Chapter 40 thirty-nine

Lisa's Secret (4) "Sitting at home, I can watch the snow on the top of the mountain at any time." Maria said with a smile. Two cats sprinted under the low table, and Lisa's whole body went numb. "Your cat... Maria?" she said. But Maria's profile was blurred, and after a while Lisa could only hear her voice. "Our long march needs an inexhaustible motivation." Lisa said desperately in that direction, "Otherwise, on that gloomy river, the iron chain would suddenly snap, and the entire army would be doomed." Maria was laughing, very artificially.Lisa was horrified to see her head completely separated from her body.

Lisa went all the way to the wooden door, and heard Maria chasing her and talking non-stop. That meeting left an indelible impression on Lisa, and she has regarded Maria as the same kind ever since.She had often seen Maria's husband, the small, silent man, and it was difficult to pinpoint her impression of a man named Joe.Today is the second time she has come here this month, and she hasn't come here for a while because she is a little scared. "Hi, Lisa!" Maria stretched out a firm and flexible hand to shake her. Her thick gray hair was simply pulled back, and her whole body exuded suppressed vitality.She said she was knitting.

"It's really amazing!" Lisa looked at the "works" piled up there and said, "Maybe you are showing me the way. I look at these deep and deep vortexes of yours, and my heart is like a mirror..." Suddenly her voice ceased, as she saw an all too familiar image, an image she had seen long ago, when she was a little girl, and which she had talked to from time to time in later days. reunion.She clearly remembered that on the night of the "Long March", this picture repeatedly appeared in the dark.What Maria weaves is a scorpion, a big, looming thing hidden in the deep grass.The scorpion was red, and the wool Maria used to weave it was dyed the color of fire.

"I can't see clearly..." Lisa stammered, pointing at the picture. "Ah, that pattern! Nothing, that's Joe." "Joe? It's obviously a scorpion!" "Yeah, but it's from Joe's story, and Joe's story is Joe himself... Hey, I don't understand. Have you ever seen a flaming scorpion? I usually like to knit those that haven't." Things, like Joe." Lisa took her word for it, because she was by no means a hypocritical woman.She asked Maria if she knew that Joe had a mysterious client up north. "I know. But why is it mysterious?" Maria was a little panicked.

"Because that person doesn't exist. He comes to our company to customize clothing for his ranch workers every year. When our people travel to his location, they find that there is an abandoned quarry. He paid for his clothing, but It’s still stacked in the warehouse.” A smile appeared on Maria's face. "Ah, that's what you're talking about. This kind of person doesn't have a fixed place to live. Don't be too serious with him. Anyway, the company didn't suffer, right?" "That's true. I should like to see this man. Only your husband can see him."

Lisa stared at the woman who wove her husband into a scorpion in the grass, and suddenly, she felt certain channels unexpectedly appear in her mind.Maybe her nocturnal march should be reversed; maybe she should go from expanding outwards to being motionless? When she followed Maria into the living room, she saw a very thin boy wielding a hoe in the yard through the floor-to-ceiling windows. The boy's face seemed familiar. "That's my son Daniel." "what!" That day, she was sitting in the kitchen with Maria, and she kept talking about Vincent. It was raining outside, and Daniel rushed in and out from time to time, his body was soaked, and he looked like a fugitive.Lisa noticed that the boy walked without sound.Lisa asked Maria, what does the "Guli" clothing company mean to Vincent?This huge machine runs day and night, but it seems to be separated from him. His world is on the other side, in the bushes in the garden at night, in the garden in the middle of the street in the gloomy night.

"'Guli' clothing company," Maria said slowly, lighting a cigarette, "for a man like Vincent, it is everything. Maybe he feels his life is over." "How strange!" Lisa sighed. "It's not quiet at all in your house," she added. For Lisa, Maria's home was a tense place.There are always all kinds of voices talking around, everything is electrified, plus a son with fierce eyes.And her tapestry with cryptic meanings.But this woman is someone Lisa thinks she can trust.Did Vincent and their company recruit the same type of people?According to Maria, Vincent's life is over, so, is he going to start that absurd life, a life that has no sense of reality at all?Then why do you say that "Guli" is everything to him?He wants to turn this vigorous human enterprise into a castle of ghosts?Lisa thought of the oriental woman in black in the rubber plantation, and immediately got goosebumps all over her body.