Chapter 82 eighty-one

Joe decides to run away (5) Joe looked at the ugly bookstore owner in surprise and was speechless.The boss couldn't stand Joe's gaze, and he slumped over, looking totally broken.Joe recalled the image of him sitting arrogantly on the high stool at the entrance of the bookstore, and suddenly understood the difficulties in his heart.The mother and son in the river bed went ashore one after the other, but they didn't see Joe.Maria was a little lame, but from behind she still looked like a girl. "Why not a real person?" Qiao asked the boss tenderly. "Because no matter how you walk, you can't get in front of her. If you don't believe me, you can try."

"I really want to try it." After Maria and Daniel went ashore, the woman opposite turned around, with her back to Joe and the boss.Joe felt that a woman's back was like an oriental myth.Perhaps the place he himself should go is the East?The boss hunched down the embankment, saying he couldn't take it anymore.He seemed to be crying as he walked. Joe descended into the river bed, and he wanted to cross the river bed to the other bank.He doubted himself as he walked, because the boss had said just now that no one could walk in front of "her".He went ashore anxiously, and saw the woman turning around slowly, her dress was dazzlingly white.The woman wore glasses, and Joe hadn't expected her to wear them at all.

"Are you on vacation today?" she said kindly. "I didn't expect it at all... How I thought... Ah, I don't want to work today. Do you live around here? How nice it is here!" "Yeah, I live here. I noticed you too. You were urged to leave the city, right?" Joe didn't answer, he understood why the boss was crying.Above them, the sky became crystal.He wanted to ask the woman if she knew Kim. "You mean the man who lives on the hillside and runs the ranch? Of course I know him. There are very few people who don't know him. He is not a real person, do you feel it?"

She looked at Joe with burning eyes, and the blood all over Joe boiled. "Your ex-husband also said that you are not a real person, why?" He summoned up his courage and asked. "Some people are an eternal mystery to others. If you live with such a person, he will gradually disappear. Did I answer your question? If you go to Ito's bookstore late at night, you will Heard him wrestling inside, books falling from shelves." "Who are you fighting with?" "Who? A ghost, I think. He's got great eyesight." It turned out that the bookstore owner's surname was "Ito", which Joe never noticed.So is he Japanese?Is his wife, the lady in front of him, also Japanese?Did they come here from the far east to start a business, and then they broke up?How terrible is the human heart.He wanted to ask her something, but he couldn't remember what it was.But she seemed to already know what he was going to ask, and was tired of answering.She said she was being called and must leave immediately, and hurried off. "We won't see each other again." These were her last words.

Joe made up his mind in his heart that he must go to Ito's bookstore late at night.How did this strange divorced couple relate to the kimono-wearing Japanese girls in his stories?The white-clothed woman he saw just now seemed to have been seen somewhere before. Jo looked at the pattern on Maria's new tapestry and felt a little dizzy.It seemed to be a non-existent pattern, only a slight change in color levels.Perhaps even the change of color was just his imagination, there was no pattern on this tapestry at all.His eyes ached from watching, and his temples ached.He wanted to turn his eyes away, but the inside of the tapestry actually attracted him like a magnet. "Let me go, Maria." He pleaded in his heart.

"Joe, what are you thinking?" Maria appeared at the door, looking dangerous with several wasps circling her head.The wasp brought Jo's memory to life. "Are you from Kim, Maria?" "Well, I met the driver. Ah, that meadow! How did I get on? This time I'm starting over. It's starting over. Listen, Jo, how still it is, I mean the walls Inside. Daniel and I will miss you when you're gone." It turned out that Maria was also looking forward to her leaving?Jo thought of the bookstore owner's ex-wife, and the long treks she and her husband had made when they came here in the early years.The contrast between the dimness of the bookstore at night and the clarity of the river embankment during the day made Qiao feel the longing between the divorced couple naturally.So what kind of desire does Joe himself have for that woman?Maria was disappearing, and now she was weaving the kind of tapestry that gave him a headache to look at, and left Jo's thoughts hanging in the air.Joe walked around the room and found that there were several similar tapestries hanging on the wall, but the colors were darker and the layers were more indistinct.As he gazed at one of the dark gray tapestries, Maria said behind his back, "Joe, what are you thinking?"

Joe looked away sheepishly, and told Maria that he was getting duller.At this time, he heard two cats at home howling on the wall, and accidentally caught a glimpse of a pattern on the tapestry, which seemed to be an axe.What kind of hatred does Maria have in her heart?