Chapter 20 nineteen

What Happened in the Rubber Plantation (6) When Reagan woke up, Ali had cleaned up the dining room.When Reagan asked her about Ada, Ali raised her eyebrows in surprise and said, "Ada came here just now, and asked me to borrow a sickle." "Did anyone overboard on the farm?" "It's misinformation. Rumors are flying everywhere these days." The image of Ada holding a sickle appeared in Reagan's mind, and his heart throbbed. "Ali, have I ever signed a contract like that with a man, I mean, a contract to have a house built on a farm? I'm bothered about it."

"Have you regretted this?" "Ah, no, doesn't this kind of life need an external force to break it?" He glanced out the window, it was still sunny outside.There are some eagles circling in the sky, is that because a dead body has been found?For the first time in his life, he felt that his farm was so huge that it was impossible for him to see it all.He bought the adjacent farm a few years ago to connect it with his own rubber plantation farm.It used to be a farm with a variety of cash crops, but he regretted it as soon as he bought it.Since then, he has not visited there once, but handed it over to the manager for management.He felt that he was too old to do so many things.So why bother?It appears that what he bought was a lifelong mystery.These eagles flew over from the original farm over there, as if they had also heard the news of the owner's change, and they had never flown into his airspace before that.He knew that while he was expanding his territory on the surface, there was also a kind of expansion that was going on underground, which was unknown.He could feel the invisible expansion, but it was hard to describe.The sense of expansion intensified when he went into town on business matters.As he walked on the dark and narrow street, he walked into another world.For example, the African woman, the cleaner, belonged to another world, and Reagan could not understand her desire and her contempt for herself anyway.

"What did Ada borrow the sickle for?" "She said mowing the grass. She's always acting weird." Ali sighed. "Why is Ali sighing?" "It's unbelievable to think that this kid can escape from that kind of place. Can you imagine the scene of a flash flood?" "No. I said in my dream, let's fall, let's let the mountain torrent break out, but there are only small hills in this kind of place, how can it break out? Just ask Ada." "Ada has long forgotten, that kind of thing can't be recalled." Lisa galloped across the asphalt road ahead, her skirt was so dirty that she couldn't see the color.Reagan thought it was a purposeless run.A cloud of gloom floated over Ali's face, and she walked into the kitchen sullenly, remembering the sad story of that woman.

The two of them heard footsteps upstairs at the same time, but there was no one upstairs.They listened intently, one on the steps, one in the kitchen.It didn't sound like human footsteps, it was a bit like a big bird, maybe an eagle.Reagan thought, could the smell of the dead body come from upstairs?Someone came running down the stairs, this time it was a human being, Martin. "Martin!!" "What's the matter, Mr. Reagan?" He blushed and hid a large bag of things in his hand behind his back. "Aren't you afraid of eagles?" "Of course I'm afraid." He laughed, "but there's no place to hide. It falls on you like a guillotine, and you will be separated immediately. You won't have time to think." He said the last sentence Time raised his voice, as if mocking.

This time it was Reagan's turn to blush.On the open plains, he had the experience of being chased by eagles.He thought again of the scythe that Ada had borrowed.In that drowsy night, the muffled thunder that sounded from the ground shook his mind into darkness.He said to himself, "Orgasm is hell, because unrelieved pleasure is killing the flesh." "Okay, okay." Martin smiled again, he seemed to see Reagan's thoughts. Lisa sprinted under the scorching sun, her feet were blistered, and she still couldn't stop.All over the farm floor there were people talking, all kinds of people, all kinds of voices.She thought that within a few days, she would become familiar with these underground sounds.At night she sometimes sleeps in the rubber forest, and sometimes by the lake.Those snakes no longer came to invade her, they were far away from her, but she still heard the sound of them sneaking clearly, they were diving deep into the heart of the earth in groups.She thought of Vincent.What is Vincent?He is her dream, her perennial dream.And Vincent himself was living in a dream.She remembered him telling her that he was going to the farm of his dreams.So here he is, and then he's gone.And she, following the scenes of his dreams, got lost in them.How strong she was now, Vincent must not recognize her.In the early hours of the morning, she had a conversation with Ida.