Chapter 71 seventy

Vincent goes to Las Vegas (4) "Joyner, who are you waiting for?" "Anyone is fine. Didn't I wait for you? Your arrival is my holiday." Vincent felt that she was not happy about his arrival, and always looked preoccupied.While he was talking to Joyner, a group of people came out of the smoking two-story building. They were all men in their 40s and 50s, wearing shirts and shorts, and they looked like they were still asleep.Joyner rushed towards these people quickly, raised the broom in her hand to beat them, and drove them into the house while reprimanding them.At first they wanted to complain, but then they were afraid of her violent appearance, so they obediently went into the house.

Joyner, with sweat streaming down her face, seemed embarrassed and said to Vincent: "Gamblers are always restless." "Is everyone under your control?" "Yeah, it's not worth wasting all my youth on this kind of thing, is it? You go to the end of this road, then turn right, and you can see Lisa's house." "Lisa's home! Didn't her parents die a long time ago?" Vincent was startled. "That's just a metaphor. It's how we see it here. You go, they're waiting for you." To his surprise, Lisa's parents' family seemed very rich.Although the two old men are both in their 70s and 80s, they are clear-headed and energetic.There were several servants in the large and luxuriously furnished house.The two old men were wary of Vincent's arrival, and at first they kept asking him when he would leave, as if they regarded him as a threat.After listening to Vincent's explanation that they only stayed for a short time, they were relieved, and then they were not interested in him.They let Vincent do whatever he wanted, and they said they could live in their house for as long as he liked, and then, without waiting for Vincent to answer, the two old people each lay down in a bed with thick cushions. In the rocking chair, I went to talk to the old parrot in the cage hanging under the crystal lamp.Vincent couldn't understand their conversation at all. They seemed to be discussing the problem of erecting electric wires on the stone mountain, and they seemed to be analyzing the method of chasing fugitives.No matter what the two old men said, the old parrot always said: "Great! Wonderful! Genius idea!" Vincent suspected that the ugly bird could only say such compliments.

Vincent got tired of listening, so he also found a rocking chair to lie down in. There are many such rocking chairs in the living room.As soon as he lay down, he heard a servant standing at the door condemning: "This kind of person has no right to lie here." Vincent felt funny in his heart.At this time, a sudden electric bell rang throughout the hall, and the two old people got up from the rocking chairs and walked to a door inside. They stopped after thinking of something, and the father-in-law turned around and said to Vincent: "We I'm going to the basement, and I don't know if I can come up after I go, you can just play around here. We didn't expect you to come, this is all Lisa's trick."

Vincent wanted to tell them that he was leaving soon, but the two old men refused to listen and urged each other to go to the basement.As soon as they left, the servant who was standing motionless by the door before became active. He ran over to find two blankets and covered the rocking chair where the old people had been lying, and then took down the parrot cage and stuffed it into the empty hearth of the fireplace. inside.Vincent heard the old parrot yelling, "Little man! Snob!" As soon as he closed the hearth door, the bird's voice was lost.Vincent smelled a strong and pungent smell of smoke, turned around and saw smoke coming from the stairs leading to the basement.The servant said behind him, "Hmph, let's see where you are going!"

"Are you talking about me?" "Who else can I say!" "Why do you hate me so much?" "Because you are a cold-blooded person, you haven't been here for so many years." "But I didn't know anyone here wanted me to come. Lisa told me that everyone in her family was dead. The casino she described to me was also different from here. What's wrong?" "Of course you have something wrong with yourself. You are thinking wildly and can't see the essence." The servant stood there haughtily, and Vincent saw a snake under his feet, the same little blue and white snake he had seen on Reagan's farm.The snake kept struggling to turn around and try to bite his ankle.At this time, the servant took out a dagger from his trouser pocket, took off the sheath, held the blade in front of his eyes, bent down, and chopped off the snake's head with one blow.The snake with a different head was not dead, as if there was some invisible connection between the head and the body, they wriggled together and retreated to the door, then went out, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.Looking at the ground again, there was not even a trace of blood left.

The smoke in the living room was getting thicker.Vincent thought the servant was going to stop him from leaving, so he stood still.The servant stooped to open the furnace, and then there was a burst of cursing, Vincent hurried out while the servant was not paying attention.But the servant didn't chase him out at all.So what does he mean by "see where you run"? Joyner stood by the roadside with a serious expression, she was still waiting for the guest who came from nowhere, the street had been swept clean by her.Looking at this place and this lonely girl, Vincent couldn't help but feel inexplicably sad.His wife, Lisa, he thought, had probably occupied this girl's place many years ago.In fact, when he first met Lisa, he saw those shadows from her bright face, but he never imagined that she had such a harsh heart.Decades of marriage had exposed some of her secrets, but how much would he know about her without visiting her hometown?Even if she came here, how many things did he not understand about her?