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Chapter 6 cat-3

Man·Beast·Ghost 钱钟书 5237Words 2018-03-20
Aimer sat on the sofa, smoking a cigarette, and said, "I heard you! How could you not hear me? The old lady and the little girl can all hear you. You can hear your voice in Tiananmen Square and Haidian. Everyone knows that you are teaching your wife a lesson." Jianhou didn't want the war to escalate and interfere with his sleep, so he concluded, "It's good to hear it." Aimo didn't look at her husband, and seemed to be talking to herself: "But I can't do it. I can order him whenever I like. What a husband! Call me in front of the secretary and servant!"

Jianhou felt that the situation was unfavorable for lying down and arguing.The bed is a woman's place, only women are lazy to meet and talk with guests on the bed, and the place is suitable.A man lying on the bed is like a defenseless army, whose power is greatly reduced.He sat up and said, "I use this secretary, and I should let him handle it. If you ask him to do odd jobs, you have to say hello to me first." Aimer threw away his cigarette, freed his mouth for cursing, and said, "As long as you use him for a day, I'll call on him if I need anything. To be honest, you can't give him a job any more than what I can ask him to do." Interesting. You have the ability to write a book, do it yourself, don’t ask others. Cao Shichang, Lu Bolin, and Fu Juqing have all written a lot of books, who hasn’t hired a secretary yet!”

Jianhou was so angry that he slapped his hands on the bed and said, "Okay, okay! I'll tell that kid surnamed Qi to go away tomorrow. Why don't you use a secretary." Aimer said: "If you fire him, I will use him. My many chores are not as good as your travel notes—" Jianhou said: "You are too busy, why don't you use another secretary to take over my people?" Aimer said: "Sir, why not be frugal? I'm not a wasteful woman. And, when will I break up with you?" Jianhou said: "I hope we can draw a clearer line between each other."

Aimer stood up and said, "Jianhou, be careful what you say, and don't regret it later. If you want to share, we will share." Jianhou knew that the words were serious, and he said stubbornly, "Don't misunderstand intentionally, and make a fuss out of a molehill." Aimer sneered and said: "I don't misunderstand. You always feel that people think of me more than you, and you can't be angry. The day before yesterday, I heard Chen Xiajun's nonsense,? Find a woman with a good relationship. Scary! Don't worry, I will never hinder you happiness."

Jianhou's momentum shrank, and he forced a smile: "Haha! Isn't this an excuse to play? I'm sorry, I'm going to sleep." He lay down and covered his head in silence.Emer waited for him to stick his head out five minutes later, and said, "Go and ask the boy to get that novel back. I don't need him to read it for me." Jianhou said: "You don't need to be hypocritical. I have something to go out in the afternoon, so I don't go to the study. If you want to order Qi Yigu, you can do whatever you want. I won't write anything in the future, anyway, everything is like this! My name The things you ordered always ended up being taken by you. My friends and I have little friendship, and they all treat you well; the servants at home are busy with you first, and my affairs are always put behind. My orders are not worth you. It’s a good thing we don’t have children, otherwise they would be like animals and barbarians who only know that they have a mother and don’t know me as a father.” Mrs. Li’s attitude towards raising children is exactly like the slogan of the Soviet government’s abortion agency: “ We welcome your first visit, but please don’t come again!” But the gynecologist seriously warned her not to give birth, so the child never came to reincarnate once.Friends said behind her back that she was really "beautiful".She replied at this moment: "It's so pitiful! What a miserable husband! The servant listens to me, because I am the housekeeper. Who loves the housekeeper! I am so annoyed that my head hurts! From tomorrow on, please take care of it, so that the servant can take care of me." Come to flatter you. When it comes to friends, it’s even more ridiculous! Why did I stop talking to any of my former schoolmates after marrying you? You care about your friends to me, who should I ask for my friends? Besides, my current friends Is it not the two of us? What is the difference between me and you? You are really childish. As for the secretary, who knows how long we can use him in this kind of situation? If you move back to the south, you can’t take him with you. But if you fire him now, you have to give him a month’s salary. I don’t need him, but if you don’t write something, you can’t do it. Just tell him to leave immediately. You can call me when you want. When the month expires, we will see the situation. This is a petty word for my woman, and I can't help but talk too much to hate you. Anyway, everything will be in your hands in the future, and you will be the master." Jianhou listened to his wife's plausible words, and said that he was "childish", and he couldn't argue anymore, so he shook his hand and said, "Don't mention this, you are right. Let's make peace." And' it's so easy! If I had taken your words seriously, I would have taken them apart a long time ago!" As he spoke, he went out, ignoring Jianhou's hand for reconciliation.Jianhou lay alone, thinking about why he had argued with him clearly, but instead he couldn't make up his mind, apologized to her, and was left in the cold by her.The more he thought about it, the more upset he became.

For the next four or five days, Jianhou didn't go into the study very much, and ran outside all day, not knowing what to do.There were one or two nights of entertainment, and I couldn't go with Emer.Yigu's work has not diminished.Jianhou didn't tell him that the writing of travel notes had stopped, and he still didn't let him be free, and gave him excerpts and translations, saying that they would organize them together in the future.Emer also often came to ask him to write some invitations, thank you notes, etc., and sometimes sat down and chatted for a while.Yigu has no sisters, and few relatives. His widowed mother has only one son, and the control is very strict, so he entered the university for a year and never talked to his female classmates.Just like the mouth of a soda bottle is tightly closed, reflecting the sunlight, you can see the bubbles floating in the bottle.An eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy without a girlfriend often has as many women in his heart as the emperor's thirty-six palaces, and his heart is sometimes as filthy as a public toilet.At the same time, he has a lofty concept of love. He hopes to find a woman who can be in harmony with his soul and have an intimate and pure relationship. He will keep his physical impulses far away and wrap them in heavy decorations to prevent them from showing their true colors.After Yigu and Emerald got in touch, his overflowing emotions gradually converged in one place. To a boy who has no experience in love, the mature charm of a middle-aged woman is just like late spring weather or an eiderdown quilt. It was so muddy that I couldn't wake up limply.The object of love is only the use of life, so the first person you fall in love with when you are young is always older than yourself, because young people need to mature themselves, so they unintentionally choose an experienced object, while the person who falls in love madly when they are old is always older than themselves. He is younger than himself, because the old man wants to regain his youth, and this dream is also reflected in his final efforts.After Yigu's second week at Li's house, he was willing to admit to himself that he was in love with Mrs. Li.What would be the result of this love, he had no time to think about it.He just wished he had the chance to be this close to her often.Every time he heard her voice, his heart beat and his face was flushed with red.This change of expression cannot escape Aimer's eyes.Yi Gu can't imagine that Aimer will love him, he only believes that Aimer still likes himself.But sometimes he doesn't even have this belief, and feels that he is blindly delusional, and if Emer finds out, he will despise himself to the point of being worthless.He hurriedly searched for the small movements and expressions that Aimer himself could not remember to prove that it was not a delusion.But that was not enough. What was in Emer's mind?It's impossible to measure.If she doesn't like herself, fine!Don't care about yourself, go!go!fuck her!Leave her out of my heart.But after the work was done, when he woke up from sleep, he found that she hadn't gone out, and he was still entangled in his heart, and the first thought involved her.For a while, he was as happy as climbing to the sky, and for a while as depressed as falling to the ground, swinging on the swing of unrequited love.

Yigu went to Li's house on the third Monday, and as soon as Lao Bai opened the door, he told him that Jianhou had gone back to the south yesterday, and Yigu hurriedly asked why, did Mrs. Li go with her?He knew that Jianhou was going to Shanghai to take care of the house, and Aimo would not leave for a while, so he settled down, but he was not at ease in the end.Parting cast a shadow over his heart.He was fidgeting for a long time before Emer went into the study and told him that Jianhou would come back on Saturday night. He said that the news outside was not good, that war would inevitably break out, and that he should move as soon as possible, so he hurried to Shanghai yesterday.Yi Gu asked calmly: "Mrs. Li, why don't you just leave Peiping?" He waited for her answer like a patient waiting for emergency treatment.Aimer was about to answer, when Lao Bai came in to announce: "Madam, Mr. Chen is here." Aimer said: "Just invite him to come to the study——I will close the stall here when Mr. Li comes back. Yimo Gu, you can go to the south to go to school, it’s safer than here.” Yigu had expected this to happen, but after hearing this, he was desperate and discouraged, and his eyes could not stop crying.Chen Xiajun yelled all the way: "Aimo, unexpectedly you listened to me, Jianhou was willing to give you his confidential secretary." He came in to greet Yigu, and said to Aimo: "Jianhou took the open bus back yesterday afternoon. South?"

Aimer said: "Your news is so fast! Lao Bai told you, right?" "I knew it very early. I sent him away yesterday." "It's a strange thing! Did he inform you beforehand?" "You know he gets a headache when he sees me, so why would he come and tell me? I'm bored these days, and when some friends leave, I go to the station to see all kinds of people. Yesterday I sent a relative, Who knows that when I ran into your husband, he saw that I seemed to be in a bad mood and wanted to hide. I greeted him, and then he told me to go to Shanghai to find a house. Didn’t you go to see him off yesterday?”

"We are old husband and wife, and we are not lovers who are reluctant to say goodbye. At worst, we will go to Shanghai, what can we do? He doesn't want anyone to send him. He only has a suitcase and no big luggage." "He has a cousin and niece who went back to the south with him, didn't he?" Xia Jun stared at Aimer meaningfully. Emer jumped up and said, "Yeah? What?" "There are only him and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in the sleeping car. She looks very honest, and she is not very good-looking. I just want to hide when I see her. Do you think it's strange? Jianhou said she was his cousin? That's your cousin, too."

Aimer turned pale and said, "Where does he have a cousin or niece? This is a bit strange?" "Yes! I also said at the time, why have I never heard of you. Marquis Jian took the girl's hand and said to me Said: 'You ask Aimer, she will know.' I heard his tone was serious, and I felt a little strange, so I didn't say much at that time. Jianhou's expression was very difficult, so I broke up with him. " Aimer opened her eyes as wide as she could and said, "There is a ghost here. What does that girl look like? Did Marquis Jian tell you her last name?"

Chen Xiajun suddenly patted his thigh, and laughed hard.Aimer said angrily: "What's so ridiculous?" Yigu hated Chen Xiajun for interrupting the conversation, seeing Aimer annoyed, he also looked angry.Xiajun smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I can't help but laugh. That big fool Jianhou really knows how to do what he says! Now I understand everything, that girl is his new lover. , secretly went to the South for their honeymoon, and didn’t expect to be smashed by this annoying guy. He knew that he couldn’t hide this matter, so he simply asked me to report to you. Haha! I never dreamed that Jianhou would have such a hand! This is all He was provoked at the tea party that day. I just laughed at him for doing exactly what I said, and he chose a person who was mediocre in appearance and embarrassed in attitude. You can make friends after two movies, there are so many in Beiping! In her eyes, Jianhou is rich and great, just like that divorced American woman met the British crown prince. Haha, how will this end? !" Aimer was so angry that she couldn't hold back her tears and said, "Jianhou is such an idiot! Bullying me—" At this time, her fashion and ability faded away, revealing her true nature as a weak and pitiful woman.Yigu saw Emerald crying, at a loss, and suddenly realized that when Emerald was crying, her age and flaws in her appearance were all revealed, and her face was blurred like a fountain pen with water splashed under the tears. edema.At the same time, Aimo's tears reminded him that she was still a member of Jianhou, and these tears should be part of Jianhou's status.Although Chen Xiajun knew in theory that when a woman cries, her anger will decrease, just like when it rains, the wind will stop blowing, but when she saw the tears, she panicked and said, "Why are you crying? Is there anything I can do? Do your best!" Aimo said bitterly: "It's all caused by you, what will you do? You go, I will invite you if I have something to do. I have nothing to do with you, so Jianhou kept me in the dark because of anger. Too confused!" Knowing Aimer's temper, Xiajun left without talking.Aimer didn't see him off either. She sat on the sofa and gritted her teeth.The tears on his face were like dried rain marks on the glass.Yi Gu saw her face deformed and changed in anger, it became sharp and hard, with a bit of murderous look.Realizing that this is a powerful woman, he became frightened, thinking that he should go home today, so he stood up and said, "Mrs. Li—" Aimo woke up like a dream and said: "Yi Gu, I was about to ask you, do you love me or not?" This abrupt sentence frightened Yi Gu into a daze, unable to answer. Aimer said mischievously: "Don't think I don't know! You love me." No one seems to know how to deny this sentence without offending the other party.Yigu didn't understand Mrs. Li's intention of asking, and he was no longer willing to tell her his heartfelt feelings. He just felt that the situation was serious and wanted to run away. Seeing that the second shot hadn't even fired, Emer said impatiently, "Say it!" Yigu frowns, stammers: "I - I dare not -" This was not the answer Aimer had imagined, and at the same time seeing his embarrassment, it really made people angry, but when he thought about Jianhou's matter, his heart became firm again, and he said, "That's interesting. Why not? Afraid of Mr. Li? Look at Mr. Li's nonsense. Say you're afraid of me, what's so scary about me? Sit down and let's talk in detail." Aimer moved her body to one side, let out half of the sofa and patted Yigu to sit down.The intention of Aimo's question cannot be misunderstood, Yi Gu wakes up suddenly like a dream, the scene of courtship that Hun dreamed up in the past few days unexpectedly turned out to be such a thing.He remembered Chen Xiajun's laughter just now, the love between Jianhou and that girl was just a joke in the eyes of others!All the flirting and cheating, all of which I think are lingering, romantic, and bold and romantic, but they are just ambiguous and funny words in the mouth of outsiders, and they only get obscene smiles as usual.Yi Gu has not been tempered by sophistication to become obtuse, thinking of this, he shrinks even more. Aimer was angry at first, but when he saw Yigu dodging, he became more unhappy and said, "I invite you to sit down, why don't you sit down!" Yigu listened to the order and had to sit down.As soon as he sat down, he jumped up with a sound of "Ah!", and the vibration of the spring shook Emer also.Aimer was surprised and angry and said, "What's the matter with you?" Yi Gu said: "Naughty hid under the sofa and grabbed my heel." Aimer couldn't help laughing, and Yi Gudou said, "It hurts a lot from scratching, the sock may be scratched." Emer stretched out his hand to catch Naughty, pressed it on his lap, and said to Yigu: "Now you can sit at ease." Yigu was so anxious that he couldn't think of any excuses, so he said nonsense with a sad face: "Although this cat is not a human being, I always think it is sensible, as if it is a third party. There are many things that are difficult to say in front of it." I think this sentence is ridiculous. Aimer frowned and said: "You child is really unhappy! Okay, you catch it outside." Handed the naughty to Yigu.Naughty struggled, and Yigu lifted its neck tightly—Ms. Li could no longer see this matter—half opened the door of the study, threw Naughty out, and quickly closed the door, only to hear Naughty screaming one after another. It screamed so sharply that it pierced through the auditory nerves. It turned out that the door was closed too fast and caught the tip of its tail.Aimer couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and slapped Yigu, opened the door to let Naughty go, and said, "Fuck you, you fool!" Yigu ran to the street with hot cheeks, and the door didn't wait for Lao Bai to open it.There was a sound like pounding rice in my head: "Big fool! Big fool!" Seeing Yigu run away, Mrs. Li regretted that she was too savage, and thought that she would be out of order today, but she would be so angry at Jianhou.She suddenly felt old, as if her body was about to collapse, and the limelight, status and ostentation were like a heavy burden, and she was too tired to bear it anymore.All she wanted was a place to escape, where she could forget her pride, where she didn't have to meet these friends, don't have to dress up, don't have to be extravagant, and don't have to look beautiful and young for anyone. At this time, the intermodal vehicle that drove from Beiping yesterday had already entered the territory of Shandong.Li Jianhou looked out of the window, his mood was dry and haggard like loess flying backwards.Yesterday's excitement was like the joy of being drunk, and the aftertaste was unpleasant.He thought that Chen Xiajun would report to Aimer, and he couldn't step down if the incident got serious.It's really not worth breaking up the family for this ordinary childish girl around me!I regretted being confused for a while, couldn't help being angry, and dug this trap myself.The girl holding his hand and watching the scenery outside the window didn't know all these thoughts.She only felt that the future of life was just like the endless journey of a train, unfolding to herself infinitely.
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