Chapter 30 Part II, Section 31: Cicadas on the Eighth Day (31)

"Mom?" The hysterical roar burst into my ears, "Isn't it already negotiated? How long do you plan to stay there? The contract has been signed. That piece of land is no longer yours. You move out quickly Lah, go wherever you like, didn't I already give you some money? Didn't you take it too?" Like a nervous little dog, barking incessantly. I think of mother and child handbooks with frayed covers.I thought to myself, is this voice the little baby who was only 2,200 grams at birth?I pictured women with little babies in their arms.Put your face close to the woman smiling at the baby, and look up at the woman's baby.The appearance of a pair of strange mother and daughter.

"Can you say something, please? Why do you have to stay in that kind of place? Are you planning to extract more money? That house doesn't leave any good memories at all, you should hurry up and ask someone to change the land. Hey , are you listening? You should say something." The woman stopped for a moment when she said this, and her heavy snort came through the microphone. "Who are you?" The woman asked suddenly, "The real estate agent said that there are relatives at my house. Who are you? Is my mother here? Hey, what are you doing in someone else's house? Be careful and I will call the police."

The word call the police almost took my breath away.A barking sound like a cannonball came from the microphone.I tried to put the microphone back, but it dropped to the ground, the black phone cord dangling.I hurriedly picked it up and put the receiver back on the phone with both hands. After hanging up the microphone, the silence suddenly returned.The enge resounding in the corridor fluctuates loudly and suddenly.I bounced out of there, walked back to the room, and stuffed the scattered luggage into the travel bag.I hug Kaoru.Kaoru made frequent noises.Her voice also flickered from far away.I carried my luggage and went to the woman's room.

As soon as the paper door was opened, the woman looked up at me with a stunned expression.A woman's room is full of stuff.Faded Japanese wardrobes surround the room and block out the windows.Magazines and newspapers tied with ropes are stacked in layers, and there is a three-compartment cabinet in front of the Japanese-style wardrobe, and several cardboard boxes are stacked on it.A plush doll with one eye missing, a sewing box, a pillow with lace trim, and yellowed towels scattered everywhere.The silver portable radio was playing an enka sung by a woman.Boxed dolls and wooden bears sit on an old unplugged TV.Things were piled up in such a disorderly manner that the room was also lifeless.There is a kotatsu table in the center.Only there is an abrupt emptiness there.Orange peels are piled up on the edge of the kotatsu table, and the orange looks extraordinarily bright.Everything is illuminated by the pale light of fluorescent lamps.The woman was still looking up at me in astonishment as she nestled at the kotatsu table.

"You can hug her." Without any explanation, I handed Kaoru to the woman.The woman stared and shifted her gaze from me to Kaoru, and refused to hug me for a long time.I forced it into her hand, and she opened her arms to embrace Xun tremblingly.The woman seemed to be hugging a fragile glass bead, holding it with trepidation, and then pressed her face against Kaoru's small face as if attracted.Kaoru burst into tears.But women didn't stop.As if to dye her own scent on Kaoru's head and face, she kept rubbing her shriveled cheeks.The expressionless face of the woman overlapped with the strange woman holding the baby in my mind just now.