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Chapter 62 aspirant.1

Mao Dun's Novels 茅盾 1662Words 2018-03-19
When he opened his eyes, his lips loosened slightly, and a smoke ring rose from his mouth. He swayed for a while, and then stopped, as if he didn't know how to move forward. Turn around, and stop. Thinking about it for a while, at this moment, the circle expanded little by little, and the color of the smoke gradually faded, until it was too big to be any bigger, and it was so light that it couldn't be any weaker, and there was no smoke circle. It was only a matter of a few seconds, but he felt it was a long time as he lay there watching.The second time (slightly impetuous) he loosened his lips like that again, this time two smoke rings came out, as if chasing each other, one in front of the other, the one in front burst within a foot away , but the one at the back rushed ahead——going very quickly, because it was too late to expand. While watching, he thought to himself, "Maybe this one can reach the top of the tent?" But he suddenly hit the spot. With the wind, the smoke ring disappeared without a trace.

He was a little disappointed.Open your mouth again.But no smoke rings.Just a mishmash of tones and smoke so pale it's almost invisible.So he subconsciously put the butt of the cigarette at the corner of his mouth, took a deep puff, held his breath, and planned to do the same. At this moment, his wife's footsteps came from outside the room——it was his wife's footsteps, there was no mistake.It's always like dragging the leather of a shoe - dragging.He gets a headache when he hears it.He would immediately imagine his own head flattened out to be the floor, and the soles of his wife's shoes -- dragged!Moreover, he seems to be the floor, he can see the coal chips, fish scales, and vegetable stalks stuck to the soles of his wife's shoes.He forgot to make cigarette bubbles, forgot that there was a mouthful of cigarettes there, and the smoke choked his throat, cough cough——he held his head in his hands, and opened a pair of hateful eyes.

"I'm bothering you again." Madam knew it at a glance, "But, look, Ah Da pissed all over me, how can I do it without changing clothes?" He smiled wryly.Madame always comes in for a reason.However, there is a reason why he hates his wife's frequent visits: if he doesn't take advantage of this summer vacation to write an article on "Creation", does it mean that when the class starts for 20 hours a week, the hundred or so composition books will be written? success?Did he "sacrifice" the title of "creator" that he could get easily because Ah Dae peed and his wife wanted to change clothes?No way!Then how can he be worthy of himself! ——His "life experience", his "genius", his blockbuster ambition and big plan that he has dreamed of for five years!When he graduated five years ago, didn't he declare in front of his teachers and classmates—literally in front of the whole world—that he would "create" a "work" with elaborate structure?It's been five years!No way!That - it's out of the question!

However, there is always a reason for the madam to come in, so he could only smile wryly. But what's worse is that it's harder for his wife to change clothes than for him.This woman is always procrastinating!And Ada started crying again below.This child, when the crying door is opened, takes at least twenty minutes, just like his mother.He jumped up from the bed as if he couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Hey! You man, Ah Da always needs to pee, you always need to change clothes—well, you need to change clothes, then—won't you put a few more clothes underneath?"

"Hey, only you are thoughtful, this is already the third one, this morning!" As his wife said, she took a light gray short single cheongsam in her hand and took a picture before putting it on.She fastened the button of the large placket, looked down, and suddenly laughed to herself, "It used to be so short!" She said to herself, then turned her head to look behind her.By heaven!She also made a fuss like him in a piece of clothing! Reluctantly, he lay down on the bed again, sighed, and murmured: "Well, well, there must be a study--study; without a study there can be no--well, great--"

Before he could finish speaking, he felt his throat constricted.Wow-wow-Ada below has changed from a demonstration to a fire.Madame, run away.When she got to the door, she looked back at her husband again, with anger and comfort, and said softly: "Why bother! At the end of the summer vacation, rest and rest!" He frowned and didn't answer. "Why bother!" He said the same thing in his heart, but——Ada needs to pee and Madam needs to change clothes. Is it really more important than his "career"?joke!But, but, Madam's phrase "Why bother?" is often on the lips of late.It shouldn't be!A wife encourages her husband and arranges an environment suitable for "creation" for her husband, but she retreats instead.fate!And——and, she herself held Ah Da all day long, as if the meaning of life was all there. "Look at me, haven't you put away the plans and ideals five years ago?" She still said that!No ambition!Never thought she would become so ordinary! "I have to let her go, but it is unforgivable to make me ordinary." - he said with tears in his heart, lit a cigarette, and sighed again.

This time, he didn't make smoke bubbles, the smoke came out of his mouth one after another, and out of his nostrils; after a while, his face was covered with a puff of white smoke, and he saw in the smoke five years the "past".He saw his wife and himself not long after they were newly married in the smoke.Madam was wearing the same strangely short light gray single cheongsam that she had just put on, but it was more beautiful than now.
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