Chapter 3 Three, home

Giovanni ran home in one breath.This is a shabby hut in a back alley.Next to the leftmost door of the three doors in a row stood a battered wooden box with cabbage and asparagus pods growing in it.Both small louvers were hung with shades. "Mom, I'm back. Are you better?" Giovanni asked as he took off his shoes. "Ah, Giovanni, are you tired? It's a cool day, and I've been fine." When Giovanni entered the house, his mother was lying on the bed in the back room with a white scarf over her shoulders. Giovanni opened the window. "Mom, I bought sugar cubes, let me put them in the milk for you."

"Eat first, I'm not hungry yet." "Mom, when did sister go back?" "I'll be back around three o'clock." "Mom, isn't your milk here yet?" "Probably not here yet." "I'll go get it now." "You'd better take a break first. Eat something. Your sister seems to have made some kind of dish with tomatoes, and put it there." "Then I'll eat first." Giovanni took a plate of tomatoes from the window and began to devour the bread. "Mom, I guess Dad will be back soon." "Do you think so too? But how do you know?"

"Didn't the newspaper say it this morning? The fishing situation in the north is particularly good this year." "But your father may not have gone fishing at all." "I must have gone. Dad didn't do anything bad that required him to go to jail. The big crab shells, reindeer antlers, etc. that Dad donated to the school last time are still in the school's herbarium. When the sixth grade is in class, the teachers take turns Take it to the classroom and use it." "Your father agreed to bring you a sea otter coat next time." "That's why people keep talking about it when they see me. They laugh at me."

"Speaking ill of you?" "Well. But never Corpernella. Corpernella was always very sympathetic to me when people made fun of me." "His father and your father have been good friends since childhood, just like when you were the same age now." "Yeah, no wonder Papa took me to play at Corbenera's last time. What a great time! I went to Corbenera's as soon as school was over. There was a little kid at Corbenera's house that was activated by alcohol. The train is composed of seven steel rails to form a circular railway. There are also telephone poles, signal lights, and the signal lights only turn green when the train passes. Once, when the alcohol ran out, we tried to start it with kerosene, and the locomotive burned all of a sudden. Turned to ashes."

"yes?" "Now I pass by their house every morning when I deliver the newspaper, but every time it's quiet there." "It's too early, people haven't woken up yet." "Only the watchdog 'Zawur', whose tail is like a broom, sees me coming, and follows me, kissing and kissing, to the corner of the street, sometimes even further. Tonight , everyone is going to release king gourd lanterns by the river, and that dog will definitely follow." "By the way, tonight is the Milky Way Festival!" "Well, I'll drop by when I get the milk."

"Go and play. Don't go into the river, do you hear me?" "Well. I'll just stand on the bank and watch. I'll be back in two hours." "Let's play for a while. As long as I'm with Corbenela, I'm at ease." "I'll be with him. Mother, I'll close the window for you." "Okay, close it. It's getting cold." Giovanni got up and closed the window, packed the dishes and the bread bag.Then he quickly put on his shoes, said "I'll be back in an hour and a half after going to play," and disappeared into the dark night.