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Chapter 47 Chapter Twelve A Night for Two

The Oriole 苏童 5223Words 2018-03-19
Someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and she guessed it was Liu Sheng. He got up and opened the window of the attic, and sure enough, he found Liu Sheng huddled in the door opening, looking up at her.I made contact, and the police station just let me out, so it was a civil dispute.Yagyu made a victorious V-sign below, acquitted, I'm fine! It's fine, I'm sorry for you today.She apologized to him first, then scolded him after that, do you have any brains?Running here in the middle of the night to yell?Go back first, we can discuss tomorrow if there is anything to do.

Can not go back.He said in a low voice, my mother is angry with me and won't open the door for me. I'll stay with you overnight, okay? She sneered at the bottom, fart!She closed the window, turned off the light, couldn't bear to think about it, and opened the window again. A big man, where can't he make do for the night?You sleep here with me, think for yourself whether it is suitable or not?Your mother knows, and will scold me for the bus tomorrow! Liu Sheng said, it was my mother who told me to sleep with you. Your mother hates me, that's an angry word!What's the use of her asking you to come?I didn't let you come!Go back and ask your mother, is my place a brothel, come here casually in the middle of the night?

Liu Sheng was silent below for a while, then muttered, disrespectful.Women are unjust.Resentfully, he went out into the street, glanced again at the garret window, and this time rebuked him harder, saying, I know you now, what can I do for you?You have no conscience, no conscience.She saw his frustrated face, illuminated by the street lamp, pale, unshaven, handsome and haggard combined, showing a strange sense of sexiness.My conscience has long been swallowed by dogs, did you just know?She responded to him with such words, but the pity in her heart prevailed in an instant, forget it, she knocked on the window sill and said, the bus is the bus, open the door by yourself.She wrapped the key in a rag and threw it through the attic window, and as she wished, the key landed on the road with a muffled pop.Even so, before closing the window, she still observed the dark windows of the neighbors, and vaguely saw a lot of lurking eyes and ears. She said, as long as you chew your tongue tomorrow, Miss Ben will be ruined long ago, so it doesn't matter.

She refused to go down to the attic, so she asked Liu Sheng to go to the kitchen to make a bowl of instant noodles to satisfy his hunger, and arranged for him to sleep in the big room downstairs.Liu Sheng took a shower with cold water in the patio, went back to the house and asked, do you know where Baorun's clothes are kept?She said that there were several men's clothes in the closet in the big room, and she didn't know whose one belonged to them, so she went to find them herself.Liu Sheng went to the big room, and he opened the old cabinet doors and drawers. There was a continuous creaking sound from downstairs, and Liu Sheng complained, how can you wear these rotten pants?It's either Baorun's father's, or his grandfather's, it's either from a dead person, or from a lunatic, I'll go to the attic to find a pair of Baorun's pants, okay?She said, no!Don't come up, I don't have moisturizing pants here, don't care about the dead or alive, you can make do with them.

She discreetly placed a cardboard box on the landing, symbolizing a door.After that, she turned off the lights, and turned off the lights below, and the surroundings were quiet.This night was a bit weird, she slept in the attic, he slept in the attic, and they both slept in Baorun's house.She felt that this night was so strange that she and Liu Sheng were both sleeping under the roof of Bao Run's house.For no reason, she thought of the sky-blue wire rabbit cage and the two rabbits she raised.She and Liu Sheng are more like two rabbits, two rabbits, one gray and one white, they are now sleeping in a Baorun cage.

She fell asleep in a daze, and vaguely felt that the long-dissipated smell of moisturizer had returned to the attic, greasy hair, shoes and socks that she had forgotten to wash, and the sour smell from the sweat glands, all the smell of moisturizer had returned , they haunt her, asking her treacherously, how about it?what do you think?Until dawn, she was awakened by a sound on the stairs.Liu Sheng's footsteps came, and those footsteps were cautiously exploring on the wooden steps, and suddenly became bold, and with a bang, a thick figure stood on the stairs. She sat up from the bed and yelled at Liu Sheng's black shadow, what's the matter, do you want to rape again?

Hei Ying froze for a moment, and stood there motionless.Don't say that, I didn't mean that, you have such a big belly, a beast can do that kind of thing.The black shadow stepped over the cardboard box and said, I'm bored, I can't sleep, and I just want to talk to you. Okay, I'll accompany you, just stand there and talk.She turned on the light, grabbed a pair of scissors in her hand, and said, what the hell are you going to say? Liu Sheng sat on the cardboard box and scratched his head.Too much to say to begin with.Let’s talk about the past first, that and that, the incident in the water tower.He said, I am actually a good person, and anyone who knows me knows that I am a good person.I have never understood for so many years, why did you do that to you back then?They all said that I lost my soul, and my soul was not with me. Didn’t many people lose their souls on our street that year?

I see, I don't blame you for raping me, but for losing your soul.She said, what about now, now that your soul is on you? Now?Things are a little more complicated now.Liu Sheng said, when you are not here, my soul is there, and when you come back, my soul is lost again. What's the meaning?I'm a ghost, hooked your soul?How did your mother's words come out of your mouth? No, it's different, my mother is superstitious, she blames you, I don't blame you.Liu Sheng turned his face back and forth, finally looked at the light, and said, "This light bulb hurts my eyes and makes me uncomfortable. Can you turn off the light?"I'll talk to you a few more words and go to sleep.

She hesitated, turned off the light, and held the scissors in the dark.Come on, keep it short, no confession, no courtship, I don't believe anything anymore, I'm tired of this. It's not a courtship, and it's not a confession, just a few words from the heart.He searched too hard for the right vocabulary, so the words became difficult. I like you, but not you. I treat you well, but I treat fairies. He said, this complexity, my family does not understand, you understand? Impatiently, she patted the bed with the scissors, and said sharply, if you want to talk, just say it, what kind of American ginseng are you pretending to be with a head of garlic, and come with me to pretend to be profound?You can't explain clearly, let me tell you, the fairy is me, Miss Bai is also me, I let you go unpunished for so many years, you just feel guilty, you just pay off the debt, what's so hard to understand?

No, it's complicated.It's not guilt, it's not debt repayment, my situation is more complicated than that.He paused for a while, his eyes radiated a sincere light in the darkness, do you admit it or not, my conditions are not bad in all aspects?Do you know why I am not married until now?To tell you the truth, I have slept with many women these years, several beauties, some of them are prettier than you!But I think that no one is as clean as a fairy, no one is as exciting as a fairy, and no one is as sexy as a fairy. I don't know what kind of demon I am. I feel boring after sleeping. Please analyze it for me. Why?

He talked to her about fairies as if she were another person, and he talked about fairies to her as if she were another person.She sat in the dark, motionless, the dull pain in her heart gradually became sharper, and suddenly she gritted her teeth, and threw the scissors in her hand towards him, I'll tell you why, scumbag!Because she's tied up, because she's a virgin, because she's only fifteen, and because you men are rapists!Rapist, get out of here! He dodged the flying scissors, stood up dejectedly, and calmed down his anger. If I had known this, I would not have communicated with you. If everyone says it’s past, let it pass. Why the hell can’t I get through it?Standing on the stairs, he turned his head and said with deep regret, "Look, look, isn't it interesting?"I regard you as a bosom friend, but you still regard me as a criminal! It was already dawn, and the milkman rattled past with his trolley through the street.She tossed and turned in the attic, and Yagyu's loud snoring sounded in the big room downstairs. An unsuccessful communication aroused her pain, but it was enough to make him let go of his thoughts.At first she was very irritable, and she took a plastic slipper and tapped on the floor. She was chatting just now, but she snored after a while, are you a pig?Downstairs said, pigs are not as tired as I am, I will stop snoring, I will sleep on my side.Maybe he was really too tired and couldn't guarantee his sleeping position, and soon the snoring sounded again.She held the plastic slippers in her hand, but couldn't bear to knock on the floor again, she endured it.Patience is a chemical process, and a very unexpected result appeared. Gradually, the snoring sound seemed to change into a lullaby, like background music. All the notes are coaxing her, sleep, sleep well, I am upstairs I will accompany you, I will accompany you. After dawn, she fell asleep.The tap in the kitchen was dripping.The sound of dripping water brought her a sense of peace.Behind the tranquility is an indescribable sweetness.Yes, sweet.After the night is over, the dawn is sweet.She began to enjoy the dawn.Years is a bit strange, imitating the rabbit cage of her girlhood, weaving a sky-blue cage, she is like a rabbit, trapped in the cage.Someone was accompanying her, trapped in the cage, and she still dare not identify who was accompanying her in the cage.In the twilight of the attic, she vaguely saw Bao Run's shadow, that shadow wandered upstairs and downstairs, with a pair of pure and sad eyes, watching them and guarding them.Intermittent dreams come.Dreams are always weird.Baorun wasn't in her dreamland, and Liu Sheng didn't enter her dreamland either. It was her grandfather who broke into the dreamland.She dreamed that her grandfather was sitting on the roof, bound all over, with tears on his face, and his eyes were like a nighthawk, dark and sad.My soul is lost, and I don't know where it went.Girl, have you ever seen a light?A little girl stole my soul, is it you?Girl, did you steal my soul? She slept until after nine o'clock before slowly going downstairs to the attic.Liu Sheng’s voice came from the courtyard, I made a pot of porridge, you can eat it while it’s hot, I’m drying the clothes, mine and yours are all washed.She glanced towards the patio and asked, why don't you go?Liu Sheng didn't seem to be ready to answer this question. He put her purple pleated skirt on the bamboo pole, tilted his head to admire it, and fixed the skirt on the hanger with two clips. He said, this skirt is very beautiful. There was still a small fire on the stove, a pot of porridge smelled like new rice, there were sliced ​​salted duck eggs on the table, and a pot of mustard shreds.She sat down to drink porridge, and suddenly felt that this morning was actually very good.There was nothing wrong with her being with Liu Sheng.They had never been in love, had never been married, and never got along, but they had a tacit understanding like a loving couple. He was drying clothes in the courtyard, and she was drinking porridge in the kitchen.She took a bite of mustard and said, funny, really funny.How is it not funny?This is the scene of family life that she has imagined many times. This is the minimum happiness for a woman in her mind. She once thought that the horse trainer Qu Ying would give her this happiness. She once thought that Mr. Pang would give her this happiness. She used to I have met a few men I like and asked them similar questions, will you cook porridge for me in the future?Would you like to wash my underwear for me in the future?They both made solemn promises, but in the end, the promiser disappeared, and the man who prepared her breakfast and washed her clothes turned out to be Yagyu, how could this not be funny? She also wanted to serve a bowl of porridge, and was about to stand up when she felt the fetus in her womb move suddenly.The fetus kicked her once, lightly, from left to right, again, a little harder this time, and she even saw the fabric of the nightgown vibrate.As if enchanted, she sat stiffly on the chair and said, funny, why did you move? Liu Sheng came to the kitchen, saw her holding a bowl in a daze, and asked, what's wrong?You don't like porridge?She said, it's not porridge, it's a child, he's alive, he can already move.Liu Sheng said, since you can't see the child, how do you know he is alive?She put down the bowl, pressed her hand on her abdomen, and followed the naughty little foot of the fetus. He is in my stomach. I don't know who knows?She said, this is his little foot, his little foot, kicking me! The surprise lasted for a few minutes, and the fetus calmed down, and so did she.Her face looked serious, and she asked Liu Sheng, how could she kick her legs when she was only five or six months old?Could I be pregnant with a freak?Liu Sheng winked at her and said, whether the child is a freak depends on whether his father is a man or a ghost.She said, I'm going to die of worry, please be serious.Liu Sheng's expression was serious, why am I not serious?I'm talking about genetics, do you know Dongfeng?Dongfeng's father has six fingers on his left hand, and Dongfeng's left hand also has six fingers!And Ah Liu, Ah Liu's father has an aquiline nose, Ah Liu also has an aquiline nose, the two noses are hooked exactly the same!She said, what about you?How about your genetics?If you have a son in the future, you will also be a rapist?Liu Sheng was so embarrassed by her choking that he didn't dare to speak.She lowered her head, and her fingers slowly crossed the mountains in her abdomen. Her fingertips gradually trembled. When the child moved, why would I be afraid?She said, did you hear what the nurse said?I went to the hospital the day after tomorrow, not for an operation, but to kill someone. Liu Sheng covered his mouth and patted it, which meant that he refused to speak. Seeing that her eyes were still asking, he spread his hands and said, don't stare at me like that, you are not my child!Whether to have children or not, parents decide, father is a ghost, mother is human anyway, mother makes up her own mind. I'm confused, I ask you to give me an idea? I dare not take this idea for you.Liu Sheng said, both left and right are wrong, and you don't trust me, and I will get a bad name in the end if I come up with any ideas. She stared at him with a strange look, and continued to drink porridge.The TV in the living room was on, and it was a video of League One A, and an ecstatic voice was shouting, scored a world wave and finally scored!She said, it's so noisy, you are the only person who still has the appetite to watch Chinese football, go and turn off the TV, now it's my turn to talk to you. Liu Sheng ran over suspiciously and turned off the TV. Looking at her expression when he came back, he suddenly felt a little nervous. We don't need to be so grand in our heart-to-heart talk, right?Just order whatever you want, you are now controlling two people with one mouth, and the porridge is not enough for you, so I will go out and buy you some meat buns to eat? He was about to run, but she pulled her hard and pulled him back to the chair.You sit here, I want to ask you something first.Her eyes were directly on his face, twinkling, everyone said I was a bus, do you think I was a bus? Ask about this?Liu Sheng laughed and said openly, if you were the bus, I would be the bus driver, haha.Ha ha. well said.Her expression couldn't be seen to be angry or tragic, and her fingers trembled slightly along the edge of the bowl.I'm the bus, you're the bus driver, aren't we just a couple?She suddenly said, now listen carefully, the second thing I want to ask you is, do you want to drive my bus? He froze for a moment, blushed suddenly, waved his hands again and again, I was joking, Miss Bai, don't take it seriously. You are not serious, I am serious.She said, I resigned to my fate, and there are no good days waiting for me. I have thought of two ways. The first way is to keep the child and let the child accompany me. The second way is to ask you, if I put Take the child away, will you accompany me? accompany?What does accompany mean?His head hit the cabinet, and the pots and pans inside trembled. He covered the back of his head with his hands and looked at her timidly. Is this companion a husband or a lover? What do you say?Her face turned pale, her voice began to tremble, am I not consulting you?Are you going to be a husband or a lover? He hesitated for a moment, licked his lips, and a shy smile flashed across his face, it's not suitable to be a husband, let me be your lover. The air in the kitchen froze for a moment.She felt suffocated.She couldn't help crying, tears were already rolling in her eyes, but she put her head on the table in time to prevent Liusheng from seeing her face.Okay, Yagyu, now I can see you clearly.She leaned on the table and laughed, it was funny, it was so funny, the flowers were going to be planted on the cow dung, and the cow dung didn't look down on the flowers!A girl wants to marry a rapist, and the rapist despises her, thinks she is unclean, thinks she is a bus!She laughed for a while, then finally calmed down, and lit Liu Sheng's nose with a chopstick, you've been fooled!I was just probing your heart, but are you serious?She said, why do you want to be my lover?If you are my dog, I think it's dirty, so get out of here. Liu Yu moved behind her, as a basic comfort, he tried to touch her shoulder, waved his hand twice in the air, and finally retracted cautiously.From the corner of her eye, she could see a figure slowly fleeing. Liu Sheng stood at the door of the kitchen and said, "Don't be arrogant, calm down, Chun Geng is calling me, we are going to the car market today."Without looking up, she picked up the porridge bowl and took a loud sip.Liu Sheng's footsteps stopped by the gate for a while, and Chun Geng was really calling me.Liu Sheng said loudly, the insurance premium for the car accident has come down, we are going to look at the car, we can’t do business without a car, I am going to buy a Shenyang Jinbei.
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