Chapter 31 short story never quiet

Teacher Yuan Pu is really old.When Jing Lan walked into the decaying mansion and the maid Yun Ma opened the door of the master bedroom for him, he was sitting on the toilet while defecating and thinking.Maybe he was just pretending to be thinking, but he was just dozing off.Jing Lan confirmed this after looking at him carefully, because there was a thread of saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth.Since the last time I saw him, his face had darkened a lot.He seemed a little embarrassed, quickly wiped his buttocks and stood up with his trousers up, and the room was immediately filled with the smell of excrement.He knocked on the table, and Mama Yun came in, lifted the toilet, and closed the door behind her back, shutting all the smelly smell in the room.After looking at each other with Jing Lan for a short time, Teacher Yuan Pu tremblingly walked towards the large bed, folded and smoothed the messy mattress, and then lay down on it, carefully covering his legs.From the situation on the bed, Jing Lan knew that he had spent another sleepless night.

"Have you eaten?" Jing Lan asked with concern. . "I ate it long ago, otherwise why would I have a bowel movement." There was self-mockery in his tone.Teacher Yuanpu's bed was very thick, and Jing Lan estimated that there were five or six beds of cotton wool weighing eight catties. There were three pillows, all of which were extremely large. At this moment, two of them were placed on his aging back. The other one stood in the bed against the wall.Teacher Yuanpu was half lying in the pile of cotton wool, but his face showed a tormented expression, as if the soft cotton wool hurt his body instead.The old house in the mansion is much taller than ordinary houses. There used to be a big window on the wall, and there was a bamboo curtain hanging on the window. Jing Lan always saw it when she was a child. box.In recent years, Teacher Yuanpu has become more and more disgusted with windows, so he made this move.There was no chair in the room, so Jing Lan sat on the bedside table. Teacher Yuan Pu told him to sit like this when he came last year.Thinking of the friendship between him and Teacher Yuanpu, Jing Lan couldn't help feeling a sense of superiority in her heart.But Mr. Yuanpu's aging appearance in recent years made him feel a little uncomfortable, especially sitting on the toilet, which made him disgusted.Teacher Yuanpu used to love to be clean, he could almost be called a cleanliness freak, Jing Lan didn't expect him to become like this.He is not a bedridden patient, and he can also get up and go to the bathroom next door to use his convenience, but for the past six months, he has asked Mama Yun to bring a toilet to the bedroom every day, making it smelly, even Mama Yun ran in and out holding her nose.Jing Lan thought, after all, people will go downhill one day. Even a thinker who is close to a prophet like Teacher Yuanpu will have to decline day by day. Who can defy the laws of nature?Teacher Yuan Pu has always suffered from insomnia, but ten years ago, he didn't feel pain from it. He argued with Jing Lan in this room many times all night long, and he was still in good spirits during the day.Jing Lan imagined what Teacher Yuan Pu would look like in two or three years, with a wry smile on her face.

"Your complexion is very bad. You should go to the yard for more activities. After doing activities, the food will be delicious." Jing Lan couldn't help saying this, and regretted it after saying it.Teacher Yuanpu leaned on the pillow and listened attentively, but not to his speech, but to the noise outside.When he was concentrating on it, Jing Lan felt that all the old look on his face had disappeared, and the nostrils were agitating sensitively like a young man, and he was completely different from the previous appearance. "It's Mama Yun," he said softly, "calling her fellow countrymen here, and holding discussions in the mansion every night. If you come at night, you'll see what's going on. Excuse me?

Jing Lan was surprised that there would be such an unreasonable thing.Yun Ma is Teacher Yuan Pu's old servant, and she has long agreed to serve him until the end.A servant actually bullied his master.Surprised and then sad, it seems that Teacher Yuanpu really can't control his life circle.Who can help him?And whose help would a man with such a conceit accept? "I don't hate this kind of thing, it adds to my old age. I'm tired of debate, as you know." Jing Lan thought, could the teacher be lying?He was probably trying to hide his embarrassment.He thought again, this is really not like the teacher's demeanor in the past.Jing Lan's eyes wandered back and forth in the room. Decades have passed, and the room is still the same, but it looks much darker and more decadent. The crab basket in the corner is covered with thick dust. I went to the mountains to catch crabs with Mr. Yuanpu.

"I'm leaving, and I'll come to see you the next day, and I'll have to stay longer this time when I return home." Teacher Yuan Pu didn't move, and was still listening to the movement outside with concentration.Jing Lan waited for a while, stomping on the floor uneasily, he felt that the teacher had forgotten him. As soon as he came out, Mama Yun grabbed his arm and dragged him into her room.It was a small house opposite Teacher Yuanpu, and there were a lot of sundries piled up in a mess, showing the hobbies of old women.Yun Ma stared at Jing Lan, seeing that he was puzzled, so she took the initiative to find something to say.He mentioned the current situation of Teacher Yuanpu, implying that Mama Yun wanted her to keep the mansion quiet, because quietness is the basic condition for an elderly person like Teacher Yuanpu to spend his old age peacefully.Then Yun Ma told Jing Lan that the situation of Teacher Yuan Pu was worrying, and he was completely different from before.She has been working in the mansion for more than 30 years. It is reasonable to say that there is hard work without credit, but in the past two years, Teacher Yuan Pu has become surprisingly harsh on her.She has an old mother who is over eighty years old and needs someone to take care of her, so she had to take her here. Anyway, there are many vacant houses in the mansion. She is in good health and can take care of two old people.She settled the old mother in a room upstairs.At the beginning, Teacher Yuanpu was very happy. He went upstairs to chat with the old lady every day. They were of the same generation and got along very well. Her mother also had a good impression of Teacher Yuanpu, saying that he was approachable and had no airs at all. .However, it didn't take long for Yun's mother to realize that something was wrong. Teacher Yuanpu went upstairs too often, sometimes two or three times a day, and it was nothing important, which made her mother feel very uncomfortable.Yun's mother asked her mother if Teacher Yuanpu gave birth to "Twilight Love" on a whim?Her mother denied it, she didn't want to say it at first, but she said it later, she said that the old man was interested in other things, it had been several times, he instigated her to betray her daughter, and he also said a lot about her daughter in front of her Bad words, even calling her "treacherous", so she should be careful.Yun's mother didn't want to pay attention to Teacher Yuanpu, she thought that he must have a mental problem, which was caused by his age, and besides, he only said bad things about her, and it didn't harm her actual interests.However, Yuan Pu's eccentricities intensified, and later he not only went upstairs four or five times during the day, but also went upstairs to knock on her mother's door in the middle of the night.Of course, he himself has no inconvenience, because he has slept very little at night for decades, and he is even full of energy.But it hurt her mother.Once the old man was woken up by him, he couldn't fall asleep again.After a few days like this, the old lady couldn't bear it anymore, so she had to pack up her things and go back to the countryside while he was not paying attention.She passed away shortly after returning.Because of this incident, the relationship between Teacher Yuan Pu and Yun's mother immediately deteriorated.

Yun's mother said this, her face turned pale with anger.Sitting there, Jing Lan kept feeling the ghostly aura in the room. He shivered. Who is lying?He wriggled restlessly in his chair. "Six months ago, he insisted on defecating in the room, saying that there was something wrong with his legs and feet, and he couldn't go to the toilet. In fact, there was nothing wrong with him. I saw him go upstairs one night, as fast as a thief! He did this to punish me. How do you think I can stay here?" When Yun Ma said this, she stared at Jing Lan, as if she insisted on him answering.Jing Lan thought about it for a long time, then said suspiciously:

"I don't know, don't ask me about this kind of thing, I have no experience... You should talk to the old man, maybe, I will go to the doctor, he is a bit dull." "You trust the doctor too?" Yun's mother's eyes lit up, "I tell you, don't trust the doctor! My mother was put to death by the doctor, if she doesn't go away..." She was startled suddenly and stopped mouth. When Jing Lan came out of Yun Ma's room, she saw that the door of Teacher Yuan Pu's room was closed with one hand. Who could it be?Jing Lan suddenly understood, turned around and said to Mama Yun:

"Has he been outside listening to us just now?" "Of course, is there anything we can hide from him?" There was a hint of a smile on the corner of Yun's mother's mouth. Jing Lan walked on the road, feeling very uncomfortable, and the shadow of the mansion was always in her heart.His respected teacher, Yuan Pu, has become like this, which is indeed beyond his expectation.He felt that he was obliged to help him, but the bad thing was that he didn't want his help at all, maybe he was still laughing at him in his heart for being ignorant of world affairs!Didn't Mama Yun think he was funny just now?In short, the idea of ​​helping him must be put away.Jing Lan doubted her previous impression of Teacher Yuan Pu again.In the past few decades, Mr. Yuan Pu has never shown any mental aging. He loves argumentation very much and never tires of it. His life glows with extraordinary brilliance in the movement of argumentation.As his student, Jing Lan always involuntarily tends to the teacher's brilliance.So after Jinglan left his hometown for many years, he still maintains the habit of returning once a year. The only thing he cares about in his hometown is actually this teacher.Could it be that the previous impressions were all superficial illusions?How could someone like Teacher Yuanpu be insane?The brain structure of Teacher Yuanpu appeared in front of Jing Lan's eyes. He saw a tree with all its leaves gone. The main trunk and a few thick branches were clearly discernible and bare.Such a person can never be insane.So which image is the real teacher Yuanpu?Is he the one who sits at the desk thinking all night, or the one who sits on the toilet and takes a nap, haunting the mansion like a thief?Yunma's words are also absolutely untrustworthy. It is possible that her words are all slander, but her purpose of doing this is not to slander Teacher Yuan Pu, but to scare Jing Lan and watch his tricks.What kind of mess has Teacher Yuanpu's life become?Jing Lan felt that she couldn't believe what she saw with her eyes. The teacher was still as indestructible as a city wall. Just sitting in front of him could feel it, even though his appearance had become that way.

Jing Lan has been in her hometown for a week and two days.He went to the river every day, sitting on the embankment and watching the ships in the distance.Deep in his heart he was a little bit at a loss, and also a little bit of melancholy that couldn't be driven away.He didn't go to Teacher Yuanpu's place in the past few days, and he kept blaming himself because of this.The river in my hometown is a bit old, and the water is turning black, but Jing Lan can see the vitality of the river from the boatman's vigorous rowing posture. He is too familiar with this river.He was very disturbed early this morning because he was leaving this place tonight.Around noon, what he was looking forward to finally happened.The person who came was Yunma's cousin.

"It's just these two days." He said indifferently with a downcast face. "How did it happen?" Jing Lan asked. Jing Lan wanted to cry on the way to the mansion, but the tears did not fall after all.As soon as Yun Ma's cousin entered the mansion, he went to the kitchen, where many people gathered.Jing Lan pushed open the bedroom door, and saw Teacher Yuan Pu sitting on the bed repairing a lock, all kinds of small tools were placed on the quilt.He breathed a sigh of relief. "Did they ask you to come?" he said without looking up, "you can go away, I can't die. It's just a fall, it's not serious, I tricked them to go around. As soon as they came in , I acted like I was dying."

"But I came in just now, and you didn't do it." "That's because I knew it was you. When I saw Mama Yun's cousin go out, I guessed you would come." He finally repaired the old-fashioned brass lock, opened it a few times with the key, and then put it together with the tools in a tin box and put it inside the bed.At this time, he pouted at Jing Lan towards the door.Jing Lan went over and opened the door a crack. There was a lot of noise in the yard, a big coffin was being brought in, Mama Yun instructed the workers to put the coffin under the tarpaulin awning.Jing Lan saw that she was dressed in black and black trousers, and she was tidy and tidy. "You're taking a big joke." Jing Lan turned around and said, frowning in disgust. "It's okay, Mama Yun is an old hand. Tell me, who will be tricked by whom in the end? I'm really not sure at all. This kind of thing is like this lock and this key. I see you Let's go, the atmosphere here makes you uncomfortable, don't come next year, what's the use of making yourself uncomfortable? Come on, you help me move my legs in a little bit, I'm dead from the waist down, and my upper body is still active Well, it's all a consequence of that fall." Those two legs were very heavy, a bit strangely heavy, Jing Lan pushed hard a few times but failed to push, so she had to climb onto the bed, bent down and carried them with both hands to move in, her face flushed purple.After putting the teacher's legs away and covering them with the quilt, he and he looked at each other, and found that Teacher Yuanpu's eyes were a little wet, so his heart surged. "Go, go! Why don't you go?!" Teacher Yuanpu waved his hands vigorously, as if trying to cover up his embarrassment, and seemed impatient. Jing Lan walked into the yard, where Mama Yun had just settled the coffin.When she saw Jing Lan, a weird smile appeared on her face, and she said: "Come back next year, Teacher Yuanpu is thinking of you." "This……" "You mean the coffin? This is just a show. How can he die? He can hide it from others, but can he hide it from me? You are leaving now? Come next year, definitely come! He only has you in his heart Woolen cloth!" Jing Lan quickened her pace, but Mama Yun still chased and sent it out, looking very excited.She opened her mouth several times to say something, but finally she didn't say it, just watched Jing Lan walk away silently. Jing Lan went to the street again.He felt that he had no reason to hate Yun's mother.He could see that Mr. Yuanpu had a style of enjoying himself in his gloomy mansion, and it was difficult for others to understand the beauty of his life.It seems that Jing Lan himself has to be counted as someone else, after all he only comes back once a year, although he regards himself as his student, some things he did not learn after all, such as the relationship between Teacher Yuan Pu and Yun Ma, he himself is not at all familiar with it. He doesn't understand, he can only understand the former teacher Yuanpu, and the former teacher seems to have nothing to do with the current teacher. Is this change because he has a premonition that he is about to die? Jing Lan kept walking, just wanting to leave all this behind.He has now changed his mind and decided to leave by boat at once.He walked to the pier, where the boat was waiting, and as soon as he got in and lay down on the bunks the boat started.He listened to the complaining sound of the river below in a half dazed state, feeling a little amused by his determination. He woke up in the middle of the night, went to the deck, and when he looked up, he saw a big star falling from the sky. Jing Lan lowered her head, her eyes were dark, and the events of the past few days were overwhelmed with gloom. in mind.The boat had already traveled a long way, somehow, Jing Lan felt that it was not like leaving, but rather like heading towards the dark heart of her hometown.That's where he's never been. May 31, 1998, Yingcai Garden