Chapter 17 sixteen

What Happened in the Rubber Plantation (3) Ada couldn't figure out whether the old man really resented the change of environment. He talked about the past in an intoxicated tone, but it seemed to Ada that he was praising the present.He repeatedly said that this farm belonged to Reagan, but Ada believed that he was a thick black shadow behind Reagan.When Reagan came out of the house, Ada saw several shadows trailing behind him, and these shadows made his face pale like a dead man.Ada felt that Reagan would only attract her at such times. The tea leaves applied to her feet irritated the wound, and Ada felt a throbbing pain.She wanted to reach out to wipe them off, but the old man blocked her hand.

"That's what I want, you silly girl, think about those old toads in the puddles, think about it and you'll be fine." Ada felt sexual desire rising in her body in pain, just like the feeling when she was bitten by a snake.She blushed and struggled to stand up, struggling to walk out. "That's right, girl, don't fall down." The old man said behind her. That night she tested the depth of the lake again.She is a good diver, and she walked to the middle of the lake without any difficulty, and then surfaced several times.There were all kinds of calls in the green sky, and she heard them all, and she knew that the man fishing on the shore also heard them, otherwise, why did the reeds keep ringing under his weight?Then, she heard her aunt speaking to her underwater.My aunt used to joke that Ada was too shrewd to calculate the date of her own death. "Isn't it abnormal that a person who is only 20 years old can figure out the date of his own death? I don't want to leave an inheritance to her, that would be murder." When my aunt said this, the two cousins ​​were covering their mouths laugh.Ada reached under the water and felt her aunt's brittle hair, and her heart ached with love and pity.

"Did you really reach the bottom of the lake?" Reagan asked her hesitantly after a long time. The sudden copulation caught him off guard, and he couldn't find the pile of clothes he had left on the shore afterwards.Fortunately, he did not have as good eyesight as Ida, he could hardly see clearly.That inappropriate metaphor kept appearing in his mind: "Man and snake fighting." Sometimes he felt that he was a snake, and sometimes he felt that the other party was a snake.At the beginning of the sex, Ada's body disappeared quickly, and there was a "sizzling" sound from snakes everywhere. Reagan was suspended on the orgasm platform and struggled, and he couldn't get relief from the beginning to the end.He remembered that he seemed to say: "Ada, you are terrible." Then he couldn't breathe.But what he might have said was: "Ada, you are wonderful."

Ada ran away barefoot, the shoes in her hands. Reagan fumbled on the ground for a long time before he found his clothes. He was facing the big mirror in the bedroom, and there was a hazy mist in the mirror, no matter how hard he wiped it, he couldn't clean it off.He couldn't see his own face.Last night, his clothes were wet and covered with mud, Ali said he became a mud people.But he didn't want to change his clothes, his whole body was on fire, and he paced the bedroom like a madman.Ali knocked on the door continuously and relentlessly. "Help me get a mirror." He opened the door a little to reveal half of his face.

Ali came back in a while, holding up an old round mirror outside, which was her dowry decades ago.Reagan looked and looked, and the depth of the faint mirror was always empty.Later Ali hid the mirror behind her back. "You don't need to look at this," she said. "Everything is hidden under the ground, and some things come out at night, and sometimes at noon, when the sun is shining." Ali's bulky body swayed away like an old duck. Reagan heard her go downstairs, and at the same time he heard the sound of desire ebbing in his body, like countless bubbles bursting in water at the same time.His green eyes first appeared in the mirror, and then the whole old face gradually appeared, but in the depths, there was still a looming mist. "Ada, Ada..." Reagan's voice was crying.There was no cloud in the sky outside the window, the scorching sun cracked the ground, and the workers wearing straw hats were hiding in the banana forest in twos and threes.For a moment he thought he saw Ida, among the workers.He wanted to go out into the scorching sun, but his body was shaking so badly that he couldn't stand upright, so he could only stay in the room, "I've become like this," he thought, "why don't I go back Where are you going in your dream?"

He fell asleep curled up on the floor in his dirty clothes. "Mr. Reagan has been painstakingly running this farm for more than 20 years?" Martin asked pretending to be sophisticated. Ali rolled his eyes at him, and she immediately heard the meaning behind his words. "Everything here is booming. I think he can retire. Sleeping like this all day long, not paying attention to anything, is almost the same as retirement. He is too hard on himself." "What if he gives way to you?" Ali asked back. "Me? I'm sorry, I'm not interested. This is a terrible thing. I have never been bitten by a snake, and I don't want to be bitten by a snake. Look at that window. Isn't that the owner standing there? Sometimes he doesn't sleep. , he wants to observe things, he has aged very quickly recently, and his hair is going to be gray."

"Mr. Reagan is in love." "My God, it's terrible. I feel like the farm is going to be messed up." "I've been worrying about fires a lot lately. I've posted the number of the fire brigade on the wall."