Chapter 10 Watching 18 eggs waiting for you

The doctor said I was malnourished and showing signs of sliding from mild to severe.When I got up to leave, he said: "Eat some free-range eggs, remember, it's free-range eggs." So on the way home I bought a hen, white and plump and light-boned, with none of the stupidity that characterizes other hens.I gave her good food and drink, and waited for her to lay eggs.After waiting for three years, she did not lay an egg. I stubbornly waited for "Ergi" to lay eggs. Ergi is this snow-white hen that refuses to lay eggs. "Ergi" is the Chinese homophony of "EGG".I used my name to tell her plainly: "I raised you to eat your eggs."

But I don't know if Erji is pretending to be confused or really doesn't understand, but she just refuses to lay an egg.I urged her again and again: "When will you lay eggs?" The second one tilted his head and replied: "I will never lay eggs." After she finished speaking, she left without looking back, and went to the yard to catch gray-brown little ones. grasshopper. I'm not mad at her at all, never.For three years, she was the only one who lived with me in this bungalow on the outskirts of the city. We ate together, walked together, tasted loneliness together, and told each other's thoughts.

Two, at night when she is in a good mood, she must sleep on the sofa; if she is in a bad mood, she must sleep on the bed.Even if I refused fiercely and threw her down again and again, she jumped back to the bed again and again, crouched cheekily at my feet, stuck her head into the wings, and fell asleep after a while.I carried her back to the couch.As soon as she woke up in the morning, I exclaimed: "Erge, why did you sleep back on the sofa? You abandoned me in the middle of the night like this, I am very hurt." Erge blushed and lowered his head, not knowing why this happened . But my malnutrition seemed to be getting worse. In the mirror, I was pale and often dizzy.I told Erzhi that I need her eggs for nutrition.But she refused, and the reason for her refusal was that she was not interested in laying eggs.

I said, "Second, you're a selfish hen. But you're so selfish." Er Ge said: "You are also a selfish person. However, you are not as cute as me. By the way, you are still stubborn, so stubborn that people hate it." Two selfish animals lived together for three years, depended on each other, and had a strong affection. One day, after a walk, the second friend said, "I'm going to fall in love." I'm a little jealous, but still, bless you, it's a good thing. Another day, the second girl told me that she was going to lay eggs. When she just uttered the word laying eggs, my saliva fell vertically.I said, "Okay, lay the eggs, okay, okay, lay the eggs." Because there was so much saliva in my mouth, my words were almost slurred.The second one looked at me with his head tilted, his eyes were cold.I held her head, kissed her on the cheek, and said still vaguely: "Second boy, you finally found out with your conscience and repayed your kindness. I decided to fry the first egg you laid It’s like a poached egg.” Er Ke tilted his head and looked at me coldly.I continued: "Second, thank you, thank you, from now on I can eat free-range eggs every day. The kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring."

Er Ke tilted his head and looked at me coldly.When I was slurring all the excitement I wanted to say and express, she spoke, her tone was very hard, as if there were icicles: "I want to lay eggs because I want to be a mother. I You are not allowed to take one of the eggs laid, and you are not allowed to eat one.” The words of the second brother made me half dead: "Joke! First, I didn't raise you so that you could hatch a brood of chicks and chirp to make people upset; second, I raised you to eat your eggs." eggs; third, I am your master, and you must obey me." Er Ke responded word by word: "First, I lay eggs because I want to be a mother; second, I will not lay eggs to satisfy your appetite; third, we are equal. "

I was so angry that I couldn’t say anything. If I had known this, I should have raised a stupid hen. She only laid eggs and obeyed the master’s orders. A hen with a sharp tongue and a smart head like Erqi is really not suitable for domestic raising. .Then I slammed down a sentence: "Either you don't lay eggs, or you lay eggs for me to eat. There is no other choice!" After throwing down this sentence angrily, I felt dizzy and lay down on the bed. I fell asleep for some reason.When I woke up, it was already the next morning.I found him curled up at his feet.She was telling me she was in a bad mood.

I kicked her off the bed, and she couldn't stand upright and screamed several times in a panic.As soon as she recovered from the panic, she said: "I decided to run away from home today and never come back. Unless you promise, give me the freedom to be a mother." "You're a threat!" I yelled. "It's not a threat, it's you who have cornered me," she yelled loudly, too. I really regret that I spoiled her so much before, spoiled her, didn't listen to me, and talked back even more than I did.I said, "Just go, you heartless bastard." "Okay, master." It was the first time Er Ge called me master, and my heart squeaked.

Er Kei walked out of the room, walked into the courtyard, and walked out of the courtyard again, his snow-white figure gradually blurred.I rushed out: "Second, come back, I promise you!" Er Ge came back, and she proudly said: "Haha, I knew the result would be like this." Her words made me feel a little uncomfortable, this is really a scheming hen, she knows I can't bear her, she Take advantage of my feelings. I sat on the threshold with a sullen face.Er Kei said: "I'll dance the little swan dance for you." So she jumped up, with a short neck and short legs, she looked very funny, it was a pure little hen dance, and I laughed wildly.Erji also laughed.So we made up.At night, I was lying on the bed, and she was lying on the sofa and telling me about her bright future: "I want to lay 10 eggs, no, no, no, too few, 20 eggs, no, no, no, too much That's too many, let's say 18, yes, just 18. I want to be the mother of 18 chicks. I take them for a walk in the yard, catch bugs, ah, it's really great, so happy."

Drunken with her happiness, she soon fell asleep. The next day, she laid an egg in a grass nest in the yard, a small, round, pink eggshell.As soon as I saw it, my mouth watered.Although I also restrained myself, the desire to eat it was like a river with a bank, which couldn't be stopped. I fried it into a golden poached egg.Because I ate it too fast, it went into my stomach before I could taste it.When Erge came back from bathing in the sandpit outside the yard, I was wiping an oil star on my lips.She was smart enough to know what was going on in the first second. "Bastard, you ate it," she yelled sharply.

I laughed along with him: "I tried to restrain myself, but it didn't work." "You are a shameless person, a villain who doesn't count." Originally, I still felt a little bit guilty, but Ergai gave me "bad guy, shameless, villain" in just two sentences, and the guilt was gone. I said, "I'll eat it, what do you want?" Er Ke ignored my rogue face, she found fragments of eggshells and buried them in the soil.She had tears in her eyes as she did all this.Her tears made my heart ache.I know I hurt her. At night, Er Ge slept on the sofa.She is sleeping on the sofa, not because she is in a good mood, but because she hates me.

I thought of the days when we were intimate and bickering, and felt lonely in my heart. The next morning, Ergai made another request to run away from home. And I took out an agreement: Party A: Two to Party B: Sanyi After the agreement, both parties agree to the following terms: 1. After the second egg is laid, it should be hidden in time. If the third egg is found, it will be eaten by the third egg; if it cannot be found, it can be hatched into a chick.After the 18 eggs are filled, Sanyi will provide two places for the chicks to hatch, and no disturbance is allowed. 2. No one is allowed to play tricks, otherwise, they will be kicked out of the house. Party A: Party B: On the second day of the year, month and day, I stepped on it, and on the third day, I pressed my fingerprint, and the agreement took effect. Because of this agreement, Er Kei stayed with hope.She believed she could hide the eggs well. I actually thought about the content of the agreement all night: just such a one-story house with a yard, where can the second child hide the eggs?I can find her wherever she hides.So, I don't have to worry about Erge running away from home and I'm alone, and I don't have to worry about not having local eggs to enjoy. Sure enough, it was too easy to find eggs. The first day I found one in a wall hole in my yard and I made it into a sweet and sour tomato scrambled eggs. The next day, I found one in the bookcase in my room, and I made it into soft and refreshing steamed eggs. On the third day, I found one under the sofa, and I made it into fragrant scallion eggs. On the fourth day, I found one under the rose tree in my yard, and I used it to bake a golden and attractive egg pancake. ... When I eat eggs, I never do so in front of Erji.Erji had to bathe in the sandpit every afternoon, which seemed to be a physiological habit she couldn't change.When she takes a bath, I eat eggs.When she came back, I would read a book and observe her while reading. As soon as she came back, I went straight to the place where the eggs were hidden.After a while, she will rush to me quickly, her face is red, and the feathers around her are red.She said: "Did you find it? Eat it?" I nodded and she left silently with tears in my eyes.The pace is very slow, as if there is no strength at all. Looking at her back, I often feel distressed, a throbbing pain.Especially when I saw her tidy up the eggshells bit by bit and bury them in the soil, my heart ached so much that it made me cry. However, I can't help but want to eat eggs, and I want to eat the second-best eggs. We barely spoke between the two of us.She sleeps on the sofa every day, and sleeping on the sofa does not mean she is in a good mood. One day, I suddenly couldn't find the eggs. Neither was found the next day. I couldn't find it on the third day either. For 10 days in a row, I didn't see any small round pink eggs.I almost turned the room and yard upside down and couldn't find it. By the way, I must explain.I have to go to work in the company every morning, and the second baby lays eggs and hides them during this time. I plan to set up an ambush during working hours and spy on her.But I eventually dismissed this shady idea.Facing a hen, why would I use human intrigue to plot against each other. Erji was happy day by day, but because I couldn't find eggs, I was depressed day by day, and the number of dizziness was increasing. Er Kei didn't seem to care at all, his eyes were cold, with a smug smile: "Haha, I can't find it." I fell into a deep loneliness. How did the feeling of being dependent on each other between the two of us disappear?Why hurt in addition to harm? Eighteen days later, Erji said cheerfully, "I tell you, there are finally 18 eggs. According to the agreement, you have to provide me with a place to incubate the chicks." I said dejectedly, "Of course!" All I want to know now is where the hell are those 18 eggs hidden?Second gave me to the bedside.My bed has a backrest, and there is a sandwich in the backrest, which I never use.The second gestured for me to open the interlayer of the backrest. 18 eggs are neatly stacked. "How about it, the most dangerous place is the safest place." The second man tilted his head and looked at me and said, with mockery and complacency hidden in his eyes. My IQ was actually lower than that of a hen. I felt ashamed, and it was not a taste. I put 18 eggs into the basket and walked to the yard, and the second child followed happily. She kept asking: "Are you going to put my nest in the yard?" "Can you add some cotton wool?" Can I add some rose petals?" "Can I add some..." "No, don't add anything. I want to boil them all into tea eggs." I said blankly. The second boy was excited by my words and jumped up. "Are you a liar? Is there a more shameless liar in the world than you?" I just wanted to make a joke with her and vent my inner dissatisfaction, but her words angered me instantly.I was determined to boil them into tea eggs.Whether she ran away from home or not. I just want to boil them into tea eggs. I brought the coal stove out to the yard and started a fire.He took an aluminum pot, poured water into it, and sprinkled tea leaves.Just as he was about to put the egg in, Er jumped in. "You boil me, you liar." She stood with her neck stuck in the pot, which was filled up to her chest. "You want to threaten me again, so I won't accept your trick." "casual." I tried it in the water with my hand, it was warm. "Are you really planning to come out?" "If you want to boil my 18 children into tea eggs, I won't come out." The water in the pot began to heat up little by little under the passionate kiss of the flames. I yelled, "Jump out, you'll get burned." "My heart has been burned by you." She looked at me and said. "Come out, please, the water will be scalding in no time. It will hurt." "I'm already in pain, and my heart is already in pain." Er Ge said. A wisp of steam rose from the water. Erji's brows began to wrinkle. "Second, please, come out." Second, he remained motionless. The water at the bottom of the pot started to bubble up. I hugged Er out, cried and sent her to the hospital.She got burned, but thankfully not too badly.After returning from the hospital, I applied medicine to her every day and took good care of her.But she never pays attention to me.Until one day, I sincerely said: "I have something to discuss with you." She squinted her eyes and didn't bother to look at me: "Don't discuss anything with me." The injury on her leg was not recovering well, and she refused to grow new skin. "Well, I want you to hatch 18 chicks for me, and you lead them, walk in the yard, catch bugs. I think our house is really lonely. Can you?" Her eyes lit up suddenly, and she looked at me: "Really?" "Yes." I looked at her with certainty, "But, you are never allowed to call me a liar again." Er Ge's wound healed immediately, and the new skin grew strong without leaving any small scars.I was busy making him a cozy and beautiful nest, stuffed with freshly picked cotton and dried rose petals. On nights when she wasn't officially hatching her chicks, she slept in my bed.Just because she's sleeping on the bed doesn't mean she's in a bad mood.I still like to carry her to the sofa when she is sleeping.When I woke up in the morning, I exaggeratedly scolded her: "Ah, why did you abandon me in the middle of the night, I was very hurt!" She lowered her head, blushed, and smiled embarrassedly, not understanding what was going on. On the day when Er Ge officially announced that he would start hatching chicks, I fell on the bed after a burst of dizziness.I called the doctor on the phone, and the doctor said, "You are already severely malnourished. You need to supplement it. Eat some eggs, remember, they are native eggs." On the second day after the doctor came, Er Ke didn't say hello and ran away from home.A note was pasted on the courtyard door: "I am officially running away from home. Please eat those 18 eggs. If you miss me, you must eat the eggs. Eat one a day for the best effect. This is The most authentic local eggs. Two to stay” I threw myself on the courtyard door and cried.I think of our quarrels, the days of intimacy, the hurts we caused each other, and the funny way she danced the little swan dance... I'm waiting for the two to come back. Second, I will keep 18 eggs and wait for you to come back.