Chapter 47 forty six

Boy Daniel (5) "You became calmer at Zhenia's house." Maria smiled. "Daddy is walking up and down the street, what's the matter?" Maria burst out laughing, and said, "He said he was on a business trip. If a person gets too immersed in the story, he no longer has the sense of reality, don't you think so?" Daniel glanced at his mother and felt that her eyes had become brighter too. He went upstairs to his father's study.As he sat down in the old-fashioned armchair and looked around the room full of books, he felt that Daddy had been here just now.On the pages of the old book open on the table was a drawing of a cat, with the words "Turkish cat" next to it.He looked carefully for a long time, but he still couldn't see any characteristics of the Turkish cat. This cat was exactly the same as the cats in his city.When he was a child, Daniel sometimes slipped into this study to look at it.Daniel doesn't read books, but he is always familiar with the smell of books.He has known since he was 6 that Silent Daddy lives in a completely different world.Although his father's world attracted him, he never thought of communicating with his father through reading. In fact, he felt that he and his father were already connected, but his father didn't think so.For example, now that he sees the cat on the page of the book and the words "Turkish cat", he feels that he has already felt the content of the book, and he becomes faintly excited.To calm the excitement, he moved the book a little away.But with such a move, he also felt the right hand holding the book, and a tingling feeling went straight to his heart.He always thought that his father who could indulge in so many books must have a very strong heart.Daniel himself is very thin, easily agitated, and often unable to extricate himself when things happen.His admiration for his dad was natural.

Daniel took down the books on the shelf one by one, and then restored them one by one.Once again, he was fascinated by the breath emanating from the book.It is a very familiar, but too complicated to describe, like the window grilles seen in the morning on a snowy day, the moss beside the old well, but the most similar is the illustration on the book on the table - that turkish cat.When he was concentrating on flipping through the books, a person sneaked into the study and hid behind a bookshelf. This person was Amei.Amei kept sighing in that hidden place, she always thought that Daniel was the kind of boy who couldn't survive, and now his appearance confirmed her idea even more.

"Who is sighing there?" Daniel asked, he couldn't see Amei. He suddenly felt a little confused, so he put the book away and went to find his mother. But the mother was gone, and it was Zhenia who sat at the table in the garden.Zhenia greeted him with a wide smile. "Every time I come to your house, I forget about my obesity. I'm almost as light as a swallow now." Daniel sat down, staring at the balcony of his father's study in a daze.On the balcony, Amei's figure flashed.His emotions were still immersed in the atmosphere of the book just now. "Zhenia, tell me, where is my father?"

"He's with Maria. They can't be apart for a moment. Has Daniel thought about running away?" "I have decided to be a gardener here, how can I leave?" "Ah, that's all right." Genia held the African cat on her air-cushion-like stomach, and the cat licked her belly obediently through the clothes. "Daniel, I want to tell you about your mother." Zhenya said, looking at the red dragonflies flying around. "Maria is a strange woman, and now there is no one like her. Think about it, the town where she used to live has disappeared for so many years, and the people who stayed there can't be found at all, but She still talked to them with the same original intention. In this city, who would build a house on the homestead handed down by the ancestors? Probably only Maria. One night, my fiancé from Siberia asked someone He brought me a letter, saying that he was impatient to wait, and said that since he could not touch my body, he would have no fiancée, so he planned to go homeless. After I read his letter, I cried and cried, just I came to your mother crying. At that time you were still in boarding school, your house was brightly lit, and your father was away on a business trip. I thought your mother was in the bedroom. I searched and searched but couldn’t find it. But this I found it, and the sadness in my heart eased. I sat in your kitchen eating pie, and my mind was completely at peace. Then I heard someone whispering, I followed the sound, and finally found the basement in the laundry room. Your mother sleeps in that big bucket with a lot of dirty clothes in it, and she keeps calling a name I have heard softly. Every time she calls, from the opposite side of her There was a strange, hoarse voice on the wall, and he couldn't hear what he was saying.

"'Zenia, dear, do you love your fiancé?' she said, turning suddenly, looking me in the eyes." "I stood there with my mind completely numb, and then I felt my heart rush again. I said, 'Maria, Maria, I love you! Don't leave me.' '" "You see, Daniel, how close my heart is to your mother. Your mother later told me that she had a 'real communication' with your father through those ancestors during those nights when your father was away on business. When my mother and I Sitting in this rosebush drinking coffee, my body is floating in the air, it is such a rare relief! She sings 'Bakery in the Town' to me, every time I hear it, I cry! Two The cat was running around and making a lot of sparks. If it weren't for the sound of cars outside, we would both have forgotten where we were. Daniel, I'm telling you this to let you know that your mother is a stickler She is a woman of the old times, her family origin is very complicated, she is proud and painful about it. And she gave birth to you on this homestead, how strange it is!"

As soon as Zhenia stopped speaking, Daniel saw Amei again.Amei quietly went out from the gate, and Daniel called her, but she didn't respond. "What a wonderful life! Red Dragonfly, girl!" said Zhenia. The two of them went back to the store arm in arm that day, and Daniel smelled the icy wind from Siberia several times along the way, which was both bitter and refreshing.