And then the prostitute began to tell, to the twitchy and tortured robber, stories from her life. The man tried to cover his ears and not listen, but she kept telling and telling. And among these stories, there was a story where Lilith's pet, Andy, fit in smoothly, and also, in this episode, there was a theme of massage.
It was like this: at that time, a prostitute worked as a masseuse. When she entered the room to get a massage, a man was lying on the couch with his head in the hole. Something prompted the masseuse to the idea that in the room there was not just a man, but a Man who was adored by ninety percent of women in China, that is, Andy.
In this film, Andy played himself.
At first, the masseuse tried to understand if she was mistaken, but the client did not want to raise her head so that she could give herself a definite answer. Then, without thinking twice, she crawled under the couch and nevertheless established the truth. Now she knew who was on the massage table. Face in a holebelonged to Andy.
Then she set out to determine the size of Andy's manhood, then she reacted violently to the fact that he really was Andy in her massage parlor.
The man had to get up and press his finger to his lips to calm the exalted lady.
The episode changed, the prostitute was telling something emotionally to the robber in Chinese, and then the film smoothly rolled over to episodes where Andy was no longer playing, and Lola turned off the laptop.
But back to the massage parlor at the medical center at the Open Hotel and Lilith, who was in pain and cursed herself for agreeing to a massage.
The massage hour was long. In order to somehow entertain herself, Lilith remembered episodes from the film and the ill-fated hole in the couch. Lola's face lay in the same hole now.
Remembering Andy's expression, at the moment when he found the masseuse sitting under the couch, Lolita giggled softly, while the masseur took Lola's chuckle personally and slapped her soft spot.
This ended the massage session. Another masseur entered the room with his client, and Zhenya became surprisingly serious and prim. Exasperated and completely stupefied, Lola went out into the corridor and did not immediately realize where she needed to go. The masseur gently nudged her in the right direction.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
Yuelao is a moon elder. A woman whose face Lilith never saw, a moon elder and jade rings.
After the massage, Lilit decided to rest, but returning to her room, she saw that in the courtyard of the sanatorium, on a swing, the translator Valera was sitting and chatting with her compatriots. Lilith tried to be as inconspicuous as possible and slip into her room, but, as expected, nothing came of this idea. Valery saw Lita, smiled, and followed her.
Lolita reported that she had a massage. Moreover, she told Valery about how the beautiful Angela tried to impose services on her that Lita did not need. The woman thought that Valery would support Angela, but the man was just as outraged as Lilith.
There was a pause. Lilit, in order to somehow defuse the atmosphere, asked Valery to take her to a place where good and inexpensive green tea is sold. Valery perked up. I will say right away that the place where Valery brought Lilit was really a place where they sell good tea. However, this tea was not cheap.
The tea seller, his name was Oleg, talked for a long time about the properties of different varieties of tea and about the history of tea. The story turned out to be very interesting. The seller had a large amount of information, moreover, and this was important, Oleg spoke Russian well. Lilith, over the years of traveling through the cities of China, was present at many tea ceremonies. Very often, Lita was annoyed, she wanted to understand what the girl who conducts the tea ceremony was talking about, but she did not succeed. At best, she understood one word out of ten; at worst, she understood nothing at all. Now, it was a different matter. Listening to Oleg was just a pleasure.
Of course, Oleg was still that beetle, he tripled the price of tea. However, Lita understood that everything had to be paid for. A good story about tea, it is expensive. Of course, Lilith did not miss the opportunity to bargain. Finally, the treasured tea bag was in Lita's hands.
Lolita made another attempt to return to her room, and this time, thank God, Valera was not in the yard of the sanatorium. Probably his plan, to earn some money for the next hour, was carried out. Lilith entered the room, and the day rolled on its track.
During the day, Lilith again went to the sea and visited the palace of pearls. In the evening, when it was already dark outside, but it was still early to sleep, Lilith decided to watch the show, which was held in the Olympic Park. Colored fountains blinked and shimmered to the music. The spectacle was grandiose. Three years ago, when Lola came here, she had already seen this show, but one could watch this spectacle again and again.
It was incredibly beautiful!
The woman liked to be in the thick of the crowd. She liked being invisible in the human sea. This was one of the reasons why Lilith liked to go to China. Huge crowds of people, among whom was Lilith, excited the woman and gave the illusion of a holiday. If you explain your thought more clearly, then the explanation will sound something like this, Lilith felt like a unit and at the same time she was a lot.
The show did not last long, only 15 minutes. However, one could come and watch this show every evening. The music stopped, the jets of water fell, the lights went out. The show was over. The masses of people were in motion. The show was over, but Lita didn't want to sleep yet.
At home, in Vladivostok, it was still only ten o'clock in the evening. Returning from the Olympic Park, Lilith decided to go to some cafe. She found the cafe quickly, but did not go inside.
An impromptu dance floor was set up in front of the cafe. The Chinese woman brought a music center, and the patch in front of the cafe turned into a dance floor. Mostly women danced, but there was also a couple, a man and a woman.
Lilith sat down on a stone, warmed during the day by the sun, and began to look at people who were resting after a hard day's work. They were probably residents of the surrounding houses. Judging by the way the women communicated with each other, they knew each other well. Then a girl approached the dancers. It was already completely dark, and therefore Lilith did not immediately make out the strange outfit in which the girl was dressed. The girl did not dance, but actively communicated with the dancers. Looking closer, Lilith finally realized what surprised her in the guise of a girl. The girl was dressed in a gray monastic cassock, and shaved bald.
The evening was warm, people were smiling, relaxed and good-natured. Lilith felt at home. Nothing worried her. She just enjoyed herself. Finally, after an hour had passed, she decided it was time to head back to her room. She didn't want to drink coffee.
On the way to the sanatorium, she went to a supermarket and bought herself Doshirak noodles. Well, she didn’t have a desire to dine in a cafe or restaurant today. While brewing noodles, she heard inside herself, as if in reality, the angry cry of her friend Olga. If her friend were with her now, she would definitely make Lilith put on the most beautiful, irresistible outfits and take Lola to a restaurant. However, Olga was not around now, and Lilit decided to have a modest dinner - Doshirak noodles.
The noodle was very spicy. Lolita decided to throw away these noodles and go buy other food, but suddenly she felt the blood rush to her face, and then her hands and feet became warm. After that, the ears caught fire. And finally, the wave of heat reached the main place. A small area of the abdomen, where the point responsible for sexual desire was located, absorbed a wave of heat that passed through the whole body, and Lilith suddenly felt such a brutal sexual hunger that it was time to go outside to look for a man for the night.
“Wow, I ate noodles,” Lilith thought cheerfully, “I need to take a couple as a gift to Olga.”
Lolita understood that, of course, noodles are not the trigger for her sexual desires. Quite recently, in Vladivostok, something similar happened to Lilith, even then she called Viktor Alekseevich on the phone and stunned the man.
Lilith still decided to finish her noodles, but she became so hot and languid that she decided to turn on the air conditioner at full power. Soon the hotel room was arctic cold, but Lilith was still hot. She lacked action, she lacked music, people, she lacked the admiring glances of men. The woman decided to make up for it all.
After dressing, she went outside again. The city was not going to sleep. The streets were full of people. Music was heard from everywhere, the windows of cafes and restaurants sparkled, advertising shimmered and called to enter. However, Lilith was already full. Her stomach was full, but now she was tormented by another hunger - sexual.
Lilith decided to submit to her feet. That is, go where her feet will carry her. Her feet brought her to the beach. But, despite the fact that it was already dark, the beach was full of people. People were swimming, laughter and loud conversations were heard. Right in the dress, only throwing off her sandals and taking them in her hands, Lilith entered the water. The water reached the ankles, and then the knees. Lilith stopped.
She hoped that the water would put out the heat that was now raging in her body. However, the water was warm, almost hot, and not suitable for putting out fires. Lola entered the water even deeper. The water reached the waist. The dress was wet and probably hopelessly ruined. However, this circumstance worried Lita now the least.
Returning to the shore, she threw her sandals on the sand and again went into the water. Lilith swam and realized that with each stroke she pushed her desire further and further away. When Lilith returned to the shore, she had almost calmed down.
However, the nature of the woman was so contradictory that she suddenly felt sorry for her quenched desire. Lilith walked along the seashore for about half an hour, and then returned to the hotel room.
The plastic tray with Doshirak still stood on the table. The noodles got cold, but Lilith suddenly wanted to feel desire again, but this time she did not succeed. In front of her on the table was just bitter and cold noodles. Throwing away the noodle tray, Lilith took off her wet dress and left it on the floor.
The shower washed her from the salt, the pillow and the sheet gave her coolness and peace. Lilith fell asleep and had a dream.
Lolita dreamed of an old man from the beach. True, the old man's clothes were different, and his hair was longer, but it was just one to one. In a dream, the old man, or how invisible interlocutors addressed the old man, Elder Yuelao, was in a strange place.
The ground under the old man's feet was silvery, and the air was full of dust, also silvery. The dust hung thick as fog. Where the elder was, the dust thinned, but the rest of the creatures that were next to the elder were not clearly visible. Lola peered with all her might, trying to make out the objects that lay at the feet of the old man.
Then, when the fog parted for a second, Lilith saw two things. On the surface, full of silvery dust, lay two items: a bag and a book. At first glance, there was nothing special about the items. However, if you look closely, it becomesit is clear that the book, like the bag, is constantly changing. To the beat of someone's unknown breathing, the book and the bag either increased in size or decreased.
The old man called out to someone, an invisible interlocutor brought a huge hourglass and carefully placed it. Silver dust rose. The old man waited for a few seconds, probably, he needed the dust to fall completely, and then stared at the hourglass. It was felt that the old man took the problem of time very seriously. As soon as the last grain of sand fell, the old man picked up the book.
An invisible assistant placed a small table in front of the old man. The book that the old man placed on the table immediately increased in size. Everything is quiet. The breath of an invisible creature no longer controlled the size of the book. Opening the book, the old man looked around. Something was troubling him.
However, time passed. The hourglass was already turned upside down and made it impossible for the old man to sit still. The leaf of the book that the old man opened was blank. The wind picked up, throwing weightless grains into the air. The old man began to cough. Invisible hands drummed on the old man's back. The cough has stopped. The old man made a sound. Lilith thought they were words of gratitude. The wind stopped as suddenly as it started.
The elder turned his gaze back to the page of the book. Now the sheet was filled with signs. These signs only remotely resembled hieroglyphs. For several minutes the old man carefully read the text of the book. After that, he clapped his hands. An invisible hand placed a new object in the hands of the old man.
The item looked like a seal. The servant scooped up handfuls of silver dust and spread it evenly across the tabletop. As the dust settled in a thin layer, the table began to increase in size. When the book that was on the table began to seem no bigger than an insect, the old man finally began to act.
He applied the seal. When he took the seal away from the surface, he became visible imprint. The print showed a male face. The dust kicked up again, and a servant stopped in front of the old man. He submitted a second seal. The second impression showed the woman's face.
The old man nodded in satisfaction. After that, the surface around the old man took on its former appearance. The table was removed, the seals were hidden, and the book took its place at the old man's feet. The servant turned the clock again. After waiting for the allotted time, the elder cautiously clapped his hands.
The one who approached the old man this time did not resemble the silhouette that Lola had seen before. The figure was wearing a cloak around which silver dust swirled. The figure resembled a woman, but still, in the whole appearance of the elder's invisible helper, there was something wrong.
The woman, so as not to be confused, let's conditionally call the second figure a woman, leaned over and with difficulty picked up the second object lying on the silvery surface of the earth. The old man helped the woman. The fog suddenly parted, and Lali saw that it was indeed a bag.
Soon the sack took its place on the old man's lap. Judging by the difficulty with which the woman lifted the sack, it could be assumed that the sack was filled with stones or ingots of gold. However, when the old man opened the bag, Lali let out a surprised sigh.
The bag was full of red threads. The threads were laid out in pairs and fastened together. The elder took out two threads that lay closest to the surface, but something did not satisfy him, and he threw the threads back into the bag. The second pair of threads, the third, the old man took out and took out the threads, but what he was looking for was not in the bag. Or the elder just hasn't found what he was looking for yet.
Putting the threads back into the bag, the old man let out a growl. Silvery dust swirled, and shadows lined up in front of the old man. Lilith tried to count those who stood in front of the old man, but then she realized that this was a hopeless case. The shadows kept moving.
The old man made another sound. The shadows stopped moving randomly. The figure in the silvery cloak, obeying the sign of the old man, bent down and, picking up full handfuls of silvery dust, threw this dust in the direction of the shadowy figures. After a few minutes, the shadows gained volume.
They stopped moving randomly. Now the silver wind had no power over them. The elder turned the bag over, and the red threads fell right into the silvery dust. The figures rushed to help the old man. They sorted through the threads, but what the old man was looking for, nevertheless, was not among the threads. However, the fact that there were no necessary threads was immediately evident. Each pair of threads had its own shade. But the rainbow of shades was torn, the threads of a certain shade were missing.
Of course, all the threads were red, but the red color of the threads had its own, and only its own, shade. The hue of the threads varied from pale pink to purplish red. The old man hissed. He didn't need any more help. A silvery whirlwind swirled around the bag. After some time, the bag took on its original appearance.
However, the figures were in no hurry to turn into shadows again. On the contrary, they have gained even greater density. And the figures found voices. The dispute began. The elder grimaced, but did not interrupt the speakers. After listening to everyone, he summed up.
Then everyone sat down cross-legged. They made a circle. The old man stood in the middle of the circle, and sank down on the cards. His knees cracked like they did on the beach. Slamming the soft dust, he caused it to shoot up. Dust hung, creating a screen. The old man snapped his fingers. An image appeared on the screen. It grew in size.
Suddenly Lilith went cold, she recognized the thing that she saw now. On the screen was the same ceramic thing that Lolita knocked over. Remember the story with which I began my story about Lilith?
Well, remember!
That morning, Lola was greedy, bought too much goods in Chinese stores, was tired and did not notice what was under her feet. And under her feet were all sorts of small antiques that a strange seller sold right on the ground.
Lali then almost broke one of these things. She had to pay a lot of money, but she became the owner of a porcelain vase with a broken rim.
Now this vase was waiting for its owner in Vladivostok. Every morning, Lilith took pearl beads out of the vase, and every evening again, she put them in the vase. Now, on the dust screen, Lola saw this very vase. However, the vase that everyone present was staring at now was still intact. The surface of the vase was covered with hieroglyphs. The old man snapped his fingers again. The hieroglyphs separated from the surface of the vase and changed places. The figures applauded!
There was a noise. The elder looked triumphantly at his assistants and nodded with satisfaction. After that, the hieroglyphs again took their usual place on the ceramic surface of the vase. Then the old man passed his hand again and the dust screen crumbled. It became quiet. The old man looked at the figures, the figures turned to the old man.
The pause dragged on. Finally, the one who was now in the form of a woman coughed delicately. The old man nodded graciously. The woman went somewhere, and then returned. She was gone for quite some time. All this time there was silence. The woman returned and approached the old man.
Looking into his eyes, she made a clear sound, like a line from a song. The elder raised his hand to stroke the woman on the head, but she suddenly recoiled. After that, the old man looked at his hand and slowly lowered it.
The woman pulled a box from her sleeve. Putting the box on the ground, she blew. The box grew before our eyes. She was green. After waiting until the box reached the size of a small chest, the woman threw back the lid. The old man walked over to the chest and bent over its contents. Finally, he made a sound of surprise.
The figures crowded uncertainly around the chest. Someone wanted to get a thing from the chest, but the woman hissed a warning! The figures immediately recoiled. The old man hesitated, but also moved away. The woman leaned over the chest and began to throw out everything that was in it. Finally she lifted the chest over her head and knocked it over.
Two objects fell into the silver dust. Faster than lightning, the woman rushed to the objects. She was afraid not to find these items if they fell into the silver mist. After that, the woman went up to the old man and unclenched her fist. There were two rings in the fist. Two green jade rings.
The old man looked into the woman's eyes for a long time, and then nodded his head. The woman passed her hand over the chest. Soon the green box lay before her again. The woman kissed each of the rings with unusual tenderness and put them into the box. After that, she went back to the old man and gave the casket to him.
Tears ran down the woman's invisible face, leaving silvery trails. The old man took the casket and, having untied the sack of threads, carefully lowered the casket into it. Suddenly, the old man turned sharply and looked directly into Lola's eyes.
Lolita felt embarrassed, as if she saw something that was not intended for her. Blinking, she wiped her tears from nowhere. When she looked back at the old man, there was no one in front of her. Only the silvery rain drew unknown letters before her.
Waking up in the morning, Lilith could not come to her senses for a long time. The dream was so real, it seemed to the woman that she still felt the silvery dust particles that clogged her nose and throat. The woman thought for a long time about the red threads that lay in the bag of the moon old man.
“What is it, it turns out,” Lilith was indignant to herself, “that means there are no threads that are intended for me and my betrothed? How is it that threads are prepared for all lovers, but what about me? But what about the man who is meant for me and only me? What, now I have to live alone all my life?
Then Lali came up with another thought. She thought that probably the red threads were already once tied to her leg as well.
A few years ago, Lilith read a story similar to the one she saw in her dream today. This story told that if a man and a woman are meant for each other, then they will definitely meet.
Red threads that are tied to the ankles of a man and a woman, interconnected. No matter how far a man and a woman are from each other, the threads will surely connect them. Threads can stretch, tangle, but they will never break.
Of course, if we assume that Lilith and the one who was destined for her had already met once in propast lives, then it is clear why the old man did not find the thread in the bag. But then it is completely incomprehensible what significance jade rings have in this story, and, moreover, here is a vase that Lilith brought from the city of Hunchun. However, Lily soon got tired of thinking that did not lead to anything.
Stretching, Lilith stood up and opened the curtains. Today Lilith allowed herself to sleep a little longer. The clock was 6 o'clock in the morning. In Vladivostok it was 2 hours more.
It was time to go for a morning walk.
Lilith walked towards the center. The center of the Beidaihe resort was located exactly where the pearl palace was. Before going to bed, Lilith looked at the map of Beidaihe for a long time, but everything on the map was upside down, she got confused and again did not understand anything. Passing by the open gates of hotels and inns, Lilith saw that some guests were practicing qigong right in the yards, Lita wanted to join those who practice, but she did not dare.
It didn't take long, about ten minutes. When she got tired of walking past the houses, she went down to the sea. It was possible to walk along the seashore, which stretched in a winding continuous strip, and also go to the city center. Moving with a calm step towards the center, Lilith saw at least three people who were also doing qigong exercises on wooden platforms not far from the sea.
It was getting hot, Lilith regretted not taking her bathing suit with her. Now, in the morning, water procedures, which she would try to take right in the dress, would cause bewilderment in people. And the dress was a pity. Lilith did not take many beautiful clothes with her to throw them away after bathing in sea water.
Finally Lilith arrived. Next was the paid beach. Lily didn't feel sorry for the eight yuan, she was offended. The woman believed that all beaches should be open to those who wish. Of course, she kept her thoughts to herself and therefore went up the hill towards the Pearl Palace.
Suddenly, she went to the market, where they sold various fish products. Shells and fish lay right on the ground. Some of the shells were new to Lita, she had never seen them, although she was born by the sea.
Smells, noise, the sun, which began to warm - these impressions will forever remain in Lilith's memory.
Lilith walked and walked, the market turned out to be very long. She tried to turn aside, but ended up in some kind of slum. People lived here too, but these houses were very different from the pompously clean houses that were next to the Lilith sanatorium.
She came out unexpectedly to the palace of pearls. Lilith walked through the halls of the store, and, as always, did not know what to choose. Suddenly, she looked at her watch and thought that if she didn't hurry, she would be late for breakfast.
However, when Lilith entered the restaurant building, it turned out that there was nothing to eat. There was still half an hour before the restaurant closed, and the pots were almost empty. Coffee and tea also ended, there was only juice diluted with water to the chapel.
Lilith shrugged her shoulders, in her opinion it was a disgrace, but on the other hand she understood that she herself was to blame, she had to come early. However, Lolita never gave up.
She called the girl who was in charge of making sure the pots weren't empty and asked her to fix the situation. The girl smiled and soon some food was already on Lita's plate.
Returning to her room, Lilith considered how many days she had already been in China and panicked. The woman did not forget for a minute that she had come here for new knowledge. In addition, she hoped that here, in that place where everything was imbued with the energy of goodness and health, her abilities would return to her. People who practiced qigong met Lily at every turn this morning, but it is unlikely that any of these people would agree to teach her.
Lilith had to go to a qigong sanatorium. By the way, Valera appeared here, Lolita heard a knock on the door. Valera came inspired. He learned that one of the masseuses at the medical center was a qigong master. Lilith thanked Valera. She was pleased that the young man was so concerned about her problems.
After the pleased Valera received his portion of gratitude, Lilit asked the young man to take her to the Qigong sanatorium. The woman was even ready to get on a motorcycle. However, Valera carefully looked at the woman, whose face was full of determination, and said that the Qigong sanatorium can also be reached on foot. The journey there will take no more than twenty minutes.
Lilith looked at Valery with gratitude. This young man was very sensitive. He realized that Lita was desperately afraid to ride a motorcycle, but was trying to overcome her fear. Lilith asked Valery to wait for her downstairs for about ten minutes, after all, after the walk, she needed to put herself in order.
Valery said that Lita looked wonderful as it was, but the woman only smiled, shook her head, and pushed the interpreter out the door. The woman always wanted to surprise and amaze. She understood that Valery was already in the thrall of her charms, but she wanted the translator to be admired even more.
Having put herself in order, in half an hour Lilith was in the lobby of the sanatorium. HorseSure, it didn't take ten minutes, but that didn't bother anyone. Valery sat and animatedly proved something to someone on the phone.
The Qigong Sanatorium was indeed a twenty-minute walk, but since Lilith was wearing high-heeled sandals, they walked for about forty minutes. The Qigong sanatorium was indeed a place where people not only rest, but also receive treatment.
Unlike the sanatorium for excellent workers, here it was clear that the qigong sanatorium is really the place where people come to improve their health. The territory of the sanatorium was huge. The hulls were scattered among the trees. It was surprisingly easy to breathe on the territory, there were coniferous and fir trees around.
Valery did not know where the building where they do qigong exercises was, but Lita assured him that tomorrow she would definitely find this place herself. Now she asked Valery to show how she could go out to the sea from the sanatorium. Five minutes later Valery and Lilit were on the seashore.
Lolita was fascinated by the Qigong Sanatorium. She liked the atmosphere of the sanatorium, and, of course, it was important that the sanatorium was very close to the sea. Thanking Valery again, Lilit said that the young man probably still had a lot of work to do, and said goodbye to him. Valery's plans, of course, did not include such a quick parting with Lola, but he did not object. Valery sighed and then smiled, reminding Lilith to ask Angela to introduce her to a masseuse, a qigong master, and left.
But Lilith remained. This time, Lilith took her bathing suit with her. She quickly undressed and jumped into the water. Life was great! There were still many days of rest ahead, and now Lita knew where the Qigong Sanatorium was and could easily find it whenever she felt like it.
However, it was getting very hot. Lola was afraid of getting burned, she took care of her delicate skin. However, she wasn't always so smart. Some time ago, when she was visiting her daughter in Pattaya, she, just like today, reached the sea and the sun, and without any sun protection she spent some time at the sea. How it ended, you can guess. The skin from the body, burnt in the sun, crumbled in scales after a few days.
Therefore, now, as an exemplary girl, Lilith took sunscreen with her. She smeared cream on her arms and legs, but there were places on her body where she could not reach. I mean back. Looking around, she saw a persistent gaze.
A very young youth, of Slavic appearance, looked at her and smiled. The young man's smile was so pleasant that it seemed to Lita that she had once met this young man. However, rummaging through her memory, she did not find the appearance of this young man there. She did not know this young man, but was not averse to getting to know him.
Lilith smiled encouragingly, the young man approached her, she gave him sunblock, and soon she could no longer be afraid of the hot rays of the sun. The young man said that he saw Lilith last night, when Lita was taking a sea bath right in her dress. Then the young man was ashamed to approach her, her face was painfully concentrated, and now he was very glad to meet her. The young man's name was Oleg, and he also came from Vladivostok.
True, he arrived three days earlier than Lilith, and soon had to return back. And to be more precise, the way back was supposed to begin for him tomorrow. Oleg flew here by plane, and he had to return by plane. Lilith had a great first part of the day. Oleg was an attentive and witty gentleman. However, it soon turned out that Oleg did not come here alone.
The girl with whom Oleg flew here appeared two hours later. She was loaded with bags, breathing heavily and her face was red. Looking around Lilith, the girl took Oleg aside and said something unhappy to him. How the conversation ended, Lilith did not know, she went to swim.
When she returned, she saw that the young man and his girlfriend were gone. However, when she took a towel to dry her head, a note fell out of the towel. It was a phone. The phone number was written, apparently in a hurry, and at the bottom there was a signature: Oleg. Lilith smiled as she turned the note over in her hands, tore it into small pieces and tossed it into the wind.
Lita did not need other people's problems, she wanted peace and serenity. However, the beautiful eyes of the young man Oleg did not promise either one or the other. In addition, Lilith had a rule, she never entered into relationships with men who were married or almost married.
Suddenly it seemed to Leti that they were looking at her, but looking back, she saw that everyone was busy with their own business. The business with which all vacationers were busy on this seashore was very important - people rested. And what could be more important than rest after a year spent in labor?
It seemed to Lilith that ahead, beyond the bend of the shore, she saw the old man who sold her the rings. Lilith had a few questions for the old man, and therefore, she quickly threw things into her bag, pulled on her sandals and, bogged down in the sand, moved forward towards the place where she had imagined the old man from a dream.
However, when Lilith came to thatthere was no old man in the place where she had imagined a familiar silhouette. But Lilith saw something interesting. This piece of the seashore was the place where the shooting took place. Couples in love, in beautiful outfits, were photographed for wedding albums. Here, in Russia, newlyweds are photographed during the wedding process, and in China, they are photographed even before the newlyweds are married. Young people were not yet married, but the wedding album was prepared in advance. The girls were in beautiful dresses of various colors, the young men were in suits. The seashore seemed like a setting for some beautiful lyrical film.
The dresses that the girls were wearing were wedding dresses, but white was rare here. It was, after all, a pre-wedding shoot. Since it was very hot, a make-up artist was standing next to the photographer, he made sure that the faces of the bride and groom did not shine with sweat. It was especially hot for the grooms. The wedding suit and the midday heat didn't go well together.
The photographer's assistants held shiny squares in their hands, with these screens they protected the newlyweds from the sun at the time of shooting. There were decorations on the seashore. There were: a limousine, a swing, a boat that Assol was waiting for, a windmill, and much, much more.
Lilith thought that it was not in vain that she imagined the lunar elder. This piece of the seashore was the patrimony of the old man. Surely half of these newlyweds came here, because once the lunar elder tied red threads to their ankles.
After admiring the lovers, Lilith decided that it was time for her to have a bite to eat. Breakfast was poor, and at home, in Vladivostok, it was already lunchtime. Restaurants were everywhere. Choosing a restaurant at random, Lilith asked for a menu. The menu was in Russian, after ordering one of the dishes and tea, Lilit began to wait patiently for the ordered dishes to be brought.
For the first fifteen minutes she enjoyed the coolness and stillness. However, time passed, and the waiters ran past her. Probably, her dish was not considered a real order for the servants of this restaurant. A noisy group of Chinese sat next to Lilith. That's where the waiters ran endlessly.
The table, at which six people were sitting, was already so densely packed with dishes that it seemed that there was not a single piece of free space left on the table. However, the waiters carried and carried the dishes. Lilith was in no hurry, but she also wanted to eat. The company at the next table was talking animatedly about something. The company consisted of four men and two women. The men drank beer, talked loudly and spat at their feet. The women were silent, or else they shifted their eyes from one speaker to another. Lilith looked away, what was happening at the next table did not concern her. People rested as best they could.
But the fact that they did not carry the dish that she ordered, of course, concerned her in the first place. Finally, after half an hour had passed, she grabbed the sleeve of a waitress who ran past her and asked when they would bring her what she ordered. The waitress made round eyes and called the owner of the restaurant. Although, of course, this small room could not be called a restaurant. Lilit had already regretted ten times that she had not gone to a place where the Russian language was well understood, that is, to the Marina or Maxim restaurant, but there was nothing to do. Lilith decided to wait for her order.
Finally Lola, after a forty-minute wait, brought the order. The order consisted of dumplings and green tea. The teapot was very hot, and so Lola decided to pour tea into her cup in advance, so that by the time she finished the meal, the tea would have cooled down. However, the liquid that was poured into her mug was a transparent color. The mug was just boiled water. Lola thought that the tea had not yet steamed out, and looked into the bowels of the teapot. The kettle was just hot boiling water without any tea leaves. Deciding that this was some kind of misunderstanding, and it would soon be resolved, Lali began to eat calmly.
However, nothing has changed. After eating, she called the waitress. She explained to the girl, both in words and gestures, that she would like to get real tea, but they did not understand her. Calling the hostess, she explained the problem, but the hostess also did not understand anything. The waitress girl came up, took a cup with poured boiling water, which stood on Lola’s table and poured it into the sink, in return she poured a second portion of boiled water from the kettle into the same cup and again put this cup in front of Lola. At the same time, she looked at Lilith as a capricious lady who herself does not know what she wants.
Concluding that it was useless to fight, Lola decided to finish her lunch. But then it turned out that there were no napkins on the table. A new action of the comedy called: “We don’t understand you!”
There were napkins on the next table where the guests were sitting. Lilith went to the table and, leaning over the Chinese woman who was sitting at the table, tried to show the waitress what she needed. To do this, she had to touch a pack of napkins that lay in front of the Chinese woman. And then, finally, the woman who was sitting in the company raised her voice. Clutching the napkins to her, she began to scream something. Her voice was so sharp that I wanted to immediatelycover your ears. Lilith was almost knocked off the table by the ultrasound.
But the result was achieved, Lola was almost thrown in the face with a pile of napkins. The woman was fed up with the service in this restaurant above her head, and asked for a bill. The Chinese understood this request perfectly. Having refused to go where there are no signs in Russian, Lola went for a massage.
When she got to the medical center, she was already all wet and sweaty. However, the masseur Zhenya was already waiting for Lilith with a camera. He called Angela, hugged Lilith, and asked to take a photo. Lilith timidly objected, she tried to explain that she was not in the best shape right now. But Zhenya said that he liked the way Lola looks today, and the photo shoot was declared open.
Then there was a massage. The massage went off without a hitch. Zhenya pinched Lola so that the places of the pinches burned with fire. Finally, Lola got angry and lightly hit the massage therapist on the arm and pinched back. Zhenya immediately calmed down, and Lola regretted that she had not done this earlier.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
Everything is back! Lilith is persistent and gets her way. Sanatorium Qigong. Lesson with a Tai Chi Master - Qigong
At night, Lali had a dream. The dream was short, and in the morning she did not remember the details, but the sensation of a kiss on the lips remained, in a dream she hugged and kissed a black-haired man. The kisses were not hot and passionate. It was more like kisses of tenderness and bliss.
The man sighed and regretted that they could not stand like that and hug endlessly. Lilith remembered how sweetly her heart sank when she heard the words of the man. The man said that he would like to carry out some plans with Lola, but ...
Lilith smiled sadly. The reality that dominated Lola in life, pursued her in a dream. That word "but", that damned word "but"!
All her love affairs were broken like waves on rocks when the cursed word "but" entered her life.
She was not sure that the man she hugged and kissed in her dream was Andy, but she was sure that she loved and desired this man very much.
Lying in bed, Lilith tried to imagine what Andy was doing now. She thought about whether he was still asleep or already awake, she wondered if he was in Hong Kong now, or with a film crew sleeping somewhere far from home, in a hotel.
The clock was six o'clock in the morning. Lali estimated that the road would take her about half an hour, and, dressed like an avid athlete, she set off. On the website, Lilith read that the qigong master conducts classes from seven-thirty to eight-thirty in the morning.
However, Lola was still late for the start of classes. She did not immediately find the place where the classes were held. She was misled by several old men who practiced qigong on their own. For about five minutes, Lali sat motionless on a bench, watching the old people, but soon she realized that something was wrong here, and went to look for the place that she saw in the picture on the sanatorium website.
She did not search for long, no more than two minutes. Soon she discovered a round trampled platform on which a man was standing. People crowded around him. He said something and the people dispersed around the site. The site was located near the eighth building. On the body was written "National Medical Qigong Training Base."
Lilith realized that, finally, she got where she wanted to go. Trying not to disturb anyone, Lola stood next to one of those who carefully watched and repeated after the master of the movement. The session actually lasted an hour.
First, the master showed each movement separately, and explained something for a long time to those who came to practice, and then combined all the movements that he showed for an hour into one system.
Lilith has never dealt with this system. However, from the very first movements, she felt the energy that she had lost returned to her. First, the hands throbbed, and then the pulsation covered the whole body. Maybe it was because a lot of people gathered on the round platform, radiating and absorbing energy. Or maybe it was because the master himself possessed strong energy.
What was the impetus, Lilith did not know, but in principle, it was not important to her. Most importantly, the chi energy returned to Lilith and was now seething in her body.
The remaining few days Lilith spent in high spirits, in the morning she went to a sanatorium, she devoted lunch time to massage, and also bathed, walked and felt universal male admiration! What else does a woman need?
Lilith had several orders from relatives. Relatives from Moscow and Siberia asked me to buy medicines in a Chinese pharmacy. They even sent money. However, it turned out that some of the medicines that Lola bought in Hunchun were not available in Beidaihe pharmacies or were very expensive.
After going around several pharmacies, Lola abandoned this idea, and decided to buy everything she needed on the way back. She knew that she would be in Hunchun for almost a day. At least that's what it said on the ticket.
The last day before departure arrived. Lilith was tormented by ambivalent sensations. Of course, she already wanted to go home, and at the same time she could not believe that she would leave the chickens. Ort Beidaihe. Someone will live in her room, someone will practice qigong in the morning, someone will swim in the sea, and she, Lola, will leave.
By the way, the neighbor to Lilith was never hooked. Valery said that it was a gift from his travel company. Smiling, he added that the director of the company was very sorry about the incident that had happened and hoped that Lola was not very offended and would come more than once.
Lilith assured her that she was happy with everything. Indeed, she had no complaints against the Chinese travel agency, and even more so against Valery, who treated Lola as the most precious tourist.
And now the last day has come. The suitcase had been packed since the evening. In the morning, Lilith went to the Qigong Sanatorium for the last time. Having gone down to the sea after classes, Lolita did not bathe. She took off her shoes and, taking her shoes in her hand, wandered along the sea for a long time. Lolita hoped to meet the old man, but she understood that her desire was hardly feasible.
Returning to the sanatorium, Lilith turned on the TV and switched channels for a long time, trying to find a movie or concert with Andy's participation. However, today she was unlucky.
Having gathered, the woman decided to take another walk before leaving. She walked through the city, which became her home this week, and promised herself and the streets of the city that she would definitely return.
Returning to the room, she remembered that she had forgotten to walk along the noisy street that led to the sea. Before leaving, Lilith once again wanted to plunge into the midst of people. However, today Lilith was careful, she did not want to be soiled with sand again.
Returning back, Lolita saw Valery. This was a signal that her stay in the sanatorium for excellent workers was over. An hour and a half later, Lilit, Lyudmila and Gennady were at the station. The train arrived in half an hour. During this half an hour, Lilit wrote to Valery all her email addresses on Skype, WhatsApp and email. Valery wanted to come to Vladivostok in the fall. Lilith did not know why Valery needed her email addresses, but she wrote them with pleasure.
While waiting for the train, Lola remembered the last meeting with the masseuse Zoya. Zoya was a caller. Someone persuaded to visit the restaurant "Maxim" and "Marina", and Zoya went with advertising booklets and offered to visit a massage parlor.
This was not the salon in which Lali did massage, but she was happy to talk with Zoya when they met on the street, took booklets from her several times, in general, in a week, they became almost girlfriends. Before leaving, Lilith wanted to take a picture of Zoya, but the Chinese woman suddenly objected.
Zoya said that her face was completely ugly, she was too tanned. Lolita was surprised. In her opinion, the woman was quite pretty and even resembled some kind of actress. However, the Chinese have their own concept of beauty. Chinese women have whitening creams at a premium, during the day they walk under umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. All sorts of visors, hats, everything is used so that the skin does not tan.
And many Chinese women have cloth masks on their faces. However, I have already talked about masks. Andy and Carroll, in all photographs and videos, are sure to hide their faces behind masks. So, Europeans spend a lot of effort and money to look tanned, so that the skin is swarthy, while the Chinese make a sigh of envy white skin.
Valera promised that Lilit and Lyudmila would have lower shelves on the train. However, when the time came to board the train, Valery smiled uncertainly and said that, unfortunately, there were not enough lower shelves for everyone. Since Lyudmila was a very sick woman, she, as promised, received her lower shelf, but Gennady and Lolita again turned out to be the owners of tickets allowing passage to the second and third shelves. The road home differed from the road to Beidaihe only in that this time Lilith had to sleep not on the third, but on the second shelf. As they say, radish horseradish is not sweeter. The train was supposed to arrive in Yanji at 2 pm. The road back, of course, was different from the road to Beidaihe. Memories of the problems that awaited Lilith at home immediately flooded back. However, the woman reminded herself that she was now on a Chinese train and her journey was not yet over. This time, the compartment that the travelers occupied was filled with calm, normal people. However, the rest of the carriage stood on its ears. The car was filled with schoolchildren and students who were returning home from Beijing. The car in which Lilith rode was the only sleeping car on the train. The rest of the cars were seated. The whole long way, from Beijing to the destination station, people who did not have money for a reserved seat car, or simply did not have enough tickets, rode sitting. Lilith took out a book. However, this time she could not concentrate on the action that was taking place in the book. And so the evening lasted incredibly long. Finally she realized that she was reading the same page for the third time. When she realized this, she put the book down. Sitting in the side seat, she stared out the window and stared thoughtlessly at the landscape passing by her. When the lights were turned off throughout the car, she breathed a sigh of relief. You could go to sleep. Lilith was about to go to bed when she discovered thatsomething is wrong with her bed. The beds of Lyudmila and Gennady were made with fresh sheets, but on the shelf where Lilith was supposed to sleep, everything was crumpled and turned upside down. Lolita was confused, she did not understand what was happening. Looking again at the ticket, she found that it was indeed the shelf that was listed on the ticket. Having asked Lyudmila and Gennady to guard her things, Lali went to look for a guide. She found the conductor quickly, but she could not explain the problem to him. She led the guide to her shelf and pointed out to him the sheets, pillow and duvet cover, which were in a deplorable state. The conductor chirped something in response and got ready to leave. Lilith had a Chinese SIM card, she bought it on the very first day of her arrival in Beidaihe. I bought it just in case, after all, it was the first time Lilith was in a Chinese city without a Russian guide and group leader. Thank God, no troubles happened to her during her stay in Beidaihe, and she did not have to use a SIM card for emergency assistance. With the help of this SIM card, it was possible to call to Russia, and it was also possible to call Valera in case of emergency. Home, in Russia, Lilit called three times, to call Valery, there was no need, thank God. And now, there was just the very case when it was necessary to urgently call Valera. Hearing a familiar voice on the phone, Lilith identified the problem and handed the receiver to the conductor. The conversation was serious. The conductor spoke for at least three minutes, and then handed Lita the phone. Lali again brought the phone to her ear, but what she heard did not please her at all. Even more than that, what Valera told her left Lilith in shock. It turns out that the conductors do not change bed linen to the final station. After the passenger leaves, the conductor only smoothes the linen and covers the shelf with the same linen. The shelves of Lyudmila and Gennady managed to be put in order, but for some reason the guide did not reach Lilith's shelf. Valery understood how shocked Lilith would be when he learned this news and, therefore, he tried to convey the information to Lilith as quickly as possible and disconnected. Lilith remained with her mouth open. She tried to call Valery back and demand that the conductor make a fresh bed, but the subscriber was no longer available. Lilith didn't know what to do now! It was disgusting for her to sleep in a bed in which someone had recently lain before her. However, I still needed some rest. Lilit conveyed the information received from Valery to the Russian fellow travelers, and thought about it. Suddenly it dawned on her - she found a way out of the situation. Opening her suitcase, she took out some towels. She laid one towel on the sheet, covered herself with another towel.
However, she did not sleep. Despite the fact that the lights were out in the car, no one was sleeping around. The guys went to visit each other, music came from each compartment, played cards, ate, shared Coca-Cola and Sprite with each other. Loud laughter, rapid speech, trampling and bustle - these sounds were dominant in the sleeping car. Finally, however, the children calmed down, and silence reigned in the car.
It's time for the guides. Soon all the shoes in the car were lined up as if in a ruler, the floors were swept, and the curtains were closed.
Time passed, but Lilith still could not sleep. Suddenly, she remembered that the qigong energy was with her again now. Relaxing, she tried mentally to do the exercises that the master had taught her in the sanatorium. This time, Lita quickly got what she wanted - she fell asleep.
In the morning she lay in bed for a long time, trying to force herself to sleep a little more. The clock was 6 o'clock in the morning. For another hour she listened to music and tried to read a book while lying down.
After an hour, she realized that it was no longer possible to sleep in this car. The guys ran around the car, guests came to them from other cars. Three times in one hour a guide with a broom appeared. Children and teenagers threw scraps of garbage right at their feet. Time moved so slowly that it seemed to Lily that her watch had stopped.
Lyudmila and Gennady woke up. They were full of desire to communicate with Lilith and share their impressions of the holiday. However, Lali was not ready to communicate. In addition, the children in the car were talking so loudly, shouting and talking on the phone that it was simply impossible to talk. In order for the interlocutor to hear you, you had to raise your voice and strain to hear what they say to you in response. In general, it was absolutely impossible to talk normally in this carriage today. Lola even got a sore throat from exertion and coughed.
Finally Lyudmila and Gennady left Lilith alone. There was silence in the carriage compartment. The Russian passengers stopped talking. Since there was no other entertainment, except for looking out the window at the passing landscape, each of the passengers had fun as best they could. Lyudmila and Gennady stared out the window, while Lilith read. The day dragged on endlessly.
Finally, when there were about two hours left before arriving at the destination station, the train stopped. Lilith looked out the window. What's on the left, what's on the rightthere was a forest. Suddenly the loudspeaker came to life. The message was delivered so loudly that Lola just jumped on the spot. However, the information that was conveyed to the passengers was not clear to the woman. Unfortunately, Lali still hasn't learned Chinese. And there was no one to ask about what was reported over the speakerphone. In this carriage, except for three Russians, no one spoke the great and mighty Russian language.
Time passed, but the train did not move. Children and teenagers, who did not sit still during the whole journey, now generally went crazy. The whole car was in constant motion. The train stopped, but its passengers were in endless motion. They ran, climbed the shelves up and down, walked back and forth, threw plastic bottles at each other, food, talked loudly, laughed and rested heartily.
Lolita loved children, and loved to watch children in motion, but today she had a headache, and anxiety occupied all her thoughts, in general, today she was not up to contemplation.
Finally, when half an hour had passed, and the train was still standing still, Lilith realized that something had happened to the train. As soon as this brilliant idea came to her mind, she, the thought, immediately received confirmation.
A Chinese man walked along the car with a smart look, in his hand he had a hammer and some other tool unfamiliar to Lita. Behind the repairman, with an important air, were several officials. Five minutes later the repairman walked past Lilith in the opposite direction. Ten minutes later he walked past Lolita again. Each time more and more officials walked beside the repairman. When his escort reached ten people, Lyudmila and Gennady also reached the full horror of the situation. The trinity of Russians realized that something had happened to the train!
When Lilith got on the train, even then she noticed how old the train cars looked. Time passed, but nothing changed. When the repairman walked past Lilith for the sixth time, Lilith wanted to close her eyes and ears and be somewhere far, far away from here. However, this wish was not feasible.
She was here on the train. Left and right, the train was surrounded by forest. The train had been standing for two hours. The clock was 4 pm. If everything was normal, then the travelers would have already left the car at the station of the city of Yanji.
However, everything was bad. The woman suddenly madly wanted to go home, to her parents and son, but she wanted so much that Lita burst into tears. So that no one would see her tears, she climbed onto her shelf and turned her face to the wall. As the tears turned into sobs, the train jerked and moved on. Lilith wiped away her tears, praying to all the gods that the train would not break down again and that the travelers, albeit late, would still reach their destination - the station of the city of Yanji.
Suddenly a thought occurred to her, she decided to call Valery and find out why the train had been standing for so long. Thought, of course, came late, but Lilith immediately decided to put it into practice.
However, Lilith was disappointed. Valera could not answer Lali for the reason that there was no more money on the SIM card. But Valera promised that with the help of this SIM card it would be possible to call Russia many times, as much as fifty minutes! However, now it turned out that there was no more money on the SIM card.
Lilith was not particularly upset, the most important thing was that the train was moving in the direction she needed, and, it seemed, was no longer going to break down. It was still daylight when the train arrived at Yanji Station. Translator Daniel met the tourists and put them on the bus.
Lilith breathed a sigh of relief. She definitely had to go shopping in Hunchun and run to the pharmacy. The problem was that, unlike other Chinese cities, Hunchun's shops closed early. At five o'clock in the evening the state shops were already closed.
However, the bus that carried the tourists from Yanji City to Hunchun City took a strange route. After driving in a circle and picking up Chinese passengers, the bus again drove up to the railway station. Having collected more passengers, the bus turned into some lane. Here the driver got out and chatted about something with his compatriots for a long time. It took at least twenty minutes until, finally, the driver returned to the bus.
In general, travelers entered the city of Hunchun already at dusk. When the unfortunate travelers got off the bus, they were met by Misha. The leader of the group, Lyudmila, was not next to him. She did not bother to meet and escort tourists to the hotel.
Misha said that the tourists would be accommodated at the Jin Bai Li Hotel and rooms had already been prepared for them. Lilith was worried about only one question, what time should they leave tomorrow.
Misha at first mumbled something about the fact that the leader of the group Lyudmila should have told them all this, then he figured out something on the phone for a long time and, finally, reluctantly, he gave out information that the tourists should be at the bus station tomorrow at 11.30 in the morning. A bus will be waiting for them there, which will take them to Russia.
Leaving her suitcase in her room, Lolita walked out into the warm, night air of Hunchun. The woman felt as if she had returned home. Lily visited Hunchun City for the first time in 2008. After that she wasala in this city many, many times. One year turned out to be so fruitful that Lolita visited Hunchun four times.
The city was rebuilt and prettier before her eyes. When she came to Hunchun for the first time, almost all the signs on the shops were only in Chinese. Now in this city it was simply impossible to get lost. Not only were almost all signs in Russian, but now every street had a translation of the street name from Chinese into Russian, and these street name plates adorned every corner of the city.
But back to Lita, and the purchases she had to make urgently. There was a Chinese pharmacy not far from the hotel where Lilith was placed that night. The owner of this pharmacy is Rita, a Chinese woman who lived in Russia for some time. She spoke Russian well, and most importantly, she could quickly find medicine for those who came from Russia and felt unwell. Sometimes Russian tourists left the pharmacy with bags full of Chinese medicines. Often, Rita performed the work of not only a pharmacist, but also a doctor. It was enough to list what a person hurts, as Rita put several Chinese medicines on the counter.
There was even a forum on the Internet: "What to buy in a Chinese pharmacy." So, on this forum it was possible to find medicines that were in Rita's pharmacy, moreover, on the forum they could help with the translation of annotations to Chinese medicines. That is, in the city of Hunchun, many tourists came fully armed. The tourists knew what medicines they needed, and Rita was always ready to provide them with these medicines. And so Rita always had a lot, a lot of people in the pharmacy.
Often you had to wait your turn until Rita pays attention and can help. Lilith knew that at the dawn of the pharmacy, the leaders of tourist groups brought their tourists to this particular pharmacy. From this they had their share.
Now people are coming here on their own. Sometimes it was simply impossible to push through groups of people who wanted to buy Chinese medicines. And some medicines could not be found at all in other Chinese pharmacies, at the price offered by Rita. We are talking about the medicine Cordyceps, or rather, Cordyceps was not a medicine, but a dietary supplement. So, in Beidaihe pharmacies, Cordyceps cost 120 yuan, in a pharmacy from Rita, Lilit bought Cordyceps for 30 yuan.
Moreover, Rita gave gifts to regular customers, and those who bought medicines for large sums. It was to this pharmacy that Lola ran now, hoping to have time to buy everything that was ordered to her. Despite the fact that it was already dark outside, and the clock was late, the pharmacy was working and was not going to close in the next hour. After the purchase of drugs was over, Lola decided to look for stores that had not yet closed. Then she remembered that she had not had dinner yet, then she popped into a store where all the goods were only two yuan, and then ...
In general, these "later" were many, so many that Lilith barely got to the bed. The woman fell asleep instantly and had a dream. The dream was so vivid that in the morning Lola could not forget it. Moreover, she could not forget this dream during the day. Even after the woman returned home, she remembered this dream in all its details for a long time.
Lolita slept uneasily. She dreamed all sorts of nonsense. Fragments of impressions from the rest in the city of Beidaihe were spinning in her head. Probably also dreams, that's why she had such chaotic dreams. At two forty-five minutes she awoke and sat up in bed. Lilith didn't know where she was.
She got used to her room in the sanatorium for excellent students of labor, and initially thought that she was there. However, Jin Bai Li's hotel room was not like the one she had spent a week in. At least ten minutes passed until, finally, Lilith remembered that she was already in the city of Hunchun, and tomorrow her way home was waiting for her.
Finally, at exactly three in the morning, sleep covered her face with its transparent gas blanket. This dream was ordered, logical and very sad. Lolita saw the bride. True, the dress that was put on her was red, not white.
Lilith saw what was happening, but did not hear. Several times she wanted to turn up the volume, her hands fumbling around the bedspread for the TV remote. It seemed to the woman that she was watching a movie, but for some reason the movie was silent. The picture was perfect, but the sound let us down. Desperate to achieve a clear sound, Lilith resigned herself, she decided to watch the film in the quality in which the filmmakers offered her.
Sitting comfortably in her sleep, she was surprised to see how the girl in anger tore off her red dress. A fuss began, the girl sobbed, the maids who were next to her sobbed, her mother sobbed, who ran in to the noise. The father, who was called by the servants, did not weep, but he was also very upset.
Mother and father kicked the servants out the door and tried to calm their daughter down. The daughter explained something to her parents for a long time, through tears. Lilith saw her father's face distort. He shook his head. However, the mother unexpectedly sided with her daughter. Against the femaleduet father was powerless. Losing his head from his daughter's tears, he nodded his head.
A dressmaker appeared in the room. She carefully picked up the bride's red wedding dress from the floor, looked at it from all sides and sighed with satisfaction. The dress was complete. In that case, thought Lilith, why is the dressmaker here? The red wedding dress is lying on the bride's bed, and there is no damage on it. It's time for the dressmaker to leave!"
However, the dressmaker walked around the dress a few times and shook her head ruefully. The door opened and the bride entered the room, but the expression on the girl's face was not festive at all. Her eyes were swollen and her nose was red. It was evident that the girl was crying for a long time.
The dressmaker approached the girl and stroked her head. She said something to the bride, who sadly nodded her head. The fitting has begun. Lilith did not understand something, but she understood that there would be no translation of the action that passes before her eyes. And she will have to guess everything herself. After the fitting was completed, the bride left the room, and the dressmaker took out a white fabric and started sewing.
She sewed very quickly, three times during the day the bride came to the room to fit and try on the dress. It was evident that the dressmaker was in a hurry. Several times a day, the mother of the bride came in, curious servants peeped through the crack of the door. When evening came, the girl was invited for a preliminary fitting.
And at that moment, Lilith stopped understanding what was happening. The white dress that the dressmaker sewed all day was worn by the bride, but that was not all. After the dressmaker looked at the bride from all sides, she carefully put the red dress on the bride. That is, a red dress was also worn over a white dress.
The fitting went on for a long time. The bride refused to look at herself in the mirror. Finally the dressmaker despaired. She said something to the maid who ran up, and soon the mother of the bride appeared in the room. The exhortation, tears and stroking on the head began again.
At least two hours passed when, at last, the frustrated mother and daughter came to an agreement. The red dress was removed, and all further manipulations were done against the background of the white dress.
The servants brought a chest of jewelry, after the jewelry was chosen, they called a woman who prepared the bride's hair for about three hours. The wedding ceremony was supposed to take place tomorrow, but the hairstyle should have been ready today.
The hairstyle was so complicated that tomorrow there would simply not be enough time to build it. It was already late at night when the hairstyle was ready.
The white dress was also finished. It lay on the bed next to the red dress. White in China is the color of mourning, red is the color of life and love, and Lola could not understand why two dresses were prepared for the bride.
The large chest of jewelry had long since been taken out of the room. There was a small casket on the table, where they put the jewels that the bride had selected for tomorrow's ceremony. Finally, the strangers left the bride's room.
It was deep night, but the girl did not sleep. She walked around the room and ironed her favorite things. The girl said goodbye to her room. The bride knew that she would never again stay in this room for the night. The house and the room in which she spent her whole little life will become strangers to her from tomorrow.
Another house and another room are waiting for her. Strangers will surround her from tomorrow. The alien woman and man will now be called her father and mother.
The girl went to the chest, which stood in the corner of the room. Opening the chest, she took out the books. The bride took out the books and stroked them lovingly. The girl knew that the new family would have its own rules, they believe that the lot of a woman is only children and household. Books in this family can only be read by men.
Taking out the books, she took out what lay at the very bottom of the chest. Unrolling the scroll, she looked for a long time at what was depicted on the scroll. Lilith tensed, she also wanted to see what the bride was looking at with such love. However, she didn't succeed. Lilith tensed even more, and suddenly her efforts bore fruit. Lilith heard a click.
Something happened.
The image on the scroll appeared before Lilith's eyes in all its glory. However, the scroll suddenly ceased to interest Lilith. She was overwhelmed by the smells, sounds, and sensations that suddenly flooded over her at once. From the abundance of all this, she suddenly felt dizzy. But when Lilith brought her fingers to her temple, she felt not her hair, but the cold of metal. Her fingers stumbled across one of the hair ornaments. More recently, Lilith saw how this decoration was stuck into the bride's hair. And now the decoration was on Lilith's head.
Raising her eyes, Lilith was stunned! A strange girl was reflected in the mirror, which stood on the floor directly in front of her. Lolita raised her hand, and the girl in the mirror also raised her hand. Unlike all other dreams, Lilith never for a moment forgot who she was. She had reincarnated as women from different eras three times already, and this experience told her that the girl she sawt in the mirror, and there is the same bride she has been watching for several hours.
Lilith had a choice. She could watch the action from the sidelines. However, curiosity played a role. As soon as the woman wanted to consider what was depicted on the scroll, her will brought into action unknown forces. Of course, Lilith did not count on such a shocking result, she only wanted to look at the image, but now nothing could be changed.
Calming down, Lilith finally turned her eyes to the image. The drawing was drawn carelessly. Apparently the one who painted was in a hurry. However, the artist had great talent. The portrait was drawn so realistically that it seemed that the young man in the portrait would now smile and say something that had been on his tongue for a long time.
Lilith activated the hands of the bride. The girl in whose body she was now refused to understand what was happening. The girl's mind was clouded with grief, she didn't care whose will now controls her mind. The girl's mind was sick. The girl knew that she could not sleep, but she wanted to close her eyes and never wake up again.
But it was impossible to go to bed! Lilith looked into the mirror again.
Yes, the hairstyle that was built on the girl's head was a real work of art. She counted about 30 pieces of jewelry for her hair, and there were also pendants and clips for a red veil that would cover the face of a young bride. You can't sleep with this hairstyle.
Lilith is tired of standing. Quickly calculating her options, she sat down straight on the floor, her back against the bed. She did this so as not to ruin her hair, She still had a drawing in her hands. The young man from the picture smiled slyly and extended his hand in the direction of the mountains, which were visible in the distance. The artist caught the moment when the young man stretched his lips to utter some words. In general, as I said, the drawing was very realistic.
Lilith smiled sadly to herself. Well, how, of course, it could not be otherwise, the young man in the picture had the appearance of her precious Andy.
Then, suddenly, the voice of the bride burst into Lilith's thoughts, the girl jealously corrected Lilith. It turns out that the young man in the picture had a wonderful sonorous name. His name was Liang Shanbo. Immediately Lola learned the name of the girl. The bride's name was Zhu Yingtai.
Lilith remembered that she had already met these two names somewhere, and that was quite recently. However, Lola could not remember the details. The bride, tired during the day, fell asleep just like that, sitting. Glancing at the drawing, which the bride never let go of her hands, Lilith drew attention to the strange outfit in which the young man was dressed.
Lilith asked a question, the girl in whose body Lilith was now did not answer for a long time. Struggling with the approaching sleep, the girl tried to understand what the strange voice that had recently settled in her body was asking her about.
Finally focusing, she found the strength to answer. It turns out that the young man was wearing a uniform. It was the uniform of the school where Zhu Yingtai also studied.
Lita did not have time to find out anything else, she heard the alarm clock that was set on her mobile phone. Lilith opened her eyes. The phone display showed the time, it was six o'clock in the morning. While Lilith put herself in order, half an hour passed.
Yesterday she bought not all the medicines. There were no medicines at that moment in the pharmacy, and Rita promised that if Lilith came to the pharmacy in the morning, she would be able to buy the missing medicines. Lita dived into the mist of the coming morning. She forbade herself to think about what she saw in her dream.
The woman promised herself that she would still have time for this. She had a long and difficult journey home ahead of her, and then, she told herself, I would think about what I saw in a dream. Time ran at an insane speed. Lilith did not have time to look back, and the clock was already 8 o'clock in the morning.
Having run into the hotel, Lilith threw her purchases into her suitcase and went to have breakfast. It seemed to her that the minutes were running too fast. However, it was necessary to eat well, it was not known when Lita would have the opportunity to eat again. Most likely, food will be waiting for her only at home, in Vladivostok. But Lily was sorry to waste time on a long meal. In general, she ran out of the restaurant after 15 minutes.
Time flowed through her fingers, and Lita could not stop him. Hailing a taxi, she waved her hand in the direction of the city center. Lilith was called shops. Beidaihe shops were also full of goods, but the prices in the resort shops were very high.
The city center of Hunchun attracted the woman for another reason. Lilith wanted to look into the face of a street antique dealer. It seemed to her that in that dream where she saw the lunar elder, the face of this street vendor flashed several times. Now Lilith wanted to make sure that her dream was true. However, she was disappointed. Many shops in the city center were still closed, but this was not so bad, Lita was finally upset that the space next to the store was empty. The antiques dealer has not yet come to his workplace.
The woman trampled on the spot, alonewhen there was nothing to do, it was necessary to return back to the hotel or run to those few shops that had already opened. It was ten o'clock in the morning when the shopping trip was completed. Lilith again approached the place where the incident happened to her. But the antiques dealer never showed up.
Sighing sadly, Lilith went to hail a taxi. At 11.30 Lolita, Gennady, Lyudmila, and several other people from another tourist group were at the bus station. Misha, who accompanied the Russian tourists to the bus, commanded that the tourists could already go to board the bus.
Gennady and Lyudmila hesitated, while Lola picked up a heavy suitcase and carried it along. Approaching the bus, she looked around, Lyudmila and Gennady for some reason did not follow her. They stayed in the building of the bus station. Lita could clearly see from the street how they were waving their hands, explaining something to the interpreter Misha. Lilith was confused, she did not know what to do next.
Tourists from another group were already sitting on the bus, and Lilith got stuck on the stretch between the exit from the bus station and the bus. Looking again at Lyudmila and Gennady, she saw that her friends were waving their hands, urging her to return.
Clutching the handle of the suitcase, Lilith turned around and dragged the suitcase in the opposite direction. When she returned, she found out that it turned out that the trinity of Russian tourists from Lyudmila's group was not going anywhere. Misha very vaguely explained the reason. Actually, Misha spoke Russian quite well, but today, the mighty great Russian language, did not give him any. Muttering something unintelligible, Misha turned around and started to leave.
Lolita jumped up and down. This outcome was not to her liking. It was not clear what time they would leave Hunchun City and who would organize this departure for them.
Lita screamed, urging Misha to return. The interpreter reluctantly turned and looked inquiringly at the strange tourist. Lolita waved her hand dismissively. When Misha returned, she firmly said that the interpreter had no right to leave her here alone. Misha again began to mutter something incomprehensible. Gennady wedged himself into the conversation and said something conciliatory. Seeing that there was no unity in the camp of tourists, Misha smiled and turned again, intending to leave. Lilith was completely angry. She stood in front of Misha, preventing him from leaving.
The translator was completely at a loss. He did not expect such an attack from the blond beauty. At first glance, Lilith seemed to him just a blond fool. The situation was heating up. Misha did not want to explain anything, but Lilit wanted to go home. And her wish was legitimate!
The tourists from the group who came with Lolita to the bus station have already left. And three unlucky tourists remained at the bus station without any prospects for departure. Lolita did not let Misha leave. The young man started shouting at Lilith, he shouted that he was working for free, and also complained that he had not had a piece of food in his mouth since the very morning.
Lilith was a kind woman, she already wanted to let Misha go, imbued with pity for the hard fate of the Chinese young man, but suddenly she imagined how her mom and dad would feel if she didn’t return home today. So she overcame herself and showed firmness. It was so out of character for her that the woman even blushed.
Gennady again tried to break into the conversation, he tried to defuse the situation, but did not understand that this could not be done now. As soon as Misha felt weak, he would immediately try to sneak away. Therefore, Lola simply raised her hand in a gesture forbidding Gennady to speak. Fortunately, Gennady understood this gesture and did not continue his speech.
Ludmila found a way out. She suggested that Misha let the tourists talk to the group leader. Misha began to boil, emphasizing that cellular communications are expensive. Then Lilith, absolutely calmly, said that she would now leave the bus station, find the nearest policeman, and complain. This argument convinced Misha. He dialed Lyudmila's number on his cell phone and handed the phone to Lilit.
Head Lyudmila did not even think to apologize. She giggled and also spoke some nonsense. With great difficulty, Lali managed to get an answer. It turned out that Lyudmila was not going to drive up to the bus station at 11.30 in the morning. The bus, on which Lyudmila and the tourists were supposed to return home, was supposed to arrive at the gates of the bus station at 13 pm. That's it, simple and tasteful. To Lita's reasonable question why this information was not conveyed to tourists yesterday, Lyudmila again suffered a verbal blizzard.
Finally, Lita realized that Misha and Lyudmila simply did not care about tourists. When, finally, everything became clear, Lilith graciously allowed Misha to leave. It was 12 o'clock in the afternoon, before the appearance of the desired bus was still a whole hour.
Gennady and Lyudmila went for a walk around the bus station. Lily stayed. She needed to guard the things of Gennady and Lyudmila. In any case, she was simply not interested in walking around the bus station. She had left here ten times already and knew that there was nothing interesting in the bus station building.
Immersed in her thoughts, the woman did not notice how forty minutes had passed. She looked back, her friendzia tourists did not appear. Lilith was flustered. She knew that Lyudmila was a very sick woman. Lola was a person of action, but now she couldn't do anything. She couldn't leave things.
Finally, when another five minutes had passed, Gennady came, he was almost dragging Lyudmila on him. It turns out that Lily was not worried in vain. Walking around the bus station, Lyudmila decided to visit the ladies' room, in common parlance - the toilet. Gennady stayed outside. He waited a long time for his wife, but she never returned. Finally, a Chinese woman ran out of the toilet room, she called Gennady. When Gennady entered the toilet, he saw that Lyudmila was lying on the floor. The woman was conscious, but could not get up. One of her legs gave out and she fell. The excitement of the morning was not in vain for her.
Lilit did not know how to help Lyudmila. It turned out that the troubles began for older tourists back in Beidaihe.
The hotel in which the tourists lived was almost opposite the sanatorium where Lolita lived. This sanatorium, as you remember, was quite far from the sea. It took about ten minutes to get there. Lilith's legs covered this distance in five minutes. Gennady and Lyudmila needed twenty minutes to cover the same distance.
When Gennady and Lyudmila booked a ticket at a travel agency under the loud name "Travel Store", they were promised a swimming pool, which would be in the hotel courtyard, and a sauna. There was neither the first nor the second in the hotel, but there was a faulty sewage system and mosquitoes that annoyed older tourists day and night.
Lilith had a Fumitoks mosquito repellant in her sanatorium room. But, thank God, Lita did not have to use it - there were no mosquitoes in her room.
In the Rossiya Hotel, everything was the other way around - there were mosquitoes, but there was no Fumitoks device to fight them. Lyudmila was all bitten by mosquitoes. The rest, which turned out to be not at all heavenly, the hard journey by train and the unpleasant situation at the bus station - all this knocked Lyudmila down. Lyudmila was really bad!
When another Lyudmila, the head of the group, arrived at the station in a good mood, the situation did not improve. However, the head of the group did not take the suffering of tourists to heart. She only giggled that there had been a misunderstanding between Misha and her, Lyudmila.
However, she did something for the sick tourist. She put Lyudmila on a separate seat. Now the tourist Lyudmila had nothing to complain about. She rode the bus royally, occupied two whole seats with her body. The tourists said goodbye to the frivolous woman leader and the bus started moving.
The border crossing was very difficult and long. A line of buses lined up along the border. They crossed the Chinese border, as always, very quickly, problems arose during the passage of the Russian border. However, some buses did not stand in line. Buses of high-status travel agencies, without any ceremony, drove past the queue and drove up to the thorn that separates the Chinese border from the Russian one.
It was hot, hard, and still very hungry. Lilith wished she had taken the time to buy some food for the journey. However, it was not worth complaining about what did not happen.
Lilith looked at her watch - it was 14 o'clock. The head of a foreign tourist group, which was traveling on a bus with our unfortunate tourists, announced that tourists can already translate the hands on the clock to Russian time. Lilith did just that. It was now 4pm on the clock.
The day passed to the second middle, and the bus with tourists was still standing on a small stretch between the Chinese border and the Russian one. The crossing of the Russian border began only at 19:00.
At 20 pm, the bus, picking up speed more and more, dusted along the roads of his native Primorsky Territory. The journey to Vladivostok was supposed to be four hours. The next stopping point for a bite to eat was supposed to be in two hours. This stop was called the village of Barabash. At this point of rest there was a shop and a cafe, but it was still necessary to go and go to this place.
Lilit switched on the phone, thank God that after the settlement of Kraskino the phone was already working properly, and it was possible to call home freely. After reporting that the border crossing was over and she was on her way home, Lilith leaned back in her seat with relief.
Everything, now you could think about what you dreamed about at night. As soon as Lilith relaxed, the memory flashed brightly before her eyes. The woman closed her eyes. So it was easier to go, so it was easier to think and remember. Actually, to remember, Lilith, it was only necessary to remember one thing - names. She was strangely disturbed by two names: Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.
It seemed to Lali that she had already seen these two names somewhere. The feeling of something heavy, terrible, something connected with these names, did not let go of Lilith. But the more she strained to remember, the harder it was for her to focus on the memories. At some point, Lilith felt that she was falling asleep.
The bus bounced over bumps, the sun burned through the window glass, and Lola drifted off to sleep. Before finally falling asleep, she remembered that she had seen the names of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai Wodream while riding the train to Beidaihe. However, now the details of this episode stubbornly refused to return. However, after a few minutes this circumstance ceased to excite Lilith completely. Lilith was sleeping.
This time, as soon as Lali fell into a deeper sleep, she saw the girl in whose body she had been in a dream all last night. However, this time Lolita watched the dream again from the sidelines. She was in the same house and in the same room, only this time she looked younger. Zhu Yingtai in this dream was a teenager, almost a girl. Father and mother also looked younger.
Zhu Yingtai argued with her parents and asked them to let her go to study. From this dispute, Lilith learned that in those days when a girl lived, the lot of a woman was only housework. Only young men studied, girls did not need teaching. However, Zhu Yingtai was an inquisitive and inquisitive girl. The picture was also complemented by the fact that the girl whom Lola saw in a dream had eight brothers. Zhu Yingtai wanted to be as smart as her brothers.
When the girl grew up, she demanded that her parents send her to the same school where her brothers studied. At first, the parents were shocked by what their beloved daughter offered them. They tried to explain to her that only boys study at this school, there are no schools for girls. Zhu Yingtai was a beloved daughter, moreover, she was a spoiled daughter, but this does not mean that the girl was stupid.
Zhu Yingtai was a smart girl, and she came up with a plan. She told her parents that she would change into a young man. The parents were horrified again. And again, the daughter had to persuade her parents. Four of the girl's brothers had already graduated from school, two were already almost graduates, and two more had to study at school for at least three years. When the parents began to frighten their daughter that she would be completely alone at school, among boys and young men, many of whom were completely uneducated, and there would be no one to protect the girl, Zhu Yingtai replied that the brothers who study at this school would protect her. The parents did not give up immediately. There were many more arguments, tears, insults before the parents gave their final consent.
The girl chose suitable clothes from the wardrobe of her brothers, and every day she learned to walk the way boys walk. Finally, the parents gathered their sons, who were now at home, and the girl had to pass a kind of exam. However, the first time she did not succeed.
The brothers said that even in men's clothes, it can be seen from a mile away that the clothes are worn by a woman. A month has passed. The girl had already shown her achievements to the brothers several times, but the brothers were relentless - Zhu Yingtai, even in men's clothes, looked like a girl. The girl could have suspected the brothers of conspiring with her father if she did not know that her father remains crystal honest in any situation.
One day she rode away from home. Zhu Yingtai was annoyed with herself and the whole world. Having galloped to the forest, the girl saw a hobbled horse. The horse was peacefully nibbling grass, the owner of the horse was sleeping. The young man, or rather, almost a boy, slept right on the ground, not far from his horse. Hearing that someone had arrived, he woke up. Zhu Yingtai felt shy. However, then the girl remembered that she was now in men's clothes and therefore she was afraid of nothing.
Fortunately, the young man did not suspect anything. He smiled uncertainly and said that he had been on the road for two days. After talking, the girl learned that the young man's name was Liang Shanbo, and he was going to study at the same school where her brothers study. The boy and girl talked until the evening. It turns out they have a lot in common. They read the same books, liked the same food, they even shared a favorite color - red.
When it began to get dark, Zhu Yingtai came to her senses, if she did not return home soon, they would start looking for her. It was also time for Liang Shanbo to leave. However, young people suddenly felt such an attraction to each other that it was hard for them to part. Zhu Yingtai told Liang Shanbo that in a week she would also go to the same school the young man was going to now. Liang Shanbo was delighted, he was worried that he would be lonely at school, and was glad that now such a friendly boy would study with him. Having agreed on a meeting, the guys parted.
Now Zhu Yingtai knew who she needed to imitate so that the brothers would believe that she could imitate a boy. The object of imitation had just been before her eyes.
Besides, the girl now had a goal, even two goals. She wanted to study, and she really, really wanted to meet the handsome boy again. This time, the brothers were forced to agree, gritting their hearts - the sister passed the exam. Mother and father were forced to let go of their daughter.
However, when she set off on the road, four servants rode out with her. Arriving at the place, the girl sent the servants home. She knew that her father would be angry, but she was afraid that the servants would let slip that she was not a young man, but a girl, and therefore ordered to find her a servant right in the town where the school was. The old servant, pleased to be brought back to the estate, quickly found Zhu Yifind a suitable servant.
After the girl rested, she sent a new servant with her papers to the school. The servant soon returned and brought a note, the headmaster - it was a woman, graciously allowed Zhu Yingtai to join the rest of the students. When the girl sent a servant with documents, she indicated in a cover note that her four brothers were already studying at the school where she wanted to study.
The principal of the school ordered that the new student should share a room with one of the brothers. The brothers were not at all happy that their sister would now study with them. They were embarrassed that the sister now walks around in men's clothes. However, this was the decision of the father, and the brothers would never argue with the father.
The girl was lucky, she ended up in the class where Liang Shanbo studied. The young man was in seventh heaven when he found out that the friendly young man he met in the forest would indeed be in the same class as him.
The first month was the hardest. At home, the girl had her own room, and she studied one-on-one with teachers. And here she had to be in a class where there were a lot of boys. However, she soon got used to it, and did not see anything special in the fact that she was studying in a class where there was not a single girl but her.
The bathing days were the hardest. If not for her brothers, she would soon have to return home. However, thanks to the brothers, everything went smoothly. The brothers guarded their sister while she was washing, and only then did they start washing themselves.
The friendship between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai grew stronger by leaps and bounds. Liang Shanbo was glad that he had such a good and faithful friend, and Zhu Yingtai fell in love with Liang Shanbo with all her heart. One day, Liang Shanbo suggested that he and his new friend become sworn brothers. The young man had no brothers and sisters, and he envied Zhu Yingtai, who had many brothers. The girl enthusiastically accepted the offer of her beloved friend. They vowed to be always together, never to betray each other and not to be separated.
Time has passed, so imperceptibly three years have passed. The training of the girl's brothers came to an end. When the brothers left, the girl thought that now everything would change for her, but everything was the same as before. She was inseparable from her friend, confided all her thoughts to him, studied and was happy.
A month had passed since the brothers left, and suddenly Zhu Yingtai was summoned by the principal of the school. She informed the student that a letter had come from the estate. The father demanded that Zhu Yingtai return home. Young people experienced the upcoming separation very hard. The girl could not find the words to tell her friend who she really was. It was even more difficult for her to confess her feelings for the young man.
Liang Shanbo was an impressionable and nervous young man. Any negative event could unsettle him. Sometimes the young man was sick for a long time, and the girl devotedly looked after him.
Now the girl was afraid to upset her friend completely. The young man was already depressed all the last days. He worried that he was left alone in a cold, indifferent world.
He could not return home without completing his studies. At home, a sick mother was waiting for him, who sold everything she could so that the young man could learn. Once the family of the young man belonged to the most noble families, however, when the father of the young man died, the well-being of the family was shaken. And now all the hope of the mother was only on the son.
The girl did not dare to tell her friend the truth. As she left, she revealed the truth to the principal of the school. The woman was surprised, but showed no anger. The girl gave the woman her hairpin with a precious jade in the shape of a heart. She asked the principal of the school, when the young man graduated and was about to return home, to give the young man the hairpin and tell him the truth about Zhu Yingtai.
When the girl returned home, she asked her father why he brought her home, because her education had not been completed. The father replied that after the brothers returned home, it was unsuitable for her to remain alone among men. The girl did not argue with her father, she was grateful to him and for what he had done for her. If the girl had not gone to this school, she would not have been able to live side by side for so many years with her beloved friend.
Time passed, the girl counted the months and days until her friend's training was completed. According to her calculations, there were two weeks left before Liang Shanbo's graduation, when the girl's father announced that now Zhu Yingtai is an adult and she needs to prepare for marriage.
The girl was in shock, she did not know how to explain to her father that she has a friend whom she loves, whom she dreams of, whom she wants to marry. But, for a while, talk of marriage stopped, and then everything happened at the same time.
On that day, the whole house was on the ears, a letter was sent to the estate early in the morning. An old friend of his father was in seventh heaven with happiness - his son returned from distant countries, where he studied for a long time, and in the evening the girl's trusted maid brought a note. Liang Shanbo had already arrived and was waiting for the girl at the place where they first met. Not feeling her legs, the girl ran to the stables.
The road to the forest seemed to her long, like a winter storm, although in fact she galloped not more thanless than five minutes. Liang Shanbo was indeed waiting for the girl in a designated place.
At first, the young people were embarrassed, a whole year had already passed since the day of separation, and the girl was now in a woman's dress, but then the embarrassment passed, and they began to chat as before. The young man told the girl all the news about the school, but this was not enough for her, she wanted to know how he lived without her. The young man said that his mother had died and now he was lonely as never before.
It was already late in the evening when the girl heard screams and realized that they were looking for her. The young man said that he was staying at a local hotel. After that, they parted, agreeing that they would meet tomorrow.
Father and mother did not scold their daughter for a long absence, they were embarrassed and delighted. The son of an old friend, Mo, who returned from distant countries, wanted to marry Zhu Yingtai, and matchmakers were soon to come to the house. The parents, who knew nothing about their daughter's love for a school friend, were surprised by their daughter's reaction. Instead of rejoicing with her parents, she burst into tears and ran to her room. After conferring, the parents decided that this was a normal reaction for a modest girl.
However, the girl darted around the room like a tiger in a cage. She knew that tomorrow she would not be able to escape into the forest. Since the girl was now considered a bride, her freedom would now be limited. However, Mr. Mo has not yet proposed to the girl, and if Liang Shanbo manages to propose first, then all will not be lost.
Without giving an account of what she was doing, the girl wrote a note and called the maid. Soon the maid returned. She said she gave the note to the young man. The young man first burst into tears, and then asked the maid to wait. After that, he wrote a reply note and ordered the maid to run faster than the wind and give this note to the mistress. The girl was not afraid that the maid would read the note. In this house, she was the only woman who could read and write, even her mother did not know the art of reading.
Having unfolded the note, the girl found out that her friend was ready to meet her right now, at night, at the same place. Soon the lovers were together. The moon was shining, the cicadas were singing so loudly that they drowned out all sounds. The girl threw herself into the arms of her beloved and burst into tears. They had little time, and they made a plan. Half an hour later, the girl was already at home. The next day, Liang Shanbo, as agreed with Zhu Yingtai, asked for an audience with the girl's father.
The conversation was short. First, the father came out of the front hall darker than a cloud, and then Liang Shanbo, pale as death, ran out from there. Everything was over. Father refused Liang Shanbo. After that, the girl was locked in a room with a key. She couldn't even look out the window, the windows were boarded up crosswise from the outside. Nothing was explained to the girl, only they announced that her father had accepted Mr. Mo's proposal, and from next week the girl would have to prepare for the idea that she would soon have a wedding.
However, the girl was still a beloved daughter and soon they stopped being angry with her. House arrest was lifted. After the girl was allowed to leave the room, she waited one day. Falling asleep, she dreamed that in the morning she would run away from home.
However, the morning brought terrible news. A trusted maid reported that the owner of the hotel where the girl's beloved lived had sent a note. The note said that his lodger had died.
The next few days passed in a blur for the girl. She did not attend the funeral ceremony. All concerns about the burial were taken over by distant relatives of her beloved. Liang Shanbo was buried in the local cemetery.
The girl's father was devastated, but still hoped that marrying Mr. Mo's son would ease the pain of his beloved daughter. Mr. Mo's son was a learned man, respected his future bride, and was glad that his wife would be a woman close to him in spirit.
Before agreeing to the wedding, the girl demanded to be taken to the place where her beloved was buried. The father reluctantly agreed.
Zhu Yingtai told the servants to leave her for an hour. Lilith looked at the girl and cried, the suffering of a girl in love was also the suffering of Lilith. Then Lily shifted her gaze to the tombstone under which her beloved Zhu Yingtai was buried.
And then Lilith, as if something pricked in her heart, the memories were ready to float to the surface of memory, when they suddenly disappeared somewhere again. Something was missing. It seemed to the woman that she had already seen this place, but in her knowledge, next to the young man's gravestone, there was something else. Finally, Lita gave up trying to boost her memory. At that moment, the servants returned for the inconsolable girl.
And the woman woke up because the bus jerked and stopped. The driver announced that the bus stop would be ten minutes.
Lilith was sick.
Maybe it was the result of not eating anything in the past few hours, or maybe she felt so bad because the dream she had had ended so tragically.
But most likely it was that Lita was just tired. After all, she had been on the road for more than two days. After a vivid dream, Lilith all around seemed gray and unreal. Stand in line for a pieIt was hard for Ami, Lolita left the cafe and went into a nearby store. She bought the first muffin she found and a bag of juice. Back on the bus, she put her groceries in her bag.
The son called and asked when Lilith would be in Vladivostok. Lolita answered him and turned off the phone. Finally, the bus drove off, and Lolita closed her eyes and ordered herself to continue sleeping. However, her nausea grew stronger and stronger. She grimaced at the memory of the bun. She did not feel like eating at all, but she hoped that the stomach, having received its portion of food, would finally calm down.
When we entered the city, it was night. At the final stop, Lilith said goodbye to her fellow travelers. Lyudmila seemed to feel better, but she said that she would remember this trip for a long time. Comrades in misfortune said goodbye.
Soon Lilith was at home.
It was so strange to sit still and not hurry anywhere. There was no need to go, get somewhere, look for something, prove something to someone.
Everything stopped.
There was no need to go anywhere else. At least for the next few months. Lola knew that a month or two would pass, and the wind of distant wanderings would again blow through her window, but now Lilith enjoyed the silence and stillness.
Lilith knew that the dream she had on the bus would come again the moment she put her head down on the pillow.
But the woman played for time and hesitated. Although Lita was very tired, she decided to sort out the things she had brought with her. Taking out item after item, she stumbled upon a green box.
Remembering what was in this box, she pressed the box to her. The ring that was now on her fingers, and the ring that was in the box - these rings were now dearer to her than all the treasures in the world.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
It's like she never left! Favorite city can sleep peacefully
Lilith fell asleep. She woke up only at noon. If she dreamed something, she couldn't remember it. Lilith had four days off and so now she could rest easy and come to her senses. But by the evening Lali was in shape. Gathering up, she went for an evening walk. She walked along the familiar streets and was surprised, everything was as if she had not left anywhere. However, something has changed, there are even more Chinese tourists on the streets of the city. Tourists wandered into those corners of the city where they had not gone before. That was good. This means that tourists felt at home in this city and were not afraid of anything. So it was safe in Vladivostok.
When the walk was over, Lilith decided to swim, but after entering the water, she immediately returned to the shore. The water was cold and the seabed was littered with algae, which was unpleasant. Returning home, Lolita tried to feel the energy that had recently returned to her. However, the familiar pulsation for some reason did not arise. The woman did qigong exercises, then after some time repeated several exercises again, but the result was still the same. It turns out that Lita did not gain anything on this trip, even more than that, it seemed that she lost even what little she had.
The woman did not know what she would tell when she returned to work, but, thank God, there were still a few days before she went to work. Lilith decided to use these days to the fullest. She read, watched TV, cooked, cleaned and, not for a minute, did not sit idle. However, doing her usual business, Lilith could not get rid of her heavy thoughts, she did not know what would happen to her next. She did not understand how to live, what to do if her abilities did not return to her and what would happen to her personal life.
The weather deteriorated, on the third day, after the return of Lilith, weather forecasters announced a storm warning. The typhoon, which had done a lot of trouble in China, was now approaching Primorsky Krai. Every hour a warning was broadcast on TV, residents of the city and the region, as well as motorists, were asked not to go out into the streets if possible. By evening, the storm intensified. Lilith's parents felt bad, Lilith tried to alleviate their suffering in some way, but she herself felt great. The strength of the wind grew, and with each new breath, the woman felt a huge surge of energy.
The more the wind blew, the better Lilith felt. Energy pulsed throughout the body. It began to rain, the drops knocking on the eaves of the window sill sounded like a symphony, and the sound of rain was the best music in the world for Lilith today. Thunder struck, lightning flashed, the son ran into the room to Lita and hid under the covers. As a child, Lilith was also afraid of thunder and lightning, but as she grew older, typhoons began to delight her. The woman understood that she was so complacent about the manifestations of bad weather, because at the moment she herself was in warmth and comfort.
As the typhoon began to reach its climax, Lilith felt a kind of wild and painful delight. Her cheeks burned, her whole body throbbed, she madly wanted to go outside. Lilith had already left the warm bowels of the blanket, when she suddenly felt that her son's hot fingers closed on her leg. The son was so frightened that he seemed to have risentemperature. Taking out a thermometer, Lilith discovered that her son's body temperature did not rise, but dropped. The temperature on the thermometer was 36 degrees. Throwing back the blanket, the woman saw that her son was curled up in a fetal position, his eyes tightly closed, and his body was shaking as if from a chill.
And then a crazy thought came to Lali's head, she was frightened that by accident, and not realizing what she was doing, she began to take energy from her son. The woman tried to send her son to his own bedroom, but the boy clutched at the sheet and refused to leave the bed. Lilith understood that her son should now be as far away from her as possible, but did not know how to explain this to the boy.
Finally, Lilith's father ran up to the noise. Lilith found some reason and persuaded the grandfather to take his grandson into her bedroom. The son burst into tears, but, in the end, agreed. It was 3 am when, finally, silence reigned in the apartment. However, outside the windows, the bad weather was gaining more and more strength. Lilith thought that the story with her son would put an end to what happened to her during this hour, but it was not there, a surge of energy grew more and more in Lilith's body. Moreover, the energy splashed out of the body, the air began to crackle, glass objects began to tinkle.
Lilith left the room and sat down at the kitchen table. Suddenly she felt a jolt. The wind gained such strength that the nine-story house in which Lolita lived shuddered. The house shook. Lolita thought that she only imagined it, but the second gust of wind repeated the same thing with the house.
Lilith fell asleep only at 6 o'clock in the morning. But she did not have to sleep for a long time, at 8 o'clock in the morning her friend Olga called and said that Viktor Alekseevich had returned to the city. Lolita could hardly think, although the energy of the night still seethed in her blood. After agreeing to meet her friend during the day, Lilith fell asleep again. An hour later, Viktor Alekseevich himself called. An hour later, Lesha's boss got in touch.
Abandoning attempts to fall asleep again, Lilith began to put herself in order. She understood what those calls meant. And so it turned out. Lyosha, the boss, grumbled a few words of apology, and then asked Lilith to go to work a day earlier. He assured Lilith that this day would not be in vain, and Lita would get a day off whenever she wanted. After meeting with a friend, Lilith found out why she was recalled from vacation a day early.
It turns out that Viktor Alekseevich, who founded the laboratory and, directly, the research institute, had a co-founder. This man was an old friend of Viktor Alekseevich, and it was he who once helped Viktor Alekseevich find sponsors and himself added the missing money. And now the man's daughter is ill.
The father took his daughter to several world-class clinics. And he also took his daughter to all sorts of grandmothers and healers, turned to magical salons, but there was no sense, the girl was fading away before our eyes.
The man did not tell Viktor Alekseevich anything, however, when they were on a business trip together in Japan, he let slip to a friend that the situation with his daughter was hopeless. Victor Alekseevich did not dare to offer his help for a long time, he understood that Lita's work was still in the experimental stage, and it was simply unethical to force a woman to take up the treatment of such an advanced disease. It was like asking a first grader to go straight to 10th grade.
However, when Viktor Alekseevich nevertheless offered help, his friend clung to this offer, like a drowning man clutching at a straw. Lilith learned all this when she came to the laboratory.
She agreed with the request of Viktor Alekseevich, but, of course, she warned that she could not promise anything. The girl was taken to the laboratory the next day. Or rather, they brought her, she could no longer walk. Lilith talked with the girl for a long time, but the patient answered reluctantly, and then she generally referred to the fact that she was dizzy, and asked her father to take her home.
As soon as the girl left, Lilit called Viktor Alekseevich and said that there was no contact. And in order to begin treatment, Lilith needed to be in full contact with the girl. Victor Alekseevich promised that he would try to talk to the girl's father again, and timidly asked about what impressions Lilit had from the trip to Beidaihe.
Lilith promised the boss to tell about everything later, now she was only interested in the health of the girl. She only assured the boss that her abilities had returned to her, and promised to tell the boss about everything else later.
Viktor Alekseevich did not argue. Lali asked Viktor Alekseevich to talk to the girl personally, she did not understand why she could not establish contact. But it was clear to her that the girl needed emergency help.
The days flew by one after another, and soon Lilith could not believe that she had left the city at all. Thus a month flew by. Lolita was never able to break through the sick girl's armor. Viktor Alekseevich said that the girl was not against treatment by the laboratory staff, she simply did not want to be treated by Lilit.
After Viktor Alekseevich explained the reason, Lolitait seemed that she groped for the reason for the girl's refusal. Lolita suspected that the girl was in love with Viktor Alekseevich, and Lita's unwillingness to be treated was just jealousy.
Fortunately, a new employee has come to the lab. The young man was self-absorbed but friendly. The new employee's name was Alexander. He possessed almost the same abilities that Lilith possessed, but in addition, he was also a certified doctor.
When the girl was offered to tell Alexander about her illness, she agreed with pleasure. Lilith was offended, she saw this girl for the first time in her life and did not understand why the girl treated her like that. However, Viktor Alekseevich ordered that the new employee treat the girl right at her home. Such was the desire of the girl, she told her father that she was uncomfortable within the walls of the laboratory and there would be no result from the treatment.
After that, Lita felt better, she reasoned that the folk saying, out of sight out of mind, was right. Moreover, Lilith had a problem that needed to be urgently addressed.
CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN
Unwanted cavalier. Lilith scolds herself for the fact that, after so many years, she never learned to keep her mouth shut.
One day, returning from work, she met Oleg near the entrance of her house. Remember that young man Lilith met at Beidaihe Beach? The young man left a note with his phone number for Lolita. However, then the woman tore the note. She was not interested in married, or almost married, men.
Seeing Oleg near the entrance of her house, Lilith was very surprised. She could not understand how the young man had found her. However, Oleg was now standing in front of her, and there was nowhere to escape from this fact. Lilith asked the young man how he found her, because she knew for sure that she had not left him her address.
The young man laughed and reminded Lilith that she herself blabbed that she lived near the railway station. Lolita did not remember this conversation, but mentally scolded herself for her talkativeness. And yet she still didn't understand how the young man had found her. Oleg laughed and said that there are not so many girls with the name Lilith in the city.
He hinted that he has access to information that covers everyone living in the city. Thanks to access to this information, he can easily find the address of any resident of Vladivostok. Lilith saw that the young man was obviously showing off in front of her and boasting. She did not show that the whole situation was unpleasant for her and decided to somehow smooth out the awkwardness that had arisen. While the young man boasted, she listened attentively to him, without interrupting and smiling. When the flow of words dried up, Lilith asked only one thing, why was the young man waiting for her at the entrance?
The young man's smile faded, and he grimaced as if he had eaten a slice of lemon. After that, he was silent for several minutes, and then grabbed Lita by the hand and pulled her towards him.
The woman recoiled. The young man came to his senses. Turning around, he saw that the yard was full of people. The ardor of the young man dried up, but not completely. The young man advised Lilith not to pretend and stop pretending to be a girl. And he also added that he broke up with his girlfriend, if this fact confuses Lilith.
Lilith knew that many women love it when men take the lead. There are still women who love rough and aggressive men, but Lita was not that type of woman. Aggression frightened her, rudeness led to indignation. Therefore, she pulled her hand out of Oleg's palm and slightly pushed him away.
The man's face contorted and he drooped. Oleg, no longer so aggressively, but on the contrary, almost whiningly, confessed to Lita that he could not forget her all this time. Oleg's girlfriend apparently felt this and therefore broke up with him. Lilith thought that this was probably not why the girl broke up with him, but she preferred to keep her thoughts to herself. She asked Oleg how, in fact, he found her address. The young man replied that Lilith probably did not remember, but she let slip that she lived near the Golden Dragon Chinese restaurant. They were just talking about the advantages of Chinese cuisine and Lilith said that there is a Chinese restaurant near her house, where she often goes when she does not have the opportunity to go to China for a long time.
Lilith absolutely did not remember this conversation, but what Oleg said was more like the truth than his first version. Probably, this conversation took place even when Lilith and Oleg had just met. Then they had a long and casual conversation, and Lita liked this young man.
However, now, looking at his drooping head, she could not understand what she liked about him so much. Seeing that the young man was standing and not going to say anything more, Lilith turned in the direction of the entrance, but immediately felt her hand grabbed again. She also felt a jolt.
The young man's face burned, his eyes sparkled, and he seemed to be full of determination. It seems that he was no longer embarrassed by the fact that there are many human eyes around. Lilith was indignant and tried again to push the young man away. However, this time she doesn't get it. Elk. Oleg tightly held her hands, his breathing quickened. He squeezed her wrist so hard it hurt her. He muttered something inarticulate and breathed fumes into Lita's face.
Having finally lost control of himself, he began to shout that Lali then, on the seashore, flirted with him, and also let him know that she was not opposed to starting a serious relationship with him. Lilith did not remember any of this and doubted that everything was as the young man tells. As far as she remembered, she and the young man were just talking, laughing and discussing holidays at the Beidaihe resort.
When Lilith tried to explain all this to the young man, he simply laughed in her face and said that during the conversation, Lilith made it clear to him that she was not opposed to if they met.
Leti reminded him that all these conversations happened before Oleg's girlfriend showed up. However, the young man was carried away, and he no longer heeded any arguments of reason. Grabbing Lita by the arm, he dragged her towards the blue car. Lilith easily understood the young man's intentions. However, communication with a drunken man was not at all part of Lilith's plans. If she gets into a man's car, then she will never get rid of him. She broke free again, and promised the man trouble! And if Oleg doesn’t leave her alone now, Loli clarified, then she will start screaming, and the yard is full of her neighbors, and there are many men among them.
The young man began to sob, but the tears of drunken men never affected Lita. Lowering her head, she turned to the entrance, and, praying to herself that the man would not notice her fear and confusion, inserted the key and entered the entrance.
Lilith ran into the entrance and slammed the door behind her. When she reached her floor, she surreptitiously glanced out the window that overlooked the street. Oleg was still standing near the entrance. Then, furtively looking around, he took out some spray can and went to the entrance door. Lilit did not see what he was doing, the visor of the entrance did not allow her to see Oleg's actions. But, as the woman suspected, nothing good could be expected from a man who was in an evil and hungover state.
Lilith clung to the windowpane and then lowered her head. Unexpected tears accumulated in the corners of his eyes, and then flowed down his face. Lilith no longer asked the question, why now she was worried about a completely different question, what to do with it and how to avoid trouble?
And at home, Lilith was waiting for a new surprise. When Lily entered the apartment, her son ran up to her. The son had news, and they burst him. He could not even wait until his mother undressed and had dinner. He began to tell as soon as he saw the woman at the door.
First, he took out a piece of paper from his briefcase - it was a referral from a doctor. It turns out that today there was an examination in the classroom and the doctor who examined the boys gave his son a referral to the clinic. The children's temperature was measured and the thermometer, which measured the temperature of the son, showed very low results. The son's body temperature was 35 and 9. Everything was clear with the first surprise. Lilith put the direction on the shelf, sat opposite her son and prepared to listen to him.
The son said that during the break he and his friends played a game, the game was called "Guess the Number". So, his friends thought of numbers from one to five, and then from five to ten. The son guessed the numbers as many as five times. Lilith stroked her son's head. The boy leaned trustingly into his mother's hand. Lolita knew that her son never lies. To lie, you need to be able to fantasize, and the son of such talents was completely deprived. Therefore, Lilith did not doubt the words of her son. If he said that he guessed the numbers, then it really happened.
Lilith asked if her son would like to play the same game with her. The son nodded his head. Enthusiasm seethed in him and demanded an outlet. Lilith said that she would think of a number from one to five. Taking her son's hand, she concentrated and closed her eyes. She thought of the number three in her mind. She drew this figure inside herself and said it to herself. The son guessed the number the first time. Lilith thought of another number - this was the number one. And again, the son brilliantly coped with this task.
To test herself and her son, Lilith again thought of the number three. This time she did not speak to herself, but only mentally drew a number in front of her eyes. The son coped with this task. When she opened her eyes, she saw that the boy was tired.
However, Lilith could not stop. She thought of another number, and again the son gave the correct answer. Lilith tried to guess the numbers further, but her son complained that his head ached and flies began to fly before his eyes. Lola pressed her son to her, she said that she would give her son the last task, and then let him play.
This time, Lita guessed a number between five and ten. The number she came up with was the number nine. The son guessed right this time. Lilith immediately let him play, as promised.
She lay down on her back and closed her eyes. She remembered the day when a typhoon raged outside the windows. It then seemed to her that she had somehow harmed her son. It seemed to her that she took away his energy. Now sheI realized that everything happened exactly the opposite. She did not take energy from her son, but on the contrary, she somehow gave her energy to him.
That night, the storm outside the window helped her gain a huge amount of energy, probably an excess of energy, her excess, she somehow managed to give her son. Probably, this happened when her son, frightened by the bad weather outside the window, came to her and lay down next to her in bed. Lilith vaguely remembered how she consoled her son, pressed him to her and stroked his head.
However, Lali did not manage to indulge in anxious thoughts for a long time. Her son was hungry. Children at his age need to eat all the time, no matter if they are brilliant children or the simplest ones. A mother who came home from work must first of all feed the child, and then think about his future fate and abilities.
In the evening, before going to bed, Lola wanted to ask her son a number again, but the boy categorically refused. Lilith did not insist. She understood that if she forced her son to guess the numbers, she could discourage the boy from any desire to engage in telepathy in the future. So Lilith uttered this word - telepathy. Maybe the talent that the boy suddenly acquired had a different name, but Lita didn't know it yet.
In the morning, she once again measured her son's temperature. Indeed, the body temperature was still low. The thermometer showed a temperature of 36 and 1. The woman made her son have breakfast, gave him hot and sweet tea to drink and sent him to school.
It was time for her to get ready for work. Leaving the entrance, she turned around, something caught her eye. So it is, the entrance door was painted. Swear words were written on the entrance door and it was clear to whom they were addressed. The appeal began with the name Lilith. The word "bitch" was the most innocent in the sentence that was painted on the entrance door. Lolita clutched her head, she hoped that her son, because of his usual absent-mindedness, did not pay attention to the inscription. And then Lilith imagined what would happen if her parents read this inscription.
I had to return home. Loli found acetone and quietly left the house again. Luckily, my parents were still asleep. The inscription was hard to erase. The neighbors, who also had to go to work, followed Lilith's actions with all sorts of looks. The looks were mocking and sympathetic. Someone frankly laughed at Lilith's back, and someone shook his fists at the hooligans who ruined the door.
Lilith came to work completely exhausted. The week dragged on for a long time. Every evening Oleg met Lilit at the entrance. Lilith scolded him for the broken door, and so he took no further steps to vent his anger and his love. He just stood silently and followed Lita with his eyes.
Entering the entrance, Lilith felt Oleg's heavy gaze with all her being. Finally, Friday night arrived. A young man was standing at the door. It was clear to the naked eye that he was dead drunk. The man could barely stand on his feet. He couldn't even speak properly. Muttering something unintelligible, he spread his arms, trying to catch Lita in an embrace. Lilith easily avoided the dubious display of tenderness and entered the entrance.
Something had to be done. Returning home, she told her son and parents that she would spend Saturday and Sunday at the service apartment. Late in the evening, she packed up and left. Fortunately for her, the drunken gentleman was no longer near the entrance.
The apartment greeted Lilith with silence and a large accumulation of dust. She hasn't been here in over two months. To distract herself from her unhappy thoughts, Lilith changed into work clothes and started cleaning. A large calendar hung on the wall.
Lolita decided to tear off the sheets of the calendar. Summer has passed. July and August no matter what. September was on the calendar, or rather, the end of September. Tomorrow was September 20th. Looking at the calendar, Lilith suddenly remembered. Tomorrow it has been exactly a year since Lita saw Andy.
The shooting of the film "The Old Soldier" took place in Vladivostok exactly a year ago. And they started on September 20th. Lolita stared at the calendar in shock. Has it really been a whole year already?
Finally, the apartment was put in order.
Lolita took out a jar of ginger, but as soon as the amulet was taken out of the jar, it crumbled into separate jade pieces. Lilith sighed and returned everything back to the jar.
It was time to go to bed, but the thoughts in my head did not want to calm down. Details of the events of a year ago swirled before Lilith's eyes. She tried to mentally still have time to get Andy's autograph. That is, she tried to remake the events that took place a year ago in her own way. She recreated the events of that day and tried to put in place the main characters of her mental spectacle.
At first, she didn't succeed. The van doors were closing before she could touch Andy. She played this situation over and over again in her mind, and finally, when the picture she was trying to recreate in her mind gained volume and even filled with sounds, Lita began to get something. Before getting into the minibus, Andy hesitated andturned around, Lilith tried to take advantage of this moment. Her fingers were almost touching Andy's palm when suddenly a phone rang through the silence of the apartment.
Lilith shuddered and opened her eyes. They called from home. The frustrated father said that a man was standing near the door of the apartment and was persistently trying to get Lita to come out to him. The father had already explained to the man several times that Lita was not at home. However, the man did not believe. The man had champagne, a box of chocolates and flowers in his hands, he persistently tried to hand all this stuff to the frightened mother Lilith, who woke up and went out into the corridor, trying to understand what was happening.
Trying to remake the situation that was a year ago, Lilith relaxed and even, it seems, dozed off. And so she was now thinking slowly. However, she tried to shake off her sleepy stupor and asked her father to pass the phone to an unexpected guest. The man was dead drunk, for a long time he could not understand who was talking to him on the phone and demanded from Lilith's parents that they show him their daughter.
Finally, Lolita got through to the drunken and clumsy mind of the man, she explained to him as best she could that she was not at home now. The man didn't understand. He could be heard mumbling and trying to get an answer from Lolita's parents about where their daughter is now.
Lilith had to scream so that, finally, the man realized that she was not at home and that she was now talking to him on the phone. With great difficulty, the woman managed to convince the man to leave the apartment and the house.
The man sobered up a little and tried to find out where Lilith is now in this case. The woman had to lie that she was now in another city, and promise the man that as soon as she returned home, she would definitely meet him.
When the parents closed the door in front of the unexpected gentleman, Lilith told her parents by phone to turn off the intercom and all phones. And she asked no one to open the door.
Lilith thought that she would never be able to return the state that she had before the call from home. However, as soon as she closed her eyes and relaxed, a pulsation swept through her body. Soon she was already where she wanted to be.
She returned at the moment when her beloved man was leaving. However, an invisible barrier threw her back every time she tried to get close to the group of people that surrounded Andy. The picture is frozen.
It seemed that now, more than ever, you can easily approach your favorite artist and even take his hand, but an invisible barrier once again threw Lilith away. Cursing what the light stands for the persistent gentleman who did not let her dream come true, the woman abandoned her attempt to change events. It was already quite late, and she decided to just sleep.
The dream she feared and expected came to her that night. But before she saw the one she had been thinking about all evening, she dreamed of a strange prologue to what happened next.
She dreamed that she was in a lesson with her son. Probably, she had already attended this lesson more than once, however, this time, the teacher asked Lilith not to come to the lesson anymore. As soon as the voice of the teacher sounded, Lolita was in the hospital. For some reason, she was sitting in the treatment room of the hospital. The nurse was doing some manipulations with Lilith's hand, when suddenly Lita saw that two babies were lying on the big bed, wrapped in swaddling clothes. One of the children, who was lying closer to the edge of the bed, could fall. One baby, who had swollen eyes, was lying quietly, the second boy, an absolutely adorable baby, was ready to fall out of bed.
Lilith screamed, she tried to attract the attention of the baby's mother, but the mother stood in front of the procedural sister and said something to her. The boy was already falling off the bed when Lilith interrupted the procedure that the nurse was performing on her and rushed to the baby. She managed to catch the baby on the fly.
The boy was adorable. His black, thick hairs stuck out from under his cap. His eyes looked attentively at the one who managed to take him in his arms.
And then the phone rang again. Lilith opened her eyes, it was five o'clock in the morning. Taking the phone, Lolita held it to her ear. Father called again. He said that the man who had come in the evening was again knocking on the door. Lilith advised her parents to close the doors of the room and pay no attention. There was nothing more she could do to help. She told her father that she would come home in the morning and disconnected.
However, Lilith did not have to sleep again that morning. Half an hour later, my father called again and said that the man who knocked on the door had now gone to bed on the rug near the door.
Lilith said she was calling a taxi and would be home soon. When Lilith entered the entrance, it was already dawn, and she could easily make out a drunken body sprawled on a rug near her native apartment. Squatting down, she tried to push the man, but he only brushed her off and muttered something inarticulate.
Having opened the door to the apartment with her key, Lilith reassured her parents and said that she would deal with the man further herself. Looking into her son's room, she saw that he was sleeping. Thank God he didn't see or hear anything because the spal very hard.
Lilith overslept until noon, when she left the apartment, the rug was empty. The drunken admirer evaporated, but, unfortunately, not for long. In the evening, he was again standing at the door with another set of gentlemen - flowers, sweets and champagne.
Lilith went out into the corridor and began to shame the gentleman. However, the man did not remember anything. He said that he appeared at Lilith's door only for the first time. And he also said that he had to treat his neighbor Lilith with beer so that he would reveal to him the secret where a woman with a beautiful name Lilith lives.
Lola clutched her head, it seems that now the whole entrance was aware of what happened at night. Lilith asked Oleg what he wants from her, after all. Oleg staggered, but kept on his feet.
With a slurred tongue, he told Lilith that he hoped to know a great and beautiful love with a woman. Lolita asked where exactly he was going to learn love. Then the intoxicated man said that he was eager to meet Lilith's parents, and also agreed to stay overnight with Lilith.
Lolita said that she did not have a place to leave a gentleman for the night. To which Oleg replied that he agreed to spend the night even in the kitchen. Finally, when Lolita realized that the man was unable to understand what she was telling him, she promised that if Oleg did not get out of the entrance right away, she would call the police.
The man's reaction was unexpected. He suddenly fell to his knees, and then began to tear his shirt on his chest.
Lilith returned to the apartment and closed the door. She needed to think. She really did not want to call the police, but she did not see a way out of the situation. She was very ashamed, but her hand pointed to the number by which Viktor Alekseevich could be called.
The big boss responded instantly. Confused and interrupting herself at every word, Lilith with difficulty, but nevertheless, outlined the situation that had now developed for her.
Viktor Alekseevich asked a few clarifying questions and promised to arrive in ten minutes. The cavalier was again lying on the rug. Lilith stepped over him and went to meet Viktor Alekseevich.
She was very ashamed. She understood that she was not to blame for anything, but she could not tell everyone living in the entrance about it. The neighbors on the porch looked askance at her and laughed.
Viktor Alekseevich arrived exactly ten minutes later, as promised. He was probably on his way when Lilith's call caught him. Once again, more calmly, Lilith explained the whole situation to the boss.
This time, she began her story from the moment she met Oleg on the seashore of the Beidaihe resort. Viktor Alekseevich was in a good mood and reassured Lilith.
He said that Lita needs to calm down now and go shopping. It is advisable to go shopping.
He said he knew how shopping calms women. After Lilith returns home, the unwanted gentleman will no longer bother her. After that, he advised Lilith to choose friends more carefully next time and entered the entrance, and Lilith went shopping.
Viktor Alekseevich kept his word. Oleg didn't bother Lola anymore. A man named Oleg left her life forever. However, the day off was ruined. Returning to the service apartment, Lola wandered around the room, not knowing what to do. She was about to return home, when Viktor Alekseevich suddenly called. Lilith said that the importunate gentleman did not appear again.
“And it won’t appear,” Viktor Alekseevich added.
Lola breathed a sigh of relief. There was a pause in the conversation. The man didn't disconnect, but he didn't say anything. Finally, when Lilith decided that the phone was not working properly, and her interlocutor simply disconnected, Viktor Alekseevich spoke again. The big boss invited Lilith to a restaurant.
The woman wanted to refuse at first, but then, looking at herself in the mirror, she decided to take a chance and accepted the offer. She didn't lose anything. It was still quite light and, therefore, Lola even managed to go to a hairdressing salon.
Victor Alekseevich called for Lilit at nine o'clock in the evening. When the man and woman entered the restaurant, the heads of the male half of the restaurant's patrons turned towards Lita. The couple made an order, but after that there was an awkward pause at the table. And then the man and the woman spoke at the same time and laughed at the same time.
A little later, a curious conversation arose between Lilith and Viktor Alekseevich. I don't like to eavesdrop, but the man and woman spoke loudly and were not in the least afraid of being heard.
“Lilith,” the man smiled, “were you not very surprised when I invited you here?”
- Well, - Lola hesitated, - how can I tell you ... At first I wanted to refuse, and then I changed my mind.
Why did you change your mind, if it's not a secret?
- I ... No, let it remain my little secret! And, however,…
- Yes?
I will answer your question if you answer mine!
- I'm ready, ask!
Why did you invite me to the restaurant today?
"Before I answer, promise me you won't be offended and you won't run away!"
“I will try,” Lilith smiled, “well, don’t torment me!
I'm tired of waiting my turn! Next to you all the timeCavaliers of dubious quality are lurking, as soon as I want to offer you something, another boorish gentleman immediately appears.
“But it’s not my fault that,” Lola began to say, but the man did not let her finish the sentence.
- Yes, you are not to blame for the fact that nature created you so beautiful, and also not to blame that all sorts of bastards and bastards are spinning next to you. They fly like moths to your light. I resolve one situation, and then another arises, and therefore ... - the man fell silent
— What, therefore? Lilith couldn't resist.
“That’s why I invited you here,” the man finished his thought in a slightly trembling voice.
- Understandably. Lilith laughed. - You invited me so as not to arrange a showdown with another scumbag - a gentleman, right?
"Yes," the man smiled. - You are probably the first woman who understood me perfectly!
“No,” Lola laughed again, “I have to disappoint you, I didn’t understand anything.
- Yes? - Viktor Alekseevich wilted, - but I thought you understood me. Perhaps you are waiting for an explanation?
- Certainly. - Lola felt her power over this man, and from this she became more and more cheerful.
“I decided, just don’t be offended, for God’s sake, at my words, I decided that it would be easier if I was with you, and then I wouldn’t have to send off the dubious personalities that revolve around you all the time!”
There was a pause. The man looked uncertainly into the eyes of the woman, and the woman was silent, trying not to show that she was amused by the fact that she foresaw the end of this conversation. Then, when she raised her head, she tried to make a sad and stern face so that the man could not read her thoughts.
She wanted to say something, but at that moment, loud rhythmic music began to play.
"Good," said Lilith.
- What well? the man snapped.
“It’s good here,” the woman laughed, “and it will be even better if we go dancing.”
"What about what I told you?" - trying to keep the woman, the man asked
- I will answer you at the end of the evening, and now I want to dance! And my words are law!
“I don’t dance very well,” the man tried to laugh it off, “but…”
Looking into the eyes of a woman, he did not dare to refuse her,
- But your words are really the law!
“That's it,” the woman pulled the gentleman along, “enough talking, let's go dancing!”
Lilith, as you know, did not like alcohol, but she loved to dance, and dancing had an intoxicating effect on her. The rhythmic music, the bodies moving to the beat of the music, the greedy gazes devouring Lola's beautiful body, all of this intoxicated her without any guilt.
An hour passed, and the woman did not want to return to the table. The man was drunk with love, and did not even try to control the situation. The woman who was now next to him was blazing like fire. The music did something incredible with her, the true Lilith was now in front of Viktor Alekseevich. That essence, which she had been hiding from others all the time, now burst out. It seemed that during the dance she turns into another creature. So shamans, during ritual rituals and dances, bring themselves to ecstasy in order to predict or heal later. Lilith did not pursue any goals, she just danced.
Viktor Alekseevich soon got tired, he apologized and sat down at the table. Lola didn't even seem to notice. Of course it wasn't. She saw and heard everything perfectly, but she was not going to interrupt her dance due to the fact that her gentleman was tired. Finally, the musicians left for a break, and Lola returned to the table.
Then the second musical block began, the musicians played mostly slow and sensual songs. Viktor Alekseevich invited Lilit to dance. The melody changed into a melody, and they all danced. Their dance was endless. Viktor Alekseevich pressed Lolita's hot, supple body to himself and could not imagine how he had lived before without this woman. And Lily... Lily just danced.
She felt good in the arms of this big man. She didn't love him, but she felt good with him. She understood how this evening should end, but she did not mind being alone with this man.
It was three o'clock in the morning when the man and woman were finally alone. They arrived at the service apartment. Lilith was going to the restaurant chaotically, and therefore now, all over the apartment, in disarray, were the outfits that she tried on when going to the restaurant. This circumstance confused the woman a little when she opened the door with a key, and then she didn’t care.
They started kissing in the hallway. Soon in the apartment there were several more things thrown off the body in a hurry. The heated man and woman walked towards the bed, and the chain of things they took off along the way was like a dotted line.
It was a wonderful night. However, if the reader is waiting for details, then I have to disappoint him, there will be no details. Just take my word for it - it was a night full of passion and fire, as well as tenderness and longing. Anyway, Lilith was very good tonight.
So good that when she woke up, she wanted to continue. She even thought that it would be nice if she had more serious relationships with Victor. osheniya. The woman opened her eyes, stretched, and smiled at the new morning. However, her boyfriend was in no hurry to return to bed.
The apartment was quiet. Lola got up. She tried to find a dressing gown from a negligee, but then waved her hand. There was no point in hiding after what happened last night. Stepping silently with bare feet, she wanted to find Victor and cling to him with her whole naked body, but ... the man was nowhere to be found. Lilith walked around the whole apartment. Viktor is gone.
Lilith sat on the bed and ran her fingers through her blond hair. She did not cry, but the light of the sunny morning began to fade before her eyes. Looking around the room, she saw that all her belongings were neatly folded, and the table on which her cosmetics and jewelry lay was now empty.
There was now only one object lying on the bare surface of the table - it was a note. The note contained only three words and a question mark. The note asked: "Who is Andy?"
Lilith immediately understood everything. Probably during the love game, she called Victor by a different name. And what was even more likely, it happened more than once a night. The name Lolita gave Victor was probably Andy's.
Lola's first impulse was to run after her lover, call him, explain that there had been a misunderstanding. However, Lola overcame herself. Everything was useless. Lilith sat motionless and experienced the collapse of her nascent love. Everything was over. Lilith was a proud woman, but she would overpower her pride if it made sense. Everything was useless. Lali was bitter because she believed in the possibility of happiness. Lilith knew that even if she returned Victor, their love would still not take place. The sword that had cut down all her love affairs was still hanging over her head.
On Monday, she came to work first. During the day, she caught a glimpse of Victor twice, in the eyes of the big boss there was a question, but Lola did not want to answer, because, in her opinion, it was useless.
Weeks passed. Gradually Lilith calmed down. The pain has not gone anywhere, but the feeling of despair has dulled a little. She knew that if she decides to call, Victor will immediately respond, but she did not want to do this. She was afraid of pain. Love has always been for her only a test of strength and pain. So another month passed.
One evening, returning from work, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head and fell. Falling, she managed to see a male silhouette. Someone threw a stone from the roof of the house. The stone was large, it fell on a tangent, otherwise Lola would no longer be alive. The wound was not large, but it was very painful. Eyes filled with blood. Losing consciousness, Lilith wanted to call Victor, but... she didn't.
Lilith struggled, she tried to get up and walk to the door. There was no one else in the dark courtyard. However, the way to the door of her entrance, which she usually took half a minute, she could not master now in this state. Lola rose and fell again.
Finally, she screamed. She called Andy and asked him for help. With all her being, she reached out to the mind of her beloved. It seemed to her that she was screaming very loudly, but only a hoarseness flew out of her mouth.
And suddenly she saw that her beloved was stretching out his hands to her. The mother's face was filled with tears. Torment and compassion darkened the beloved face. At first, Andy tried to stop the bleeding, he took a handkerchief from his pocket and applied it to the wound. The handkerchief instantly soaked in blood. Then Andy took off his jacket and took off his shirt. He tore his shirt into long pieces and tried to pull his forehead tight to stop the bleeding. This time, he succeeded. The blood had stopped, at any rate, the flap Andy used to pull the wound over was not soaking through so quickly. After that, he, as best he could, wiped Lilith's face from the blood. Lilith was losing consciousness, but, trying to stay on the edge, she still managed to think that today Andy had come to her for the first time in reality, and not in a dream. After that, Andy helped Lali up and took him somewhere.
Lal woke up in the hospital. The doctor said that Lilith was saved by a man from a neighboring house. He was returning late from work and saw a woman lying on the pavement covered in blood. Lola listened to the doctor, but remained unconvinced, and Andy saved her. She knew the truth. If Andy had not helped her, then the male neighbor would have called an ambulance to the already deceased woman. However, she did not say any of this to the doctors. She asked the doctor for the address of the man who saved her and promised to find and thank him.
To the police officer who came to find out who tried to kill Lilith, she could not say anything. She had hunches, but those hunches were just hunches. She did not see the face of the one who threw the stone, she saw only a figure, and even then from afar and through the veil of blood flowing over her eyes. When the doctor left, and after him, after a short conversation, the police officer, Lola's first impulse was to call Victor, she already took the phone from the bedside table, but dialed ... her father's number.
Trying not to be dramatic, she briefly outlined the situation to her father and told him not to panic. Lola then closed her eyes. The woman felt a terriblentsovuyu fatigue. Her body was heavy and motionless. She tried to move, but she couldn't. Lola opened her eyes, the hospital room swam before her eyes. The room turned over and the woman lost consciousness.
When Lilith came to her senses for the second time, she saw that Victor was sitting near her bed. Victor said that Lita slept so long that she missed the arrival of the visitors. During the half day that she slept, Lilit's parents came with their son, Olga came, colleagues and friends came. Lilith was silent.
It was evident that Victor felt uncomfortable that Lit did not say anything. Not knowing what else to say, Victor jokingly scolded Lilith for not calling him when this misfortune happened to her.
However, Lolita did not answer him. She tried to smile, but started crying again. The monitor beeped, the doctor ran in and ordered Victor to leave the room as soon as possible. However, Lilith did not hear any of this anymore, the electronic pharmacist, who was connected to the monitor, ordered to put a solution of sedative medicine into the dropper. Lilith was sleeping and she had a dream.
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
I wanna be with you
Lilith dreamed that she was standing in the middle of a vast field. Apparently, the place where the woman was now was where there was never winter. The field was surrounded on four sides by a bamboo forest.
Lilith got up from the grass and tried to figure out where she should go. However, the trees formed an even square and there was no way out of the square. No one detained Lilith, she was free to get up and leave at any moment. However, something held Lily in place, the woman could not remember how she ended up here, but, however, she remembered well that she had to wait for someone.
Time moved towards evening. Darkness fell suddenly. It had just been light, when suddenly, as if a dark curtain was thrown over the world that surrounded the woman. Lilith stood up and moved unsteadily towards the nearest trees. However, the longer she walked, the farther the exit was from her. As soon as Lilith stopped, she immediately discovered that, it turns out, she had already gone beyond the limits of the bamboo forest.
In the distance, she heard the sound of human voices. Someone was screaming and crying. Coming closer, Lali saw a wedding procession, but the faces of the people who surrounded the wedding palanquin were not cheerful and festive. Looking closer, Lilith saw that a girl had stepped out of the palanquin. Judging by the festive attire, it was the bride.
However, the girl was doing a strange thing, bypassing the people who accompanied her, she suddenly stopped and tore off her red wedding dress. The first time she did not succeed, the dress was sewn to last. However, the second and third attempts were successful.
There was a noise, the escorts did not understand what had come over the beautiful bride. Soon, only shreds remained of the red dress. The bride was left in a white dress, which was worn under red.
This reminded Lilith of something, but before she had time to sort out her memories, her body suddenly drew at a frantic speed to the place where a beautiful girl in a white dress stood. In less than a second, Lilith was next to the girl. But this was not enough, in the next moment Lola's soul was in the body of a beautiful bride.
And in that second, Lilith remembered everything. She remembered the moment when the girl called the dressmaker to sew a white dress. Lilith even remembered her bewilderment, she still could not understand why the bride needed a white dress if she already had a red one. But now everything fell into place. In China, red is the color of life, white is the color of death.
Lilith remembered another detail. The memory returned reluctantly, but Lola was still able to remember that the bride was marrying an unloved person. The one she loved more than life was now dead. The girl's father refused her beloved when he came to their house to woo. The girl was locked in a room under house arrest, and her beloved died of grief.
And now the soul of Lilith has merged with the soul of the heartbroken girl. The girl, if you remember, was called Zhu Yingtai, and the young man was Liang Shanbo. The soul of Lilith clung to the soul of the bride, she wanted to console the unfortunate girl, but immediately realized that the girl had lost her mind from grief. The bride walked to the place where her beloved was buried. And suddenly Lilith remembered. These were memories from another dream, the one she'd had on the train.
Looking at the marble slab on which the name of her beloved was written, Lolita suddenly remembered that there, in that previous dream, she saw another grave slab next to the young man's gravestone. The name of the unfortunate bride was inscribed on this slab. Suddenly Lilith lit up. She tried to stop the girl.
However, the weak-willed mind of the bride suddenly woke up and began to fight desperately. Power over the body of the bride was now divided between two souls, the soul of Lilith and the soul of Zhu Yingtai. From the outside, it seemed that the body of the unfortunate girl was twitching from side to side, but in fact it was Lita who prevented the girl from committing a fatal act.
Lilith now knew what would happen after the unfortunate girl approachedto the grave of a loved one. She immediately conveyed this guess to the girl, but got an unexpected effect. Instead of being frightened, the girl ran at double speed and soon it was already near the grave of her beloved.
Suddenly there was thunder, lightning flashed, a whirlwind swooped in, and at the epicenter of the whirlwind was the grave of the unfortunate young man. Lilith had already experienced these sensations, and now she remembered everything. At that moment, she realized that her struggle was useless. What was destined to happen will happen anyway.
Suddenly, the whirlwind gained such strength that it was able to lift the tombstone. And then the wind changed direction, it began to blow in one direction, in the back of the bride. The gust of wind was so strong that at some point the girl was lifted into the air and spun. The girl screamed, and Lilith screamed along with her, but these two souls no longer controlled the body. The soul of Lolita and the soul of the unfortunate bride embraced, trying to shield each other from the horror that awaited them ahead.
Lilith heard her parents and guests screaming. Another moment and the body of the bride was in the place that Lilith saw in a dream on the way to the Beidaihe resort. The tombstone was thrown aside by the wind, and the bride, the wind with terrible force, threw it to where her beloved was buried.
A sigh of horror swept through the crowd of guests accompanying the bride. The mother of the bride rushed to where the wind had taken her daughter. Leaning over the hole in the ground, she tried to make out the silhouette of her daughter. The unfortunate woman leaned lower and lower and suddenly recoiled, two huge and beautiful butterflies flew out of the grave.
The souls of Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo met again, never to be separated again. Butterflies circled over the speechless crowd, and then, softly flapping their wings, flew away. The sun came out again, its rays illuminated a strange picture. A wedding palanquin stood on the ground, fragments of a red wedding dress lay near the palanquin, and the people who were preparing and waiting for the holiday froze in bewilderment.
Butterflies flew farther and farther. Now everything was right in the relationship of butterflies. The bride butterfly flew ahead, the groom butterfly followed her. The bride's butterfly now had one soul - the soul of Zhu Yingtai.
The soul of Lilith separated from the soul of the bride at the moment when the bride decided to become a butterfly so that she would never be separated from her beloved again. The soul of the bride settled in the body of a butterfly, but Loli had no place there. There was no room for two souls in the tiny body of a butterfly.
And so it happened that Zhu Yingtai flew away, and Lilith ended up in a place where insight comes to unfortunate lonely souls. The woman wandered through the vast, endless hall. This hall was lit only in the middle, the exit and entrance to the hall were lost in the dusk. Ceiling, floor, walls - everything in this hall was mirrored.
Lilith walked, seven women who looked like Lilith followed her. The reflections were not identical. Lilith turned around abruptly. However, her reflections did not want to repeat her movements. Lolita froze, but the reflections continued to move.
The women who were reflected in the mirrors looked like Lilith, but not completely. They had different hair colors, had different clothes, but there was no doubt, all the reflections that Lita now saw were her souls.
Lilith remembered how time after time in her dreams she tried to find her love. Evil fate, like a sword, hung over her head, not allowing her to live a long and happy life with her loved one. Looking at the women who silently looked at her, she increasingly understood the strange plan of the cruel goddess Xi Wang Mu.
The mother goddess was fair, but harsh. She would have been glad to help the unfortunate woman, but the event that happened many centuries ago, and the terrible words uttered by her mother, were like an order for the goddess. The power of the curse, which was greater than the power of the goddess, dictated the events that happened to the soul of Lilith all these long centuries.
If what I am saying is too much of a veil for you, I will try to part the veil and show the truth. Centuries ago, a mother in a fit of rage cursed her daughter for disobeying her. The daughter had the soul of Lilith.
Then the mother changed her mind, but it was too late. The words were spoken and it was impossible to take them back. The curse could not be broken, but its ending could be changed. Only in the ninth incarnation was the curse to go back to where it came from.
Only now Lilith understood why fate did not allow her to connect with her beloved. Century was replaced by a century, but Lilith, and her lover experienced only pain and torment. And now, in this eighth incarnation, love brought Lilith only pain and hopelessness. Now Lita knew why all her love stories ended in failure. As soon as the woman realized all this, there was a sound of breaking glass. Only seven mirrors remain. The seven female figures looked at Lilith, and Lilith looked at them. She remembered all her incarnations.
Up to this point, her dreams had shown her only four incarnations, now she knew that there were seven of these incarnations. However, the sound of glass was growing. Soon Lilith was left alone in the room, and all the mirrors were broken. And at the same moment, Lilith was again swallowed up by complete darkness.
Feeling womanla, that falls somewhere. A voice called her and asked her to return. And in obedience to this voice, Lilith decided that her fall must be stopped.
At the same moment, a bright light hit Lilith's eyes. The light wasn't going anywhere, it was just expanding. This light was so bright and warm that Lita felt her skin warm under the rays of the warm light.
Lilith opened her eyes. She was in the hospital room, on the calendar that hung on the wall of the room, it was September 27, Andy's birthday. Moving her arms and legs, she felt that the heaviness was gone, the body became unusually light.
Victor's silhouette was visible behind the transparent door. He sat with his head down. Sometimes he glanced towards the ward where Lilith lay, his face was distorted by flour. Lolita knew that as soon as she called, the life of this man, and her own, would change. However, she lay there and took no action. Before taking a decisive step, she had to complete one thing.
She knew that she could not love Victor with all her heart, but she understood that his love would be enough for her. His love was so huge that it would be enough for two. But before deciding to take this step, Lilith had to see the one who had been the love of her life for seven long centuries.
She had to see him and ask permission from him for a happy life with another person in this, the eighth incarnation of her soul. Lilith knew that she was not destined to be united with her beloved in this life. However, her soul was already experiencing the eighth incarnation. In the next life, the chains were to fall, and Lita's soul would finally know happiness.
However, the woman was not going to die now, her life and beauty were now in their prime. And so the woman wanted to live this particular life of hers happily. Only now it became clear to Lilith why the lunar elder could not find the red threads in his bag, which were intended for her and her lover. Centuries ago, he had already tied threads to the leg of a woman who had the soul of Lilith, and to the leg of a man who had Andy's soul in his body. Moreover, now Lali understood why the strange woman had given the old man two jade wedding rings. Lali wore one of the rings on her finger without taking it off, she hoped to put the second ring on the finger of a man who would love her more than life itself. Letie did not hope to love again, but she believed that she would be loved.
THE FINAL
If Lilith could talk to the one she loved more than life, she would probably ask him to release her. The woman understood that she had no hope, in this birth, to be with her loved one. That curse, which she knew about, now did not allow Lal to be with the one she loves, but promised all the same - a meeting with her loved one, but, unfortunately, only in the ninth birth. Eight times the soul of Lal was born into the world, seven times she met love, and all seven times she could not stay with her beloved. Now was the eighth time. Lilith loved Andy madly, but she understood that this love had no future. And it was impossible to live like this. Lali needed the one she loved so lightly to touch her and say: "I'm letting you go!"
Lilith knew that her life would only begin after Andy allowed her to no longer love him in this life. Of course, Lita understood that after Andy broke this strange spiritual connection, nothing would change immediately. It is impossible to force yourself to stop loving instantly. However, Lilith still hoped for personal happiness, and the realization of all her dreams.
Lal wept at the thought of not having to love Andy anymore. However, it was impossible to live like this, Lily's life froze in place. Whatever happened, Lilith now knew what was the cause of her past troubles. The curse of the mother did not allow the lovers to unite!
The man she loved was a deeply religious person, and Lilith knew that Andy would give her his hand, touch her palm, and say: “I love you, and let you go!”
Moreover, Lilith was sure that she could help Carroll in her dream of getting pregnant a second time and giving birth to a son. After all, if Andy does not have a son, then how can the soul of Lilith find the soul of her beloved in the ninth birth?
But for this, Lali will need to go to Thailand, to Pattaya, to the temple of truth. A year ago, she begged a child for her daughter in the temple of truth and was sure that she could easily repeat this request again. Only this time she will ask that the higher power, which was in the aisles of the temple of truth, grant the woman whom Lily felt very sorry for a son.
And then she, Lilith, will be sure that in the future, in the future that she could not see now, she will definitely meet her beloved. The lover will have Andy's face and they will live a long and happy life. And no one, neither people nor gods, will dare to separate them!

J;ngsh;n f;nli; zh;ng w; ;i n; ;n d;

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