Chapter 56 Fifty-five

Edda's fugitive life (1) Ada thought she had finally escaped Mr. Reagan's clutches.She sat on the bar counter, ordered a glass of red wine, lit a lady's cigarette and took two puffs, feeling dizzy and refreshed. The owner of the bar is her fellow countryman, a man in his 40s, who looks like an old ape, with two small eyes always looking straight ahead.The bar is family run, with the owner's wife and daughter both working in the bar.During vacation, Ada came here to help.Ada is quick in movement and quick in mind, and is very attractive to customers.The boss's wife wanted her to stay and be part of their family.

member. The bar is in a remote part of the city, and the green neon lights on the facade flicker like ghost eyes in the grape trellis.Ada came here by accident, fell in love with it when she came here, and then accidentally discovered that the owner was from her hometown, and found that the customers in this bar were all to her liking.Generally speaking, customers always arrive at midnight, almost everyone comes on foot, and very few people come by car.Before anyone knew it, the bar and the lobby were full.People were stern, talking with their throats lowered, discussing some serious issues in twos and threes.The owner, Awen, told Ada that the style of this bar was formed naturally, and only those who live in fantasy like to come here.After they came, they talked to each other about the nightmares they had smoldering in their hearts. Awen called this "complaining".Ada didn't come to the bar to complain, she was attracted by the name of the bar, and she saw the two words "Green Jade" made of neon lights on the dome from a distance.She still remembered the scene of that night.She walked a long, long way, almost wandering the streets and alleys of the city, and finally came to this corner.She had made up her mind then that if the bar didn't suit her, she'd sleep against the marble walls in front of some shop.Yet she found her luck.

Now, in the dim light, with many voices whispering in her ears, the scene of making love with Mr. Reagan still appeared in her mind from time to time.Sometimes those places were in the grass by the lake, sometimes in the rubber forest, and once in the middle of the road.The time is always midnight.She didn't want to go into Mr. Reagan's bedroom because she was afraid she would faint in that place.More than once, she wondered amusedly, how would the farm folks feel if they knew their boss had turned like a beast in the night?She was greeted by a very drunk girl, a regular customer of hers. "I saw your old beau," she whispered close to her, "he's also spending time in the city." The girl wore purple lipstick, and Ida felt scales all over her body.The boss was busy behind the counter. When Ada came here for the first time, he talked with the boss about the landslide that happened in his hometown.The man seemed very determined, but he remembered the situation clearly.Everyone in his hometown died.The boss's wife is a Westerner, and his daughter also looks exactly like a Westerner, but the intimacy of the three of them is rare.As long as they are not together for a while, they will call each other.Perhaps because of this, my daughter does not go to school, but works as a waiter in the store.The pretty girl was quiet, and Ada had never seen her go out on dates with boys.The bar is very special and full of decadence.The walls are covered with the remains of strange animals, and serious classical music is played from the gramophone.The lobby is not very clean, it seems to be full of dust, people who come in always sneeze a lot at first.But this kind of foggy and dark environment has a special atmosphere, so they can maintain a good turnover for many years.

Since yesterday, Ada has been living in a room next to the owner's daughter's room.This room is on the second floor, and you have to go through a long aisle full of dusty old furniture. There are mice crawling around in those furniture, and it is said that the proprietress kept them there.Every time Ada went upstairs, there were little white mice running past her feet, so she was always careful.Every morning, when Ida was still sleeping in the room, some noises in the next room would wake her up.The sound sounded like someone jumped down from a high place, and "boomed" every once in a while.One day Ada couldn't bear it anymore, so she rubbed her eyes and got up and went to the next door to have a look.The door of the girl's room was wide open, and there were at least a hundred white mice all over the room.She is sitting at a square table.

"I jumped off the table to train them to escape quickly," the girl said. She stood on the table again.The white rats on the ground waited vigilantly and fearfully, and Ada saw that they were all trembling in fear.The girl jumped up like a diver before falling down.In the blink of an eye, the white mice all ran to the bottom of the wall, trembling under the loud noise. "Ah, my dad hasn't told you my name yet, my name is Joan." She blushed and knelt down to kiss the frightened rats.Ada turned her head and saw Joan's mother smiling at her daughter, holding a white mouse in each of her own hands.

"My husband talks about going back to his hometown every day, and my daughter and I have to prepare for it. How strange that Ada should come from The place we miss day and night.Do you remember when you were a kid? " Her eyes were wide open when she said this, and Ida saw the infinite loneliness from there. "When I was young, I thought about escaping before the mudslides came, like these white mice. I just saw Joan's performance, and I felt like going back to my hometown."