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Getting to know the lamp
It was a table lamp imitating the style of the Republic of China, also called “bank lamp”. Green lampshade, white bulb, pull cord switch, bronze base and connecting rod, nothing superfluous and no superfluous features. Such a table lamp does not seem to have a high “price ratio” nowadays, so Liu Zhu doesn’t really like this table lamp, but because it was given to him by Tao Qingyi, and he likes her, Therefore, this lamp has an unusual status in his mind.
At first, Liu Zhu felt that this lamp was out of place in a room full of modern equipment, and the reason why he put it on the table was just out of his longing for Tao Qingyi. But when he knew that it was impossible between them, he put away the lamp together with his love for her. But after that, he always felt that something was missing on the table. So after a while, he put the lamp on the table again.
Later, Liu Zhu gradually found out that he couldn’t live without this lamp since he didn’t know when.
During the day, the presence of this lamp is still a little out of the way; but at night, when it is lit, it looks so elegant, beautiful and full of charm.
The light yellow light emitted by the white light bulb is like the morning sun, which is bright and fresh; like the sunset, it is soft but brilliant; it is also like the moonlight, bright and elegant. The lampshade is transparent and flawless like precious jade. From a distance, it looks like a long luminous pearl in the dark, reflecting half of the roof a faint green. The lamp rope, connecting rod and lamp holder restrain their presence in time. Although they are still there, they do not attract attention. Like the green leaves, rhizomes and soil against the flowers.
At night, Liu Zhu would occasionally light this lamp, gently stroking the emerald lampshade with his hands, staring at the transparent green light passing through his fingers, feeling the somewhat unreal beauty. Before he knew it, a smile appeared on his face that he didn’t even notice.
He used to read, write, think, and be in a daze under this lamp, enjoying the wonderful silence that belonged to him. Even the occasional sound of footsteps from upstairs, the occasional sound of conversation outside the door, the occasional sound of rain or even thunder outside the window would not affect the tranquility this lamp brought him in the slightest.
Whenever he was frustrated, whenever he was tired, whenever he felt lonely, he would always sit in front of this lamp. While the lamp doesn’t solve any practical problems for him, it does make him feel relaxed and get a moment of peace.
The lamp at this time was not just a lamp to Liu Zhu, but a close friend who was willing to listen to his thoughts at any time.
One day, a guest came to the house. After one of the guests saw the lamp, he asked Liu Zhu if the lamp had any special origin. Liu Zhu said that it was bought by his ex-girlfriend on the Internet as a gift for him. The other party expressed disbelief. Liu Zhu was very puzzled and asked the other party why. The other party said that the workmanship of this table lamp is very delicate, it does not look like something that can be bought casually on the Internet, and from the point of view of the craftsmanship, it does not look like modern craftsmanship, but rather like the period of the Republic of China, it is estimated that it cost a lot of money. Got it from a collector.
When the other party said this, Liu Zhu also began to feel a little strange. There are many types and functions of table lamps on the market today, and there are also a few table lamps designed to be extremely chic, elegant, and in line with modern aesthetics, but there is no table lamp like this. The workmanship of this table lamp is so exquisite, but it does not have any superfluous functions, not even a trademark or a word, and it will never be an ordinary daily necessities.
In order to understand the origin of this lamp, Liu Zhu recalled the scene when Tao Qingyi gave him this lamp five years ago.
That day was a day after they had been together for half a year. Liu Zhu originally thought that day was nothing special, just like every day they had spent. If she hadn’t brought the lamp that day, if it hadn’t been their last day together, he wouldn’t remember anything that happened that day. But in fact, every detail of this day was deeply etched in his mind, and he couldn’t forget it if he wanted to.
seems to be leaving
“What’s in this box?” Hearing the knock on the door, Liu Zhu opened the door and saw Tao Qingyi with a wooden box in his hand standing outside the door.
“The desk lamp, for you!” Tao Qingyi said as she walked towards the door and handed the box in her hand to Liu Zhu.
“Table lamp? Why is it still packed in a wooden box, like an antique, where did it come from?”
“Why do you have so many questions? I saw this on the Internet and thought it was very beautiful. I bought it for you on purpose! Don’t like it, right? Give it to me and I’ll throw it away!”
“Hey, don’t. Like, like.”
Liu Zhu opened the wooden box and saw this lamp. It was so beautiful indeed that he even wondered if it was just an art piece and couldn’t really be lit up. He decided to give it a try, put the lamp on the table, plugged it in, and pulled the cord. The desk lamp is on.
“Wow~ it can actually light up!” Liu Zhu exclaimed in surprise.
“Are you stupid? The desk lamp can’t be lit, so is it still called a desk lamp?”
“That’s true. But I always feel that this lamp and this wooden box seem to have a sense of age. Hey, wait, you said that you bought it online, why is there no courier note on this wooden box? Which store bought it? Yes, I want to see what’s going on in this store. By the way, how much is this lamp?” Liu Zhu spoke while admiring the lamp.
“Why do you have so many questions? Thinking about it with your toes, you know it’s an imitation. The express order is torn up, and I can’t remember which store it is. It’s 288 yuan…” “I’ll give you a table lamp, how important is this table lamp? , the important thing is whether I am in the mood? You have asked here and there, and so many questions are about the lamp. I have been standing here for a long time, and you do not ask me whether I am tired or thirsty. I will give you something, You didn’t even say thank you, you just kept staring at the lamp!”
“Okay, baby, I was wrong, I won’t ask. I like everything you gave, thank you baby!” Liu Zhu stood up and hugged Tao Qingyi. She also hugged him tightly.
Tao Qingyi’s body trembled slightly, and tears flowed from her eyes like a waterfall, soaking Liu Zhu’s shoulders. He could feel it all, and he knew that she was holding back the cry at this moment. But he didn’t ask anything, just patted her on the back gently, comforting each other silently with this silence.
After a long time, they slowly put down the hands that hugged each other tightly. Tao Qingyi hurriedly wiped away the wet tears, for fear of being seen. Liu Zhu also smartly pretended to be nothing.
“You can rest for a while. I’ll go buy some food and prepare for cooking. I’ll call you when I’m done.” Liu Zhu said, changing his shoes and preparing to go out.
“Wait! Don’t go yet…”
“what’s wrong?”
“I’m fine, I just want to stay with you for a while…”
“Okay, when I come back from shopping, I can stay for as long as I want. Be obedient, I’ll go, see you later.”
Tao Qingyi wanted to say something, but she didn’t say it.
However, half an hour later, Liu Zhu returned home after shopping, but he didn’t see Tao Qingyi. He only found a note under the base of the lamp, which read, “Ferry with you on the same boat. return.”
After being stunned for a while, Liu Zhu tried to call Tao Qingyi’s number, but the system indicated that the number was empty.
In Liu Zhu’s view, there is no vigorous love story between him and Tao Qingyi, and their love is so bland that there is hardly any remarkable storyline. From the beginning to the end, it was just a random encounter, a consensual relationship, and an unexpected breakup.
It’s not that Liu Zhu doesn’t know anything about the breakup, he just doesn’t want to think about it. Tao Qingyi has a good figure and a beautiful person, so there must be many men who pursue her. And that day, she suddenly gave herself a table lamp with a green lampshade, her silent cry when they hugged, her hesitating to speak, her leaving without saying goodbye, all seemed to imply to him that she had cheated.
The cheating of his girlfriend made Liu Zhu sad, but her departure made him even more sad. At this time, he even more hoped that Tao Qingyi could come back to him. No matter what she did, he still loved her. He believed that she also loved himself.
In the period after that, whenever he saw this lamp, Liu Zhu would always think of Tao Qingyi, the scene when they met, the scene when they were together, how she gave him the lamp, their conversation, hugs, and the scene where she disappears at the end.
At first, Liu Zhu felt that Tao Qingyi hid because she felt that she had made a mistake and didn’t know how to face him. He has tried all kinds of methods to find her whereabouts, but has been to no avail. Later, he gradually thought that she should have found a better home and didn’t want him to disturb her current life. He also gradually gave up searching. To him, she seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and it was as if she had never appeared in this world.
The heart of the lamp is like my heart
Every time he recalled that experience in the past, Liu Zhu focused on Tao Qingyi, ignoring some details at that time.
Liu Zhu found the wooden box and looked at it carefully, and there was no trace of the express delivery note. Even after five years, the wooden box has been well preserved. If the courier bill is really posted, there must be traces. What’s more, he had seen this wooden box when he first got it, and there was no trace. Besides, what kind of online store would use such a grand wooden box to package a desk lamp?
Now it seems that this lamp is really not “bought on the Internet” for “288 yuan” as Tao Qingyi said, but why she lied to herself, Liu Zhu doesn’t know. But now he doesn’t want to worry about it. Compared with her, he wants to know more about this lamp. But to be on the safe side, he didn’t dare to let more people know about the existence of this lamp, so he could only investigate by himself.
I have searched for a long time and have not found any useful information. Over time, Liu Zhu slowly put this matter down. After all, no matter how much you investigate, it’s just a matter of finding out whether this lamp is an antique or not. But even if it was a priceless antique, Liu Zhu couldn’t sell it. After all, he could only feel at ease when he saw it.
But one day, something strange happened.
That morning, before dawn, Liu Zhu woke up. He habitually sat at the table, lit the lamp, and stood there for a while under this familiar, calming light. A few minutes later, he took out his phone to check the time, but found that there was no WIFI signal. He was about to check the router, but found that the place where the router light was supposed to be turned on was dark.
Liu Zhu vaguely felt something was wrong, but because he had just woken up, he was still a little confused and didn’t realize what was wrong.
In the next second, he suddenly recovered as if struck by lightning! He found that all the electrical appliances in the house had stopped working, including routers, refrigerators, air conditioners, automatic induction lights and various electrical running indicators, which meant that there was a power outage, and this desk lamp actually… just realized this, this A table lamp also went out suddenly.
At this point, the room was pitch black. Liu Zhu turned on the screen of his mobile phone, carefully found the lamp cord of the lamp, and pulled his right hand tremblingly, but the lamp was not lit.
Later, Liu Zhu learned that from 23:00 last night, the community where he lived had a power outage due to a failure of the power supply facilities, and it was not until noon the next day that the maintenance was completed and the power supply was restored. Since he went to bed early last night, he had no idea there was a power outage. And the lamp, he was very sure that he was not dreaming or hallucination, it was on, and when he realized the power outage, it suddenly went out.
Liu Zhu didn’t know how to explain this, but it made him more convinced that this lamp was not an ordinary lamp. “Uncommon” is not reflected in its age and value, but in the unexplained magical phenomenon that happens to it.
Liu Zhu recalled how he had gotten along with this lamp in the past few years: every time he was troubled, as long as he was in front of this lamp, his mood would be much calmer. He always thought that this was just some kind of psychological effect, and that his heart and this lamp had established some kind of feedback mechanism, which made him feel at ease when he saw this lamp. At the root, it is only the psychological effect of oneself, not the credit of the lamp.
But after this incident, Liu Zhu’s heart was shaken. He began to wonder if the lamp really had some kind of magical power. He began to experiment, and the results of the experiment shocked him.
Liu Zhu first found several identical power strips, then randomly disassembled a few of them, cut off all the internal wires, and then assembled the casing. In this way, these power strips, although they look the same, cannot be used. But when he connected the lamp to these power strips, the lamp would be lit every time.
Later, Liu Zhu tested these power strips with other electrical appliances, marked the bottom of the broken power strip, mixed it with other power strips, and then connected the lamp. He connected the lamp to a power strip, pulled the lamp cord, and the lamp came on. But the moment he picked up the power strip and found a mark on the bottom, the lamp went out again.
Later, Liu Zhu marked one of the normal power strips and mixed them with other broken ones. He connected the lamp to these power strips and tried to light them one by one, but they failed to light up. Although he was sure that one of the power strips must be good.
Finally, Liu Zhu picked up a bunch of power strips, connected the lamp to one of them, covered the power strips with a cardboard box, and then randomly selected a plug of the power strip to connect to the power supply, and pulled the light cord. . He did this over and over many times, and each time the result was: as long as he believed that the power was properly connected, the lamp would turn on; as long as he believed that it was not properly connected, the lamp would not turn on. If the desk lamp is on, and it is found that it is not properly connected after opening the carton, the desk lamp will go out immediately; if the desk lamp is not on, after opening the carton and finding that it is correctly connected, the desk lamp will light up immediately.
The conclusion drawn from the experiment was a fact that Liu Zhu never dared to imagine, but had to believe—the lamp was not turned on and off with a light cord at all, but with thoughts; and this lamp does not need electricity at all , as long as the user firmly believes that it can light up, it will light up.
After knowing the secret of this table lamp, Liu Zhu found that he could control the on and off of the table lamp directly with his mind, that is, when it was not plugged in, as long as he believed that it would light up, it would actually light up.
In this way, Liu Zhu also has reason to believe that the calm that the lamp can bring him is not psychological, but real. While he didn’t know how it all happened, he knew it did happen.
Liu Zhu slowly realized that he really knew too little about this lamp, or it should be said that he really knew too little about the world. He didn’t know why this desk lamp had such a magical function, didn’t know that this desk lamp had other functions that he didn’t know, and didn’t know how many items as magical as this desk lamp existed in the world.
Liu Zhu became more curious about this lamp and the story behind it. But he understands that on the premise that more people cannot know the existence of this lamp, with his own strength, I am afraid there is no chance to figure out this matter.
To be continued
That night, Liu Zhu had a dream. In the dream, he searched for a movie called “Borrowing a Life” on the computer. After waking up, he sat in front of the computer and found such a movie according to the dream.
The background of the film is set in the Republic of China period a hundred years ago, and the protagonists are a young couple. The husband is terminally ill and is about to die soon, but the wife never leaves. The husband did not want to drag his wife down, so he secretly left his wife. The wife searched for her husband’s trace all day long, but nothing came of it. She washed her face in tears all day and became increasingly haggard.
When the husband learned about his wife’s situation, he couldn’t bear it, so he joined a mysterious organization. It is said that the organization has many sorcery techniques for believers to practice, among them the technique of foreseeing the future, the technique of resurrecting the soul, and the technique of changing fate against the sky. Most people just think that it is a naive deception, but some terminally ill and desperate people see it as a life-saving straw and hold on tight.
Many days later, the haggard wife received a letter from her long-lost husband. The husband told his wife in the letter that after seeing the letter, he immediately went to a furniture store mentioned in the letter and bought the container on the right side of the entrance door. Two table lamps.
The wife confirmed that it was her husband’s handwriting, so she immediately cheered up and went to the furniture store mentioned in the letter.
The husband also told his wife in the letter that after joining the mysterious organization, he had learned the art of predicting the future. But just when he was halfway through learning the art of borrowing the corpse, he was about to die because of the worsening of the disease.
Therefore, the husband did two things with his remaining life: selectively predicted something that would happen in the future; and transferred his soul to the lamp mentioned in this letter. The reason why I chose a desk lamp is because at my current level, the most advanced item that I can control is a desk lamp.
The husband will continue to learn the revival technique in the table lamp, but since the level of the table lamp is not as good as that of the human body, it takes a hundred years of practice to succeed. In other words, the wife can’t wait for her husband to come back in her life. But the husband promised his wife that in this life they have no chance to be husband and wife. In the next life, in the next life, he will definitely find her and continue the relationship with her. Because he has seen the sweet scene when they are back together a hundred years later through the Prediction of the Future.
The husband asked his wife to take good care of this lamp and give it to a trustworthy person before dying. And the most trustworthy person is none other than his own children. Therefore, the husband persuades the wife to remarry, form a new family, and live out this life. Still so young after all. Even if we don’t think about ourselves, we should think about our happiness in a hundred years from now. If he has no biological children, then after his wife’s death, this lamp may not be properly kept, the husband’s soul may disappear, and the two will never meet again.
In order to avoid the wife’s suspicion, the husband also specially mentioned in the letter the people, things, and words that the wife would encounter on the way to the furniture store, all of which were fulfilled one by one.
When the wife arrived at the furniture store, she walked straight to the lamp that her husband explained in the letter, raised her hands gently, and walked slowly towards the counter. The shopkeeper picked up a wooden box, wrapped the lamp in red silk, put it in the wooden box, and gave it to his wife. After the wife paid the money, she held the box in both hands and walked towards the home step by step. The movie came to an end in the back of his wife.
When he saw that the lamp in this movie was exactly the same as the lamp in front of him, Liu Zhu vaguely guessed that this movie must be about the origin of this lamp. But why did this lamp come to Tao Qingyi, and why did Tao Qingyi give this lamp to him? Could she be the offspring of the new family the wife in the movie started? And is she the person she thinks she can trust?
In normal times, Liu Zhu would never believe such a ridiculous story, let alone a story in a movie. However, he thought, since it is a movie, why not start with this movie and learn about the behind-the-scenes creation story of this movie? There might be some new clues.
Liu Zhu asked his friends if they had seen this movie called “Borrowing a Life”. However, the answer from my friends is: no. Some of them asked him back, when was the film made and who was the director? He was stunned for a while, and then searched for the movie again. This time, however, there was no information about the movie in the search results. But I clearly found and saw the movie that day, but now I really can’t find any information about the movie. What is going on in all this?
Now, Liu Zhu’s heart has fully believed that the so-called movie that only he has seen is not a movie at all, but a real historical record. This lamp is the lamp in the movie, which means that the husband in the movie may be in this lamp at this time…
This is the first time that this lamp has made Liu Zhu feel fear, and this fear far exceeds his previous curiosity about this lamp. How he wished that he had never seen this lamp, never knew the magic of this lamp, how he wished that this lamp would disappear completely in front of his eyes.
Just thinking of this, the desk lamp in front of me suddenly emitted a strong light. Liu Zhu hurriedly closed his eyes, covered it with both hands, and quickly stepped back. But this invincible bright light still made a dazzling white light in front of his eyes. But soon, the white light disappeared. Liu Zhu opened his eyes cautiously, and found that it was pitch black in front of him, which should be temporary blindness caused by strong light. After a period of time, when he could gradually see everything around him, he suddenly discovered that the lamp had really disappeared!
To be continued.
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