Chapter 36 thirty five

Maria's hobbies (4) She pictured herself covered in verdigris, sitting in the sun among the rose bushes.Maybe Daniel saw the patina on her face and neck.Daniel was her son, and from the day he was conceived in the womb, the small town wind had blown his young cheeks.Maria remembers an incident that happened when Daniel was 10 years old.Early that morning, my son escaped her guard, went to the garden of the neighbor's house, got into the dog house, and squatted in it without moving.Maria was very crazy at the time, holding her lost son and crying loudly. Maria knew that Daniel loved her, but that kind of love was too gray, even old, which made her feel distressed.She was not sure whether her son loved his father or not, and she felt that the father-son relationship between them was rare, from the fact that Daniel could see the Japanese girl's kimono in the swirls on her tapestry at a glance. It is evident in the.Some people in this world do not communicate emotions through language, nor through being together day and night. They can achieve deeper communication in alienation and silence.Thinking of this, Maria seemed to see the patina on her body gleaming.

Maria's short gray hair stood up one by one in the mirror, and her expression became tense.Is this some kind of awakening?Will this kind of turmoil that happened before she was about to enter old age lead her into eternal silence? On nights when Joe was away, Maria turned off all the lights in the house.On nights like this, not even her parents and grandfather spoke.However, she collided with her son in the living room, and she broke out in a cold sweat. "I heard you call me, and I came back." Daniel said. "I didn't call you." "Maybe you didn't know you called me. The night is so beautiful. Our home is like a laurel tree. Mom, tell me, should I climb up the path leading to the top of the mountain? The snow on the top of the mountain is so dazzling .”

Maria heard her son's voice trembling, and she thought, what a passionate young man. "Mom, today I helped the Vietnamese on Church Street tidy up the garden. After the rain, thousands of earthworms came out of the ground, and the family stood calmly drinking tea at the door." "You've got a job, kid." "Where is Vietnam? I was hoeing and thinking about this question, but I couldn't figure it out. But just now, when you called me, I walked all the way, and I immediately thought of Vietnam. I saw that family in the dark The house is sheltered from the rain. The little girl is barefoot and has leeches on her feet... They don't make a sound about this kind of thing."

"Daniel, are you in love?" "I'm in a dead end. I go crazy when I see earthworms." "Daniel, let me touch your face." Maria reached out to her son, but couldn't touch anything.She knew the Vietnamese family. They owned a laundry chain. Both adults and children had a determined expression on their faces. The girl went to a public school and walked very carefully, which was completely different from the girls here. Daniel disappeared from the house as quietly as a cat, leaving Maria in utter silence.In the second half of the night, she was woken up by hail.The hailstorm was very strange, and hailstones the size of eggs shot towards her window and fell to the ground.Later she put them in a washbasin, which was full.The windows in Joe's room were well shut, and the glass was not broken.Maria lay down on Joe's bed, covered with the quilt, and heard the howling of the wind.Scene after scene of her life with Joe flashed through her mind, and she clearly saw how everyday life went underground, how superficial exchanges transformed into the current mysterious relationship.She remembered that Joe jokingly said to her in the early years: "With your energy, I wish I could move the jewelry store into your safe." A fortress against the intrusions of everyday life.However, as the years passed, their inner lives were gradually eroded and changed beyond recognition.

She was in Joe's bed, the bed he had been in for many years since they separated.Occasionally, Joe would come to her room, but she had never been in this bed in all these years.She opened her eyes wide to see something, but in vain.Only when you close your eyes can you feel some shadows in the room.Jo's breath could still excite her, but there was a kind of poison in that breath that could quench the boiling desire in her.The limited times of making love in recent years are unbearable. When she imagined herself as a lioness, Joe turned into gas... Only at this moment, on this hail night, was Maria's plump body rolling on the old big bed with her arms around Joe.She roared like a lion, and there was a faint echo from far away.It was Maria's hellish night, and the torment of her body made her spirit go out of her body.