Chapter 88 eighty seven

Joe to the East (3) Maria begins to recall Joe and her life in the electromagnetic field of the book.She remembered that Joe was terrified of her grandpa, even years after his death.Since the house is built on an old homestead, Grandpa's image occasionally appears on the wall, usually at noon, when the sun is shining.Maria pretended not to see it in order not to frighten Joe, but she knew that Joe had seen it.He didn't want to hide, but stared at the wall.Maria understood that he longed for that feeling of fear.In her teenage years, Grandpa always sat inside that room and rarely came out.Once Maria broke in and saw Grandpa dancing to soft music, his stiff arthritic legs becoming flexible, his arms spread out to embrace an imaginary woman. "Grandpa, who are you dancing with?" "With her." He answered briefly, slumping into the recliner, panting in pain.Maria knew that "she" was not grandma, because grandma never danced.Of course it wasn't any other woman, because grandpa never dated different women. Who is "she"?Maria has wondered about this question for decades.Now that Joe is gone, Maria feels that the answer to this question has some clues.She has been looking for the record in the house since Grandpa was buried, but she has never found it.Maybe there are no records at all?What about music?Is it just their hallucination?

Joe heard that music as soon as he got to her house.At that time, grandpa seemed to be very satisfied with Joe, but grandpa would not say it. Instead, he said that he hoped that Maria would stay away from this kind of man.Maria asked him why, and he said no why, and that he hoped she would not live at home after she got married. "Our family has such an ancient origin." The young and energetic Maria could not understand what her grandfather said, and her grandfather passed away not long after. One night she was so tired after making love to Joe that she fell into a deep sleep.However, she was woken up in the middle of the night, the lights in the room were dark, and the music was playing.

"Joe, are you dancing?" Maria felt herself suddenly distraught. "No, I'm watching, honey. What an amazing family you have. I was wondering if I was the lost boy from your family?" Years later, the "lost boy" ran away from home again.At this time, Maria was both relieved and faintly worried.After all, she and he had never been to that kind of place.But she thought again, before Joe came, didn't she never know his existence?Maria stood up from the book, and the haze in her heart gradually dissipated, as if she really returned to the old days. "Ah, sir, you came so soon. We don't have time these days." The little boy in the robe walked from the inside of the shop to where Joe stood, and looked him up and down.

Joe's surprise can be imagined, he can speak the language of his country. The child laughed, came over and led him in, saying, "My daddy is from your side, he always tells me about you, daddy is very lonely." Behind it was a huge dark room, and the child lit an oil lamp.Joe saw a sackcloth mosquito net hanging on the large carved wooden bed, and someone seemed to be lying there inside the net.He asked the child softly if his father was there.The kid clung to Joe, rubbing his bare back against him, as if frightened of something. "No, my father is here, look!" He drew Jo to the table, lifted the lid of a copper censer, and stirred the ashes with his little hands.

"My dad's name is Jin. He has been with you all the time. That's where I grew up. I'm 13 years old." "Is he a rancher?" "Yes. I brought Daddy back by myself." He said proudly, "He always said that the embrace of the snow-capped mountains was his home. I've never seen anyone so homesick. Would you like Listen to him talk?" Joe put his ear to the copper censer, but what he heard was the groaning of the man inside the tent. The little boy shook the copper censer, and the man in the tent moaned even harder.He shook harder and harder, and the ashes splashed out of the censer.Joe asked the boy who was in the tent, and he said it was a passerby, and he got into the tent when he came in.

"Sir, can you do me a favor?" "What's up?" "There is a big furnace over there, burning fire. You hug me and throw me into it. After I turn into ashes, you scoop me up and put me into this incense burner." He led Joe to a door and kicked it open.Joe saw the burning coal fire, and the heat hit him, and he backed away, and the boy laughed harshly. "Coward, coward. Now you drink flower tea." He handed Jo a huge cup, and Jo took a sip, choking and coughing as if her throat had been cut with a knife.He finally managed to control his cough, and crazy thoughts flooded his mind.

"If you don't drink scented tea, how can you go to the snow mountain?" He acted like an adult, and his voice became melancholy. "I'm going to this stove anyway, and I'm worried about you, what can you do alone."